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Nonsense and Chill - Is Die Hard a Xmas movie?
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#podcast #comedy #movie #film #funny #nonsenseandchill #movieclub #follow #jointhediscordTonight, Blaze and Jeff will be reviewing and reacting to Die Hard, starring Bruce Willis. Is Die Hard a xmas movie? Come find out, that and more. Hope you all enjoy. Also, don't forget to check our socials, all linked below. Network Links https://nonsensical-nonsense.myspreadshop....nonsensicalnonsensepodcast@gmail.com https://bio.link/nonsensicalnetwork https://discord.gg/RuhrJxRT Copyright Disclaimer: - Under section 107 of the copyright Act 1976, allowance is mad for FAIR USE for purpose such a as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statues that might otherwise be infringing. Non- Profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of FAIR USE.
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Is 'Die Hard' a Christmas Movie?
00:01:27
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dude hit the button ah yeah welcome welcome what is up Benji how's it going my man welcome to it another friday night here on the nonsensical network with nonsense to chill with your homie blaze and your other homie jeff just how you doing tonight there's the uh QR code if you guys wanna come up and watch. I do an excellent, you so we were talking about this before we started.
Fun Facts About Nakatomi Plaza
00:01:56
Speaker
I'm so excited for this movie. I love this movie and I will fight anybody that says it's not a Christmas movie because it's a Christmas movie, fuck you. Well, I'll tell you what, I know not everybody agrees with that. To me, it's irrelevant if you think it's a Christmas movie because it fills your Christmas time with wi spirit and joy, fuck it, it's a Christmas music.
00:02:19
Speaker
So Mary fucking Die Hard is what I'm going to say. um So but drop it in the comments. Is Die Hard a Christmas movie? is it Is it not Christmas until Hans Gruber falls from the towers and of of Nakasaki? the knockkato me Is it Nakatomi? It's actually Nakatomi, which is actually interesting fact. OK, so so i because I was so excited for this movie, I spent the entire week looking up interesting fun facts about this movie. And this movie, Naka Doni Plaza is actually Fox office buildings. Yes. So, and there is, and when we get to it, if I remember, there is something- They charge them self rent to make a movie in the movie. Yes. There are phone numbers in this movie and I want to start a new thing. Whenever there's a phone number that pops up in a movie, I'm going to attempt to give it a call. Nice.
00:03:14
Speaker
and see where it goes. You know, they also called 911 in this movie. I dare you. I don't mean that one. I don't mean that. Sorry, my brain. So I do have a little, go ahead. No, no, please go ahead.
Media Influence and Movie Deconstruction
00:03:33
Speaker
I was just gonna say, so I have a little backstory about this movie. This is technically a sequel. And the reason why it's a sequel And it's a sequel as in it was supposed to be played as you and I discussed earlier. John McClain was supposed to be. It was released in July, July 12. It was released in July. Correct. But it's 88.
00:04:01
Speaker
ah I wanna say before we get started, fuck Nakatomi, because who the fuck has a Christmas party, office Christmas party, on Christmas Eve? You're an asshole. You don't need a Christmas Eve. There's four weeks of December. You can have that, you know, around the first week, have that Christmas party. You don't need to have a Christmas Eve. People got last minute shopping, do fuck you.
00:04:27
Speaker
Not so true, but we are talking about an international company. Not all country recognizes Christmas. I understand. Well, the best i brought up in this business still got to go on. But before we get into it, this week has been an interesting week for me um upstairs. When I mean upstairs, I've been in a lot of deep contemplation this week.
Challenges of Using Movie Clips on YouTube
00:04:49
Speaker
It started with it started with this this strike last week, to tell you the truth.
00:04:54
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and it it in then I started thinking about it because there is a philosophy channel that I watch and oftentimes he will use media as a reference and he oftentimes will play movie clips. Well, um he played movie clips different this time and he explained why and it's why we're not playing movie clips yet. I was going to start doing that tonight but unfortunately because of our we're off our strike on YouTube. Welcome YouTube. We're still still on probation. We gotta be good boys. So, no movie clips tonight and I apologize for that.
00:05:37
Speaker
Actually, I don't apologize for it. YouTube, you should be apologetic. I agree. Let's be honest, there are channels out there that do reviews that show 90% of the movie. so and i have started I have started looking into this. Some of it is because they have they're big enough and they have the money to pay for licenses.
00:05:56
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we don't. So typically, small channels like us will have to refer or we'll have to lean on the 1976 Fair Use Act, which I do put that in the description. And it's on the beginning of the intro in the green screen. um However, there was a recent lawsuit with Viacom. And this is all a recent development. So these smaller channels aren't don't even have a lot of that that room to to in the creative world without having yeah need to buy these licenses. So what is up, Jedi?
Cultural Impact of 'Die Hard'
00:06:33
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How's it going, my dude?
00:06:34
Speaker
um je i what's up sir I was thinking Blaze got a new strain of high grade, but and I had him on deep thoughts. So I'm just always in deep. I'm ah um'm a, I'm a, that's like 24 seven. Yeah. But it it got, it got me reminiscing. It got me reminiscing about YouTube because I'm going to show my age. I remember when YouTube started, like I was a YouTube to viewer from the very beginning, but it was nothing but.
00:07:03
Speaker
creative or independent created art. It was usually somebody, you know, it was literally just some guy filming something funny. I mean, it was it was funny or it was news. It was all independent. There was no ad revenue. There was none of this corporatization of it. You didn't have Fox News and CNN dumping money into it. Invite common and Comcast. And then it got me thinking on how YouTube is has, as a media has also influenced my life as a person. And it got thinking about other avenues of media that has affected me during my life. This is why I was talking to you about smirks earlier. Um, but, and I'm going to, I'm going to segue into, to, to die hard, diet impact
The Making of 'Die Hard' and Casting Surprises
00:07:52
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all my life. And I didn't realize it until I watched it again this past week,
00:07:56
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So and did you did you go to meet your wife at ah at a Christmas party? Absolutely terror absolutely not. Absolutely not. It's just it's how many media culture it's how media affects us and ah on a cultural, societal and individual level. And I didn't realize it.
00:08:13
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until this, but I also want to say I'm going to be, I'm going to deconstruct some of this movie as we go along. And I do it not because I'm being too critical or mean or anything of that sort. I've realized since we've been doing this channel, Jeff, that I've been going back to movies I hadn't seen in decades, but I'm looking at it through a different lens, more of an adult lens compared to when I was more, more of a oh yeah than her child.
00:08:38
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And I'm really having a fun time deconstructing these movies. And Die Hard has got some some some... That goes into our movie lingo. Oh, look at that. It does. It absolutely does. oh But Die Hard has some... some cultural commentary that I think points out good things and bad things during the eighties. Well, not only that, there's like nine. but did I watched a video last this week where there was like five to nine references to Pearl Harbor, but you like you don't even notice most of them. Yeah. For instance, Takagi's password
00:09:24
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for the vault is actually a Japanese warship. Yes, I do. From World War II. And I was like, oh, interesting. um but So, go ahead,
John McClain: The Everyman Hero
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Jeff.
00:09:35
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I was gonna say without further ado, I was gonna go ahead and hit the play button. Yeah, no, go ahead. But go ahead. This movie is... It's gotta go through 20th Century of Fox. Right. so So this movie is technically, like I said, a sequel to The Detective from 1968 starring Frank Sinatra. Now, Frank Sinatra was supposed to be playing in this movie, but by the time they got it written, he was obviously too old,
00:10:00
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ah this movie is actually based on a book from 1979 called Nothing Lasts Forever by Robert Thorpe. And Robert, Roderick Thorpe, sorry, helped write this movie. um So yeah. This scene right here, the opening scene, sorry. Fist, twist your toes. No, go ahead. Yes, this is where he gets the advice of fist his toes. Fist his toes. Yeah. if That makes sense or not. But this whole time, this airplane that they're on,
00:10:29
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Is they're simulating their landing the entire time. It's just being pulled around The airport. Well, it's taxi and one big fucking loop Yeah, they yeah, they they did that obviously for budgetary reasons. So About this movie, you know, this movie came out in what is 86? Something like that yeah When was the last time you carry a gun on a plane? um It was 86 because the second one came out 88. So I got that wrong. Right. So what's interesting is when this movie came out, the trailer came out a couple months prior and people laughed because they were like, Bruce Willis as an action hero. Get the fuck out of here. Oh, that's just like that. That's like that guy from Better Call Saul. When you watch that movie, no one, you're like, oh, shit.
00:11:23
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Dude, he is such a badass in that movie. I don't know if you know this. Dude, I had a mild argument prior to starting that this is the... I want to say one of the first of its kind of your everyday man in a non-everyday situation. Because prior to this you had like... Go ahead.
00:11:47
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No, go ahead. Well, I was saying prior to this, you had like, you had Stallone and you had s Schwarzenegger that are just big old jacked up dudes going up against the tank and knocking the tank out with their fists. Well, John McClain can't do that because he's the everyday guy. Well, go ahead. One of the side parts in this movie is of course is John McClain's rough marriage bordering on divorce with his current wife.
00:12:14
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She, of course, doesn't go to work with her married name. But if you noticed, when he had the interaction with the flight attendant, it was flirtatious. There's a few moments before we get to the end of the movie where there's like these flirtation moments with these young, young ladies. Yeah, well, the the I think the concept behind that as well is to show that John McLean is a good looking dude.
00:12:41
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Well, yeah, it portrays that that American badass archetype. Right. And and I want to go back to this movie and and be able to smoke in the they in in the airport. but but The last airport I ever smoked in was in Utah, but they only had it in a smoking area. But back to what you were saying that he's this every day. I think, yes, when it comes to the original um concept,
00:13:09
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the concept, yes. And maybe even in the quote unquote prequel to this with Frank Sinatra, he was the detective that got into, you know, it was just an everyday ah police detective that was investigating a murder easy stuff situation. However, I think Die Hard departs from that storyline and adds, you know, rewrites it a little bit. When you look at John McCain, what he does, what he's up against, and and you look at the time in the eighties,
00:13:41
Speaker
Not to cut you off, but look at the name plate on her door. It's spelled wrong. It is compared. Yes. um This John McClain in this movie, I think it doesn't go into it, but I think he has some sort of like special ops background, some sort of military background. Well, he's a cop in New York.
00:14:03
Speaker
L.A. Wait. Yeah, he's a New York cop. He's a New York cop coming to L.A. But see, in the 80s, the cops weren't as militarized as they are. I get that. Yeah, I I I know. I wouldn't call him a military background because he's literally just trying to get his wife out of there and let's get the fuck out of this building kind of thing. And I just I i don't i know.
00:14:26
Speaker
I understand the premise of it being he's less everyday guy, family man. Right. He's a hero, you know, he puts all his fears aside because he's scared of heights and and he puts all that aside to do the right thing, which I think is a good archetype, which is an archetype that I think has influenced me in a positive way.
00:14:48
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Well, it's one of those things that's like, I think that's what made this movie so successful, because can you compare yourself to Arnold Schwarzenegger?
Masculinity and Work Ethic in the 80s
00:14:56
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No, because you're not 6'12 and 400 pounds of solid muscle, but you can relate to somebody like John McClain, the everyday guy. Granted, he's a cop, and it's it's not really said, but he's kind of... um Would you say John kind of puts everything, like puts his marriage aside for work a lot, which is kind of the problem of why their marriage is breaking up? Yeah. So if, so if you notice when he get, when, when he's not getting his plane down, it shows his gun and the guy looks at, he's like, Oh, I'm a cop. This guy, even though he's on vacation,
00:15:33
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He still got his badge. He still got his gun. He and his head, he's on the clock 24 seven. And that does portray that does kind of those in the stereotype of what would ruin a marriage is overwork or. Right. um Well, um at one point in in the movie Beverly Hills Cop, so Foley says, you know, a cop is required to carry his weapon on him at all times.
00:16:02
Speaker
So, yeah I mean, but I get what you mean. i don't I don't think that's entirely true. I don't think it is either. You see the bear. the I forgot who wrote the movie. Argyle? No, the bear. The creator of this movie or the writer or the producer or somebody in the movie has did another movie. He's got a thing with bears. A bear in the in the red movie. The movie is actually called The Hunt for Red October, another amazing movie. um I haven't seen that in so long. I love that movie.
00:16:32
Speaker
ah John McLane is such an everyday guy that he's sitting in the front seat of the limo as opposed to the back. This is Argyle's first limo drive, and this is his first time being a passenger. Yeah, so so he's got the guy in front. And, you know, I'm... When was the last time you were in a limo? So, like, I get John. He's like, dude, I don't set the back of limo. I'm a... um What am I? I'm nobody.
00:16:57
Speaker
he He feels out of place if he were to. He's isolated by himself. And Argyle just won't shut up. He asked him 400,000 questions. and And I get why John didn't go with Holly, even though it's implied in the second movie that he does eventually, but he's got a six month backlog at work of scumbags that he's supposed to be put in jail. Yeah.
00:17:26
Speaker
So, but Argyle says, well, so in other words, you thought she was going to fail and you figured why pack it.
00:17:35
Speaker
Christmas and the Hollis. This is Ron DMC's Welcome to Hollis Park Christmas song. And it was there was a controversy over that song. So it's not a real Christmas song, blah, blah, blah. It is. It's it's a hip hop Christmas song. It's a legit Christmas song. I agree. Just because it's not your traditional angels yeah hitnas and bell. Exactly. Yeah. and Dude, it correct me if I'm wrong. Argyle is a solid dude.
00:18:05
Speaker
He's like, man, you got a place to stay if it doesn't work out. I'll tell you what, I'll wait you but wait for you in a garage. if If everything goes well, give me a call. I'll drop off your bags. if you If nothing goes great, I'll take you to a fucking place, man. Now, granted, he is motivated by the tip. But our guy waits there for like six hours, dude. Yeah.
Cultural Commentary in 'Die Hard'
00:18:30
Speaker
I mean, well, he can't get out. or that wait he has to say he He kind of does get trapped in there, but at first he doesn't realize he's trapped in there. Right. and then he ja an Interesting thing about that that that actual scene where he's on the phone and all the shit's going off behind him. and the He's got the In the original making of the movie, he was supposed to participate in the action.
00:18:59
Speaker
right heard the guns pop off but they realized during making or making the movie that that just wasn't realistic right well that's but they still added on the 30th floor but yeah that's why and so but they did at least right into where he you know backs the limo up and stops the right ambulance driver and bubble pop or the bad guy You know, and when they were writing, and when they were making this movie, the script wasn't finished when they were writing it. So when you see Hans Gruber and his goons get out of the van, the ambulance isn't in the van. No. Because they wrote that in at the end. They're like, we need to, what's their getaway plan, you know?
00:19:43
Speaker
So you had mentioned the name on the door is written wrong. This is how this is where you can you can compare. Right? Because it's written differently here when he checks. The theory behind her name being spelled wrong on the door is she's like, Yeah, I don't care. Because I still love my husband. But this is a Japanese company. I get it. You see married women as quote unquote inferior.
00:20:10
Speaker
You know, that's not the entire Japanese culture, how it works. I have heard that. I agree. Well, she even mentions it when they're arguing in her office. Yeah. But I mean, I think that I chalk that up to an American right in the movie and ah great and projecting ah american Americanism into it. So especially especially back back in the 80s. John walking to the elevator.
00:20:40
Speaker
kind of shows how he's always on. He's checking out the security cameras. He's making sure the security guard's there. He's observant. Yes. So I get your military background theory. Well, now I won't, ill I'll credit that, that trait to an everyday cop too. You know, well yeah not an everyday cop, but ah ah a kind of a good doctor job that ah is observant, I guess, or a detective. I don't want to I don't want to lump a detective into an everyday cop. I know there is a difference. Right. I want to insult a profession such as it's active unless it needs to be **** the police. Okay. So, the design of this lobby with the water is also real Japanese influenced. You know, they basically rebuilt. There's a Japanese
00:21:32
Speaker
architectural or how that they pretty much reconstructed into this building. Remember, this is the box building. Yeah. I love this. He's like, hey, Merry Christmas. This is a fucking California, which is what I think of every time I think of California. This is fucking California. Oh, it's not that bad. Yeah, it's not that good. It don't come up. I get it. That guy's probably hammered.
00:22:01
Speaker
Yeah. I want Takagi's suit, man. Oh, that's something we talked about. In this movie, and when you see it, you can call it, if you can have anything from the movie to keep, what is it going to be? And I want Takagi's suit, man, before he gets shot. That's a nice suit.
00:22:20
Speaker
so So... goes into the office and I forgot this dude's name. Ellis. He's sitting there fucking. Ellis is the biggest fucking brown nose in history. He's railing a fucking line of coke. Of course he misses some. Yeah. I like that. John's like missed some. So John's John's been around the block. Yeah. So he's not one of those cop that's going to be like, Oh, you're doing coke. I'm gonna fucking call the locals on your ass. He's like, no, it's kind of like,
00:22:47
Speaker
He looks down at him like how you fucking dumbass kinda. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, he he he he sees Ellis instantly at what Ellis is, is a scumbag. So john John McCain, and going back to what you said earlier, the everyday average Joe, he's the blue blue collar type guy. Yeah, he's a blue collar guy. These are all, he's and you know. And he's at a party full of white collar people. White collar people. Which which sometimes party harder. Yeah, he's a he's definitely a fish out of water.
00:23:18
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He's probably used to seeing more pearls. Ellis, show him the watch. Fuck you. Ellis, show him the watch. It's Rolex. Fuck you. Nobody cares. At the end, the watch comes back into play, though. It does. It does. ah Given the money, would you buy a Rolex? No. I know you're not the Matilda, this guy. I don't see the point. My watch, my watch costs like 100 bucks, and I love it.
00:23:48
Speaker
I have one. I have one of those smart Samsung watches. I'll never buy one of those. I wear sometimes. I don't wear it every day, but I do wear it sometimes. When I do want to like, if I'm, you know, going somewhere nice, I'm not opposed to looking nice sometimes. My watch is a Dia de Muertos watch. I don't know if you said that before. No, that's buffering from the movie.
00:24:16
Speaker
um when you're recording it. I don't think so. I won't let me skip. I know. That's weird. Yeah. I was gonna say I have the whole movie. I'm editing or editing.
00:24:31
Speaker
I mean, I just don't know how to share it here. I can share mine. Okay. Like I said, I've been having some serious internet issues. Yeah. Let me go ahead and bring up the one I have. Um, if you want to, while, while we're doing that, since we're at this point where we need to anyways, let's go ahead and take a one quick break and I'll bring that up. Well, why are you working on that? Um, I will go ahead before we go on a break. I do want to bring up, uh, today's movie lingo just to position.
00:25:00
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is an adverb in film. It's the contiguous positions of two scenes of objects, characters, or images in a sequence to contrast and compare to them. You can also establish a relationship between two desperate ideas, despartate ideas. Die Hard is a representation of the juxtaposition between an American cowboy badass to the greedy villainous archetype. And on that note, we'll well hit up a break.
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Character Dynamics and Relationships
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00:29:06
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00:29:15
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Oh, I forgot to take that. All right. That's all right. Check your Discord. Can you see that okay? Oh, I already had the movie back. Oh, you already got it fixed? I started sharing my screen so you can see it. I just want to make sure it looked okay. I don't even see your screen. I see mine. I don't see yours. Down at the bottom, you can watch stream. You got to click on it.
00:29:42
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But it's um the problem is, because I only have the one computer, it's it's half the screen. Because I have to share my screen, not my video. But if you got it fixed, let's go with that. I do. Yeah, let's go ahead and close this out. Yeah, can't promise. There you go.
00:30:03
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00:30:25
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but the the The awkward, hi hello kiss kind of thing between them. Well, I haven't spent a little while. Yeah, but. He's very standoffish. Yeah. I mean, he's filled out. I mean, like I said earlier, he feels like he's out he's out of his element. That's the van you need to live out of, dude, right there. One of those pictures of a big fuck you box truck.
00:30:56
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Yes, I mean, I'm thinking of doing the van life, guys. um
00:31:03
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ah you know So, are they in Holly's office? Because yes she well she just said I have an eye on his private bathroom. But she's got a private bathroom, so fuck is fuck Ellis' office.
00:31:21
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Holly's got a nice private office. That's what I'm saying. I don't think that's i don't think that's Holly's office where he's changing. She's pretty high up there in the company. Well, she's BB. She's BB of operations. Which I think, all right, so in the 80s, that's pretty impressive. Oh, yeah. She was making big bucks. John doesn't need to work. John can be a fucking security guard.
00:31:49
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especially concerning women were weren't able to really have their own bank account until like the 70s. Right. No. Yeah. Obviously, Holly, Holly knows what she's doing.
Alan Rickman’s Villainous Charm
00:32:01
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And earlier, you know, she's kind of a workaholic herself because while everybody else is starting to party, she's still working. is You know, that's a very good point. They're both workaholics because they got a name for their children.
00:32:16
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Yeah, let's be real. It's not all on John. you know Well, I'm not saying it's on either of them, really. um but i do I do like how it's pointed out that in the 80s, a woman in this position, if she's a workaholic, she gets more grief about it. And I think that's wrong. Oh, no, I agree.
00:32:42
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But at the end of the day, if Holly's basically running this company, because she's right, I would say she's like one below Takagi. She's making enough money. John doesn't have to work. John can retire. He could. And be Holly's probably making 200k a year in the 80s. But could you imagine had he retired and just moved with her to LA become a fucking ah I'm not nothing wrong with like stay-at-home dads. I mean, I think that's I think if that's Oh kids would have been totally fucked up. He was a stay-at-home dad You know what? I'm saying is if you if he ended up being just like a ah Stay-at-home dad, you know dad bought and then this shit happens Yeah yeah we make have much better movie That would movie That would be a parody that would be he starts beating people with irons instead of guns, you know, I
00:33:41
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well i do saying mr mom like he your mom on him He couldn't do half the shit that he pulls off because he wasn't in shape. it it would be less less believable Like if Seth Rogen played the part, but it was a parody, right, right? Yeah, I'm just saying like John McClain doesn't have to work. I get he but he he likes that stereotypical genre. General General's as the man has to work and you know he he I think he resents a bit that Holly makes more money than he does. And so in what you what you just pointed out is adjusted position between.
00:34:20
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American societal normalcy of like the man minerals in compared to Women the quality in the workplace Okay. Now I know we weren't gonna show any clips but This scene where these guys are walking down. I have it I don't know if you want to play it or not, but that do it almost lately, but you can destroy all go ahead. I'll pause you can just So you have Hans Gruber's goons get out of the truck and they're walking down a like a maintenance Hallway from the garage and they're walking in kind of like a formation Hans in the front and the dude that's gonna be sitting at the front desk as the decoy Desmond Literally walks into a wall Because they they right before he hits the wall I'm talking inches He the camera cuts away
00:35:19
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du I don't think I don't I don't really think the camera cut away I think they finished that scene I can only imagine that he did run into it but when they edited it they cut it yeah because because dude is just walking straight it's not like he doesn't fucking see it yeah it's like if you have three people in front trying to walk through a doorway and one guy is not gonna fit so he just keeps walking into the wall yeah right would be it would be a great one of those movie mistakes it's It's that if you're not paying attention to the background, you'll never notice it. I didn't notice it. I am 44 years old. I've been watching this movie since it came out and I did not know it until this week. Had they let that in there where he hit ran into the wall, it probably would have been a comedy. It would have been it would have been stars Star Wars. Star Wars? Yeah. In Star Wars, one of the Stormtroopers bunks his head on the door and they left it in and added a sound.
00:36:16
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Oh really, I never, I don't really watch movies. I'll send you a clip. I'll send you a clip. Fair enough. Lucas saw it and he was like, that's hilarious. Leave it in.
00:36:30
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mid you not It humanized the villains, though. Humanized the goons, so to speak. Hans Gruber is a fucker. Let's do it.
00:36:44
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So I have a story, let it keep playing. ah A famous British celebrity, and I can't remember the name of his son, they were at an airport and they saw Alan Rickman. And he's like, dad, it's Alan Rickman. And he says, can you introduce me? You know him. He's like, yeah, sure. He's like, I always wanted to meet him. And the kid, kid's like 10.
00:37:07
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And he meets Alan Rickman, he asks Alan Rickman, why do you always play bad guys? And Alan Rickman's response is, I don't play bad guys. I play interesting people. I just find that hilarious. I was like, you know what? And it let's be honest, in every story and and in in in your life, you are the hero of your own story. So in a roundabout sort of way, the bad guys think they're doing right, quote unquote.
00:37:37
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Yeah, they're just you know, they they got it. They got it in their head that they need this one. One person's terrorist is another person's rebel. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, freedom fighter as it were. So bringing up Alan Richter, I'm
Heist Planning and Tactical Execution
00:37:54
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sitting here. I can't remember all his parts. I don't know if he played a good guy or not. Oh, well, he was in he was in that movie. You hate love, actually. I know. um I know he played in Harry Potter and oh yeah i although I'm not a big Harry Potter fan, I watch some of the movies. I really didn't find his character to be the antagonist in Harry Potter. Oh, he's not. he's actually He's actually protecting Harry throughout the movies.
00:38:23
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Yeah, he was, yeah, he was kind of like the silent silent hero type that people just yeah just ostracized because he was different. He wasn't bad. He was different, so. No, Alan Rickman's done, you know, God rest of the man's soul. He was genius. Alan Rickman was was an amazing actor.
00:38:44
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Do you know that they're already gonna start filming the re they re... They are. And they... I'm i'm i'm so mad that they... like the I'm not mad at the casting of Alan Rickman's character, but they changed his... I don't know who the guy is. but I don't even... i don't i'm I'm just upset that there's a reboot of Harry Potter and I've yet to see a rub be a root little a reboot Flash, Gordon.
00:39:14
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That's what I'm upset about. I get that. Alan Rickman, he was in a lot of movies. Oh, he was. He's been around for a while, isn't he? But he's played good guys. He was in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. He played the robot. He was a good guy in that.
00:39:33
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00:39:36
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It's true. Why did I down? I didn't mean to do that. There we go. No, it' it's the yeah, there it is. So in these in these diehard films, I know, especially in the first and the second one, if you look at the side of the plane, the delivery truck, the phone, like the pay phone, it's all by. Yes. Yeah. And you know, what's funny is in speed, the same company has a has a West Coast version. Yeah. That is the plane that it's ran in Atlantic that is actually ran in key to the block moves.
00:40:09
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which is the East Coast. Yeah, it's the East Coast version of the same company, but the the bus and speed runs into that plane. e
00:40:19
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Interesting hallowe Hollywood world we live. Yeah. There is a there's a beer that you see in different movies. Slits. No, not Schlitz. It's a made-up name, but you see it in a few different movies, and I can't remember what it is off the top of my head. If I ever see it, I'll point it out. Okay, so I have to admit something that I'm kind of embarrassed about. When I was a kid and I didn't know who actors were, I thought Ellis and Alan Rickman were the same person because they had beards. Granted, I was like six.
00:40:56
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Ellis's character is just a swarming weasily. He is the epitome of the 80s douchebag. Yeah. You know, he's the trust fund baby with fucking terrible person silver, a silver spoon up his ass and a fucking line of coke up his nose. Uh, as, as I like to point out in these movies, if I'm going to punch somebody in the face, it's going to be Ellis every time I'm not even terrorists. I get them.
00:41:23
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I have more respect for Hans Gruber than I do for Ellis. I have tons of respect for Gruber because he almost pulls off the greatest heist of all time. and fiction Because they're technically they're technically not terrorists.
00:41:39
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So yeah, so that's, that's kind of the premise there. They're pretending to be terrorists because they understand that the feds will respond in a certain way, which will eventually actually help them at their final goal is just Hans Gruber. Hans Gruber is a stupid smart guy. Why would you say stupid smart guy? Stupid as in a justification word.
00:42:05
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Oh, okay. Like wicked smart. He's wicked smart. Got you. Okay. As I say in Boston. Got you. He's stupid smart. Fair. Fair. Stupid smart to me is somebody that's stupid but does something smart like... That's just called lucky. That's called lucky. That's like me. I get lucky. um No, but it's like, he's a wicked smart dude. He's he's he's he's educated, you know,
00:42:32
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I love, I love his, you know, the, the reference to, uh, uh, was it John Phillips, the, the suit designer, which is Takagi suit. Yeah. So, you know, this guy isn't just some normal quote unquote terrorists. Like he's got presumably an Oxford as education.
00:42:52
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He's into the finer things in life, luxury items, elitist items. He's not... well if if If Hans Groover gets away with all his money, he's not going to go out and buy a $200,000 car. He's going to invest it. No, he's going to invest it. You know what I mean? He probably already has a $200,000 car as well. Yeah. He's going to use this money money to to enrich his life as opposed to show off.
00:43:20
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He's not your typical 80s, you know, I'm going to be flashy and cool. He's like, I want to never have to work again. And the $250 million dollars of bear bonds. that theirre So, and this is, and this is just my take on the franchise. So there's the sequel, which takes place in Washington, DC at the airport. Yes. Now, if you take that.
00:43:46
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remove it from the franchise and watch the first one straight to the third one. It links up because the second one is ultimately Hans Gruber's brother getting revenge. Right. Yeah. Okay. I have a problem. I have a question about this scene where they're in this model room. Now granted, if I ever have a multi-billion dollar company with a bunch of locations, I'm going to have models like that. But do you really need it? You know what these models are for?
00:44:14
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No. So, so when companies like this, when they invest in stuff, like let's say they're investing in a company and they're going to build this new building. Oh, no, I get that. I know, I understand what the concept is. That's what these are. And yeah, I get that. But do you really have to have them on a display forever? Okay, so, well, if it's a current project, yeah, it's not like they probably have it up all the time. But in, in in the frame of the movie,
00:44:42
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Hans Gruber makes a comment about the model. tests It's more testament to his education, like maybe like an engineer, like an engineering background or architect. Yeah, as ah as in he's he's he's he's not your average thug. I get that. He's a wicked smart motherfucker. He's wa smart wicked He's wicked smart. He's wicked smart with my Boston hat. I'm just saying. So, I mean, really, the the model is not so much bigger.
00:45:11
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It's just mostly there for a plot device. Yeah, I get that. But like if I ever have a big business, I'm going to have a bunch of models like that too for my different buildings for no reason, just because I'm a douchebag. I don't think they have models like that in all the, ah it's just like whatever current project they're working on. No, I get that. I get that. But I would do it just for fun. Fair enough. As in like, but I would build the models as a hobby.
00:45:39
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like if i'm the ceo of i'm like i don't really have as I do like buying those little mechanical models like those 3D ones. I have a um external combustion engine that I put together. It's just a small, real easy. I have a wooden kind of like ah marble madness thing but there is a five cylinder rotor engine ah model I want to get all metal and it runs and all that. want Yeah, those are dope.
00:46:10
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Um, I love how the, the two guys, the computer guy who once again, as a kid, I thought him and, and the limo driver was the same guy cause they're black. Once again, I was six. Um, no, we get once again, I was six. Um, but, but, uh, I love how him and the the blonde hair guy are, are betting on if Takagi is going to give up the code or not. I love that. Oh yeah. It turns out he doesn't really care anyway.
00:46:41
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Yeah, I mean, they bet a dollar. It was more like a... Well, I mean, they can, you know, maybe get the money now and leave. Or if he doesn't give it to him, they shoot him, which they do, and then they just go on with the original plan. Right. It might look like a terrorist attack. Yeah. Yeah.
00:47:04
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What I find interesting is that this piece of information right here where Hans Gruber does kill Uh, what's his name? The boss man. Takagi. Takagi. Takagi. That Ellis, it doesn't click in Ellis' mind later on in the movie. hey Right? You know, like he- He says he's not afraid to kill. Yeah, like this guy just shot your fucking boss. You really think you're going to negotiate with this motherfucker? You think you're that- Well, in it- ...really badass white collar negotiate. You know what I mean? However, ah in, in, uh,
00:47:40
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in Ellis' defense, devil's advocate, he thinks he's the greatest salesperson of all time. Yeah, I know that. It's ego that's ego. That's my point. he He's out of his element. He wants to bring a business negotiation to to a table full of actual ruthless people. He's literally bringing a knife to a gunfight. Yeah, well, I don't even think he's read i don't even he's bringing a pen.
00:48:09
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Yeah. he's frank having pendo about yeah yeah there you But they do say that the pen is mightier than a sword. So, you know, not a gun there's logic logic in his theory. Not a lot, but there's some.
00:48:27
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This is where Argyle is supposed to show up and help out. But no as they discovered, Argyle is 34 below through multiple layers of concrete. There's no way in hell they heard the shots.
00:48:41
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They planned this out. ah Do you think if you were going to do a heist, you could plan it out as well as they did? I know i'm not with I could. I could. I don't have the knowledge base. Now, if I found a group of people that wanted to go in and they had the- Their escape plan is like flawless. No, but like this escape plan of of, we're going to create all this mayhem and we're going to escape it in a fucking ambulance? That's genius.
00:49:09
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Yeah, imagine if these guys put their they brain to good work. I'm just saying. Actually, I think in... and And I always say this on the first three movies, because I've really got to watch the last two. It's been a while. But each one of the criminals have like a sneaky way to get away with shit. Yeah. Well, especially ah ah the third one. Oh, his brother, yes. Carl? Yes. Is it Carl? No, no, not Carl. it's um Jeremy Irons is played by, uh, Jeremy Irons plays. That's not Carl. Oh, it's going to drive me nuts. Yeah. Anyway, yeah. He's, uh, using the the the underground tunnels and the construction and stuff to, to get away with the gold bullion, the gold bullion. Simon. Simon. Does he play Simon sense? No, Simon was just the name he was using on the phone. No, his his name is Simon Peter Gruber.
00:50:08
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ah Simone.
00:50:13
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Alan Rickman. In his East German accent is genius. oh and And that's the thing. I think they're supposed to come off as. um Yeah, they're not British terrorists. they're They're Eastern Europe because John even says that when he finally talks to the cop. He's like.
00:50:37
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judging by the cigarettes and and what they're wearing and the way they speak. It's, I tell you what, it's funny, even though it's good advice, it's good advice. Take your shoes off, scrunch them, walk around in this situation. It ends up being the reason why he's barefoot through the entire yeah and thing.
00:50:58
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i I don't know if that works though. Like I get on a plane, I've never done the whole scrunch your feet and make this with your toes. And why is this dude wearing the tightest sweatpants on the history of the planet? Why is he wearing sweatpants? He's way ahead of his time. I guess. But dude is wearing full on sweatsuit. I mean, that's what people wearing out nowadays when on their normal fucking shit.
00:51:25
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I know I get that, but it's like, you're going into a heist. Sweatpants are not what you're gonna be bringing. Let's put some jeans on, buddy. He's literally wearing a sweatshirt and sweatpants. I get it, it's December, but it's LA. It's not like it's cold.
00:51:43
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All right, take your time. I don't know how much time I need, though. Yeah, well, that's true. The that my the
Action Scenes and Practical Effects
00:51:53
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funny thing, i the The line here that's coming up, you know, this is, Carl is the blonde guy, the long-haired blonde guy that, that maybe that's what this is his brother. yeah ah Yeah, because after John sends down this dead body, ah he says, now I have a machine gun, ho, ho, ho, let Carl know his brother's dead. That's Carl's brother. Sorry, i've I've seen this movie way too many times.
00:52:24
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ah He says a line here that is genius and it shows where John is not your typical cop. He's that he's that I'm a badass no matter what situation I'm in because at one point he says you're not going to shoot me. You're a policeman. you You're not allowed to. He says that's what my captain keeps telling me. There is another movie that has that exact same line and it it's and pay homage to this movie.
00:52:54
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know and We just missed that whole fight. You might have, you you've fast-forwarded through it. and And for the life of me, I can't remember what... um And John, you know, granted they're up ah higher than, they're like a 31st or 32nd floor here. And John is using all the equipment that's there to distract the guy in high.
00:53:21
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because you know you got he uses the the cutoff saw he uses the um he's hiding behind the drywall stacks look there's there's a rouse buddy you tell you're in LA when there's a rouse around just saying dude um i've never gone to haven't seen a rouse in a while my internet is just fucking up tonight man sorry guys That's right. draging the show You know, it drags the show down because... This keeps buffering. I'm gonna... Let me see if I can share my screen and I can bring it up on mine. There it goes, there it goes, there it goes, there it goes. Okay, there it goes. Hold on, sweatpants. The tightest sweatpants ever.
00:54:17
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like those are yeah's like, bump you up, right? Those are not sweatpants. Those are fucking leggings on that. That's what it reminds me of that SNL skit. Right? That is a big dude. I mean, he, he, is you know, he also, he looks like the guy that played Jeffrey Dahmer in that docuseries. So apparently,
00:54:42
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it does. Apparently the weapons know that i'm I'm not a big gun person. they happy be vis They're more though aren't those Europe? Aren't those like Western European made? That's that? Yeah, they're there are but but they're nine millimeter. I can't s see even though you won't stop them. But they look like a a European version of MP5. Well, see, I heard I heard that was like a 20 point of contention when it come to the the make of the movie and stuff, but I was thinking to myself, I was like, well, this is a criminal organization. They're going to get their guns from wherever they can where they get them. You know what I mean? they're They're not going to care if it's the same weapons from their ethnic heritage area, you know? Yeah, exactly. No way to put that, but. So it's it's actually an M13. It's a Hockler and Kosh P7 M13.
00:55:38
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ah Hans Gruber used a Walter PPK and John used a Beretta 92F. I'm sorry the way they're plowing through like a lot of that construction it's like that's some shoddy ass construction. No well you gotta remember that was when they first in the 80s they first started using those metal studs and those metal studs they're sheet metal they're so easy to bend it's ridiculous.
00:56:05
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Oh, really not it's yeah, like you can you can you know how when your kids you do the karate chop thing? We used to do it all the time. My uncle used to get pissed because we would destroy like 50 of them in a day. My cousins, i we were like 1012. And we'd start just hitting them because we thought it was funny. And he's like, you know, this cause like a buck apiece, you know, a buck apiece. Definitely. They're not weight bearing. That's good.
00:56:31
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No, if they're literally not weight bearing. um But they they are sheet metal. So they're super, they're lightweight. I'm getting by tonight, guys. Yay, boo. Let me go ahead and do this, buddy. I have StreamYard here and I can go ahead and just show it off mine. Okay. I just have to find it.
00:57:01
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And that way I could share my screen. Where where are we? 31 minutes. About 31 minutes. Remember, I have it on 1.252.
00:57:16
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Oh, that's right. It's just playing is playing now. Oh, there it goes. All right. Well, I won't do it. It's like the moment you attempt to do it as soon as I get ready. Yeah, so so John I like how John John's thinking he's like this dude's got shoes. I'm gonna try to steal his shoes But here's the thing That's like you being barefoot and it was shoot. That's weird because you think his shoes would be bigger Right. He said he says he even says nine million terrorists in the world and I got to kill the one with feet smaller my sister
00:57:54
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Here's my thing. There's a construction site right there. Cut the fucking toes out of the fucking things and put them on.
00:58:03
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It's better than running on barefoot, dude. You got your fucking piggies hanging out. Yeah, fuck it, man. Make you some quickie sandals. Yeah, I'd rather slip in than slip out. Yeah. As opposed to rock around barefoot that, as we learn later on, he has to worry about glass.
00:58:24
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Which is right after John says, Glass, who gives a fuck about glass? Which I find it's kind of funny because he's like, who gives a shit about glass? Well, you do. No, I'm I'm bringing it up. I guess.
00:58:45
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I'm getting it ready. just video This Zippo laughs all the way through into the very end of the second movie. Yeah, let's be honest. If you've ever bought a Zippo, you have to refill those things daily. If you smoke with any consistency. Well, yeah, he is a smoker. He probably does. But a Zippo is one of those lighters you keep around for for years. Oh, yeah. That's the beauty of a Zippo. I have this ready if you want. Yeah, go ahead, man. This this shit's pissing me off. I'm actually getting pretty.
00:59:19
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I've already had a very frustrating, agitating day, and this is just making it worse. Right? Let me go ahead and click on that. Because YouTube and their YouTube play movie clips bullshit. Right? So I already got to set it up at speed. So you should be able to see it on streaming or on. Discord. Discord now.
00:59:45
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and I have already have a 125 this is right after he kills dude can you see it all right I can see it but it's it's freezing oh really I told you, it's it's my internet. Oh, OK. Yeah. And I also think it's personal. He checks dude's ID. I think it's partly StreamYard, too. Because I've noticed other other people that we we talk to and stuff, and they use StreamYard, like Lazy Jedi or Shaka. like They've been having some issues with StreamYard. Yeah. So John knows his shit. he john's got I think John, when he was a kid, used to do construction.
01:00:33
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because he knows how to quickly open up these doors and stuff. Well, I mean, if you think about it. I don't know how to do that. Something you might have picked up as a detective talking to rescue workers and whatnot, or being in those kind of situations. But you could have some sort of construction action. I grew up in this construction trade, and I don't know how to do that.
01:01:01
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so i I mean, that's terrible. lie I mean, this is a Hollywood film. Who's to say it's actually even really like that? ah Agree. Uh, Alan Rickman's line as Mr. Takagi will not be bought joining us for the rest of his life. Of course not. He's dead. Would it be better to say rest of your lives? I don't know. I don't hear it.
01:01:29
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This bitch screaming. It's a dead body like you. Like I don't. That dude doesn't look real. You can't hear it? I can't hear it. Well, let me. It's fine. I don't I don't really need the sound. So much. Stop streaming the stream again, because I might. Yeah, I thought I put sound. Yeah, I got sound. Motherfucker. Is that better?
01:01:58
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I don't know man, but don't worry about it. Let's play it. I ain't gonna worry about it. Halt. Halt. Halt.
01:02:14
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Yeah. This is why they're they're talking and in some sort of German. They'll call it. His brother is dead.
01:02:27
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were jim and he's writing down the names of the people and how many there are. He's smart. Oh yeah, he's he's collecting intel. He's collecting clues, evidences. Yeah, anything he can. He's resourceful. Yeah. He's a Boy Scout man. He's always prepared. Yeah, he's at he's at Boy Scout archetype. You know he He's got the Zippo on him. I mean, Granny just got it. But I mean, he's he's a boy. guy he's He's prepared. He's resourceful. There's other words that are not coming to mind because I'm frustrated with YouTube. but
01:03:12
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so
01:03:15
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So the first time he passes this poster, he gives it the woo-hoo. And then later on when he passes it, he smacks it. go away. What are you doing? Oh, yeah. That's where you paused it so you could go get some drink while you were watching it.
01:03:33
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yeah I don't think I paused it to go do anything. um you When you recorded this, you paused it multiple times, but didn't stop recording because I re-edited it.
01:03:50
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and you even told me about it because there's like a good three minutes where you obviously paused it because you were watching it and you walked away and left it recording. So I sat here watching going, how long did this motherfucker leave for? Who fucking knows? I'm high sometimes when I when when I do these movie records, I'll be I'll get all comfortable. I'll start the movie record. And it's like, fuck, I need something to drink. Fuck, I shouldn't have to watch chocolate. It went to commercial.
01:04:23
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Yeah, I have I still have no sound. Oh, yeah, it's just quick. It's always a quick commercial as opposed to a bunch of why I don't have sound.
01:04:35
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i ah um Discord, there's a volume button where you can crank it up on your end. Hmm.
01:04:47
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you might have it turned down because you, so you don't hear the TV and the, or hear the computer and the discord. Yeah. I have it turned all the way up actually. Weird. I know. Like is this is where he's, uh, he's, he's talking to, he's talking to 911. Okay. and And because yeah, and she's like,
01:05:17
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Attention whoever you are this chancel reserve for No fucking shit lady. Does it sound like an order of fucking pizza? So I want to use that line in real life Like if i ever call 911 and they're like sir, what's the problem? Yeah, I'm not a pizza lady. It's not that hard hmm Okay, so I Should be getting sound Yeah. But I'm
01:06:03
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I hope how?
01:06:13
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ooooooooo how how You know, there's a fan theory about Al. What's that that? The fan theory is that during Die Hard or during Die Hard 2, he has a ah mental breakdown because of the story he tells of about how he killed a kid. And I want to pause to tell the story. The story he tells John about killing a kid.
01:06:45
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Uh finally gets to him. It has a breakdown and goes into a coma and During the time in a coma In his mind, he moves to chicago with his family And the show family matters takes place But he's in the second one And this that's what I said. It's during the second movie In the second movie after the second movie it finally gets to him that that it finally gets to him like he's in a car accident and he he he's his name's not Winslow in this I know but that's that's the fan theory that it's because of it's a a coma he changes his name to get away from this I'm sorry but some fan theories are just fucking oh they're out there they're out there but it's it's to get away the stigma of being car of being that guy
01:07:41
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Oh yeah, he's this this actor's played a cop in a lot of different roles. However,
01:07:51
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however if i if i have a if I have a different choice of ah if i have a choice of a vehicle out of this movie, I want Al Powell's police car before it gets shot. I love that Caprice classic. I think it's gorgeous.
01:08:08
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and he's shooting up on the on the top of the roof. They're shooting on the roof, which obviously from the street you wouldn't hear. um But I always thought as a kid that the flashes from the gunbu gun were shown from the street, but then they're actually strobe lights. Because when you have a building that high, you have to have strobe lights for planes.
01:08:37
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Yeah, and you know what, you're right. People like on on the street level would probably see that, not not think nothing of it. Yeah, because it literally looks like the strobe lights. Dude, I don't know what Carl is using, but that is a badass gun. Carl's gun? The guy that John just killed his brother? Yeah. I don't know what it is, but it looks dope.
01:09:06
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John has got balls of steel go through with that fan and using the the strap of the gun to get down to this vent scares the shit out of me every time.
01:09:26
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Girls, I can hear him speaking. They still don't know where he is. I need my soda.
01:09:43
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He can't get on top of the elevator because they're too low. Like if I was running around in this building, I would probably get lost by now. Like where the fuck am I? Well, he can't get very far because everything from the 30th floor and below is locked off. The elevators only go down to the 30th floor.
01:10:02
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Yeah, but I'm not talking about just up and down, but I'm talking about left, right. Oh, yeah. and yeah I mean, it's still not a small building, regardless.
01:10:13
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It's in the elevator shaft. And that's nothing. Since it's just a small little area, he's kind of trapped in. Yeah, he's a rat in a maze. Now, given the option, would you do this?
01:10:30
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Did you ever try this? But apparently, this was a mistake. Like... He wasn't supposed to miss. Yeah. Yeah. But the stuntman missed. And ended up grabbing onto a different ledge that he wasn't supposed to. But they went ahead and just kept it in there. But they're like, fuck it, use it, it's genius. Dude, and... Could you imagine... Fucking up like that and stomping it? I would not happen.
01:10:58
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I would not have the nuts to do this. It scares the shit out of me. Because you're talking... Now, granted, air shafts aren't really built like that. They go all the way down 30 floors. Yeah, I didn't think they were. No, they're not. No. And they're a lot smaller, even for building that size. ah But, like, that's a 30-floor drop.
01:11:28
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Oh, Jesus. That frees me out every time. you See, I'm a person that doesn't like heights. And when I... You ever play that video game Assassin? Assassin's Creed? Oh, yeah. Yeah, you like jump down, down, down. Do like some of those like cut scenes. would If I wasn't expecting it, and you just cut down. Here comes home the greatest line. Come up to the coast, we'll get together, have a few lads. So people online,
01:11:57
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Bitch about this scene. This is where you paused it for God knows how long. um People online bitch about the fact that the air ducts are not dirty. Which they would be in real life. But, however, it's on this under new can yeah it's under new construction.
01:12:20
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So it wouldn't have time to get dirty.
01:12:25
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because those floors are under construction. So they wouldn't have time to get dirty. I guess if they if they replaced all the air ducking at the same, yeah, sure. Yeah. I didn't really i never really looked at that as really a point of contention, the dirtiness compared to the clean. Well, he but the thing is, if like I used to to work for a company that cleaned air ducts. And yeah they use a ah hose with the attachment that sprays them.
01:12:52
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and Dude, within like a month of a brand new air duct, it looks like it's 30 years old. Just the dust and everything collects. And you couldn't go through an air duct anyways, because they're put together with zip screws. And you would literally just tear your body up, dragging yourself across zip screws. I would assume it's not really, it would really support that much weight either. and No, no, they're not. They're not designed to hold that kind of weight.
01:13:24
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It's completely implausible, but does look badass. I'll give you that. I think we are going to take another break. Yeah. And then let this guy. You're still on pause. As soon as I'm pauses, as soon as you on pause. Oh, there it goes. Okay. I paused it. Go ahead. Unless we're on a quick break.
Media Ethics and Archetypes
01:13:48
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Fuck yeah.
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wow
01:14:17
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smile i spin five There you are.
01:14:34
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You forgot to lock the car again. I did? Sorry.
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four hundred and sixty nine horsepower fifty five amg feel the power of the mer sovietd
01:14:58
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What's that? That's a swear jar. Every time someone swears, you put a quarter in it. Who gets the money? I don't know. We'll use it to buy something for the office, like a case of Bud Light or something. Fucking awesome. Fuck you, Bob. Fuck you, Jim. Eric, I have a shit bag in line three for you. Can I borrow your pen?
01:15:23
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Can I borrow your fucking pen? Will the owner of a white station wagon please go fuck yourself? We're gonna go down there, and we're gonna f**k some a**. We're f**k some a**. We're gonna do whatever we have to, because we're gonna f**k some a**. Poop. Doesn't count. Shut the f**k up! I am so proud of you motherf**king suckers. Hear, hear. F**k. Refreshingly smooth bud light. Always f**king worth it. Man, I hate cardio.
01:16:02
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activity playlist, running, hashtag gym flow, Drake in future.
01:17:01
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Gimme a shot if anybody comes in. You got it!
01:17:08
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Bud Light. The mother lode. Hey! Here he comes! Hide! Did you hear something? For the great taste that won't fill you up and never lets you down. Bartender! Twenty Bud Lights! Oh no! Make it a Bud Light.
01:17:31
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All right, welcome back for that after that break hi And I was I was expecting what we forgot to do bio dot link slash nonsensical Network Find everything we do, and say, and watch. There, you can find all our shows, Speedway Stories, Cold Blooded Conversations on Mondays, along with Men Caring for Men, Tuesdays and Glitz House Music, Wednesdays is What the Buck News, this Thursday coming up. Jeff's Garage is going to be back. Belize and I are going to do a show together. Fridays, of course, we're watching
01:18:09
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a new movie. I'm not going to give the way what what we're doing yet. Lays will do that. No, no, no. Last week. our Oh, we already did. We already did. Yeah. Next week is Scrooge. Watching Scrooge. Bill Murray. Speaking speaking of which, Bill Murray's coming out in a new movie soon. It's a zombie movie, but I'm really leaving it at that. Oh, come on. Look that up. Dude, did you see the trailer for The Gorge?
01:18:31
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No, but let's finish the weekly. law Oh my gosh, I gotta send you this trailer. Sorry, Saturdays in the mornings are Cassius quarters where they talk the wrestling and then Saturday night nonsensical nonsense. The open door challenge and Sundays of course is unnecessary roughness with the boys talk foodie football. a Yeah, so we got past your pause break by life. I saw that. Yes, awesome.
01:19:01
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or he's he's army crawling army crawling through the air ducts while everybody is running after him looking and he says he says another line that kind of gets thrown away he says now I know what a TV dinner feels like I get that because that air ducts get warm that TV dinners back there would come in like had like aluminum and yeah they weren't really I mean, yeah, you, they had the microwavable one, but like the old school ones were originally for, they were originally for, uh, ovens and there's another pause break by place. There it goes. That might've not been a pause break. I don't know. Uh, Carl did shoot across the duct work and miss John by like five inches. Just saying.
01:19:55
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I mean, that happens like that. Right? Like, what's three extra bullets there, Carl? Um, but they see they imply that the ductwork was dirty because John's shirt is no longer white. No, well, he did go. or So that that just because the air ducts looked clean. They imply that they are dirty. They are dirty. Yeah. Because that shirt is now totally brown.
01:20:26
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Yeah. It looks like you just bought a mechanic shop. It would be funnier for you. Unducked it and it in the bottom of it. It was just all perfectly white. Now watch. You'll see when the cop car is flying backwards, the body that he throws is bouncing off of the hood. Oh, really? I never know. Yes. You gotta to watch. what It happens so fucking fast. Remember, he pushes it. Yeah.
01:20:56
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I love that car. So for the longest time I thought Randy Travis played this part because the guy's accent sounds was like he's he sounds like Randy Travis.
01:21:14
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i I do find it interesting that like their American accents are broad. Yeah. When they fake them. yeah
01:21:25
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Like this dude, like you said, Randy Travis has that Texan accent. He's like, listen to like $400 of Randy Travis. He's like, that's my American voice.
01:21:38
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Possible. I don't understand this table. I don't understand how that fucking, did that chair just break that window? Yeah. Apparently in the bloopers, uh,
01:21:54
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John hits it like 15 times before it breaks. The bloopers are hilarious, by the way. The thing is, a window really like that would not be able to break that easy. No, because they're like saw. Yeah, they're purposely made not to break that easy. Yeah. the scene right The scene where he's about to go, when he goes under the table and shit,
01:22:18
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I don't understand the purpose of this table. I get it. It's a conference table, but it's, it's built weird. Oh, sorry. one wasn Yeah. So for safety reasons, they put plexiglass underneath the table to keep splinters from hitting him. Okay. Shooting. It kept the noise in, and this movie itself actually caused him to go 30% depth. All his movies after this, he has,
01:22:46
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hearing aid and usually edit it out so you don't see it. Oh, wow. Yeah, I did not know that. No, but like this conference table is built like a it's zigzag. Yeah, I don't understand how that could be a comfortable conference table. Like it's it's completely impractical. It is. Oh, it really is. You would be staring at somebody's back while in a conference.
01:23:16
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Yeah. Where are you going, pal? Uh-oh. No more table. No more table. Yeah. There you go. Get some right in the nuts. Right in the nuts. And he is empty. He wasted a full clip on that dude. So with the lines he became motherfucker of them talking about Roy Rogers and John Wayne, this movie has has the has that Western aesthetic almost. Oh, yeah.
01:23:45
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the good guy versus the bad guy. I get that. Yeah.
01:23:52
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That's a wild goose chase over here. Doc's telling me. Okay. Watch the body fly off the fucking fly off the hood. Okay. Okay. Okay. Now watch as he goes back, hits the curve or he goes back and goes down in that goalie or whatever. Right. Welcome to the party.
01:24:14
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damn he Right there, you see it? Oh shit, I just saw it, yeah. and um You know. That car got fucked up. They fucked up that car. It's like, it's like. Back then, those cars weren't diamond, though. Yeah. Well, if you don't be shooting at you, dude, you don't think breaks. My fucking Twinkies. Who fucking smashed my Twinkies?
01:24:43
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They're supposedly for his wife. That's the line I just made up they freea for his wife. That's right. He doesn't say that. ah Can we talk about Thornbird here, the the but TV reporter? I think this guy is an asshole, but he's an asshole not for the wrong reason. Well, okay. Let me rephrase that. Just let it play. He's an asshole. He's an asshole. I think His intentions to be to bring transparency in journalism is good, but it's out shadowed by his greed.
01:25:19
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well and was in his In his quest for fame as a journalist. Right. Because him going all the way over to Holly's house and interviewing the kids, I don't blame Holly for punching him in the face at the end of the movie.
01:25:36
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I mean, I think that would be a normal journalistic thing is go let's go talk to the family. But the way he does that is kind of bullshit. Yeah, he's kind of he's he's scumbaggy about it. Yeah. I think he's what would be known as an ambulance chaser journalist. Oh, yeah. Yeah. He's definitely, you know, even says if you don't give me the truck, I'll go steal it. Yeah. Like in the in like in the second movie when he's in the bathroom, like divulging all this shit.
01:26:06
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Like during that movie, the terrorist attack on that movie, um, or not terrorist attack either way. I think he was doing like, I thought that was okay. When she like, I didn't see a problem with it. Yeah, I didn't in that point, but she still went in there with the taser and fucking knocked his as out. I thought that was, I thought that was too much. Yeah. Well, because that, that equipment could have been used to save the plane as opposed to getting out the news.
01:26:37
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they could've landed the plane with that shit no not really we'll discuss it when we get to that movie cuz I don't remember but not because ah way the in the end C4 what?
Humorous Takes on Criminal Skills and FBI Tactics
01:27:01
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he has the detonators the detonators The detonators are ne is now than MacGuffin.
01:27:15
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See, he didn't basically tell, open the front door, let me get the fuck out. See, I don't, I don't know what, I forgot what they're talking about. He's saying, he's saying, he's basically saying, he's like, who are you? You know, what, are you someone, another American that saw too many movies?
01:27:36
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Oh, this is the Roy Rogers comment. This is when I talk. Yeah, this is where they make the Roy Rogers. Yeah. He says, he says, he says, what are you, John Wayne? He says, I'm more personal Roy Rogers myself. You be kind of a motherfucker. Which I appreciate. I think Roy Rogers is better than John Wayne. I was never done. Wayne was kind of a cop. I'm not either.
01:28:01
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I think that's our dad generation. You know, the actor that played John Wayne absolutely fucking was scared of horses. No shit. Yeah. He was not. And I guess when it comes to doesn't she. doesn't go up in the second movie No, it's a different blonde reporter. I know what you're talking about. is it Okay. Yes. Yeah. I always thought it was the same one.
01:28:25
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You're talking about the skinny one at the end where she. no no No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I think she's on TV in the, in the, like let muscle because the dudes in the bathroom. Yeah, because he's still working for the same network. Yeah. And the second one, he's like, Oh yeah, I'm going big media now. Yeah. So where do you buy the equipment to drill into this safe? This is fucking dope set up.
01:28:58
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Well, this is 80s, probably Radio Shack. I guess. you I think Theo built all that stuff. That's why he brought him along. Probably. I mean, these i mean of course, besides these guys being criminals, they're engineers and electricians. They all have their their skill set. Yeah. Now, this is John. He's he's basically telling Al everything that's going on. Yeah.
01:29:27
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So, up until this point, again, everybody's thinking that they're just normal terrorists. their their whole Their whole ploy is, as soon as the feds come in, they're drilling through the different parts of this vault, the security locks. And the very last security lock is whole... Is electromagnetic. Yes, electromagnetic. So, as soon as the feds cut the power, because during terrorist negotiations, quote, unquote,
01:29:54
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then that what gives them final access to the vault. well using alington spend They're using the federal government's predictability against her. Well, Al even says at that point, he says the FBI is running the show now and they're using, they got the the terrorist guidebook and they're running it step by step. Call me again Roy, he says.
01:30:20
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Yeah, and this is back in the 80s again, when terrorist scares were were a big thing. So yeah, I mean, it's always, I mean, even if you look at movies made nowadays, terrorists being a threat or part of that movie is very wrong. It's a major trope. Yeah, I mean, look at well look at Iron Man. This side this guy is such an asshole too.
01:30:47
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He can't even, like the a guy that's now in charge, he showed up in a car being driven and there was a there was there was there was nobody in the passenger seat. So he got in the back. He thinks he's more important than he is. So this the guy's right now in the suit? Well, he's yeah he's the actual, he's like the captain of the cops. He's like- Oh no, I get that. yeah But but he when he shows up, he could have ridden in the passenger seat of the car.
01:31:17
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but he wrote in the back, like drive me. Oh, and he showed up on scene. Got you. Got you. I don't know. I mean, it could have been the car. No, I rolled it. I'm not going to roll it back, but if you roll it back, you can actually see there's nobody in the bathroom to see the car that drives him to the scene. Hmm.
01:31:42
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I see what you mean. Well, that's, that's a good, a good, um, just to position with, with John McLean right on the front seat. Exactly. He's more of a competition. So this is the scene where you find out Holly was basically second in command at Nakatomi because he said, who put you in, what idiot put you in charge? She was, you did when you shot Takagi. So she makes good money, dude. Oh yeah.
01:32:12
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Yeah, oh, absolutely. She's probably a millionaire. I wouldn't call a millionaire because she's only been doing it for about six months to a year. Well, I mean, in today's time, she would be a millionaire. Oh, yeah. shoot now fun but If you count for inflation, she makes probably 400 grand a year in the 80s, which is a couple million now.
01:32:35
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yeah is If you matter she is a woman in the 80s so Comparatively, she probably is not even making the money. She should be oh, yeah, the gender gap. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Hey gap. Yeah That's why she's so high up. They didn't have to pay her as much. I'm just saying save where you can Boo yeah
01:33:02
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Dude so Argyle sitting in the back of the car he's so bored he's drinking. Yeah okay so I got a problem with that one. What? As a limo driver. Yeah but he's not going anywhere. As a limo driver like. He's been there for like six hours already man. Well true. I would say this whole thing takes place in about eight hours.
01:33:32
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Like this whole, this whole movie takes the span of a good eight to 10 hours. That's an interesting timeframe. Cause I, I'm not sure it, I don't, I don't know if there's no, moods to it they don't i because, well, I mean, we can go back and look at clocks in the scenes.
01:33:49
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And probably kind of get a good guesstimate. Right. But it's one of those things that's like, from the moment John lands to getting to Nakatomi, let's call that maybe an hour and a half tops.
Debating 'Die Hard' Timeline
01:34:01
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Honestly, I think it's a lot more than eight hours. Because he, oh yeah we start the movie. I'm talking about from the moment Hans Gruber locks everything down, it's eight hours. The sun is already set by then. Right. Okay.
01:34:16
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and This is in LA in Christmas time. It'd probably be getting dark around eight o'clock, seven, eight o'clock. Seven, eight o'clock, yeah. No, earlier than that. Yeah, know and you're you're talking closer to like five, six. Yeah, five, six o'clock. And this almost goes into the next morning, if I if i remember right.
01:34:45
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So I mean, it's got to be way more than eight hours. I would say by the time they get the vault open, it's midnight. I would, I would guess between eight to 12 hours. Yeah. I put it somewhere in that ballpark. Yeah. So, so Argyle having a single drink because he's got nothing better to fucking do. I don't blame him because he's just now realizing he can't get out as he's driving around the parking lot.
01:35:13
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burning the **** out of tires by the way. I don't know. In a situation like that, I wouldn't want to be drunk. I'm okay high but I'm drunk. But almost any situation. oh my sense ah So God, I am. I am. You guys think I'm. This guy. when i'm stoned This guy. If you had an 80s movie and there was a bad guy and this guy wasn't in the movie, it wasn't an 80s movie. So, this guy. Every 80s movie. This part was ad libbed. Him grabbing the candy bar. Yeah.
01:35:44
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It was all on him. He ad-libbed that part thinking it'll add a little bit of depth to this. It's been in like 400 movies. It's just been in like 400 movies. I'm talking about the scene, but yeah. No, I get that. Looting deck.
01:36:03
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You know, this is a suspiciously dead fucking parking lot. his name is Al Long. L-E-O-N-G. Who? The that Asian dude did that uh. Al Long. Just grab that candy bar. Al Long. He's been in so much. This would be one of those movies if Danny Trejo is an actor at that point. You'd probably see him in and in a package. Right. Exactly. He's that type of character. Yeah.
01:36:41
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He just looks like a bad guy. Well, he played Genghis Khan in Bill and Ted's actual adventure. He did. He was in 76 movies, by the way. I got to add that. I know. I know. You'll love me some Rufus. I do too. Oh, hell, Rufus. Shoot at the lights.
01:37:07
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Shoot at the lights. They're shooting at the lights. Oh my God. I love Alex. He's like but's like, no shit. You know, it's funny that that same, the same similar situation happened in the second movie a when John McLean's trying to explain something bad is about that happened in the head cop of the airport. It's like, I'll go fuck yourself. You're just talking out trash. You have this hero complex and blah, blah, blah. Yeah. Well, it's even mentioned in.
01:37:38
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Is it the second movie that somebody says, I saw you on TV after that LA thing, and you kind of are out of your depth while you're talking to, you know, whoever was ahead of the, on the thing? Yeah. Cause John got, John, John gets mildly, he gets a 15 minutes of fame thing from this, from saving all those people. It, it, it kind of, it,
01:38:04
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it kind of highlights that detachment between the person doing the job from the managers that always see the job and don't do the job anymore. There's that exactly is that disconnect. Like, like, man, I'm, I do this job every day. I'm on the streets. Like you've been behind a desk for so many years. You know, my, my input's valuable, but because that guy's in charge, he's like, yeah, whatever. He's like, yeah, fuck you. you Cause you don't know what you're talking about. Yeah. I'm the boss. We're going to do it my way.
01:38:35
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mit Oh, by the way, if anybody wants to watch this, you can watch it free on Tubi. Yes, it is on Tubi. you I think this is on Tubi. Yeah, this is on Tubi. What is that noise? It's my phone. I'm getting a phone call. I was like, man, your vibrator is like going off in your pocket, dude. My phone's ringing. Uh-oh.
01:39:06
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LAPD bringing in the heavy hitters. I don't know. Did they, did LA have these fucking big ass fucking tactical vehicles in the eighties? I don't remember that being the thing.
01:39:23
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I thought, is I thought, I thought it was, it wasn't until like the nineties that, uh, that they started. Yeah. yeah No, they've always had that because it's LA. It's big city. This is true. there has been There has been some elacious riots out there. And we're probably gonna have some more. This is where he's gonna throw the explosives down the fucking elevator shaft, huh?
01:39:58
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So.
01:40:01
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Yeah, I think this is where he shoves the C4 down. the Oh, Jeff's on the phone. I didn't realize he was on the phone. This isn't work time. This isn't work time. So John McClain's wiring up the chair with C4 and fuses a few score. He's going to throw it down. The elevator the elevator shaft.
01:40:28
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And he uses a, I had to look this up. It uses an old school computer to monitor a computer monitor.
Explosion Effects and Movie Details
01:40:35
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And they monitors like that. And some TVs had specific cathodes that when they were, um, when they hit the ground or were dropped, they would cause a spark. So there there's some real, well because of the tubes, tube yeah it's, it's basically like a tube TV. And now.
01:40:56
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The explosion over the building, they recorded the the building, of course, but that explosion was edited. It was overlaid over the video. Yeah. Or over the, yeah, over the picture. Yeah. it it's it's It's kind of like the the concept we talked about last week, the movie we talked about last week. I think we missed the part that the phone number was on. Son of a bitch. Did we? Yes. Oh, darn.
01:41:21
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me
01:41:25
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I'm gonna look it up. I bet it's on fucking Google. Dude, that is the worst picture of Alan Rickman ever. Doesn't even look like Alan.
01:41:42
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Which one is that? That picture they were shown on the news. Shit on a screen, no laws.
01:41:56
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How did you get two? Yeah. Okay, I'm gonna. You're gonna actually call it? You want me to pause the movie? Yeah, pause the movie. Yeah, let's go ahead and do this. I'm probably gonna get, it I'm probably gonna get arrested for this. Yeah, I will. So, it's two one three two zero three three seven two three. There you go.
01:42:23
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Ask for John McLean. Somebody who has reached is not in service. thanks ah again and p oh hey They've obviously changed it because it's been so long. But he used to go to Fox Plaza. Yeah. The real life headquarters of 20th Century Fox. Bummer. yeah they put Yeah, they probably had some. Here it is. He says, Glass? Who gives a shit about Glass? Dwayne T. Robinson. He's walking all over it.
01:42:54
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You got glass on everybody. That's why he's saying he gives a shit about glass because he's already walking on that shit. No, he hasn't walked on it yet. Oh, he hasn't? I thought he has. No. And I was like, fuck yeah. Because the only reason that Alan Rickman has everybody shoot the glass is because Alan Rickman goes to check the detonators and runs into John. That's right. We haven't got to that part yet. Not yet. It's coming up. Guys, sometimes I forget how long this movie is.
01:43:23
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And it, it's not a long movie, but it's long. ah It's about two hours and for the eighties, that was, that was a pretty long movie. That's a pretty long movie for the eighties. Yeah. Cause most movies were about in about 90 minute Mark, 92 minutes. Yeah. Sprechen zigzag. Yeah. And now we got movies coming out. It was like fucking three hours long. baard too Yeah.
01:43:52
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first time I went and saw one of the pirate of the Caribbean. It was like a three hour movie. And at one point in time, I had a fucking piss. We were in the theaters in Guam. Oh. And we had snuck in a bunch of beer. So I had my bladder. This line, the Hans Bubby. Hans Bubby. That is improvised. And Alan Rickman, this is his actual reaction. Because he doesn't know.
01:44:23
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He doesn't know he's about to say it. There's actually quite a bit. use a fast Yeah.
01:44:33
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Like that. When we get when we get to one scene, you know, the whole the whole entire scene was pretty much ad libbed. Yeah, when when we get to it, I'll ah'll point it out. I'm sure you know what it is.
01:44:45
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I must have been minutes. So about halfway through the movie in Guam, pis like I had a piss so fucking bad. I'm kind of drunk by this point. but I say fuck it. And I'm in one of the front aisles, but behind me is the floor. So I decided to turn around and leap over the chair and my fucking shoe got hit. It got trapped on the top of the fucking chair.
01:45:15
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and How many Twinkies has Al eaten? He has the back of the package memorized. Memorized. He does. Right. Yeah, he's got a memorized. That's like, I got Google, and I don't know what's in a Twinkie. In the second one, he's sitting there at his desk eating a Twinkie, and John calls me. He put the Twinkie down. He's like, what do you mean? I don't have a Twinkie.
01:45:40
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Touching cowboy question. Twinkies are awesome. There was another movie. Twinkies were a big part of the movie. Fucking zombie. Ghostbusters. Ghostbusters. Ghostbusters. Yeah. Twinkies are brought up in a lot of movies. Twinkies is to does they made a cultural a cultural thing. Yeah. They used to taste good. They don't taste good anymore. ah I have a quite I have I have I have an observation here. When Ellis is talking to John on this radio, they hand him a can of Coke.
01:46:16
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A, arrogant, honest, smart, but I'm sure they were like, can we get you anything? And he was like, yeah, some Coke. And they brought him a can of Coke and he was talking about Coke. I think that's right. I legitimately think you're right about that. His character was meaning, fucking, let's go snowing. Give me some blow. Yeah, yeah. and they bring and And they brought him a can of Coke and he's like, fuck it, whatever. But they probably wrote it in there for advertisement placement. Oh, yeah.
01:46:46
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and look he breaks up he's like yeah
01:46:52
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not exactly a glass
01:46:56
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No, I need my coke to come with a mirror wouldn't what's his glass and no ice No, why why did he pour it into a glass if he's got no fucking ice? Honestly, I just think they're making him feel like like he's in charge at the moment Yeah, he's dead. ah Bye. Bye or an internet speak now, you are unalived. Yeah. You don't know what the fuck you're doing.
01:47:27
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Oh, well, Alice, goodbye. Look, man, John, they got a gun to my head or something like that. I don't, I don't. What am I a method actor? I can't remember the scene. You don't need the gun. It was, yeah. And he says, John.
01:47:46
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Look at him sweating like a pig, Ben. but
01:47:52
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At least he drank his Coke. Yay, Ellis is dead. The last Coke he ever had. And it's the drinkable kind. Bummer, dude. If you're going to go out, yeah that's not the way to go out.
01:48:12
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uh before we started we were talking about the the song by the band guys night that's called die hard and in the lyrics it says it was pretty sweet when they killed ellis so i need to send you the lyrics because you'll get a kick out of that i like i like how uh Some of these movies that we watch are just movies that are made in general. There's always like a character or two that you just, when they meet their demise, you're like, yay. Yeah. And it's not always the bad guy. It's not always the main villain. Just some side character that's just fucking annoying. Well, but once again, as I said, Oh, excuse me. Ellis is a fucking scumbag. Yeah. A hundred percent.
01:49:03
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So nobody, nobody's upset about Ellis dying, except Ellis. You know what I mean? Ellis is like that, that UHC CEO. There's just no sympathy for him. Yeah. He uses his comeback.
01:49:19
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Hot take. God, you can imagine here in a couple of years, there's going to be a fucking movie made out of that shit. You know, there is. Of what? of the UHC CEO getting popped. There's going to be a fucking made for... Oh yeah. Or made for Netflix. I wonder who buys the rights first, Netflix or or Prime? So I sent you the web page, the lyrics from the Die Hard song. I will look at it when I'm on the toilet. So so Hans is making all these... he's but he He did research saying that we'll let everybody go if you can get our revolutionary brothers released.
01:50:02
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And he just starts listening off terrorist organizations. He writes off terrorist groups. And and Carl even looks at them and he's like, Red Dawn? He's like, I saw about him on CNN. And Carl even says, do you think they'll actually do it? He's like, who cares? and It's basically to keep them busy. Yeah. Do you want to take a quick break? It'll be our last one. I only got one more line, yeah. OK, well, let's wait a little bit longer. I've got to get through our commercial here.
01:50:31
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Okay. Yeah. How much time we got left? So Theo's about 30 minutes. Oh, okay. Cool. Yeah. We'll we'll take one of these or so. No, here in about 10 minutes or so. Okay. So longer night. I think I went on a longer diet drive at the beginning of the episode. All right. I love this. My vessel. I'm driving this bitch. I'll talk what I want.
01:51:02
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See, this is where John's already put it together. He's got all the clues right in front of his face. Yeah. And he's trying to relay all that information down there, but nobody really wants to fucking hear him. Except for Al. No.
01:51:20
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This guy, this fucking news reporter, he's like, I said Helsinki. It's me. Finland, you idiot. It's like it's made to look like an asshole.
01:51:37
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Yeah. the This just shows how much, how little people know because this guy's saying there's a, the Helsinki effect, but it's not even remotely happening to anybody in the building. What the hell's the Helsinki effect? Uh, when you're kidnapped after a while, you are, you become kind of reliant on ah stocklor never ah That's That's basically what they're saying. Stockholm syndrome and the Helsinki effect is the same thing. Oh, really? I've never heard it called the Helsinki effect. That's what that's what that's what the the the guy that the reporters were talking to said. Oh, I've never, okay. I didn't pick up on that. Yeah. Now, I'm sorry. Every time I see this dude, I think of Goonies. He was one of them for tellies.
01:52:32
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Which one are we talking to agent? Oh, I know You tell my Johnson agent Johnson and Johnson Johnson. Yep. Yep Dude you Just I thought that said Mary fuck off spray baiting on the side of that Now see Hans is climbing up here to check the detonators and he's He said his gun down So the Helsinki Effect, is it's a book. This book argues that human right norms established by the Helsinki Final Act contributed to the demise of communism in Eastern Europe. It explores a final. art So I don't think it's so much what you were thinking it was. Oh no, I was relaying what the guy was talking about. yeah Well, then the writers don't know what they were talking about. Right, exactly.
01:53:27
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so So, so there's a theory.
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01:53:30
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Have you heard the cigarette theory about this movie? Okay, before you go into the cigarette theory, go ahead and pause it for a second. Okay. So during the making of this movie, they really weren't sure how they were going to have these two into these two characters meet.
01:53:49
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under the situation in which was going on. So this scene right here was completely ad-libbed. Like this interaction between John McCain and Hans Gruber was totally ad-libbed. Alan Richter was messing around with different American accents. And that's kind of where they kind of got this idea.
01:54:15
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he was From my understanding, he was poking fun at some of the American actors and yeah on set behind the scenes and make, and like, he's like, you say table or you say water bottle instead of water bowl, you know, even cause he's British. And, and they were like, you know, he does pretty good American accent. I got an idea for a scene. I get where you're going. No, the cigarette theory here. Go ahead. No, and I was just saying, go ahead with the cigarette theory.
01:54:46
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so John has met Hans and on the roof, and Hans pretends to be one of the hostages, and John hands him a cigarette. And it they're they're European cigarettes. European cigarettes are, they make US cigarettes look like paper.
01:55:14
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Like they hit hard, like it's super strong. And the cigarette theory is that at that moment, John, infully knew that it was hot, that it was one of the terrorists because when he takes a drag from the cigarette, A, he's holding it like like a European, a European holds a cigarette like this, an American holds a cigarette like this. So A, Hans Gruber's holding a cigarette like this and lighten it like this.
01:55:45
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and when he takes a drag off the cigarette zero reaction like he's completely used to the the ah hard draw of the European cigarette and that's where John is like this guy's a terrorist he may not be Hans but he's a bad guy. That's the cigarette theory. I know the way he holds the cigarettes that's definitely by the way it hits that I never really knew I don't think I've ever had a European cigarette Oh, no, dude yeah they're, they're harsh. Your cigarette skills came in handy tonight. Thank you. I'm just saying, as a smoker, I know my cigarettes, buddy. Well, being, being that I live in, in, in such a melting pot of people, I have friends from Europe that come here and they're like, you want a cigarette? And I'll take a hit off one of like, I don't need a cigarette for another three days now. Are they just unfiltered?
01:56:41
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No, they're filtered, but they're, it's it's almost like ah smoking a cigar in cigarette form. Like you ever take a, if you ever inhale the smoke from a cigar, yeah you're supposed to puff on a cigar, not- Don't do that, it makes you sick. Yeah, it's the same concept with a European cigarette. Interesting.
01:57:03
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Man, here's the- Watch how he holds his cigarette here. He pulls it out and he's holding it. I like how he pockets the cigarettes down like this. He did. What a dickhead. What an asshole. He stole John's last cigarette. Oh, what an asshole. That's when you shoot him right there, man. What a dickhead.
01:57:33
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and so when I never realized that. footed Yeah. Yeah. And then he sees the floor directory. So he's going to check the theory and he's going to say, I'm John. He's like, Clay.
01:57:51
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And you see Bill Clay on the directory. He's like, Oh, well it says W Clay. So William. Yeah. Yeah. So Hans kind of did some research just in case.
01:58:07
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But John instantly realized, because of the cigarette thing, John realizes he's he's not Bill Clay. And he gives him an unloaded gun. Yes. Which is why John gave him the unloaded gun. Like if you would, if the dude would have been like, no, I don't smoke or held a cigarette like an American. And that's why John's not surprised when he turns around and Hans Gruber's got the gun on him.
01:58:38
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Oh, no. See, he's not he's um he's not even based on you, pal. Imagine what it's going on and give me my detonators. Detonators. I like how he says detonators. Detonators. He'd be on fucking TV with that accent. yeah He just walks up to the gun. Hans Gruber is just like, yeah, I got this motherfucker now. Game over, John.
01:59:06
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wrong, not even remotely. Because John knows that Ron's Gruber is a trigger happy motherfucker. He says oops, no bullets. I think I'm stupid. Hey, I think I'm fucking stupid. Shoot the glass. Now it's coming. He first says in German or and whatever. the kind of who they are But then they do it more.
01:59:33
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Then he's, but, and Carl looks at him like, what? It's like shoot the glass. Oh dude, took him out of the kneecaps. Do gaps you see how he fell? That hurts. Right over the broken glass like that. Look at the size of those computers, Jesus. Well, you I was watching something the other day and They demonstrated the old AOL sign in with the dial up modem and shit. 56K modem. Where you take the the phone and actually set it on a little little thing. Shoot the glass.
02:00:19
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ah I'm sorry. If I'm John, just fucking kill me. I'm not walking across that broken glass, dude. It's not going to happen. Or I'm shuffling. Why can't he shuffle? I would find something to I mean, he he does he find something to wrap his, his feet up in to stop the paper towels before then I would have found something to wrap my feet up with. Yeah. Use a glass at the floor. Let the glass at the floor. Let the glass at the floor. I'm just saying at that. Percussion. Percussion grenade, yes.
02:00:54
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ye John's already on the door. Peace, bitches. I'm out. And there's the dead meat out of there. You know, I always thought Bruce Willis would make a decent fucking Batman. Ooh, I'm not mad at that.
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02:01:13
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You want to pause it for real quick? Before we go on a break, i want I want to ask a question. Are you familiar with, there's a trilogy that came out. The first two came out back to back in 2022 and then then third one came out in 2023. It's called the detective night movies with Bruce Willis. No. Okay. Oh, wait, I think I might have seen him because he did a bunch of those kind of they were kind of like B movies. They were very big. I think I've seen a couple of them. So I went ahead and watched them because I was getting into you know, I was like, Oh, die hard Bruce Willis. Bruce Willis. I hadn't seen his like his last movies.
02:01:56
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And I remember it's some of what somebody had said and I'm watching it and it
Bruce Willis: Career Reflection
02:02:00
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clicked. I was like, man, they did him, they they did him wrong on those movies. Remember his agent was whoever talked him into doing those movies. Cause this, this was the time that his health complications were an apparent thing. starting And you watch this movie and it's like, they're forcing an old man to do something he's really not into doing. Like it's, it's an act, they're action movies.
02:02:27
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But the way the camera is, you don't see him actually doing any action because he's so old and I'm sitting and watching this movie and I don't want to sit here and put down the movies themselves. I think the stories were good. I think.
02:02:40
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They could have been actual good movies had they not cast Bruce Willis because of his condition. And I think it was unjust. Like Bruce Willis in his crime that you've been good. Yeah, I think it was unjust to him to have him in those movies. And it was sad to watch. I get that. Honestly enough, my favorite Bruce Willis movie, and I get flack for this all the time, The Hudson Hawk. I love that movie.
02:03:09
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i don't know if ever watched the hudson hudson hall it's it's it's it's a comedy it sounds familiar i remember bush leg a feet he blessed me i do okay i know chaach cause i know like a catbo will Before he got into Hollywood, he was a TV show. actually Yeah, moonlighting. This is his first major motion picture is diehard. And you know what? Yes. And he plays a cop a lot. If you think even back to moonlighters, he was a detective or a PI or something like that. All right. It's going to break. Let's see. I did that. I've never seen any episode of moonlighting, by the way.
02:03:51
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I remember watching a couple way, way, way back in the day, but it wasn't something I really liked. I think it was one of those things like, Oh, fucking moonlight is on. What else is on? Yeah, I think so. And on that note for for us, for our generation. Yeah. Well, as you that are infomercials. Yeah.
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02:08:48
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All right, so we are this is the cop or the reporter getting ready to go to Uh, uh, Holly's house, Holly's house. I love this line by Holly as Carl's beaten up the drink cart. He's like only, holy he john only John can make somebody off that much.
02:09:16
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Only John can tell me that man. I love it. yeah I still feel for John here. ah Bright fog day, of course. And it's, that's not a little bit of blood, dude. like this Like there's, I think there's a, there's a vein that runs down, down your feet that if you cut, you bleed pretty good. Yeah.
02:09:45
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Nutraful, whatever that is. That chick does thin hair. I'm sorry. but I like her hair. She had pretty hair. She's pretty dead, but it was not been by any stretch of the night. My hair started then. It's not been. That's then my hair's thin. My as I've baby fine hair. Look at. Oh, man. I read that you read a pool glass out of yourself like that. Fucking hurts. I've had pool like splinters out and stuff like that. And I'd rather it's almost that like, you know what? Fuck it. I'm going to leave it.
02:10:25
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You know, it's way out itself. I had a BB fucking surgically like removed out of my thigh. Nice. Yeah. It wasn't like a big cut. Well, it was one, it was from of those pump action BB guns. Yeah. And a buddy pointed it at me. I was at, I was, I was like right across like and my neighbor's house. I was knocking on Chris's doors, buddy of mine in Guam. And my buddy, it was over at my house, grabbed my BB gun. He was pointing at me, fucking with me.
02:10:54
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He's like, dude, I'm really not going to shoot you. And he squeezes the trigger. It bounces off the fucking wall, goes through my genes, into my thigh. Yeah. You didn't do that. You shoot your eye out. Shoot your eye out, kid. That's too you was coming yeah two it's in two weeks. weeks. Hopefully I'll have the movie clip shift. We just brought out Al's backstory while he's at a desk.
02:11:23
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Yeah, what is complete backstory? So apparently he was on patrol. He was on patrol and it was dark and this kid popped out of nowhere and he shot the kid thinking he had a gun. But it was like a toy gun. You know what's so funny? He's never been able to pull his gun again. that's actually That's actually happened in real life, even after this movie was made. It happens more often than not. Have you seen the phone cases that look like guns?
02:11:53
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like, I would not buy that for that simple reason. I have seen guns that look like cell phones that fold into a cell like a gun like a fucking little Derringer type. Oh, yeah. My deal. So which is which is kind of bad because it's it's hurt some First Amendment auditors cops are like, I don't know if that's a camera or a gun now. Fucking asshole, right? So But yeah, I heard that. I looked it up. I'm like, oh, shit. there There is a gun that looks like a fucking cell phone or a cell phone that looks like a gun or whatever. There are some phone cases. I actually have a photo of one. I haven't seen the phone cases that are guns. I've seen phone cases that either hold a mace or like a small taser or some shit. Let me see if I can find a picture here.
02:12:42
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It's called Iowa. Yeah, here we go. And there goes the power. So the feds just cut all the power, which reset everything, which killed the electromagnetic lock in the vault. So now it is fucking Christmas time for the supposed terrorists. This is when they fucking play that song, Ode to Joy.
02:13:05
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yes the this is an actual christmas song is it not oh yeah yes it is but not only that this is the third or fourth time you hear the song in the movie uh when Hans is going up in the elevator he's singing here's the phone case look like that won't get you shot might fucking get you Throwing in the fucking psych, where were you trying to kill himself? Sitting there talking on your phone, holding it, you know. Hold a gun.
Music and Financial Plot Devices
02:13:39
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ah I'm sorry, but Ode to Joy is one of those songs that's overplayed in movies, but i I'm always there for it. I love it. We'll shut them down. We'll let them sweat for a while. Then we give them helicopters. Right up the edge. I'm pretty sure Ode to Joy is a Christmas song. Oh, yeah. Actually, I'm going to look that up.
02:14:00
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I was just about to do this. It's Ode to Joy, a Christmas song. Google. I'd ask my Alexa, but oh well. A song.
02:14:13
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OK, so Ode to Joy is Ode to Joy, a Christmas song. And no, Ode to Joy is not a Christmas song, but it has been featured in Christmas movies, such as Die Hard. I kid you not, it says such as Die Hard.
02:14:30
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It's enjoy was featured in the 1988 movie die-hard which is set at Japanese Company during a Christmas party Hmm, but it's it's it's actually a um It's not a Christmas song it's just played during Christmas interests is enjoyable time of the year. Oh Okay, that makes so it is Beethoven Yeah. I was trying to find. This is where, where, where, uh, I don't i want to God and doesn't think he's going to make it.
02:15:14
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John's basically telling Al, I'm not going to make it. Find my wife, tell her that I love her and and I'm not sure. Should have been more supportive. You got to remember.
02:15:30
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John basically did the first podcast ever. Because everybody's listening to that radio right now. You know what I mean? I'm just saying. Because saw it's not a shit new favorite podcast. I know. I'm just saying. Everybody's listening to him.
02:15:56
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God damn it.
02:16:01
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you tell was Talking about i it's it's I'll just said you're gonna make this out of here he says That's up to the man upstairs and then he says wait a minute upstairs What were you for doing up on the roof Hans Which man upstairs Well, no, that's where he just started thinking he's like what the fuck was Hans doing on the side of the roof Yeah, I was talking about God And John's like, Ooh, what about Gruber? What the fuck's he doing? Why was Gruber doing on the roof? Stumbag thing to do right here. He's like, you fucking, let me talk to those kids now, or I'm calling INS. You're a douchebag.
02:16:46
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you say You say that now, but that's more and more of a common threat. Oh, I'm sure it is. Well, let's be honest, there's more legal... But it's one of those things like, how do you know that? Like, that's one of those things like, that bitch could have been like, you know what? Go ahead, call him, fucker. What are they gonna do? I know, know more he's He's stereotyping.
02:17:20
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This is when he finds out he's, that the roof is getting blown. That building's getting blown. No matter what. He, no, he said, he said it he's, he figured it out. It's a double cross. That's their escape plan. Oh. Because Hans even says by the time they figure everything out, we'll be on a beach somewhere collecting 30%. Drinking my ties. Yeah. Senior Rita's and Margarita's and Senior Rita's.
02:17:47
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Now, what does he mean by collecting 30%? Is that their bear bonds? no no theyre ba but Basically, they're going to take that money and reinvest it. And on a bear bond, if i you know it's not worth like the it's it's worth what's in the bank. If you own the bear bond or you have the bear bond, and you get 30% of whatever that amount is.
02:18:13
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Yeah, but I mean, if feel it's not like cash, but if you still other people's bear bonds, aren't they trackable? No, yeah like if you shot in the 80s. Really? Now, now they they are bear bonds because it's all done with crypto. But this is the crypto of the 80s because bear bonds in order to collect the money that was in that bear bond, you have to have that piece of paper. Interesting. Yeah.
02:18:42
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it's So the way they'll never cash in that money. they They'll never collect the money. They'll just collect 30%. And it was the way a bear bond works is it goes into another account collecting that 30% and then you actually call the bank says, Hey, this is the account number that's on the piece of paper. It says, I want to take out my 30%. Okay. Yeah, here we go. You just show up to the bank with the bear bond. You don't have to go.
02:19:12
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because you got the routing number on the Barabond. So that Barabond gives you access to an account. It's basically, it's basically, well, I'm not 100% sure how it works, but that's my understanding is that it's basically a receipt for the money that's in there. And there's $250 million at 30%. That's yeah. I'm going to have to look more into the hell Barabond. There's, there's a little Al Wong. Yeah.
02:19:47
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Hmm Hmm Hans is such a fucking so bear bond works as a physical certificate with attached coupons where the person holding the certificate and only the person holding the certificate can collect the money or percentage from the coupon at the bank It's basically a untrackable ah Like a ah Like in the Cayman Islands They don't have names on the accounts. They have numbers. Oh, okay. That makes... Yeah. It's like an untrackable amount. I i see i see i see you i see what you mean by the comparison to today's crypto. Like crypto. Yeah. yeah Like you have to have a crypto wallet to get that money out. Hmm. Interesting. That's how bear bonds work. Yeah.
02:20:39
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Speaking of crypto, I asked Shaka the next time he does a crypto, I wasn't going to pop up and ask him questions. I have to write those questions down. What's that? It's not about what I want to invest in or not. It's how it's set up. The resources that are used during crypto and stuff like that. Okay.
02:21:07
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So this is John fighting Carl.
02:21:14
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How this dude survives being hung? For as long as he's hung. How long has he hung up there? He survived because Powell is the one that kills him. It really doesn't say how long but you would assume he was dead. Yeah. bre it I mean you can like pass out by being choked and not die but If you're up there, but it's highly light sound you would think eventually you just expire. The only thing I think that saved him is the fact that it's a chain and not a rope. It's like a chain. You don't want to change because it if it's twisted just right, it's not connected all the way across. It can slack lose its slack over time, the more pressure. right yeah suit you Well, you know, if even if you look at like a and chain length,
02:22:06
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You can't really see it, but if it's twisted in a certain amount, it won't touch. Every other rung will will will be different. Yeah, so I can see that. There is that, yeah. Now, John's trying to get everybody off knowing he can understand him because everybody's screaming, plus the helicopters are flying around. So he starts shooting to get everybody off the roof. And that stupid FBI thinks he's a terrorist.
02:22:33
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That's when Johnson and Johnson breaks out the baby oil. yeah Turn it into a ditty party. Fuck. Oh, we missed the, just like fucking Saigon. It was like, I was in junior high, dickhead. Like they haven't been in partners very long. i Let's be honest.
02:22:57
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Uh,
02:23:00
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So MythBusters did a a test on this myth. Okay. So this, okay, go ahead, go ahead. The fire hose thing. They said it's plausible, but highly unlikely. Yeah. Cause the what? The nuts you got to have buddy. The not only the nuts, but to tie that around you and the way he did,
02:23:26
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Well, it's not like a normal, it's not like a normal hose. It's, it's, they're fine fabric. Yeah. I know. I get that. Yeah. They don't. like Yeah. It doesn't look like he's tied very well. No, but he did it the way he tied. It was like, almost like you do a bath towel. You know, you tuck. It's not really tied. It's tucked.
02:23:53
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And once again, last does not break as easy as it does. Now, if you shoot at it, maybe. But wouldn't that fuck him up even more?
02:24:04
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Yes. And then. And then, of course, ne drop the the real drops. But I'm sorry, how heavy is that real? Yeah, I don't think it can be that heavy.
02:24:16
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Like not at all. However, he's John is laying on what looks like a piece of ceiling tile, which which lowers his friction. He was making him slide. Yeah, I could see that. Yeah, making him slide. So that would be the only excuse. Now, why didn't he just walk around?
02:24:35
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he's But it kind of saves him because... of water Well, no, but by getting in the water, when the helicopter blows up, he survives because The water stops the concussiveness of the explosion of the helicopter. But it doesn't stop the debris, which he doesn't get hit by. Well, it slows down to the debris.
02:24:58
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In the movie, in his movies, the the Detective Night series, like he has this thing about him, like he can walk into danger and and like bullets miss him and shit, you know what I mean?
02:25:12
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Oh, like, like, what is he? Fucking Domino from Good Pull 2? No, but they kind of they they kind of give that that that air air. Now see, this is where the ambulance gets pulled out of the van that it wasn't in the van when they pulled up. What do you mean? Well, when when they show up at the beginning of the movie in that box truck, yeah when you look in the back as they're coming out, there's no van there.
02:25:39
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Oh, I see what you mean. And now there's a van in there. Yes. Because the reason why is because when they were making the movie, they fed, they made the movie in chronological order and they didn't realize that they were going to need the ambulance because they hadn't written, they hadn't finished writing a movie when they started filming. This is true. So they didn't know they needed the ambulance when they showed up.
02:26:03
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So like this part right here where Argyle slams into the ambulance. Like, like originally he was supposed to be in more action scenes, but because of where the limo was and they like, or that's not realistic. They did write that in just so he still had a part. So I guess in the book, I guess in the book, there was a guy character.
02:26:23
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You missed it there for a second when the bear bonds fly across the the side You see it's cut up in a bear bond. It's cut up into multiple sections. You have the big Bond and then you have a little receipts. Yes receipts on these different accounts that they go into Okay, the percentages According to Google Google's my new favorite friend I love everything I need to know so I don't have the line I'm joking. I'm joking. I'm joking Actually, I have a picture. I found a picture here real quick of what a bear bond looks like. I'll show everybody.
02:27:06
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So you see on the side, those are the the bank accounts that the the big one, ah the percentages go into there. So it's four accounts per bear bond. Okay. That's where the 30% comes in.
02:27:23
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to each one of those accounts. Correct. Oh, wow. Wow. Yeah. Wow. It's basically just interest but at 30% because it's a bear bond. Yeah. It's untrackable. 30% of money you ain't got to work for is 100% money you ain't got to work for. Exactly. And at 250 million times 30%, that's a lot. That's a lot of my ties, a lot of beach.
02:27:52
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oh take a beach in the beach. I like this part. where he there is Somebody got a tattoo of that. i've i have actually sun that t I forgot I was gonna get this picture.
02:28:09
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So this he shoots horns, of course, and and it says happy trails. and keeps a hold of Holly's wrist. And this is when the Rolex he was holding Wally, Holly hostage at the moment. oh Yeah. But that's why he held onto her. So he's falling. If I didn't have a back tattoo, I would get this one. That is just dope. What does that say on there?
02:28:37
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Season's greetings because John used it's it's a it's officially Christmas is officially gri Funny interesting story when they did this they did this listen the last scene they shot because they were like what if Alan Rickman dies um and they told Alan Rickman we're gonna drop you on three and you're gonna fall 70 feet and And they went one, two, and dropped him. So that is actually his reaction. They didn't wait for three.
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02:29:09
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So to get his full reaction, they went one, two, boom. And he went motherfucker, what happened to three?
02:29:16
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So that is actually his reaction. He's like, you son of a bitch, what happened to three? And then of course the new van comes back. Everybody's getting out.
02:29:30
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and this is when ah Carl's brother comes out as a hostage. But he's got it. Well, I don't think so. Because because cops are next to him. Because he takes one of the cops guns.
02:29:46
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I thought he came out with his own gun underneath the blanket. Or is that where the blanket came from was the was the cops? I think so. I'll be right back.
02:30:06
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Oh man, worst time because I'm not seeing the movie or sound because it's okay. Well, so but there's nothing actually happening. There's an owl and and ah John are just kind of staring at each other. Now they're like, ha you're actually owl.
02:30:25
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you You're shaped like a Twinkie.
02:30:35
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I think so by this time, of course, Holly and John are they're going to work on their marriage. They've decided. oh like Well, well, I'm sorry. Holly didn't see. Oh, no, he did. I think he was brought out as a corpse. No, let's see. I missed it because it's skipping so much on my end. OK, so he did. He did. Yeah.
02:31:03
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yeah And then Al, for the first time in years, pulls his gun and shoots Kyle.
02:31:12
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has eight He said he he didn't have the the nuts to pull his gun before. Well, I think his to protect kind of overrode that that fear, so which is good, which is good.
02:31:34
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And that, my peoples, and Jeff. Well, actually, yeah, here comes Argyle. Wait, Holly's going to punch the roof corner. Oh, that's right. Yeah. Burn her kids in danger. Got to punch the roof corner. And then Al, Argyle gets the last line. This is is Christmas. I can't wait to be here for New Year's.
02:32:06
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Oh, my internet is is yeah dead easy. My internet dies easy. My my internet dies easy. Yeah, it does. That is the end of the movie, so we're going to stop the video. And I'm going to disconnect from that. So um before we get into our ranking, I have to let you know, because we didn't do it at the beginning, this is the highest ranked movie we have watched to date.
02:32:34
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ah According to IMDB, this is 8.2 out of 10. It is a 4.4 out of 5 on the popcorn meter for Rotten Tomatoes, a 7.3 out of 10 for the tomato meter, and a 94% popcorn movie. A beloved movie. Yes. That is... What is that? Oh, this is that song that we're talking about. The song by Guy's Knight... Of course, playing in the background now.
02:33:05
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They, that's how you know this is a good song. There was a movie, there was a, that's how you know this is a good movie. Cause there's a song written about the movie. How many other movies can say that? Not very many. I can't think of more than one. So yeah.
02:33:25
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Well, Joe, go ahead and fill us in on what your rating is. Well, my rating, I'm, I'm right up there with everybody else. I'm giving you a 4.5. Alright, it's not a perfect movie, but it's pretty close Okay, um well I was going to say that well I'm out of four so okay um um only because I mean it's a good movie
02:33:57
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um it's It's always been a, what am I to say? It's not one of my favorite movies, but it is one of my movies I like to watch. So, um a four for me. And yeah, I think that's about it for Die Hard. Merry fucking Die Hard, everyone. Yeah, it is officially Christmas time because Hans Gruber has fallen off the Nakatomi Plaza.
02:34:25
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um If you want to go ahead and wrap this up, I do have a phone call to make apparently my kids. I yeah, so i yeah i Joining go ahead. jeff Have you any last words chef? Uh yippee kayay Merry Christmas and See at the movies We'll see you guys next week for Scrooge and bring your own fucking popcorn
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