Transformers: The Movie (1986)
This podcast episode delves into the animated feature film "Transformers: The Movie," a significant entry in the Transformers franchise, released on August 8, 1986. We commence by acknowledging its historical relevance, particularly as it marks the final role of the esteemed actor Scatman Crothers during his lifetime, alongside the notable Orson Welles, who completed his dialogue mere days before his passing. The crux of our discussion centers on the film's narrative, which encapsulates the Autobots' struggle against the colossal planet-eating entity, Unicron, while simultaneously defending against an assault from the Decepticons. Throughout the episode, we reflect on the film's choppy storytelling and its reliance on nostalgia, which may render it less accessible to those unfamiliar with the broader Transformers universe. Ultimately, we offer our critical assessments, juxtaposing our personal experiences with the film against its cultural significance and legacy within the realm of animated cinema.
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Scatman Crothers.
Speaker A:It's his final role to be released in his lifetime.
Speaker A:There was one more film, Rock Odyssey that came out post his like post death, but this was the last one that came out while he was alive.
Speaker A:This movie's cursed as Dude, I wonder what killed him.
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Speaker A:We are in the final week of May for the animation month and we are doing the Transformers the movie.
Speaker A: ,: Speaker A:Excuse me.
Speaker A:It was written by Ron Friedman.
Speaker A:It was directed by Nelson Shin.
Speaker A:It stars.
Speaker A:Okay, gotta gear up because this is a big list.
Speaker A:It stars Orson Welles, Robert Stack, which it blows my mind still to this day.
Speaker A:Leonard Nimoy, Norman Alden, Jack Angel, Michael Ball, Greg Berger, Susan Blue, Corey Burton, Arthur Burghardt, Roger C. Carmel, Peter Cullen, of course.
Speaker A:And Paul Eiding.
Speaker A:I'm Just gonna stop there.
Speaker A:Except I gotta say, Scatman Crothers too, because he's the man.
Speaker A:Not.
Speaker A:You love him because he's most famous outside of his music for the Shining.
Speaker A:But yeah, we.
Speaker A:That cast is absolutely bonkers.
Speaker A:And it's about the Autobots who must stop a colossal planet consuming robot who goes after the Autobot Matrix of leadership.
Speaker A:At the same time, they must defend themselves against an allout attack from the Decepticons.
Speaker A:I feel like they told that in the wrong order, but I would say so.
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker A:Because it's kind of the other way and then the other way and then.
Speaker A:Yeah, but this is my movie, so I'll talk about it.
Speaker A:And I picked this one just because I wanted to be contrary.
Speaker A:Listen, there was a lot when.
Speaker A:And this is another one that there's.
Speaker A:There's some level of nostalgia for me, but I think this one is because I'm tired of everybody.
Speaker A:When I see Transformers, people think of the new movies that have come out.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:And don't get me wrong, the first one is funny and entertaining and I liked it.
Speaker A:After that, not so much.
Speaker A:But what I do find hilarious is so much of those movies came from this movie.
Speaker A:Especially after the first one.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:So the second one has the Matrix of leadership in it and Optimus getting smoked at the beginning, like right out the gate.
Speaker A:And then you have like the third one that's got.
Speaker A:I think it's the third one, maybe not the third one.
Speaker A:One of them has Unicron in it as well.
Speaker A:It was the fourth one, I don't know.
Speaker A:But so all of the elements that came.
Speaker A:And this was like one of those movies that when I was a kid and this came out and like this was the epitome of Transformers because it was daring too.
Speaker A:Because how many of these cartoon movies or cartoon shows would actually take out the most recognizable character that you have in the first 10 minutes of the movie?
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:Just doesn't happen.
Speaker A:Not in kids films, not in cartoons.
Speaker A:Like you didn't do that.
Speaker A:Not in the 80s anyway.
Speaker A:And so I really like that they did that.
Speaker A:And then the cast is outrageous and it really is an interesting story.
Speaker A:It's a little weird in the telling of it.
Speaker A:And the end drives me a little crazy because we're like, just happened.
Speaker A:Like we're done here now.
Speaker A:There's a reason for that, which I'm sure we'll talk about.
Speaker A:But that the ending still to this day kind of bothers the hell out of me.
Speaker A:But other than that, like, I kind of like it.
Speaker A:Had you seen this before?
Speaker B:No,.
Speaker A:I didn't figure.
Speaker B:And I was lost for almost all of it because I haven't.
Speaker B:I. I saw the first Transformers movie that came out with, like, Shiloh.
Speaker B:Didn't see any of the other ones.
Speaker A:Sure.
Speaker B:So Transformers has never really been on my radar.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:So I spent all this movie pretty much lost.
Speaker B:Like, I. I can understand names, right?
Speaker B:Like, sure.
Speaker B:Who Megatron is.
Speaker B:No, Optimus prime is.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker B:Of course I got that kind of lore going on.
Speaker B:But aside from that, was Unicron showing up, sucking people into, you know, void of space or whatever.
Speaker B:And so I. I spent a lot of this movie trying to play catch up.
Speaker B:I liked what I saw.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:For the most part.
Speaker B:But I also fell asleep at one point, had to rewatch it.
Speaker B:It's fair, because it was.
Speaker B:We're getting in this scene, right.
Speaker B:We began this month where I had a nostalgia pick, and now we're getting to the JJ nostalgia pics, and they're both just going right over.
Speaker B:The last two weeks.
Speaker A:Lost.
Speaker A:It's fair.
Speaker A:That's fair.
Speaker B:As a way to put it, but I enjoyed it for the most part.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:And the fact that I fell asleep was more due to the fact that I watched this like midnight rather than any kind of thing with the contents.
Speaker B:I just zoned out on my own.
Speaker B:But when I rewatched and went through it and watched it again, I was like, okay.
Speaker B:I had a little bit more knowledge base going in on the second rewatch to be like, ah, okay, wait, that's the dot that they're trying to make me connect or trying to help me out or.
Speaker B:This makes more sense here.
Speaker B:I understand this.
Speaker B:This goes there.
Speaker B:And I was able to put it together a little better.
Speaker B:So the fact that I fell asleep actually helped me understand this, which usually doesn't happen, but I enjoyed was.
Speaker B:It was.
Speaker B:Didn't have a tie to it necessarily for any of that nostalgia reason, or.
Speaker B:I didn't grow up playing with Transformers, being absorbed in the Transformer world, but being able to watch through.
Speaker B:I'm like, hey, this is cute.
Speaker B:It's good.
Speaker B:I enjoyed it.
Speaker B:I. I definitely liked it better than last week's pick, let's put it that way.
Speaker B:That's fair.
Speaker B:That's fair.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:I think it's one of those things that, like, on the flip side, too, like, I think it gets more credit than it actually deserves, because it really was when I was.
Speaker A:When I was a kid, like, one of my favorite cartoons, like the recurring TV series cartoons, was the Transform Transformers.
Speaker A:Like, it was Amazing.
Speaker A:It was really good.
Speaker A:It was fun.
Speaker A:It was entertaining.
Speaker A:Like, it's one of.
Speaker A:Still one of the most more popular ones from that.
Speaker A:That era.
Speaker A:And this one was like, it was a reach.
Speaker A: So when they did this in: Speaker A:And I mean, it's all of, like, just barely over an hour.
Speaker A:It's not even like it's that long.
Speaker A:But to your credit, like, if you hadn't watched the cartoon and you weren't familiar with this Transformers universe, you can't just jump into this movie and understand what's going on, because you're like, well, how the hell did they set up a base on the moon?
Speaker A:And how the hell did they have, like, two different bases?
Speaker A:And how the hell.
Speaker A:Like, everything's so integrated by the point that we got to here because of the Saturday morning cartoon.
Speaker A:And this was back in the age when we didn't.
Speaker A:Filmmakers didn't give a.
Speaker A:If you hadn't seen that, that's your fault.
Speaker A:Go watch the cartoon.
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker A:And so it wasn't you probably.
Speaker A:Exactly.
Speaker A:And that.
Speaker A:But that's the way it was.
Speaker A:There used to be a time when we would be like, you didn't see the one before this.
Speaker A:That's your fault.
Speaker A:Now every movie has to be made to be a standalone film, even if it's the 16th in the goddamn series.
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker A:So this is not a movie if you.
Speaker A:For.
Speaker A:If you aren't aware of the Transformer universe.
Speaker A:Universe at all.
Speaker A:And I kind of giggled as I picked this because I was like, I guarantee Alec knows not about what's going on.
Speaker A:So he's gonna be like, wait, Optimus Prime's dead.
Speaker A:Like, what the do we do now?
Speaker A:He's the only reason anybody watches this, right?
Speaker A:Wait, every.
Speaker A:Like, even Megatron's got some issues like, what the is going on?
Speaker A:So it's like, it's one of those things where I was interested to see how it would play out for someone that had no familiarity whatsoever.
Speaker A:Sure.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:And.
Speaker A:But I love that you're like, but I kind of liked it.
Speaker A:You know what I mean?
Speaker A:If I.
Speaker A:And especially you probably love it if you knew what the hell was going on.
Speaker A:But even I get lost.
Speaker A:Like, I watched every single episode of Transformers.
Speaker A:Everyone the animate this.
Speaker A:This.
Speaker A:The original animated TV series, every single one.
Speaker A:And even I come back to it 30 years later and go.
Speaker A:And probably more like 35, 37 years later, and go, I have no idea how we got here.
Speaker A:I just know that there is some really Fun action.
Speaker A:Like there's.
Speaker A:And it's so goofy too because like the noises that are making like the explosive noises and stuff, it's so Saturday morning cartoons from the 80s.
Speaker A:And I love that they just embraced that and said, we're just gonna make basically five episode, four episodes of this show together, all together to kind of round out where we were at.
Speaker A:And you get this next.
Speaker A:And the idea was you get the next iteration of the Transformers, because right after this movie, a few years later, they made the next piece of the series and it was redone.
Speaker A:It was a little more 3D, things like that.
Speaker A:And.
Speaker A:But this was.
Speaker A:The idea was, well, we got to move on from Optimus Prime.
Speaker A:You got Peter Cullen that doesn't want to do this for a rest of his life.
Speaker A:Haha.
Speaker A:Jokes on him.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:But it's like.
Speaker A:Yeah, so it was just one of those things that.
Speaker A:But this is still applauded as like one of the better animated movies ever made.
Speaker A:When you get down to it from like a movie perspective.
Speaker A:Not from like an in general because nobody's going to compare to like Prime Disney or.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker A:Prime Fox, but like from a standalone.
Speaker A:Like, oh, we're going to make this movie about this animated TV series that's been out for 25, 30.
Speaker A:You know, I think it was like 10 years at that point.
Speaker A:But anyway, it's great, you know, and like I said, they steal.
Speaker A:Even the line like in the beginning when he's like, one shall stand, one shall fall.
Speaker A:Like, that's a.
Speaker A:It comes directly out of the movie that they then used it in when they made the live action version.
Speaker A:Like prime literally says that at the end of the movie, one shall stand, one shall fall.
Speaker A:Like, it's just like Jesus.
Speaker A:So they stole from this movie quite a bit to make those new movies.
Speaker A:But considering who made those, it's not a shock.
Speaker B:Yeah, right.
Speaker B:Anywho, so I like what you said about the.
Speaker B:It felt like essentially what it is.
Speaker B:Did five episodes.
Speaker B:Yeah, because that explains a lot of the weird almost cuts that you like.
Speaker B:How did we end up here?
Speaker B:Because it does jump around quite a bit because you're operating really in like different theaters.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker B:And so they're jumping back and forth, which that's any Saturday morning cartoon is there's not really a through line or linear output to where you're going.
Speaker B:It's.
Speaker B:We're telling a 10 to 20 minute block of time and then next time around we're telling a different 10 to 20 minute block of time.
Speaker B:And so you get these jumps back and forth that on the first time I was watching, I was kind of, like, having trouble following along.
Speaker B:But now that you're bringing it up, like, oh, it's just essentially what it is.
Speaker B:They just made episodes and stuck them together.
Speaker B:It makes a lot more sense of what they were doing.
Speaker B:What they're trying to accomplish is you're telling many stories throughout the episode.
Speaker B:You're just changing the location in certain areas.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:Because I'll tell you, it threw me for a loop when you get the shuttle scene happening.
Speaker B:And I was like, huh?
Speaker B:Because I'm like, I thought we were on the moon.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:Then all of a sudden, we're changing the area, changing where everything's going, making these adjustments.
Speaker B:But, you know, if you're dealing with a small attention span, it flows probably a lot better.
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah, I'm with you.
Speaker A:Like, you can tell it was pieced together.
Speaker A:And I'll be honest, it's funny because at the time when it came out, this was not praised as a great movie.
Speaker A:Like, people didn't love it.
Speaker A:And now it's.
Speaker A:It's, you know, the nostalgia piece and everything else has come back.
Speaker A:And then the, you know, the re.
Speaker A:Popularity of Transformers, not that I think it ever really died altogether, but just.
Speaker B:Went to the back corner for a little.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:And.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:And listen, like, most of the.
Speaker A:When you think of, like, historical cartoons that are based on toys first, because that's what start Transformers of toys first.
Speaker A:Like, that becomes a very weird.
Speaker A:Because, like, where do you come up with that story?
Speaker A:Like, where does that.
Speaker A:How do you take a bunch of toys and make it interesting for kids to watch?
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:And so it's just very weird as far as how that came about.
Speaker A:But, yeah, it's the other thing to get that I do on this movie about is the music.
Speaker A:It's terrible.
Speaker B:It's straight 80s.
Speaker A:It's a.
Speaker A:And it's not even good 80s.
Speaker A:Like, it's like it's bad 80s.
Speaker A:I think the only.
Speaker A:Like, I think that most of the music was from a band called Kick Axe.
Speaker A:And so they.
Speaker A:And here's the worst part is they made them change their name for this soundtrack.
Speaker A:So their name.
Speaker A:Their band name was Kick Ax, but they listed them in the soundtrack as Spectre General because it was.
Speaker A:They felt Kick Ax was too aggressive and threatening, and they never told the band about it.
Speaker A:They just changed it.
Speaker A:So when you see on the credits, like, Spectre General, music by Spectre General, it's actually a band called Kick Ax.
Speaker A:And I think they only did, like, two songs but was hilarious.
Speaker A:This movie's also a doom.
Speaker A:Like a cursed movie.
Speaker A:So this was Orson Welles final role.
Speaker B:Oh, poor Orson Welles.
Speaker A:He completed his dialogue for it five days before he died.
Speaker A:Scatman Crothers.
Speaker A:It's his final role to be released in his lifetime.
Speaker A:There was one more film, Rock Odyssey, that came out post his like post death, but this was the last one that came out while he was alive.
Speaker A:This movie's cursed as.
Speaker B:I wonder what killed him.
Speaker A:Oh, it's hilarious.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:And then on the last final curse piece of this is the negatives for like the, the matted widescreen version.
Speaker A:So like the theatrical version of the film were either lost or destroyed.
Speaker A:And so for a long time only the VHS full screen version of the remove the movie remained.
Speaker A:And it took a.
Speaker A:A school, some filming school, film making school in Winston, Winston Salem.
Speaker A:They carry a print of the movie that was assembled from different reels of other prints of the movie that were found in an arc in that school's archives.
Speaker A:So they pieced together the print that's in good condition.
Speaker A:So like that what the widescreen version of this movie was achieved by matting down different chunks from the original full screen animation and essentially basically cutting off the top and bottom.
Speaker A:Like it's not the true.
Speaker B:See.
Speaker B:So at this point, why don't we have GTA 6 if they can, right?
Speaker A:No shit, dude.
Speaker A:I can take a VHS shitty version of a film, chop off the top and bottom and actually make it widescreen.
Speaker A:But you can't finish a video game in 10 years.
Speaker A:Get the out.
Speaker B:Where there's a will, there's a way.
Speaker B:Someone was really committed to this transition.
Speaker A:No.
Speaker A:Oh God, it's great.
Speaker A:And then I wonder too, like, and funny enough, like, so Leonard Nimoy is in this film as, as Unicron, I think Unicron.
Speaker A:No, Orson Welles did Unicron.
Speaker A:Who was.
Speaker B:I'd help, but I don't remember anybody's name.
Speaker A:He's the.
Speaker A:Yeah, Galvatron.
Speaker A:So he played Galvatron.
Speaker A:But then he.
Speaker A:They brought him back.
Speaker A:They brought him in for one of the live action films, but he didn't play Galvatron.
Speaker A:He played some other autobot turned against them.
Speaker A:So but they brought him in.
Speaker A:I was like, that's clever.
Speaker A:But it just was ironic when everybody was freaking out.
Speaker A:Leonard Nimoy.
Speaker A:Leonard Nimoy, Orson Welles.
Speaker A:All these voices that came in to do this and I think that's what got people to go see it too was like the different voices.
Speaker A:And by then Peter Cullen was just Peter Cullen.
Speaker A:Because he'd been, you know, Optimus prime for years.
Speaker A:But anyway, this is getting away from that.
Speaker A:This is, this, this right here is the problem with my, the, my last two picks.
Speaker A:And that is there's very little substance to these movies.
Speaker A:So I have to talk about trivia and explosions.
Speaker A:Explosions with weird bloop sounds instead of, you know, the sounds in this movie are hilarious.
Speaker A:You can tell that they toned it down a lot to make it more ear friendly.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:So, so the kids aren't watching it like, you know.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Oh, no.
Speaker A:It's so loud.
Speaker B:Yeah, exactly.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:Nowadays it's them kids.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:No, we need noisy explosions.
Speaker A:That, and the kids want that most of the time nowadays they're like, I love it.
Speaker A:We're.
Speaker A:Everybody's got surround sound.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:I watch this out of a wood framed goddamn tube television with a dial on it.
Speaker A:The audio sounded like.
Speaker A:Because it came out of one little corner at the top of the tv.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:It's a real close.
Speaker B:But if you got close enough to hear, you couldn't see the picture.
Speaker A:Exactly.
Speaker A:Or my mom's.
Speaker A:You gotta go blind.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Oh.
Speaker A:This might be our shortest episode ever, but you ready to rate it?
Speaker B:Let's do it.
Speaker A:Look, this movie sucks.
Speaker A:It's a one and a half.
Speaker A:It's really not that good.
Speaker A:Unless you love Transformers, which I do.
Speaker A:I love the Transformers.
Speaker A:I'll watch anything.
Speaker A:Transformers, it's a problem.
Speaker A:But this movie's really not that great.
Speaker A:It's choppy, it's weird.
Speaker A:The story, while interesting, I guess in its little pieces, has no true Thor line, in my opinion, which we've talked a lot about over the last couple months, that, like movies without a through line drive me crazy.
Speaker A:And this one has no, like, it's too.
Speaker A:You, you mentioned it.
Speaker A:It's too separated.
Speaker A:It's too clunky.
Speaker A:Because again, I really, truly believe it was designed using proofs of old episodes that never made it.
Speaker A:And they're like, oh, we can do this movie and it'll kick off the next phase of Transformers or whatever.
Speaker A:Nobody's ever come out and said that.
Speaker A:But I, I, there's no other way that makes sense.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:If you read between the lines.
Speaker A:No.
Speaker A:So, but yeah, listen.
Speaker A:One and a half.
Speaker A:It's not very good.
Speaker A:It's fun to listen to the voices.
Speaker A:It's great.
Speaker A:And it's nostalgia.
Speaker A:But as a movie in general, if you can make a movie in an hour, you're probably doing it wrong.
Speaker A:I, you know what I mean?
Speaker A:Like, there's something missing.
Speaker A:I'm, I'M not a fan of like four hour movies, but I'm also not a fan of one hour movies that are animated.
Speaker A:So anyway, I will probably never watch this.
Speaker A:I hadn't seen this movie in a very long time and I probably would never watch it again.
Speaker A:If I wanted to watch Transformers, I'm probably gonna go back and watch episodes of the Animated show, not this movie, because they were better.
Speaker A:So there you go.
Speaker A:Alec, what about you, buddy?
Speaker B:I'll give it a 2.
Speaker A:It.
Speaker B:I would rather watch this than what we watched last week.
Speaker B:100 Fair.
Speaker B:If I can avoid last week's movie, I will.
Speaker B:Transformers on repeat, please.
Speaker B:That.
Speaker B:That's how much I hated last week's movie.
Speaker A:Sure.
Speaker B:But it.
Speaker B:Yeah, there's.
Speaker B:There's very little substance to it, but it makes really good background noise or really good put me to sleep feel.
Speaker B:So like you're looking for something to put on that you're gonna fall asleep, that's not gonna wake you up with loud explosions.
Speaker B:There you go.
Speaker B:The little bloops, bloop, bloop.
Speaker B:Little trickle down explosions to get you going.
Speaker B:But I mean, it's a.
Speaker B:It's a Transformers movie.
Speaker B:I don't think a lot of them have substance to begin with.
Speaker B:That's not what they're designed for.
Speaker B:Like you were saying, they're based off of a toy.
Speaker B:The story didn't come first, the toy came first.
Speaker B:So really, anything Transformers related is like, even though they've added a lot of story and lore to it, you're still getting like, surface level.
Speaker B:It's giant robots.
Speaker B:You don't need anything deeper than that.
Speaker B:That's what you get.
Speaker B:That's what you're paying for.
Speaker B:That's what you're coming for.
Speaker B:That's why you're watching.
Speaker B:Is giant robots.
Speaker A:Yep.
Speaker B:So, you know, not much to expect.
Speaker B:Not no hidden theme or message or, you know, Megatron saying, I'm not bad.
Speaker B:I was just drawn to be bad.
Speaker B:Like, you know, I need any of that going.
Speaker B:So it's a two for me.
Speaker B:But I don't see myself ever watching today ever again.
Speaker A:There's our cold open, my friend.
Speaker A:That was fantastic.
Speaker A:I want to use Starscream.
Speaker A:Do it.
Speaker A:Oh, I wasn't bad.
Speaker A:I'm not bad.
Speaker A:I was just drawing that way, dude.
Speaker A:That'd be great anyway.
Speaker A:Oh, there it is.
Speaker A:Well, Alec, tell everybody where you can find us when we're not trying to defend six planets at once.
Speaker B:Happy to best places on YouTube where you see our faces while we discuss movies, talk and, you know, the cringe Back and forth.
Speaker B:But aside from YouTube, the best place to get involved with us is on Patreon at what's our verdict?
Speaker B:Reviews.
Speaker B:That's where we have all our votes happening for free.
Speaker B:Go vote for my movies, not JJ's.
Speaker A:I'm losing.
Speaker B:So Patreon's best place to get involved with the content creation.
Speaker B:We're having votes go up.
Speaker B:I'm doing more with voting content.
Speaker B:Anything that I can get my hands on to put out on Patreon to make it more of a landing pad behind a teeny little bit of paywall is up to.
Speaker B:I think we're up to like 700 plus different episodes, videos, content, everything from bloopers all the way up to full length movies that nobody should watch.
Speaker B:But we did for you.
Speaker B:Pink Flamingos.
Speaker B:Anybody that is behind a little bit of paywall.
Speaker B:But to vote is absolutely free and there's bragging rights involved.
Speaker B:So go vote my movies, not JJ's.
Speaker A:Remember,.
Speaker B:A special shout out to our current patrons, Rich and CB you guys are amazing.
Speaker B:Keep doing what you're doing.
Speaker B:Appreciate all your engagement in action and don't forget W. GG code our verdict to get 10 off of your WGG powder.
Speaker B:With that, I'll kick it back to the wazir of wap.
Speaker B:Not that wap.
Speaker B:The mauling Monarch.
Speaker B:A JJ.
Speaker A:Will always make me laugh.
Speaker A:Yeah, thanks, Alec.
Speaker A:There it is.
Speaker A:That's the end of our month of May.
Speaker A:We'll see you in June for a Alex torturous month and regardless of which ones win.
Speaker B:Yeah, but there's no winning this month.
Speaker A:Yeah, June sucks for Alec.
Speaker B:I didn't know this until I started looking into it more.
Speaker B:It's five week month.
Speaker A:Yep.
Speaker A:How?
Speaker A:Yeah, it's gonna be rough.
Speaker A:Listen, I don't like dolls either, so that one's gonna be rough on me too.
Speaker A:But not nearly as rough on you as it will be on you, so.
Speaker A:But yeah, there it is.
Speaker A:As always, we appreciate you tuning in.
Speaker A:We'll catch you on the next one.
Speaker B:Hasta la vista, baby.
Speaker A:Cinematic sat.
