The Mummy w/Megan McConville

"YOU MUST NOT READ FROM THE BOOK!!!!!!!!" 

Transcript

SPEAKER_03 0:00

Wants to resurrect a Naksunamun, but needs a human sacrifice to do it.

SPEAKER_00 0:06

Which you know what?

SPEAKER_03 0:07

I don't understand this because I know I don't understand you interrupting me constantly either, but go ahead.

SPEAKER_00 0:12

Oh, stop.

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Go ahead.

SPEAKER_00 0:14

Stop.

SPEAKER_03 0:47

I am your host, Mick, and tonight, got a kind little bit of a special episode here. It's the first ever submission for this show. Didn't come by email, did not come by message, nothing like that. Megan is back because for some reason, reasons that I do not know, she's been watching a lot of The Mummy and basically submitted this episode. And I was like, you know what? Why not? Megan is back. Megan, why did you want to do this movie?

SPEAKER_00 1:21

I've just for some reason have been obsessing over the mummy and like the whole mummy franchise for like a month, month and a half now. And I was like, I really like the mummy stuff. So maybe Mick will want to do an episode, and here we are.

SPEAKER_03 1:36

Of course. Nothing's off the table here. Um, weren't you watching the mummy, the mummy three not too long ago?

SPEAKER_00 1:43

Yeah, that one is set in Asia or yeah, Asia somewhere.

SPEAKER_03 1:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:49

I haven't, I've only gotten like 30 minutes into the movie, so I don't know if I'm gonna like that one or not. I don't like that they changed who played Evelyn, and you know, it's not been I'm just not into that.

SPEAKER_03 2:08

Yeah, I don't know why. I don't know why Rachel Wise didn't come back for it, but I guess they're doing a fourth one that's like separate from all that they that they did with Tom Cruise. So I guess she's coming back for that one.

SPEAKER_00 2:20

I didn't even know that there was a Tom Cruise one.

SPEAKER_03 2:23

Yeah, there was a Tom Cruise one. It did not, I don't think it did particularly well. I really don't.

SPEAKER_00 2:28

Yeah, I I don't know either. I'm gonna watch it though if it's supposed to be a part of that franchise.

SPEAKER_03 2:34

I I don't know necessarily if it is. It probably is. It's just I don't know. For some reason they decided to be like, you know, let's bring Tom Cruise in.

SPEAKER_00 2:44

I'm gonna ask Chat GPT right now.

SPEAKER_03 2:46

Is it before Brendan Fraser got off the blacklist?

SPEAKER_00 2:50

Why was Brendan Fraser on the blacklist?

SPEAKER_03 2:53

Uh well he he uh he called out somebody who tried to make a uh advance towards him of the sexual nature.

SPEAKER_00 3:03

Wasn't it Weinstein?

SPEAKER_03 3:05

Uh no, no. Oh okay. Weinstein, uh not into men, I don't think.

SPEAKER_00 3:09

Oh no, who was it?

SPEAKER_03 3:10

I you know, I can't remember. That is uh you know, I'm I'm just I have access to the internet right in front of me. I'm gonna go ahead and uh I'm gonna go find this out. So do a little bit of talking here.

SPEAKER_00 3:26

So I looked up on um the chat GPT, and it says that the mummy that Tom Cruise was in is an action adventure monster movie where an ancient Egyptian princess gets accidentally awakened in modern times and starts wreaking supernatural havoc.

SPEAKER_03 3:48

Now, which one is this?

SPEAKER_00 3:49

This is the mummy 2017.

SPEAKER_03 3:51

That'd be the Tom Cruise one, right? Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 3:53

So this he plays a US soldier and treasure hunter stationed in the Middle East. Um and he was like treasure hunting in the desert, and they uncover a hidden tomb containing the cursed Egyptian princess Amonet. Anyway, I don't know. Aminette was mummified alive thousands of years ago because she tried to make a deal with a dark god to gain ultimate power. Instead of dying, she's trapped waiting. So it kind of sounds like you know, kind of like the mummy.

SPEAKER_03 4:31

They f uh did they fill her tomb with those cool flesh-eating scarabs?

SPEAKER_00 4:35

It doesn't say no.

SPEAKER_03 4:36

I bet they did. We'll have to check it out.

SPEAKER_00 4:40

Yeah. So I don't know, but they'll have to check it out, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 4:43

I got it right here. It says Brendan Fraser spoke out against Philip Burke, former president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, or HFPA, alleging that Burke sexually assaulted him by groping him in 2003. Fraser claimed this incident and subsequent inaction by the HFPA contribute uh contributed to his withdrawal from the spotlight and damage his career. So apparently he was blacklisted for quite a while, and the whale was like his big, big comeback.

SPEAKER_00 5:14

See, I think it's interesting that he was blacklisted because he was, you know, uh basically assaulted. And why would he why would he lie about that? Like why would a man come out, like a straight man come out and say I was assaulted, sexually assaulted by this person, especially that someone that high in power.

SPEAKER_03 5:34

Well, I don't think anyone was saying he lied about it. I think it was just one of those things where it's like you should never have called out powerful people. That's what happens when you call out powerful people that have more power than you. Yeah, but be like, you didn't let this guy cub your balls and stay quiet about it. You know, you didn't let him thumbfuck you up the ass or something like that. You blabbed, and now sucker you ain't gonna get no work.

SPEAKER_00 6:02

Which is unfortunate. Like, why it's more than unfortunate, it's fucking awful. It is awful, yeah. Yeah, because he's a really good actor.

SPEAKER_03 6:10

I hey, I love me some Brendan Fraser, I really do. My buddy and JD and I we have talked many times about doing an airheads episode.

SPEAKER_00 6:18

So he's and he is a good actor, and he also seems like he's a just decent human being, too.

SPEAKER_03 6:26

Yeah, you know. If you like Brendan Fraser, you know a movie you should check out.

SPEAKER_00 6:31

What?

SPEAKER_03 6:31

It's called School Ties.

SPEAKER_01 6:33

Yeah?

SPEAKER_03 6:34

Yeah. It was a uh Jewish kid from where is he from? Is it Scranton, Pennsylvania?

SPEAKER_00 6:42

Oh boy.

SPEAKER_03 6:43

And uh he gets accepted to this very, very posh, very blue blood uh prep school up in New England. Interesting. And uh he has to hide his um Judaism, his uh Jewish faith. Because all these all these rich asshole kids are prejudiced against Jewish kids.

SPEAKER_00 7:06

Interesting.

SPEAKER_03 7:06

Yeah, the whole time well not the whole time, for probably roughly about half the movie or a little bit more than half the movie, they have no idea he's Jewish and he has to hear all these like Jewish jokes and slurs and stuff, all this stuff said right in front of him. It has to just shut up about it, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 7:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 7:28

Ben Affleck's in it, um, dude that plays Rip from Yellowstone, Cole Hauser, he's in it. And of course, Mia Demon.

SPEAKER_00 7:37

Mia Diem.

SPEAKER_03 7:38

Yeah, he's the uh main antagonist.

SPEAKER_00 7:41

I wanted to check out that new Matt Damon and Ben Affleck movie on I don't know if it's on Netflix, it's on one of those streaming services.

SPEAKER_03 7:47

Yeah, what's it called? Like Rip or something like that?

SPEAKER_00 7:50

I don't know, but there was like a dog in the first like five minutes of the movie, and Kovac spotted it, and I was like, Well, can't watch this movie.

SPEAKER_03 7:59

Yeah, uh, I tried to watch Best in Show and same thing. Like there's dogs in the because that's what kind of it's about. It's like um uh mockumentary type film or something. Catherine O'Hara's in it, Eugene Levy's in it. Yeah, it's a Christopher Guest movie. So yeah, and it's about the dog shows. Dog shows, yeah. So yeah, it's like the time when I tried to watch Tiger King and there's just animals everywhere.

SPEAKER_00 8:24

You'll have to watch Tiger King. Maybe we can watch Tiger King when we're on vacation.

SPEAKER_03 8:29

Maybe it could be like a before bed binge, kind of wind down a little bit. Yeah. All right. Well, uh, if you don't have anything else to add, or do you? Do you have no?

SPEAKER_00 8:39

I'm good.

SPEAKER_03 8:39

Yeah, all right. I think we opened this mother up. All right, let's go ahead and let's get to the trailer. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 8:47

Where did you get this?

SPEAKER_04 8:49

On a dig down in Thebes.

SPEAKER_00 8:52

Jonathan, I think you found something.

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There is an ancient legend of a place known as the city of the dead. They call it the doorway to hell. Where the earliest pharaohs were said to have hidden the wealth of Egypt.

SPEAKER_01 9:10

Are we going into battle?

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There's something out there, something underneath that sand. They came to uncover its secrets. Mummies, my good son. This is where they made the mummies. They sought to unlock its treasure. And then there was light. Oh boy. What they did. Oh my god, it does exist.

SPEAKER_03 9:33

I think this made it look at the dead.

SPEAKER_04 9:36

Was unleashed a force unlike any the world has ever known. You have unleashed a creature that's been appeared for more than 3,000 years. You will be generated. You will be.

SPEAKER_03 11:17

And I think that is the first time in a very long time where I did not totally screw the pooch on pronouncing people's names. So gotta give myself a little pat on the back for that one.

SPEAKER_00 11:29

That was pretty good.

SPEAKER_03 11:30

Thank you. Okay. The film begins in the ancient city of Thebes, Egypt, or also charmingly known as the City of the Living, where we learn the story of the forbidden love between Imotep, played by Arnold Vaslu, the high priest to the Pharaoh, and Anoxunamun, played by Patricia Velasquez, the Pharaoh's lover, who no man besides him is allowed to touch. Very selfish of you there, Pharaoh. Mere seconds after the pharaoh learns of the betrayal, Imotep and Anaxunamun together kill the Pharaoh. Because who could have seen that one coming?

SPEAKER_00 12:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 12:10

When the Pharaoh's guards see this, he has uh that he has been murdered. Anoxunomoon urges Immotep to save himself as he is the only one that can resurrect her, refusing to let the Pharaoh guards have the satisfaction of killing her, Anaxunamoon takes her own life. Emotep then flees to Hamanoptra, the city of the dead.

SPEAKER_00 12:32

With his love's body.

SPEAKER_03 12:34

That's right.

SPEAKER_00 12:34

Her sarcophagus.

SPEAKER_03 12:35

Exactly. Can't go to the city of the dead without a dead body. And while attempting to resurrect Anoxunomoon, and he, along with his priests, are captured by the Pharaoh's guards and mummified.

SPEAKER_00 12:50

Well, he does he does resurrect her.

SPEAKER_03 12:53

Partially.

SPEAKER_00 12:54

Partially. Like she's there.

SPEAKER_03 12:56

He starts to bring her soul back from the underworld, but yeah. But the the ceremony stopped is interrupted. Kind of like I just got got interrupted.

SPEAKER_00 13:09

Well, I wouldn't be your wife if I didn't interrupt you.

SPEAKER_03 13:11

Yeah, that ain't no shit. So anyway, uh, if I could just go ahead and continue here without being rudely fucking interrupted.

SPEAKER_00 13:18

You have my blessing, my love.

SPEAKER_03 13:20

That's there we go. Let's make the sign of the cross make it official. He, along with his priests, are captured by the Pharaoh's guards. Megan, unless you have something you want to add. Okay, great, great.

SPEAKER_01 13:29

No.

SPEAKER_03 13:29

All right. Um, with Emotep receiving the Hum Dai, the worst punishment of them all by having his ton cut off, wrapped in bandages, and entombed with only flesh-eating scarabs to keep him company. Okay, I am lucky to have that.

SPEAKER_00 13:44

I do have to say something about these scarabs. Well, it really bothers me.

SPEAKER_03 13:49

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 13:50

In reality, beetles don't work that fast. Like, have you ever seen a beetle like in the garden like working its way around? It moves at a snail's pace.

SPEAKER_03 14:01

It's these are Egyptian beetles, though.

SPEAKER_00 14:03

Yeah, but even so, they're beetles and they don't work that fast. And they wouldn't be able to burrow under their skin or eat and devour the way that they do in this movie. And if they were legitimately, it's just one thing that bugs me.

SPEAKER_03 14:18

All right. Anything else?

SPEAKER_00 14:19

No, I just had to say that. I had to get it off my chest now.

SPEAKER_03 14:22

I know, I know. I I totally understand. We fast forward to Haminoptra in 1923, where we meet French Foreign Legion soldiers Benny, played by Kevin J. O'Connor, and Rick O'Connell, played by Brendan Fraser. Benny being the ultimate coward and turncoat that he is, deserts Rick and the rest of the soldiers just before they're attacked by an unknown enemy in an unexplained battle. I guess I I wrote that down before I rewatched it and saw that I guess they're fighting over Haminoptra for some reason.

SPEAKER_00 14:58

Well, because well, the magi are trying to keep people away from finding the mummy. Yeah. And I don't know why.

SPEAKER_03 15:08

But they they they're probably just there because they think treasure or they know treasure is there.

SPEAKER_00 15:13

Yeah. The other like Rick and his crew.

SPEAKER_03 15:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 15:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 15:17

So that's all that. So there we go. So not so unexplained now. No. So Rick retreats and is facing certain death when his would-be killers turn and run as they as they do not dare disturb Imatep's tomb at the ancient city of the dead. Rick gets the hell out of Dodge and makes his way through desert on foot. Not getting anything.

SPEAKER_00 15:39

Walking on des in the desert on foot must have been the worst walk of his life.

SPEAKER_01 15:46

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 15:47

All I could think about is how thirsty he would get in the day and how cold he would get at night.

SPEAKER_03 15:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 15:54

You know? I felt bad for Rick.

SPEAKER_03 15:56

Yeah. And how killed he would probably get with all the wildlife.

SPEAKER_00 16:01

Well, there's not a lot of wildlife, but there's like scorpions and snakes and quicksand.

SPEAKER_03 16:09

The kind of snakes that will fuck you up. Oh yeah. But he was able to at least get to a casbah and get shit hammered, so his thirst was quenched. Probably in more ways than one.

SPEAKER_00 16:18

Yeah. He probably walked in like the bride did in Kill Bill Volume 2 when she breaks out of her grave just all dusty and just sits down.

SPEAKER_03 16:28

Have a glass of water. All right. We then cut to Cairo three years later, where we meet and took a excuse me, Antiquities Museum Curators Evelyn, played by Rachel Wise, and her brother Jonathan, played by John Hanna. Jonathan shows Evelyn an Egyptian artifact that he stole from someone at a nearby Casbah. The artifact happens to be a key which contains a map of two Haminatra or City of the Dead. We already established that earlier. What the fuck? I'm all fucked up over here.

SPEAKER_00 17:05

How many Manhattans have you had tonight?

SPEAKER_03 17:07

None.

SPEAKER_00 17:08

Well, then I this is why.

SPEAKER_03 17:10

Completely sober.

SPEAKER_00 17:11

You're usually doing this with a drink in your hand.

SPEAKER_03 17:13

I know. That's I that's never again.

SPEAKER_00 17:16

Is it because you have a hole in your yeti and you usually have your yeti in here with you?

SPEAKER_03 17:19

Yeah, that that's gotta be it. That's really fucking me up. Anyway.

SPEAKER_00 17:24

What's up with Yetis? I just have to say this real quick.

SPEAKER_03 17:26

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 17:27

My Yeti got rust on the inside of it. Yours got a hole in it. They aren't that great of a product.

SPEAKER_03 17:32

I'm starting to feel you just get like a Stanley cup.

SPEAKER_00 17:36

Stanleys are good, clean canteens.

SPEAKER_03 17:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 17:39

Or awalas. Actually, Stanley's are probably like not as great as a wallas are, or clean can clean canteens are awesome.

SPEAKER_03 17:48

Cool. So it just happens to contain a map to Hamanoptra or the city of the dead, and the person he stole it from happens to be Rick O'Connell, who is currently imprisoned and sentenced to be hanged for having a very good time. That is literally the reason we're given. That's it. That's why the warden says he had a very good time. So he's to be hanged.

SPEAKER_00 18:11

I don't understand that.

SPEAKER_03 18:12

Like he can you is it like a he's he's an American in a Muslim country.

SPEAKER_00 18:18

So getting shit hammered.

SPEAKER_03 18:20

Yeah. Which you would think would be impossible, especially at that time in a Muslim country, to consume any kind of alcohol, but he has at a Kazbah, so yeah, because this was like in the twenties, right?

SPEAKER_00 18:32

Yeah. So well, I mean, yeah, maybe public intoxication might be illegal there. Yeah. Like highly illegal.

SPEAKER_03 18:41

Or fraternizing with the local women, maybe.

SPEAKER_00 18:45

Maybe.

SPEAKER_03 18:45

That could be what he meant by he said when he had a very good time.

SPEAKER_01 18:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 18:50

All right. You have anything you want? No. Anything you want to add? Nothing? Not here. All right. Evelyn saves Rick from the hangman's noose, and they, along with Jonathan and the prison warden, set off to find the lost city of Haminoptra to reap its many treasures. While at the lost city, the infamous Book of the Dead is found, and after Evelyn reads from it for some reason, the skeletal remains of Emotep are resurrected, and after finding and killing the men in the other camp that discovered the book, Emotep is at full strength and now wants to resurrect Anaxunomoon, but needs a human sacrifice to do it.

SPEAKER_00 19:29

Which you know what?

SPEAKER_03 19:30

I don't understand this because I know I don't understand you interrupting me constantly either, but go ahead.

SPEAKER_00 19:35

Well, stop.

SPEAKER_03 19:36

Go ahead.

SPEAKER_00 19:37

Stop. What I'm trying to say is at this point in the movie, I get upset again because in the very beginning, when he's trying to resurrect Knoxamon right after her death, there's no other body to kill. Who is he gonna kill in the very beginning? Did you notice that?

SPEAKER_03 19:54

Maybe after 3,000 years, they need a another, they need a human sacrifice.

SPEAKER_00 19:59

So like after you wait more than 48 hours, like could be you, you know, five to seven business days, you have to like wait.

SPEAKER_03 20:07

There's a few things that don't make any sense in this movie. We'll get to all that in a little bit.

SPEAKER_00 20:11

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 20:12

Uh and the human that he has picked for said sacrifice is none other none other than Evelyn. Megan?

SPEAKER_00 20:20

No, I got my interruptions out already.

SPEAKER_03 20:23

Good. Okay. So the time when I when I actually do need you to speak up, you got nothing. Okay, cool. Cool. Excellent. Emotep and Benny take Evelyn to Hamanoptra to perform the ritual. And Rick and Jonathan follow to save her. After fighting off Imotep's undead priests and some other weird undead guards, Jonathan and Rick discover the book of the living, which takes life away. The only thing that can kill Emotep. Evelyn is freed, she reads from the book, rendering Emotep completely mortal, and Rick delivers the fatal blow.

SPEAKER_00 20:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 20:59

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 21:00

That's the movie.

SPEAKER_03 21:01

Well, almost.

SPEAKER_00 21:02

Minus some very important other thing scenes that you skipped right over.

SPEAKER_03 21:06

Abridged version. I do the abridged version. I have done I've done episodes in the past where I have not left anything out.

SPEAKER_00 21:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 21:17

And those episodes are boring as shit.

SPEAKER_00 21:20

That's true.

SPEAKER_03 21:21

Anything I skip over, we can get to after the synopsis of the box. Oh, he's good. It happens all the time.

SPEAKER_00 21:31

Oh, I know. I've listened to the episodes.

SPEAKER_03 21:33

He'll bark out there, he'll come in, he'll walk underneath the table, he'll fart.

SPEAKER_00 21:38

It's do you want me just to shut the door?

SPEAKER_03 21:40

That's not gonna do anything.

SPEAKER_00 21:42

That's true.

SPEAKER_03 21:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 21:44

Maybe muffle his barks.

SPEAKER_03 21:46

How the hell are you gonna muffle that?

SPEAKER_00 21:48

I know that's true. He's so loud.

SPEAKER_03 21:50

Rick and Evelyn end up falling in love because who also could have seen that coming? And they, along with Jonathan, ride off into the sunset. And that. Is the end of the movie. All right. Do you have anything you want to add?

SPEAKER_00 22:04

Well, of course, I have a lot of things that I want to add. First off, they ride off into the sunset with all of Benny's treasure.

SPEAKER_03 22:14

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 22:14

Which I loved.

SPEAKER_03 22:16

Because Benny didn't make it.

SPEAKER_00 22:17

Because Benny didn't make it.

SPEAKER_03 22:19

He got his comeuppins. He did. Evelyn told him. Right when they got to Haminoptra and they were walking in there, and she looks right at him and she says, you know, people like you always get their comeuppins. He's like, they do. So he's like, yes.

SPEAKER_00 22:37

He's like a character that you just like love to hate.

SPEAKER_03 22:40

Yeah, he's but we'll we'll get to that. Okay. So let's do the likes first. Okay. So you have anything else you want to add before we get on with that?

SPEAKER_00 22:49

I have a lot of my notes are very disorganized for this episode, but oh boy.

SPEAKER_03 22:54

I don't I don't do disorganization, Megan. I can't do it.

SPEAKER_00 22:58

I do have to say that like when watching this movie, a lot of questions come up, and I have so many questions. Like my first one is why didn't Emotep just stay dead and live in the underworld with his love with a nox in a moon? Like that's that is one question that I always wonder. Like, if they go like the Egyptians believed in the afterlife, and that like when you die, you are, you know, whatever. And wouldn't they be together in the afterlife?

SPEAKER_03 23:36

Yeah, but probably not in the underworld.

SPEAKER_00 23:39

Or the underworld?

SPEAKER_03 23:40

I mean the underworld, you're not supposed to feel any kind of joy. You're not, it's it's a place devoid of love and joy and why did they go to the underworld though?

SPEAKER_00 23:50

What I mean, because they're murderers?

SPEAKER_03 23:52

Yeah. They killed the Pharaoh.

SPEAKER_00 23:54

That's true. But still, like at least they could have been miserable and not happy and just been around each other.

SPEAKER_03 24:00

Yeah, but who knows? I mean, what if the underworld is chock full of shitty people and they never find each other there?

SPEAKER_00 24:07

That's true.

SPEAKER_03 24:09

I mean, I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 24:10

Here is an idea for the writers and producers of the mummy franchise.

SPEAKER_03 24:15

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 24:16

Create a spin-off of them in the underworld for the 3,000 years they were there. Wouldn't that be kind of cool?

SPEAKER_03 24:24

That actually would be kind of cool.

SPEAKER_00 24:25

I don't know. Just an idea. Anyway. But yeah, that's just one big thing I have to do.

SPEAKER_03 24:29

I probably wouldn't hate it. I probably would not hate it. All right.

SPEAKER_00 24:36

Should we write it?

SPEAKER_03 24:37

I I got a lot of ideas on a lot of things I want to write. Just the problem is it's just having the confidence to sit down and just start typing out the words. Because that's how it's always been with me. Every time I ever have ever tried to write anything, like I'll go back and I'll reread it. Like at the time when I'm writing it, I'm like, hey man, it's actually, you know, it was not 10 pounds of shit in a five-pound bag. Then I'll go back a couple weeks later and reread it and be like, oh god, this is crap. What the fucking moron wrote this crap? Oh, but that'd be me. But then it was on paper, and I would just crumple it up, chuck that shit in the garbage.

SPEAKER_00 25:17

So here's the thing. Like, you took a big leap and created a podcast.

SPEAKER_03 25:25

I did.

SPEAKER_00 25:26

And you know, people want to be on it.

SPEAKER_03 25:30

I created a podcast, and what did you say? What did you say?

SPEAKER_00 25:33

You come at motherfucker. Well, I had to clean it up a little bit, but I remember listening to that episode with Zach, the Days of Thunder episode, and you played that, and I was like, just shaking and laughing. I was like, really?

SPEAKER_03 25:55

But I do have pretty decent ideas. But go on, you were saying great things about me and starting this podcast. I never should have interrupted that. No, you shouldn't have. Please continue.

SPEAKER_00 26:06

Yes.

SPEAKER_03 26:06

If you want to spend a whole nother hour talking about the great things that I do here, I'm I'm I'm all for that.

SPEAKER_00 26:13

I probably only have about another 30 seconds of night things, nice things to say about you.

SPEAKER_03 26:17

You know, baby stuff. I'll take the 30 seconds and then we'll just work our way up.

SPEAKER_00 26:22

Well, I'm just saying, I enjoy your podcast. I think it's fun. I think it's a nice activity that you do, and you have the gall to like try something new. And so why don't you why can't you just start writing? Like if you have ideas, you need to be like Charlie Day and it's always sunny in Philadelphia, and have a pen and paper next to your bed. And when you wake up and you have an idea, you just write it down, and then you come back to them and you say, Okay, what's gonna be something that I can write about?

SPEAKER_03 26:51

It'd be like Charlie Day. I already actually am kind of like him with the pissing in the coffee cans and stuff like that.

SPEAKER_00 26:57

When have you ever pissed in a coffee can?

SPEAKER_03 27:00

Well, it's a lot of times uh when you're already at work, and that's and that's when I let out my inner Charlie Day. So Okay.

SPEAKER_00 27:11

I doubt that.

SPEAKER_03 27:13

So do I. Yeah. I just wanted to get a reaction out of you. I mean, I suppose I probably could. Start, you know, get like a little storyboard going on. Start jotting down some ideas. Yeah, I think you should. But please do not refer to this as an activity, Megan. This is not something. Live with that hobby bullshit. Let's get motherfucking paid.

SPEAKER_00 27:36

Well, you gotta keep like, what did I tell you? You know, we're not gonna get into this whole marketing thing on your podcast.

SPEAKER_03 27:43

Not yet, not yet. Eventually. That's why I'm putting the team together.

SPEAKER_00 27:47

Okay. Gotcha.

SPEAKER_03 27:48

Yeah. I I'm man enough to admit I can't do this all 100% on my own. Yes, this podcast is my brain child, and you know, it's wonderful. I'm wonderful. Yeah, okay, fine. We've said all that, we've established that. But I can't do it alone.

SPEAKER_00 28:05

You know what else?

SPEAKER_03 28:06

Some good people.

SPEAKER_00 28:08

You have accepted Don Julio. You've been using this light. I'm usually the one that turns that light on before your podcast, and now you do it.

SPEAKER_03 28:18

I feel it gives a certain kind of mood in here, and it just, you know, and you have to have the right mood and atmosphere in order to create. Yeah. So this is what we're doing right now. All right. Shall we go on with the likes or do you uh do you have something else you'd like to do?

SPEAKER_00 28:36

No, no, I'm we can we can move along on this road where we're okay.

SPEAKER_03 28:40

So for likes, why don't you start us off?

SPEAKER_00 28:42

You want me to start off? Yeah. All right. Um, so I really liked that this movie makes me ask questions and research things. Like every single time that I watch this movie, I'm always like questioning something and being like, is that real was that really real? And and reading more about Egypt and ancient Egypt, and it just kind of sparks my curiosity, which is healthy as you age, you know.

SPEAKER_03 29:12

Yeah, yeah, that's true. Um, so we're certainly doing that, aren't we?

SPEAKER_00 29:17

Yeah, well, yeah, it sucks.

SPEAKER_03 29:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 29:19

But um, yeah, so like, you know, for instance, I did not know, or did you know, because I asked a question this last time how fast can a camel run?

SPEAKER_03 29:31

And I I have that for one of my dislikes. Oh dear camels outrunning horses.

SPEAKER_00 29:38

Yeah. Well, here's fun facts. The horses that they used in this movie were mainly Arabian horses, which are bred for desert. Um, camels were made for the desert because they have these wide padded feet, so it helps them from sinking into the sand. And that's what these Arabian horses are too. They have bigger, bigger hooves. Um, at least that's what I learned on my research. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong. But anyways, so I was like, oh, they have you know wide feet to help them from sinking in. But camels can run steadily for several hours at max 15 miles per hour. And in short bursts, they can run up to 40 miles per hour. The horses that they had on this set, the Arabian ones, can run up to 40 miles per hour. So technically that race was legit.

SPEAKER_03 30:34

Okay. All right.

SPEAKER_00 30:36

So I just have to I have to point that out.

SPEAKER_03 30:39

I do have a friend of mine who, when it comes to horses, she really knows her shit. Um, so I I could always shoot her a message and yeah, and then I don't know how much she knows about camels, but she knows about horses.

SPEAKER_00 30:53

Yeah. So well, I mean, this is this is what I learned from my research about because I was like curious. I'm like, this is because I put it in my dislikes that the camel outran the horses. And then I was like, but the more that I learn about horse racing, I know that there's different breeds of horses for different reasons. And, you know, like the Kentucky Derby, those horses run were bred for running long distances. Okay. And then like the horses that we have at the racetracks on in Nebraska at the casinos I work for, those ones are bred for running so fast at short distances. So I just that's why I did more research, and now it's a like.

SPEAKER_03 31:36

Excellent.

SPEAKER_00 31:37

Mic drop.

SPEAKER_03 31:38

Boom. Yeah, don't drop these mics. These mics were not cheap.

SPEAKER_00 31:41

I will not drop your mics.

SPEAKER_03 31:43

And I'm gonna upgrade one of these days, but let's let's keep these mics intact.

SPEAKER_00 31:47

Yeah, I have more likes, but I feel like I've been talking for a while, so maybe you should just one, Winston.

SPEAKER_03 31:54

I freaking love Winston. The drunken British pilot that is bored shitless in Egypt and would love nothing more than to go out in a blaze of glory. Not only does he end up getting his wish, um, which actually actually is really not a sad death in that movie. Yeah, it's the way it's exactly what he wanted. Yeah, and um, so he loved the love nothing more than go out in a blaze of glory. Not only does he get his wish, but when approached for what is a near uh suicide mission, he's literally just sitting out in the middle of the middle of the desert drinking and just kicking it underneath an umbrella.

SPEAKER_00 32:32

Listening to Spanish music, exactly.

SPEAKER_03 32:34

Yeah, oh I forgot about the photograph. He's got the photograph just sitting there just spinning and playing. But dude, Winston. We should get a phonograph. We should.

SPEAKER_00 32:42

We could like sit out on our front porch with it. People would drive by and be like, Who are these old people?

SPEAKER_03 32:48

Just wave at him. Like, well, you know what? You can go ahead and call us old. You just go ahead and uh shit the bet on your chance to sit out on our porch and listen to our photograph with us. So there you go. Yeah, exactly. So yeah, when Winston, that guy, freaking awesome.

SPEAKER_00 33:05

So funny. I love Winston. I love him too.

SPEAKER_03 33:08

Just walking through the fountain because he's so hammery as the hell he's doing.

SPEAKER_00 33:11

And he's like one of those like pilots that just doesn't give a crap. Like, meh, he's like a cowboy, like straps two people to the wings of his plane.

SPEAKER_03 33:20

Yeah, like yeah. How how you know what I think that's that's a dislike from me. Although it is funny.

SPEAKER_01 33:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 33:27

Because Jonathan is hating life, but um oh uh what's his name?

SPEAKER_00 33:35

Oh, I can't think of it. The one the magi guy.

SPEAKER_03 33:38

Yeah, Oded Fair. That's the actor's name. I um, but I didn't put in his character.

SPEAKER_00 33:44

You didn't put in his character's name?

SPEAKER_03 33:45

No. Um because I don't think they actually ever say it. But they do in the sequel.

SPEAKER_00 33:51

The he's the main magi guy.

SPEAKER_03 33:55

But he's hanging on to the wing, he's got a white knuckle grip on the on that wing, and he's just got this shit eating grin the entire time. Oh yeah. He's loving it.

SPEAKER_00 34:03

His name is E Ardeth Bay, leader of the magi. Arrith Bay. Yeah, played by Odare Oded Fair.

SPEAKER_03 34:10

Fair.

SPEAKER_00 34:11

Ardeth Bay.

SPEAKER_03 34:12

Ardeth Bay. Yeah, one of the coolest names I've ever heard.

SPEAKER_00 34:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 34:16

All right, what do you got next for likes?

SPEAKER_00 34:20

Um, I it's it's more so of how the movie was shot in some scenes. So, you know, in the beginning when Anux and a moon kills herself and um Emotep is watching her death as a shadow, and then later on, he watches her death again as a shadow. And then um Good point. I think there's one other shadow scene too. I can't remember, but I liked how they used that instead of seeing like blood and guts and death, like it's kind of romanticized a little bit.

SPEAKER_03 34:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 34:56

Not being able to see, you know, and shadows.

SPEAKER_03 34:59

Yeah. Um, I think on IMDB they said the no gore. I don't think the director wanted any gore.

SPEAKER_00 35:07

And I think it worked.

SPEAKER_03 35:08

Yeah, too, yeah. I think it did too.

SPEAKER_00 35:10

Yeah. Um another thing that I really liked about this movie was Jonathan, the actor, the character Jonathan, the brother.

SPEAKER_01 35:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 35:22

Yeah. I just feel like he was just funny in a like a nonchalant type of way.

SPEAKER_03 35:30

Yeah. You know, he's not a scumbag, but he he clearly is not like his sister at all. She has a thirst for knowledge, he has a thirst for getting rich. Yes. Um, so yeah. Yeah. Can't I can't fault him there. I I understand.

SPEAKER_01 35:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 35:44

A lot of gold in the in the city of Hominapture. You want to get your hands on some. Not a problem.

SPEAKER_00 35:50

And he's a quick learner, too, if you notice that. Yeah. You know, like the one he gets blindsided, sucker punched by Rick, and then the next time he might get punched, he was ready for it.

SPEAKER_03 36:03

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 36:04

So, you know. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 36:06

Yeah, he he is a cool character in this movie.

SPEAKER_00 36:09

Yeah, he's I I really liked him.

SPEAKER_03 36:11

So my next one is Rachel Wise. Uh, not only is she completely adorable in this movie, because she is, but her character is incredibly likable. She's very intelligent, a little uh a little stiff and British, of course, yeah. But also knows how to crack a joke every once in a while, even gets a tad bit shit hammered in this movie. So I do, yes, I do like Rachel Wise in this movie a lot.

SPEAKER_00 36:39

And she's got like she's beautiful, yeah, but it's not like the obvious beautiful that you normally see in movies like this. And and I think that just humanized her a little bit more and just made her character even more likable. Yeah. Even though that sounds bad saying that, like she wasn't like hot, right? Or I don't know how to say it, but you know what I'm trying to say.

SPEAKER_03 37:01

I know, I know exactly what you're trying to say. I mean, she's not, I wouldn't say she is like over the top gorgeous, but she is very beautiful. And I'm gonna tell you something right now. When you first meet her and she's got the librarian thing going on, hair pulled back, and the skirt and the and the glasses. Because you know this old boy loves him some glasses.

SPEAKER_01 37:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 37:21

And it's just all like a total Sam Malone moment. It's like Jesus. Like, man, she's yeah. So you have to forgive me that first time I saw this movie, I was like 17 years old.

SPEAKER_00 37:36

So yeah, I don't remember how old I was when when I first saw it, but you know, she actually modeled her character, Evelyn, after real early 20th century British explorers and librarians who were often underestimated when um put up by male colleagues.

SPEAKER_02 37:55

Really?

SPEAKER_00 37:56

Mm-hmm. And she is actually one of the few people or few actors that um learned how to read hieroglyphics for this movie.

SPEAKER_03 38:06

She did?

SPEAKER_00 38:07

Yeah. Yep.

SPEAKER_03 38:08

Yeah, that I did not know. That is actually really cool.

SPEAKER_00 38:11

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 38:11

I like that.

SPEAKER_00 38:12

Yeah, that's that's a very she must have studied for a long time, or she's just really that smart and was able to pick it up together.

SPEAKER_03 38:18

She's probably really that smart.

SPEAKER_00 38:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 38:21

She strikes me as someone very intelligent.

SPEAKER_00 38:23

Yeah. In my opinion, she's the hero of the story. Like she knew what was in what. She's the hero? Yeah, I don't think Rick is. I think she's the hero.

SPEAKER_03 38:35

She's the one that started this whole shit show.

SPEAKER_00 38:38

Yeah, but she's also the one that ended it, too. She's the one that's consistently been able to read the hieroglyphics, help to kill the mummy, ancient Egyptian. And ancient Egyptian, and is the one that ends up basically killing the mummy while fighting off Anuxinamon's, you know, mummy, yeah, mummified body.

SPEAKER_03 39:01

Yeah. Yeah, you're right. She's the true hero. She kills the mummy, the one that she resurrected.

SPEAKER_00 39:06

Yeah, she's the hero, in my opinion.

SPEAKER_03 39:08

Well, you know, what we'll touch down on that a little bit.

SPEAKER_00 39:10

Okay. You have any more likes or um, I did like the chemistry between Rick and Evie. I feel like even in the second movie, those people in real life just had that thing, that chemistry, and was another reason why I was disappointed about the third one that she, Rachel Weiss, didn't reprise her role as Evelyn. Yeah, did they ever say why? She actually had just had a baby, and their scheduling didn't make sense for being a new mom. So that would do it. Yeah, which is unfortunate. But because I don't like the new Eevee in the number three.

SPEAKER_03 39:48

Well, you you you don't have to get used to her. Because I like I said, I think they're they're doing a fourth one.

SPEAKER_00 39:55

And hopefully Rachel Weiss will be able to do it.

SPEAKER_03 39:58

She's coming back. Yes! So is Brendan Fraser.

SPEAKER_00 40:01

That makes me so excited. We're we're gonna have to see that in theaters when it comes out.

SPEAKER_03 40:04

I'll say uh Brendan Fraser, he is he's a busy boy as of lately. The whale a couple years back.

SPEAKER_00 40:10

Uh no, he's got sparked up his career again.

SPEAKER_03 40:12

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 40:13

It's a wonderful film.

SPEAKER_03 40:15

It was. I liked it. Yeah, I did like it.

SPEAKER_00 40:18

Um, nope, those those are pretty much all of my my likes.

SPEAKER_03 40:22

Yeah, I got I have one more as well. Um, not that I didn't like Brendan Fraser in this movie, I do, but I just I don't I didn't have him on my list. But that's a extra added one. But my last one is the prison warden. I really do.

SPEAKER_01 40:36

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_03 40:37

When Evelyn is uh bartering for his life, it's like 100 pounds. He's like, for 100 pounds, I would pay 100 pounds to watch him hang. And she goes up to three, and he goes up to five, and now 500 pounds, and he's all like, and what else? I'm a very lonely man. He puts his hand on her leg, dude. What a stud. And she smacks his freaking hand away because she's not at all interested, but yeah, I'm a very lonely man. Well, no shit, you're a lonely man, dude. You're at some weird prison out in the middle of the desert, you're surrounded by nothing but men. So let's let's cut the warden a little bit of slack on this one here.

SPEAKER_00 41:13

Yeah, yeah. And it's probably their culture to be that forward to, right?

SPEAKER_03 41:20

I I have no idea.

SPEAKER_00 41:22

Or he's just a piece of shit.

SPEAKER_03 41:24

He could be just a freaking scumbag, or maybe just that loneliness that just got to him has just made him completely desperate. That could be it, too. Or it's just all like, look, I'm not getting any younger. I need to just put it out there, see if it works. Yeah, it's probably the first woman he's seen in years, and let's face it, she's easy on the eyes, too. So yeah, I mean, you don't go putting your hands on a woman like that unless you have the green light, unless you know you do, man.

SPEAKER_00 41:53

That's true.

SPEAKER_03 41:53

But I'm gonna cut him a little bit of slack on this one. And it was 99, so yeah, and I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 41:59

Yeah, his character was pretty fun. I was sad that they killed him off so early into the movie.

SPEAKER_03 42:04

There's a little uh message there. Don't be greedy. Greed was his undoing. People, Mickheads, if you've seen this movie, you know exactly what we're talking about.

SPEAKER_00 42:15

Yep, yep.

SPEAKER_03 42:16

Greed will just it can kill you.

SPEAKER_00 42:20

Yep, it can.

SPEAKER_03 42:20

All right. What do you not like about this movie?

SPEAKER_00 42:25

Um, what so what we've talked about um already, but one of I really only had like three. I don't think uh I have a little bit more than three, but I had more than that, but we already covered that, so never mind. Um the library sing at the the very beginning, you're telling me a library of that caliber didn't have their bookshelves anchored into the floor.

SPEAKER_03 42:52

Exactly. Thank you.

SPEAKER_00 42:54

Makes me so mad.

SPEAKER_03 42:56

But why are they just sitting there in the middle of the room like that? It's like there's all that room. You have the shelves probably at least a few feet away from the walls. What are you doing? What are we talking about?

SPEAKER_00 43:06

Done the same type of effect, but have it be something completely different. Like she shoves a book on the shelf where it was already max full, and it crashes the shelf down, and then all the books fall, you know.

SPEAKER_03 43:21

I mean true, you know, but she's got the ladder and that's true. Um, gets pushed away, and she's kind of standing up there. She's probably about a good, I don't know, seven, eight feet in the air. And yeah, she's got the look on her face like, ooh, like who should. Yeah. What do I do here?

SPEAKER_00 43:37

Yeah, she's trying to cut corners. Yeah, and um it did not work out for her.

SPEAKER_03 43:42

That's right. Yep. Yeah, don't cut corners. I'll be lazy.

SPEAKER_00 43:47

So, is that one of your dislikes too? Was that scene?

SPEAKER_03 43:50

Um, no.

SPEAKER_00 43:52

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 43:53

My first one is when Imotep is fully resurrected, he could totally fully crush Rick. And everyone else around him. And he will. Later. Seriously? You know the part I'm talking about?

SPEAKER_01 44:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 44:10

Where they're in, I believe they're in Cairo, and everyone's all walking around chanting emotep, and that's monotone. And uh he says he's gonna take Evelyn with her. He says, Come with me and I'll spare all your friends, which he doesn't mean a word of that shit. And then Rick starts to go after him. And um, what's Odin Fair's name?

SPEAKER_00 44:33

Oh my god, now I feel terrible. Um, it is Ardith Bay.

SPEAKER_03 44:38

All right, so Artis stops him and goes, No, live today, fight tomorrow. It's like, really? Yeah, emotep could kill everyone around him right now.

SPEAKER_01 44:48

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_03 44:49

But he chooses not to. I mean, it's like, hey, I could wipe everyone out, take Evelyn back to Haminatra, do my thing, get rid of her, have my love back, and a movie right there.

SPEAKER_00 45:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 45:03

I mean So, yeah. That would be I've waited 3,000 years. I'll get around to it.

SPEAKER_00 45:09

We need to start a like a movie like genre of this is how it really would go.

SPEAKER_03 45:17

Like, yeah, you know, where um I don't know partially that's why we do what we do here. So all right, what do you got for a dislike?

SPEAKER_00 45:28

Oh, another dislike for me is I've really felt bad for the Egyptian helpers. How they kind of got the shit end of the stick. Yeah, like dynamite existed back then, they had the money to buy dynamite. Why didn't they just buy dynamite and blow open some of these Egyptologists?

SPEAKER_03 45:50

That guy, I was actually glad to see him go. He's kind of a prick.

SPEAKER_00 45:54

The Egyptologist is another dislike for me.

SPEAKER_03 45:57

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 45:57

He's a piece of shit.

SPEAKER_03 45:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 45:59

And too dramatic.

SPEAKER_03 46:01

Seti was no fool. Let these let these uh peasants open and yeah, they get yeah, they get the shit end of the stick on that one. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 46:10

So I just I felt like Yeah, he's an asshole.

SPEAKER_03 46:14

He's got that stupid scene where all the locusts are all over him. Like we're led to believe that the swarm of locusts. What have we done? Yeah, what have we done? And he's still alive. Yeah, those other three guys are running and they get swarmed, and we have to assume though did the locusts go the scarab route and eat him.

SPEAKER_00 46:32

I mean, they no, probably not, but like maybe they went down his throat and choked him to death. Yeah, that could be it. But I don't know. Yeah, yeah, he was he was terrible. I disliked him so much.

SPEAKER_03 46:44

He sucked. Uh, my next dislike is Benny. He's annoying. And I don't know if that Hungarian accent that he's got going on is good or uh good or bad, but it is off-putting nonetheless. Just your strength gives me strength. Yeah, he's I do, but I do like when he just uh when he takes off, he just drops his gun and just hauls ass out of there. That is actually kind of funny.

SPEAKER_02 47:08

Now, what were you uh what were you gonna say?

SPEAKER_00 47:11

I was gonna say like he's a character that like I love to hate, you know. Like you can't you he's awful, he's an awful person. He's a a wimp, you know. He has no honor at all. Nope. But at the same time, he kind of like you kind of cheer for him a little bit too. Because he's like not a bad guy. He's just trying to survive, he's just trying to survive. That's all he's trying to do.

SPEAKER_03 47:45

You get that from he's yeah, he's not a bad guy, but he is untrustworthy. You can't trust him at all.

SPEAKER_00 47:54

Because all he cares about is surviving.

SPEAKER_03 47:56

Yeah, you know, looks out for a number one, which I have to say is a pretty admirable trait if you do it right, like me.

SPEAKER_00 48:07

You do not look out for a number one, you look out for everybody that you love and care for. So you have you talk this big talk about how you're this tough guy, this lone wolf, but you're really not at all.

SPEAKER_03 48:23

Are you trying to say I'm not a lone wolf? I'm a lone wolf.

SPEAKER_00 48:27

No, you're not a lone wolf, Mick. You are not. I know, I'm just too good at it, I guess.

SPEAKER_03 48:36

I well, I I like to think I am pretty tough, but yeah, you're right. I am a pretty big teddy bear.

SPEAKER_00 48:43

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_03 48:47

That nobody wins.

SPEAKER_00 48:48

You're not this like tough guy that you paint your out. Well, I mean you're a tough guy, but you're not like this I'm not a bully. Bully and like jerk that you sometimes paint yourself to be on the show. But you're not. You're not. You're a good person.

SPEAKER_02 49:03

Well, now I gotta I gotta change the whole damn show now because you went ahead and you already said all that. Now we're gonna be going to like a whole new format.

SPEAKER_00 49:14

You thanks a lot. So full of it. No, we're not. It's good. Anyway.

SPEAKER_03 49:18

Uh were you done or did you Yeah. All right. My next one is the map found inside the key is dated at least 3,000 years old. Yet it looked like it was printed up yesterday. Like it was they made it yesterday.

SPEAKER_00 49:33

What's that noise?

SPEAKER_03 49:34

She's getting some ice.

SPEAKER_00 49:35

Oh.

SPEAKER_03 49:35

Some ice.

SPEAKER_00 49:36

Oh, Bella's for her uh let's just let Bella give us some ice ASMR real quick.

SPEAKER_03 49:45

Fascinating.

SPEAKER_00 49:46

Now she has to listen to the episode so she can hear her ice ASMR. Can she hear us?

SPEAKER_03 49:51

Yeah, she can hear us looking at us right now. So, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 50:03

I was just like, that thing would be it hasn't been exposed to sunlight. It's been locked underground for how many years? Like things can preserve when there's not exposure to the but the scarabs.

SPEAKER_03 50:17

You don't think the scarabs would eat the map?

SPEAKER_00 50:19

Maybe the scarabs were um well, they got locked in well, I don't know. Scarabs are just the beetles, man. I just can't figure them out. Yeah. I just can't.

SPEAKER_03 50:31

All right, that's what I got. What's yours? When what do you got next?

SPEAKER_00 50:34

Um, I think that's pretty much it. I just have some like things that, you know, fun facts and some things that were just interesting to me, but that's about it. All right.

SPEAKER_03 50:44

Uh next one we have.

SPEAKER_00 50:45

I do have one more display.

SPEAKER_03 50:46

Okay, let's hear it.

SPEAKER_00 50:47

Okay. Why didn't Emotep just tell people like, look, I just want my girlfriend back. I want to resurrect her. I want to go on my way. We're gonna take a boat ride down the Nile, leave everyone alone. We just want to live and be in love and have babies and go to Coachella and you have a seafood boil. You know, Coachella. Like they just want to be a seafood boil.

SPEAKER_03 51:15

I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 51:16

Um like give me just someone to sacrifice. You know, it doesn't have to be Evelyn. Like, just find someone so I can bring my girlfriend back and leave y'all alone, you know?

SPEAKER_03 51:26

That that you know, that's actually an excellent point.

SPEAKER_00 51:30

But um Ardith said that he's the he's the bringer of death for some yeah, that was the curse that got put upon him.

SPEAKER_03 51:39

Yeah, you know, it's just I mean, yeah, I mean you you might be onto something there. It's just like, I mean, yeah, he did kill the Pharaoh, but maybe the Pharaoh was a you know, maybe the Pharaoh was a dick. You know, I mean he wouldn't let his priest sleep with his wife. I mean, like I said, very selfish there, Pharaoh, very selfish. Yeah, so yeah, maybe we don't maybe we're not all that familiar with Imotev's backstory. I don't know. Maybe he's really not all that bad of a guy.

SPEAKER_00 52:08

No, maybe he's not. Maybe he just was in love, and you know, yeah, that's all he wanted.

SPEAKER_03 52:15

All right, I'll go ahead and get through the the next few ones. I have uh camels out running horses. Well, that dislike kind of got debunked, so you're welcome. Thank you. Not sure why I even mentioned that. Uh the next one here is they have a bet of $500 on the boat as to who reach who reaches Haminoptra first. And then the guy right before they have their camel versus horses race to the city of the dead, the guy says, Remember, O'Connell, 500 cash bucks. Who the hell says cash bucks?

SPEAKER_00 52:49

It was the 20s.

SPEAKER_03 52:51

Ah, touche. Well, if I was around in the 20s, I would not be walking around saying, hey, we have a bet for cash bucks. It sounds stupid. Don't say it. Well, what else were they supposed to say for you 500 US dollars? That would have been better than 500 cash books.

SPEAKER_00 53:12

It sounds like a call car salesman ad.

unknown 53:15

It does.

SPEAKER_00 53:16

You know, like 500 cash books, and we'll get you the number one camel on the lot.

SPEAKER_03 53:21

The only thing the only thing that would have been worse if he if he would have been like 500 cash money. That would have been the worst.

SPEAKER_00 53:28

So in the when this film was made, $500 was worth about today, around like $8,100 to $8,500 today.

SPEAKER_03 53:38

So yeah, yeah. Yeah, wouldn't a lot of people walking around with $500 in 1926.

SPEAKER_00 53:44

$500 cash.

SPEAKER_03 53:45

$500 cash. All right. Fine. Yeah, to get that in there.

SPEAKER_00 53:49

I did. I had to.

SPEAKER_03 53:50

All right. My last dislike for this movie. Evelyn knows all things ancient Egypt, yet does not know to not read from the book of the dead. Of course, she all she also might have been drunk in that scene, too.

SPEAKER_00 54:03

So well, here's the thing The Book of the Dead, like, is a real thing, but it's completely different from what the movie makes it out to be. So maybe it was kind of like a little twist, being like she probably thinks of what it really is, what we know it to be now, and didn't realize that what she was reading was gonna bring back this ancient cursed mummy that she, you know, didn't really know about. They alluded to that the entire movie. She didn't know who was buried at what's that god? The dog god, what's his name?

SPEAKER_03 54:39

Oh, um, Anubis.

SPEAKER_00 54:41

Anubis buried under Anubis.

SPEAKER_03 54:43

The dog god.

SPEAKER_00 54:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 54:45

Is he the dog god?

SPEAKER_00 54:46

I don't know what Anubis really is, to be honest with you.

SPEAKER_03 54:48

I'm not sure either.

SPEAKER_00 54:49

Yeah, we'll have to look it up. But like she didn't know who was buried down there, she just knew that he was really, really, really naughty.

SPEAKER_03 54:57

I was saying, yeah, I'm not really all that schooled on um Egyptian mythology, so yeah.

SPEAKER_00 55:04

You know who is, probably Lindsay.

SPEAKER_03 55:08

Yeah, yeah, that would that would not surprise me at all. She probably knows her stuff. All right, she does. All right, on the cutting room floor. Uh, first one I have Brendan Fraser nearly died during the hanging scene.

SPEAKER_00 55:21

I saw that when I was researching the film.

SPEAKER_03 55:24

Yep. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 55:26

What happened with that?

SPEAKER_03 55:27

Oh, what was it?

SPEAKER_00 55:29

Um he got choked, didn't he? He actually did get choked.

SPEAKER_03 55:33

Yeah, I think he got choked out too, and they had to revive him.

SPEAKER_00 55:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 55:37

So it's pretty bad.

SPEAKER_00 55:38

Didn't work right.

SPEAKER_03 55:39

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 55:40

Something malfunctioned and I wonder if he did his own stunts after that.

SPEAKER_03 55:46

I don't know. Some you know what, honestly, I bet he probably did.

SPEAKER_00 55:50

You think so?

SPEAKER_03 55:50

Yeah. They're all like, You okay? You probably died. He's like, pfft. Give a shit. Yeah. It's like I'm Brendan Fraser, dude. Yeah, that's run it again.

SPEAKER_00 55:57

That's crazy.

SPEAKER_03 55:58

All right, next one. Apparently, the camels in the film really did not like actor Kevin J. O'Connor. This is obvious in the scene where he's trying to get the who play who's Kevin J.

SPEAKER_00 56:08

O'Connor?

SPEAKER_03 56:08

Benny. Benny, that's right. Yeah. So yeah, the camels didn't like him either. This is obvious in the scene where he's trying to get the camel to move in, move in one scene, and the camel just wasn't having it.

SPEAKER_00 56:20

So yeah.

SPEAKER_03 56:21

But the camels, I think, liked Brendan Fraser.

SPEAKER_00 56:24

Yeah, I saw that in some of the you know fun trivia.

SPEAKER_03 56:27

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 56:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 56:28

Just all nestle in their face up next to him. Yeah. We really like this.

SPEAKER_00 56:33

You ever get close to a camel, you're gonna try and nuzzle it, aren't you? Like it did in that movie.

SPEAKER_03 56:37

Uh, I don't know. No. So we saw a camel down at Grant uh Grant's Park that one time down in St. Louis, and I was all Grant's Farm. Oh, yeah, Grant Park is in Chicago. Yeah. Grant's Farm. Oh, excuse the shit out of me. Sorry. I was on a roll here. Okay. Yes, we saw a camel at Grant's Farm. Of course, Grant's Grant Park would be up in Chicago and the farm would be down in Missouri.

SPEAKER_00 57:05

Missouri, St. Louis.

SPEAKER_03 57:07

Yeah. All right. Uh, next one. Library scene was shot in one take. Kind of had to, as it would have almost taken an entire day to uh set up and reshoot if they don't get it right. So it's crazy. Yeah. Wow. So it's one of those things where it's like, man, we gotta do this, gotta get it right.

SPEAKER_00 57:26

Yeah. Uh do you have anything or I don't feel like well, I do I do know more about Anubis now. So Anubis was one of the most important gods in ancient Egyptian religion. So hit the he's the jackal-headed god associated with death, mummification, and guiding souls to the afterlife. So he's the protector of the dead. So he guarded the tombs and cemeteries, the god of mummification. So the priests performing the mummifications often wore Anubis masks during rituals. Um, obviously the guide to the afterlife, so leads the souls through the underworld. And then he's also the judge of the heart, so oversees the ceremony where a person's heart was weighed against the feather of the feather of mot. I'm probably not saying that right. Um, in that judgment ceremony, if the heart balanced with the feather, the soul could enter paradise. If it didn't, the heart was eaten by the monster Amit. So harsh. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 58:34

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 58:34

So that was just just a fun fact.

SPEAKER_03 58:37

All right. Next up, Brendan Fraser was cast after Steven Somers saw him in George of the Jungle. I guess Brendan Fraser had that Errol Flynn swashbush uh swashbuckling chops that Somers was looking for.

SPEAKER_00 58:52

Remember when um he comes out, Rick comes out of the jail and he's like up against the jail posts or whatever. And I'm like, hey, there's George of the Jungle or something like that.

SPEAKER_03 59:05

He had uh total George of the Jungle hair in that scene. So maybe that was one of the scenes that they shot first.

SPEAKER_01 59:11

So maybe, maybe.

SPEAKER_03 59:13

Um last one I have Leonardo DiCaprio was considered for the role of Rick O'Connell, as was Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, and Ben Affleck. They obviously passed or were not available.

SPEAKER_00 59:27

I'm glad that those guys weren't in this movie.

SPEAKER_03 59:30

Me too.

SPEAKER_00 59:30

I just don't think it would have been the same type of movie.

SPEAKER_03 59:33

Yeah, it's just one of those things where you find that out well after the fact, obviously, and it's like I I can't see those, I can't see anyone else but this guy in that role.

SPEAKER_01 59:44

Yeah. So yeah.

SPEAKER_03 59:46

All right. So we're moving uh moving along pretty beautifully here.

SPEAKER_00 59:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 59:51

Um, do you have anything you want to add?

SPEAKER_00 59:53

Or I have a couple of uh fun facts that um you didn't touch on, but the the city of Haminophtra, people think it's CGI, but it actually isn't. It was a huge set that they built in the Moroccan desert.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:10

Yep, and then filmed in Morocco.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:12

Yep, then enhanced um. Oh, did you say that already? Nope. Oh, um, then they enhanced it with digital effects. Cool. I thought that was kind of cool. Okay. And did you know that they had like people actually were hired to watch out for scorpions and snakes on the set?

SPEAKER_03 1:00:29

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:29

That's so crazy.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:31

And uh people still got stung and bitten. Yeah, had to be airlifted out.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:35

Yeah, I didn't know that, but that's crazy.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:37

And I think someone had to make some sort of special drink that the casting crew had to drink every couple hours to stay hydrated.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:44

Really? Yeah, man. I wonder what that special drink was.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:48

I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:50

Liquid IV.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:51

Yeah, I don't know. Kind of like when um oh, what movie was it? They were filming in Tunisia. I think I think it was Raiders of a Lost Ark, and I think Harrison Ford got like really, really sick.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:08

Really?

SPEAKER_03 1:01:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:09

What'd he get like dinghy fever?

SPEAKER_03 1:01:13

I couldn't tell you. I'm not sure. So that sucks. Yeah. All right. Uh questions for the guests. I really only have one. Is this your favorite Brendan Fraser movie? If not, which one is?

SPEAKER_00 1:01:26

Oh god. Um I think this is my favorite Brendan Fraser movie. I haven't seen all of his movies, though. I've seen like The Whale. He was in he was in a movie that we recently watched, but he like had no lines. He just kind of like walked around, looked like he was stoned the whole time.

unknown 1:01:44

Which one?

SPEAKER_00 1:01:44

I'm like, hey, that's Brendan Fraser. Which one was that? I don't know. I don't remember. Huh. I'll go through his his film history and it'll come to me, but um, no, he yeah, he's this is my favorite one.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:58

All right. Yeah, mine I think is I think mine is skull ties.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:03

Or airheads.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:04

He's funny.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:05

I've never seen airheads. Oh god. We'll have to watch it.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:08

It's uh I'll give you a quick rundown of it. He um he plays a guy named Chaz, and he is the like main songwriter and frontman for his power trio band that is rounded out by bassist Rex, played by Steve Busemi, and drummer um Pip, played by Adam Sandler. And oh I mean their band name is the Lone Rangers. So it's like there's three of you. You're not exactly lone, shouldn't you be the three Rangers? So and um they are like really they're a struggling band in LA. And they get this idea to get into the radio station, you know, because there's only one radio station in LA, apparently, in this movie, and uh they go into the radio station armed with real-looking, authentic-looking, but plastic water guns. All right, like one I think is filled with water, the others are filled with hot sauce or some shit. I don't know, just to get their um their song plate on the air. Oh, jeez. And shit goes wrong, the cops get called, and it becomes like a like a hostage situation, but not really. Because they're they're not bad guys, they're just yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:31

Yeah, my uh So should the title of this this episode now be Airhead slash the mummy?

SPEAKER_03 1:03:37

No, no, no, it's gave a film synopsis of Yeah, but believe me, uh if if I ever get JD out here, Airheads definitely is going to get its whole entire episode.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:50

Because I'm just only scratching the surface here. Cool, yeah, it's funny. So cool. Yep, so yeah, probably school ties for me. Anyway, all right. Moving right along here. Manhattan scale. What do you give it?

SPEAKER_00 1:04:06

Five.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:08

No, come on, Megan, seriously.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:10

I give it a five. I love this movie.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:13

Okay, okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:14

Well, okay, wait a second. Let me take this back.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:17

I actually was twice, it's out there now.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:19

Time time out, time out, time out, time out. So I I was listening to the um Days of Thunder episode, and you had described how the Manhattan scale works. Like, five is your ultimate favorite movie. Well, Goodfellas, yeah, that's what you were saying. But so I was thinking about that, and I was like, well, Jurassic Park is my favorite movie. That is a five out of five. And this one, and I would have to say Friday Night Lights, I'm giving it three out of five. Like Friday night. Varsity blues, yeah. Sorry. Varsity Blues was a three out of five. Mummy is a four out of five. Like the mommy is almost up there with Jurassic Park, but it just it misses the it misses the awe feeling that I get every time I watch Jurassic Park. Like I'm watching it for the first time.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:07

Okay, I give it a 1.75.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:10

Why so low?

SPEAKER_03 1:05:11

I don't know. I just I have my reasons, Megan. All right, I have my reasons. Um, it's not the the acting was fine. Um, but there was just there was just some things in this movie where I was just like, yeah, it's I'm not saying I dislike it. I do like this movie. I like this movie quite a bit. But as far as I don't know, what I would give it on my my precious Manhattan scale, I'd give it a 1.75.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:40

Okay. It doesn't it doesn't get a shot of fireball, so can I give you a little bit of fun fact that might help you raise your score just a little bit?

SPEAKER_03 1:05:50

All right.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:51

Okay. The camel that spits in the movie at Rick, right? Was it Rick that he spit on? I can't remember. I thought.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:00

I thought it was Jonathan. Jonathan. Or maybe Benny.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:02

There's well, it says the camel that spits at Rick in the film became a fan favorite because, according to the cast and crew, the camel was not trained to spit. It just had a really bad attitude.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:17

Yeah. That's what camels do.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:19

Camels I don't give a fuck attitude, kind of like you. For that fact, you should at least give it a two.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:26

All right. All right.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:28

Convince you?

SPEAKER_03 1:06:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:29

Because of that, the camel.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:31

I'll give it a two.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:32

The camel that had the back camel.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:33

Because you, yeah, because you compared the camel to me or me to this camel, fine. I'll bump it up to a two. And speaking of varsity blues, I actually want to go back.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:43

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:44

I want to go back to varsity blues, and I want to change my rating on that one. I feel I was a bit harsh. I want to change it from a one to a 2.25. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:53

All right, Dave Portnoy.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:54

That's what I'm giving it. Dave Portnoy. Man. If only I had that dude's numbers.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:01

Yeah. You just got to get a Miss Peaches.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:05

I got Kovax.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:07

You got a Mr. Koufax.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:08

He barks when I'm trying to do something to be a good thing.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:10

Doesn't listen. Like Miss Peaches doesn't listen to Dave.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:13

She doesn't?

SPEAKER_00 1:07:14

Oh, have you watched some of his recent TikToks of her?

SPEAKER_03 1:07:17

No.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:17

Oh my gosh. She's naughty. Really? She is like becoming a naughty dog now that she's more comfortable in her home. And she like tries to go over to someone else's yard, but she does it through the ocean. So, and like Dave will like yell at her, like, come back, come come back, Miss Beaches, or come back, mama. Ignores him.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:38

Wow.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:40

That's uh like that's not that's not okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:44

She rules the roost, apparently.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:46

I I guess. What about Petey?

SPEAKER_00 1:07:48

Petey's just there to party.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:50

He's just there to put out that's what beagles are. They just party. Yeah, yeah, they are. Beagles freaking party hard.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:57

All right. Uh before we wrap this up, uh, do you have anything you want to add? Or um or have you just have you laid everything?

SPEAKER_00 1:08:04

I feel like I got everything out. There's just so much fun.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:07

It is a fun movie.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:09

Fun stuff about this movie, about the cast, and you know, you can tell the the people involved with this movie love this movie a lot.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:17

Yeah, I I get that. Yeah. I get that feeling too. Yes. And it it is it is a very fun movie.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:24

So I will definitely be with you on that one.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:29

Kid friendly, too. Yeah. You know, like you can watch it with your kids and you can watch it with your parents, you can, you know, watch it yourself. It's just, you know, it's a great overall movie. In my opinion, that's why I gave it a four.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:42

Well, you originally gave it a five.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:44

So well, I stopped myself because I remembered my thought from when I was listening to Days of Thunder.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:50

All right. Well, my glorious Midheads, we are at the that's a rap folks portion of this podcast, or as I charmingly call it, my least favorite part of this show. I know. I hate leaving you too, just as much as you hate me leaving you, but can't go on forever. Even though maybe one of these days I might try. As always, I want to thank you all so much for listening. All kidding aside, I want to thank you all so much for listening. I really, really do appreciate it. Um, and as always, if you have anything you want me to or you'd like to submit, feel free to email me at the cinematicmick at gmail.com or message the cinematic mic podcast on Facebook. You can listen to the show on Spotify, iHeartRadio, and Apple Podcasts. Until then, always remember to not have too good of a time at your local Casbah. Do not ever read from the Book of the Dead, or the Book of the Living for that matter, and above all else, don't have a cheap and tawdry affair with the Pharaoh's wife. It'll only end badly. And if you've seen the mummy returns, you'll know what I'm talking about. Megan, thank you so much for being here.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:00

Thank you for having me, and I look forward to the the next one that we record.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:05

Absolutely. Until then. Good night, everybody.