Pop Culture, Tarot & the Movie Moments That Break Us | Parallel Frequencies

Just Blane (00:00)
Parallel frequencies, Just Blane and Coco here. Happy New Year, Coco.

Courtney Pearl (00:05)
Happy 2026!

Just Blane (00:09)
I

wish I had one of those little blowers. The budget.

Courtney Pearl (00:13)
This is my new

voice. This is how I talk now into the screen. I'm just kidding.

Just Blane (00:17)
The budget for

the show is actually too low to allow me to have one of those noise blowers. But what did you do for New Year's? What'd you get into?

Courtney Pearl (00:25)
so lame this year. mean, we've had years where we did, do you remember when we did the whole New Year's Eve at the break here locally and you did the DJing and there's comedy show and dancing and that was, that was me partying. That's, that was me getting out and doing something. And this year I did puzzles until the kids finally

Just Blane (00:35)
That

yeah!

Courtney Pearl (00:54)
We got to count down midnight and we did woohoo and we banged pots and pans on the porch and then went right to bed.

Just Blane (01:00)
That was you?

That was you? That was you guys making all that noise?

Courtney Pearl (01:04)
Bing, bing,

Just Blane (01:06)
Man, I heard that

all over and for a place that we live that's not supposed to have fireworks, there sure were a lot of fucking bombs going off in the middle of night. It was crazy around here. did, I felt like it was in war or something out there. Like I was ducking down when the bombs were hitting. Like it was crazy out there. Couldn't believe

Courtney Pearl (01:15)
yeah. Yeah. People do it.

Yeah, usually my kids

are asleep. They have not stayed up till midnight before. This was like the first year my youngest were old enough to actually stay up till midnight. They thought they were so special. Meanwhile, me and my husband felt like we had a hangover the next day and we didn't drink anything. We drank tea and the next day we were like, our faces are melting off.

Just Blane (01:34)
Yeah?

That's wild.

What was in that tea?

Was it some special mushrooms in that tea or anything? Or was it just straight up bought down at the...

Courtney Pearl (01:50)
nothing

straight as an arrow and we were just like, I'm old and tired.

Just Blane (01:57)
Well, you know what it was. We party so hard to bring in 2025 that it reminded me stay my ass at home. So you know what? Me and Lindsey got a treat. ⁓ Her parents, my in-laws, their kids, grandparents. They said, you know what? We'll come watch the kids. We'll come and you and Lindsey can go do something. we got to sit around and look at each other and think, well, what?

Courtney Pearl (02:04)
Yes!

Just Blane (02:23)
What are we going to do? Like, I don't even know what to do about it. But you know what we ended up doing was we went to dreamscape.

Courtney Pearl (02:25)
We forgot who we are without his.

there!

Just Blane (02:33)
I loved it. I didn't expect that. We were in the one here. I think they got them all over, but we were in downtown Salt Lake City. This place is like incredible. All this junk in there, literally, and I'm saying that in a nice way, but all the junk is trash. And they've made these crazy. Oh my God, it's literally a dreamscape. Let me tell you this. I did have an edible or three before I got in there. Lindsay was driving. Don't come at me. All right. She's clean. She's sober.

Courtney Pearl (02:46)
Mm-hmm.

Yes.

It's the best way to do it. I won't say it's from experience. I'm keeping my lips sealed on that, but definitely is the way to experience the termscape.

Just Blane (03:01)
my gosh!

YAYAYAYAY

It

was why but I was not expecting this. Now they had like these crazy hidden tunnels. had a, one of my favorite parts was, and I'm going to build one of my house, I think, but it was the, the pillow fort they built off the wall. I don't know if you remember that part. It was in a little center room. I can't wait to build me one of them in a theater room. Put me a little Nintendo, old Nintendo in there. Get to gaming, man.

Courtney Pearl (03:25)
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

I know all those spaces I went to, it reminds me of ⁓ the contemporary museum of art, museum of contemporary art, I can't remember, in Scottsdale Arizona. And there was this room that they had tucked behind another exhibit. You had to like weasel your way into it, but it was an entire room just ⁓ mirrors, ceiling and floor, all were mirrors.

Just Blane (03:49)
yeah.

yeah.

Courtney Pearl (04:03)
and they had these strings of LED lights, these like twinkly little star lights hanging so that the mirrors made it look infinite. Like you were just, you had just stepped into a galaxy and you were just floating in outer space. And I remember having this feeling like, I want a space like this in my house where I just sit in it and meditate and just float in outer space forever.

Just Blane (04:26)
Right? I think me and Lindsay did go through a couple of the places in dreamscape and we're like, you know what? This is what Courtney would want in her house right here. We did. Yeah.

Courtney Pearl (04:34)
Hence the cave, right? This is where I record

every time is this cave in my house.

Just Blane (04:41)
We literally

were picking out the rooms and stuff that she would like. And there was a tarot room in there. We liked that one. There was all kinds of stuff. were like, yeah, Courtney would dig this. I don't know if it was the edible that hit. I was happy in there. I don't know if it was me knowing what, cause me and Lindsay were by ourselves and I didn't know if it was me knowing what was going to happen later that night. You know I'm saying? And I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about Mexican food. That's what I was hyped up about. And.

Courtney Pearl (05:10)
You

Just Blane (05:10)
and stranger things. You hear me? Cause that's what happened on our New Year's Eve. Dreamscape and edible. And we got to eat some delicious Mexican food. I love Mexican food. I love Mexican food on New Year's Eve. I don't know why it's fun. Maybe it's a tradition me and Lindsey had. But then I don't know if everybody was like this, but this is the first year that I wasn't getting a bunch of texts. Happy New Year.

Courtney Pearl (05:13)
Yep.

Just Blane (05:36)
I didn't hear anybody saying, hey, we're going out tonight. You want to go out? I don't know if it's because I don't have any friends anymore or I do know why it happened. Everybody I knew was locked in on stranger things before midnight.

Courtney Pearl (05:40)
Yeah.

Yeah, that's what we were doing. We were puzzles and catching up on shows and stranger things for sure.

Just Blane (05:52)
So I wanna know.

So we got the night out. So I want to know if anybody else out there did this. Went to dinner and then snuck back in that house quietly so the kids didn't hear you and go downstairs and watch Stranger Things finale. Cause that's what me and Lindsey did. We went and watched it. We snuck back into our own house. So the kids didn't know we were here. So we get two hours to watch that finale. ⁓ I can't be the only one. You know what?

I wonder how many lives got saved. I mean, this legit, how many lives got saved because they didn't go out because they were sitting at home watching Stranger Things. Midnight hit and we were in the middle of the episode. I'm like, I don't care. I don't give a crap. Vagina's on the screen. Like we're going to, I don't care about what's going on at midnight. know, like that's it was awesome. It was, was an experience.

Courtney Pearl (06:30)
Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

Thank you, Stranger Things, for all you've saved.

Just Blane (06:51)
Caught up you're Yeah,

did you did you watch it all you're good?

Courtney Pearl (06:56)
Yep, all caught up,

ready to do our episode on the recap of season five when we get to that one. So stay tuned for that. We're ready.

Just Blane (07:04)
Yeah, and

we're gonna get in it. We'll get to that. We'll get to that probably next week, because we're at the new year. We got some other stuff we gotta attend to first. You know what, it is the new year. Do you have a deck of tarot cards right there with you? ⁓ go.

Courtney Pearl (07:13)
Mm-hmm.

Always. When do I not get deck

of tarot cards within reach? I have the good tarot with me today. ⁓

Just Blane (07:22)
It's like, it's like one of those moments that like I

could have planned and set it up and be like, hey, you make sure you got the tarot cards on standby. But I knew I didn't have to, cause you were going to have them. But you know what I think we should do is a tarot card draw for our show here, parallel frequencies for the year of 2026. What are we looking at? What we got to look forward to? Is the show going to burn out? Is it going to bomb? What's going to happen? We getting death or are going to just

Courtney Pearl (07:31)
You don't. Yeah.

Mmm.

Just Blane (07:49)
Tell us here Courtney, Coco who's got a pool car.

Courtney Pearl (07:51)
You know what I love to

do? And for those of you follow me on social media, Prism Healing or ⁓ even the Practically Magic podcast, ⁓ Instagram, I love to do a What's In What's Out tarot reading for the year. So I've kind of pulled just a couple of cards here for us, for our show specifically. What is in, what's out? And ⁓ yeah, it's interesting. So I'm just doing kind of a mini one here. I just have the three.

Just Blane (08:10)
Yeah. ⁓

Courtney Pearl (08:18)
Three cards, which makes six total, because we're going to do what's in, what's out for three. Three different cards. ⁓ What's out this year for us? Winged creatures. Winged angel creatures. Out.

Just Blane (08:23)
Okay.

Okay, no more waiting. Let me write this down.

Let me write this down here in my little black book here. Not one of those kinds, not one of them.

Courtney Pearl (08:37)
Yeah, but specifically the Hierophant

card being the one that I pulled here, it tells me that other people telling us what to do with our show is out.

Just Blane (08:51)
Out! Get out of here! Don't tell me what to do!

Courtney Pearl (08:53)
We're the bosses.

We work for ourselves. So we're not looking to a ⁓ authority figure to tell us what we should or shouldn't do with our show. We'll do what we want basically. So get ready for that friends. you're just jumping in as a fan, you're kicking it off with the right people at the right time. Cause we're like, no guardrails here. ⁓

Just Blane (09:06)
Yep, until the-

until the

DMCA notices get hit. No, we don't use third party content. Or until Joe Bob Briggs sends me a cease and desist for stealing his gimmick. It's one of those, I don't know.

Courtney Pearl (09:33)
Yeah, mean, flattery versus the versus impression. You could take it both ways, I think. But what we're not going to do, what else is out is self doubt. The seven of water comes up ⁓ sitting there thinking about how we feel about things and like, do we feel this way? Do we feel that way about things? That's out. So we're not going do that other than we're taught when we talk about our shows that we're going to be talking about, because there's a lot of a lot of how we feel about those shows.

Just Blane (09:37)
Sure.

I love this.

Yes!

Yeah, absolutely.

Courtney Pearl (10:04)
That's definitely gonna be in. And riding on panda bears, it's out. They're not to be used for riding on people. These are holy sacred animals and they need to be treated as such. Stop riding on them like horses. Don't do that, it's out. ⁓ Hey, guess what's in? ⁓ Winged creatures.

Just Blane (10:09)
That's it.

No. What's that?

Courtney Pearl (10:30)
like angels are back in. ⁓

Just Blane (10:33)
Okay, so now people can tell us what to do. Is that what? Wait a minute.

Courtney Pearl (10:37)
No, no, just the wing of creatures. So here's the best part about this. This one means we're the ones who make the decisions and we get to fly. That's what this means. OK, so nine of air is the tarot card for those who are tarot fanatics and know what that means. Nine of air. We make the decisions. We are going nowhere but up. There is.

Just Blane (10:47)
Yes.

Courtney Pearl (11:04)
no stopping us now and we have wings. there's that. This is also in ⁓ making choices with money.

Just Blane (11:17)
⁓

Courtney Pearl (11:17)
You know, like having a split like this or that with money. And what I interpret this card as is playful energy. So this is playful energy that's in. And last one, pearls are in.

Just Blane (11:23)
Alright.

Ugh.

Courtney Pearl (11:37)
We like pearls, we like pearl energy. ⁓ So this is actually ⁓ letting ourselves be rubbed a little raw in our feelings, in our feels. like things kind of like ⁓ rubbing like sand rubs on a pearl to create that beautiful pearl surface that they have. It requires a lot of rubbing sand. So there's gonna be some sticky points this year that's gonna make us feel about it, but.

Just Blane (11:45)
Mmm.

Courtney Pearl (12:06)
All in all, it's gonna be a good thing, because it creates pearls, right? Pearls of wisdom. That's what's in and out for parallel frequencies this year.

Just Blane (12:10)
I love it.

I love this. So we got our own 2026. We're look back at this at the end of the year and we're gonna see if the winged creatures were out and in. We're gonna see if self doubt. Yeah, right. And self doubt is gonna be gone. That's out. We were talking about that before we even started recording today. The self doubt. Yeah, we were talking about that. And we're gonna really dive into that. You mentioned it. We're gonna dive into that when we talk about Ted Lasso. Cause that's one of your favorite shows. We're gonna get to that later this year.

Courtney Pearl (12:22)
In different ways.

No, that's before I pulled any part. Yeah, crazy.

Yeah, that's on the list

this year. Yep, we're going we're doing it.

Just Blane (12:46)
It's crazy to say.

It's crazy to say this year. Is it though?

I'm not sure. I feel like... Yeah, go ahead.

Courtney Pearl (12:51)
Well, here's what I have to

say. I need people to go listen to what we're talking about on Practically Magic as well, because we talk a lot about a stuff that I bring up there because the shows and the things that we're watching are gonna, they're gonna hit spiritual, ethical, political, they're gonna hit all these things. But in Practically Magic, I'm gonna talk a little bit more about how seasonal cycles affect us and our healing and our.

Just Blane (13:08)
Yes.

Courtney Pearl (13:19)
power and how we manifest. And I just have to say one thing to everybody listening. New Year's is not the time to start new things, guys. New Year's resolutions, not the thing. Don't do it. Because seasonally, it's not actually congruent with what our bodies and what the seasons are doing. So don't go all gung-ho on, I'm going to lose the weight. I'm going to make the money. I'm going to do this. I'm going to do that. It's OK to have it be a slow burn into spring.

Just Blane (13:34)
Yeah.

Courtney Pearl (13:49)
Okay.

Just Blane (13:50)
I like it. You know what mean? And I love the slow burns. Let me ask you something real quick. Let me ask you something about a slow burn and movies and all that. You ever watched a movie where nobody leaves the room, but somehow you feel like you've traveled emotionally, spiritually, maybe even illegally. know, like you've ever seen that something like that.

Courtney Pearl (13:54)
Yeah, it's.

Ooh,

that's a good question. I would have to look back on some of the, yeah, there's been some great movies where they've done a lot with so little, right? Like as far as production, they're just like, we're doing this entire movie in this one space.

Just Blane (14:21)
Yeah!

Those are, we mentioned this a couple weeks back and these are my favorite types of movies I realized without even knowing it is the ones at dinner scenes or literally locked in a room. I even thought about one and I didn't even think about until I was thinking about this, Cube. There's a movie called Cube and these people, eight people or something wake up in a cube and they don't know how they got there. There's like, there's four of those movies now about this but they get locked in a cube and they're going through and there's booby traps everywhere.

Courtney Pearl (14:40)
Mm-hmm.

Just Blane (14:56)
and they gotta figure out how to get through. There's codes on the wall. That's a fun one to watch. There's tons of movies out there that I started thinking about that were dinner. You're just sitting at dinner and we watch it for two hours and we're like, whoa, I just sat through a dinner scene. What do you got? What comes to mind for you?

Courtney Pearl (15:00)
Okay.

Now.

Yep.

Ooh, the first one that came to my mind when you said that, and it wasn't the whole movie, but the dinner scene in this movie is so powerful and long. Like it's a real, it's almost a complete thing all on its own is August, Osage County, the Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts. I mean, I've seen it pulled and replayed so many times in so many different places because it's so epic. The emotional.

Just Blane (15:36)
Okay?

Courtney Pearl (15:47)
You can cut it. It's so thick with a knife. Basically, the patriarch of the family has just died and the family is all gathering together. Meryl Streep is kind of this drunk mess of a mom. And she starts ranting the monologues that she gets in that scene. Fantastic and so raw and powerful.

Just Blane (16:11)
One of the ones that pops in my head is classic. I gotta talk about it off the top. It's My Dinner with Andre. Two dudes, one table, deep thoughts. They laid the groundwork for what was gonna come in these types of movies later, you know? It was the movie that really said the plot is optional and the vibes are mandatory. Most people, they turn it off in 12 minutes. That's about it. Or they watch the whole thing and they love it. But I did have to mention that one.

Courtney Pearl (16:19)
Yeah.

Yeah.

Just Blane (16:41)
I know if you've ever seen that. It's probably, it's a little older probably. ⁓

Courtney Pearl (16:41)
Eww.

yeah,

in a minute. That's when I have to go back and revisit. But it does make me think about how much that maybe inspired so many different scenes that, or even movies where they're like, we're gonna have the entire movie set as a dialogue between two people. And there isn't one coming to my mind at the moment, but I'm thinking there is probably so many movies where that was the premise. Like that's where they wrapped the whole movie in. And they might've done.

Just Blane (16:52)
Yeah.

Yeah!

Yeah

Courtney Pearl (17:11)
flashbacks and they might have done, you know, things, it's the entire movie is set as these two people having a dialogue.

Just Blane (17:17)
Yeah, and that's incredible because low budget, but big stakes. And that's the thing too, it's a gamble. You're gonna either get a huge payoff, but not everybody is gonna like these types of films. Not everybody likes My Dinner with Andre, yet it's probably one of the better movies out there, ever. But 12 minutes, man, people are like, yeah, lots of people. I don't wanna say most, I don't wanna assume. But most people, a lot of people,

Courtney Pearl (17:36)
Definitely mentioned a lot though.

Just Blane (17:47)
will tune out in 12 minutes. They're bored, they're bored to death, they're done with it. I just caught a movie the other night on, I think it's on Peacock, maybe on Amazon Prime, called The Invitation. You might have seen the poster for it. It's a recent movie, last couple of years. It's this weird dinner party, they all get together, and immediately you're like, man, something's off here, like something's not right.

Courtney Pearl (18:00)
Mmm.

Just Blane (18:14)
You feel like you want to leave, like when you're watching this movie. I enjoyed it though. Everybody's kind of smiling, you know, like you've been handed a cult pamphlet, you know, one of those kinds of situations. It has the most awkward pauses in a movie. Like this movie weaponizes awkward pauses to the audience. It's wild. I watched it in one sitting. Best way to watch it.

Courtney Pearl (18:18)
Mm-hmm. Okay putting it on my list

Just Blane (18:43)
⁓ But yeah, the invitation is out there. I believe I saw it on Peacock the other night.

Courtney Pearl (18:49)
Okay, yeah, I'm gonna put that one on my list. Definitely. As you were talking, there's a movie that I did not put on dinner scenes list, but I just watched it. So I think it needs to be added on there. And it's kind of going along with the theme of we're wrapping up a lot of Christmas movies. We're wrapping up a lot of like those family dinner scenes. A lot of them are holiday movies because you've got my gathering for the holidays. I just watched Helen Mirren.

Just Blane (19:14)
Yeah

Courtney Pearl (19:19)
And Tony Colette, our buddy, our friend, we give the Oscar to in Goodbye June that came out last year. It's now on one of the streaming. ⁓ But it it basically centers. And as you talk about like an entire movie happening in a in one space, essentially the whole movie does take place in June's hospital room as she's dying. She's a mom with cancer. And so you have Kate Winslet playing her daughter. Tony Colette's playing her daughter.

Just Blane (19:23)
Yeah.

yeah.

Courtney Pearl (19:49)
⁓ They're all kind of gathering right around Christmas time. They don't know if she's even going to make it to Christmas. She's rapidly, her health is rapidly declining. So they get to like be front row seats to her death. ⁓ They're kind of dealing with family dynamics the whole time. But the movie ends with a family dinner 18 months after her death. And so like, where are they now kind of a thing? Like how did this family

Just Blane (19:56)
Mmm.

Mmm!

Courtney Pearl (20:18)
end up resolving a lot of their things together and what is this family like after this loss? And it's a beautiful movie, ⁓ but we're talking about like, you were talking about the invitation, a lot of things about death this year. Did you feel like, I like a lot of the movies and stuff were centered around someone dying or the facing of death or grief or loss. So.

Just Blane (20:38)
Yeah?

Even the ones we talked about, like the Family Stone was basically the same plot line you just talked about right there, but it was Diane Keaton. Diane.

Courtney Pearl (20:53)
Yes! And everyone

finding out she was dying and won't be there next Christmas for sure. Yeah, idea.

Just Blane (20:59)
And then we see next Christmas. We see this next

Christmas. They take us to the next Christmas. know, yeah, so that's that's crazy that it's right in line with each other.

Courtney Pearl (21:09)
Very similar.

Yeah. Well, speaking of Tony Colette and dinner scenes, what about the movie we talked about and which movie project Hereditary? you remember that dinner scene?

Just Blane (21:13)
⁓ yeah.

Yes.

Oh, I do. I do. Just the feeling of dread and terror as a 24 and Tony Collette in a 24 movies can give you it was chilling.

Courtney Pearl (21:33)
The grief,

the grief from her losing her daughter and then that grief kind of turning into a monstrous sort of really uncomfortable rant. That reminded me of Meryl Streep's character too in All-Such County, which is like, ⁓ you know, dinner table scene where mom is gonna lay it all out. She's gonna tell the truth and you are not gonna like it.

Just Blane (21:59)
Yeah.

I mean, the 824's formula, if you really think about it right here, elevated horror, whatever the hell elevated horror is, but that's the genre it's going for. And it does play off of grief, real emotions. Look at the movie Heretic. Heretic was in one room. It was in a house and it was the same 824. And it had almost a dinner scene. I don't think he was even baking the blueberry pie. It was a candle.

Courtney Pearl (22:28)
Yeah, I don't know if you found it. But definitely that vibe and elevated meaning that it's a horror that's also tapping into like real world emotions, real world debates. You the idea of like religion, is it what's the true religion? How do these girls feel? like elevated to like we're not just scaring people, we're making them think and we're making them feel.

Just Blane (22:28)
And was a whole thing about, yeah, like, but.

Yes!

Yeah.

Courtney Pearl (22:59)
Incre-

Just Blane (22:59)
So here's the thing, too. It's hard to make people scared of ghosts who don't believe in ghost.

Courtney Pearl (23:05)
Mm-hmm.

Just Blane (23:07)
So those movies don't scare them, but you give them something that affects everybody, grief, guilt, all these things, all these kind of emotions that have negative connotations to them, you make them feel that. And that's a whole different kind of terrified. It's like, my gosh, I feel that. Because a lot of the stuff they do in the A24 movies or the elevated horror movies,

Courtney Pearl (23:23)
Yeah, that's real.

Just Blane (23:35)
is feed off of that feeling of grief. If they put a car crash in a scene and people die, there's a lot of people out there that affects. A lot of people have lost people that way. So they're tapping into a wider net maybe for horror because it does affect everybody. Not everybody's got the heaven and hell belief so they don't care about the exorcist movies because that's such a big joke to them anyway. You know, so there's stuff out there that will touch.

Courtney Pearl (23:46)
Yes.

Yes.

Just Blane (24:03)
everybody. I just don't like it being called elevated horror. I don't know. I think it's just horror.

Courtney Pearl (24:09)
It's for the elevated cultural people is what it was what that means, I think. But, know, in speaking of that, things that are real threats. One of the other dinner scenes I put on my list of like looking back at all the famous dinner scenes and movies, one that came to mind, one of my favorite movies of all time is American History X.

Just Blane (24:13)
Okay.

Whoo! That's a banger there.

Courtney Pearl (24:35)
Do you remember

the dinner scene with his dad? And it was kind of a flashback, Edward Norton. I mean, you see ⁓ a character and his family and how they've been affected by ⁓ basically adopting Nazi racist views ⁓ of the world and how that has affected their family. How has it affected them, their friends, their neighborhood, all of that. And you see all that and...

Just Blane (24:40)
Yes.

Yeah.

Courtney Pearl (25:03)
It's easy to watch the movie and be like, ⁓ look how awful that is, how horrible that is. I would never be like that. I'm not racist. And then when you get to that flashback scene where he's talking to his dad and his dad is basically just introducing the idea of like, is the DEI programs really that fair? And like, if they hire a guy just because he happens to be black and I'm better for the job, is that really fair? I mean, he's just...

Just Blane (25:26)
Yeah

Courtney Pearl (25:33)
planting these little racist seeds, showing that it's not about whether you're racist or not, it's that potentially we live in a racist world and that we are all affected by it and can be affected by it. ⁓ so like when you talk about being scared or like what's a real threat, that dinner scene came to my mind. It's not a horror film, but it's definitely one that's elevated.

Just Blane (26:00)
It's very tense. that's what, that's a great point. Like it doesn't have to be a horror movie. A lot of these aren't that we talked about, like holiday movies. But then again, losing your mom and all that, that's a horror. You know, that's scary. People don't want to do that. Yeah.

Courtney Pearl (26:02)
Yeah.

Yeah, definitely a reality for a lot of people. That's what they're going through,

especially at the holidays. They're sitting around a family and they're, I mean, just sitting around and confronting family, just being around your family. When are we most likely to be the most triggered by all of our negative feelings and emotions? We can love our family to death and still be triggered by what comes up at a family dinner.

Just Blane (26:30)
Yes.

Absolutely. I got-

Yeah, I got one more I want to get to, but before I do, I got to hear yours because this will be the last one. But yeah, give me one more and then I got one.

Courtney Pearl (26:45)
Okay. Ugh.

Okay, I'll give you my favorite. So we're moving from horror to intense to ⁓ humorous here with my favorite dinner scenes. And there's more than one in this movie. It's Edward Scissorhands.

Just Blane (26:51)
Okay.

Okay, okay.

⁓ my god, I forgot about that one.

Courtney Pearl (27:06)
Edward like eating the peas with his little scissor blades. It gets me every time. It's emotional because I have this like, I want to help him so much. I just want to help. He's like trying so hard and you just want to help him and you hate it when people are kind of like, ⁓ like what is he doing? And they kind treat him bad. But my favorite thing about this, these scenes, my top favorite thing.

Just Blane (27:26)
Yeah!

Courtney Pearl (27:35)
is the dad, Ed, because there are scenes where they're sitting around having dinner and they're having conversations. And it's like the dad is having a totally different conversation with whoever. He doesn't even care who's listening. He's he's totally talking about his own thing. When when Edward comes to sit down at the table and he's like, ⁓ yeah, so that neighbor woman took all of her clothes off and showed me this a lot.

Just Blane (27:52)
Yes!

Courtney Pearl (28:04)
And everyone else just stops like Winona Ryder and Dan West. They're all looking and they all just look at Edward and the dad is just like, so that's so great. I'm so glad you're getting out there and you're doing your thing. And I'm so proud of you. And I think that is the funniest thing of all time. Favorite, favorite dinner.

Just Blane (28:26)
Hilarious.

Hilarious. Hilarious. got, here's my last one I'm gonna talk about. And I am hyped up about this one.

Courtney Pearl (28:28)
Sorry.

Just Blane (28:33)
Coherence!

Courtney Pearl (28:34)
Mmmmm

Just Blane (28:35)
This is a must

watch movie. I have, I'm not going to exaggerate. I have seen this movie over a hundred times. Came out in 2013, sci-fi, horror. I don't even want to spoil it all for you, but it's, it's basically a dinner scene. They're at a house for a dinner party and there's a comet overhead and things get crazy.

I'm talking about ape shit crazy enough that I, the first time I watched this movie, I started immediately back over and I can't wait. I cannot wait to dive in because we're going to do a full episode about this movie, Coherence. You're going to have to go watch it. It's on Peacock, Amazon Prime, both of those for free if you have the subscription. And I saw it. I've been watching this movie for 10 years.

Courtney Pearl (29:12)
Mmmmm

Just Blane (29:33)
Over a hundred times I really think that this is one of the best sci-fi movies ever made. Sure it's got plot holes or it's got stuff going on, but it's only caused discussion and debate and it's all word of mouth. Like this movie didn't get any real publicity and you never heard of it you? I got an even funnier story. I was at Phinex, same place. You were there too.

Courtney Pearl (29:33)
Ready.

Yeah, I didn't hear about it until a long time after. Yeah.

Just Blane (30:00)
But it was a couple of years back and I was about to interview one of the only people in existence that I knew that this, that knew this movie was, that existed, you know? And I couldn't wait to talk him about it. Elijah Wood was sitting there and Elijah Wood put this list, Coherence, on a movie list on AMC or Shudder, something like that, a long time ago, as one of his. And I still don't think anybody's seen it.

So I could not wait to get up to him to shake his hand and talk about that movie, but I knew what was gonna happen. Me and him were gonna probably go disappear off, run a theater and hold a private showing for whoever wanted to come see Co-Heads so that we could talk about it. Courtney, this movie, I'm telling you, it's one of those, I mean, you see me hype up a bunch of stuff, but this one right here to me is infreakin' credible.

Courtney Pearl (30:41)
You should!

Let's do it.

Just Blane (30:57)
And I'm going tell you why we're going to do a whole episode on it because I can't believe this. I'm almost shaking. You saw me checking my email a minute ago. I have reached out to James Ward Burkett, the director of Coherence, and he has agreed to come on here and talk to us about the movie because he loves talking about it. He directed this movie and he's going to come on parallel frequencies and talk about this. James Ward Burkett.

Courtney Pearl (31:17)
What?

⁓

Just Blane (31:25)
Jim Burkett, we're gonna talk about all of his other projects he's got going on too. I know he's got some Kickstarters and stuff going on. I am hyped up, I'm seriously hyped up because I'll get to ask him the questions about this movie and I want you to go watch this movie so we can answer.

Courtney Pearl (31:40)
Yes, what better way to deep dive? Let's get the director.

Just Blane (31:45)
And I want to preface it by saying that sometimes no answer at all is the best answer. And that's what a lot of this movie did. So I hope he comes in and says the same type of thing. I hope he's like, you know what? It's up for debate. It's up for discussion. I don't want him to come in here and have to answer if that's not what the intention was, because some of the best movies out there, leave it all up to your mind. know, some people hate that stuff. They're like, I just want a clear cut ending.

Courtney Pearl (32:02)
Yeah. No.

Just Blane (32:14)
or a clear cut beginning, whatever it may be, and you don't get that. Jim Berkett, cannot, I'm telling you, I'm hyped up. I'm excited. We're getting the director of this movie, come on, with us. This is a big, big movie. It was an independent movie. Oscilloscope is the film company or whatever that put it out. I'm probably pronouncing that wrong. But I have broke down this movie in my mind.

Courtney Pearl (32:30)
Yeah.

Just Blane (32:41)
And now we're gonna actually get to talk to the director himself in the coming weeks. I don't know when it'll happen, but be on the lookout for that. That's big news, that's breaking news to you too, Courtney. What do think?

Courtney Pearl (32:51)
That's amazing. all

I I was gonna ask so we're gonna do some ⁓ some scheduling on what shows are are we gonna talk about on what days of the week starting with our official launch of this show? So would you count this one as like movie from your childhood classic or is this a?

Just Blane (33:02)
Yeah

Courtney Pearl (33:11)
deserving of its own category.

Just Blane (33:11)
⁓

Home category probably for this. We might have to add a new category to our list because it looks like we're gonna start having some bigger named guests come in. And I don't wanna have to turn a guest away because we're doing Just Blaine's trailer park, you know?

Courtney Pearl (33:16)
Okay. ⁓

Yeah.

Yeah,

no, we have a lot of flexibility and a lot of things to cover and I am excited. I think there's going to be room in our schedule for a free day where whatever we wanna talk about is that day or if we have a guest, we get to plop it into that day. So I'm excited to put this all together. It's gonna be amazing.

Just Blane (33:48)
Yeah!

That's a big, big

pickup. Literally got the email directly from James himself, Jim. Maybe he goes by now. James will poke it. I cannot that I'm, I'm so excited, but you know what today is today we're going to do just by Blaine's trailer park. Just Blaine's trailer park coming out right now. We got a intro song now. think now I've talked about my buddy, Tidylocks in the past and he did a show over the weekend. He's a.

Courtney Pearl (34:03)
So excited.

Just Blane (34:21)
comedian, he's retired military. I'm gonna put that first, he's retired Air Force. Meaning he was pro wrestler, pro wrestlers together, was my manager for a while, but tattie locks, lot of creativity. A lot of my creativity got unlocked because this guy allowed it, know? Like he was already doing it and he kinda showed a lot of others. It's okay, it's okay to be weird.

We are the weirdos mister, know, like that's where we stood. Yeah. Well, let me show you here. He did this thing. He's in Omaha. He did this thing for backline comedy. And I think they got challenged to do something. And I think we're going to use this for Just Plays Trailer Park theme song. I don't know if it really goes along with it, but check this out. They wrapped on top of a trash heap here.

Courtney Pearl (34:48)
Pave the way, yes. Pave the way for the rest of us.

Just Blane (35:13)
That's probably off there overall.

Okay.

man, the sink, the sink up right there. The sink up to the boot dropping and the beat that was that put it over the heads for me. That's my buddy, Todd. likes right there. Yeah, they, you know, what's even wilder about this. And I think I'm getting this right. But my buddy's real name is Todd Graves. And the other guy in this video's name is Todd Graves.

Courtney Pearl (36:21)
You

Yup.

Boom.

I like the little camera shake too.

Just Blane (36:50)
I believe or Todd Dillon. It's they got the same names.

Courtney Pearl (36:53)
What?

Just Blane (36:54)
Crazy.

I mean, it's a common name. But that makes it even wilder that get two common names and they're both exactly the same. But that's crazy.

Courtney Pearl (37:03)
Is this like a split universe

kind of a thing or is this there's something happening that's that that doesn't just happen. That's not.

Just Blane (37:09)
I don't know.

No, I

think them two guys, they need their own show. They need their own podcast.

I know a guy. I know some people that can help him. I know some people that can help him. Now let's get to our first trailer. I'm going play this one right

Courtney Pearl (37:17)
It's it's hot.

Love it.

Just Blane (37:28)
video game.

historical inspiration. Excavate the past with me as we discuss our favorite characters and how their pixels came from the past. You can find me on Apple podcasts or anywhere you like to listen to podcasts. I'll see you in the

You know, he's talking my language. I mean, I'm a huge video game fan. Pixels from the past. I'm a fan of it.

Courtney Pearl (38:06)
So am I to understand

that this is ⁓ how current video game characters were inspired by real people from history?

Just Blane (38:16)
That's what it seems like to me and I think that's a phone show right? Like that's a cool idea.

Courtney Pearl (38:19)
Okay.

I'd be super into that. history part of things I'm all for. I'd have to learn a little bit more about the video game characters if it was me, but I like to know.

Just Blane (38:31)
Well, maybe that'll help

you. Maybe if you know more about the history than the video game people, then you would relate because they would say, hey, this is Genghis Khan. And you'd like, oh my gosh, this guy's going to be awful. And you find out it's the villain from Sonic, the Hedgehog, the one that Jim Carrey plays. Could be the same type of thing. I think that's an awesome thing.

Courtney Pearl (38:41)
Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

Yeah,

I'm fascinated by that. That would probably get me to play the video games because I would go, now I've heard this whole history and now I wanna see what that looks like in the video game.

Just Blane (38:56)
I dig that.

Yeah, yeah, we're gonna have to check that one out. Pixels from the past. All right, let's get to our next one right here.

It's the

Courtney Pearl (39:13)
.

Just Blane (39:12)
2000.

Golden Age of Teen Television

is starting to dim and a little show called Gilmore Girls hits the airwaves. Viewers meet two best friends, a young mom and her teen daughter.

else did you hear?

It wasn't exactly love at first sight. Sure, the show had fans during its seven season run, but... People didn't necessarily come up to me as much when the show was actually on to say, aren't you that person from Gilmore Girls? I don't know that that many people were aware of it. It wasn't like a lot of other shows at the time. Soapy dramas that followed teens stuck in love triangles. It was a comedy and it followed three generations of women and the quirky residents of the small town.

they lived in. Stars Hollow, Connecticut. How many cups have you had this morning? None. Plus? Five, but yours is better. So it wasn't until Gilmore Girls hit streaming that it became a global sensation. probably fall asleep to Gilmore Girls every night. I watch it non-stop. It's kind of like background music at our house. I think of it as a Prozac

It's like a dream come true.

of people by now told me like, you know, when I went through this or cancer or I had lost my mom.

break up your show healthy and that is to me wow

Yeah. Yeah. ⁓

Courtney Pearl (40:40)
Mm-hmm

Just Blane (41:08)
show called the Gilmore Girls and I'm like yeah mom it's based on the town I grew up in.

Courtney Pearl (41:14)
Okay. Okay.

Just Blane (41:16)
So how does a TV series that ended nearly two decades ago continue to resonate with new generations of fans? And what does it tell us about who we want to be as friends, parents, neighbors? Underneath it all, the thing that is undeniable is that we love each other. The show is very much about a community and a sense of community. And

I think people are liking that and perhaps they're yearning for it. I'm Chloe Nguyen. This is Generation Gilmore Girls.

Courtney Pearl (41:45)
Aww.

Just Blane (41:45)
a three-part podcast

about the TV we love and how it shapes us. Well, Gilmore Girls changed my life, which was not supposed to be the case.

From Connecticut Public, the station that brought you Generation Barney. It makes you feel good. It does. does. Coming December 2nd. Follow us wherever you get your podcasts or at ctpublic.org slash Gilmar.

Okay. Okay. You tell me what I'll

Courtney Pearl (42:15)
All right.

guess this is the universe's sign that I need to start watching Gilmore Girls.

Just Blane (42:19)
I saw you just enjoying that. You were enjoying that. What's up?

Did you ever?

Courtney Pearl (42:26)
was fully aware of it. I know that that's where Melissa McCarthy kind of got her fame, her start and I'm a huge fan of her. Man, who isn't? She's amazing. I do know that there was a big boom of watching it again during COVID and that became kind of people's lifeline. I know that it had a huge influence.

Just Blane (42:32)
Yeah.

Courtney Pearl (42:48)
Maybe more so than when it was originally on. And so I'm very happy for that. And if it is as amazing as everybody says, and I've only seen scenes, I've only seen little parts, ⁓ which, you know, I just felt like it was when it was on, it was like one of those feel good WB type shows that I was not really that into and didn't give it a chance. ⁓ But I have a good friend, April Cobb. I'm going to give her a shout out right now. April Cobb designs fabric.

She made ⁓ a locally famous daybreak fabric that she sells at the farmer's market. So she makes, you know, tea towels and whatnot out of this fabric she designed. And she made her great mark in the world by making a Gilmore Girls fabric. And that really took off. It was very, very popular. So people must love it.

Just Blane (43:30)
Mmm.

Well, that'd be a great sponsor for the Generation,

Generation Gilmore Girls podcast here. I love that idea. Not, I love the trailer. Great trailer. It's long, but I think all of it was necessary. It might be an extended trailer. I don't know. ⁓ I loved hearing all the fandom and I think this is a great representation of what you could do with almost any TV show out there. And a lot of them have now.

They've got these rewatch. I just ran across one pod meets world. It's boy meets world. It's Topanga, Ryder Strong, he played Sean and it's Eric. They got the three of them on a podcast.

Courtney Pearl (44:18)
Yep.

Yeah, that's...

Just Blane (44:26)
⁓ I want

them to bring me out. I want to bring them on ours and then you know, they bring us on theirs. That'd be fun.

Courtney Pearl (44:32)
Yeah, I want to talk about ⁓ their shows and I mean, well, truthfully, the very first podcast I ever listened to back when podcasts were just kind of up and coming, like just starting out, ⁓ my very first one was an X-Files rewatch podcast, breaking it down one episode at a time. And it was

Just Blane (44:53)
All right.

Courtney Pearl (44:59)
Kumail Nanjiani's X-Files Files podcast. That was the first episode, first podcast I'd ever listened to. Someone knew I was a big fan of X-Files. They like, you gotta listen to this podcast, you'll love it. He's basically just a big fan of the show and wanted to just break it down one episode at a time. So he just does, you know, a re-watch, his thoughts and opinions, a summary.

And I mean, I'm such a big fan of the show. I loved that just as much as the show. Right?

Just Blane (45:32)
That's incredible,

yeah. I wanna do that with Cheers or something, that's the one I'm looking at. We have to do like 200 something episodes, that'd be wild.

Courtney Pearl (45:39)
Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah.

Just Blane (45:41)
Now I got one more podcast trailer for us today. This is a special one though, because I was getting concerned and worried, you know, people saying AI is going to take our jobs and all that. And I just wanted to see how close we are to AI taking our jobs. And what I did was ⁓ work with ChatGPT and Sora to give it a prompt.

Courtney Pearl (45:54)
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Just Blane (46:07)
and then it spit me back out a video, okay? And I said, well, we gotta do parallel frequencies. So, hello there, chat GPT, could you please make me a podcast trailer for parallel frequencies? This, you know, and this is what we got.

Courtney Pearl (46:23)
⁓

Just Blane (46:25)
listening to parallel.

and

now.

I don't know. We're nowhere close to losing our jobs on making stuff. Now, first of all, the biggest thing there, I think, to me is, I mean, it turned us black and changed our names. I don't know. We're tragedy, I'm not sure. And that's why I'm saying.

Courtney Pearl (46:56)
like

who are these people?

Just Blane (46:59)
That's what I was thinking, but they gave us a whole premise to a show, like hearing some sonic sound that makes it, I'm where'd they come up with this? I would watch this. I would actually probably watch this podcast, listen to it. ⁓ I mean,

Courtney Pearl (47:06)
Yes.

Yes. Do you know what

I'm starting to think after I hear that? I'm starting to think if there is a code to open a portal, it would be two sound frequencies, like parallel frequencies. I'm starting to think that there's something to that, and it's got me a little worried.

Just Blane (47:16)
What is it?

Let's check that out again. Let's watch it again. Cause you got me. You got me scared now. I don't know. And I don't know what S P P D I S D A Y. What a Spotify logo is or that there. That's Google play, but let's. You're listening to parallel frequencies. I'm Lila and we chase the sounds that lead to other worlds. What if a single tone could open a door? found out as we walk through it. Join us for unexpected connections and real convert. Jane who?

Courtney Pearl (47:58)
Hmm. I have a little.

I have a little white guilt, honestly, feeling like maybe I took their jobs. Is that a thing?

Just Blane (48:03)
They changed their name.

Hey, if those two people are out there, if Jay and Tina or Tara or whatever her name is is out there and they got a show called Parallel Frequencies. my God, Courtney, what if?

What if AI... What if AI is actually just showing us the other dimension?

Courtney Pearl (48:24)
That's another parallel frequencies in another parallel universe.

Just Blane (48:25)
My man.

Oh my god, what if that's what AI only is? Is it's using other universe to show us and that's why everything looks almost real but something's a little bit off? Is that us in another universe? A parallel? That could be us in a parallel universe. Maybe we are African-American and named J and 2 or whatever it was there.

Courtney Pearl (48:50)
I know, but I like her glasses. kind of like, maybe I should start wearing glasses.

Just Blane (48:54)
I did.

I did, I liked it. But I don't think AI is anywhere close to taking our jobs. Maybe it is giving us a portal to another dimension to be able to see in because, man, I've got all kinds of questions now.

Courtney Pearl (49:09)
Alright,

well, if they're better at the job than me, then I apologize. I apologize for taking the position that we created ourselves, and here we are.

Just Blane (49:12)
I'm gonna have to sit with it.

Yeah.

If they are, if that's a real show there, if Jay and Tita are doing a show called Parallel Frequencies in another parallel universe, how do we get them to be guests on our show and get on theirs, I wonder? Cause that would be cool to do some interdimensional. I've done a lot in podcasting and in radio. I've never done an interdimensional interview. That's what I want. I want an interdimensional interview in 2026.

Courtney Pearl (49:37)
Ooh. Yeah.

with the alternate us version or alternate podcast hosts of this podcast. Maybe that's not us, but they are the podcast hosts of this podcast in a parallel universe. So we in that universe are making compost heaps in some.

Just Blane (49:50)
That'd be fun, right?

Courtney Pearl (50:12)
or whatever we're doing.

Just Blane (50:14)
So you're saying now you're saying that the IP parallel frequencies crosses universes, but we don't. We got a big show. I love it.

Courtney Pearl (50:21)
Well, we don't know what

we're doing in that universe. I don't know. I don't think that's me, but I think maybe it's.

Just Blane (50:25)
That's true. This, I can

tell you, I can tell you we better stop this talk right now because you watching Coherence and us talking to James Ward-Burkett, the director, is gonna be a lot similar to what you're talking about right here. So we better kick this head butt. We better get on out of here and...

Courtney Pearl (50:43)
All right. All right. Save it.

Just Blane (50:50)
Go check out those podcasts, the real ones I played for you. Go check out the Gilmore Girls, Generation Gilmore Girls. And that pixel, what was it, the last pixel or whatever? That's awesome, I love that. That's it though for today. We'll see you guys tomorrow, just playing. Cocoa, parallel frequencies.