Episode 11: Conquest

Uh, but first of all, Josh, what have you been watching? I f- I think you got to the theater.

You were able to get your, your, your dad self to the theater, which is always nice in the, in these early days still.

Yeah.

Yeah, believe it or not, I've been to the theater twice since we recorded last.

Nice.

I went once by myself to check out Obsession, which, you know, has, has taken, taken the cinema world by storm these last few weeks, and then once with my wife to see The Mandalorian and Grogu when we, uh, went down to Houston to visit her parents for the weekend.

So yeah, the- it's, it's been nice to get out and kind of get immersed back into film going, you know, culture again.

I think you've s- you've seen both of these as well, correct?

Yes, I did catch...

I n- I wasn't, I wasn't opening weekend for Obsession, but...

Which I kind of wish I had been, 'cause I was opening weekend for Backrooms-

Mm-hmm

... which is kind of, like, related, related to this whole phenomenon, I think, and it was really cool, 'cause I was like the oldest person in the theater.

We w-

[laughs]

I went with another person from our, um, sort of online film community who lives here in Seattle.

Uh, and we were, yeah, probably the two, the two oldest people there, and I was, I was a little nervous for a horror movie opening weekend crowd, 'cause that can be really hit or miss.

Oh, yeah.

Mm-hmm.

But I feel like with this, it, it really...

It, it's drawn in people who have connections to this material, uh, Backrooms, that is.

So they were...

There were a couple, like, quipsters who were sitting near me who had some things to say early on, but they...

People seemed locked in.

Uh, but yeah, I did see Obsession, and, uh, I just...