Episode 293 - Sideboob

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My name is Ben Kanowitz, and with me, as always, is the luge to my figure skating, Bradford Oman.

Oh, hey, that's me.

I. I'll you up so good.

Yeah, I don't like the loose.

The.

The.

The badass skeleton.

Skeleton to my figure skating.

Andrew.

It's Tallikson.

Correct.

I always say tackleson because I'm an idiot.

No, no, but it's Tallikson.

That's the most mispronounced way of saying yes, you're right.

And trending with everyone.

Done and done.

And let's call it the.

The biathlon to my figure skating, Nate Laux.

There's two of me, dual personality.

That's okay.

It's a safe space.

You're cur.

Lose.

Just sounds bad.

Yeah, but it's tough.

It's tough.

And literally just write a sled down.

Do we remember how to do this show?

I think so.

It's been a while.

It's been about four weeks.

The password is flicks yourself.

Yes.

We want to start off by saying thank you for listening.

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And let us know what you're thinking about, you know, Brad's bad opinions about everything.

Yeah, we'd love.

We'd love to hear from you.

Yeah.

Or if you would like to criticize Ben's appearance.

It's not a video podcast yet, but.

They know what you look like.

Oh, so you're saying that they're just gonna listen in and then be like, yeah, that guy sounds like a tub of shit.

100%.

And then they're gonna comment on it.

Yeah, they can.

Like, they can hear how birdnesty your beard is right now.

That's very fair.

Yeah, it's like I can scratch the mic.

Yeah, it's like you're talking through a screen.

Anyway, I will say that for the first time in a long time, Brad has allocated me some funds to provide the sponsor today.

Yeah, this is a definitely a pre planned exposed thing.

We had some extra money to play with.

I was like, you know what, Ben?

You get a snack, you do it this time.

Yeah, it's not that you and Andrew went to breakfast and you forgot to bring a sponsor.

That's definitely not what happened.

I would never do that.

So I want to.

I would like to preface this by like I.

This is legitimately it's.

It's a fine food.

But I found.

It's a fine.

I found like it's, you know, it's not like spider.

And I think it's, it's fine, but it's just something I had at the house.

It's one of the kids treats.

And I'm like, yeah.

And Ender goes, but that's mine.

And I go, well, you're gonna donate it because we need to have something to eat for our podcast.

And he's nine and he's like, I don't understand.

I was like, you don't have to.

Mom's not home.

Just go watch tv.

But also you did the thing, the thing that we hate that Brad does.

You put it in little baggies.

I had to.

I mean, it's just disgusting.

It's not disgusting.

It's like, it's a used metal.

It's like there was hamburger inside of it.

Do you like it when he does it?

I know that I washed my hands right before I did it though.

So that's the thing.

I'm not sure that Brad washes his hands.

Oh, no.

I intentionally have my hands dirty.

So I wash my hands and then, and then move.

Let me be clear, Nate.

Yours are clean when I do it, Ben, I make sure I put it in.

That's why you're the luge.

Hey.

Hey.

You know, Andrew, let me ask, let me ask you a question.

Do you like, do you like space food?

Elaborate, please.

What would you think?

What's your favorite type of astronaut meal?

Oh, you know, what do you think, Brad?

What's your favorite type of.

You're going to space.

What do you hope that you get?

A zero G burger.

Oh, a zero G burger.

That does not exist, Nate.

How about you, buddy?

Oh, I. I mean, at the science of our museum of science and industry, when I.

Back in the 80s when I went, they used to have this like process or like dried, freeze dried ice cream.

There you go.

So this right here.

Nate, you're onto something here.

Go ahead and, go ahead and take that little snacky snack out and try this, this delectable, delightful little treat but.

For the record, I didn't like it then.

Okay, calm down.

What?

Freeze dried ice cream was delicious.

It wasn't.

You're a weirdo.

I'm the weirdo?

Yeah.

You don't even like good things, but.

Go ahead and try it.

Let me know how you feel.

Oh, this is freeze dried.

It's definitely freeze dried.

Mmm.

What do you think it is?

I think I know exactly what this is.

Strawberry cheesecake, something.

Yeah.

What are you tasting, buddy?

Yeah, this is freeze dried strawberry.

Strawberry cheesecake for sure.

I forgot to look at the package.

It's in my pocket.

It is freeze dried cheesecake from the Diebler family Adventure Park.

But there's strawberry in it.

It says freeze dried cheesecake.

Whatever it is.

What are you talking about?

Strawberry?

It says strawberry at the end.

Yeah, it's not good.

You're a weirdo.

It's not good.

Like, it is, like, let's take out all of the moisture in it that gives it flavor.

Oh.

Oh, sorry, Nate.

They didn't have wet cheesecake today.

I mean, cheesecake has, like, you know, some moisture in it.

Right.

It's not this flavor.

This is like a cookie.

No, it's not good.

Like a little cookie bite.

I liked it.

It's delicious.

I don't like it.

And so you served it to us.

Awesome.

Well, I've never had it.

Oh, this is the boys treat.

Like I said that I stole from my children for this podcast.

Where'd they get it?

Well, clearly they got it at Deeblers.

It's D. That's a made up place.

D E, I B L E R.

Dbler Dibler family listeners that knows where that is.

You know, we're gonna hope for made in Pennsylvania.

They get it in Pennsylvania.

I. Dude, I don't know.

You don't know where they go?

They travel quite extensively.

They take, like a field trip without Pennsylvania.

Anyway.

But this is a big deal.

I see this in stores sometimes in, like, farmers markets and stuff.

Freeze dried food.

Oh, freeze dried candy is, like, still huge.

Yeah.

And it's disgusting.

Why would we do that?

But people buy it.

I bet you've probably had, like, two freeze dried candies and you just don't even.

Yeah, no, you can.

You could, like, form a solid opinion based on one terrible thing.

That's actually not true because you can.

Form a terrible opinion based on one thing.

The way that they freeze dry.

Different candies are different textures and the flavor is preserved in different ways.

Okay, sorry.

That was Ben trying to talk through his beard.

I'm so sorry.

I just fell asleep.

That was so boring.

So like freeze dried Skittles.

Oh, my God.

Delicious.

Yeah.

If anything, just to piss you off.

Okay, keep going.

Now you've now triggered him.

Awesome.

You know why I want to talk about it?

Because you.

That's why you forgot the sponsor.

I pivoted and now I suck.

Yeah.

Cause now you're complaining.

Yeah.

Cause you're boring.

I'm sorry.

I'm talking about.

This is what happens with a sponsor.

We talk about food, we talk about snacks.

I'm good.

You know what?

I'm not going to critique you anymore when you bring a snack because you did a worse than.

I had to literally find the only thing I could find.

Not only did you freeze dried.

You know, I don't like freeze dried stuff.

But also, also, I didn't choose this.

No.

Do I have a face that looks like I like freeze dried stuff?

No.

But here's the thing.

Do I have a face?

Here's the thing.

You also.

You also put it in baggies.

The thing that we have very commonly on this podcast, derailed Brad for.

Really?

And you did it also.

Here's my question.

Derailed is not the right word for that.

Derided, sure.

But derailed.

Why don't you have good snacks?

It's a good question, Brad.

Like you just don't have delicious snacks.

I tried to find something that.

Like Doritos.

You could have put it on Doritos.

I tried to find something that you would normally do, which is something that kind of tastes like something else.

Right.

But that's what I found.

I could have absolutely brought Okie Doke popcorn down here.

Is that what you wanted?

Delicious.

I love Okie do popcorn.

I love popcorn too.

I don't know if you know that.

I got a face popcorn.

You would have been so pissed.

No.

If anything.

Is this just normal popcorn?

What the.

No, if anything, it would have been fun because then it would.

Yeah.

Hey, look at us having fun having.

Popcorn on a movie podcast.

Guarantee you you would have talked like, really?

This is what you came up with?

Just normal?

Never mind.

Exactly.

No.

But is it have like some salt or butter on it?

Right.

It's just like the normal cheddar.

Okie dokie cheddar.

Is that normal cheese?

Yeah.

Oh, that's different.

Come on.

Okie dok.

Cheese popcorn is delicious.

I thought all was cheese popcorn.

Amateur hour.

Are you running?

Okie Doke makes just a plain.

They make regular butter and salt popcorn.

Why?

The same reason that other people make.

Some people don't like cheddar popcorn.

I've only ever seen the cheddar cheesy version.

I thought that was Okie Doke.

No, Okie Doke also makes regular popcorn.

Your ignorance doesn't mean that, like, every Everyone else operates.

Started right off the bat with that.

Drew, do you like cheese popcorn or regular popcorn better?

Both, but I like cheese and caramel.

So then what is caramel bread?

Not caramel.

Caramel.

Yeah, because everyone says caramel corn, but the word is caramel.

You call it caramel, you call it caramel corn?

No, I call it caramel corn.

Oh, cool.

Oh, so now we're finally on the same page.

You know that there was a brand of caramel corn called caramel corn, and that makes it okay?

Oh, you're such an idiot.

So then what is the gold standard podcast snack?

Oh, I mean, probably.

I know what it is.

I know what it is.

Ketchup Pringles.

Yeah, you know.

You know, I look every time I go to the store.

I'm not kidding.

You gotta go to Canada.

Oh, there's.

Tonight.

Those are goaded.

That is like, Nate went crazy.

We had to sell him to stop eating them five times because I just, like, it'd be 15 minutes later we heard like, what are you doing, dude?

It was so good.

And I kept on trying to say, don't have another one.

It was like, I gotta have another one.

We had to take them away from me.

You know what they.

You know what they say?

Once you pop, you just can't stop.

Go home.

I'm done.

Was he crunching into the microphone?

Of course.

Of course.

It's the only way to crunch.

This is how these people crunch.

That's the other slogan.

It's the only way to crunch.

I'm okay with that one.

That's actually.

That's not bad.

Ketchup Pringles.

The only way to crunch.

Yeah.

Let's start with you, Nate.

What's the last movie you saw?

Buddy, I've seen a couple different movies.

And my question was, again, as always.

I want to talk about.

Let's keep it real quick here.

What's the last movie that you saw?

I don't know why you're turning into a politician where, like, I ask a question, you don't answer.

I've actually watched a few.

Here's what I want to talk about.

What's the very.

No, where's the very.

What's the very last movie that you saw?

The very last movie that I saw.

That is the question I'm going to talk about in a Second.

Don'T forget we're doing the round.

The horn thing.

Yeah.

Okay.

Let me talk about the.

The very last one.

Yeah.

It was called the Wrecking Crew.

Did you see this yet?

My boss saw it.

Yeah.

It's okay.

That's exactly what it is.

But sometimes these kind of buddy cop movies, being okay is a.

Is a good.

Like, I didn't regret watching Momoa.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Made by the same guy that did.

I think Blue Beetle, he made this.

And it is them.

But they actually do really well together, I think.

Yeah.

Their chemistry is good.

Yeah, I. I was.

The reason I watched it is I saw in Rotten Tomatoes, I'm like, this has like a 74 rating.

I thought that was pretty high for a prime, you know?

Yeah.

Like film about two, you know, muscle heads kind of in a film.

And it's about them being half brothers.

One of them, which half.

They share the same dad.

Okay.

That's what I was like.

Okay.

Yeah.

They should.

Listen.

Eastern.

Eastern half of brotherhood.

One's a.

A police officer.

The other one's kind of a criminal.

Right.

Yeah, exactly.

That does.

They can't be in a movie together.

Bad boy.

That sounds like a mismatch.

How is that supposed to work?

No, guys, guys, it is.

It is a mismatch.

I don't know if you can see me.

I'm crossing my arms right now.

No, wait, wait, wait.

They also have some trauma.

Oh, all right.

From, like, childhood.

Yeah.

Okay.

And they learn throughout the movie to love each other again.

No.

Do they do that?

Because they do.

They end up being fish out of water a little bit.

A little bit.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Is there a common goal that brings them together?

Yeah.

I could spoil it, but I won't.

But yes, there is something that brings them together.

Well, it's a bit of a spoiler.

There's a common goal that brings them together.

It's unfortunate you don't see that in these kind of movies.

One off is what they call if.

You want to watch a fine movie, that's not going to change that kind of genre landscape at all.

But you enjoy kind of two actors that seem to work well together.

And it's not the dumbest version of that plot.

It's not bad, though.

It's not a bad film.

Okay.

And I hate it.

Andrew, how about you, buddy?

What's the last movie that you saw?

Actually, I did.

It's the 40th anniversary of the Fly, so I did a column about that.

Nice.

With my memory being that it was gross from start to finish.

And it's not.

It's still pretty gross.

I don't think I've seen the Fly, actually.

Oh.

The last half hour, 45 minutes of the gnarliest special effects.

Cronenbergish stuff.

Right.

Fingernails coming off and ears lopping.

Yeah.

Real goopy.

Yeah, The Fly's a very goopy movie.

Yeah.

When he vomits on his food.

Oh, yeah.

That's how he eats it.

That's also how I eat my food.

Really?

In public, too.

Yep.

Produced by who, by the way?

Mel Brooks.

Mel Brooks produced this film.

I didn't know.

I thought you said produced by the who, by the way.

Produced by the who.

Could be.

They got into a lot of stuff back in the day.

Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis equally hot in this movie.

He's as a flock in that.

No, I mean.

No, no.

I mean, when he takes his shirt off, he's an attractive man.

He's a handsome gentleman.

Yeah.

Dr. Ian Malcolm can get it.

Oh, yeah.

Did you.

So you remembered previously you thought that it was disgusting front to back.

And it's not.

And it's not.

And I did not realize it was a metaphor for the AIDS crisis.

So I was trying to watch it with that in mindset.

And so I hadn't seen it in like 35 years.

And it's still an amazing movie with amazing acting, and it still grosses you out beyond oblivion by the end.

And it held up really well.

I think that there's a few films that have creature effects that still do hold up.

I think that incredibly American Werewolf in London is one of those that really does hold up still.

There are.

The thing is still, you know, obviously, and a lot of that is because of the practical effects.

Right.

Those are the things that we talk about with.

With cgi, with AI, things like that.

You know, you lose that puppeteering in that kind of visceral, you know, that looks real and it will look real forever feeling.

But the flight.

I remember I just watched it.

I want to say 2016 is the.

Last time I saw it.

So I did a365 movies I've never seen before and that.

I was on that list.

And I remember thinking, this is way different than what I thought it was going to be.

Yeah, I thought it was going to be a straight up creature film.

And it's way more than that.

Yeah.

The allegory to the AIDS crisis and all that.

I.

Look, I definitely had to look that up later.

I was like, oh, there's probably something more here.

I'm a little dumb.

And Chef Ben had to go to Google.

What is aids?

Yeah.

And does it have anything to do with flies?

Yeah, you can.

Yeah.

That my Google history was, can you get AIDS from flies?

That's exactly what it was.

And what was the answer?

It gave me Lord of the Flies to read.

And I was like, that's.

Wow.

Okay.

I feel like we need to stop the press.

And I could redo the review to.

Yes.

Mentioned AIDS from the flies.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's like the.

The bat came out of China, the flies came out of Madagascar.

And that's.

That's how we got aids.

And there's Geena Davis side boobs.

Oh, exactly.

Which nobody's gonna complain about that.

No, they shouldn't.

Not at all.

And actually, I think that that's a.

Long kiss good night.

You know what I'm saying?

One of my favorites.

Yep.

Sorry.

Yeah.

One of my favorite side boobs of all time.

Let's rank side boobs.

Okay, so it's Gina Gershon.

Which movie?

Anything.

Okay, yeah, fair.

Totally fair.

I know, right?

Anyway, what is the last movie that you saw, Mr. Bradford?

I saw the Sideboob Chronicles.

Starring Ms. Gina Gershon.

Yes.

And it was Saucier than you'.

I think I'd expect it to be pretty saucy because most of the time.

Side boob is just like saucy, but it's down the middle.

I don't know, man.

Side boobs seems to be saucy by nature.

Saucy by Nature is a great R and B group.

Also that cookbook.

Fantastic.

Yes.

It's the guys that did Naughty by Nature did a cookbook with Julia Child.

And she has side boo on the COVID Saucy by nature.

Yeah, it's just a.

Anyway, keep going.

What movie did you actually watch?

The last movie I watched was.

Do you want to keep doing bits?

Yes.

Okay, so side boob, the COVID is a condiment dripping off of a close up nip.

You are going.

Yeah.

Okay.

I was.

That was like kind of a metaphor.

Julia Child, ketchup on her bosoms.

I watched Lost in America, an Albert Brooks movie.

Because.

Remember.

Remember a while long time.

I was like digging into the Albert Brooks movies.

You really were.

I just forgot about it.

Speaking of things, I was all about it for like a month.

And then I'm like.

Speaking of things you were digging into, did you ever finish like the Friday the 13th?

Oh, yeah, we talked about that.

I can't remember if you finished all of them, though.

I did, I did.

Yeah.

It was a real Hoot.

Yeah, and a holler.

So side boob adjacent.

Is there side boob in?

There is not any side boob, actually.

In fact.

In fact, there is no nudity in.

In Lost, so I don't even know what this is.

What is this?

So this is one of the movies that Albert Brooks wrote and directed, and it follows him and Julie Haggerty as his wife.

And he ends up getting fired from his job.

And when he's expecting a promotion and they're getting ready to move into a new house.

And so when this happens, he just kind of has like a total breakdown and freaks out about it.

And.

What year Was this made?

80 something.

I just didn't know how.

Yeah, gotcha.

And so they decide to still sell their house and then take the money that they.

They have and just buy an RV and just kind of travel the country and like, live that way.

Okay.

And then they hit some hiccups along the way and things kind of.

So this is a.

Is this a like, you know, defending your life type vibe?

Like.

No, it's a very, like, very straightforward kind of, kind of road trip comedy, marriage comedy in a way.

Gotcha.

Albert Brooks is being Albert Brooks in it, which is hilarious.

Like the freak out he has in the office when he finds out he's not getting the promotion that he wanted and he want to train for him.

Utterly brilliant.

Yeah, he's so.

He's so good.

But yeah, it was really funny.

It's part of the Criterion Collection too, so it's a lot.

Albert Brooks is that very unique person that comes from a very heavy comedy background.

But then when you watch him in Concussion or you watch him in.

What is it?

Drive, you know, those are great supporting roles where he's playing it very seriously.

The man's a fantastic actor.

Yes, he's great.

He originally wanted Bill Murray in that role, and he didn't.

He just wanted to direct it.

Oh, interesting.

Bill Murray couldn't do it, so.

So, yes, I'm gonna have to do it.

I think it's probably better without.

Do you think?

I was gonna ask you.

What do you think?

You think it's better?

Yeah.

Cause there's so many instances where he goes on like, Albert Brooks style rants.

And like, it wouldn't just be as good if it's, you know, not in his voice.

Yeah, exactly.

All right.

I saw.

I introduced the boys to Thor Ragnarok last night.

Oh, so good.

And then I had told Rune, the 11 year old about the I know him from work line.

Yeah.

Or he's a friend from work.

And how that came about from a. I don't.

I don't remember if it was a Make a Wish visit, but it was a kid in the hospital that they showed the movie to earlier that came up with that line.

And so did they have to then reshoot that to put that.

I actually don't remember because obviously they showed him an initial cut.

The kid in the hospital makes this joke.

He goes, oh, shit, that's actually really good.

So then they.

They shoot that.

So that's interesting to me.

But anyway, they loved it, right?

They thought it was hilarious.

It's the right amount because they're.

They're 11 and 9 and.

And so they're not really super into the side boobs.

Side boobs?

Not yet.

But the violent stuff is hard, you know, when they.

When they're still not used to watching Blood and Guts because we just never let them watch that stuff yet.

So I'm actually thinking that we're going to show them Predator Badlands because what did you think?

I never got to ask you.

I loved it.

It was fantastic.

I loved it.

I love the direction that it's taking Me too.

In my opinion, you cannot keep going down the road that the Predator franchise was on about.

Like, let's just see what happens when.

Who's going to win now.

It's definitely taking on a world of its own and I'm here for it.

They need to be amazing.

Stay with the same director.

Oh, gosh, so good at it, you know?

But yeah, no, they loved Ragnarok and they're excited to see what comes next.

Now they trust me a little bit more because when I said, do you want to watch, you know, something about Thor?

Do you want to watch something about Captain America?

Because the Winter Soldier, we watched the Avengers and then now we're moving forward since that.

And so of course they said, everybody but Thor.

And I go, but it's Thor and Hulk on a strange planet.

And they're like, okay, so we watch and they love it.

So now, now I've got a little bit of built up karma with them.

I feel like I can show them the next one.

Yeah, don't show them Thor, the Dark World.

No, I don't think that I'll do that.

I can't remember a single thing in that movie.

Just the title.

That's the one where Loki dies.

It's number two.

And, you know, I went and saw that in Michigan City and they had the like dot matrix electronic printer.

And the title up there just said Thor The D. Yeah.

And I thought, wow, this is.

That is why you go to see a Thor film, though.

Yeah.

For the D, that movie.

Screening it for the ladies.

Tons of side boob.

Yeah.

Chiseled Australian male side boob.

And full on front boob, too.

It's true.

They were not shy about showing Chris Hemsworth's chest.

Right.

You know, good.

You know, I was Thor after I watched it.

Why?

Because I always touch myself.

Ew.

I love Chris.

I like how you said.

Yeah, the joke.

If you're gonna go with the joke.

But you don't like.

Be honest.

Don't just be honest.

Yuck.

Nate, what else did you see, buddy?

Now it's opening season.

Now it's not the last movie you saw.

Now it's just like the next movie.

The second to last movie.

Nope, that's not how it works.

It's just.

You get one more.

So what do you want to talk about?

A film that I was assigned to watch.

What?

By whom?

By these two.

Oh, okay.

Predator Badlands.

Oh, great.

Okay.

Well, you said I really should watch it.

Oh, I'm not sure I call that a sign.

I'm really glad that you did.

I am too.

So, yeah, let's talk about that.

What'd you think?

I thought this is fantastic.

Like this.

I'm not as big of a predator guy as especially.

Yeah, Ben's a big predator, but come.

On, say Predator fan.

Say Predator movie fan.

Don't say Predator.

Ben's a big fan of predators.

Yeah, the Robert Rodriguez one was okay, but I know that's not what you mean, so.

I love this film.

I was.

I was actually.

It's one of those where I was telling people, you really should watch this film.

I got into what you guys were doing to me before, like, hey, you guys really should watch this film.

Right?

Everyone's watching this, but, you know, they're talking about sequel, which I completely.

They set this up first.

Absolutely.

Yeah.

But they're also talking about Amber Mid Thunder had said in an interview last year that they had talked to the cast of Prey to do a sequel as well.

Which one would you prefer for a sequel?

Neither.

Both.

Which one?

More, though.

Pray.

Both pray for you.

I mean, to be clear, what I'm saying is put them together.

Oh, you want them together?

Yeah, Yeah.

I think.

I think there's a. I think there's a world where the technology in that universe exists, that time travel or whatever could happen.

Where?

Well, I mean.

Well, we don't know what time that is.

Are you talking about, like, Deck Deck from that and Amber mythumber character.

Sure, why not?

Because do we.

We don't even know.

We don't know the year that Badlands is set in.

Yeah.

Which fair.

We don't necessarily need to because they've already established as far as Predator killer of killers is concerned that they seemingly can travel through time because they have both Amber Midthunder's character and Arnold Schwarzenegger's character in Cryostasis in like a locker somewhere.

So we have a cat down here that with a bell on just in case anybody hears.

And what are your thoughts on Predator 2?

I caught it for the first time in 30.

I didn't hate it as much.

No, no.

There's.

There's defense for Predator 2.

It's like think about, I look at through the lens of.

Think about how hard that would be to actually make something that's different enough to stand on its own with Danny Glover instead of the muscle bound crazy jungle stuff.

And they, they were smart by saying let's just take the Predator out of the jungle and not do the same thing where we're gonna.

Cuz a lot of sequels take the jungle out of the Predator.

Oh my God.

You got to admit though, back then they would have been.

A lot of times they're like, oh well that works.

Let's just redo it again.

You know, we're gonna have Arnold Schwarzer come back and try to beat him again or whatever.

I think it was a very smart move to move him out of there.

It, it didn't work on all levels obviously, but it was interesting enough to see what does.

What would the Predator do in the real world?

You know, that kind of thing.

They went super heavy with the crime stuff in, you know, the inner city crimes.

I don't think they really needed to do all that.

But the voodoo stuff was really weird and you know, but I'm a defender of that film, I think.

Great tagline.

What's that?

What was it?

It's.

He's.

He's in the city with Time to kill.

Yeah, see and I, My son still teases me.

I told him the story and it freaked him out.

He thinks it's hilarious.

But I have trauma attached to Predator 2 where I was on US 20 going to Dunes Plaza and ran over a possum on the way to get there.

And we pull into Dunes Plaza and.

Which is the.

For those of you that are not from.

No, it's just that's the movie theater that's in the next town over basically in Michigan City.

And so we get there, and the possum's tail had caught in the front grill work and had ripped the whole ass end of the possum off.

So the possum butt is just swinging back and forth.

So I intentionally avoided Predator 2 for decades because of personal trauma attached to it.

But now I visit it unheard of 35 years later.

Yeah, it wasn't bad.

Yeah.

No.

In the pantheon of all of the predator and Alien vs.

Predator movies, I think that Predator, of course, is a standalone for me.

But then Predator 2 is pretty high up at the list because there's been enough that weren't very good.

I mean, Shane Black's the Predator was just a bad movie movie.

And I. Yeah, I was not.

I had a fun time with it, though.

It was like, it was fine enough, but, like, not for what it could have been.

Right.

Like, there's just so much that I was hoping for.

I think it's more of me just being let down that I thought it was gonna be something amazing, and it was just.

Okay, that's fair.

Anyway, so what.

What movie?

Yeah, he watched it.

Is that it?

That all you gotta say about it?

How about that Elle Fanning, huh?

She's fantastic.

But I'm a huge Al Fanning fan.

Since the.

Great.

I think she's just.

Just such a.

An amazing.

Would you say you're Fanning fawning over Fanning?

No.

Okay.

No, he said he was a fan.

Yeah.

Not everything's a bit.

Exactly.

Just.

Oh, my God.

Hey, take a beat off.

All right?

Don't say that.

That sounds aggressive.

I don't know.

Sound like you to me.

Now, did you catch the C3PO reference with El Fanning strapped to the predator's back?

No, that was intentional.

Was it?

Yeah.

Like Empire strikes back, when C3PO is blasted to bits and Chewbacca's carrying around.

That was a direct tribute.

That's just how much of a nerd I am to know.

That's awesome.

That's great.

But overall, though, you like it?

You think I love it.

No, Everyone should see it.

It's fantastic.

I was telling Molly about Prey.

I said, the thing about Prey was this film came out and no one really knew it was a Predator movie.

Right?

And so, like, for people like Ben or, you know, for people that are, like, fans of the franchise, like, Like, Die Hard fans, it was just like.

When I saw the final trailer that showed the invisible, like, the bear being lifted, blood dripping down.

I can't be more in for a film.

Yes.

This is, like, I would have probably.

If I would have known better, I would have tried to travel to the premiere.

Like, that's how striking that was.

I mean, this is gonna be there.

There's no way after seeing that trailer that I knew that I wasn't.

No matter what happened, it was gonna be a good movie.

Like, absolutely.

There's no way it could be bad.

And I think.

Right.

I mean, you didn't know it was in.

Like, I had no idea.

What.

I was so blinded going into it.

It was fantastic.

So, again, that if you're listening to this right now and you haven't seen Badlands or Killer of Killers or Prey, that's your next three watches right.

There they are.

That.

I've not seen Killer of Killers yet.

That's animated.

But don't worry, it's still amazing.

They.

They actually originally wanted to keep Prey being a Predator movie a secret until, like, the.

I think it was the second trailer.

Like, they wanted to tease it as, like, a survival thriller.

And then at the very end, you'd, like.

You see the Predator.

And then everyone's like, wait, what?

Yeah.

I just think that that's such a.

It's still an underrated movie, even though everybody said it was.

I don't think a lot of the general public has even seen it.

Well, it came out straight on Hulu.

Right, right.

And so I would have liked to have seen it.

Yeah, definitely.

And my son, who was in love with eleven from Stranger Things, that's when he shifted to Amber midthunder because she just kicked so much, that movie.

Badass, dude.

And there is still, you know, in that.

In that movie, there's a bit of Predator lore.

There.

There's a.

There's a flintlock pistol from, like, the 1700.

Yes.

That has made its way through the lore.

And it was in Predator 2.

Yes.

And so they do have some.

Some very, very specific callbacks to some very niche things in those films.

So that's me nerding out a little bit.

Absolutely.

And then taking a look at what was happening to Native American tribes as the settlers start coming through.

And you see all the skinned buffalo that paralleled how the Predator was skinning humans.

I mean, there's a lot more going on in that movie just beside the.

He's just a very talented person.

Like, I'm just very big fan of how he directs and what he is, because it's one of those things where, in my opinion.

Oh, there.

Here's a new director.

He's coming out.

How could you possibly create your own style in this World where there have been so many things that have come before you.

But my gosh, taking an IP like that, that is well versed and well established.

Yeah.

And saying, this is my take on it and it's better than most.

Holy crap.

Yeah.

What a cool thing.

So thanks.

Thanks for watching it, buddy.

Awesome.

Andrew, did you see anything else?

But in the last, you know, since we've had you on in months now.

What?

What?

So what is other movie you'd like to talk about, sir?

I saw Sinners for a second time.

Okay.

Have you guys seen that?

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Amazing movie.

I think we all saw.

What is it?

No, let me take this.

Brad and I saw it in the theater.

Ben.

I don't know.

Ben had to wait three months until he watched at home.

And then I think he watched in like three chunks and like, probably fell asleep.

I watched it in two.

Not because it was bad, but at.

Night when the boys were sleeping because it's a very scary vampire movie.

There's places they can go.

Yeah.

You know, you don't have kids.

There's a church across the street.

Let them go.

Power Chris compels you.

I'm trying to watch a movie.

Yeah, seriously, go to a youth group.

Anyway, second viewing.

Did anything speak to you that didn't the first time?

I just appreciated more with everything going on in the world, what it was trying to say about race and everything and just, you know, people were slamming it as a remake of From Dusk till Dawn, but I thought there was a lot going on in that movie.

And it wasn't because my wife was like, oh, no, there's the Irish.

They're bad.

But no, they're in the same boat as the mayor.

They're wanting to create this whole new world order through vampires.

And I just thought it was how you do a horror movie.

It looked great, it sounded great, the acting was outstanding, and the underlying theme takes on more meaning a second time.

So, no, I loved it.

I thought it was fantastic.

And I say that as a. I was an enormous fan of From Dusted on that.

If you were to ask me back in college what might in my top 10.

It was in my top 10 for a long time.

I loved the turn Dust till Dawn takes.

I love George Clooney, that movie.

I love Tarantino.

I think Hari got Hell is fantastic.

Salma Hayek is gorgeous.

I mean, Juliet is so much fun.

That's such a fun movie to watch.

Cheech Marin.

It's ridiculous, but yeah.

No, I mean, there's a reason that that.

That Spawned multiple sequels.

You know, like, even though there was.

More direct, all equally good.

Yeah, but I mean, it did something.

It did something different.

You know, at least it did that.

But no Sinners Stands Alone is like the.

The polished, you know, bespoke version of From Dustled On.

And may I just say, too, if I could name drop with Brad, please, please.

Because he does it all the time.

Okay.

Excellent.

We saw Predator Bandlands at an IMAX screen.

And that sound like the theater rumble.

That was incredible when we were in there.

And that's the reason why you go see a movie in the theater and not at home, because you felt it.

And guess what?

And that could have been you.

That's right.

So thank you for not going.

I appreciate that.

Listen, I just can't do it this week.

I gotta.

I gotta go do Gutters and Dark Cade's got too many quarters and I gotta sort them all, and there's just a lie.

I wish that that was a lie, but that's exactly verbatim what I said.

Really?

Yeah.

In that voice, too.

In that aw, shucks voice.

Gotta go get the quarters out of my.

She's okay.

I got gutter stuff.

Yeah.

And scene.

Brad, do you want to talk about any other one movie?

I'll talk about several movies.

I knew it.

But only.

But only a couple.

Because.

Because I did.

Why is it that you were more important than us?

Why is it that you get to talk about multiple movies and we just.

We're talking about two?

Let me ask you, what's your job?

I'm a business owner.

Huh.

Yeah, Nate, what's your job?

I'm kind of a man of the people.

That's fair.

That's accurate.

Yeah.

I write about movies for a living.

Yeah, but so does Andrew, and he's only going to talk about two.

No, he'll talk about more.

I like the pivot.

I like the pivot.

Anyway, what do you got?

What did you see?

Also the Sundance Film Festival.

Oh, here we go.

Nate.

And so I didn't French films.

I didn't get to go this year because some companies are cheap.

But.

But I did get to do remote coverage, so I. I watch, which is just as good.

The stuff is it, though.

This.

It was.

It was.

I, I. I did have major FOMO this year because this is the last year the festivals in Park City.

And it would have been nice to go.

Yeah.

For one last hurrah.

It's moving to Boulder, Colorado, starting in 2027.

So it was it.

It felt kind of like, oh, man, that's a bummer because I, I.

Nine years in a row to Sundance.

2019 was the last year that I went and then I haven't been back since.

Dumb question, I'm sure.

But like, why are they moving it Provo to Boulder?

Yeah, you know, that weather, that's, that is, that's, that's always been kind of part of the experience.

But honestly, the, the festival has outgrown Park City for a while.

There's some political stuff in play because of the environment there as far as like, just certain social issues and things like that.

Utah versus.

Yeah, exactly.

Because Utah is very, a very red state.

But also it's a money thing and there's a lot of contributing factors.

And so they just wanted to find a new place and their contract was up at Park City and that's what they decided to do.

So.

But yeah, so I watched some stuff remotely at home.

And So I watched 19 movies across four days.

Wow.

Can't wait for you to talk about them all.

All right.

The first movie was Le Petit Je God, Sad boob.

It's a 270 minute French film that.

I just really dialogue free.

Now here's the thing.

The first hour is punishing.

You really gotta fight through it.

Yeah.

And see it in the theater when you can.

Yeah.

There's no sound for the first hour, but trust me, you, it'll matter.

The second hour is a braying donkey and only a braying donkey.

And it is loud.

Oh, you don't get it, you idiot.

Yeah, but when the donkey learns to talk for the third hour, it really becomes Shrek.

Yes.

Anyway, people didn't know.

It is actually a precursor to Shrek.

What did you watch?

So one that I want to talk about is a comedy called the Musical.

And this movie was hilarious.

It stars a guy named Will Brill who's not very famous, but Rob Lowe is in it.

Gillian Jacobs is in it.

I know all names are made up, but Will Brill, I know that sounds.

Like a made up name, but.

So what the movie is about is Will Brill plays this middle school.

Well, Will Brill and Jack Mack, they, they co star.

He plays this middle school theater teacher and his ex girlfriend is played by Gillian Jacob.

She's also a teacher at the school.

And it was obviously kind of a rough breakup and he's kind of upset about it and he finds out that she's dating the principal played by Rob Lowe.

And so he gets, he's pretty pissed off about it.

And the school is about ready to get reviewed for this Blue Ribbon of Academic Excellence award.

And so to get back at his girlfriend and the principal, he decides to stage the school musical as a musical about 9, 11.

And it is hilarious.

Sounds like a great, so funny conceit for it plays out like a twisted school of rock.

Just the way, like, he.

He gives, like, a lecture about the system to the kids, and it gets the kids really fired up about, like, doing the play in secret so that, like, no one finds out about it.

Gosh.

And it's just.

It's really funny.

The last 10 minutes has some of the funniest I've seen in a long time.

It has an epic needle drop that, like, just.

I was laughing so hard.

It's.

I. I can't wait for people to see it.

It'll be really interesting.

It's called the Musical.

Just called the Musical.

I'll be really interested to see how they market it and if they try to hold, you know, anything back or anything like that.

But it's.

Oh, man, it was so, so funny.

Sweet.

All right, well, that's it.

Did you watch.

Did you watch the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel?

Yeah, will Brill's in that.

Oh, is he?

Yeah, he's Midge's brother, Noah.

Oh, okay.

Yeah, that makes sense.

That's how the only thing I know him from.

Interesting.

If you're listening, going, who's Will Brill?

Yeah.

Also, why don't you just go by William Brill?

That seems like a little bit better.

Well, his full name is William Brilliam.

So you're screwed either way.

Yeah.

It's such a dumb joke.

I'm glad that all of you.

I want to mention two documentaries that I saw because they're kind of important with what's going on right now.

One of them I talked about.

Hey, don't do one of your rants, though.

Just keep it.

You know, you don't need to talk about how.

Don't tell me how to live my life, Trump.

Half an hour later, we're.

Now we're just hearing, hey, hey.

What color shirt is he wearing?

Yeah, I read.

Hey, don't use your free speech, okay?

I don't want to hear about any of your issues or your policies.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Continue.

So I talked about this documentary on the 10 to 1 podcast because it was relevant since we addressed ICE, since they did a whole sketch based around it.

And it's called Everybody to Kenmure Street.

And it's follows this event that actually happened in 2023 over in Glasgow, Scotland, where there was a protest by Hundreds of people in the street after home office in London sent immigration enforcement to detain these two Sikh men on Eid the first day of Eid.

And I. I'll say the same thing I said in the 10 to 1.

I just want to be very clear.

This is not like American ice going.

Not at all.

This is localized to Scotland.

Exactly.

Yeah.

And so they try to detain these two men and they are going to deport them.

And very quickly, word got around in the small community what was happening, and they immediately and quickly, like, rallied in the streets and stopped the van from leaving and were protesting and suddenly had this huge group of people there just trying to stop it.

And you see law enforcement, you know, surrounding the van, trying to keep the peace, trying to stop protesters and whatnot.

And the thing that was not try.

To stop protesters from protesting.

Correct.

Trying to stop trying to get the van out of the area, do their job.

And the thing that's both uplifting and energizing about this documentary and also supremely frustrating to see is you see these protesters.

There's a moment in the movie where the police gather in, like a big group and they start marching through the crowd to try to get to the van.

And the crowd lays down on the street is like trying to stop them from going.

There's a literal physical confrontation.

Not once do the Scotland police draw a weapon, take out pepper spray, start, you know, punching or, like, doing anything.

Like there's.

There's no crazy face off battle of anything where anybody's getting thrown around and beat to hell or anything like that.

And to see law enforcement do that in a very similar situation that we've seen unfold and say, I don't know, Minnesota, it's.

It's like, oh, what happened in Minnesota?

I'll tell you.

Okay.

That's to see that there's a way that law enforcement can handle these things, still attempt to do their job.

Protestors can do what they believe is right, fighting injustice.

And it doesn't turn into a crazy thing where people get shot in the streets.

There can be tension without violence.

Yeah, exactly.

And so it's a very inspiring documentary.

It was a really good look at just how there are struggles around the world that are also happening here.

And they're not as bad because the people in charge don't suck over.

Was.

Was the other documentary you watched about candy?

Oh, I. I wish it was about candy, but instead it was about artificial intelligence.

Let's get sad.

Which is candy for.

Go ahead.

Let's get sad again.

I watched A documentary called Ghost in the Machine, which is about.

I know, I know you love AI Ben, your best friend's chat GPT.

And you just love typing.

Show me.

Show me side boots.

To be very clear, it's not that I love AI.

It said I hate water and electricity.

Right.

That's.

That's fair.

So.

And I get that.

But no, this is.

It's called Ghost in the Machine very much acts as, like, this thoroughly, thoroughly researched, like, essay about the origins of artificial intelligence, how it came to rise in prominence.

You know, exactly what people like Sam Altman and Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk have been shooting for achieving with it.

The common misconceptions about it.

The problems with it, both environmentally, technologically, as far as what they.

They are trying to tell people it can do and does do just a variety of things.

And it's both fascinating and infuriating because if anything, somebody who is already staunchly against AI, it made me hate it even more because AI genuinely started as just a marketing gimmick.

The term artificial intelligence didn't mean anything when it was created.

And the guy who came up with it literally said, oh, I did that because it sounded good and we needed money to fund the project.

And that's.

So that is just a very small example of where we still are with AI.

It is still a flashy thing that people need to raise seed funding for.

Exactly.

So they're saying it's going to change the game in five years.

You won't even work in five years.

Yeah.

Don't you want to give me money to that end?

Yeah.

And of course you do.

But then it's shiny and it wears off, and then there's diminishing returns on version after version, and we're just going to be back to where we were before.

But now we got all these days.

How often, though?

How often do you use AI?

Every day.

Okay.

Yeah.

I mean, that's the thing, though, is.

But he's also not using it in the way that, like, so many people seem hell bent on using it for.

Like, they want to use it to, like, completely replace certain job.

They want to use it to, like, be this creative driving force.

Like, like so many.

So many of these tech bro douchebags who are on Twitter and everything, they're like.

They're like, oh, man, this is why Hollywood's pissed to AI.

Look at what I just created.

It's like, yeah, man, it still looks like shit.

And you can't make an entire movie like this.

You like, if.

If you Took that out of context and like I use it every day.

It's like, oh, am I generating.

No, I'm using it every single day to either correct my organizational structure of something, do research on something.

Those are the things I'm using it for.

Hey, I need to clarify this point, but I can't remember what the word is for that.

And it's not something I can Google easily.

And it's also not blindly using it without like double checking facts or like.

You know, the thing that I mean.

And this is too far of a tangent, we can cut all this, but if I take my chat GPT and I say here's I'm gonna.

I will say the following prompt.

I am going to use talk to text to talk into you right now.

And I need you to take my rambling thoughts and turn them into a structured text message to a group of people in the gutter industry about what I'm saying.

And I'll just start talking and then it will do that.

And then I'll copy and paste that though into a Google document and I'll go through myself and I will edit it so it sounds more like me.

And then that's the one that I copy and send to a text.

I don't ever just take what.

Whatever the AI says and throw it out there.

I think that's really.

Can be just harmful and it's not my voice anymore.

Right.

I don't love that.

Yeah.

But I will say, my goodness, it's been a freaking game changer for everything that I do as far as I want to, I want to structure this amortization schedule correctly for a loan that I'm giving out.

And then I'll put it in there and it'll tell me what the monthly rates are and stuff like that.

Like I can go on a loan calculator and do that or you can help me with that.

And then it'll say, do you need help with that language surrounding this?

Yeah, I do actually, but I, you know, I probably should have hired a lawyer for that, but I don't, you know, instead of 500 now I've got that for free.

Yeah, I free, quote, unquote free.

You know, water though.

Replacing somebody's job.

Exactly.

Yeah, it is.

And so that's not.

Because you would have three years ago had to pay a lot.

So I guess that's the thing.

Like I wouldn't have just done the.

Thing or you would have had.

My dad used to have secretary.

Right.

That would like dictate.

Like he would say okay, you know, here's what I need you.

Right.

But I, but I do think that that kind of replacement, quote unquote, is.

It's the kind of thing where like we didn't used to have calculators, you know, and like a calculator doesn't necessarily like replace doing certain kinds of math for you.

It makes it easier though, you know.

And so like I think that there, there's a, there's a way that like you can use tools and some tools will make it so that other people, it is harder to do their job.

But like there people aren't actively trying to replace those jobs because like they don't want them anymore.

And there's so much motivation in artificial intelligence businesses and whatnot where they actively just like they don't want the human element in William anymore because they don't want to pay people.

You know, it's like for them it's, they're leaving money on the table because they have to pay somebody to do a job.

Ben doesn't want to pay a lawyer $500 either.

Well, so that's the thing like, but I wouldn't again on something like that, I just wouldn't do the project because it's so low level.

They're like, oh, I would never pay $500 to a lawyer to do this.

It just means that I wouldn't actually probably try to come up with an amortization schedule and give that person a loan.

Right.

I just wouldn't do it.

Yeah.

So because it costs too much money to do it, then it's either all or nothing.

So it allows you actually to do more then.

Because you wouldn't have done it because you wouldn't have invested otherwise.

Exactly.

Because it's risk reward.

For me, from a business perspective, this.

Is the hard thing.

I think when we talk about things like AI, we tend to be very unnuanced about it.

We're either pro or against.

Right?

Like, or we're for or against.

And I think even in the, in Hollywood, right.

Like it will replace some jobs.

Right.

You could do AI now just even in audio regulation.

That is really helpful.

Right.

There are AIs that will balance audio where somebody else would have done that work individually before.

And that's just computer technology.

Right?

That's just computer technology doing that.

They're going to replace that job.

But that's like you said, that's having a calculator.

I still feel like we are so far away from true generative AI works that I'm still going to go on Fiverr and hire a freelancer to do some graphic design work rather than try to use AI is the fricking worst.

To Brad's point, too.

The tech pros, right, they're trying to make this seem so much better.

It is.

Because they need billions of dollars.

It's a great.

But it does do some things that are incredibly helpful.

So if you and I know that I talked to Brad about this and I've shared this thing.

Ben Affleck has an.

Actually a very salient, wonderful point about this.

I brought that up, but that's fine.

I know I had seen it.

To be clear, I've made this point before.

I have.

No, no.

I have seen this going, making the rounds.

And if you're looking for about a four minute discussion from one person's perspective that kind of encapsulates how a lot of us do really feel about AI and makes some really great points.

It's actually Ben Affleck that says this on the Joe Rogan experience, of all places.

Yeah.

He gives a very, very good, succinct definition of what he thinks AI is, what it's truly capable of and where it's going.

And it's like four minutes long.

I highly recommend you seeking that out.

And his point in the longer, broader one was he's not against it.

He just thinks that it's a tool and people are overestimating what it can do.

Just kind of like what.

And what it will be.

He's like, I'm not against it because I don't think it can do what it is they say it can do.

Right.

It won't be.

We went down to IU to take our son down for freshman orientation.

They were telling us how they have a whole department now that is devoted just to ChatGPT, any kind of online cheating.

They now have a whole employment department of actual human beings that are.

Anytime a teacher feels that someone has used ChatGPT, they send the paper straight to this department.

And then they beat the hell out of him.

And then they just beat.

But then the flip side of that is I know a guy who's taking classes at an IU satellite campus and he used a big word that the professor was convinced chatgpt wrote and so she was going to fail him.

And he's like, look, I've never used ChatBT in my life.

You don't know me.

So I guess my point is we're in such uncharted waters, we're creating a bit of a paranoia of what's real and what's not.

And I think that's what we're going to be sifting through.

And to be fair to that, to that student that you're talking about, the word was wherewithal.

Not a really big word, just side boob.

She thought, you've cheated, you've cheated.

What is this new boob I haven't.

Heard of from the side?

That's AI.

What else did I watch?

I'm trying to think.

Oh, sorry.

Do you want to keep going?

No, that's pretty much it.

It's a very good documentary.

It really just breaks down.

It's a documentary that I think everyone needs to, to see, to really understand the.

The problems with AI.

For me, one of the things that I wasn't aware of that was fascinating and frustrating to me is so many of the guiding principles of AI and the people who are pushing for what they want it to do in society is driven by eugenics, which is really frustrating to see.

And there's so much like evidence and.

Like, now I know what eugenics is, but for the people that don't.

What?

What?

You know, in a couple sentences, like what.

What do you think eugenics.

So to you, probably the most instant of it is what Hitler did with the Nazis by trying to create a supreme race.

Okay, so Gattaca type stuff.

Yeah.

Okay.

Yeah, so.

And again, I know what it is and I've always known, sure.

What that word means, but just for the listener that might be concerned.

That's all.

That's all I was doing.

I'm glad.

I saw a movie called Gattaca Becky.

That's a fun movie.

It is.

So Becky is the story of Joel McHale being a bad father?

No, it's basically Joel McHale takes his daughter and his is girlfriend and her son to a cabin.

Becky is his daughter, she's got a dead mom.

But he kind of surprises her with the new girlfriend and son being there because that's just a terrible way to do it.

So they go to the family cabin and unbeknownst to them, Nazi Kevin James, legitimately Nazi Kevin James has a swastika in the back of his head and he plays a bad guy and he breaks out of prison and with a couple other guys and they hold their family hostage while Becky is off in the woods and they, they need a key that Becky has access to and they basically just torture the family and kill the family and do all that stuff until they get the key.

That's the whole goal of the movie.

Yeah.

They did not realize that Becky was going to lose her absolute fucking shit and.

And be a 13 year old murder machine on her own and do like the worst version of Home Alone where she just murders people.

Yeah.

And what some would argue a great version.

No, no, great.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And so the, the idea is I didn't actually.

I was like, oh, that's, that's probably a fun movie.

I didn't want to see it until I saw they made a sequel.

I'm like, oh, if they did another one, then maybe there is something.

I haven't seen the sequel yet, but.

But, you know, if they're willing to do that, there's enough calling for it.

I guess I'll check out the first one.

It was fun.

It's way more gruesome and grotesque than I thought it was going to be.

Yeah, there's some really gory stuff.

There's eyeballs and stuff that you see.

The wrath of Becky then, or.

No, no, no, I had.

I'm going to.

Because it's almost like Sisu.

And then I want to watch the second one.

I love Sisu.

I'm sorry.

No, that's three times.

Great film.

Great.

Don't you think?

We've been prepped by movies to fear AI for so long that we're.

We're assuming it's the apocalypse and we don't really understand it enough to see.

I mean, I use it as an editing tool when I edit a correspondence story and I know that that's not the proper use of that word and I Google it.

And AI has been a tremendous help.

But I had this really strange nightmare because that work stress dream, which I hadn't had in years, where they were using AI to create photos of Trump and Elon Musk and sexual embraces.

And I had this nightmare that.

That was.

Go on.

I was on the COVID of the Beecher.

So I made the mistake of telling my boss that I had this work stress dream and he used AI to create a Beecher cover.

Oh, man.

With Trump and Elon in a inappropriate embrace that is seared in my brain that will terrify me for you.

For you international listeners, the Beecher is a wonderful family publication.

Family publication in our local area that Andrew's a big part of.

Yeah, that's wild.

But yeah, AI is not coming for us.

It's not T2.

We're fine.

Well, so far it's going to be fine.

We'll see.

Did anyone see the creator that came out two or three years ago?

I did.

Which was basically saying that it's man's influence on AI that is what we should worry about, not AI itself.

Yeah.

I mean, hopefully it's.

If I have.

I think we can trust.

I think we're fine.

We could trust.

Oh, yeah.

You said for years, Brad, that you love and trust Elon Musk with your life.

Do you know what they were?

The original title for Becky was Hecky.

No.

The Gestapo of Queens.

That took a long time for you to come up with that one.

No, I was just waiting.

And you were being very patient.

I'm really proud of you, Brad.

That was good.

Thank you.

The Gestapo of Queens.

Yeah.

Cool.

Because of Kevin James.

I get it.

There you go.

That was a show.

That was a. Brad, can I talk.

To you about something real quick?

Yes, of course.

Come on.

There's a new show that I watched, a new season coming out.

What is it?

It's shrinking.

Yes.

Did you see any of the new season?

I've seen the first episode so far, yeah.

Okay.

Did you watch it, Andrew?

Religiously, yeah.

What do you think?

I think it's dynamite.

And there's, you know, I saw Michael J.

Fox, who's on there, as a hallucination.

I saw him at a Comic Con, and it's devastating to see him.

You always think of Back to the Future.

Well, you think you saw him.

Well, was I having a uti?

I mean, I don't know.

But.

But you see him now.

It's very hard to watch because don't you think you think of him in his prime and Back to the Future.

And all that it brings to the forefront, the struggle that you forget that he's going through.

Let's be honest.

I don't think about Michael J.

Fox all that often, but when I seem like, oh, my God, he's.

He really.

Oh, that's not.

That's so hard.

Is.

That was the very first.

Even in watching him in shrinking, I was like, that is really.

Oh, you did watch it?

I watched the first two episodes, yes.

There's only been two.

Well, you know how your kids latch onto movies and watch them so many times, it's like you wish they would stop, but for my son, it was the Back to the Future trilogy.

So it's like you have this permanent image of Michael J.

Fox at his best, and then you go to this Comic Con and you see how the Parkinson has just ravaged his body, and it's really hard to see.

But I think they're using him well.

And shrinking.

Yeah, I agree.

It's a very good show.

I will admit.

I like it.

Me, too.

I'm Glad that you watched it.

Okay.

Moving.

I'm still watching the pit.

Okay.

No, we're not doing it.

We're not doing too.

It's so good.

It's really good.

We're not doing two TV shows.

I allowed the one.

Hey, you know what?

I'm gonna talk about a TV show because it's also tied to movies.

So why don't you suck on that, Private Ding Dong?

I watch.

You know that that's my nickname in private.

I know.

Ding Dong.

Yeah.

So don't say that on air.

Maybe one day you'll be a Major Ding Dong.

Yeah.

Captain Crotch.

Why General Genitals possibly keep telling me the things that my parents tell me every day.

That's just not cool, man.

You read the text messages.

You get it.

Corporal, I tell you these things in exactly.

These are.

This is the list.

Major member.

Exactly.

My dad and mom send me these every day.

Like, which do you prefer today, Ben?

And I send them to you in confidence, saying, like, how do I respond to this?

And now you're bringing it up online.

That's just.

This is embarrassing.

These are terms of endearment for him.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Admiral Shaft.

I didn't have an A word for that one.

Admiral Asshole.

No, they're all penises.

Oh, geez.

The joke just went over your head.

You didn't get it.

Okay, what were you gonna say?

It went over my small head because.

It'S a penis joke.

I watched welcome to Derry.

Good stuff.

Which is the prequel series I heard.

This is good.

It's really good.

It is very good.

It really does a good job of building on the mythology of the monster behind Pennywise.

It's very scary.

It's very gory.

It also.

They did a really good job of tapping into, like, the time period because it takes place in the past.

And so there's characters that, like, are dealing with racism at the same time.

And it just does a really good job of setting up what took what would come in the IT movies.

And it also lays the groundwork for how they could also do other seasons.

And what it was.

It was really well done.

I was very impressed.

I watched a documentary about how technology informed the Got Milk?

Campaign, and it was called it welcome to Dairy.

It's pretty good.

That was well done.

It was.

It took a little while.

I know.

And it's a thinker.

To process that one just for a second.

Wait a minute.

Wait.

And then I'm like, there it is.

Ding, ding.

I'm gonna give that to you.

If.

If this goes well, it's gonna go well.

No.

And you had to get every word right.

I'm.

I'm gonna die on this.

I'm glad you took a moment to pause.

I know you had to get it right.

You knew what you had.

I tried.

I tried.

Yeah, right.

You did it, buddy.

All right.

Did anybody write a game?

Did you?

Cool.

Wow.

Nobody did.

So let's talk about trailers.

Oh, well, what do we do when we talk about trailers?

You come up with a trailer song.

I don't, though.

Yeah.

Drew, wouldn't you like to hear Ben come up with a song for the trailer?

Absolutely.

Absolutely.

He's really good at it.

Do you want to give you a beat, Ben?

No beat, Ben.

I don't like anything about this, and you know that.

Come on down.

Don't you?

Okay.

I thought maybe.

Come on down and watch the trailer.

Excuse me.

All right.

You want me to give you, like, a song to think about?

Trailer songs are not my favorite.

They're really hard to come up with on your own.

That's all you're gonna get.

Okay.

Is that Billie Jean?

Yeah.

Okay, that's good.

Oh, nicely.

There's a theme.

You know what?

I'm more impressed with you that you knew there was Billie Jean.

It was tough.

I have never said, hey, you're gonna know what this song is.

I've said, you're not gonna know.

Honestly, I think that is probably the longest he's made it into a song without totally losing.

Yeah.

The melody.

The next one was definitely gonna be Michael Jackson is here.

Well, spoiler alert.

We're talking about the trailer for Michael.

Yeah.

Which is not the movie starring John Travolta as an angel, but it is the movie.

A different kind of angel.

This one, definitely.

This one's Touched by an Angel.

Touched by an Angel.

We did it.

We got there.

All right, so we watched that trailer.

No.

So this is the new movie that is about Michael Jackson.

It is a pretty traditional biopic.

It is produced by the same people who did Bohemian Rhapsody.

It is directed by Antoine Fuqua.

Which you don't like, right?

I like Antoine Fuqua.

I like Antoine Fuk Equalizer movies.

You like Antoine Fuka?

For the most part.

Listen, I think that.

I think that he does.

I think that.

That if.

If you were to take every Antoine Fuqua film from the last 20 years and put them in a grab bag, you have a chance of pilling out a really good one or kind of just a middling paint by numbers.

That's my theory.

I think that's fair.

Yeah.

I I don't.

I think it's rare that he's made a downright terrible.

No, exactly.

But again, run of the mill can be some of them, and some of them are very good.

Yeah.

And you know what?

Let me take that back, because he made Infinite with Mark Wahlberg, and that's a piece of.

Okay.

But yeah, like, he rattled off a couple.

Are you looking up his.

Yeah.

So, I mean, the Equalizer.

First two Equalizer movies are good.

They're good.

Yeah.

He did the third one too, though, right?

Yeah.

Yes, I did do the third one.

Yeah.

And then there's.

What was the other one that I really like?

If it's.

He did.

Didn't he do End of Watch Training Day?

Training.

Well, Training Day.

That is the.

Right.

But then everything else comes, you know?

You love Olympus Has Fallen.

I like Olympus Has Fallen a lot.

You love Olympus Has Fallen.

I really liked it.

I know you did.

That's why I said that.

Did he also do Angel Is Fallen?

He didn't.

No.

He did the Guilty, though, with Jake Gyllenhaal.

That was a good movie.

I actually didn't see it.

I didn't hate the Magnificent Seven.

I like that one.

It's just.

Okay, see, that's the payload numbers.

That's what I'm talking about.

I like it.

It's so hard.

Really.

But it's so hard when you have to compare it to the proper Magnificent.

That's what I'm saying.

Like, I liked it, though.

I thought Denzel was very good.

Yeah, you would.

So, yeah, I mean, he's anyway pretty good.

You didn't comment on emancipation.

I like.

I like that.

Do you like emancipation?

I never seen any.

Man, that's not bad.

Is that Will Smith right after the slap?

Yes.

Yeah, I won't watch slap based films.

That's not.

Some of your favorite films are slap based.

Well, that's a conversation for a different time.

When would you like to have that conversation?

After this podcast.

Immediately after this podcast.

I don't know what just happened there.

I blacked out a little bit.

What is your take on the mic?

You said.

We said, well, what do you think?

And, like, you wouldn't answer us in the moment you wanted to talk about on the podcast.

Meaning, like, this is a big reveal.

You hate it.

No, I just.

It's.

Oh, my gosh.

This.

I think that this movie is doing a magic trick.

I think.

And it's the same magic trick that most biopics do is it tricks you into thinking, oh, man, you're so excited I love this person's music.

I can't wait to see a movie that talks about the career and how it was all made.

And because the music is good and because the trailer is a slick edit, it's like, oh man, this is really exciting.

It looks just like every other traditional biopic from Bohemian Rhapsody to Walk the Liner.

These are the kind of movies that should have been rethought and re evaluated after Walk Hard came out.

And so you brought this up.

It's a very good point that you make.

I'll give you this.

Walk the Line should have been a real eye opener to other people trying to make biopics saying we got to do something different because this is the peak.

Yeah, Walk the Line is a perfect version.

Especially after Walk Hard like completely and destroys it.

What do you do?

And they.

In Bohemian Rhapsody, not a great.

No, not a great film.

And here's two examples.

But people love that film.

I know.

Here's two examples.

And it's because of Queen though.

That's the thing.

It's like.

But here's two examples of movies that I think did it really well because they did do something different.

Rocketman, it's an Elton John biopic, but it's also a fantasy musical.

Does an incredible job of telling a story, but infusing it with a different kind of energy.

The Bob Dylan movie with Timothee Chalamet does an incredible job of not trying to give you a life story of Bob Dylan, but it focuses on this very specific period in his career that does define him as an artist, but also doesn't try and give you everything about him and sum it up in a two hour thing.

Because that's so hard to do.

And that's exactly the like, why movies like Michael.

Bohemian Rhapsody, that's not a, that's not a music.

That's not a.

No, but, but, but as a biopic though.

Yeah, but that's, that's, that's different though.

Like, I mean, sports.

Sports Error is a great biopic.

Yeah, I love Air.

That's an awesome.

But that's not a musical bio.

I think the idea is the music is so good, the band is so good, you get fooled into thinking it's a great documentary.

But don't you think, yeah, the Bruce springs.

I talked about that.

Yeah, I didn't like the springs.

It was, was not good.

Don't you think any Michael Jackson movie is setting itself up for failure?

Because you're gonna sit there going, well, are they gonna deal with what came down the pike?

There are so many people I don't even think care.

Which is both unfortunate and upsetting that I don't think it really matters.

That's what my.

Speaking of air, there is not that Michael's documentary is gonna.

Or biopic is gonna do this, but the air documentary is.

It's about one very specific part of Michael Jordan's life.

Let's just say it's not even really about.

Well, the movie, not the documentary.

Sorry.

Yeah, the, the, the, the.

The biopic.

Kind of a biopic about.

About everything that happened there.

But it's not a.

Here's where Michael Jordan grew up, here's where he retired, here's the gambling scandal.

None of that.

Right.

It's a very, it's a very limited window.

I don't think Michael's gonna do that.

But I think that if you were trying to make a very good musical biopic, you could do that.

Right.

And just really talk about one area of his life instead of supposed to.

Be to where this is the story of how he went solo.

Apparently this is what this, this film is supposed to be.

So, so maybe timeline wise then it would cut off at a certain point where they wouldn't get there.

Yeah, they're not gonna go like throughout his whole life or anything.

But I do think that it will go into his solo career and like it will chronicle a decent part, I'm sure.

Maybe.

But like that's also from what I point of the movie, from what I understand too, the original ending of this movie was going to have something that did touch upon the.

I believe it was the first lawsuit that accused him.

However they discovered that.

I don't know how that they missed this or what the.

What it was, but that there was a clause somewhere in the settlement with that family that part of it included not being able to depict.

Make money off in the film.

So they had to completely change the ending of the movie.

Which I, as far as I heard in the trades was like a pretty significant part of how they were going to like.

And I like how that just comes up like they're, they.

It's in the can and then like, I hate to be the one.

Yeah, no, we actually, you know, you know the la.

You know, the third act.

Yeah.

Can't do it.

No.

And apparently they were panicking like trying to fix it.

So we'll see how it goes.

But like.

Yeah, I'm just.

This is a, this is a nice trailer and it does, it is, it's slick.

It is your word.

Slick is really what it is.

It has great energy about it, and it's because the music is good.

But I just.

I'm not convinced that they're going to be able to deliver.

What did you think of King Richard?

In my opinion, it looks very similar.

You know, you've got overbearing African American fathers that want to drive their kids for success.

Yeah.

Where does that compare in the pantheon of biopics?

No, I thought.

I thought that was pretty good.

A pretty good movie.

You know, sports biopics.

It's interesting there.

It's.

They.

It feels different depending on the sport and also because of the family dynamics.

So many sports are familiar.

For whatever reason, they don't feel as tired as music biopics do.

And I don't necessarily know why that is.

I. I think that if I had to.

If I had a positive guess there, I think that you do.

In a.

In a mute.

In a.

In a sports biopic.

It does feel very much like they're going to win something.

They're.