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First time commenter, long time listener. This has been weighing on my chest since I heard this mini sode. I didn't want to say anything, but it's been bothering me for weeks now. I haven't been able to listen to any of the new episodes, even cool world, one of my favorite terrible movies. I'm a retired sex worker, but I know from my friends still in the biz that it's really fucking hard for them right now.. People already have such low opinions of sex workers that they don't think twice about taking money out of their pockets, even though the majority of us are incredibly marginalized and at or below the poverty line. Sex work is usually survival work. So when someone like Jason cracks jokes about stealing from sex workers, it only serves to further normalize it The caller had a right to sound pissed. I‘m pissed. It broke my heart to hear Paul be so dismissive. I thought I'd share a mutual aid fund i like to support, Black Sex Workers Collective

Yea true. I need to talk about V8 though!

I appreciate what was said at the top about BLM and such. I am sure Reddit will hate it. One thing I would like to ask that the podcast do is try to have more people of color as guests. I know the guests are often friends and I get that, but sometimes that kind of insular community stands in the way of introducing new voices. I discount Nicole Byer through this podcast (and Girl Code gifs on Tumblr) and I couldn't be happier to have her in my life. I don't mean never have white people but make a concerted effort for more diversity?

It is, but still, “cop” anything is a pretty touchy subject right now. It’s got to be hard to be funny when you’re instinct is to be “fuck those guys” and somehow ignore what’s been going on this week. Honestly, they’d probably be better tabling this one for now and, if they want to release something, release one of the live eps they have backlogged. But whatever they choose to do is fine by me. I can’t say I’ve been much in the mood lately.

The movie read as fairly anti-cop to me. They all come off like inept dolts in it. They're no match for a ninja, even in helicopters and 3 feet away from him with machine guns.

I know Paul cancelled the Unspooled watch party this week because of it, and I wondered if they would release an episode this week. Honestly, I think it’s hard for anyone to be funny right now. I totally don’t blame them if they want to hold off a bit—especially considering the subject matter of this movie.

Apparently it’s available now

Yeah, I guess I'd put it this way: to me the question is important, but answering it really isn't. Much better to leave it as a question.

Paul, June, and Jason discuss the 1984 martial arts action horror film Ninja III: The Domination. They talk about the V8 sex scene, aerobics, ninja possessions, and more. Plus, Paul sharess his childhood V8 recipe. Please visit these links Justice for Breonna Taylor Black Lives Matter Campaign Zero EJI Vote

I haven't made a poll before, I hope this works. Please note, endorsing V8 is NOT an endorsement for Clamato.

The gang keeps referring to the movie as being set/filmed in Culver City, or outside of LA, but it's actually Phoenix. ‪‪I wasn't sure myself while watching it, but ‪‪the credits confirmed it was filmed entirely in Arizona, in Phoenix and area suburbs Glendale and Tempe, and Sedona, likely the scenes on the rocks/temple on the hill.

Oh, I also wanted to share this video cause before I found it on Amazon Prime for free, I looked on YouTube and caught this scene. I thought this music was from the movie and thought “damn! this movie has got a killer sound track!” That song (especially starting at the one minute mark) makes the scene so much more compelling to me.

Best mini episode song: -June had a Sexual Awakening -Tall John Scheer -Ladies of the 80s

The modern depiction of ninjas is from the Kabuki tradition. The audience knew to ignore the stagehands, dressed in all black, as not part of the action of the play. But sometimes, an "invisible" stagehand would kill someone in the play, and that was regarded as a ninja secretly assassinating someone. Historical ninjas would never dress like that, even at night, as they are trying to blend in and such an outfit would be incredibly suspicious. As spies, they would want to avoid the kind of confrontation that would ensue from dressing like that. As much as anything, movies use that trope so the heroes can wholesale slaughter any numbers of faceless enemies without it being alarming.

This seems like an excellent day to catch up on some Unspooled, especially the episode where Spike Lee is the guest. Peace to all of you this weekend

Yeah, it’s normally up by late Thursday. You’re probably into something (although I haven’t seen the movie, so I can’t judge based on that).

Open the door, 200 pounds of poop on the floor—somebody forgot to walk the dinosaur!

What? A calculator?! Not on my watch!

I'd say this film is more influential than good. It looks create and is effective at creating a world, but it's not as effective at telling a story. I'd say I was getting off-topic, but since the podcast actually touched on these things: Trayvon Martin wasn't killed by a cop, but a civilian member of a neighborhood watch group (which reforms to police would be unlikely to affect). And "human capital" is a standard term in economics, which AOC herself used prior to objecting to others using it. Another economic finding is that our desire for uniqueness/variety as consumers is a big cause of rising "monopoly" profits. And the reason advertisers spend money on brands is the justified expectation that we will buy them is because others see what products we purchase and having seen the same ads can tell the kind of signal we are trying to send about ourselves. Deckard isn't really set up to be a replicant by the film. Ridley Scott seems to have come up with that after the fact, adding in unicorn footage from his next movie. As noted, it makes no sense to send an inferior model of replicant to "retire" tougher models. Rachel Rosen in the book is an attempt to disprove the validity of the test, under the claim that being raised on a space station resulted in a "false positive", though Deckard figures out that's B.S. In the film she's an unusual model in that it takes so many questions for the test to detect her. That seems distinct from the other models, although we don't have a name for that more psychologically human model. The character in the book is a bit more complex and perhaps has shades of being a "femme fatale" (although her only victim is an animal), but wasn't entirely coherent. I don't think this one qualifies as a "femme fatale" at all, since you can't really combine that with innocence. My understanding is that the scene between her and Deckard came off looking like a rape because the actors weren't getting along and so Ridley decided to lean into that if he couldn't make the scene as originally conceived convincing. I'm one of the few people who've read Alan E. Nourse's "The Bladerunner", and Billy Gimp is not a thief. He's a gopher for a doctor who provides black market medical care (medicine has been nationalized, and the above-ground variety comes with eugenic requirements for sterilization). Coincidentally, both scifi novels involve people getting around a city via flying cars. I haven't been able to find a copy of William S. Burroughs "Blade Runner (a movie)", which was never actually made into a movie but is how this film got its title. Ridley Scott owns the rights to it, but maybe someone could ask him for permission to adapt that story and then use a different title. For those curious how the film compares to "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?", they were compared by What's the Difference here and Lost in Adaptation here.

Anyone else find it odd that the hero of the movie is a cop whose only job is to execute (aka retire) people he determines are not actually human? Don’t mean to get political, but as I was rewatching it during the riots it definitely stood out. I voted to keep it, but only really for the world built for the film. We already have 2 iconic Harrison Ford roles, and I’d prefer A Scanner Darkly for a Phillip K Dick adaptation and Alien for a Ridley Scott film. But this world, much like Mad Max: Fury Road, feels totally immersive. I don’t think Deckard is a replicant because of the camera trick used for replicants. Every time you see their eyes in the dark a halo appears around their iris, kind of like when you get red eyes in a photograph. ALL of the replicants are shown this way (even the owl in Tyrell’s office), but Deckard eyes did not do that. SIDE NOTE: I would also love to see RoboCop on the the list.

Yea, I'll add, I'm a super fan of the band for sure. They're my second favorite rap group and I have all their stuff. (Outkast is first.) But I did not particularly enjoy the documentary. It's weird though because I do agree with the points Graham made, but also with what Cinco said. It needs more music. It needs more Ali Shaheed. It does give good access to the Tip and Phife, for sure, and some of it isn't all rosy. I would have preferred to see more of them when they were young, instead of seeing an older Q-Tip going to see his high school teacher. I dunno. Show me how their clashes and closeness created this music and made them popular and influential. That's the connection I think the documentary needed. Also they don't even mention "Scenario" once.

I'm afraid Foodfight! would break them. I don't think June in particular would make it through it. A Sound of Thunder enrages me. The moment i saw they were covering it, i had to see it again. I couldn't help myself. Just finished it, and i can't go to sleep now, i'm... i'm really angry. Stupid effing fillum