Ep134 – Is Watching Men at Work, Work?
Two garbagemen who know when something smells funny!
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Men at Work
Men at Work is the work of Emilio Estevez from 1990. He and his brother as brother portray two garbage men that accidentally uncover a conspiracy involving bad politics and illegal toxic waste dumping.
Timecodes
- 00:00 – Introduction
- :18 – The Film stats
- 3:03 – The Pickup Line
- 9:06 – Ah, remember Jolt Cola
- 14:20 – A broadly drawn comedy
- 19:33 – Would viewers today recognize the Vietnam veterans?
- 24:17- Head Trauma
- 24:39 – Smoochie, Smoochie, Smoochie
- 24:52 – Driving Review
- 27:07 – To the Numbers
References from the Show
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Episode Transcript
Brennan 0:00
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Christi Dodge 0:18
Welcome back, everybody to the Dodge Movie Podcast. This is episode 134. And we are talking about the 1990 film men at work. This film is written and directed by Emilio Estavez, who also directed 1986 his Wisdom 96, The War at Home in the year 2000. He directed Rated X. And then he also wrote Wisdom. And he wrote The Way and in ’06 he wrote Bobby So very, very prolific in addition to his acting career, this film stars his he and his brother, Charlie Sheen, Lesley Hope Keith, David and John gets the DP was Tim Suhrstedt. Sir, I apologize. Tim.
Mike Dodge 1:17
Do cinematographers have more difficult to pronounce names? It feels like it to me.
Christi Dodge 1:21
It feels likeit. I’ve stumbled over this last name before because he also was a cinematographer for 1989 Is Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, one of my huge favorites, 88 Mystic Pizza, and the 2006 Idiocracy.
Mike Dodge 1:41
So 88, 89, He had a good run right there.
Christi Dodge 1:44
He did, and those are just his biggest films. Right? So I just picked three because I don’t if you want three good ones, yeah. Filming locations are Redondo Beach, Hermosa Beach, and all around LA the Los Angeles area. The synopsis for this film is to garbageman and cover a conspiracy involving illegal toxic waste dumping, and decide to bring the whole operation down. The tagline for this film is to garbage men who know when something smells funny.
Mike Dodge 2:15
That’s a little bit like there’s something rotten in Denmark. I’m down with it.
Christi Dodge 2:19
Yeah, the other one is cleaning up in August at theaters everywhere but me like there’s no matter. Yeah. So one little bit of trivia that I didn’t mention in the actor starring in this film is the pizza guy is my favorite actor from summer school, Dean Cameron icebreaker had to be done had to be done. No, it’s a tension breaker. Oh, tension breaker. Yeah, he screams and goes “tension breaker had to be done.”
Mike Dodge 2:45
You know, that’s a little bit better than it used to be honest. I probably mostly remember Courtney Thorne Smith.
Christi Dodge 2:51
Oh, right. Yes. Yes. One of my favorites. We’ll have to cover it at some point. Yeah. Mark Harmon. Why don’t you kick us off with your pickup line? And we’ll we’ll head into this movie.
Mike Dodge 3:03
“I can’t support this activity any longer Max”. Hmm. That’s a given by Jack Burger, the councilman who is then oft. So it’s, um, it’s kind of worked, right? Because it talks about the toxic waste dumping cannot continue. So it’s halfway there.
Christi Dodge 3:24
So we talked just briefly before we jumped on the microphones that this is an indie movie, I will say yes. Based on the budget that I will discuss later, when we discuss the numbers. It definitely I believe qualified even in 1990. As, at least indie-ish.
Mike Dodge 3:48
What I would say with apologies to Kevin Smith, if there’s writer, director editor when I mean, I don’t know if Amelia did this but writer director that you get you get indie points for that.
Christi Dodge 4:01
Yeah, I feel like the cinematography while I didn’t, there wasn’t anything glaring about it. It did have a little bit rougher of a quality. I think there was some parts of I don’t know, props, or it just it kind of had that low budget vibe to it.
Mike Dodge 4:18
For example, they use some stock footage for a dump at one point, and it was very obviously, stock footage that didn’t match the shot that followed it. So yeah, I can see that. Can we take a crew out to the dump now just by just by some furniture?
Christi Dodge 4:34
So the opening scene, I’m sure was done in a swimming pool. But we’re made to think that it’s the ocean and there’s a horrible evil company that is dumping these yellow barrels that amongst the seaweed in the fish so that we have this extra element of what is actually at stake not just the water being polluted but wildlife being killed probably right when they’re talking to the councilman who ends up getting offed,
Mike Dodge 5:04
This is a pretty broadly drawn film. So either Amelio just like has a, a broad sense of humor, or he thinks viewers are stupid, because it’s, you know, he talks about hanging a lampshade on it. There’s a lot of stuff in this film that’s, I think, actually comically, on the nose.
Christi Dodge 5:25
He was cutting his teeth. This was his first. And he got much better as as years went on.
Mike Dodge 5:30
Well, I wasn’t saying that as a criticism. I think this is a fine film, right?
Christi Dodge 5:35
So he he said he wrote this. He was living in a studio apartment in Santa Monica at the time, and he was up late one night, working in the kitchen table writing some story ideas. And all of a sudden the trash truck came roaring down the alley under his window, and it was 5am. And it just struck him. No one has ever done a movie about Trashman before.
Mike Dodge 5:59
I think they are pretty appealing Trashman. I don’t know how realistic it is. To the actual job of craftsmen. Yeah, if you had to be a trash man. I think James St. James and what Carl Taylor, I think they would be decent coworkers.
Christi Dodge 6:15
Charlie Sheen’s character, Carl makes it known early in the film that he hates politicians. And that comes to play, I think later, when they discover that the politicians are kind of involved in this. You know, they come across the dead body. And as they try to investigate what has happened to this person and where it came from, I think when they find out that it’s politicians like Well, of course, because you know, they’re horrible people. And we know that he’s established this previous idea that he doesn’t like politicians.
Mike Dodge 6:50
Given their father’s stance with politicians, I think, you know, you kind of see where that might come from. My question is timing wise, where was Weekend at Bernie’s relative to this film? Well, because Jack burger, the councilman who is assassinated, but then his dead body, make some more appearances in a very what I would consider a Weekend at Bernie’s kind of way,
Christi Dodge 7:16
The year before it came out in 1989.
Mike Dodge 7:18
Okay, so maybe they did hadn’t necessarily seen it when they wrote the script, but they may be sat before they shot.
Christi Dodge 7:25
Yeah, very much. So it had that vibe. But we know another indie film that use that same trope of the dead body is kind of like the puppet.
Mike Dodge 7:35
Right, which is kind of hilarious. It’s not used as much as maybe it could be. So I’ll have to think about that for another screenplay.
Christi Dodge 7:43
Yeah, I wish I could post that film. Our oldest made a film that had a very weakened Bernie’s vibe, and he says Eaton ever he’d never saw it was not influenced by Weekend at Bernie’s, but it’s got some pretty comical, calm, comically placed music that is not YouTube friendly. It’s copyrighted music and so I can’t post it, but I wish I could because it’d be funny.
Mike Dodge 8:11
Yeah, we’re gonna have a screening. So for those of you who are willing to come by a local venue we can for wallet.
Christi Dodge 8:17
There you go. I thought I had a blast from the past is early on. I believe in the film. Emilio is drinking jolt cola. And I could I totally remember buying jolt cola. It was like the cool thing because in the tribute states that when Carl joins James in their garbage check for the first time James gives a jolt to Carl and has won for himself. Jolt cola is renowned as the soft drink as Oh, as a soft drink with the most caffeine, although this is pre Red Bull. So I don’t know how this stands up to Red Bull. I could maybe find out and put it in the show notes but jolt at the time had 280 milligrams, twice that of coke or Mountain Dew and equal to two cups of coffee. So that was kind of a fun little blast from the past.
Mike Dodge 9:06
I think their slogan was all the sugar and twice the caffeine. If I remember correctly, in fun fact it I don’t know the exact milligrams. But those big cans of Rockstar energy drink which has a lot of caffeine in it. I think it’s about 20 If you drink 20 in a row, you could induce tech Accardi in your heart. So listeners out there take a little easy on the Red Bulls and the rock stars.
Christi Dodge 9:30
Is there anything else in cinematography that you would like to note?
Mike Dodge 9:33
Well, we do track montages on the show and there is a picking up garbage montage. But my only other note is there’s a wide of a pigeon on the beach. And I was curious if that indicated the presence of a pigeon wrangler or just a happy accident. I mean, in my mind’s eye I see him sending the second unit out. We need footage of a pigeon.
Christi Dodge 9:56
Like in a lot of films I noticed that as soon as They discover that dead body in the barrel. Okay, I’ll give them that there wasn’t cellphones, but I would assume that they had a radio ability to, from the truck back from Detroit. Yeah. So they could have called dispatch and said, where at this address, I need you to call the cops. But that would have ended the film right there.
Mike Dodge 10:24
Yeah, the excuse given in the film is that the bicycle cops had it out for them. However, I don’t think the police can generally just say there’s a dead body thus you did it. But then maybe there’s members of certain communities who would say, oh, no, that happens all the time. Right. But yeah, that was a little bit contrived that that the bicycle cops would try to pin the murder on them.
Christi Dodge 10:52
And correct me if I’m wrong. The bicycle cops aren’t the homicide unit. So no new police officers would come on on the scene that you don’t have a past with.
Mike Dodge 11:05
Right. And it’s my understanding that generally you have to have a lot of experience to make it up to detective to investigate murders. So they presumably would not be distracted by the Trashman.
Christi Dodge 11:16
Right. And so the bicycle cops were like, but these guys are dicks. They’re like, okay, but that doesn’t mean they committed a crime separate from this other thing. Yeah. And then they touch you know, the dead body and everything. And so it was just like, All right, well, now you are now don’t call the cops because all of your DNA is all over the dead body.
Mike Dodge 11:34
Of course it is for comedy in the movie. However, I think the vast majority of people want no contact with a dead body. Now, perhaps Amelia would argue there Trashman. They’ve established that they deal with gross things all the time. And so perhaps that makes sense.
Christi Dodge 11:52
Good point, because in one of those montages, they show them sweeping out the truck at the end of the day, which has to be the worst job.
Mike Dodge 12:00
Yeah, in the world. Amelia calls it something poor, like it’s time to do the horrible thing or something. And if that was the case, but what I didn’t know that what I would do if I was them, is I would tilt the backup a bit and just hose it down from a safe distance.
Christi Dodge 12:15
I agree. In the film, there’s two other trash people that they play practical jokes on.
Mike Dodge 12:25
Right, let’s call them Iceman in Hollywood.
Christi Dodge 12:30
There wasn’t a lot of research as far as YouTube rabbit holes that I could go down. But I did find one interview. And the interviewer asked if they played practical jokes on the set. And so unfortunately, I think this is a precursor to Charlie’s future behavior hashtag. But he did, he was proud of one prank that he pulled on his poor brother. I can’t imagine, you know, like the director, Charlie comes to set that morning. And he starts laying the groundwork. He says that he was out the night before and at a bar and somebody came at him. He got in this firefight. And so he was kind of throughout the day telling stories about how he punched the sky.
And they’re in the middle of a scene later in the day. A cruiser drives up with a police officer, who says, Are you Charlie Sheen? He says, Yes, and he goes like, you’re under arrest. They take him away. And as the car is pulling away, he shouts call my lawyer. Emilio spins on his heels and says, Can we shoot the coverage with his double? He basically drives around the corner in and Emilio’s trying to scramble and figure out how can we at least preserve the day or save, you know, save the day director?
And then Charlie walks around, you know, after they’ve driven around the block, he walks up with one handcuffs or a handcuff on one hand, and he’s like, Ah, gotcha. So I’m sure. And so Emilio swore to get even in a in an even, you know, like, oh, you know, they’re brothers. So you gotta raise the stakes.
Mike Dodge 14:20
Yeah, it’s yeah,
Christi Dodge 14:21
I’ll get you back.
Mike Dodge 14:22
I think I would hire one of the security guests. You just punched Charlie in the nuts. Okay, we’re gonna put it into this.
Christi Dodge 14:28
So I think unfortunately, Charlie had maybe even spent some time in the back of a police cruiser prior to this, but I believe that he spent some time after this.
Mike Dodge 14:39
So their father although think that was just for protesting not for drunken bar fights to my knowledge. So the Sheen’s were familiar with the backseat.
Christi Dodge 14:48
So I got very silly near the end with the chase and the dead body and the pizza guy and the traumatize that and people tying up people in homophobic positions and the birds chirping when somebody got hit on the head. And so it got a little silly. Near the end kind of a little Benny Hill ish. For me. It didn’t feel in line with the tone at the beginning.
Mike Dodge 15:13
Interesting. Yeah, I do. I do think of this as a fairly broadly drawn comedy. But that’s a good point with the original toxic waste. Was that a little darker? I didn’t, I actually thought it was that was for comic effect, too, because little things like the evil villain has little miniature yellow toxic waste drums on his desk as a prop. And what villain would do that? Right. So to me, it was again, very broadly drawn. And as I’m speaking, I realize, perhaps it was really targeting an audience that was how shall we say prepared for comedy? Maybe they had the munchies weren’t quite as quick on their feet, that maybe you as the target audience.
Christi Dodge 15:59
Major League was in 89. And that’s a very silly comedy that Charlie was in. Yeah. So it’s possible that Emilio was, I mean, now I think of him is doing very political or very serious are very dramatic kind of things. I mean, wisdom is very dramatic. Do you remember that movie with? You probably didn’t watch it, because it’s not your type of movie, Demi Moore in it, and they watch it. It’s basically a modern day Bonnie and Clyde. They were I don’t think they were bank robbers.
Mike Dodge 16:32
The late 80s, early 90s. If it wasn’t a comedy, it was really driven by whether there was nudity in it. So I probably didn’t see that one.
Christi Dodge 16:41
Unable to find work after a pass felony. Graduate John wisdom and his girlfriend embark on a cross country bank robbing spree in order to aid American farmers.
Mike Dodge 16:52
Yeah, that’s right. On brand for his dad’s work. Yeah,
Christi Dodge 16:55
It’s a it’s a drama. It’s very it’s it’s, it’s very sad doesn’t end well. Yeah, I don’t think they do. But anyway, so all that to say is I remember him doing kind of later, more dramas, and not these like slap sticky or like, you know, airplane Major League type, right? Colonies, which I love. But and so I felt like this one was aspiring to that, but I don’t feel hit the mark.
Mike Dodge 17:23
Oh, I would disagree. But perhaps again, target demo.
Christi Dodge 17:29
So was there any other writing things that you want to bring up?
Mike Dodge 17:34
Well, I did mention that the little things on the desk, there’s also a part where the bad guy gives his full legal name before he sends him off to be killed. I thought that was not really the best. They had some kind of classic gags in my opinion, airbag rig to the glove compartment. Actually not common. It looks like she’s doing something different to him when she’s helping him with his close gag. And then they have the days and someone involved in an accident sign gag. So So again, just I would say broadly, broadly drawn, when he mentioned he was up at night when you wrote this, maybe there was some altered states involved, right?
Christi Dodge 18:18
And just if nothing else, just he’s delirious like tired, right?
Mike Dodge 18:22
I so there’s some factual things, which I think show that it’s really not intended to be taken too serious. If you were wetsuits under your, your, your coveralls, you would probably die of heat, frustration by the time we got to the end of your shift, especially in LA. And I thought it was interesting that the character played by Keith David, I forgive me, Louis, maybe
Christi Dodge 18:42
I can tell you in a minute, please. Yes, Louis, good memory.
Mike Dodge 18:46
At that time, right in 1990. Vietnam vets are probably still in the consciousness. But it’s not necessarily, again, a very sensitive portrayal of people struggling when they came back from Vietnam. And there’s a part there. He uses a word that we don’t use anymore, and they had the music cue Allah 16 candles. So it was not a very particularly sensitive film. I think those are a couple of things that Amelia probably would do differently today. And I really think the toxic waste is almost a MacGuffin, in that I think it only serves as a reason for them to get into comic high jinks. Other than that, I don’t really think it has anything to do with anything.
Christi Dodge 19:33
Platoon came out in 86. Good Morning, Vietnam came out in 87.
Mike Dodge 19:41
Well, 75 was when nominally the US left Vietnam. So the Keith David character would have been back for 15 to 20 years. So I think that tracks and again, the viewing audience at that time would get that reference. I don’t think it’s evergreen though. I don’t think that really? Yeah. Like the next generation, I don’t think they would get the clues that he was a Vietnam veteran.
Christi Dodge 20:07
That’s curious, because I feel like maybe it’s because like I said, 8687, we had two movies in the 96 is when Forrest Gump came out, which had a big chunk of it, that was about Vietnam. So like, I mean, it would be curious, but I feel like our kids would know who were in their early 20s would know what those are references to, but maybe they would just think a war and they wouldn’t think specifically that war.
Mike Dodge 20:36
What I guess maybe what I should have said to be more clear is Keith, David’s character is wearing that all of drab, kind of, you know, blouse or overshirt. And I don’t think that’s a visual cue for their generation. Like it would be for ours.
Christi Dodge 20:53
I’m gonna have to do a poll in our game night coming up.
Mike Dodge 20:55
Oh, well there you go.
Christi Dodge 20:57
I’m curious. All right. Well, speaking of costumes, you pointed out which I thought was very astute, that I believe it was later in the film. But this may have even happened early in the film, but at some point, bad guys, we don’t know. Well, that there guys because they’re in head to toe bunny suits, as we call them. Hazmat suits with gas masks. And the standing right next to him is like the lead bad guy, bad guy. And he’s wearing a three piece suit.
Mike Dodge 21:29
Can’t be that toxic? You’re standing right there.
Christi Dodge 21:32
I thought that was very astute of you.
Mike Dodge 21:34
So the costuming in this film, also, by the way, has a bit of a cameo. I was talking to a person of this aforementioned younger generation, and trying to explain why ladies in the 80s were the best looking decade. And so I used a photo astill of Susan, the actor is Leslie Hope is the actress in her peach colored suit with gigantic shoulder pads, and her red hair perm. As an example of why 80s Ladies are the best looking. You love that era. And the younger fella did not agree. He’s wrong, but he didn’t agree.
Christi Dodge 22:20
Did you notice who put together the soundtrack for this film? And who did music for this film?
Mike Dodge 22:27
I didn’t know. But given the era, I would think either Elfman or Mothersbaugh. Stewart Copeland. Oh, that’s right. Stewart Copeland from the police.
Christi Dodge 22:34
Yeah. So I recognize that name in the credits, and I’m sure that it was that he did extra music for I can’t remember if there was any love to look up the soundtrack,
Mike Dodge 22:49
You know, interesting connection because one of those other punters in that band went on to do music for Emperor’s New Groove.
Christi Dodge 22:59
Yes,
Mike Dodge 23:00
I forget that guy’s name. I wonder whatever happened to him.
Christi Dodge 23:04
He’s having sex with his wife
Mike Dodge 23:07
Must have been doing so for a long time. So there’s a Ziggy Marley song. Which which supports by the way, my theory that for the herbal American?
Christi Dodge 23:16
Yeah, I’m not. Now I’m not seeing Copeland’s name.
Mike Dodge 23:19
Well, I mean, if he just scored it. Right, right. Um, if it’s not a song that was released on they’re probably not listed there.
Christi Dodge 23:27
Is there anything that you want to talk about before we get into our categories here at the end?
Mike Dodge 23:32
I had one question about the set. I put this under sets, but this is general art department. What did they use as cinematic poo? For all those pranks?
Christi Dodge 23:46
That easily could have been just like brownie mix, like, you know, pre baked?
Mike Dodge 23:50
Yeah, that because it would be preferable, I think. Yeah. You know, I didn’t know like chocolate pudding. You see people sometimes try to use chili is disgusting. Yeah, I mean, they sold it on screen. The art department did fantastic. But then I just thought the poor guy that had to mix it.
Christi Dodge 24:07
Well. Is that guy have the worst job are the actors who got it sprayed at them?
Mike Dodge 24:12
Good point. Just saying nobody really won there.
Christi Dodge 24:17
No. All right. Was there any head trauma in this film?
Mike Dodge 24:22
There was two incidents that I noticed. One is that Louis Rams are good for Indian cameras head as the pizza delivery guy through the wall at one point. And then Susan slaps Carl twice.
Christi Dodge 24:37
How about a smoochie? Did anybody get lucky?
Mike Dodge 24:39
Smoochy smoochy smoochy. Susan kisses Carl at the beach when they go kind of at night and they’re rolling around there. And then Carl kisses Susan after he rescues her at the end of the film.
Christi Dodge 24:52
And I know that we have a garbage truck but how about a driving review?
Mike Dodge 24:57
Here we get to get some driving stuff here. The Silver 87 Saab 900 Turbo tells us the jack burger. The Councilman is super bougie right to drive the sob especially in 90 Very bougie. Those Kenworth LCF to trash trucks. I am not expert at trash truck. So I don’t know exactly whether that is accurate for the error. But I would say I don’t believe they were brake by wire. So pouring acid on one of the ignition wires under the dashboard would not affect the brakes. I don’t know exactly what the director was intending there Emilio, feel free to give me a call and we can talk about that. I thought it was interesting that the mobsters have 77 Cadillac, which is a traditional mobster car. But why does their vanity plate say hitmen?
Seems a little obvious for hitmen to drive around with a car labeled hitmen?
Christi Dodge 25:58
Right? That’s where it feels like he was kind of swinging for a very silly, yes, comedy. Yeah. Yeah. So why did Jay Leno say?
Mike Dodge 26:09
Comedy… is hard? Susan drives this red 61 Chevrolet Corvette see one? How does a campaign manager afford that car? That’s a pretty vintage classic car for her to drive around. Hopefully they used a derelict one for when the car encounters a boo boo. And then I did have two safety notes. One they get into basically a cage fight in the cab between Louis and Carl and James.
Don’t do that while operating motor vehicle fight outside the vehicle. That’s a standard procedure pull over get out then fight. But more importantly, no one absolutely no one in this film wears their safety belts. And there’s even a scene where Susan and Carl crash into something while not wearing safety belts, which would have been extremely injurious if not fatal. So again, listeners wear the safety belts.
Christi Dodge 27:08
Shall we go to the numbers?
Mike Dodge 27:09
Let’s go to the numbers.
Christi Dodge 27:10
So this film had a budget of $9 million. Before I say what the scores are on IMDb and rotten tomatoes. What would you give this film?
Mike Dodge 27:20
Oh, I think I did give this film an eight an IMDB.
Christi Dodge 27:24
Yeah, you love this from before?
Mike Dodge 27:28
Yes. Yes. Shout out to listener Joe.
Christi Dodge 27:33
I remember because I had a massive crush on well, both. Esta vez brothers but mostly Emilio back in the day. And I watched this with bated breath and was a little up like I didn’t like it as much as you did.
Mike Dodge 27:54
Were you a 20 year old stoner male? No. Yeah, may not have been for you.
Christi Dodge 27:59
Right. I just liked being able to see Emilio throughout the for two hour for an hour and 38 minutes. Fair enough. But so I would probably give it like a six or seven today. IMDB gives it a 5.9 out of 10. Day Rob. Let’s just say six. Let’s just call it six. Okay. Critics gave it its rotten it 32% What an audience’s gay 44%.
Mike Dodge 28:24
Again, not the target demo. I bet if you find the right crowd does make a lot fresher.
Christi Dodge 28:33
We would love to hear from our fans like you know, our listeners. Yeah, you don’t have to be a fan. Just tell me what you thought.
Mike Dodge 28:42
The poor listeners that I have contact info for may get get pestered about this film to see where they land. But listener Joe and I both fondly remember this film, I think again, early 20s males it probably it’s a very niche kind of Yeah, humor. We really quite enjoyed it.
Christi Dodge 29:02
He’ll cut his teeth on this film, and he got better.
Mike Dodge 29:05
So you keep saying that, but I still think it’s a good film. It’s not like he did poorly and he got better. This is a fine film.
Christi Dodge 29:12
I just watched the way because they rerelease it in the errors and it is such a good movie.
Mike Dodge 29:19
He needs to make more films like this film minute work and less like The Way.
Christi Dodge 29:25
This one, if you want to give it a try, it’s only gonna cost you an hour in 38 minutes. It’s rated PG 13 It’s labeled as an action comedy crime. It made domestically $16.1 million. So he was like, even if you doubled it for marketing, that would be 18. And so I guess he was a little bit shy of that but adjusted for today. That would be like a film making 35 point 1 million did not like it’s no Barbie movie, but it’s far better than I met in gross sales, but still, like respectable.
Mike Dodge 30:01
And it’s funny.
Christi Dodge 30:06
Okay, so there you have it. There’s our second movie for this month. Write in and give me a guess of what you think of what you think the theme for this month is. And I will put the email in the show notes. We no longer have a phone number, but you can email us. But never forget,
Mike Dodge 30:24
Dodges never stop and neither do the movies.
Brennan 30:26
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