Jul 6, 2026 · 1 hr 6 min · 12 segments
There is a problem with Earth's sun that will wipe out all life. Our only hope is to send Ryan Gosling into space to do some wacky bits. In this episode we explore the inherent difficulty in adapting…
voice? It's more like, so in the book, it's a little more like he's got like a MIDI kind of keyboard app and it sounds more like music.
Oh, so it's a little bit like auto-tuned kind of thing? Yes, it's exactly what it sounds.
It's auto-tuned through notes.
And it's, the movie's great.
I just like, I'm so accustomed to that.
It just took me a little, like, it took me like a few lines of dialogue to like get used to the way they're doing it.
I think that would
have been fun.
That would have been a fun way to do it.
And when they went through, there's a period where they go through all of the different wacky voices he could do.
And then they choose the pretty bland one.
Yes.
Oh, that's fun.
I get it.
Like, it's fine.
But the reason I found it slightly irritating is that the guy that plays Rocky in this movie, Mr. James Ortiz, not an actor.
He was the puppeteer for Rocky.
Mm-hmm.
That they're like, oh yeah, we like your reading and we don't think we could hire an actor to do it better.
So I guess we're just going to use the shit you did, which one, I like, but two, well, if you're going to hire a non-actor, you got Ray Porterson right there, baby.
I'm not as hot on this movie as you are.
I don't think it's a bad movie necessarily.
voice? It's more like, so in the book, it's a little more like he's got like a MIDI kind of keyboard app and it sounds more like music.
Oh, so it's a little bit like auto-tuned kind of thing? Yes, it's exactly what it sounds.
It's auto-tuned through notes.
And it's, the movie's great.
I just like, I'm so accustomed to that.
It just took me a little, like, it took me like a few lines of dialogue to like get used to the way they're doing it.
I think that would
have been fun.
That would have been a fun way to do it.
And when they went through, there's a period where they go through all of the different wacky voices he could do.
And then they choose the pretty bland one.
Yes.
Oh, that's fun.
I get it.
Like, it's fine.
But the reason I found it slightly irritating is that the guy that plays Rocky in this movie, Mr. James Ortiz, not an actor.
He was the puppeteer for Rocky.
Mm-hmm.
That they're like, oh yeah, we like your reading and we don't think we could hire an actor to do it better.
So I guess we're just going to use the shit you did, which one, I like, but two, well, if you're going to hire a non-actor, you got Ray Porterson right there, baby.
I'm not as hot on this movie as you are.
I don't think it's a bad movie necessarily.
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