Episode 229 - The Crow(s)

[00:00:17] Hey everybody, it's another episode of Go Flix Yourself. My name is Ben Conowitz and with me as always is the New Year's Eve to my Christmas morning, Bradford Omen.

[00:00:27] Hey that's me! 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Happy New Year!

[00:00:42] No listeners.

[00:00:43] Oh boy.

[00:00:47] Was that all the inside?

[00:00:49] Yeah but like poor.

[00:00:50] That was like a Ben version.

[00:00:52] And the Halloween night to my Christmas morning, Nate Laux.

[00:00:56] Spooky scary skeleton.

[00:00:59] Oh the kids just say that every time. What is that?

[00:01:02] It's a song.

[00:01:03] Is it just a song or is it from a show?

[00:01:06] It's from a cartoon actually from years ago. I don't know if it was before that but there was a...

[00:01:10] I don't know if Rune and Ender say that. Any time the word skeleton, then it became like a...

[00:01:14] Spooky scary scary scary scary.

[00:01:15] And I'm like shut up!

[00:01:16] Wow.

[00:01:17] Yeah I'm a bad dad.

[00:01:17] My go to is werewolf bar mitzvah.

[00:01:22] Werewolf bar mitzvah, spooky scary.

[00:01:25] Boys becoming men, men becoming wolves.

[00:01:29] That's from 30 Rock.

[00:01:31] Anyway.

[00:01:32] This is another episode of Go Flix Yourself.

[00:01:33] My name is Ben Conowitz and with me as always is this chucklefuck over here.

[00:01:37] That's why I said New Year's Eve.

[00:01:38] Yeah we did that, what are you doing?

[00:01:39] No no, because it's my least favorite holiday.

[00:01:41] Wow even more than...

[00:01:42] New Year's Eve?

[00:01:43] I hate New Year's Eve with a passion.

[00:01:45] What about Valentine's Day?

[00:01:46] Oh I like Valentine's Day.

[00:01:47] Labor Day?

[00:01:48] Yeah that's fine, I get a day of work.

[00:01:49] So you're fine with Columbus Day?

[00:01:51] It's Indigenous Peoples Day, so yeah I like it.

[00:01:53] No no, you like Columbus Day apparently.

[00:01:55] Oh whatever.

[00:01:56] Anyway, but Halloween night is my second favorite holiday and that's why you're that Nate.

[00:02:00] What's your number one again?

[00:02:01] Christmas morning.

[00:02:02] Really?

[00:02:03] Yeah.

[00:02:04] Who doesn't want Santa Claus's presents?

[00:02:07] I love Christmas too.

[00:02:09] Do you not love Christmas Nate?

[00:02:10] No.

[00:02:11] Wow.

[00:02:12] Out of all three of us, the guy that's seen every Hallmark Christmas movie, I beg to differ.

[00:02:17] I beg to differ.

[00:02:18] So anyway, what have you guys been doing?

[00:02:21] We took a week off.

[00:02:22] I've been hanging out.

[00:02:22] Yeah.

[00:02:23] We took a week off but there was a bonus episode, very special bonus episode that people

[00:02:27] got to listen to.

[00:02:28] The Saturday Night movie.

[00:02:29] Yeah, Saturday Night Live.

[00:02:31] That our listeners got to get a little bit of a glimpse of our SNL podcast, the 10 to

[00:02:36] 1.

[00:02:36] Yeah.

[00:02:37] Including the musical styleings that we use over there.

[00:02:39] Before we get into the sponsor of the episode, we do have a special announcement.

[00:02:43] On December 15th, we will be hosting a Q&A where we will get to interview Sam Elliott and

[00:02:53] John Hancock because Prancer is being shown for its 35th anniversary in the Civic Auditorium

[00:02:59] in La Porte, Indiana.

[00:03:00] Yes.

[00:03:00] And they will be in attendance.

[00:03:01] We are going to watch the movie at 3 and do the Q&A at 4.30 and it's wonderful because

[00:03:05] Prancer was filmed in and around La Porte, Indiana.

[00:03:07] Yes.

[00:03:08] So excited about this.

[00:03:09] Prancerpalooza is what they're calling it and that's how you know it's big because

[00:03:12] when it turns into a palooza, all bets are off.

[00:03:15] And there's going to be a Santa Claus and there'll be a live reindeer.

[00:03:17] Dancing girls?

[00:03:18] No dancing girls.

[00:03:19] Well, don't hold them to a lower standard.

[00:03:23] I'm going to get a call tomorrow from the Civic.

[00:03:25] Here's the thing.

[00:03:26] Did you say there'll be dancing girls?

[00:03:28] It's a family event.

[00:03:29] Please.

[00:03:29] You said you would keep it professional.

[00:03:31] You're inferring that the dancing girls are somehow risque and inappropriate.

[00:03:36] I'm saying that there are going to be women who enjoy dancing.

[00:03:39] You don't ever say dancing girls and imply a innocuous time.

[00:03:44] You're applying judgment to me and I don't appreciate it.

[00:03:48] When is, Nate you're an impartial observer here.

[00:03:51] I'm like hey, so we went out the other night and we saw some dancing girls.

[00:03:54] Doesn't that imply that it was risque?

[00:03:56] You said it with a tone.

[00:03:58] I didn't even say it with a tone.

[00:03:59] Technically the Radio City Rockettes are dancing girls.

[00:04:02] But you wouldn't say that.

[00:04:03] You'd say I saw the Rockettes.

[00:04:04] Nate just won the argument for me.

[00:04:05] No, he would say I went to the Rockettes.

[00:04:06] You wouldn't say I went to go see some dancing girls.

[00:04:08] You would if you were hanging out with the boys.

[00:04:10] What?

[00:04:11] That even implies even worse.

[00:04:13] Why?

[00:04:13] Because what?

[00:04:14] Women don't go to see dancing girls in your world?

[00:04:16] Only men.

[00:04:17] Why only men Brad?

[00:04:18] Because it's risque?

[00:04:19] No, because-

[00:04:20] Oh, painting yourself a bit of a dancing girls corner now, are we?

[00:04:22] I wish.

[00:04:24] That was the worst!

[00:04:25] You're making my point for me!

[00:04:27] You son of a bitch!

[00:04:29] You're making my point for me!

[00:04:30] I mean if you think about it, if you're in the corner and the Rockettes are in that corner

[00:04:33] dancing-

[00:04:33] You're gonna get kicked in the face.

[00:04:34] Well-

[00:04:36] Hopefully.

[00:04:37] Why did you look leeringly at me?

[00:04:40] Alright, well anyway.

[00:04:41] Maybe Pop-A-Leg's getting kicked in the face.

[00:04:42] Okay, so Prancer Palooza is gonna be kid friendly.

[00:04:45] If you're within an hour of Northwest Indiana, you should come and check it out.

[00:04:50] Honestly, it's gonna be like-

[00:04:50] It's gonna be so much fun.

[00:04:51] There's like 1,500 tickets available.

[00:04:53] Tickets are eight bucks.

[00:04:54] I mean-

[00:04:54] I think the ground floor already sold out.

[00:04:57] No, no.

[00:04:58] Plenty of seats.

[00:04:59] That's not what I heard.

[00:05:00] No, don't say the same thing that everybody has saying on Facebook.

[00:05:02] Oh, I heard tickets are all sold out.

[00:05:04] They're not.

[00:05:04] Some-

[00:05:06] My mom said someone she knows went to go try to buy tickets on-

[00:05:09] Someone she knows.

[00:05:10] No, I mean they went to go buy tickets for the ground floor.

[00:05:13] So you're telling me that a fellow 70 year old person went online to buy tickets and

[00:05:17] couldn't figure it out?

[00:05:17] My mom is 63.

[00:05:19] And couldn't figure it out.

[00:05:20] I'm sorry that your mom is not.

[00:05:22] She's 67.

[00:05:23] That's not 63.

[00:05:25] You're not-

[00:05:26] Well, okay.

[00:05:27] Uh, no, but-

[00:05:29] Plenty of tickets on sale.

[00:05:29] Just go.

[00:05:30] I've heard it's almost sold out.

[00:05:31] Well, don't.

[00:05:33] We're gonna go.

[00:05:34] There's gonna be 43 people in attendance.

[00:05:36] All I'm saying is don't wait.

[00:05:38] Why are you being-

[00:05:39] No, I do like this.

[00:05:41] Buy your tickets-

[00:05:42] Yeah, why are you encouraging people not to buy tickets?

[00:05:44] They're just waiting until the last minute.

[00:05:47] I'm just saying that like, don't not go online because they're already sold out.

[00:05:51] Don't worry about it.

[00:05:52] Don't not go online.

[00:05:53] That's tricky.

[00:05:53] Also, I wanna hear about you-

[00:05:55] They're already sold out.

[00:05:55] Fuck it.

[00:05:56] Don't even bother.

[00:05:57] I'm just saying you should act fast because maybe they're selling out.

[00:06:00] No, they're already sold out.

[00:06:01] They're already sold out.

[00:06:02] The ground floor, the balcony seats are still open.

[00:06:04] Okay.

[00:06:05] All right, real quick.

[00:06:06] I do wanna hear from our listeners.

[00:06:07] If you guys have any good questions that you would like to ask-

[00:06:09] Oh, seriously?

[00:06:10] The director, John Hancock or Sam Elliott, I've got a thousand must-ask questions.

[00:06:15] But if you guys have other questions-

[00:06:17] You know what, Nate?

[00:06:17] Do me a favor.

[00:06:18] I want you to write down every single one of those must-ask questions.

[00:06:24] This is the content.

[00:06:25] I said mustache.

[00:06:26] This is what people-

[00:06:28] Mustache questions, that's funny.

[00:06:30] That's what he said.

[00:06:31] No, he said must-ask.

[00:06:32] No, he said mustache.

[00:06:33] Oh, I thought he said must-ask.

[00:06:34] Oh my God.

[00:06:35] See, that's why.

[00:06:36] No, it's okay.

[00:06:37] It's my fault.

[00:06:38] Oh my-

[00:06:38] Nate, what are we gonna do with this guy?

[00:06:40] He's gonna be on the Q&A with us.

[00:06:42] He thinks.

[00:06:43] He was.

[00:06:43] I'm just there for the dancing girls.

[00:06:45] Of which there will be plenty, evidently.

[00:06:47] Here's the thing.

[00:06:49] We have a professional operation going here.

[00:06:52] We're actually gonna interview a celebrity.

[00:06:54] Yeah.

[00:06:55] I've never done that before.

[00:06:55] So I need you to pull from within.

[00:06:58] Button it up.

[00:06:59] Button it up.

[00:07:00] Maybe they'll have Danzig girls.

[00:07:03] Don't you embarrass us in front of-

[00:07:05] Don't embarrass us.

[00:07:06] In front of John Hancock and the city of La Porte.

[00:07:09] We do business with these people.

[00:07:10] We do business with these people.

[00:07:12] What are you, Timmy and Tommy Timmons from the Sandlot over here?

[00:07:16] Yes.

[00:07:17] Brad, you got a sponsor this week, buddy?

[00:07:19] No, fuck you guys.

[00:07:20] Alright, sounds good.

[00:07:21] Just kidding!

[00:07:22] That's a gift.

[00:07:23] Okay, fellas, listen up.

[00:07:26] Halloween-

[00:07:27] What are you, for the B-52s?

[00:07:29] Okay, fellas, listen up.

[00:07:30] Halloween is over!

[00:07:32] Two-woof-rusted!

[00:07:35] That's Nate's best impression ever!

[00:07:37] Also, that's not even the part that the guy says in the song.

[00:07:40] I don't care!

[00:07:40] I don't care!

[00:07:41] He's doing the voice of Dan Roof Rustin!

[00:07:45] It's as big as a whale and it's about to set sail!

[00:07:53] Jukebox baby!

[00:07:55] Listen, Halloween's over.

[00:07:56] Who's our sponsor?

[00:07:57] Halloween is over.

[00:07:59] Yeah, I get it, man.

[00:07:59] You thought that you had it in the bag, but it's done.

[00:08:03] Also, we're recording this right before the election.

[00:08:05] We have no idea who the President of the United States will be.

[00:08:08] I just want to point that out.

[00:08:09] So anything that we say tonight that is like-

[00:08:12] It comes out weird if it's post-election.

[00:08:15] Like, wow, they said that.

[00:08:16] I want to be clear.

[00:08:16] We don't know who's president.

[00:08:18] Or people are like, you're really happy for playing the state of America.

[00:08:21] Exactly!

[00:08:22] Wow, this episode dropped on November 5th.

[00:08:24] These guys are super happy about the end of the world.

[00:08:27] Boy, I can't believe the election went in that way.

[00:08:30] What a wild ending.

[00:08:32] So on three, we'll say who we hope wins the election.

[00:08:36] Right?

[00:08:37] One, two, three.

[00:08:40] No?

[00:08:41] No, you guys just didn't want to play my game.

[00:08:42] You're going to say Trudeau?

[00:08:43] Yeah.

[00:08:44] Justin's up for office, right?

[00:08:45] Yeah.

[00:08:47] Guys, we're done with Halloween.

[00:08:49] Yes.

[00:08:50] It's over.

[00:08:50] It's November.

[00:08:52] Now some of you might be already thinking.

[00:08:53] Nate, I know you are.

[00:08:54] Kamala, though, for me.

[00:08:55] I want to be very clear.

[00:08:56] I was just joking.

[00:08:57] I don't want Trump to win.

[00:08:58] You're thinking Christmas.

[00:09:00] I'm thinking election.

[00:09:01] You're thinking about Christmas?

[00:09:02] I'm thinking election, Brad.

[00:09:02] You're thinking about Christmas.

[00:09:04] Don't tell me why.

[00:09:05] Anyway.

[00:09:05] But hold on.

[00:09:06] There's a holiday in between.

[00:09:08] And I just want to make sure that we slap a little bit of respect on it.

[00:09:10] Because even though the decorations for Thanksgiving suck, I don't want to decorate

[00:09:14] my fucking house with buckle hats and shitty brown leaves and cornucopias filled

[00:09:20] with dumb vegetables.

[00:09:21] You were almost Thanksgiving instead of New Year's Eve.

[00:09:24] That's how much I don't like Thanksgiving.

[00:09:25] Well, that's false, first of all.

[00:09:27] Because the food is too delicious to even remotely hate Thanksgiving.

[00:09:30] It's not, though.

[00:09:30] It's not.

[00:09:31] I'm sorry that your parents don't cook for you.

[00:09:33] No, no.

[00:09:33] You can't tell me that a holiday based around the food turkey is just-

[00:09:39] Oh, my God.

[00:09:39] Turkey sucks.

[00:09:40] Turkey sucks.

[00:09:40] Turkey sucks.

[00:09:41] First of all-

[00:09:41] It's the main thing about Thanksgiving.

[00:09:43] Hey, guess what?

[00:09:43] I don't give a shit.

[00:09:45] I love turkey.

[00:09:45] I love my mom's cooking and I love the sides that she prepares and it's delicious

[00:09:49] and I will always enjoy it.

[00:09:51] Nate, did you want-

[00:09:52] Hey, come on over.

[00:09:53] You know what we're going to have?

[00:09:53] We're going to have nine things that look orange or beige and you can have them all.

[00:09:58] Some green, mainly orange and beige.

[00:10:00] I don't know.

[00:10:00] Sounds pretty racist, Ben.

[00:10:01] Do you guys have salads at your Thanksgiving?

[00:10:03] Why the fuck would I have a salad at Thanksgiving?

[00:10:06] This is the first time in a long time I've said this.

[00:10:08] I wish this was a video instead of a podcast because his face contorted in such a way that

[00:10:13] he just smelled shit for the first time.

[00:10:16] What?

[00:10:17] It collapsed on itself like a dying star.

[00:10:20] If I even see a salad at Thanksgiving, I'm throwing that fucking bowl in the yard.

[00:10:28] You look like one of those old men that can suck their face in on itself.

[00:10:32] Suck a lot more than that.

[00:10:33] Yeah, dude.

[00:10:34] Listen guys, Thanksgiving's coming.

[00:10:36] I hope you're excited.

[00:10:37] Hold on, do you have salad at Thanksgiving?

[00:10:40] What do you think?

[00:10:41] Yes.

[00:10:42] Yeah, of course you do.

[00:10:43] God, your family sucks.

[00:10:45] They're all like bodybuilders.

[00:10:48] Oh, that's right, yeah.

[00:10:48] It's like health-tractic family.

[00:10:50] Oh shit.

[00:10:50] Actually, this is kind of interesting.

[00:10:52] Real quick.

[00:10:52] So you guys have protein powder and stuff?

[00:10:54] Is it like soy turkey?

[00:10:55] No, no.

[00:10:57] We went in soy.

[00:10:58] I don't know.

[00:10:58] Soy's not good for you.

[00:11:00] Sorry, is it like a block of protein?

[00:11:03] I don't know.

[00:11:03] It's going to be like a grass-fed turkey.

[00:11:05] That's for sure, right?

[00:11:06] It's going to be like a natural turkey.

[00:11:07] Like organic.

[00:11:08] We killed ourselves.

[00:11:09] Yeah.

[00:11:09] And there's always going to be ham too, which is not great.

[00:11:12] I love ham.

[00:11:12] I love ham.

[00:11:13] I like ham.

[00:11:14] Shut up, Brad.

[00:11:14] So there's going to be lots of meat there.

[00:11:17] And there's certainly going to be the fixins, right?

[00:11:19] There's going to be like green beans.

[00:11:21] Not green bean casserole, but green beans.

[00:11:23] Oh, that's upsetting.

[00:11:25] There's going to be...

[00:11:26] This is why you hate Thanksgiving, though.

[00:11:28] I don't actually hate Thanksgiving.

[00:11:30] Instead of pumpkin pie, we're going to do roasted pumpkin seeds.

[00:11:32] And it's pretty much the same thing.

[00:11:34] But worse.

[00:11:35] It's going to be healthy, though.

[00:11:36] It is going to be healthy with the louses.

[00:11:38] I'm coming over.

[00:11:39] Yeah.

[00:11:39] I need to be healthy right now.

[00:11:43] But our listeners might not know, my dad's like a 70-year-old bodybuilder.

[00:11:46] Yeah, yeah.

[00:11:49] He's built like a brick shithouse because he used to build brick shithouses, basically.

[00:11:54] And your brother is an Adonis.

[00:11:55] Yeah.

[00:11:56] He literally could model.

[00:11:58] Yeah.

[00:11:58] How old is Brandon?

[00:12:00] Uh...

[00:12:01] How old am I?

[00:12:02] He's 47.

[00:12:03] He's 47.

[00:12:04] He looks incredible.

[00:12:06] Like, it's not even fair how...

[00:12:10] Okay, it's a cover model.

[00:12:11] Put your dick away, all right?

[00:12:12] Brandon Lox, if you're listening, which he's probably a listener because I love him.

[00:12:15] I mean, he doesn't listen for you.

[00:12:16] He listens for me.

[00:12:16] Probably.

[00:12:17] Um, stop it.

[00:12:19] That's actually my fingers running down Brandon's abs.

[00:12:22] That's how many there are.

[00:12:23] Wow.

[00:12:24] He sounds like he's breaking.

[00:12:25] No, no.

[00:12:26] It's just like...

[00:12:27] Okay, guys.

[00:12:28] What's your favorite Thanksgiving side dish?

[00:12:30] I want your brother.

[00:12:32] Uh...

[00:12:34] Do you hear me?

[00:12:35] Yeah, I don't care.

[00:12:36] Man, why are you...

[00:12:37] It's a fun time.

[00:12:38] First of all, because you're shitting on Thanksgiving, first of all.

[00:12:40] You're ruining my fun.

[00:12:44] And then second of all, like, oh, you're just talking about his fucking brother.

[00:12:47] Yeah, I like his brother.

[00:12:48] Who cares?

[00:12:49] I do.

[00:12:49] He's a great guy.

[00:12:50] He hasn't even been on the podcast.

[00:12:51] We should have Brandon on the podcast.

[00:12:52] I don't know if he's ever watched a movie, but I'll invite him.

[00:12:56] You know what?

[00:12:56] Has he watched Pumping Iron?

[00:12:57] I bet you he's seen Pumping Iron.

[00:12:58] No, but he watches like Judge Judy.

[00:13:01] Now I want to have motherfuckers.

[00:13:02] What is your favorite Thanksgiving side dish?

[00:13:07] What's the last movie you saw, buddy?

[00:13:09] Uh...

[00:13:10] I'm gonna cut your nipples off.

[00:13:12] Whoa!

[00:13:13] With a sharp knife.

[00:13:14] That's so aggressive.

[00:13:15] Yeah, I'm gonna cut them as if I was cutting sausage.

[00:13:17] You should spoon them off.

[00:13:20] Jesus.

[00:13:21] Alright, easy freak.

[00:13:22] I don't know what's going on here.

[00:13:23] Hey, answer the question.

[00:13:24] Alright, sorry, what was it?

[00:13:25] What was your first?

[00:13:25] Favorite Thanksgiving side dish.

[00:13:26] Just spout it out.

[00:13:28] First thing that comes to mind.

[00:13:29] I like mashed potatoes.

[00:13:30] Good.

[00:13:31] I like my mom's homemade mac and cheese.

[00:13:33] Yeah, that's not really, like, I mean Thanksgiving, but like, cause she makes it all the time.

[00:13:37] She doesn't make it all the time.

[00:13:38] I thought she did.

[00:13:39] What?

[00:13:40] She makes it for me.

[00:13:42] That sounds suggestive.

[00:13:43] That sounds dancing girl suggestive.

[00:13:46] Sounds good.

[00:13:46] I'm not allowed to have mac and cheese at Thanksgiving, right?

[00:13:48] I love mac and cheese.

[00:13:49] Yeah, whatever the fuck you want.

[00:13:50] It doesn't even matter anymore.

[00:13:51] Do you not have mac and cheese at Thanksgiving?

[00:13:53] We actually have mac and cheese at Christmas.

[00:13:54] And not at Thanksgiving?

[00:13:55] Not at Thanksgiving.

[00:13:56] Oh, dude, our foods are almost always the same.

[00:13:58] Same.

[00:13:59] My mom likes to mix it up so she's not making the same stuff.

[00:14:02] We're not real creative.

[00:14:03] Yeah, I was gonna say.

[00:14:03] We're like a stereotypical white family.

[00:14:05] There's just no cranberry sauce at Christmas.

[00:14:08] That's like the only difference.

[00:14:11] Don't look at the front of the bag.

[00:14:12] Don't fuck this up for us.

[00:14:14] By the way, with the cranberry sauce, is it homemade or is it coming from the can?

[00:14:18] Both.

[00:14:18] If it doesn't have the ridges, how do you know that it's good?

[00:14:20] Thank you.

[00:14:20] It needs to come from, and that is delicious.

[00:14:22] Don't look at the front of the bag.

[00:14:24] Don't fuck this up.

[00:14:26] No one look at the front of the bag.

[00:14:27] Don't even show it to Ben.

[00:14:29] Jesus.

[00:14:30] Oh, that's not good.

[00:14:34] Oh, no.

[00:14:35] No, no, no.

[00:14:36] Hmm, I like these.

[00:14:41] How do you not like this?

[00:14:42] The seasoning on this is delicious.

[00:14:44] Nah, it doesn't.

[00:14:45] It's herb and savory.

[00:14:47] Is it stuffing?

[00:14:49] But your fucking ass it is.

[00:14:51] This is stuffing flavored potato chips, my friend.

[00:14:54] See, and that's the thing.

[00:14:54] It's like, hey, let's make stuffing more dry.

[00:14:58] Put it in a potato chip.

[00:14:59] Great job, Brad.

[00:15:00] Nate, what do you think?

[00:15:02] It's fine.

[00:15:03] I like them.

[00:15:04] I don't love stuffing.

[00:15:05] I would love to crunch these on a stuffing, actually.

[00:15:08] What I will say, though, is that-

[00:15:09] Inception stuffing.

[00:15:10] The chip itself is good, though.

[00:15:12] Wow.

[00:15:12] The chip quality.

[00:15:13] Who makes these?

[00:15:14] Target.

[00:15:15] Really?

[00:15:16] Mm-hmm.

[00:15:16] They've got a good chip.

[00:15:17] Stop chewing on the mic.

[00:15:21] The flavor is delicious.

[00:15:22] It's fine.

[00:15:23] It tastes like stuffing, and stuffing's okay.

[00:15:26] I found these at Target.

[00:15:27] They're really good.

[00:15:28] They also have stuffing seasoned popcorn.

[00:15:30] No.

[00:15:31] Let's make it even drier than potato chips.

[00:15:33] They also have brown butter and sage flavored popcorn.

[00:15:36] No.

[00:15:37] What is that?

[00:15:38] What is that?

[00:15:39] Brown butter?

[00:15:40] You never had butter on your popcorn?

[00:15:42] Brown?

[00:15:43] Brown butter, though?

[00:15:44] What is brown butter?

[00:15:45] What makes it brown?

[00:15:46] I mean, I don't know, but like-

[00:15:49] Well, you're trying to sell it, Jules.

[00:15:50] Yeah, you're trying to sell it.

[00:15:51] I'm not trying to sell it.

[00:15:52] I'm just telling you it exists, but brown butter doesn't sound bad.

[00:15:54] Well, it's got a turquoise marmalade on it.

[00:15:58] Well, I don't know what that is either, but it sounds like it's delicious.

[00:16:01] First of all, turquoise isn't a Thanksgiving color, and it's also unnatural.

[00:16:05] I would posit that brown is unnatural for any food.

[00:16:08] Tell that to your asshole.

[00:16:11] What?

[00:16:13] That's where the food goes, and that's what it turns into.

[00:16:15] Oh, man.

[00:16:16] We gotta have a talk about how you're eating.

[00:16:18] Your shit's not brown?

[00:16:20] No, you're eating the stuff that comes out.

[00:16:22] You know what?

[00:16:22] It doesn't matter.

[00:16:23] Nate, what's the last movie you saw, buddy?

[00:16:26] The last movie that I saw.

[00:16:28] Let me pull up my list here.

[00:16:29] How much Thanksgiving was in it?

[00:16:32] In the movie that you saw, or the poop that you came out of your butt and you want to eat?

[00:16:36] What was that sentence?

[00:16:37] I don't know.

[00:16:38] What are you doing?

[00:16:41] So, I want to talk about a couple movies that I've never seen.

[00:16:43] Yeah.

[00:16:44] I just saw one in the theater just yesterday with a friend of the podcast and son of mine, Finley J. Laux.

[00:16:55] Amen.

[00:16:55] I love Finley J. Laux.

[00:16:56] And we went and saw the greatest Christmas present.

[00:17:00] Showman?

[00:17:01] Or Christmas.

[00:17:02] The greatest Christmas pageant ever?

[00:17:04] Yeah, the greatest Christmas pageant ever.

[00:17:05] Is it in theaters already?

[00:17:07] It's not Halloween anymore, Brad.

[00:17:08] Yeah.

[00:17:09] It was an early showing, so...

[00:17:13] Oh, did you go to like a Prime Video early screening?

[00:17:15] That was 10 a.m.

[00:17:16] No, we were just looking for a movie.

[00:17:18] Sorry, it's the best Christmas present ever.

[00:17:20] We were just looking for movies yesterday and I had already seen Venom.

[00:17:24] There wasn't a ton in the theater that you wanted to see.

[00:17:27] You already saw Threnum?

[00:17:29] Yes.

[00:17:30] And so this was showing in Valparaiso, a town that's about a half hour away from us.

[00:17:36] Interesting.

[00:17:36] And we went in there and we saw it.

[00:17:37] And it's fun.

[00:17:39] It's a nice little film.

[00:17:40] It's a nice little Christmas film.

[00:17:41] Not perfect, not great, but like...

[00:17:43] How Christian is it?

[00:17:45] Well, the book is very Christian.

[00:17:46] Right.

[00:17:46] I was curious because it has Pete Holmes in it, it has Judy Greer in it.

[00:17:50] I know Pete Holmes is famously, you know, formerly...

[00:17:54] I think he's still Christian, but he used to be much more religious.

[00:17:56] Yeah, but he's like a Christian that is on Ayahuasca now.

[00:17:59] Yeah.

[00:18:00] Um, but yeah, it certainly, it certainly doesn't shy away from the faith parts.

[00:18:06] But let me say that.

[00:18:07] If I appreciated anything about this film, is it's clearly close to the source material,

[00:18:13] which is a Christian book.

[00:18:14] Did it feel like a faith-based movie though?

[00:18:17] But it didn't feel cheesy in the same way that like the Kirk Cameron movies might.

[00:18:23] Right?

[00:18:23] Like it, it was a better directed film.

[00:18:27] It was better made.

[00:18:28] It had more heart to it.

[00:18:30] Is it funny?

[00:18:31] There's some really funny parts to it, yes.

[00:18:33] Um, and just kind of a fun movie to see with kids.

[00:18:36] Like it was, it was, it was meaningful.

[00:18:38] There was some good stuff there.

[00:18:39] What did Finn think?

[00:18:40] Uh, he liked it.

[00:18:41] He's like, that was good.

[00:18:42] I liked that.

[00:18:43] Um, so, and he would have told me if he thought that was a little heavy, too heavy on the faith

[00:18:47] stuff.

[00:18:48] Judy Greer's great.

[00:18:49] Um, she, she's really good as the mom who cares, but yeah, you're not going to strip

[00:18:54] if you've ever read the book, you're not going to strip the faith part of it.

[00:18:57] Cause it's, it's very clearly a faith book.

[00:18:59] Yeah.

[00:18:59] Um, but Dallas Jenkins does a pretty decent job directing it.

[00:19:05] Okay.

[00:19:05] It's not a perfect film, but it was fun.

[00:19:07] Okay.

[00:19:07] Nice.

[00:19:08] All right.

[00:19:08] Um, you know, and of all the seasons to probably be a little bit more faith based, probably Christmas

[00:19:13] is one of them.

[00:19:14] Why?

[00:19:15] Um, cause it's Christ in my moss.

[00:19:17] Why?

[00:19:19] I also saw venom.

[00:19:20] The last dance.

[00:19:21] Did we talk about that last?

[00:19:22] No, cause we were off for a week.

[00:19:25] Yeah.

[00:19:25] So I saw a venom.

[00:19:26] The last dance.

[00:19:28] I was hoping for more in this film.

[00:19:30] This was, um, not a great film.

[00:19:34] Actually not good.

[00:19:36] Really?

[00:19:37] Um, and it's in this bread.

[00:19:39] It's not because Tom Hardy's not good.

[00:19:41] Tom Hardy is, is doing his job in this film.

[00:19:44] Yeah.

[00:19:45] He does a good job and he brings the same charm and the same physical comedy and all

[00:19:51] these things to this film.

[00:19:53] It is just a very poorly written movie.

[00:19:56] Yeah.

[00:19:56] And I just didn't, I didn't love it.

[00:19:58] And I was hoping to, I was hoping to give it a good chance and enjoy a good comic book

[00:20:03] film.

[00:20:04] Didn't get it.

[00:20:05] Yeah.

[00:20:05] I saw this too.

[00:20:06] And I, I agree with you.

[00:20:07] Um, this, the, the first one wasn't a great movie, but Tom Hardy gave it a weird sort

[00:20:13] of.

[00:20:13] I don't hate it.

[00:20:15] His performance was the most fascinating part of it.

[00:20:17] He made it enjoyable and weird.

[00:20:19] Yep.

[00:20:19] I don't hate it.

[00:20:19] The second movie leaned a little bit more into that weirdness.

[00:20:23] It's bonkers.

[00:20:23] It's bonkers.

[00:20:23] It's silly.

[00:20:24] It's fun.

[00:20:24] They know what they are though.

[00:20:25] Yeah.

[00:20:25] They struck a really good dynamic between Venom and Eddie gave them a really strong bromance

[00:20:30] and leaned into some of the stuff that maybe felt like it was too silly the first

[00:20:34] time around.

[00:20:34] The third time, this time they leaned away from that weirdness, dug more into standard comic

[00:20:41] book fair territory.

[00:20:42] And the story is just so sloppy.

[00:20:45] And like, it feels like almost like it's intentionally trying to avoid making reference to any specific

[00:20:51] characters that might be from Venom comics.

[00:20:54] Like there are a bunch of different symbiotes in Marvel comics other than Venom and Carnage.

[00:21:00] And there's several symbiotes in this movie, but they don't ever go out of their way to name

[00:21:06] them or give them distinct identifying marks.

[00:21:09] So from an IP perspective, why would that be?

[00:21:12] Because I guarantee you they knew what was going to happen with those characters and they

[00:21:16] didn't want to waste any of them in case they wanted to use them later down in other Venom

[00:21:21] movies.

[00:21:21] It felt very preventative.

[00:21:23] 13 of them all die in a fire and now you can't use them.

[00:21:26] Yeah, exactly.

[00:21:27] And it's just that was one of the things, Brad, that I want to touch on real quick

[00:21:30] too is what you said there.

[00:21:31] There wasn't a clear villain in this that you knew was, I mean, there was a villain,

[00:21:37] right?

[00:21:37] Yeah.

[00:21:38] But you didn't know anything about them really, right?

[00:21:40] The first two movies have very clear symbiote villains.

[00:21:43] Yep.

[00:21:44] This does not.

[00:21:45] It's very weird.

[00:21:48] The villain is Noel who Marvel comics characters or fans will know and be interested in.

[00:21:55] He's completely wasted in this movie because he's left like somewhere imprisoned on a planet

[00:22:00] and he sends these like giant monsters as his minions to track Venom down.

[00:22:04] They're trying to turn him into the Sony universe's version of Thanos.

[00:22:08] Sure.

[00:22:09] And that's that would make sense if they had like a leg to stand on to do it right.

[00:22:13] But it just feels like desperation at this point.

[00:22:16] And it's just, it's just not nearly as fun as it should be.

[00:22:18] The story doesn't make a lick of sense.

[00:22:20] It's just, it's just not.

[00:22:21] It's just too bad again because the, the Venom and Eddie Brock duo, they have.

[00:22:28] I do.

[00:22:28] I do call him Betty.

[00:22:29] They have chemistry.

[00:22:30] There's, there's some meaning and heart in some of their lines.

[00:22:34] Yeah.

[00:22:34] Like I like what they do with the two of them.

[00:22:37] Eddie.

[00:22:37] It just wasn't, they didn't do enough.

[00:22:40] Yeah.

[00:22:40] They didn't do anything that was meaningful.

[00:22:42] Was the horse scene still fun?

[00:22:43] Honestly, it was kind of ruined because it was in the trailer.

[00:22:46] Yeah.

[00:22:46] Everything.

[00:22:47] So was that everything I needed to see was in the trailer?

[00:22:48] Yes.

[00:22:49] There's, there's some other cool animal stuff that happens, but it's nothing as good as

[00:22:52] the horse.

[00:22:52] A gorilla?

[00:22:53] No, definitely not that cool.

[00:22:55] That would've been awesome.

[00:22:56] It would've been awesome.

[00:22:57] Oh man, that would've, you know what?

[00:22:58] Like the horse just breaks into a zoo and then Venom just jumps from animal to animal.

[00:23:02] Like a montage.

[00:23:03] In the-

[00:23:04] Amazing actually.

[00:23:05] In the credits, uh-

[00:23:06] No credit for that?

[00:23:07] Okay.

[00:23:07] Like the credits rolling, they're, the art that they use is symbiote versions of animals

[00:23:12] that you don't see in the movie.

[00:23:14] Oh, see, yeah.

[00:23:14] So they do like a crocodile and an elephant and-

[00:23:16] Where's that?

[00:23:17] I know, that's what I'm saying.

[00:23:18] It would've been a lot more interesting.

[00:23:19] But yeah, it's-

[00:23:20] How about a snake?

[00:23:20] I agree with you, Nate.

[00:23:21] It was not a good movie.

[00:23:23] Snake?

[00:23:24] I think there was a snake.

[00:23:25] Yeah, because there's venom.

[00:23:26] There was a squirrel.

[00:23:28] There's venom and snakes.

[00:23:29] That's a good point, Ben.

[00:23:30] Thanks.

[00:23:32] One of the other things that I want to talk about that I've been watching that I hope people

[00:23:35] watch, because it, it, I know it-

[00:23:38] What the fuck, man?

[00:23:38] Like-

[00:23:43] It's just a silly joke.

[00:23:44] I know it's not the best thing in the world, but I'm out here, like-

[00:23:47] At least try to tee a few things up because-

[00:23:48] I'm out here trying.

[00:23:49] No, no, shut up.

[00:23:49] I'm out here trying.

[00:23:50] Hold on, no, but hold on, let me ask you.

[00:23:51] No, no, no, shut up!

[00:23:52] No, no, no, shut up!

[00:23:53] No, no, no, no, no!

[00:23:54] You're talking to the mic.

[00:23:55] I'm talking to you.

[00:23:56] No, you're talking to the mic.

[00:23:57] I'm talking to the mic right now, sorry.

[00:23:58] But I'm talking to you.

[00:23:59] I'm over here, okay?

[00:24:00] No, no, and I'm setting up, and they might not be good, but they're, it's teeing them

[00:24:04] up so you can make fun of it.

[00:24:05] What do you-

[00:24:05] You're just shitting on it.

[00:24:06] You're just shitting on it.

[00:24:07] You're shitting on the-

[00:24:07] What do you think you're teeing-

[00:24:08] Best case scenario, where's that going?

[00:24:12] That's for you.

[00:24:13] Oh, so you're giving me a chore?

[00:24:15] I'm giving you a set up to make a good joke.

[00:24:17] You know my favorite thing that good comedians do is give their friends complete dog shit

[00:24:22] and say, make this better for me.

[00:24:24] Great setups?

[00:24:25] Yeah.

[00:24:26] Improv.

[00:24:27] Does snake have venom?

[00:24:30] Did the snake have it?

[00:24:32] Honestly, pretty good Ben.

[00:24:34] If I'm being completely, like all me being mad at you aside.

[00:24:37] All the essential parts were there.

[00:24:39] No, no, Nate.

[00:24:39] That's really not bad.

[00:24:40] All the essential parts were there.

[00:24:41] Yeah, yeah.

[00:24:42] And you know what?

[00:24:43] That's one essential.

[00:24:43] It's the voice.

[00:24:45] It's the voice.

[00:24:46] Well that also has the presence of being a dumb fuck.

[00:24:48] Yeah, no.

[00:24:48] And honestly, committing to the Ben bit, you have pissed yourself.

[00:24:52] What can I say?

[00:24:53] Yeah, spot on.

[00:24:54] I'm a method actor.

[00:24:55] Spot on my pants.

[00:24:57] I go for it.

[00:24:58] Yeah, me too.

[00:24:59] And then you don't take my lead.

[00:25:00] And then we just have this conversation again and again and again.

[00:25:03] Nate, what have you been watching that you're excited about?

[00:25:06] There's something else I do want to share with Brad specifically.

[00:25:09] Okay, good.

[00:25:10] What the fuck?

[00:25:11] It's a TV show called Shrinking.

[00:25:13] Oh, come on man.

[00:25:14] That is back for a second season.

[00:25:14] Wonderful, wonderful.

[00:25:15] I did watch the first episode.

[00:25:17] I really love the show.

[00:25:18] I'm going to make a drink while you're talking TV.

[00:25:20] I love what they're doing with Harrison Ford's character.

[00:25:24] He is acting his butt off in some of this and it's a lot of fun to watch.

[00:25:28] It's I love Bill Lawrence in a way that like few people do.

[00:25:32] I just love Bill Lawrence stuff.

[00:25:34] Do you think you love him more than his wife?

[00:25:36] Knowing who his wife is, that might be actually.

[00:25:39] It's true.

[00:25:39] Yeah, like she scares me.

[00:25:41] Who is Bill Lawrence's wife?

[00:25:42] Jordan Miller.

[00:25:43] Who's Jordan Miller?

[00:25:44] Well, Jordan Miller was her scrubs character.

[00:25:46] Krista Miller.

[00:25:46] Oh.

[00:25:47] Or Jordan Winsert.

[00:25:48] No, it's the character on Shrinking.

[00:25:50] Which one?

[00:25:52] The mean Botox.

[00:25:54] Oh, that's his wife?

[00:25:54] Yeah.

[00:25:55] Oh, I didn't realize that.

[00:25:56] Yeah, she's been in everything he's done.

[00:25:57] Oh, okay.

[00:25:59] She's great.

[00:25:59] You should cover entertainment sometime.

[00:26:01] What was that sign?

[00:26:02] Are you like winded from pouring your drink?

[00:26:03] Yeah.

[00:26:06] Yeah.

[00:26:06] Yeah.

[00:26:10] I'm like, I think.

[00:26:13] I'm just going to see if they're going to be around to give you a good, you know, bingeable amount of shows.

[00:26:19] It's going to be around.

[00:26:20] It's fun.

[00:26:21] I really like this show.

[00:26:23] I'm waiting to watch until there's more episodes under the second season.

[00:26:26] You watched the first episode, right?

[00:26:27] Yes.

[00:26:28] It's fantastic.

[00:26:29] It's just as good of the first season.

[00:26:31] And the first season is phenomenal.

[00:26:32] Yep.

[00:26:33] It's second to Ted Lasso to me as far as like.

[00:26:36] And you love Ted Lasso.

[00:26:37] I love.

[00:26:37] It's probably that and The Bear have been my favorite two shows.

[00:26:43] Maybe Only Murders.

[00:26:44] As far as recent stuff that's kind of come out.

[00:26:46] In the last couple years.

[00:26:47] I've been a couple, you know, two, three season shows, you know.

[00:26:49] But Shrinking is utterly fantastic.

[00:26:51] Bad Monkey's fine.

[00:26:53] It's fine.

[00:26:54] Yep.

[00:26:55] I wanted to love Bad Monkey.

[00:26:56] I watched it come together and when it came together, I was like, oh, okay, well, we

[00:27:01] didn't just get, you know.

[00:27:02] It's fine.

[00:27:03] But we didn't get the pop off that like Shrinking makes a turn, Ted Lasso makes a turn where

[00:27:08] they're just, it's impossible not to watch the next episode.

[00:27:12] Bad Monkey just never got there.

[00:27:13] Because Bill Lawrence can.

[00:27:14] Why am I talking about TV?

[00:27:15] I hate the both of you.

[00:27:16] You love TV.

[00:27:17] Bill Lawrence can manage emotions and comedy in a way that few writers can.

[00:27:22] In sitcom writing and TV writing.

[00:27:24] And he does such a good job at it.

[00:27:26] Because it's not just, oh, here's a sad moment in otherwise, you know, successful comedy.

[00:27:33] But it's also, these are not technically dramedies.

[00:27:36] Yep.

[00:27:37] They're just not.

[00:27:37] They're still comedies first.

[00:27:38] But there's heart behind it.

[00:27:40] Yep.

[00:27:41] And I feel like he's making a clear distinction of saying in these shows, this is just real

[00:27:46] life and we're going to focus on the comedic part of it.

[00:27:50] Mm-hmm.

[00:27:50] Whereas I think a lot of other showrunners make the decision to say like, well, we got

[00:27:55] to make some conflict here.

[00:27:56] We got to make it real dramatic.

[00:27:58] Yeah.

[00:27:58] And then now here's some jokes during a dramatic scene.

[00:28:00] But the thing that Bill Lawrence does great, he doesn't ever really, remember what we had

[00:28:05] a hard time with, Brad?

[00:28:07] We watched the latest Thor movie.

[00:28:09] Mm-hmm.

[00:28:09] Mm-hmm.

[00:28:10] And Taika Waititi is a brilliant person, brilliant director.

[00:28:13] We love him, right?

[00:28:14] Yeah.

[00:28:14] But our complaint, and I remember this, was you can, after something dramatic happens

[00:28:19] on a comedy, you can let it sit.

[00:28:20] Yeah.

[00:28:21] Bill Lawrence is incredible at letting it sit and not just jumping right to the joke.

[00:28:26] Right.

[00:28:26] And Taika Waititi, for all of his, as much as I laud him, failed miserably in the fourth Thor movie.

[00:28:32] Yeah.

[00:28:32] By just being like.

[00:28:33] It should have been a lot heavier.

[00:28:34] Absolutely.

[00:28:34] It had every right to be.

[00:28:36] They've earned it.

[00:28:36] Yeah.

[00:28:37] Bill Lawrence has definitely earned it through Scrubs and all that, but he's found this way

[00:28:40] of being like, let that emotionally resonate with you.

[00:28:43] And then, because of that, the next scene that's really funny is gonna hit even harder

[00:28:48] and make you laugh, like bust a gut laugh.

[00:28:50] You don't always have to undercut the drama with the joke.

[00:28:53] Exactly.

[00:28:53] Bill Lawrence is probably better than most anybody to do.

[00:28:55] But it's a sensitive dance to do.

[00:28:56] Yeah.

[00:28:57] It's so hard.

[00:28:58] It's really beautiful.

[00:28:59] And again, the acting's really good.

[00:29:00] Harrison Ford's just fantastic in it.

[00:29:02] I just, I just.

[00:29:03] Who's the, the black actress?

[00:29:06] Jessica Williams.

[00:29:06] She is wonderful.

[00:29:07] Yeah, I love Jessica Williams.

[00:29:08] Oh my God.

[00:29:09] She is so fucking good.

[00:29:11] Yeah.

[00:29:11] Yeah.

[00:29:11] No, so they struck gold with the cast there.

[00:29:14] They've got Roy Kent.

[00:29:17] What's his name?

[00:29:18] What's his actor?

[00:29:19] Hercules now.

[00:29:20] It'll be Hercules.

[00:29:21] He is a guest star.

[00:29:23] It's Brett Goldstein.

[00:29:23] Brett Goldstein.

[00:29:24] Thank you.

[00:29:25] And many of the episodes this season.

[00:29:27] So, and he plays a really good part.

[00:29:30] Um, uh, so fun.

[00:29:32] How many episodes are out so far?

[00:29:34] Four.

[00:29:35] So that's enough for me to watch.

[00:29:36] Yeah.

[00:29:37] I'm going to hold off a little bit.

[00:29:38] Fine.

[00:29:39] I like to binge it.

[00:29:40] Yeah.

[00:29:41] No, that's, that's the hard thing.

[00:29:42] That's that I do too, but I'm, I'm now watching cause I, I love this show so much.

[00:29:47] It's like, well, I'm watching.

[00:29:49] I'm going to have to watch any other movies, buddy.

[00:29:52] One more.

[00:29:53] Um, you know, this, I think the two of you know, I love movies where Chicago is a part

[00:29:57] of the character in there.

[00:29:59] Love the city of the Chicago.

[00:30:00] I was just there for the weekend.

[00:30:02] I love Chicago in ways that are hard to explain.

[00:30:06] And, um, I, I just feel like Chicago when I'm there, it's, it's my city.

[00:30:10] Like I just love being with the people that I love.

[00:30:12] I love the culture of Chicago.

[00:30:14] Are you moving?

[00:30:14] What are you doing?

[00:30:15] I don't know.

[00:30:16] Um, so I watched sleepless in Seattle.

[00:30:19] I watched once upon a time in Mexico.

[00:30:22] No, I watched him.

[00:30:23] I watched get him to the Greek from 1996.

[00:30:28] Um, directed by Nora Ephron called Michael.

[00:30:32] Yes, you did.

[00:30:33] Starring John Travolta and Andy McDowell and, and William Hurt.

[00:30:39] William Hurt.

[00:30:39] And for the rubber pastor, pastor, pastor, rolly.

[00:30:42] What is his name?

[00:30:43] He was in a bunch of stuff in the nineties.

[00:30:44] We were, Brad and I were a little surprised you'd never seen this because for those of

[00:30:47] you who don't know, uh, Nate actually is a pastor.

[00:30:49] Yeah.

[00:30:50] Uh, and so he loves angels.

[00:30:52] And so he love arch, arching.

[00:30:53] He, I don't love regular angels, but arch angels.

[00:30:55] He at least knows about them.

[00:30:57] So you being decently religious in your life, I just, I had probably just assumed that over

[00:31:01] the course, cause you know, it's not like you just became a pastor last week.

[00:31:04] He's like, so Michael came at 96, right?

[00:31:06] Yep.

[00:31:07] You, you, you were in high school at the time, but then you ended up going to Bethel college.

[00:31:11] Yeah.

[00:31:12] Right?

[00:31:12] It's a university now.

[00:31:13] Uh, sure.

[00:31:14] Bethel.

[00:31:15] Well, they made it.

[00:31:17] We made it.

[00:31:18] Um, and so I figured maybe, you know, that's, that's recent enough that you would've seen

[00:31:22] it.

[00:31:22] Yeah.

[00:31:22] I had not seen this film.

[00:31:24] It is.

[00:31:25] It's a fun film.

[00:31:26] It's right.

[00:31:26] It's not perfect, but it's a fun nineties film where, um, explain the plot for those

[00:31:30] that.

[00:31:31] So John Travolta is, is an archangel Michael and, um, he is in this Iowa, I think is where

[00:31:39] he's at in this elderly person's home that lives there.

[00:31:43] He is kind of debaucherous.

[00:31:46] He's, uh, smokes, he smokes.

[00:31:48] He's got, you know, he's just a little more rough around the other.

[00:31:52] Yeah.

[00:31:52] Right.

[00:31:53] So in the scope of what you would predict an angel to be, he's kind of the, the anti

[00:31:58] angel in some of those ways.

[00:32:00] Um, but the William Hurt character and Robert Pastorelli is sent out essentially to go see

[00:32:09] him.

[00:32:09] They're journalists.

[00:32:11] And Andy McDowell was there and the, the, the, the woman that he's staying with dies.

[00:32:17] But Chicago plays this backdrop to there because Michael D'Archangel wants to, cause it's set

[00:32:23] in Iowa.

[00:32:24] And everyone wants to leave Iowa.

[00:32:26] Who would want to stay in Iowa?

[00:32:27] Yeah.

[00:32:28] Um, and, and so this film, we say this recording in Indiana.

[00:32:34] We're in Chicago.

[00:32:35] We're a lot closer to Chicago.

[00:32:36] We are.

[00:32:36] To be fair.

[00:32:37] I'm sorry.

[00:32:37] To be fair.

[00:32:38] Our from Chicago.

[00:32:40] Um, but, but this is about what, what I loved about this film is it is completely contingent

[00:32:49] on John Travolta's charisma.

[00:32:51] Yes.

[00:32:51] And in 1996, he had it.

[00:32:54] He had it in spades.

[00:32:55] Yep.

[00:32:55] And so that, that, that's one of the things that I, I, I have not seen John Travolta in

[00:33:00] a lot.

[00:33:01] Right.

[00:33:01] And so I got John Travolta at that point.

[00:33:05] Cause again, he wasn't in his like young, uh, late seventies, early eighties.

[00:33:11] No, but this is pulp fiction resurgence.

[00:33:13] Cock of the walk.

[00:33:15] Yep.

[00:33:15] I'm back baby.

[00:33:16] But dad kind of still, but like, he had it all in 1996.

[00:33:20] Oh yeah.

[00:33:20] He did.

[00:33:21] He was killing it on top of the world.

[00:33:23] He really was.

[00:33:23] And so, but in this film you kind of get that vibe.

[00:33:25] He's just feeling confident.

[00:33:27] He's playing a cocky character, you know?

[00:33:28] And so, uh, no, I really enjoyed this film.

[00:33:31] It was fun.

[00:33:31] One of my favorite scenes is, and the reason that I actually gave this to you was it came

[00:33:36] up on like TikTok, you know, and I saw it on Instagram, like a, a 40 year old man.

[00:33:41] Uh, the scene where he's being like IQ tested or whatever and to see if he's real.

[00:33:48] And so that he gives the, doesn't he give all the answers correctly?

[00:33:52] Like what time does he?

[00:33:53] Yeah.

[00:33:54] Like if a person is born in 1942, like how old are they today?

[00:33:58] But then he, he react, he questions the interviewer saying what time, you know, where are they

[00:34:03] born because of, you know, Eastern standard time.

[00:34:05] And it, I remember that scene being very, as a kid being like, oh man, wouldn't it be awesome?

[00:34:11] It feels like limitless, the movie with Bradley Cooper where it's like, wouldn't it be great

[00:34:14] to be smarter than that?

[00:34:15] Another film I haven't seen by the way.

[00:34:16] Oh, is that the movie where Bradley Cooper's limitless?

[00:34:19] He's a, he's an angel.

[00:34:21] He's an angel.

[00:34:22] Is that a joke from The Office?

[00:34:22] He's an angel.

[00:34:23] Is there really a limitless joke in The Office?

[00:34:25] Yeah.

[00:34:26] Oh.

[00:34:26] You should watch The Office.

[00:34:28] It's a, it's a, it's one of the later seasons.

[00:34:30] It's when they, they, Jim concocts a plan to like have The Office shut down.

[00:34:36] And so Dwight rents a work bus for them to work from.

[00:34:40] And they, they're, oh wait, no, is it that episode?

[00:34:43] No, sorry.

[00:34:43] This is so stupid to even go through this.

[00:34:45] Let's cut this.

[00:34:46] It's actually, it's when, it's when they take a field trip to, sorry, coughed, man, we

[00:34:50] gotta edit this.

[00:34:51] It's when they take a field trip to Gettysburg and they choose to watch DVDs on the bus instead

[00:34:55] of listening to what Andy has to say.

[00:34:57] And so the, he's like, he's like, I got limitless on the way back.

[00:34:59] He's like, oh, is that the one where Bradley Cooper is limitless?

[00:35:02] Who says that?

[00:35:03] Uh, Phyllis.

[00:35:04] Says that?

[00:35:05] Yeah.

[00:35:05] All right, that's fair.

[00:35:06] But no, I enjoyed this film.

[00:35:07] It was fun.

[00:35:08] Thanks, Nate.

[00:35:09] Uh, this movie was all over cable, like back in the 90s when it came out.

[00:35:14] It feels like it would be.

[00:35:15] TNT.

[00:35:16] I used to watch, no, no, no, like the movie channels, like the actual movie channels.

[00:35:19] Oh, like HBO?

[00:35:20] Yeah.

[00:35:20] And I used to watch it a lot.

[00:35:22] And I even saw it in theaters actually.

[00:35:23] Really?

[00:35:24] Yeah, my mom would take me to a bunch of movies like during summers and stuff like that.

[00:35:27] We would see a lot of stuff.

[00:35:29] Um, it doesn't have the highest rating by the way.

[00:35:31] Yeah.

[00:35:31] I like this more than I do.

[00:35:33] I haven't seen it since I was young.

[00:35:34] I haven't either, honestly.

[00:35:35] Does it, does it, is there any problematic language or anything?

[00:35:37] No.

[00:35:38] Like, do they call them the gay F word or anything?

[00:35:40] No.

[00:35:41] Um, not that I remember anyway, but like it, it, it, there's nothing problematic about

[00:35:45] the film as a whole.

[00:35:46] Right?

[00:35:47] And that's kind of like.

[00:35:47] It's a pretty safe film.

[00:35:48] Well, that's why like, I don't, I don't want to go back and rewatch a movie like Powder.

[00:35:52] Cause I feel like Powder being bullied into the nineties.

[00:35:56] Like, I don't want to know what they called him.

[00:35:58] I remember that movie being pretty like good.

[00:36:00] And you know.

[00:36:01] Who played Powder?

[00:36:02] Uh, Nicholas Holt.

[00:36:03] No, it's a.

[00:36:05] Nicholas Holt.

[00:36:05] It's actually, it's somebody.

[00:36:07] He plays him in the remake actually.

[00:36:09] It's somebody who, uh, I think grew up to be reasonably famous after that.

[00:36:12] That's as I was just saying.

[00:36:13] I don't forget who.

[00:36:14] You guys remember that movie?

[00:36:14] You remember Powder.

[00:36:15] Yeah, of course I remember Powder.

[00:36:16] There was a movie that I had on tape when I was a kid that had the trailer for Powder

[00:36:21] on it.

[00:36:21] So I am like, was intimately familiar with that trailer.

[00:36:24] And I, and I saw the movie.

[00:36:25] I think I rented it from the library actually.

[00:36:27] Uh, Sean Patrick Flannery was Powder.

[00:36:29] Oh, the guy from Boondock Saints?

[00:36:31] Yeah.

[00:36:32] Wow.

[00:36:33] Jeff Goldblum's in that movie.

[00:36:34] He plays the fly.

[00:36:37] Idiot.

[00:36:37] Okay.

[00:36:38] Uh, anyway.

[00:36:39] That's all I got.

[00:36:40] What did you see?

[00:36:41] Brad, what did you see?

[00:36:41] Brad, what did you see?

[00:36:42] Brad, I've seen a lot of movies guys.

[00:36:45] Oh no.

[00:36:46] So, uh.

[00:36:47] Every time we take a week off, then he's like, here's 37 movies I've seen.

[00:36:51] It's gonna be, you know it's gonna be trouble.

[00:36:53] Pop a, pop a mad at trouble.

[00:36:55] Uh, I just got a new subscription to IFC and here's everything I've seen.

[00:37:00] I hate you.

[00:37:02] Uh, I watched.

[00:37:03] Is it cause I'm true?

[00:37:03] Cause I'm true.

[00:37:04] Is it cause I'm true?

[00:37:05] I'm tired.

[00:37:06] It's 11 o'clock.

[00:37:08] The Venom Snake.

[00:37:08] It's 11 o'clock at night.

[00:37:09] The Venom Snake is true.

[00:37:11] I rode the Venom Snake to a party.

[00:37:15] Again, spot on.

[00:37:15] I'm not saying that you're wrong.

[00:37:16] I was.

[00:37:17] Like, your impression is good.

[00:37:18] I watched Babes, uh, which is a movie that's on Hulu.

[00:37:22] Uh, it is a comedy.

[00:37:23] It is very much like the bridesmaids, uh, of pregnancy comedies.

[00:37:29] I think that you basically were just searching for a movie.

[00:37:32] Yeah.

[00:37:33] Oh no, I typed Babes into Google.

[00:37:34] And then you're like, you know what?

[00:37:35] I've never seen that one.

[00:37:36] Yeah, his searches when he's feeling it.

[00:37:40] Safe search off.

[00:37:41] I like Babes.

[00:37:42] Usually, looking for Babes.

[00:37:44] Was there no movie called Big Tits?

[00:37:48] There was, but it was too on the notes.

[00:37:51] Uh, no.

[00:37:53] Usually I'm more specific in my searches, but this time I just wanted Babes.

[00:37:56] I just like, you know, like a 13 year old on his first search history.

[00:38:00] Oh, I thought that was going a totally different direction.

[00:38:02] Those Babes.

[00:38:03] I think, uh.

[00:38:03] Who's the comedian that has the joke where he's like, uh, the search was like girls in

[00:38:09] bath?

[00:38:10] Like talking about like, they caught like his kid or whatever searching the internet for

[00:38:15] like quote unquote porn, but it's not porn yet because he doesn't know what to search

[00:38:18] for.

[00:38:18] So it's like girls bathing, girls in shower, girls bath.

[00:38:22] What am I?

[00:38:23] What am I?

[00:38:23] That's where the sexiest.

[00:38:25] One of my, one of my sons.

[00:38:26] So like they send you the search information for your kids is Chromebooks.

[00:38:30] Oh, sure.

[00:38:31] Yeah.

[00:38:31] One of my sons who will go unnamed right now.

[00:38:34] Uh, a couple years ago.

[00:38:36] You only have two.

[00:38:37] Yeah, I know.

[00:38:38] So good luck figuring out which one.

[00:38:39] Um, I remember looking over it and laughing because he searched this phrase.

[00:38:47] It wasn't one word in the other word.

[00:38:49] It was this phrase.

[00:38:50] Boobs and butts.

[00:38:55] That is so funny.

[00:38:57] Sometimes.

[00:38:57] Boobs and butts.

[00:38:58] Sometimes you want both.

[00:38:59] I love it.

[00:39:00] Like the idea that you couldn't just leave the and out.

[00:39:03] Yeah.

[00:39:04] Boobs and butts.

[00:39:04] If I search boob and butts, I'm going to get something weird.

[00:39:06] Yeah.

[00:39:07] Oh, and that's 100% true.

[00:39:09] Rule 34 exists.

[00:39:10] Yeah.

[00:39:11] So you're going to get a butt with boobs on it.

[00:39:12] You're going to get like a butt cheeks with nipples on them.

[00:39:14] Yeah.

[00:39:14] So like boobs and butts.

[00:39:15] Very important distinction.

[00:39:16] Mm-hmm.

[00:39:16] You want them both.

[00:39:18] Uh, no.

[00:39:18] So Babes is a comedy, uh, that has Alana Glazer and Michelle Boutot in it as the leads.

[00:39:23] And it's, um, about them, you know, being, being pregnant and having kids and like their

[00:39:28] friendship and that kind of thing.

[00:39:30] It follows a fairly typical story you'd expect from a comedy like that where like they're,

[00:39:34] one of them's like a little bit immature.

[00:39:35] The other one is kind of figuring their life out kind of thing.

[00:39:37] But it's very, very funny.

[00:39:39] Uh, Hasan Minhaj is also in it as Michelle Boutot's husband.

[00:39:42] So it's pretty recent then.

[00:39:43] Yeah.

[00:39:43] It came out this year actually.

[00:39:44] Oh, gotcha.

[00:39:44] It's a, it's a neon movie.

[00:39:46] Um, and it's, it's out on Hulu now, but it's, it is a hilarious.

[00:39:49] It's heartfelt.

[00:39:50] It's exactly like the kind of, you know, comedy like this that I really enjoy to see.

[00:39:54] Um, they're, they're both great in it.

[00:39:55] Alana and Michelle make a great team.

[00:39:57] And, uh, yeah.

[00:39:58] Oh, John Carroll Lynch is in it and he's really funny as, uh, the, the OBGYN who sees Alana

[00:40:05] Glazer while she's pregnant.

[00:40:06] Um, he has a great ongoing like runner throughout the, uh, the movie.

[00:40:10] That's really funny.

[00:40:11] Um, Oliver Platt is in it as well.

[00:40:13] Oh, can't love me some good Platt.

[00:40:16] See, no, but I would, I would definitely encourage you guys to watch it if you haven't.

[00:40:18] And it's available on Hulu.

[00:40:19] It's, it's really funny.

[00:40:20] Plan a course to Hulu to check out babes.

[00:40:25] I mean, if he's doing nineties VHS, you know, voiceover, it's like, he's got it in the bag.

[00:40:30] There you go.

[00:40:31] I'm a, I'll Jean shall it it up.

[00:40:34] That sounds gross.

[00:40:37] Um, I also, uh, I watched a couple of thrillers.

[00:40:43] That was just the weirdest fucking way to say that.

[00:40:45] Well, it's spooky season.

[00:40:46] It's not anymore, but it was.

[00:40:48] It was.

[00:40:48] You just said, you fucked.

[00:40:51] Just stop it.

[00:40:54] You should be so much on my side here.

[00:40:56] We caught him.

[00:40:57] You just gave the sponsor like spooky season is over.

[00:41:00] No, but it was spooky season when I watched these movies.

[00:41:03] It's not anymore though.

[00:41:04] And you just, but it was, I'm getting very frustrated.

[00:41:06] I'm speaking from the time in which I watched these movies.

[00:41:09] I'm not joking.

[00:41:10] I'm time traveling.

[00:41:12] I physically feel not good right now.

[00:41:14] Like I'm mad at you.

[00:41:14] Yeah.

[00:41:14] I told you, you should go to the fucking doctor cause you're not healthy.

[00:41:17] I came mom.

[00:41:20] Yeah.

[00:41:20] Why don't you pour yourself another Jack and diet?

[00:41:22] Ashley.

[00:41:24] Jesus.

[00:41:25] Is every woman in my life here right now?

[00:41:27] You wish.

[00:41:29] Yeah.

[00:41:30] I need them dancing girls.

[00:41:31] Boobs and butts.

[00:41:32] Boobs and butts.

[00:41:32] I watched woman of the hour, which is a new Netflix movie directed by Anna Kendrick

[00:41:38] and starring Anna Kendrick.

[00:41:41] It is based on a true story.

[00:41:43] A sequel to the darkest hour.

[00:41:45] No, not even close.

[00:41:47] The finest hour.

[00:41:48] No.

[00:41:49] Ours.

[00:41:49] Keep going.

[00:41:50] Ours.

[00:41:51] Yeah.

[00:41:52] It's fun.

[00:41:52] It's a blast.

[00:41:53] I love it.

[00:41:53] We're out of ideas.

[00:41:55] Our family.

[00:41:56] Yours, mine and ours.

[00:41:57] Yeah.

[00:41:58] Good.

[00:41:59] No.

[00:41:59] So this is a thriller based on a true story.

[00:42:02] Follows Anna Kendrick where she's appearing on a dating game show.

[00:42:06] And one of the contestants is our idiot brother.

[00:42:09] A fucking asshole.

[00:42:11] A serial killer.

[00:42:12] Yes.

[00:42:12] Ooh.

[00:42:13] It's very interesting because the story is not, it's not quite as straightforward

[00:42:17] as I thought it was going to be.

[00:42:18] It has an interesting chronology to it, if you will.

[00:42:22] And it makes it.

[00:42:23] Chronology hours.

[00:42:23] I get it.

[00:42:24] It makes it, the story interesting as it unfolds to see what happens.

[00:42:29] Anna Kendrick is fantastic as usual.

[00:42:31] Obviously has a very keen eye for directing as well.

[00:42:34] The movie does have style.

[00:42:35] She does a very good job with it.

[00:42:36] I'm very interested to see what she does with her career after this, but a very tense,

[00:42:42] suspenseful thriller.

[00:42:43] Spooky.

[00:42:43] Not spooky, just suspenseful.

[00:42:46] Scary?

[00:42:47] Don't.

[00:42:48] No skeletons.

[00:42:50] I fucking, I was looking at Nate, but I shouldn't have been.

[00:42:52] I should have been looking at fucking Brad.

[00:42:53] There's one moment early on in this movie, and I won't say what it is, but I will talk

[00:42:58] about how creepy it is.

[00:43:00] Cause I've never seen something like this done in a movie like this before.

[00:43:04] And it immediately makes the killer incredibly unsettling.

[00:43:09] There's something he does to one of his victims.

[00:43:12] I'm like, oh, that's fucked up.

[00:43:14] And it's not gory.

[00:43:15] Does he lick the eyeball?

[00:43:17] No.

[00:43:17] It's not.

[00:43:18] It's not gory.

[00:43:19] It's not bloody.

[00:43:20] It's just, there's this one thing that he does that is just like, wow, that is really

[00:43:26] fucking sick.

[00:43:27] Does he gently pull up the eyelid and go, like, flap it?

[00:43:32] Just the eyelid of a dead body.

[00:43:34] And just put it back down.

[00:43:36] It's not that.

[00:43:37] That would be fucking creepy, right?

[00:43:38] It would be creepy.

[00:43:40] It would be spooky.

[00:43:40] It would be spooky scary.

[00:43:43] It's killing this thing.

[00:43:46] But no, Woman of the Hour, very good.

[00:43:47] It's on Netflix.

[00:43:48] I recommend you check it out.

[00:43:49] Another thriller that I watched is Late Night with the Devil.

[00:43:53] Oh, how is this?

[00:43:54] People say this one's a spooky one.

[00:43:56] This movie fucking rules.

[00:43:58] Yeah, I've heard great things.

[00:43:59] I can't pronounce his name, but he's in it.

[00:44:01] David Dastmalchian.

[00:44:02] Thank you.

[00:44:03] The guy that played Polka Dot Man.

[00:44:07] Oh, Polka, yeah, Polka, Polka, Polka, yeah.

[00:44:09] Polka, Polka, Polka, Polka.

[00:44:11] Yes, Polka Dot Man and Suicide Squad.

[00:44:13] But he's a fantastic actor besides that.

[00:44:14] He's also in the Ant-Man.

[00:44:15] Yeah, the Ant-Man franchise.

[00:44:16] Had a bit part of The Dark Knight, if you remember correctly.

[00:44:18] He played the Wasp.

[00:44:21] This movie, it's set in like the 70s, and it follows a late night talk show host

[00:44:29] who is kind of like trying to win back audience after some tragedy in his life.

[00:44:35] It plays out as if it is like this lost recording mixed with some behind the scenes footage.

[00:44:41] And the way the episode plays out is it's a Halloween episode.

[00:44:44] And so they're doing some like things with like a medium.

[00:44:47] And there's a guy who's like an illusionist who can recognize when there's fake things going on.

[00:44:51] And they bring on this psychologist who is working with a girl who is apparently possessed by some kind of demon.

[00:44:59] And the way it unfolds is just, it's really interesting the way the story progresses and how it escalates.

[00:45:05] It's really, really creepy, really, really unsettling.

[00:45:08] The performances are fantastic.

[00:45:09] The way it's framed is really good because they make it feel like an actual episode of a talk show like that.

[00:45:15] If you were watching it on TV, the way it unfolds.

[00:45:18] David S. Malchian is fantastic in the lead role.

[00:45:20] It's just a really good movie.

[00:45:23] And it's incredibly unique.

[00:45:24] I've heard great things about it.

[00:45:24] It's incredibly unique too.

[00:45:26] Yeah, it's just the way the story is told is really cool.

[00:45:30] Yeah, I've heard as a film, it's a good film.

[00:45:32] Yeah, absolutely.

[00:45:33] So that's on Hulu right now.

[00:45:34] So if you haven't seen that, even though Spooky Season is over, as I've established.

[00:45:40] I don't know why you're looking at me.

[00:45:42] Spooky?

[00:45:42] I didn't say that.

[00:45:44] It is worth watching for sure.

[00:45:46] It's a very good movie.

[00:45:48] And then I also watched Don't Move, which is a thriller on Netflix, which is fairly popular.

[00:45:54] I don't know if you've seen, but it's been at the top of the charts.

[00:45:58] Have you heard about this one, Nate?

[00:45:59] I've not heard at all about this.

[00:46:00] Top of the charts?

[00:46:01] Yeah, I think if it didn't hit number one, it was definitely at number two sometime either this past week or over the weekend.

[00:46:10] This one stars Kelsey Aspill and Finn Wittrock, who you might not know.

[00:46:17] Are you saying that sarcastically?

[00:46:20] Yeah.

[00:46:21] It's nice.

[00:46:21] Good job.

[00:46:22] But I think Kelsey...

[00:46:24] What's her name?

[00:46:24] Kelsey what?

[00:46:26] Aspill?

[00:46:27] I think she's in Yellowstone.

[00:46:28] You are correct.

[00:46:30] She plays Monica Dutton.

[00:46:31] Mm-hmm.

[00:46:32] So this is a kidnapping thriller.

[00:46:35] And what's interesting is when this story unfolds, I was not...

[00:46:40] I won't even tell you what the premise is because it's kind of fun to watch not knowing what it's fully about because it makes the opening that much more engaging and surprising.

[00:46:49] I wasn't sure if it was going to be able to sustain itself because I don't know how a storyline like this gets stretched out to a feature length time because it's like, well, what is she going to do now?

[00:47:02] Yeah, it's not like it was like 127 hours.

[00:47:06] No, but kind of in a similar fashion though, like that's the kind of scenario where it's like, oh, how do you stretch that out into...

[00:47:13] I was just making another hours joke.

[00:47:17] Oh, that's good.

[00:47:18] From before.

[00:47:18] Nate, can I talk to you for a second?

[00:47:19] Yeah.

[00:47:20] Where'd you guys go?

[00:47:21] He's a fucking idiot, right?

[00:47:24] I mean, he's kind of strange.

[00:47:25] Actually, Ben, do me a favor.

[00:47:26] Come in here.

[00:47:26] I want you to get nervous.

[00:47:27] What's up?

[00:47:27] You're a fucking idiot.

[00:47:28] What?

[00:47:29] But you just didn't get the joke.

[00:47:31] Nate, he's a fucking idiot.

[00:47:32] Why am I the idiot?

[00:47:32] You didn't get the joke.

[00:47:33] It was a callback.

[00:47:33] Okay, no, Ben, we're done.

[00:47:34] I just wanted us all to get along.

[00:47:37] Okay, what are you doing, crybaby?

[00:47:38] Yeah, fucking spook idiot.

[00:47:40] Scary, scary, scary.

[00:47:41] No, we're done with that.

[00:47:41] Always becoming man.

[00:47:42] Seven.

[00:47:42] Seven.

[00:47:43] Man becoming wolf.

[00:47:44] But no, this one...

[00:47:45] Just admit you didn't get my fucking joke.

[00:47:47] It worked.

[00:47:47] I didn't.

[00:47:48] I've moved on from all of the bad things that have happened.

[00:47:54] But no, this movie...

[00:47:55] That's actually what I told my therapist last week.

[00:47:58] This movie also is very suspenseful, though.

[00:48:00] And I was impressed that they were able to figure out a way to stretch it out without

[00:48:04] necessarily feeling like it was contrived.

[00:48:07] And they did do a pretty good job of making the plot work as far as how the story plays

[00:48:13] out.

[00:48:14] And there's some really strong moments in here, but it's a solid thriller.

[00:48:19] By the way, I know that I made the 127 Hours joke.

[00:48:24] Mm-hmm.

[00:48:24] I was making the joke, right?

[00:48:26] Didn't really think about the context of what I was saying.

[00:48:29] Mm-hmm.

[00:48:30] But I fell into the fact that that very specific event is something that is hard to make into

[00:48:36] a future life film.

[00:48:38] You asshole.

[00:48:39] So again, I just fucking lucked into exactly what you were talking about.

[00:48:44] Story of your life, buddy.

[00:48:45] I was making a dumb fucking...

[00:48:46] Story of your life.

[00:48:46] Winner!

[00:48:48] Winner, winner, chicken fucking dinner.

[00:48:50] I'll give you some chicken dinner.

[00:48:51] Yeah!

[00:48:52] Fucking nuts.

[00:48:52] I'd rather have turkey.

[00:48:53] Out of those three films that you just talked about, which one's the best film?

[00:48:57] Uh, I...

[00:48:57] Late Night with the Devil.

[00:48:59] Yeah, I think Late Night with the Devil is probably the best movie, but Woman of the

[00:49:02] Hour is not far behind.

[00:49:03] Woman of the Hour works very well, too.

[00:49:06] Um, especially since it's Anna Kendrick's first time directing.

[00:49:08] Really impressive stuff from her.

[00:49:11] Um, one last one I'll talk about before I talk about my assignments, which I do have

[00:49:14] two because I realized after we recorded last time I didn't talk about my assignment,

[00:49:18] even though I watched it.

[00:49:19] Uh, but I watched Music by John Williams, which is a new documentary that's on Disney Plus.

[00:49:24] Yeah, how was that?

[00:49:25] It's fantastic.

[00:49:27] Um, you would love that.

[00:49:28] I...

[00:49:28] Yeah, come on.

[00:49:29] No, I mean if...

[00:49:30] I'm a sucker for John Williams.

[00:49:31] I love his scores, you know, I mean all Spielberg movies that have his music.

[00:49:35] Does Steve talk at all in the documentary?

[00:49:37] 100%.

[00:49:38] Steve is a very prominent part.

[00:49:39] It's all him?

[00:49:40] Yeah, it's all Steven Spielberg.

[00:49:41] 100% of it's him.

[00:49:42] They don't even show John Williams.

[00:49:43] It's Steven Spielberg.

[00:49:44] Holy shit.

[00:49:44] He stands in front of the camera.

[00:49:46] It's not even shot very well.

[00:49:47] No wonder you like it.

[00:49:48] Yeah, um, some of it is like shot in a weird close-up where like he obviously didn't frame

[00:49:51] himself very well.

[00:49:52] Oh, hey, by the way, the bit's over.

[00:49:54] So, like, it's really frustrating because like it's too close to his beard.

[00:49:58] Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.

[00:50:00] Uh, but no, it is, uh, it's wonderful.

[00:50:03] It's a, it's a profile of John Williams' career and his work.

[00:50:07] Spielberg talks a lot in it.

[00:50:08] George Lucas talks a lot.

[00:50:09] They got other composers.

[00:50:10] They even got Chris Martin from Coldplay.

[00:50:12] Uh, and you'll understand.

[00:50:13] He's not doing much.

[00:50:14] You'll understand why when he's like talks in the documentary.

[00:50:16] Did they talk to Alan Silvestri?

[00:50:18] They did.

[00:50:19] Sweet!

[00:50:19] Yeah.

[00:50:20] Um, and so it is, it's just a really nice documentary.

[00:50:23] My only complaint is that I would have much rather preferred to see a six hour docu-series

[00:50:29] that allowed him to talk more about individual projects because there's-

[00:50:34] He's got eras he can talk about, right?

[00:50:35] Yeah.

[00:50:35] There's tons of individual like movies that he worked on that he didn't even like get to

[00:50:40] talk about because they, they focus on some of the milestones.

[00:50:42] They focus on some, you know, interesting anecdotes and stuff like that.

[00:50:45] For sure.

[00:50:45] Um, cause the doc's only like an hour, 40 minutes, I think.

[00:50:48] Yeah, that's enough.

[00:50:49] And yeah, I, I could have easily watched so much more about John Williams, especially

[00:50:52] listening to other composers talk about him and other filmmakers and whatnot.

[00:50:56] Uh, but there's definitely a lot to learn.

[00:50:59] I didn't know that he worked on as a pianist before he became a composer.

[00:51:03] Shut up, Ben!

[00:51:06] Can't even hear the word pianist without chuckling like a school girl.

[00:51:09] It's cause it sounds like pianist.

[00:51:12] It sounds a lot like, you gotta admit, it sounds a lot like pianist.

[00:51:15] Oh boy.

[00:51:17] That's so sad.

[00:51:19] Penis.

[00:51:22] He's got it too.

[00:51:23] That snake's got some venom.

[00:51:25] You know what I'm saying?

[00:51:26] This motherfucker.

[00:51:28] Fuck you!

[00:51:30] Just when you think he's turned everything to shit, he pulls a little bit of gold out.

[00:51:33] Ha ha ha ha ha!

[00:51:35] He still has it.

[00:51:36] So what films did you, were you assigned then?

[00:51:38] So the last time we had this podcast together, I was assigned The Crow by my buddy Ben.

[00:51:44] The 1994 version of The Crow, not the 2024 version from 30 years later.

[00:51:51] Cool.

[00:51:52] Ha ha ha ha!

[00:51:53] This is a movie that I've actually actively avoided for a long time because it started

[00:51:58] to feel similar to Donnie Darko and Boondock Saints.

[00:52:02] In the sense that like...

[00:52:04] Yeah.

[00:52:04] It's such culture around it, be like, oh you haven't seen The Crow?

[00:52:06] Bro, you gotta see The Crow man.

[00:52:08] Oh you haven't seen Boondock Saints?

[00:52:10] It's so fucking good.

[00:52:11] Oh my god, you're gonna fucking love it.

[00:52:13] Whoa, whoa.

[00:52:13] Coats and guns.

[00:52:14] Whoa.

[00:52:15] Oh you haven't seen Donnie Darko?

[00:52:16] It's so dark man.

[00:52:18] Like it's gonna change your fucking life.

[00:52:20] Every time I saw...

[00:52:21] Who are you hanging out with?

[00:52:22] It's the guy who fucking loves Donnie Darko.

[00:52:26] I mean the way that you sound like...

[00:52:27] Ooh, you haven't seen Donnie Darko.

[00:52:30] That's how it felt whenever people would talk about those movies, especially in college.

[00:52:33] In college, Boondock Saints and Donnie Darko were people's like fucking...

[00:52:37] Ugh.

[00:52:37] You know what I'm buying in college was is everyone wanted people to see Garden State.

[00:52:42] See, I loved Garden State but like I wasn't...

[00:52:45] Ooh, yeah.

[00:52:45] It's Christian.

[00:52:47] Natalie Portnick turns into a career defining protagonist.

[00:52:49] Zach Braff is a brilliant director.

[00:52:51] Yeah.

[00:52:52] So I never wanted...

[00:52:53] Mine was Rounders.

[00:52:54] I never wanted to see...

[00:52:55] Everybody wanted you to watch Rounders.

[00:52:56] The Crow.

[00:52:58] Didn't seem like it was for me.

[00:53:00] I'm glad I watched it now that I understand.

[00:53:02] That I don't mean this.

[00:53:04] I mean this literally.

[00:53:06] It's very dark.

[00:53:07] It is.

[00:53:08] The film is just filmed super dark.

[00:53:10] So interestingly enough, even though it is dark, it's very impressively shot.

[00:53:14] But it is.

[00:53:15] But overall, it's like if Candyman is shot as a horror movie to be very light, like literally

[00:53:20] during the daytime, this is purposely filmed completely at night, all dark.

[00:53:24] Yeah.

[00:53:25] It's almost like there's no daytime in this world.

[00:53:26] Yeah.

[00:53:26] But it's shot in a way where it doesn't feel like it's poorly lit.

[00:53:31] Right, right, right.

[00:53:31] They use black and white...

[00:53:34] It's not murky.

[00:53:34] ...in a very dynamic way.

[00:53:36] One of the things I was particularly impressed by actually was how they used miniatures

[00:53:39] to create incredible sweeping establishing shots because they obviously couldn't do that

[00:53:45] if they had...

[00:53:46] It's 1994.

[00:53:47] It's 1994.

[00:53:47] It's 1994.

[00:53:47] It's 1994.

[00:53:48] There's no real city that looks the way that you want it to look for this movie if you

[00:53:51] want that kind of like darkness that they really wanted to have.

[00:53:54] And so they built like a miniature model that was very detailed and they used, you know,

[00:54:00] sweeping camera shots that worked pretty well for the time.

[00:54:04] But it's kind of hard to get into.

[00:54:06] It's definitely a product of the 90s and of like, oh, people are getting into like dark

[00:54:10] gothic kind of stuff, you know?

[00:54:12] And it feels like it's kind of riding like a comic book wave too, you know, of trying

[00:54:17] to follow in the footsteps of Batman but be a little bit like edgier for the kids.

[00:54:22] And I don't mean to trounce on a man's grave because there's a lot of praise for Brandon

[00:54:29] Lee in this movie who tragically died during the production.

[00:54:32] He was unfortunately shot when a gun went actually went off and killed him while they

[00:54:37] were shooting the movie.

[00:54:38] But I didn't think he was particularly good in this role.

[00:54:42] Like if he had lived, I'm not sure that I would have been excited to see like what he

[00:54:46] did next because like this is one of those things.

[00:54:49] Unlike Heath Ledger correctly deserving.

[00:54:52] Yeah.

[00:54:53] An Oscar for his performance posthumously.

[00:54:55] There was nothing about this performance.

[00:54:58] Yeah, because the character is supposed to be kind of like this this dark, you know, almost

[00:55:02] like metal kind of guy.

[00:55:03] Yeah.

[00:55:03] And he talks like a dork.

[00:55:07] Like.

[00:55:07] I don't mean to trounce on anybody's grave, but this guy was a fucking dork.

[00:55:14] No, he, he enunciates everything very clearly.

[00:55:17] And the voice he uses, it's not, he's not putting on a voice.

[00:55:20] He just sounds like an average white guy.

[00:55:23] This is the, you know what?

[00:55:24] He played the crows from Dumbo.

[00:55:27] That's the liner notes that he read.

[00:55:29] And he's like, oh, I got this.

[00:55:30] He did the crows from Dumbo.

[00:55:32] I don't even remember what they sound like.

[00:55:34] Oh buddy.

[00:55:35] They're super racist caricatures of black people.

[00:55:37] Go ahead.

[00:55:38] Try it.

[00:55:39] I would like to hear you try an impression.

[00:55:42] Please do.

[00:55:44] I love that you forgot that the crows are very clearly stereotypical black people in Dumbo.

[00:55:51] I forgot all about that.

[00:55:53] I remember there being a problem with the crows, but I thought it was white.

[00:55:57] I thought, I thought, here's what I thought.

[00:55:59] No, no.

[00:55:59] Here, hold on.

[00:55:59] Let me guess.

[00:56:00] You ain't never seen an elephant fly?

[00:56:02] No, hold on, hold on.

[00:56:03] I thought.

[00:56:04] I be done seen.

[00:56:05] No, no, no.

[00:56:06] About everything till I see an elephant fly.

[00:56:10] Please stop talking.

[00:56:12] Please stop talking.

[00:56:13] Please cut.

[00:56:13] Please edit.

[00:56:14] Please cut.

[00:56:15] Cut it all.

[00:56:18] Cut it all.

[00:56:18] Cut it all.

[00:56:19] Cut it all.

[00:56:21] Oh my God.

[00:56:21] I seen a house fly.

[00:56:23] Stop.

[00:56:23] Stop.

[00:56:24] I thought, I remember that there was a problem, but I-

[00:56:29] And you thought that the crows were too white?

[00:56:32] No.

[00:56:33] I thought that the crows from Dumbo were like white voices making fun of black people.

[00:56:42] Oh, I mean, they might have been.

[00:56:44] That probably was true.

[00:56:45] Yeah.

[00:56:45] I don't think that-

[00:56:46] I thought-

[00:56:47] There's a good chance that the crows were not voiced by black people and were voiced

[00:56:50] by white people doing black voices.

[00:56:52] They may have been.

[00:56:52] I thought that it was like-

[00:56:53] I don't know.

[00:56:54] I thought that it was like white crows being like, oh, I'm a mammy.

[00:56:59] I thought that-

[00:57:00] So that's-

[00:57:01] No, you could be 100% right.

[00:57:02] That was the joke that I was trying to make.

[00:57:03] Like he did a terrible voice for a crow.

[00:57:05] Oh, that's not what it seemed like.

[00:57:09] I'm like, whoa, Brandon, wrong crow, buddy.

[00:57:12] Wrong voice for a crow.

[00:57:14] Really not trying to do that with it.

[00:57:16] That would have been hilarious.

[00:57:19] But no, he just sounds like a dork.

[00:57:21] Okay.

[00:57:21] Well, I don't know if this is going to stay in or not, but-

[00:57:24] Oh, fuck.

[00:57:26] I don't, again, this is like-

[00:57:28] No, now that you've explained it, it makes sense.

[00:57:30] The 27th time that I said, unfortunately sounded racist.

[00:57:34] God, I'm not racist.

[00:57:35] That's really funny.

[00:57:36] To be fair, what you said wasn't racist.

[00:57:38] I know, I know!

[00:57:39] It just sounded wrong.

[00:57:41] I don't know.

[00:57:41] I don't know.

[00:57:42] Come on!

[00:57:44] Damn it, how do I honestly work myself into these conundrums?

[00:57:48] Like this is not, it's almost like by design anymore.

[00:57:52] What the fuck is going on in my life?

[00:57:54] So yeah, so the crow was okay.

[00:57:56] Yeah, fine.

[00:57:56] What's the next movie?

[00:57:58] Oh my God, please move on.

[00:57:59] I'm not mad that I saw it.

[00:58:01] If the next movie that you got assigned was the color purple, I'm not going to say anything.

[00:58:05] I'm not mad I saw it.

[00:58:06] I'm not necessarily happy with the outcome.

[00:58:09] Are you glad that it is now behind you?

[00:58:11] Like I can say that I've seen it.

[00:58:12] Yeah, 100%.

[00:58:13] And get what people were talking about.

[00:58:14] Yeah, I get it.

[00:58:16] I get it.

[00:58:17] I get it.

[00:58:17] The other movie that I was assigned for this episode was by Nate.

[00:58:23] Hi.

[00:58:24] And that's a movie called We Were Soldiers, directed by Randall Wallace.

[00:58:29] I'm giving you Sam Elliott films.

[00:58:30] Yes.

[00:58:30] Yes.

[00:58:32] Randall Wallace wrote Braveheart, and he also directed The Man in the Iron Mask and some

[00:58:38] stuff like that.

[00:58:39] Both historically super accurate.

[00:58:42] 100%.

[00:58:44] I could still mess with Braveheart though.

[00:58:47] I do like a little Braveheart still.

[00:58:48] Oh no, I'm not going to lie.

[00:58:50] Like it's a fun movie.

[00:58:51] Yeah.

[00:58:52] Nothing in it happened.

[00:58:53] No, but it's a fun movie.

[00:58:54] And your hero's in it.

[00:58:56] Jesus?

[00:58:57] Mel Gibson.

[00:58:58] Mel Gibson.

[00:58:58] Same thing.

[00:58:59] Yep, see?

[00:59:01] So yeah, this is a war drama set during Vietnam that stars Mel Gibson as a colonel who is

[00:59:08] tasked with taking several platoons into Vietnam in this dangerous enemy territory.

[00:59:15] Sam Elliott is also in it as his second in command, I guess you could say.

[00:59:20] Such a fun Sam Elliott.

[00:59:21] Sam Elliott has three lines in this movie that absolutely cracked me up.

[00:59:28] Yep.

[00:59:28] The first one-

[00:59:29] Are they meant to be funny?

[00:59:30] Yes.

[00:59:31] Yeah.

[00:59:32] Because I haven't seen this since it came out.

[00:59:33] Yes, they are.

[00:59:34] But it does so well though.

[00:59:36] So Sam Elliott plays your typical like gruff military guy.

[00:59:40] The guy who played Bertier in Remember the Titans twice when he walks by the sergeant like

[00:59:46] before they're doing training and everything like that.

[00:59:49] He says, good morning, Sergeant.

[00:59:51] You know what kind of goddamn day it is.

[00:59:54] And then he delivers it so perfectly.

[00:59:57] The next day, beautiful morning, Sergeant.

[01:00:00] What are you, the fucking weatherman now?

[01:00:03] Jesus.

[01:00:03] Jesus.

[01:00:04] Like, also I love this because like Vietnam's not hard enough.

[01:00:08] Right?

[01:00:09] Well, it's before they even got to Vietnam.

[01:00:13] So he, this is his default attitude.

[01:00:16] He's not, he's just like, actually these days might not be that bad so far.

[01:00:20] But then when they are in Vietnam, uh, Mel Gibson has like a moment where he talks about,

[01:00:24] uh, he's talking about, uh, Custer and he's like, um, he was like, he was like, he's like,

[01:00:29] I just think about, you know, I don't know what, uh, what Custer famously got his

[01:00:33] soldier slaughter.

[01:00:34] Yeah.

[01:00:34] He's like, he's like, yeah.

[01:00:35] In his last stand.

[01:00:37] Yeah.

[01:00:37] And so he's talked about, I was thinking about Custer and Sam Elliott, the character goes,

[01:00:40] he's like, well, he's like, you wouldn't have done that sir.

[01:00:43] Cause Custer was a pussy.

[01:00:46] I do love Sam Elliott in this film.

[01:00:48] Oh, I gotta rewatch this.

[01:00:50] This is fantastic.

[01:00:51] Uh, he's, he's, he's great.

[01:00:52] Uh, he's really good.

[01:00:53] But man, uh, what a great ensemble cast.

[01:00:55] Uh, Greg Kinnear is in this.

[01:00:57] Yeah.

[01:00:57] A young John Hamm is in this.

[01:01:00] He doesn't have a significant part, but he's definitely there.

[01:01:03] John Hamm would have been in his like, what is early twenties?

[01:01:05] Uh, he was 30, I believe because there's a story that he told somewhere where he gave

[01:01:11] himself the goal where if he hadn't made it by he was the time he was 30, then he was

[01:01:15] going to quit.

[01:01:16] And that's when he got, we were soldiers.

[01:01:18] Wow.

[01:01:19] So if you Russell's in this, Gary Russell is in this, um, Felicity, Felicity, Felicity

[01:01:24] is in it.

[01:01:25] Barry Pepper is in this.

[01:01:26] Yeah.

[01:01:26] Actually, uh, when I, when I rewatched this a couple of years ago, I'm like, what happened

[01:01:30] to Barry Pepper?

[01:01:31] Enemy at the Gates, Barry Pepper.

[01:01:33] Is Barry Pepper in Enemy at the Gates?

[01:01:34] I don't remember.

[01:01:35] Saving Private Ryan is the one we just sniped.

[01:01:37] Oh, there we go.

[01:01:37] Wrong one.

[01:01:38] Um, so this movie feels like it's, uh, really trying to be Vietnam's Saving Private Ryan

[01:01:43] and it never quite got there for me.

[01:01:47] Um, it's a little, has a little too much war cliche and I don't think unlike Saving Private

[01:01:52] Ryan, you get enough time to really, uh, attach yourself to the characters as far as

[01:02:00] the soldiers.

[01:02:01] There's a couple that you get some time with.

[01:02:03] Mel Gibson is the lead.

[01:02:04] So like that's, that makes sense.

[01:02:05] Uh, but I, in Saving Private Ryan, you spend time with the ensemble with Tom Hanks and his,

[01:02:10] his troops and diesel.

[01:02:12] Yeah.

[01:02:13] And you really start to care about them as characters and I don't, I never quite got

[01:02:16] to that point here, but the war sequences themselves are fantastic.

[01:02:20] Like the, the explosions and the gunfire and everything.

[01:02:24] It's very well done.

[01:02:26] Um, one of the things I do love about this film and a couple of critics did note it for

[01:02:30] it is, you know, there's the jingoistic kind of like America's always good.

[01:02:36] Of course.

[01:02:37] And it does give a little bit of, not, not a ton, but it does essentially show that the

[01:02:44] other side was trying to do what they thought was best as well.

[01:02:48] That they're, that they're, that this plays and some of the critics noted like it isn't

[01:02:52] as like cut and dry, cut and dry.

[01:02:55] And, and I did appreciate that.

[01:02:57] I do.

[01:03:00] Yeah.

[01:03:00] I think it was one of my favorite things about a movie called the kingdom.

[01:03:02] Have you ever seen that movie?

[01:03:04] Is that with the, uh, hold on.

[01:03:05] Is that with Jamie Foxx?

[01:03:06] Yeah.

[01:03:06] Jamie Foxx, Jason Bateman, Jessica Biel.

[01:03:09] I haven't seen it, but honestly I've read multiple times that that is referenced as,

[01:03:13] Oh, you should watch that because it's not only very good, but it shows like the other

[01:03:18] side of something.

[01:03:19] And I didn't know what it was about.

[01:03:20] So it was, it was set after 9-11 and, uh, it, it very prominently focused on some people

[01:03:25] who in the war on terror are trying to stop terrorists from doing their thing.

[01:03:30] Uh, and you have these characters who are, I would have put that by the way, very, I

[01:03:34] just try to do their thing.

[01:03:36] Hey, you know what I, uh, I don't like about terrorism.

[01:03:39] I'm trying to do their thing.

[01:03:40] You have these characters who are, are very like adamant, you know, trying, trying to

[01:03:44] stop it.

[01:03:44] And it's a very, it feels like it's a very like, you know, like we're America.

[01:03:47] We're not going to let this happen again.

[01:03:48] Kind of thing.

[01:03:48] Um, there's actually a really outstanding opening credit sequence that sets the table

[01:03:53] of like the stuff that led to 9-11 and the things that have happened since then.

[01:03:59] Cause it's not set like immediately after.

[01:04:00] Um, but there's a very striking image I remember in the graphics where it, it turns

[01:04:05] like numbers into the twin towers and graph with like stylized graphics shows the planes

[01:04:11] crashing the towers.

[01:04:12] It was very like dramatic.

[01:04:13] Was it a sideways number four?

[01:04:15] It was not.

[01:04:16] Cause it had like a plane fin.

[01:04:17] No, but it's.

[01:04:18] Exactly.

[01:04:19] Uh, but so, but the, in the, in the movie though, it does a similar thing that we were soldiers

[01:04:23] does where it, it shows you the other side of like, you see these, the, the terrorists

[01:04:29] and equally they think that what they're doing is the thing that's right for their people,

[01:04:34] you know?

[01:04:35] Um, and so like the, it's, it's, it's, it's not meant to like show that like, oh, the terrorists

[01:04:40] are right, but it's like, they're just like us, but they think that what they're doing

[01:04:44] is right.

[01:04:44] You know?

[01:04:45] Uh, so that, I always thought that that was an interesting thing.

[01:04:47] And so that, yeah, I do appreciate that aspect of it because it's not something that

[01:04:50] you saw in a lot of war movies like this.

[01:04:51] Especially those 90s.

[01:04:52] Yeah.

[01:04:52] Yeah.

[01:04:53] So yeah.

[01:04:54] And I remember when I watched this film taking that away, like, I think there's even a scene,

[01:04:58] is this a film where Mel Gibson's character at the end writes a letter to?

[01:05:04] It's, it's actually Barry Pepper who, cause he's, he's a journalist and so, and he's there

[01:05:08] covering it.

[01:05:08] He's taking pictures and stuff like that.

[01:05:10] Uh, so yeah, he's the one who, he sends a letter with the diary that he found.

[01:05:14] Yeah.

[01:05:14] He's Mickey Mantle.

[01:05:14] Yeah.

[01:05:15] So, uh, no, but I enjoy this film.

[01:05:18] Is it a 61 reference?

[01:05:19] Yep.

[01:05:19] Wow.

[01:05:20] It's a deep cut.

[01:05:21] But yeah, no, I'm glad I watched this cause it's, it's, yeah, it's a war, war movie that

[01:05:24] was like big back in 2003 and I never saw it and yeah, solid.

[01:05:28] All right.

[01:05:28] And it's a shame Mel Gibson is a piece of shit cause he's pretty good at this.

[01:05:32] It is.

[01:05:33] It really is.

[01:05:34] I know you guys, you know, the running joke here is that I love Mel Gibson, but if, if

[01:05:38] you're, if you for some reason are allowed to take away the person and just see

[01:05:44] the, the, the, the arts, right.

[01:05:46] People have this conversation about like Woody Allen, right?

[01:05:50] They'll have, Oh, these Woody Allen films are incredible and he's a monster.

[01:05:54] Mel Gibson is not a good person, but you have to admit Kevin Spacey, like these people

[01:05:58] are very good at their craft.

[01:06:00] So especially when you watch these older films, when you know, that public persona was nowhere

[01:06:05] near them, they were just at the top of their game.

[01:06:07] It's really hard not to get re quote re lost into those moments.

[01:06:12] You get it.

[01:06:13] You get why they're big, big actors.

[01:06:14] Yeah.

[01:06:15] Why they were.

[01:06:15] Yeah.

[01:06:16] If anything, it just makes me frustrated.

[01:06:18] I'm just like, ugh, I can't.

[01:06:18] Why they were.

[01:06:20] They were soldiers.

[01:06:24] But yeah, that's a, that's a, that's a, I'm still working my way through Friday the

[01:06:28] 13th and nightmare on Elm street just cause it's taken a little while.

[01:06:30] Did you watch any more?

[01:06:31] Yeah.

[01:06:31] I watched a nightmare three and four.

[01:06:34] Uh, dream warriors is awesome.

[01:06:36] Just let me know.

[01:06:37] I was gonna say dream warriors is great.

[01:06:38] Let me know when you get to Manhattan.

[01:06:40] That's all I want to know.

[01:06:41] I did.

[01:06:41] And I was disappointed.

[01:06:43] What?

[01:06:43] It's bonkers.

[01:06:44] It's, it's bonkers, but not in a good way.

[01:06:47] No, no, it's not supposed to.

[01:06:48] Yeah.

[01:06:49] It's bad.

[01:06:50] Yeah.

[01:06:50] I was bad.

[01:06:51] Good.

[01:06:51] I was frustrated because it came on the heels of punches the head off of a boxer and

[01:06:58] it flies off of a skyscraper.

[01:07:00] So that scene is hilarious.

[01:07:01] Yes.

[01:07:02] Uh, especially because of how many times the guy punches Jason.

[01:07:05] Yeah.

[01:07:05] He punches him 47 times.

[01:07:07] It's way too long.

[01:07:08] It's such a long scene.

[01:07:10] And it's ridiculous.

[01:07:10] But no, I was, I was disappointed because I liked six so much and a seven, uh, is a step

[01:07:16] down.

[01:07:17] Um, but yeah.

[01:07:18] And so, so eight is so bad.

[01:07:21] It's good.

[01:07:21] That's that territory.

[01:07:22] Yeah.

[01:07:23] I, I honestly just, I didn't get into it in that way.

[01:07:25] There were, there were some things that I was, there were some things that I was amused

[01:07:28] by.

[01:07:28] Um, but, but, but the boxer scene was great.

[01:07:30] It's all the boxer scene was, was very funny.

[01:07:33] Um, but, but yeah, uh, dream warriors and the nightmare on Elm street so far is gets

[01:07:38] the credit for being more creative as far as mixing up the formula and doing interesting

[01:07:42] things.

[01:07:42] That, that, uh, series compared to the Jason series leaps and bounds, but yeah, it really

[01:07:47] is.

[01:07:48] Um, so yeah, I'm, I'm still making my way through so I can get to Freddy versus Jason

[01:07:51] and wrap it all up.

[01:07:53] I know, but it's a spooky skin.

[01:07:56] Skeletons.

[01:07:58] Uh, no, you know what time it is.

[01:08:05] What time do you think it is?

[01:08:06] Hold on.

[01:08:07] What time?

[01:08:07] I got the time right here.

[01:08:08] What time do you think it is?

[01:08:10] I'm going to guess based on, I'm not looking at my watch right now.

[01:08:16] It is trailer time.

[01:08:18] That's right.

[01:08:19] No, it's 1108.

[01:08:22] I don't even know what fucking time it is.

[01:08:24] And I'm not singing the trailer song.

[01:08:25] And you know why?

[01:08:26] Cause you guys are pieces of shit.

[01:08:28] I haven't even talked about the movies I've seen.

[01:08:30] That's what I thought.

[01:08:31] Oh, I didn't even think about that.

[01:08:32] That's why I'm like, I, you were moving on really quick.

[01:08:34] I'm like, what about Ben?

[01:08:36] So, you know what?

[01:08:36] I'm sorry about that, buddy.

[01:08:37] That's my fault.

[01:08:38] And I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to take responsibility for it.

[01:08:41] And yeah, you really, I didn't mean to hurt your feelings.

[01:08:43] And that's why I was quiet for a second.

[01:08:44] I'm like, geez.

[01:08:45] Yeah.

[01:08:45] Sorry.

[01:08:46] I didn't mean to watch any films.

[01:08:48] Oh, see now he's pouting.

[01:08:49] He's drinking his little drink.

[01:08:50] He gets hurt though.

[01:08:51] He's silly.

[01:08:52] He said, he's a galoot, but he's got, got a lot of feelings in there.

[01:09:00] Oh, he's crying.

[01:09:01] He's crying.

[01:09:02] Do you feel like you got bit by a snake's venom?

[01:09:04] No, it's not funny.

[01:09:07] Hey buddy.

[01:09:08] I'm just as much a part.

[01:09:09] Like just cause I'm like, you guys make fun of me, but I'm just, I'm just, I watch movies.

[01:09:12] Like I have content to provide.

[01:09:14] That's not just like silly jokes.

[01:09:15] Well, I'm a little disappointed that you call it content, but I have good, like again,

[01:09:22] that's like, I have good qualities too.

[01:09:24] It's a shitty thing to say.

[01:09:25] Like I bring some content to the show that like, it's good.

[01:09:27] Like you just like, you just skip over me.

[01:09:31] Sit on his lap.

[01:09:32] What movies did you see?

[01:09:36] Big crocodile tears wiping.

[01:09:38] No, it's fine.

[01:09:40] It's fine.

[01:09:41] But buddy, hey.

[01:09:43] Yeah.

[01:09:43] Nate, what's up?

[01:09:44] What movies did you see?

[01:09:46] I'd like to know.

[01:09:47] Are you being serious?

[01:09:48] Of course.

[01:09:51] Okay.

[01:09:52] I'll tell you.

[01:09:54] It's trailer time.

[01:09:59] I just got a slow comical turn.

[01:10:03] Comical?

[01:10:04] Oh, it's hilarious.

[01:10:06] If you can see what I'm looking at.

[01:10:09] You fucking idiot.

[01:10:10] You fucking idiot.

[01:10:11] You fucking idiot.

[01:10:11] This is why listeners hate us, by the way, because I'm like, you fucking idiot.

[01:10:15] And then like two seconds later, I'm like, wow!

[01:10:17] Yeah, it's a surreal.

[01:10:18] What'd you watch?

[01:10:19] Anyway, I'm not talking to you.

[01:10:22] So I watched Along Came Polly.

[01:10:26] Oh, yes.

[01:10:26] I love that movie.

[01:10:27] Haven't seen it in forever.

[01:10:28] Probably since it came out, honestly.

[01:10:29] Not a perfect movie, but I love it.

[01:10:31] No, no.

[01:10:31] Ice Man.

[01:10:32] It's so silly.

[01:10:33] Like, of course.

[01:10:34] Making it rain.

[01:10:35] Philip Seymour Hoffman playing basketball is iconic.

[01:10:38] It's an all-timey.

[01:10:40] Oh, the sweating.

[01:10:41] Oh, that's disgusting.

[01:10:43] Alec Baldwin is a character I totally forgot existed.

[01:10:47] I didn't know he was in this.

[01:10:48] Alec Baldwin plays Ben Stiller's boss at the insurance place where he's an insurance

[01:10:53] like...

[01:10:53] He kind of puts on a voice like this.

[01:10:55] Oh, yeah.

[01:10:56] He basically, Ben Stiller for a living assesses risk.

[01:10:59] And his new girlfriend, after his wife cheats on him because he gets a girlfriend, and she

[01:11:05] is a flower child and all over the place played by Jennifer Anderson.

[01:11:10] And Alec Baldwin absolutely like...

[01:11:13] Comes into the men's room after Ben Stiller.

[01:11:17] Smacks him on the butt as he's peeing.

[01:11:19] Grabs his earlobe.

[01:11:21] After he...

[01:11:22] After Alec Baldwin has pissed, he reads up and goes, hey, good talk.

[01:11:25] Smacks his ass and grabs his earlobe and just slowly rubs his index and thumb around.

[01:11:32] It's just...

[01:11:33] Honestly, if you do that to anybody in a men's room, you're either going to go to jail now

[01:11:39] or that person will fear and respect you for the rest of your life.

[01:11:42] It's a dangerous game, but it's one wordplay.

[01:11:45] It's a risk.

[01:11:45] But yeah, he does.

[01:11:46] Because he's like, hey, good dog, what are we doing here?

[01:11:49] And he goes to their wedding at the beginning of the movie.

[01:11:53] Ben Stiller, he's a Jewish person in real life, so it's a Jewish wedding.

[01:11:58] And Alec Baldwin is not Jewish in the film.

[01:12:01] But he does...

[01:12:02] You know what?

[01:12:03] Maybe I'm speaking out of turn.

[01:12:04] Maybe he's playing a Jewish character.

[01:12:05] And I don't know this.

[01:12:06] But he's like, hey, good for you guys, mazel.

[01:12:08] And he says mazel like three times.

[01:12:11] But it's just the most offensive way to say it somehow.

[01:12:14] I don't know.

[01:12:14] It's just very off-putting.

[01:12:15] The way that Alec Baldwin chooses it.

[01:12:17] Anyway, good talk, mazel.

[01:12:20] Hey, sometimes you show that move I taught you in the bedroom tonight.

[01:12:24] Anyway, mazel.

[01:12:25] It's just fucking weird.

[01:12:27] But it's wonderfully comedic and I loved it.

[01:12:30] So, could you like seeing ripped Hank Azaria?

[01:12:34] Good lord, he's...

[01:12:35] You for Scuba?

[01:12:37] Yeah.

[01:12:38] Lubin!

[01:12:39] Lubin!

[01:12:39] Are you for Scuba?

[01:12:41] He's an attractive man.

[01:12:43] Yeah.

[01:12:43] I couldn't believe when I saw this movie, I was like, wow, that's Hank Azaria?

[01:12:46] So, overall, it's funny enough to be like in the upper tier of Ben Stiller.

[01:12:54] Like you've got movies like Duplex where you're like, what are you doing?

[01:12:56] Yeah.

[01:12:57] And envy.

[01:12:58] I think this movie is really funny.

[01:12:59] But this movie is really good.

[01:12:59] So, this is above the fold.

[01:13:02] And it's got enough scenes, right?

[01:13:03] Here we're talking about things that we're laughing at.

[01:13:05] I laugh at the...

[01:13:06] Because it reminds me of me, my girlfriend Evelini always wants to go to Indian food.

[01:13:13] And I have essentially...

[01:13:14] Because she loves Indian food.

[01:13:15] And I keep on like, you know...

[01:13:18] How bad can it be?

[01:13:19] Because I'm so afraid of going to Indian food and being Ben Stiller in this film.

[01:13:23] Yeah.

[01:13:24] No, I do.

[01:13:25] Like, obviously, Jennifer is a caricature of a person that is like this.

[01:13:32] But when I look at it, like, my girlfriend's very eclectic and she collects vintage stuff.

[01:13:37] And it's...

[01:13:38] I'm like, what are we doing?

[01:13:39] Like, there's just so many times where I'm like, I am just trying to be ordered over here

[01:13:42] and you seem to just be like flying by the seat of your pants.

[01:13:44] But it always works out.

[01:13:45] Yeah.

[01:13:45] Like, I'm jealous that I can't let go like a character like that.

[01:13:50] My girlfriend is so much better at that than I am and I'm trying to get there.

[01:13:53] But my goodness, it's...

[01:13:55] They've got great chemistry.

[01:13:57] Jennifer Aniston is amazing.

[01:13:59] Like, the whole movie is just good.

[01:14:00] It's a good movie.

[01:14:01] I watched Queen Pins.

[01:14:04] You know what this is?

[01:14:05] Oh!

[01:14:06] Yeah.

[01:14:07] It's a comedy.

[01:14:08] Kristen Bell.

[01:14:09] Yeah.

[01:14:09] No, no.

[01:14:10] With Vince Vaughn.

[01:14:12] Oh, yes!

[01:14:13] And Paul Walter Hauser.

[01:14:14] Love Paul Walter Hauser, by the way.

[01:14:16] As a...

[01:14:17] And Kristen Bell and Joel McHale are a married couple.

[01:14:21] I remember it.

[01:14:21] Did you watch it?

[01:14:22] Yeah, it's about multi-level marketing, right?

[01:14:24] Couponing.

[01:14:25] Yeah.

[01:14:25] Couponing, yeah.

[01:14:26] I actually like this.

[01:14:27] So they can't get pregnant through IVF or whatever.

[01:14:32] That's the backdrop.

[01:14:34] And then Kristen Bell decides that she needs to do something with her life.

[01:14:37] And so she finds a way to turn her extreme couponing, which her husband is like, why do we need six things at Tide?

[01:14:44] Yep.

[01:14:44] She's got a whole back room full of all the things she's got in quote unquote for free.

[01:14:48] But she finds a resource down in Mexico that prints these coupons and she becomes like Escobar for couponing.

[01:14:57] She costs these companies millions of dollars by reselling these stolen coupons for 50% off on a website.

[01:15:07] And I remember the website is like my50offcouponclub.com or something like that.

[01:15:15] So it's basically in the early days of the internet where you could find stuff like this.

[01:15:18] And they would.

[01:15:19] They would just get these coupons direct from the printer.

[01:15:21] They would smuggle them to the states and then they would sell them for half off.

[01:15:24] And they made hundreds of thousands of dollars doing this.

[01:15:27] And I don't know.

[01:15:28] It could be a true story.

[01:15:29] I think it is.

[01:15:30] It feels like one anyway.

[01:15:31] Yeah, because I think this film came out like pretty early on in the pandemic.

[01:15:35] Who are they selling the coupons to?

[01:15:37] Online to anybody who wants to buy them.

[01:15:38] Yeah.

[01:15:38] And so it's like, listen, I'm going to give you this dollar coupon off for 50 cents.

[01:15:45] But instead it's bigger than that to them.

[01:15:48] They're getting these coupons that are like buy two get one free for like $50 items.

[01:15:52] Yeah.

[01:15:53] So like it's a $50 coupon or like just get one free.

[01:15:57] So it's a $30 item for free.

[01:15:59] They're selling it for 15 bucks.

[01:16:01] But like I just.

[01:16:04] What doesn't make sense to you?

[01:16:05] I'm having a hard time thinking about how it's it's beneficial to the person buying the coupon.

[01:16:10] Okay.

[01:16:11] It's a 30 dollar item for $15.

[01:16:14] Yeah, but pay 15 bucks.

[01:16:16] You get a $30 item.

[01:16:17] So the coupon is just to get something for free or or or supremely discounted.

[01:16:22] And she's she's getting these coupons for nothing from Mexico.

[01:16:27] She's stealing them from the printer in Mexico.

[01:16:28] Yeah, I'm just I understand why it's beneficial for her.

[01:16:30] I'm just curious as to like how it's imagine that beneficial for the person buying the coupon.

[01:16:36] Hey, here's this normal Funko is $24.

[01:16:40] But I have a coupon that says it's $10.

[01:16:43] I will sell you the coupon for $5.

[01:16:46] Okay, so you buy a $5.

[01:16:48] You spend five bucks sounds legal.

[01:16:49] It's not.

[01:16:50] That's the thing.

[01:16:50] That's why this whole thing came crashing down.

[01:16:53] Paul Walter Hauser is the great a loss prevention officer for these companies.

[01:16:58] He starts flying around and starts realizing what's going on.

[01:17:01] And he starts like trying to be a detective.

[01:17:04] And Vince Vaughn really is a detective with the post office, which is why this is fun in this.

[01:17:09] And they're they're great to get I was I'd watch a buddy comedy.

[01:17:12] Was it good?

[01:17:13] So overall, it's very, very, very paint my numbers.

[01:17:17] The thing that elevates it is obviously the cast.

[01:17:20] Yeah, Vince Vaughn, Kristen Bell and Paul Walter Hauser are incredible.

[01:17:24] I don't know the African-American ladies name that plays her partner in this.

[01:17:28] I haven't seen her.

[01:17:29] What is it?

[01:17:30] I can't remember.

[01:17:31] But she's also fantastic.

[01:17:33] It's just man.

[01:17:36] Every single person that is is in this film is doing their best.

[01:17:40] It's a very good performance all the way through Kirby Howell Baptiste.

[01:17:44] Whoa, there you go.

[01:17:45] I don't you never know.

[01:17:46] I'm going to bring that name up.

[01:17:48] Yeah, apparently B.B. Rex is in this movie.

[01:17:51] Of course.

[01:17:51] Yeah, of course.

[01:17:52] Plays Buzz Quinn.

[01:17:56] Anyway, overall, Tempy Tina, I would I would say watch it because it's fun.

[01:18:03] OK, but don't expect too much.

[01:18:05] But it is like you said, it's a fun film.

[01:18:07] Yeah, it's fun.

[01:18:08] It's just a fun throwaway.

[01:18:09] Like, oh, that's clever.

[01:18:10] I was curious where they're going with it.

[01:18:12] Yeah, Joe McHale plays a good smarmy asshole like always.

[01:18:16] But anyway, yeah.

[01:18:17] So that was fun.

[01:18:18] So I watched Queen Pins.

[01:18:19] I watched Long Game Polly.

[01:18:21] I watched, what else did I watch?

[01:18:23] Nate, what did I watch?

[01:18:26] Watch anything with the kids?

[01:18:27] Anything on the internet?

[01:18:28] So we've been moving into the new house.

[01:18:31] And so I also I miss I miss my setup because it's all torn down.

[01:18:35] We're this is the last episode we're recording at my old basement setup.

[01:18:40] Our old studio.

[01:18:41] We're going to be at the new house as of next week.

[01:18:43] And honestly, I just miss having my surround sound system and everything.

[01:18:46] We're watching things off of a propped up like 32 inch television with terrible speakers right now.

[01:18:51] And so everything is just I just I saw it in the background of a photo you sent me when you were showing other things.

[01:18:56] And it made me sad.

[01:18:57] I'm so sad.

[01:18:58] I miss it so much, man.

[01:18:59] Yeah.

[01:18:59] Big TVs and big sound are where it's at.

[01:19:01] Yeah, no, I miss it.

[01:19:02] And that setup is coming.

[01:19:03] But in the meantime, I did watch.

[01:19:06] Oh, I watched signs.

[01:19:08] Good stuff.

[01:19:09] Yeah.

[01:19:10] Rewatched signs.

[01:19:11] I should say rewatched.

[01:19:12] You're in your.

[01:19:13] Well, give some air.

[01:19:14] Swing away.

[01:19:16] Not as good as I remember it.

[01:19:19] Oh, disagree.

[01:19:19] I remember it being just fantastic and it was fine.

[01:19:22] I think it is still great.

[01:19:23] I like it a lot.

[01:19:24] Sorry.

[01:19:26] And then I watched you just bitter and old now.

[01:19:29] Okay.

[01:19:30] I watched my assignment.

[01:19:32] Brooklyn.

[01:19:33] Mm hmm.

[01:19:34] Featuring.

[01:19:36] Saoirse.

[01:19:37] Saoirse Ronan.

[01:19:38] Saoirse Ronan.

[01:19:40] Saoirse Ronan.

[01:19:41] You should be careful with that.

[01:19:42] Why?

[01:19:43] Well, it's Irish.

[01:19:45] I can do it.

[01:19:45] I'm super white.

[01:19:47] I can just totally fuck up on Irish accent.

[01:19:49] All right.

[01:19:49] Oh, my name is Saoirse Ronan.

[01:19:51] Oh, lucky charms.

[01:19:52] Who gives a shit?

[01:19:53] They're Irish.

[01:19:53] I don't think you understand.

[01:19:55] My grandmother's name is Fitzgimmins.

[01:19:57] Like I'm Irish.

[01:19:57] It's fine.

[01:19:58] My grandma's name was Odell.

[01:20:00] You made that up.

[01:20:00] No, her, her, her, her, her, her, my, my, my mother's, uh, mother's maiden name was Fitzsimmons.

[01:20:07] We're fine.

[01:20:09] And actually, I don't care.

[01:20:10] I don't care what you think.

[01:20:11] Oh, she's her, she's her.

[01:20:12] Saoirse Ronan.

[01:20:14] Wow.

[01:20:15] Yeah.

[01:20:16] Go fuck a leprechaun.

[01:20:17] The Irish are a seasoned people.

[01:20:19] Yeah.

[01:20:20] They season their potatoes and not much else.

[01:20:22] Anyway.

[01:20:23] Uh, no, I watched, uh, I watched Brooklyn, uh, with a shower shower or whatever.

[01:20:27] How do you say your name?

[01:20:29] Um, and, uh, yeah, no, it was a very sad.

[01:20:32] So that was like a film.

[01:20:34] I'd get.

[01:20:34] Honestly, I was watching.

[01:20:35] I'm like, why am I?

[01:20:36] Why is he trying to just depress me?

[01:20:38] Like this is, I'm getting into Christmas season.

[01:20:41] This is not fun.

[01:20:43] This is just a, I'm going to throw up on a boat and I'm going to dance a bunch so I

[01:20:47] can get married.

[01:20:48] Now I'm lying to my family.

[01:20:49] Like, what are you doing to me, man?

[01:20:50] It's such a good movie.

[01:20:51] It's, it's very good.

[01:20:53] It's a lovely movie.

[01:20:54] But also like, why?

[01:20:55] Uh, cause the immigrant story.

[01:20:57] Cause you weren't going to watch it if I didn't give it to you.

[01:20:59] Hell no.

[01:21:00] I'm not even happy I watch it now.

[01:21:02] Yeah, you are.

[01:21:03] I mean, she gives a great performance.

[01:21:05] Everyone gives a great performance.

[01:21:06] But my goodness.

[01:21:07] It's the immigrant story of America.

[01:21:09] Yeah, exactly.

[01:21:10] No.

[01:21:10] Uh, I was watching it and then Ashley walked in and I said, man, um, it's, it's terrible

[01:21:15] because I really, I really want to them to show more book.

[01:21:19] Keeping scenes.

[01:21:20] And I meant it.

[01:21:22] I meant it.

[01:21:23] Like, I don't give a fuck about like, oh, do you like the Dodgers and dah, dah, dah,

[01:21:26] dah, dah, dah.

[01:21:27] Like whatever.

[01:21:28] Like it's so boring.

[01:21:29] But then you get to the point where she's actually talking about business and numbers

[01:21:34] and stuff and how they get out.

[01:21:35] Oh, that was fun.

[01:21:35] I would look more of that.

[01:21:36] You're a sad old man.

[01:21:37] That was honestly.

[01:21:38] Uh, so.

[01:21:39] When she basically tells the old woman at the end of the movie, oh, fuck off.

[01:21:42] That was great.

[01:21:43] Mm-hmm.

[01:21:44] Uh, so did you recognize anybody else in this movie besides?

[01:21:48] Ashley recognized one of the brothers from, uh, the marvelous Mrs. Maisel.

[01:21:53] That's true.

[01:21:54] And so she's like, oh, that's a bit part.

[01:21:55] And I was like, I think this movie came out in like 2018 or something.

[01:21:58] Uh, it was 2015, I think.

[01:22:00] Yeah.

[01:22:00] So quite a while ago.

[01:22:02] Um, yeah, 2015.

[01:22:04] Uh, so the, the main New York guy.

[01:22:08] Yeah.

[01:22:10] Tom Hardy.

[01:22:11] It's not Tom Hardy.

[01:22:12] No, I don't know.

[01:22:13] You recognize him?

[01:22:14] Nope.

[01:22:14] He is the second in command douche cop from rebel Ridge.

[01:22:24] The one who's not Roy from the office.

[01:22:27] Hmm.

[01:22:28] Holy shit.

[01:22:29] Yeah.

[01:22:29] He is.

[01:22:30] And it's, I, I didn't.

[01:22:32] That's char, I could, it would never.

[01:22:33] I didn't realize.

[01:22:34] I didn't realize until halfway through rebel Ridge.

[01:22:37] I was like, holy shit.

[01:22:38] That's Emery Cohen from Brooklyn.

[01:22:40] Whoa.

[01:22:41] Yeah.

[01:22:41] No dude's incredible.

[01:22:42] No, no.

[01:22:42] Could not, could not believe it was him.

[01:22:44] Awesome.

[01:22:45] Yeah.

[01:22:45] Now I want to go see other stuff and see how good he really is.

[01:22:49] So that I think my favorite scene in the entire movie is when, uh, she is at, at the

[01:22:53] Italian dinner.

[01:22:55] Yeah.

[01:22:55] The family.

[01:22:56] Like, so the story is that she's an immigrant.

[01:22:59] She comes to America.

[01:23:00] She meets an Italian guy.

[01:23:01] They get married.

[01:23:02] She lies about being married when she goes back to Ireland to, uh, see her sister who

[01:23:07] has died and, and, uh, see her best friend get married.

[01:23:10] Um, there's an Italian dinner scene with the family and the youngest boy is basically

[01:23:17] just the blunt.

[01:23:18] Right?

[01:23:18] So he's like, he's like, oh no, we just don't like Irish.

[01:23:22] And it was like, what the fuck?

[01:23:24] And he gets in trouble for it.

[01:23:25] We don't.

[01:23:26] Why are you mad at me?

[01:23:27] You've said it a lot.

[01:23:28] We don't like Irish people.

[01:23:29] Like, it's a very funny scene and you can tell the family is a good family because they

[01:23:33] are appropriately aghast at what he's saying.

[01:23:36] So yeah, but there's a lot to like about the movie.

[01:23:38] I'm sure that if I just, you know, buddy, I was hoping it was going to be a nice touching

[01:23:43] movie for you to settle down with and enjoy with Ashley.

[01:23:46] In the no, she was like, I can't watch this.

[01:23:49] I like, I there's laundry to do.

[01:23:50] She was like, I'm not watching a boring ass movie.

[01:23:53] It's not even really boring.

[01:23:54] Nate.

[01:23:54] I mean, I think a lot of words.

[01:23:56] Yeah.

[01:23:56] It's a, it's a spectacular movie.

[01:23:57] It's nowhere near boring.

[01:23:59] No, but it is a mood movie for me.

[01:24:01] No, no.

[01:24:01] It's one of those things where she's like, this is not for what it's a it's Sunday at

[01:24:05] 3 PM where there's stuff.

[01:24:06] I wanted you to relax and just like, that's not happening right now.

[01:24:09] Yeah.

[01:24:09] Maybe I don't know.

[01:24:10] Just like get your fucking shit sorted out then.

[01:24:12] I did.

[01:24:12] Actually, I watched this movie as I was sorting through boxes.

[01:24:14] So you asshole, you son of a bitch.

[01:24:16] That's why I know I get that.

[01:24:17] I got the highlights.

[01:24:17] It's pretty good.

[01:24:18] He didn't get it.

[01:24:18] He doesn't understand.

[01:24:19] Yeah.

[01:24:19] No, it's a sad Irish movie.

[01:24:22] Thanks.

[01:24:24] It's really nice.

[01:24:25] Great job.

[01:24:25] She figures out what she wants in her life.

[01:24:26] Cool.

[01:24:28] No, I liked it.

[01:24:29] What?

[01:24:30] It sounds like you liked it.

[01:24:31] I loved it.

[01:24:31] I love it.

[01:24:32] Give me more of that.

[01:24:33] You know what?

[01:24:33] I am going to.

[01:24:34] Yeah.

[01:24:35] Don't ask for anything just to punish you.

[01:24:37] I'm going to give it to you.

[01:24:38] You're going to be the punisher next time?

[01:24:39] Nope.

[01:24:40] Never seen it.

[01:24:40] Give it to me.

[01:24:42] I'm not the punisher.

[01:24:45] I'm going to tickle his little feces.

[01:24:47] I'm going to tickle his little feces.

[01:24:50] I said I'm going to tickle his little feces.

[01:24:52] I'm going to tickle his little feces.

[01:24:53] You know how you tickle Frank Castle's feet?

[01:24:55] Ugh.

[01:24:56] This took a turn.

[01:24:57] For the better?

[01:24:59] Well, you know, I think we're going to wrap it up because we were gone for so long.

[01:25:04] We watched so many things.

[01:25:05] Yeah.

[01:25:05] And we just had such a rich conversation.

[01:25:07] A little long in the tooth.

[01:25:08] That Ben contributed to in such a wonderful way.

[01:25:10] I did.

[01:25:12] I'm really glad that we definitely didn't do trailer time.

[01:25:14] Let's keep going.

[01:25:14] Instead, we opted to-

[01:25:16] Trailers are things we watched with friends.

[01:25:18] Trailers are things we watched with friends.

[01:25:21] Friends are Nate and Brad and Ben, and these are the trailers we watched.

[01:25:24] These are the trailers we watched.

[01:25:25] These are the trailers we watched.

[01:25:27] Let's watch the trailers and talk about them at length.

[01:25:29] What was the song that that was based on?

[01:25:32] I made it up, and we're going to talk about the fucking trailers.

[01:25:34] And if you don't fucking like it, go home.

[01:25:36] I mean, I'm going to go home.

[01:25:38] We're going to end the podcast here in a second.

[01:25:43] We have plenty of time to talk about the trailers because they don't come on until later.

[01:25:47] And one of them you're just going to complain about.

[01:25:49] Oh, that one was so stupid.

[01:25:52] We'll talk about it at some point because there's a movie-

[01:25:56] It's a cliffhanger for people.

[01:25:57] We watched a terrible trailer.

[01:25:58] We watched a bad trailer with shitty typeface.

[01:26:01] I'm going to tell you guys, there's a trailer for a movie called The Brutalist.

[01:26:03] It's definitely a teaser trailer.

[01:26:06] I'll say it again so that you can understand it.

[01:26:07] The Brutalist.

[01:26:09] I've seen this movie, and I want to talk-

[01:26:11] It's a brutal trailer.

[01:26:12] And I want to talk about it because this is a spectacular film.

[01:26:15] It's going to be a major awards contender when the Oscars come around in early 2025, for sure.

[01:26:22] Hey, what if the trailer was just one sound effect?

[01:26:23] What if that's what the trailer was?

[01:26:24] Since you like this film, does the trailer make you angry?

[01:26:28] It doesn't make me angry.

[01:26:29] It's definitely a straight-

[01:26:31] I was wondering how they were going to cut a trailer for this movie because it feels like it would be challenging to do so without-

[01:26:39] And you were right!

[01:26:41] This feels like a weird way to go.

[01:26:43] It does capture a certain vibe of something that's in the movie, but it definitely does not encapsulate what the story is.

[01:26:54] Yeah, it's complicated because it's a unique movie for sure, and it is a little bit more artsy in a way.

[01:27:01] But it's also extremely relatable and familiar in other ways.

[01:27:05] But the trailer, it is taking a swing in its presentation.

[01:27:08] It feels like it's a little too-

[01:27:09] Ooh, look at this movie!

[01:27:11] Yeah, it does look a little pretentious.

[01:27:12] Yeah, so that's all I'll say about that.

[01:27:14] I'll talk about the movie a different time when we can-

[01:27:18] No, we talked about it now.

[01:27:19] Yeah, we're good. We just officially talked about it all.

[01:27:21] That's not very nice.

[01:27:22] We don't ever need to talk about it again.

[01:27:24] Wow, it's pretty rude.

[01:27:25] No, the movie is very great.

[01:27:26] Adrian Brody plays this Jewish architect who immigrates from Europe.

[01:27:30] He's a pianist?

[01:27:32] And he's not a pianist.

[01:27:34] But it has the vibe of the great American novel in cinematic form.

[01:27:41] For lack of a better comparison, it has elements of the Godfather or Once Upon a Time in America, but without the organized crime part of it.

[01:27:49] It's very much focused on this guy who was a real brutalist architect and his life as he immigrated to America and started to carve out a life for himself.

[01:28:01] And the story of how he came to build this building that was meant to be a tribute to this rich guy's deceased wife and everything that came about that with his family and the relationships he developed.

[01:28:13] And it's tragic and brilliantly acted, beautifully shot.

[01:28:18] They made this movie for under $10 million and it doesn't look like it at all.

[01:28:24] Like, it looks incredible.

[01:28:25] It feels big.

[01:28:27] It's set in like three different time periods and I don't know how they made this movie for under $10 million.

[01:28:33] Time machine.

[01:28:34] It's incredibly impressive.

[01:28:35] Spent all $10 million on a time machine.

[01:28:36] But Adrian Brody is fantastic in this movie.

[01:28:38] As the pianist.

[01:28:39] Felicity Jones is also in it and she's really good.

[01:28:42] But it is, it's a beautiful movie.

[01:28:44] It's incredibly shot.

[01:28:44] I was super impressed by it.

[01:28:46] You guys aren't going to ever care about it because it's three and a half hours.

[01:28:50] Oh no, that's right up my wheelhouse.

[01:28:51] However...

[01:28:52] Nate was like, I might, never mind, never mind.

[01:28:55] That's pretentious.

[01:28:58] Smartly though, it has a built in intermission, which all movies that are over three hours should so that you get a nice break in between.

[01:29:05] I'm not going to see a three and a half hour film.

[01:29:07] Especially with an intermission, it makes it four hours.

[01:29:09] No, the intermission is only 15 minutes.

[01:29:12] So it makes it three hours and 45 minutes?

[01:29:14] Yeah, that's not four hours.

[01:29:15] I don't know if you've learned how numbers work, but like one...

[01:29:18] You get a three and a half hour movie and make it three hours and 45 minutes.

[01:29:20] Just let me get through it.

[01:29:22] With the trailers...

[01:29:22] At that point, I don't want the intermission.

[01:29:23] I just want to go home.

[01:29:25] You're not going to go to a theater scene anyway.

[01:29:26] It's not for you.

[01:29:27] You know what?

[01:29:28] I'll be the judge of that.

[01:29:31] Brad.

[01:29:32] Go ahead.

[01:29:33] Go see you in theaters.

[01:29:33] Okay, I will.

[01:29:34] Good.

[01:29:35] Good work.

[01:29:42] Again, that's one of the things that I keep saying, yes, good job.

[01:29:46] You look like me.

[01:29:48] I piss my pants.

[01:29:52] Bye, everybody.

[01:29:53] Bye.

[01:30:02] Nah, cheats ain't no.

[01:30:03] Not valid, please.

[01:30:04] Yeah.

[01:30:04] Cask off hand Rising.

[01:30:04] Yeah.