More of My Favorite Obscure Documentaries of the Pandemic ...

WEBVTT 1 00:00:06.639 --> 00:00:11.470 Well, we made it to Thursday. Yay, it's November twelve. This 2 00:00:11.630 --> 00:00:17.429 is daily emotions. That makes me Johnny emotions. What's up? So things 3 00:00:17.429 --> 00:00:22.699 are going well. Today we're going to talk about three more kind of hidden 4 00:00:22.820 --> 00:00:29.379 gems documentaries I've found over the pandemic that I think are worth watching and pretty 5 00:00:29.379 --> 00:00:33.539 easy to get to. Just one update you on my job interview. I 6 00:00:33.700 --> 00:00:37.770 went really well. I was kind of on fire today. Not on fire 7 00:00:37.929 --> 00:00:41.649 like a manic person bouncing off the walls, kind of like that, but 8 00:00:42.649 --> 00:00:47.409 contained in a bottle like that. So I thought it did pretty good. 9 00:00:48.250 --> 00:00:53.439 They were talking about salary and benefits and all of that stuff. So normally 10 00:00:53.479 --> 00:01:00.039 they don't bring up those issues unless they like you, I think. Anyway, 11 00:01:00.119 --> 00:01:03.040 it's nice to be liked, cool to be wanted. We'll see how 12 00:01:03.079 --> 00:01:11.510 that goes. Meanwhile, the saga of my current employer that's not paid me 13 00:01:11.590 --> 00:01:19.060 yet. And Yeah, they owe me like five hundred bucks for like two 14 00:01:19.099 --> 00:01:25.019 weeks now. Not Happy about it. But do I burn a bridge and 15 00:01:25.099 --> 00:01:27.260 say fuck it and go to the Labor board and just say they haven't paid 16 00:01:27.299 --> 00:01:30.099 me and then they have to pay penalties and things like that? But I 17 00:01:30.219 --> 00:01:34.530 sincerely believe they can't pay, but I don't know, I think they're eating 18 00:01:36.290 --> 00:01:40.250 probably. What I thought, though, was the boss is cool Tesla. 19 00:01:41.170 --> 00:01:42.329 He gave me a ride in at the other day. Yeah, it's all 20 00:01:42.329 --> 00:01:46.650 fucked up all he doesn't repair it. I get apparently he bought it and 21 00:01:46.730 --> 00:01:51.439 doesn't have any money to like keep it up. So it's got broken handle. 22 00:01:51.480 --> 00:01:53.640 You got to get in from the driver's side, I mean from the 23 00:01:53.760 --> 00:01:57.519 passenger side, because the driver's side neither of those door handles pop out. 24 00:01:59.079 --> 00:02:00.829 They'll pop out, but they don't latch engage the door some shit. So 25 00:02:00.950 --> 00:02:06.909 there's a lot of technical parts electronics on a tesla that I didn't think about 26 00:02:07.390 --> 00:02:08.750 that. If they go out, well you got to have the money to 27 00:02:08.830 --> 00:02:15.189 fix them. So that he hasn't fixed that. That I don't know. 28 00:02:15.229 --> 00:02:17.419 I don't want to get too into anyway. So the kind of bipolar nature 29 00:02:17.419 --> 00:02:21.900 of my day was I went to a cool job interview. That turned out 30 00:02:21.939 --> 00:02:24.620 really well. I'll probably get a job offer in the next day. On 31 00:02:24.699 --> 00:02:29.379 the other hand, I'm still stressed out about like needing money to live for 32 00:02:29.460 --> 00:02:34.889 now, at least for the next couple of weeks. So yeah, that's 33 00:02:34.930 --> 00:02:38.330 it. So let's get to the movies. It's real quick, and then 34 00:02:38.370 --> 00:02:43.969 I'm going to get on the phone with Gary Shock, shock an emotions his 35 00:02:44.129 --> 00:02:47.240 opinion on the the pay check thing. You can into the phone here. 36 00:02:47.280 --> 00:02:53.439 So yesterday we talked about come as you are on stars, carts of darkness 37 00:02:53.919 --> 00:03:00.389 on Youtube, and three identical strangers, I think, on canopy and a 38 00:03:00.430 --> 00:03:06.789 cup a couple of other places. So today, well, two of them 39 00:03:06.789 --> 00:03:10.669 are about bees, strangely, not intentional, just happen that way. So 40 00:03:10.789 --> 00:03:16.659 I'll start with the one that's not. Here's a weird ass documentary on Amazon 41 00:03:17.460 --> 00:03:24.419 called will work for clicks, and this is a story about this weird as 42 00:03:24.500 --> 00:03:30.569 dude. He's like my age. He's got a bowl haircut. Still looks 43 00:03:30.650 --> 00:03:36.370 like, HMM, kind of like that guy from the monkeys. Yeah, 44 00:03:36.370 --> 00:03:38.409 if you have the Internet, you're able to go back in time and look 45 00:03:38.449 --> 00:03:43.680 at old bands. So go look at a band called the monkeys, Em 46 00:03:43.960 --> 00:03:46.719 and K es. Yeah, what, no, fuck it, don't even 47 00:03:46.759 --> 00:03:50.080 do that. Just go look up this movie dirt. But Anyway, my 48 00:03:50.199 --> 00:03:53.240 point of reference was this Guy Paul, and will work for clicks looks like 49 00:03:53.960 --> 00:03:59.750 Peter Tork from the monkeys a little bit, with a weird creepy mustache and 50 00:04:00.990 --> 00:04:06.590 bizarre girlfriend. So the whole thing is about him resurrecting his old videos, 51 00:04:06.710 --> 00:04:13.419 like he apparently he's been a Geeky kid since the s and as a Geeky 52 00:04:13.500 --> 00:04:16.459 kid then he had a video camera and was recording all of his weird high 53 00:04:16.459 --> 00:04:21.220 jinks and putting them wherever, saving them until the Internet came around. Then 54 00:04:21.259 --> 00:04:25.769 he put a bunch of them on the Internet. So Paul has this huge 55 00:04:25.930 --> 00:04:31.250 collection of weird ass internet videos, like going back years. You some people 56 00:04:31.290 --> 00:04:36.889 calm like one of the original I don't know you tubers, but they're alluding 57 00:04:36.930 --> 00:04:41.720 to the fact that he did youtube stuff, youtube videos, before youtube ever 58 00:04:41.759 --> 00:04:47.319 existed, and since Youtube came around he has ported his videos and re uploaded 59 00:04:47.360 --> 00:04:50.839 them to Youtube. So you can see his weird videos there. But this, 60 00:04:51.079 --> 00:04:57.790 apparently, is what sparked the interest in the filmmakers, was the re 61 00:04:57.990 --> 00:05:04.269 upload and Paul's current attempt to be famous. So that this is kind of 62 00:05:04.350 --> 00:05:11.379 odd, because they follow him, like they get him to come to Hollywood 63 00:05:12.459 --> 00:05:16.100 and they jam a couple times on a couple of his weird songs and they 64 00:05:16.139 --> 00:05:20.529 put on a show over it loaded over there on Hollywood boulevard. If you 65 00:05:21.250 --> 00:05:25.970 familiar with the area and if you're familiar with loaded, you know that back 66 00:05:26.009 --> 00:05:30.649 room little area that I think you could probably rent out for thousand bucks or 67 00:05:30.689 --> 00:05:32.569 something and just put on any kind of show you want. So the long 68 00:05:32.610 --> 00:05:36.439 and short of it, though, these guys convinced Paul to come out and 69 00:05:36.600 --> 00:05:42.959 make a documentary of his life leading up to this performance. It loaded and 70 00:05:43.639 --> 00:05:48.279 all that goes with that kind of sad. Really it's interesting to watch, 71 00:05:48.959 --> 00:05:55.310 if you like, looking into the psyche of human misery and desire. But 72 00:05:55.430 --> 00:05:58.310 yeah, I enjoyed it. I've watched it a couple times. Just really 73 00:05:58.350 --> 00:06:04.660 weird. So that will work for clicks. Check out Paul on Amazon now. 74 00:06:04.740 --> 00:06:08.100 The next two, I said, are about bees, but in totally 75 00:06:08.180 --> 00:06:14.459 different ways. The first one, I'll go with this burt's buzz. So 76 00:06:14.620 --> 00:06:18.009 you're familiar with the product burt's bees. I think it recently got bought by 77 00:06:18.050 --> 00:06:25.170 chlorox or one of these huge, like bathroom product companies, but long ago 78 00:06:26.050 --> 00:06:30.250 burt's bees was kind of like the Ben and Jerry's used to be of ice 79 00:06:30.329 --> 00:06:35.199 cream. They were really a homespun brand, and this case burt's bees was 80 00:06:35.319 --> 00:06:43.000 founded by an old prospector looking guy named burt. Burt was into organic products, 81 00:06:43.040 --> 00:06:46.189 kind of a hippie before hippies were around, not that long ago. 82 00:06:46.189 --> 00:06:48.550 I mean he was kind of like the original Hippie, like o Gie Hippie 83 00:06:48.550 --> 00:06:56.829 from the s and came up with products using be products like up face creams, 84 00:06:57.910 --> 00:07:00.860 saves and things like that. And he's married to the to a woman, 85 00:07:01.939 --> 00:07:06.540 and they run this great company based on his formulas and ideas. Well, 86 00:07:08.660 --> 00:07:15.420 two things happen. He cheats on his wife and it turns out his 87 00:07:15.579 --> 00:07:19.649 wife was the businessminded person of the whole operation. This guy, burt, 88 00:07:20.290 --> 00:07:25.689 is a little, I don't know, eccentric, not, not too weird, 89 00:07:25.730 --> 00:07:30.360 you just acentric, I guess. So they split basically in half, 90 00:07:30.439 --> 00:07:32.439 but it wasn't she got kind of a heavy half, a little bit more. 91 00:07:34.040 --> 00:07:38.959 And this was back in the day when bird's bees wasn't the brand we 92 00:07:39.120 --> 00:07:41.600 know it today at all. It was you had to find it in a 93 00:07:41.680 --> 00:07:49.709 few very specialized kind of hippie markets. Well, when the xwife now has 94 00:07:49.790 --> 00:07:55.829 control and the better business mind, she eventually grows the business huge and leverages 95 00:07:55.870 --> 00:07:58.980 him all the way out of business. Not Out of business, him, 96 00:07:59.060 --> 00:08:03.060 out of that business, out of his own business. But she did give 97 00:08:03.060 --> 00:08:05.860 him like a million bucks and said, Oh, here you can have the 98 00:08:05.939 --> 00:08:09.139 House that you love so much. She was like a unibomber shack. Well, 99 00:08:09.259 --> 00:08:11.220 not like that. Pad is a cute little house kind of like that 100 00:08:11.339 --> 00:08:16.209 in a meadow, and burt just loved it. And so he got a 101 00:08:16.290 --> 00:08:18.209 house and a million bucks. And if you think of I don't like that's 102 00:08:18.209 --> 00:08:24.009 fucking great. Well, birds bees went on to become a billion dollar company 103 00:08:24.569 --> 00:08:28.600 that the ex wife profited greatly from. So it's a fascinating story. I 104 00:08:28.639 --> 00:08:33.440 think you'd like it and it's about a project that now you'd probably see all 105 00:08:33.480 --> 00:08:37.360 the time in Walmart. And so the last one is also about bees. 106 00:08:37.159 --> 00:08:41.549 It is on canopy again, one of my favorite movie APPs, canopy with 107 00:08:41.629 --> 00:08:48.590 the K and this one's called the pollinators. I think this is also one 108 00:08:48.909 --> 00:08:54.509 curiosity stream too. Anyway, the pollinators. So the pollinators is an interesting 109 00:08:54.669 --> 00:08:58.500 story about people who keep bees, beekeepers, and what I did not know. 110 00:08:58.700 --> 00:09:05.539 So when I was in Louisiana we had friends that had a big farm 111 00:09:05.580 --> 00:09:09.690 and they had bee keepers, a local company, and they would come and 112 00:09:09.809 --> 00:09:15.169 put their bee hives, be boxes, whatever they are, all over the 113 00:09:15.409 --> 00:09:20.370 the farm and collect onney and then trade out for some jars of local honey. 114 00:09:20.690 --> 00:09:24.159 So I knew that that exists. Like there's local people that have bee 115 00:09:26.320 --> 00:09:28.559 honey companies. I guess they're just honey. I think that's all be they 116 00:09:28.679 --> 00:09:35.200 do for be with bees. They just use them to pollenate for honey and 117 00:09:35.360 --> 00:09:39.509 they sell it like at local farmers markets, at things like that. So 118 00:09:39.190 --> 00:09:43.350 there's also this other thing that I did not know about or didn't even imagine, 119 00:09:43.509 --> 00:09:50.750 called the pollinators. So there are people with beehives like that that are 120 00:09:50.950 --> 00:09:54.100 not dropping off the bees just to make honey. The honey is a byproduct 121 00:09:54.139 --> 00:09:58.059 of where they drop the bees off, but what they're doing is they're dropping 122 00:09:58.100 --> 00:10:03.779 off beehives per order to massive farms that grow different types of crops, like 123 00:10:03.419 --> 00:10:09.409 almonds or peaches or apples or whatever, and the farmers of those crops they'll 124 00:10:09.450 --> 00:10:13.009 have like standing orders the like. Okay, well, in this state when 125 00:10:13.009 --> 00:10:16.009 it drops below this degree or when it gets above freezing at this time of 126 00:10:16.090 --> 00:10:20.289 the year, we got a standing order for like three trucks full of bee 127 00:10:20.330 --> 00:10:26.000 hives, and then they'll bring out three big old trucks drop off these pallets 128 00:10:26.039 --> 00:10:28.440 full of beehives. All across the property and then for the next month or 129 00:10:28.480 --> 00:10:33.080 so all these bees go and pollinate their particular crop and then most of them 130 00:10:33.120 --> 00:10:37.350 fly back. Obviously some getaway and they just go off into the wild, 131 00:10:37.389 --> 00:10:41.029 but generally the bees come back to the hives truckers putting back on the trucks 132 00:10:41.389 --> 00:10:46.870 say come to the next place that requests pollination. So they're moving these bees 133 00:10:46.909 --> 00:10:50.980 back and forth like a like a commodity, but they're not actually selling the 134 00:10:50.019 --> 00:10:56.740 bees there's just renting the use of their pollenization for specific amount of time and 135 00:10:56.860 --> 00:11:00.500 then bringing the bees back in. So of course they have to have a 136 00:11:00.620 --> 00:11:05.049 kind of a bad guy, like a proteg or antagonist in the show in 137 00:11:05.169 --> 00:11:13.730 the hold on a good drink Hawaiian Punch. Okay, so we've got the 138 00:11:13.809 --> 00:11:22.120 pollinators the protagonist. The antagonist, that turns out, are adjacent crop owners. 139 00:11:22.240 --> 00:11:26.120 So here's what happens. Every once in a while, say be pollinator 140 00:11:26.159 --> 00:11:33.990 guy will drop off semi truck full of Bee Hives at the apple blossom place. 141 00:11:35.309 --> 00:11:41.629 Well, in this case, when the apple blossoms bloom, they only 142 00:11:41.669 --> 00:11:45.389 want the biggest blossom because the people, they claim the supermarket, don't want 143 00:11:45.389 --> 00:11:48.460 them little baby looking apples. They want the biggest of the big so we're 144 00:11:48.940 --> 00:11:54.820 it looks like a little five finger bloom will come off. They spray onto 145 00:11:54.860 --> 00:11:58.539 the apple crop tree things some chemical that kills off the four weaker ones and 146 00:11:58.659 --> 00:12:05.169 that leaves it with the one bigger apple blossom. Well, as it turns 147 00:12:05.210 --> 00:12:09.330 out, that might be great for making big apples. That particular chemical also 148 00:12:09.529 --> 00:12:16.000 kills all of the bees on the guy's almond orchard down the way, just 149 00:12:16.200 --> 00:12:20.759 from drift and things like that. So what happens now is the guy comes 150 00:12:20.799 --> 00:12:26.000 back for his bees, you know, thirty days later, and they're all 151 00:12:26.080 --> 00:12:31.070 dead. They're all over the ground just because they got killed by this pesticide 152 00:12:31.149 --> 00:12:35.350 that a farmer in an adjacent lot used. So that's their biggest thing, 153 00:12:35.429 --> 00:12:41.470 because farmer in the adjacent lot doesn't care about the other guys bees, like 154 00:12:41.629 --> 00:12:45.220 that's your problem, buddy, and doesn't hear about the other guy's crop either, 155 00:12:46.179 --> 00:12:48.700 and so it kind of goes both ways. The good side and the 156 00:12:48.740 --> 00:12:52.220 up side of the movie was that there is a very systematic way that they 157 00:12:52.259 --> 00:12:58.259 are keeping bees and using them to their fullest extent without abusing them. I 158 00:12:58.379 --> 00:13:01.529 know that sounds weird. You ever see the be movie? That's it. 159 00:13:01.769 --> 00:13:07.370 Bees can be abused anyway. They're so the bees are being fully utilized. 160 00:13:07.850 --> 00:13:11.879 They have a system that maps the weather across the country. They have these 161 00:13:11.919 --> 00:13:15.360 big network of trucks. That's the weird thing, though. There is no 162 00:13:15.480 --> 00:13:18.519 big Bee. There's no big honey like big farm on big whatever. There 163 00:13:18.639 --> 00:13:24.559 is no big Bee. It's a loose knit network of independent truckers that just 164 00:13:24.679 --> 00:13:28.990 take over for their kind of local geography and then just hand it off to 165 00:13:30.070 --> 00:13:31.750 the next guy. Not Handoff the bees, but I mean the next guy's 166 00:13:31.750 --> 00:13:35.190 territory. He handles that territory. So that was a first time. I 167 00:13:35.269 --> 00:13:39.389 go that's it. Big Bee is involved with this. Is got to be 168 00:13:39.509 --> 00:13:43.220 some big bee controls all the honey. Nope. In fact, I think 169 00:13:43.259 --> 00:13:46.460 that's why there is hope. There's just a loose network of independence and they 170 00:13:46.500 --> 00:13:50.460 are actually making it all work, except for the problem of the best decides. 171 00:13:50.620 --> 00:13:54.460 Some of those crops. They do have some loss but generally speaking they 172 00:13:54.500 --> 00:14:00.210 keep they have much more gains. They keep making more bees and pollinating more 173 00:14:00.330 --> 00:14:03.970 crops each year because of the way they're doing the management. So Yay for 174 00:14:05.090 --> 00:14:09.519 that. And check out the pollinators so let's recap from the very top and 175 00:14:09.679 --> 00:14:13.159 then I'll go get on with g shock and see what he's up to. 176 00:14:13.679 --> 00:14:18.519 May Be able run the whole not getting paid thing by him, but I 177 00:14:18.600 --> 00:14:20.440 know what he's going to say. I mean everyone I know it's like, 178 00:14:20.480 --> 00:14:24.000 yeah, do you fucking took them to Labor Board Orsze? But I'm like, 179 00:14:24.200 --> 00:14:26.669 I don't know. It's a small industry, you know, and I 180 00:14:26.669 --> 00:14:30.070 don't want to burn bridges, although he's kind of burning it backwards in this 181 00:14:30.190 --> 00:14:33.950 direction. But Anyway, we'll get g shock's opinion. So in review for 182 00:14:33.110 --> 00:14:41.019 the COOLEST, most interesting documentaries I've found through the pandemic, we've got three 183 00:14:41.059 --> 00:14:48.500 identical strangers. Come as you are. Carts of darkness will work for clicks, 184 00:14:48.860 --> 00:14:56.090 Burt's buzz and the pollinators cool. So look those up and have some 185 00:14:56.250 --> 00:14:58.850 fun. We'll talk to you tomorrow. It's Friday. We made it. 186 00:15:00.610 --> 00:15:03.409 If you work and we made it, and if you're not working, you 187 00:15:03.570 --> 00:15:13.919 made it. And now back to the wall.