Old Sox Talk

Is this the Easter episode? No? Well, it should be because our messiah, Angus MacClane, director of Lightyear, is back with a brand new movie announcement! We play a game to celebrate, chat about the Toy Story 5 teaser, Dimitri tries the same candies Grant and June did many moons again, oh, and I guess they talk A Bug's Life too.

Download into the grid because the boys and Braeden Bailey (creator of the Until Dawn Doesn't Come podcast) are talking Tron despite Dimitri having seen none of the films. Does this confuse you because the episode is called bloopers? Well, don't worry we get to those too but first we have to discuss the Blue Sky classic Robots. This off the rails episode is a hoot we hope you enjoy!

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Patrick Skehill (What the Hell Happened to Them podcast) revisits Bug's Life for the first time in nearly 30 years as the boys feel like they have been watching the movie for nearly 30 years. Pat details the boys with details about the sit com era most of the cast comes from, Dave Foley's alimony payments, and the Chinese novels he's been reading as Grant endlessly cackles at his own jokes. I'd mention a thing Dimitri does, but we learn he can't read this ep, so I don't have to bother because this description might as well be hieroglyphs to him!

The boys must must address the elephANT in the room: Antz. Listen as they try to fight speaking about this horrid picture that tried to destroy Bug's Life with distractions such as the Mandolorian and Grogu trailer, Dr. Doom, and of course game boy advance tie in games. They say you're closer with friends who hate the same things as you, so the boys have never been more united than when they are dunking on this dung heap of a film.

The boys are broken, but first time and phenomenal guest Elise Ewing raises their spirits by highlighting her and her family's love for our thespian caterpillar and giving our hosts an opportunity to spread the gospel of the Screenslaver. Is the audio on her a little low? Yes, but doing levels is for cowards. Surf the volume like you Julia Butters in Freakier Friday catching a gnarly wave. God, I really want a Snickers

Michael Kim (voice actor and host nugget outta here podcast) returns to the show despite technical difficulties and time delays to sing the praises of Heimlich, the horrific AI video turning the cast of Bug's Life into humans, and growing up on the film's Korean dub. Despite Grant being sleepier than ever, Mike and Dimitri make this episode sing like its Saturday Night even though its Tuesday.

Dimitri and Grant managed to trick another respectable person onto the show, this time writer and podcast extraordinaire Julia Prescott. She tells Dimitri the horrors of teaching an unruly Grant, the boys about the theme park land they never got to visit, and together they celebrate the all mighty Glorden (and maybe Dan Scanlon, even though he broke 11 year old Grant's heart)

The boys (Grant and Dimitri, not that rowdy bunch led by Billy Butcher) weep for Elio getting kicked in the teeth, speak about Sanjay's Super Team with everyone's favorite friend Fleaby, and discuss the last remaining material of A Bug's Life in Disneyland on this strangely on topic episode (until they spend a third of it on Superman). Enjoy! Or don't, I'm not your mom.

The boys turn a parasocial relationship social as they meet Chi Tran (director of Visa, and bloker2002 on letterboxd) and discuss what anyone would when getting acquainted: Sydney Sweeney's bath water, A Bug's Life, and the Nickelodeon Kid's Choice Awards. Chi tells of his observations on the film when he was four, Grant breaks some volley rules, and Dimitri nearly goes full purple on this barn burner of an ep!

Dimitri and Grant cover their eyes an open their eyes this episode as the discuss the weirdly sensual audio description version of A Bug's Life, the terror of knowing about improv through osmosis, finally decide on how episodes should end.