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#185 How to With Crossing The Streams (Bonus Ep39) – Great TV binge watching suggestions!

Need TV binge suggestions? You’ve come to the right place. We’ve got you covered.

In this bonus episode we discuss a few great binge suggestions:

  • Sharknado (from live ep 72)
  • How to with Jon Wilson (from live ep 82)
  • The Rehearsal (from live ep 82)
  • Nathan For You (from live ep 82)

Crossing the Streams originated on this podcast in episodes 8 and 15. My idea was to record friends freely discussing TV shows (and movies) they binge on one of the many, many streaming services we all subscribe to.

Jeff Dwoskin is joined by Howard Rosner, Ron Lippitt, Bob Philips, and Sal Demilio are your co-hosts and we’re joined weekly by special guests.

The assignment? We each come to the show with a TV binge suggestion. It might be a series, movie, or documentary but we’ll give you the scoop so you can decide for yourself whether or not to dive in.

Each segment is pulled from a show and shared as is in all its LIVE goodness.

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CTS Announcer 0:01

Looking for your next TV show or movie to binge? Well buckle up, grab the remote and settle into your couch for this special edition of crossing the streams. We're here to help you tune in and get the most out of those 50 monthly streaming channels you're currently paying for. So without any further ado, here's your host of crossing the streams. Jeff Dwoskin

Jeff Dwoskin 0:29

Hey, oh, it is Jeff Dwoskin host of classic conversations and your guide to this bonus episode of crossing the streams where we answer the universal question I just finished watching something What should I watch next you need to binge we got the binge worthy shows for you. This bonus episode is segments from our live show that we do every Wednesday at 9:30pm. Eastern time. You can join us on YouTube and chat along as we dish up an hour's worth of binge watching show suggestions for you. There's over 95 hours awaiting you on YouTube or lucky you can just sit here and I'm gonna send it right to your ears. A couple of those segments right now. This bonus episode comes from Episode 72 and episode 82 two segments four shows Nathan for you how to with John Wilson the rehearsal and Sharknado up first Howard Rosner is going to take us through the world of Nathan fielder. Take it away Rhys. This actually this is I didn't have the third image there's three it's Nathan fielder who's a gift to television and our is going to take us through this Yeah,

Howard Rosner 1:42

so if you've been listening, watching reading Nathan fielder has been super hot reviews interviews talking about him key is I just recently came to know who he is and see this all this stuff. He's freaking brilliant. Yeah, he is brilliant. It's really three shows created stars in two of them. And the third one he executive produced brought to TV so the first show is Nathan for you, which did four seasons on Comedy Central. It's streamable pretty much frickin everywhere right now HBO Max, I think Paramount plus Amazon Prime video. It's a little bit everywhere. I will hold this up as one of the funniest scream yourself laugh out loud television shows I've ever seen in my life. It brings a raucous laughter out of nowhere. So the gist of Nathan for you is he is going to local businesses. And it's creating comedy right? It's it fits a shot real. It's you know, Candy kind of stuff mixed with definitely some mockumentary style to it. But the gist of it is he's going to these small businesses with an idea to help them solve a problem for them, which isn't really a problem for them. And from that his main idea, oh, and he's using his business degrees that he has. That's why he's an expert in marketing and all these things he tells them and the ideas that he has to solve the problem are ridiculous. But then what becomes even funnier is the steps he takes to help solve that problem with the concept he comes up with. And it is so funny like the one that we were just watching eating dinner tonight. It's a Chick fil A restaurant known for their chili that's right near a minor league hockey arena. And they they want to get into the minor league hockey arena, but they say they have their own chili vendor and they can't get in. So he does some research and finds out well it doesn't say you can't bring in your so he convinced this to the guy that runs the chili restaurant to let him help him build a chewy suit. That is a fully insulated showy suit at which you will be able to wear as like a fat suit under your clothes and dispense chili from the suit and sell it in the arena. So that's the main gist. Problems come up out of that. Well, of course, okay, well, there is metal on the suit on the chest parts. So I'm going to have to go through a metal detector to get into the arena. So the only way I could do that I could attach an actual pacemaker to the outside of the suit. But to have that work, I need to go to a doctor and get an x ray that shows I have a pacemaker and an approval card a medical approval card that I can then show to get in and it is just his delivery is so deadpan and serious that it's just it's unbelievably funny. There's another one where he goes into a sporting goods store, who's having trouble i soccer store and part of the Problem with their businesses. They're not as big as the other chains. His idea is to help them grow business is that they should sign a professional athlete to endorse the soccer store professional soccer player, but the store can't afford to hire a professional athlete. So what if they sign lifetime contracts with seven and eight year old soccer players in the hopes that one day down the road? They'll become top notch soccer players that he's like, Okay, well, how do we sell the store on it? So he goes to an artist, a sketch artist who can do you boo police aging techniques to see what the kids would look like, down the road. It is so funny. And one kid wants to be an astronaut. So he brings in a professional guy dressed in an astronaut costume, who convinces him that his whole family died on one of his missions. And being an astronaut is a horrible thing. If he could do it all over again, he would have been a soccer player. So I mean, it's just it is crazy, crazy, crazy. And hysterical.

Jeff Dwoskin 6:03

Howard, is this a one where he made a fake Starbucks know that?

Howard Rosner 6:07

He's sorry? Yes, yes, it is. He made a fake Starbucks. Oh, not only that, not only do you make a fake Starbucks, there's another one where he realizes his dad lets him know that the apparel company that the jacket that he or hoodie that he wears on almost every show is tied in to some anti semitic Holocaust denier, which was a true true thing. He decides he's going to create his own apparel company that is raises money for anti Holocaust denial. And he's going to raise money and then gets a rabbi to help him create a display for an outdoor like an REI, basically, in Canada, where he's from the display that is created is so hysterically offensive. It's It's unbelievable, but the apparel was great. And he ended up he still sells the apparel. And he's made a couple $100,000 selling the apparel that he's donated to Holocaust survivor funds. He's got a couple of things like that there's a book that was a an exercise technique, trying it's a moving company that struggled to find labor to work for the moving company. So they he created a helping move boxes and furniture is a free, easy to understand exercise plan. And he convinces people to come to a first trial appointment, where they're just moving boxes for the hired move. It's crazy four seasons, and it's honest to God, it is one of the like, we sit there and watch this while we're eating and stuff my wife and I and we're laughing hysterically.

Jeff Dwoskin 7:49

Is this the one where you Faizi convinces the liquor company figures out a way to sell alcohol to underage my underage kids? Yeah. And then and then puts it on layaway, so they can come back when

Bob Phillips 8:03

my favorite is where he he goes into a bar and convinces these people that he can he can quadruple their business by having plays in this bar. But the play is just the customers at that moment. Yes, that he casts with actors. He gets pictures of them and the whole scene, you know what's going on at that moment, and then they all have to leave. And then he goes and casts actors to come in and play these random people. Right? And then he charges people to come in and watch this shit was just so bizarre.

Howard Rosner 8:34

He's just that because the bar owner was losing a ton of money because they outlawed smoking. He discovered that the only place that smoking was allowed in an indoor space was as part of a theatrical.

Unknown Speaker 8:48

Okay, oh, yeah. So they could smoke.

Howard Rosner 8:51

So he lets people smoke that our viewing the play with the first night of the play is just them watching. And it was pretty interesting. It was kind of a good slice of life. And so and then he goes to a theater professor and shows it to her. She says yes, it's a good portrayal. So we then right, you're right, yes, the hire actors, he ends up having the woman who owns the bar audition to be in it. And I'm sorry, we found somebody to play the role better. It's just that's just the kind of stuff he does. So that's the first show that led to him bringing to HBO this show called How to with John Wilson. John Wilson is the guy who created the show who was a film student, it's very similarly themed. So how to with John Wilson was a show where John has he wants to create and help people on a topic that affects him and things like that. So for example, one of his topics was memory. So he starts talking to people about memory and, you know, losing their memory and how to remember things and he starts talking to a guy in a grocery store turns out the guy in the grocery store is like and it's just to these episodes spins out to further things similarly that end up being topics that he delves deep into that are crazy. For example, the in the memory one, he ends up talking to this guy who's this merchandiser or buyer or executive for some company who is huge into research over the Mandela effect you guys know what the Mandela Effect is. And this guy is way down the road like like Q anon version of Mandela Effect research, he ends up going to the Mandela Effect Conference, which is in hotel like a days in conference room, and like somewhere in Idaho sounds like a party. Yeah, he ends up talking about this. So it's a great show. And it's super funny. Again, John Wilson this guy's delivery is very similar playing it deadpan taking all the things in and just agreeing with these people and say, you know, acting interested and it's also very hysterical, very along the same lines. The new show, though, may end up being the frickin funniest of the three on HBO. It's called the rehearsal. And this is again created by starring Nathan fielder. The gist of this show is he finds people who have some part of their life that they're struggling with or don't know about, and he is going to help them rehearse for the actual life activity. It is crazy funny, the budget they must have had for the show. So the first episode, he meets a guy who is on a trivia team at a bar. And some point in time, there's a woman that he really likes on his trivia team at some point in time, early in knowing her he had made it seem like he had a master's degree. And he didn't. But he, for years, he has gone along with it to the point where she's tried to help him get jobs and has told people that she knows that he has a master's degree and he's guilt stricken about this, and he wants to solve the problem and find out the best way to do it. So Nathan is going to help him rehearse telling her that he doesn't have a master's degree in all and all the possible aspects of it, ie built in a warehouse, an exact replica, every frickin detail of the bar, the signs in the bar the tables in the same space and goes through with him. They have statisticians tracking every possible scenario.

Unknown Speaker 12:40

It's so absurd the legs they go to

Howard Rosner 12:43

it is crazy what he's done to get this guy to do it, they project every possible outcome, it gets to the actual deal. And they're like, oh, no, we have to do something. This table he was sitting at which he thought was clearly his best option table to sit at. It's being occupied. It's unbelievable. It the whole premise is insane. The second episode, which is apparently a two parter, the second episode is this woman who wants to have a baby but doesn't know what whether she could deal with raising a child in the infant in the infant stage in the toddler stage as a younger child, as a teen as a grown child. So his plan is to over like a couple week period or a week period of time, have her go through the process of raising a child that is not hers, obviously, and switch it out and grow it every couple of days. So that she experiences every aspect of raising a child, then so they have to interview they're like, Okay, well, we have to have multiple child's children. Because we you can't you can only have by labor laws, you can only have a child under the age of 18 working so many hours. So they show them like she has the kid they put the kid in the bed one of the people on the crew has to crawl in the window and swap it out for another kid. They have a robot kid for the hours in the middle of the night that cries automatically if they control from a control room. Then they're like he's like, would you you know, do you think you'd like to raise this with somebody? So they basically do it? Like a tinder day she finds somebody they have him he comes over like dude, like do you want to move in and try this out as her partner? Like the first night he's like, Screw this I'm leaving and he brought his bomb with them it's

Unknown Speaker 14:45

Oh, he's out.

Howard Rosner 14:46

He's he's out. It's crazy. Crazy Crazy. And again, is those two shows I mean, how to John Wilson is a very funny shout But Nathan for you and the rehearsal are laugh Out Loud pee yourself laughing hysterical that funny to watch that

Unknown Speaker 15:06

I'm really excited to be introduced. Yeah, they're both great. That rehearsal one that sounds like that should be like, you know, a course in high school. Walk around. Yeah, child. Yeah, I feel that's really what it is life stuff.

Howard Rosner 15:17

Yeah, that's real. It's like taking the concept, you know of kids, you know, raising a bag of flour as a kid during, you know, for life. Right, right, right, right. Taking it to the next level, but like the thought of having a full on dress rehearsal for some aspect of your life, like the house that they created a curry created her house that she lives in. And it's like, unbelievable. Then they had like when they had the father, the guy come in, like he had to call up each of the kid, each of the kids parents and say, Would you be comfortable with this gentleman, you know, of helping raise your kid if it's unbelievable. It's crazy. It's hysterical. He kept the bar like in the second episode, he needed to think about something because he was unsure. So we went to the bar in the warehouse to have a drink and just ruminate. It's, it's great. It's it's hysterical.

Jeff Dwoskin 16:12

All right, the world of Nathan fielder. Thank you, Howard Rosner, that's three great shows for you to check out Nathan for you how to how to with John Wilson. And though rehearsal. But now without further ado, I'm going to take us through the world of Sharknado one of my favorite movies, Episode 184 of classic conversations is my interview with under Levin, green writer of Sharknado, 123 and four and here's me gushing over Sharknado enjoy. I'm excited because the next movie that we're going to discuss is possibly one of the greatest movies in the world. And I will make my case and I will start NATO shark NATO. I love Sharknado I love all the movies, but to give it its due, I'm going to very specifically just cover Sharknado today, I will of course talk about other things in the future. So Sharknado while you go off at me run a bit once a joke movie is the most successful movie film franchise of all time. This franchise has made over $4.5 billion beating Disney Pixar. Okay. All right, according to film site.org So this movie is considered a science fiction comedy disaster film though the word though it is considered a comedy. It is not so Sharknado two through six that it became more comedy this one is played actually more realistically than the others and is why it actually is one of the greatest movies ever because I am Ziering goes all in 1,000% in believing who he is and what this movie is about. And that is why Sharknado is incredible. So real quick Sharknado by the way, and all the Sharknado movies are available on HBO Max streaming right now. But this is a sci fi movie. This was a made for TV sci fi movie The first airing of Sharknado okay earned 1.3 7 million viewers slightly lower than a normal sci fi movie. However, what makes Sharknado stand out in the crowd of these type of movies and any movie in sci fi history of which I challenge you to name one prior or since that is not a Sharknado is it became an absolute phenomenon on Twitter Sharknado aired on Twitter or share aired on the SyFy channel and was averaging 5000 tweets per minute. What really gave it up? Is it celebrities got into it? There were so into people like Wil Wheaton and who's the one with Woody Allen be a pharaoh ever? I mean, there was so many, like big names that did it that it became a social media phenomenon. Okay, it's literally what launched it into the stratosphere, and then they replayed it and it gained another even more viewers on 1.89 and then aired it again and it had over 2 million viewers. So it just they kept area. Now one point of interest is that the iron Ziering roll was originally offered to Steven Gutenberg, who we love from the police academy movies. He said no, he was so upset that he said now realizing what this movie became while he took on the Lavon Shula franchise. Alright, so the point is, sometimes you never know what's going to happen. All right, the other lesson for Twitter and social media, Olivia Wilde, and Cory Monteith, you may recognize the name Corey Montes, he was from Glee And sadly also like Marilyn Monroe passed away from a drug overdose. So take your Twitter Seriously folks because Corey Monty's last tweets were what the crap is a Sharknado and oh, it's a shark tornado and then he died. So the kind of he's a terrible last words I exactly my point. So Sharknado is a movie of sharks and, and tornadoes and it's it's really you get the whole picture of the movie from it little more trivia the people making the movie. Tara Reid, I engineering is incredible. And as John Hurd is in this movie, the legendary John Hurd, those are the big names in Sharknado, two started to pick up a lot of cameos. By the time six, every single person in the movie was a cameo. But in this original movie, it was more of the core cast. When they were filming the movie, it was called, I believe, Night Skies. And at some point, they broke it to the entire cast that they were starring in a movie called Shark NATO, at which point almost the entire cast quit. But John heard understood actually of the entire cast that this was going to be gold. And that was the right decision. And eventually, the entire cast was convinced to stay on board. And it actually, like I mentioned, became one of the biggest franchises in the world. So this is written by thunder Levin. It's directed by Anthony C. Ferrante. And it basically is just a story, you know, your everyday story. It starts with off the coast of Mexico, the movie, where there's some smugglers, and then all of a sudden there's a tornado in the middle of the sea, and they kill why they start with smugglers. And some of this intrigue has nothing to do with the movie, just just the intro the movie anyway, but a cyclone is coming to LA. And as the Cyclones coming to LA it's picking up sharks, and these sharks are becoming part of this cyclone or tornado, or dare I say Sharknado. And and so what basically Finn who has ions airing his name is Fen, which, coincidentally, he's a hero obsessed fighter of sharks, and his name just happens to be Fenn. That's and then, which is great. And then you have Cassie Scerbo is Nova. And she plays a big part in the franchise. And then they go, they gotta save April, which is the estranged ex wife, who's Tara Reid. And somehow when they go to her house, only her house really fills up with water and sharks for the battle the sharks, and they kill the sharks, and there's so many people that die from sharks. That's the beauty of Sharknado is that so many people die from sharks, it's just a wonderful, it's not like, they hold back, maybe one or two people die, John herd dies, you know, it's, it's, it's just amazing. And then there's a million Jaws quotes that they rewrote. And then they kind of say, Oh, we're gonna need a bigger chopper, you know, when they're chopper. And so I stuff like that. But it's the beauty of this film, as I send it into your airways is that it's played 100% As if this is like the most real thing ever. And no one in the movie winks, like a Mel Brooks film where they know they're in a silly movie. They're in a real movie. And this is the worst thing that's gonna happen to the world, and they have to save the world. And that's the beauty of it. Eventually, there's a bunch of a bunch of tornadoes and they drop bombs into the tornadoes which to dissipate the Sharknado, which you may recognize, because later Donald Trump actually thought that was an actual thing is drop bombs into tornadoes to to get rid of anyway, and then it ends with this amazing thing. So April gets eaten not April, the girlfriend or interest gets eaten by a shark. And then then the shark eats fan who is iron zeri. And then with his change, you ride shotgun and then like, it cuts out and cuts himself out and saves. No, she's not. She's completely safe. Nothing happened to her. She fell from the sky and a shark. And somehow iron Ziering went through the shark with a full on chainsaw, and yet no one gets hurt. And that's the beauty of Sharknado that's really just the beauty of it. And you walk away. It's only like 90 minutes. And you're like, that was just beautiful. That was like the best comedy science fiction disaster film I've ever seen ever. I'm gonna do a little spoiler. The Carmen the change. I want her. There was there was a request. All right. Yeah. Gilbert Godfrey is in one Jason Taylor. And the time travel one is Uh, is is Sharknado six the end? It's about time. Okay. Very clever names. And so I'll get into other movies in the future because I really love this. And Robbie wrist is in it. He plays and he dies in it as well. He plays a bus driver, Robbie wrist is anyone anyone? Cousin Oliver from The Brady Bunch? And so he's answer anyway. Yeah, it's, it's just it's one of those things that was shot in 18 days. And you can see every, every minute of those 18 days in the movie, it's, it's just really wonderful. They spent about a million dollars to make this. And it's just if you haven't seen it, I shed a tear for you. And I look forward to actually going and seeing it. I really do. Because you're gonna love it. You're gonna love it. I rewatched it recently, but every watch the entire series. So well.

Ron Lippitt 25:53

I just will say hopefully my microphone is working that my, my daughter, my eldest daughter, Maureen and I this this has been a bonding movie for my family and me. I have spent hours and hours and I think we've watched the first three shark NATO's is least 15 times. And we sit and just laugh, non stop. And I think our favorite thing about the show, Jeff is the random deaths like the creativity that have gone into like people that have nothing to do with where the show is going and what the storyline is getting taken out by a shark in ever more random ridiculous ways. Like, like a guy in a boardroom and having a shark go through the window and eat him. You know, like just like ridiculous things like that are freaking

Jeff Dwoskin 26:44

hysterical. These sharks have aim that is so impeccable. That if they were stormtroopers, the whole Star Wars franchise would have ended in one movie like that's that there is good targeting people, as Stormtroopers are missing people is like no one is safe from one of these sharks. Not one shark is every it's how you see a scene and Sharknado where they're walking and there's like a bunch of sharks just on the ground know, each one. Each one killed someone. There isn't a wasted shark in this movie.

Tim Beisiegel 27:18

I have never watched a second of any of the Sharknado movies. But here's a question and maybe you already addressed this and maybe I missed it in your explanation.

Jeff Dwoskin 27:28

I thought in your introduction, you hosted a funny science fiction podcast but go ahead.

Tim Beisiegel 27:33

I do but I skipped this on purpose. But anyway. No so honest question so the sharks are in a tornado sharks are an acquittal. You

Jeff Dwoskin 27:41

understand about Sharknado I'm getting there. Why isn't clear about shark

Tim Beisiegel 27:48

building you o'clock to ask to tell you the time. So sharks aren't aquatic creature that are now in a tornado? How do they stay alive outside of the water?

Jeff Dwoskin 27:56

Well, you know, I

Sal Demilio 27:58

had a good question, Tim. And I shark needle technology, man.

Jeff Dwoskin 28:05

First of all that that can happen. I mean, you're just what do you say like well, you

Ron Lippitt 28:12

know, it's like a waterspouts sucks up water in the tornado. So there is there is ocean water in the tornado Tim?

Tim Beisiegel 28:21

Okay, there's my

Sal Demilio 28:24

funnel, like a funnel like a funnel. Okay, so

Tim Beisiegel 28:26

this clearly isn't being shot and like Kansas, then

Jeff Dwoskin 28:29

well, this one isn't but number number four is actually shot. Before the movie is in Kansas, and actually has more Wizard of Oz references than you can shake a stick. Let me let me let me tell you when you those of you who are and it's kind of like why you built the clock to tell me the time to end is that you are trying to imply that the Sharknado is aren't real but in essence are five documented instances of real life animal tornadoes, including a gator inator so there's there's been a fish one where the fish Nedo where fish had been sucked up into a water spout of small fish and began to rain from the sky. There was a frog reported frog Nedo rain frogs, jellyfish,

Tim Beisiegel 29:17

which is Toad NATO

Jeff Dwoskin 29:20

frog that consoling mute Tim, who doesn't know Josephine frogs and jellyfish, a worm and an alligator NATO and so you know, those are all documented Do you can Google them later? I don't have time. We have to end the show. But I come prepared. I don't just say I like Sharknado and walk in. No, I don't I don't walk in and ready for you to build clocks. Tell me the time and catch me off guard. I'm trying to like I engineering my review. I'm trying to take it as serious as

Tim Beisiegel 29:52

No, you're playing it straight, just like the people in the movie here right there.

Jeff Dwoskin 29:56

So alright, so anyway, awesome. All right. That was good. See? Wait Yes Gilbert Godfrey to his I believe and for it'd be like, Oh, now there's there's oil. Oh the cow, isn't it? Can you say it's a cow? Nedo Yeah. That was his old role in the movie. I believe it was, it was either three or four. Okay. All right, that was Sharknado. That's a lie. You got a lot of homework from this episode Nathan for you how to deal with John Wilson the rehearsal and Sharknado bonus homework is Sharknado, 2345 and six. So anyway, I'm not gonna keep you any longer to go hop onto the couch, grab your remote, cross your own streams, and I'll see you next time.

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