It is Parallel Frequencies. I am just playing. This is Coco. You are the Freqs and we are at our favorite coffee shop once again. I know how lucky are we that we had tech issues and we get to be here every day of the week.

Yeah, right? We love Amber. We love Land of a Thousand Hills. Thank you for letting us be here. Got my breakfast.

All the baristas. Oh yeah, what is this breakfast you got here? Got my chili crunch toast. Look how, look at the presentation of this bad boy. This is beautiful.

I'm gonna slid it right off. Did you see that? I'm gonna slid your breakfast right off into the floor. That's what I've been munching on while I've been waiting today. The tech issues have really been out of control, but this is a plus from having the tech issues.

And today. I don't mind. It's Freaky Friday. It's only Friday. We're at the end of the week already.

And you know what we do on Freaky Friday? We look at comments from the Freqs and then they are coming in. I can't believe, I still can't believe people watch this. You guys are watching us. Cannot believe you watch this.

I can't believe. Why are you doing that? I see the numbers going up. I see the comments coming in. I'm flabbergasted.

But let's get into some of these comments right here. And here's one from a while back on a clip that we put out about Joe Bob's retirement. And I said, shutter is gonna go down. And this comment from at Jason Butler says, I agree with you 100%. That's the only thing you can do about this whole situation.

Yeah. You can agree and that's it. Joe Bob fans. Joe Bob did not leave. It did come out.

He did not leave on his own accord. There was some other stuff going on there, but yeah, I totally 100% agree. We had another comment about Joe Bob too. And I'll get to that one, but we had someone on Alien. Remember when we did Alien?

Mm-hmm. Talking about Ripley. She was at a re-bo. Says she was good because she was believable, she was vulnerable, and she was scared. But she still succeeded.

Yeah, because that's pretty realistic. I mean, we'd be terrified in this situation. I mean, would you not? But our will to live, right? What, it outweighs?

Outweighs how scared you could be. Maybe. I think so. I think so. I don't know, that really makes me question myself what it takes to survive.

Or would I be like, I'm really scared. I'm gonna let myself just... Yeah. And here's some comments for you, Coco. And it's at Desman5079.

And they're talking about your show. I don't remember what the show's called. Is it Alone? Remember when we talked about Alone? He says, I was rooting for Timber all the way.

Me too. But there was absolutely no way he was gonna outlast William. Great season. Yeah, they were neck and neck. But Timber had such a personality that I think, I don't know, made you wanna root for him a little more just because you felt like you got to know him so much better.

Yeah. Maybe. Yeah. They were all solid. What do you think about that?

They were all solid guys. I was really proud of everybody on that show. Mostly because I know I couldn't have survived myself. But what I wanna bring back about that show where we talked about was that it's not just your skills and your fortitude and your endurance and your physical health. Those are all components.

They're important. But almost everybody going into it has those. It's the, excuse me, it's the chili toast. Oh my God. It's the emotional intelligence that I think gets them to the end.

Yeah, I mean, you're out there trying to survive is what it is, right? What are they doing? Were they alone out on an island? What is this? Yeah, they drop them off on completely different places.

So they're absolutely alone. They don't even have a camera crew. They have med checks. So the only time they see another person is when the med checks come and just like, make sure that they're alive. Make sure that they're not, you know.

Check their pulse. Starving themselves out. But yeah, so part of the challenge of staying out there as long as you can, and they know going into it, they may have to stay out there for three months. Like it's last one standing. So they have no idea until someone comes to get them and say, hey, you're it.

You're the last one. Good job, you won. They are not gonna know. What do they win? They get money?

$250,000 I think is the prize money on that. That's worth going out there in the middle of nowhere for. I'd do that. And a lot of them are like, I really can use this money for whatever reason. You know, they all have their reasons.

Really, really good reasons. I wonder if we could do a lone Utah version. I bet we could probably get a group of people, put them out in the woods. Yeah. I'd join up on that.

It would be easier here than the places that they put them. I'm guessing. Oh, sure. I'm sure they gotta put them, they gotta get them away from them. They put them in like the Arctic circle.

I could do, no, that's not there. I could do cold. I couldn't do the hot. I could do the cold as long as I had enough to keep me warm, which I figured that out. Here we go.

Do you remember when we talked about digital media versus physical media? I know the Freqs do because they went in on the comments. And this comment from at Chef Sam says, I still buy a DVD if I want to watch a movie. Yep. And left it at that.

And I get that. So he only, I'm assuming Chef Sam is a guy, he only wants to watch a movie if it is a physical copy. And I do not blame him one bit. I get that. I had this conversation last night.

This conversation came up with me and my wife, Lindsey, after me and you ran across what we thought was gonna be an innocent movie for us to do, toys. Yep. And we could not find the damn movie anywhere. Wednesday show, yep. And Lindsey, we started going down this rabbit hole of, she's like, well, what are they hiding?

What's in this movie that we can't see? That's a good question. And it got me thinking even more about the physical versus digital media. And you've got to keep your physical copies of media. I have friends that are canceling all of their streaming services.

And they live close enough to a large library, a county library that has a pretty big DVD collection. So they're like, anytime we wanna go see something, we just go get it at the library and watch it. I love that. That's where they're at. And I'm like, I don't hate you for that.

Because we can- That's a pretty good idea. We have talked about it. We should do a whole episode on the Mandela effect. Because I do love it. I do believe that there are some Mandela effects out there.

But like I've said before, some of that is not Mandela effect and it is the corporations taking out stuff. We saw a comment last time that mentioned Daryl Hannah's butt getting covered up by Disney in Splash. Are you serious? I still believe that's the biggest crime against humanity that there's ever been. Because you should never cover up a butt that beautiful.

Interesting because Daryl Hannah was mentioned in an episode I was watching of a rerun of Friends. Which was like, why her name mentioned right after we talked about her. That's like universal coincidences that are just kind of- It happens. I guess it happens. Yeah, yes.

A head scratcher, a chin scratcher, yeah. One more comment here and it's about Joe Bob. And it came from at jughead82. I watched the show and it's so messed up. I have been a fan of John Bloom aka Joe Bob Briggs since the Monster Vision days on TNT.

I feel you. The news that Shudder is ending the show off. They will have four episodes coming this year with April 24th being the first special. So let's not forget, Joe Bob is still on Shudder a couple times. Joe Bob is a legend and I am a proud mutant at the drive in and it will never die.

And I'm right there with you. We are members of the mutant family, maybe by extension. Inspiration. I'm definitely a member, but I totally agree with jughead. And I don't think I'd ever say I would agree with jughead.

But I love when we get names like that too. I love people's usernames. But I think that that's gonna do it for Freaky Friday. We love the comments coming in. We can't get to them all.

Keep it coming. This is our way. This is our way to get to them. I wanna hear more. I wanna hear what you guys think about these movies we're talking about.

In today's movie, holy cow. Oh my gosh. Cause it's feature Friday as well. And I don't know why I put off watching this movie. And I say that all the time.

I'm like, I think I figured it out. There's only so many hours in a day. And that's why I figured it out that I can't watch everything when it comes out because I'm already loaded, man. There's so much stuff out there coming out. We're getting almost content overload.

Yeah. I like to smell flowers. I like to take hikes. I like to go workout. I like to see my kids once in a while.

So I can't be in front of the TV watching things 24 hours straight. So we'll get to what we get to, I think. And I think what we're doing also here at Parallel Frequencies is we're curating stuff for you to watch so that you have time when you do get that time to watch and sit down, go watch one of these movies like today's from Peacock. Don't miss this one. Bugonia.

Oh my God. Right. I mean, the cast alone, you got Emma Stone, Jesse Plymouth. I love both of them. And the director, Yorgos, we did the favor.

Yorgos, let's teach. Yes. He directed this. Yeah, definitely go check out when we picked that movie apart. That was incredible.

But the same like real vibe, the real, almost uncomfortableness and reality to it. I mean, nothing is airbrushed out. Everything is like, if there's a blemish or a realistic or sweat on their face, it's gonna be shown in this style, the way that he does his work. Yeah. And you see this and you look at it and you see all the names attached and you see the trailer maybe and you look at the cinematography in the trailer and you think, all right, this movie is either gonna win awards or ruin dinner conversations for years, basically, because that's the energy this movie's given off.

And you never really know until the very end. You don't know what's going on. You don't know who to believe. You don't know if this guy's crazy. You don't know if she's an alien.

Like there's all these things, these questions. And you're sitting there as a viewer, just as confused the entire time. So if you don't like those kinds of movies, not for you. But if you like the ones that give you that psychological, whatever, that- Constantly questioning. Constantly questioning what's going on, you gotta check this thing out.

So many different layers to it. I almost felt like as I was watching, or as I was, you guys know, I like to sit with me and my husband. We'll sit and watch a movie and I have my notebook and I'm writing things furiously down for a while and watching every thought and every, this one almost needed columns because there was so many layers of different things happening at once. That it was like, well, this is happening right here. But then at the same time, this other thing is happening underneath the first thing that's happening.

And then aside from all that, there's also this whole other thing happening. You don't know- I can't even compartmentalize all of it. When you put the genre to this movie, you don't know what kind you're watching. You don't know if it's an alien invasion. You don't know if it's a drama.

You don't know if it's a dark comedy. Satire, you could throw all these in there. And what I'm gonna tell you is it's a mix of all of them. Yeah. Perfectly blended.

If you haven't seen this movie, these are spoilers. We are spoiling this, so if you haven't watched it, you need to pause right now. Go watch. And then come back to us. Freqs, come back.

Come back to us, okay? Because it's worth watching to hear this conversation that we're talking about. First off, Jesse Plymouth. Oh yeah. For a long time, this guy was called Fat Damon.

Remember that? Yeah. Now, I think he has, I thought he had surpassed the Fat Damon days when people were even calling him Fat Damon. That was already kind of disrespectful. I think, and this is gonna be controversial, he is a better actor than Matt Damon.

For sure. I think Jesse Plymouth is low-key one of the most dangerous- I like Matt Damon, but this- Actors working right now. He's not loud, he's not flashy. Just unsettling in a way that creeps up on you. Like he doesn't chew up scenery, he's absorbing you.

When he's in it. And then you've got Emma Stone. Quietly evolved from charismatic star into I will dismantle your expectations and smile while doing it. She shaved her head in this movie. For real.

Commitment to this role, to everything. I mean, we always kind of act like that's such a, a pivotal thing, but really the level of commitment you have to do. Natalie Portman did it, me for Vandetta. You know, we were like, no, they really actually shaved their hair. And it is kind of a big deal, guys.

I love my hair. If I was told that for a role, I was gonna have to shave my head or that I had the choice to wear wig or shave my head. That's a big, yeah. Probably have to go with wig. Had to go.

That's a big commitment for the role. She's in this phase now, Emma Stone, where every role feels like a dare. Oh yeah. And this was one of them. I mean, she shaved her head.

And then you've got that and you've got a mix of Jesse Plymouths and that's not just casting. That's chemistry with consequences. And you see it on film. It is high tension. It is, there's a kidnapping.

Yeah. And you're there for every step. They don't really cut away from the uncomfortable moments. It's there for a second. Do you know who he reminds me of?

And I'm just now coming up with a start. So I can't remember his name. After that passed away, was in Hunger Games and- Oh, Philip Seymour Hoffman. Is that him? Yes.

He kind of reminds me of a younger him. A younger version. And then he kind of looks like him, but also like the level of, I don't know, the depth that he has. Layers. Layers.

And it's commitment to the art is what I think Jesse Plymouths is. And you also got Aiden Delvis, who played Don. And you gotta love this character. Don. Yordos cast Aiden Delvis because he wanted a neurodivergent actor who was non-professional and had never been on a movie before.

And you felt that when you watched his performance. He was fantastic. He blew expectations out of the water, if there were any, but you felt for him. You felt the emotion. Suicide.

I'm still not over it. That suicide had me tearing up, man. That was hard. That was a hard scene. And you felt her reaction too.

That she had genuine empathy. Oh yeah. When he says, will you take me with you? Will you promise that I can go with you? I don't wanna be here.

Ah. It's an incredible performance by everybody on this set. Let's zoom out for a second, all right? This is a re-imagining of a South Korean film called Save the Green Planet, which you've never seen. Maybe some of the Freqs have.

Just know, this is how it is. It starts weird, then gets weirder, then suddenly you're questioning reality and your own moral compass. So now we've got the DNA for Bugonia. And it's filtered through a western lens, of course, but it's really just this dirty feeling. We're not getting a clean ride, and it's a psychological roller coaster, and that's what the movie that it came from was as well.

And Bugonia really does do that from beginning to end. It keeps you doing this, man. You never really know what's gonna happen. You never know who's telling the truth, what the conspiracies are, and that's what it is. It's like the premise alone with conspiracies, delusion versus truth.

Yeah, yeah, the isolation and the themes of isolation, being that he's on this farm, but also with access to all this conspiracy on the internet and rabbit hole, and they kinda talk about the psychology of that, which in our day and age, we have to be really careful of that internet conspiracy and AI psychosis that they have not figured out the answer to. I mean, they're letting people know. For example, AI will agree with you in pretty much any situation. It might feel good to hear it, it might feel validating, but it can lead to a really dangerous way of thinking, which is that everything I say to AI and every question I ask, I'm being reaffirmed back to me that what I'm saying is correct, and they haven't solved the problem, guys, so just FYI, no one has figured out how to keep that from happening. We may not, we may not.

You see that conversation between Michelle and, just blanked. Teddy. Teddy, good, got my brain today. Anyway, yeah, Michelle and Teddy talking about, she's like, you know, is it possible that you've just kind of gotten into this rabbit hole of conspiracy and you can't get yourself out, and he's like, no, I've researched that too. Yeah.

I know all about it. I'm not making this up. I mean, there's a whole element of that that's like, but maybe he really is just caught up in that. Yeah, but then again, it's that delusion versus truth. Is Teddy really insane or is he the only one seen clearly?

At least partially. And you don't know. I'm not making some conclusions. But how many times have you felt like that? You're tuning into something nobody else hears.

That's the frequency we're here at Parallel Frequencies, but it happens all the time. Well, definitely when, my husband loves to watch things that are like, you know, aliens build the pyramids kind of stuff. And honestly, I'm not one of those who's walking in going, oh, this is bull crap. This is such, you know, blah, blah, blah. I'm not one of those, but I'm also not one of those going in there being like, oh, absolutely, let's dig into this every theory and every conspiracy and everything I hear on these shows is truth.

I'm more like, yeah, that makes sense. Yeah. Yeah, potentially that's true. Aliens were always here. They were always among us.

Yeah. I mean, I'm kind of like, that doesn't surprise me. That wouldn't surprise me a bit. I mean, I would be keeping tabs on our crazy asses too, if I had the ability, you know, like, I could see. Yeah, we need to track in mythology in situations of magic and the fey and, you know, ancient civilizations where certain species of beings were the gods of that time period.

And then you kind of go into the whole, well, what if those were other worldly beings that were here before us that created humanity? All these ideas to me are like, yeah, that makes sense. I'm not gonna, you know, sit here and be like, whoa, that blew my mind. I'm gonna be like, yeah, probably. Yeah, and I think that's what would happen for the, they call it the age of disclosure or whatever.

And I think that's how we would, most of us would probably react like, yeah, okay. Okay. Like it's the worst kept secret there is. Right. That there's aliens, there's UFO, there's something else out there.

There is. Yep. There's something culturally interesting happening with Bugonia and you're getting this. We've talked about this before, how you're getting dumbed down scripts because people are doing this. They're on their phones for the whole movie.

So they gotta be reminded what's going on. Look, not all audiences are craving stories to be spoon fed to you. Yeah. A lot of us were done with the predictable arcs and safe endings. We want the tension.

We wanna think, I don't know where this is going, but I need to stay with it. And that's what Bugonia is built on. The whole time, you wanna stay with it because you don't know. And I love the movies that we don't, we don't know where they're going. You don't always have to know where you're going.

Yeah. There's little things along the way that make you switch your prediction of what's gonna happen next, where you're like, oh, well, wait a minute. And then did you do like I did and just quit? Quit doing that, yeah, like I don't know, I'm here for the ride. And then I gave up and then I was like, I'm just gonna watch, I'm just gonna observe this movie.

But that's what I did. I was doing all the things that you normally do. Is this, is he crazy? Is she an alien? Is, what, you do that until you don't.

You will stop doing that in this movie. And that's a different type of energy. You're like, I'm gonna just see how this plays out. My first clue, I don't know if you had a moment somewhere along the line where you're like, wait a minute, something more is happening here that's not typical. Like, that wouldn't be a typical situation.

For me was Michelle's reaction to being kidnapped. Now, she could just be a really, really involved human being, being a CEO, being a really empowered woman. She knows who she is, she knows what she's about. She has a lot of confidence. So when she's kidnapped to be like, I'm gonna gentle parent my way through this.

That to me was my first clue that like, this is not the way I would imagine a woman being kidnapped and to be chained to a bed in a basement to start reacting. And it's funny, cause she was doing all the corporate talk in there too. And it was almost like she was gentle parenting, but also trying to control a boardroom at the same time with the verbiage that she was using. All these big words and stuff, but yeah, go ahead, good. Yeah, handling herself under stress in that way is not typical.

Even if somebody were, I don't know, highly trained in meditative powers, you know, able to stay in that kind of calm state during duress, she handles it in such a way that starts to make you question, well, wait a minute. Is this something more is going on here? She has some other worldly qualities about her. And she does. Turns out she does.

She does. So there you go. Yeah, she does. But this is not a popcorn energy type of movie. It's a sit with it till the credits roll and then stare at the ceiling and think about what you just saw.

Oh, for sure. Like I'm gonna have to watch this movie again. I really do. But it is one of these ones that's gonna split the audience down the middle. Half of them gonna be saying genius and the other half, what the hell did I just watch?

Yeah, and again, we talked about like the movie making experience for like what movies, how movies adapt through the generations. Cause we talked about toys on Wednesday and we were talking about how that movie would hold up better in nowadays than it did when it came out probably. But these type of movies like Poor Things and The Favorite, these movies that he's making, this is a new generation type of movie. It's one that I think if you're used to movies being a certain way and they're really just for entertainment and you're like, I just want it to be exciting and fun and fast moving and whatever, then you're gonna be like, what did I just watch? Yeah.

This made me feel icky and I don't wanna see it again. While the rest of the, those of us craving art, craving thoughts, craving philosophy, craving deep discussion are gonna be like, ooh, this was juicy stuff. And I really like to sink my teeth into this kind of stuff. And can we also appreciate how both Jesse Plymouth and Emma Stone have mastered the art of uncomfortable silence. They can say more in a look or a stare than most actors do in a 10 minute long monologue.

And that's dangerous in a film like this, real dangerous. Yeah. Because it's built off of the dialogue. And at one point, I think he even says, don't use that word, dialogue. We're just talking.

I love it. But I love how he snaps back at her and kinda, that's where my instincts kicked in was the way he snapped back at her and you were never like, oh, sure, he seems crazy, but that didn't sound crazy at all. What were you saying? Yeah. So there's some believability.

He's definitely seeing some things and not unlike things that we in our world are fighting against, I mean, this whole element, like I said, there's columns of things going on here. One of the elements of this movie is this whole corporation, pharmaceutical company, money grab type of vibe where he's upset because his mother, I mean, she's ill. She was telling him they sold me the sickness and then they sold me the cure. And she's not wrong. They're not wrong.

That side of the story is not wrong. That's real stuff that people are dealing with in our healthcare system in this country anyway. So to have this element of like, he's fed up. Whether she's an alien or not, and I think at one point in the beginning when he's convincing Don that this is the right thing to do, and Don's like, well, what if she's not an alien? Like this will be really fucked up if she's not an alien.

But he's like, she's the CEO of this corporation that killed our family. So even then, even if it turns out she's not an alien, I think we're doing the right thing anyway. Exactly. So yeah. And he's just looking at it as an eye for an eye at that point.

He doesn't care what the other eye comes from. Yeah. Human or alien. It's whoever did this to his mother and to the people. And what's your final thoughts on Bugonia?

Well, I want to talk about the bees. Talk about the bees. I want to talk about the bees for a second. And let me interject before you even do, because if you look at this film throughout it, the cinematography, there are hexagons, which are- Yeah. Honeycombs, basically.

There are hexagons throughout the movie. Is that not the theme, the central core theme that connects everything together? And I just have to say, before I watched this movie, couple of, maybe a week ago, my dad comes in and he goes, you know what I noticed? There's no bees. No bees.

He's like, all these flowers, all these trees outside of our house that have been blooming that we see bloom around daybreak every year. He's like, usually they're full of bees. And we've had a very unusual, dry, warm winter. It's been the weirdest winter I've ever seen in Utah. And he's like, there's no bees.

I'm not hearing buzzing. I'm not hearing, and then I watched this movie. Yeah. So you can imagine how I'm freaking out a little bit. Where are the bees?

I'm like, oh, this sounds really, really, really, really something we have to pay attention to. That's what your Facebook post was just a couple days ago. You said, where are the bees? That makes sense. On the Pagans of Daybreak group, which I helped run on Facebook, if anyone remembers Facebook.

Do you guys remember Facebook? It's there still. It's there still. Some of us still use it. But anyway, yeah, I was like, this is an interesting concept to think about because he thought as a beekeeper, that was his, you know, on the farm, he's noticing some really big problems with the bees disappearing and dying off, and he blames the aliens for it.

Turns out they're the ones trying to save, save Earth from it because it's the humans and their influence on the world. I mean, we know how much influence, humans have had more influence on geology than any other era of history in any other age. So here's what I have to say about this. Animism will save the world, okay? For thousands of years, we have looked at the Earth, the animals and the resources on this planet as our, as for us.

They're here for us, okay? We are the, we colonize, we commercialize, we capitalize on the resources of this Earth, and the bees belong to us and the trees belong to us. If we saw all of that, and even inanimate objects, like the minerals in the Earth, as beings in coexistence with us, we would not be ruining our planet and thus making it so we can't live here anymore. And I said this when we talked about Pluribus, because we talked about that hive mind and how, you know, that influenced the Earth, and I thought, well, isn't it kind of an ego problem that we think we deserve to have individualism when it's ruining the planet? When the ending comes in this movie, okay?

This is like the pivotal, this is it, you guys. The ending, when she decides as empress that this experiment of humans has gone wrong. It's done, it didn't work, we tried, we did our best, it's over. She pops the bubble, and then the montage starts of seeing every human being on the planet drop dead. Now, I think maybe if I was younger, I would have looked at that montage and been like, oh, how awful, how sad.

Every human being, even the children, everyone is gone. Oh, that's just devastating. Now I'm like, service is right, service is right, man. We couldn't take care of our planet, we couldn't do a better job. This is what happens.

And if it makes sure the bees survive, then I guess we gotta go. I'm right there with you, I believe. I didn't have the sadness, and I wanna know about what the Freqs thought. I wanna know, did you watch that montage and go, oh no? Or were you like, yep?

And the Freqs out there, you gotta remember, this is what we're doing here, this is what we do. We like to decode the movies, we like to feel them. We like to argue about them at 2 a.m., they matter, because they do. When I send you text messages in the middle of the night, and I'm like, hey, what about this? That's what we do, that's what it's for.

Here's what's next. Here's what's, yeah, yeah. I got, before we get out of here, I'm gonna go ahead and tease another movie that I just watched. I saw Undertone. Ooh.

And we're gonna put that on the list. Yeah. And yeah, be on the lookout for that one. Yeah. That one right there's coming up.

This is Friday though, we're going into the weekend. What do you got going on this weekend? I don't even know. That's about what mine looks like, is nothing so far. I have to look at my calendar.

That's why I live by my calendar. Because I'm like. I get that, yeah, I get that. Well, we hope all the Freqs out there have a happy weekend. There's no holidays or anything this weekend, don't think?

No, you know what, let's just chill this weekend. Whatever you're doing, maybe just be like. Put some movies on. Let's put some movies on. The weather.

Peacock, Bugonia, Peacock, go watch this, you're good. Take care of your planet, okay guys? Yeah. If I could say anything to the whole planet at once, if I could say anything, I'd be like, is money really the most important thing when our Earth is dying? Can we use our powers of innovation to solve some of these problems, rather than how fast we can make AI do work for us?

Right. And that's my soapbox today. Yeah, I like it. You got on the soapbox hard here at the end. Coco was fired up going into the weekend.

Yeah, I was cheering for the bees in that movie. Let's see how you feel Monday. Are you gonna have this same type of energy Monday when we come back? I don't even know what we're talking about. Movie Monday.

It's gonna be a surprise to the Freqs today. It's a surprise to us, I'd be surprised to you guys. But that's gonna do it for this episode of Parallel Frequencies. I am Just Blane. This is Coco, you are the Freqs.

Land of a Thousand Hills, thank you.