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PGW 32: IT CAME FROM TUBI
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The boys are back to discuss their findings after the Tubi draft. As well as some bad accent work and a discussion on soda.
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Nostalgic Soda Stories
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Only vanilla Big I went into Boston I went chocolate cock Chocolate cock He said chocolate cock Park your car at the chocolate cock center The thing about buying sodas As like a grown adult who like
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understands that you should not drink them all the time, that it is a treat is the reminder of why, I don't know if y'all's parents bought sodas like consistently growing up, but like why most parents don't is that it's like, if I buy a 12 pack of Dr. Pepper or vanilla Coke or whatever, dude, I'm,
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I like come home on my lunch break and I have one.
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I come home from work and I have one.
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And then I'm like, oh, it's dinner time.
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I got to have one.
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And then I fire up the first flick of the evening and then I'm like, oh, I'm going to have a Coke.
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I might as well have another one.
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Yeah.
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I thankfully do not enjoy soda at all unless it is like over ice with a burger.
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I get that.
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I've really gone away from it.
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Growing up, I was heavy.
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My Dr. Pepper consumption was.
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I would get a Route 44 every day after school from Sonic.
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And then probably have one with dinner if we were out to dinner.
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It was all the time.
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And then in college, I really cut back.
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And I truly think
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It's the cause of like my sweet tooth going away was like I cut out soda basically completely like later in college and now I don't have a sweet tooth at all.
Sweet Cravings & Baja Blast Antics
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So it's usually just like a treat when I go to the movies.
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I get a soda like it's really the only place I have one.
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But yeah, I did buy a 12 pack of vanilla Coke and it is going fast.
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I'm not going to go to Taco Beasy and not get a Taha.
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I'm sorry.
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A Baja Blast.
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The Taha Blast.
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That's my kind of shit right there.
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My sweet tooth does not take me to soda.
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I have a dangerous problem with keeping frozen gansitos in my freezer.
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Oh, yeah.
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And if you've ever had one of those, you understand.
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Yeah.
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If you have had one, you understand why it's in the kitchen.
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Yeah, you got a frozen gansito right here for you, pal.
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Okay.
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We're starting that already.
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I want to watch Joe.
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You got the strawberry filling for me?
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I watched Joe chug half a large Baja blast and then fill what was left in the cup with tequila.
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I did do that.
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I really did do that.
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It was pretty good.
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And in my memory, we were pretty stoned already.
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Allegedly.
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Maybe I was allegedly.
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In my memory, I was stoned.
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I won't speak for the whole community.
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Allegedly.
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My apologies.
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Allegedly.
Introduction to 'Paddington Gone Wild' Podcast
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Speaking of allegedly, welcome to Paddington Gone Wild, the internet's foremost TV cast.
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Speaking of allegations.
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Yeah.
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The four whitest dudes who don't have any allegations.
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Yeah, exactly.
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I am one of your hosts, Red Rankin, joined, as always, by my co-host, the man who searches Tubi's like he does a record store.
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Either way, he's going to find Italian disco.
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It's Zach.
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That's a good one.
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That was really nice.
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That's pretty accurate, too.
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Yeah, that's pretty good.
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The Professor of Profane Horror, Mr. Joe Hayes.
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That's true.
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I found another one that I'm going to watch later.
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Amen.
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And the Oracle looking into the future.
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The Oracle looking into the future for what unsung masterpiece he will watch next.
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That's Mr. Austin Ingalls.
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I'll take it.
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That's very nice.
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And the Manic Broson have 34 counts of felony aggression.
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Mr. Austin Ingalls.
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Hey, by the way, nothing happened this week.
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Yeah, it's crazy how the world is the same as it was the last time we were recording.
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Same as it ever was.
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I'm pretty tired of hearing about Brexit.
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Yeah.
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You should get really into like European politics.
Misconceptions of European Politics
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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It's probably more interesting at this point.
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Yeah.
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Even though there's a lot of far right fascists over there too.
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A lot of overlap.
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You know, I always, I always think it's funny when people are like, you know, like I'm probably just going to like move to Sweden or something like that's like a leftist paradise over there.
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Like, yeah, if you're white,
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Yeah, it's true.
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It's tough.
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Yeah, don't move to Spain or France.
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One of the greatest soccer players right now is a black Norwegian.
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Pretty sick.
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Well, he can get away with it because he's a great soccer player.
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I was going to say, historically, America has been super chill with black people if they're on a sports team.
Tubi Movie Draft and Discoveries
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Fair enough.
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Yeah.
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You know what?
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You know what?
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This, folks, is the It Came From Tubi episode, a follow-up from last week's episode.
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Had our little Tubi draft, which was really fun.
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It kind of gave us the chance to go through, really just scratch the surface of the iceberg that is the depths of Tubi.
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I mean, it is truly like, you finish a flick and then looking at the eight movies that are suggested to come up next...
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four of them will be like, oh, I've heard of that.
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That's a classic.
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That's a classic.
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That's a classic.
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And then it'll be four you have never fucking heard of.
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And one of them will have a poster that you find so intriguing.
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You have to watch it.
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You have to.
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You have no other choice.
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And then they have Tubi originals, which are awesome.
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Tubi, Tubi.
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I haven't dipped my toe into the Tubi originals, but I do keep getting served the P. Diddy documentary that they made.
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They're really excited about that one.
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They really like that one.
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They're pretty jazzed.
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Yeah.
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Wait, what'd he do?
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P. Diddy?
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It's just about
Funko Pop Culture and Humor
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his rise to power.
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Many people have said that this podcast is really like an audio freak off.
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yeah yeah it's like a yeah yeah sure yeah i just didn't know how to make a joke that wasn't going to end up going poorly you know what that's where we're all trying to compete to see who can get fucked the hardest when any of this makes public light yeah it's me i've said some shit on this podcast i'm never going to be able to get away with
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Yeah, hey, here we are.
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Instead of a thousand bottles of baby oil, it's just the Blu-rays.
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Yeah, exactly.
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And that's trouble enough.
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Maddie keeps suggesting, she's like, can we get like a...
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I don't know, like one of those DVD sleeve books that have like where you put this.
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And I was like, Matty, no, I love you.
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Yeah, Matty, we love you, but fuck off.
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I respect you so much, but it's not about that.
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There's so much to having the whole thing.
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I need the plastic.
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I need the plastic.
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I need to kill some trees.
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I finally put mine on a shelf and they're not on a stack in the floor anymore.
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So that was a big thing that happened since we had that for the last recording.
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My Blu-rays are right where they belong in the further most back corner of my house on a shelf that's recessed into a wall.
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So you can't see it unless you look
Podcast Structure and Movie Categories
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for it.
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That's where they belong.
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Mine are in my bedroom so that if any woman has the misfortune of coming into my room, she will see.
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She'll know so many Blu-rays.
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Yeah.
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She'll be like, oh, the Bergman collection.
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Interesting.
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We have a sophisticate in our midst, do we?
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And then I'll be like, this is my box set for Evangelion.
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This is my box set for Wong Kar Wai.
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And this is the Black Hat Director's Cut.
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These are the priorities we have.
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Criterion is just Funko Pops for the people that are more annoying.
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It's true.
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It's really true.
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I bought one Funko Pop in my life, and it was when Clarissa was really into Bridgerton.
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And I was at Barnes & Noble, and they had the Roger Jean Page character in a Funko Pop.
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And I was like, I think this would be nice.
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And it has not seen the light of day in a while.
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I think everybody can get one.
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Famous for being hot as fuck.
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My first impulse is to make him six inches tall with a massive ass head.
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I don't know if you guys are as terminally online as I am, but most people, when they have a character that they find attractive and they get a little doll of it, it goes in a cup and then something unsavory happens.
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Well, you know, I'm not that online.
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I'll clarify that.
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I was going to tell the story of how I ended up with my first and only Funko Pop.
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But now I feel gross because there was a period at work where someone discovered that you can make your own Funko Pops and design them to look like you.
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And like four people at work got them.
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And they were like, Red, you should get one.
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And I was like, no, fuck that.
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That's disgusting.
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I was like, I'm not going to pay $40 for something that I. It's $40.
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No, that's.
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Yeah.
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That's $39 too much I was like I'm not going to do that And then I showed up to work one day And there was a box with a little red in it God damn it So your cock was in the box?
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Hey!
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Little Red.
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Little Red.
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No, Red's cock, his name is Big Hoss.
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Big Hoss.
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We'll talk about this, but one of the movies I watch, there's a character named Sir Boss, and I was like, that's the name of my dick now.
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That's a good dick name.
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Sir Boss.
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Sir Boss, now speaking of movies, for those who may have forgotten... Welcome to the podcast.
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Speaking of movies.
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We talk about movies.
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Or didn't listen to last week's episode first, go back and listen to last week's episode.
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It's really fun.
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But we have
Classic Film Reviews: 'Gilda', 'Bringing Up Baby', 'The Old Dark House'
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broken down...
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Our 2B selections are three specific categories.
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The first is anything 1950 and earlier, or I'm sorry, pre-1950.
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The second category is anything from 1950 to 1975.
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And then our final category is 1976 to the present.
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So kind of wide and broad categories with a little bit of their own limitations here and there, but kind of allows for some fun.
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So if you boys are ready, I think we can go ahead and jump into our pre-50s picks.
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Let's bounce on it.
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Excellent.
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Let's bounce on it.
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I'll go ahead and start.
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Speaking of bouncing on it, the first film that I'm going to talk about is 1946's Gilda.
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Gilda!
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Gilda Gottson.
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Starring Rita Hayworth.
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Wait, hold on.
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Same movie.
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Replace Rita Hayworth with Gilbert Gottfried.
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And what do you have?
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Best movie of all time.
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A classic.
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I'm Gilda.
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It's like a noir set in Buenos Aires, and there's some Germans in there, and there's some illegal gambling.
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If you know any white Argentinians, ask them where their granddads came from.
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That's my favorite little detail in Starship Troopers is that all of the Aryan white people in that movie live in Argentina.
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Yeah, that's really good.
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That's Verhoeven being a genius.
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Yeah, he's a fucking god.
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He's so genius that nobody caught that.
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Yeah, nobody caught anything in that movie at the time.
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Masterpiece.
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I just wanted to go first with Gilda because this is a movie that like many noirs,
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I feel like noir really falls into one of two categories in terms of its plotting.
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It's either one of the most brilliantly written and constructed narratives you've ever seen.
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It moves so briskly.
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Everything feels like you're excited for the next turn, but it all makes sense.
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Or it's truly a jumbled mess and you're just there to be like, look at that dame.
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And that's Gilda.
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You're like, look at that fucking dame.
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Look at Rita Hayworth just being a dame.
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Rita Hayworth just hot as fuck.
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I mean, she's a hottie talk.
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I mean, she's like first ballot throw your life away, Hall of Famer.
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For sure.
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Yeah.
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And she takes a glove off at one point, and you're like, I should just crank right now, dude.
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Like, what the fuck?
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Like, yeah, man, I'm in.
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I'm in.
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I will also say, like... He's a pretty cool guy.
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That's a pretty cool guy.
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It's like... It is actually very steamy for, like, a...
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in the heart of the Hays Code kind of era film.
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You know what?
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The Hays Code movies actually ended up being pretty steamy because they were just hiding it.
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Yeah, those like, yeah.
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There's so much unsaid.
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I want to talk about with myself, especially British stuff from that era.
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Like before Hitchcock, like a lot of British Hitchcock stuff has some like fairly explicit stuff in there.
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Oh, yeah.
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Like Rebecca is very sensual.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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And also, I will say, I just feel like I have to shout out Glenn Ford as Tommy Farrell.
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He's like, you know, he's the other lead.
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He's great.
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The performances are all pretty good.
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Rita Hayworth is like a good actress, but really like she was just known for her classical beauty and her singing voice.
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And so, you know, it was a good time.
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I was pretty baked watching it.
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And just was like, yeah, I could vibe out for a long time watching this.
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Yeah.
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We said it was 46.
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Yeah, 46.
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Do you think my question with any movie made in the 40s that predominantly stars a female lead is would it have been better if it was Barbara Stanwyck?
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Because everything would be better with Barbara Stanwyck.
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IMO.
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She's the fucking goat.
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I love Stanwyck.
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Everything's better with Stanwyck.
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There you go.
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That should be our theme song.
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Padding to God, while the internet's only barbersome.
00:13:19
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Yeah, but if we were going to have a theme song, it would just be about something, something, something, Michael Mann, something, something, that drone shot from ambulance, something, something.
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And the something, something is just grunting because we're jerking off.
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We can just make this live right now.
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Oh, whoa.
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Remix.
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Go ahead, Joe.
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Oh my god.
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Zach is holding up a MIDI controller to a blue baby keyboard.
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Let's see.
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Can we hear it if you play it?
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No, your noise gate's keeping it.
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We're getting like every third.
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Only the low keys are getting picked up by the noise gate and only just barely.
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Yeah, our 13 fans are going to be really pissed if they can't hear it.
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It's not a stereo output, so I don't understand how that happens in the first place.
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Who knows?
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Hey, what are you going to do?
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The stereo output.
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I got this for free and it's just my new favorite toy.
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I just put a bunch of D batteries in there and yeah, it's a good time.
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Rocked and rolled.
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I got a D battery for you.
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Hey.
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Well, Dilda, I think we should probably say at the end of each film we talk about whether or not we would recommend it or not.
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And give it a ranking out of 10.
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Gilda.
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I don't know.
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You should watch it.
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You should watch it because it's like, it's a well shot, interesting black and white cinematography film from the mid forties.
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Rita Hayworth is super fucking hot.
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Argentina seems cool.
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Gambling is cool.
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Yeah.
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It's not super compelling, but it's like, honestly, and, and maybe this is like Tik TOK brain of me, but it's like kind of something that you could easily just like throw on in the background.
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Hmm.
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and just kind of vibe out and look at beautiful cinematography and beautiful people.
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Dig that.
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Give it to sold me.
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Six.
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Who's next?
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Joe, what's here from you?
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You're just going in order from oldest to newest.
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Just go with your oldest right now.
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Yeah, just go with your oldest.
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That's what I meant.
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So for my pre-1950s joint, I did Bringing Up Baby, the Howard Hawks picture.
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Fuck yeah.
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This was your first Hawks, right?
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Yeah, my first Hawks.
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It was a great time.
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Rocking out with his Hawks out.
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Yeah.
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Hawks out for Harambe.
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Yo, that motherfucker kind of started this all.
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Yeah, Harambe was the domino that broke the camel's back to mix metaphors.
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I tried to take a big sip of water and then Zach said it was that motherfucker's fault and then I was like, holy shit, I gotta swallow this or I gotta spit it back in my water bottle and I choked.
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Amen.
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Oh, fuck.
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He's got to take a breather.
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He's got to take a lap.
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I also wanted beer.
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I want a arena, baby.
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It's a Cary Grant, Catherine Hepburn flick.
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Found out that everyone thought Cary Grant was gay.
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It's because he spent an inordinate amount of time with his male best friend at their beach house.
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um and uh either he's gay or he was bowling out with his boy uh either way hell yeah people were just more fluid in those days i think it's great i don't because there's there's all those stories too about like spencer tracy and katherine hepburn they were both like married to other people they had this long-term affair and they were sleeping with people the same sex it's like let's just like you know they were probably just hold up popping quaaludes building ant farms or something
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Sounds great to me.
00:16:59
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I would so much rather the Hollywood elites dirty secret be that they're just sleeping with each other rather than that.
00:17:05
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Everyone's a pedophile.
00:17:08
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It is a much better turnout.
00:17:09
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It is.
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I think it's I think it's cooler, but there was also probably a lot of pedophiles back then, too.
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But who knows?
00:17:14
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You say she was only 62.
00:17:20
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But yeah, bring it up, baby.
00:17:22
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Holds up.
00:17:22
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It's very funny.
00:17:25
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You don't expect a movie from the 40s to still be funny, but it was.
00:17:29
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Is it like super quippy?
00:17:30
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Yeah, it's just insane.
00:17:31
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I mean, the whole opening bit is...
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Cary Grant is like golfing with this guy that he's trying to convince to give him money for his museum for dinosaurs.
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The plot is kind of held together by a string.
00:17:43
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Nice.
00:17:43
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That's a theme with the dinosaurs.
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Yeah.
00:17:46
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It's a theme with every single one of the movies that I picked on accident.
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But there's barely any plot to these.
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Yeah.
00:17:53
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But he's golfing and he goes to find his ball and Catherine Hepburn is about to play his ball.
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And he's like, no, no, no, that's my ball.
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And she goes, no, no, no, I'm hitting it.
00:18:05
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Why would it be yours?
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And he goes, no, no, no.
00:18:07
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What ball do you use?
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And she, and basically they just do like a whole who's on first style.
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Like, that's awesome.
00:18:12
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And then the same thing happens 10 minutes late.
00:18:15
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Whoa, my camera freaked out.
00:18:16
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The same thing happens 10 minutes later, but it's, she's trying to drive away in his car.
00:18:22
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Oh, that's hot.
00:18:23
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If you like those quippy little exchanges,
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00:18:26
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you will love His Girl Friday.
00:18:28
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Oh, perfect.
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Because it's all the movie is.
00:18:30
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I mean, I already love Billy Wilder, and that's like Seven Year Itches and fucking... Something Like It Hot.
00:18:38
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Something Like It Hot, same thing.
00:18:40
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Just so quippy, so smart.
00:18:42
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He's the fucking...
00:18:43
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Yeah.
00:18:45
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But yeah, no, Bring Your Baby's great.
00:18:46
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They had a real live leopard in this movie that interacts with the actors.
00:18:51
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Yeah.
00:18:53
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Not a cougar, Red.
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Keep it in your pants.
00:18:55
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I don't know, cat sounds?
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But my favorite thing about this movie- That beach was up, right?
00:19:02
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Yeah, I don't know, cat sounds.
00:19:03
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Cat sounds?
00:19:03
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Yeah.
00:19:03
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My favorite thing about this movie is that it understands that the hottest thing a person can be is fucking stupid.
00:19:11
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Yeah, correct.
00:19:13
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Because Katherine Hebron's character in this movie is just, I mean, otherworldly level, like kin from Barbie levels of dumb.
00:19:21
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Love it.
00:19:23
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But she's just like so elegant.
00:19:25
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But at the same time, there's this scene where...
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He's like, they have this whole interaction.
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She's like, will you hold my purse?
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And he goes, okay.
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And then she wanders off and a guy's like, hey, that's my wife's purse.
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He's like, no, it's not.
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She just handed it to me and told me to hold it.
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She said, no, that's my wife's purse.
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She comes back from the bar and she goes, I found my purse.
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And he's like, whose purse is this?
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And she goes, well, I gave you that one to hold so that I could go find mine.
00:19:50
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That's awesome.
00:19:51
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That's a great bit.
00:19:52
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It's great.
00:19:52
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It's very funny.
00:19:54
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I love that.
00:19:54
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Is it Howard Hawks?
00:19:56
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Yeah.
00:19:56
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Howard Hawks story?
00:19:56
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Okay.
00:19:57
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Very beautifully shot.
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Like, it's just gorgeous.
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There's some nighttime scenes in the woods that just, like, they look magnificent.
00:20:04
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I love that.
00:20:04
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Harry Grant is great.
00:20:05
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Catherine Hepburn's great.
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Both generationally beautiful people.
00:20:11
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I love always mentioning anytime Cary Grant gets brought up that his real name was Archibald Leach.
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That's my favorite thing.
00:20:18
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That'd be cool if he was like a villain type, but he was too traditionally handsome.
00:20:22
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I know.
00:20:23
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He had to change it.
00:20:24
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He had to become Cary Grant.
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He couldn't be Archibald Leach.
00:20:28
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He had to become someone else.
00:20:29
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Bring it up, baby.
00:20:30
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Good.
00:20:31
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It's a solid recommend.
00:20:32
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I would put it at like a, I don't know.
00:20:34
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It's like an eight or nine out of 10 for me.
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It's one of those movies that's so good and it's so solid.
00:20:41
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It's not, it's not like game changing or anything.
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Like it's nothing you haven't seen before, but it's so well put together.
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So well acted that you just kind of can't take away any faults from it.
00:20:50
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I guess the only thing that keeps it from being a perfect movie for me is that it's just kind of forgettable, but it's just so fun while you're watching it.
00:20:56
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That's how I feel about like Preston Sturgis's movies.
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It's like any time I watch one of his movies, which I love all the ones that I've seen, but I'm like, I forget the plot basically immediately.
00:21:06
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Like I, I showed my parents the Lady Eve last time I was home.
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They were like, we want to watch a movie.
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And I was like, would y'all be OK watching like an old movie, like a 40s movie?
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And they're like, yeah, it sounds fun.
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And we watched the Lady Eve.
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And I was like, I remember none of this.
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All I remember is the crackling dialogue and the chemistry.
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And having a good time.
00:21:24
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Yeah.
00:21:24
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And having a lot of fun, which like, I think is the most recommendable thing.
00:21:29
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It's like the movies don't care.
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So I don't care about the plot.
00:21:31
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I wonder if that's a thing with like the screwball comedies that they just like, they just don't really care about the plot.
00:21:37
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It's all chemistry.
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It's all character dynamics chemistry.
00:21:41
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Because if you go to something like a Wilder movie, though, like The Apartment, that's not a traditional comedy.
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It's really funny still, but that movie sticks with you, and The Apartment is actually a perfect movie.
00:21:54
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Yeah.
00:21:55
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Well, it's interesting, too.
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Like, Wilder, like, recently, probably in the last, like, year, I watched The Lost Weekend, the Wilder movie, with Ray Moland, which is about, like, an alcoholic spiraling into nothingness.
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And it's really good.
00:22:10
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And it has all that quippy, Wilder dialogue, but it's, like, the most depressing thing.
00:22:16
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And it's, like, a guy who drinks two bottles of rye every day.
00:22:20
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Like, it's insane.
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And I just want to do a Billy Wilder episode.
00:22:24
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Dude, we should.
00:22:25
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He's the best.
00:22:27
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There was a poll on Vulture.
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Sorry, Joe.
00:22:29
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There was a poll on Vulture like five years ago, maybe, of like the best screenwriters of all time.
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And they pulled like 200 active screenwriters.
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And he was number one.
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It was him and then I think Robert Towne and the Coens.
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We're the top three.
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Great, great three.
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I was like, yeah.
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More of a Sorkin man myself.
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I would have put Chayefsky as a voter.
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Chayefsky's in the top five for sure.
00:22:55
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Let me, let me pull it up.
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Cause it's a really interesting list.
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While Austin's doing that, what I will recommend as my last thing talking about this movie, I know it was a Howard Hawks movie, but now I'm just stuck on Billy Wilder.
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There is a YouTube video, a new every frame of painting video, which by the way, if you don't know why that's insane, uh,
00:23:11
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do your homework but there's a new every frame of painting video about billy wilder that's just absolutely brilliant goes into his process and like who he is as a creative person but uh check that out every frame of painting
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Fuck yeah.
00:23:23
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And I'm going to double down on Please Watch His Girl Friday as soon as possible.
00:23:27
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I'm going to.
00:23:28
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I haven't seen that one.
00:23:29
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Yeah, me neither.
00:23:29
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I'm excited.
00:23:30
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The top 10 on this list are one, Billy Wilder, two, The Coens, three, Robert Town, four, Tarantino, so their most modern pick, which I can see.
00:23:40
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Sure.
00:23:41
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Five, Coppola.
00:23:43
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Okay.
00:23:44
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That's shocking.
00:23:46
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I know.
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Screenwriting.
00:23:47
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Sticks well because like you know Patton the ones they list are Patton the Godfather the Conversation Apocalypse Now all in the 70s which is interesting yeah but to be fair like 90% of major works when also 90% of his movie was written on set because everything kept fucking up
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Yeah, so he kind of had that.
00:24:06
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William Goldman is six.
00:24:08
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Very fair.
00:24:09
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Bill Goldman.
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Seven, Charlie Kaufman.
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Love that place.
00:24:13
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Eight is Woody Allen, but you can't deny.
00:24:16
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He's great.
00:24:17
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He just sucks.
00:24:17
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He sucks, but great writer.
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Nine is Nora Ephron.
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Love that inclusion.
00:24:22
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And ten is Ernest Lehman, who wrote Sweet Smell Success, North by Northwest, and The Sound of Music.
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Schrader comes in at 11.
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They couldn't keep Schrader in the top ten.
00:24:30
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That's a good choice.
00:24:32
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
00:24:33
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i think i think it's it's a very solid list i would recommend and a couple of stinkers yeah yeah and they get the writers to like talk about the the sort of reasons why they picked it it's interesting joe who do you want to hear from next
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Give me a Zach pick.
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Okay.
00:24:48
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So my pre-50s pick was the 1932 flick The Old Dark House by James Whale, who made like Frankenstein, The Bride of Frankenstein, Invisible Man.
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So he's just in his bag on like 30s horror.
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I had not seen this and I enjoyed it.
00:25:05
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It's a tight 70 minutes.
00:25:07
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Great.
00:25:08
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Beautiful.
00:25:09
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really awesome length for this type of movie.
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It stars Boris Karloff as the movie's monster character, which is very appropriate.
00:25:19
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Charles Lawton is in an acting role in this one, and it's very good, very goofy.
00:25:25
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But the person who steals the show in this movie is Melvin Douglas.
00:25:28
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He is the most charming, perfect glue for this movie that it desperately needs and takes it into a
00:25:37
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a place that's like very fun and good instead of kind of just like, all right.
00:25:42
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Um, well, this movie feels very ahead of 1932, like very, um, there's just, there's some fun miniature work with like an avalanche mudslide at the beginning where they get like stuck at this house.
00:25:56
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And basically it's just a lot yet.
00:25:58
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Yeah.
00:25:58
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That's what I'm getting to.
00:25:59
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Um, there's just like a,
00:26:01
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It's a very simple plot where people are driving in a rainstorm and get stuck at an old dark house.
00:26:08
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There's a couple parties.
00:26:09
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Who would have thought?
00:26:10
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Yeah.
00:26:11
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You know?
00:26:12
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But yeah, basically, they're just stuck at this house.
00:26:15
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And like, there's this weird thing where the electricity of the house is run on a secret system that only the monster knows how to run and operate.
00:26:23
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Okay, sure.
00:26:25
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Love that.
00:26:26
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He goes out in the storm and he gets too drunk to fix it.
00:26:29
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That's awesome.
00:26:32
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And then just starts terrorizing the people staying at the house.
00:26:36
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That's dope as shit.
00:26:37
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That's the bones of the movie.
00:26:39
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And the rest of the movie is just having Melvin Douglas and...
00:26:43
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charles lotten just like hamming it up like in the interim like it's it's a really fun movie like it's by no means perfect but 70 minutes it's like it should be on everyone's list who likes movies especially older movies and horror stuff because you can see where a lot of like quips and tropes for especially the funnier comedy like horror movies kind of originated or maybe not originated but were polished up a little bit more
00:27:10
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And then I mentioned earlier with what Red was saying, like pre-Hays Code stuff, like especially the British stuff.
00:27:16
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Like this movie is very British, but they get away with like some jokes that are very close to crossing the edge of like not being innuendo.
00:27:27
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And I always enjoy that stuff.
00:27:29
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That's a good tell.
00:27:30
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I love that.
00:27:32
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There's also this little.
00:27:33
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Oh, sorry.
00:27:34
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There's this little song that one of the creepier characters sings a couple of times where she's just like, laughter and sin, laughter and sin.
00:27:43
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And it's a really nice resonating tagline that just like, I think kind of lends itself to this movie being silly, but also carrying some deeper undertones if you're willing to read into it.
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But it's a project of its time.
00:28:01
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Joe loves to read.
00:28:03
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Only movies.
00:28:05
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Only movies.
00:28:05
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I like to read movies.
00:28:06
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I like to read subtitles.
00:28:08
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I don't know about you, plebeians, but I be reading movies.
00:28:13
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You guys remember that?
00:28:15
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I don't know if I could say much more about this short movie other than watch it.
00:28:20
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It's short.
00:28:21
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Fuck yeah.
00:28:22
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Love that.
00:28:23
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Out of 10?
00:28:23
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Out of 10?
00:28:24
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Out of 10?
00:28:27
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For what it is, it's a solid eight.
00:28:29
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Oh, hell yeah.
00:28:30
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When you go in knowing this is a 1932 horror comedy, yeah, it's an eight out of ten.
00:28:36
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I love that.
00:28:37
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Sorry, to finish my thought, do you guys remember that Evan Breen video for a while back where he was talking about, someone was talking about hops, and he comes in and he goes, we're smoking beer, dude.
00:28:48
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We're smoking beer.
00:28:52
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They are cannabinoids.
00:28:53
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Yeah, yeah.
00:28:55
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I think about smoking beer all the time.
00:28:57
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That's one of my... Whoa, are we smoking a couple beers, dude?
00:29:00
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Are we smoking some beers, dude?
00:29:01
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Dude, Austin's drinking a Big Doinks right now.
00:29:04
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It's true.
00:29:05
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I'm drinking a dank IPA.
00:29:08
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Pete Davidson's best contribution to SNL is the Doink Doink Dance.
00:29:11
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Oh, incredible stuff.
00:29:13
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Pretty fucking good.
00:29:13
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It's pretty good.
00:29:14
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Well, that is what did you want?
00:29:18
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Yeah.
00:29:19
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So do you want me to go this one and then I can just start the next one?
00:29:22
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Does that sound OK?
00:29:23
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OK, so my pre 1950 pick was very close to 1950.
00:29:25
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It was 1949's.
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00:29:34
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A Connecticut Yankee and King Arthur's Court starring Bing Crosby, Rhonda Fleming, and Cedric Hardwick.
00:29:43
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So my- I'm here for you, pal.
00:29:45
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Thank you.
00:29:46
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I talked about this last week, but my conception of my list was all three of them are movies that primarily star people who are known as singers, first and foremost.
00:29:53
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Bing Crosby-
00:29:55
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Definitely the biggest movie star of the three that I picked, but, you know, very, very well known as a singer and a performer.
00:30:03
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I'll be honest, up top, this is the only movie I didn't finish of the three.
00:30:07
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I didn't get through the end of it.
00:30:09
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I kind of had, I was like, I know this is going and Clarissa got home from work and I was like, I want to talk to her and see how her day was.
00:30:15
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I was trying to kind of squeeze it in right before we recorded because I've had a few days.
00:30:18
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But I...
00:30:22
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Really?
00:30:22
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It's really interesting.
00:30:23
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So the premise is basically, it's based on a Mark Twain novel.
00:30:28
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It's basically about this guy who lives in Connecticut, like early 20th century, like 1912.
00:30:33
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And he's a blacksmith.
00:30:34
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And he's kind of like, automobiles are just starting to be introduced.
00:30:38
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He's kind of like wary of this kind of new age of technology.
00:30:42
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And he's riding his horse home one night and a storm happens, his horse freaks out and he runs into a tree.
00:30:48
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on his horse when he wakes up he's in the sixth century in um camelot um so he wakes up in camelot this night's like prodding him with his uh like jousting spear um and he's like what the is going on here um and so bing crosby plays our main character and it's basically about like they think he's a witch because he has like matches and a magnet it's very the things he has in his pockets are concerning
00:31:18
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because he shows up there with like matches and a magnet and a safety pin.
00:31:21
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And I'm like, what were you getting up to in your free time?
00:31:24
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But he has a lot of stuff on him that he uses to kind of be like, I'm a powerful person.
00:31:30
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to this kingdom, to King Arthur and the knights and everything.
00:31:34
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And he quickly develops a romantic relationship with a woman who is betrothed to Sir Lancelot.
00:31:43
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And so they start a romance.
00:31:45
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There's a lot of singing, obviously.
00:31:46
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It's Bing Crosby.
00:31:47
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It's going to be a musical.
00:31:49
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And they kind of take up together.
00:31:51
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Rhonda Fleming plays Alessandra, his betrothed.
00:31:56
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or his interest, Lancelot's betrothed.
00:32:00
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And it's just like hijinks ensue, basically.
00:32:03
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It's like, what would you expect from a 20th century person placed in this?
00:32:06
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And basically, like, a lot of stuff happens.
00:32:08
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They throw, like, a party for him.
00:32:10
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They give him a knight ship, you know, a knighthood, whatever you call it.
00:32:14
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And he's the one who's referred to as Sir Boss that I mentioned earlier.
00:32:17
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They call him, because he calls everybody Boss, because he's from the 20th century, and so they call him Sir Boss.
00:32:21
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Just a quick sidebar.
00:32:22
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One of the names I cannot quash as far as, like, in my classroom that I'm referred to as Mr. Sir.
00:32:30
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Mr. Sir is very funny.
00:32:32
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Yeah.
00:32:32
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I keep thinking... Those kids don't even understand the context.
00:32:36
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Every time you say Sir Boss, I keep thinking it's like the first name of like a Russian guy.
00:32:40
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Like it's Sir Boss Vilaskan.
00:32:43
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Yeah, for sure.
00:32:44
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Or Sir Boss Nass from Star Wars.
00:32:48
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We don't talk about that on the show.
00:32:49
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You fuckhead.
00:32:50
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I'm sorry.
00:32:50
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I'm sorry.
00:32:51
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I'm sorry.
00:32:51
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I'm sorry.
00:32:51
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I'm sorry.
00:32:52
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I'm sorry.
00:32:53
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But it's an interesting setup because basically like the start of the movie before like the craziness happens is the character is going to the castle in like the modern day of the movie, like the 1912.
00:33:06
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And he's like, oh, I don't remember there being four turrets.
00:33:08
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So the beginning of the movie is after the fact.
00:33:11
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And then he goes to see like the lord of this castle as it exists now.
00:33:13
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And he tells him the story.
00:33:15
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And that's how we get into the story.
00:33:16
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Oh, that's fun.
00:33:18
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It's a good time.
00:33:20
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Yeah, I didn't finish it, but I liked where it was going.
00:33:23
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There's a very fun scene where he has to joust with Lancelot to claim the lady's hand.
00:33:28
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And instead of like wearing armor and stuff, he gets a lasso out and just runs around and like tries to lasso Lancelot off his horse.
00:33:36
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His horse's name is Tex, even though he's from Connecticut.
00:33:39
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Yeah.
00:33:41
Speaker
it's it's it's a lot of fun i don't know it it feels like a kind of lovely little confection can i be really honest please ever since you started talking about this movie i've just thought about wanting to re-watch a knight's tale for sure it it i definitely thought about that when the jousting scene happened yep um i love a knight's tale one of the movies i've probably seen the most in my life um
00:34:03
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But yeah, I don't know.
00:34:06
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It was definitely the most inert of all the movies I watched.
00:34:08
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Like the other two movies I watched, I have a lot more to say about this one.
00:34:12
Speaker
I was just like, yeah, it's fun.
00:34:14
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Like it's a fun 40s musical, like golden age Hollywood musical.
00:34:18
Speaker
There's something about movies from the 40s that just kind of feel like...
00:34:22
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I don't know.
00:34:22
Speaker
It just kind of feels like they were just... Well, I mean, they go into this in Barton Fink where they're just like, it's a wrestling picture.
00:34:29
Speaker
Just write a wrestling picture.
00:34:30
Speaker
Yeah.
00:34:33
Speaker
I don't think they spent a lot of time trying to craft incredible movies.
00:34:36
Speaker
I think they were just like...
00:34:38
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they were like capitalizing on the fact that this was a new medium and people were fucking psyched about it.
00:34:45
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Yeah.
00:34:45
Speaker
Those studios were no different than just a normal project manager at like a steel plant saying like, this is your quota.
00:34:51
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Yeah.
00:34:51
Speaker
They were like, just give us something, give us something in this genre.
00:34:54
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Cause that's what we need this quarter.
00:34:56
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Yeah.
00:34:57
Speaker
Whatever.
00:34:57
Speaker
I always love the ending of Barton Fink when he presents him this like working man story of like a, a wrestler, like, you know, living on the streets.
00:35:05
Speaker
And he's like, what the fuck is this?
00:35:07
Speaker
Yeah, I can't I can't I can't give this to anyone.
00:35:10
Speaker
Well, it's like it's, you know, Barton Fink being very loosely based on Clifford Odets.
00:35:14
Speaker
And, you know, it's like and that Clifford Odets had the same thing where he was writing all these very transgressive plays and he would go to these Hollywood studios.
00:35:22
Speaker
He wrote the original draft of Sweet Smell Success.
00:35:24
Speaker
And they were just like, what do you want us to do?
00:35:26
Speaker
You're trying to speak truth to power and that's not what we do.
00:35:30
Speaker
Like they were just not interested in that.
00:35:32
Speaker
But Bing Crosby's great.
00:35:33
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I mean, just super compelling, super interesting.
00:35:36
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From what I've seen of it, I would probably give it like a solid six out of 10.
00:35:39
Speaker
I wouldn't recommend it unless you really like Golden Age musicals.
00:35:43
Speaker
I would say like, it really like Mark Twain or you're like Mark Twain, which, you know, God bless you.
00:35:48
Speaker
Keep going.
00:35:50
Speaker
You might be a problem in today's society if you really like Mark Twain, but we can talk about that later.
00:35:54
Speaker
So I'll just go right into my 50, 50 to 75 pick.
00:35:59
Speaker
So my 50 to 75 pick in the same lineage was Viva Las Vegas starring one Elvis Presley still alive.
00:36:08
Speaker
who's still alive somewhere in the Caymans.
00:36:12
Speaker
Yeah, dude, he's a five foot tall Mexican outside of famous restaurant here in San Antonio.
00:36:20
Speaker
He and Tupac are cooking in the studio right now.
00:36:22
Speaker
They really are.
00:36:24
Speaker
Elvis Presley and Anne Margaret, directed by George Sidney, very interestingly written by a woman named Sally Benson.
00:36:30
Speaker
So a movie that came out in 1964 being written by a woman I thought was notable, like a big studio movie.
00:36:36
Speaker
Now you're telling me it was written by a woman.
00:36:39
Speaker
I know.
00:36:39
Speaker
Shocker.
00:36:40
Speaker
Shocker of all shockers.
00:36:41
Speaker
A lady writer.
00:36:41
Speaker
A lady you said.
00:36:43
Speaker
A lady you said.
00:36:46
Speaker
Do all the characters just talk about their emotions the whole movie?
00:36:50
Speaker
I wish.
00:36:50
Speaker
All the characters get periods.
00:36:52
Speaker
Yeah, they do.
00:36:54
Speaker
I feel the need to explain my Mexican comment because out of context, it sounds crazy.
00:36:59
Speaker
Yeah.
00:37:00
Speaker
but there's a restaurant in town called me to era and since i've been alive this dude has been dressed like elvis outside of its front doors incredible thank you for clarifying yeah you're welcome yeah i really thought you were really problematic for a second
00:37:15
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Um, but I greatly enjoyed Viva Las Vegas.
00:37:19
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So the setup of this movie is Elvis is playing a character named, let me get it right.
00:37:24
Speaker
Lucky Jackson.
00:37:26
Speaker
Lucky Jackson is a race car driver from Los Angeles.
00:37:30
Speaker
And he's in, he's in Las Vegas to race in the Las Vegas Grand Prix.
00:37:34
Speaker
However, he does not currently have a motor for his car.
00:37:38
Speaker
So he's out gambling at all the casinos, trying to get money to send back to LA to buy this, um,
00:37:44
Speaker
Oh, sorry.
00:37:45
Speaker
Clarice was letting my dog in.
00:37:48
Speaker
He keeps sending money back to L.A.
00:37:49
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to try to buy this motor that will then come to him for the Las Vegas Grand Prix.
00:37:54
Speaker
Along the way, he meets this woman played by Ann Margaret, who is the swim instructor at his hotel.
00:38:01
Speaker
She runs the pool and everything at his hotel.
00:38:05
Speaker
And they sort of take up with each other.
00:38:08
Speaker
But he's also a race car driver with like, who's also Elvis.
00:38:12
Speaker
Like he has all of Elvis's musical abilities.
00:38:16
Speaker
And so first of all, the first thing that needs to be said is Viva Las Vegas.
00:38:19
Speaker
Wait, can we get a taste of that?
00:38:22
Speaker
uh you got it what song do i want to do i guess i should do las vergas um something like that you sound like travis kelsey oh thanks that's really nice um thanks joe god damn it um but uh uh am margaret's character's name is rusty martin thank you um which is a great rusty martin
00:38:46
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we got a lot of awesome finishes can i fucking talk jesus christ hold on mexicans yeah yeah yeah exactly thank you um but uh yeah so he's like trying to get ready for this grand prix takes up with uh rusty martin and margaret's character and they start like a romance but she's concerned about him because he's a race car driver which is very dangerous um
00:39:10
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There is a scene in which he needs the money for this engine.
00:39:13
Speaker
So he competes in a talent show at this hotel against Ann Margaret.
00:39:18
Speaker
Ann Margaret sings a song and dances and is tremendous.
00:39:21
Speaker
And then Elvis comes out to sing Viva Las Vegas with all these dancing girls and looks like he's on Quaaludes.
00:39:27
Speaker
Like it's insanity.
00:39:29
Speaker
He looks like he is so big.
00:39:31
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His mouth does not match the singing at all.
00:39:35
Speaker
It's terrific.
00:39:37
Speaker
Outside of that, Elvis is broadly very compelling.
00:39:41
Speaker
He's very engaged.
00:39:42
Speaker
I'd never seen him in a movie.
00:39:43
Speaker
I'd never watched any of his starring roles.
00:39:46
Speaker
He's very, very compelling.
00:39:48
Speaker
The race that sort of ends the movie, the Las Vegas Grand Prix that they ride, it's very much like...
00:39:55
Speaker
like Ferrari or something where like they start, the drivers have to run to their cars and they start, and they're driving all around the desert outside of Vegas.
00:40:03
Speaker
And honestly, I'll say some of the best crashes I've ever seen in like a race sequence.
00:40:11
Speaker
They like, they,
00:40:13
Speaker
destroy these fucking cars there's one where a guy goes into a role and he rolls like 10 to 20 times um and then he like stops and then another car hits him and then the next scene that guy who's driving the car that rolls is just like standing up right like he's just it's hilarious for car crashes and movies as the cop cars and the blues brothers where they just like sent 200 off the side of the road yeah for sure i mean this is not far off they they like i think
00:40:43
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there's probably like 20 cars that start the race and six of them cross the finish line of this race they sent they it had to be 60 of the budget of this movie was just crashing these cars um it's really great um i really enjoyed it i did not expect to enjoy it as much as i did i found it very compelling this plot is absolute dog shit like it does not work at all
00:41:06
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And I didn't really care because Anne Margaret was there and Elvis was there.
00:41:11
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Also, if you ever get around to watching this movie, what Anne Margaret does with her face while she's dancing, I will never understand.
00:41:18
Speaker
She's like she's like popping her cheeks and like winking and her eyebrows are going insane.
00:41:23
Speaker
And I'm like, what's going on?
00:41:25
Speaker
Wow.
00:41:25
Speaker
Are you OK?
00:41:27
Speaker
She is.
00:41:29
Speaker
She really is.
00:41:30
Speaker
But like not in a way that I'm sure even works for me.
00:41:32
Speaker
And it's Anne Margaret.
00:41:33
Speaker
So that's crazy to say.
00:41:34
Speaker
I believe that's peacocking.
00:41:36
Speaker
Yeah, she is.
00:41:37
Speaker
She is.
00:41:37
Speaker
I got a peacock for you right here, babe.
00:41:40
Speaker
There it is.
00:41:42
Speaker
I'm in here.
00:41:44
Speaker
But yeah, I would recommend it broadly, especially if you have any interest in Elvis whatsoever.
00:41:51
Speaker
He's really great.
00:41:52
Speaker
The singing is great, obviously.
00:41:54
Speaker
And you do get to see him doing a lot of Elvis stuff.
00:41:56
Speaker
I would give it a solid seven out of ten, seven and a half.
00:41:59
Speaker
I'll say seven and a half.
00:42:00
Speaker
I had a great time with it.
00:42:01
Speaker
And it's like 82 minutes.
00:42:03
Speaker
Should they make a remake with Austin Butler and Florence Pugh?
00:42:07
Speaker
Yes.
00:42:08
Speaker
I think Austin Butler should keep playing Elvis until he dies.
00:42:11
Speaker
That shit is hilarious.
00:42:12
Speaker
Austin, before you... He's the great part of that movie.
00:42:15
Speaker
The rest of that movie sucks.
00:42:16
Speaker
Yeah, that movie fucking blows.
00:42:18
Speaker
Incorrect.
00:42:19
Speaker
But he's really good.
00:42:21
Speaker
Sorry, Red.
00:42:21
Speaker
No, Joe, you are in the minority here, I think.
00:42:24
Speaker
Incorrect.
00:42:25
Speaker
It's my least favorite Baz Luhrmann movie.
00:42:27
Speaker
Continue.
00:42:28
Speaker
I have fun.
00:42:29
Speaker
That's saying something.
00:42:30
Speaker
Okay, Austin, I have one question before you say who should be the next person.
00:42:36
Speaker
Please.
00:42:37
Speaker
You mentioned that he's a race car driver, but he has all of the talents of Elvis.
00:42:41
Speaker
Does that imply that he stole his ability to drive fast from black people?
00:42:48
Speaker
No, not in this movie.
00:42:49
Speaker
It's never, it's never implied in this movie.
00:42:53
Speaker
Um, there's not a black person to be seen in this movie.
00:42:56
Speaker
So it could, you know, unfortunately makes sense.
00:42:58
Speaker
Yeah.
00:42:59
Speaker
They're kind of even pretending like, even like they could have, like they could have been of the era and very generic and racist and throw them on, like on the waitstaff at the hotel.
00:43:08
Speaker
And they didn't even do that.
00:43:10
Speaker
Um, so it's pretty tough.
00:43:12
Speaker
Um,
00:43:13
Speaker
They were like, no, no, no, we can't cast black people as the help staff.
00:43:17
Speaker
That's racist.
00:43:18
Speaker
We'll just put white people in there too.
00:43:20
Speaker
Yeah, white people everywhere.
00:43:22
Speaker
It also might be like the one corner of culture that white people pioneered for themselves.
00:43:27
Speaker
What race car driving?
00:43:29
Speaker
Stealing culture.
00:43:30
Speaker
Oh, yeah.
00:43:31
Speaker
Also stealing culture.
00:43:32
Speaker
Yeah.
00:43:33
Speaker
I mean, yeah, it's inherently like a rich guy sport.
00:43:35
Speaker
Like it's.
00:43:35
Speaker
Yeah.
00:43:36
Speaker
And the kind of like not even villain.
00:43:38
Speaker
He's not even really a villain, but like the kind of like conflict character.
00:43:42
Speaker
The piece is like an Italian race car driver who wants to hire Lucky.
00:43:46
Speaker
Oh, do you know Sacha Baron Cohen was in this movie?
00:43:49
Speaker
No, it very much is like that.
00:43:52
Speaker
Why don't you come and race for me?
00:43:54
Speaker
You're lucky.
00:43:55
Speaker
Knowing Feral and Riley, they probably were inspired by that movie.
00:44:00
Speaker
Oh, yeah.
00:44:01
Speaker
I definitely wouldn't be shocked.
00:44:04
Speaker
Yeah, it's a lot of fun.
00:44:05
Speaker
I had a lot of fun with you.
00:44:07
Speaker
I was watching it while I was roasting coffee this morning, and I shouldn't have been because I kept getting distracted because of how much I was enjoying it.
00:44:14
Speaker
You have sold me.
00:44:15
Speaker
I genuinely want to watch this movie.
00:44:17
Speaker
Check it out.
00:44:17
Speaker
It's a lot of fun.
00:44:18
Speaker
I would like to hear from Joe.
00:44:21
Speaker
Okay.
00:44:23
Speaker
My 50 to 75 pick was a little movie called They Call Me Trinity, a spaghetti western.
00:44:33
Speaker
I didn't know this.
00:44:34
Speaker
It's the second most profitable spaghetti western of all time.
00:44:38
Speaker
Oh, wow.
00:44:39
Speaker
That's fascinating.
00:44:40
Speaker
Second behind its sequel.
00:44:44
Speaker
Oh, wow.
00:44:46
Speaker
So these were like the biggest movies.
00:44:48
Speaker
Yeah, Trinity is Still My Name is the other one.
00:44:50
Speaker
And it made like just so much money.
00:44:54
Speaker
I'd never heard of it.
00:44:55
Speaker
It's a buddy comedy Western spaghetti style directed by Enzo Barboni.
00:45:04
Speaker
Basically, the plot of this movie is Letterboxd says, the simple story has the pair coming to the rescue of peace-loving Mormons when land-hungry Major Harriman sends his bullies to harass them into giving up their fertile valley.
00:45:17
Speaker
If you catch my interest.
00:45:18
Speaker
Fertile valley.
00:45:19
Speaker
I got a fertile valley for you.
00:45:21
Speaker
There's a couple of Mormon biddies that want to give up their fertile valley to Trinity in this movie.
00:45:27
Speaker
Check out right between my Tigress and Euphrates.
00:45:31
Speaker
I got a crescent for you.
00:45:33
Speaker
My delta is moist and fertile.
00:45:36
Speaker
These Mormon biddies want to give up their eternal kingdom?
00:45:41
Speaker
Joe, over the line.
00:45:42
Speaker
You said moist and now it's too crass.
00:45:45
Speaker
I like the word moist.
00:45:46
Speaker
I'm the only person on the planet.
00:45:47
Speaker
I call my balls Joseph and Smith.
00:45:52
Speaker
No, dude, it's Brigham and Young.
00:45:55
Speaker
Come on.
00:45:56
Speaker
And my dick is the tabernacle.
00:45:57
Speaker
That was the dude with all the fucking biddies.
00:46:01
Speaker
Joseph Smith just got fucking killed in Missouri like a fucking bitch.
00:46:04
Speaker
Yeah, what a bitch.
00:46:04
Speaker
What are you going to do?
00:46:07
Speaker
And then so the pair of this movie is a couple of guys named Trinity and Bambino.
00:46:13
Speaker
Bambino.
00:46:14
Speaker
Bambino is a big old fat guy, and Trinity is a tiny little scrawny son of a bitch.
00:46:20
Speaker
Does Bambino hit dingers?
00:46:23
Speaker
No.
00:46:24
Speaker
Okay, so let me describe you the fighting style of these characters.
00:46:28
Speaker
It's Looney Tunes.
00:46:29
Speaker
This is Looney Tunes westerns.
00:46:32
Speaker
The plot is barely held together by anything.
00:46:35
Speaker
It doesn't really make sense.
00:46:36
Speaker
I found myself several times going, now why are they fighting?
00:46:41
Speaker
But Trinity's fighting style is that he can basically, he has eyes in the back of his head, people try to sneak up on him, and he's like, bam!
00:46:49
Speaker
Or there's one scene where he kills six guys without looking.
00:46:54
Speaker
Just perfect revolver shots behind him all around.
00:46:57
Speaker
He never reloads once.
00:46:59
Speaker
Like Buster Scruggs?
00:47:01
Speaker
Yeah.
00:47:01
Speaker
Yeah.
00:47:03
Speaker
And Bambino is a tank.
00:47:06
Speaker
He gets hit like a hundred times in this movie and doesn't feel a damn thing.
00:47:10
Speaker
Someone breaks a two-by-four over his back and he goes...
00:47:16
Speaker
and then turns around and he hits, he, the way he fights is he makes a fist and then he hammers them on top of the head with it.
00:47:24
Speaker
Nice.
00:47:25
Speaker
He goes whack-a-mole style.
00:47:27
Speaker
Yeah.
00:47:27
Speaker
This is so sick.
00:47:29
Speaker
There's several times in the movie where people dog pile him and he just throws all of them off.
00:47:34
Speaker
Nice.
00:47:36
Speaker
And my favorite dynamic is whenever Trinity gets into combat.
00:47:41
Speaker
And so Trinity and Bambino are brothers.
00:47:44
Speaker
and whenever Trinity will start a fight and then let Bambino finish it and by what I mean by that is he will put himself up on the bar and like light a cigarette and like make himself a drink while Bambino's fighting like 20 dudes and just like impervious to damage gets punched in the back of the head shrugs it off and then like pile drivers people like throws them into the wall what makes it even better is Bambino just means the kid in Italian it's great
00:48:10
Speaker
So this movie is very stupid.
00:48:14
Speaker
It's the opening scene of this movie is Trinity rolls into this saloon being dragged.
00:48:21
Speaker
Like he has a cot tied to the back of his horse.
00:48:25
Speaker
And so his horse is dragging him through the desert and he's sleeping on the cot while the horse drags it to the desert.
00:48:31
Speaker
That is so cool.
00:48:33
Speaker
He walk, he strolls into this saloon, this like way station.
00:48:38
Speaker
orders a plate of beans.
00:48:41
Speaker
The guy brings the skillet over to put the beans on his plate.
00:48:46
Speaker
He pours two scoops on and then he looks at him for more.
00:48:49
Speaker
He puts another scoop on.
00:48:50
Speaker
He goes, just leave the skillet.
00:48:52
Speaker
And so then Trinity eats so much beans that everyone in the saloon gets mad at him and he kills three people.
00:49:03
Speaker
That's awesome.
00:49:06
Speaker
That's about how much the plot of this movie makes sense.
00:49:10
Speaker
I mean, I can't say that I thought it was a good movie, but it was certainly a fun movie.
00:49:15
Speaker
That's worth a lot.
00:49:17
Speaker
It had no emotional stakes whatsoever.
00:49:22
Speaker
there's no character development.
00:49:24
Speaker
And I can't really tell you what happened in it, except for that the bad guy is a landlord, which I think is great.
00:49:32
Speaker
Fuck yeah.
00:49:32
Speaker
Fuck him.
00:49:34
Speaker
It's like, I don't know.
00:49:36
Speaker
It's hard to explain.
00:49:37
Speaker
It's a fine movie.
00:49:38
Speaker
I'd say it's a good six out of 10, but a fun six out of 10.
00:49:43
Speaker
Okay.
00:49:44
Speaker
I love that.
00:49:45
Speaker
A good three out of five.
00:49:46
Speaker
We love it.
00:49:47
Speaker
Yeah.
00:49:47
Speaker
Yeah.
00:49:50
Speaker
Let me get some red in my bowl.
00:49:54
Speaker
In your bones.
00:49:55
Speaker
In your bones.
00:49:56
Speaker
There's a sprinkling of red.
00:49:58
Speaker
Smoke a bowl of red.
00:50:00
Speaker
Like some flaky salt.
00:50:02
Speaker
I'm an Eddie's guy.
00:50:03
Speaker
We know this.
00:50:06
Speaker
It hurts my chest.
00:50:11
Speaker
So, the film that I selected...
00:50:14
Speaker
for my 50 to 75 category was Robert Aldrich's Whatever Happened to Baby Jane starring Betty Davis and Joan Crawford.
00:50:22
Speaker
Will you be able to answer that question for us?
00:50:26
Speaker
Yeah.
00:50:26
Speaker
Yeah.
00:50:26
Speaker
Okay, cool.
00:50:27
Speaker
Well, actually, I won't because it will spoil the film.
00:50:30
Speaker
I don't want it spoiled, so fair.
00:50:31
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And it's funny that we've talked so much about movies that the plot is held together with staples and shoestring, whereas this is a pretty excellently plotted film.
00:50:42
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I'm going to try to do a short condensed version.
00:50:45
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There are two sisters.
00:50:48
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There's Baby Jane and... Sorry, I have to make sure I get the names right.
00:50:55
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Baby Jane.
00:50:58
Speaker
So there's Baby Jane Hudson and Blanche Hudson.
00:51:02
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Baby Jane's the older sister.
00:51:04
Speaker
She began... They just would just really name their daughter Blanche back in the day.
00:51:09
Speaker
Yeah, that's got to be a war crime.
00:51:13
Speaker
Blanche.
00:51:15
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So Baby Jane and Blanche Hudson, Baby Jane's the older sister, and both of them grew up seeking stardom.
00:51:22
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Baby Jane was like a dancer and a singer and then tried to break into films in her 20s and 30s and developed a really severe drinking problem.
00:51:33
Speaker
Her younger sister, Blanche, broke into becoming a, like, Hollywood starlet and an actress.
00:51:40
Speaker
And the way that it's kind of implied through the film is that, like, she kind of had, like, a Bette Davis-style career where it was, like, she's, like, a phenomenal screen presence.
00:51:50
Speaker
Like, both, like, very compelling and just, like, a really gifted actress.
00:51:54
Speaker
Um...
00:51:56
Speaker
Both of them attend a party.
00:51:58
Speaker
This is the very beginning of the film.
00:51:58
Speaker
Both of them attend a party of which Blanche is permanently handicapped and is wheelchair bound for the rest of her life.
00:52:08
Speaker
Baby Jane is
00:52:10
Speaker
Jane then has to take care of her for the rest of their lives.
00:52:14
Speaker
And they're kind of subsisting on the money made from Blanche's Hollywood career and their investments and things like that.
00:52:21
Speaker
And so most of this film is confined to their house as Jane, played by Bette Davis, is super resentful.
00:52:31
Speaker
Blanche and resentful of her stardom of the fact that she has to take care of her because she has to take care of her.
00:52:38
Speaker
She also is stuck at home.
00:52:40
Speaker
She doesn't get to pursue her dreams.
00:52:41
Speaker
She doesn't get to be the actress that she wanted to be or the performer or the singer.
00:52:46
Speaker
And it is a, it's kind of like a pure down the middle psychological thriller.
00:52:52
Speaker
Dang.
00:52:53
Speaker
At certain points, like kind of devolving and not devolving rather, but at certain points, like taking the step into psychological horror.
00:53:01
Speaker
Davis is.
00:53:02
Speaker
Yeah.
00:53:04
Speaker
Davis is.
00:53:06
Speaker
And like, and she was already on a heater anyways.
00:53:08
Speaker
I mean, at that time.
00:53:11
Speaker
I believe when she got her nomination for best actress is she at the time was the most nominated and awarded actress in the history of the Academy.
00:53:20
Speaker
I mean, she was getting like a best actress or best supporting actress nod like every year during the thirties and early forties.
00:53:29
Speaker
She is lights fucking out in this.
00:53:33
Speaker
Oh yeah.
00:53:33
Speaker
I mean, just unbelievably compelling.
00:53:36
Speaker
So sad.
00:53:37
Speaker
Yeah.
00:53:39
Speaker
Like, because this is a film about a woman who was a child star and now is aged, there are some moments of which she goes into that mode of child starlet mode that it's fucking scary.
00:53:55
Speaker
And it's really upsetting.
00:53:58
Speaker
Jo Crawford is also, kind of as a character, she's not given a ton to do.
00:54:02
Speaker
But like Crawford really, really makes it work and is also like she knew how to rock the fucking house, man, even given nothing like she's great.
00:54:13
Speaker
This is also like it's a really the Ryan Murphy series feud, which I kind of refuse to watch because I hate Ryan Murphy.
00:54:20
Speaker
It's about Betty and Joan though, right?
00:54:22
Speaker
It's about Betty and Joan.
00:54:23
Speaker
It's based on the novel.
00:54:24
Speaker
Oh, with Capote?
00:54:25
Speaker
Or is that a different one?
00:54:26
Speaker
No, it's a different one.
00:54:28
Speaker
Okay.
00:54:28
Speaker
The first season is about Betty and Joan who had a lifelong feud that started in the late 40s but kind of came to a head in 62 around appearing in the same film together.
00:54:40
Speaker
Mm-hmm.
00:54:42
Speaker
And so it's really interesting, like, seeing the energy of that on screen, especially Joan being, like, the one person with any real, like, Joan being, like, one of the only main characters with any amount of decency left.
00:54:58
Speaker
It's really compelling There's an incredible final act The final act and especially the ending Is like It's kind of all time I will also just really shout out It's shot by Ernest Holler
00:55:13
Speaker
who shot a ton of stuff in the 40s, 50s, and 60s.
00:55:17
Speaker
I mean, he won for Gone with the Wind.
00:55:19
Speaker
He won for this film.
00:55:22
Speaker
He won Best Black and White Cinematography for this film, Best Color for Gone with the Wind.
00:55:26
Speaker
Two-time Oscar winner.
00:55:27
Speaker
I mean, he shot some films for Michael Curtis.
00:55:30
Speaker
He didn't shoot Casablanca, but he shot some Michael Curtis films.
00:55:32
Speaker
These are all massive accolades.
00:55:35
Speaker
He is the person who gave us James Dean's face and rebel without a cause.
00:55:39
Speaker
Oh, shit.
00:55:40
Speaker
I mean, it's like and you can you can really tell serious business.
00:55:45
Speaker
Joe, you talked about in your first film, a lot of like low light and night photography.
00:55:51
Speaker
So much of this film has to be shot in a dark old house.
00:55:54
Speaker
And it fucking works.
00:55:57
Speaker
I honestly like could not recommend it more highly.
00:56:00
Speaker
Whatever happened to baby Jane, I will say, I put this on my letterbox review to me.
00:56:04
Speaker
It is like inches away from perfection.
00:56:07
Speaker
Oh, nice.
00:56:08
Speaker
I love that.
00:56:08
Speaker
Great.
00:56:09
Speaker
And I think it was really effective for me.
00:56:12
Speaker
I think like anybody who's willing to like give it a fair shot will definitely love it.
00:56:18
Speaker
I texted my mom about it.
00:56:21
Speaker
my mom is 70, so she was eight when this movie came out.
00:56:24
Speaker
I texted her, I was like, you ever seen this movie?
00:56:25
Speaker
She's like, if you can approach it as a classic and approach it like, for the perspective of a film made in 1962, it's brilliant.
00:56:32
Speaker
And I think she summed it up.
00:56:34
Speaker
Like, I would give it like a nine, nine and a half out of 10.
00:56:39
Speaker
Could not recommend it more highly.
00:56:41
Speaker
I mean, you have to take all these movies contextually to an extent.
00:56:44
Speaker
Yeah.
00:56:44
Speaker
For sure.
00:56:45
Speaker
It's like that Twitter thread of the people that are like, I just don't like old movies.
00:56:50
Speaker
Shut the fuck up, dumbass.
00:56:50
Speaker
Get the fuck out of here, idiot.
00:56:53
Speaker
I will say, too, like, Robert Aldrich, who directed the movie, like, he made The Dirty Dozen.
00:56:57
Speaker
He made Kiss Me Deadly.
00:56:58
Speaker
Like, he made a bunch of great movies.
00:57:00
Speaker
I recently, he made the original Longest Yard with Lancaster.
00:57:04
Speaker
I didn't even
00:57:05
Speaker
But he made a great movie that I just watched recently called The Flight of the Phoenix that just got released on Criterion.
00:57:10
Speaker
It's Jimmy Stewart, Ernest Borg 9.
00:57:13
Speaker
It's a really great cast.
00:57:14
Speaker
It's about like a guy who's like kind of driving like he's like flying this like freight plane kind of, but it's a passenger plane with freight and it goes down in the middle of the desert.
00:57:23
Speaker
And it's just like about these people out in the middle of the desert trying to figure out what to do and like their best course of action.
00:57:29
Speaker
Really interesting, cool movie.
00:57:31
Speaker
So Robert, I was trying to add the juice.
00:57:34
Speaker
Yeah.
00:57:35
Speaker
Yeah.
00:57:35
Speaker
Kind of reminds me of that movie Fight Plane.
00:57:38
Speaker
Fight on the plane.
00:57:41
Speaker
Mel Gibson on a plane fighting.
00:57:42
Speaker
Fight Club.
00:57:43
Speaker
Oh, the new one?
00:57:43
Speaker
Mel Gibson on a plane fighting the guy.
00:57:49
Speaker
Wait, wait.
00:57:50
Speaker
Not the new one.
00:57:50
Speaker
Not the new one with Mark Wahlberg.
00:57:52
Speaker
Fight Plane, whatever it's called.
00:57:53
Speaker
I'm just fucking around.
00:57:54
Speaker
Oh, okay.
00:57:55
Speaker
What's it called?
00:57:55
Speaker
It's not called Fight Plane.
00:57:58
Speaker
I've been referring to it exclusively as Fight Plane.
00:58:00
Speaker
I know what movie you're talking about.
00:58:02
Speaker
I genuinely don't know what it's called.
00:58:04
Speaker
I can't remember if I started that because of Joe or what, but I only refer to it as Fight Plane.
00:58:10
Speaker
It's called Flight Risk is what it's called.
00:58:13
Speaker
No, I don't think so.
00:58:14
Speaker
That's not the one we're talking about.
00:58:16
Speaker
But Fight Plane, infinitely better.
00:58:19
Speaker
One final thing I will say beforehand, and I think, especially if anybody listens to us and listens to Blank Check,
00:58:26
Speaker
or loves the films of David Lynch.
00:58:28
Speaker
I've never heard David Lynch talk about this movie.
00:58:30
Speaker
I tried to Google it to see if he had ever spoken about whatever happened to baby Jane, but it feels like a movie that I don't know like how much inspiration he took, but you could tell this, that this was a movie that he loves.
00:58:43
Speaker
Hold on.
00:58:43
Speaker
I got you.
00:58:44
Speaker
I got you.
00:58:45
Speaker
Close your eyes.
00:58:45
Speaker
Imagine.
00:58:47
Speaker
Have you ever seen whatever happened to baby Jane?
00:58:53
Speaker
This movie is great.
00:58:55
Speaker
Yeah.
00:58:56
Speaker
That was really good.
00:58:57
Speaker
Would you believe it?
00:58:59
Speaker
It's a Friday once again.
00:59:02
Speaker
Keenaw.
00:59:03
Speaker
By the way, the movie is just called Plane.
00:59:09
Speaker
Oh, God.
00:59:09
Speaker
No, Plane is a completely different movie.
00:59:11
Speaker
No, Plane is the one with Gerard Butler.
00:59:13
Speaker
Oh, okay.
00:59:14
Speaker
That's the one I thought you were talking about.
00:59:15
Speaker
No, he's talking about the new Mel Gibson one with Mark Wahlberg.
00:59:18
Speaker
We're talking about Fight Plane.
00:59:19
Speaker
We're talking about Fight Plane Part 2.
00:59:22
Speaker
fart plane fart plane i thought you were just contributing mel gibson vibes to gerard butler no i would never put that put that bad juju on gerard butler i think he played folia de electric boogaloo can't wait for uh what's what's the new one that's about den of thieves to pantera yeah why'd they pick the racist metal band as the title for her
00:59:47
Speaker
It's a neighborhood in Los Angeles.
00:59:49
Speaker
It's a sick car, dude.
00:59:50
Speaker
Yeah, but the movie's not even set in Los Angeles.
00:59:53
Speaker
It's set in, like, Spain.
00:59:54
Speaker
That is wild.
00:59:55
Speaker
I don't know.
00:59:56
Speaker
The first one is, like, in San Bernardino, but they shot it in Atlanta.
01:00:00
Speaker
I'm sorry, Zach.
01:00:00
Speaker
I just...
01:00:01
Speaker
No, go.
01:00:03
Speaker
So, Dead of Thieves 2, Pitera.
01:00:07
Speaker
The whole point of the flick is like, actually, Jerry Butler is going to be on the side of the bad guys now.
01:00:13
Speaker
Oh, your first name basis, you call him Jerry.
01:00:15
Speaker
Of course.
01:00:17
Speaker
Both proud Scottish men.
01:00:18
Speaker
I just...
01:00:22
Speaker
What's the twist?
01:00:23
Speaker
Because we know there has to be one, right?
01:00:26
Speaker
Let's go ahead and put a predictor out.
01:00:28
Speaker
What's the twist of Den of Thieves, Benihana to Pantera?
01:00:34
Speaker
Jason Bourne shows up.
01:00:35
Speaker
Yeah.
01:00:36
Speaker
No, Jason Statham shows up.
01:00:39
Speaker
And he's a big bad.
01:00:40
Speaker
He's got to be in it, right?
01:00:42
Speaker
Yeah, I think so.
01:00:42
Speaker
They're in Europe.
01:00:43
Speaker
Come on.
01:00:44
Speaker
Yeah, exactly.
01:00:47
Speaker
And he's playing the transporter.
01:00:49
Speaker
If I'm guessing for real, it's probably like a really dumb twist.
01:00:53
Speaker
Like actually, what's the other guy's name?
01:00:56
Speaker
O'Shea Jackson.
01:00:58
Speaker
O'Shea Jackson Jr. The twist is that actually he's now working for like the FBI.
01:01:03
Speaker
Oh, yeah.
01:01:04
Speaker
That would make a lot of sense.
01:01:05
Speaker
Because he's the one who kind of brings him back in.
01:01:07
Speaker
Welcome to Pantera.
01:01:09
Speaker
High voltage.
01:01:10
Speaker
Welcome to Pantera.
01:01:12
Speaker
If Jason Statham comes into this movie playing his character from Crank, I'll come in my pants.
01:01:17
Speaker
Give me the crank.
01:01:19
Speaker
So will he.
01:01:22
Speaker
It's true.
01:01:22
Speaker
He'll crank.
01:01:23
Speaker
I got to talk about, do we think he came inside after having sex to get his heart rate up?
01:01:31
Speaker
Probably.
01:01:32
Speaker
That movie is so murky.
01:01:34
Speaker
There's not a lot of clarity on that one.
01:01:37
Speaker
You did say the other day that Crank Too High Voltage is the most racist film you've ever seen.
01:01:42
Speaker
It is.
01:01:43
Speaker
I mean, I can't deny that that movie is just straight up old school, middle school racist.
01:01:52
Speaker
And I also can't recommend it enough.
01:01:56
Speaker
It's so funny to watch as a time capsule to a time where you were on the playground and calling someone the R word was not only okay, but if you didn't do it, you were a bitch.
01:02:07
Speaker
Yeah.
01:02:09
Speaker
Also, Austin's whole perspective and set at the moment just feels like a scene from Inland Empire.
01:02:15
Speaker
I was about to say, that fan is very Lynchian.
01:02:18
Speaker
It for real feels like the fan of the Palmer household.
01:02:21
Speaker
It's the fucking bunnies, dude.
01:02:23
Speaker
We're going to see fucking the Bob just crawling towards us.
01:02:31
Speaker
Zach, what movie did you watch?
01:02:34
Speaker
Are we doing it back to back again?
01:02:35
Speaker
Am I doing both?
01:02:37
Speaker
You don't have to if you don't want to, but might as well.
01:02:40
Speaker
I will because these movies feel extremely connected in so many ways.
01:02:46
Speaker
I inadvertently picked three very British movies.
01:02:51
Speaker
The second of which from 1950-1975 is the 1966 movie Blow Up by Michelangelo Antonioni.
01:03:00
Speaker
Antonioni.
01:03:01
Speaker
Antonioni.
01:03:02
Speaker
This is my first Antonioni movie, and it rules.
01:03:06
Speaker
It's also really hard to talk about this movie without also talking about Blowout.
01:03:11
Speaker
So we'll get to that.
01:03:12
Speaker
But that being said, this movie is also very different than Blowout.
01:03:16
Speaker
It's like very patient in some ways that I thought were really cool.
01:03:21
Speaker
Not in a De Palma way.
01:03:22
Speaker
De Palma's not a patient filmmaker.
01:03:24
Speaker
He's not.
01:03:24
Speaker
No, not at all.
01:03:27
Speaker
Have y'all seen this movie?
01:03:28
Speaker
I have not.
01:03:29
Speaker
I've seen Blowout.
01:03:30
Speaker
I've seen Blowout like two or three times and never seen Blowout.
01:03:32
Speaker
Okay.
01:03:33
Speaker
So if you like Blowout, you'll like this too.
01:03:36
Speaker
I think I like Blowout a little bit more, but that's like a tiny little bit because this is just like stylistically so different.
01:03:44
Speaker
Like I feel like most of Blowout feels very like nighttime pseudo noir, whereas this one is very sunlit, very much like this guy is a weirdo that lives in this art community, like totally detached from reality.
01:03:58
Speaker
This movie leans way more into the main character just like looking for something to entertain himself because he's bored with life.
01:04:08
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I'll back up a little bit and read the synopsis, but it says a successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex feels his life is boring and despairing.
01:04:21
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But in the course of a single day, he unknowingly captures a death on film.
01:04:25
Speaker
And this movie takes its fucking time when it comes to like his boring life.
01:04:31
Speaker
And it's not that boring because this dude is literally like surrounded by gorgeous naked supermodels and like has even more gorgeous models come into the lobby and be like, can I have a job?
01:04:42
Speaker
And he's just like, fuck off.
01:04:44
Speaker
And you're like, no, those are the hottest girls yet, dude.
01:04:46
Speaker
Like, what are you doing?
01:04:47
Speaker
Yeah.
01:04:49
Speaker
Imagine having a life so boring that you reject the hottest women you've ever seen.
01:04:55
Speaker
There's a moment in the movie where he buys a plane propeller for no reason, and it's fairly drawn out in the movie.
01:05:04
Speaker
But that's what I'm talking about.
01:05:05
Speaker
This movie sits in the world that they're building around this main character played by David Hemmings, which he does phenomenally.
01:05:13
Speaker
Hemmings is a good actor, dude.
01:05:15
Speaker
Yeah, really, really good stuff.
01:05:18
Speaker
But yeah, it takes its time getting to what blowout doesn't quite take too much time to do.
01:05:26
Speaker
And I think there's some cool stuff to be found within that.
01:05:30
Speaker
Again, not something like...
01:05:32
Speaker
I can ramble on for a long time about because this movie really is something that sits in spaces for a while.
01:05:41
Speaker
It's like a very stylized British movie that a lot of times I would associate with like needle drops from like 60s and 70s British bands.
01:05:50
Speaker
But this one will like just have you sitting in a park with nothing but hearing distant birds for like 10 minutes straight.
01:05:57
Speaker
Yeah.
01:05:59
Speaker
Yeah, so I recommend it.
01:06:01
Speaker
Again, I think Blowout is a little bit better, but I genuinely think that's just because I'm an American with an American palate and love De Palma and Travolta, and that's just cool shit for me.
01:06:14
Speaker
A great Philadelphia movie, Blowout.
01:06:17
Speaker
Yeah, for sure.
01:06:18
Speaker
It's one of the greats.
01:06:21
Speaker
if I could recommend one David Hemmings movie just because we just left October is Dario Argento's Deep Red.
01:06:28
Speaker
Oh yeah.
01:06:30
Speaker
Hemmings is the star of that flick.
01:06:32
Speaker
It's pretty cool.
01:06:33
Speaker
It's on my watch list.
01:06:34
Speaker
He's also in one of the worst movies of all time, Gangs of New York.
01:06:37
Speaker
Shut the fuck up.
01:06:38
Speaker
He's also in League of Extraordinary Gentlemen which also blows.
01:06:41
Speaker
Yeah, that's one of the worst movies of all time.
01:06:42
Speaker
Gangs of New York is okay.
01:06:44
Speaker
Gangs of New York is okay.
01:06:45
Speaker
It's bottom tier Scorsese.
01:06:46
Speaker
Yeah, but it's still okay.
01:06:48
Speaker
Bottom tier Scorsese is still Scorsese.
01:06:52
Speaker
Austin and Joe, you are entering into a bit that I have held over Red's head for years.
01:06:58
Speaker
I'm agreeing with you two.
01:07:00
Speaker
Zach and I...
01:07:01
Speaker
Or rather, Zach has just laughed while I have screamed about how Gangs in New York is actually good for how long have we been friends?
01:07:10
Speaker
Five years?
01:07:12
Speaker
It reminds me of a discussion we had about the Predator films.
01:07:18
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I'm with you on that one, Joe.
01:07:20
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It's me and you against the world, baby.
01:07:22
Speaker
That one's a real disagreement.
01:07:23
Speaker
This one is just me fucking.
01:07:26
Speaker
Fair enough.
01:07:27
Speaker
Which is funny because I rewatched Gangs of New York a couple years ago and I was like, man, it's fine.
01:07:32
Speaker
Yeah, I think it's just fine.
01:07:36
Speaker
I think it's good.
01:07:38
Speaker
I think there are bad things about it, but I don't mind those things so much.
01:07:43
Speaker
I have no problem with you thinking it's good.
01:07:45
Speaker
I truly don't.
01:07:47
Speaker
I respect you.
01:07:48
Speaker
Diaz is truly horrendous in that movie.
01:07:50
Speaker
She's terrible, but what are you going to do?
01:07:53
Speaker
Can you guys name a movie real quick where Cameron Diaz is good?
01:07:57
Speaker
What's the Julia Roberts movie?
01:07:59
Speaker
My Best Friend's Wedding?
01:08:00
Speaker
My Best Friend's Wedding, she's good.
01:08:01
Speaker
She's very good and there's something about Mary.
01:08:06
Speaker
Movies I haven't seen, so I can't agree or disagree.
01:08:09
Speaker
I think My Best Friend's Wedding is better than There's Something About Mary.
01:08:12
Speaker
I forgot she's in Shrek.
01:08:14
Speaker
Night and Day starring Tom Cruise.
01:08:16
Speaker
Vanilla Sky?
01:08:21
Speaker
I actually haven't seen Vanilla Sky.
01:08:23
Speaker
You know who Nighting Day is directed by?
01:08:25
Speaker
James Mangold.
01:08:27
Speaker
Yeah.
01:08:27
Speaker
Isn't that funny to think about?
01:08:29
Speaker
Yeah.
01:08:30
Speaker
In Vanilla Sky, she says, you came in my mouth that means something.
01:08:34
Speaker
That's a line she has in that movie.
01:08:37
Speaker
Hey, you know what?
01:08:38
Speaker
She's being John Malkovich.
01:08:40
Speaker
Oh, yeah.
01:08:41
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She's good.
01:08:42
Speaker
She's good.
01:08:42
Speaker
Everybody's good in that movie.
01:08:44
Speaker
Sorry.
01:08:44
Speaker
I was just being a hater.
01:08:46
Speaker
I'm sorry.
01:08:47
Speaker
I'm sorry.
01:08:48
Speaker
You're fine.
01:08:49
Speaker
We've referenced this motherfucker like seven episodes in a row.
01:08:53
Speaker
She's actually great in the mask.
01:08:56
Speaker
Yeah.
01:08:57
Speaker
Oh, she is really good in the mask.
01:08:59
Speaker
She's really good in the mask.
01:09:00
Speaker
And hot as all get out.
01:09:02
Speaker
Oh, my God.
01:09:02
Speaker
The internet's only Chuck Russell podcast.
01:09:05
Speaker
Yeah, dude, honestly.
01:09:07
Speaker
I feel like I mentioned that last week.
01:09:09
Speaker
But, like, yeah, the dance sequence with Cameron Diaz and the mask is, like,
01:09:14
Speaker
It's top tier shit.
01:09:16
Speaker
It's top tier shit.
01:09:17
Speaker
Zach, do you want to transition us into the next phase?
01:09:19
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Yeah, I'll go because these movies feel so closely related.
01:09:24
Speaker
These movies belong together.
01:09:27
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The first obviously being Blow Up, but my post 1975 pick, which is not very long after 1975, is Quadrophenia, which is a movie based off of a rock opera by The Who.
01:09:44
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by the same name so this movie is the outsiders okay just straight up but also goes into some like very much more specific british corners like the other guys are still called the greasers but the uh the so that's what the other ones are right yeah instead of that it's the proud tulsa movie
01:10:10
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The mods are like the preppy guys that ride mopeds instead of motorcycles.
01:10:15
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And they kind of fucking suck, but they're the protagonists of this movie.
01:10:21
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But this movie is just two hours straight of the main character, James Jimmy, played by Phil Daniels, who I think does like an incredible job.
01:10:30
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And I kind of wish we got more fun, young Phil Daniels stuff out of movies, to be honest.
Phil Daniels Discussion and British Cinema
01:10:37
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the only movie y'all probably have seen Phil Daniels in or heard him in is Chicken Run.
01:10:43
Speaker
Okay.
01:10:45
Speaker
He's in Hot D, right?
01:10:47
Speaker
He's in what?
01:10:48
Speaker
House of the Dragon.
01:10:51
Speaker
Oh, he's in that Dragon show.
01:10:53
Speaker
Yeah.
01:10:54
Speaker
Who does he play in House of the Dragon?
01:10:56
Speaker
He plays... Maester Gerardus?
01:10:59
Speaker
Oh, sure.
01:11:00
Speaker
I don't watch that show.
01:11:01
Speaker
I'm looking at his IMDb.
01:11:02
Speaker
I do.
01:11:04
Speaker
It's not my proudest moment, but I do continue to watch House of the Dragon.
01:11:08
Speaker
The other actor worth noting in this movie is a very young Ray Winstone.
01:11:12
Speaker
Oh, cool.
01:11:14
Speaker
So very young Ray Winstone.
01:11:15
Speaker
Oh, also, last actor noticed Sting is in this movie trying so hard to be David Bowie.
01:11:21
Speaker
Damn.
01:11:22
Speaker
Damn.
01:11:23
Speaker
Did you guys see that thing on Twitter where it was like David Lynch talking to someone on the set of Fire Walk With Me and David Bowie walks out to do a scene and David Lynch taps the guy next to him and goes, hey, that's David Bowie.
01:11:38
Speaker
And the guy's like, yeah, I know.
01:11:40
Speaker
And he goes, very cool.
01:11:42
Speaker
And then they just do the scene.
01:11:45
Speaker
My Lynch was good.
01:11:46
Speaker
Joe's is like pretty David.
01:11:48
Speaker
Joe's is really good.
01:11:49
Speaker
It's not a... It's hard to... My impressions are like, if they don't have an accent or a voice that...
01:11:59
Speaker
I don't know.
01:12:00
Speaker
It's like there are voices that are hard to do words in.
01:12:04
Speaker
Like, I can't do Trump.
01:12:06
Speaker
Like, I can't do him for every word.
01:12:08
Speaker
I can do him for certain words.
01:12:09
Speaker
Like Owen Wilson, I understand how to move my mouth in a way.
01:12:13
Speaker
You understand the cadence.
01:12:13
Speaker
Or like David Lynch.
01:12:14
Speaker
I can do David Lynch saying anything.
01:12:16
Speaker
Yeah, for sure.
01:12:17
Speaker
It's also easier to do accents that are like geographically closer to where you're from.
01:12:22
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True.
01:12:23
Speaker
That's true.
01:12:24
Speaker
I forgot to rank or give a rating to blow up, but I would give it also an eight out of 10.
01:12:31
Speaker
I think.
01:12:32
Speaker
Yeah.
01:12:33
Speaker
Eight out of 10 for that one too.
01:12:34
Speaker
And then I think.
01:12:35
Speaker
I would give Quadrophenia like a six.
01:12:39
Speaker
It's like the first half of the movie I found genuinely boring.
01:12:44
Speaker
The second half kicks up a little bit and is fun.
01:12:49
Speaker
But this is the most British movie of all time.
01:12:52
Speaker
I like texted you all that.
01:12:53
Speaker
Like we kick around like the phrase the most British movie of all time.
01:12:57
Speaker
But like this might be it.
01:12:59
Speaker
It's just like...
01:13:00
Speaker
It's just dudes talking like this, talking about where they're going to get their next drugs from.
01:13:05
Speaker
Who they're going to find next.
01:13:06
Speaker
I need to get me a bit of heroin.
01:13:08
Speaker
Did they give Ray Winstone a monologue about West Ham?
01:13:12
Speaker
Because he's the biggest West Ham fan in the world.
01:13:15
Speaker
Oh, no, because they don't give a fuck about football.
01:13:17
Speaker
Okay, fair enough.
01:13:19
Speaker
I don't like football.
01:13:20
Speaker
That's fascist.
01:13:24
Speaker
I do need to read a review on here that I saw on Letterboxd that I found very, very appropriate and funny.
01:13:33
Speaker
So I'm looking for it.
01:13:36
Speaker
Okay, it's a little long, but it's like the perfect review of this movie.
01:13:41
Speaker
This person also gave it two and a half stars, and I agree with all of their criticism, but I do think there's enough fun stuff in this, especially if you like 70s British rock, especially from The Who.
01:13:51
Speaker
This is worth watching because you just have these dickhead 19-year-olds raging to The Who in a house party.
01:13:59
Speaker
But the review says... You need a wasteland, if you will.
01:14:02
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Yeah, pretty much.
01:14:03
Speaker
There you go.
01:14:03
Speaker
It says, if in 2024 you were to meet a man in his early 20s with the complexion of wet dough, screechy voice, white pie hat covering a Justin Bieber haircut, wearing a Proud Boy polo shirt and dress shoes, zooming around on an e-bike, bugging you about your Vyvanse hookup, you'd probably think, this guy sucks.
01:14:22
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This guy is a loser.
01:14:23
Speaker
But seeing that same man in 1960s Britain, you'd be like, this guy's amazing.
01:14:28
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I love this guy.
01:14:29
Speaker
This guy is proper mental.
01:14:33
Speaker
That's a really good review.
01:14:35
Speaker
My review was, uh, wait, what was my review?
01:14:38
Speaker
It was, uh,
01:14:41
Speaker
Oi, bruvie, nick some blowies for the mods in it.
01:14:44
Speaker
Come on, yeah.
01:14:46
Speaker
Come on, yeah?
01:14:48
Speaker
I love it.
01:14:50
Speaker
Anytime people do a bit about Cockney or Gaelic accents or something where they're just very obviously saying gibberish, it's the funniest thing in the world.
01:14:59
Speaker
It's so good.
01:15:01
Speaker
For those vibes, if you're ever feeling those vibes.
01:15:04
Speaker
I'm hardly ever feeling those vibes.
01:15:07
Speaker
Maybe the day will come.
01:15:09
Speaker
I'd say out of the three that I watched, it's easily my least favorite.
01:15:14
Speaker
If you want some more fun, good British vibes, watch Blow Up.
01:15:18
Speaker
Okay.
01:15:20
Speaker
Good to know.
01:15:21
Speaker
Zach, who do you have?
01:15:22
Speaker
Let's sling it straight back to red.
01:15:27
Speaker
Cheers.
01:15:28
Speaker
Okay.
'Wolf' Movie Review and Discussion
01:15:32
Speaker
I've really been looking forward to talking about this movie with the boys.
01:15:36
Speaker
I've been thinking about it a lot.
01:15:37
Speaker
It's all that's been on my mind.
01:15:43
Speaker
I watched 1994's Wolf, starring Jack Nicholson and Michelle Pfeiffer and James Spader.
01:15:54
Speaker
So a short version of the story or a short version of the plot is
01:15:59
Speaker
is Jack Nicholson plays the editor-in-chief of a major publishing house called McLeish House, and they are being purchased by a giant conglomerate that Christopher Plummer is the owner of.
01:16:17
Speaker
They are like... There's also, like, straight-up references to Time Warner in here.
01:16:21
Speaker
Like, very odd, like...
01:16:24
Speaker
Wait, what year?
01:16:26
Speaker
94.
01:16:27
Speaker
Okay, that makes more sense.
01:16:28
Speaker
I was thinking maybe 80s.
01:16:29
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:16:31
Speaker
And...
01:16:35
Speaker
Will is his name is on his way back from visiting a author, either in Connecticut or Vermont.
01:16:43
Speaker
And he accidentally hits a wolf on the side of the road in his Volvo two 40.
01:16:48
Speaker
He gets out.
01:16:50
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He gets out to go and see what is wrong with this animal.
01:16:55
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And he is bitten by this wolf.
01:16:57
Speaker
That wolf then turns him into a, a wolf man.
01:17:01
Speaker
Okay.
01:17:03
Speaker
Sure.
01:17:03
Speaker
And,
01:17:05
Speaker
There's also a point of which he discovers that his wife is sleeping with James Spader.
01:17:11
Speaker
James Spader is his protege.
01:17:14
Speaker
That really happens in James Spader movies, huh?
01:17:16
Speaker
Yeah, he's sleeping with everybody.
01:17:17
Speaker
James Spader be laying pipe.
01:17:19
Speaker
He does.
01:17:20
Speaker
He's the most...
01:17:21
Speaker
unconventional kind of unfortunate looking guy that just constantly lays pipe really hot like I don't think James Spader is hot but I'm also straight in the 90s 1996 is crash
01:17:37
Speaker
Okay, fair.
01:17:37
Speaker
I have seen Sex, Lies, and Videotape, though.
01:17:40
Speaker
Oh, I thought you've seen Crash.
01:17:41
Speaker
I'm sorry.
01:17:42
Speaker
No, I haven't seen Crash.
01:17:43
Speaker
Oh, I think he's hot.
01:17:44
Speaker
I think he's, like, hot, hot.
01:17:45
Speaker
We also put him next to, like, Holly Hunter and Deborah Kara Unger in that movie, and you're like, you're a bunch of hotties.
01:17:50
Speaker
I was going to say, I'll watch... I think James Spader looks like a shovel.
01:17:54
Speaker
Yes.
01:17:55
Speaker
I was going to say, I'll watch Crash with Maddie, and we'll see if we both think James Spader's hot, but I'm not going to make Maddie watch Crash.
01:18:00
Speaker
I love your wife.
01:18:02
Speaker
Yeah, I wouldn't recommend watching that with your spouse.
01:18:04
Speaker
Please don't do that.
01:18:05
Speaker
No, that's I thought about it for two seconds.
01:18:08
Speaker
Freak.
01:18:09
Speaker
Yeah.
01:18:10
Speaker
But you're like, you're watching that with another person.
01:18:12
Speaker
Your wife is like a person of like genuine goodness.
01:18:15
Speaker
Like she's like, she's like, you are the worst.
01:18:19
Speaker
She's a morally good upstanding person.
01:18:24
Speaker
Not a pervert.
01:18:25
Speaker
Um,
01:18:28
Speaker
So, Wolf is a $70 million movie directed by Mike Nichols, of which Jack Nicholson becomes the Wolfman.
01:18:35
Speaker
Hold on a second.
01:18:36
Speaker
This is a $70 million picture in the 90s.
01:18:38
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Yeah, Joe wasn't here before I started recording.
01:18:40
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Yeah, sorry.
01:18:42
Speaker
This is a $70 million picture in the 90s.
01:18:44
Speaker
I compared it to every other movie that is in the top 10 highest grossing films of 1994.
01:18:52
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The only, like, Wolf is like the 40th most successful movie of 1994.
01:18:57
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but I looked at every movie in the top 10.
01:18:59
Speaker
Joe's doing inflation calendar calculator as close to as much as this movie is true lies.
01:19:05
Speaker
True lies was like a hundred million dollar movie, which at the time true lies was the most expensive film of all time.
01:19:09
Speaker
Yeah.
01:19:10
Speaker
Joe has fully been wished on a bond right now.
01:19:13
Speaker
Yeah.
01:19:14
Speaker
It's kind of sick.
01:19:15
Speaker
He's, he's our Q. He's our, he really is though.
01:19:19
Speaker
This is a $70 million picture about Jack Nicholson becoming the Wolfman, of which here's a couple of things that he does.
01:19:27
Speaker
I'm so sorry.
01:19:29
Speaker
That is an $139 million movie in 2024.
01:19:36
Speaker
That's like Dune 2 money.
01:19:38
Speaker
I'm willing to bet the largest portion of it is just Jack's salary.
01:19:46
Speaker
Oh, he probably got paid at least $25.
01:19:48
Speaker
I mean, it's kind of insane.
01:19:51
Speaker
In 94, yeah.
01:19:53
Speaker
Richard Jenkins is also in this film.
01:19:55
Speaker
David Hyde Pierce is in this film.
01:19:57
Speaker
Incredible.
01:19:58
Speaker
I mentioned Christopher Plummer.
01:19:59
Speaker
The only guy from Frasier that's still not annoying.
01:20:03
Speaker
I mean, the dead guy was pretty cool.
01:20:05
Speaker
Oh, yeah.
01:20:05
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John Mahoney.
01:20:06
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John Mahoney, thank you.
01:20:07
Speaker
John Mahoney rules.
01:20:09
Speaker
John Mahoney rules.
01:20:09
Speaker
Rest in peace.
01:20:10
Speaker
John Mahoney was actually fucking sick.
01:20:12
Speaker
Sucks because, um, Frazier's, uh, Frazier's bit in 30 Rock is one of my favorite jokes where they play where they have the heist team with Kenneth, uh, Jenna and fuck.
01:20:22
Speaker
What's, what's Frazier's name?
01:20:24
Speaker
Uh, Elsie Grammer.
01:20:25
Speaker
Elsie Grammer.
01:20:27
Speaker
Shout out to Kelsey Grammer falling off a stage.
01:20:29
Speaker
That was awesome.
01:20:30
Speaker
Um, love Frazier so much.
01:20:31
Speaker
Hope it happens again.
01:20:33
Speaker
It's so, it like,
01:20:36
Speaker
At one point, I think I mentioned this, Jack pisses in a bathroom, pisses on James Spader's suede loafers.
01:20:46
Speaker
And then he says, I'm just marking my territory.
01:20:49
Speaker
Great.
01:20:50
Speaker
He's a dog.
01:20:50
Speaker
He's a dog.
01:20:53
Speaker
Michelle Pfeiffer, he handcuffs himself to a radiator.
01:20:58
Speaker
And then Michelle Pfeiffer...
01:21:00
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kicks the lock on the handcuffs and then puts him back in handcuffs, completely on supposedly completely undresses him.
01:21:08
Speaker
They have a raucous night of sex and then it cuts to them snuggling.
01:21:13
Speaker
His arms are totally free and he's where he's wearing like an Oxford shirt, literally like what I'm wearing right now.
01:21:19
Speaker
It's like you.
01:21:20
Speaker
How do you how do you take that off if you're wearing handcuffs?
01:21:25
Speaker
He like has incredible what happens during lovemaking stays in lovemaking.
01:21:31
Speaker
I'm just straight up going to spoil this flick because I it's it's one of those movies where I think I could tell you beat for beat everything that happens in the plot.
01:21:43
Speaker
and it would not detract at all.
01:21:45
Speaker
Excuse me.
01:21:46
Speaker
That was an insane... That was awesome.
01:21:48
Speaker
That was a crazy bird.
01:21:50
Speaker
I can't wait to go back and listen to that.
01:21:51
Speaker
That came from nowhere.
01:21:52
Speaker
That's amazing.
01:21:54
Speaker
It would not detract at all from the flick.
01:21:56
Speaker
The ending, like, 15 minutes of this movie is that James Spader has also become a wolfman.
01:22:02
Speaker
Oh, cool.
01:22:03
Speaker
Great.
01:22:03
Speaker
He becomes a wolfman.
01:22:05
Speaker
I kind of assumed.
01:22:06
Speaker
Yeah.
01:22:06
Speaker
He shows up at the estate.
01:22:09
Speaker
I should also mention that Michelle Pfeiffer is Christopher Plummer's daughter in this flick.
01:22:13
Speaker
And she's like kind of like fallen from grace.
01:22:16
Speaker
And she like went off the deep end and she's got a spider tattoo on her shoulder, which actually like kind of goes hard.
01:22:21
Speaker
The girl with the spider tattoo.
01:22:24
Speaker
There you go.
01:22:26
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Yeah.
01:22:28
Speaker
And James Spader shows up and Michelle Pfeiffer is like trying to get him to leave.
01:22:36
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or try to distract him because all the while Jack Nicholson is inside a barn, handcuffed with an amulet around his neck.
01:22:47
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The amulet was given to him by a gentleman of South Asian descent.
01:22:54
Speaker
I'm going to assume that he is Indian.
01:22:58
Speaker
Dangerous.
01:23:00
Speaker
This amulet is supposedly what's going to cure him of his wolfmanism.
01:23:06
Speaker
Okay.
01:23:08
Speaker
And James Spader shows up and then he decides that it is his time to sexually assault Michelle Pfeiffer.
01:23:15
Speaker
Not cool.
01:23:16
Speaker
Not cool.
01:23:17
Speaker
Uh-huh.
01:23:19
Speaker
And then Jack is stuck inside the stable in a horse barn with the amulet around his neck.
01:23:26
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And he's like so mad because he like needs to help Michelle Pfeiffer.
01:23:30
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So then he throws, he like rips this amulet off, turns into the Wolfman.
01:23:36
Speaker
And then there's like kind of an extended sequence of which he's trying to jump high enough to where he can jump over the wall of the stable.
01:23:47
Speaker
It goes on for a little too long.
01:23:50
Speaker
He gets a running start and then tries to jump, and then apparently his Wolfman power is just ick into high gear.
01:23:59
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He launches himself over the wall and then fights James Spader for a while.
01:24:05
Speaker
James Spader also, according to IMDb Trivia, did all of his own stunts for this flick.
01:24:09
Speaker
Awesome.
01:24:11
Speaker
Jack obviously did not.
01:24:12
Speaker
I don't think Jack has moved beyond...
01:24:15
Speaker
a very slow gait since like 1976.
01:24:19
Speaker
Why would he?
01:24:21
Speaker
When he runs in The Departed for a brief second, you're like, I get it.
01:24:25
Speaker
It's the funniest thing ever committed.
01:24:27
Speaker
He probably ran in The Shining, so 1980.
01:24:28
Speaker
We'll call it that.
01:24:29
Speaker
He walks a lot, though.
01:24:31
Speaker
I can't get over.
01:24:33
Speaker
I really cannot get over Oz Perkins and David Schwimmer being cops in this movie.
01:24:37
Speaker
Oh, I forgot.
01:24:39
Speaker
Dude, I wrote that down on my phone.
01:24:41
Speaker
I forgot to read that.
01:24:41
Speaker
Yeah, David Schwimmer and Oz Perkins are the cops.
01:24:44
Speaker
That's fucking crazy.
01:24:45
Speaker
Insane.
01:24:47
Speaker
Schwimmer showed up, and I, like, Leo DiCaprio, like, holy shit.
01:24:52
Speaker
I guess that's right before Friends.
01:24:55
Speaker
That's, like, right when Friends is starting.
01:24:56
Speaker
It's 94.
01:24:57
Speaker
Yeah, I think Friends started in 95, because there was 10 seasons that ended in 04.
01:25:01
Speaker
I think you're right.
01:25:02
Speaker
It's, like...
01:25:04
Speaker
So then the entire time you have Jack Nicholson Stunt Double, who is very like this is also Jack in 93, 94.
01:25:13
Speaker
Jack's like shifted from this guy was like still pretty hot despite balding and like looking like he had smoked nine million cigarettes.
01:25:22
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Like he was still pretty hot.
01:25:23
Speaker
It has now shifted.
01:25:25
Speaker
Jack's like started to pack on the pounds.
01:25:27
Speaker
Yeah.
01:25:28
Speaker
And then his stunt double like has a full head of hair, looks 60 pounds lighter than Jack.
01:25:35
Speaker
Incredible.
01:25:35
Speaker
He's throwing actual James Spader around.
01:25:38
Speaker
I love that.
01:25:39
Speaker
Michelle Pfeiffer shoots him.
01:25:40
Speaker
And I didn't count, but it felt like she shot him like 11 times with a revolver.
01:25:47
Speaker
Not with like silver bullets or anything.
01:25:49
Speaker
Like not like any actual wolfman lore.
01:25:53
Speaker
Like or any werewolf lore.
01:25:54
Speaker
She just shot him a bunch and then he fucking died.
01:25:57
Speaker
And then the cops show up.
01:25:59
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Richard Jenkins is just like, well, fuck it, I guess.
01:26:01
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We're cool now.
01:26:03
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And Christopher Plummer's like... Yeah, Christopher Plummer's like, oh, sorry, baby.
01:26:08
Speaker
Gives her a big old hug, and he's like, I'm sorry for being a shitty dad, I guess.
01:26:12
Speaker
And then the movie ends.
01:26:13
Speaker
Again, I'm straight up spoiling this.
01:26:15
Speaker
The movie ends...
01:26:17
Speaker
And it's like, oh, actually, Jack turned her into a wolf lady.
01:26:21
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, of course.
01:26:23
Speaker
Cool.
01:26:23
Speaker
We all saw the writing on the wall.
01:26:24
Speaker
Yeah.
01:26:25
Speaker
Jack turned her into a wolf lady.
01:26:26
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And then there is no joke, like an eight.
01:26:29
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It might not be eight.
01:26:30
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It might be like a six minute sequence of zooming in on their eyes.
01:26:35
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going completely dark with just their eyes in frame.
01:26:38
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Then the frame starts to lighten up, and you can see that they are now a wolf.
01:26:43
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And then long stretches of what would be like if you were given the POV of them as wolves running through the forest in upstate New York.
01:26:53
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Cool.
01:26:53
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I like it.
01:26:55
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That sounds awesome.
01:26:55
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Wow.
01:26:56
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Stux is a movie.
01:26:58
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Yeah.
01:26:58
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Genuinely like a three out of ten.
01:27:00
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Damn.
01:27:01
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I could not recommend it more highly.
01:27:05
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I was about to say.
01:27:06
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It sounds like a Southland Tales type piece.
01:27:10
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I had an incredible time.
01:27:13
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That's awesome.
01:27:14
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I need everybody to watch it.
01:27:15
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I'm sorry.
01:27:15
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I've taken up so much time.
01:27:16
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I added it to my watch list.
01:27:18
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I'm going to watch.
01:27:18
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But like Wolf is a...
01:27:20
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It's Mike Nichols.
01:27:22
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That's the fucking crazy... Hits and misses.
01:27:27
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Apparently Elaine May is in this movie too, uncredited.
01:27:30
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What?
01:27:30
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Oh, interesting.
01:27:32
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She's like a phone operator or something.
01:27:34
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Classic.
01:27:37
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Wow.
01:27:38
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Thank you, Red.
01:27:39
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Great job, Red.
01:27:40
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Proud of you.
01:27:41
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I think you've convinced 13 people plus us to watch this movie.
01:27:46
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Austin, do you want to go?
01:27:47
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Sure.
01:27:47
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I'd be happy to.
01:27:48
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So my, uh, my post 1975 pick was a little film from 1986 called red headed stranger directed by William D
Willie Nelson's Cinematic Adventure
01:27:57
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Whitliff.
01:27:57
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It's the only movie he directed.
01:27:59
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Um, but he also, he wrote a bunch of movies.
01:28:00
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He wrote like legends of the fall, which is funny cause it's based on the novella written by Jim Harrison who wrote Wolf.
01:28:07
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Um, so very small world after fascinating connectivity there.
01:28:11
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Um,
01:28:13
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He wrote a bunch of movies throughout like the 80s and 90s, William D. Whitliffe.
01:28:18
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He wrote the Lonesome Dove miniseries that Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones did.
01:28:23
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Or is it Tommy Lee Jones?
01:28:24
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Sorry.
01:28:25
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I can't remember.
01:28:26
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But one of those oldies.
01:28:31
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Yeah, do Voluntary Willie Jones.
01:28:32
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But so this movie stars Willie Nelson.
01:28:36
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I'm going to read you the logline on Letterboxd, and then I'm going to tell you what actually happens.
01:28:41
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So the logline on Letterboxd that I read last week.
01:28:43
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Reverend Julian Shea strode into the saloon, pulled out his sick shooter, and killed his adulterous wife and the man she had left him for.
01:28:53
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It was the beginning of his violent transformation from God-loving preacher to ruthless outlaw.
01:28:58
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That event, which is the only thing laid out in the description of the movie, the movie is 105 minutes long.
01:29:04
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That happens at about the 90 or the 65 minute mark.
01:29:06
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That event.
01:29:10
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which is fascinating.
01:29:11
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Most of the movie is Willie Nelson plays a preacher.
01:29:15
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He's just gotten married to Morgan Fairchild's character, whose name is Rasha Shay, which is a very unfortunate name.
01:29:22
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Yeah, I'd say.
01:29:24
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But he's just gotten married.
01:29:26
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We are told directly off the bat that Rasha has been cheating.
01:29:30
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Rosh Hashanah.
01:29:31
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Rosh Hashanah has been cheating.
01:29:33
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Because the man who she is having an affair with is at their wedding.
01:29:38
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And there's like an exchange glance and you're like, oh, she's cheating.
01:29:41
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So you know that immediately.
01:29:42
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Yeah.
01:29:44
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They get married in Pennsylvania.
01:29:45
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They're from Pennsylvania.
01:29:46
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He's a minister who gets called to a congregation in Driscoll, Montana, this very small town in Montana.
01:29:51
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So they take like a horse and buggy.
01:29:54
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They take like a horse and cart all the way to Montana from Pennsylvania.
01:30:00
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They get there.
01:30:00
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It's this small town that's basically like run by this like man and his sons, this family.
01:30:08
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And the town is run by them because they control the water.
01:30:11
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The town well has dried up.
01:30:13
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This family has the only source of water left in the town on their property.
01:30:16
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So they run this town.
01:30:18
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So it's all of this stuff happens.
01:30:21
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Basically, he starts to like...
01:30:23
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He starts to re-dig the well to try to get to the water.
01:30:27
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This family really hates him.
01:30:29
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They want to string him up.
01:30:30
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At one point, one of the sons of this family shoots the town sheriff or the sheriff's deputy, and he gets hung.
01:30:38
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or he gets hanged.
01:30:41
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And it's a whole, all this stuff starts to happen, whatever, whatever.
01:30:44
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All this time, the first hour of the movie, the reverend has not broken bad.
01:30:48
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He's starting to get a little feel for a more violent world that he's a part of, but like, he's still a preacher.
01:30:54
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He's still like very much a preacher.
01:30:55
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There's a great scene where like all the drunks in the town are outside the church, like pestering him during church.
01:31:01
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And he comes out and basically acts like he's placing a curse on them from God.
01:31:06
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And then they all walk in and praise God because they're like, we don't want this curse.
01:31:09
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Cool.
01:31:10
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A lot of interesting stuff going on, you know, whatever.
01:31:14
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And then.
01:31:15
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very quickly it turns his wife gets a letter from her lover saying i'm coming to get you and i'm going to take you out of this place the wife the whole time has been like i hate this place can we please go back to pennsylvania all this stuff and then he follows her he learns of this he follows her um and uh
01:31:34
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goes into a saloon, shoots her and her lover, and then basically begins a life of violence.
01:31:40
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It kind of ends with a big shootout where he kills all this family who's been sort of running this town.
01:31:46
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Um...
01:31:47
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The oddest thing and craziest thing about this movie is it is basically constructed around the narrative's place fourth in the album Red-Headed Stranger by Willie Nelson.
01:31:58
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Interesting.
01:31:59
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So there is a moment.
01:32:00
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It is scored by Willie Nelson.
01:32:03
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The score is okay.
01:32:03
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There's not much scoring.
01:32:05
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Most of it is just the songs.
01:32:06
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And there is a moment where the song Blue Rock Montana from the album Red-Headed Stranger, this is the lyrics –
01:32:12
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I'm just going to read the lyrics.
01:32:13
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Well, he rode into Blackrock, dusty and tired.
01:32:15
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He got him a room for the night.
01:32:16
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He lay there in silence with too much on his mind, still hoping that he was not right.
01:32:21
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But he found them that evening at a tavern in town in a quiet little out of the way place.
01:32:24
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And they smiled at each other when he walked through the door and they died with their smiles on their face.
01:32:29
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That song plays out as the events happen.
01:32:33
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That's awesome.
01:32:34
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So the song plays over the events happening in the movie, narrating the events.
01:32:39
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I've never seen anything like this in a movie before.
01:32:43
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It is so strange.
01:32:45
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It's so heavy handed, but in a way that I don't mind because Willie Nelson is very compelling and interesting in the movie.
01:32:54
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And that's a lot of the movie.
01:32:55
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It's just that.
01:32:57
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It's just like events playing out with a Willie Nelson song that was written 11 years prior playing out over what's happening.
01:33:05
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And it's the same.
01:33:06
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It's kind of like a jukebox musical, but there's no singing.
01:33:09
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It is.
01:33:09
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It is.
01:33:10
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And the only time Willie Nelson himself sings diegetically in the, in the movie is in church when he's like leading hymns in the church.
01:33:20
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It's fascinating.
01:33:21
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Yeah.
01:33:23
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I can't recommend it unless you really like Willie Nelson because it is interesting in that regard.
01:33:29
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Also Catherine Ross from The Graduate, speaking of Mike Nichols, the main girl in The Graduate and also Butch Cassidy shows up later in the movie as like a single mother that he sort of takes up with after he's killed his wife and he's like become a drunk.
01:33:45
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But again, it's all in the last 30 minutes that anything happens in the movie.
01:33:49
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It's so strange.
01:33:53
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But oddly really interesting.
01:33:56
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And I really dug it as like a sort of weird artifact of like 80s Westerns.
01:34:02
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So I would give it like a solid like six and a half out of 10.
01:34:06
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I would recommend it again if you're really into Willie Nelson.
01:34:09
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But...
01:34:10
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One of the stranger movie watching experiences I've had in a while where I'm just watching it and like, oh, they're actually, oh, they're like playing out the events of the song while the song plays.
01:34:20
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That's the weirdest choice.
01:34:22
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It's like the only conceit the movie has, which is fine.
01:34:26
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Like, it's pretty interesting.
01:34:27
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So, yeah, redheaded stranger.
01:34:30
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Yeah.
01:34:31
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Well, my pick for 75 to now was a little movie called The Seventh Curse, directed by Lam Nai Kai, a Hong Kong movie.
Bizarre Hong Kong Film Plot
01:34:40
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Chow Yun-Fad is in this, so is Maggie Chung.
01:34:42
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Fuck yeah.
01:34:44
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I'm going to give you... This is how I'm going to pitch you the movie.
01:34:46
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I'm going to tell you a thought I had while watching it.
01:34:50
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Great.
01:34:51
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And I think it will convince you to watch this movie.
01:34:54
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Great.
01:34:55
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I said, hold on a second.
01:34:58
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Why is the demon fetus fighting the snake, man?
01:35:05
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Every time you talk about movies that you watch, there are moments of which I'm like, is this the same medium?
01:35:13
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Yeah, I mean, I don't know, man.
01:35:19
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That's sick.
01:35:21
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This movie is about a doctor who knows Kung Fu inexplicably.
01:35:24
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Fuck yeah.
01:35:26
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Which, by the way, if this character were in an American movie and it was just a Chinese doctor that also knew Kung Fu, it would be racist.
01:35:35
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Oh, 100%.
01:35:37
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But it's just a doctor that knows Kung Fu.
01:35:40
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And it's about a reporter played by Maggie Chung who is constantly getting in the way, but she can fire the shit out of a rifle.
01:35:46
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Oh, sick.
01:35:48
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And basically, this movie...
01:35:52
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I don't know.
01:35:53
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There's not really any plot to this movie.
01:35:54
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The main character, in a flashback, it's revealed that he went to this remote village in China to study a group of people called the Worm Tribe.
01:36:07
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And they're studying them, and there's this ritual, and the white guy who's in the expedition goes, now, don't go try to get a look at them.
01:36:15
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Don't do it.
01:36:16
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I'm trying to keep you safe.
01:36:17
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And the guy's like, okay, we won't do it.
01:36:20
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And then he, a very next thing it's cuts to him and he's with his binoculars looking.
01:36:25
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And then he looks down at the pond that he's over.
01:36:29
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Like he's just like hanging out on this ledge above this pond.
01:36:31
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And he looks down and he sees a woman from the tribe wearing the sheerest white, just like a sheet basically, wearing
01:36:43
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And it, I mean, it's basically she's not wearing clothes.
01:36:49
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And she's just like swimming in this river and he's looking at her and then she looks up at him and he like goes, whoa, and like drops his binoculars.
01:36:59
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And then she swims over and picks them up and like is holding them the wrong way because she's from a tribe in, you know, the middle of nowhere, China.
01:37:08
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And she looks up at him and the cuts to it cuts to a shot of the main character that's with like a fisheye lens.
01:37:16
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It's like right next to his face.
01:37:18
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And she goes, whoa, like drops them even more.
01:37:26
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And then she swims away or whatever.
01:37:30
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And later he goes back to look at the ritual they're doing.
01:37:34
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It turns out she's being sacrificed to the worm god for something.
01:37:39
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So he decides to save her.
01:37:44
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And so he goes in to save her.
01:37:46
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But then as he's saving her, the worm god awakens a skeleton man from a tomb.
01:37:54
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And the skeleton man is like a puppet Evil Dead style of skeleton.
01:37:57
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Cool.
01:37:58
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That also knows kung fu.
01:38:00
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Yeah.
01:38:01
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and is super strong and turns into a worm snake man at some point for a reason that I couldn't comprehend.
01:38:10
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This movie is also dubbed on Tubi, so it's classic, like the dubs that they made fun of on SNL where it's like their mouths are moving, but it's like a white guy going, oh no, we have to find the worm village.
01:38:22
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Yeah.
01:38:24
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And it's like, man, I really wish I could hear Chao Yun-Fat speak because he's a good actor.
01:38:28
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Yeah, he's a great actor.
01:38:31
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But so then, because he tried to rescue her and he ends up rescuing her, but the leader of the village... What's that, Matty?
01:38:45
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Where are you?
01:38:47
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Red just viewed my Instagram story.
01:38:51
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Why did that need to be stated?
01:38:53
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Called out.
01:38:55
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Wow.
01:38:56
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Damn.
01:38:57
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That was crazy.
01:38:58
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Oh, Maddie just had to come in and shoot you in the head with a pistol.
01:39:01
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I had my phone open because I was looking at Chow Yun-Fat's IMDb, and I was like, I'll check Instagram for a second.
01:39:07
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Well, it was in the middle of me telling a convoluted story that doesn't make any sense.
01:39:11
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I did it while Red was talking.
01:39:12
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It's fine.
01:39:15
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But so after she... Bye, Maddie.
01:39:20
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Bye, Maddie.
01:39:20
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Love you.
01:39:22
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After he rescues her, the leader of the village finds them and puts a blood curse on him.
01:39:33
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He makes him eat some blood or something, and it makes his veins pop open.
01:39:41
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It's very gross, very cool special effects.
01:39:44
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Sounds fun.
01:39:44
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And then they get out after he fights a bunch of the Worm Village dudes that look like, that have haircuts of a modern guy from Hong Kong.
01:39:53
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And they all speak perfect Chinese.
01:39:55
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Like, they all speak perfect Mandarin.
01:39:57
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Nice.
01:39:58
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Or English in the dub.
01:40:00
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So it's like, this feels, I don't know.
01:40:02
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It's hard to explain.
01:40:03
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But then him and this girl get away.
01:40:05
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Right.
01:40:06
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And they're sitting by the campfire and he's like, oh, my blood hurts or something.
01:40:10
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And she disrobes.
01:40:14
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She gets fully naked and he's like, what?
01:40:18
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And she pulls out a knife and cuts open her boob.
01:40:23
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Whoa!
01:40:24
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And pulls out a chunk of something and says, eat this.
01:40:29
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It'll keep the blood curse at bay.
01:40:31
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And he eats it and wakes up and she's gone.
01:40:35
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That's like the first 30 minutes of the movie.
01:40:42
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This is a masterpiece.
01:40:43
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What a reveal.
01:40:44
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So then he has to go back to the tribe, and so he has to get his blood curse taken care of, and so he has to eat like an eye of an idol.
01:40:58
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And he has to fight a bunch of monks and also the Worm Tribe.
01:41:01
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But the monks aren't bad.
01:41:03
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They're just defending the statue.
01:41:05
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But he has to fight them.
01:41:07
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He's got to prove his honor.
01:41:08
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Something.
01:41:11
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And then... The way you said...
01:41:15
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Something.
01:41:16
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I don't know.
01:41:16
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No follow-up.
01:41:17
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Because truly it's that insane.
01:41:20
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You're just like, something.
01:41:21
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Who's to say?
01:41:22
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It's just that this movie has no real plot.
01:41:25
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When he finds out, when his blood curse comes back up again, and that's the reason he has to go back, he walks into his house and the door's unlocked.
01:41:35
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And he's like, what the heck?
01:41:36
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And he walks in and there's a gorgeous white woman
01:41:41
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in his home naked, and he's like, how'd you get in my house?
01:41:46
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And she's like, I paid the maid $1,000 to take the rest of the day off.
01:41:50
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And he's like, well, when opportunity knocks, and he goes to fuck this random white lady, and then a dude breaks into his house, and he has a kung fu battle with this guy.
01:42:00
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But this guy is not bad.
01:42:02
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He's just trying to tell the main character that his blood curse has reawoken, and he has to go find Snake,
01:42:09
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or something in the worm village to get his blood bad blood disease fixed.
01:42:17
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Joe, I'm going to be really honest with you.
01:42:19
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I have not understand a single word you said in like five to seven minutes.
01:42:23
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No joy.
01:42:24
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I think I understand what I was going to say is I think had you not included the phrases Kung Fu fights, I,
01:42:34
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I don't know if I would have known if I like, obviously I'd looked it up as well because I wanted to see who else was in the movie and I wanted to learn more about this director.
01:42:43
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If you had not told me,
01:42:46
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the phrase kung fu fights and that action movie was in the description.
01:42:50
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I don't know if I would have known that this was like a badass like action kung fu movie.
01:42:56
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Well, yeah, because here's the thing.
01:42:57
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The fights happen for no reason.
01:43:00
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Like it's just all of a sudden he's fighting like 30 people and the kung fu is incredibly well directed.
01:43:07
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It's like badass kung fu.
01:43:10
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Cool explosions.
01:43:12
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And then at the end, a fetus demon fights a snake man.
01:43:17
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And then an ending that doesn't make any sense happens.
01:43:23
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And my camera is possessed.
01:43:25
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Your camera is possessed.
01:43:26
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But that's that movie, and I would rate it basically a perfect 5 out of 10.
01:43:33
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Love it.
01:43:36
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But it's a 5 out of 10 that I probably am going to watch 30 more times.
01:43:40
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Amazing, yeah.
01:43:41
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If I'm going to talk about this movie, I do have to say that this director directed a movie called Ricky O, The Story of Ricky.
01:43:46
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That was on a Criterion channel a while ago.
01:43:49
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Now, that movie is genuinely just great.
01:43:51
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It's campy and silly and super gory.
01:43:54
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But this movie is like wild.
01:43:57
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Throw on the TV while your friends are hanging out with you and you can point at the screen and laugh or see something cool every now and then.
01:44:03
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But Ricky O is actually really great.
01:44:05
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You should watch it.
01:44:05
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It's like a great B movie.
01:44:07
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Oh, yeah.
01:44:08
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But yeah, no, that was my, that's my three.
01:44:11
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It came from Tubi picks.
01:44:12
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Let's go.
01:44:12
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And I think that we should do this segment another time.
01:44:15
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We will.
01:44:15
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We'll definitely return to it came from Tubi.
01:44:17
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This is a great, a great idea for us.
01:44:19
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I think next time maybe we'll like try to change genres.
01:44:22
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We'll change.
01:44:23
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Like we'll do like, like pick, pick a Western, a crime movie and like something from another country or something.
01:44:28
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Yeah.
01:44:29
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All over the place.
01:44:30
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I love it.
01:44:30
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Um,
01:44:31
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So yeah, really, really fun listeners.
01:44:33
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Zach had to scoot out, so he will not be here for highs and lows, but it is time for the Akira Kurosawa high and low of which each of us will talk about our favorite piece of media and our least favorite piece of media.
01:44:48
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Maybe the boys have some separate lows.
01:44:49
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I, I do just want to say up top as much as this is a podcast that we often will take stances and say things, but,
01:44:57
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I will just say the group low for PGW is our current political climate in the United States.
01:45:05
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This is a podcast that says trans rights and gay rights and beliefs.
01:45:10
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I was going to say, as many jokes as we make or things we make fun of, this podcast is a safe space for women and trans people and any color, race, or creed.
01:45:24
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Like, fuck Donald Trump, fuck the Republican Party.
01:45:28
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Honestly, fuck the Democratic Party for running a bullshit campaign.
01:45:32
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Yeah.
01:45:33
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Everything sucks.
01:45:35
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Everything sucks.
01:45:35
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We just wanted to say that because I think for all of us as we've gone through a range of emotions over the last two days, so we just wanted to...
01:45:44
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Go ahead and get the group low out of the way.
01:45:46
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Yeah.
01:45:46
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If the boys want to talk about like... I'm probably just going to say my high.
01:45:50
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I don't want to talk about bad shit right now.
01:45:52
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Yeah, same.
01:45:53
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I don't want some shit.
01:45:54
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Same.
01:45:54
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I'll talk about my high.
01:45:55
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Joe, you were the last person to talk.
01:45:56
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If you don't mind giving us your high for the week.
01:45:58
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Yeah, I'll give an honorable mention and then a real high.
01:46:04
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Hold on a second.
01:46:08
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I'm going to pull it up.
01:46:09
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I wasn't super prepared.
01:46:11
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It's okay.
01:46:13
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Honorable mention high is it keeps being consistently a great watch with Maddie and I is Abbott Elementary.
01:46:19
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This new season is great.
01:46:19
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Oh, yeah.
01:46:21
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Wonderful show.
01:46:21
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Wonderful people.
01:46:22
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Quinta Brunson.
01:46:23
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Also, her interview with Conan is hilarious.
01:46:26
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Really good.
01:46:27
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Oh, good, dude.
01:46:28
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Really good.
01:46:29
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Yeah, so honorable mention if you're just looking for something nice, Abbott Elementary is fantastic.
01:46:34
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It's really good.
01:46:36
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My high could not be further from that movie.
01:46:40
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I watched it today.
01:46:40
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It's Damien Leone's Terrifier 3.
01:46:42
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This movie rocked.
01:46:48
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I loved it.
01:46:49
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I thought the first one was fine.
01:46:51
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It's a B movie that's super gory and funny.
01:46:54
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The second one's too long, but also I liked it.
01:46:57
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I don't know.
01:46:58
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It's...
01:46:59
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You like the terapires.
01:47:00
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Yeah, I like them.
01:47:01
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I didn't think I would, but the third one is just super fun.
01:47:05
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There's a scene where Art the Clown is walking through this college dorm room, and Elliot Fulham, who plays the main girl's little brother, his roommate is talking to his girlfriend in their dorm room, and his girlfriend is a true crime podcaster who is obsessed with the Art the Clown murders.
01:47:29
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And she's trying to get her boyfriend to get her an interview with Elliot Fulham's character because she's like, he's like, he, he was there.
01:47:37
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And he's like, you know, he was traumatized by that.
01:47:39
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He almost died.
01:47:40
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And he watched a ton of people get brutally murdered.
01:47:42
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She's like, but it would be so good for my podcast, which is a great indictment of true crime podcast.
01:47:47
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Honestly, fuck true crime podcasts.
01:47:51
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but then they she basically is like I just you know like I want to be in the presence of something that evil like one of the best one of the greatest serial killers since Jack the Ripper and Arthur clown hears it and goes he is completely silent but I'll say what his face said which was oh stop oh my god oh stop it
01:48:12
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And she's like, I just want to know what it was like to feel his breath on you, to know what he felt like, what he smelt like.
01:48:21
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And Arthur Clown smelt his shirt and then shrugs and is like, not bad.
01:48:28
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And then later, these two people are having sex in the shower and Art obviously kills them brutally with a chainsaw.
01:48:36
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Nice.
01:48:37
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But then to make up for Mr. Leone's misogyny allegations, he kills the woman first rather quickly and then chainsaws the dude in half, starting with the scrote.
01:48:53
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in a hog in this flick yeah for a little bit as he's sawing it it's it's wiggling as the chainsaw is like going past it it's truly fucking gnarly uh
01:49:06
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But here's what I'll say about this movie that I liked it more than the second one because the kills felt more fun and less evil.
01:49:14
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Some of the kills in the second one just felt like, oh, God.
01:49:20
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The kills in this one, he...
01:49:23
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He finds a creative way to use liquid nitrogen in this one.
01:49:26
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Nice.
01:49:29
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He dresses up like Santa.
01:49:32
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I will say, trigger warning, obviously this movie, a ton of trigger warnings because it's a brutal slasher gore flick.
01:49:38
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He does kill children in this movie.
01:49:40
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Damn.
01:49:42
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Like small children.
01:49:43
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No.
01:49:45
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Not nearly.
01:49:47
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He does it well enough where it's not like he's not doing it as viscerally and up close as he kills the adults.
01:49:55
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It's from a distance, or you can't see it, or it's off screen.
01:49:58
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Yeah.
01:50:00
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But it's really really goes for a year.
01:50:03
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And I will say he's getting better at directing every movie.
01:50:05
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There's some really cool shots that are very Carpenter reminiscent.
01:50:09
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The lighting in this movie is actually good.
01:50:11
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It's still got the grindhouse feel to it that I like, but it feels like it's well lit art.
01:50:16
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I mean, David Howard Thornton, is that his name?
01:50:20
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the guy who plays Arthur Clown is just on another level in this movie.
01:50:23
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He's having so much fun.
01:50:25
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I will say my only complaint is that I genuinely think it should have been as long as the second one.
01:50:29
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I was having way more fun in this one.
01:50:31
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And it felt like there was a lot of things that happened that got left on the cutting room floor.
01:50:37
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Fascinating.
01:50:38
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Yeah, it's strange because this is an independent movie, but I think he let the complaints that Terrifier 2 was too long get to him.
01:50:45
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And I just want to say, people are going to go see these movies anyway,
Terrifier 3: A Horror Gem
01:50:49
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man.
01:50:49
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Yeah.
01:50:50
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They're unbelievably profitable.
01:50:52
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Unbelievably profitable.
01:50:53
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You're making them completely by yourself.
01:50:55
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I say go for it, man.
01:50:58
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Go crazy.
01:50:58
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Yeah.
01:50:59
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He explores a lot of the lore in this one, which is iffy for me because I think that he's milquetoast on the lore.
01:51:07
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I think he should either have no lore at all or go so silly out there that it's almost Evangelion levels of lore.
01:51:16
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Mm-hmm.
01:51:17
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But no, I had a great time with Terrifier 3.
01:51:20
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Great Christmas horror flick.
01:51:22
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Love it.
01:51:23
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Super disgusting.
01:51:25
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He cribs a kill in this movie straight from American Psycho.
01:51:31
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Cool.
01:51:32
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And if you've read American Psycho, it's the tube with the rats.
01:51:37
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Oh, so... But instead of doing it in the rather disgusting way it happens and vile way it happens in that book, it's much less...
01:51:48
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I don't know.
01:51:48
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It feels much less misogynistic in this movie than it does in that book.
01:51:52
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Nice.
01:51:54
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Still happens to a woman, but it's not sexually based.
01:51:57
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Cool.
01:51:58
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But yeah, this movie's great.
01:51:59
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I had a great time with it.
01:52:00
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If you like bloody, disgusting, fucking fucked up horror movies, Terrifier 3, solid.
01:52:06
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Love it.
01:52:08
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Who do you want to hear from?
01:52:10
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Austin, why don't you go?
01:52:10
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Because I'm going to do Zach's as well.
01:52:13
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Oh, cool.
01:52:13
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I'll be quick.
01:52:14
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Honorable mention to the new season of Shrinking on Apple TV+.
01:52:18
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It's not rising to the heights of the first season for me, but I'm having a lot of fun watching these people cook.
01:52:24
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It's a good time all around for me.
01:52:27
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My High is a rewatch, but it's a rewatch of a movie I hadn't seen probably since middle school and had no memory of.
01:52:35
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I rewatched Nancy Meyers' Something's Gotta Give.
01:52:39
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Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton.
01:52:41
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Just a peek behind the curtain.
01:52:43
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We're planning to do a rom-coms episode next week.
01:52:46
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Listener, just so you know, this, I was baffled by how good this movie is.
01:52:53
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It is so fucking well written and acted like
01:52:59
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The depths to which these characters explore themselves, like the actors explore these characters, I found absolutely astonishing.
01:53:07
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Like I had no idea.
01:53:09
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I always thought it was just sort of like, oh yeah, Jack Nicholson, Diane Keaton, like old folk, you know, older people, rom-com kind of fun.
01:53:16
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It's so deep.
01:53:18
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I was, I was blown away by it.
01:53:20
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I was like, is this the best written rom-com of the two thousands?
01:53:24
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Like truly was really, it was staggering to me how much I loved it.
01:53:30
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So it's on Netflix would highly recommend a revisit.
01:53:33
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It looks really silly.
01:53:36
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There's a lot of like bad green screen stuff that like while they're in cars and stuff, it's very 2000, like early 2000s.
01:53:43
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but the performances and the writing it's just it's just unbelievable to me i really really loved it um and it's one of the only nancy myers movies that goes on forever but doesn't feel like it goes on forever very surprising that's yeah special yeah it really there's there's like seven endings but they're all meaningful and they all have messages um so i
01:54:06
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My hot take is that I would rather a movie have seven endings and have some actual fucking falling action than to do the trend for today, which is to have a movie end right at the climax, which is so
Nancy Meyers' Rom-Com Depth
01:54:16
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bullshit.
01:54:16
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It's bullshit.
01:54:17
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This movie has a lot of endings that all pay off to me.
01:54:22
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I loved it.
01:54:23
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I was blown away by it.
01:54:25
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That's my hot something he's got to give.
01:54:27
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Speaking of, before Red goes, speaking of rom-coms, that will be next Thursday.
01:54:33
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Or next Monday.
01:54:34
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I said that!
01:54:35
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We don't throw it on Thursdays, we release on Mondays.
01:54:38
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God damn it.
01:54:40
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I was too busy thinking of that I was going to say it to listen to you.
01:54:46
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So, uh, I'll go ahead and speak for Zach real quick.
01:54:49
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Zach just wanted to shout out the eighties film fright night started Chris Sarandon.
01:54:54
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Um, I think he asked me to do it because I also fucking love this movie.
01:54:59
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Uh, it's just, it's 1985.
01:55:01
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It's super fun directed by Tom Holland.
01:55:04
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Not that Tom Holland.
01:55:05
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That would be funny.
01:55:06
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That would be crazy.
01:55:07
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Like psycho twos, Tom Holland and child's play and all that shit.
01:55:12
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Um,
01:55:13
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Yeah, I mean, it is just a great fucking... It's horror comedy, but even then it's not really a comedy.
01:55:21
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It's just that Sarandon is unbelievably charismatic in it.
01:55:25
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I think that's a whole genre is a horror movie where the villain is funny, like Freddy Krueger, or a movie I've shouted out a bunch of times that no one seems to have watched still yet, Tales from the Crypt, Demon Knight, starring Billy Zane.
01:55:40
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uh, as the bad guy, uh, you guys got to watch this flick.
01:55:43
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Billy Zane, same thing where it's just like, it's a horror movie, but Billy Zane is so fucking funny and charismatic.
01:55:48
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Sorry.
01:55:49
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Just wanted to shout that out.
01:55:50
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Yeah.
01:55:51
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Um, so for myself, I will say, uh, also folks, Austin just had to leave.
01:55:56
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So we are now down to a two man pod.
01:55:58
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And then there were two.
01:55:59
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And then there were two, uh, I,
01:56:03
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I think I'm not going to mention what happened to baby Jane instead.
01:56:06
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I'm going to shut out.
01:56:07
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I rewatched the Muppet movie on Monday, which was kind of the perfect movie to watch before an unbelievably stressful day of politics.
01:56:17
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It's like a Monday night.
01:56:18
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Like, I'm just going to spend time with my friends, the Muppets.
01:56:22
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It's great.
01:56:24
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Almost all of the Muppet material currently is on Disney plus Muppets take Manhattan is not, which is fucking horseshit.
01:56:31
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But that's it.
01:56:32
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Listener, thanks for listening to the show.
01:56:34
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Joe, thank you for sticking around.
01:56:36
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Yeah, no worries.
01:56:37
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If you want to watch the rom-coms that we're watching for next week, we have a list of four that we're going to watch, which is What If...
01:56:48
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What If, When Harry Met Sally, When Harry Met Sally, 10 Things I Hate About You, and Notting Hill.
01:56:52
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And Notting Hill.
01:56:53
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Yep.
01:56:53
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So we're going to watch those four movies.
01:56:55
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If you want to watch one or all of them, join us.
01:56:58
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Producer Maddie, my lovely wife, is going to be joining us.
01:57:00
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It's going to be a great time.
01:57:01
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Something nice and fun to listen to instead of the shit that's happening in the world right now.
01:57:07
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So maybe a good escape to watch some nice rom-coms.
01:57:12
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Well, thanks for listening.
01:57:14
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Bye.
01:57:14
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Bye.