Movies In A Nutshell Turns One! – Stats, Stories & What’s Next
One year ago today, Movies In A Nutshell started as a simple idea.
Since then, it’s grown into something we genuinely didn’t expect shaped by the movies we’ve covered, the conversations we’ve had, and the listeners who’ve stuck with us along the way.
To mark our first birthday, we’re doing something a little different.
This bonus episode steps away from the usual format for a relaxed, behind-the-scenes look at the show itself how it started, how it’s changed, and where it might be heading next.
🎂 In this birthday bonus episode, we talk about:
- How the podcast began and how quickly the first year disappeared
- The moments that genuinely surprised us
- Episodes that connected more than we expected
- Why different types of episodes resonate in different ways
- How each host approaches movie choices and what that means for the show
- The jokes, tangents and running gags that accidentally became part of the podcast
- What we’ve learned from doing this every week
- And what Movies In A Nutshell might look like as we head into Year Two
If you’ve been listening since the start, this one’s for you.
If you’re new, it’s the perfect snapshot of what Movies In A Nutshell is really about.
We’d love to hear from you
Do you have a favourite episode?
Was there a moment that stuck with you?
How did you first discover the podcast?
Get in touch and let us know — we’ll share listener responses in future episodes.
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Thank you!
Marc, Darren and Paul
Transcript
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Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker B:Welcome to the birthday episode of Movies in a nutshell.
Speaker B:We are officially one year old today.
Speaker A:Flown by.
Speaker A:It's terrifying.
Speaker B:Wow.
Speaker B:One created on a whim.
Speaker B:Years old, wanted on a whim.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Closer to death.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker C:And how many did we do?
Speaker B:51 regular episodes plus three bonus episodes.
Speaker C:Wow.
Speaker B:Do you want to take a guess at how many hours and minutes we spent talking in?
Speaker B:20, 25, 52.
Speaker B:Well, each episode's less than an hour.
Speaker A:Yeah, we've got a couple that went on longer.
Speaker A:All right, there's 47, 46, 38 hours.
Speaker B:1 minute and 33 seconds.
Speaker B:Ah, that's almost four full working days of non stop movie chat.
Speaker C:Wow.
Speaker A:It's basically my job.
Speaker C:And we probably edited out, what, oh, another six months worth of movie chat.
Speaker B:It's like watching the entire extended edition of Lord of the Rings movie.
Speaker B:Five trips or driving from London to John o' Groats twice and still talking.
Speaker C:That's a lot of talking.
Speaker C:So if you're doing that trip, just.
Speaker B:Put on our all you need.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker B:Any idea how many countries we've been downloaded in?
Speaker A:Oh, I do.
Speaker A:11 more.
Speaker A:18 more.
Speaker A:Really?
Speaker A:25 more.
Speaker A:Get out of here.
Speaker C:Don't tell him this.
Speaker C:He's gonna think he's got fans around the world.
Speaker A:I have got fans.
Speaker A:If you're not listening to what you're saying.
Speaker A:All around the world.
Speaker C:Okay, 30 more.
Speaker A:Oh, there's just one person who travels.
Speaker C:For a living, do you reckon?
Speaker C:And it just picks you up in different places.
Speaker C:50.
Speaker B:Close, but more.
Speaker C:Wow.
Speaker A:69.
Speaker B:53.
Speaker C:That's still impressive.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:For a.
Speaker B:For a one year old podcast, it's not bad.
Speaker B: countries of: Speaker B:United Kingdom with 63.5 of our downloads.
Speaker C:Makes sense.
Speaker B:United States, number two.
Speaker B:18.4.
Speaker A:Thank you.
Speaker A:Americans, I imagine.
Speaker C:Love you.
Speaker B:And it's spread out between Germany, 4.5, Italy 2.4, Canada 1.7, Australia 1.6, Netherlands 1.3, France 1.2, Ireland 1.1 and Spain 1%.
Speaker A:So we could do a worldwide tour and sofa surf on our fans couches.
Speaker B:I think it could be arranged.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Yeah, I used to do it, the band.
Speaker B:So yeah, why not?
Speaker A:Let's just skip America for now.
Speaker C:Is this not going to lose his listeners where they're like, oh, no, Darren's just going to turn up at the door like, hey, how's it going?
Speaker C:I believe you're a fan.
Speaker B:I'd love to take the show on the road.
Speaker B:That'd be cool.
Speaker C:Is that next year's thing?
Speaker C:Then movies on a nutshell on the road show.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker C:Like the grand tour but with us.
Speaker B:Yeah, let's do that.
Speaker A:Let's make it so South America not fans.
Speaker A:Africa not fans.
Speaker B:They're not just.
Speaker B:They've just not made the top 10.
Speaker B:That was the top.
Speaker B:That was just the top 10.
Speaker A:Fair enough.
Speaker C:Then Glass, glass half empty.
Speaker C:Darren.
Speaker C:Like I demand to know where the fans are not at.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker C:So we can visit them and I'm just curious culturally.
Speaker A:I wonder what.
Speaker A:What was going on.
Speaker B:I mean I can pull the actual.
Speaker A:But we also don't watch that much world cinema.
Speaker A:Like have we seen done any subtitles?
Speaker B:I don't think that matters because like blockbuster movies transcend all.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:They just.
Speaker B:They go all over.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:But we, we immediately think blockbuster in terms of Hollywood.
Speaker A:Like there be Bollywood films that are huge and be Japanese movies that are huge that we just don't.
Speaker A:They don't kind of come over here, don't get a release or something.
Speaker B:So if I go to all time countries, let's go to the very end.
Speaker B:So these are the ones that have got very low downloads.
Speaker B:But it's.
Speaker B:We've still got some.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Talking Sri Lanka.
Speaker A:Nice.
Speaker B:Saudi Arabia.
Speaker B:The Philippines.
Speaker B:Morocco.
Speaker C:Wow.
Speaker A:Are you laughing at Morocco?
Speaker B:All them outrageous that we get.
Speaker B:Jamaica.
Speaker B:There you go.
Speaker B:Estonia.
Speaker B:Estonia.
Speaker B:Ecuador, Chile, Bangladesh.
Speaker C:Well, they all listening to us for waffling on here.
Speaker B:Argentina, Turkey, Thailand, Mexico, Brazil, Lithuania.
Speaker A:Nice.
Speaker B:And Belize, South Korea, Pakistan, Israel.
Speaker B:Alaman, Iran.
Speaker A:Oh, okay.
Speaker C:This world too is getting bigger all the time.
Speaker A:I wonder how they're finding it.
Speaker B:Yeah, it's interesting.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Actually some of the news I didn't do any.
Speaker B:So Apple podcasts is our most.
Speaker B:24% of our listeners last year used Apple Podcasts.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker B:21.9% used Spotify and the rest after that's like Chrome.
Speaker B:There's quite a few unknowns like people must be using like VPNs.
Speaker B:You don't know where they are.
Speaker B:But some people secret have to do that in certain countries if they don't.
Speaker A:Listen to us because we'd be banned.
Speaker A:It's wrong to listen to us.
Speaker A:It's forbidden.
Speaker C:You'll just try to use reverse psychology.
Speaker C:Yeah, I thought so.
Speaker B:63% on mobile and 21% on desktop browser.
Speaker B:And loads of weird other things.
Speaker B:I've never heard of how people listen.
Speaker C:To the show but what Darren's saying is you should not listen to this.
Speaker C:It's bad.
Speaker A:Naughty.
Speaker C:Wrong.
Speaker B:There's still 11% of our audience listening on Windows.
Speaker B:What desktop.
Speaker B:Which people sat at their computer Listening to the.
Speaker C:Do you reckon Bill Gates is listening on Windows?
Speaker A:It was just why they're working.
Speaker B:Yeah, but I. Yeah, I suppose so.
Speaker B:I always just imagine podcasts like I do, always on the go when I'm doing something.
Speaker C:But this is though, it's interesting.
Speaker C:Is it where people listen in different ways and play it on different things as well?
Speaker B:It might be 1% Linux.
Speaker A:A lot of people listen to podcasts while doing housework.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:1% Amazon OS.
Speaker B:I don't know what's Amazon OS?
Speaker B:Chrome OS as well.
Speaker C:Maybe just the way you can play it on Amazon, Stream it, I guess.
Speaker B:5% on a smart home like Alexa or something like that.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker A:You do podcasts on Prime.
Speaker B:Might be that there was Apple, there was Amazon music.
Speaker B:I think you do it via that.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:I'm sorry.
Speaker B:Music.
Speaker C:Here's an Inception question.
Speaker C:If I say Alexa Play Movies in a Nutshell, has their Alexa now just set off playing Movies in a Nutshell, even though we're already playing Movies in a Nutshell because they're listening to it already?
Speaker A:Hey, Siri.
Speaker A:Play Movies in a Nutshell.
Speaker B:Right?
Speaker B:There you go, listeners.
Speaker B:Let us know what happened.
Speaker C:It feels like.
Speaker C:It feels like a Matrix question.
Speaker C:Like, is your house in utter chaos right now?
Speaker B:What the fuck's going on?
Speaker C:What a really baked noodle is.
Speaker C:Would you have knocked over the bath?
Speaker B:Is that Darren at the door?
Speaker A:Fun fact.
Speaker A:Did you know that with your Amazon devices you can rename them to Ziggy?
Speaker C:Oh, there's someone who I follow on one of the things and she calls us Diggy.
Speaker A:Which must be from Quantum Leap, right?
Speaker C:Must be.
Speaker C:Got to be.
Speaker A:Surely Quantum Leap's great TV show about a guy who leaps through time and puts right what once went wrong.
Speaker A:And he's.
Speaker B:I'm hoping his next leap will be the leap.
Speaker C:We may be showing our age at this point.
Speaker A:His guide is called Al, who's a hologram and he's computer system is called Ziggy.
Speaker A:That's always breaking, which is really, really.
Speaker B: episodes of: Speaker B: ur most downloaded episode of: Speaker C:It's going to be something that we don't think it's going to be, isn't it?
Speaker A:Elf?
Speaker C:Well, we starting at 10 or we going just.
Speaker B:If you, you can either.
Speaker B:You can try and either work out the top 10 in order or just shout out what you think might be in the top 10.
Speaker A:Elf.
Speaker A:Wicked.
Speaker B:Elf.
Speaker B:Yes, Wicked.
Speaker A:Yes, Minecraft.
Speaker B:Minecraft's in there.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker C:It feels like Family Fortunes, but It's.
Speaker B:Not about Top Guns.
Speaker C:Gotta be in there.
Speaker B:Top Gun is not in there.
Speaker C:Oh, man.
Speaker B: almost downloaded episode of: Speaker A:I know how to feel about that.
Speaker B:By quite some way.
Speaker C:I think we released it right on the right point.
Speaker B:Maybe it was.
Speaker B:It was still out in the cinema.
Speaker C:It was everywhere when we released it.
Speaker C:Maybe that's why.
Speaker A:Does that mean you're gonna make us watch more musical theater?
Speaker B:I'm not gonna make you do anything.
Speaker A:Excellent.
Speaker A:Good.
Speaker A:Moving on.
Speaker B:If the listeners decide that's on them, Check the gate.
Speaker C:Moving on.
Speaker B:The people listen to this.
Speaker B:They're the people who are really in charge.
Speaker B:Number two, everyone's always got a boss.
Speaker B:Number two was our first proper episode.
Speaker B:Back to the Future.
Speaker A:That's valid.
Speaker B:Part of that is because it's been available for the longest.
Speaker B:Yeah, but it's still up there compared to, like, it's not that far behind.
Speaker A:Wicked redeems the audience a little bit.
Speaker B:Number three, Minecraft.
Speaker B:That's just because we've released a film that was popular and there was a buzz about it and we released it, which is part of the reason why we do that.
Speaker C:Darren looks very disappoint.
Speaker B:That doesn't matter.
Speaker B:I know people downloaded it.
Speaker B:They might have agreed with you, Darren.
Speaker A:I agree entirely.
Speaker A:We were very funny about that.
Speaker B:Number four was with Nail and I.
Speaker A:Excellent taste.
Speaker B:Number five, Conair.
Speaker A:It's fun.
Speaker C:That's interesting that they were drawn.
Speaker A:So there's no pattern really, from.
Speaker A:I can see.
Speaker B:There is.
Speaker B:I'll get to that.
Speaker B:Number six, When Harry Met Sally.
Speaker C:Ah.
Speaker B:Number seven, Leave the World Behind.
Speaker C:Oh.
Speaker C:Shout out to Rob Reiner, actually on the When Harry Met Sally.
Speaker A:Nice.
Speaker C:Because.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:Obviously passed away with his wife recently due to very terrifying circumstances.
Speaker C:But.
Speaker C:Yeah, because we still haven't got the Princess Bride, we need to show.
Speaker C:Yeah, we do mark Princess Bride at some point.
Speaker C:Sorry.
Speaker B:Number eight, Jaws.
Speaker A:Oh, yeah, Valid.
Speaker B:Fairly recent one.
Speaker B:Number nine was Elf.
Speaker A:Yeah, I figured that was very recent one.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:And number 10, another recent one.
Speaker B:The Holiday.
Speaker B:So we are getting more popular.
Speaker B:So recent episodes are catching up to early episodes.
Speaker A:But also people may have had time off over Christmas, so they went with the holiday in the Elf.
Speaker A:That makes sense.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Some.
Speaker B:Some podcasts take Christmas off because.
Speaker B:Oh, no one listens.
Speaker A:Slackers.
Speaker A:But they don't deserve their success.
Speaker B:My thing is, you should.
Speaker B:If people expect you to be there, you should be there.
Speaker B:Let's just carry on.
Speaker C:We were.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:Turning up and we were.
Speaker C:So maybe they'll go and listen to the older ones.
Speaker B:So what you said there was no pack.
Speaker B:Sorry, what you say?
Speaker A:I was gonna say, what was your favorite episode?
Speaker A:Recording.
Speaker B:Well, that was one of my questions coming up.
Speaker B:But yeah, we can do that now if you want.
Speaker B:Recording wise, probably Castaway, I really enjoyed.
Speaker A:That was a good episode.
Speaker B:I really enjoyed getting to the meat of that film, like, because there's a lot more to me, to the eye than that episode.
Speaker B:It kind of went over my head.
Speaker A:Yeah, that was a fun one to.
Speaker B:Pick to get more.
Speaker B:And I already enjoyed that film, but to get more out of it was really good.
Speaker B:I always wondered if, like, that's because that's what I try to do for people.
Speaker B:Listen to this.
Speaker B:Get more out of films that you've already seen.
Speaker B:So that for me, did it while I was recording.
Speaker B:It was quite cool.
Speaker A:Nice.
Speaker A:You.
Speaker A:I think it's hard to know because I can't remember all of them or even all the films, but I do think that It's Wonderful Life landed with me in a way that I wasn't expecting.
Speaker A:The discussion of that was much more interesting than I expected.
Speaker B:I hope we do.
Speaker B:I end up doing more of that.
Speaker C:Yeah, that was a good one.
Speaker C:The other one that sticks out for me is probably just because Darren enjoyed it and it brought me joy to see him get joy, which was Romance in the Stone.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker C:And it was like, ah, we finally.
Speaker C:We finally found one formula.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:So that.
Speaker C:That problem.
Speaker C:I've enjoyed all of them, though.
Speaker C:They're all slightly different as well.
Speaker C:You know, just the movies different.
Speaker B:I just love doing this podcast.
Speaker B:So you mentioned about.
Speaker B:There's no patterns.
Speaker B:Which movie types, which episode types do you think are the most popular?
Speaker B:Listen, we either have listener choice cinema trips or host picks.
Speaker C:They always know best.
Speaker B:So you think cinema trips number one?
Speaker C:No, no, we're both thinking then the cinema trips and then probably our choices.
Speaker B:Yeah, no, cinema trips are the most most popular one.
Speaker B:We have less of them.
Speaker B:So it's more evident that they are because, like, well, Wicked, that was a cinematic.
Speaker A:All right.
Speaker B:So it needs to be listening choice number two and then host picks number three.
Speaker C:So basically the algorithm picks up on the modern films that's just come out more than potentially the old ones, maybe.
Speaker B:So Frankenstein, that was last move last year, so maybe that.
Speaker B:That'll prove to be popular because our.
Speaker C:Cinema ones were what, Superman, Wicked, the Long Walk and Minecraft.
Speaker C:Minecraft, yeah.
Speaker A:It's excellent.
Speaker B:With Nail and I that we wiped.
Speaker B:That was.
Speaker B:That was a listener choice.
Speaker C:Yeah, that was a popular one.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:So it's.
Speaker B:Yeah, it's Interesting.
Speaker B:But we're going to carry on doing those anyway, so.
Speaker A:Yeah, like.
Speaker A:Like Sisyphus or Prometheus trapped in a Greek myth.
Speaker A:Doing this until we're 90.
Speaker C:Why is this making me think of the Wolverine Deadpool thing where it's like Marvel's got you till you mark it.
Speaker A:That's it.
Speaker C:He's never going to let us go.
Speaker B:So maybe we could do maybe a month where it's only listener choice.
Speaker B:We'll do a listener choice month.
Speaker A:Yep.
Speaker A:We could do that.
Speaker C:In the listeners we trust.
Speaker B:Or we do like a couple a month where we go.
Speaker B:We're going to do two cinema trips.
Speaker A:In this month or in May.
Speaker A:It is my birthday so I shall have a whole month of my trip.
Speaker B:A Darren month.
Speaker A:We could do that definitely the year after I shall be 50.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker C:I feel that's valid.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:We'll still be doing here then that here.
Speaker C:Will we not be cancelled by then?
Speaker B:No, we can't get cancelled.
Speaker B:Will you stop saying that?
Speaker C:Feel like we'll get canceled by someone.
Speaker C:Someone will cancel us.
Speaker A:Our employers would be like, we've listened to your podcast.
Speaker A:It's rather childish and immature.
Speaker A:Do you really think that you should be putting that content out there?
Speaker C:Or the men in black will come around and just like, yeah, we'll get.
Speaker A:Too close to the truth.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:The flash of light you saw in the sky was not a ufo.
Speaker C:Swamp gas from a weather balloon was trapped and reflected refracted the light from Venus.
Speaker C:Men in black.
Speaker B:Oh yeah, right.
Speaker C:Don't know why I remembered that.
Speaker B:So that brings me on to an interesting question of which of the host picks.
Speaker B:Do you think which one of us has picked the most popular episodes?
Speaker C:Well, Darren hates everything we pick so.
Speaker B:It'S not about what we think.
Speaker B:What I'm talking about what the listeners downloaded.
Speaker C:Oh, I see.
Speaker A:I think I've gone rogue too much with like bringing.
Speaker A:Was it bringing a baby?
Speaker A:No, it was oh black and white film.
Speaker A:We did at some point he scarf Friday and then I did the Vikings Henry VIII 1.
Speaker A:What was that man of all season Vikings.
Speaker A:I can't imagine any of those did high.
Speaker B:What do you think?
Speaker C:I can't remember what I picked now.
Speaker C:I think a lot of the ones I would have picked were available on streaming so I had to.
Speaker A:I think it's you, Paul.
Speaker C:What?
Speaker A:I think you've won.
Speaker C:No, I don't know.
Speaker C:I think Mark had some pretty solid ones and he had born identity stuff like that.
Speaker A:He goes quite roguish and often a tangent sometimes mine all tend to be Mainstream.
Speaker C:Yeah, I know.
Speaker B:The winner is me.
Speaker A:Get out of here.
Speaker A:I told you, he's the host.
Speaker A:He's just manipulating the.
Speaker A:The data.
Speaker B:It's mine.
Speaker B:Then Darren's.
Speaker B:Then yours.
Speaker C:All right, well, I'm Sack then, right?
Speaker C:Are you having the meetings again?
Speaker A:I was thinking we could replace him with a girl.
Speaker A:No one would notice.
Speaker C:It's gonna happen, isn't it?
Speaker C:You will let me know before you do that, right?
Speaker C:Just saying that day I come in, it's like, oh, hi, nice to meet you.
Speaker C:Oh, this is.
Speaker C:This is Abby.
Speaker A:No, it'd be like Paulina or something.
Speaker C:Oh, I see.
Speaker C:So you wouldn't go too far away.
Speaker A:Paulette Knight.
Speaker C:I'm really.
Speaker C:I'm really disappointed now.
Speaker B:I wouldn't be though, because it's not really.
Speaker B:This isn't about popularity.
Speaker C:This is about Darren's nodding.
Speaker C:Saying it is.
Speaker B:The interesting is why.
Speaker B:Why those.
Speaker B:Why.
Speaker C:Okay.
Speaker B:Why it's the case.
Speaker B:So I was.
Speaker B:I had some idea.
Speaker B:So I asked ChatGPT.
Speaker B:I gave it the stats and I asked, why do you think this is based on these movie choices?
Speaker B:So it's for me, most popular on average.
Speaker B:Why?
Speaker B:It says recognizable titles, strongly watch appeal.
Speaker B:Low barrier to entry for new listeners.
Speaker B:Mark's picks act as the front door to the podcast.
Speaker B:They're episodes that people most likely try first because like obviously like the Matrix or Jaws or.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:So I'm thinking you some mainstream SO ones in there.
Speaker B:Darren's picks consistently solid.
Speaker B:It says prestige, filmmaker, credibility films people feel they should have seen appeals to cine.
Speaker B:Serious listeners or cinephiles.
Speaker B:Darren's picks act as the depth layer.
Speaker B:They reward listeners who already trust the format.
Speaker A:Nice.
Speaker C:If Chat GPT is about to sack me, then I feel like preparation.
Speaker B:It doesn't.
Speaker B:It's not really.
Speaker B:It's not really about that.
Speaker B:But Paul's picks most polarizing.
Speaker B:Why?
Speaker B:Big personality choices, seasonal swings, strong emotional reactions.
Speaker B:Paul's picks act as the conversation starters.
Speaker B:They might not always be the biggest, but they spark messages, debates.
Speaker B:How did you rate that?
Speaker B:Moments.
Speaker A:Nice.
Speaker B:So they're all good for different reasons.
Speaker B:And that's what makes.
Speaker C:Mine are the most emotional picks.
Speaker B:But that's what makes the show what it is.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:If we all had similar choices, then I don't.
Speaker C:I still feel listeners if.
Speaker C:If streaming was better, you know, I could pick some cooler stuff, but every time I go, oh, I'll pick that.
Speaker C:It's never on streaming.
Speaker A:This title is leaving in four days.
Speaker C:Yeah, I feel like my hands are tied a lot of the times because of that.
Speaker B:It finished off by saying the popularity difference isn't about quality, it's about accessibility.
Speaker B:That's a really mature, confident framing.
Speaker B:So you know what you're doing.
Speaker B:Like Nate says to us, you guys know what you're doing.
Speaker B:You're building a balance show.
Speaker B:Everyone has a role.
Speaker B:Mark's pick tend to be more mainstream.
Speaker B:They are the easiest way into the show.
Speaker B:Darren's at depth.
Speaker B:Paul's engage arguments.
Speaker C:And I also pick a lot of romcoms.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:It's going to be arguments between us.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker C:I think I pick more romcoms than anyone, haven't I?
Speaker B:Good.
Speaker A:You make me believe in love again.
Speaker C:Well, I. I try, but then you always hate the romcoms I pick.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Because they're trying to make me believe in love again.
Speaker A:And there is no such thing.
Speaker B:But we.
Speaker A:My heart is dead.
Speaker B:We and many listeners enjoy him hating films.
Speaker C:That's true.
Speaker C:That's true.
Speaker B:Only reason they tune in.
Speaker C:Let's get some more romcoms on there for the dear listener and Darren's rants.
Speaker B:So we've covered highlight of the year.
Speaker B:What's your favorite part of the segment of the show?
Speaker A:I think I like the unboxing.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:What did you miss?
Speaker C:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker C:Just where we, like, talk through it.
Speaker C:Get into that level where we're not as held back.
Speaker C:Because that first bit's always quite tricky to hold back and not spoil it.
Speaker C:And then the second level is very.
Speaker B:Much just the stat show.
Speaker C:Get into it, isn't it?
Speaker B:Most people listen to that bit as well because we have chapters so people can skip.
Speaker B:Like, if someone's in it, they probably won't.
Speaker B:They don't need to listen to the nutshell.
Speaker B:No, they don't.
Speaker B:They don't need.
Speaker C:They skip that.
Speaker B:Then sometimes they just go straight to this.
Speaker C:Does anyone ever stick around for that quote at the end?
Speaker C:That takes me, like a lot of people.
Speaker C:All of my anxiety.
Speaker B:It's become a thing now.
Speaker C:Okay, so that's fine then.
Speaker C:Because it was like, can we scrap that?
Speaker C:Because it would take a lot of excite.
Speaker A:No.
Speaker C:Darren going, not that quote.
Speaker C:No.
Speaker B:Any favorite moments that have happened?
Speaker A:Yeah, I feel me saying it.
Speaker A:But it was hilarious.
Speaker A:The first time we joked about firing Paul.
Speaker C:Is this going to become a recurring thing as well?
Speaker A:It's just that Mark chimed in and it was just like.
Speaker C:It was the way he said, we've got the third meeting tomorrow.
Speaker A:It was.
Speaker C:It was.
Speaker C:It was excellent comedy time.
Speaker C:And it's got to be said, pitch perfect.
Speaker C:Like, boom.
Speaker B:Yes, that was.
Speaker B:That was funny.
Speaker B:I'VE had some people say that was.
Speaker B:That was laugh out loud.
Speaker B:Not just that bit.
Speaker B:The whole.
Speaker B:The whole episode.
Speaker B:We need more, but we need now.
Speaker B:We need a whole year's worth of more moments like that.
Speaker C:Oh, great.
Speaker C:I look forward to those.
Speaker C:Let's sack Paul.
Speaker A:No, but we should say we're just teasing you and we were delighted when you joined the squad.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker B:You fit perfectly.
Speaker B:This is like.
Speaker B:This is completes the trinity.
Speaker A:It's almost like the podcast is willing.
Speaker C:It to be right.
Speaker C:Well, we've said this before.
Speaker C:Isn't it how.
Speaker C:How things all fall into place, and it was very serendipitous of the whole thing.
Speaker C:So.
Speaker A:So we know the universe wants us to do it.
Speaker A:We're just not sure why yet.
Speaker B:Ah, you guys got any favorite things you've learned about a movie you didn't know?
Speaker C:Oh, so many facts.
Speaker A:Castaway was up there.
Speaker A:That was a.
Speaker A:That was a weird.
Speaker A:In real time, watching it being like, wait, what?
Speaker A:And then going back and I remembered recording that show and looking at my notes and piecing things together on the show, which I normally wouldn't go, what?
Speaker A:What?
Speaker C:Where's he going with us?
Speaker A:That was a cool.
Speaker C:But then when you got there, it was.
Speaker C:Yeah, it was pretty mind blowing.
Speaker C:I remember pretty being pretty gobsmacked me.
Speaker B:Like, speaking of your notes, how do you guys prepare your notes?
Speaker B:What's your method?
Speaker A:I wish I had a system.
Speaker A:I always think that I should be writing them in different sections so I know when I'm going to do them, but I don't mind.
Speaker A:Just chaotic.
Speaker A:And I just write anything that occurs to me as I'm going along and then try and make sense of it on the day.
Speaker C:I have a small Cobra Kai notebook that was gifted to me by Joe.
Speaker C:Ciao, Joe.
Speaker C:Because he said, I'm never going to use this notebook, but I feel like you would.
Speaker C:So I have my Cobra Kai notebook and I sit there and I write kind of things.
Speaker C:And sometimes it's stupid stuff I write that's obvious to the plot, like, oh, they have died now.
Speaker C:So actual just plot points just to remind me.
Speaker C:And then I read it back and think I really didn't need to write that down.
Speaker C:And then other times it's writing down as many quotes as I can to try and pick a fun one for the end and if there is any facts.
Speaker C:And then I spend quite a bit of time trying to think of what it reminds me of and what sort of feelings it.
Speaker B:You guys pause regularly while you write something down.
Speaker C:When I'm doing The quotes.
Speaker A:Sometimes I try not to because I'm like, oh, it depends if I'm enjoying the film.
Speaker A:It's like with Frankenstein or I just crack on.
Speaker A:I'll.
Speaker B:If I come with a thought, I have to write it down.
Speaker B:Otherwise it's gone.
Speaker A:I like the episode on Spring break.
Speaker A:Is that what it was called?
Speaker A:That was a good one.
Speaker B:You like the movie but you like the episode?
Speaker A:Yeah, I like the episode because that.
Speaker A:We got into some really interesting discussions.
Speaker B:About it but also Palm Springs.
Speaker C:Yeah, sorry.
Speaker B:That was also one of the first episodes where we really.
Speaker B:There were some really disagreements we had with different views on things and that.
Speaker B:But that made it better.
Speaker C:That was a ball pick right there.
Speaker B:It was.
Speaker B:I really enjoyed that.
Speaker C:Yeah, I like that.
Speaker B:So I use app on my phone and which is synced to my laptop called Simple Note.
Speaker B:So I look here, I have lots of different notes here.
Speaker C:For the benefit of the listener.
Speaker C:He is showing us all of these notes.
Speaker C:Kind of very well organized.
Speaker B:This is a template.
Speaker C:It looks like a script.
Speaker B:Yeah, it's a template.
Speaker B:So I fill.
Speaker B:I fill the sections in as I'm going along.
Speaker B:If I have a thought of something fact based, I'll put it in Facts of the Day or if I have a.
Speaker B:What did you miss?
Speaker B:I'll put it in there.
Speaker B:Otherwise when I.
Speaker B:So then when I come to actually the day before I'll sort of type them up a bit more and then when I come to I just open it up and I know I've got what I've.
Speaker B:My thoughts that I've already written in the right section otherwise.
Speaker B:So Mark, if I did that, I'd get lost.
Speaker C:Mark is a lot more organized.
Speaker C:Me and Darren's notes, I have to.
Speaker B:Be organized though I couldn't.
Speaker B:I don't.
Speaker B:I'm glad you can read your own.
Speaker C:Yeah, not many people can read my right now.
Speaker C:I've had quite a lot of bosses that talked fast so I had to write notes quick and everyone's like, oh, is that shorthand?
Speaker C:It's like, no, it's just really bad handwriting.
Speaker C:Of course.
Speaker C:Then the other bit to my.
Speaker C:With the Facts of the Day thing, if I can, I do try and watch the documentary, the behind the scenes stuff if I've got time or the commentaries.
Speaker B:It's all about time, isn't it?
Speaker C:But it became clear quite early on when I watched the documentary for an hour, wrote notes on the documentary, done all this homework and then went to the IMDb fax page and someone else had compiled all the facts and it was like, oh, man, it's just going to look like I've gone there.
Speaker C:So a lot of the time, if I don't have time to watch the documentary.
Speaker C:I pick the best ones though, obviously.
Speaker C:But that is a handy tool for finding them facts because this is it.
Speaker B:Like, all this takes time.
Speaker B:Like, we all have, have full time jobs as well as doing this.
Speaker B:Yeah, we'd all love to do this full time.
Speaker B:That would be the dream.
Speaker B:So we just need to, we need some help, we need some support.
Speaker C:And then we can say things like.
Speaker C:And while we're talking about timed.
Speaker C:Have you seen this new watch?
Speaker C:Because you can get these available on Amazon now.
Speaker B:We could completely sell out.
Speaker A:I do want to do that in kind of a Wayne's World style.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:I've got a bit of a headache.
Speaker A:Oh, you should try this.
Speaker A:Whatever.
Speaker C:It's a taste of a new generation.
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker B:Oh, no, yeah, but we do, we would like to do more of this and be able to fully focus on it all the time.
Speaker C:Because you know what helps you focus?
Speaker C:Spec saversavers.
Speaker C:Yeah, right.
Speaker C:Just get the sponsors in there.
Speaker A:They wouldn't fix my glasses.
Speaker A:I broke my glasses somewhere and they were like, oh, we don't use frames like this anymore.
Speaker A:Okay, this must be like 5 years old.
Speaker C:Cancel from our sponsorship then.
Speaker A:Yeah, no, they're not.
Speaker B:I said about us, like, to do this more full time.
Speaker A:Oh, just like much unlike Garth.
Speaker A:We will sell out.
Speaker C:Oh, yes, we will sell out.
Speaker B:But just for me, like, we all have busy lives.
Speaker B:Fitting this in, it takes like, if you want to do it properly, you can't half, you can't half ask.
Speaker B:Something like this takes a lot of time and effort and we struggle for time sometimes.
Speaker C:And there is a difference.
Speaker B:Weekly show is a lot of work.
Speaker C:And there is very much a difference when you're watching a film for this to when you're just watching a film because you've got take notes and be ready for the, the layers that we might get into and things.
Speaker C:So it's definitely.
Speaker C:And that's what I said about one we recently did.
Speaker C:It was like, I'm not in the mood for this, but I need to do it.
Speaker C:And then sometimes I get hooked in and it's great.
Speaker C:And other times when Darren has a meltdown, he's like, I just wanted it to end.
Speaker C:Hotshots Darren, which, which, you know, me and Mark enjoyed immensely.
Speaker C:But yeah, Hot Shots part Duran.
Speaker A:Yeah, I'll sell out a little bit.
Speaker A:I'm not gonna get to the point where Minecraft 2 producers come in and be like, yeah, we're gonna give you an advanced showing of our film, but make sure Darren likes it.
Speaker C:That would be amazing.
Speaker C:Darren saying he loves Minecraft too.
Speaker A:Just to sell it, we'll need a code word.
Speaker A:I can kind of let our listeners know, our fans know that it means I don't really like it.
Speaker C:We should decide that now.
Speaker C:So it's already.
Speaker B:We'll get our listeners to decide it.
Speaker C:Like a.
Speaker A:What would I never say that you.
Speaker B:What would Darren never say?
Speaker C:I love this Minecraft movie is probably something he would never say.
Speaker B:Joyous.
Speaker A:And it means someone's got their hand up my.
Speaker A:My back side puppeteering me.
Speaker C:Yeah, I. I guess they are going to make Minecraft too, so that's probably going to happen.
Speaker A:But maybe they listen to the podcast and have learned from their mistake.
Speaker B:If they listen to the podcast, they'll be demanding that we go and see it.
Speaker C:Just for your reaction when I'm struggling to enjoy it, you've got a problem.
Speaker C:Because I do try and go, oh, yeah.
Speaker C:But appreciate the effects.
Speaker B:The creators of the movie listening, they might have taken all our criticism on board, made the second one better.
Speaker C:The greatest movie of all time.
Speaker B:Tribute.
Speaker C:Tribute, right.
Speaker C:Oh, you beat me to it.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:This one time we were wandering down a dark and lonesome.
Speaker B:Yeah, that's.
Speaker B:That's pretty much it.
Speaker B:We just wanted to say, like, happy birthday to ourselves.
Speaker B:Hey, cheers.
Speaker B:Well done.
Speaker B:It was a lot of work.
Speaker B:There's a lot of episodes.
Speaker C:Oh, sh.
Speaker C:Shout out to our chief editor, producer, main captain of the ship, which is Mark, who we were saying.
Speaker B:We.
Speaker C:We're moaning because we have to watch the things and make notes, but Mac then has to take all our ramblings and make them into a cohesive entertainment for you listeners.
Speaker C:So extra shout out there as our captain of this ship.
Speaker B:It's all good.
Speaker B:It's all good.
Speaker C:And takes out rants about Hoovers and.
Speaker A:Whatever else breaks my heart.
Speaker B:That one got that one never got saved.
Speaker B:That one.
Speaker C:No.
Speaker C:It's a shame you'll never know.
Speaker A:Quality Hoover got headlights.
Speaker B:So if you listen to this, if you've got any favorite episodes, if you've got any answers to the questions that we've just gone through or were you surprised by some of the stats?
Speaker B:Send us a message, contact the show and we'll read some of these out on some upcoming episodes.
Speaker B:So there we go.
Speaker B:We are officially one year old.
Speaker A:Yay.
Speaker C:One year.
Speaker C:Are we doing good?
Speaker C:Then I'll.
Speaker C:I'll break the fourth wall.
Speaker C:Are we doing good for A podcast at this stage, or are we.
Speaker C:Are we floundering in the sea of mediocrity?
Speaker B:No way.
Speaker B:I do.
Speaker B:We are.
Speaker B:We are.
Speaker B:The listener engagement.
Speaker B:And the.
Speaker B:The stats show that, like, the numbers are going up.
Speaker B:People are not just the people sticking around, they're coming back.
Speaker B:The numbers are gradually going up.
Speaker B:They're not staying, they're not leveling out.
Speaker B:They're not reducing.
Speaker B:They're going.
Speaker C:What if this is the episode that breaks them now they've seen behind the.
Speaker B:Scenes, one year old.
Speaker B:I'm done.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker A:We're also basically strangers at the beginning.
Speaker A:So we've become.
Speaker A:The chemistry's grown relaxed.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:And we all figure out your roles.
Speaker C:And I felt like I knew them, but.
Speaker C:And I did say at the start, to be honest, if I wasn't on this podcast, it's probably something I'd listen to.
Speaker C:Well, I would have done.
Speaker B:Me too.
Speaker B:Absolutely.
Speaker B:Me too.
Speaker B:There we go.
Speaker C:So now I can't listen to it because I'm on it and I'm like, ah.
Speaker B:So thanks for listening, guys.
Speaker B:We really appreciate your time.
Speaker B:Let's Hear it for second year, year two.
Speaker B:2026, year two.
Speaker B:Okay, this episode is officially over.
Speaker B:This is Mark saying goodbye and it's.
Speaker A:Darren saying goodbye for now.
Speaker A:Paul, you haven't got a quote, have you?
Speaker A:Think of a quote.
Speaker A:You've got to say a quote.
Speaker B:Go for it in a world.
Speaker C:No, I have no call.
Speaker C:I have no call.
Speaker B:Just say goodbye.
Speaker C:Try to think of it and then.
Speaker A:Buy as a quote from something as Hamlet said on page four.
Speaker A:No.
Speaker B:Good afternoon, good evening, and good night.
Speaker C:Hang on.
Speaker C:No, I'll get something good.
Speaker C:Hang on.
Speaker B:What is something that he said in this whole year?
Speaker B:One that could be quoted as.
Speaker C:Okay, go again.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker B:This is Mark saying goodbye and it's.
Speaker A:Darren saying goodbye for now.
Speaker C:And it's Paul saying.
Speaker C:Are you really having a meeting next Tuesday about replacing me?
Speaker C:Me again.
Speaker A:Already started auditioning.
