Ep. 25: Cobbled Together Fantasy China
Dan and Emily discuss Disney’s animated Mulan and controversy over the digital release of the live-action remake.
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Hey, guys, welcome back to another episode of My Kajiggers today we're talking about the one and only Mulan. I love Mulan.
Just going to say it's one of her on Pocahontas are two of my favorites and will always be.
This is the first time I've seen it since it first came out and that's been on nineteen ninety eight. But to kick off today I got to talk about my fucking animals before we started. So you told me you wanted to talk about Skadi.
Yeah. And as soon as you said you want to talk about your animals, you're a pedophile looking dog over here. Just cow shy glances backwards like what I do.
She's Irondale. The most pitiful words like fuck. So Skadi before we started this, I gave both the dogs a try to, you know, let them settle.
And Skadi went over to Finn's kennel and was trying to get his scraps.
So well, we took Skadi to the vet because it was time to update her shots and this little bitch is severely overweight. They clocked her at seventy six pounds and she should probably be ten pounds less at least with her BMI 60. I don't fucking know. I don't understand that bullshit.
So 30 would be bad, but I don't know if you heard. Did you hear her head hit the floor. Yeah, I did.
So the vet gave us specific diet instructions now for Skadi and she could only have two and two third cups of food a day. So I have a little half scoop in their box of food and I give her two scoops of that, go a little over on the second scoop because she can have over two cups.
And when I'm feeding her, she's trying and then I take a scoop go or defensible. She like looks at me and like I can over defends bowl. I'm like, no fat ass, it's not yours. And she finishes her food like she's sniffing around like, oh, food.
She's so greedy. Like I feel like a terrible pet owner because we could walk them. But it's just been so hard with us being so busy with work. And then here where we live, the whole state has been extremely hot the last several weeks. And so it's not recommended. You know, if you're taking your pet out, at least put them in like some grass, like asphalt and concrete and be so hot. And so, like, we literally cannot exercise like dogs.
I know, because our backyard is so small, you should get them some, like, designer booties to wear. Absolutely not. I'm not that kind of person. Some bedazzled leather for Skadi.
Um, no.
If I don't wear animal print or animal skins, needless to say, she will look amazing and like doggie go go boots know you're being kind of fucking weird.
I'm not being weird. I know you like me. Animals do, but I really like them that way.
You should have seen what she Skadi just like poked up her head and she looked back at me and she like moved her eyebrows up and down like, OK, she's so weird.
But like speaking of my animals taking them outside, I don't know about you. Mosquitoes left me. And when I take them outside at night, I've been making my you take them out at night because I literally look like I have my bug legs because of all of us kilobytes and they welte up on me and I'm I'm a scratcher. So I literally look like I have my legs.
Yeah. I can't help but scratch. It's so awful. Yeah. Stupid animals. Why do I have. I'm so sorry.
Well, I was going to ask if you wanted to talk about this video that I sent to you earlier this week. The music video. Yeah. Would you care to describe that to our listeners?
I guess so. It's Kermit the Frog singing Hurt by Johnny Cash. And the video revolves around Cheche, the Swedish the Swedish chef. And it's really weird.
It's the dumbest thing because it's the longest lead up to a joke just to get to the part where Johnny Cash sings, my sweetest friend. But it sounds like my Swedish friend. Oh, is the weirdest thing. I was driving home from work. I had a song in my head and then I just became fixated on Swedish friend, Swedish friend and like it would be great if there was a music video where it was just the Swedish chef. And then I went home, typed into Google and the Internet gods answered my prayers.
Part of me like it's like a fifty fifty.
Like, I'm honestly shocked that you found it so quickly, but I'm also not surprised that it's there.
It made me as happy as. The time that I decided to Google whether anybody had ever edited a music video of Optimus Prime singing roll out and sure enough, they had got people. Oh Lord, I just enjoy that. I'm not the only one with this sense of humor.
But so you sent that video to me. Mike sent me another Kermit video today, and it says, why is this even a thing? And it's Kermit the Frog singing Wait and bleed my slipknot, OK? And it's the part where he says, I stick my fingers in my eyes. I don't know. It's really weird, but it's in Kermit's voice. And I will I will have to figure out how to find it on YouTube because I was on it was an Instagram thing from a meme, but it's Kermit the Frog singing Slipknot and Kermit the Frog voice. And it's fucking weird.
I wish I could do a Kermit the Frog voice. Why? Because I would make him say the most obscene things, get working on it. Then there is one day I was annoying a coworker because we were assembling a grill. It was taking forever and I don't even know the name of the song. It might even be called More than Just a Dream, but it was like really popular at the time. Was like more than just a dream. For whatever reason, I just kept doing it as like Mickey Mouse. So it was just like all day long working on this grill with this co-worker, I just kept doing more than just ordering.
Just Out of Nowhere is also a very lucky leprechaun ish.
And it was even great, but it amused me more than amused him. You need to throw the book, but it was like a full day of just doing that over and over again.
This is the same coworker that just that he's no longer there. Yeah, OK.
It doesn't make you sad that you can't tell him jokes and then explain to him why they're funny.
It does. But I saw him the other day and I got the opportunity.
He probably is like, I don't miss this. He did not appreciate it. Then he's missing out.
So how about we go into a new segment? I'm not sure if he'll be. Every episode just kind of depends on what news is available. But just because we have decided on this podcast that Jared Leto is a douche bag, I thought we would just do an occasional roundup of news proving why Jared Leto is a douche bag.
We need a some like news music in the background. Breaking news.
Jared Leto was a dish or just Jared Leto is a douche bag. But I have a mild example this week of Jared Leto being a douche bag. OK, hit me. So he accidentally leaked the title of the next Tron film, and it was him just confirming that he's going to be appearing in the next installment. Which are you familiar with that series at all?
Just the first movie that came out a few years ago.
Yeah, it's just kind of a cool world where people live inside the computers.
I know the original Tron story and I'm pretty sure I played the game.
So kind of Rickitt Ralph. Yeah, well, he's going to be in the next one. And so far they've just been calling it Tron three. Isn't Tron with Chris Pine. No. Oh. Who's the guy you're. Headlam And that's the one that came out a few years ago, was actually the sequel to one from the eighties. Yeah. But he took to Twitter to confirm that he was going to be in the film and asked astronomy's, and then he very quickly deleted the tweet and replaced it with one that just said Tron. But I just love that he just he had that same problem. Trump just went straight to Twitter, tweet off something stupid. He's like, Oh, I got to walk that back.
Except here's the difference. Trump doesn't walk back. He just makes it worse. And we're just he just spins it. Yes.
There's no word yet on what role he's going to play. But just based on his past acting history, I'm inclined to think that he's going to get in character by sending a computer virus to every single one of his co-stars because he doesn't know how to actually act. He has to put himself as the actual person that he's playing.
Speaking of Jared Leto, are you going to go see the new Morpheus movie?
Probably because I have zero interest in a second tier Spider-Man villain getting his own series without Spider-Man in it. If I'm not going to see Venom, I'm not going to see more of this.
I wasn't sure what your thoughts were on it.
If there was a good actor in it, I might be inclined to watch it.
But, you know, it's another role. I was just going to get to his head and he's now he's not going to get to play Morpheus in the next movie and then he'll get pissy.
You know, he's sucking someone's blood on set like he doesn't know how to just act like a normal actor gets to do that method bullshit. Just stick to singing it for anybody that doesn't remember. When he was the Joker in suicide squad, he sent all sorts of horrible, inappropriate gifts, gifts in quotation marks to all of his co-stars. It's fucking weird. He's fucking weird. I was reading something online. People think that 30 seconds to Mars is a cult because they have like some kind of retreat Fenrir, like, super fans.
But I mean, it's like all of those other, like, cruises and whatnot that these huge bands put on. So it's like you're paying to go away to this island where they're going to play music for you, like you would go by cruise, where they're going to play music for you. Well, I'm pretty sure, like back in the day when they were actually a decent band, they even were like, oh, yeah, we're like a cool I don't fucking remember.
I stopped listening to them years ago. Like, if they come on, I'm not going to, like, change. I still enjoy listening to their old stuff. But do you have a problem? Do you want to voice your opinion on how douchy Jared Leto is?
And if you can't hear it, Skadi just laying on the floor crying for no fucking reason.
Crying doesn't even really describe it. Whimpering Yeah, she's being weird and she's just she's lying in her tail.
There's nothing wrong. She's just staring at me.
She really wants to buy those goldkamp today.
I told you she she did the eyebrow thing. You duclos me.
Now you can't have her. I will fight you over her. You can take Finn.
Oh.
Oh, no offense. A good dog. I wouldn't mind having fun. How about we go into What the Fuck News. OK, so this one is from the Associated Press. I'm going to leave out the headline because I don't want to ruin the surprise for you out of London. The UK Foreign Office has announced the retirement of a key diplomat. Undersecretary Simon McDonald has accepted a letter of resignation from Palmerston, the office cat. The letter, signed with two paw prints, explains that Palmerston has become accustomed to a more relaxed lifestyle during the coronavirus lockdown. He writes, I found life away from the front line relaxed, quieter and easier. Palmerston has served in the Foreign Office since 2016 and will be missed by co-workers who remember him for unparalleled generosity. John Benjamin, director of the Department Diplomatic Academy. His well wishes while remembering the time Palmerston gifted him with a slightly chewed dead mouse next to his desk. Palmerston tenure was not without conflict, however. There are reports of long standing tension between he and Larry, the cat at the prime minister's residence. The two have been reported to fight in the street outside the prime minister's home. There's no word on whether the scandal played any role in Palmerston resignation. But they had an office cat at the UK Foreign Office and they decided instead of just not saying anything, they would announce his retirement.
It almost sounds like that Mayor Cat was on the Alaska or something.
Yeah, he was referred to as the chief mouser of the office because he cut so many mice.
I love it. Oh, that's a cute title.
I just love that he, like somebody, sat down and drafted a letter of resignation for him and then presumably dipped his feet on an ink pad to get him to sign it.
I wonder how many cuts he got.
Who knows? I also love the idea that he just gets in fights with the prime minister's cat.
Yeah, that was from the Associated Press. It had just cracked me up. It's not even really What the Fuck News. It's just like, OK, whatever. Why is this news?
Family isn't What the Fuck News either, except for the fact that it like the way people are reacting to it is really what the fuck? So Disney confirms its first bisexual lead character, who is also multicultural. So more diversity is coming the same channel as it has a bisexual lead character on the house. The 40 year old Dominican American Girl is not Disney's first LGBTQ plus character because of Pixar having a gay character in a short film. But Luse is the first bisexual character to make a debut on a Disney Channel TV show, so it follows her adventures becoming a witch, even though she does not have any magical abilities. And it says at first certain Disney leadership was not too fond of having of the idea of having an LGBTQ plus character, said the series creator Deanna Terrorists. I don't see what's wrong with it. I actually don't have a problem with it. More power to you? I think it's great. My problem with it, though, is that people are losing their fucking mind over Disney. They're saying, why would you be teaching our children this? Why this is wrong, God, this and God that. I'm like, it's a fucking TV show. If you don't want your kids to see it, then just don't show it to them. Yeah, they're talking about, oh, we're not ever going to watch Disney Channel again. I'm like, bullshit. It just makes me so angry because. It's 20, 20 people. Why is it so hard to have more representation in TV shows?
There are children out there who are struggling with this and are too afraid to, you know, relate to something like this, because if they live in a religious household, what's going to happen to that child if they came out? It's sad.
I'm actually really happy that Disney did this because it is a big step for them. I never expected I mean, they've had a few gay characters here and there, but like this is the lead character in a TV show, which makes me absolutely thrilled.
I don't really have a lot to say about it. I mean, I'm a white male, so I've never really struggled to feel represented in anything. So representation is not something that I really get well thought to. So I just don't have anything to contribute on that.
Ok, moving on, the Energy Department proposes showerheads, standards, rollback after Trump complains all of what the U.S. Energy Department is proposing to roll back energy stand or efficiency standards on showerheads because Donald Trump complained. Oh, fucking shocker. OK, so here's the whole story.
So they've got this new proposal that seeks to redefine the word showerhead in order to get around current regulations, limiting them to a flow of two point five gallons per minute. And President Trump has repeatedly advocated to reverse efficiency regulations for these showerheads, toilets, dishwashers and even light bulbs is on record as complain about modern showerheads being inadequate for washing his hair. One hair. Yeah, stating, quote, my hair. I don't know about you, but it has to be perfect. Perfect.
I can see his tiny little baby hands doing this.
And the administration has not clarified how better showerheads or even better, how more powerful showerheads could possibly make that dead squirrel on top of his head look any better or even good.
But, yeah, let's fuck up our natural resources just for him.
Oh, he's already done that himself.
So here's the great thing. The way they're going about with the redefinition is because we've been living with this two point five gallon standard since nineteen ninety two, which it's been almost 30 years to live with it. Yeah, but this article I read from the Hill Dotcom, one of their experts said the proposal will likely face legal challenges since the 1992 law includes specific provisions to prevent backsliding on these efficiency standards. So you can't just outright say, oh, no, we're getting rid of the standard. They're just trying to redefine words so they can get around it.
Maybe if he showered correctly, he wouldn't look like a fucking Cheeto. I doubt about that. Dovishness learn how to blend.
I just it's so stupid. Like, I can't even say I've had issues with showerheads. When this went into effect, I wasn't taking showers yet. You weren't born. True. The rest of us are just used to it. This is the way it is. I don't know how he hasn't been able to adapt, but because he's a bitch and he's trying to run this like his own little personal fiefdom, I mean, everything else that he's fucking done in the last week, especially like the US has.
And I know you have your own opinions on that, but it's bullshit.
It is. It is very much bullshit. That's a whole long, long discussion.
I don't want to go down, but yeah. Who deliberately trying to sabotage the election and rig it in his favor by.
But then did you see that he. I don't I saw it at a glance so I don't know if like the legitimacy of it. But somewhere I read that having the first lady we're going to mail in their votes wouldn't surprise me.
Apparently they were removing actual mailboxes in Western states.
Oh, yeah. People were taking trailers and removing them and putting them somewhere else.
Like the first reports I heard was just mail sorting equipment so that all the postal workers would have to sort it by hand. And now they're just making it hard for people to mail them like it's. Yeah, like I said, I don't really want to go down that road that we brought it to attention at least.
Yeah, but what a fucking joke.
Yeah, I'm voting by mail. Just oh I thought about it just against him. I've already requested my ballot. I need to. But don't you go on to your next story.
Ok, so this ties in to us talking about moving on here in a little bit, because as you guys know, there's a live action, one that is being released. So there's a local theater. They made a post on Facebook about the new one. And it starts, is Disney Now Killing the dream? Quoted Most adults have wonderful childhood memories of. Disney movies and characters and children even today thrive on the creativity of Disney classics. Recently, Disney made a decision that will affect all of us. They chose not just to push back the theatrical release of the much anticipated move on, but rather to completely cut it out of movie theaters altogether. Well, couldn't they release it in theaters and VOD at the same time?
Video on demand? Yes, it could, but they didn't want that virtually kill off movie theaters, especially in small towns. Yes, that's exactly what is at stake. We believe the Disney company has lost sight of the value of community gathering together for a shared experience when they finally get to see the larger than life creation that Disney has seemed to master over the decades. Come to life on the big screen. One day soon, we will have the answer for the big question and people will resume the activities that have shaped our culture. Some things need to change, while others don't. We're hoping all of you agree that the movie theaters still have a place in our community. We ask that you consider not renting Moulin one. It releases on video on demand. Help us send a message that we too are vital. Don't let Disney kill the dream. And it's signed by the family that owns hashtag not showing Rullan. I'm sorry, I'm still going to go see the new Meulen is coming out on Disney. Plus I'm going to fucking watch it for thirty dollars.
Some background info for people that don't really know the whole story. They've just canceled the theatrical release completely. That movie's been pushed back four times. It's set for release dates with covid thing like it's really screwing the studios release schedules. So they finally decide, you know what, we're not screwing with it, at least domestically. It's going to premiere on Disney. Plus, you can buy it for thirty dollars, which you would buy in a store. Yeah. And then it'll still release theatrically in mainland China, where it's expected to do really well for obvious reasons. Yeah. Yeah. Why don't you give your opinion first, because I got all kinds of like thoughts on this.
Honestly, they are movie theater. They are owners of several in the area and I can understand them being upset. But because there hasn't been other releases, they've been just the movies that they own, they've been rerunning, which is great. They're still getting a bunch of people in. But I mean, the community outrage of people just like I'm never going to do this or that ever again, we support you. I'm like, you also have to realize Disney is also a business. They're also out to make money. It would suck if this theater shut down because it has been in movie theater in our community for years and years, probably over 30 or 40 years. This has been a movie theater and I would be very upset if has shut down. But there's not much we can do right now with the way the world is. Everybody still has to try and make money somehow. I do understand them being upset, but I'm still going to watch the new movie one.
Yeah, I'm the same opinion of it is a business. I love the theater going experience. There's watching it at home, just not the same, whether it's the quality of the speakers, the size of the screen, the feeling of like enjoying something with a crowd and all experience in that at the same time. But the more they push these release dates back, it screws up everything else. It's not like you're just going to keep the rest of the schedule the same and release this at the same time as something else. And you can't just keep backing it up and backing it up and wheeling.
The theater that we have is relatively small. It's got two theaters in it. So it's not like if something else, if they were going to be able to play a new movie in like two new movies usually come out about the same time. Certainly they can play all three of them at the same time.
And also I have my doubts about how well this movie was going to do in theaters. Mullen has fans. Obviously, you said you're looking forward to seeing it. Yes. I probably wouldn't have seen it in theaters eventually. I probably would have seen it on Disney. Plus when it came on the line up.
I do like going to the movie theater, but I don't really have the time to go to the movie theater anymore like I when I have kids. Yeah, I'm definitely gonna take them to the movies, but as an adult, I don't have the time to go to the movie theater. So I'm either renting it from Amazon, buying the DVD out at Walmart or watching it on on demand.
I have theories like financially why Disney probably decide this isn't worth replacing something on the schedule to put this in theaters, because if you go back to your original one, it's not a bad movie, but it's also not really up there with Aladdin and Lion King. It was in the later era of the 90s. It just doesn't get as much recognition. Yeah. And back before koruna happened and all that, this movie was supposed to come out and march. It was predict. It to have an opening weekend of 85 to 90 million. That's impressive. Not really, no. That was around the same as the Aladdin remake. The 2019 Lion King brought in a hundred and eighty million on opening weekend and was predicted as high as two hundred and thirty million. So this even by their industry projections, it wasn't going to be an Avengers or even Lion King level success. On top of that, I feel like an all Asian cast is a hard sell in Trump's America, right or wrong, especially when he's spent the last several months talking about the China virus. It's not really fair to blame the Chinese people, but there is a lot of frustration with where the world is right now because of their government's lack of transparency in action early on. I think all those factors led them to just decide, you know what? This isn't probably going to be as successful as we want. Let's recoup our money. Thirty dollars is actually a really, really good deal. I mean, so it sounds like a lot to buy something on demand, but think about how much a family would pay going to the theater because this local theater is six bucks per person to get in.
And I mean, it does include drink and popcorn. But if you're going as a family of four, that's twenty four dollars. And then if they want to buy more snacks on top of that, you're spending about 40, 50 dollars. And that's just not a local theater, that's for theater. Whereas the theater in the next town over, I think it's seven dollars to get in per person, but drinking popcorn are not included. But they have bundle prices. So you're still spending that. But if you go down to the cities.
Yeah, like an AMC, you're going to pay so much more than that for a family of like one of my friends and I, we we snuck candy in.
We went to see I think Annabell is either antimalarial or considering movies at an AMC theater about forty five minutes away. I paid fifteen plus dollars just to see, just to buy me into the movie. And then another ten if I wanted popcorn and soda.
Yeah. I mean normally new releases on digital aren't nearly that much but I see, I see what they're trying to do like that. You also have to think about what they're charging. It's not just to get their money back on the movie. They're trying to calculate the best price to equate to what they would have made from theaters, but also what they would have made on the home release, because it's that's what we're going to hear straight to home release.
So they're jacking up the normal digital price for that reason. I just yeah, I don't want to see theaters go away, but right now I see this as probably a good safe bet on their part and theaters can protest and be mad. I know there was a similar controversy with Universal earlier in the summer. It's not like any theaters going to stop and say, OK, we're not showing Disney movies anymore because not a fucking person is not a fucking business person with a mind is going to say, oh, yeah, we don't want that Marvel money or Star Wars money. We've been talking about the new movie on your talk about the original movie Long.
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So I don't know, like, I hope there's a puppy dosa. All right, let's get down to business and talk about my lawn. I love what you did there. I know what you're talking about. You seriously is one of my favorite movies. It's so good for the time.
Yeah. It's been so long since I've seen this movie, so I barely remembered anything else that I do have a problem with it, though.
There are several Asian voice actors, but it is still very whitewashed.
Ok, my problem I have with it at one point early on, there's a advisor to the emperor. I'm like, wow, that sounds like a very stereotypical Chinese voice. So I'm like, I'm going to look up on IMDB, see how much this cast with Asian. It appeared like most of it was Asian. So I was like, oh, OK.
He's just choosing to do instead of, um, Moulin leashing Forsa, the mother whose name I can't remember, the emperor and the adviser and I think a few others are definitely voiced by Asian people. But like the grandmother, white and well, Eddie Murphy play is moo shu. But like the singing voices for Li Xiang and Mulan. Yeah. Are white people did not realize that except for voices and the singing voice for the grandma. She has like that tiny little snippet right at the beginning where she sings a white person.
It's a different person. The maybe the actors couldn't sing. I don't get it because it's not unusual. I mean other Disney movies have done it, whatever.
But like, that's really one of my biggest problems with the movie is like but it was also nineteen ninety eight. So I mean people never really whitewashing wasn't like extreme like it is today where people are calling it out.
Speaking of issues with the movie, my memory of this movie was like it was a female empowerment movie, which I still think that's what it was intended to be in twenty twenty. It really reads like almost like a transgender type story.
Like I could see how transgender people would relate to Mulan, especially when she has a whole song about, like, her reflection. When will my reflection match the person I am inside or whatever. Yeah. At the same time, it doesn't seem that forward or that progressive because you have different people throughout the movie make fun of her as a cross dresser or drag show. So it's is like this weird dichotomy of, oh, this is really forward thinking for the time now. Not so much. Yeah. What else did you hear?
So I understand that it takes back and what I mean obviously it was the Hun so like Hun Dynasty if you're going Mongolian but like what kind of you know what the Chinese dynasty was.
This is a fictional time in Chinese history. If it's like I mean there was a legend of Mulan. Yes. The way it's depicted in this movie, it's snippets from various dynasties and stuff just cobbled together fantasy China.
Ok, so the time period that this takes place in and I wish I could study China a little bit more because, I mean, their dynamics are totally different. I have I like to study the dynamics of different cultures. I think learning about other cultures is very cool. But in this time period, being a woman in this dynasty, China, you didn't have any kind of like the war was basically you shut up and be a wife. You don't speak unless you're spoken to. You do X, Y and Z. You take care of everything. So an outspoken woman was very, very hard to come by. And I mean, they even said in the army, you know, she ran away to join the army. And if she was found out, she would have died. And you thought we saw that in near the end where she saved Xiang. And it's a life for a life. So she got to live thing. I mean, that was true. And I mean, in some countries, that's still true today. Yes, it's wild.
And that kind of into my interpretation of it as a kind of transgender story, too, because she spends so much of it having to pass as male. Mulan herself kind of reminds me of the big sister in Lilo and Stitch. I like her personality. I like the way she means well, but just keeps, like, stumbling over herself doesn't have anywhere to go with that.
I just it kind of reminds me of her moulins bad ass and even after. The war is over. She is a hero and like you can see a dynamic shift, like the emperor is like, I want you on my council. You're extremely smart, you're brave, you're good at what you do. And she's like, I need to go home. Like I miss my family.
I like the emperor, the brief part. He's in it. After she returns home, he basically looks at shaking. He's like, Hey, jackass, go after her.
Oh, he still says little thing about like the little blossom, like the one that blossoms. Like the latest is like the most rare. And he's just like the fuck he goes, go the fuck out to her, you dummy. Yeah. There were some really good fucking minds on this movie.
I really wish that that relationship between Mulan and Shane was more developed because it really does seem like they don't spend that much time bonding really before she's exposed as a female. And then after that, they're like, oh, we're in love even though he doesn't trust her anymore. Yeah, I think that's another one of those products of the time. It was. And because if they did develop any kind of bond, it would be seen as kind of like a gay relationship.
Yeah, at least on Shenk's part. Yes. And I mean, in that time period, that's a no no.
And so not even in that time period in China and like the 90s movie came out. I mean, we just talked about that earlier in the podcast.
Yeah, true. But I think once exposing her as a woman, he's like, wow, she's smart and cunning. So, I mean, I think seeing her in action, too, when they are rescuing the emperor, he's like, God damn. But like, I think the relationship develops. So there's a second Meulen movie and you can definitely see their struggle with their relationship. They don't really I mean, so I actually started watching the first part of the second movie. And where the second movie takes place is a month after rescuing the Emperor, defeating the Huns. But we've only been together like a month and so did a month. And I fell in love. So but I also got to think different time period, not just like not the 90s, but like, yeah, people married very quickly in that time period because they were set up as marriages.
Yeah, it was in courtship. No. Can you imagine, like, just the idea of your parents being like, hey, we know this family, they have a son or daughter. You two are going to get married. I hope it works out. You don't really have a choice because you're not getting remarried or divorced.
It's almost a fifty fifty shot, like, oh, I am really going to enjoy my life with this person or like I fucking hate my life and I have to do this because of my family. I can't imagine I couldn't do it. Especially so awkward, especially being a female myself. Certainly I know being a female myself, like I'm a very independent person. And so, like, I can kind of I mean, I didn't save an entire fucking country, but like, I can kind of relate to you on like I don't want to follow societal rules. I don't want to be shoved off into marriage. I'm a working woman and I'm going to continue being a working woman. I can't do it. I can't I mean, I want to settle down and have a family, but like, I'm going to go back to work Coolio's to stay at home moms. That's not me. So I can understand where she's coming from on the part of like, I'm not just going to be somebody's bride.
This movie was funnier than I was expecting it to be, like just stupid things. Like the first time we see Moulins Horse, my first thought was, there's a fat ass horse is a Chongyi boy, isn't he?
And I'm like, OK, that's just the style. And then I laughed later. Moo shu. Eddie Murphy's Dragon character spends so much of the movie calling it a cow nearly in there when they're on the mountain after she gets left, was it he calls a cow.
Oh, where are you, a sheep.
Now there's the lucky cricket in the movie that supposedly will bring luck to people. I think it's a lucky cricket, but it's lucky to itself because it just survives so much improbable shit. Yeah, you're only lucky if you're there with it because you're just a boy in the same shit that it is. Yes.
Yes.
They have some pretty good lines in there. But I don't know. This will always be a timeless movie to me. Oh, I watch it over and over and I'll just turn it on at night because I just love that movie that's got good music.
The art style, I think falls short of the movies that came before. Like, it seems much more simpler, you know, I'm talking about. Yeah, it's not just because of the mountain settings for so much of it. It's just not as lush. Yeah, but I didn't mind as a movie.
I'll probably watch the sequel on Disney plus is on Disney.
Yes, it is good. And I can't wait to watch live action.
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Is it haggis? The sheep?
I was trying to come up with the worst cereal possible. Let's look at what he charged. But with bits of sheep liver instead of haggis bits.
Yeah, it's like much like tiny little pieces.
All right. Are you ready for some urban dictionary?
I am. And before the show started, Dan said that he had his own. So I want to hear this one.
I do keep him with the Asian theme of this episode. Sichuan Noodles. Is it sexual? It's Urban Dictionary to go for it. A sex act in which a mixture of earthworms and Sichuan sauce are inserted into a woman's vagina before and during copulation. She was looking for something extreme, and so he gave her a Sichuan noodle. Or if I had just so many vaginal infections, that's worms and the squirming. Oh, that wouldn't be pleasant for her. It wouldn't be pleasant for him. No, I gave myself the grease.
You're a.. Yeah.
Rat licker. That's the word of the day. I saw that. I didn't read the definition.
You're a.. Yeah. A person who refuses to wear a mask or take any basic precautions to help society prevent airborne illness during a pandemic in reference to the bubonic plague spread by rats, where your fucking masks as soon as you said mask like I know this is where your fucking masks, even for the other one.
Yeah. Cherry Chapstick.
I don't know. I hear cherry chapstick and all I think is Katy Perry. I kissed a girl.
I don't know, no guest, no testicles, cherry flavor.
You're welcome. That's what you get for the sponsors. That's like the most mild one I've ever had. But I saw it and I read it and I just had to laugh because it was just so funny because the one on top of is called skull fucked. So, I mean, I could agree with that.
But yeah, you should be happy. The sponsors I went with because my first thought was to piggyback off of the whole moulins Sichuan's lost thing and come up with a different tie in for a space jam. And we've been our Kelly special sauce. Yeah v glad I didn't do it. Extended promo for R. Kelly Special sauce.
Thank God.
Now they don't see so bad do they. Still bad.
Ok, is it going to be hard for this show.
As always, please give a star ratings and reviews on whichever podcast app you're using and be sure to check us out on our website at My Kajiggers dot com and always at My Kajiggers Podcast on Facebook, where you guys can let us know what movies you want us to see and review and let us know what kind of games you want to play. And yeah, we had fun. Yeah. Bye, Felicia. Felicia.
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