Episode 31 - Under the Radar Watches

Published on Wed, 29 May 2019 23:51:00 -0700

Synopsis

This is an episode of the 40 in 20 podcast where the hosts Andrew and Everett discuss watches and other topics like movies, drinks, and shuffleboard. They talk about recently released watches like the Timex Q, Casio AMW reissue, Bulova Computron, and some microbrands doing vintage-inspired watches. They also discuss a horror movie called The Perfection that one of the hosts really enjoyed. The conversation is fairly unstructured as they riff on various watch and non-watch related subjects.

Transcript

Speaker
Andrew Hello, fellow watch lovers, nerds, enthusiasts, or however you identify. This is the 40 in 20 podcast with your host, Andrew, and my good friend Everett. Here, we talk about watches, food, drinks, life, and other things we like. Everett, how are you?
Everett Better now? Better now. I'm doing really well. Yeah, I'm good. I'm doing well. Had a nice weekend, a long weekend. It's Memorial Day, so it's the end of our three-day weekend. So that's always nice. I did gosh, it seems like almost nothing this weekend. That's the dream.
Andrew Also nice. I use the pressure washer I borrowed from you. Oh, I still I still have about a Day of use so that's why I didn't bring it back.
Everett Keep it as long as you need it Want it or need it? Yeah, I did I didn't run a lot this weekend which was nice it makes my legs feel good Kim Kim roped me into doing a bunch of squats as well. So my legs are a little sore I did like nine miles yesterday and then seven miles today and then 225 squats. So I'm feeling a little, my legs are feeling a little jelly, a little gelatinous. Yes, that's right. But other than that, I'm really good. It was a nice relax. I'm feeling relaxed. I'm feeling the way you should feel after a weekend, which does not always happen.
Andrew Rarely happens, especially after a known three day weekend, like an, like a surprise three day weekend. You can, you can. put off for just relaxing. She's like, Oh, well, I, you know, I couldn't have planned anything. I didn't know I was going to have the stay off. And then, you know, for that Friday or that Monday turns into just like bleeds into, I'm not doing anything cause I didn't plan on it. But I find with, with planned long weekends, I typically, uh, template things to do over the top of them. And long weekends are more often than not far less relaxing for me. Right. But that's Memorial Day should be relaxing. It was, it was relaxing.
Everett Same with Labor Day. Yeah, I mean, I feel like Labor Day, we always do something because it's kind of, I think there's this motivation to cram as much stuff into the end of the summer as you can.
Andrew Well, I usually hunt, but it's usually like a nice, like not a really hard hunt. It's kind of, kind of relaxing. It's usually the first, like the, not the opening weekend, but the first long weekend of elk season and go out and poke around and make sure everyone's where we left them the last year and make a plan for later in the season. For killing some elk. Yeah. Yeah. I love long weekends. How are you? I'm good. Work was interesting. I experienced a taser exposure today. Nice? No. Well, I mean, kind of cool. I mean, it's a good learning experience. If you take nothing else away from an experience like that, it should be just learning. And I know now that I never want to do it again. Ever. Never once. I don't even want to be near it. Right.
Everett Ever. I actually was a little bit jealous of you because it looked like I don't know, the type of thing that's painful and terrible, but also kind of fun to have done it.
Andrew I think that sums it up nicely, like the kind of thing that you never need to do again. You're glad, I'm glad I did it, and I'm glad I don't have to do it again. Right. So it was definitely, I was talking to a couple of folks and it was interesting to see a bunch of colleagues, you know, a group of folks that you're going to be working with for the foreseeable future and get a glimpse of them at their absolute worst moment. Uh, and for them to be able to get a glimpse at me, it definitely my worst moment. Um, and yeah, it's a good, it's a good team building experience. A bit of shared misery. Yeah. Yeah. Which is, which is very valuable for building teams. So, uh, that was my day. Um, I didn't get, I didn't enjoy the long weekend, but I survived. I'm a little sore. You're here. But I'm here. You look good. I always look good. Uh, but I'm here drinking beer and talking, you know, watch us food drinks and other things we like.
Everett So this is a beer that I've never had. I've seen it a bunch. So this is the 10 Barrel Trail Beer. It says it's a Northwest Pale Ale.
Andrew I like this. It's good. It's one of the, I think one of the best things coming out of 10 Barrels Brewery as a flagship. Uh, they're only, they're only in cans. They do, um, competitions throughout the year to, for the, for the, uh, wrap, like the graphic wrap on it. They do a donation to protect our winters, which pays for, um, like habitat, uh, conservation efforts and, winter sports areas and it's also just a killer beer.
Everett Yeah, it's good. It's kind of, uh, I don't know, a little fruity, a little, a little what? Herby?
Andrew Yeah. Herbally maybe is the word you were looking for.
Everett Herbally? Herby? Yeah.
Andrew Herby? Herbaceous. Oh, I like that one. That's, that's the one we'll go with. It's a little bit herbaceous. Uh, it's a good springs. I mean, it's a good year round beer, but it's nice and bright and light, uh, like 50, 60 IBUs. So it's not overly bitter. It's just, it's, It's a, it's a good session beer. Yeah, it's good. Yeah.
Everett I like it.
Andrew Yeah.
Everett And it's 10 barrels. It's one of our favorite places.
Andrew Yeah. Cause they're terrific. And they let us trash their brewery sort of.
Everett Yeah. Well, I mean, we didn't really touch anything, but. We tried. We did. We tried to touch a lot of things. Yeah. And they were cool with it. So. You know, that was really cool. That experience going to see, we, I think we've talked about this before on the show, but we did a 10 barrel tour a few years back when Andrew was slaying a beer. And, uh, they had just sort of installed their big, their kegging and canning lines, their big robot. And, uh, you know, so they had gone from, uh, you know, a pretty small, uh, a large, small brewery to all of a sudden, uh, a small medium size or, or, or a, a medium, medium sized brewery, you know? Uh, but, but, uh, An order of magnitude more capacity, but getting to see sort of their old stuff. And it's grown even since then. Next to this new $10 million robot. It was pretty neat. It was a cool experience. Yeah.
Andrew A lot of fun.
Everett Yeah.
Andrew Good way to spend a bachelor party day.
Everett Yeah. Yeah. If you ever, if you need to do a bachelor party, uh, you can do worse than Central Oregon Bend Sisters area. You can do worse than that. A lot worse.
Everett It's cheap to stay out there. Tons of big houses with lots of rooms. And breweries on every corner. Every, every single corner has a brewery. Yeah. Well, cool. We're talking about watches today. Sometimes. I feel like this was, uh, I was trying to decide earlier what, you know, uh, just in terms of workflow, uh, Andrew normally sort of pitches our ideas. I tend to do the editing piece. And as part of that editing piece, I usually titled the episode and sometimes it's not controversial. Um, sometimes the, the name of the episode is found in the subject matter we don't i don't try to be super creative with or certainly not clever with titles right you know you what you get what you see is what you get except with chronographs and dress watches sometimes those get flipped right sometimes we call called dress watches chronographs um but for this one i don't really know what we what we'd call it i and i was thinking about earlier what am i going to call this episode and i'm still not sure so so as of yet the some named episode but what What we're talking about, what the idea was, was sort of under the radar watches and or watch brands that we're feeling right now, that we've sort of newly discovered or maybe even probably discovered as part of our research for the episode. But watches and or watch brands that we think this is something cool, this is under the radar, this is something maybe people aren't talking about. So a little bit more freeform than we sometimes are. A little bit less guided, but I think maybe closer to the subject matter that we're really comfortable talking about. And frankly, I think maybe a little bit more pure in terms of what we wanted to do when we got this started. Is that fair?
Andrew And I think certainly more fun. Yeah, definitely more fun. Some of my episodes, I've had three pages of notes. This episode is 15 lines.
Everett Right. And I don't even have notes. Yeah. No, if I just know these two things, we're going to have plenty to talk about. Boom time.
Andrew First, before we get into that, I want to share, I did get a Barton Silicone Elite. Barton Elite Silicone? Silicone Elite. Elite Silicone.
Everett Elite Silicone, whatever it is. In fact, I looked it up the other day when I posted a picture and I had that same thought. Is it Silicone Elite or Elite Silicone? It's Elite Silicone.
Andrew Well, there it is. I picked up one in 22 millimeters, black on black, and it has been living on the Mako. And as a function of that, the Mako has been living on my wrist. I've worn this band before, this strap before, but not with this regularity. And I love this. I'm going to pick one up in every size, I think. Yeah. It's been killer. And it looks great on the Mako. It does. The Mako is a monster when it comes to what you're going to wear it on. Looks great on the bracelet, looks and feels great on the NATO. A little bit taller than I like on the NATO, but on this rubber, or silicone, sorry, on the silicone, killer.
Everett Yeah, it's great. You know, MGM Mays, when he sent us these notices that we've been playing around with, really, that I've been playing around with, we got to get you one or two of those this week to wear around, because we got to send those back pretty soon. But his Contrail came on that same exact strap, a 22 millimeter, black silicone elite. So, uh, I had an opportunity to wear that a little bit and it's great. And I personally own a blue, a two-tone blue silicone elite that I wear, um, mostly on my Dan Henry 72 cause it's got, it accents that blue secondhand just perfectly. Um, but, but I also have been known to wear that on my Saab 035.
Andrew I'm going to get the black on Crimson for the SSB. Oh yeah. I think it's going to be.
Everett Yeah, that's a killer choice. Hmm. The SSB comes on a bracelet, but you don't like the bracelet all that much. Is that accurate?
Andrew The bracelet's okay. It doesn't, it doesn't feel right on a NATO. Uh, it just, I can't explain it. I'm just not a big fan of it on the NATO that I have, um, or on any of the straps that I've worn it on. Uh, I think that the silicone is going to be tits on it though.
Everett Is the SSB 20, uh, 20 millimeter lugs?
Andrew Yep, it is.
Everett So do you have a black, uh, shiznet in 20?
Andrew No, I have a black and a gray in 22.
Everett You'll have to borrow my black shiznit and put it on there.
Andrew I tried it on the Haviston canvas, the single pass, and it was still tall. I think the colors are a little weird for that. Well, I was thinking more just in the wearability. My concern is the height, because it's already a chunky watch. It's probably, I don't know, off the top of my head, but it's probably 15 millimeters thick, and it wears every bit of it. And I think with a strap underneath it, even with the single pass Haviston, Pretty damn tall.
Everett Yeah, those Haviston canvases are a little bit taller. I do really like that strap. I kind of am pining for a good watch to wear with that strap because I don't have anything in my collection that's been really perfect. It's a 20, which is a perfect size. What's the Bertucci? 22. Oh. Yeah, 22. But, you know, that thing lives on that. On that OD. Yeah, gosh, what's the name of that company the Amazon Sivo not Sivo no It'll come to me watch work synergy. Yep. Yep watch synergy clockwork synergy. Yep Watch work synergy So that that the Bertucci lives on that thing and it's a perfect I mean, it's just a perfect fit and it's actually got a stock it's got an I've got the OEM strop for that thing and it's a It's like a composite, uh, sort of foam composite strap that is, is actually fairly comfortable. It's supposedly antimicrobial or something or the other. Um, and it wears really well. I don't know why I never wear it on that thing. Cause it's, it's a pretty cool strap. It's well, it's well built and I've never even seen it. Yeah. I'll have to get it out and we can poke around with it. Show me, show me the money. Uh, but yeah, so, so, um, I like that watch news, I guess is what we'd call that.
Andrew Yeah, my watch news, and I'm going to be picking up a couple more.
Everett I dig it, man. I dig it. What did I see the other day that I thought, gosh, I want to get a couple of these? Oh, you know what it is? I still want to get one of these Erika's original MN straps. Yeah. The money, I think, sort of, because it's not an inexpensive strap. They're a neighborhood of 80, aren't they? No, I think 50 to 60 is where I feel like they are in my gut. Which is not a lot of money, but it's enough. It's enough that it sort of puts me off a little bit.
Andrew Yeah, you got to have a conversation before you just pull the trigger on it.
Everett I was talking to Chad Wright today about Instagram user Chad Wright. A lot of you will know who he is. Look him up if you don't. Fantastic pictures. I think two weeks in a row we're name dropping Chad Wright. Maybe. I was talking to him about putting tropic straps. on watches and which tropic strap I liked best. And I said, well, I've got experience with the Uncle Seiko tropic and I've got experience with the Kokoda or the Watch Gecko. And my takeaway from those two was that the Uncle Seiko is probably a little bit more faithful to the source material, that it's a very, very faithful sort of OG Seiko or tropic strap, you know, the way they do the end of the strap, that tang end, and the way they do the keepers, is this very faithful reproduction of the OGs, but it's stiff. It's stiff and uncomfortable, which is not what I wanted. When I got mine, I really wanted to get a very comfortable strap.
Andrew Is there any break-in with those, do you think?
Everett I think that there is, although I don't think it would ever get to the place where you thought, This is now super duper comfortable because it's soft. I think it might get comfortable because it fit your wrist, but I don't think it's ever going to get soft. And I wanted, gushy is the word I always think of, and I know it's not a great word.
Andrew But it's a good descriptor.
Everett That's right. Everyone knows what gushy means. I want a gushy strap because it feels nice. And I think, again, I think we've talked about this before, but I had said to Chad, if money's no issue, the most comfortable tropic strap, and it's not quite a tropic, but The most comfortable tropic strap I've ever tried on was a Bell and Ross. And oh man, it was luxurious. I put it on my wrist and thought, this is the answer. This thing.
Andrew I wonder if they'd notice if I just took the strap and ran.
Everett Right. You just rip it off, just snap the spring bars. Um, but I remember getting home after trying that thing on and looking up, can I just buy the strap? Well, there's good news. You can just buy the strap and it does not even come with a buckle. And I think the strap, just the strap, is like $225. And then you're in another like $75 to $125, I can't remember, for hardware. So it, end of day, winds up being a $300-ish purchase. And I'm guessing at numbers, I don't remember what it is, it's been long enough. That sounds right though for Bell & Ross. It sounds insane to me. It's not right. They're making a ton of money. Which, if you're Bell & Ross, you can make a ton of money on shit like that, but it's crazy. It's insane and maybe maybe they have an interest in not diluting their brand. You know, I don't know. I'm not even going to weigh in on it because people in my position weigh in on this and and I think probably uneducated ways. I'm not smart enough to weigh in on it, but I can't afford it. I'm not going to buy it, but I want it, but I want it right. That's right. So for me, the Dakota was the best sort of compromise in terms of price and it's close. It's not. I wouldn't call it gushy or luxurious, either one, but it is very soft, very comfortable. It's really comfortable. Yeah, I've worn it on quite a few of your watches. In fact, I think it's more comfortable than the Elite Silicone. It's not quite as flexible, but I think it winds up being softer, if that makes any sense.
Andrew I haven't worn it enough to weigh in on that, but this is an end for the price. I mean, you're looking at 20 bucks.
Everett Right. Oh, yeah. Well, you can't beat that. Those Elite Silicones, the price is killer. Yeah.
Andrew Yeah, totally killer. And there's a seller on Amazon that sells them for $14.50, but only the base colors. Right. So you can pick them up for $14.50, delivered to your house two days from now. So you're listening to us on Thursday. You could have this on your porch slash mailbox on Saturday. Certainly Monday morning. Oh, definitely.
Everett Gosh, freaking Amazon, man. So I work in an office building, right? And it's an office building that looks like a house, but it's not a house. It's clearly an office building. in a commercial area where there's no houses anywhere near there. Right? None. There's not even apartment complexes. No. I mean, it's all commercial buildings. And so it looks like a house because it is. It's an old house, but it's a commercial building. Freaking Amazon on Saturday morning delivers two packages to the front porch of this place. No. Yes. No. I saw that had been delivered. I was like, oh shit. And it says left by the door, left by the front door. And I'm trying to picture the front door in my head. And I'm like, And it's a busy street. There's a bus stop right out in front.
Andrew Yeah. I mean, the town mall is throwing rocks distance.
Everett Yeah. So I ran over there. And sure enough, it's just two packages with Amazon flash on the outside. Sitting on the front porch, a couple of ladies sitting at the bus stop. Take me. Like they might as well just put a neon take me sign up there.
Andrew Does the exterior door lock? Because I assume there's other other companies and businesses inside that house, right?
Everett Well, there are two other businesses. Yeah. No, the exterior doors are locked. Oh, okay. Yeah.
Andrew They didn't really have much of a choice.
Everett I don't know. Keep them till Monday. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. You're right. That's a good point.
Andrew I don't know what the protocol is, but usually on the, on the, on the, the shipping label, it says carrier leave if nobody there, or if no one present or something like that.
Everett Well, I realized I got to figure that out or have stuff delivered to the house.
Andrew So the Amazon locker. They have a couple of those around town. Yeah, I've seen that.
Everett So, I'll move on. I had to run over there in the middle of the day. Oh, tragic. I didn't want to go to work. You didn't. I did go to work. You didn't break the threshold. That's true. Very true. Very true. So, first, I think we can start with one watch that sort of popped up on both of our lists. And everyone's list for that matter. And everyone else's list for that matter. I think we can talk a little bit about the new Q Timex. I think we ought to I think we ought to what I don't want to talk about is I don't want to talk about the phenomena of Phenomena reselling Versus you know buying and reselling and scarcity. Look, this is a mass-release watch they Sort of delivered it to people and then they ran out of stock because it was incredibly high demand With that said, this is going to be an incredibly well distributed watch at some point. So there are a number of people who got these and who have then turned around and tried to make some bucks on them because there's scarcity right now, a temporary scarcity. And I don't really have an opinion and I don't think we need to talk about it because everybody else in the watch industry right now is expressing opinion.
Andrew And it's something that everyone knows about. We're familiar with this phenomenon when there's a new release from watch brands other than Timex and even with a couple Timexes that have come out.
Everett Well, and everything, right? I mean, it happens every Christmas with, you know, uh, some toy or whatever. You know, I remember when the, um, when the Nintendo Wii's came out, there was, you know, it just happens. It's a thing that happens and it happened here and there's always going to be that thing. So it's not really a big deal, especially since we know the stinking watch is going to be released by the billion in six months, maybe less. Right. So, Um, but the watch itself, what do you think?
Andrew It is great. Such a cool reissue. What I'm not real jacked about 50 meters of water resistance.
Everett Yeah. I mean, it's clearly not a dive watch, right?
Andrew I know, but I just feel like they could have, they could have given me a hundred, you know, me, you know, me, I'm the water resistance guy. I know, but I just feel like, I feel like with a watch of that style and design, and if you're going to give me a, perfectly sized reissue like that, give me the water resistance to be able to wear that watch comfortably. Right. And 50 meters, I'm going to have some, I'm going to be a little apprehensive whenever it's on my wrist.
Everett Yeah. No, I feel the same way.
Andrew Because it's not a dress watch. A dress watch, if I get wet and I'm, my watch is the least of my concerns. Sure. It's everything else that I have on. But for something like this, like I want to, this watch to me screams, wear me on a boat. Wear me to the beach. But I can't do that at 50 meters of water resistance. Now, everything else, ooh, 38 millimeters. The design on it's great. It has that very, very vintage feel without being in your face vintage about it, if that makes any sense.
Everett Well, you know, it's interesting that you say that because I'm pretty sure it's basically a one-to-one reissue of the original Q Timex, the source material, whatever that is. It's not a watch I've ever seen. Um, but my understanding is it's a one-to-one reproduction.
Andrew Which is great. I mean, which means that watch was ahead of its time because it looks like it's just a classically styled and classically designed, perfectly sized, awesome watch.
Everett Yeah. I want five. It's beautiful. Uh, you, you know, it's interesting. I wonder what they'll do with that. You know, Timex is, uh, it's no secret. I don't think that Timex is sort of killing the retro game right now, you know, with the, the Marlin and now the Q Timex. And there's been a few other sort of good watches come out of Timex.
Andrew They've got a cool, very dress looking mechanical that just came out. It's a steel case with gold second hands and a gold crown. Is this a Marlin? No, I don't remember what it was. I saw it when I was looking for the Q Timex today, but I think it was like $250, $275.
Everett When they've got their USA made watches that they just came out with too.
Andrew They're doing some cool stuff. Timex is pouring some money into it right now and they're killing it. For the most part. I mean, they're obviously going to have duds like everyone else, but they're knocking it out of the park in the way of Timex and I think in the way of watches in general.
Everett Yeah. No, I think that they're doing a good job. I mean, Timex has been sort of floundering, I think. Staying afloat and certainly selling a bucket load of watches because They sell 20 to $50 watches at every stinking department store in the United States. And convenience store. Yeah, that's right. And convenience store. So, um, these, it feels like they've sort of taken a good move towards the special, you know, these brass cased expeditions and whatever are cool, but they're so, um, I don't know. They're so vanilla, right? There's not a whole lot special there. So I do know this Q Timex has a Seiko movement. Oh, I did not. I did not see that.
Andrew It's got a Seiko movement. I was smitten just by pictures of it. And I did very little reading. I looked at the specs on it and I said, man, I need you.
Everett I think that what you'll find with that is that's going to take care of my biggest complaint with Timex is their noisy ass quartz movements. Right. Super loud quartz movements. like uh you you know like the 60 minutes clock man i i had one of those in my there's something kind of charming about that though there is yeah i mean there's something to be said for it it's like listening to a vostok date window change like the date change on it snap whoa wakes you up out of a dead sleep it loses its appeal after a while uh i'll say that so um Yeah, but I think it's really cool. It sounds like you think the same. I'd love to get my hands on one at some point, obviously. We will. We're not going to right now because I'm not going to pay $500 for a $179 watch or whatever it is.
Andrew No, these are going to be on Amazon for $100 in three to six months.
Everett Yeah, possibly they'll go down. I bet they'll stay in the mid $150 range would be my guess. I bet they don't come down lower than that. You never know, right? Some of these really cool water berries have come down to like 80 bucks from time to time.
Andrew So we'll see. I, I bet this is a, this is a beyond the lookout hot take. You heard it here first. This is going to be a black Friday deal on Amazon. That'd be cool. Yeah. I'd pick it up on black Friday. Yeah. Or cyber Monday, whichever one of those two holidays Amazon observes.
Everett And so, yeah, it's totally out of stock, but it says email one available. So, um, Kind of a, kind of a vintage loom, but it's not over the top. It's, uh, um, creamy as opposed to super, yeah.
Andrew Which is why, which is what makes it feel to me. Not like a, in your face reissue.
Everett And I love the, the, yep. The coin, the coin, uh, screw battery door. That's just, you know, just bigger than the, just proud of the battery. I love that. So super neat watch. Uh, great dimensions. Love it.
Andrew I wonder how that bezel is going to feel, you know? Yeah. I don't know. I've never, I don't know if I've ever manipulated a Timex bezel. I don't think I have. It's a, it's a one 20, right?
Everett I don't know. I bet it's not. I bet it's a 60. It doesn't say on here, number of people have them.
Andrew We could ask someone. Well, Either way, I'm interested to, for that tactile feedback on the, on the bezel to see how that is. Well, great. Cause that's a kind of a, that's a, that's a touch that, that you get in watches that is the difference between it being 10 out of 10 and meh.
Everett You know, uh, I will say 60 clicks, bi-directional on that notice. Yeah, it's just so good. And I love it.
Andrew Yeah.
Everett So I wouldn't care if this is 120, if it's 60, if it's unidirectional, bidirectional, I wouldn't care. Uh, as long as it was well done, it felt good.
Andrew So I think the dome on that, it's going to make it just pop too.
Everett Yeah. And it's acrylic. Yeah. So. Well, great. Yeah. I've got a watch here. Let's do it. I got a watch here. So this is a brand I had never heard of this, although I have seen their watches. Um, this is a brand called Goodspeed watch company, uh, or Goodspeed watches. I actually wound up talking to the owner a little bit today on Instagram and, uh, kind of picked his brain because so Goodspeed, you may know them from their petrol chronograph that they came out with last year, uh, their, their sort of initial Kickstarter watch. And this is, uh, a very neat seventies style chronograph. It's got a surfboard, uh, surfboard dial. Um, They just seem great, right? They came out with a VK-64 movement, I think, 42 millimeters, sort of run-of-the-mill microbrand chronograph, but the price was fantastic. I think that they were coming in at under $200 with a Mecca Quartz movement, which is... That's hard to beat. Which is killer. Yeah. That's right. So Goodspeed announced recently their follow-up to the Petrol chronograph, and this is called the Sonoma. And if you check out good speeds, um, Instagram, you'll see some renders of this 3d renders. This is still in the design phase. I think it's scheduled for Kickstarter to start in June. Uh, and it probably says that here, but, uh, named after the Sonoma race course in California track, uh, racetrack race, uh, race course, what'd I call it?
Andrew I don't know. Course you call it a course, which I mean, it could be a course, but I, whenever I think
Everett track i think racing i think track you know i think it's a course i don't think it's an oval but i don't know what do i know i don't know anything about racing main i don't either i know how to time it with a chronograph sort of so this watch looks really neat it's going to come in two varieties it's going to come in i think a top tier and a lower tier uh variety the top tier is an st 1901 mechanical movement which is pretty neat uh 300 bucks is their estimated cost for the ST-1901, which is a great price. Yeah. A great price for a mechanical chronograph. They're also going to have a Miyota. They haven't named what movement, but a Miyota quartz movement in $150 version of this, which is a real value. I mean, you can see the value on either end of that, right? $300 for a mechanical ST-1901 or $150 for a Miyota quartz. I can I could do either one. A lot of times when I see those splits that companies do, I think, I know which one I would buy. Or I would spend the money, you know, if I only could afford the other one. Here I can afford them both, and I can see the value in both.
Andrew And this, is it DLC or PVD? It's PVD. This PVD with a Pepsi dial? Or a Pepsi tachymeter scale?
Everett Ooh. Yeah. Well, so I'll talk about the watch a little bit. This is what I would call a 1970s or a Gen 3 Heuer style case. Uh, although for me, the most notable thing about that 1970s Octavia is the, is the left-hand crown. Uh, this has a right-hand crown, uh, for obvious reasons because they're not using the, the Heuer automatic. I can't remember what they called that.
Andrew Chrono. I need to get some left-hand crowns.
Everett You do.
Andrew You do.
Everett Cause you're, you're a Southpaw. Yeah. You should get one of those Citizen, uh, automatic divers.
Andrew I have it in my Amazon cart.
Everett Can you get those on Amazon?
Andrew I mean, I don't know if we can, I can't anymore. It might be. At one point you could. It's been in my Amazon cart. It might still be on the, on the wishlist.
Everett You should pick one of those up. I, that's, I love, I love that watch. It's a good watch. It's a good watch. So yeah, these come in, in a couple of varieties. They all have sort of a vintage loom as is, as is sort of the, um,
Andrew the loom du jour. It's a thing right now too. Everyone's dropping vintage loom.
Everett And I don't know what I don't know what I would call this dial. Like maybe sort of a maxi dial with chronograph. I've never seen a dial like this, but I really like it. It looks familiar though, doesn't it?
Andrew Yeah. Without being reminiscent of really anything that comes to mind right away. It looks familiar. It feels familiar.
Everett That's right. That's right. It does. It does. And I did ask the owner, the Um, bezel is fixed. It's a fixed tachometer. It doesn't rotate at all. I know with their petrol watch, it had a tachometer bezel that rotated in. That's too many for me.
Andrew I can handle measuring my speeds on the freeway and that is all. Right.
Everett Right. Well, I guess there's maybe some utility to that. I don't know what it is, but, uh, so yeah, this, it's a really neat, uh, it's a really neat watch. I'm excited about it. I I'm with you, that Pepsi, that sort of vintage Pepsi tachometer. It's like a, a 50-50 GMT style Pepsi in vintage coloring. Yeah, it's cool. Powder blue, ooh. And I'm with you, the dark, the PVD with the Pepsi bezel, that's my favorite of the bunch.
Andrew I could see myself wearing this everywhere but under a suit.
Everett Yeah, well, and I don't know dimensions, right? 42 millimeters is all I know. And it's got that sort of tonneau case.
Andrew But that's what you expect out of a chronograph. That's right. I'm good up to 42 for a chrono. That's right. Yeah. I'd prefer 38, but I'm good to 42.
Everett And so we don't know a lot else about it, but I think it's worth a looking at.
Andrew Yeah.
Everett A couple times. Right. The ST-1901 for 300 bucks.
Andrew Killer. You can really only beat that with Alpha.
Everett Yeah, that's right. That's right. And EMG is in there too.
Andrew It's yeah, right. I mean, a similar price point, but in the way of you can't beat it. That's right.
Everett And this is infinity times cooler than than an alpha watch.
Andrew In my humble opinion, I think it's not all that might be too low of a number.
Everett Infinity. Yeah. Maybe not even a number.
Andrew Yeah. All right. First up for me, we have the Casio AMW 860-9AV. And it's on Amazon for 85 money. And it is a reissue. of the famous AMW that we talk about all the time. The 320? Yeah, the 320.
Everett We talk about that and it... Maybe an evolution of the 320 as opposed to a reissue.
Andrew Yeah, it's sun maybe. Right. But I have to say, circling to something totally unrelated, I think the AMW 320 is the most seen watch in TV movies for me.
Everett Yeah.
Andrew I don't know if I've seen any other watch more frequently, not just in the same show, but across a whole variety of shows, uh, coming to head right away. I saw it in the wire. I saw it in true detective. I saw it in the office and I've seen it in a couple of movies and I always pause and take pictures and send it to you. Um, but I don't know of any other watch that I've seen more frequently. Yeah, no, I think you might be onto something. Or even a similar amount. I mean, it's also obviously in Kindergarten Cop.
Everett Kindergarten Cop, yeah. And that picture of Denzel holding his chin.
Andrew Yeah.
Everett I show that to people all the time.
Andrew It's in a shitload of movies and television. I wonder what that is. I wonder why. I mean, maybe it's an iconic watch of the era.
Everett I mean, I guess it kind of is. I don't know that it's really iconic. I don't know. Yeah, I don't know. It's a cool watch I did get.
Andrew Or maybe Prop Studios have dozens of them.
Everett Maybe that's what's happening. Yeah, maybe they got issued to Prop Studios or something. Who knows?
Andrew But... I do see it all the freaking time. 320's son, 860, is killer. Maybe grandson. Maybe grandson. 44.8 millimeters. So it's a biggin'. But appropriate for being a relation. 12.7 thick and 85 bucks. It's got everything you'd expect out of that AMW 320. It's got the gold dial. It's an anodigy. It's still nice and clunky. Now, the major difference is the case shape and the lug ends, which are integrated. Yeah, integrated lugs.
Everett I like that rubber strap though.
Andrew I don't know how that rubber strap's going to feel. I would expect that you're likely going to want or need to get a custom made strap for it. The way that it's integrated with very hard angled finishing on those lug ends is killer. It looks right. I mean, the grandson who is clearly 30, 40 years in the future, but still like a really classic looking vintage feeling watch to it. I dig this. This could be a watch purchase this year.
Everett I like the bezel. You know, I have the same problems with this that you have with the Timex Q. a sporty, super sporty watch and it's got 50 meters of water resistance. Yeah. Uh, that's a problem for me.
Andrew But at 85 bucks, I'm not, I'm not going to cry over, over losing it. 175 bucks. I'm going to, I'm going to be pretty pissed. Right.
Everett Right. Yeah. That's a good point. I like the negative, the, um, negative display on the digi section. That's cool. And everything about it's just really classic Casio. Yeah. I mean, you can see the, the AMW DNA in this, which is interesting for, you know, a brand like Casio doesn't really, uh, well, maybe I say they're, they're, they are not really beholden to that.
Andrew No, because they just run the same watch for a hundred years. Right. Right. Um, but they drop, I mean, this is, this is on their, on their new item list and it comes in a, in a pretty good variety of options. It comes on a bracelet and a couple of different color ways. But, um, this is the one that I went to the gold dial with the, with the black bezel. That just screams reissue to me. Right.
Everett It does scream that. Yeah, it does. Well, Neewatch. That's a different watch. It's a cool watch though. I dig it, man. I'm not seeing this thing on Amazon, but we'll find it. I'll find it for you guys and we'll put it in the show notes. Oh, Amazon.com. It's that one you mean?
Andrew Oh yeah. Who saw that coming? I do take issue with Casio's inability to break with how long their battery lasts blasted onto the face of your watch.
Everett 10 year battery. Well, you know, I think that there must be some sort of theology to it, right? I think that they know that this watch is going to sell in Walmarts and Kmarts. Is Kmart still around? You know, maybe, I don't know, but that kind of store, I guess was my plan. Big lots. You know, and so maybe there is something to that.
Andrew And I could also just be holding the Casio's image that every, that you, it has illumination and the, the expected battery life right there on the, on the watch face.
Everett 10 years is a long damn time. It is a long time. If you wear this watch every day, which I gather probably most of the people who buy this watch will wear it every day. There is no way, zero chance, I'm holding up a zero with my thumb and forefinger. Or an okay. Or an okay. There is zero chance that that strap is going to outlive the battery. Zero chance. If this is a daily driver, that strap is breaking in two years. Yeah. Right? Yeah, that's... And you can't put it on an 8-0. No. So this watch lasts as long as that strap lasts. Yeah. Realistically.
Andrew Yeah. Get an extra. I'd buy a custom strap for it. I mean, I'd spend about the price of the watch for a strap.
Everett A custom REM StrapCo watch? I'd want rubber.
Andrew Okay. So learn to do that. Okay.
Everett All right. Well, cool. I dig it. What you got up next? I just clicked on a Rue watch for 195 bucks on Amazon. So my next watch, that's not my next watch. That's my next watch. That's your next watch. My next watch. Now this isn't a, this isn't a watch that is, I think it's sort of under the radar. And I don't know if that's just my perception or if that's something else that's happened here. But Silver Watch Company, Silver Watch Company is a relatively new company. They sort of kicked off mid 2018 and started doing pre-orders. on a set of three Millsub Millsub homage watches. I think this is a very, very interesting watch. And in fact, I think it's the most compelling Millsub homage I've seen. And there are a number of them, right? Obviously there's the Jeanneau or Jeannault that costs quite a bit of money. I think that the cheapest ones, are 800 bucks if you do like a review online or whatever. There's the Steinhardt OVM which also is not cheap. These guys I think are coming in about $450 and I think that they were a little bit less than that if you got in on a pre-order. And they've got three, they've got three versions. They're all sort of I think $55.13. is the reference. All sort of 5513 type cases. One of them is a 5513 dial. They've got a Tudor blue, Tudor snowflake, and then this thing called the seraphin. I don't know enough about mil subs to be able to distinguish or whatever, but these are very clearly sort of one-to-one type homages, and I understand they're not. So I was looking at these quite a bit today. If you look at a mil sub the profile of a mil sub it's got this very sort of elegant curved case um with with not too much curve in the lug ends these have more of a slab sided case with more curve at the lug ends um so so so not certainly not one-to-one but a very faithful homage without aping directly aping so clearly trying to do the thing and doing it in a way that's sort of their own thing. Watch some reviews on these. And these have just sort of come out. And in fact, I think if you want one, there's like five of them on the website as of our recording this that you can get. And I don't think you can get the coolest of these, which is the Maxi. The Maxi comes with a ghosted ceramic, brushed ceramic bezel, and they're sold out. They're sold out. So I think you'd have to go to the internets, to the used market for those cause they are out of stock, but very, very neat. Uh, ghosted ceramic brushed bezel, obviously maxi case, um, just true mil sub style watch. They made these in conjunction with Manchester Watchworks, which I think, and I don't know what the relationship there is or who's doing what. I understand Manchester Watchwork is doing QC. I don't know if they were doing design work as well, but I like that. I like that because Manchester Watchworks is this company I know and like and trust, you know, as a consumer is what I mean, right? Versus Silver, I don't know what this is. Is this, you know, a mushroom clone or what is this? So I think that that relationship gives me some some comfort as a consumer if I was to buy these and I think I kind of want to buy one for 450 bucks versus the 900 to I think 1500 for a Jeanneau. What are you looking at for movement in these? So these have these have a Miyota it's not the 9015 I think it's the it'll say here 9039 gosh I'm not seeing it yeah 9039 which is right Uh, which is, uh, the 9015, but with a true no date, right? So it doesn't have a hidden day wheel. That's right. It's a true no date, 9015. So you're only going to have one click, um, which is important. I wouldn't care. I don't care. I'll use, I'll take a no date, 9015. That's fine. Um, but this is a true no date, 9015. Um, does that make it more efficient? I don't know. Maybe a little bit. I'm not sure. Hacking and handwriting doesn't matter. Right. So a cool movement. It's a 300 millimeter. 300 meter water resistance watch.
Andrew 300 millimeters is not much.
Everett Um, which is further than I can go. I think it's further than most people can go.
Andrew 200 is all I need. 100 is really all I need, but I like the two for safety. That's right.
Everett It's got a 10.45 millimeter case height. So it's 300 meters of water resistance in a, in 11 millimeter case. And I think that's before the crystal, uh, with this has a very cool domed sapphire crystal, um, But I love them. I love them. And it's in that sort of sub 500 realm of possibility. Yeah. For, for a purchase for me. Now, do I want to an homage watch? I don't know. I don't know. Cause this is an homage, right? There's no, there's no ifs, ands or buts about it, but if I do want one, I think I might get this one.
Andrew Yeah. I think this, I think this hits the potentially more than homage because of the, of, of what all you're getting out of that watch. It's, it's not a, not a rip off homage that you're, you're sacrificing on design, you're sacrificing on quality, you're sacrificing on movement just to get a watch that looks similar. You're getting a unique watch here and, and, and barring the design elements, you know, if you were to change out the dial and change out the bezel, you're still getting a really high quality watch. You pair in that, that homage feel to it and you're getting a pretty special watch.
Everett Right. And I don't know if they worked with Manchester Watchworks on the case back, but the case back looks like a Manchester Watchworks case back to me. I suspect the one area that I might find disappointing is this clasp. The clasp does not look very nice.
Andrew And I'm sure it's fine. It's hard to tell from the pictures because I can say that with the Emperor, if you took just a picture of that clasp, I don't know if you'd really be able to capture the the quality of that buckle and clasp.
Everett Perhaps the Emperor clasp, even in pictures, looks better than this clasp.
Andrew Maybe your pictures are just better.
Everett Perhaps. I think this is probably a shitty clasp, which whatever, there's going to be a sacrifice somewhere, right? Yeah, for that price point. They've got ceramic, they've got sapphire, they've got a killer looking bracelet. Killer movement. Great case back. So, you know, If they add a better clasp, does that make this a $500 watch? Maybe. And is that too much? You know, so it's, it's all about balances, but I think this thing is great, man. I dig it. Under the radar company, new company, something for you guys to look at. Worth a glimpse. They're going to be sold out probably by the time we, by, by the time we publish. I'm sorry about that. I couldn't do anything about that. You guys know, but you'll be able to find them and they've got more watches coming.
Andrew So I'm, This is going to be a watch brand that I keep my eye on to see what further iterations are. I've said it before. I need micro companies to be coming out with something other than a diver.
Everett So look at this. They've got a picture on their website of this Archetype One case back. It says then underneath. And if you click on it, it takes you to the Archetype One pages. This is on their e-store. But then they've got a now. paren coming soon picture which is fuzzed out but it looks an awful lot like a quartz movement with a display case back.
Andrew That is exactly what it looks like.
Everett What could that be? And who puts a display case back on a quartz movement? Bolivar. Well, yeah, that's true. That's a good point. So I have no clue what this is but they've got something coming. That'd be cool.
Andrew Because quartz movements are cool. I could go with exhibition cases and courts.
Everett It looks like an all sort of brass or maybe gold-plated movement. So yeah, maybe it's something interesting. Or they're just fucking with us.
Andrew It could just be a troll. That would be one of the best trolls of all time, like trolling some of the biggest nerds on the planet. Next up, and I have to say before I started on this next watch, it's interesting that for this, we chose all vintage watches or vintage inspired watches.
Everett I think it's just the thing. It's the thing right now.
Andrew It could be. I mean, that could be it. And my last watch is the Belova Computron. This is very vintage. 96C139 on the Belova website for 350 bucks. So you're probably looking at neighborhood of 250, 275 once it gets into into third party markets. And this is a new release, right? Yeah, brand new. In the last couple of weeks, brand new release. And it is this kind of bizarre designed, almost like an alarm clock on your wrist watch. So the case shape is an alarm clock. That's the best way I'd describe it. You've got a... With a front facing display. Yeah. An alarm clock with a front facing display, but with a bracelet on it. So you got this rectangular case shape, uh, coming in at, uh, 31 millimeters thick or 31 millimeters wide. Uh, so you're probably looking at just based on that, like probably 44, 45, uh, lug to lug, um, and a trapezoid shape. So when you're, when you're holding your wrist, if you hold your wrist parallel to your body, you're looking straight down on the face of this digital LCD display. And the, the, the one that I've got pulled up is the silver case. uh, with, with blue LCD display for the time and date. And I don't, I don't know all the functions that are going to come up in it, but it's, it is cool. And there's a crown for, for, I mean, obviously for, to, to work it, but it's not button pushers like you'd expect in a digital watch. You're getting a crown. Is it a crown? Does it pull out? It looks like it.
Everett Yeah.
Andrew And without putting my hands on it, I don't know, but it, it looks to me like it might be a push, a pusher.
Everett Maybe, regardless. Yeah, hard to say.
Andrew A super cool, super vintage, funky digital coming out of Bulova, who I love and have complained about their lack of cool innovations. And this is not a straight fashion wear innovation or new product that they're dropping. This is a watch nerd vintage throwback to a really cool age of watches and you you look at the at the originals of these and they're just they're just as cool they've got strange textures on the on the top of the case because it's not you'll just got to take a look at it this is a this is a bizarro i don't know if i'd pay 250 bucks for it watch but but i i also might yeah you know um you you know i think this sort of harkens back to the earliest days of
Everett Uh, LCD displays, you know, the, that Pulsar and, or LED, LED displays. Um, the, the original Pulsar watch and, uh, obviously Bolivo was doing their own thing, but it's so retro. This is not going to be for everybody. Oh no. And it's certainly not a daily driver.
Andrew It's for me and it's for, it would get regular wear on for me.
Everett Yeah. I mean, I might wear it occasionally, but I would love to wear it.
Andrew Yeah.
Everett I would love to wear it because people are going to look at it and be like, what the fuck is that? I want to talk to you about your watch. This is the only watch that you'd have in your collection that people would be like, let's talk about your watch.
Andrew That not even watch people, anyone who saw it, who took notice of it would want to talk to you about this watch because it's just, it's strange.
Everett Yeah. You know, I think my favorite part about this is that the polish on it looks so good. Um, the, the, the details look like they're just really well done. You know, there's already a number of reviews on this thing up and, and it looks to me like the finishing is spot on. The color of the led is great.
Andrew Which is really normal for Boliva. Right. Right. That's, that's, I mean, that's something they excel in.
Everett Right. At 350 bucks though, I don't know where the value is. Hopefully the value is in the finishing because. It's a lot of money.
Andrew It's on the Belova website. Most of Belova's watches you find for 40% less on a third party retailer. Can you find this one for less? I didn't look today. I was a little bit strapped for time.
Everett Strapped for time. Is that the name of a podcast? I think it might be. Could be ours. What was the other one we were talking about? I think it already exists.
Andrew I don't remember. Cummins in three colors, silver, black and gold.
Everett And it looks to me like the black comes on rubber, which is intriguing to me.
Andrew That would be, it would, it would have a very, uh, very counter, uh, Apple watch, very counter Apple watch feel to it.
Everett Yeah.
Andrew Yeah. Very cool.
Everett And if you see, you know, the pic, the top down pictures on these are misleading because it looks like that led is sort of flat on a plane with the top and it's not, not at all.
Andrew You gotta, you gotta look at the profile of this because it's, It's a trapezoid. It is, it is just a bizarre shape. Uh, and I think we talked last week about watches that we looked at and we really wanted. And then in the future, we're glad that we didn't get, I don't think this would be one of them. I think that I will, until I have one of these, I will continue to want it. Well, you should get one.
Everett You should get one when the prices come down.
Andrew Yeah. When they, when they come down that this might be. This might be a this year watch.
Everett Have you seen them? Are they less expensive anywhere?
Andrew I know they're they're new enough that I didn't, I, I, when I searched them, I didn't find any on Amazon right off the bat. Okay.
Everett Okay. Well, very cool. I dig it. The, the Roberts for just coming in for just under 300. So I think you can pick up a vintage one of these for under, under 200. So for less than this one. So maybe that's cool too. So might be cool. All right. Well, any other watches do you want to talk about for our under the radar watch episode?
Andrew I don't think so. I am still intrigued by the all vintage inspired watches though.
Everett We must have just been in a mood, man. Yeah.
Andrew We're just in a mood. Or maybe we're just following suit, just following in line with the industry right now.
Everett Sheep, dude. We're total fucking sheep. I'm sorry, you guys. We're sheep. I'm a sheep.
Andrew I'm still picking out quarts.
Everett Three quarts today. Three quarts for you. Yeah, that's right. That's right. And a digital. And a digital. Yeah, quarts digital. We're gonna have to keep our eye on that. Yeah. Well, how about other things? You got any other stuff you want to talk about? I do.
Andrew And it's something that's troubling to me. Oh, no. You and I routinely choose places to go drink at that have shuffleboard tables. Yeah, no, I think that's one of our rules. Uh, it's it's among our rules and we also one that we break very often we break it but it's We also have a hierarchy of places to go to play shuffleboard based on the quality of their shuffleboard table. That's true and I went to a bar yes, two days ago, uh that had a Above adequate shuffleboard table some of the of the uh resin on the corners is broken off. So when you sunk one in just in the corner, it would fall off, which is, you know, you learn every table, right? It's just, it's just like any other bar game. You learn your, you learn your playing grounds, right? Right. Um, the rules are the same for everybody. Yeah, exactly. Uh, but what it, what it prompted me to do was to, was to look and see if there was any shuffleboard leagues in town and there are not. And that's what's troubling to me. I feel like there is every bar has a billiard club. Or there's billiard bars where they've got five pool tables and they have leagues that meet and competitions and tournaments. And guys in gloves. Oh, guys in gloves and they bring three pool cues and they're big assholes. Why aren't there shuffleboard leagues in Eugene? And I think what that is, is because we have so much extra time on our hands, we should start trying to build some momentum to get a shuffleboard league. I don't like where you're going with this.
Everett I find this irresistible and completely maddening the idea.
Andrew We need more shuffleboard in our lives, because for those of you who haven't played shuffleboard or who aren't familiar with the game, imagine curling on like one hundredth the scale with no sweepers. You throw very small and less ice, none ice, more salt or sand. It's like a combination. Anyway, it's a table where you slide a Uh, metal stone with a colored plastic cap down a bowling alley esque table. And you attempt to score points based on how close you get to the edge. And there are usually you play with teams of two. So you have an opponent very similar to Cornhole who is trying to, uh, get there. Stones closer and score more points or knock your stones off. And it is a hell of a bar game. And there's salt involved. Yeah. And always beer. And beer. Because you don't find shuffleboard where there isn't beer. But don't put the salt in your beer. Or your beer on the table. There's a lot of rules. Don't put your beer on the table. But it's just such a fun game. It's my favorite. And even when you're not good at it, you have fun. Very much like cornhole. And I wish there was... Because there's even cornhole leagues. I mean, come on. Why aren't there shuffleboard leagues? It's because it's outside. Yeah. Right. So you can play for exactly 60 days a year in here.
Everett Yeah. Well, you know, I think the other thing is there's not very many places that have, I mean, two tables is not enough. Is not enough. You'd need a place with like five or six tables. And they're expensive. And they're expensive. I've priced them. I mean, they're not any more money than a pool table, but I think it's a lower appeal.
Andrew There shouldn't be a lower appeal. And that's what's troubling to me. All y'all need to go out, find a bar in your area that has shuffleboard, gather up a friend, go drink beer with them once a week. Hell, put your phone up on the table and listen to us while you play shuffleboard.
Everett You only need two. Also, worst shuffleboard table in Lane County. Worst? The worst shuffleboard table in Lane County. That's where we live, is Lane County. It is at this little place in Springfield, Oregon. But they have $1.50 burgers called the Stumpy Burger.
Andrew And they're so good. If that was the only burger I could ever have for the rest of my life, I wouldn't be disappointed. That's it. That's it. That's the one for me. That is the one. They're toasted. It's two smash patties, two slices of cheese, some grilled onions.
Everett I'm going to put a ring on it. Fuck. It's the answer for me. So any time, any time, any single one of you people who listens to the show, unless you're really fucking weird, any single person who listens to the show, if you're anywhere in the area, call me. I will buy you two beers. Five stumpy burgers and play shuffleboard with you and Andrew will come too. Yeah That's the truth. It's fantastic. It's the worst shuffleboard table.
Andrew It is so but but the Quality of a shuffleboard table only increases the fun of the game Because I swear every time we've played the the bumps have migrated they move around like you're like, okay I got a feel for this table. Nope, and then suddenly you don't the best shuffleboard in Lane County Uh, no, it's not even in Linn County. It's just, it's in, uh, Linn County is at, uh, Julie's Halsey Tavern. Up in Corvallis? Uh, just south of Corvallis. Okay. So it's between Eugene and Corvallis. She has a standard size, a 16 foot shuffleboard table, and it is perfect. And she cleans up. She is unbelievably good at it.
Everett She's good at it.
Andrew Oh, she knows her table. Well, because, you know, there might be days where she has two customers and she plays shuffleboard all day. Uh, it is such a good table. And if for any reason you guys are drinking in rural Oregon, stop at Julie's.
Everett Dude, call us, man. We'll, middle of the day, I will blow off whatever I'm doing and I'll come meet you and play shuffleboard with you. Best, best bet is we get Snoppy's burgers too. Yeah. I'll blow off my diet.
Andrew I'll call off work. Tuesdays are the best because we go to Highlands who have a pretty good table and they have $2 soft tacos and $3 pints. Good call. Good call. Taco Tuesday, bro.
Everett Okay. So I watched a movie today. Only one? Just one. Wow. Just one. I watched a movie today. This is a new-ish movie. It's been sort of making the rounds, sort of the critic rounds for a while. But this is a movie on Netflix called The Perfection. It's got Alison Williams. It's got Logan Browning from, oh, what's the name of that Netflix show?
Andrew Netflix with Logan Browning?
Everett No. But Alison Williams from Get Out. It's a movie about a cellist and another cellist. And if you watch the trailer, you're sort of, those are folks who play cello, get an idea. It's sort of horror, um, thriller, a little bit of suspense, but I'll tell ya, this movie builds, it builds and it changes. And I loved it. I loved it. It's probably my favorite movie that I've seen in the last six months. It was super duper good. So if you like horror, and it's not, it's not over the top horror. Is it get out horror or like bird box horror? It is get out horror. Okay. It is get out. And in fact, the movie feels at many points, very similar to get out. Now it's got Alison Williams in it. So I attribute some of that to that, but it's got a very similar feel, uh, to get out. It's funny. It is fun to watch. It can be, it's gruesome at times, but. It is a total rollercoaster in terms of plot, the plot shifts, the genre shifts, the conflict shifts multiple times throughout the movie and not to give anything away. And it's well executed. It's very well executed and really good. And the ending is satisfying. I feel like oftentimes with horror movies, the ending is just sort of just wrapped it up. That's right. We ran out of time. We ran out of budget. Wrap it up. The ending is super satisfying. Hashtag Game of Thrones. It was super duper good. I loved it. And it was kind of came out of nowhere. I mean, I think that people who talk about movies have been talking about this maybe from what I can tell. But we don't really talk about movies. I mean, except when we do it here. Yeah. So for me, it was a surprise. I thought, oh, what's this? And you've probably already seen it on Netflix. The tile is probably, yeah. That's right. It's in the trending now for sure. Totally worth it. I loved it. I loved it. I think this will probably be, for me, my favorite movie in 2019. I can't imagine anything being better. Did you watch Endgame? I like this way better than Endgame. Not even close.
Andrew How do you think you're going to feel about Us? Or This Is Us? Yeah, maybe. No, This Is Us?
Everett Us. Us? This Is Us is different. Yeah, it is. No, I think I might like that too. You know, anyway, I throw around a big hyperbole from time to time. But with that said, this is for sure going to be in my top five movies of the year. It's fantastic and it's going to be underrated. It's going to fly under the radar because people aren't going to talk about it because it's a Netflix release. Do not consider that any sort of detriment to this movie. It's fantastic. I'll watch it. I'm more excited about it than I've been excited about it. I might watch it tomorrow night. But you might not want to watch it with Sam. Definitely not with Mark. Well, she's going to be working tomorrow. Okay. City council stuff. Yeah. That's it, man. That's all I got.
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