Powder (1995)

Joanna finally gets to talk ad nauseam about the movie Powder. Kaitlyn and Emily learn about the importance of having a wooden stool in a lightning storm. 

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Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:00

Emily, you were saying like I've never heard of powder. It could be about snowboarding.

SPEAKER_03 0:03

Uh I thought it could be about snowboarding. You know how you know people are like, oh, like fresh powder, like whatever. It could be out snowboarding, it could be about donuts, it could be I maybe cocaine. I can't Is it cocaine?

SPEAKER_02 0:16

No. No. I think you're gonna Okay. So the movie came out in 1995, and it is um it's about something that I feel like we were all talking about at the time, which is a boy who is an albino because his mom got struck by lightning when she was pregnant with him.

SPEAKER_01 0:30

Okay, wait, wait, hold on.

SPEAKER_04 0:32

Go ahead. I'm just like I can't believe what you just said.

SPEAKER_00 0:38

I know I like this one thing, so I made it my whole thing. Now no one wants to talk to me at parties. Please listen to my spiel, because I made it my whole deal. I made it my whole personality. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 0:59

Hey everyone, welcome back to my whole personality. This episode's weird. My friends hate this about me so much. I don't know why, but I talk about the movie powder all the time, and I know that no one else does, and no one else cares, but it just felt like I have this platform, I might as well dedicate an entire episode to it. So this episode I was with my friends Caitlin and Emily, and they are gonna talk about Star Trek, but I'm I'm gonna cut this episode into two parts because uh powder deserves its own episode, okay? And there's a lot of Star Trek content. So I was gonna release that episode next week, but I actually have a friend coming over tonight, and her topic just feels perfect for Valentine's Day. So I'm gonna release her episode next week and then Star Trek the following week. And I just, I gotta know if someone could leave me a comment, write a review. I gotta know if anybody else is thinking about powder as much as I am. It's um, it's a horrible movie, and I hope that you all enjoy this episode. Okay, bye. Joining me today on the podcast are two friends that came into my life. They say you can't make friends. They say it's hard to make friends as an adult in your 30s, and I it feels so lucky to have met both of you. For those listening um to previous episodes, these are my Twilight friends, and I don't know if they like really connect with that label, but um, yeah, I won't stop saying it. Um this is Caitlin and Emily. This is Caitlin.

SPEAKER_03 2:31

And I'm my name's Emily.

SPEAKER_02 2:32

Oh yeah. I do a bad job of saying like whose name is what. So that was actually really smart of y'all to do that. Great. Um, great, and I actually talked about your wedding on my episode with Hannah. Wow and I talk about your wedding a lot. Oh my god, because it was like a it was honestly like you threw a party for me.

SPEAKER_05 2:49

Oh that makes me so fucking happy because as we were planning that, we were working with a really fun wedding planner, and she came up with some good ideas, but like listen, the the weed inside of me came up with a lot of that shit, and it was great.

SPEAKER_02 3:05

It was great, and the weed that was inside of me as I was at your wedding was like, I I didn't even know that you all got married. Like there was a magician. I just remember because like some the magician was like kind of circulating, and first of all, this was so sexist of me, but I was like, I can't find the magician, I can't find the magician, and you were like You're looking for a man, yeah, and you were like, Well, she's out there, and I was like, Oh shit.

SPEAKER_05 3:25

Oh no, we I purposely was like, I don't want to, I'm I don't want a man as a magician.

SPEAKER_02 3:30

You don't want a warlock.

SPEAKER_05 3:33

Um, no wizards, please.

SPEAKER_02 3:36

She was great, but she was like doing a trick with like a big group of people, and I was just kind of like lingering on the side, and then I was like, shame that I didn't get to see the beginning of that trick. And um, she just she just like performed a one act for me, and it was so nice. Did you get to I don't even think I knew there was a lot of people didn't.

SPEAKER_03 3:53

Evan never saw the magician. I never saw what?

SPEAKER_05 3:55

But if I knew if it was a woman magician, I would have gone out of my way to find her because the only reason I figured out who she was, I was like, I don't know you, and I know everyone else here.

SPEAKER_02 4:04

Right, yeah. Did she work at the what's the magic place?

SPEAKER_05 4:08

Yes, she does. Okay. So our original magician wasn't available on our date. And then sorry, that's an insane. Yeah, right. Yeah. Please check me if I say crazy shit. Um perfect. You know, the magician busy season. It was September's busy season for magicians. So she wasn't your first choice? No, and this is our wedding planner, knew this person because apparently this is something people do now at like cocktail hour at wedding, they'll hire a magician to circulate. So it's like less awkward because cocktail hour is really awkward. Oh. Especially if you're like the wife of the second cousin or like whatever it may be, or like a friend from college or a friend from work that knows one other person there. Yeah, it just makes it so much easier to be in a small group of people that without making small talk. And I was like, Yeah, let's do it. It was such a good idea. But she was awesome. She came recommended. I didn't know who it was. Any I had no I just still don't know her name. I'm sorry. Sorry to that woman.

SPEAKER_02 5:01

Yeah. Um, but she was fucking cool. She was really cool. And then what I talked about with Hannah is your caricature artist.

SPEAKER_05 5:07

Oh my god, I forgot about him. Yeah, because I was like, That's how crazy this wedding was because I forgot about that.

SPEAKER_02 5:12

You had a scavenger hunt? Oh my god. A caricature artist, a magician.

SPEAKER_05 5:15

The scavenger hunt was my idea because I was dusting one day, and um we have so many knickknacks, little trinkets and treasures, and 20 of them were hidden around the venue, and that there was a Google form to submit. And it was like people got really competitive about it.

SPEAKER_02 5:33

Yeah. I don't think I I think I was just too busy looking for the magician.

SPEAKER_05 5:37

Yeah, but thank you for saying that my wedding was great. And let me talk about it for five minutes.

SPEAKER_02 5:41

No, it was it was so much fun. I I seriously reference it all the time. I say, I say, I talk about my wedding with my toilet friends who had the magician and the character artist. And like, if that's not a sentence that I think makes me just so happy to have met you all, that's it.

SPEAKER_05 5:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 5:54

So I'm really excited to have you all talk about your topics because even just walking in here, the things that you were saying completely over my head. But I think that you all are just gonna absolutely go so hard for this. So I want to just kind of fly through my topic because I think that we're gonna spend a lot of time on Star Trek.

SPEAKER_05 6:14

So we can spend a lot of time on powder.

SPEAKER_02 6:17

I mean, I don't I don't think we should. Okay. I don't I wouldn't say it's my whole personality, but it is something that I reference a lot and bring up a lot. So, Emily, you were saying you're like, I've never heard of powder. It could be about snowboarding.

SPEAKER_03 6:29

Uh, I thought it could be about snowboarding. You know how you know people are like, oh, like fresh powder, like whatever. It could be out snowboarding, it could be about donuts, it could be I'd maybe cocaine. I can't is it cocaine?

SPEAKER_02 6:42

No. No. I think you're gonna Okay. So the movie came out in 1995, and it is um it's about something that I feel like we were all talking about at the time, which is a boy who is an albino because his mom got struck by lightning when she was pregnant with him.

unknown 6:56

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 6:57

Wait, wait, hold on.

SPEAKER_02 7:01

No! I don't think so. I don't know. Also, go ahead.

SPEAKER_04 7:06

I'm I'm just like I can't believe what you just said.

SPEAKER_02 7:10

I know. Can you like say it one more time? Please say it one more time. It's about a boy who is an albino because when his mom was pregnant with him, she stepped into a puddle and she got struck by lightning. Okay. Was it okay, yeah. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 7:28

I don't need to know why.

SPEAKER_02 7:29

So we open like the opening scene is this ambulance rushing to the hospital, it's raining, whatever, and we know that something bad has happened. She comes out of the ambulance feet first, and they're smoking because she's been struck by lightning. Okay? A little insensitive because she's dead. She's dead. She died.

SPEAKER_05 7:47

Well, yeah, she was in water, electricity fried. You can live. You can live. I looked this up. I feel like the water probably put the nail in the coffin. It probably did. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 7:55

Because it was like a conductor. Sorry. Isn't there some guy who's gotten electrocuted like by lightning like multiple times?

SPEAKER_02 8:03

I looked it up. There are several people who have.

SPEAKER_03 8:05

That must be really messed up, you know? You're just like out there and you're like, it's coming.

SPEAKER_02 8:11

I know. I mean, to happen once, horrifying multiple times is to happen multiple times.

SPEAKER_03 8:16

Right.

SPEAKER_02 8:16

I feel like what I were in like a suit of armor. I don't know. I'm terrified. What is it actually? I like when I when we were growing up, I was so scared of lightning, probably because of this movie that when it was storming, I wouldn't touch anything metal in the house. I wouldn't open doors, I wouldn't use the sink. Okay.

SPEAKER_05 8:33

Would you take a bath?

SPEAKER_02 8:35

Okay. Well, you're not supposed to do that, right? Right.

SPEAKER_03 8:38

I looked it up because now I I was like, you're not supposed to do it. And my husband was like, Are you sure that sounds crazy? And I'm like, no.

SPEAKER_02 8:44

Do not take a shower. Okay, so that's how it starts. His mom got struck by lightning, open, you know, her feet are smoking. So the dad comes into the hospital, he's distraught, his wife has died. He sees that the baby is albino and he disowns him.

SPEAKER_04 8:56

Oh.

SPEAKER_02 8:57

A little harsh. Quite harsh. Wait, what year is this? 1995. And it's set in current times. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Where is it set? I don't know. I think it's Texas, but it's like Random American town. Random American town, but the whole time they're driving, it's like a lot of them driving through like mud. So it's a muddy place. Muddy area. And it rains with lightning. Right.

SPEAKER_05 9:18

The Great Plains. Tornado Alley. Maybe. Honestly, maybe.

SPEAKER_02 9:22

It probably is. Okay, then we cut to years later. He's a teenager, and I guess his grandparents have like taken him in because his dad disowned him. And we just his his grandpa has died. We don't know how. We don't even know what his grandpa's name is, but all we know is the police have come and powder is the boy's name. Why? I know. Well, it's his nickname, but it seems like, come on. Powder? Rude. Well, I think his real name is Jeremy.

unknown 9:47

Excuse me.

SPEAKER_05 9:48

You're imagining Jeremy in like third grade doing like roll call, and the teacher's like, Jeremy. And he goes, actually, please call me Powder. Yeah. Because I'm super white. Right. You get it. I know that I'm albino and I just want everyone to call me Powder. Get it out of the way.

SPEAKER_02 10:04

It's but I'll tell you, they call him way worse. Oh no. Yeah. A lot of the R words, a lot of F words. Because he's albino? I think, yeah. Okay. So it's like when I don't get the.

SPEAKER_05 10:16

I don't even know. We said fucked up shit in high school too, but like I can't imagine calling anyone.

SPEAKER_02 10:22

It's really bad. Okay, so he's locked in the cellar. That's where he's living, in his grandparents' basement. We don't know what his relationship was like with his grandparents. Probably fine, but he's like in the basement. He's been living there. He's been reading a lot of books. He has memorized like every page of every book. He's a little Harry Potter moment.

SPEAKER_05 10:38

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 10:38

And so that's when we're like, oh, he's like really smart because he's memorized all these all these books. But we get our first look at him when he's in the basement, and it is shocking. They don't make him look albino. They have you seen that um that picture of Mark Zuckerberg surfing with his face full of sunscreen. It is that his whole body. Oh one of the reviews was like covered in like that zinc sunscreen. Yes. Caked zinc sunscreen top to bottom. It's shocking.

SPEAKER_03 11:07

For a second I was like, oh no, he looks like Mark Zuckerberg.

unknown 11:10

No.

SPEAKER_05 11:12

Or with like a dorky like UV Ray t-shirt on in the basement.

SPEAKER_02 11:18

He exclusively wears suits and fedoras. No. He looks like the driving crooner, that Tim Robinson sketch. I don't know why they did that. I don't know why. It just seemed like a big choice.

SPEAKER_05 11:27

Um were other people in the movie like in similarly weird costume choices? Just him. Not a cool one.

SPEAKER_02 11:34

And I'm like, maybe he was wearing the suit and the fedora because he was raised by his grandparents.

SPEAKER_05 11:38

Oh, and it's like there's only clothes from when they were young. So it's like a suit from the 50s.

SPEAKER_02 11:43

Yes.

SPEAKER_05 11:44

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 11:44

So they take him out of the house. Um, the the one the woman, like the one who takes him out of the house is um what's her name? Uh Mary uh Mary Steenbergen. Oh, that's uh she's in Ted Danson's wife. Oh, I didn't know that. Yeah. But she's in a lot of stuff. She's like in a lot of like rom-com stuff. Yeah. So the there's some other notable cast members in here. But she takes them and she's like, um, we're gonna have to move you out. She's like runs a um an orphanage for troubled teen boys, and so they move him in there. And oh fuck, I forgot to pull up the pictures, but it is like a building full of the most 90s Disney bullies you've ever seen. I'll have to pull up a picture, but it's like cut-off flannels, like spiked hair. Oh, like the two teens and uh in Hocus Pocus. Yes, but in the graveyard. Yeah, it's that, but there's like 40 of them. So, like on his first day there, he's sitting by himself at lunch, and one of the big bullies comes up to him and is like, he's like being really mean to him. They'll come over and like tss tss and they're like, We're gonna beat the shit out of him. But he says, Hey, new kid, you can either take this spoon and you can put it on your nose, or you can put it up your ass.

SPEAKER_04 12:55

Oh so nose.

SPEAKER_02 12:57

Have you guys ever been bullied like that? Um, no.

SPEAKER_05 13:00

And I went to all-girl Catholic school.

SPEAKER_02 13:02

Powder, then we learned that he has like electric um skills or whatever, because he then like takes all the metal in the place and like all the spoons and forks and stuff so where it come like flying and they form like a pyramid. They like fly out of people's mouths and hands, and then it just cuts to like everybody's face is covered in mashed potatoes. But it's a serious scene. So they're all like, Whoa, this boy has like special powers, okay?

SPEAKER_05 13:25

So that's taking a real look. Emily, did you see this coming? I did not see the magic.

SPEAKER_03 13:29

Well, at the beginning, I was like, wait, so why is he albino? Because you were struck by lightning, and it's like, I don't know the biology behind that, and then it's like, oh, but he's a genius. They're like, oh, he has super he has superpowers. They keep unfolding.

SPEAKER_05 13:40

So he's reached the age of maturity, like uh his powers have manifested. Okay. Just like uh that Disney Channel rom com or Domcom. What is it called? A DCOM movie? Like original movie about the 13-year-old boy that became a mermaid. Oh my god, the 13th year. That was an excellent one. I think about that movie all the time. Cody. Yeah. Okay, I didn't remember the name. That's good. Oh, I was obsessed with him.

SPEAKER_03 14:03

He was a the actor was frequently in Disney Channel stuff. I recall.

SPEAKER_05 14:07

He was like the hot shit of uh decom movies.

SPEAKER_02 14:10

So picture him, picture that hair as a bully, and that's like everybody that was living there.

SPEAKER_05 14:16

Wow, in the 90s.

SPEAKER_02 14:18

This is like concurrent. Oh, it is. Yeah, I'm just like this could have been this is the darker version of the 13th year. Oh, I see it. Okay. Okay.

SPEAKER_05 14:25

With lightning.

SPEAKER_02 14:26

So that's when we learn he's got special powers, he's a genius. The director of the home is then like, um, you're so smart, we're gonna put you in school. I think you'll really like that. He goes to school his first day. Oh no. He gets electrocuted in the chest for like five minutes. How electrocuted? Is it like health class? Like, what's happening? Get this. Jeff Goldblum is his uh physics teacher, and he's like doing some experiment with like a Jacobs ladder or something, and something about powder is a conduit. So, like this huge blast of electricity hits him in the chest, hits him so hard for so long, rips him up to the ceiling, and nobody does anything for like a long time. Finally, Jeff Goldblum takes a stool because you know you're supposed to use wood to diffuse. Sure. Learning a lot about what to do in an electricity or something. I see. My dad always told me that. Like, I think one of us stuck our finger in a socket at some point when we were little, and he had always he always said, if you're being electrocuted, always touch somebody with a wooden stool. And I think now he probably just saw powder and he's like, Oh my god. He's like, I gotta remember the good parenting advice. Yes. I have a video, I think it's gonna take too long to pull it up, but Jeff Goldblum's first line, he's literally like, This is how we're introduced to him. He's right, we just see a hand writing on the chalkboard, and then he turns to the camera and he goes, Molecule. He just like whispers molecules.

SPEAKER_05 15:51

So he's just being himself. He's just Jeff Goldblum as a physics teacher in this movie. Very much.

SPEAKER_03 15:58

In Wicked, he's just Jeff Goldblum.

SPEAKER_05 16:00

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 16:01

He's exactly that character in Powder.

SPEAKER_05 16:03

Um what's his costume like? We know what powder's wearing. What is Jeff Goldblum wearing?

SPEAKER_02 16:10

Um, I forget what he was wearing when he was teaching, but there is a scene later. I think he wears just like a black t-shirt and jeans. Okay, he looks great.

SPEAKER_05 16:16

He just rolled on to set wearing that and they're like, wardrobe's done.

SPEAKER_02 16:18

Yeah, go for it. Yeah, he looked great. Everybody else looked yeah, I don't powder wore a suit all the time. Love that. I know. Um, okay, so they send powder to the hospital, right? Because he's just been electrocuted for five minutes. He escapes, he's walking through the woods, he sees a lizard, he's like, would love to take a closer look at that lizard, puts his hands to the ground, more lizards come up. Okay. He has lizard power. Okay, but they're like so big, they're like bearded dragons. But so now we know I guess he can like communicate with animals. We're learning a lot. So as this is happening, as he's like bringing all these dragons, these bearded dragons to the surface, the bully from the orphanage home is spying on him, pulls a shotgun out and just starts to shart to try to shoot him. He has a shotgun? He has a shotgun. That's cool. He's gonna murder at the hospital. This is in this is in the woods because powder has escaped from the hospital, he's in the woods. No, I mean it's the plot is absolutely all over the place. But so he's like gonna shoot Powder, and then they are saved because an off-duty cop shoots a deer, and they all hear it, and they're all like, Oh, let's go look at that deer. It's so weird. So they all run and they're like so excited to see the deer that this guy is hunted. And Powder puts his hand on the deer, puts his hand on the hunter who shot the deer, and basically transfers the deer's pain into the hunter, and the hunter is like so freaked out. He he so he's like feeling the deer's pain, freaks out. He's like, he sells all his guns, which is a good thing. Okay. Um, but so now we know, okay, I guess like powder can communicate telepathically, like he can like transfer energies back and forth. Um, but it was actually really sad, and the deer that they used was kind of like it was like a taxidermy deer, so it was like pretty stiff already. But then they just had one paw, kind of like oh my god. So then powder goes back to the boys' home. Jeff Goldblum comes back in, he finds him because when powder was being electrocuted, after Jeff Goldblum hit him with that stool, he touched powder, and like you kind of see the hairs on Jeff Goldblum's arms raise up, so it's like he was like channeling some kind of electricity into him. So Jeff Goldblum comes in and finds him, and he says, He says, He's been having the best sex he's had in 10 years since he got electrocuted by powder. Damn. Okay. He says, after he touched powder in class, he's been having like after he got that static shock, he's been having the best sex he's had in 10 years. It's so weird.

SPEAKER_05 18:47

Is the rest of the movie them trying to bottle that energy into a pill and sell it?

SPEAKER_02 18:52

I thought it was going to be because he comes in, he's like, I'm on a high, like I'm thinking better, clearer, faster, focused. I had the best sex I've had in 10 years. And Powder's like, what the fuck? Because Powder is powdered, yeah. He's like 14, 15. He's probably 17. Okay. Okay. I'm guessing. He's well crazy thing to say. I think 18, because he takes his shirt off later, and spoiler alert, he's ripped.

SPEAKER_05 19:16

I'm imagining Edward taking his shirt off in Twilight. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 19:21

Yes. Like, whatever the line. I'm idiot. Yeah, I'm hideous. I'm a monster. Um fuck, what is that line? I literally. Okay, of course. He did it in unison. It was so good. I was like, I have this bumper sticker on my suitcase. Um, so they have a nice bonding moment, despite what Jeff Goldblum has just said to him. The sheriff then learns, okay, powder's got telepathic powers. His wife is dying. She's in a coma. She won't let go. And so the sheriff's like, maybe I can get powder to like communicate with her. So Powder goes over and he like puts a hand on the woman, puts a hand on the sheriff, and they have a moment and then she dies. So this like endears powder to the sheriff. Powder goes on a date at the state fair, and this little girl comes up to him, and they kind of like hold hands and they're communicating telepathically, and and she's like, Whoa, this is crazy. I can like hear his thoughts, he can hear mine. And they just start saying out loud all the worst thoughts that they have. Like she goes, Your dad thought you were ugly. And then they kiss. Okay. Okay. I'm almost done. Powder wants to run away from then powder wants to run away from the boys' home. So he like packs up all his things in like an old timey suitcase. He puts on his fedora and his in his three-piece suit, and he leaves, but then he stops to watch the bullies play a little bit of basketball.

SPEAKER_05 20:41

Oh, naturally.

SPEAKER_02 20:42

And they don't like it, so they um strip him naked and throw him in a puddle.

SPEAKER_05 20:46

What the fuck? Oh.

SPEAKER_02 20:48

Not another puddle. Not another puddle. Yeah. Oh, wait, is this like a plot device puddle? Or is it just like I didn't even think about it that way.

SPEAKER_03 20:57

The puddle that created him. Truly.

unknown 21:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 21:02

They throw him in a puddle. He gets so mad he's like charging a little bit. Like you can see him like channeling his powers, and then he just like blows all the belt buckles and like earrings and jewelry. It's like an electric shock. Oh, okay. For the bullies. One of them dies. He defibrillates him and brings him back to life. Okay. Thank God. Damn. He goes back to his childhood home, and the cops come there because they're like, we heard basically you um electrocuted somebody and then brought him back to life. And uh he's like, No, I don't I I want to escape. What's wrong? Is this what you thought the movie was gonna be about?

SPEAKER_05 21:38

No, no.

SPEAKER_02 21:39

This is the last sentence, and I think it'll blow your mind.

SPEAKER_05 21:43

Oh, please. So I'm like way back here.

SPEAKER_02 21:45

Oh no, I know I can't wait to to open my mouth and put some food in there. But so Powder goes back to his childhood home and he's like, I want to get out of here. The school director and Jeff Goldblum and the sheriff come and kind of defend him, and they're like, You you can get out of here, we want to rest. You because the cops are trying to arrest Powder and they're kind of like defending him. And then he runs into a field and gets struck by lightning and is raptured. What? And that's the end of the movie. Like wow. Are his clothes left? None of it's left. Okay. So he's like something like that.

SPEAKER_05 22:18

Not a true rapture, then, right? Oh, do they leave your clothes behind? Wait, do they?

SPEAKER_03 22:23

Oh, when you actually get raptured in real life?

SPEAKER_05 22:27

Like you leave all your like earthly possessions. Like everything's from earth that's left, and it's just you up there running around naked. Naked? Do I have to be naked?

SPEAKER_03 22:36

I'm not gonna get raptured. No, like why not? I've was not baptized. And not eligible. Definitely a sinner.

unknown 22:44

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 22:45

What's the worst thing you've ever done? Excuse me. Yeah, what's the worst thing you've ever done?

SPEAKER_03 22:49

Well, bad news about this movie. I like was like, okay, Wikipedia, open it up. Uh so powder was like boycotted because the director and writer had a conviction for child sex abuse. And I was like, damn. I know, and that's tough.

SPEAKER_05 23:05

The first line of the Wikipedia. Okay, so that's why it's not streaming anywhere.

SPEAKER_02 23:08

Oh, I rented it just fine.

SPEAKER_05 23:10

Well, I guess I meant like streaming for free. Oh, oh, right. Yeah. No, but like even that's like not free. I know.

SPEAKER_02 23:16

I did even feel weird like having this as my topic. No, I I don't I don't think it it indicts you.

SPEAKER_05 23:21

Wait, when did you first encounter powder?

SPEAKER_02 23:24

I think I must have been a kid because Well, obviously your dad was watching it at some point. Obviously, yeah. He was like taking notes about what to do in case of a lightning strike. So he gets run, he runs into a field and is raptured, and that's how the film ends. Um and yeah, the review's not great. Uh people were like, could have been something really took a turn. One of my my favorite act three was crazy. Yeah. My favorite review is um an intriguing setup, even if the pancake makeup on powder makes him look less like an albino than a mime. He really did look like a mime. Um, so that's powder. And I think I just must have seen it when I was a kid, and it just really stuck with me in so many ways.

SPEAKER_05 24:08

Yeah, it makes me wonder what my powder was as a kid. Because I feel like every family has like that one weird movie that the family watched. I thought everybody had seen it. Exactly. Like you go to college and like, oh, you know, you make a powder reference, and your roommate's like, what the fuck are you talking about?

SPEAKER_02 24:24

You're on a work trip and you're guys like, you guys, look at my background, it's powder, and everybody's like, What's wrong?

SPEAKER_05 24:32

Wait, so what was your powder?

SPEAKER_02 24:33

That's what I'm trying to think about.

SPEAKER_05 24:35

I think it might be the movie Tremors with Kevin Bacon. Oh, I don't know that. Oh, okay. I don't know that one either side. I think more it was definitely more of a like a cultural milestone than powder. I hate to say it. Sorry, powder. Okay, because there's like m multiple movies. Oh there's a like Kevin Bacon, I think was like probably in the first two, and then there's definitely like a third one. There's a whole TV show about it.

SPEAKER_02 25:00

I can't believe I've never heard I can. I haven't heard of a lot of things except for powder. Powder? I know.

SPEAKER_05 25:05

Yeah but you, Emily, you've not heard of Tremors yet. No, I haven't. Okay. So maybe that is yours. Maybe it is like the Trent family movie.

SPEAKER_03 25:14

The Trent family powder.

unknown 25:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 25:17

What's your I have no idea what ours would be because all I can think of, I'm like, okay, everyone knows those movies.

SPEAKER_05 25:22

Well, like, that's kind of how I felt about Tremors until right now. I thought that's how I felt about powder good answer.

SPEAKER_03 25:27

Well, like, I don't know. The first movie I thought of that I remember watching a lot, like as a kid, I watched a ton of Beetlejuice, as you might imagine. But everybody knows Beetlejuice. That's like a good movie. It's like a cult, like I definitely saw that late.

SPEAKER_05 25:37

I saw that like probably for the first time, maybe 10 years ago.

SPEAKER_02 25:40

See, me too. I was too scared to see it when I was little. I was kind of a little bitch.

SPEAKER_03 25:44

I was kind of a bitch.

SPEAKER_02 25:46

So um, okay, that's a good one. Um, so that's all I have to say about powder. I hope that you all uh don't actually, you know what? Yeah, don't watch it. Don't watch it? Yeah, you can if you want.

SPEAKER_03 25:57

No, I kinda I mean I'm a little bit amazed that you can even come up with a movie that you're like, okay, there's a little buy no guy, right?

unknown 26:02

Right?

SPEAKER_05 26:03

But get this. Like, how do we think this movie was pitched? Like on cocaine in an elevator, and they're like, here's two million dollars. What was the budget, Emily? You've got the budget.

SPEAKER_03 26:13

Let me see. Let me see. Hold on. Let me see if this is for me. This is like the kind of stuff I think about. It was a commercial success, grossing 30.9 million on a 9.5 million dollar budget.

SPEAKER_05 26:22

It was a commercial success.

SPEAKER_03 26:23

Well, yeah, how else do you think your family got a hold of the VHS? Yeah. I guess. Yeah. That's crazy. It did say mixed reviews.

SPEAKER_02 26:31

It the message is there. Like, don't like be nice to people that are different from you.

SPEAKER_03 26:38

I was trying to think about what is the message of this movie.

SPEAKER_02 26:42

Well, it's don't hunt. Yeah, okay. Don't step in puddles when it's raining or storming.

SPEAKER_05 26:48

Yeah, heavy on the safety information on electricity. Your baby will be able to do that. Be kind to people. Be kind.

SPEAKER_02 26:56

Um, yeah, because also nobody's like really upset when he gets raptured. It's like Jeff Goldblum just kind of goes like this and is like, I just can't believe it. And then Mary does, have y'all seen that TikTok or that character that that girl does? I'm sure other people do it, but it's like girl who's gonna be okay. That's like what Mary does. She like looks down and she's like the sheriff laughs, but like in a happy tears way. It's like again, this boy was just basically zapped to pieces in front of you all.

SPEAKER_05 27:28

And they're like, This is a good thing. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 27:31

There's nobody left.

SPEAKER_05 27:32

And we're all like, he's gonna be okay. Yeah. He's in a better place now. Rapper powder. I know.

SPEAKER_02 27:40

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