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    The fact that you posted a Creed gif above this makes me want to sing this speech to the tune of "Higher." You asshole.

     

    I would see that version of Othello. I now NEED to see that version of Othello. Please someone out there make a version Othello or really any Shakespeare play using shitty Christian rock and youtube captions. In fact I will take any shitty "rock" bands from the early 2000's in that weird Nickleback / Creed style. I'm sure you could get Creed if you promised them $20 and lunch. I guess in 2009 they went on tour and in one city tickets sold for 75 CENTS so ...

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    I know that most of the focus so far has been on what a piece of crap Chilly D is, and I totally get that. For the majority of the movie he really isn't much more than a roast beef stealing, shit-weasel. However, I would like to come to his defense for a second.

     

    From the beginning, Chilly is the only person in the crew that had any faith in Body Rock. He has vision that the other members lack. When EZ punks out, Chilly barges into that dudes office by himself and basically demands an audition. If it were up to Body Rock, they'd just be dicking around Rhythm Nation forever, popping-and-locking for pennies. We can say all day that Chilly was being selfish shithead, and that's true to some degree, but honestly, EZ and the rest of Body Rock were being just as - if not more - shady.

     

    For example, EZ doesn't encourage Chilly to take that gig because that's what would be in Chilly's best interest. No, after letting Chilly take all the risks, he wants to use Chilly as their magical nepotism gnome to grant them fame and fortune. That's fucked up. You had your shot, bro, and you blew it. You were found wanting. Why is it Chilly's responsibility to take care of your no-talent ass?

     

    EZ and the crew just come off as a bunch of pissy crybabies because they can't ride Chilly's coattails, but think of it from Chilly's perspective. He's gone from the emcee of this tiny nothing of club to the hottest club in New York City. I'm absolutely certain he intended to bring his friends over, but now, he's got a whole new talent pool. He's in the big leagues. Luigi Wigglearms might have been a dope-ass dancer for Rhythm Nation, but how does he stack up against the best breakers in the city? Chilly has a responsibility to make his new club successful, and let's be honest, he can't do that with subpar dancers and rappers who rap off-beat.

     

    Body Rock only taught him skills so they could use him to get ahead. Well, all except for Magic, that is. But Chilly paid cold hard cash for those lessons. And, I might add, he got a great deal! Chilly took the initiative. Chilly learned the moves. Chilly is the only go-getter among them.

     

    Bottom Line: Chilly D doesn't owe Body Rock shit.

     

    I mean I agree on some points. I would also like to add to your thing that Chilly really had no sway in this organization. He's just one of acts in this club it looks like. Sure he becomes popular and can thus request things but that's all they are: requests. At the end of the day what these kids don't seem to understand is Chilly is now part of a company.. He has a boss.

    Also, sure he could have asked them to use his friends sure but when we look at the stuff he's performing for the club it's not really break dancing is it? Almost all his back up dancers are doing some kind of modern dance. And doesn't at least one act mainly feature women?

     

    The worst thing I think Chilly does isn't abandoning his friend's it's selling the name Body Nation and doing it so blasély Like he clearly knew what copyright meant and he knew none of his friends had it so he knew it was fine to steal as he assured Terrance. Like that's fucking cold man.

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    Did no one else find it weird that there were two songs in this movie with the title Body Rock in them? Both of them are asking me to let my body rock. And you would think that this one would be the theme song for the movie because it talks about break dancing:

     

    This one just wants my body to talk to them tonight(while they seem to be wearing their Nana's entire jewelry box):

     

    I can only assume that the second one was already popular? Was this a big hit? I don't think I've ever really heard it before but it also sounds like such an 80's song I feel like I somehow have known it my whole life.

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    I think this was brought up in the episode too, but none of the members of Body Rock actually do “magic.” I think the confusion is, after the scene where Chilly gets them the audition, EZ (the rapper) asks him what they’re going to do to impress the suits. Chilly says:

     

    ”You’re the DJ - the scratcher. Jam is the rapper. Magic, Ricky Ricardo, Snake - they’re the breakers!”

     

    However, the way he delivers the names of the “breakers,” it sounds like he’s saying, “Magic: Ricky Ricardo” as if “magic” is what Ricky is bringing to the table.

     

    It’s just one of the many dangers of choosing a nickname that can be used as both a noun and a verb.

    Oh shit your right. Perhaps Magick WAS the magic in this film all along...

    It's probably a good thing there were no magicians in this film anyway they tend to be insufferable pricks and if Chilly were to steal that talent he would become the Thanos of duchebags

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    I spent two hours this afternoon watching this turd sandwich when I should have been grading term papers, so I think I won the afternoon. Lots in there but I'm feeling rusty after a while off the boards so I'll hold off before diving right in.

     

    One thing I wondered: did anyone else think of Daft Punk's 'Around the World' video during the skeleton dance song? Daft Punk mostly use mummies, but the jerky choreo made me think of it. I think it's clear that Daft Punk ripped Chilly off. Damn Frenchies.

     

    Anyway, hi everyone! Glad to be back now that school's out for another year! I started listening to back episodes today and it was like coming home to old friends.

     

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yca6UsllwYs

     

    I mean Chilly looked like a hobo mummy whose was wrapped with any stray bits of fabric they could find. Also Welcome Back!

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    No, he lived down the hall from her in a separate apartment but apparently Donald owns the entire building. Sheila asked him if he wanted to stay the night with her cause Donald would never have to know but he just walked out and went to Darlene.

     

    Oh right! i thought they had moved in together. That makes way more sense.

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    Ok so is Chilly living with Shelia from a Chorus Line ( this is the only name I will ever call her)? He gets locked out of her apartment right? So if he's living with her how the fuck does Darlene not know hes cheating on her? that's a fucking open loft. There's no way he can excuse all her clothes. I mean yes I've already ranted about his love of women's clothing which, fine you do you Chiily. But I think chilly draws the line at women's dresses. Besides which they aren't even the same size. Like Darlene HAS to notice this shit when she comes over. Unless they only fuck at her place? WHERE SHE LIVES WITH HER PARENTS AND BROTHER. What kind of a monster does that- wait never mind Chilly is exactly the kind of monster who would have sex in someone's tiny apartment while their parents are home. Of course he is. I spent the first half of the moving thinking he was homeless sleeping on their couch I should't be surprised by this revelation .(Legitimately half my notes for the first 40 minutes are about him being a gross hobo . I had a whole theory.) Not that all hobos are are soulless and inconsiderate as Chilly.

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    Yes, exactly. But according to historical records a lot of that kind of prejudice against the Italians and Irish ended in America around WWII. And as an Irish girl I'm very aware of the shit that my ancestors went through when they were leaving Ireland and arriving here (My father's side even changed their name to sound less Irish and more English). I've even seen Irish Americans use all of this in their dumbass "what about..." in the face of true racism in this country. No thanks, I'm never going to use anything my ancestors went through as a justification to spread white supremacy. Which is why it kinda just rubs me the wrong way when I see very white Europeans claim these kinds of things.

     

    Just to bring it back to the podcast a bit, I've heard Jason say he is a white man, and honestly I suspect he has endured some racist comments because he has dark skin and could easily pass as Middle Eastern. No one that would care about the color of his skin would care that his background is from Greece (or that he was really born in Massachusetts) but it's his race that makes them up in arms. Of course this is just assuming he has gotten these kinds of things thrown at him at all.

     

    ANYWAY sorry to everyone for the complete digression away from the movie but I just agree with Ryan Sz that I believe Luigi is a white man lol.

     

    Oh totally. Which is why it's such a weird thing. Like compared to the very really very awful visceral hatred and prejudice we see committed against people of color in America and other countries (but really America seems always to be at the top when it comes to racism. Let's face it, we're great at being hateful and intolerant no matter the decade.) the idea of white European minorities facing discrimination is so weird to me. I don't know much about it other than seeing an article years ago and honestly I think it's more nationalism and general xenophobia then racism exactly? Not that those things are better, but it's a weird subject.

     

    I fully agree Luigi is whiter than overcooked penne

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    Interesting night club that allows a child like Magick in.

     

     

    YES THANK YOU! There's no way Magick would have been able to get in the club, they would have had to sneak him in. You have to be at least 18 to tend bar / work in a night club in New York. Also i think there's some kind of rule for 21 and under's not being able to work past 9 pm in places that serve booze? Plus child labor laws ... not that these assholes care about child labor laws .

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    Ok so the ONLY good transformation about Chilly (Chili?) is that during the sex scene with Shelia from A Chorus Line he's clearly had a FULL body wax. Gone is the sweater from the beginning in the movie. It's the only good thing he does in the whole film.

     

    Also can we talk about how Chili is full on wearing women's clothes? The outfit he wears for the meeting with Terrence at the start when he's looking for a manager is a woman's blouse with the sleeves cut off that he's left unbuttoned, blue women's silk (some kind of a crepe fabric?) slacks and what looks like a woman's red belt.

     

    His leather boots that look like leather studded Uggs which he wears when strutting down the street like an insane person high off his ass on coke look like women's shoes from the time.

     

    There were a couple more but I'm half asleep right now

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    I started watching the movie again and Chilly immediately ditches his friends at minute 42.

     

    Everything I wrote about him being not selfish in the beginning of the movie goes down the drain 2 minutes after I called quits lol! But that just makes me ask... why? Was it really just the rush of working in this successful club? One minute he's telling his friends about how he told Terrence he's gonna get a DJ and a Rapper and the next he's just getting into a limo and ditching them. There's no signs of true motivation that he would have done that.

     

    Dang this movie sucks.

     

    Well doesn't his friend actually tell him to go with them? One of his friends says and I quote " You better check that shit out dude!" The rapper says it I.I couldn't remember a single name in this movie I was so overwhelmed by the bad fashion I could only take in their job descriptions . I'm still pissed they said one of them did magic and YET I SAW NO MAGIC. NOTHING NOT EVEN A QUARTER OUT OF AN EAR

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    So I'll definitely clarify that I am the whitest of the white as well. For those that have seen photos of me, and have met me in person, know that I am blue eyed and blonde and actually got mistaken in Reykjavic as being a local (legit this guy tried to speak Icelandic to me and I was like oh no no no), so I'll be the first to say that I have absolutely no idea what it is truly like for people of color in this country. But I believe that ethnicity and race get confused with each other more than we think, and in that sense I have to disagree with you. Only because a lot of my friend group have Eastern European roots (there is a large Czech population in Texas) and they all have dark hair and dark eyes and none of them would ever say they experience any kind of prejudice against them for that in this country, because their skin is still white. There is a different kind of prejudice here than I see in Europe, which I believe does have more to do with where you are from rather than solely the color of your skin, but here I never see someone get put on blast if they have dark hair and dark eyes. I mean to take Melania Trump, for example, she is an immigrant from Eastern Europe but she is considered the "right kind" of immigrant because she's white. No one seems to have a problem with her, but if an immigrant's skin is any darker than hers then holy shit there needs to be a ban or a wall or whatever else kind of racist thing they want to throw around. Again, I'm probably not even the right person to talk on this subject. I recognize the privilege that comes with being white, blonde, and blue-eyed. But I also want to stick up for the POC in this country and we just do not see white people that even have dark hair treated anything like the way latinx, Muslim, and black people are treated. Although the Jewish population has been under attack again because of the rise of the alt-right but they've been targeting those with Jewish last names rather than what they look like.

     

    From my understanding of things in Europe this is a thing. People who come from the "wrong" European countries like Greece, Romania, and a lot of Eastern European countries. Apparently in England there was a survey done in 2014 and 71% of the Polish migrants had suffered or knew someone who ha suffered some form of verbal or physical abuse or at the hands of someone British.

     

    It's very complicated form of racism because they aren't seen as ... not white. They are white but it's more like in the 19th century America and the immense hated/ discrimination against Irish and Italian immigrants. They were seen as white and were probably treated better than a person of actual color but they were still seen as less than and looked down upon because of derogatory beliefs held about them based on their place of birth.

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    And apparently the collar popping is not a character choice but a way of the actor's life as apparently he still does this

    lorenzo-lamas.jpg and this is just one of many shown on Google. Also with the talk about Lamas' dong size, I guess now I know why when I saw him at a comic convention a couple years ago he had a wheelbarrow under his table.

     

    It's like midnight and my cat just woke up because i had such a visceral reaction to this image. I just said in such a strained voice it must sound like I found out something horrific happened to a beloved family member "Oh. Oh no. oh GOD NO. "

    I was so distressed by this act of duchery I woke the cat up.

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    Okay, something that jumped out RIGHT away:

     

    In that opening musical number, the lyric "children of darkness" is paired with a shot of Magick, who is obviously a small black child.

     

    I'd be willing to give them the benefit of the doubt and write it off as an oblivious editing choice, but the cuts to and from the shot of Magick are so precisely paired with that lyric that it definitely raised my eyebrows.

     

    See for yourself (it's between the 35 and 40 second marks right at the beginning):

     

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdvRr5lIUGA&t=0m35s

     

    Oh no I fully was coming to comment about that. It's ... a lot even by 80's standards.

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    The title of this movie just reminds me of the Opie and Anthony show, who had a delusional security guard known as "Master Po", who firmly believes that the "Hip Hop Abs" guy ripped him off, so he was going to bring out his own dancercise work out called "Body Rock".

     

    This man is a boob.

     

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tzrv7HSBIXw

     

    His website is called Masterpoeisback.com I need to know where exactly he went so I may avoid those places.

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    Totally random but to Sara (Sarah?) whose boyfriend wants to propose to her: I don;t know what your boyfriend likes but have you thought about maybe a really nice watch? or if you DO want to do a ring there are some pretty cool looking rings for guys that aren't like just basic wedding bands. He could wear it on his ring finger until the wedding and maybe then move it to his other ring finger? Whatever you choose good luck to you guys ! I'm SUCH a sucker for all these HDTGM happy life stories!

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    I have been a long and hard Gryffindor for my entire Harry Potter career and finally I have come to terms with the fact that I am in fact a Hufflepuff. It was when I was discussing this with friends and I said that I want to stand up for the oppressed and swing some punches in a certain direction but if anyone were to yell at me I would probably cry, and my friend was like "That's the most Hufflepuff thing."

     

    So now anytime someone shits on Hufflepuffs (like it's always) I always wanna jump in and be like "EVERY HOUSE HAS EXCELLENT QUALITIES THIS ISN'T A CONTEST EVEN THOUGH THERE WERE LITERALLY HOUSE COMPETITIONS BUT SHE KINDA DICTATED WHO WOULD WIN EVERY TIME"

     

    I thought I was a Ravenclaw for the longest time since I am the kind of person who will go on Wikipedia/ scholarly paper binges for fun but I would die surrounded by all those overachievers. The fact that I was just saying "Yes! Exactly!!!" so emphatically it woke the cat (and then apologized to said cat. Who happens to be named Albus though I did not name him) to everything you just wrote might be the most Hufflepuff thing I've ever done.

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    Ok I just realized something: Why did Lena's second forgetting spell break? Was it because he crossed over the town line? (which I think was implied by the movie) Didn't Len know that was his dream to move out of town? Wasn't that precisely what she wanted for him? She made that big voice about wanting him to live and explore the world or whatever. Did it break because he left town or because he was moving too far from her, or because he was by the sign where he took her? She knew her first spell broke so why did't she try to make sure this one was stronger? Or did she just expect him to stay in Gatlin forever? Did she not even bother to double check this spell? She's supposed to be this super strong witch if she can't even get a simple forgetting spell right I don't know how powerful she really is. Unless she wanted him to remember her? In which case Damn girl that is one way to mess with your ex.

     

    Furthermore if i were Ethan I would be SO pissed off. Not only has my girlfriend (by now my EX girlfriend) fucked with my mind once SHE'S DONE IT MULTIPLE TIMES. Who knows what else she's done! I would never be able to get over that . This is some straight up Willow/ Tara Season 6 shit.

     

    Also Why was Amma ok with it the second time around? Did Lena magic her memory too this time?

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  25. Posted

    I feel like this is at least the 2nd time the topic of Hogwarts houses sorting has come up on the podcast and yet I don't think Jason has actually told us where he got sorted. I'm starting to think he's secretly a Hufflepuff and is ashamed of it.

     

    As a Hufflepuff this makes me very sad.

    EMBRACE IT JASON

    WE ARE THE BEST HOUSE WE ARE RIGHT NEXT TO KITCHENS BITCH

     

    I like how proximity to snacks is how I determine the best house. (this is not true I have thought long and hard about this and could write a book on each house but for me the ability to be not dead because of whatever tomfoolery Harry Potter is up to, be full of food and able to actually get in my common room without having a nervous breakdown over a riddle / being surrounded by other people who are equally as high strung as I am in a place that I suspect would have very good nap spots is very important. )

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