Kyle Mooney
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159 appearances
4 recordings
4 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 2 Jun
Kyle Mooney’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Hi, Mom and Dad. I don't know that I was particularly super nervous or frightened as to what could happen when midnight arrived.
But my mom prepped, and she got some goodies just in case, I guess, the world was destroyed in some way or another. I guess, I mean, in the moment, it just sort of came and went. I don't know what thought I gave to it until I just started minorly obsessing over it. It would just hit me every once in a while, the story we were always interested in telling
was to a degree a riff on teen culture of the era. Specifically, like, all of these movies were coming out that were geared towards us. It was She's All That. Did he ask you to the prom? Can't Hardly Wait, American Pie, 10 Things I Hate About You. Number one, no dating till you graduate. Number two, no dating till you graduate.
To a degree, I don't know that I thought in terms of, like, this is speaking to teenage-dom as to, like... This is sort of like the culture that was kind of being blasted to me, and I wanted to return to that.
At midnight, the machines go crazy and start killing people, essentially. Oh, shit. A Tamagotchi just drilled through a chick's head. Come on, we gotta go. It's weird. I don't feel like I've ever made anything that has maybe been so violent, but I was really excited by just taking left turns and doing something that elicits reaction.
I really hope that if people see it, there are some laughs, there are some tears, and there are some moments of like, oh my shit, that's fucking crazy. Did I say, oh my shit? Oh my shit. That's actually not, I kind of, I don't hate that.
I mean, I think that fear is constantly present. You know, it's like HAL 9000 or something like that.
I feel like with the introduction of electronics and robotics, there's always been that thought that when is the point that these things are going to turn on us? And even in the course of... Working on this movie, we started writing it in 2019, and now it's 2024 that it's coming out.
We've seen an evolution of AI, and it's seemingly become more threatening and more real than even it was when we first started talking about this.
We made playlists for them. We sent them lists of movies to watch. And, you know, any phrase or reference they didn't know, obviously we'd fill them in. It was really on them to decide how much they wanted to invest in learning about...
The culture and the time, like, I think the characters, like, even though they are these archetypes of the period and, like, some of them are very distinctly late 90s, early 2000s, there is a universal quality to them. And I think that, like, even our young actors, I think, could relate, like, I know a comp to this and I know the vulnerability of being this age. I say let's go to the party.
I think so. I mean, I can't say that I'm, like, the king of the zeitgeist by any means. You know what I mean? I'm not, like... Unfortunately, I'm not incredibly aware of what's happening in the moment at times, but, like, you kind of got a sense that Y2K as a fashion aesthetic was coming back, But it's grown in the time from like the conceptualization to now.
And now I feel like now I'm just like lucky that we're getting it out sort of in time because I feel like we're probably at a moment where people will be sick of it after this. You know what I mean? And we could be like a month or two away.
You know, Y2K was something that we were overprepared for. And like we said, nothing happened. And that's also not to say... I mean, I feel like every time I say that or anyone says that, there were people doing stuff. You know, there were people... working on these computers and, like, making sure that we were ready.
So, like, there are these sort of unsung heroes that who knows what would have happened if they hadn't done the work that they did. But, you know, I think we've seen in our fairly recent culture and history that, like, there are moments that we were not prepared for and that then, like, kind of shifted our lives. And so there is something...
to always being thoughtful about like, okay, we should maybe take this somewhat seriously and think about it and make sure we're all good if something bad were to happen. I think let's not be super obsessive about it, but let's be smart about it.
This week on Unexplainable...
Well, look at the wonders of the computer age now.
I think that was implied by what I said.
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