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Welcome to Movie Crush, a production

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of I Heart Radio. Hey

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everybody, Welcome to Miny Crush Monday

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with Mr noel By and Mr

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Chuck B Chuck.

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I had a fright. I gave myself a fright

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when I called you on Skype. I looked

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at the screen and I saw my own face, and I

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thought it was you. Well,

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sorry, I don't know how do I read? I just

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okay, let me rephrase. Not a fright like

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hideous. You know. It was just more

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like staring into the abyss kind of

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and then the abyss staring back, and then you realize

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you were the abyss all along. Mhm.

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It's feeling kind of love crafty. And today you

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dug your way out of that one, did

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I? Oh? I think? So?

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How is how is life? How are you? How are you feeling?

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How are you? Are you sick? No?

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What do you mean with the COVID's Yeah, you

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don't have the COVID, do you? I don't have

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the COVID. No, I actually got tested. Um

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before the big crazy spike. You know, if

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anyone's following the news, they know that Georgia

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is one of the spots that's spiking pretty hard.

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Um. But I got tested and I was negative. I

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was one of these drive through pop up tests that I was actually

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at a brewery, which I thought was funny. Um.

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No, I'm good. I've had my kid for a week. She's

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good. Everyone's good. My mom's actually coming up

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on a couple of days, which I know probably isn't recommended,

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but she's losing her fucking mind, going

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store crazy and just needing some company.

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So she's coming up. All

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moved into the new house, feeling good about

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that. It's crety good about working in my new

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space and then being able to exit into the

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house and have it be uncluttered and

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clean, which is great. Things

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are good. How about you, man, How's how's everything with you

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and your in your lovely family? Uh?

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Good? We um. You

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know. Ruby turned five yesterday

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and uh it was very

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sad. Think you probably saw this on my personal

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Facebook, but you know, for the past couple

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of months, you know, and whatever we talked about her birthday. She said

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she didn't want her birthday because she can't see her

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friends. And that's not what

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you expect to five year old to say. So it's been heartbreaking,

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and all of our friends stepped up, man,

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and we had the

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coolest best birthday ever. UM

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breakfast in bed and then morning

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presents here at the house, and

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then uh we went to UM

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we had a bunch of micro parties, so we

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had, uh we were

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gonna have her schoolmates that she hasn't seen the months

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and months just drive by and honk and wave. But

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they got out of the car and the parents like

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masked and stood way far apart in the front

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yard and the kids.

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You know, you can't keep kids away from each other,

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and kids were not as worried about because

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they're not seeing the light of day hardly. So

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three of her schoolmates like they were

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playing outside together and it's like the first time

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I've seen that in months. It was amazing

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to see um and meant a lot to

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her and us. And uh

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then you know what, my other friends had this

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outdoor pool. They built sort of like a

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PBC and and plastic bladder

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that you can buy, sort of a cheap above ground

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pool, but it's

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uh, it was great. So she got the swim for

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the first time this summer. And then my

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other friends put on a puppet show

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and their picture window, uh

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that was tailored for her, and did this

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big chalk sidewalk game for her, and

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then we went and had a pizza party at

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our friends wine shop later and like,

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you know, five or six o'clock in the evening, and

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it was just great. It was basically a bunch of little micro

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parties all day long driving around Atlanta, and

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uh, it was wonderful, wonderful,

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wonderful. That sounds

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pretty magical, Chuck, that's pretty amazing. You were

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able to pull all that off with a little

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help from your friends. As the Beatles

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would would say, that's great. Everybody,

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everybody came through. That's

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awesome. Man. Eden's friend had a birthday,

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um, and it's a really close friend

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of hers who um has

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her mother and sister. They've been being

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incredibly cautious to the extreme, not

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leaving the house practically and you know,

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not going anywhere even when things were quote unquote

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better. Um. But

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but she invited us over to have like a King

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of Pops if anyone knows, uh

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King of Pops it's a local awesome popsicle

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company. And yeah, we

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just went over there and they hadn't seen each other in person and

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forever and shared a popsicle in the

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front yard and just chatted for a while, and

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it wasn't very long, but they took

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the masks off and you know, they were

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eating a popsicle. You can eat a popsicle and a

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mask. Uh, So it was really it

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was really really nice. Um. And then she actually

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had a friend sleep over the other night, which, you

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know, I don't know, maybe some parents out there frowning

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upon that, but it was we're comfortable with their

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level of quarantine, they're comfortable with our level

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of quarantine, and everyone is just

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thirsting for some semblance of normalcy. So

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the first time she's ever had to sleep over at my house,

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which was really special. Uh,

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it was pretty awesome. Actually, that's

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great, dude. I think that there are safe

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ways to broaden your circle

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a little bit, and uh, you

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know, there's a toll to be paid

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for not seeing other humans

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at all either. Um over, you

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know, as it's clear that this is going to not

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be over anytime soon, I

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think there are safe ways to see people

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outdoors and space and massed

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and distanced, and you gotta

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do a little bit of that. You just gotta do it the right

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way. Yeah, like

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I said, I mean, it's all about different people's comfort

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level. But like I'm comfortable with this

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family and their level of you know, dealing

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with this in a very you know, cautious way.

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So having her under my roof and them

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just being normal, there's no worry

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that either of them have anything. So that's

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how we're choosing to deal with it. And of course that's all

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run through her mom, their moms. Everyone's

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comfortable with the same stuff, so it's not like anyone

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sent them out of the loop. UM. And

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I think it's gonna have to be like that because you know, de

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Cab Counties all UH

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all remote school next year, and

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Fulton just I think announced the same thing, So

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I gotta have that interpersonal interaction

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somehow. Yeah, what we are doing

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nool and I've seen this actually is a thing

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with some other UH families,

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is we're doing a little micro school for

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kindergarten. We've gotten together with UH

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three other families, and we have a teacher and

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a place to do it, which is mainly going

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to be outdoors unless it's like terrible weather.

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And we're all signing

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things and agreeing on protocols for our

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families and and all that stuff. And she's

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going to be in a little school with three other kids

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for the year and it's one awesome

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backyard and

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we're lucky. You

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know, yeah, I know you are. You are. It's

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crazy to even talk about. I mean, you know, just

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how much things have changed in like six

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months, you know, or however long it's been time,

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and all that has become a little blurry.

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But yeah, it's nice to be able

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to have. I will say this, I have reached

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out and reconnected with so

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many old friends that I've never even

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thought to to reconnect with or talked to.

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I feel more of a sense of community during

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a lot of this, just even though it's virtual community

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than I think I felt in a long time, because you

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probably know, like for work, I was traveling a ship

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ton to the point where I was kind of burning myself

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out and it was becoming kind of unpleasant,

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and I felt a little bit trapped in

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this loop of like coming

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and going and then having to pick up the kid and

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you know, then dropping her off and then leaving again.

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And so being able to stand still for

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a while has made me realize what my what I really

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want out of things, and and

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what's important, and that's community and

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support and like you know, just kindness

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and a little bit of the ability to kind of do

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some self care. I wasn't doing that. So

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there's been blessings in disguise with this

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whole thing. Uh. Obviously

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a lot of awfulness too, So I love

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it, man. I have not missed getting on a plane. I'll

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tell you that, it's been great to be home. I

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do miss performing live in front of people, uh,

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not doing any stuff you should know shows after

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our first couple This year has been tough because

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I really miss that and I love it so much. But we

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miss everybody and we'll we'll

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see you in two mm

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or whenever. That's that's gonna be the last one to

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come back, So who knows when that's gonna be. So

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nol, let's move on to some movie stuff. Uh,

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I want to start off with a recommendation. Uh,

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my good friend Andy c Ara. Well

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here's a little backstory. UM, and a lot of people

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know this, but for this stuff you should know TV

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show, Um, we had

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this band. Um, well

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it's really the two brothers that led the

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band, the Henry Clay People. UM

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do our TV theme song, Joey and Andy cra

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And they are good friends of mine from way back. Just

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from getting an email from them, when they

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were on the road with Henry Clay people many many years

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ago, saying, hey, we love listening

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to stuff you should Know on the road. We're traveling

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indie band. And I

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went and saw them at the Variety Playhouse here in Atlanta,

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hung out with him and that was cheese

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Man. That was probably eight or ten years ago.

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And we became fast friends, me and Joey

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and Andy, and they're the best and we're we're good buds.

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And we've stayed in touch over the years and seen each

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other a lot, hung out a lot. They did

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the stuff you Should Know theme uh song, and

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then they both have studied

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films since then and filmmaking

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and screenwriting at a FI and Andy

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wrote his first big movie that in

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the Sandberg Palm Springs,

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No Ship. I've been seeing that blasted

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everywhere. I mean, that's awesome. That's Andy's

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movie. And uh, it's getting great

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reviews and it's a wonderful movie, and it's

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on Hulu and drive ins all over

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the country. Had a big drive in release,

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and I encourage everyone to check out Palm

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Springs. It's very very fun, heartwarming,

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sweet, strange, uh take

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on a sort of a familiar

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plat line, which is a bit of a groundhog Day kind

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of thing, got its

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palm springs everybody, and I'm gonna get I'm gonna

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se if I'm get both Andy and Joey on at some point

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for their own respective shows, their

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own episodes. Um,

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but I think we're gonna move on NOL two

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just sort of one big thing. These next couple episodes are gonna

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be a little bit shorter, just because we don't have a ton of time

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today. But um. Richard

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Marsil from the Movie Crushers

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page linked to an article from Mental

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Floss, and I thought i'd be kind of fun to go

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over the thirty five

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movies that Roger Ebert really hated.

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And that is the name of the and

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you can follow along if you want on your own home

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computer. Noll uh. This

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is from Stacy Conrad from

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June of and

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I think we should just some of them will be quicker

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someone we might want to chat about. But the first

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movie on the list at Roger Ebert hated is

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Armageddon. He said it's

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a movie that's an assault on the eyes, the ears, the brain,

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common sense, and the human desire

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to be entertained. I

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did not like that. Come

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on, remember,

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I don't know, man, isn't it just it Jerry Bruckheimer?

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Is that who it is? Or is it the other

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guy? I mean Bruckheimer was

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a producer. I feel like it was a Michael Bay. Jam

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right, Michael Bay. That's who I'm confusing

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that. So Bruckheimer you didn't never direct, he

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was just a producer, yeah, producer. Okay,

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So it's a that's responsible for all those

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god awful Transformers movies, right

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Bay? Yeah?

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Bay, not Bay?

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Not not beyond all others?

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No? Wait, but before all else?

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Is that what Bay stands for? I think it is b

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A This is b a y. It's

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a thing. It's a meme Thingum. You never

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someone call you their their bay. It's my Bay.

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It means be before all other

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or something like that. Now else e

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this is beat beat Yeah, you know it's

12:31

before all else, be

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a e Bay. This is not like Michael Bay

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is not my Bay. Um yeah,

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he's he sucks. He's just it's it's

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bombastic garbage, you know it.

12:42

It makes you feel like you're having a heart attack

12:45

and a brain aneurysm at the same time.

12:47

You know, like it's it's not

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good ar'mna get it. He did The Rock. I

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like the Rock, but I haven't seen The Rock in many,

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many years. But I remember enjoying that one. That's

12:56

the one where Sean Connery

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helps uh Nicolas

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Cage infiltrate Alcatraz

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because he's the one man that's ever broken

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out of Alcatraz, the Unescapable

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prism Um. But Armageddon

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was the one about blowing up the meteor, right,

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they go to the meteor and they got to blow it up because otherwise

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it will destroy the earth. And

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then and then then Aerosmith. Yeah, I

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I didn't like it, all

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right, I didn't like it either. I'm sorry. Uh

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The Brown Bunny, we don't even

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have to talk about that much. That was the movie from what's

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his face? Yeah, Vinited

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Gallo, Yeah, Vincent gallow He didn't like

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that, Jason X. He

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gave a half a star too. He

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just said this sucks on so many levels. Can

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really quickly just read this quota from The Brown Bunny,

13:45

though, it's just so funny. He says, it is true

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that I am fat, but one day I

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will be thin and he will still be

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the director of The Brown Bunny. VI

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Gallo, Oh

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yeah, yeah, Jason X is

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like Friday thirteenth in space if I'm not

14:02

mistaken. Yeah,

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I'm not sure, but that sounds about right. Uh.

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Mad Dog Time is his next one.

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I don't think I know that movie, do

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you? Nor do I? I've heard

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Mad Dog in Glory, but

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you don't know. Yeah, I don't know

14:19

Mad Dog Time. It looks pretty

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bad Ellen Barkin, and

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it looks like Richard Dreyfuss maybe in

14:26

real burn Gabriel.

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That's so funny because he's in the next one. There's some funny

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things about this list, Chuck, because he gets some things

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real wrong. He's on the wrong side of

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history on a handful of these. Yeah,

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and I will go ahead and say that the next one is

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one of those the usual suspects. I

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think it's it's one of the good, really

14:45

good movies of the nineteen nineties. Yes,

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one and a half stars. What's his

14:51

beef? I don't know. He just

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said he didn't care. Yeah,

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that's a lazy review if you ask me. I

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don't know. It sounds like

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wasn't paying attention if he didn't care. Who

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know, everyone has their own taste. But I just

15:05

I have nothing but love for that movie. Same

15:07

here. No, I totally agree. Uh

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Deuce Bigelow European Giggielow

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zero stars. Uh

15:16

this just I didn't see either one of those

15:18

because I had no interest whatsoever. But

15:21

he says the best thing is that it runs for only

15:23

seventy five minutes. And

15:27

speaking in my official capacity as a Pulletzer

15:29

Prize winner, he says, Mr Schneider,

15:32

your movie sucks

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brutal. Yeah. Now,

15:39

I'm like, how come? Like, like, what how did

15:41

he feel about Male Jiggielo? How did you feel

15:43

about part one? I don't know. He

15:46

gave it, gave it half a star. He's already

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like, you know, I don't know. I bet you he

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didn't like it. That would be my guess, probably probably

15:52

probably not. Number seven is

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Mr Magoo the movie Mr Magoo.

15:57

Uh yeah,

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sorrying Leslie Nielsen as Mr mcg as

16:02

the titular Mr McGoo. Yeah,

16:04

that that I didn't see. I haven't seen a lot of

16:06

these and all, in fact, most

16:08

of them. I saw Armageddon and I saw I

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didn't even see the Brown Bunny. I saw, of course, uh

16:14

usual suspects, But I have not seen any of these

16:16

hardly. Yeah, A lot

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of these are real broad comedies. Uh,

16:22

that's sort of seems to be the running

16:24

Oh, we got would know there's something. There's some more coming

16:26

down the list that you know. One of them was your boy,

16:28

Aaron Manky's favorite film of all time.

16:31

We'll get to that. It was his. It was his. It's

16:34

Spice World. He gave half a star to. Uh,

16:38

don't need to talk about that. Number

16:40

nine is good Luck, Chuck. That was

16:42

the Dane Cook movie

16:44

when he was relevant. Did

16:47

you ever like him? Ah?

16:49

Man, it's like bro comedy. It was very

16:51

much like frat boy kind of broad

16:54

you know, comedy. Uh, it is funny

16:56

though. For some reason, in my iTunes library,

16:58

you know how when you plug your phone into Bluetooth or

17:01

in a car, it will automatically play

17:03

whatever's first in your iTunes library.

17:05

Somehow, I have a Dane Cook stand up

17:08

in my iTunes library and I don't

17:10

know how it got there. I don't

17:12

know how it got there, bro, and it'll

17:14

just play. And I was like, they

17:16

could go away. That's bad.

17:18

No, you gotta get rid of that. Uh.

17:21

Number ten is Freddie Got Fingered, another

17:24

movie I did not see. Zero

17:26

stars. Uh, this

17:28

movie doesn't scrape the bottom of the barrel.

17:30

This movie isn't the bottom of the barrel. This

17:33

movie isn't below the bottom of the barrel. This

17:35

movie doesn't deserve to be mentioned in

17:37

the same sentence with barrels. Yeah,

17:40

that's Tom Green, his his you

17:43

know big, you

17:45

know, big screen debut,

17:48

and um, I think at one point he like

17:50

jerks off a horse. That's the

17:52

part that I remember. An elephants, it's an

17:54

elephant. There's definitely a scene

17:56

where an elephant ejaculates all over

17:59

somebody. So many famous plays

18:01

his dad too in the movie. I

18:04

think very respectable.

18:07

I think it's ripped torn may I think

18:09

you're right? Yeah,

18:11

it is, absolutely Yeah, I think he

18:13

gets uh ejaculated upon by

18:16

an elephant. Uh.

18:18

Number eleven, quirky Romano, half

18:21

a star. Quirky Romano is like a dead zone

18:23

of comedy. Okay, did

18:25

not see that? I

18:27

got good taste. Do you see the dead zone? Yeah,

18:30

sure that. I enjoyed that. Christopher

18:33

Walking, I don't understand the reference. What does he mean the dead

18:35

zone of comedy? Oh?

18:37

He says like a dead zone of comedy.

18:40

Not okay, my

18:42

my, my dad, my bad. I

18:45

would take issue with the with the other

18:47

interpret these number

18:49

twelve is the two thousand Charlie's Angels

18:52

movie. I did see that. It

18:54

was certainly not good, but I

18:58

I would give it more than half a star. I'd give

19:00

it one and a half stars. It was it had

19:02

a couple of good parts. You

19:05

gotta think too, like a guy

19:07

like him, he's gotta it is a review

19:10

like every movie, right, you know. I

19:12

mean, I've always wondered how they pick

19:14

which one's you know, big reviewers like this go

19:16

after if they're just the big ten pole

19:18

movies. But like, he has to have seen a

19:20

lot of shitty broad comedies in his life. These

19:22

are maybe just the ones that caught him on a really grumpy

19:25

day, or he was just like enough of this, I

19:27

will die on this hill about good

19:30

luck, Chuck. Maybe. Number

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thirteen is Mannequin from nineteen eight seven.

19:35

Half a star, I

19:38

gotta say, Nolan, Mannequin is a is a pretty bad

19:40

movie. But it is one of those eighties movies

19:42

that has a little bit of a

19:44

soft spot in my heart just because I was a kid

19:46

when it came out. I'll give it a

19:48

nostalgia point. Mm

19:50

hmm. I'm sure you haven't seen I haven't seen

19:52

it. I haven't seen. Now we've talked about that was on my list

19:55

at one point, I believe on my whole list. Uh

19:58

it's isn't it get a little? Doesn't get little?

20:00

Uh? Little steamy?

20:03

So some steam mannequin steam

20:06

maybe Kim Control. It was.

20:08

It was not good, but like I said, costalgia

20:10

factors. In number fourteen,

20:13

Roger Ebert hated Exit to Eden, a

20:15

movie I did not see as well. But I think that was like

20:17

a Rosy o'donald S and m type

20:19

of jam. Well, I mean, she

20:22

definitely she's an undercover cop and

20:24

they have to go undercover into some kind

20:26

of kink club and

20:28

she ends up wearing a Dominatrix uniform.

20:31

Um, it just seemed, you know. I think

20:33

his point is like, you know, you're you're better than

20:36

this, Rosie, You're better than this. He calls

20:38

it a misguided film that

20:40

they get all the stuff wrong, to all

20:42

the kink stuff. I bet they get totally wrong. Probably,

20:46

yeah, probably, so play

20:48

it for dumb laughs. Yeah.

20:51

Somebody pointed out to me a movie called you ever heard of a

20:53

movie called Mr? Baseball Chuck with Tom

20:55

Selleck. Sure, he

20:58

like doesn't he go to like Japan to play baseball,

21:01

and apparently it just really doesn't hold up the state.

21:03

He's very like ragging on Asian

21:05

people for being short and just really obvious broad

21:08

stereotypes kind of someone brought. Yeah,

21:11

I haven't seen that movie. In fact,

21:13

I don't even know if I saw it back then. But if it's from

21:16

that time period and about Tom Sellett going

21:18

to Japan, I'm sure there are plenty of racist

21:20

jokes. You know,

21:23

yep, number fifteen

21:26

ols hocus Pocus.

21:31

People love focus Pocus. He gave it

21:33

one star. Yeah,

21:36

he got that one wrong. It's not a movie I love because

21:38

it's not my demo, but I certainly recognize

21:41

it as a as a beloved, pretty good movie, right,

21:44

Yeah, they do. Like I mean, I

21:46

think you could probably classify it as cult.

21:49

He's probably kind of shifting

21:51

on it for what people would call camp, and

21:53

you can only really identify something as camp

21:56

when time has passed a little bit. Maybe

21:58

he saw it was just like this is just bad and dumb,

22:01

and then people over time we're like, no, it's super

22:03

campy and and and goofy and fun

22:06

and uh. They do midnight screenings

22:08

of it around Halloween, like at the Plaza here in

22:10

Atlanta like, it's very very popular.

22:13

Yeah, I agree Number sixteen.

22:15

I have been on record as not having seen this, and

22:17

people think that's weird. But I did

22:19

not see Tommy Boy. Uh.

22:22

And I've heard a lot of people say they really loved

22:24

that movie. It's real dumb,

22:27

but I love it. It's perfect.

22:29

It's that perfect pairing of Farley and Uh

22:32

and Spade. You know, they tried to

22:34

recreate it like a couple more times, like with Black

22:36

Sheep and maybe one other, but Tommy

22:38

Tommy Boy was the o g Uh.

22:41

It's it's good goofy goofy

22:43

comedy. All right. The village

22:46

is what you referenced earlier, Aaron Mankey's favorite

22:48

film. Uh. And Ebert

22:50

has this to say to the movie he gave one

22:52

star to. Eventually this, eventually

22:54

the secret of those etcetera

22:57

is revealed. It's a crumby secret, about

23:00

one step up the letter of narrative

23:02

originality from it was all a dream.

23:05

Uh. And then he says, this is pretty funny. When they discover

23:07

the secret. He says, we want to rewind the film

23:10

so we don't know the secret anymore. And then we want to

23:12

keep rewinding and rewinding until we're back at the beginning

23:14

and can get up from our seats and walk backward out of the

23:17

theater and go down the up escalator

23:19

and watch the money spring from the cash register

23:21

into our pockets. Just

23:25

saving. That's good writing. That is

23:27

good criticism right there. I love it. He's

23:29

such a dick a r

23:33

I p. Yeah, no, for

23:35

sure, sorry, not to align the

23:37

dead or anything. You should

23:40

see the guy Roger

23:42

Eber documentary is very good. Actually it's

23:45

very heartwarning you had said

23:47

that, and yeah, no, he's he

23:49

is obviously he is the critic probably

23:52

you know, there's obviously more influential critics

23:54

like Pauling Kale and stuff, and like, you know, more

23:56

academic critics, but he's the one the mainstream

23:59

film criticism. And that's you got

24:01

to give him props for that. And still stuck to his

24:03

guns and you know wrote, well,

24:05

he's a good writer, you know, for sure, I

24:08

believe it. The Love

24:10

Guru was number eighteen. I did not see

24:12

that. I think that was the Mike Myers thing, right,

24:15

Oh yeah, you know, making

24:18

fun of basically making fun of Hinduism

24:21

and implying that like all you know,

24:23

Hindu uh gurus

24:25

or in some way like horn dogs that are

24:27

just trying to like get into women's pants. Very

24:31

problematic, Um, just

24:33

not funny either, So you

24:35

know, problematic

24:38

is okay if it's actually funny. Yeah, zero

24:40

stars, one star, he says, I

24:43

meant from you for me.

24:45

I didn't see it, but I didn't need to see it. I get

24:47

it. I don't. I'm fine Number

24:51

Internet from She's

24:53

out of Control. I remember

24:56

that movie, if I'm not mistaken, that was from

24:58

the Monkeys, Mickey Dolan's I think

25:00

that was his daughter in the lead role in

25:03

her only big film.

25:06

He says, She's out of Control is simultaneously

25:08

so bizarre and so ban now that it's

25:11

the first, the first movie fabricated

25:13

entirely from sitcom cliches and plastic

25:16

lifestyles without reference to

25:18

any known plane of reality.

25:22

Wow, Tony

25:24

Danza. And then then then the

25:26

woman the the the ingenue is

25:29

Mickey Dolan's daughter. Yeah, I

25:31

think Tony Danza plays her dad, and he's got

25:33

like this wild child daughter is what I remember. This is

25:35

my graduating year from high school.

25:37

And even then I didn't go see

25:39

that movie. What

25:42

what's the name of this called She's out of Control? I justn'

25:44

oh yeah, okay. So I was looking this up and actually

25:46

actually came upon a German poster and

25:49

I know a little German um and

25:52

I love this. It's called in Germany Honda

25:54

vech fon mina tokta,

25:57

which means hand

26:00

ringing from my daughter

26:02

or something like that, but mina talkta

26:04

means daughter. Yeah,

26:07

I don't know what Honda vague means. I

26:09

gotta I gotta know. We can move on, but I'll

26:12

update. I'll update number

26:14

twenty. Summer School, you

26:17

know what? Summer School was kind of one of the great

26:19

eighties movies. Again, not great filmmaking,

26:22

but a pretty beloved eighties

26:24

film. Do you have my

26:27

daughter's? Hands off my daughter?

26:30

That's great as opposed

26:32

to She's out of control? Hands off my dog?

26:34

I'm Tony Danza. Is

26:37

he the mina talk top? Love

26:41

it? What's next? Great Clifford?

26:45

I think that was the movie about a big good

26:47

dog. No, Christford

26:49

is the one with with well Cliff there's Clifford

26:51

the big red Dog. But this is Clifford with

26:54

Martin short. Martin Martin

26:56

Short, he's he's an asshole,

26:58

little man child kid, and he's he's he's

27:00

not but he but he plays a little

27:03

kid and he wants to go to dinosaur

27:05

World and he has this little

27:07

dinosaur toy named Stephen, and

27:09

he's just an asshole. He's just a spoil, a little

27:12

brat kid. And then there's a

27:14

heartwarming moment where he and Charles Groden

27:16

finally see eye to eye. Uh,

27:19

after much you know, consternation.

27:21

I totally remember this. Yeah,

27:24

yeah, yeah, yeah, it's pretty funny. It's

27:26

got a it's got a ten percent on Rotten

27:28

Tomatoes. Mm hmm, yeah

27:31

that says it all. I like

27:33

Martin Short a lot though. Martin Short is Yeah,

27:36

he can do no wrong to me. He's just he's adorable,

27:39

he's great. Well, I mean I loved him on Saturday

27:41

Night Live. And then, uh,

27:43

the eighties movie Inner Space is one of

27:45

my favorite eighties movies. I love that movie,

27:47

A good one. Here's your potion as podcast

27:50

as podcast people, How how does

27:52

he not have a movie review podcast?

27:54

As Jiminy Glick? We needn't make that

27:56

happen, Glick.

28:00

Yeah, I remember, all right,

28:02

fair enough, Chuck, you just thanks for shutting

28:04

down my dream.

28:07

Uh number twenty two and NOL is just now occurring

28:10

to me that this is there's no way we're gonna get two episodes

28:12

in. So if you agree to this, why

28:14

don't we just go ahead and make this the only episode we record

28:16

this week and make it a little larger, and

28:19

then you know, we'll just get back in here next week.

28:21

That sound good. You're not into the you're not into the retroactive

28:24

two parter. We do that ship all the time.

28:27

Yeah, we'll go along and then decide after

28:29

the fact we're gonna make it a two parter and then do a

28:31

little punching or like, oops, ran

28:33

a little long. Here's where we're gonna break it for the

28:35

second. Never mind, we don't have to do that. The crushers

28:38

deserve better. They too, deserve

28:40

better. Uh, let me see North

28:43

from I remember

28:45

that movie. That was the Rob Reiner movie,

28:47

and I never saw it was supposed to be very bad.

28:49

Though. You gotta read this, that chuck,

28:52

you gotta read this, read it, you read

28:54

it, all right. I hated

28:56

this movie. Hated hated, hated,

28:58

hated, Hey did this movie?

29:01

Hated it? Hated every simpering,

29:04

stupid, vacant, audience

29:06

insulting moment of it, Hated

29:08

the sensibility that thought anyone

29:10

would like it hated the implied insult

29:13

to the audience by its belief

29:15

that anyone would be entertained by it. Man,

29:20

you see what I'm getting that though about maybe he's having a

29:22

bad day occasionally and he's

29:24

just sick of watching movies. Maybe,

29:27

you know, Yeah, there's no way this could

29:29

have deserved that level of ire. Happens.

29:33

I'm gonna I'm gonna read

29:35

this article. There's a link in this that says

29:38

Alan Zwiebel wrote this film and he

29:40

got a chance to confront Ebert about the review

29:42

in a bathroom. And it links

29:45

to a New Yorker article called Roger

29:47

and Me about this encounter.

29:49

And I cannot wait to read this after

29:51

we record. That's gonna be great. Yep.

29:54

I got it cute up as well. Number

29:57

twenty three nos a movie called Two Cigarettes,

29:59

another movie that I did not see. I

30:02

liked it um and a lot of people like

30:04

it. It's sort of lived on as a cult classic. It's

30:06

about a bunch of folks get

30:08

you know, at a part a New Year's Eve party.

30:11

I'm about like kind of rejuvenation, like you know,

30:13

like like starting a new well, let's get real funked

30:16

up in the meantime, and they're looking for Elvis Costello.

30:18

Elvis Costello, it plays himself in the movie,

30:21

and he's like sort of this mythical figure

30:23

they're searching for. I quite enjoyed it, and

30:25

I know a lot of people that really like it.

30:28

Twenty four is Death to Smoci. That was

30:31

the Robin Williams thing that was supposed to be very

30:33

bad. M he

30:35

gets it right here. It's unpleasant.

30:38

It's it's a very unpleasant movie to

30:40

watch, is it? Mm

30:43

hmm. None of the characters are likable.

30:47

I'm gonna go to bed for this next one a little bit. Number

30:50

twenty five is the movie I have seen called Saving

30:52

Silverman. He said it's so

30:54

bad in so many different ways that perhaps you should see

30:56

it as an example of the lowest slopes

30:59

of the Bell shape curve. Uh.

31:02

You know what, Sarah, Silverman is not a great movie.

31:05

It is not some classic comedy. But

31:08

I got enough laughs out of Steve's

31:11

on and Jack Black and

31:13

Amanda Pete that I sort

31:17

of liked it. You know, I'll go ahead and to say

31:19

it, I sort of liked Saving Silverman. And

31:22

isn't there a thing where they're searching for Neil Diamond.

31:24

Doesn't Neil Diamond like a mythical unicorn

31:26

creature in this movie and the way that Elvis Costello

31:29

was and two cigarettes. Well, they're in

31:31

a Neil Diamond cover band, tribute

31:33

band, and they eventually

31:36

meet Neil Diamond. There are are all three Neil

31:38

Diamond in the tribute band and they eventually meet

31:40

him. And it's silly and it's dumbest

31:43

shit, but it's you know, Steve's On

31:45

and Jack Black like I'll take it any

31:47

day, totally

31:51

so good. He plays such a good dumb shit

31:54

one of the best. Alright,

31:56

twenty old the jazz singer from with

31:59

Neil Diamon and a movie I did not see,

32:03

not to be confused with the jazz singer like

32:05

the black Face movie from the thirties, right,

32:09

anything is it? No? I think it is a remake. I

32:11

think it's a It wasn't was an updating.

32:13

If I'm not mistaken. Why

32:15

would anyone even do that? That movie is so

32:18

problematic. Well, he didn't black

32:21

face in the new one. I know,

32:22

I know, I know. Uh,

32:25

interesting, No, he just he accuses him

32:27

of being narcissistic and um,

32:30

not a great actor. And then the whole thing was like

32:32

a sort of an ego project, you

32:34

know, uh, vanity project

32:36

of the word I was looking for. I haven't seen it. I'm intrigued

32:39

though, I like Neil Diamond. I'm

32:42

trying to see if this was an update. I mean,

32:44

I would assume so since it was yeah,

32:48

a nineteen five. Oh there has been several.

32:51

There was a seven film,

32:53

uh, a nineteen fifty two film, a

32:55

nineteen fifty nine television film, and

32:57

then the nineteen eight film. So sort of like Stars

33:00

Born. I think Star was born. I was thinking the same thing.

33:04

Number twenty seven is a movie that we have reviewed

33:07

on this very I'm not reviewed, but one

33:09

of our guests picked on the show A spenture a Pet

33:11

Detective NOL the movie that is very

33:14

silly, but it is a classic. It's

33:16

great. I

33:18

can get me to say anything negative about as venture

33:20

a Pet Detective. It

33:23

wasn't for that movie. No one would use talk

33:25

out of their asses, you know, and

33:27

where would we be mm hmm stopper,

33:31

my mom will shoot, never saw it. That's

33:34

Sylvester Stallone and uh, what's

33:36

her name from The Golden Girls? Uh

33:39

stell Getty, stell Getty. Yeah,

33:41

so that's Stallone. Is like a hardened New York cop

33:44

and his mom is a nice, little sweet

33:46

grandma and they go on, she

33:49

will she eventually you know, has to you

33:52

know, bring it, and uh yeah, she gets involved

33:54

in some sort of crime syndicate

33:56

plot. And uh I saw that movie in

33:58

the theaters. I remember zero of out the actual plot

34:00

other than what I just described. I'm sure

34:03

that's it. Twenty nine All

34:05

the Dukes of Hazard with Johnny Knoxville

34:07

and uh uh Stiffler,

34:10

Right, wouldn't he the other guy Stiffler?

34:13

Yeah? Yeah, he was in it. And wasn't who

34:16

else was that at? Like, wasn't it? Wasn't it

34:19

who played the Daisy Duke?

34:21

Was it Jessica Simpson? I want to say it

34:23

was justice. You're totally right.

34:25

I remember I actually did see that movie

34:28

because as a dumb,

34:30

young ten year old and growing

34:33

up in suburban Atlanta,

34:35

The Dukes of Hazzard was kind of a great TV show

34:37

for us. But um, the

34:40

the remake or whatever, the movie version was not

34:42

good, and neither was the TV show, if

34:47

I'm being honest with myself. Yeah, yeah, no, I

34:49

mean it's the TV show, is

34:51

you know? I mean, this is a movie that's driven purely by

34:53

nostalgia. You know, it's not like

34:56

there's some redeeming artistic value

34:58

in the Dukes of Hazzard televisi and series. You

35:00

know. Yeah, I will

35:02

say though that uh Willie Nelson

35:05

as uh whatever,

35:07

who was the grandpa's name? Oh, uncle Jesse.

35:10

That's that was pretty inspired

35:12

casting. And

35:15

this was no Uncle

35:18

Jesse. Well, John

35:20

Stamos's character in Full House was named Uncle Jesse.

35:22

I thought some people referred to John Stamos

35:24

as Uncle Jesse, so I guess just they

35:26

don't even remember his real name. That's

35:28

funny when it was directed

35:31

by one of the Broken Leisure guys, Jay uh

35:34

Shandrekasar? Did I pronounce it right?

35:37

You probably got close, Sandracasar?

35:43

Is that right? Yeah, I'm gonna I'm

35:45

not gonna try to best you on it, Shan

35:48

dress Sakar, Okay, that's what now? No,

35:50

now you're now, now you're you're you're going backwards

35:52

now, Jack, I'm taking number

35:57

thirty is the d's

36:00

of the movie, I think. Yeah, I definitely

36:02

saw this one. Uh that was

36:04

the Matthew Broderick when I think and was not very

36:06

good. Yeah, I remember

36:08

more about the soundtrack that I I do about the movie. It had

36:10

that puff Daddy uh featuring

36:13

Jimmy Page where it was like

36:15

Kashmir, but it was puff Daddy

36:17

going come with me. I'm gonna take you

36:19

with me. Film My five, Phil

36:21

McCall lend me your ears did

36:24

to do do but they did it on SNL

36:26

and like Jimmy Page looked like he had to look on

36:28

his face like I'm collecting a check.

36:30

I don't give a funk about any of

36:32

this. That's bad. That

36:35

is so bad. Uh, winding

36:38

down here number thirty one the bucket list. I

36:40

believe I mentioned this on the

36:42

show before. That movie was actually

36:44

written by a fellow p A

36:46

I worked with in l A, Justin zach Um. And

36:49

it was one of those deals where every p A is

36:51

always like, yeah, man, I'm gonna be director.

36:54

I got a music video I'm doing soon, or yeah,

36:56

I'm gonna write this movie. I got like Rob Reyner

36:58

talking to me. He said that, and he

37:01

did. He wrote a movie that Rob Ryner directed,

37:04

and I was like, oh, well, son of a bit. Justin zach

37:06

I'm actually uh actually

37:08

wrote a movie that got released in banned

37:14

m I can't believe. I'm sorry. I'm

37:16

sorry, I'm looking down on the No, I did not see it. I'm

37:18

just looking down the list and seeing a couple of ones

37:20

that are that are very vexing to me. Uh,

37:23

alright, well, now let's

37:26

keep going. And then Dirty Love. I

37:28

don't know that one at all. Moving on thirty

37:31

three Battlefield Earth. Did not see it, but

37:33

some call it a cult classic. Now, hey,

37:36

I watched the first like thirty minutes. It is incomprehensibly

37:39

bad. Just the writing and like there's all these

37:41

terms, you know, because it's obviously folks

37:44

probably mainly no, this is l Ron

37:46

Hubbard's big epic work of science

37:48

fiction. Um, and it

37:50

was it was John Travolta's like passion project

37:53

to bring this to the big screen. John travol To being

37:55

a infamous

37:57

I guess scientology apology,

38:00

even though we are pretty sure that they

38:02

targeted him and were uh,

38:04

you know, basically bribing him, blackmailing

38:07

him because they had dirt on him that he

38:09

was gay. Um. That's been

38:11

the rumor for many years, and it really holds true,

38:14

being that his career has kind of torpedoed.

38:16

Um. But it's

38:18

got all these like weird l Ron

38:21

Hubbard is ums and like you know things

38:23

that like who is this movie for? Like

38:25

it it's not good sci fi. I

38:27

don't know what it is, you know, it's that's the

38:29

problem. And it's because it's for scientology

38:32

people. You know, his wife,

38:34

Kelly Preston just passed away after

38:37

a sort of very secret battle

38:39

with breast cancer. And uh,

38:41

you know, regardless of how you built about feel about

38:44

scientology, she uh

38:46

was a mother of children and lost to cancer

38:48

battle. So that was that was sad to see. That

38:51

is number thirty

38:53

four old the flint Stones in Viva

38:56

Rock Vegas. Didn't see

38:58

it now, I

39:00

remember the first flint Stones movie, um

39:03

with I think this didn't even have the same people

39:05

because the first one had John Goodman as

39:07

Fred and uh

39:09

the Rick moranis as Barney,

39:11

and then it had um it had what's

39:13

her name? Who we were talking about

39:16

in exit to Eating with the s and m gear

39:18

Roz was was she

39:21

was? Uh Barney's

39:23

wife? Who was? Yeah?

39:26

She was betting? Was

39:28

Wilma was was Wilma right?

39:31

And and and uh Rob Low played

39:33

the bad guy No, not Rob Low,

39:35

sorry, another sexy dude. Um

39:37

uh the guy from Dune and uh

39:40

twin Peaks, what's his name, Karl

39:43

McLaughlin plays the bad guy. And then um, Holly

39:45

Berry is like a sultry uh

39:47

femme fatale h. The first one is a lot

39:49

of fun, a lot of fun. Did

39:51

not see the second one, but I know they didn't get

39:53

the same cast back, so that probably did not bode well.

39:56

I didn't see either one of them nor and

39:59

then finally, uh, number thirty

40:01

five, Pink Flamingos, the John Waters

40:03

film. You know, Pink Flamingos

40:06

is what it is, like, Yeah,

40:09

you're gonna pay that movie because it's not some great film.

40:11

Are you gonna accept it as what it is, which

40:14

is a trashy John Waters cult classic.

40:18

Yeah? But he he even gives this little aside

40:20

here, which I think is interesting.

40:23

Um, it almost says what you just said, Chuck,

40:26

and it doesn't even sound like an insult. He says. Note,

40:28

I am not giving a star rating to Pink Flamingos

40:30

because stars simply seem not to apply.

40:33

It should be considered not as a film, but as a

40:35

fact, or perhaps as an object.

40:38

That's kind of cool, that's kind

40:40

of high minded, uh,

40:43

you know, way to think about them. I don't know, it sounds

40:45

to me like he kind of liked it. Yeah,

40:48

I kind of agree with you there, nol. Alright,

40:56

So we're gonna wrap up with another post that I

40:59

put today, and this was

41:03

name a movie that almost had it all but

41:05

had one element that ruined it, whether

41:08

it's a bad casting of an actor,

41:10

or a plot point or kind

41:12

of anything that was like, man, if this

41:14

movie had just changed one thing. And by the way,

41:16

everybody, this is uh, there're gonna

41:18

be a lot of spoilers in these, So

41:20

if you hear me mentioned a movie that you

41:22

don't want spoiled, then just skip ahead on

41:24

that part because a lot of these have spoilers.

41:27

Um. And

41:29

I think the movie I'm gonna pick was it

41:32

wasn't so much one element, but the

41:35

entire third act of that science fiction movie

41:37

Sunshine. Do you remember that movie?

41:41

Yeah, we talked about this. It sort of turns almost into

41:43

like a weird slasher movie. Had

41:45

another kind of is isn't that sort of the deal?

41:47

There's like a chase and the bad

41:49

guys coming after everybody. Um,

41:52

but that's not what it really was. Up

41:54

to that point. It felt like a weird jack knife

41:57

kind of left turn. Yeah. I

41:59

just I think it was so

42:01

good through two acts. And it's a Danny Boyle

42:03

film written by Alex Garland,

42:06

so all the pieces are sort of there because

42:08

you know Alex. Yeah,

42:10

he wrote it when I guess

42:13

he wasn't that young, but wrote

42:15

it in his thirties. I think it's kind of one of the first things

42:17

he did. Actually

42:19

he wrote twenty days Later and

42:22

The Beach. I did not know that. I

42:24

did not know either of those. He just came out

42:26

of left field with X mocking as far

42:28

as I was concerned, which I fucking adore. Yeah,

42:31

and he also wrote a movie called Never Let

42:33

Me Go, which I haven't seen. That Emily said was pretty good.

42:37

But yeah, Sunshine is gonna be mine. You can

42:39

think on yours unless you know one now by

42:42

any of a minute. But we'll

42:44

go with this. Amanda Style said, Signs thought

42:47

most of the movie they never really showed the aliens, which made

42:49

it really tense, and then you see one walking

42:51

through the living room in broad daylight at the end ruined.

42:54

Yeah, I didn't like Signs. Uh,

42:59

did you get it's

43:01

the only way They're like allergic to water or

43:04

something, and it's just it's Yeah,

43:06

it was very contrived to think I

43:08

did not like it. I just I was. I

43:11

was. I even liked I remember, you know, the

43:13

the era of m Night coming out with a new

43:15

movie every year and him being the twist master.

43:18

And I really liked Unbreakable. I really

43:20

like the Sixth Tents. When I was at age, Um,

43:23

I really liked that was it? Those are?

43:25

Those are the two? And then I kind of lost interests.

43:28

I might have just gotten old enough to realize he was

43:30

a one trick pony and kind of moved on,

43:32

you know what I mean. Yeah,

43:35

Ryan Lisa's Phantom Thread masterfully

43:37

performed, beautifully shot and scored, But the

43:40

idea that he willingly poisoned himself to

43:42

maintain a closeness to a woman

43:44

he seems to be utterly bored with is

43:46

insane to me. Love the

43:49

movie, hated the ending, hated I

43:51

completely. I couldn't disagree with this more.

43:54

Um. I think that's the whole point of the movie

43:56

is that he needed to be submissive.

43:59

It's about to power dynamic. He was bored

44:01

with everybody, and it was the fact that she did

44:04

that to him, and that he allowed her to do that to him, that

44:06

made him respect her, and that made him

44:08

crave that because he needed someone

44:10

to take a firm hand with him, because he was such

44:12

a mama's boy but also such a control

44:15

freak and he needed to be able to let go and

44:17

and and lose control. So uh,

44:20

that's I couldn't agree with disagree with

44:22

that more. I thought the ending was what made the movie

44:24

for me. That was like the Shimalan twist

44:26

that I was not expecting, and I thought it was brilliant.

44:29

That's just yeah, I totally, I totally agree.

44:32

Yeah, I loved it and no fantom thread

44:34

great like the end. Uh.

44:37

Jim Crawford says, this the

44:39

Brian Wilson movie Love and Mercy, a movie

44:42

I wo'd be very much liked. This is me talking, but

44:44

he said Paul Dana was so good and the role as a younger

44:46

Brian John Cusack

44:48

is the older Brian Wilson now no good.

44:51

Uh, he said, I'm sure with some aging makeup

44:53

we could have had Paul Dano in both

44:56

roles. And I'll tell you what, man,

44:58

I like, I really liked that movie,

45:01

but I did not by

45:03

John Cusack as older Brian Wilson either.

45:07

I'm with you there, Jim Crawford, it

45:09

didn't really register for me as positive

45:11

or negative. I like, I liked the movie a lot,

45:13

but I don't remember feeling like any kind

45:15

of way about John Cusack. But

45:18

I did feel like Paul Dana was amazing.

45:21

But I didn't feel the same way about Cusack. But

45:23

I didn't like hate him or anything. But I think that's that's

45:25

totally valid. Yeah,

45:28

let me see here. Uh

45:32

Luke Connolly says this and all slightly hot.

45:34

Take Lynn Manuel Miranda in

45:36

the Hammel film. He's creative

45:39

genius. Have a lot of respect for him, but if he hadn't

45:41

written the show, he wouldn't be playing Alexander.

45:43

He's outclassed by everyone else on that stage.

45:47

His acting took me out of some of the more weighty scenes.

45:49

I haven't so I haven't seen that yet. It's

45:52

good. Yeah, I can't

45:54

wait the hype that the hype is produced. I'm

45:56

actually I've got a date, uh

45:58

an in person date that Actually I met somebody

46:01

on the internet. Um crazy

46:04

thing. Her name is Noel. Oh

46:07

geez, how weird? How weird would that

46:09

beat shock? If I ended up with somebody named

46:11

Noel? How we would it be if

46:14

she was secretly

46:17

a fan in in trying to kill you and take

46:19

your life. Yeah,

46:22

you know that's always a possibility, I suppose,

46:25

but hey, if the sex is good, welling

46:28

to roll the dice there, chuck a

46:34

little fanom thread thing going, I got you. Oh,

46:37

let me see. Let's go with Vicky Strickland.

46:40

I absolutely love Knives Out. The first time watching it though,

46:42

Daniel Craig's accent was distracting,

46:44

just too much for me. But

46:47

the second time that Vicky watched it was

46:49

not nearly as distracted. Well, Vicky, I

46:51

think that was one of the great funny

46:53

bad accents ever in movies. Yes,

46:56

he's like wonderful horn Leghorn. Yeah,

46:59

it's great. Inspector Clouseau

47:01

or I loved it. I love that movie, so I want to

47:03

see it again. Jimmy

47:06

Caykendall, one of our oldest friends, says,

47:08

I know enough has been said about

47:10

this film, but for me, the Last Jedi

47:12

was almost perfect, with the exception of the Casino

47:14

Planet totally all

47:20

yeah, real weird, like

47:22

like I felt like a Disney ride, you

47:24

know, like like it was it was meaningless, It accomplished

47:27

nothing. Those rat things were

47:29

dumb looking. Yeah, they

47:32

missed their mark on that one. Uh.

47:34

Let me. See here, here's an otherland for Last

47:37

Jedi. Might as well stay on that from Brian Thomas, one

47:39

of the top fans. I love Last Jedi

47:41

except one thing, and it's this quote,

47:44

I wish I could put my fist through this whole lousy

47:46

beautiful town. I

47:49

don't remember that line. What

47:53

from from from Last Jedi? I

47:56

don't remember that line put

47:59

my fist through this lousy beautiful

48:01

town. Remember,

48:04

it's only something. No, it sounds like something you'd

48:07

you'd hear in, like Chinatown or like some kind

48:09

of hard boiled detective movie.

48:11

You know, that seems very beautiful

48:13

town. I don't know what

48:15

that is. Maybe I

48:18

don't know. Uh, Christopher

48:20

Renny, one of our old friends, has Lincoln. There's

48:23

a perfect shot of him leaving to go to the Ford's

48:25

Theater, and that's where the movie should have ended,

48:28

but it still goes on for ten minutes too long.

48:31

Yeah, I'll tell you what, Christopher.

48:33

There's nothing that bugs me more

48:35

than, uh, false endings

48:38

in a movie and dragging that ship out. Stop

48:40

it, stop it. And

48:43

I'm looking at you Tarantino, especially

48:45

with Django Man. Django had

48:47

four endings totally.

48:51

Yeah, I mean they needed that big revenge

48:54

slaughter, you know, with all the blood

48:56

squibs. I mean they had all those blood squibs

48:58

they bought, you know, in bulk. They had him for

49:00

something. I didn't want to lose those.

49:03

I didn't see Lincoln chuck um doesn't

49:05

It doesn't show him getting shot and like falling.

49:08

They at least leave something to the imagination there, right,

49:10

because that would be egregious if they went all

49:12

in and showed the whole fucking thing. I

49:14

honestly, no, don't remember, because that movie bored

49:17

me to tears. Okay, fair enough.

49:19

I didn't like Lincoln. I'm on record as saying

49:21

that it was. It

49:24

fooled me because I thought it was going to be a movie about

49:26

Abraham Lincoln's life, and what it was was a

49:28

movie about governmental policy. Uh

49:32

it was. It poured the ship out of me. Didn't

49:34

like it. But Daniel dy Lewis is great. You get a hand

49:36

it to him. But and it looked great and all that stuff.

49:38

But yeah, just boring. And

49:41

I know a lot of people disagree with me, so whatever,

49:44

that's fine. I can take it. All

49:47

right, Let's do a couple of more Nolan, then get out of here.

49:50

Uh, Tim Langan says, I thought The Joker was perfect

49:52

except for the flashbacks that revealed spoiler

49:55

again, he was hallucinating about his girlfriend.

49:58

Should have trusted the audience to figure that out.

50:02

I don't disagree with that at all. I think

50:04

that's true. I think they

50:07

need I don't think they needed to be a big aha, twisty

50:09

moment because that, you know, that

50:11

didn't really happened anywhere else, and it just felt

50:13

a little out of character. Um.

50:17

I gotta say that. I was talking to some friends on

50:20

playing online video games the other day and I

50:22

was just saying, hot take you guys

50:24

were talking about King of Comedy. I was like, King of Comedy,

50:26

way better movie than The Joker, and

50:29

it's not funny, really out of context like

50:31

this, But they all got to laugh out of it because it's like they

50:34

borrow so much from King of Comedy but just tries

50:36

to make it like a darker, more dystopian

50:38

version that it's it's it's I could

50:41

Joker didn't do anything for me outside of

50:44

of his performance, you know the

50:46

first time. But yeah, I mean I

50:48

think we even mini crushed that. I liked

50:50

it, but it didn't resonate

50:52

with me. I wasn't. It's not a movie I've ever wanted

50:54

to see again, even though I thought it was good.

50:57

Mm hmm, it's definitely.

51:00

It was definitely competently made, but it was just

51:02

so much borrowed from King

51:04

of Comedy, which was just a more clever, nuanced

51:07

movie, whereas this one seemed to kind of bludge

51:09

in you over the head with it a little bit. And it was also

51:12

much so borrowed that it was like, what

51:14

what what are you doing? What's where's the original thought here?

51:16

You know, I appreciate what they did with a big

51:18

property and taking that risk and doing

51:20

something weird with it. That was cool, but totally

51:23

yeah, alright, we're gonna finish

51:25

with this. There's a lot of good stuff on here though. Everyone. You should

51:28

check out this thread. It's a lot of fun. Uh,

51:30

And maybe we'll pick it up again later. But uh.

51:32

Noah Hubbard says this, and I have to defend it

51:34

because it's Jaws, which is my favorite

51:36

movie. Noah says this. For me, it's Jaws

51:39

for absolutely no reason that I know of.

51:42

I cannot stand watching Richard Dreyfuss.

51:44

I can't put my finger on it, but he creeps me. Out.

51:47

Um, I'm sorry,

51:49

Noah, you're wrong. Richard

51:51

Dreyfus is great in that movie and

51:54

beloved and wonderful. So

51:57

I know everyone has their own opinion, but yours is

51:59

uh uh not correct. What are some

52:01

other big, good, juicy, dry

52:04

fast roles like I I like Mr.

52:06

Holland's Opus when I was a kid. It was a very it's

52:08

very like saccharin. But it's a pretty

52:10

pretty great movie, if memory

52:12

serves. But what are some other big dry

52:14

fast vehicles? Well, I

52:16

mean, early on, you've got

52:18

the Goodbye Girl, American Graffiti, Close

52:21

Encounters. What about Bob

52:23

that's right, of course? Uh steak

52:26

out, always down

52:28

and out in Beverly Hills, Let it Ride man

52:30

he And it's funny because Richard Dreyfuss

52:33

is not a leading man type, yet he

52:35

managed It was a time in

52:37

movie making. The competition

52:39

from that was so good. It's a time

52:42

where Richard Dreyfuss could be a leading man

52:44

and he didn't have to look like Brad Pitt,

52:46

you know, right, in

52:48

order to do that. So I missed those days

52:51

when you didn't have to have the best looking person

52:53

in the world as your lead character. I

52:55

should have coming back around that in a little bit. In

52:57

a few ways, I got your Zach Galifan Nakas and

53:00

Jack black Ass and you know, mainly

53:03

comedy types or who's

53:05

another good example of that, like, well, Philip

53:07

Semore Hoffman, you know, I mean he was epic,

53:12

but he never played like romantic leads much.

53:15

That's true. That's true. That's

53:18

a good point. Alright everyone,

53:21

Well, U we'll

53:23

just let this on Peter out, how about it? Maybe we should

53:25

just not even speak for the rest of the episode. What

53:29

it's perfect, My

53:31

phone's about to die. We've made it so

53:33

far. Shock, we've made it so far. Longest

53:36

movie. Well, this is our longest many crush

53:38

ever. Maybe, yeah, I think so. Well that's

53:40

what you do when you don't split him in half. So you

53:42

and I will get in here next week to cover the next couple

53:44

of weeks. And uh, total anks for your flexibility,

53:47

my friend, you got it rather always a

53:49

pleasure, and hang in there, and good luck

53:51

on that date. And uh, it's been nice knowing

53:53

you. Sorry, you're gonna get stabbed in your sleep,

53:56

No, dude, it'll be the big reveal at the end where

53:59

it turns out that I had phone books stuffed into

54:01

my shirt right and everyone

54:03

and listening will find out because next week I'll say

54:05

welcome to Movie Crush with me and noel Ah

54:10

and she'll be wearing my face. Oh

54:13

what a great way to end. Thanks Buddy, and thanks

54:15

you guys for listening. See

54:17

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