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[0:04] Kevin: Did you bring wine?

[0:05] Bryan: I got the glasses.

[0:06] Kimberly: You guys, I made a quiz.

[0:08] aaron j albano: I didn't bring anything, but I'm here to have fun.

[0:20] Bryan: Hello, and welcome to the official Broadwaysted Podcast.

[0:24] We're drunk on theater.

[0:25] I'm your host, Bryan Plopski.

[0:27] And when you believe that all I ever wanted without question was, and trust me, the wonders of the world.

[0:34] Sure, we're the queen of cities, but it's tough to be a god, though we are playing with the big boys in El Dorado.

[0:41] Whatever roads at your feet, go to the marketplace, not the brig.

[0:44] And as a 16th-century man, bloom.

[0:48] Someday out of the blue, if you deliver us through heaven's eyes and sing a river lullaby, then the trail we blaze will bring out the panic in me.

[0:56] Joining us today are the usual friends that never say goodbye as my heart dances to the plagues, including Kevin, Miracle Child Jager.

[1:16] Kevin: Yes.

[1:17] Bryan: That's what I've been saying forever.

[1:20] Kimberly: And Kimberly, our better-than-I game master and unofficial babysitter for the hour.

[1:26] Yes, I'm better.

[1:30] Bryan: And with us today are two of our favorite guests and people.

[1:35] One you know from shows like Hairspray, Hello Dolly, Wicked, Chaplin, and Something Rotten.

[1:40] The other keeps figuring out our Zoom login, so it is what it is.

[1:45] No, you know him from Bombay Dreams and only Bombay Dreams.

[1:49] Maybe Newsies, too.

[1:52] Meow.

[1:52] Let's give a big Broadwaysted welcome to friends of the show, Hayley podschun and Aaron J Albano.

[2:05] aaron j albano: Y'all ready for this?

[2:06] Bryan: Welcome.

[2:08] Hayley podschun: Thank you.

[2:11] Bryan: Just to get this out of the way, guys, if you're watching, you can always comment and they'll pop up on our screen so we can see what you said.

[2:18] And just so Adina knows, I am absolutely wearing a—it's actually a cardigan and a tie with no shirt because I feel like I'm looking forward in fashion and I just can't be stopped being a fashionista.

[2:29] Kevin: That's right.

[2:30] Bryan: Yeah, stop the beat.

[2:31] Yeah, it's the red carpet.

[2:33] We're here to celebrate these DreamWorks animated films.

[2:36] Hayley podschun: Yeah.

[2:37] Bryan: We should have dressed like 1999 red carpet.

[2:40] Kevin: Oh.

[2:41] Hayley podschun: Or we should have just dressed like the characters in these films, which would have been our bed sheets.

[2:46] Bryan: Absolutely.

[2:51] Kimberly: Um, well on that note, what are you drinking?

[2:58] Kevin: What are you drinking?

[2:59] Bryan: Kevin, let's start with you.

[3:01] Kevin: Uh, I am drinking a red wine Rioja from this really good because it has a screw cap, so it was just easy to get into.

[3:14] Um, I ordered ramen from the place across the street from me tonight and was frantic and trying to eat it before we went live.

[3:22] Uh, and because in New York City, certain restaurants are open, you can get booze to go.

[3:26] So I got some sake to go.

[3:30] I was nervous you would be like, I spiked my ramen with sake.

[3:35] This is what the sake comes in, so I get to keep it after.

[3:39] aaron j albano: Oh cool.

[3:40] Bryan: Oh, I'm sake to me, right?

[3:43] Kevin: Sorry?

[3:44] aaron j albano: There's like a sake to me joke somewhere.

[3:46] Kevin: Yeah.

[3:48] Hayley podschun: Yes, cucumber and lime seltzer.

[3:50] Bryan: Oh, that's I have a gin and tonic.

[3:56] Kevin: Yeah.

[3:57] aaron j albano: Um, I'm drinking a—what am I drinking?

[4:01] Uh, gnarly head pinot noir.

[4:03] Bryan: Oh, that's cool.

[4:04] aaron j albano: Oh, I like that label.

[4:06] Really, really good.

[4:07] Yeah, I was quite surprised.

[4:08] I have it left over from watching Ratatouille two hours ago, and so I love it.

[4:14] Bryan: Um, I'm drinking the Tanteo tequila on the rocks with a hint of lime, and it's in my Wicked cup because I figure we're doing a prequel today, so why not bust out the prequel?

[4:24] Kevin: Yes, um, yes, also true.

[4:33] Bryan: Um, so let's get right into it.

[4:36] Um, you know, today we are talking the DreamWorks animated movies.

[4:42] Um, so we—hi, Jay.

[4:44] Um, we're doing the DreamWorks animated movies.

[4:47] That was our homework this week.

[4:48] Uh, we watched it in chronological order.

[4:52] We watched um, The Prince of Egypt from 1998.

[4:55] Um, we watched um, Joseph: King of Dreams, which is from 2000, and also from 2000 is The Road to El Dorado.

[5:05] Kevin: Oh, chronological like release date, not like how they occurred.

[5:10] Bryan: No, no, no, no, no.

[5:11] And I think that's how we'll talk about them.

[5:13] So we'll open with The Prince of Egypt.

[5:15] We'll talk a little prequel work.

[5:17] Uh, and oh, we lost—did Kevin go away?

[5:20] Kevin: Kevin quit.

[5:21] Bryan: Yeah, he was like, I refuse to listen to it in that order.

[5:25] Um, and then we'll talk about The Road to El Dorado.

[5:31] Um, but let's—oh, welcome back.

[5:33] Kevin: I'm trying to figure out how to live comments and I by mistake signed myself out.

[5:40] Bryan: We thought you were upset that that's the order we were talking about.

[5:44] Kevin: I quit the play.

[5:47] Bryan: Um, so let's get started.

[5:49] Let's talk The Prince of Egypt from 1998.

[5:51] Um, animated.

[5:52] Um, let's just straight up start with what is your relationship with this movie.

[5:57] We'll go around, Kimberly.

[5:58] Kimberly: Let's start with you.

[5:59] Sure.

[6:00] So it came out when I was a youth.

[6:03] I remember wanting to do it in a talent show, but I did something else for some reason.

[6:12] But I remember standing backstage.

[6:14] Bryan: When was this, '98?

[6:16] Kimberly: Yes.

[6:17] Great.

[6:18] So I would have been doing my star turn as Lucy in You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown at Chesterfield Elementary School.

[6:23] Bryan: Well, it was released in December of 1998, so this maybe would have been a '99 situation for you.

[6:29] Kimberly: So yeah, so that would be my Charlie Brown year.

[6:31] Great.

[6:32] Um, so I think I was like singing it backstage, and I was very into it.

[6:37] Loved a musical.

[6:39] Um, my mom has a really big crush on Val Kilmer, so it was a good movie choice for her to have around.

[6:45] aaron j albano: Sure.

[6:46] Kimberly: Moses and God.

[6:48] Crazy.

[6:50] Yeah, they were trying to figure out a way to do God in a way that's never done before, and they decided to go with the voice you hear inside of your head, so they used the same actor to kind of do the voice there.

[7:00] aaron j albano: Was that the reason?

[7:02] Kimberly: Yeah, yeah, that's what Wikipedia says.

[7:05] aaron j albano: I did no research further than reading Wikipedia.

[7:08] Kimberly: Oh, sorry.

[7:09] aaron j albano: I only watched the movie and looked kind of at IMDB.

[7:13] Kimberly: Great.

[7:13] aaron j albano: Um, but I hadn't watched it in a long time until today.

[7:17] Bryan: Cool.

[7:17] Aaron, what's your relationship with The Prince of Egypt?

[7:20] aaron j albano: Um, I remember watching it in the movie theater, I believe.

[7:23] I think—what, '98?

[7:25] Oh gosh.

[7:26] This means I was a freshman in high school.

[7:29] Kimberly: College, I see.

[7:30] aaron j albano: Yeah, graduating.

[7:32] I was actually buying my first house at 30 years old.

[7:38] Kimberly: That's about right.

[7:39] aaron j albano: I feel like I—because I remember it being the other option to the Disney movies.

[7:46] So it was one of those like, oh, this looks new.

[7:50] This looks exciting.

[7:50] Oh, and there's like a boy I want song.

[7:54] Let's go and see how it goes.

[7:55] On top of the fact that Whitney and Mariah were all over the radio.

[8:00] Oh, and so that was a—if there was any good press to come out of them singing that song, it was to get you to want to watch the movie.

[8:10] Um, yeah, I think outside of that, have you watched it recently aside from this time?

[8:17] Kimberly: Say again.

[8:18] aaron j albano: When was the last time you watched it before this?

[8:20] aaron j albano: I want to say it was then.

[8:21] I want to say I haven't watched it again since.

[8:26] I mean, and of course, like any good Christian boy, it was like, ooh, Bible musical, let's go watch it.

[8:31] Kimberly: Sure.

[8:33] Bryan: Haley?

[8:36] Hayley podschun: Sorry, I have to unmute myself because Maisie was barking.

[8:39] Um, I didn't really figure out when this movie came out, but you said '99.

[8:46] So I was working on Broadway when this came out.

[8:49] So um, I never remember this coming out.

[8:56] I feel like it was a movie that I completely missed in my childhood.

[9:01] Um, I feel like every boy who's in musical theater is obsessed with this film, and after watching it, um, I have a lot of questions about only their love for it, but those boys in general.

[9:17] Bryan: Sure, sure.

[9:19] Hayley podschun: So this was my first time ever being introduced to it and experiencing it.

[9:25] Bryan: Kevin?

[9:26] Kevin: Um, I never saw the movie.

[9:28] I didn't really know much about it happening.

[9:30] I just knew the Mariah and Whitney cover.

[9:33] And a friend of mine spent like an entire evening going over how it's so fascinating that it's a song all about like believing in each other, but like by the end, they're literally just competing to see who can riff better.

[9:45] And so it's really amazing from a performance perspective.

[9:49] So we like wrote this whole thesis that we were gonna present in class that we never did.

[9:54] That we were like, this is brilliant because like they are like thinking about how you better if you believe, but they're literally fighting to riff better, and you can hear them almost getting angry for so that was just my understanding.

[10:07] There's also this like YouTube video, and please, if anybody can find it, send me the link because I—there's this interview that Whitney does where she is throwing complete shade at Mariah, where she's like talking about like the riffs, what riffs are versus what runs are.

[10:24] aaron j albano: Yeah, I can't find it at all.

[10:27] Kevin: Oh, I tried to find it.

[10:29] That's why I literally pictured whatever, like I want to see like two drag queens do this song, but like do it where they're like trying to murder each other while they're singing.

[10:39] Like it's so right for it with if you listen to the actual voices and the intention.

[10:45] Bryan: So let's—so my experience with this is I'm on the same page as Hayley and Kevin.

[10:51] I never saw it; I saw it for the first time this weekend.

[10:54] I will say I thought I saw it.

[10:56] No, I thought I saw it because of the music video.

[11:00] What did you say?

[11:01] Kevin: Like as a Passover tale?

[11:03] Bryan: No, Rugrats Passover 100% all the time.

[11:07] Oh my god.

[11:09] Bryan: I mean, this is no Rugrats Passover, but we'll get into that.

[11:14] Um, I thought I saw it because I'd seen the music video, the Mariah version and Whitney version.

[11:21] Um, but I just had never seen it.

[11:23] Um, also you—when you know the story, you kind of can like almost fill in your own blanks of what it is.

[11:28] So I convinced myself I'd seen it.

[11:30] I definitely didn't see it.

[11:32] Um, but let's—let's go around, let's do like just your overall thoughts, and then we'll kind of dig down a little deeper into it.

[11:38] Um, your high-level thoughts, yes.

[11:42] Aaron, uh, let's start with you.

[11:46] aaron j albano: I remember—okay, so watching it now was definitely an experience.

[11:53] Sure.

[11:54] I will say, like, watching—well, firstly, I don't—and we texted about it a little bit, but the disclaimer at the beginning, yes, where they're like, just so you know, this might not be exactly what you read in the Bible, but what you find in the Bible is in Exodus.

[12:12] So go read it if you want to.

[12:14] Um, yeah, but they're like, you know, tone-wise, we think it matches.

[12:18] They're like, we think that this artistically is telling the story that the Bible tells.

[12:22] So have fun.

[12:24] Kimberly: Those are jarring.

[12:25] aaron j albano: I don't remember those from like popping the VHS in as a kid.

[12:30] It's like you were watching a documentary animated, and they were like, We've tried to do the best animated documentary we can have—things have been changed for privacy.

[12:41] Kimberly: Yeah, yeah.

[12:42] aaron j albano: Which I feel like had that like disclaimer not—

[12:48] Kimberly: You guys disagree?

[12:50] aaron j albano: Had that disclaimer not happened, I would have probably enjoyed it a little more because once that disclaimer happened, all I could watch were the differences in what I knew of the story versus what they were telling me.

[13:06] Kimberly: See, I felt that way too.

[13:08] aaron j albano: I felt like I was like honing in on the things that they changed, and I would have gone, whoa, whoa, whoa, you're saying that Ramses and Moses didn't have a chariot race up a scaffolding and knock a nose off?

[13:20] Kimberly: That's in the Bible.

[13:23] aaron j albano: But that's—I just—I feel like people most of the times going to the theater, like respect that like what we're seeing is like a movie.

[13:31] So, like, of course, you're gonna add like a love interest or add this or that just to make it more of like what we all came to see, like that's why I came to see a movie.

[13:41] Kimberly: Yeah, it was just one of those things that like it definitely like I feel like it should have shown a spotlight on like, hey, this isn't gonna be what you know, and then instead of being able to just let it go, it almost made me focus on it more, which was interesting.

[14:00] Bryan: I think what it really did was this film to me, like if I can hop in with just what my like top thoughts are.

[14:05] I thought I had a lot of time with it.

[14:07] aaron j albano: High level, high level thoughts.

[14:09] Bryan: Sorry, my top thoughts.

[14:10] I don't have a top one, so I don't have thoughts.

[14:14] Bryan: So I think that this movie took itself incredibly seriously.

[14:21] aaron j albano: Okay.

[14:22] Bryan: Very, very serious.

[14:23] aaron j albano: And I think that that like thing at the beginning we were just talking about is like a real sign of like, oh, here we go.

[14:31] aaron j albano: Because I think that even shows how serious they took the creation of the film that they like wanted to make sure they didn't offend anybody from the beginning.

[14:38] Bryan: So like you're almost apologizing for your product before you even like let it be out there.

[14:43] aaron j albano: Yeah.

[14:43] Bryan: So like I felt like because they were that like serious and grave about what they were doing, like I wish this movie had a little bit more like life to it, but like I still enjoyed it.

[14:54] aaron j albano: I thought it was like a decent dramatization, and I could see the music is fun enough that I was like, oh, I can see this as like a rock and stage show. Because I also love, I also loved the like I thought without the disclaimer, it was a pretty good translation of the story. Granted, you have to make choices and whatever, whatever, whatever. Like, like the way they, one of my favorite parts of the movie, granted you have to know the plagues, like all 10 of them, but yeah, the sequence of the plagues, I think is really strong. So I think that's one of the strengths of this film in general is the visual storytelling. Um, everything from the, um, uh, um, Moses coming back and telling them about the bush, and like that all happens from afar.

It almost feels like it was a stage, like there's a lot of animation without voice work, um, and montage at the beginning, middle, and end that really do a great job of visual storytelling. Um, that was something I wrote down in my notes. That's something that the movie does definitely well. Um, Kimberly, um, your thoughts, uh, your high level thoughts.

[15:59] Kimberly: High level thoughts. Um, it was a little slower than I remembered. Sure. Like the pacing of the songs as well as the pacing of the story. I also, in re-watching, this is sort of a high level thought for all of these DreamWorks movies, that they love a song that is sung internally. Yes, yes, yes, yes, and I did not like that. I did how that's happening. I just wanted Moses and Ramesses to sing to each other, and not just like scare while the song happens in the background. Sure, like especially like all I ever wanted, and I mean, and this goes with Joseph, too. I'm literally like, hey, how about you let your main character sing their own I Want song? Yes, Hercules gets to sing I can go the distance.

I'd be way more, yeah, I was like, let them sing why we're supposed to root for them instead of like doing it being this like drink instead of like a music video, yeah. I think we could definitely talk about that when it comes to El Dorado and just like wanting to be in there, but like I this the diegetic versus non-diegetic, just gotta say it, and uh how it's uh working in this one is definitely kind of inconsistent.

[17:19] Hayley podschun: Um, your thoughts on the first time watching it high level. Um, I had heard it was a religious movie, but I didn't really know it was religious, and then I as I'm watching it, I'm like, oh no, this is where we're going, and I immediately shut off. Like I wrote notes because I needed to talk about something. But um, well, these are for three all three of the movies. But uh mostly live audience. I mean, should I read a few of my thoughts?

[18:01] Bryan: Yeah, absolutely.

[18:04] Hayley podschun: A burning bush talks to him, no blood in the sea, no thanks. Creepy. Uh everyone is really taking their time crossing that parted sea.

[18:19] aaron j albano: I think that too.

[18:21] Hayley podschun: I was like, I would be like pushing in front of the, yeah, so casual. But how do you fail? They probably knew they'd be dessert, they'd be walking to the desert 40 years, they were saving their energy. Because when Aladdin did it, when Aladdin did in the Prince of Thieves, they all booked it through.

[18:39] aaron j albano: Like I thought about that too.

[18:42] Kimberly: I just love that Hayley has issues with the book of Exodus rather than the Prince of Egypt. She's like, it was fine. I wasn't into the source material.

[18:53] Hayley podschun: No, I'm not. I am a spiritual person, I am not a religious person. Um unfollow me now if you want to, that's fine. Um I just, I couldn't do it.

[19:08] Bryan: Well, I think that that's one thing that I also found while watching this movie is Kevin brought it up before, it took itself so seriously. And when you have Martin Short and Steve Martin as your comic relief, and they don't do anything remotely enjoyable. I'm just like, why did you pay them to be in this movie? Those could have been like you just paid them for name. There was no none of the comic relief worked for me in this at all.

[19:35] Kevin: And it wasn't like they come in panic from Hercules, but they couldn't be cool enough.

[19:40] Hayley podschun: No, absolutely. It was just, it really felt all bogged down. It was just like sad Jews after sad Jews after sad Jews. And I just like I needed some like funny Egyptians in there. And plus, like my name's my namesake, like Jeff Goldblum.

[19:56] aaron j albano: Like, I was what are you saying?

[20:00] Hayley podschun: Oh, well, that's my, I want to bring that up as my next question. Um, one of the things that this movie is often touted for is its incredible voice work. Um, it's the people usually mention the animation, um, the uh the music and the voice work. Um I think that's something to talk about because these people would not be voicing these characters if this was made today.

[20:21] aaron j albano: Oh, literally, I literally wrote down the animation looks like a bad ride at a local theme park.

[20:29] Hayley podschun: Whoa, drag that.

[20:29] aaron j albano: Oh, I like the, I like the animation. I thought the animation did a nice job of showing the vastness of Egypt.

[20:39] Hayley podschun: Um the hotness of Moses.

[20:45] aaron j albano: One thing that I will say, I feel like they do establish the relationship between Ramses and Moses very well. The brother is the brotherly.

[20:55] Kimberly: Oh, you mean Batman and Voldemort?

[20:58] aaron j albano: Oh, yeah, that's where the voice work really locked me, is Ray Fines as the Pharaoh. I was just like, I don't like this, yeah. But I thought that I thought that the way they like set up their like brotherly betrayal for lack of a better word.

[21:15] Kimberly: Yeah, sure.

[21:16] aaron j albano: Oh, definitely. Yeah, and I also think that um Stephanie just brought up in the comments, Brian Stokes Mitchell's singing through Heaven's Eyes is her highlight of the movie. Honestly, the it's obviously we all know what Stokes sounds like. So like as soon as Danny Glover stops and he starts, it's just like, oh, okay.

[21:35] Hayley podschun: Oh, yeah.

[21:36] aaron j albano: My note literally says, I knew it was Brian Stokes before Googling. But I do think that if you didn't know like very specifically that voice and Danny Glover and whatnot, it actually is a good like continuity between the two.

[21:52] Hayley podschun: That's the first moment where I was I was like looking down and doing something, and I was like, Brian Stokes Mitchell. Like I looked up.

[22:00] aaron j albano: Um can I also ask what like who those of you who've done research on this movie? Is it Sandra Bullock and yes?

[22:08] Hayley podschun: Michelle Bolfer singing, Michelle Michelle, not Sandra Bullock.

[22:12] aaron j albano: Sandra Bullock had somebody singing for her.

[22:15] Hayley podschun: And Michelle Pfeiffer does it.

[22:20] aaron j albano: Is singing for Sandra Bullock, and um Michelle Pfeiffer, according to Wikipedia, sings.

[22:28] Hayley podschun: Yeah, she sings her own thing. Get it, Baltimore Crabs. You better um so here's um wanted to bring up a couple more things before we get to this.

[22:37] aaron j albano: Um, the album just came out for the stage show in London. Um, so that's something to listen to. And I didn't listen to it for this, but like something to kind of do that. What um if you were to see this in the West End, if it ever comes to Broadway, what would you look for in the stage adaptation in terms of live horses?

[22:56] Kevin: Great. Awesome.

[23:01] aaron j albano: Um, I mean the plague sequence again is one of my favorite. I assume that would be hopefully done very well.

[23:09] Kimberly: Sure.

[23:10] aaron j albano: Same thing with the Party of the Red Sea. I'm sure that would be like a grand spectacle.

[23:14] Kevin: Yeah, how do you do this on stage?

[23:17] aaron j albano: Fabric.

[23:18] Kimberly: Yeah.

[23:19] aaron j albano: There you go.

[23:25] Bryan: Um, so uh just so we can we can talk through this. Uh the uh Rotten Tomatoes score is 80%.

[23:33] Kevin: Wow, okay.

[23:34] Bryan: Um critics' consensus is the Prince of Egypt's stunning visuals and first rate voice cast are more than compensate for the fact that it's better crafted than it's emotionally involving.

[23:47] Kimberly: That's fair.

[23:48] Bryan: Yeah, okay. Well, DreamWorks first ever full animated film, yes, the strong first go.

[23:56] Kevin: Oh well, I mean, good for them, but why why don't you know what the like parallel Disney movie was at the time?

[24:03] aaron j albano: Was it like um I could I could double check, but while while I'm on, right?

[24:09] Bryan: While it might be while I'm checking that, um, we're gonna move on to the prequel, if you will. Um, but any final thoughts or or things that you kind of want to leave us with? And or if anybody from watching this has a question, type it in. We're happy to answer it as well.

[24:22] Kimberly: Yeah, but Bryan, what were your any final thoughts on it?

[24:26] Bryan: Oh, I still had a good time watching it, and I think the music is all very pretty.

[24:31] Kimberly: I'll agree with that. What order did you watch it in, guys?

[24:34] aaron j albano: Also, I watched El Dorado last week, and then I watched Prince of Egypt and Joseph today.

[24:41] Kevin: What a morning.

[24:42] aaron j albano: I was go ahead, Aaron.

[24:45] Hayley podschun: I watched uh I watched them in chronological historical order. Um I watched Joseph, and then I watched Prince of Egypt, and then I watched Elderon.

[24:57] Hayley podschun: Haley.

[24:58] Hayley podschun: Oh, I I watched El Dorado first. Prince of Egypt and then Joseph.

[25:04] Bryan: So we didn't do this.

[25:07] aaron j albano: I watched it. I watched Prince of Egypt, then Joseph, then El Dorado.

[25:14] Bryan: And any final thoughts on all those?

[25:17] Kimberly: I mean, I mean, not on all of them, just on the other one. Just the Prince of Egypt final thoughts. I'll just say I think that it's a true testament to how good of a song when you believe is. The movie, the movie version is like a really strong, pretty, like soft version of the song that becomes like an anthem as they're walking.

[25:40] Hayley podschun: And then to have that also work as like a pop diva anthem is like pretty awesome.

[25:47] aaron j albano: Yeah.

[25:49] Bryan: And just uh just to let you know, no Disney movies came out that December. Um that November, a Pokemon movie.

[25:56] Hayley podschun: The Pokemon movie came out, and in terms of what it was going up against directly, um Babe Pig in the City, of course.

[26:04] aaron j albano: Oh, of course.

[26:05] Bryan: And then um that December, you also had like Jack Frost, the Michael Keaton one, like the funny fun one where the jack turns into a um, but that there was nothing really there.

[26:16] Kevin: I can look at some of the releases, um, but that was kind of there was nothing directly up against it.

[26:22] Kimberly: Cool.

[26:23] Stephanie: I did not watch the Saturday Seder, so I didn't see that one you believe, but I bet it was very good.

[26:29] Hayley podschun: Oh, yeah.

[26:31] Kimberly: I saw a clip of it with Shoshana and uh Cynthia Rivaux.

[26:36] aaron j albano: Cool. I'm just still questioning why so many people are obsessed with this movie.

[26:43] Hayley podschun: Like I just don't get it.

[26:44] aaron j albano: I think there's got to be a groupalgia attached to it.

[26:47] Hayley podschun: It's got I think it's like as a kid seeing like really strong I want songs instead of like flighty princesses was cool.

[26:57] aaron j albano: Yeah, um, it's a slow Bible story.

[27:02] Hayley podschun: Couldn't do it. I enjoyed this more after watching it. I was bored while watching it, but I definitely, I definitely like understand uh like how uh like it is a good movie. Just I was a little bored while watching it.

[27:18] aaron j albano: Sure, that's fair.

[27:20] Kevin: Um but this did sorry, what were you saying, Kevin?

[27:23] Kevin: I was just saying, so we're moving on to Joseph.

[27:25] Bryan: Yeah, so this did so well that DreamWorks was like, let's try and do this again, but let's just put it on video.

[27:33] aaron j albano: Right, straight out.

[27:36] Bryan: Yes. Joseph King of Dreams came out in 2002. It's the first direct to video from DreamWorks. This is an adaptation of Joseph. This was um a little, this this is a prequel, if you will, um, to that.

[27:53] aaron j albano: This has a very big cast who may or may not be phoning it in.

[27:57] Bryan: And um uh essentially uh, you know, let's look at any of the voice actors.

[28:04] aaron j albano: Oh Ben Affleck is Joseph.

[28:06] Bryan: Ben Affleck.

[28:08] aaron j albano: Yes.

[28:10] Bryan: Um but let's move for that. Let's uh uh I'm assuming that nobody saw this before this weekend.

[28:18] Kimberly: No.

[28:19] Hayley podschun: Okay.

[28:19] aaron j albano: I watched it Easter Sunday.

[28:22] Hayley podschun: Yes.

[28:23] aaron j albano: And I was like, uh, fast forward.

[28:28] Hayley podschun: I had never watched it, but when I went when this movie came out was roughly around when I went got to college, and John Bokino was huge when I was in college.

[28:39] aaron j albano: So good.

[28:40] Hayley podschun: And so Better Than I was being sung by he he wrote the music.

[28:46] aaron j albano: Oh and so John Bokino was being sung by everyone.

[28:51] Hayley podschun: One of his big things was called It's Only Life. It was like a musical review of his songs that like Gavin Creel and a bunch of people recorded in the album. Better than I was like the song that all the bear kind of in my life.

[29:07] aaron j albano: I was gonna say the Joseph Guy Want song can get it. Like it's it's good.

[29:11] Bryan: Great.

[29:16] aaron j albano: Okay. Um any uh so Aaron, do you want to talk a little bit about the adaptation?

[29:24] aaron j albano: Sure.

[29:25] aaron j albano: Um like synopsis adaptation, or just like no, just like the adaptation of the Genesis story, right?

[29:32] Kimberly: Genesis.

[29:33] aaron j albano: I didn't really know this story at all because I've also never seen Joseph in the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.

[29:40] Kevin: I was watching this and I kept looking at Jay being like, what? Who's this? Why she can't I watched this right after yeah, I watched this right after seeing the like 50th anniversary Joseph concert they just did.

[29:53] Hayley podschun: Oh, so this was just as good. So I was like, um, we can just get Jessica Vosk and Enest Nose up in here to like belt their faces off and Alex Newell, please. Like when he was when he was at first of all, I think visual storytelling again here, when I was more intrigued when he's in the dreams, and like all of that, even though it's like kind of bad CG from the computer.

[30:17] aaron j albano: It was interesting, like it was very like what dreams may come.

[30:20] Hayley podschun: Yeah, yeah.

[30:21] aaron j albano: I thought what dreams may come too.

[30:23] Kevin: It was totally oil page.

[30:24] Hayley podschun: I love that movie.

[30:25] aaron j albano: Oh, it's so good. Yeah, um, but the the reason I bring that up is because um, well, one, I absolutely when he was telling Pharaoh his dreams, I was waiting for like seven years of bumper crops are on there with oh like I was like, but um any um I guess what what really struck you about this? Did you have a favorite moment that did something like even though like it may have been of lesser quality than the other movies we watched, what kind of options are you?

[30:52] Hayley podschun: I will say I do think like I mean, because yeah, because like a good Bible school kid, like I've know these stories very well. And the one and so the again with this movie, like the because it had the disclaimer at the beginning again, it was very like oh, right. That same disclaimer that's different, that's different, that's different.

[31:12] aaron j albano: Oh yeah, James out, and so like even like like the fact that like Judah was the oldest brother and not Ruben. I was like, yo, why are we changing that?

[31:23] Hayley podschun: That said because Mark Hamill was the voice.

[31:26] aaron j albano: No, yeah, my god. What Luke Skywalker was playing played the oldest brother?

[31:32] Hayley podschun: Yeah, yeah.

[31:32] aaron j albano: Yes, those brothers did him dirty in this one more than I've ever seen before. They were assholes.

[31:38] Kevin: The brother.

[31:39] aaron j albano: Well, yeah, and I will say that that's that is the one like difference of the like how we know the story at the end when he like all of his tactics are like about like giving his his brothers the food are all sort of driven by his trauma instead of him like testing them or him like whatever, whatever. And I was just like, okay, I can get behind this because it sure is more humanity to Joseph than we're all taught in Bible school.

[32:13] Hayley podschun: That's it. Did everybody here get goosebumps at the end, no matter what? Because like when he reveals himself, it's very exciting.

[32:20] aaron j albano: No, I did.

[32:22] Hayley podschun: They were music, he should have still been.

[32:24] Kevin: I mean, I I think I don't know if goose goosebumps might be strong, but I I did feel something.

[32:29] Hayley podschun: I was confused. What's Joe? What's the new younger brother's name?

[32:34] aaron j albano: Benjamin.

[32:35] Hayley podschun: Benjamin.

[32:36] aaron j albano: So I zone out.

[32:38] Hayley podschun: Yes, I looked up and I was like, why is Joe this back from the dead?

[32:42] Kevin: But with himself.

[32:47] aaron j albano: They're identical cartoons.

[32:49] Hayley podschun: They had like three character models that they could just in the chats here says what stood out to me was Joseph looked like identical to Moses.

[32:58] aaron j albano: Yeah, they used they, yeah, totally.

[33:00] Hayley podschun: Yeah, just the redhead.

[33:02] aaron j albano: I literally, my first note was how many different facial hairs can they design for the brothers?

[33:09] Hayley podschun: This weird thing, and then like it was like this, yeah.

[33:15] aaron j albano: Like that would be a fun contract because like they got the opening number, like they got to sing about Joseph and like give him all his I Want feelings.

[33:22] Hayley podschun: Like I was into it.

[33:25] aaron j albano: Yeah.

[33:26] Hayley podschun: I had a good time with this one.

[33:27] aaron j albano: I actually like I know it wasn't a great movie or whatever, but like if I was babysitting my nephew and niece and like nephews and niece, I was like nieces. Um if I was babysitting the kid and I had to watch this movie, I wouldn't be super upset.

[33:43] Kevin: Like this, yeah.

[33:48] Hayley podschun: Is it a better movie than Return to Jafar?

[33:50] aaron j albano: Yes, yes, yeah, yeah.

[33:52] Kevin: I would much rather watch Return to Jafar.

[33:54] Hayley podschun: Is it a better movie than Jersey Boys?

[33:57] aaron j albano: Yeah, no, no, no, no, but like I said.

[34:02] Kevin: The bars that we've now set for us are spectacular.

[34:07] Hayley podschun: Like, there's always one stinker now.

[34:09] aaron j albano: Yeah.

[34:10] Kevin: Joseph.

[34:11] aaron j albano: Joseph is a stinker.

[34:16] Hayley podschun: I just I had fun with it. I thought it was, I thought it was cute. I mean, I saw the the errors and the issues, but like I thought it was fun, and like the songs were way better than I ever expected them to be.

[34:28] aaron j albano: Yeah, I don't remember. There's a there's a fun moment in the Joseph I Want song. There was like a specific spot where he like modulates kind of like surprisingly, and like every it's like all of a sudden he like does the up the upward option, and I was like, Okay, everyone, David Campbell was his singing voice, but Netflix did not do that.

[34:52] Kevin: Sorry, Kevin.

[34:54] Hayley podschun: What's that?

[34:56] aaron j albano: Wait, I think David Campbell is in the um Hair Mr. Producer concert. Um he sings uh Martin Gere and he sings like the Andrew Russell stuff.

[35:07] Kevin: Yes, he does.

[35:08] aaron j albano: Yeah, you also have in this movie you have Jody Benson, you have Judith Light. The cast is out of control on this film.

[35:15] Hayley podschun: Oh yeah, they went to the strange thing.

[35:18] aaron j albano: Just plays the love interest, right?

[35:20] Hayley podschun: Yes.

[35:21] aaron j albano: But like we had talked about before when we were bringing Aladdin, like Robin Williams doing the genie role was like one of the very first times that a like celebrity instead of a like voice actor actor had done a role.

[35:37] Kevin: So the all the celebrities.

[35:40] aaron j albano: Yeah, it kind of like blew up, and also like people realized like how marketable it was to use a celebrity voice and how much money you make as a celebrity voiceover artist.

[35:49] Hayley podschun: And the celebrities realized how much they could exactly get from so like small amount of like work as opposed to like being in a live action film, right?

[35:58] aaron j albano: So I just wrote down that I'm terrified that these religious movies will mess up my cues for Hulu and Netflix.

[36:15] Hayley podschun: Um if this uh movie will um what's the word I'm thinking of?

[36:26] aaron j albano: Say again, it's not the cue I'm thinking of. It's the algorithm, the algorithm.

[36:32] Kevin: Well, also funny thing, Kevin mentioned uh Dan Castellanetta, who also plays the auctioneer here, the horse trader who tries to screw Potiphar.

[36:42] Hayley podschun: Yes, who is it?

[36:44] aaron j albano: Who is it? The one who took over for Robin Williams, who does Homer Simpson.

[36:48] Hayley podschun: Oh.

[36:48] aaron j albano: Also was the voice of the trader trying to trick Potter.

[36:52] Kevin: He is rich.

[36:53] aaron j albano: Yeah, I think it's just started a thing to think where that's why a bunch of celebrities try to get on the animation boat.

[36:58] Hayley podschun: I mean, he's um, I mean, he's in every I mean, you you look at any thing, any recent voiceover thing, and Dan's name is on the best friends.

[37:06] aaron j albano: Wow, um, yeah, but this has a just so we're clear, this has a 63% on Rotten Tomatoes and no consensus.

[37:14] Kevin: Um, so you know, this was fine.

[37:19] aaron j albano: I think it was a nice third kind of movie to watch with these. Any final thoughts on this one?

[37:25] Hayley podschun: I don't remember it a lot.

[37:27] aaron j albano: I don't need to see it ever again.

[37:30] Hayley podschun: I will say that every production of Joseph pictures that I've seen because I've never seen it, um, have a better coat than what they could do with animation.

[37:39] aaron j albano: Yes, the coat was a little like it's two colors.

[37:44] Hayley podschun: It was the coat of like a few colors.

[37:47] aaron j albano: It was like four colors.

[37:48] Hayley podschun: Yeah.

[37:49] aaron j albano: And also, I know the musical pretty well. I did it in the eighth grade.

[37:53] Hayley podschun: I was narrator one.

[37:56] aaron j albano: But I lost my voice, so I had to speak all of the words.

[38:02] Hayley podschun: And how about that many centuries ago?

[38:05] aaron j albano: Um, anyway, every time, well, not every time I watched the movie once, any time a moment popped up, um, and it could have been like pot the you know, Podfar song or you know, the brother song or something, I just was like waiting for it to be musical number, and it never was, and I wanted it to be the Andrew Leber songs, and it just wasn't.

[38:30] Hayley podschun: Yeah, so I think that's another reason why I was like, oh my god, just give me the amazing technical or dream coat musical.

[38:37] aaron j albano: They did one.

[38:38] Hayley podschun: It's weird that they chose to do a story that had already been translated to a musical.

[38:46] aaron j albano: Like what would you guys want to turn from a musical into an animated series that with no music completely different musical?

[38:56] Hayley podschun: Starlight Express.

[38:58] aaron j albano: Yes!

[39:00] Hayley podschun: No, I want those songs.

[39:02] aaron j albano: Exactly. That would actually be an incredible animated or like a crossover that like Starlight Express means Thomas the Tank Engine.

[39:13] Hayley podschun: And Kimblejanks is there.

[39:15] aaron j albano: He's the narrator of course.

[39:17] Hayley podschun: He's a yeah, he's back in my day on my railroad.

[39:22] Kevin: Um let's uh so let's uh any let's just move on to El Dorado.

[39:26] aaron j albano: Great, uh yes.

[39:28] Kevin: Um, so let's go around. We'll start with Kimberly. What's your relationship with El Dorado?

[39:31] Hayley podschun: Wait, let's just start with who never saw this before.

[39:36] Kevin: Oh, so Kimberly's the only person who saw this.

[39:38] aaron j albano: Great. Kimberly, what was your relationship?

[39:41] Kimberly: I loved this movie growing up. I don't know exactly, like I think I had it on VHS because we had an active collection, but also we watched it in sixth grade.

[39:53] Kimberly: Like I remember like three days of sixth grade we're watching The Road to El Dorado, and I loved it. And then maybe we watched it like also in eighth grade.

[40:07] Kimberly: I don't know. Whenever we were learning about, like, you know, conquerors.

[40:15] Kevin: You love conquerors in sixth grade.

[40:18] Kimberly: Probably. I think we were learning about the Mayans in sixth grade.

[40:22] Kevin: You know the conquerors here in school.

[40:26] Kimberly: I remember that.

[40:28] Kimberly: Oh, well, I also randomly feel like it was my idea to watch it.

[40:32] Kimberly: Oh, I think I was that kid that was like, there's a movie that follows this. There's a movie about Cortez.

[40:41] Kevin: Um wait, what year did this come out?

[40:45] Kimberly: 2000.

[40:46] Kevin: Wait, this movie came out in 2000?

[40:50] Kimberly: I feel like was it not well like advertised?

[40:55] Kevin: Because I feel like No, I remember it being advertised pretty heavily because of Elton John.

[40:59] Kimberly: I think it was also my age and younger were into it.

[41:04] Kevin: Oh, okay.

[41:06] Kimberly: Wait, was it wasn't Prince of Egypt 2000?

[41:08] Kevin: 98.

[41:09] Kimberly: I mean, I mean, wasn't Joseph 2000?

[41:12] Kevin: Yes.

[41:12] Kimberly: So these were these both came out at the same time.

[41:14] Kevin: Wow.

[41:15] Kimberly: Same year.

[41:16] Kevin: I don't know if same time.

[41:17] Kimberly: Oh.

[41:17] Kevin: Oh, yeah.

[41:19] Kimberly: Was this in movie theaters?

[41:21] Kevin: This came out. This, yes, this came out in March of 2000.

[41:25] Kimberly: And so different.

[41:27] Kevin: Joseph King of Dreams came out in November 7th, November 7th.

[41:32] Kimberly: Oh, interesting.

[41:33] Kevin: I mean, it's just about budget. This one got way more of a budget because of a theatrical release, and yeah, John was attracted to it.

[41:38] Kimberly: And your voices are Kenneth Branagh, um, and Kevin Klein.

[41:43] Kevin: You have Rosie Perez in this, and then um Armanda Sante as well.

[41:48] Kimberly: Almost Edward James Almost, yeah, for sure.

[41:51] Kevin: I was like Battlestar, get it.

[41:53] Kimberly: Yeah, getting getting closer to uh oh, he's on Star Wars, maybe the right people.

[41:58] Kevin: Oh, Star Wars, got it.

[42:02] Kimberly: Yes, um, got it.

[42:05] Kimberly: Um so overall thoughts on this movie, Kimberly. Did you was it the same for you? Did you like it more? Was it just like just so enjoyable to watch it?

[42:12] Kimberly: Um, it wasn't I remembered it being more fun.

[42:16] Kimberly: I also didn't remember that they didn't sing the songs.

[42:19] Hayley podschun: They sing one of the songs, right?

[42:23] Kimberly: John, I was like, this isn't Tarzan sing the songs.

[42:26] Hayley podschun: I know it's only the soundtrack.

[42:28] Kimberly: Straight up Tarzan. That's what I thought.

[42:31] Hayley podschun: Yeah.

[42:32] Kimberly: They sing the first song, maybe.

[42:34] Hayley podschun: No.

[42:35] Kimberly: No, they sing the second song.

[42:37] Hayley podschun: The opening song is Elton John singing about El Dorado.

[42:40] Kimberly: Then I think they forget they sing one of the other songs in there.

[42:43] Kevin: I forget.

[42:45] Hayley podschun: The ball playing sequence with uh Armadillo.

[42:51] Kevin: Sure.

[42:51] Hayley podschun: Oh, that was so cute.

[42:54] Hayley podschun: And that game is a factual historical game that they don't really know how they played it, but they see those courts exist.

[43:01] Kevin: Yeah, I remember learning about it on uh Disney Cruise.

[43:04] Kimberly: Whatever great.

[43:09] Kevin: Kimberly Stephanie also saw it in theaters and was bored, but she thinks it's because you're the same age.

[43:15] Kimberly: Because you were bored.

[43:17] Kevin: I was I could buy into the given circumstances of a fantasy pretty easy.

[43:22] Kimberly: I thought it's I'd never seen it before. I went into it blind and watched it uh yesterday, and I thought it was fun.

[43:29] Kevin: I mean, I I thought it was like a breath of fresh air from like the seriousness of the other two movies.

[43:35] Kimberly: That it was like they're they're getting the fun, and then I was like scary though.

[43:41] Kevin: It's yeah, it's it's it's I was into it.

[43:44] Kimberly: It felt kind of like it was the most fun, it was the most Disney esque, which is I was a Disney kid, so like that must be why I like this one probably the most is because it has more of that like same magic.

[43:57] Kevin: I also think like when I was doing research, I saw that uh Kenneth Brennan and Kevin Klein did all of their recordings together in the same studio.

[44:06] Kimberly: That's very evident.

[44:08] Kevin: That never happens, and so it let them create an actual connection that was like very palpable in an animated film.

[44:16] Kimberly: Yeah.

[44:17] aaron j albano: Um I like the animation in this too.

[44:20] Kevin: Yeah, they did a good job.

[44:21] Hayley podschun: Yeah, handsome men.

[44:25] Kimberly: Um lots of tension between them.

[44:27] Hayley podschun: Oh my god.

[44:28] Kimberly: Lots of tension between Miguel and I just if you watch this movie as if knowing that there is like a relationship between the two main characters, and like see everything that's happening between them and like the like sexual tension of like not actually being together, like broke back mountain style, it makes this movie so incredible because that's what I actually thought it was about.

[44:53] Hayley podschun: That's what I thought it was. I mean, they set it up without setting it up. I thought it was way ahead of its time, and then in our group text, Hayley texted it was like, are they together? And I was like, I thought that too. I legit, I knew that they probably weren't, but I kept watching it and I was like like the whole time like waiting for that moment, and I was like, I don't think it's gonna happen, but I was like, the tension between them is so hot and just like establishing scene where they're like yes, like the the dice, like they're like swindling those, like oh my god, and then like real poker scene from Titanic, yeah. Eldorado was like the lovers have run off, you know. I mean, wrong.

I love I actually really liked it. I thought it was fun. It was my first time seeing it. It was the first movie I watched out of all three, and I even wrote I only wrote three notes. Um, but the most important one was I would like El Dorado to be a resort. Beautiful. Yeah, I think you just like die to the fear world. I mean, it's basically like Atlantis, but not 100%.

[46:17] aaron j albano: Um, uh yeah, I think it is. No, it's 20th Century Fox. I think uh I think Atlantis is 20th Century Fox. Now it's a Disney movie. Um but um what I actually thought I'd seen this movie because I saw the Atlantis movie. Oh, right, it's a different movie. I I remember what I watched, so this is the first time I watched the movie, and I sure I could tell that it was I felt like it was the strongest movie of the of the of the three. However, I had two issues with the movie. One was I feel like because there was no or at least because it was like like Phil Collins Tarzan style, I didn't know like there was no establishing I want song, so I was like, I remember texting the group being like I I'm like a half hour in, and I don't know why I should be rooting for these lead main characters.

[47:11] Kimberly: Correct. I literally like they just want gold. Is that what they want? It almost starts like it's mid story of where they're trapped. Like the beginning of it, and then all of a sudden it's like starts, you know. Yeah, and I'm but I'm just like if they want gold to like get out of their economic situation, or if they want gold to like prove themselves, like there was no they just wanted gold, yeah. And I was just like, I don't know, there's not enough reason for me to get on board with them. So I just felt like but they're so fun and have so much charisma.

[47:44] Hayley podschun: Sure. And they're in love, and they're in love. But the s but the second issue that I had was I liked them and I liked the, but it was it felt like a movie like in made in the early odds, where it was very like Yeah, I got a lot of white savior vibes in this movie. So yeah, yeah. So here I so this is a question about so just a correction uh Atlantis is a Disney movie, not 20th Century Fox. But my question is um about all the movies. Um any thoughts, kind of a bigger conversation on these are all male-led films. Any thoughts on how the females were portrayed in these three films?

[48:33] aaron j albano: I feel like maybe I shouldn't be the first person to talk. I mean very much in supporting roles, being sort of a caretaker, a pusher in the right direction. Um yeah, I mean, the only one that was an actual character, maybe was Chell from the third one. Did anyone like have any thoughts on her on the Rosie Perez character?

[49:03] Kimberly: No, I mean, especially when it was made, it's like, well, this all makes sense, and like yeah, and with um with the other two, with Prince of Egypt and with Joseph, like those are Bible stories, so it's like we can't really have thoughts about it. I I feel like because that's like you know someone's old book stories, but El Dorado at least was I feel like they they did their best in terms of like elevating the existing female characters, but still again, like these are movies made in the times that they were made.

[49:44] Hayley podschun: Yeah, I think they tried easily not been the love interest and just been like the spunky sidekick who's like, hey, I also would like some gold. Let me help you swindle these people. Right. Like it's the same kind of without getting too like making this a completely different conversation. It's the same reason why, like Joseph King of Dreams, Joseph is the whitest looking one out of all of the brothers.

[50:10] aaron j albano: Like yeah. Well, he's the miracle child, Aaron. Yeah, and I'm just like it's like so it's so like in your face at the beginning. It's like very honestly, the miracle child song made me very uncomfortable, and I had a hard time getting into the movie because of that song.

[50:28] Hayley podschun: Well, that was awful. And then I kind of got into it once I I don't know, allowed myself to be lower look it, which is like a better human than me. I could not overlook that. And meanwhile, Ben Affleck is the voice, and it's just like, come on, guys. Yeah, no. I mean, and so it's it's the same vein of like the El Dorado, where it's like you have these two, yes, they're sp like they're Spanish, they're European Spanish, like coming into this. They're British and American, they're coming into this like native Latin community and telling them how wrong they are for like their culture, and it's like yeah, it feels a little icky, even though the movie itself is very good, like yeah.

[51:12] Kimberly: I just I don't have any thoughts about strong thoughts about that because like well, it was made then, and like exactly those conversations weren't happening then, so like yeah, whatever. Let it live during that time and enjoy it for what it is. Of like this was pretty good for that time.

[51:31] aaron j albano: Oh no, I totally agree. That's why it's like, oh, it feels like a product of the time that it was made. Yeah, yeah, or that said, like, I'm like, it was a pretty good movie. I was happy. Now that we've talked about the three movies, uh, Kevin, do you have a quiz for us?

[51:47] Kevin: I do. Oh my god, I have a quiz. It's gonna be a fun rapid fire kind of quiz. And uh the people listening can play at home because you can send your answer and I can see it as well, and we'll see if you beat our panel here. So all I'm gonna do is very simple. I'm gonna read out a movie name, and one of this movie is a property that one of the actors that's the voice actor of one of these movies was also in. So you're trying to give it to me. So if it was like if I said like like Forrest Gump, it might be Tom Hanks if he was a voice of one of these movies.

[52:08] Hayley podschun: Okay, got it.

[52:17] Kevin: So do we yell out the the actor or do we yell out? You're yelling out the actor name.

[52:22] Hayley podschun: Got it.

[52:25] Kevin: The first one is Top Gun.

[52:28] aaron j albano: Val Kilmer.

[52:32] Kevin: Oh Dogma.

[52:35] Hayley podschun: Ben Affleck.

[52:38] Kevin: Correct. Bryan got a second point there, even though I don't want to give it to him. Um, there was Ben Affleck, uh, hairspray.

[52:45] Hayley podschun: Michelle Pfeiffer.

[52:48] Kevin: Haley gets the point, and she better have. A fish called Wanda.

[52:54] aaron j albano: Kevin Klein.

[52:55] Kevin: Bryan gets a point. I don't watch movies, so this is very hard for this.

[53:00] Bryan: Brian's so good at movies. The voice of the Joker on Batman the Animated Series.

[53:05] aaron j albano: Mark Hamill.

[53:06] Kevin: Mark Hamill. Eric gets that point. Good job. Bryan, you're Bryan's gonna get this one. The net.

[53:14] aaron j albano: Sandra Bullock!

[53:17] Kevin: Never even heard.

[53:20] aaron j albano: Oh no, no, no, net. No, no, no, no. Marmy in Little Women the Musical.

[53:27] Hayley podschun: Oh. Judith, not Judith Light.

[53:30] Kevin: No. Yes, Eric got it. Maureen McGovern.

[53:34] aaron j albano: Oh, well done. Well done. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.

[53:39] Hayley podschun: Kenneth Brana.

[53:43] Kevin: Ray Fine.

[53:44] aaron j albano: Correct. It's Kenneth Bretta. And Ray Fine. So you both get a point. Is he in that one? I don't know. Uh Logan.

[53:54] Hayley podschun: Patrick Stewart.

[53:56] Kevin: Yes. Yes. He's in this movie. Matt Sukri from the Toy Leader over in the corner. Like, yay, Brian! The voice of Thumbelina.

[54:09] aaron j albano: Jody Benson?

[54:15] Kevin: Yes. She's the one who sings Let Me Be Your Wings, which is like one of the greatest songs ever written for animated movies.

[54:20] Hayley podschun: Oh literally, never heard it.

[54:23] Kevin: Birds of Prey.

[54:29] Hayley podschun: Rosie Perez.

[54:36] aaron j albano: Helen Mirren.

[54:39] Kevin: Yes. Oh my god. Who was the Helen Mirren playing in these movies?

[54:48] Hayley podschun: She was single.

[54:50] aaron j albano: No, she was Potifer's wife, right? Or she was Potifer's wife.

[54:54] Kevin: Who goes on to that scene was intense? I was not expecting that aggressive of a Pharaoh's wife in Prince of Egypt.

[55:02] Hayley podschun: So yeah, she was Pharaoh's wife.

[55:04] aaron j albano: Yeah. Oh, Judith Light was Potified.

[55:06] Kevin: Judith Light was Podcast. Right, right, right, right, right. Um, who's the boss?

[55:11] Hayley podschun: Judith Light.

[55:12] Kevin: You all get points except for Bryan. Um Lethal Weapon.

[55:21] aaron j albano: Danny Glover.

[55:22] Kevin: Yeah, Danny Glover was in this. Who does he play in this movie in these movies?

[55:25] Hayley podschun: He was Jethro, Moses' father-in-law.

[55:28] aaron j albano: Oh, I know things. He was like Michelle Pfeiffer's dad. Um, and Rachel's two dads from Glee. Both of them were in these movies. Stokes and Goldblum.

[55:42] Hayley podschun: Yes, Bryan Stokes Mitchell and Jeff Goldblum.

[55:47] Kevin: They say Michelle Perez. Haley. Haley won the game, everybody. Yay! The point was to not answer any questions. Bryan lost really bad. I know. I didn't listen to the rules. I didn't realize that getting the answers would lose me points.

[56:06] Kevin: Well, you should learn. Negative, negative, negative. Bryan, we're in quarantine. Everything's backwards now, man. Um, so before we end this, uh, did we do uh well, do we we didn't did we do El Dorado's Rotten Tomatoes?

[56:21] Kimberly: No.

[56:23] Kevin: Um, 48% on Rotten Tomatoes. That makes me so sad. Predictable story and thin characters made the movie flat.

[56:34] Hayley podschun: Wow, we uh we're we're we're useful to you guys. Well, on that note, let's let's go around. What are your ranking of these three um in terms of your favorite to least favorite? Do we all have the same? El Dorado, Prince of Egypt, Joseph.

[56:48] aaron j albano: Yep. That's mine. Mine is Prince of Egypt, El Dorado, Joseph.

[56:51] Hayley podschun: I still be there. I might be there too. I learned an epic.

[56:56] Kevin: Yeah, of course. Um, well, thank you all for joining us. Um, this was super fun. Um you could say it wasn't. It's okay. Um, this was great. Remember, for our your homework for next week. Uh, we're watching The Muppets. Uh, we're watching the original Muppet movie from the 70s, we're watching Muppet Treasure Island uh from the 90s, yeah, and then or or early 2000s, I forget, and then we're watching.

[57:23] Hayley podschun: I love Muppet Treasure Island.

[57:24] Kevin: Uh it's so good. I've never seen that, I've never seen it. I haven't watched none of these movies. The score in Muppet Treasure Island is spectacular.

[57:32] Hayley podschun: I don't know.

[57:34] Kevin: Oh my god. And then we're watching the uh Muppets, the one with that Jason Siegel wrote um with Amy Adams. Um I haven't seen that many of that one. So those are all on Disney Plus. We're gonna stream and watch those for next week. Um but um thank you all so much for joining us again. You can find Aaron at Aaron J Albano, you can find Hayley at Hayley underscore Podschun. You can find us at Broadwaysted, find us on um Spotify on BPN as well as on iTunes. Rate and review us there. Five stars, please. Thank you.

[58:10] Bryan: Um and again, uh thank you so much. You know, we always thank our guests, you know. Shalala, Joseph, you're doing fine. You and your dream coat ahead of your time. That's our quote for this episode.

[58:21] Hayley podschun: Oh, nice to sneak that one in.

[58:23] Kevin: Yeah. Thank God. So thank you guys for doing all for joining us during this quarantine time. Everyone stay happy, healthy, and safe. And keep checking out bpn.fm backslash Broadwaysted, as well as just bpn.fm because the Broadway Podcast Network is doing some really awesome programming right now during this coronavirus situation.

[58:42] aaron j albano: So uh keep touch with everything happening in the theater world by going to bpn.fm.

[58:47] Kevin: Yep, and you'll find episodes from us on Fridays and Tuesdays during this time. We're we're happy to give you that extra content. Um, but uh as we end every episode, we raise our glasses.

[58:57] All: We do, and we say cheers, thank you everyone for joining us.