Ty Watches "I'm Totally Fine"

Over the weekend my wife and I watched the movie "I'm Totally Fine". I heard about this movie while listening to "This is Important". This is the "Workaholics" guys podcast. I enjoy this podcast quite a bit. It is not a rewatch show. The guys get together once a week and just chat about life. They talk about past projects, their lives, Buzz Ball drinks and current projects. One of those current projects is "I'm Totally Fine".

Kyle Newachek and Blake Anderson are in the movie. Kyle Newachek is a producer. Harvey Guillen, who Newachek works with on "What We Do in the Shadows", has a bit part. But the stars of the movie are Jillan Bell, who was a main character on "Workaholics", and Natalie Morales, one of Bell's best friends. The movie has a fairly simple premise. Bell and Morales are best friends, they own a soda company and Morales' character suddenly passes away. Bell is left to grieve and spends a weekend on a getaway all by herself. She shows up at the AirBnb she is staying in and things kind of start to go nuts. Bell and Morales had a party planned on that weekend, but Bell forgot to cancel everything. They show up and she cannot get them to go away or not set up. So Bell is left to a bunch of food and party supplies. After a night of drinking, where she downs a full bottle of champagne, Bell falls asleep by a fire. While asleep, the lights in the house flicker and flutter and it gets windy and loud outside. When she wakes up she is groggy and hung over. She eventually drinks some water and clams down. While waking up someone hands her a coffee. She thanks the person using her best friend's name. She then fully wakes up and realizes she is seeing a person who looks exactly like her deceased friend. She starts to freak out. She believes she is hallucinating. She figures this is all in her head. The person who looks like her friend keeps telling her she is an alien who has come down to Earth to give her 48 final hours with her best friend. The alien has all of her memories and can communicate. Bell goes along with this thinking it is all in her head. But when she really dives in, she goes for it.

This is where the movie really grabbed me. I was hooked. To see the two of them go on adventures, have a party, tell secrets and revelations, it is all so well done. Bell and Morales have tremendous chemistry. You can tell they are friends in real life. Bell controls this whole movie. She is doing some of her best work. She handles this situation with her character in a very relatable way. She crushes it. Morales is so good as this alien. She talks like a typical alien the whole time. And while you think it would wear you down, it never does. She is so believable and does a wonderful job as an alien who is starting to have human emotions. Newachek and Anderson are there, but their parts are so small. This is Bell's movie and she nails it. Morales is there too, but Bell is the star. I loved watching her performance.

I've been thinking about this movie ever since Friday night. I have also thought about what I would do if this situation actually happened to me. If I was given 48 hours with a newly deceased. close friend, what would I do? They ask and answer this question so well in the movie. It is a tough, and deep question, but the way they handle it is tremendous.

I want more and more people to seek this movie out. I like small movies like this. The story is also unique and fresh. This is not a remake or a retelling. This is not a sequel. This is a fresh idea and a fresh movie. Check it out. Seek it out and check it out. It is really wonderful. 

Ty

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Ty Listens to "This is Important" Podcast

A few months back I was looking for a different podcast to listen to when I run. I have a good team of pods that help me through long runs, but I was either caught up on them, or was getting a little bored. I always try to find one of two kinds of pods when I run, conversational or comedic. When the two categories marry, that is the cherry on top.

The podcast I decided to try was "This is Important". This podcast is hosted by the guys behind one of my all time favorite shows, "Workaholics". We got Kyle Newachek, Anders Holm, Adam Devine and Blake Henderson as the hosts. The podcast is very straight forward. It is just the four of these guys bull shitting for an hour every Tuesday. They like to say that they are only talking about, "what is truly most important", but it is just four friends having a good time on the mic. It also helps that these guys are hilarious, have great chemistry, even better friendship and are pretty well known.

Outside "Workaholics", all these guys are still working. Kyle Newachek is still directing and producing, most recently on the great TV show, "What We Do in the Shadows". Adam Devine has starred in his fair share of movies of late, and he has just been announced as the star of an upcoming "Pitch Perfect" TV series. Anders Holm is still doing his thing, he is apparently in an upcoming movie with Robert De Niro. He was also great in "Top 5" by the way. And Blake Henderson, he has a recurring role on "Woke", was great on "Parks and Rec" and was excellent in the movie "Dope". They are all still grinding, and they still have the time to get together for an hour a week and make a goofy, ridiculous and fun podcast.

I often find myself cracking up when I listen. It is so mundane and wild and crazy and hilarious. They literally just take a subject here and there and they go down crazy rabbit holes. They did a good 10-15 minutes on John Lithgow movies a few episodes back. They did their first "live" episode when Devine had his bachelor party in the Ozarks. It was epic. When Holm goes on about neo soul music, I love it because I love neo soul. Anderson has a soundboard, and the way he uses it during the show is so hilariously perfect. Newachek will spend most of his time either talking about his wife and kids, his garden or expelling gas on the microphone. I know this all sounds trite and boring, but I promise you it is not. Especially if you like Mail Order Comedy and "Workaholics". It is just a continuation of where they started. They may have reached a new level of fame, but these dudes seem totally down to Earth, which is awesome. I think the simpleness of the pod is why I love listening to it while running. It marries the comedy and conversation aspects that I like about podcasts. It takes those two genres and melds them perfectly. I love it because it is two of my most favorite things about podcasting.

If you like these guys, or watched "Workaholics", or just enjoy friends getting together that happen to be extremely funny, check out "This is Important". It is well worth your time.

Ty

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There are No Small Parts Just Great Side Characters Like Karl in "Workaholics"

I've been re watching the entirety of "Workaholics" the past couple of weeks, and I wanted to point out one side actor that I think is highly underappreciated. The three main guys are great, Jillian Bell is great, the lady that plays the boss of the telemarketing company, sad and hilarious, Montez, Waymond and Jet Set(RIP), all fantastic.

But, Kyle Newachek, as Karl, is my favorite side character, by far, on the show. He is so funny yet easily relatable. I find every episode he is featured on, or at least shows up in, is made infinitely better by his appearance. For example, the episode where they decide to take acid, and end up in a hotel, the addition of one line by Karl is amazing, and I still quote it. When Anders shows up in the room and finds the guys there, Karl asks him to be quiet because he is on the phone, and he is asking the front office if the ice is still free. When Anders asks him why he is asking about the ice, Karl says that "ice is the currency of the future. I'm gonna be rich". I walk around saying that all the time. I also love that after a commercial break, they pan back to the room, and there are buckets and buckets of ice everywhere. I just recently watched the episode where the guys get a new drug dealer, and the pain and hurt that Kyle Newachek shows as Karl is amazing. Yes, it is played for laughs, which it got a ton of from me, and it is all made is jest to a love story, but Newachek nails it. I was sad for him when the guys ditched him. I felt for him when he had to let his dog go. I was happy when they reunited at the end of the episode. It was a perfect encapsulation of the range that this goofy character can have on this absurd comedy that works. There is another episode, where Karl is going to get married, and he totally changes his whole appearance and demeanor. He becomes this odd pushover, and the only guy that wants to make it right is Blake. Blake wants to change him back because he finds Karl's soon to be wife cheating on him, and because he wants his weed dealer back. But, to see Karl's transformation, be it his clothes or haircut or attitude, it was all hilarious, and that is due to Newachek's performance. It is still one of my all time favorite episodes of the show.

The one thing about Karl, that truly takes the cake on the show, is his van and his stench. First off, he has what they call the "Grape Van". They call it this because it looks like a creepers van, but Karl painted the G on there so that it would ward off all the weirdos, or so he says. This van makes many appearances throughout the series, and every time, it is funny. And his stench. This is a running joke as well, and the way Kewachek dresses up as Karl, and fixes his hair, and his lazy eye, and pretty much everything about him just oozes disgust, and it works to perfection. It is truly a wonderful performance from this side character.

I know Newachek is one of the original crew that created this show, and that he directs a ton of episodes, but the fact that he helped create this awesome, and memorable character speaks volumes to his talent. I literally cannot wait to watch the rest of the series to see all the Karl moments I may have missed the first time around. I'm pumped.

Ty

Ty is the Pop Culture editor for SeedSing and the other host of the X Millennial Man Podcast. He has an idea of the currency of the future. Mega Stuff Oreos, that shit is priceless and tough to find.

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