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And another reboot, everybody.
We need a sound effort.
Reboot.
Reboot.
Yeah.
Rebo.
Yeah.
Pirates of the Caribbean is getting a new movie.
Well, it is a reboot to be exact.
Producer Jerry Brookheimer recently spoke about the future of the two of his franchises,
Top Gun and Pirates of the Caribbean.
Quote, with Top Gun, you have an actor who is an icon and brilliant.
And how many movies he does before he does another, I can't tell you.
So basically, they're waiting on Tom.
Yep.
If Tom wants to do another one.
Exactly.
But we're going to reboot Pirates so that it's easier to put together because you don't
have to wait for certain actors.
It doesn't sound like we can expect to see any of the returning cast Johnny Depp or
Lando Bloom care nightly.
Since Jerry didn't share any other information, it's not clear if any characters or actors
from the franchise will be back, but reboot implies that they're starting over from scratch.
That's where I was going with that.
Good luck.
Those were, I enjoyed those movies.
Yeah.
I'm a sucker for pirate movies had been since I was a little kid and I had to do a good
one too, by the way.
Great point, Seth.
The Muppets couldn't make it work.
No.
But with Tresor, I was inventing everything and they thought that that was a sure fire,
going to be a sure fire hit.
They could throw it island anybody.
Thank you.
Another one on one of the mentioned would you, at the time, starring Gina Davis with her
star, never being bigger.
Yes.
Pirates of the Caribbean had some great actors.
Orlando Bloom is a very strong actor, getting better and better all the time.
Kieran Knightley, Melissa and I were talking about the other day, fantastic actors, wonderful
actors.
Johnny Depp made those movies.
He did, yes.
100%.
I don't even know how it's even debatable when it's even a question.
So, if you're going to redo these movies, who are you going to cast to be Jack Sparrow
and what actor are you going to put under that pressure, like that kind of idea?
Johnny Depp was able to do what he did because Johnny came at first off, Johnny Depp now wouldn't
be able to do what he did with Jack Sparrow probably.
He could still play the role.
Don't get me wrong.
But Johnny came in, this is before Johnny's household household name.
We forget this.
He had such a long career before that happens.
And while Edward says their hands and some of these movies are big, there's a big star
and then there's an icon.
And they're superstar, yes.
And Pirates of the Caribbean, Disney money, that put him in star level.
But as he goes into it, he's not that guy.
He's that independent guy.
And so he takes more chances and does more intricate things.
Like looking at one of his favorite people and one of his big, good friends, Keith Richards
and saying, hey, I think that this would make a good pirate.
How many people look at Keith Richards and think you make a good pirate?
But Johnny Depp saw this and was able to do a lot of that.
But I think he was able to do a lot of that because he didn't have the status that he
did not.
He does now.
And he's not the actor he was that.
He's a lot younger.
Yeah, that too.
I mean, so even Johnny Depp casting him now, I don't know that you get the Jack Sparrow
that we fell in love with with the other movies, especially just him being older, just simply
being older.
Which is none of this is blaming him for.
I'm like talking trash about Johnny Depp.
I think he's one of my favorite actors, I think he's fantastic.
But you're just not going to get that.
And without him, what do you have?
Yeah.
And part of it is the reason that it was such a hit, it was so unexpected.
It was different.
It was new.
That's why people enjoyed it so much.
That's why it was so popular.
Even the sequels didn't do as well.
Because you're again, you're using the same thing over and over again.
And yeah, they did fine and they were entertaining, but nothing like the first one.
I mean, that was like out of nowhere.
You can't do it again.
You cannot catch lightning in a bottle twice with something like this.
You will always remember the day that you tried to recast Jack Sparrow.
Nice.
Move it on.
I have a pushback to that, though, because I do think there is a book series out there that
they could make into an amazing series of movies.
And it's a book series by Ellie Meyer called The Bloody Jack Adventures.
Oh, that sounds cool.
Yeah.
And it's about a young girl who disguises herself as a boy and gets a position.
As a ship's boy on a Navy ship out of London.
And I want to say like probably the 1700s, but it's a whole, it's a very long, there's
a lot of books and she ends up owning her own ship and becomes a pirate and no, they totally
could.
And it's a young girl.
I don't know.
That's got to be in production already.
You would hope.
You got to think that that's, I mean, that's got to be a day.
Are they popular?
I'm guessing there's somewhat popular, Melissa, because I think all of the volumes in
it.
Yeah.
Hey, it started in 2002 and the last book, let's see, there's three, six, nine, twelve
books.
Well, you got a ready made thing right there.
Yeah.
You got a Harry Potter level thing.
Yeah.
And that's a really, that's a really good idea.
That sounds really good.
I'm with you.
I'm all in, I'm out.
Yeah.
Let me know when they start casting.
Let me know.
James is kind of piratey looking.
You know, he could go to, he would play a great pirate.
And before, I don't, before it's all said and done, I will play a pirate.
I will definitely be, I'm going to do some swashbuckling before it's all said, I'm
careful.
Maybe you're going to see me fly.
The walker.
I've got a real.
I'm arrow Flynn.
All my stuff is real.
Like a patch of my eye is real.
My leg is real.
The pirate, I'm not real.
Not real.
Not a real pirate.
Yeah.
Star Wars brand blue milk is hitting stores on April 17th.
Yep.
Yep.
The blue milk.
The blue milk is coming back as part of Lucasfilm's Imperial March.
March.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Which is a celebration and weeks leading up to Star Wars day.
And as all, as, as all, all, all, what do you call, you call Star Trek people Trekkies?
What do you call Star Wars people?
You know, I don't know if they ever had a nickname.
I don't, I, if there was, I don't remember what it is.
Yeah.
Star Wars day is May 4th and as in May the 4th be with you.
The blue milk is only in one scene in Star Wars movies and it's in the 1977 original
when Luke is talking to his aunt and uncle, but it's, but it's popular enough that even,
they even serve it at Disney theme parks.
Yeah, at Galaxy's Edge.
You can get blue milk very.
Yeah.
Yeah.
This particular version is vanilla flavored milk with blue food coloring, which of course
you can make yourself pretty easily.
Yeah.
But fans might want the merch on it and everything.
I suppose.
The Die Hard Star Wars fans are going to have this and they're going to have it, you
know, in a refrigerator for like 20, 30 years, they're going to just have it sit there unopened
to everything.
Ooh.
Ooh.
Which makes about as much sense as buying an action figure and not opening it.
Yeah, exactly.
That's always, that drives me crazy.
It is.
That drives me crazy.
It's a toy.
It's supposed to play with them.
Play with them.
It's going to be fun.
Yeah.
That's, I don't know.
I'll try it though.
I'm going to try it.
I'm going to let you know there's no collective name for Star Wars fans.
They're just called Star Wars fans.
Some tried calling us warzies, but nobody in the right mind accepts it.
No.
That's weird.
That's weird.
And warheads is already a candy.
It's already a candy and everything.
And it has no connection to Star Wars.
Yeah.
It's like you sound like you like war.
Yikes.
You can't say starhead.
I mean, that doesn't make, that doesn't go any better.
No.
Oh, no.
Galaxy brain.
There you go.
Yeah, I like that.
I like that.
Yeah, the floating door that saved Rose and Titanic just sold it in the auction for over
$700,000.
Oh my goodness.
And it would be, I know.
Yeah, it's, wow.
It would be totally cool if the new owner was able to get Leo and K2 to, like, to see if they
could both fit on it and everything.
I think that'd be great.
A little experiment.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And it still wouldn't be worth the money.
I'm going to eat the water up this time.
James Cameron has previously confirmed that Jack and Rose could fit on there.
But they wouldn't both survive because it wouldn't be, be buoyant enough.
But it's the actual door.
It's a piece of wood.
It's an actual door.
It's a piece of wood paneling too.
Yeah, right.
It's a movie prop.
Right.
I mean, and that's one of those things like the excitement of, of, of bidding on it.
And you win.
And you get this and it comes home.
And then it's like, all right.
Wow.
How do you display something like that?
I am, I am not going to push back a lot on the collectors.
Okay.
But specific things make more sense to me.
You know, like say a Dracula's cape from the original 1931 movie.
Now that would be cool.
That's cool.
You know, that would be, yeah.
That would be pretty cool.
But like pieces of set.
Yeah.
Unless it's like really iconic, like the leg lamp and Christmas story or something like that.
That doesn't make, yeah.
This wall was on Citizen Kane.
Yeah.
Well, who cares, you know.
It's a wall, you know.
I, on our set that the TV show is on.
We, we were all on me and two of the other actors were like, well, we want to, we want to keep things, you know, from the set and everything.
As heirlooms and stuff.
And one, one of the guys grabbed like a notepad that was up there.
There was on the, because we, our final scene that we filmed, it was at a courthouse in Santa Barbara.
And so they're, he's grabbing those things.
And somebody else grabbed like the judges, like, not the, the, the, the, the, the, the gavel.
Not the gavel, but the thing that you hit the gavel.
Whatever that thing is called.
I don't know what that's called.
Yeah. Oh my gosh.
Oh my gosh.
They grabbed that and everything.
I grabbed pens.
I grabbed pens, man.
I was, I didn't think about it at the time.
And we had to get going.
They had actual court cases that they were waiting to do.
Oh, it was an actual courthouse.
Oh.
So we had, we had only a, a, a, a, a, a certain amount of time to film.
But we had to get it done.
And we're, we're, we're getting, we're just wrapping up and everything.
And so people are grabbing this stuff.
And I'm thinking, I'm thinking, I'm thinking.
I'm thinking, I'm thinking.
Oh, and as I grab pens, and I still have these pens,
not that you can tell that they're pens from a movie setter.
I'm walking, I'm walking to the shuttle that takes us back to Berkeley
and everything.
And I'm walking there.
And I'm just staring at my hand with these pens.
And what did you do?
What?
We got better items here than that.
At least you could use them, though.
Yeah, I, I, I, I, I, I did use one of them.
Yeah.
Do you think that other actor could have used the sounding block?
No, and he got trouble for it.
When he got trouble for it.
When he got trouble for it.
He got trouble for it.
Oh, thank you, Melissa.
I knew she'd look it up for us.
Yeah, yeah.
Nice.
Nice.
Very good.
Oh, yeah.
He got trouble for that by the way.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Where's the sounding block?
What?
What are you trying to hit my desk?
Now, if you, if you do get in trouble for stealing that from,
do you have to go to the same courthouse and be seen by the same judge?
Do you have to go over that?
The irony.
Oh, the irony.
I have one up.
I can do on your James.
Not that my, the movie set that I was on was, you know, like,
in any way comparable, but the one that I was on and an actor on,
I saved the cigarette that I had to smoke.
Yeah, yeah.
I didn't actually smoke it, but I held it in my hand during the scene.
Mm-hmm.
And I, I saved it, but I didn't put it in a very safe spot.
I had it in my car.
Oh.
And, um, someone who is not worth mentioning decided to throw it away.
Oh.
Oh, that's, I thought you were going to say somebody smoked it.
Yeah.
Oh, man, that was the worst cigarette ever.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, because it was like, you're trying to, that's gross.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry to hear that though.
I'm sorry.
Yeah.
I'm glad you, I'm glad you're trying to mad about it.
I don't blame you.
I'm glad you have the memories though.
Um, so that item was the highest selling item at, at, at the auction.
But here are some of the other cool props that brought in a lot of money.
Like Harrison Ford's Indiana Jones Whip from Temple of Doom.
That cost only 525,000.
Only, only in comparison, I mean to the, yeah, I know.
But still, that's great.
I would jump.
Oh, my God.
100%.
That'd be so cool.
His hats or his whip, man, any of those.
Wayne Knight's shaving cream can.
He used to smuggle dinosaur embryos in Jurassic Park.
Oh, yeah.
250 grand for that.
Okay.
Jack Nicholson's axe from the shining, only 125,000 for that one.
See, that's, we're getting to the bargain area now.
No kidding.
Toby McGuire's black, more displayable item.
Oh, absolutely.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Um, Toby McGuire's black symbiite suit from Spider-Man 3.
The same price for the axe from the shining, 125.
Oh, I'll pass.
Mm-hmm.
Oh, because I'll just see him dancing.
Yeah, yeah.
Nobody wants it.
No one wants it.
Uh, and Kate Winslet's, uh, Sheffron Dress from the end of Titanic.
Uh, same price again, 125 grand.
So wait, the slab of wood was more than her dress.
I don't get that.
I don't get that.
I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't get you guys.
I don't understand you at all.
I mean, if you're really looking at it, the wood is going to last longer than Sheffron.
True, true, true.
Well, and I imagine if you're looking at things like, okay, I want somebody, the moment they see this,
to recognize what it is.
Yeah.
But you see that dress up in a room or something, you may not recognize it right away.
You see the door and you're probably going to know what it is right away.
Even I, I haven't seen Titanic and even I probably wouldn't know what it is.
Um, so yeah, I, I could see that part of it being, but I'm, I'm really stretching here because it is really.
The whole conversation is a stretch.
It is.
Oh, conversation.
The other thing about this is like, I feel like there's only like three people in the world that can afford this stuff.
That's true.
So I mean, I don't, I don't know how the people that are, are getting these things that are not named basso's or jobs.
Yeah, right, right.
Yeah, okay.
Like, that's crazy.
I don't know.
But what the part of the reason I bring this up is for the fun question of what prop would you want?
What would you want from a movie set?
We'll keep this question going all week long, you know, because I, I want to put anybody in the spot.
I wanted to think about it a little bit.
What would you have?
I, um, on the top of my head, um, the, uh, jumpsuit that robin war for Mork and Mindy.
Oh, uh, that's cool.
Is jumpsuit?
I want that.
Yeah.
I, I don't care how many there were.
I want whatever one they have.
I don't care if it would fit or not.
I'd wear it all the time.
All the time.
People be like, is it Halloween?
No, that's just James.
Um, yeah, that's for, for, for deluded James.
Um, Manu, Manu.
You know, I was thinking, I never thought about this before because I never, you know, I'm not one of those people likes props and stuff.
But I was like, well, let's go back to Star Wars because it, you know, that's pretty one of the more prop heavy movies around there.
I'm sure there's a lot of floating around.
One of the instruments from the Cantina band.
Oh, yeah.
That would be cool.
I mean, see if I don't, I'm sure they don't work.
But just the idea that, who's the blue guy?
Who's the blue?
Oh, Max Rebo.
Yeah.
Max Rebo, man.
He's keyboard.
Yeah.
I want, I want Max and the keyboards.
I'll, I'll, I'll spend extra.
I'll spend extra for the Max.
For the costume too.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You know, out the top of my head, I would probably have to choose an Eagle Montoya sword from the Princess Bride.
That's a good one.
Oh, I changed my answer.
Oh, I changed my answer.
Oh, that's so good, Melissa.
Well, that was, that would be a fun movie to get something from.
You know, when I think about, I would like, uh, uh, Wesley's mask that he wears in the first place.
Yes.
That would be cool.
You're going to say the mask, but then I looked at the sword and I'm like, yeah.
The swords are cool too.
I mean, just in general.
It's so much better than this at the end of the, uh, you're so much better than this.
That's so good.
You're even better than talking than me.
Um, we will take a quick drive out.
When we come back, we're, uh, when people come over, what is the first thing they're looking at?
We're at the top things, house guests immediately notice when they arrive at your home coming up for you.
Right here on the morning show at WFHR.
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Good morning, show here at WFHR locally grown radio.
Seth, Melissa, James here with you.
I love the guitar in there.
Uh, so I picked guitar.
I love it.
And of course, celebrating, uh, the keyboard is from an excesses birthday.
That's right today.
A little in excess for you.
Um, anytime I played this bumper, I ended up getting on a, uh, uh, just an earworm, uh, trip of an excess.
I just can't help myself.
So we all have been in this situation on both sides where you go over to somebody's home,
and maybe you're tempted in the bathroom to look in the cabinet or something like that.
Or, uh, but, you know, any of those things, or if you get left alone in the living room for a while,
you're looking around and stuff.
Yeah.
What's going on in there?
You're checking things out that you normally wouldn't or something.
And on the other side of things, or you invite somebody over to your home and they go into the bathroom.
You have to, did I put that thing away?
Did I?
Oh, oh, oh, oh.
Oh dear.
Did I leave the wet towel down?
Oh god, I didn't do it.
So I think there's some relateability with this conversation.
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Uh, do you do a deep clean before you have guests over?
Because you're worried they'll judge you for being a slob or something like that.
Uh, turns out that they probably won't even notice.
Someone asked experts to name the top things guests notice when they visit someone's home.
And how thoughtfully, uh, thoroughly you cleaned isn't one of them.
In fact, it doesn't really even show up on the list.
Wow.
It sort of does a little bit, but not it's not I think in the ways that we would imagine.
Yeah, exactly.
So here are the top 10 things guests do immediately notice when they arrive.
Number one, the scent that includes good and bad smells.
Right.
Right.
Okay.
You can't help it.
No.
I think every single house and home and apartment smells different.
And it's true.
Every one of them.
And I don't, I mean, I think that's pretty understandable.
But it's, it's, we all, the part that gets the really tough about that is you get normal,
you normalize that smell.
Yep.
Your senses get used to it.
All of my, uh, Nikusa friends understand this one.
We, the girl, when I first moved here and we, we were driving in Nikusa and that smell hits you
from the paper mill and everything.
And I'm like, oh my god.
How do you ever get used to this?
Like weeks later, like what smell?
You know, it just, that's what we do with smells.
Do they call it nose blind?
I think it's what they call that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's a great term.
It is.
I like it.
I don't believe I've ever heard that nose blind.
Oh, I like that.
That's a good term.
So I, that's something that is tough.
It can be tough to gauge because you don't even know if there's a good or bad smell made.
Exactly.
Uh, the lighting.
Is it warm and inviting or is it dim and too harsh?
Ooh.
I never would have thought of the light.
Me either.
Wow.
Wow.
That's fascinating.
And I, I begin as a lot to do with how much like sunlight your house can, you know, have, how your windows are set up.
And that sort of thing.
That probably is a lot to do with a two.
Mm-hmm.
The clutter.
Uh, they won't notice you didn't mop.
But they will notice the random stuff scattered everywhere around the house.
Right.
Maybe things, things on the floor are more as what they're talking about.
Yeah.
I think if, if, if instead of doing like.
You have to climb over something.
Yeah, right.
You're going to notice.
It's the, the general pickup, I think, is more important than the deep clean.
Yeah.
If you're, if you have guests coming over, that makes sense.
Yeah.
A dirty kitchen or bathroom.
They're, they're the two spots where it might make a difference to deep clean.
Just, uh, just at least a, a wipe down might be a good idea.
Right.
Absolutely.
When, when I know where that's like the first thing I do.
Yep.
Bathrooms.
Bathrooms.
First thing I do.
Yep.
Uh, I, uh, house plants.
Well, I never would have thought of this.
Oh.
If you don't have any no big deal, but there's something we tend to notice immediately if you do have them.
Oh, wow.
Especially if they're not looking good.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I would, yeah.
That makes sense.
I wouldn't have thought of that.
Yeah.
The entryway.
It's the first thing they see.
So if you, if you want to impress people, make it nice.
Maybe replace the fixtures again or add a plant or something like that.
Mm-hmm.
Or put your shoes away.
Yeah.
So they don't trip over when they come in.
Yeah.
That welcome mat that's been there since 1975.
You might want to change that.
That says go away.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's so faded.
It just says go.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I like a good entryway.
I, I got to say, if I'm ever fortunate enough to own my own home.
One of the things that I want to do is have a unique door.
Like a front door.
Yeah.
I love the idea of that.
I like having a unique entryway.
I just think that that's cool.
I, I love the idea of, of, of having a, people wanting to walk into your home.
You know, I think, I think that's kind of cool.
The house that.
Folier.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Folier, yes.
Or foyer.
Oh, yeah.
Fire.
That's my foyer.
When we, the house we lived in North Dakota had, it was, you know, a smaller house.
But they had added a garage and they added a room in between the garage and the house.
Oh.
That we called the mud room.
Yeah.
But it was really nice because that's where a closet was, you know, a couple of stairs going up into the house kind of thing.
And the people could come in, take off their coats, you know, and, and get their, you know, clean off their shoes or whatever it was.
That was nice.
I liked having that room because in the house we have now with like no entryway.
It's just why I'm here in the living room.
Whoa.
My parents have a mud room and my dad actually right now, as we speak, is probably painting it.
That's what we were going to, my mom and him been talking for years about redoing it and making it a little bit nicer.
But yeah, they love that.
Those are nice rooms to have, like a separate room to enter into.
I like those, yeah.
And a lot of them are in older houses.
Yes.
I remember my grandma and grandpa's farm.
They, when you come up on the back porch, you'd go into this, and it was just a little tiny square of a room.
But you could hang up your coats and, and put your shoes under the bench.
And then you go into the house proper.
Right.
And they would come in from the barn, they'd go in through the basement.
That was their mud room area.
Oh, okay.
That makes sense.
They didn't want to bring the barn smell into the house.
So that back entrance was for guests.
That's awesome.
So what we need in every house is an airlock, basically from space right now or space airlock.
Well, it will help with the smells in your house.
That's true.
You need this for the bends and for this.
Exactly.
The furniture is another thing people notice.
Is it interesting and classy or is it old sofa sunken and full of claw marks from the cat or something like that?
And like, I'm not going to sit on that.
Right.
You got a folding chair.
That couch looks like it's alive.
I'm not sitting on that.
Easy fix.
They make furniture covers.
Yeah.
Do they covers?
Yep.
Throw something over it and make it look nice.
Just to make them plastic.
No, no, no, no, no.
Make it look like the 70s.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
I had an aunt that you couldn't breathe on that furniture, man.
She'd be in the other room and would know if you sweated on it.
Man, I'm not a fan of crunchy furniture in any way, shape or form.
No.
Empty walls.
They stick out like a sore thumb, add some art.
They're pretty blunt about that one.
Just do something.
Just put them in.
Decorate.
I will say empty walls like bother my brain.
I don't know why, but they do.
This building is a great example of that.
We first got the building.
We're first moving stuff into it.
It felt great.
It's awesome.
When we first got the board here in, I couldn't leave this room.
I was so excited.
I love being here and everything.
But I couldn't get over how blank the walls were.
The walls were very bare at that point.
Very, very.
I've been throwing stuff on them like a back in high school.
It's my first real room.
I didn't have my own room really until high school.
When I did, oh man, the walls were just-
Movie posters?
Yes, movie.
Absolutely, Melissa.
You know me so well.
Movie posters all over the place.
Every sports illustrated picture I could cut out and put up.
Action shots everywhere.
There was no spot on the wall that was not covered.
I had to do that.
Of all the things I have found out about you, James,
and the years we've worked together, that surprises me the least.
It's a really good picture.
There's no wall.
It's just pictures everywhere.
Yeah, just pictures of actors and movies and all that.
You know, I love the Raptors jersey that we have in the studio
because it's awesome that they gave us one and everything.
But every time because of where it's hung,
and I agreed to where it's hung.
But every time I walk by the studio, I'm like, what?
Yeah.
Because it looks like there's a person in there.
My parents have a coat rack in their house.
Because of the moving and everything.
And they're doing the painting in there.
And they have it set up where every time I'm five in the morning,
I'm going past or something.
And I immediately think it's a quarter of your eye, right?
I know it's a coat rack.
I've looked at it in the billion times.
But out of the corner of my eye, I see it.
I'm like, yes.
And my fists go up.
I'm like, what are you doing?
What?
What?
What we found out in the Glassman Asherie.
