Highlights
Val vs. the Android.
CEELOS reopens the room and checks in on Val, who reveals she got a free Android that won't even show her the co-host button. It becomes the episode's running gag — she's dropped and re-invited several times, prompting CEELOS's PSA: don't learn a brand-new phone live on a Space.
The Iceland eclipse bit.
CEELOS riffs that Val is "a few weeks away from the earth losing its gravity" on her Iceland trip, advising her to find a cave or grab some weights if things start floating skyward. Pure warm nonsense between regulars.
E.T. and the daughters.
CEELOS lands his first real story: showing E.T. (his 1982 birth-year movie) to his daughters for the first time and photographing them teary-eyed at the death scene — proof to him the storyline still holds up, and a memory that gets him emotional now they're grown.
The Sandlot enters the chat.
Solo names The Sandlot as the movie that was "always on TV," and CEELOS notes Dodger Stadium is bringing back on-field movie nights starting with it, plus its All-Star Game tribute. He confesses to getting told on by his brother for spending movie money to see it twice in one week — but he kept the baseball pin.
"Is Sandlot a psyop?"
When Baked also names The Sandlot top-three, CEELOS marvels that both 90s kids landed on the exact same movie unprompted. A genuinely funny beat that both younger guests defend as an undisputed classic.
The Matrix, still rewiring brains.
CEELOS on The Matrix at 27 years old: it "completely broken people's perception of reality," and is still why people insist we're in a simulation. Baked follows with his generation's Star Wars take — that the prequels were only hated by "crafty old people," and that the real fall came "when Disney bought it."
Dad joke of the day.
Solo asks who plays the new He-Man; CEELOS: "You're... no idea, man" — then thanks the room for coming to his dad-joke set. Later he explains The Sheep Detective as a murder mystery where "Wolverine gets killed at the beginning" and the sheep solve it, to bafflement.
Married in real life?
Baked reveals he only learned three days ago, via Facebook, that Tom Holland and Zendaya are married — "What the fuck, they're married?" — while the group tries to recap the amnesia premise of the new Spider-Man.
The video-store dream.
CEELOS lays out his fantasy coffee-shop crossed with a video store — staff-pick shelves, baristas recommending drinks — and his love of VHS cover art as a lost creative form. This flows into wanting to turn the community's NFTs into VHS-style covers, which Baked is "down" for.
Topic timeline
| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| 01:34–04:56 | Intro, intro song (Will Ferrell's son), waiting on co-hosts |
| 04:56–08:02 | Val's new Android, Iceland/eclipse banter, PFPs |
| 08:02–12:29 | CEELOS's theater-kid childhood; E.T. and the daughters |
| 12:30–15:18 | The Sandlot, Dodger Stadium movie nights |
| 15:18–21:19 | 80s summer blockbusters: Ghostbusters, Batman, Gremlins, aliens/Prometheus |
| 21:19–27:00 | Baked joins; Carlito's Way, Biodome, Terminator 2, The Rocketeer |
| 27:00–35:00 | Jurassic Park, Independence Day, Avatar, The Matrix, Star Wars debate |
| 35:00–43:00 | Streaming vs. theaters, Masters of the Universe/He-Man, dad jokes |
| 43:00–49:00 | Spider-Man, Bourne trilogy, Barbie/Oppenheimer, upcoming releases |
| 49:00–56:00 | Blockbuster/video-store nostalgia, VHS cover art, NFT idea |
| 56:00–1:00:00 | Modern theater amenities, snacks, falling asleep in recliners |
| 1:01:18–1:04:57 | Movies most anticipated (Doomsday), housekeeping, sign-off |
Notable quotes
I think the one that I remember for sure was um the Sandlot.
Sandlot is like top three greatest movies of all time for the summer, I would say.
The fall of Star Wars was when Disney bought it. That's when things went south.
Yeah, that's my dad joke of the day. Thank you, everybody. I appreciate you for coming.
As convenient as Amazon and everything is now, I so miss going to Blockbuster.
You'd rent things because the cover looks cool... which is why I collect VHS, because they still to this day have the best cover art.
Who said what
- CEELOS (@CEELOSFIGG) — host, and the room's resident movie historian; carried most of the hour with a decade-by-decade tour of his own moviegoing life, from theater-kid to theater-employee to nostalgic dad, plus the housekeeping and the VHS-cover NFT idea. (Appears under both diarization labels; treated as one voice.)
- ValerieKates (@valeriekates_) — fellow 80s baby, joining from Reno and gamely fighting her new Android for co-host access; supplied the Iceland-trip and PFP-artist banter.
- Solo dolo (@solodolo) — the 90s/'98 kid; Sandlot devotee, Humboldt theater updates, and the "who played He-Man" setup.
- Baked (@Bakedmetax) — the self-described old soul with young-kid energy; deep cuts (Carlito's Way, Biodome, Pest), the Star Wars/Disney take, and Blockbuster nostalgia — dialing in from a roof between work.
Worth a full listen
- 37:41–40:40 CEELOS's fullest stretch: walking down the row of Broadway movie theaters, using them as a surrogate babysitter, then working in them, plus the collector's regret over tossing old posters and X-Men promo shirts. The affection here doesn't compress well.
- 49:58–56:00 The video-store elegy: staff-pick shelves, cover-art as a lost art form, sneaking into theaters, and the pivot to turning NFTs into VHS covers. The group's shared "you had to be there" energy is the whole point.
- 57:21–1:00:00 Modern theaters (recliners, in-seat food, bar service, Alamo Drafthouse) vs. sticky-floor purism, capped by CEELOS getting nudged awake mid-snore during Mandalorian and Grogu.
