meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Small Beans

499. Frame Rate: Tokyo Godfathers (Feat. Zach Sherwin)

Small Beans

Small Beans

Comedy

4.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Michael and Abe have been looking forward to covering a Satoshi Kon film and we figured we’d get one of our good friends, Zach Sherwin, who hadn’t seen it to come and discuss it with us! The film covers three unhoused citizens of Tokyo who find a baby in a dumpster and spend the entire film trying to find her parents, despite the night having a different plan at almost every turn. It’s a heart-warming human-affirming movie, so while the topic is dark, it goes down pretty nice. Features: Zach Sherwin: https://www.crosswordshow.com/ Michael Swaim: https://twitter.com/SWAIM_CORP Abe Epperson: https://twitter.com/AbeTheMighty Support Small Beans and access Additional Content: https://www.patreon.com/SmallBeans Check our store to buy Small Beans merch! https://www.teepublic.com/stores/the-small-beans-store?ref_id=22691

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

Good morning afternoon evening or other time period everyone and welcome to framerate the show where we rate frames. I'm one of your host Michael swam and

0:29.0

and with me as always is my brother and arms say hey. Hey, that's right. It's a Veperson and I'm the other guy on this podcast framerate where we rate frames and here comes a snooty film reference. There's a third man. You see the third man. I didn't care for it.

0:48.7

That's not what we're talking about today, though, because we have Mr. Zack sure went here. What? What? Hey, Zack say hi. Hi, pals. Thanks so much for having me on. I've seen the third man. Oh, yeah, what do you think? I like people's capsule opinion of the third man. I always get confused if whether that's the one with Orson Wells and or if it's the one with the like couple who drinks a lot and makes a lot of jokes. It's in man. Maybe you're thinking of the thin man in the second case. Yeah.

1:18.7

Yeah. I haven't seen the thin man. Yeah. That's the Orson Wells. I wrote a paper about the third man about the Ferris wheel scene. Really? Yeah. What I say about the Ferris wheel scene. Do you remember? I it's pretty vague. But my memory, not the paper. It was very specific and exact my recollection is that there's like as the conversation the famous scene with a high stakes conversation on a Ferris wheel as it like it's like heaven and hell stuff as the Ferris wheel goes up.

1:48.7

And so you can like map the action of the whether they're still ascending stopped or descending to like where the conversation is going. And there's like info to be gleaned from that text.

2:00.2

Man, I've heard that argument before actually that's really good firmly out of bounds, like based on the scope of the episode. But so interesting. Should we just deal with third man episode?

2:10.4

We're in third man.

2:11.9

Third man. You're in. You're in Tokyo. Anyway, we're talking Tokyo Godfathers.

2:18.6

That's right. That's what came out of the rabble. Um, but I just want to write up top say, how great it is to hear your voice.

2:27.5

Still a big fan as you as we set off my heaven talk for years. But man, just good to see your face.

2:33.2

I'm moving my notes so I can see your face again. Yeah. There it is. Yeah, we're old friends.

2:38.8

It's a nice testament to the durability of friendship that you and I haven't seen each other in such a long time.

2:44.0

But it's, you know, we know what we've been doing. It's very comfortable and instantly back on an Abe.

2:49.4

We've just met, but you seem right. And I look forward to some distant far off future where we reminisce back about this.

2:56.6

We're, yeah, we're going to have a whole adventure. It's going to be crazy. Right. Yeah. It's interesting because it's if over the course of time,

3:03.6

it's like a real friendship sutured together by lengths of pair of social friendship.

3:08.7

Because I do vaguely know what you're doing at all times, even though we don't talk for four or five years. But anyway,

3:13.2

right. I don't know exactly what I've been speculating on this entire time. And what I could never get my head around is,

3:21.8

hey, do you like Tokyo Godfathers? Do you have any interest in the film Tokyo Godfathers? Where's that sit in your brain?

3:28.0

I didn't have any interest or frankly, no of its existence before you sent me a list of possible movies that we might talk about for this episode.

3:36.0

That's not too far behind the curtain. But that's so cool. I have a cinephile buddy.

3:41.6

And I sent that list to him. And I was like, which of the, you know my tastes? Which of these should I watch?

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Small Beans, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Small Beans and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.