You know, at important cinema club industries, we like to innovate, change things up, do things we've never done before. So we're doing this one live as we go, right, Will? That's right. We're at my house. We're in the basement. There's a dog between us. You may hear him. Hugo, say hi. Anyway, Hugo's third mic on this episode, he was just licking Justin's hand. And he's down here with us,

because if I put him in a crate, he'll start screaming. Yeah. And we don't, we don't want that. No. So really the most unruly dog gets the most freedom. There's a lesson there for everyone, isn't there? Oh, he's calm now. Now that he knows that he's top dog. He's, what was a... Chuck Norris.

No, Ebert's dog, the dog of the week, if you will.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

He's our what was a... Chuck Norris. No, Ebert's dog. He's the dog of the week, if you will. Oh, yeah. Yeah, he's our new mascot. So, new mascot. He's been around forever. So what is the premise of this episode, Will? Well, we're doing a consumer report on this episode. It's like when you go out to the video store looking for something to rent,

uh,

something to buy even, uh, there's a hot new technology and it's called DVD. And they're a little bit expensive too. A little guidance would help. But you know, it's, it's useful this episode because it's not just the movie that's on the DVD. You're used to putting in a tape and pressing play, and it's like just beginning to end.

Maybe there will be some ads at the beginning.

Oh, man, Leonard Malton interviewing George Lucas on the THX special edition of Star Wars. That's right. Alfred the Butler is calling for some new Diet Coke. That's right. And then we see footage from Batman and Robin? Yeah, one of them. Yeah. But with DVD, the miracle of digital video disc, it's not just the movie. It's also there's a whole range of special features. You can get directors commentaries. You can get direct scene access. You get interactive menus. Wait, wait. Okay. So the first one, interesting. The other two, I don't know about that.

Well, uh, I have a stack of DVDs here because I've just been shopping in the bargain van.

Oh, wow. By which I mean, I went to the box in my basement where I have all of my, uh, shit

analog, like, like the worst, like, Walmart of all the like public domain, chaplain VHS tapes. Yeah, I've got, I've got a box also where I've got all these like Madnessy entertainment. Like it used to be you'd go to the gas station, you'd go to Walmart. I'm in the present tense now. And you would, there'd be a rack of the public domain movies. and it'd be the usual things, you know, Africa screams with Abbott and Costello or like chaplain shorts or just whatever was in the public domain, Night of the Living Dead. Well, with this, I'm giving you a consumer report for next time you're at Walmart. Next time you're at the gas station. You will not find any of these there. And we're going to look at some of the special features and we can, uh, you know, I can tell you which are the good ones, which are the bad ones, which you can rent, which you can skip. What's thumbs up? So this is like a, uh, what were the websites you would visit? I would always visit DVD talk.com. Oh, DVD talk, DVD review.com was good. digitally obsessed.com. I know of these websites. I don't think I visited them with the same regularity

as at a DVD talk. DVD review.com was good. Digitally obsessed.com. I know of these websites. I don't think I visited them with the same regularity as I did DVD talk.

DVD talk was Andy is the best.

I don't think it still reviews movies.

Maybe.

I haven't been in a long time. No, yeah.

So I think that it's like just a withered corpse at this time, maybe updating every few months.

You know what's a good side is rock shock pop?

I like that one.

Mondo Digital.

Yeah.

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