Hola, Sneakers! It’s Episode 612 of the podcast that spent all summer getting a nice tan.
This week: wrong division; oral history; spokes man; neighbourhood improvment; biking tracks; Two-Fridge Dedrick; doing the robot; million dollar legs; detuned; cold opens; let the baby have his bottle; hang ups; open concept; get a life; changing your mind; addicted to live; technological hell; Chan reaction; impossible Mission; delicious comeuppances; impractical effects; Umbrellas academy; M-eh; lost Wages; unfinished sympathies; sing sets; Question of the Week – Sneakers respond; disingenuous candy; TV crushes; ready, Jedi, go; and, finally, a crinkle in time.
Question of the Week: Do you think people can change?
Sub-question of the Week: What do you collect?
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I don’t think people’s basic personalities can change, but they can learn to change their behavior.
In the interest of gender balance, Dave might want to check out the new gay male rom-com Red, White & Royal Blue, directed and co-adapted by screenwriter Matthew Lopez. It has snappy dialogue and is savvy about the current state of American politics and the questionable relevancy of the British royal family in the 21st Century. The only thing that took me out of it was Taylor Zakhar Perez as the American president’s son who falls for a prince. He looks a lot like a young Justin Trudeau who, as the son of a Canadian Prime Minister, probably did his own share of hobnobbing with aristocrats.
I agree that X is not a good name for a social media app. Whenever I see the X in the corner of what was formerly known as a Tweet, my first instinct is to click on it to close it.
Happy September Sneakers! May the hellish blast furnace fumes of August be behind us with cooler temperatures on the way…
Louise hit it on the head before me and I had my brother in mind when you asked this question. My brother went to prison years ago and it was enough of a deterrent to change his behavior, especially the kind that landed him there. He is rehabilitated and the system worked, at least for him and he is better because of it. This doesn’t work for everyone, in my brother’s case he wanted to change his behavior because prison scared the living shit out of him. Aside from all of this, he’s still the same guy I grew up with, his personality didn’t change and I still love him despite his faults and missteps in life. All of us desperately wanted my brother’s behavior to change when he was released, we were praying for him in hopes that he wouldn’t repeat and return. That was almost 17 years ago and most of those worries are far behind us, my brother is still the same guy just minus the bad behavior he needed to leave behind.
I think you guys know the obvious stuff I collect, Star Wars, Star Trek, Marvel and DC collectibles, comics and film scores…all that stuff that cost money and drives Susan crazy.
Have I ever mentioned my style guide collection? Style Guides are the visual “bibles” studios send to agencies with everything needed to design and create advertising and promotion. They contain logos, character art, key art, backgrounds, textures and icons. For example, the very first guide I ever received and the one that put me on the path to collecting was for the first X-Men film back in 1999. Dr Pepper was doing tie-ins with 20th Century Fox and they sent all the X-Men digital files on CDs. With these files we were able to create accurate and approved art for packaging and promotion from the studio instead of making it up ourselves. Since 1999 I’ve received many more style guides from all the studios for whatever film promotion we were designing, The Dark Knight, Spider-Man, Planet of the Apes, Superman Returns, Indiana Jones, The Simpsons and The Wizard of Oz just to name a few. Warner Brothers used to send the guides in a nicely printed binder with the discs in the back, Fox sent their files through a secure portal and Disney’s came on an encrypted hard drive. Once the promotion is finished, these guides are fair game, most agencies either throw them up on a high shelf, back to the studio or in the trash…that’s when I collect them! I’ve even bought them off of eBay simply because so many people really don’t know what they’re for and to designers like me who like this stuff, they’re gold. I’ve found many of them inside of open directories and FTP sites online too, just taking up room years after their usefulness. I currently have over 350 of them from all sorts of studios and licensors and I’ll always have room for more!
I may even have a Sneaky Dragon style guide somewhere around here!
Bless you guys and all my fellow Sneakers listening!
Until we meet again!! (Skeletor runs off…)