Homestead (Premium E277)
Added 2025-02-11 07:24:37 +0000 UTCIt’s a movie, it’s a show, it’s an online marketplace. After a nuke is detonated in downtown Los Angeles, a group of survivalists must work together in “Homestead,” the latest Movie / Online Shop from the patriots who brought you ‘Sound of Freedom.’ Everything in the movie is for sale, and so are all four hosts' souls after watching it. Julian has somehow emerged unscathed, fully accepting that what used to be called “Motion Pictures” are now motion online catalogues. Travis takes issue with some of the survival strategies depicted in the film.
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I didn't think this would be the first American spending I dropped due to trade breakdowns and annexation threats, but Julian's "arrest our Canadian guest" joke did it, and his egotistical nonsense that followed didn't give me a chance to reconsider. That shit is absolutely not funny when people with valid visas are being disappeared or detained *on departure* and most of the citizenry, including you Julian, are doing fuck all. It's really fucking hilarious having to consider writing off mid five figures because I might have an unlucky day with CBP, and unlike thousands I *have* a choice. Don't bother @ing me; I won't be able to see this thread.
Worst, Most Lamentable Dust Man
2025-03-16 19:25:27 +0000 UTCI love Julian
mayfly
2025-03-06 05:38:23 +0000 UTCYou can really tell that Homestead was filmed in Utah for the most part. Between the pharmacy where the lady got her meds actually being the NPS store in Sugarhouse (it's actually a returned shipping store, not a general store or pharmacy, and the sugarhouse location is actually infamous for once getting a truck load of sex shop returns that they didn't know what to do with, resulting in random fetishwear on the shelves next to old cups and whatnot) to the radio guy talking about Goldbacks (the finest fake currency, which I bought in a vending machine in a gas station in Draper once. I asked the cashier if they accepted goldbacks as money and the lady laughed and said "of course not! But the ace hardware down the road does") to the fact that their doomsday homestead appears to be a cheesecake factory. Angel studios is truly a hometown hero, if you stretch the definition of "hero" enough.
Brianna Cluck
2025-03-04 23:57:10 +0000 UTCAnd btw after seeing your username I had to go and watch that captioned seal video, omg I forgot how fucking funny it is 🤣
Bald Weasels Scrotal Manscaping
2025-02-21 02:35:58 +0000 UTCMen are manning! Women are lamenting! "Woe, how I wish I'd listened to my husband instead of yelling at him for buying 800 crates of freeze dried bacon!" I mean it's an apocalypse, how coherent can it really be. The point is, these men were right and their wives were wrong.
Bald Weasels Scrotal Manscaping
2025-02-21 02:34:46 +0000 UTCProduction Atrocities made my day.
Toni Scott
2025-02-19 23:13:44 +0000 UTCJake's audible sadness at the price of awesome merch is all of us.
Brian Sheppard
2025-02-19 05:59:30 +0000 UTCJake, if by nurse you mean chiropractor, Julian could be your Danny Aiello trying to ease you into your death to go up the ladder into heaven. On a totally random note, y'all should do a Jacob's Ladder movie night. Seriously this movie is amazing, poignant, horrifying and goes full MK Ultra.
Brian Sheppard
2025-02-19 05:01:25 +0000 UTCIf this is David Lynch's dream, than it is the dream of Otis and Buella from Part 1 of The Return.
Brian Sheppard
2025-02-19 04:42:42 +0000 UTCNO kidding!
Jayelle
2025-02-19 01:54:01 +0000 UTCOh My God, they really are hawking all of the Merch in the movie!!! WHO DOES THAT???
Jayelle
2025-02-19 01:52:25 +0000 UTCAre they rescues from a sanctuary or does he eat bunnies? 🐇
hhhhhm
2025-02-17 20:20:00 +0000 UTCHaha!
hhhhhm
2025-02-17 20:18:57 +0000 UTCActually this is the first reason I had to stop watching bbc David Attenborough nature documentaries, smaltzy "feel this now!" music over everything. I even bought a DVD of one of them, hoping there'd be an option to turn off the music at the menu (like in video games 😭). Second reason was finding out he's a racist eugenicist arsehole and he can fuck off!
hhhhhm
2025-02-17 20:16:50 +0000 UTCMumblecoy too
hhhhhm
2025-02-17 20:12:33 +0000 UTCeven the 50 year old guys hate this movie and complain about the lack of explosions and “dei” hires
Beth Schroeder
2025-02-17 19:54:23 +0000 UTCTravis eats rabbits?
hhhhhm
2025-02-17 19:25:12 +0000 UTCSelf cancelled, more like. He’s amazing in Band of Brothers too.
Donald W Pratt
2025-02-16 01:52:07 +0000 UTCHe played really nasty bad guys in Justified and Terriers. But I think that's before he was "cancelled".
Ben Wooller
2025-02-16 01:50:49 +0000 UTC😞
Vanessa Lucio
2025-02-15 03:35:25 +0000 UTCI wanna yell at Julien and say he is wrong, but I can’t.
Round the world
2025-02-14 16:09:46 +0000 UTCThe preppers (and the authors) should've read Macchiavelli's The Prince: it has a section on the advantages and disadvantages of using mercenaries which portrays exactly such a scenario. I thought the read, along with Sun Tsu's The Art of War, was a staple for preppers
Olmo
2025-02-14 11:08:03 +0000 UTCHe could have essential tremor syndrome. I have it and I know everyone assumes I'm a drunk because my hands fucking suck
Ruth Kiszka
2025-02-13 20:13:15 +0000 UTCThis episode contains a good drinking game, where you take a shot every time the boys go 'and by the way, that's for sale on their website'. You may want to do it during the actual apocalypse though because you aren't surviving it.
Interested Third Party
2025-02-13 18:26:05 +0000 UTCEvery woman sounds heavily sedated and every guy sounds emotionally dead, which feels like it might uncomfortably reflect a certain reality.
Interested Third Party
2025-02-13 18:14:41 +0000 UTCThis sounds like exactly the stereotype that survivalists use to make fun of preppers. No skills, no actual knowledge or abilities that would help them in a post-apocalyptic situation, no adaptability or mobility, just a bunch of dumb supplies and ammo that they think will somehow be an advantage instead of a massive liability if anything actually hits the fan.
Doctor Unk
2025-02-13 15:58:32 +0000 UTCAm I the only one who clocked Jake referring to Brad Pitt as Brad Abrahams not once but twice?
Andy Greenhow
2025-02-13 14:34:30 +0000 UTCI like to think they picked two Filipino guys because they’re in MILF
Joe Wakefield
2025-02-13 12:42:07 +0000 UTCThis movie sounds like a nonviolent side quest in Far Cry 5
Micah Mosley
2025-02-13 12:24:16 +0000 UTCUmm... Wtf does she say at 1:02:30-33? Because it sounds pretty forward for prayer!
Ian Davies
2025-02-13 12:12:16 +0000 UTCLand before time ass name
Natalie Dempsey
2025-02-13 06:04:28 +0000 UTCI want a club sandwich
SM21
2025-02-13 04:11:49 +0000 UTCIt's the end of civilization and the power's totally off on the entire East Coast but, yeah, tell me more about investing my money in Bitcoin, your imaginary cyber-play money I can only access through the Internet 🤨
Gary McCammon
2025-02-13 02:32:07 +0000 UTCEarnest comment! Apologies in advance. I'm a church-going person, but I belong to a progressive, mainline protestant church. It's very far removed from the...whatever the fuck selective hodgepodge of biblical literalist notions and right wing paranoid fantasies that informed this "movie." I have no direct experience of nondenominational evangelical spaces, but I know a lot of people who have left them and are varying degrees of angry about and traumatized by their experiences, while at the same time grieving for losing the community they had to separate from for their own wellbeing. If you are one such person, I'm genuinely sorry and I'm sad that you had to be subjected to this world. I'm sad that you may still have loved ones in it that you have lost connection with. I'm not going to say a stilted disingenuous prayer for you, but I am sorry. More than anything, this whole Christian nationalist/Christian supremacist scene--how warped it is and how much fear and hate it puts out into the world while imagining that it is doing God's work--it all makes me deeply sad.
d'egg
2025-02-13 01:34:59 +0000 UTCBall doers gate 3
tapwaterskeptic
2025-02-13 00:14:59 +0000 UTCThis movie's audio clips show how horrible the acting is. There is no emotion
Danni Gomez
2025-02-12 21:14:31 +0000 UTCthat's dark and I'm sorry.
d'egg
2025-02-12 20:10:31 +0000 UTCAs an Ex-homeschooler (evangelical), this episode is a lot. I hate that I instantly knew who the Smallbones are
Steph White
2025-02-12 19:14:29 +0000 UTCPlugging 2 other podcasts on here because why not: The Bob Cesca Show The Professional Left Podcast
Patrick Hill
2025-02-12 18:23:18 +0000 UTCMovie sounds like a shittier adaptation of Niven and Pournelle's "Lucifer's Hammer". Makes sense that they wouldn't directly adapt it though - all the operators in that book became cannibals.
Matthew Loch
2025-02-12 17:17:29 +0000 UTCIt's wild how much these are the villains of a regular apocalypse movie
Sebastian Pickett
2025-02-12 16:37:39 +0000 UTCMaybe Travis's Travisty? It's just all the bits where he couldn't get a word in edgeways when the others talk over him.
Matt
2025-02-12 14:38:37 +0000 UTCNeal McDonough is such a good actor. I wish his mind wasn’t completely poisoned by his white male Christian aggrievement.
Donald W Pratt
2025-02-12 13:58:09 +0000 UTCThankfully, my God is bigger than the math... Unlike your God.,
Last Years Man
2025-02-12 09:31:21 +0000 UTCFYI for Travis, there’s a great movie about a city guy trying to make a go of raising rabbits in the country. It’s called Jean de Florette (1986).
Emvee
2025-02-12 04:58:42 +0000 UTCIn the sequel the little daughter will almost be killed for devil worship until they explain “they’re visions from God stupid!”
Cory Waring
2025-02-12 04:42:58 +0000 UTCFirst 20 minutes of this episode were insufferable.
lauren
2025-02-12 04:28:35 +0000 UTCTravis's Rabbits; new Jake's Takes spin off?
Grease Witherspoon
2025-02-12 04:23:20 +0000 UTCi don’t know anyone who grew up in a church who is this BAD at praying on the fly. embarrassing for her
Shivvy
2025-02-12 03:23:16 +0000 UTClol
Shivvy
2025-02-12 03:21:35 +0000 UTCIM PRETTY SURE THE CA NATL GUARD CAN TAKE UTAH WHENEVER THEY WANT is a normal thought this episode forced me to have
Shivvy
2025-02-12 03:01:34 +0000 UTCDo they ever mention that the little girl is probably screwed if she can’t get anti-rejection meds for her transplanted heart? I feel like this is a thing that a lot of these libertarian blowhards miss. Like maybe YOU are lucky enough not to have a chronic health condition, but so many of the people you love are totally fucked in your little apocalyptic fantasy.
Jessie Cherbak
2025-02-12 02:49:26 +0000 UTCResistance is futile.
Snickerdoodle
2025-02-12 02:42:54 +0000 UTCJulian is the Borg apparently. I support it
Brendan Luster
2025-02-12 02:32:13 +0000 UTCThis just sounds like the premise of a MrBeast video to me
d'egg
2025-02-12 02:22:47 +0000 UTCChristians are fucking farm animals. It’s amazing that they ever wrote a book at all
Chapo has always branded nu metal as right wing
2025-02-12 02:17:47 +0000 UTCI don't even understand what the nature of this supposed apocalypse is...there was a single nuke off the west coast, the power grid is down on the east coast, it's state against state, antifa/blm (presumably) is laying waste to (mostly non-white coded) metropolitan areas...what the fuck even is meant to be happening
d'egg
2025-02-12 02:08:49 +0000 UTCIt’s great that the idiots that made this film landed on “two Filipinos in a dinghy with a homemade nuke” as the catalyst for the nation collapsing.
Paul F. Holzfäller
2025-02-12 02:08:34 +0000 UTCwhat if your Julian was a Jake
Shivvy
2025-02-12 02:04:11 +0000 UTCReally strong opening lads, true chaotic joy
Shivvy
2025-02-12 02:03:54 +0000 UTCBrad Abrahams
Shivvy
2025-02-12 01:56:22 +0000 UTCHI BRAD
Shivvy
2025-02-12 01:55:54 +0000 UTCI can’t believe they’re still making prepper apocalypse movies in this way. There was recently a worldwide pandemic event that required isolation and lockdown, and these guys didn’t arm up and eat their powder buckets on the homestead. Instead they gathered to riot on state capitol lawns about not being allowed to eat at Applebee’s and buy crap at Target. Make that movie, about how Jesus apparently wants you to keep shopping and consuming till your last breath during the nuclear zombie armageddon. Also, Jake, that part about the gov’t official trying to shut them down on a technicality sounded like it was lifted from the EPA guy bit in Ghostbusters.
Emvee
2025-02-12 01:49:41 +0000 UTCcosign
d'egg
2025-02-12 01:45:56 +0000 UTCI have never, ever, prayed in my life. Not ever once! But I am pretty sure I could do a better job at it than the homeschooled Christian Trad girl in this movie.
Justine Riekena
2025-02-12 01:23:50 +0000 UTCugghg I hate this shit so much, it sucks so fucking much. there's no theology here, it's completely incoherent. this isn't a movie, just a garbage pile of signifiers.
d'egg
2025-02-12 01:18:02 +0000 UTCMaybe if he was brain dead and his family decided to pull the plug because he was a donor? Idk why I'm giving this movie any credit?
Grease Witherspoon
2025-02-11 23:53:22 +0000 UTCWould be cool if it turned into am exorcism movie half way in
Grease Witherspoon
2025-02-11 23:51:17 +0000 UTC^^ It's the only way to live.
Andrew Bryson
2025-02-11 23:05:31 +0000 UTCI'm too PNW brained to catch that, I was like "yeah, the forest fires have been getting worse"
Grease Witherspoon
2025-02-11 22:59:41 +0000 UTC9 minutes. I like seeing how long it takes for Travis to first speak in episodes.
Joelio
2025-02-11 22:18:55 +0000 UTCI'm at 27 minutes and this shit literally sounds like a fake commercial from 30rock
Mae
2025-02-11 21:45:19 +0000 UTCIn my head after he says 'These lips are only for one woman' he makes the pussy eating motion.
12345
2025-02-11 21:19:23 +0000 UTCMumblecore Christ
Louise Duke
2025-02-11 20:50:24 +0000 UTCThis is the most insane movie ever. The heroes are sociopaths
Ruth Kiszka
2025-02-11 20:47:57 +0000 UTC"Seattle's kinda always been on fire." Sweet Jeebus these people are so mad at Seattle for continueing to exist after the CHAZ/CHOP thing. Aside from the housing costs it is still the nicest big city I've ever been to.
Ben Schwabe
2025-02-11 20:42:39 +0000 UTCSo glad Julian called out the Baldur pronunciation by Jake here, he can’t keep getting away with it
Nathan Maidlow
2025-02-11 20:05:14 +0000 UTCYou can't beat their endless soup for lunch. In my heavyweight days I could drink the soup in 1 go. Good times
Ruth Kiszka
2025-02-11 19:55:21 +0000 UTC“I’ll send you the coordinates.” Why not just an address? 😂
Aislinn Hargadon
2025-02-11 19:46:18 +0000 UTCWait that girl got a heart transplant? Does she even have access to her anti-rejection drugs?? Did they imply that they had to kill a random dude to harvest his organs??? Why is THIS what I’m hung up on????
Sei B
2025-02-11 19:36:15 +0000 UTCAnd even if they had a stock-pile, it's fairly common for transplanted organs to start to failed again after a couple of years and she's what? 17? Though I think there's a type of mega-Christian guy who likes the idea of marrying young to a young beautiful woman who gives him a few kids and then tragically dies young (before she's old and gross and boring) and then the guy is, heroically and mournfully, BACK ON THE MARKET, BABEY!
Ronin Fredricson
2025-02-11 19:17:40 +0000 UTCYeah, doesn't she need anti-rejection drugs?
Melissa Humbert
2025-02-11 19:03:01 +0000 UTCits so strange to make a prepping movie after a global pandemic kinda showing that during these scenarios this stuff just.....doesnt happen? like covid killed in california about as much as if a nuke did get detonated there and its like....idk how do you witness the apocalypse and then decide like, to go back to planning for one in the way you did before you saw covid happen???? like no change in planning or anything like that
Lain of the Wired
2025-02-11 18:03:33 +0000 UTCReally needed a 100% pure Jake episode. So, so, good.
N88DOGGG
2025-02-11 17:47:43 +0000 UTCSame
Patrick Hill
2025-02-11 17:32:32 +0000 UTCI want a QAA/GAM crossover! Better yet, a live show!
Snickerdoodle
2025-02-11 17:22:25 +0000 UTCAngel studios being Q hallmark channel absolutely kilt me. Thank you jake.
Fuzzert
2025-02-11 17:05:21 +0000 UTC23:06 "Ball Doer's Gate Three"
YungCereza
2025-02-11 16:54:41 +0000 UTCBrad Abrahams
Grease Witherspoon
2025-02-11 16:45:25 +0000 UTCI used to just say "if you're real, smite me bitch" and nothing happened so.
Bald Weasels Scrotal Manscaping
2025-02-11 16:42:22 +0000 UTC**string section soars; melancholy trumpet fanfare**
Bald Weasels Scrotal Manscaping
2025-02-11 16:41:13 +0000 UTCHELLO?? IS THE ADVERTISED JULIAN STILL AVAILABLE PLEASE??? Delivery only thanks I can't pick up and I live in the middle of nowhere and can only pay you $5 and a set of lawn chairs but the Julian is for my son's cousin's puppy's birthday and everyone in my family has cancer especially the puppy.
Bald Weasels Scrotal Manscaping
2025-02-11 16:38:40 +0000 UTCThere's something uniquely irritating about the trite twee saccharin orchestral soundtrack in shitty US movies when characters are supposed to be talking meaningful twatwaffle to each other that other countries just don't have, even at their worst. It's so basic, cynical and overall lazy. Good job! Number one! ---+--- On the other hand, am in the belief Alex garland's civil war will eventually find a time to be vindicated, and the boys just got too sidetracked trying to pin down his political stance when he was, to my interpretation, clearly trying to avoid publicising it at all by giving a placeholder centrist platitude instead. Aesthetically the platitude looked poor but it did the job of avoiding a rabid politically charged press always looking for their next scapegoat. Imo, of course. (Should clarify I don't mean it's overall enjoyment factor, but how other ppl look at it - cos have already seen some change in sentiments voiced towards the film here and there in the time since)
Overzealous Euthanasiast
2025-02-11 16:17:46 +0000 UTCI hate to say it but, as a person raised in a very Christian family, that’s what praying sounds like most of the time. It’s awkward and fumbling and people don’t know what to say. You just stand there quietly waiting to have some turkey.
JG
2025-02-11 16:07:05 +0000 UTCCan't wait to hear about the One movie my parents tried to get us to watch as a family In Theaters. Tried.
Jay V
2025-02-11 16:07:05 +0000 UTCThey're like "We're all well and fine here in our fortress. All ready to ride out the apocalypse" meanwhile the girl has had a HEART TRANSPLANT???
Ronin Fredricson
2025-02-11 15:55:55 +0000 UTCA genre term have grown fond of for these "daddy was always right oh and talented and connected" films since hearing is 'Dadsploitation' heh! 👌"Foreign movies are better than American movies" - Yes, Julian, YES! Where's the lie?? Though poor Jake shouldn't have been the recipient of such an overdue take, we need him happy, remember? Should've swung it in Travis's direction instead, his stone cold stoic ass can tank it lol 😉 (Wording was overly broad have realised. Still like US movies btw, many greats made and many more yet to see. But the spectrum extends further, rewarding those willing to experiment beyond the zone)
Overzealous Euthanasiast
2025-02-11 15:39:07 +0000 UTCI feel like Jake’s Trump impersonation is starting to take him over like the Venom symbiote
Andrew Lenahan
2025-02-11 15:34:27 +0000 UTCCan I... um... uh... can I... you know.... well... um... can I pray for you and shit?
Pål Christian Andersen
2025-02-11 15:21:32 +0000 UTCThat really makes it sound like the writer went to a private school but wants to portray homeschooling as a good-enough alternative for teh poors, despite not knowing anything about it aside from "well, whatever it is, it has to be better than the evil public schools..."
Nona
2025-02-11 15:11:57 +0000 UTCSo it’s like the ‘Parables’ books but they’re incredibly fing stupid and their god is the nasty one.
Laura Walsh
2025-02-11 14:58:15 +0000 UTCI kinda like Olive Garden. It’s not really good but it’s like the fast food of Italian food.
Dan sulin
2025-02-11 14:46:14 +0000 UTCDepending on your state your child can attend any public school activities even if homeschooled. So the girl could go to a prom full of kids she doesn’t know, which is weird. Most homeschoolers join co-ops that organize activities like a home school prom as well. The whole idea that this girl is worried about a boy not asking her to prom is really not a good look for home schooling in general. Most people selling home school as an alternative to public school try to stress that the kids still participate in many activities with their home school peers. This just paints it as isolating which is exactly what homeschoolers don’t want to say
Dan sulin
2025-02-11 14:41:26 +0000 UTCYeah…. Julian, can I, like, pray for you?
S G
2025-02-11 14:37:52 +0000 UTCNow I am imagining what it would be like to spend the rest of my post apocalyptic life in a giant Olive Garden… Just endless shitty breadsticks.
S G
2025-02-11 13:46:04 +0000 UTCSo the director told him that he was perfect for the role because he could bring out Satan’s lost humanity? According to Christian mythology Lucifer was never human, but a fallen angel. There is no humanity to the devil. There never was. These people really don’t know shit about their religion.
TravisPewPewPew
2025-02-11 12:49:06 +0000 UTCI wanted to hear about Travis's rabbits
Matt
2025-02-11 12:10:01 +0000 UTCIt turns out that this movie *is* a trailer (or rather pilot) for a TV show.
batlock666
2025-02-11 12:02:34 +0000 UTCTotally with Jake, I turn off all notifications too - so it's an active choice I make to engage
sarah clark
2025-02-11 11:49:41 +0000 UTCThree posts in 5 days!!! Is it my birthday?
LaLaLaLuci
2025-02-11 11:43:13 +0000 UTC...I am Google Maps....🤣🤣🤣
deadkitty
2025-02-11 09:36:21 +0000 UTCWe should put you guys in charge of DOGE.
Ruth Kiszka
2025-02-11 09:26:00 +0000 UTCreal bummed they chose the name “Jeff Eriksson” lol
Jefferson Erikson
2025-02-11 08:41:08 +0000 UTCThis film sounds like season 5 of Fargo but from Roy Tillman's point of view 😢
Grace Egan
2025-02-11 08:21:00 +0000 UTCoh you know it's gonna be a banger ep when it sounds like Jake and Julian want to have a physical fight two minutes in
Emma Maguire
2025-02-11 08:18:38 +0000 UTCI turned off all my notifications too! My ADHD is soooo much easier to manage, if I remember where I left my phone last…
S Alexandra
2025-02-11 08:07:46 +0000 UTCHow much for the girl? /s
batlock666
2025-02-11 07:31:34 +0000 UTCFeel better Julian 😭
Matt S
2025-02-11 07:28:11 +0000 UTC
