Have you ever wondered what the next Muppet movie should be? You’ve found your podcast. After we get updates about Land Cruisers, guitars, and being busy, we dive into the question of what makes a good Muppet movie.

Land Cruiser lifestyle
Rusty guitar playing
Overwhelmed and confused
Practicing vs rehearsing
Aaron is busy
The Muppet Christmas Carol
Treasure Island
Cast the Muppets in the retelling of a classic book.
Huck Finn
Don Quixote
Clash of the Titans
Three Muskateers
The Odyssey
Robin Hood
Gulliver’s Travels
Three Muskateers wins!!

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muppets, musketeers, movie, huck finn, people, true, gonzo, robin hood, don quixote, treasure island, practice, good, thought, muppet treasure island, adventure, muppet, land cruiser, kermit, play, odyssey

SPEAKERS

Collin, Aaron, Brandon

Collin 00:05

Welcome to Oh, brother, a podcast of three brothers. Trying to figure it all out with your hosts, Brandon, Holland and Aaron. On this week's show, overwhelmed and confused.

00:29

Hola.

Collin 00:32

Hello. Closing windows. Ciao. So many what how many tabs you have open? Well, I had three open tabs. I mean

Brandon 00:45

I had well I have my email open because you emailed me. I had the URL zoom launcher webpage open. Cuz, you know, and then I had YouTube open because I was listening to random music. I was waiting. So though.

Collin 01:00

Oh, sorry. I don't have I don't have good weightless music for you. I'm so sorry. That's great. That's alright. might be better next time.

Brandon 01:10

No problem. I just was messing around doing stuff why waiting for you? So I just got done eating. So I just popped in here. I was like, turn on plug in things go. Yeah. Pow. Aaron. Okay. Here's the power to the Wow. I was really worried about that segue. Like speaking of power. Either. Things are getting bad in your neck of the woods or just some sort of weird Mario reference. Right? Like, Donkey Kong reference that I'm not ready for? No, not quite. Not quite. Yeah, yeah. Now that would have been that would have been interesting segue. If, like if the Jeep had just completely blown up on the highway, that would have been a good segue. So it's still together in one piece all together. Hasn't like explode. Okay, well, that's good. Not exploded. jeeps are good. Yes. This is my motto. Really? That's what I live by. Good motto. Handy one. It's just weird to me that I guess. It's just one of those. sign of the times things right like that Jeep is making an instrument that is like so incredibly delicate. That like one thing going wrong, makes it explode all over the place and being a mechanic shop for months and months. When I have definitely seen a person drive a Jeep just over a tree, like just not like an older Jeep. Just like right over it just like blap right across. Didn't even stop slow down. Nothing is fine. Tree okay. Yeah. Right. No, this wasn't even like a this was not like some kind of like weird. Like weekend Rock Crawler thing. It was just like, his jeep. drove around everywhere. Just like drove it over a tree. Blam. Right, like blew the tree right down was a joke.

03:41

It boggles the mind.

Brandon 03:43

So that's how that's an interesting like, we've come a long way Jeep, like, behind ourselves, everyone. Everyone's surprised. Yes. Yeah. So Me too. But no, the listeners are probably bored of listening to me mon on and on about like utilitarianism right. But like, come on. Well, you know, that's what it was. Oh, my gosh, I was on. I was on Facebook marketplace. That's my favorite places to be these days. Not a night because that's where Toyota Land Cruisers are in 1984 total Land Cruiser truck faith that they imported from where did the important thing it's the diesel. So you know, it's amazing. Oh, dear. Yeah. Yeah, no, that means I literally can't destroy this thing. It was I mean, it has just like, how much torque does it have? Yes. Yeah. sufficient. It was one of the it's one of the rare ones. This is this is way into Land Cruiser territory here. But the most the highest desirability ones come from places like Costa Rica and South America. Because there's issues there. They like body rust and these kind of things. So for whatever reason, he didn't say, What are you talking about? They are actually there. They actually drive them around through a jungle all day like, yeah. Oh, no, it's fine. field tested. But this thing is

05:20

feel broken.

Brandon 05:23

It only has it's 94 it only has 133,000 miles on it mail transmission. Oh, it's fine. It was made. I know those are jungle miles though. So there's at least triple but it's one of those where it you know, it goes like 48 miles an hour. And there it comes standard with no heat or no AC. It just is an am truck. I mean, you don't need a heater in Costa Rica. No, I mean, I understand. There's mountains Costa Rican listeners, you can tell me. I want to know your average low temperature. But I know there are mountains in Costa Rica. So if you get up in mountains obviously changes the game but lots of other places in Costa Rica. I'm not aware that they need just tons of heat. Right. So and here's the killer. I mean, here's the thing of like, you know, you find these things. It's for 1984 has 133,000 Jungle miles on it. from Costa Rica. It is. It's a price on this bad boy. $20,000 for a left hand drive diesel. Wow. I should add, it's the HD 40. So I mean, obviously. So it's just it's just goodness gracious gyms out there. Oh, baby. Oh, so cool. So cool. Anyway, I'm scrolling through the pictures right now. So give me a moment. I'm gonna be distracted. I don't know what would be a more interesting conversation, the conversation with your wife, or the conversation with your loan officer about why this is a great idea to buy this, right. Cuz I imagine the bank person's like, Dude, seriously? Why? Like, can you loan me $25,000 for that? No. Yeah, well, not. Sorry. You want to do what? Like? Yeah, we are not signing off on that. with me on this one. No, that guy's got they gotta be like, never seen this money again. Just Yeah, go into parts. And it's such such as the Land Cruiser cruiser lifestyle. I guess. You know, it's just so so hard to be sure. Nobody. Nobody understands what it means to be a true cruiser head. Oh, dear, that was a call themselves. That's what they did now. Now they're calling themselves they're three clubs have just formed right. cruiser head. You're right, they're gonna have sweet flags to hang off the back. Right? Like, like the old boy scout like patrol flags. Right? Like, you know how we have this? Like, get some. Yeah, patches and some. Yes. stickers. Gotta have stickers for the back window. Spare covers. Oh, yeah. Go look at all about this. Just know that that's where we're headed. Right. Check your local area for the cruiser hand club near you. Join today to do a swap once a month on Saturday. Parts right. Gather on Fridays. And Saturdays? Indeed. So that's a that's all the news I bring to the world. Broken Land Cruiser wish lists, jungle jungle Land Cruisers. Jungle Land Cruiser wish lists. There you go. Yeah, I don't really have anything either. Because again, I'm not working. It's been like, ah, next Monday.

09:41

Yeah,

Brandon 09:43

it's the fourth but instead I forgot what day it was. I have a I've existed in the school environment for so long. That when It's not in session. Like I have this problem this summer to, like, there's oftentimes I literally have no idea what day it is. Like. Nothing, none. Because that's my days are regulated by like what's happening at school? Sure. Right. So when there's no school for a while, I'm like, What did I watch on TV today? Sometimes that can tell me why.

10:23

The programming?

Collin 10:26

Yeah, that's a that's kind of it. So that's why I said that. Oh, yeah. Next Monday. Go back for semester two.

Brandon 10:42

Yes. So, see, I've been doing I've been playing guitar. last few days, it's basically learning anything new. I just doing some, like, I haven't played it. So I'm just doing some like, scale practice. You know, not not exciting things. scales and little exercises, and I gotta find something else to do to make it look better, but

Collin 11:13

we try to pack my car, which you're the only person I have to I have to ask this to which guitar.

Brandon 11:22

Oh, my electric one. Okay. my newest one. The electric guitar practice. Yeah, play with that. Doing some stuff, just kind of getting, you know, trying to do something constructive. about it, though. I got I got again, it's hard. Because you know, like, online, they're like, oh, make sure you practice. That's a vague term. Like, that's sort of the overwhelming part sometimes, like practice. What exactly like, well, you know that. That's a really good point, in that you can and this, oh, gosh, this goes into many things in life, too. There's a little like, it's like a little paralysis, right? Because you're like, Yeah, I don't. And there's like so many things. Right. And I'm not like a music scholar. Right? I know, just like enough about like, stuff. Yeah, to get overwhelmed or confused or that easily. So like, you know, there's all this stuff you can do. So there's like, scales, but which scales, major minor. All the other modes, right? Phrygian Mixolydian. triads, inverted triads, right, double inversion triads, like, what, what do you do it arpeggios, like, at, you know, the keys do you practice in? Well, practicing in the key of E, by the way, excuse curious, because, number one, several of the songs that I play with my friends are in the queue. He saw like, I need somewhere to start. So I was like, he sure this one. That one go there. But I think you know that the paralysis not not necessarily even paralysis of choice, because I don't know I get that whenever people are like, you know, what color do you want to paint the walls of your house? Or Oh, what color do you want your logo to be? You know, make a brief update on that. We know we've got it. Oh my gosh. Oh, no. Sorry, listeners. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to bring it up, though. So so it's funky Munch pet care. And our colors are muted. Because we wanted to convey professionalism Hill, we wanted to prove a guess that like the calming nature of secure Yeah, trust sound like bright orange, right, like so 80s like orange and green. And so when I when I made the when I made the logo, because sorry, Mike, you're amazing Mike. And I made the logo, I kind of made the cat and dog just a little silly, right, one of the dogs wearing a top hat and has some glasses on and the cat has a hat perfect, right? So they're a little little silly. But we had they were doing these like free reviews of your brand and your social media accounts by these by this person. So we were like, sure we'll throw ours out there. And she was like, everything else looks fine, but I want to talk to you about branding and I was like oh no, please don't please don't please don't please. Yeah, I was like this has been a great source of consternation for me for many months. It's like my marriage barely survived.

14:39

Don't bring this up. And she said with a name like funky bunch. I expected to click on the link and see like,

Brandon 14:47

like, tie dye and these kind of true and to see all these things and and I was like they are because I mean purple and green. burles right? These bright like a deli, bro funky colors. The problem is the problem is if you look at me and Megan and how we run our business we're not funky in that aspect right? I'm not so what you're telling me is you got Megan some bell bottoms for Christmas. So I got a pic I can see her wearing a little, like peasant dress things Roxy here rockin net. I believe, like a big flowy white shirt with like long sleeves. I don't think so. Yeah. headband. Megan, I think it's time for a style and date. Maybe good. Right? angle earrings. No, no. Because Anyway, you can have a vest. So that that just brought up all these, like, all these thoughts that we had had? Because she and I had thought about that of like, does this name fit the brand and fit everything that we're trying to do? And ultimately, we decided to stick with the name but not do funky colors. Because it's not that's not us. Right? And, and I don't like I want, I want people to get that. Like, we're fun. But I don't want them to not think we're you know, not professional or something like that. So anyway, cuz I didn't think you know, I show up to do dog walking and I'm wearing a tie dye shirt. I don't know. Yes. Speak to me. Perfect. Yeah, now they'll love it to be like, sad, dude. Some brown glasses. Yeah. Yeah. So, you know, that's where we have found ourselves with a logo. But looping back to paralysis by choice with what you're talking about. And it's even more, it's even deeper than that. Because when you're practicing, you're like, you're intentionally sitting down to try and prepare yourself for something in the future. Right, so that you have better skill. Yeah. And so you almost have, you really have to have, like, a clear trajectory in mind, I guess, in some instances, because, you know, you can sit down, just kind of mess around on it and to keep your fingers limber, and two things to recall. But if you're if you're actually, yeah, you're not doing anything, you're not progressing, right? Like, right, right. And like remembering the song like, yeah, you're practicing. And you're learning, which is really different than, like rehearsing. Because when you're rehearsing, you have everything lined out, and you're just, you're just getting in that, you know, that mode, and you're, you're really ironing things out. But if you're practicing your shot, you have to get to that that's the first step. And so when you sit down, and practice, it's like, Yeah, what am I perfect? What am I practicing for me? What's the end goal here? Yeah, and it's really hard to do that when your goals are, like, vague of like, not don't suck as much, right. So like, you know, but it's also like, there's, like I said earlier, there's so many different things that like, I'm only vaguely aware of, like, you know, it's one of those situations where, like, I know enough music theory to be dangerous about it, but like, not really an expert, you know? So it's kind of like, well, you kind of practice a couple of these things. But then then what, like, what else do you do? Sure. Like, I don't really know, it's kind of hard to figure out like, the plan, right? Like, well do some of this. Do some of this. And then what like, what else do you do? Well, I think for me, one of the things is like, Okay, is there anything I could practice that could detrimentally impact what I'm trying to actually accomplish? Right? Is there Can I be practicing the wrong thing? in life in general, yeah, but in other things, so that I'm not enough way out in left field, and I thought I was doing the right thing, but it just didn't work out. True. So I nobody practices the major pentatonic scale. Literally, no one uses that. So like, you know. Yeah, you know, and he's, and he's the minor one. Because all I believe everybody uses the minor pentatonic scale. Even when they're playing in the major key, or you still play, which is the other part. It's confusing, like, why do I do that? Okay, like, that's some of the music theory rules that I'm like, unsure about, like, Is it okay, is it technically okay to do this? Right, like, Is this too loud? Like I didn't sound like a bleach If I do that, like I'm not real sure. like yeah, it's it's, they can't be overwhelming and just weird, right? Like, Well, no. So I started there. We'll do that for a while and, and see how it goes. But just to run over some stuff and like just have something to practice. You know? Because again, I haven't actually played with anybody in a long time for reasons obvious reasons, right? So like, right. Do something know when to get out dusty. So brush it off. Just mess around with that a little bit this week. Cool. Brilliant. Man are things in Oklahoma with wind blows? Okay. And the way that

Aaron 21:00

I you know, works pick it back up. And so there's only three of us working for me this week. So everyone wanted to take you know, a week off or vacation that left us a lot short man. And so. Just a little crazy. We're getting some Shelby's friends coming up from Alabama. Tomorrow. And so we're going to have new year's festivities coming up.

21:30

And

Aaron 21:32

that's really about it. And so, yeah. Not really a whole lot else going on. The besides that? Yeah, that's that's kind of been all the stuff on our end. Yeah, nothing, nothing really exciting new. Works, that works just crazy. And haven't haven't had time to do anything. Outside of work besides now.

Collin 22:15

You

Aaron 22:18

know, get get some stuff ready for, you know, post Christmas activities and just just get some time spent with some some good friends coming up. But yeah,

Brandon 22:29

that's really bad. Not bad. Well, then I believe I have a question. Oh, okay. Since Well, here's here's something for us to ponder then since since none of us have anything going on. Okay. And normally we talk about all the things we have going on. I have a question for you. So I would like to know. Well, let me start here. I thought of this question. Again. I had some back of my mind for a long time, but I had never had the place to bring it up until I was partaking with one of our favorite Christmas traditions with Susan. And that is of course, watching the Muppet Christmas Carol. Now, if you've never seen this, it is the retelling of Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol with the Muppets. Right? The beloved Jim Henson production? Yes. Ah, now, the problem is ever since Disney bought the Muppets in 2004. They've just sort of like remade the Muppet Movie. Like, again, and again, and another one. So like they are creatively bank bankrupt, they don't really know what to do with another property, because they're not really like geniuses like Jim Henson, obviously. And so my question is, the moments have done to retellings of a classic literature. One, of course, the Christmas Carol, and other one was Treasure Island. So I think we need to decide what the next one should be. What would be the best classic piece of classic literature to be recreated that with Muppets I want to know your thoughts I wonder your thoughts on this question? Because I know the Muppets are near and dear to all of our hearts. Oh, yeah, right. That's what I think about that today. And I didn't get very far because I was like, oh, now there's so many. Okay. So initial,

Aaron 25:23

like you said, Of what? Yeah,

Brandon 25:26

I think I think that would be. Yeah. I think that so because, like that, it's nice to be somewhat familiar enough with the audience to get it. You know, but then, like, also with like, the parents, obviously. And then the kind of introduces the kids to that story, that classic story, which is again, that's what Treasure Island did. And Christmas, Carol did that. I mean, everybody knows Christmas, Carol, but little kids didn't. And then they watch them up. It's like, Oh, this story is great.

25:56

I made a really good job. Again, Jim Henson genius. So yeah,

Brandon 26:02

I was just wondering what your thoughts on this were? Because I think it would be fun to like, Dream cast, the Muppet adventure movie. Okay, so I have thought your initial thoughts? Well, for me, I don't know. I'm trying to think about maybe like, why why the Muppets worked so well, in the retelling of the Christmas Carol and Treasure Island. What was it? What was it about them that made them fit those those? Well, and I think part of it is the familiarity. Yes. Right. Yeah. It's Yes. Because they are really common, or they're, they're well known. And so you do yeah. You can't pick an obscure. You can't pick an obscure one. You know, if you think so. Scarlet Pimpernel is out. Got out.

27:00

Yeah,

Collin 27:00

you know, and, and so you know, I you know, I don't know if you want to maybe they could do a maybe to do Animal Farm. They could make a redo.

Brandon 27:14

What? Sounds a little too heavy. Okay. Okay. Oh, too dark. So I actually have two, two that come to mind. Immediately. One is actually staying with Charles Dickens Oliver Twist. Oh, good. Be hauling. And then the other one that I'll throw out there for your consideration is Huckleberry Finn. Snap. have a pretty good, huh? Now my only reservation with Huck Finn. I like that idea. Because it's very like adventuresome. Right. But that gets a little like heavy in there too. But I think they could. I mean, so does A Christmas Carol though, right? There's some heavy stuff there. So they can really do a good job of like, making it accessible. You mean, making those heavy themes and Huck Finn accessible? And then again, if Huck Finn is too heavy, you can always do like Tom Sawyer. Right. It's a little more lighthearted. But that's a good one. So Mark Twain. I like it. Yeah. I'm also trying to think of Ooh, like, I don't know, maybe we can get into maybe we'll pick a book and then we'll do the casting of it later. But yeah, yeah. Right. Because I'm trying to remember. Who was it was a Gonzo, that played a quasi like Don Quixote character already. And now, I was thinking that too, because I, I had also thought Don Quixote would be perfect for guns. Oh, right. Because I can see that. I don't know. It's, I'm not sure exactly. But I don't think they've done the story of Don Quixote, but I think that would be a good one, as long as Don Quixote was played by Gonzo, because it almost just has to be like, Yeah, I know who else would play Don Quixote? I think that would be fun. Because that's like a fun like meandering, like, adventure kind of story. You know, it's like very interested. Same thing with Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn. Right? Those are very, like adventurism. And I think that would be a really good vehicle for the Muppets to like to do. I'm not super familiar with a lot of the details of Don Quixote anymore, because I haven't met like, read that in like a million years, but I definitely feel Gonzo as Don Quixote would be just beautiful. It's kind of you know, he kind of goes a little he loses his mind after reading so many books, right. And then he decides that he That's what he is he is a knight and he recruits Santo to go along with him and goes with just these adventures so you could see how very easily like whether it's it struck to to the book or not right he could just do adventures as donkey. Oh, yeah, we could like draw inspiration from those although the thing I think that made Treasure Island and specifically Christmas carols so good is they stuck very close to the book. Right like that's true. But I think you could say simply cuz Don Quixote does do like a lot. So you could pick like some of the highlights and that book is a really long we're not trying to do an exhaustive cover. Three and a half hour presentation, there's Don Quixote featuring. Don't do it. those are those are mine right now. What did I like it? I said Oliver Twist. Huck Finn. Yeah. I like it. I don't know. I'll do some more thinking here. Because I think Aaron, me thinking

Aaron 31:08

well, for some reason, the first thing that popped in my mind when he said, you know, classic literature, my mind kind of reverted back to all of the old those those random books that we had to read, when like, we're in middle school. And so for some reason, my first thought was like, The Great Gatsby.

Brandon 31:34

See,

31:37

and so Josh had to get a hold on the reins, reins a little bit. But you said

Aaron 31:48

kind of that Christmas theme and and for some other reason, I my brains not fully, fully focused on coming up with ideas, because I'm trying to think of films or books that have been I don't say like, remade a bunch of times, but are very like, that respects because the the standalone films that came out not that long ago, from from it from the Muppets, like there's one, like, two or three years ago that came out, and I was like, oh, and then there's another one that came out like 2000. Yeah.

Brandon 32:23

But they're not very memorable, right? Because it's just again, it's just kind of like and so the Muppet Movie, version seven. Right. So like,

32:34

yeah, it's good, because, I

Brandon 32:35

mean, they have the big ensemble casts. So like, you know, that's what they do. But again, I think we can be more creative with the idea here. Why I wanted to answer though,

Aaron 32:48

is I the only other thing that popped into my mind just Oh, so briefly, was like a watered down version of the Christmas. And having Gonzo, you know, running through the, you know, crawling through the air vents just seems like really appealing to me. But as far as like literature goes, I'm trying to think of a random thing on top of my head, that like makes sense and that people like, like, understand of all ages, and you know, people that are older kind of have that. nostalgic, like, Oh, yes, I remember this. Um,

Collin 33:34

oh, Jeepers, I'm trying to

Aaron 33:37

I can't even think of one that was just like, Oh, yeah, no, that's what this is. And just because there's just,

Brandon 33:45

there's a lot of weight. And the other problem is you need sort of a big cast. Right? Like a lot of them I could think about earlier were like, wow, you need like four people for that. And there's 6000 Muppets so you need I think it's I got it. I got it. Moby Dick. Now I thought about that. You could do Moby Dick, I suppose. A little heavy. Again. Today, like car is gonna go through. Look, here's here's what the classics are. It's like a dystopian future. It is true people recovering from like wars where these things were written. Or these like these really deep, sinister allegorical tales of psychological unraveling through, you know, whatever. Like true. Like, what do you want to do Heart of Darkness. I was trying to think of something. Yeah, I was trying to think of something like very adventury.