Recorded Friday, July 31, 2020.
This week I have another guest and friend from here in Beijing. He’s a self-described rather “unremarkable man” but has done something remarkable during the COVID-19 lockdown: he’s watched a lot of movies. One a day… for the last six months.
Today we Zoom together (because we got rained out in Beijing) and talk about moving to China, life as an ESL teacher, movies and what makes them good or bad. It’s a comical conversation that I’m sure you’ll derive all sorts of pop culture factoids that you can use to impress your friends (or get out of fights) and even add to your movie watch list.
Enjoy!
Oh, and listener beware, explicit content!
3.50 – It’s only been a few hours, Sailor Bo / Skater Boy
5.19 – Production values of The Steven Sirski Podcast and the sheet
8.41 – How Owen met his fiancee
10.30 – Why Owen came to China to teach and cut hair
11.30 – Beards and banter
18.30 – Who’s instigating the interview? How about we talk about movies and Steve’s education
20.24 – Owen is in a Hollywood movie… as a corpse
21.10 – Walking from Dover to Land’s End, coming to China, where is 500 kms away from Beijing?
28.45 – Owen’s beer arrived, opening beers “Lil’ Limey bastard”
31.16 – Sponsorship?
32.37 – Why start a podcast?! (Chen Caiwei)
33.53 – Second Intro, cause Owen has a voice he wants to try
34.59 – Your life in four sentences
35.36 – Owen’s movie for July 31, 2020… at 5 am
37.00 – Screen names, Slim Pickens, Rip Torn
38.00 – Film factoids, are they sueful? Howard the Duck as the first Marvel movie; animatronics in the late 80s, early 90s, Short Circuit the movie, the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Super Mario Bros, superhero movies, the Tick
44.44 – Plug in the computer, what a palava! (sp?); Owen’s family history
45.50 – Annoying words from British to American English; watching The Sopranos
47.15 – Watching TV series and not telling peopl what you’re watching at the moment
48.17 – Owen’s movie watching habits
50.25 – Getting up early in the morning, preparation for work; working travel
51.45 – Being risk averse: the Montenagrian fisherman
53.02 – Retirement for current working people, life accomplishments and death
55.27 – Owen’s life accomplishments and why he came to China; being an ESL teacher
1.01.51 – Grapes and Steve’s biggest filmmaking pet peeves
1.03.54 – Owen’s previous work as a short film writer and music video writer
1.07.08 – Being in bed with the drummer, talents and not talking about them
1.08.19 – Owen can’t diss Steve Blaque (SSP11) cause he’s so nice #fail
1.08.60 – Why Steve started a podcast
1.10.00 – What do you have in your hand? And when do you tell someone to shut up? And how Owen has prevented himself from getting a promotion
1.14.00 – Owen’s firey side
1.16.15 – Steve’s drinking and verbal fighting; by what age you should get into a fight
1.19.15 – Steven’s last big fight
1.20.45 – Watch the movie Red, White and Blue – no relation to Steve’s story, but it has AIDS in it, pockets of knowledge
1.22.40 – Bathroom break
1.24.15 – Sponsorship NASCAR style; green screen sponsorship
1.27.03 – Bait, the movie
1.28.28 – What is the appropriate length of a film?
1.30.25 – Owen’s movie list, how to select a movie
1.33.27 – “Career movie” – Save the Green Planet
1.34.23 – Subaken Boy, Gun Woman
1.37.29 – Bad gun fights in movies, “Fire free”
1.38.35 – The themes behind Owen’s movie list, Sengalese movies, French animation
1.42.35 – North Korean fascination with the accordion
1.43.24 – Favourite micro-theme; plugging gaps in Owen’s film knowledge
1.45.31 – Going for 365 days of movies – Owen’s narcissism
1.46.50 – The differences between novels and movies; re-watching movies
1.50.35 – Stopping a mugging with football knowledge; “learning from movies”
1.53.40 – Re-watching a movie; Steve’s “go-to” movies; pacing in a movie’s story; Martin Scorscese
1.58.49 – What else has Owen done during lockdown? Write novels.
2.05.10 – Cell phones during movies
2.06.23 – COVID lockdown, watching a movie every day, being committed, “I’m so done with this.”
2.08.52 – Reaching a conclusion, top films to see: Freaks, Virus, Everything is Illuminated, Prevenge (Owen’s favourite movie is Robocop)
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The list of movies from January 19th until March 30th:
