River Part 3

Matt Donato, Ben Silverio, and Ansel Burch are pop culture observers/ content creators/ excellent friends who are here to have a great time. After all, the noodles never run out, and we never get full!

Are you ready for dinner and a movie? We’re taking our edutainment time this month to talk about physical release of media, hot pot, and sake. Prepare to have your appetites whetted for your own shallow dives into these topics as we all learn together!

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Next week we’re wrapping up the month with a little treat made up of all the digressions anf flubs that didn’t make it into the final episode. Join us on Monday 4/28 for that new episode. Until then, make sure you’re subscribed, because it’s always #Time2Party

Transcript

Ben Silverio 0:05

Hey, I'm Ben Silverio.

Matt Donato 0:06

I'm Matt Donato,

Ansel Burch 0:07

and I'm Ansel Burch, and

Ben Silverio 0:09

it's time to party.

Ansel Burch 0:13

We are not doctors. We don't give medical advice. Please drink responsibly. Today's episode was recorded on March 20, 2025,

Ben Silverio 0:26

yeah, it's golden girls. Oh, okay,

Matt Donato 0:29

squeeze that one in there, shove it in

Ben Silverio 0:31

there. Why not? You know, I commented

Ansel Burch 0:33

on it. Now he's learning other songs. What's happening? See,

Matt Donato 0:37

I figured this is just a thing he did. He just went with different songs over your title every time,

Ansel Burch 0:42

yeah, oh yeah, that's that's true, but it's usually the same three songs.

Matt Donato 0:47

Pretty much got it, no variation.

Ben Silverio 0:50

I'm trying to expand my horizons, which is what we're doing this month, party people, by having the incredible, the phenomenal, the insert complimentary adjective here. Matt Donato, everyone, thank you

Matt Donato 1:05

very much. I have one or two of those things, not all of them, but I appreciate it

Ansel Burch 1:09

at any given time. You know, yeah, take your pick. It's true.

Matt Donato 1:13

You get one at a time. What

Ansel Burch 1:19

was it? Fast, good and cheap. Matt only

Ben Silverio 1:21

has the capacity to be one at a time. Depends what Davis Yes. And with the incredible Matt Donato here with us, he brings with him an equally incredible movie called River. This is a Japanese film from the team that brought you beyond the infinite two minutes, which we did cover previously on the pod. Episode One, we gave you our drinking and smoking rules so that you can play along when you're re watching, or more likely, watching the movie for the first time. The second episode, we reviewed the hell out of this movie and tried to remind you that this is so delightful and so fun and so silly, and you really, really need to watch it and then listen to our review. And now here we are, episode three at our edutainment section, where we here at Time to party, will give a very shallow dive into some, I want to say weird topics, because the campaigns are pretty out there. We'll see they can be pretty weird topics, but they're all inspired by the movie that we saw this month. And if you don't know about River, which, there's a good chance that you don't, but hopefully you're inspired by this month to go seek it out

Ansel Burch 2:32

by now, I hope you made 84 minutes. Yeah, exactly

Ben Silverio 2:35

third window films. The production company that created this movie shares the synopsis, because apparently Rotten Tomatoes doesn't have it. But here it is from third window films, the 100 year old fujiwa Inn stands in the quiet region of Kyoto. Makoto is standing in front of the kupuna River at the back of the building, where she is called back to work, but two minutes later, she finds herself back at the river again, the whole in seems to be stuck in a time loop. See, that's a little bit more in depth than IMDb, yeah. Like they, I mean,

Ansel Burch 3:11

it's more than one sentence. For starters, say

Matt Donato 3:13

IMDb had, like they were just base level anyway, like you could only go from there. It's a

Ansel Burch 3:18

time loop done.

Matt Donato 3:21

I mean, truthfully, there isn't much more to it. Time loop, no, in a resort, at least they got it right. It's

Ben Silverio 3:27

true. So inspired by river, we have various topics to edutain you with. So

Matt Donato 3:34

I'm gonna keep it not well, it's movie related, but it really has the broader topic of physical releases. Because if we're going to connect it to river, I want to shout out specifically Mr. Henderson and what he does over at terror vision, and kind of talk a little bit about the idea of, like these boutique labels. Because, as we've talked about other places on other episodes here, you know, river would not be available right now, if it wasn't for the exhaustive efforts of like, one dude who's just a super archival person and has connections to, like, it's hard to get a movie like river stateside, you know, like the rights for like, Japanese films, Chinese films, especially Korean is a little easier, but still hard. And then you get to, like, Indian cinema stuff like that. Like, there's so many reasons. So many reasons why a movie like river will hit Fantasia or a festival and then never be heard from again. Because a lot of the times, like, having talked now to a bunch of people from like, veneer syndrome, terror vision and other places, it's it's just not viable for like, these international markets to be like, we don't, we don't want to go through the process of making a Blu ray for America, because we made all our money here in India, like, like, specifically, it's so hard to get new movies here because they're like, we're making bank here in Bollywood. We don't, we don't care about that market. And it's not like, you know, that's not a diss or anything like that. It's just work. It's effort they don't want to put in. It's,

Ansel Burch 4:59

I mean. Chump change compared, comparatively what they can make in in our market. Yeah, that's totally makes sense Exactly.

Matt Donato 5:05

So like calling out terror vision specifically and just giving a quick little like, you know, what is terror vision? Why should I care about it? Why is this, you know, I mean, Brad's my friend, don't get me wrong. So it's a fun thing to talk about, but seeing what he does so exhaustively and seeing what, like terror vision releases is, I, you know, you realize the importance of these little boutique labels that are run on, like, blood, sweat and tears. They are not making millions, but like, you know, over at television, like, he's able to get the rights to, like, random stuff. Like, if you look down the list, there's a lot of crazy stuff all jacked up and full of worms. Was a recent title that was doing some work on the festival market, let's say, for the last few years. And like, Brad's out there being like, yeah, I don't know who would release this, so I'm just gonna do it, yeah, stuff like the cube remake. He has stuff like dead air. There's, there's so many weird, little, obscure titles that get lost, but when a company like terror vision is able to find them, they make sure they don't get lost. I the one of the most recent things he did is that ridiculous Rumpelstiltskin movie from the 90s or whatever. And you know, like the world isn't clamoring for it, but there is such a finite number of people who want that collector's box, who want that, like, crazy release of it. And I think without that kind of output right now, I don't know it's, it's more dire in the landscape than than it is currently, you know. I mean, we're still trying to figure out streaming, where all these streaming titles, you know, hey, Netflix maybe put something on Blu ray for once. I don't know. Like, let's see what happens. You might make money. But again, is it worth it to them? No, we just care about our model and keeping people on the service, like for Netflix specifically, okay, what if we release fear street in a box set? Are a bunch of horror fans gonna buy it? Of course, they are. But are they ever gonna go back to Netflix and watch it? Of course, not like they're holding films hostage at this point. So, you know, again, streaming is also helping. I'm not gonna go on a tirade about that stuff, like, there's good and bad, yeah, but yeah. The the the edu, Edu maintainment of, like, why do we care about these little boutique labels that would put out something like river? And the answer is, because they're supporting Wilder ideas. They're supporting things that fall through the cracks. And I am, I am urging you, you know, if you're, if you're listening and you're asking, Where do I find new weird films? Where am I going to find something fresh, not it's not even television, just go out there. Try to find some boutique labels. Like the horror fans specifically have, like, shout, have vinegar syndrome, have Arrow video, like, go down the list, don't, don't just trust everything the way it is. And, you know, physical media is one of those things that you can always have. Yes, a shot, look

Ben Silverio 7:50

at the, look at what's happened to the original Star Wars, right? You can't get the original cut anymore because it was only available on what was it, LaserDisc and VHS and so now that those are outdated, Disney doesn't have the original cuts on Disney plus. So if you want to see the original ones that haven't been doctored online, you have to go searching for physical media. I mean, we're in this age now where, where target and Best Buy. Don't even have physical movies anymore, you know. And if, if you're looking for a much broader, more mainstream example of what Matt's talking about, I feel like you don't need to look far, because Looney Tunes is in the news right now. Where catch up media put out that new Looney Tunes movie, which we haven't had a fully Looney Tunes movie in theaters in a long ass time, and now they're looking into saving coyote versus Acme, which by all accounts, sounds like a great time. You know, we have, we have WWE legend John Cena in the film where, you know, his acting chops have been on display recently on Monday Night Raw because of the road to Wrestlemania. And I'm sure plenty of kids are very upset that he's kind of mean now. But if catch up, entertainment is successful, not only do they save a movie that was shelved for such bullshit reasons. But you're also supporting the the legacy of Looney Tunes, which should never go away, like if you go on max right now, how much Looney Tunes can you actually stream? I haven't looked very little. Oh, okay, if anything, like, if you go on Disney Plus, you can watch some Muppets stuff. But where is all the new Muppet stuff that should be created? I mean, yeah, they did just announce this whole plan to keep the Muppets in Walt, Disney World, and they had that one show about. The Electric Mayhem, which is so good, which is so good and deserves more. But, you know, things like physical media can help these things stay alive. So for movies like river, it's so important.

Matt Donato 10:13

And like, I will, I will admit there's a tiny Of course, like there is the barrier to entry. That is financial situation, sure. And that is the thing, if you, if you can't do it, like, I'm not preaching, like, go spend all your money. And, you know, it's worth it for stuff like that, you have to support, like, No, I get it. I I am lucky enough to be able to purchase these things. I'm lucky enough to be in a scenario where it works for me, but it is. It's one of those things where, if you are and if that is something that you're thinking about, you know, one of my favorite examples is, I saw this movie Tom bad. It's an Indian horror movie. It's horror movie. It's fucking amazing. And it played Fanta, Fantastic Fest. I watched it, I raved about it, waited for it to come out, nothing, of course, and then it just dropped on Prime Video, like two years later. Absolutely no fanfare, no nothing. I'm just like, why is it available to stream? Can't own it, but I can stream it. And then it vanished, yeah? And I'm like, Okay, so now it's, now it's nowhere. And then, like, wax work put the soundtrack out. So I'm like, Okay, now I have the vinyl, but I still don't have the movie. So, yeah, it's, it's one of those scenarios where, if you have the chance, if you have something you love, that you know, you're thinking, I would watch this for the rest of my life, and you have the chance, and you have the ability, don't hesitate on that physical media is the way to go, if you can,

Ansel Burch 11:23

I will also put out there that it's a wonderful opportunity for you to advocate for those films, to show up in communal spaces as well. You know, talk to your local library, talk to your local movie store, talk to your local you know, like, you know, hangout place where people go to watch movies, whatever that looks like, if it's a game shop or a lounge or whatever, that's a great place for those movies to live, because not only do you get to enjoy them, but then also they're available for other people to discover.

Ben Silverio 11:58

God, this conversation just makes me upset that I can't own Nimona on Blu Ray, no one can, like no one can and Netflix. What are you doing? Bros,

Matt Donato 12:09

holding us hostage. You got to go back to Netflix,

Ben Silverio 12:11

baby. Oh man. Well, before we go on a tirade about Netflix, Ansel, do you want to go next? Sure, I'll

Ansel Burch 12:18

go next. I have a shall shallower than usual dive, okay, but it's because it turns out that the topic that I wanted to cover today is both far too complex to do a shallow dive on, but also deceptively simpler than I thought it would be. Because I wanted to talk about sake, shut up. Was your sake? It

Ben Silverio 12:43

was going to be,

Ansel Burch 12:46

well, we're nothing if not consistent. It's true. Here's the thing about sake that I didn't fully recognize before I started doing my shallow dive research on this, and that is that sake is not one thing, it's a lot of different kinds of alcohol, most of which are at least based in the same four main ingredients, water, rice, yeast and Koji, which is a mold used for other culinary purposes as well, but it is specifically used in sake. So it's got like shades of like cheese production to it, if you think about it, that way of having sort of these active cultures involved in the production of it. And the other thing is that sake is as much as it is a broad spectrum of beverages. It is, at its root, more akin to a beer or or whiskey than it is wine, even though we traditionally call it a wine, the thing that it has most in common with wine is the ABV. So it's a similar, similar alcohol content to wine, but it is brewed more like a beer, and its content is more like a whiskey or a similar like grain liquor. It's just brewed because it's brewed more like a beer. It doesn't end up being as strong as a liquor. So it's in this beautiful, like cross of between all of those categories, which is, you know how it becomes a category unto itself, but there's no one way to make sake. There are a number of different methodologies, and the sake produced in different regions of Japan are all different to one another. So there are pretty broad differences in the flavors that you'll get and the kinds of foods that you would want to pair with sake from different parts of Japan. So I won't pretend for a second that I can speak to that I am not nearly Japanese enough to pretend that I can do that, but I will say that it was fascinating to see it broken down, and I encourage you to enjoy the sake that is served at your place that is serving sake because. The thing that I learned most is that it's so individual. Every every kind of sake is sort of specific to an area. So the people who are from that area are more likely to serve that sake with the food that they make. So your your you know, sushi chef is more likely to have chosen sake that's from the same part of Japan that they are. So it becomes almost like a pairing, not of the food specifically, but of the chef and the and the restaurant.

Matt Donato 15:33

So it's really where it ties back into wine, because are you talking about it being like, exactly, yeah. And like, of course, you're gonna pair a red, you're gonna pair white, all that stuff. That's That is interesting.

Ben Silverio 15:42

Matt, are you a sake guy? It depends.

Matt Donato 15:46

I can be like, I'm more soju. Like, when I go out for Korean food, like, it's probably going to be like, bottles of soju, but no, I like sake. Like, hilariously, one of the mailers we got one time for, like, Critics Choice. I forget what it was, but it came with sake. So I got it. My roommate got it, and she isn't like, sockey. And then Val at hover, who we all know, got it as well. And val is a Drake, so like, three bottles of soccer, yeah, all right, here we go. Sick.

Ben Silverio 16:15

So when are we doing a socket bomb, night?

Matt Donato 16:17

Oh, those are gone. Oh, those are gone. Oh, those are very God. I mean, I When are we doing it? I will do that whenever

Ansel Burch 16:24

threaten him with a good time. I love

Matt Donato 16:26

a rice lager and some sock get out of here. So

Ansel Burch 16:29

the the other thing that I briefly wanted to touch on before we before we let sake go and and go find a bottle to consume, is that it is exactly as old as I thought it was going to be maybe a little younger, dating back to the second century BC in China. In by some estimations, the first like record. Record is from the third century AD. And the last thing I wanted to drop you with is that in the in the early eras of sake, before it was modernized in 700 ad, because that's when you modernize things. Prior to 700 it was apparently common to prepare it by chewing it and then spitting it into a big bucket,

Unknown Speaker 17:15

huh? That's

Ansel Burch 17:17

where all the enzymes came from. Back before we figured out this special mold was everybody in the village would just chew on rice and spit it into a big bucket. Oh, good. We went from saliva to mold. Yeah, so mold is the better option, and I'm okay with that, you know.

Ben Silverio 17:36

But Awesome, yeah? Hey,

Ansel Burch 17:38

you know that's a was a wild time the first few centuries.

Ben Silverio 17:43

Oh, man, all right. Man, now, now I'm just thinking of when I was in college. We went to this Japanese place because they didn't card and we would do, we would do socket bombs all the time and just wild time. Love sake. But like I mentioned, I almost chose sake as my topic for this, for this edutainment, but I didn't so my entertainment for this movie was inspired by the two the two guests that were sharing a meal. I wanted to look into shabu, shabu, which is a type of hot pot style meal. But interestingly, shabu, shabu, hot pot, not a mono all kind of different things. Oh, yeah. So when I first saw that in the movie, I thought that they were having shabu, shabu. What they were actually having was sukiyaki, which is a different style of nabe Manu, or no nabe mano. God, My Japanese is so bad. It's a different type of nabe mano, which means a meal prepared in one pot. So they're similar, they're related, but they're slightly different. Okay, so starting with shabu. Shabu, the origins of shabu, shabu have kind of two schools of thought of where it came from. So the first is that it came from an inner Mongolian hot pot which had, and I'm not even going to pretend to speak Mongolian, but it translates to like an instant boiled mutton, you know, that was introduced to Japan after World War Two by the Japanese people who lived in Beijing. The other theory is that shabu. Shabu originates from Japanese, uh. Mizutaki Hot pot, which is a very popular type of nabe mono that has various ingredients and different versions depending on where you are, but it always has the dashi or the water without flavoring. Okay, yes, so. But the basics for shabu, shabu is that the dish consists of thinly sliced protein, usually beef, pork or chicken, and then vegetables with various dipping sauces. Shabu. Shabu is onomatopoeia, that means Swish, swish, which is the sound it makes when you're cooking the proteins. Because the whole idea is that you take the meat from the plate and, like, dip it in the pot for a few seconds, like 10 to 25 seconds, almost like a fondue, kind of and then eating it like that sukiyaki, which is what I believe they have in the movie, is generally less savory and more sweet than shabu. Shabu, the ingredients include the thinly sliced protein, usually beef and vegetables in a mixture of soy sauce, sugar and mirin, which is rice wine. Then before you eat it, you dip those ingredients in a bowl with raw beaten eggs. And like in the movie, it's commonly served in the winter and usually found at Japanese year end parties. Now with people commonly interchanging shabu, shabu or nabe mono with hot pot, the major difference is that hot pot is Chinese and nabe mono is Japanese, okay, but then there's a difference in preparation, because shabu, shabu only in like entails submerging the meat and ingredients in the broth for a little bit, whereas hot pot calls for all the ingredients to simmer in, like a very hardy broth with various, you know, spice levels and different flavors. And a lot of people who go to get hot pot, they want that, like Sichuan, like spice, so guilty, yes,

Matt Donato 22:30

yeah, that that was gonna say, That's me. Like, everything you're describing. I am definitely that

Ben Silverio 22:33

that is very much a common thing. But I do feel like people will be like, Oh, hey, let's go get hot pot. But they mean shabu, shabu, Today I learned they are two very different things, interesting, but all very delicious. And now I am hungry for shabu, shabu and thirsty for sake. Yeah, while watching physical media. I mean, that sounds like a good time if, Yo, that's a date night. If I ever heard one Fuck man, could you if you could

Ansel Burch 23:05

eat a hot pot and drink Sake while watching this movie? You're gonna have a good time.

Ben Silverio 23:10

Absolutely.

Matt Donato 23:12

Okay, wait, here's, here's one quick fun fact before we end. Oh yes, thinking about going back to the restaurant, or, sorry, the diners, let's say caught, uh, in eating the infinite hot pot. What do you think is the Guinness World Record for the most grains of rice eaten in one minute using chopsticks in one minute? One minute, the most grains of rice eaten grains of rice

Ansel Burch 23:36

in one minute. I mean, one

Ben Silverio 23:39

cup of rice has to have over 1000

Ansel Burch 23:44

do we know if they were sticky?

Matt Donato 23:47

Um, hold on, let me there's because

Ansel Burch 23:49

that that affects how

Matt Donato 23:50

much you can get on the they do not, they do not look stick. I do not believe they are sticky rice. Okay, interesting. They look like they're they're fanned out. So it looks like they are easy to

Ansel Burch 24:01

Oh. So it was like, this was one at a time. Oh, yeah, exactly. So, one at a shit. Okay, that's a whole different of rice. Okay, yeah. I was definitely like, Well, yeah, give me a bowl of sticky rice. I can get a fair amount in my face, but, yeah, okay, one at a time, 327 I'm gonna go with 120 that. That feels like a lot, but not too much. Okay,

Matt Donato 24:24

you're both so wrong. So wrong. The Guinness Book record for the most great 3737 in a row. 37 in a row in one minute.

Ansel Burch 24:34

That's a much more reasonable number.

Matt Donato 24:36

Samaya Kong from Bangladesh did this February 2024 beating the previous record by 10 grains of rice. Wow.

Ansel Burch 24:45

So for some period of time the record was 27

Matt Donato 24:49

Yeah. Like, literally, it was 27 and then Samaya comes and goes, nah, I got this and just rocks out 10 more. Like it was nothing. There

Ansel Burch 24:56

you go. So, man, do you think

Ben Silverio 24:58

instead of hot water? Ones we can, like, do this as the interview. Like, don't mechanism, Don't threaten me with a good time. Just one grain of rice. Yeah,

Matt Donato 25:13

I tried to look up, like, the most amount of rice eaten in the Guinness Book World Records. And, like, it didn't have anything like that. It just had single grains eaten in a minute. And I'm like, okay, that's the closest,

Ansel Burch 25:23

so much Wilder man that is so much Wilder. Do you guys know anybody with a with a Guinness record?

Ben Silverio 25:30

Personally, no. Personally, no. Okay. I

Ansel Burch 25:33

have a couple friends with Guinness records. Really working in the Renaissance Fair, does things to you.

Matt Donato 25:40

Okay? That actually tracks, yeah, and,

Ansel Burch 25:42

and, as it turns out, the trick to getting a Guinness record, aside from, like, just being really good at the thing you're good at, is finding an incredibly obscure way to do the thing you're good at. So because if you're the first one, the rules are easier. It's much easier to be the first person to set a record breaking that record. Now there's all kinds of regulation around like, well, you have to do it the same way that first person did. It has to be in these, you know, situation. And so my buddy Adam crack will buddy is unfair. This the friend person I am on friendly terms with, person who knows my name in exchange for me knowing his name. But he's a really cool guy. He's a, he is a professional whip cracker. That is what he does. And he's got, like, the record for the most whips cracked in a in a minute. He's got the, you know, most whips cracked in a certain way in a minute. You know, he's, he's got, like, I think six or seven Guinness records. But he was talking about, like, oh yeah. Well, you know, one of the things is, nobody had ever done this thing before, and I was just doing it while the Guinness guy was here, and he was like, Ah, okay. Well, that one too, just like, threw an extra one in for funsies. But I also went to Casey, Illinois recently, or, I guess, about a year ago, which is a town in Illinois famous for having the world's largest x so like they have the world they have the world's largest mailbox, they have the world's largest pitchfork, they have the world's largest Swizzle spoon. And they, this is tangential, but hey, that's one of the things we do here. They talked about how, like, if you're the first one to make the world's largest, you know, thing, whatever it is, then you get to just do it, you know. Okay, this is the world's largest that the second person has to make it functional.

Ben Silverio 27:45

Oh, what? So,

Ansel Burch 27:47

like they have the world's largest pitchfork. It's the first one. Nobody else tried to do it. So they just get to have the world's largest pitchfork. The second person to make the world's largest pitchfork has to then somehow move. Hay with it.

Ben Silverio 28:05

Wow. So, like, so if you're

Ansel Burch 28:07

gonna make the world's largest thing get in early that's the and I guess that's true of like, achieving tasks as well. But like,

Matt Donato 28:15

that's so wild that, like, the rules change for the second person, like, the first person could just do it and the second person like,

Ansel Burch 28:21

No, you want to do this? Now I was also shocked about that, yeah, because I guess when they built the world's largest, I don't remember if it was the first one they ran into this with, but when they made the world's largest mailbox, one of the stipulations was that it had to, had to function as a mailbox, which meant you had to be able to post a letter from inside it, and the flag had to go up to indicate that there was mail. So that's incredible. So when you if you drop a postcard into the slot inside the world's largest mailbox, the postcard itself goes into a little slot, and the mailman comes and picks it up later, but there's a mechanism inside it that drops a counterweight, and the flag goes up every time there's, like, the big red flag, just like pulls up on the side to indicate that the mail is there and it's it's so dumb, but it's weirdly endearing.

Ben Silverio 29:21

Have you ever seen the world's largest basket? It was the headquarters for a basket making company, and they abandoned it

Ansel Burch 29:28

not far from when I where I grew up. Yeah? And so

Ben Silverio 29:32

now you're telling me that someone, if someone wants to break that record, they have to make a larger basket, and it has to work as a basket, Yeah, apparently. But if it was a building, then isn't that actually functioning as a basket? Because you're supposed to hold things in it, right? Arguably,

Ansel Burch 29:47

I guess. I don't know what the rules are. I also don't know if the Lange burger headquarters is technically the world's largest basket, because it's not woven. They always called it the world's largest basket, but it's like. It's just a building that looks like a basket. I don't know if the Guinness records recognizes it as the world's largest basket.

Ben Silverio 30:06

Gotcha in fair. I mean, that's a whole other that's a whole other topic, but I really think that we should go back towards buildings that look like things. La used to have so many of these. That's

Ansel Burch 30:18

true. La used to have the, you know, building that looked like a coffee pot and the building that looked like a donut and, yeah, like the dinosaur of the one things, yes,

Ben Silverio 30:27

of the ones that remain. We still have the building that looks like a dog from the rocketeer at idle hour. We have the we have the

Matt Donato 30:38

idle hour also looks like a keg barrel. That idle hour is a keg barrel.

Ben Silverio 30:42

That's very true. And then you have tail of the pup, which is a hot dog stand in a hot dog. And then I forget where it is, but there's a building that's shaped like a tamale. Yeah. I mean, it used to be a tamale stand, until they closed down, which is unfortunate. What is it now? I think it's just sitting there. Oh, that's but they haven't knocked it down yet. So because they had, they had the Derby, which I believe you was a haberdashery, and then, and then it became a restaurant, yeah, yeah. And then now they took the brim off the hat and put the dome on top of the shopping center that's there. Now, interesting. Just we, we, we used to be a real society with buildings that look.

Ansel Burch 31:33

We used to be somebody,

Matt Donato 31:35

wow, wow, wow. Don't go to Vegas. You got your, you got your shapes there? Yeah, plenty of stuff. I mean, listen, you got

Ansel Burch 31:42

your sphere and your pyramid and your

Ben Silverio 31:48

art party people that does it for this month's installment of edutainment, hopefully you're taking away something very interesting, whether it's what to spend your money on physical media, what to drink next, uh, sake, or what to have for dinner, maybe shabu, shabu or, uh, if it, I mean, it's, if it's winter, while you're listening to this tsukiyaki, there you go. But hey, how eat whatever you want? You're an adult. Probably no one's stopping you. I'm an adult. We're not your dad. Yeah, I'm not stopping you from having, I don't know, six fruit by the foots for dinner.

Matt Donato 32:30

I mean, don't do that.

Ben Silverio 32:33

Hey, Matt, there's real fruit in them. You look.

Matt Donato 32:40

Head can't tilt any further.

Ben Silverio 32:47

Yes. Matt Donato, thank you so much for joining us this month. We loved river. We hope everyone will go out and watch it and then go listen to your commentary on the home release. Yeah,

Unknown Speaker 32:58

get it on the blue I would, I

Ansel Burch 32:59

would love that. That that kind of support. Again. It goes a lot for Hendy over there to a terror vision. It's, it's tough job, so, and we'll put a link to terror vision in the show notes as well. Share a terror dash vision.com.

Ben Silverio 33:15

Yes. And while we figure out how to bring Matt back to the show, as long as he didn't hate this,

Ansel Burch 33:20

that it's gonna be October.

Ben Silverio 33:23

Map, probably good bet. Um, yes, you can find us on the internet. I am at B cell, Vario 20 on Instagram, X blue sky letter box, etc.

Matt Donato 33:33

You can find me Matt Donato at Donato bomb on blue sky letter box and Instagram. And you can also find my podcast, certified forgotten. At certified forgot, anywhere you have a social media account, we talk about horror movies, the 10 LS, cryptic reviews on Rotten Tomatoes. So if you want some recommendations on movies you probably haven't heard of that. Certified

Ansel Burch 33:52

forgotten. And you can find me at the indecisionist on all of the meta properties, as well as blue sky, YouTube, all the other places that I can be bothered to be. Check out my other podcast for the time being, and my other work@indecisionist.com this has been an indecisionist production Special thanks to April moralbo for our podcast art and to Marlon longit of Marlon and the shakes for our amazing theme song. If you're

Ben Silverio 34:19

still on a social media platform that uses hashtags, feel free to use the hashtag time two party to join the conversation that is time the number two party

Ansel Burch 34:27

as well as time the number two party, all spelled out thanks to Warwick.

Ben Silverio 34:33

Matt Donato, always a pleasure hanging out my friend, looking forward to the next drinking, wrestling, debaucherous evening. You

Matt Donato 34:41

know a man as long as the travel schedule has been killing those plans, but I am ready for the wrestles and the drinks. Thank you so much for having me. I appreciate letting me show y'all River. Yeah,

Ben Silverio 34:50

yeah, and so party people while you go off and prepare to sail that river. We want to remind you to. Be excellent to each other already

Matt Donato 35:01

on dudes,

Ben Silverio 35:06

one last pop for Ansel at the other day you.