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Episode 3 - Show me the Marty with Matt Martin
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This week we are joined by our very first Doctor. But we don't talk about medicine. No, instead we play the dating game to try and find Marty a special lady. Later in the POD, we draft Tom Cruise's Best Movies. This is an episode you don't want to miss.
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Introduction to 'Afternoon Delights' and Guest Doc Martin
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Gonna find my baby, gonna hold her tight Gonna grab some afternoon delight My motto's always been, when it's right, it's right, why, why
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Good afternoon, Delights. I am your host, Matt Lattimer, just trying to cheer up your week and bring you a smile on this Wednesday. But I couldn't do that alone, so I got a very special guest for you. Doc Martin, that's right. Matthew J. Martin is on the line. How you doing tonight, Marty? I'm good, man. I got Mondays off for now, so just finishing up my weekend. Excited to be on the new edition of the pod.
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So you're free all day today? All day. What's your work day typically like?
Insights into Physical Therapy with Doc Martin
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You know, it's a little weird schedule right now, but getting into the office about 7.30, make sure I know who's coming through the door. If I got a new eval, I got to at least sound like I know what I'm talking about as far as what they're coming in for. I feel like I do that a lot there, and some of my coworkers are rolling at like 7.59 and have a new eval, and I can't do that. I got to at least act like I know what I'm talking about.
00:01:19
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Well, you're the best doctor that I know. Thanks, man. For those that don't know, Marty is a doctor of physical therapy, so he can fix your body. That's right. I can. I will say, like my friends, I'm cool with it, but like when I go to like.
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Family Christmas and my aunts and uncles are just like, I had one, one of my aunts. It's like, I got this foot thing. I was like, I don't care. I don't care about your foot thing. Family Christmas. I do this 40 hours a week. I don't care about your foot. You can come see me in the office. Isn't this part of the doctor's Hippocratic oath? You owe it to the people. You know, if they pay me a little better, maybe I'd work on the weekends. So that's all I'm going to say about that. Can you recite the Hippocratic oath?
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First, do no harm. That's all I got. Okay. It takes a lot to become a doctor, a lot of school, a lot of hard work. What was kind of your path?
Marty's Educational Journey and Career Path
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You were on a bit of a roller coaster there for a while. Yeah. You know, the hard work was not there.
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First, first trip through college. Um, I think I had about four majors. We were discussing if I see if I can remember all of them. I went in, I went in at business. Then I switched to, I think I went to hospitality management. Then I think I was in the exploration major. I don't even think I had one there. It said exploration as a fricking expensive exploration. I think I ended on.
00:02:31
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sports industry with a business minor just to get the hell out of there. Did you go right into med school after you graduated? Absolutely not. I had no idea what life entailed for me. Worked for Pemko Thermal, as many of the members of this league have done, and Tom's taken him up on roofs one time or another. Have you ever done that? Did he ever take you up there? No, I never worked for Pemko Thermal. I know Alex has. I know Ladi has. I don't know if Ryan ever went up or not.
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But so I did that for the three years. So there's infrared surveys on electro electrical equipment and flat roof systems. So I'd go to like a Honda and like scan all their control panels. And if I had connections hot or like dusty or something, it would show up hot like it could possibly burn out or melt itself. And then the machine would shut down and they got a waste time figuring out what the hell the problem is. So we could tell them to fix it now so they don't burn it. Then the roofs, the roofs where the money's at, you got to go up there at night. That's at night. So I didn't love that.
00:03:24
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You go up at night and you can just circle where the wet insulation is. You see the sun heats up the roof during the day and the water holds the heat longer than the dry. That's why you go up at night once the rest of the roof cools down. It's very scientific. Well, I'll tell you after COVID.
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Big Tom's business boomed the supply chain issues and just the price of everything. So now he goes up there and so they don't have to tear the whole roof off. They can only tear like parts of it off. So saving people millions and millions of dollars. I mean, a lot of you'll tell you OSHA, OSHA would not be happy with some of the things we've done on getting on roofs, putting up ladders in the back of truck beds onto slanted shale roofs.
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in the middle of the night. That is not OSHA regulation, Marty. That doesn't happen often. I can write you up for that. It doesn't happen often, where there's times where you're like, we'll drive to Cleveland. You know, it's like, well, we're here. We got to figure out how to get on this damn roof. So you make it happen. They don't let you into the building to go up the stairs?
00:04:15
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Well, it's got to be at night. I mean, sometimes there's like a guy that lets us up, but a lot of times it's like a school and no one's there. Yeah. It's made for some interesting times. Yeah. I never worked for the roof company. Me and Chris, we did a yard work and then clean daycares and stuff in high school. And then my first year in college throughout the summer, I built pools and then I got an internship with the construction management program and I've been doing construction management for 10 years. Fun stuff. At least you kind of had like a straight line.
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I would just watch you and Chris and all of your friends make a million mistakes three years in front of me. And then I was like, I am not doing that same thing.
Advice on New Ventures and Personal Status
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So when I got to college, my mom's like, I switched my major from engineering. She's like, well, you need to pick something and you need your credits to transfer. So I went into construction management because all of my credits transferred. So I didn't lose a year of school. And she's like, you can't keep switching or you're going to end up like Marty and you're going to have eight majors. She said that. Yeah.
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She's like, you're gonna end up like Marty, I have eight majors, or you're gonna end up like Jacob, and you're gonna drop out and join the National Guard. Hey, it all works out. I'm a doctor now.
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Yeah, you're a doctor. Seven years too late, but we're here. We made it. I'm glad I could be an example for you. You gotta start somewhere. Hey, look, for the people out there, here's a word of advice. If you ever feel like you're too old to start something because it's gonna take four years or eight years or 10 years, no matter what happens, 10 years is gonna pass. So you might as well work on something to better yourself.
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You ever seen the Jim and Andy, the Great Beyond documentary about the making of Man on the Moon? No, I have not. It's on Netflix, you should check it out. But Jim Carrey, he's talking about like, he watched his dad like make sacrifices and just be miserable. And then he eventually lost his job anyway, like a quote that he says that you can fail at what you don't love. So you might as well try what you do love. Like there's really no choice to be made. That's true. True words from a crazy man. Jim. Yeah, he's a crazy man.
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Now Marty, you're what most of us in our 30s would call a unicorn. Did you know that? What was that? A very young, handsome bachelor, no previous relationship baggage, no divorces, no kids, no nothing, and you're a doctor. Got none of it.
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and you're still single. You're a unicorn. A diamond in the world. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing, but... We got a lot of people from the CKL pod right now, and they think that you're too good of a person and too good of a beer mile runner to be single. So we have some write-ins, and we're gonna open up a new segment for you on this season, on this episode of Afternoon Delights. And we're gonna call it Ready to Mingle, Date with a Doc.
00:06:44
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Well, I will say, first off, there's one place I should be doing this. It's this podcast with eight of my guy friends listening to it only. Oh, we got hundreds and hundreds of listeners. We're trending female or female user growth is skyrocketing. That's good. That's good. All right. After this episode, it's going to take off.
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I hope so. We're going to model this after some of those old school dating shows. I'm going to ask you questions and you're going to have to paint me a picture. You're going to have to sell yourself to these ladies. Make yourself look attractive. Are you ready? I think. All right. Hasn't been a strong suit of mine so far, but maybe today's the day.
00:07:23
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Ah, let's do it. It's ready to mingle. Date with a doc. Now, Mr. Martin, you're a single, you're a doctor, you're a good looking guy. Now, why don't you tell us, what are you looking for in a lady? You know, that's a, that's a great, that's a great question. Obviously haven't found it yet. So maybe I don't know exactly what I'm looking for. You know, I think I got some good examples from, from all my friends. See, see how their relationships are, but just somebody can put up with me once I spend time with me. Got similar interests. I think, I don't know. That's hard. I think that's a hard question.
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I think these are all hard questions. I'm going to be terrible at all these things.
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All right. I don't know. There's a lot of, there's a lot of qualities. Let's look at some quality. I'll give you a couple qualities and then we'll have you pick the best one. Okay. All right. Would you, would you rather have your lady be sporty? Right. She, she loves active sports, loves getting out and doing things. Uh, loves to sit and read books or loves the cook and bake. Which one of those we're getting outside, getting outside. Okay. You gotta be sporty. If you want to get with Marty ladies, I'd be sporty. I mean, at least.
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at least enjoy like nature or something. I don't know. Can't just sit inside all day. Don't be like so. Now, if we're looking at a personality, you want them to be loud and outspoken. Like they're going to tell the waiter when they bring you the wrong order, looking for quiet, but confident. You know, like they're not going to say a lot, but you're not just going to be able to roll over them. Or are you looking for like that bubbly little goofball girl that's just so extra gullible, but cheery all the time. But you got to, you kind of got to lead them around like a dog on a leash. You know, maybe they fly with the wind.
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You know, I don't, I don't want a complete air balloon, you know, but I think, I think if we can, if we can tone that down a little bit, cause I don't, I don't have a lot to say. So if she was quiet too, then we would just sit here in silence. I don't know. I feel like the person who can tell the waiter that the order is wrong is always good to have around, but I think a little less than that. So like not so air heady, but you know.
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in the middle of those two, you know what I'm saying? So would you describe as you see on the internet, you're looking for like a girl, maybe not so much with golden retriever energy, but not a pit bull either. You're looking for like the, you're looking for a girl that's like when she's with you, she's a golden retriever, but when you're out in the world, she's going to lay down the law. Is that what we're looking for? I mean, I want her to be herself. I don't want to, I don't want to put her in a box. Well, that is, that is herself, but we're finding her.
00:09:48
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Uh, yeah, that's a decent combo. I think tough, but tender. That's what you want. Yeah, sure. Sounds good. All right, Marty.
Marty's Dating Approach and Preferences
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Now we're trying to woo these women here. Okay. You're walking up to a girl in the bar. You got to get her number. Lay down your best pickup line for me. I don't, I've never been a pickup line guy. I mean, okay. If not a pickup line, what's your best pickup technique?
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You know, it's been a while since I picked up a girl at a bar because all my friends are married now. All my friends are married and have children, so we don't do that anymore. Grocery stores, you know, the gym. Grocery store. Club. I haven't seen any ladies at the grocery store. You know, the Walmart on Bethel Road's not really back in the heat. I work out at my apartment gym now. You could get one of the ladies at the front desk at the apartment. The bald guy named Pete.
00:10:43
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if you're into that. Now there's anything wrong with that, but not me. What was the question? Pick up lines? I think just introducing myself and offering to buy a drink is what do I would do if I was in that situation.
00:10:53
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You can't offer to buy a drink, Marty. That's faux pas now. It's faux pas. It's faux pas. It's faux pas. We don't do that kind of stuff. Well, I asked her to buy me a drink. The buying the drink started with you don't have a shot with women, so you try and get them inebriated as early and quick as possible so that they would possibly have sexual intercourse with you. So you got to find a better way. Well, I don't meet women at bars, so. We got to find a better way. Are you on any dating apps? I am. Which one? Shran. Hinge. OK, that's a good app. Yeah, yeah.
00:11:21
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That's a good app. I found my wife on Hinge. Chase found his wife on Hinge. Oh wow. Good track record in this league. Oh yeah. Well what kind of photos you got on Hinge? What kind of stuff you talk about? What kind of photos I got on there? Has Taylor seen your Hinge profile? No. Okay, so you need to show your Hinge profile to Taylor and have her help you with it. She's married. She's out of the game. She doesn't know what's going on.
00:11:40
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Okay, well, she was in the game for a long time, and either way, she's still a female. She's still a young female. What do I got? So here, I got me wakeboarding. I got me smiling with a birthday cake. I'm standing on a mountain with my best friend, Danny Rodriguez. I got me in a tie with my residency graduation, and I got me finishing Iron Man. Okay, that's some pretty good ones. I thought so. Okay, okay. Maybe you know what you're doing.
00:12:02
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I'm trying to be well-rounded. Show what I got an offer. We have zero pickup techniques, zero pickup lines. Don't meet any women. You have a few good pickup lines. Send them to Marty. He needs them. Yeah, same goes my way. He needs them for his hinge. I'll just put only pickup lines. Best way for hinges to engage is instead of just saying like, hello, when you talk to them, you want to find like a picture that you resonate with or like something that they say. I try to respond to one of their little things. Yeah, that's what you got to do. That's how you get them to respond back.
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Just to say people. Yeah, I left a year ago. Same people still on there. There's no one there. Yeah, there's some dates in Texas. There's good down there. There's a lot of new people down there.
00:12:46
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That's okay. Okay. Well, Marty, maybe it's because you're not taking these girls out on a nice enough date. So why don't you describe the perfect first date that you would take a moment on? I like doing something that I may, we'll get, we'll go, we can go get a drink after or something, but I'm not taking a girl like dinner. It's like, I hate the interview style thing. I'm not doing it. If it was frigging warm here.
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We could go out, like, I don't know, go to a park or something. Hike, go on a hike. I don't know. We could do some active. I like doing, like, going to, like, top golf or something. I would enjoy that. Be a good, be a good one.
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I'm a big fan of the Columbus Zoo as a first date. I did get it. I got a zoo pass for Christmas. Well, there you go. With a guest plus a free guest. Absolutely. So there you go. So you take your date. That's what I did with my wife. I've done that before. Take them to the zoo. Then you walk around, you get the talking. So you're walking and talking, but you're doing something. Yes. At the same time. I like doing something. OK, so you go zoo, putt putt, dinner, ice cream. That's a full day. Yeah, you got to do a full day.
00:13:48
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Look, it's not old school dating anymore where you're picking up a girl at the bar or you meet somebody, then you ask them on a date and then you don't see her talk to them for a week or until that date. Because you're putting in the legwork for like two weeks on hinge sometimes. Then you're going on the date. It's got to be planned. It's got to be fun. It doesn't need to be overly exciting, but it's got to be planned and women are going to appreciate the planning and the effort. I feel like I do well on this. I feel like I do pretty good.
00:14:17
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We got to get like a woman's panel on here. I'm sure they have a lot to say. Marty, I think that you laid down some great points. I think we're going to get some responses back from the women looking to go on a date. I think this was slightly above the it's always sunny episode where they're trying to get Charlie a date.
00:14:42
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All right, Marty, I'll put you out of your misery. We don't got to talk about it anymore. Appreciate that. Thank you. Now, Marty, are you ready for afternoon delights place at the table? That's what I'm here for. Now, Marty, I know as a doctor that you're really big into the metric system, you know, millimeters, liters, grams.
Pirates and the Metric System: A Historical Anecdote
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that's what we doctors do yeah you're not really big in the imperial system so did you know that once upon a time the united states tried to uh make the metric system its measurement of choice i did not i don't know how we ended up where we are but i did not know that it did but there's a crazy story behind it and i'm gonna tell you what it is let's hear it
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Alright, so it's no secret that the United States is a special place when it comes to measurement. The US is only one of three countries in the world to not use the metric system. The other two are Liberia and Myanmar. But why did the United States never switch to the metric system? Was it to oppose England? Was it to be unique as a new country and cut its own path? Or was the plan thwarted on the high seas?
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Well, let's take a look back to the late 1700s. The United States had newfound independence and had just defeated England in the Revolutionary War. We approach the end of the century and the country doesn't have a uniform system of measurement. You have some parts that are using the Dutch system. Some are using the English. They're creating a hodgepodge of numbers across the free states, derailing interstate commerce.
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Now to become one nation, it is imperative for the country to run on the same system. So in 1793, the secretary of state, Mr. Thomas Jefferson, he knew of a new found system being developed in France that he thought was perfect for the new colonies. So using his connections that he made during the revolution, he sent word to the French East and they decided to send scientist Joseph Donby to America carrying a small cylinder that was three inches tall and three inches wide. And it would be used to set up the new system of measurement for weight. And it was known as the kilogram.
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But you know what Marty things didn't go too smooth for mr. Don B as he was traveling across the Atlantic Ocean a giant storm hit and blew his ship off course into the Caribbean Sea and you know who was waiting for him the Pirates of the Caribbean that is right the British privateers backed by the crown cause havoc
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in the seas and they stopped Dombey's ship. The pirates took him hostage. They held him prisoner on the island of Montserrat. The intention was to ransom Dombey back to the French, but unfortunately he died in captivity. All of his belongings and his ship were auctioned off, including that unit of kilogram.
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So that kilogram never made it to the US government and the founding fathers, they didn't have a way to develop this new system. So they stuck with the old British system of measurement using gallons, tons, pounds, and bushels known as the imperial system, which has since become known as the US customary system.
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Now, that didn't stop the US from trying again because in 1875, they once again tried to establish the metric system for transcontinental trade purposes. In 1983, all weights of measurement were defined against their metric counterparts so that you could trade globally. Then in 1975, the Metric Conversion Act was passed to designate the metric system of measurement as the preferred system of weights and measures for the United States trade and commerce.
00:17:45
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Other acts were tried to pass to further this establishment, but the United States did not back down. The people loved being unique. The people loved being American. They loved their history and they loved sticking to what they know. And the Americans still to this day teach the imperial system and use it primarily in schools and in life.
Fun Facts: Geography and the Human Body
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And you know, if it hadn't been for the Pirates of the Caribbean and the stolen kilogram, what could have been? But alas, America continues to be uniquely great. It was thwarted on the high seas. It was thwarted on the high seas.
00:18:16
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What a tale. So who would have thought we could have been watching Pirates of the Caribbean as a kid and they could have looped in Johnny Depp, kidnapped and steal the kilogram. Should have given us in history that it could have been good. Do you have any fun tidbits for us for people to have it? Share with their family and friends at dinner? What's Marty's place at the table? I got two for you. Well, I got I got a lot more later when we get to our draft. But but for now, I got two fun facts. I've been one of them just I heard it one time and it never escaped my brain. It's that Mount Everest is not the highest point on earth. You know this? I did not.
00:18:44
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So technically, since where the earth is almost in oval, it's not a complete sphere. Mount Chimborazo in Peru, I believe, since it's on the like wide part, it's on the equator. So it's wide, it's wider. It's 2000 meters closer to space than Mount Everest. That is an interesting tidbit. I thought so too. I heard this like five years ago. It never left my brain. That's what we're trying to bring here, Marty. That's what Place at the Table is all about.
00:19:09
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I'm glad I could wow you with that one. That did wow me. Another one that I heard that I just, it's hard to even believe is that you have 60,000 plus miles of blood vessels in your body right now. I don't even believe that one, but that's what I say. 60,000 miles? Yeah. Late end to end. The way. I didn't think so either. How is that possible? I don't know. Tiny little ones. Maybe if you're like got Marfan syndrome and you're a giant.
00:19:33
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I don't know. I looked it up. Say like children have 60,000. You could have up to like 100,000. What? Yeah, dude. I didn't believe it either. That's on my mind. That's wrinkling my brain. There's a lot of tiny ones in you. I don't know. That's like when I first heard that your intestines are like 27 feet. Yep. That's also wild. What do you think? That's 27 feet. How much? There's miles and miles of blood vessels in there, apparently. How? I don't know, man. They're very small. I know. It doesn't make sense. I didn't believe it either. But that's what they keep saying. That's some wild stuff.
00:19:59
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All right, Marty, you ready to get into the meat of this episode? Absolutely. Now I'll let you introduce this draft because of how much the topic means to you. So why don't you give people a little bit of background.
Spotlight on Tom Cruise's Career and Impact
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We're going to be drafting Tom Cruise movies, AKA the goat. Here's the goat. How much do you love Tom Cruise, Marty? Well, let me show you. I got to see that hiding back there. That's a, that's a poster, a framed poster of Tom Cruise in my apartment that I just haven't hung up yet. I got that as a gift for, from Danny for secret Santa one year. Best gift I ever got. Nice. I've seen
00:20:27
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I think I started in, I was trying to look at it like when it started, but I think 2011, I've seen every Tom Cruise movie on the day that it came out since then. That's a long time. That's 12 years. I definitely saw World of Worlds. I was 2005. I definitely saw, I've seen them all, but I don't think I did Midnight until 2011. Yeah, probably because you would have been like 10 or 11. Yeah.
00:20:48
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Would you like to draft first or second? I would like to draft first. All right, Marty, kick us off then. There's only, there's one truth. We, wait, we get, we get the franchise if you pick it. Yeah. So if you take Mission Impossible, you get all six Mission Impossibles. Can't pick and choose with his sequels. The number one and greatest movie of all time is Top Gun. Maverick beats the old Top Gun. It was that good. That's my number one take.
00:21:09
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That's a good number one pick. I had that one too. It was my number one. I got a little bit more detail than what you had. It was the movie that really launched Tom Cruise in super stardom. It was probably his most famous movie for 30 years. And then Maverick came out. That's his highest grossing film. It's also his highest rated film on IMDB budgeted 170 million, made 1.4 billion worldwide. And this is at a time, you know, during COVID and everything when movie theaters and blockbusters are dying and busting left and right.
00:21:34
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Yeah, Tom was, he got, he got shit for screaming at people on set for not wearing their masks, but man, man just, he's full of passion. He's trying to get entertainment out to the people. He's a crazy man, but he does make good movies. The best movies. I don't think you're ready for the two that I'm going to take.
00:21:49
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I'm worried about what I feel. I feel like I know which direction you're going to go. I just had, I'm gonna tell you, you go ahead and pick that. You feel like I'm going to take Mission Impossible, don't you? No. No? Okay. Well, I'm taking a movie that is really probably Tom Cruise's best movie, even if it's not actually his best performance. With my number one pick, I'm taking Rain Man. That is right. I didn't think you're going there.
00:22:09
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Oh, yeah, this is one of my favorite Tom Cruise films. He has a lot of films nominated for a lot of awards, but not that many of them actually won the awards. So, you know, Rain Man, for those that haven't seen it, it's a story of a selfish lawyer who finds out that he is an older autistic brother that he never knew about whose father left him a fortune. So he goes and sees how his brother, he kind of is trying to swindle the money out of him. Some pretty heartwarming, touching stuff.
00:22:31
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It's got some comedy in it. Rain Man took home the Academy Award for Best Picture, and it was also alongside a memorable performance for Dustin Hoffman, where he won Best Actor. It's got all the stuff in it. Artwarming, touching, funny, it's dramatic, it's a serious film. It's still referenced in cinema today and in everyday life, and it's one of only three Tom Cruise films to have an eight or higher on IMDb.
00:22:51
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Yeah, that was a classic. I mean, as far as just like good movies go, that's gotta be up there as one of the best. But yeah, I think Dustin Hoffman, if Dustin Hoffman didn't do as well as he did, then probably wouldn't have been as good. You can say that about a lot of movies though, for actors that did amazing jobs. That's true. How would the Batman have been without Heath Ledger? Wouldn't have been the same. They wouldn't. All right, now for my second pick, Marty, I'm gonna ask you one little quick question. Did you know that the human head weighs eight pounds? You're going there?
00:23:16
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That is right with my second pick. Show me the money. I'm taking Jerry McGuire. That is right, people. This is the film where Cruz took home his first best actor award at the Golden Globes. It's got sports. It's got romance. It's got comedy, but it's not really a romantic comedy. Jerry McGuire is a film that everybody can watch and everybody can love.
00:23:38
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And it helps that it has a Jonathan Lipnicki, who's one of the cutest child actors of the 90s. Carrying this film with these improvised lines, Jerry Maguire is arguably Tom Cruise's best performance in any of his films. As just like a pure actor? As just a pure actor. Let me, let me look. I don't know what I would say is what he got. I mean, you're not going to pick this movie, but Eyes Wide Shut, you know, he was a nominated for Best Actor in that movie.
00:24:01
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or not, no, Magnolia. It was Magnolia where he's like this. Have you ever even heard of it or seen it? I've not seen it. I'm not picking it up because it's a ridiculous movie, but he's like a motivational speaker for men. He's like.
00:24:14
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He's like a motivational speaker for men about like respecting their penises and like taming women's. And he got, that was like his only like best actor Academy award nomination, which is so weird. Not know what it was about. I've never seen it. I have it on my honorable mentions list because that is the only other Tom Cruise film that has an eight or higher on IMDB. Yeah, which is wild. I don't get it. It's weird. He's not like the main, main guy in it either, but yeah, that's a weird one. All right, Marty, what is your second pick? My second pick is A Few Good Men. Ooh.
00:24:43
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That's a good one. Absolutely. I will watch this movie anytime it's on TV. I love
00:24:47
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I want the truth. You can't handle the truth. Everything about that court case, he's got, I mean, his little one-liners. I love that his movies always happen. No matter how serious they are, he's always got his little comedy to add in there. But yeah, that's one that I'm watching every time it's on TV. All right. Give me number three, Marty. Number three, I'm going Mission Impossible. I'm taking the franchise off the board. That was my next pick. That was my next pick. It's got to be one of the only franchises that gets better the more movies that there are.
00:25:15
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Usually it's like watered down and they just go bigger and crazier every time. It's like Fast and the Furious, but the ridiculousness is acceptable because it's a spy thriller. So like when you see them do the crazy things that he does, you're like, this makes sense. It's a spy thriller, but they do just keep, like they keep getting bigger and bigger and more and more absurd, like Fast and the Furious. Yes.
00:25:35
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I'll just I'll go through so why I love these is this is where he really shows how insane he is as a Human being and how good he is as an actor. Okay, so all the stunts that he's done in there like the so there's a Helicopter scene and fallout where he's doing like this 360 dive. I talked to Kiv and Kim was like, yeah, dude, that's hard so Tom he spent 16 hours a day training in this helicopter and got his 2,000 hours of flying helicopter and
00:26:00
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So he could fly this thing himself and he's doing, he's acting while he's doing it, trying not to kill himself. He's like super close to cliffs and nobody, nobody else is doing that. He's in, he's in the F 18s and top gun he's didn't. So like, I'm just on this list, but these are all the ones I want to talk about. Mission Impossible. Mission Impossible 5. He did the jump over the building on like a motorcycle and landed on the building and fractured a couple of ribs.
00:26:20
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That was a, he was, he was jumping. He jumped from building the building and like broke his ankle on that one, I think on fallout and what'd he do? He did the mission impossible two. That's an old one, but he's doing the rock climbing. He actually did and Honnold, Alex Honnold, even like, that's pretty good rock climbing, held his breath for six minutes in mission impossible rogue nation underwater to film that scene, trained himself how to do it. That's a long time. That's impressive. Anything over two minutes is absurd. He climbed the Burj Khalifa. Who does that? Tom does. So he did for, how does,
00:26:46
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Have you seen dead reckoning one? The newest mission possible? I haven't seen five or six. Oh, man. Five's the best. There's a scene. I mean, I'm sure you've seen the scene where he does a motocross jump off a cliff into a skydive. He did that 500 times to get the right scene. He did 500 skydives in 1300 motocross jumps to make sure that was perfect. Hanging onto the
00:27:10
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the carrier plane as it took off. And I think the craziest one is he did that, that halo jump fall out. You haven't seen it fall out, but it was like a one hour window of like perfect lighting that they wanted to get. So every day for like 50 days, they would go up there and do like two halo jumps from like 25,000 feet. So he did like 106 of these and that was with his broken ankle. So he's, he's the best. He's dedicated to his craft.
00:27:33
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He's just, he's doing it for us. That's why I love him. He's a crazy man. All right, Marty. Well, I'm ready for my third pick. All right, let's hear it. I'm gonna go live, die, repeat. I'm taking edge of tomorrow. I'll be honest, that's not on my list. That is not on your list? Not. It's a great movie. This is one of his best ones. I think everybody agrees with it. I trend more for the older ones after those three.
00:27:52
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And I see for me, for Edge of Tomorrow, it gets up there higher because the first time that I went to see it, I had zero expectations and I did not think it was going to be good. And it's the fresh take on the ground hog day trope where you live the same day over and over. You know, at the time of the release, Tom Cruise was really in, I would say like a slump for almost a decade. He wasn't producing or making as good of movies as he was earlier in his career. And this is probably his best film. It's like his best film in 10 years at this time. You get a great performance from Emily Blunt. I think the story's a lot better than you expected.
00:28:22
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Whenever you come into a movie and you have low standards and it blows you away, to me, that puts it up more towards the top of the list. So I'm taking edge of tomorrow. It's a good pick. I mean, I love it. It's a great movie. There's supposed to be a second one coming. Oh, is there? At some point, yeah. It's called Live, Die, Repeat, and Repeat. No, no release date yet. Okay.
00:28:41
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not everything needs a sequel now pick number four marty this is another new one for me okay i'm gonna take american maid we're picking that oh yeah this is one of those films i love it man i love it too i like things that are based on true events even if they're hollywooded up i love that this is like a true story that nobody knew about
00:28:59
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This isn't like a common true story or something that you would have heard of. It's, you know, American made, it's the tale of a pilot who moves to the middle of nowhere, Arkansas. And he starts running drugs for the cartel for Pablo Escobar out of Columbia and the United States government catches him.
00:29:14
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And instead of indicting him or doing anything else, they say, well, okay, hey, while you illegally fly drugs back into the country, we want you to illegally fly guns that we aren't supposed to be sending to the Contras to fight this war that we're telling the entire media and lying to everybody about that we're not sending them to. We want you to fly those guns out of the country. And the United States government was literally just letting this man bring cocaine into the country for years and years and years and like defending him. If people tried to stop him.
00:29:40
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That's just ridiculous to me. It's a crazy story. I think it's well acted. I like American made. Yeah. I love it because I love narcos and it just adds another layer to narcos. You remember the, um, so speaking of stunts, when he's ghost flying the plane, throwing the stuff out the bottom, he's doing that. That's real. Yeah. He's a pilot. So I mean, at the end of Top Gun, when he's in that, that's his plane. It's like a World War II plane that he fixed up and he flies that around. Oh, really? I didn't know that. All right, Marty, give me your last two picks. What's number four?
00:30:08
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My last two. I'm going. So like I said, I like the older ones. I'm going the color of money. Never seen it. Never heard of it. Martin Scorsese is the director.
00:30:17
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Paul Newman is probably the main character. They go around hustling people at pool. And Tom Cruise is this young hotshot. And Paul Newman, he's been doing it for years. He's older. And he takes him around all these bars. It's like a trip across the country to get to this big tournament. And they just hustle people. And he teaches them how to hustle people and get better at it. Tom's a cocky dude. It's a good one. There's a great scene. Werewolves of Thunder is playing. He's dancing around the pool table being a cocky little dude. So this is one when he's still young. He's a teenager-ish age.
00:30:45
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1986, same year as Top Gun. Okay. What are you going to make next, cocktail? Have you seen, you like Rick and Morty? Yeah. The Total Rick All episode when they're cooking the thing and he's like, look at me, I'm Tom Cruise in that movie. What's that movie called where he makes, where he makes his drinks, cuisine? I'm Tom Cruise in cuisine. I don't remember that. Surprised I don't remember that. That's a, that's a good honorable mention one though, cocktail. I used to have a, I think in college I had a cocktails and dreams poster above my bed.
00:31:14
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Alright Marty, let's roll with your last pick. My last pick is going to be Days of Thunder. Ever heard of that one? I don't know. I don't remember that one. I don't have that one on my list either. Tom Cruise, 1990. Cole Trickle, he's a NASCAR driver and a stock car driver. Tim and Robert Duvall and he's the other guy. Roddy Burns, Michael Rooker. I probably don't know that.
00:31:34
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Yeah, he's a NASCAR driver. Forgive what like the famous line is, but cold trickle. Great. Well, with my last pick, I'm going with another period piece.
Historical Drama in Film: Valkyrie's Close Calls
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I'm taking Valkyrie. So I think I haven't seen this in a while, but it is well, it's well acted. It's well done. I liked the world war two films. It's a story that really before Valkyrie, I didn't know a lot about. So for those of you that haven't seen it, it's a, Valkyrie is about a group of SS officers, Nazi officers that hated Adolf Hitler and what he was doing.
00:32:00
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And they attempted to assassinate him from deep inside the SS. Now in real life, they attempted something like 43 attempts on Hitler's life. And obviously all of them failed. This one focuses on like the few that were the closest kind of calls and it shows all the moments that these people went through and them risking their lives and just kind of how lucky that Adolf Hitler was. And it shows the most famous attempt.
00:32:21
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which is when Hitler and his men went up to their bunker they have a bomb inside of a briefcase and they set it in and the guy leaves. Well after the guy leaves for some reason somebody moved the case from one side of a table to another and like instead of just having like a regular table leg it was more like a kind of like wall so he moved it from one side of the table to like the other side of that wall.
00:32:42
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The bomb went off few people died and it came out that people thought the war was over after this because for a few hours They had announced that Adolf Hitler had been killed people thought it was done They were celebrating and then he comes on the air live and he's obviously not dead and it's clearly him and historians have gone back and looked at it and they found out because that guy for whatever reason some random dude decided to move a briefcase from one side of a table to the other that that's why Hitler lived and had it been on the other side of the table that that arm like wouldn't have absorbed enough of the shock and it would have killed Hitler
00:33:10
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And it was just like instances like that. If you look into like the history of all the times that's like, there were so many more close calls like that. So it's just crazy that like a little instance like that changed history so much. Yeah, that's crazy. So I'm taking Valkyrie. I respect it. I respect the pic. I'd like to go. Oh, is it honorable mention time?
00:33:26
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You want, yeah, throw down some honorable mentions, Marty. I like, so my first honorable mention, it's just a weird one is far and away. I never heard that one either, but he's an Irish immigrant boxer. He does like fist fights and it ends in like the Oklahoma land rush. Just completely like old like coming turn of the century America piece. But I like the ones where he does like ridiculous out of like his norm stuff. So Tropic Thunder, where he's that dude, less Grossman, Austin Powers. He does the opening scene in gold member. He does, uh, in,
00:33:55
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My favorite of his ridiculous characters is Stacey Jax from Rock of Ages. He plays like a, what's the guy's name? Like a Bret Michaels type character. And he's just, opening scene is him just like butt naked with a bunch of women laying on him. He falls into a hot tub. That's my favorite ridiculous character.
00:34:11
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My honorable mentions are, I have Last Samurai on my list. That was my final period piece. You are all about the period pieces, aren't you? I know. Born on the 4th of July. That's a good one. There's so many. All the right moves. He's a high school football player in, like, Western Pennsylvania. Stefan Georgevich. I don't remember that one.
00:34:28
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My last honorable mention is a personal favorite of mine that not many other people like, but I love minority report. I was, I was almost, that was almost my top five. I put it there. It was close. Did I not get any of your top five picks? You didn't come up with more. I always come up with 10 just in case you picked, uh, did I get my, my full list? I did. I got straight through my top five.
00:34:47
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Vanilla Sky, that's another one. That's like a psychological thriller. That's a good one. Nice. Hey, good draft, Marty. Good draft. Good draft. Very, very different drafts. Very different drafts. I had Top Gun and Mission Impossible. Those were two of my top five that you got. But you just had to pick first. I couldn't let Top Gun not be.
00:35:03
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Let's do afternoon delights book club. Do you have a book and or series that you would like to recommend to our listeners? Well, you said this was like for Brianna, right? This is what she wanted? Well, she wanted the, she just wanted the idea of people to recommend books so that she could read whatever she wants. It doesn't need to be specifically be a book for her. If it's just a great book, she might give it a shot. Well, red rising's the answer.
00:35:24
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I'm looking at my shelf right now. If I'm going like, I mean, this is a, this is another one. I'm stealing a ship coat pick, but theft of swords in the right area revelations. Fantastic little, little high fantasy, high fantasy series. It's great theft of swords. Yeah. It's called the right area revelations. Very good ship ship told me about red rising first. And then
Book Recommendation: 'Theft of Swords'
00:35:43
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this one. So I trust when ship gives me a recommendation, I listen, I just listened to whatever, whatever Chris or anybody tells me, but I read like one book a year.
00:35:50
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That's a good one. That's like a good little adventure. They're two thieves. They just get into all sorts of stuff. All right, Marty. Well, I'd like to say thank you for coming and joining me on today. I hope that you had some fun. I had a great time. Nice. We're going to get you a lady after this pod. I'm telling you, they're going to come flocking in. Yeah, right.
00:36:08
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I don't know about after that interview. I was much more passionate about my talking about Tom Cruise and finding a woman. So I don't know what that says about me. You're a simple man that loves the simple things. All right. Thank you out there to everybody listening to this episode of Afternoon Delights. I hope that it brightened your day and helps you push the route to the weekend. I'm your host, Matt Latimer. Just reminding you to keep on smiling.
00:36:30
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I'll be to St. Goodnight. I hate to go and live this pretty side. So long, farewell, I'll be to St. Andrew. I do, I do, to you and you and you.