Hola, Sneakers! Welcome to Episode 345 of Sneaky Dragon, the sneakiest dragon of a podcast on the Internet!
This week Ian and Dave sweat, slurp their Slurpees™ and say stuff about children and their questions; correct names; strong Slurpee™ opinions; Dave’s daytrip to the flophouse; shame heat; Gods and planets; “sarcasm”; the comedy scale; the human equivalent of the overflowing bathtub; the inevitable knockdown, drag out School of Rock fight; watching Jumanji; Welcome to the Jungle; Ian’s thoughts on Tag; the pretty all right, kinda meh Ant-Man and the Wasp; the most important movie coming out: Mission Impossible; Fallout; Timeplay outrage; too many cars at the movie theatre; credit where credit is due; and, finally, real hair.
Thanks for listening.
As we mentioned during the show, Nina Matsumoto, the Third Dragon, was a guest on the Talking Simpsons podcast. Hear her here!
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Here is that Mission Impossible video essay that agrees with Dave so it’s right:
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I have a greater appreciation for Dave driving into Vancouver to record the podcast every week. Last Friday, I drove to Abbotsford for a wedding and did the hellish Fraser Valley afternoon commute for the first time. It took over an hour and a half. If only I’d had a Sneaky Dragon podcast to listen to as I was hitting those bottlenecks where traffic crawled along at 5K/h in a 100K zone. I was reduced to listening to talk radio where they were talking about how bad the Fraser Valley commute was. How meta.
My sister and I also watched Home Again. Our observation was, “When you’re a woman producer, this is the story you get to make!” We were amused that they gender-flipped the trope of certain art house movies (presumably the kind that Reese’s character’s director father and actress mother made) wherein a middle-aged man has a brief affair with a beautiful younger woman which gives him a renewed interest in life or artistic inspiration or whatever. My theory on the disappearance of Jen Kirkman is financial: they probably only had her for one day (it was a low budget, shot-in-a-month kind of film.)
Ant-Man and The Wasp: I was okay with the Quantum Realm as a plot device. It’s the place you can get trapped in forever, so it shows you how much you’re willing to sacrifice to rescue someone you love. *Sigh!*
Yep, thank you for that nightmarish description of my daily commute! It’s terrible and it will only get worse in the next few years.
Hooray!
The problem with your Jen Kirkman theory is that she doesn’t say anything in the film and barely appears on camera. It’s really only my unhealthy interest in Jen Kirkman that made me recognize her. I think that, for whatever reason, she was edited out of the film. It may be she had a side plot that had her leave early that didn’t make it into the film, but I’m certain her part was cut.