Happy New Year, Sneakers! Welcome to the podcast known to hog hogmanay!
A special episode this week, as Ian was unable to be on the show scheduled guest Jason Dedrick was promoted from guest to guest host! (We are hopeful that Ian will be back next week.)
David and Jason talk: sudden start; behind the scenes; no fucks given; early archival; Capp sizes; stamped tramp; mixed Peanuts; beware of fire; misleading flood; unseen footage; convincing rhetoric; reproducing garbage; stiff ducks; comics factories; Peyo check; the end of an era; high listener turnover; Dedrick revenge; the sanitarium gap; brotherly love; low rent districts; equally crazy; musical cannons; getting back to chewiness; casual resignation; old folks at home; Christams snow; self-sufficient birds; doves are overrated; back problems; scofflaws; back to back problems; rolling rock salt; your problems are behind you; anti-chiro; formal resignation; icy situation; Dork Shadows – Where There’s a Will; new segment: Dotty about Dallas; Question of the Week – Sneakers respond; favourite shopping song; Tchaikovsky’s payola; moveable feast; surreal life; round virgins; rat kings; okay songs; don king cons; the Gentlemen continue; Star Wars potatoes; minute minutes minutiae; quitting xylophones; big promises; and, finally, perturbations.
Question of the Week: What is a New Year’s resolution that you failed to keep? What is a New Year’s resolution that you successfully kept?
Sub-question of the Week: Soon, if not already, we will have the technology to make new movies with old actors who have been dead for years. What are some of the remakes of classic movies using dead actors you’d like to see? (For example, Humphrey Bogart playing the lead in Raiders of the Lost Ark or the Marx Brothers playing the gang in Ghostbusters.)
Thanks for listening.
Here is a list of everyone’s favourite Christmas songs:
From John:
From Louise:
From Ed:
From Chris and Louise:
From Chris:
From Peter (Petey):
From Joseph:
Thanks to everyone who sent in a favourite song. It was a real pleasure to listen to them while compiling the list!
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Hi,
Very sorry to hear about Ian’s new misadventure.
Hope he get well and return to normal sneakiness quickly !
Best Regards,
Hi Ian,
so sorry to hear about your fall. Hope your recovery is progressing well – you must defiantely get Dave to read all the correspondence for awhile! As Phil the Greek used to say to Queen Elizabeth II, “give your veins a rest, sausage.”
Regis, thanks for your kind words and silliness last episode about Dirty Harry Minute. It’s important there is still good feeling between our two countries, after our government treated France very shabbily over the submarine procurement. Given the parochialness of our news here, I don’t know if it was a big story in France, but it was much commented on here in Australia and many of us are very embarassed.
I agree with you, Dirty Harry Minutes (plural) would be a more suitable name. Our podcast is, however, part of the Movies By Minute community and the name of the format well and truly engrained. Maybe Dave could join the Movies By Minute community and review all 400+ minutes of GET BACK. Lol
I actually first discovered Sneaky Dragon through Alex Robinson, the illustrator, who kicked the genre off with Star Wars Minute. He was either a guest on Sneaky Dee or a mate of Ian’s or something.
P.S I checked out the LES NULS skit about ‘Dirty Henri’ – great, what a pisser!
Happy New Year, all! Jason did a good job stepping up from guest to guest host but I missed Ian’s take on the outgoing 2021. I hope you’re feeling better, Ian. I slipped and fell forward on some ice once. I didn’t get concussed, but I felt the effects for a couple of weeks. I should’ve ditched those Tim Hortons drinks I was holding and saved myself.
Tyrone Power and Natalie Wood are two actors I liked who died too soon. I’d cast their younger selves as Wesley and Buttercup in The Princess Bride. I recently watched Home Movie: The Princess Bride on YouTube. It was a fundraiser for World Central Kitchen in 2020. Dozens of well-known actors recreated the movie at home on smartphones during quarantine. They scrounged up props and costumes and divvied up William Goldman’s script into small chunks so you see different actors in the same role as the movie goes along. It’s like watching a series of screen tests. Except for a few couples, everyone acted their scenes alone and Jason Reitman cut their performances together in post. The backgrounds don’t match, but that’s part of the charm. The tribute cast had a lot more diversity than the original and there was some gender bending as well which is a nice update. They all threw themselves into their parts with great gusto.
Another actress I wish had lived longer is Vivian Leigh. At first I thought I’d cast her as Elizabeth in Pride and Prejudice, but I think she’d make an even better Emma. Lawrence Olivier, her husband in real life, could play Mr. Knightley. Maybe a young Richard Burton could play Frank Churchill.
Thanks for all the Christmas song suggestions and links. I didn’t know there was a sequel to Santa Baby. In the original song, she should have requested maintenance money for all the stuff she wanted. The upkeep on a yacht would be a lot.
Hey! I’ve been a little behind on episodes, but I’ve finally caught up.
First things first, I hope Ian is feeling better. This current cold snap is a good reminder that the outdoors are trying to kill us, and are best avoided.
To go through the backlog of Christmassy questions:
I was a strong hater of egg nog until very recently. When I was a kid certain textures of food completely turned me off, and I remember trying egg nog and hating how it felt on my tongue. I got over this ages ago for mashed potatoes, but egg nog was never really a thing in our house, so I never bothered trying it again. It was only last December that I went to a Christmas gathering and tried it for the first time in some twenty years and … it was fine. I had it mixed with coffee. I should try some by itself, or mixed with whatever alcohol the Internet says I should pour in there.
I’m not sure what my favourite Christmas song is, but one I’ve always liked was the “Huron Carol”. I love Christmas songs that are minor key, and our hymnal had lyrics like “When Mighty Gitchi Manitou sent angel choirs instead”, which was a strange and interesting thing to discover inside church while growing up. Also shoutouts to the “St Stephen’s Day Murders”, which was a big staple at home; Sufjan Steven’s “Barcarola”, which I discovered via Sneaky Dragon Listening Party (and which got me into Sufjan Steven); and the incredibly creepy “O Holy Night” sample used for Salem’s song “King Night”.
As for New Year’s resolutions, I’ve failed to keep them all! Exercising regularly, sleeping better… they all peter out. I’ve started to make more New Year’s intentions, like “Take better care of myself”, and that generally works out better than resolutions. It’s just bad luck that my goal for 2020 was to go to more events, and then the pandemic hit.
Cheers, eh! Here’s to another year of the show 😀
Two huge shout outs to Ian and Jason this week. Ian, mend up soon so you can reign in 2022 alongside your fellow Sneakers! Your presence was missed and we all want you in the best of health. I do enjoy hearing the Double Dedrick treatment once a year, I would so love doing a podcast with one of my cousins. Great job Jason, it was great to hear you!
My well kept resolution for 2021 is that I have kept my weight the same throughout the year by walking and diet. The failed resolution is that I haven’t lost more in 2021. I’m planning to loose another ten pounds if I can in 2022 which seems more difficult the older one gets. Other than those physical demands of myself there’s the entire “Be more productive” and “Get more creative projects done” stuff which I always find time to pull off yet beat myself up for not doing more. I suppose I’m just wired that way.
Let’s see, The Marx Brothers as Ghostbusters?!! Is there a petition for this? Where do I sign up? I can imagine some sort of technology that might seamlessly allow us to enjoy the work of our dearly departed actors once again. I’m kind of on the fence about it really, if they did do a Marx Brothers film using a technology that brings them back visually, where does the heart and soul come from? Could just anyone create something as great as “Horse Feathers” was in the 30’s? Would the voices be right? Unless this was handled with care and grace, I wouldn’t want it, yet part of me does just to see if it works.
I see there’s a guy who looks and sounds so much like Tom Cruise that he’s deep faking Cruise’s face for these viral videos that leaves everyone speechless. I have to wonder what does the real Tom Cruise think of all this? I knew this wasn’t him right away because of how much younger this guy deep faked Cruise to be yet it seems ethically wrong to do something like this. We can’t stand to look away because we can’t believe our eyes with this stuff, I just hope it’s used for all the right reasons going forward…like the internet.
When you guys were discussing the reprinted collections of comics on the last episode, I remembered something I purchased many years ago. It was a set of Marvel Comics digitally collected onto a CD, issues 1 – 10 only of “Tales to Astonish”, “Fantastic Four”, “Tales of Suspense” and “X-Men” to name a few. The CD had a self contained interface that would allow you to read these ten issues, cleaned up as colored photostats, without the original print screened dot patterns. The interface also allowed you to look at the comics in black & white through a setting as well as export either the color or black & white page as a PDF or JPEG, it was really a great little package. This all went away for Mac users when the version 10 operating system was introduced and didn’t allow for the outdated CD interface to be recognized. I saw something years later that was a digital omnibus of some collection of comics and it was nothing more than shoddy digital images of the original newsprint comics. I miss the day when these digital interfaces came self contained on CDs and DVDs, ones like Macromedia and the like. I also have a few Electronic Press Kits on CD/DVD for films like “The Fellowship of the Ring” and “Batman Begins” that have these interfaces on them. Even though they can’t be accessed by my Mac, I can still go in and find the files within the structure of the disk, so not all is lost. Sometime when you think technology is headed in a great direction, it takes a hairpin turn towards someplace else.
I’ve also been watching Mike Flanagan’s “Midnight Mass” on Netflix since you mentioned it two episodes ago, I saw it and thought I’d check it out a little over a week ago. I’m on the final episode now and I’ll really miss watching this series it’s so damn good. What else can you recommend of Mike Flanagan’s work? This series is one of the best I’ve seen in a long time and I’m not even a big fan of horror.
Happy New Year to all and good health going forward!!
Happy New Year Ian and David!
Glad that the package that Jonathon Bampton (two time winner etc etc) and I sent managed to reach you in time for Christmas.
I sincerely hope that Ian is recovering well. While it was fantastic to hear a double Dedrick Duo for episode 526, Ian was sorely missed.
My only new year’s resolution this year is to stay positive in the midst of the never- ending covid chaos; to be grateful for everything and always have something, however small, to look forward to. Top of the list is definitely your forthcoming special COMPLEATELY BEATLES podcast for GET BACK. Can’t wait to hear you discuss this epic doco in minute-by-minute detail!
Take care.
Oh – and by ‘stay positive’ I don’t mean Covid-positive. I mean to be mentally positive about all the negatives of so many people being covid-positive.
Hear Hear, Mick! Every minutes worth….
Hello, gentlemen. I was very concerned to hear about Ian’s fall, and I hope that he is well on the mend. Jason was a delight.
New year’s resolution I have failed to keep: As I said last week, I think of the new year as beginning with the fall semester in late August. Each year, I resolve to keep up with paper-grading and to return papers more quickly, and each year I fail to do so.
New year’s resolution that I have successfully kept: in August 2019, I resolved to keep a journal in which I planned to record and comment on every piece of music that I listened to and every significant instance of reading (books, essays, poems, articles, etc.). I have successfully maintained this ever since, going on two and half years.
A brief update: you may remember that a few weeks ago I let you know that I might try to catch up on the years of your show that I missed by going through the episodes backwards so that I might experience time backwards (and, ergo, grow younger). I’ve now made it through October 2021, and I’m still going. There have been instances of the feeling of living backwards: for example, in one episode, Dave mentioned that he and Lisa had a trip planned for the weekend, and I had the odd experience of knowing things that would happen on the trip before Dave even traveled. Also, I was sad to reach the last (that is, the first) top five, at least for the moment. However, I keep hearing about this listening party that is coming in my future, and I look forward to this new glory.
Other things I look forward to: watching tennis matches in which the ball springs from the ground and ends up in the server’s pocket at the end of each point; my gray hair going away; the resurrections of my dog Lola and my cat Jenny.
All best wishes to you and to all of the lovely sneaking community.
John
PS Oops, forgot about the other question. I would not like to see dead actors turn up in new movies, both because I find this technology creepy and the actors did not get to consent to it. However, I would like to see a remake of A Hard Day’s Night in which all of the Beatles except Ringo are played by muppets. Ringo would be real, but he would also have to compete with Animal to keep his job as the Beatles’ drummer.
I’d pay money to see that, Ringo vs. Animal would be amazing!
Always a delight to have Jason on the podcast. I hope both Ian and Dave are feeling a whole lot better this week. What a lousy start to 2022… Love you guys!
On a sidenote, I appear to be the only person who can’t stand ‘Santa Baby’. How can everyone else be so wrong?
I wanted more Jason on the show. Then the monkey’s paw curled its finger…