Full Transcript for Triple Feature: Matchbox - The Movie/Animals/Sacrifice

00:04:57.259 --> 00:04:59.439 in the year when we did the Wrecking Crew, the Rip, 73 00:04:59.819 --> 00:05:08.629 and the Roof Man. Aroo! I have a dog now. Roof. 74 00:05:10.410 --> 00:05:14.170 Okay. I connect. That's where we are tonight. Got it. Yes. 75 00:05:15.509 --> 00:05:17.779 It was because the Rip and Wrecking Crew came out 76 00:05:17.800 --> 00:05:19.519 around the same time when we did the Bluff. 77 00:05:20.110 --> 00:05:20.850 Yeah. 78 00:05:20.990 --> 00:05:27.250 Mike and Nick and Nick and Alice and the ballerina movie. Again, 79 00:05:27.620 --> 00:05:29.639 they were they'd all come out within like six weeks 80 00:05:29.680 --> 00:05:32.100 of each other. So that's kind of what happens is 81 00:05:32.139 --> 00:05:34.120 basically there's a break in the schedule where there isn't 82 00:05:34.180 --> 00:05:38.100 a meaningful major release. I think before I think before 83 00:05:38.240 --> 00:05:41.040 Triple Feature became a thing, we probably would have done Wildwood. 84 00:05:41.560 --> 00:05:43.500 tonight uh which i didn't see over the weekend i'll 85 00:05:43.519 --> 00:05:45.060 talk about it towards the end of the show. 86 00:05:45.279 --> 00:05:48.180 I assume it's great because i'm yeah i haven't seen 87 00:05:48.199 --> 00:05:50.620 it yet i'm seeing it tomorrow before we review it but. 88 00:05:51.699 --> 00:05:54.769 Yeah i i it's i you know me just because 89 00:05:54.850 --> 00:05:58.550 i have passive aggressive with alexis i don't put animated 90 00:05:58.589 --> 00:06:01.009 features on my bet on my top 10 i can't 91 00:06:01.069 --> 00:06:03.370 not put wildwood in the top 10 this year yeah 92 00:06:03.980 --> 00:06:06.959 it's that's excellent um but anyway yeah so back to 93 00:06:07.000 --> 00:06:13.170 these um So, yeah, Matchbox the movie, that's been on 94 00:06:13.189 --> 00:06:15.449 the calendar now for a while. And it was one 95 00:06:15.470 --> 00:06:17.810 where it was like John Cena. It was a big, 96 00:06:17.910 --> 00:06:19.930 you know, it was another toy that got made into 97 00:06:19.970 --> 00:06:23.889 a movie. And I figured, yeah, I think if streaming 98 00:06:23.930 --> 00:06:25.790 wasn't really a thing right now, that would have been 99 00:06:25.810 --> 00:06:29.990 in theaters. Yeah. 100 00:06:30.490 --> 00:06:32.709 See, in a sane world, this goes straight to DVD. 101 00:06:33.110 --> 00:06:35.569 Well, that's the thing. Like, I think if you were 102 00:06:35.620 --> 00:06:39.050 making Matchbox the movie, the way they did like He-Man 103 00:06:39.079 --> 00:06:41.769 and Barbie, this would have been an entirely different movie. 104 00:06:41.829 --> 00:06:46.189 But because they know it's going straight to streaming, what 105 00:06:46.209 --> 00:06:49.269 do we got here? The other two, this was a, 106 00:06:49.870 --> 00:06:52.730 it was a blind thing. It was like, I kind 107 00:06:52.769 --> 00:06:54.129 of saw what they were and were like, yeah, this 108 00:06:54.189 --> 00:06:54.990 is fine. This'll do. 109 00:06:55.649 --> 00:06:58.529 It was not fine for the record. The narrator voice 110 00:06:58.569 --> 00:07:01.379 chimes in. Okay. Which it occurs to me, I can't 111 00:07:01.399 --> 00:07:04.279 make those references because you've never seen the rest of development. So. 112 00:07:05.649 --> 00:07:08.449 Let's get into Matchbox. By the way, I do enjoy 113 00:07:08.490 --> 00:07:13.360 this comment here. Somebody, we had barely been on within seconds, 114 00:07:13.839 --> 00:07:18.519 and this ADHD-riddled fucking autistic goes, now I get why 115 00:07:18.579 --> 00:07:21.939 no one is watching. This is boring. This, parentheses, boring. 116 00:07:23.060 --> 00:07:26.319 Mistin is there. But, you know, Barani's here, and that's 117 00:07:26.339 --> 00:07:26.879 all that matters. 118 00:07:27.500 --> 00:07:30.189 Actual understanding of the English language and whatnot is not 119 00:07:30.230 --> 00:07:33.050 high on the list of the, on the priorities of. 120 00:07:33.050 --> 00:07:36.209 The brain-rotted... According to TikTok, we're in a literacy crisis. 121 00:07:37.889 --> 00:07:39.410 So everything's a crisis these days. 122 00:07:40.329 --> 00:07:44.189 That's a little, that's roughly akin to Budweiser coming out 123 00:07:44.230 --> 00:07:48.379 and telling everyone, you know, alcoholism's on the rise. Indeed. 124 00:07:49.379 --> 00:07:49.680 All right. 125 00:07:50.459 --> 00:07:53.839 So we'll do this. We'll do this damn you Hollywood style. 126 00:07:54.579 --> 00:07:57.240 Matchbox the movie is a 2026 American action comedy film 127 00:07:57.939 --> 00:08:00.459 directed by Sam Hargrave and written by Dave Kogschel based 128 00:08:00.480 --> 00:08:04.430 on the toy brand Matchbox by Mattel. It stars John Cena, 129 00:08:04.470 --> 00:08:07.250 Jessica Biel. I didn't realize Jessica Biel was still making movies. 130 00:08:07.910 --> 00:08:08.589 Sam Richardson. 131 00:08:08.610 --> 00:08:10.889 Yeah, occasionally. The low-budget stuff. 132 00:08:11.410 --> 00:08:15.060 Sam Richardson, who's in fucking everything now. Arturo Castro and 133 00:08:15.560 --> 00:08:21.519 Teyana Paris. In the film, CIA spy Sean Walker reunites 134 00:08:21.540 --> 00:08:23.620 with his childhood friends, only to be drugged and kidnapped 135 00:08:23.639 --> 00:08:26.000 by a group looking for a nuclear warhead like you do. 136 00:08:26.620 --> 00:08:28.550 I don't know about you, Robert, but I'm constantly misplacing 137 00:08:28.589 --> 00:08:29.490 my nuclear warheads. 138 00:08:30.009 --> 00:08:32.710 I know you keep asking, you keep texting me at 139 00:08:32.750 --> 00:08:34.870 random hours and I'm keep having to tell you, like, 140 00:08:34.909 --> 00:08:36.629 I don't live in your state. I can't help you. 141 00:08:38.169 --> 00:08:41.220 The CIA, the CIA believes Walker and his friends stole 142 00:08:41.240 --> 00:08:43.419 the nuclear weapon. So the group decides to re-steal the 143 00:08:43.440 -->

00:08:46.539 bomb and clear their names like you do. Uh, this 144 00:08:46.580 --> 00:08:48.740 came out on Apple TV on October and I went 145 00:08:48.779 --> 00:08:52.769 straight to Apple TV on October 9th. Um, yeah. And by, 146 00:08:53.110 --> 00:08:59.409 by Gaffrey, it received, uh, uh, negative reviews from critics though. 147 00:09:01.200 --> 00:09:02.720 I think there's room to talk about that, and we 148 00:09:02.740 --> 00:09:06.080 will shortly. The only other thing I'll say is it 149 00:09:06.120 --> 00:09:08.759 did have an in-theater release date, a limited one, October 150 00:09:09.019 --> 00:09:12.710 5th at AMC Lincoln Square, and I'm guessing because they're 151 00:09:12.779 --> 00:09:15.759 looking for nominations for best stunts. 152 00:09:16.370 --> 00:09:19.730 Now that stunts are going to be a category, yeah, maybe, 153 00:09:19.789 --> 00:09:21.870 but I can't imagine what. 154 00:09:22.409 --> 00:09:23.350 That's the only thing. 155 00:09:23.509 --> 00:09:24.730 That's the only thing. 156 00:09:24.789 --> 00:09:26.690 Stunts and editing would be the only thing. 157 00:09:27.090 --> 00:09:28.269 The editing's not good enough. 158 00:09:29.460 --> 00:09:31.659 Again, they can make the argument, but why don't you 159 00:09:31.700 --> 00:09:36.120 go ahead and try to cry, sob, question your life 160 00:09:36.159 --> 00:09:37.629 decisions through this plot synopsis. 161 00:09:37.649 --> 00:09:40.330 I mean, you kind of just did give the plot. 162 00:09:40.450 --> 00:09:42.549 There's nothing more to it than what you said. 163 00:09:43.049 --> 00:09:44.809 You can want it. I can jump into the movie 164 00:09:44.830 --> 00:09:45.429 if you want. 165 00:09:45.450 --> 00:09:51.009 Yeah, I can be quick. So back in the 90s, 166 00:09:51.049 --> 00:09:55.379 you know, it's the 90s because of the soundtrack. 80s, 90s. 167 00:09:55.379 --> 00:09:58.409 The kids, we have a bunch of kids, the misfits, 168 00:09:58.429 --> 00:10:01.019 the hang around a garage. There's the girl who's going 169 00:10:01.039 --> 00:10:03.220 to grow up to be Jessica Biel. There's the other kids. 170 00:10:03.320 --> 00:10:05.159 One of them likes to play with the heavy equipment 171 00:10:05.960 --> 00:10:09.820 cars who grows up to drive heavy equipment. One of 172 00:10:09.840 --> 00:10:11.779 them likes to play with the helicopter, grows up to 173 00:10:11.799 --> 00:10:15.120 be a news broadcaster who also flies helicopters. 174 00:10:15.240 --> 00:10:17.519 You know, I played with Transformers when I was a kid. 175 00:10:17.539 --> 00:10:19.000 I didn't grow up to be the head of a 176 00:10:19.019 --> 00:10:22.299 headmaster Transformer. I feel like I got gypped. 177 00:10:25.029 --> 00:10:27.490 Whoever wrote this was not writing your life, I suppose. 178 00:10:27.769 --> 00:10:28.870 I suppose. Go on. 179 00:10:30.669 --> 00:10:34.389 And again, there's the girl who's going to be Jessica Biel, 180 00:10:34.409 --> 00:10:36.980 who likes cars that

go fast. And there's John Cena, 181 00:10:37.000 --> 00:10:38.779 who has a crush on her. This is kind of 182 00:10:38.860 --> 00:10:41.919 the extent of it. Many years later, they're all grown up. 183 00:10:41.960 --> 00:10:45.200 John Cena is a spy. He steals a nuclear warhead. 184 00:10:45.220 --> 00:10:49.090 And he's then told, hey, go lay low for a bit. 185 00:10:49.309 --> 00:10:52.590 Take some time off. You just stole a nuke. And 186 00:10:52.769 --> 00:10:55.730 right about then, Jessica Biel's uncle died, and he was 187 00:10:55.769 --> 00:10:57.649 kind of a father figure to the whole group. So 188 00:10:57.690 --> 00:11:00.789 John Cena goes back for the funeral. The group reunites, 189 00:11:00.809 --> 00:11:03.090 they get drugged, they wake up in a plane, and 190 00:11:03.429 --> 00:11:06.769 there's Corey Stoll yelling angrily about how the nuclear warhead 191 00:11:06.809 --> 00:11:14.120 is now missing. And they, so John Cena, of course, 192 00:11:14.149 --> 00:11:18.879 frees himself, frees his friends, sort of crashes the plane, 193 00:11:18.919 --> 00:11:21.759 they go hang out in various locations around the Middle 194 00:11:21.799 --> 00:11:25.460 East and whatnot, because we're getting money to film some 195 00:11:25.480 --> 00:11:28.980 of these things here from the tourism board. Yeah. They 196 00:11:29.039 --> 00:11:31.460 find out that John Cena's handler is actually the one 197 00:11:31.480 --> 00:11:33.429 who stole the nuke and she's trying to set him 198 00:11:33.549 --> 00:11:36.909 up as the bad guy to false flag us into 199 00:11:36.950 --> 00:11:38.629 a war so she can be head of the CIA 200 00:11:38.649 --> 00:11:41.070 instead of Corey Stoll because he's just a bald white 201 00:11:41.110 --> 00:11:43.289 guy and we don't need any more of them. And 202 00:11:43.309 --> 00:11:44.580 she's a strong black woman. 203 00:11:44.860 --> 00:11:46.879 And all bald white guys are terrible and they should 204 00:11:46.899 --> 00:11:47.899 be taken away. 205 00:11:49.100 --> 00:11:51.700 And she's a strong black woman so she's never wrong. Yeah. 206 00:11:52.120 --> 00:11:54.059 And credit to this movie for having a villain who's 207 00:11:54.120 --> 00:11:56.639 a strong black woman and nobody complaining. 208 00:11:57.370 --> 00:11:57.710 I checked. 209 00:12:00.779 --> 00:12:03.200 If you watch my TikTok, I check in with Cat 210 00:12:03.220 --> 00:12:07.779 Williams to make sure that there's no cooning about and 211 00:12:07.820 --> 00:12:12.299 that he approves. And me and Cat Williams are like this, okay? 212 00:12:12.669 --> 00:12:14.350 And we check in with each other to make sure 213 00:12:14.389 --> 00:12:15.190 the culture. 214 00:12:14.870 --> 00:12:17.350 Is behaving itself. You're slightly more intelligible than he is 215 00:12:17.450 --> 00:12:18.309 on any given day. 216 00:12:18.809 --> 00:12:19.210 Slightly. 217 00:12:20.370 --> 00:12:24.370 So there's some shenanigans. There's a big set piece where 218 00:12:24.409 --> 00:12:28.700 they go get the nuke back. The villain dies. John 219 00:12:28.720 --> 00:12:31.250 Cena gets together with Jessica Biel at the end, and 220 00:12:31.299 --> 00:12:31.950 Bob's your uncle. 221 00:12:31.970 --> 00:12:34.850 All right. I really was. That was one of the 222 00:12:34.889 --> 00:12:36.289 first things I thought of. I watched this with my 223 00:12:36.350 --> 00:12:39.470 kids and my daughter's friend who she had over for 224 00:12:39.509 --> 00:12:42.289 the weekend. I had to be a parent of a sleepover. 225 00:12:43.289 --> 00:12:43.889 Scary stuff. 226 00:12:44.269 --> 00:12:46.789 Good times. Yeah. So you're staying outside the door with 227 00:12:46.840 --> 00:12:47.279 a shotgun. 228 00:12:47.299 --> 00:12:50.340 I was staying in my bedroom with a shotgun. It 229 00:12:50.360 --> 00:12:52.019 was in my mouth. Anywho. 230 00:12:53.759 --> 00:12:59.220 There's only two ways that goes. You either... nope, keep moving, 231 00:12:59.419 --> 00:13:00.399 or okay, we're done here. 232 00:13:02.379 --> 00:13:04.059 So the first thing I said was, I was like, 233 00:13:04.100 --> 00:13:06.799 you know, it was nice to see a movie where 234 00:13:06.820 --> 00:13:11.840 the villain is a black woman, and nicer that nobody 235 00:13:11.940 --> 00:13:14.659 seems to be, you know, going on a Twitter campaign 236 00:13:15.139 --> 00:13:16.990 to complain about it. Like, why, you know. 237 00:13:17.330 --> 00:13:20.490 Well, when Twitter discovers this movie actually exists, there will be, 238 00:13:20.529 --> 00:13:22.370 but until then, enjoy the peace and quiet. 239 00:13:23.090 --> 00:13:27.309 It's... It's funny that I'm making the Cat Williams because 240 00:13:27.330 --> 00:13:29.129 that was Thursday. When I was talking to Sean about 241 00:13:29.149 --> 00:13:30.889 Vampire in Brooklyn is when I brought up the Cat 242 00:13:30.929 --> 00:13:34.649 Williams thing with regard to Kadeem Hardison's performance in that. 243 00:13:35.570 --> 00:13:38.570 That's what led to the TikTok. But it's an example 244 00:13:38.669 --> 00:13:42.429 of how hypersensitive I've become to the hypersensitivity of the 245 00:13:42.470 --> 00:13:47.450 culture via social media, complaining about things endlessly. I think 246 00:13:47.470 --> 00:13:53.480 there was a recent thing I saw where... Oh, gosh. Um... Oh, yeah, like, 247 00:13:53.519 --> 00:13:55.419 for a couple of days I was seeing videos, like, 248 00:13:55.720 --> 00:13:59.159 they're trying to, they, the mysterious they, the infamous they, 249 00:13:59.179 --> 00:14:04.080 the they-they's, the they-them's are trying to cancel, uh, Metallica. 250 00:14:04.139 --> 00:14:06.220 More of the them's than the, more of them's than 251 00:14:06.259 --> 00:14:08.419 the they's, but yeah. Sure. 252 00:14:09.120 --> 00:14:20.289 Shirts and skins, crips and bloods, whatever, Islanders, Yankees, Islanders, Yankees. Sports! Islanders, Rangers, Yankees, Mets. Anywho, um, 253

00:14:20.860 --> 00:14:22.740 There was a whole thing about, like, I guess whoever 254 00:14:22.840 --> 00:14:24.360 opened Macklemore, I think it is, who opened it for 255 00:14:24.399 --> 00:14:28.440 Ed Sheeran, made some sort of fucking pro-Palestinian statement somewhere 256 00:14:28.460 --> 00:14:28.879 in the world. 257 00:14:28.899 --> 00:14:29.870 Oh, yeah, that whole thing. 258 00:14:29.879 --> 00:14:34.909 All right. To which James Hetfield, old man Hetfield, gets 259 00:14:34.970 --> 00:14:39.049 out there and says, hey, we're Metallica. We once covered 260 00:14:39.090 --> 00:14:41.389 a misfit song about killing your mom and fucking kids 261 00:14:41.450 --> 00:14:44.779 or vice versa. But we're old now and we don't 262 00:14:44.820 --> 00:14:46.860 do much of that sort of thing. And we're just 263 00:14:46.899 --> 00:14:48.840 here to entertain you and hope you have a good time. 264 00:14:48.860 --> 00:14:51.759 We're not like that Macklemore guy. And all of a sudden, 265 00:14:51.840 --> 00:14:55.000 I guess there's like an internet campaign to fucking tell. 266 00:14:54.480 --> 00:14:58.679 You how good Matchbox is. First of all, this happened 267 00:14:58.700 --> 00:15:04.019 a few weeks ago. And everyone who's ever seen Metallica 268 00:15:04.080 --> 00:15:06.580 roundly dunked on every one of these morons who's like, 269 00:15:06.980 --> 00:15:08.799 they need to take a stand. Like, no, they don't. 270 00:15:08.830 --> 00:15:10.759 They need to play their music. And that's all they've 271 00:15:10.799 --> 00:15:13.289 been doing for 40 years. 272 00:15:13.830 --> 00:15:17.429 However old the story is, my point is there's so 273 00:15:17.549 --> 00:15:20.470 much of this You know, there's two or three Sidney 274 00:15:20.500 --> 00:15:24.830 Sweeney controversies among. There's, you know, there's the occasional murderer 275 00:15:24.889 --> 00:15:27.269 where you let go free. There's always something going on 276 00:15:27.309 --> 00:15:32.009 in the culture. So I'm looking at Matchbox and I'm 277 00:15:32.029 --> 00:15:34.450 just like, oh, this one didn't bother anyone. We're safe. 278 00:15:36.009 --> 00:15:37.750 We can rest now, Tony. We can rest. 279 00:15:37.889 --> 00:15:39.460 It is easy to hide in obscurity. 280 00:15:40.159 --> 00:15:43.539 Anyway, what did I actually think about the movie? I'm 281 00:15:44.000 --> 00:15:47.690 a little disappointed. And hang on. 282 00:15:48.230 --> 00:15:51.549 Hang on, hang on, hang on. What were your expectations? 283 00:15:51.730 --> 00:15:53.950 That's what I was getting to. Let me say this. 284 00:15:55.330 --> 00:16:04.139 As a family-friendly action-adventure movie starring a traditional-looking hero, I 285 00:16:04.200 --> 00:16:07.200 thought this was adequate. We all had a good time 286 00:16:07.240 --> 00:16:10.659 watching it. My son, who is a little version of you, 287 00:16:10.679 --> 00:16:12.779 was like, this is kind of a pointless movie, but 288 00:16:12.820 --> 00:16:15.799 it wasn't unenjoyable. And he marched off with his nose 289 00:16:15.820 --> 00:16:16.159 in the air. 290 00:16:16.919 --> 00:16:17.019 Um. 291 00:16:17.929 --> 00:16:21.409 The two girls were just like, this is fine. We're 292 00:16:21.450 --> 00:16:24.850 just happy to be here. And that was that. And 293 00:16:24.870 --> 00:16:28.090 that's about the appropriate response to Matchbox, the movie. Again, 294 00:16:28.149 --> 00:16:29.909 I watched it and I was like, this is perfectly 295 00:16:29.950 --> 00:16:36.779 well-written stupidity. This is about the tenor of silly action 296 00:16:36.820 --> 00:16:40.200 movie that I kind of expect. I guess what frustrated me, though, 297 00:16:40.259 --> 00:16:45.460 was I thought since Matchbox is a car toy, right? 298 00:16:45.899 --> 00:16:49.440 You buy individual cars or you buy play sets with 299 00:16:49.519 --> 00:16:52.230 ramps and stuff and you put the cars on them. 300 00:16:52.259 --> 00:16:54.490 And I know this because I did this with my 301 00:16:54.529 --> 00:16:57.389 son when he was a little kid. He had an 302 00:16:57.429 --> 00:17:00.649 entire collection of Hot Wheels and Matchbox toys and you 303 00:17:00.690 --> 00:17:02.669 would buy the accessories for them and you would race 304 00:17:02.710 --> 00:17:04.329 them around town. And when I was a kid, I 305 00:17:04.369 --> 00:17:06.930 also had these things like the little town play sets 306 00:17:06.970 --> 00:17:08.410 and you would go in and out of the garage 307 00:17:08.430 --> 00:17:10.309 and up and down the ramps and into the car wash. 308 00:17:11.559 --> 00:17:14.000 I like that toys back in my day were mostly 309 00:17:14.039 --> 00:17:17.410 about doing errands. I'm going to drive my car to 310 00:17:17.430 --> 00:17:18.910 the mechanic. I'm going to drive my car to the 311 00:17:18.930 --> 00:17:22.859 car wash. This is fun. I'm doing adulting as a child. 312 00:17:24.859 --> 00:17:28.220 Well, it's at least the framework of adult material, and 313 00:17:28.240 --> 00:17:30.799 then you just let the child's imagination do stuff. Now 314 00:17:30.900 --> 00:17:33.680 children have no imagination because they've outsourced it to the AI. 315 00:17:35.420 --> 00:17:39.009 So anyway, I'm looking at a movie called Matchbox the Movie, 316 00:17:39.049 --> 00:17:42.309 and my first thought, this is going to be like 317 00:17:42.349 --> 00:17:44.910 The Fast and the Furious or Gone in 60 Seconds 318 00:17:44.970 --> 00:17:47.420 or The Italian Job. You know, we're going to be 319 00:17:47.460 --> 00:17:49.819 doing a lot of fast cars and a lot of 320 00:17:49.859 --> 00:17:53.019 high-speed driving. And maybe we'll do a Fast and the 321 00:17:53.039 --> 00:17:57.319 Furious thing in Dubai where we drive from one building 322 00:17:57.380 --> 00:17:57.859 to another. 323 00:17:57.880 --> 00:18:01.279 They did not have the budget for even anything close 324 00:18:01.299 --> 00:18:02.000 to that. 325 00:18:02.920 -->

00:18:07.130 So maybe we'll do some fun stunts. And we're limited 326 00:18:07.230 --> 00:18:12.509 to four vehicles that represent, like, the kinds of vehicles 327 00:18:12.529 --> 00:18:15.410 you could get with Matchbox. You could get a race car. 328 00:18:16.019 --> 00:18:18.660 You could get a construction car, you could get a motorcycle, 329 00:18:18.720 --> 00:18:21.220 or you could get an aerial vehicle. And it's like, 330 00:18:22.500 --> 00:18:26.640 I understand they had to extend the brand outwards from cars, 331 00:18:27.000 --> 00:18:31.480 kind of like with Transformers, where we went beyond jets 332 00:18:31.539 --> 00:18:37.049 and cars. But I figured the movie would hyper-focus on 333 00:18:37.089 --> 00:18:41.089 the cars, because that's the selling point. The fact that 334 00:18:41.170 --> 00:18:45.269 we micro-focus on four types of vehicles... And then those 335 00:18:45.329 --> 00:18:49.619 four vehicles are our four protagonists' personalities. I was like, 336 00:18:49.759 --> 00:18:52.700 this is further dumb than I thought it would be. 337 00:18:53.599 --> 00:18:57.140 And this is the part that's disappointing. Again, I was 338 00:18:57.200 --> 00:18:59.960 expecting something like The Fast and the Furious, where there 339 00:18:59.980 --> 00:19:01.680 would be a lot of fast car driving and a 340 00:19:01.700 --> 00:19:08.039 lot of cars, and you don't get that. It's the 341 00:19:08.099 --> 00:19:12.500 kind of spy movie for kids that Dave Bautista was 342 00:19:12.539 --> 00:19:19.750 in a few years ago. Um, it's mostly... It's mostly, like, 343 00:19:20.750 --> 00:19:23.809 just a spy movie, and if you took the Matchbox 344 00:19:23.849 --> 00:19:26.509 stuff out of it, you would have lost nothing. Yep. 345 00:19:27.289 --> 00:19:30.069 And that's my biggest complaint about this movie, is. 346 00:19:30.769 --> 00:19:35.529 You wanted more product placement in your brand-sponsored movie? 347 00:19:36.890 --> 00:19:40.519 Well, you wouldn't do a Barbie movie and not feature, like... 348 00:19:40.819 --> 00:19:44.710 And just... You wouldn't... You wouldn't feature a Barbie movie, 349 00:19:44.769 --> 00:19:47.309 but it's, you know, but it's Zooey Deschanel and she's 350 00:19:47.369 --> 00:19:49.470 living with three guys. Like. 351 00:19:49.539 --> 00:19:51.180 They absolutely would, but. 352 00:19:51.519 --> 00:19:54.500 No, they wouldn't. This is my point. That was New Girl. 353 00:19:54.539 --> 00:19:57.960 They didn't call it Barbie. Like, don't call this Matchbox 354 00:19:57.980 --> 00:20:00.000 the movie when that's not really what you're doing. You're 355 00:20:00.039 --> 00:20:03.289 like forcefully inserting this thing there and then quickly, just 356 00:20:03.329 --> 00:20:06.069 as quickly forgetting about it. And then occasionally you say 357 00:20:06.150 --> 00:20:08.890 like the Matchbox gang. to remind people that this is 358 00:20:08.950 --> 00:20:12.309 Matchbox the movie, but this is no more Matchbox than, 359 00:20:12.329 --> 00:20:16.380 you know, than we are fucking the State of the 360 00:20:16.470 --> 00:20:19.380 Union address. It's like, yeah, it's people talking, but that's 361 00:20:19.440 --> 00:20:25.019 about the only similarity. Other than that, I mean, I'm 362 00:20:25.079 --> 00:20:27.740 sure you hated it and you're going to whip through 363 00:20:27.839 --> 00:20:30.559 your 20 grievances that you're going to nail to the 364 00:20:30.579 --> 00:20:34.819 church door. But, I mean, for me, it was like, 365 00:20:36.859 --> 00:20:40.779 This is meant for a wide audience. It met that criteria. 366 00:20:41.400 --> 00:20:44.019 It was meant for children and their parents to enjoy. 367 00:20:44.619 --> 00:20:47.660 It met that criteria. Everybody is giving their level best 368 00:20:47.720 --> 00:20:51.960 performance for the material that they're working with. So is 369 00:20:52.029 --> 00:20:54.250 it going to make my best of the year? No. 370 00:20:54.349 --> 00:20:55.829 Is it the worst thing I saw this year? No. 371 00:20:56.250 --> 00:21:02.630 It was a bland vanilla children's spy movie with some 372 00:21:02.809 --> 00:21:09.390 cars and one, count them, one good car sequence, which 373 00:21:09.410 --> 00:21:12.630 you have to wait for the entire... This is the 374 00:21:12.650 --> 00:21:19.640 Surf Dracula thing, where instead of peppering the movie with... Like, 375 00:21:20.140 --> 00:21:24.220 the way a Mission Impossible movie has set pieces along 376 00:21:24.240 --> 00:21:27.339 the way that escalate, we're doing a car thing here 377 00:21:27.380 --> 00:21:29.849 and a helicopter thing here, and then, you know, and 378 00:21:29.890 --> 00:21:32.289 over here we're going to chase a submarine with a jet. 379 00:21:32.309 --> 00:21:40.160 You know... that just escalates to like insanity. This, it's 380 00:21:40.220 --> 00:21:45.259 just fighting, fighting, fighting, fighting, fighting, spy stuff, pretty gowns, 381 00:21:45.720 --> 00:21:48.220 nice suits. And then finally at the very end of 382 00:21:48.240 --> 00:21:51.259 the movie, a big ass highway chase scene, which the 383 00:21:51.299 --> 00:21:53.359 highway chase scene I thought was fun. And I think 384 00:21:53.380 --> 00:21:55.660 it was well executed. And it's the only, it is 385 00:21:55.680 --> 00:21:58.579 the only excellent thing in the movie is, and if 386 00:21:58.619 --> 00:21:59.940 you're going to remember any of it at all, and 387 00:21:59.960 --> 00:22:02.000 I'm sure you won't, it's the only thing that is 388 00:22:02.420 --> 00:22:05.140 remarkably memorable in the movie. Got thoughts? 389 00:22:06.359 --> 00:22:07.140 Yeah, this sucks. 390 00:22:08.000 --> 00:22:10.859 All right, everybody. Good night. 391 00:22:11.200 --> 00:22:27.670 Hang on. John Cena is, you know, a mostly competent 392 00:22:28.109 --> 00:22:30.170 lead for this kind of thing, but he's not going 393 00:22:30.190 --> 00:22:35.599 to do anything interesting or

special or memorable or Anything 394 00:22:35.660 --> 00:22:42.589 above competent. I'm with you that like the whole gimmick of, man, 395 00:22:42.650 --> 00:22:44.309 this is, these are the toys we played with. So 396 00:22:44.349 --> 00:22:47.930 naturally we grew up to be similar to have these 397 00:22:47.970 --> 00:22:51.799 be parts of our lives and personalities. And no God, 398 00:22:51.819 --> 00:22:56.960 this is like Saturday morning cartoon level writing, not even 399 00:22:57.000 --> 00:22:58.740 good Saturday morning cartoons. 400 00:22:59.509 --> 00:23:01.009 I know it'd be good to your mother. 401 00:23:01.890 --> 00:23:04.019 The plot, such as it is, is like if you 402 00:23:04.240 --> 00:23:08.960 took a generic Fast and the Furious movie with true lies, 403 00:23:09.259 --> 00:23:11.859 stripped out everything that makes either of those potentially interesting, 404 00:23:11.880 --> 00:23:14.240 put it in a blender and told an AI to 405 00:23:15.400 --> 00:23:20.779 recombine it, you'd probably get about this. The stunt work 406 00:23:20.859 --> 00:23:25.390 is solid. Not great, but solid. The big highway chase 407 00:23:25.430 --> 00:23:29.009 at the end is fine, but By that point, you're 408 00:23:29.029 --> 00:23:31.269 just so bored with the entire proposition that you don't 409 00:23:31.329 --> 00:23:33.170 actually care that you've reached the part of the movie 410 00:23:33.190 --> 00:23:38.109 that's fine. Yeah. It meanders. There's not much of a plot. 411 00:23:38.130 --> 00:23:41.349 There's not much of a story. There's no emotional arcs 412 00:23:41.430 --> 00:23:44.150 to be had in any sort of meaningful capacity. 413 00:23:44.170 --> 00:23:47.650 I mean, John Cena's arc is he learns to trust 414 00:23:47.690 --> 00:23:53.930 his friends. Because you see, his emotional injury at the 415 00:23:53.950 --> 00:23:56.630 beginning of the movie was he didn't have enough courage 416 00:23:56.650 --> 00:23:58.750 to ask a pretty girl out And then his father 417 00:23:58.789 --> 00:24:01.609 moved him away from home. So he learned that he 418 00:24:01.650 --> 00:24:04.839 must always be alone, like Batman. 419 00:24:04.910 --> 00:24:07.819 Because I'm sure nothing happened to the 12-year-old in the 420 00:24:07.859 --> 00:24:12.059 intervening couple of decades between we had to move, sorry, 421 00:24:12.079 --> 00:24:15.579 and now I am the wounded spy. 422 00:24:15.599 --> 00:24:18.529 Is that what happened to you, Robert? Every move was 423 00:24:18.549 --> 00:24:20.569 a wound, and now you feel like you must walk 424 00:24:20.609 --> 00:24:23.210 the earth alone like Bruce Banner so that no one 425 00:24:23.230 --> 00:24:24.730 may ever know about the Hulk inside you. 426 00:24:26.490 --> 00:24:28.609 I mean, there's a real argument to be made about 427 00:24:28.630 --> 00:24:32.470 the nature of relocating that many times, but no. 428 00:24:39.240 --> 00:24:41.500 Let me complete the sentence for you. No, you asshole. 429

00:24:43.119 --> 00:24:45.279 I don't need to interrelate with anybody yet. 430 00:24:45.319 --> 00:24:45.390 No. 431 00:24:47.630 --> 00:24:50.309 In the sense that it contributes to the tapestry of 432 00:24:50.369 --> 00:24:53.609 experiences that help make up the individual that I am 433 00:24:53.789 --> 00:24:54.670 sure but. 434 00:24:54.529 --> 00:24:55.869 Let's put it this way if they were going to 435 00:24:55.950 --> 00:24:57.839 attach that much weight to it we needed more than 436 00:24:57.859 --> 00:24:59.119 a cut you know than a flash. 437 00:24:58.900 --> 00:25:02.240 Forward like his like they have to move because his 438 00:25:02.299 --> 00:25:04.759 mom dies or something like no no his dad got 439 00:25:04.799 --> 00:25:07.400 a new job no no like if you wanted to 440 00:25:07.920 --> 00:25:10.500 make it that serious again that's what you have to 441 00:25:10.539 --> 00:25:13.490 do it's not just I got a better job or 442 00:25:13.549 --> 00:25:16.799 move into a bigger house in a better neighborhood Be happy. 443 00:25:16.819 --> 00:25:19.000 Is there a reason why this handsome, felt this handsome 444 00:25:19.039 --> 00:25:22.180 child couldn't make new friends? Like, and then we moved, 445 00:25:22.519 --> 00:25:24.339 and we moved to this neighborhood and I was, and 446 00:25:24.380 --> 00:25:26.579 they all, they said I was ugly is what happened. 447 00:25:26.940 --> 00:25:29.089 And I had no friends and the girls wouldn't like me. 448 00:25:29.119 --> 00:25:31.670 And like, fuck, what happened to you? 449 00:25:32.690 --> 00:25:35.430 Yeah. So none of that really. 450 00:25:35.450 --> 00:25:36.970 So he has to come home and learn to trust 451 00:25:36.990 --> 00:25:38.529 his friends was the end of that sentence. 452 00:25:39.690 --> 00:25:44.609 Yeah. Jessica Biel's probably a little bit too close to 453 00:25:44.650 --> 00:25:50.569 the girl boss archetype in this one. Which is a shame, 454 00:25:50.609 --> 00:25:52.470 because she didn't need to be that, but. 455 00:25:52.769 --> 00:25:55.230 Why they introduced her as somebody who races cars and 456 00:25:55.250 --> 00:25:57.339 then abandoned it, I have no idea. 457 00:25:58.059 --> 00:26:02.079 I don't know either, and she's, like, constantly getting her way, 458 00:26:02.099 --> 00:26:04.119 and there's at least three scenes where everyone else talks 459 00:26:04.140 --> 00:26:06.539 about how great she is, and this is the things that... 460 00:26:06.779 --> 00:26:08.740 These are the things that, like, okay, we're checking out 461 00:26:08.779 --> 00:26:12.759 of this, because no. No. No, it's not very good. 462 00:26:12.960 --> 00:26:17.200 It's not really worth your time. It's maybe passably acceptable 463 00:26:17.279 --> 00:26:20.180 second screen viewing or background noise while you're doing something 464 00:26:20.220 --> 00:26:21.180 of significantly more. 465 00:26:21.289 --> 00:26:23.670 Well, I actually want to argue with you about that 466 00:26:23.690 --> 00:26:25.130 because I actually don't think this is a good second 467 00:26:25.150 --> 00:26:29.170 screen viewing. This isn't explaining the plot to you constantly. 468 00:26:30.190 --> 00:26:32.299 Like you actually have to pay attention to this movie. 469 00:26:33.049 --> 00:26:36.470 I'm just very used... Maybe this is just me. I'm 470 00:26:36.569 --> 00:26:39.259 used to my background noise or second screen stuff not 471 00:26:39.299 --> 00:26:41.460 doing what Netflix does. And I just accept that if 472 00:26:41.519 --> 00:26:43.420 I miss something, I miss something. I can change. I 473 00:26:43.440 --> 00:26:47.160 can go back. I can watch. Okay. If you're one 474 00:26:47.180 --> 00:26:50.579 of the people who just can't... I don't know if 475 00:26:50.599 --> 00:26:55.140 you can say can't multitask, but who, even if you 476 00:26:55.180 --> 00:26:57.779 were just watching the movie, still need the plot explained 477 00:26:57.799 --> 00:27:00.490 to you every 20 seconds because your brain is dead... 478 00:27:01.829 --> 00:27:03.269 then there's no helping you to begin with. 479 00:27:06.950 --> 00:27:08.809 There's no point in belaboring this. Is there anything else 480 00:27:08.829 --> 00:27:09.529 about Matchbox? 481 00:27:11.769 --> 00:27:13.609 It's not very good. 482 00:27:15.029 --> 00:27:18.049 Honestly, if they were going to do this movie, this 483 00:27:18.109 --> 00:27:19.869 is the wrong movie to make. They should have done 484 00:27:19.950 --> 00:27:23.970 something like The Italian Job, Gone in 60 Seconds, any 485 00:27:24.269 --> 00:27:31.390 one of the four, five, or six of the... Five, six, 486 00:27:31.430 --> 00:27:35.730 seven of the Fast and the Furious movies. Wacky Races. 487 00:27:36.509 --> 00:27:39.170 You know, something like that. Like, this needed to be 488 00:27:39.359 --> 00:27:43.559 filled with cars driving around a lot. This was the 489 00:27:43.720 --> 00:27:44.500 wrong movie to make. 490 00:27:45.839 --> 00:27:47.940 I don't disagree with you. But I was always a 491 00:27:47.960 --> 00:27:49.599 Hot Wheels guy, not a Matchbox guy. 492 00:27:49.619 --> 00:27:52.700 What the fuck was the difference? That they just sold cars? 493 00:27:53.470 --> 00:27:53.849 I don't know. 494 00:27:54.509 --> 00:27:56.950 Like, it's just two brands of the same deal. 495 00:27:57.650 --> 00:27:59.109 Pretty much, yeah. Yeah. 496 00:27:59.980 --> 00:28:01.059 The Islanders and the Rangers. 497 00:28:01.579 --> 00:28:06.000 Those are pretty close to the same thing. 498 00:28:06.019 --> 00:28:08.109 I'm going to start annoying the New York fans. 499 00:28:08.680 --> 00:28:10.990 We don't have any New York fans. 500 00:28:13.289 --> 00:28:19.519 Alright, let's get into Animals. The Animals. This is an 501 00:28:19.559 --> 00:28:20.099 interesting one. 502 00:28:20.579 --> 00:28:22.599 This is the worst movie of these three, by the way. 503 00:28:23.339 --> 00:28:26.900 Animals is a 2026 American crime

thriller film. Directed by 504 00:28:26.960 --> 00:28:31.799 Ben Affleck and written by Affleck, Conroe, McIntyre, and Billy Ray. 505 00:28:32.119 --> 00:28:37.660 It stars Affleck, Kerry Washington, Gillian Anderson, Adriana Paz, Ray Fisher, 506 00:28:38.289 --> 00:28:44.150 with Luis Gerardo Mendez and Steven Yun. It is about 507 00:28:44.170 --> 00:28:48.710 a wealthy mayoral candidate, Mark Kimball, who finds themselves unearthing 508 00:28:48.750 --> 00:28:51.890 dark secrets when they go to extreme measures to pay 509 00:28:51.910 --> 00:28:57.960 their kidnapped son's ransom. Released in October, received generally negative reviews. 510 00:28:59.460 --> 00:29:01.509 This doesn't look like it was released in theaters ever, 511 00:29:01.549 --> 00:29:04.849 thank God. All right, so go ahead, Robert, see if 512 00:29:04.890 --> 00:29:07.509 you can find your way through this morass of a plot. 513 00:29:08.970 --> 00:29:15.049 Yeah, we're following Ben Affleck, who is an independent candidate 514 00:29:15.130 --> 00:29:21.609 for the mayor of Los Angeles. He is... Self-funding this, 515 00:29:21.950 --> 00:29:25.569 and it's starting to become a strain because running for 516 00:29:25.609 --> 00:29:27.900 public office is expensive, and if you don't have one 517 00:29:27.920 --> 00:29:30.539 of the two major political parties here in the United 518 00:29:30.579 --> 00:29:34.799 States at your back, then it's really. 519 00:29:34.940 --> 00:29:36.289 Can I put something up screen for one second? 520 00:29:36.369 --> 00:29:39.190 I know what you're going to put up there. No, don't. Okay. 521 00:29:39.269 --> 00:29:39.970 Just ignore. 522 00:29:40.029 --> 00:29:40.099 It. 523 00:29:40.190 --> 00:29:40.619 Okay. 524 00:29:40.670 --> 00:29:42.390 That is not behavior that should be rewarded. 525 00:29:43.279 --> 00:29:46.759 You got it. Moving on. 526 00:29:46.799 --> 00:29:49.440 So he's married to Kerry Washington. They have a kid. 527 00:29:49.480 --> 00:29:52.059 She's having an affair like you do. He's stressed out 528 00:29:52.099 --> 00:29:55.660 because he's running for office and the election's coming up 529 00:29:55.700 --> 00:30:00.299 and it's close, but he's behind. And Steven Yeun is 530 00:30:00.319 --> 00:30:07.460 his campaign advisor. And then on Halloween, because it was 531 00:30:07.500 --> 00:30:11.700 released in October, they get a message from someone saying, 532 00:30:11.740 --> 00:30:13.220 I have kidnapped your child. 533 00:30:13.619 --> 00:30:15.380 Yes, technically now this is a Halloween movie. 534 00:30:17.299 --> 00:30:22.619 Technically, yes. And I want $ 7 million. And eventually the 535 00:30:22.640 --> 00:30:26.109 kid wanders home going, what's going on? And they go, ha, 536 00:30:26.609 --> 00:30:29.720 you don't have our kid. And the kidnapper goes, oh, crap, 537 00:30:29.740 --> 00:30:33.920 what kid do I have? And it turns out he 538 00:30:34.039 --> 00:30:38.940 accidentally stole the kid of their nanny slash grounds nanny 539 00:30:38.980 --> 00:30:46.309 and groundskeeper who are, you know, immigrants because immigrants in 540 00:30:46.329 --> 00:30:49.430 Los Angeles, you get it? Immigrants, Los Angeles, whole thing. 541 00:30:50.769 --> 00:30:53.049 And I don't understand. Please take the next hour and 542 00:30:53.069 --> 00:30:54.049 explain it to me. 543 00:30:54.390 --> 00:30:58.170 Let's not. And they've called Gillian Anderson because she's kind 544 00:30:58.210 --> 00:31:02.910 of a political fixer. And we spend way too long 545 00:31:02.950 --> 00:31:05.490 debating what to do and arguing about how we approach 546 00:31:05.539 --> 00:31:09.380 these things. And eventually they decide, fine, we will pay you. 547 00:31:09.400 --> 00:31:12.500 And their secrets come out to each other. Him that 548 00:31:12.519 --> 00:31:15.460 he's over leveraged their finances and her that she's having 549 00:31:15.500 --> 00:31:19.400 an affair. And you know the movie decided that Ben 550 00:31:19.480 --> 00:31:21.700 Affleck's crime is the much more severe one of the 551 00:31:21.740 --> 00:31:25.690 two with how the characters react to everything. Mm-hmm. Because 552 00:31:25.869 --> 00:31:30.450 infidelity is nothing in this day and age. Kerry Washington 553 00:31:30.490 --> 00:31:32.509 is a strong black woman. She should be allowed to 554 00:31:33.650 --> 00:31:39.680 sow her wild oats. And inevitably, the kidnappers die in 555 00:31:39.740 --> 00:31:41.759 a shootout in the Los Angeles River. We have one 556 00:31:41.799 --> 00:31:44.480 of the single worst instances of CGI and editing I've 557 00:31:44.519 --> 00:31:47.809 ever seen when the Kidnappers kick the kid down the 558 00:31:48.029 --> 00:31:55.470 side of the embankment in the wagon. It's comical. I 559 00:31:55.519 --> 00:31:58.039 don't know how he gets launched. The CGI blob is 560 00:31:58.140 --> 00:32:04.279 launched and Ben Affleck catches him. Again, the kidnappers are killed, 561 00:32:04.460 --> 00:32:08.569 as is Gillian Anderson, which makes life easier for... Ben Affleck, 562 00:32:08.589 --> 00:32:10.650 because she's the one who organized this, and she was 563 00:32:10.690 --> 00:32:13.849 going to be able to then blackmail him into doing things. 564 00:32:14.009 --> 00:32:16.390 His political aspirations continued to climb all the way to 565 00:32:16.410 --> 00:32:22.549 the White House, you understand. The White House. So they 566 00:32:22.589 --> 00:32:24.609 wind up breaking the news that a lot of this happened. 567 00:32:24.650 --> 00:32:27.130 They tell the story where Ben Affleck's the hero. The 568 00:32:27.170 --> 00:32:29.099 immigrants get the money that was going to be used 569 00:32:29.130 --> 00:32:31.380 to pay off the kidnappers, and they return to Mexico, 570 00:32:31.400 --> 00:32:33.259 because nothing bad can happen to you in Mexico with 571 00:32:33.259 --> 00:32:38.769 $ 7 million in unmarked bills. And Ben Affleck is elected 572 00:32:38.809 -->

00:32:42.849 and starts exploring running for the presidency. And this is 573 00:32:42.930 --> 00:32:47.210 where we end. This is not a good movie. 574 00:32:48.970 --> 00:32:51.240 Yeah, this is supposed to be one of those old 575 00:32:51.319 --> 00:32:59.200 school boilerplate dramas. Everything is high tension. It's kind of 576 00:32:59.720 --> 00:33:06.660 shot like a play. There's very few different It's mostly 577 00:33:06.880 --> 00:33:08.660 in the house, and it's a lot of people just 578 00:33:08.720 --> 00:33:12.200 talking to each other. But emotions are running high, and 579 00:33:12.240 --> 00:33:15.930 everything's getting intense. That's the whole movie. 580 00:33:16.490 --> 00:33:19.450 It sure would have been nice if they acted like that. 581 00:33:22.650 --> 00:33:23.890 I mean, look, I'm not going to say I love 582 00:33:23.910 --> 00:33:26.119 this movie. It's not the worst thing I've seen. It's 583 00:33:26.130 --> 00:33:29.740 not the best. It's just kind of like, all right. 584 00:33:32.759 --> 00:33:37.809 It's a very Netflix-y movie. Oh, yes. Where Netflix really 585 00:33:37.849 --> 00:33:43.640 does specialize in the minimal location, bunch of people talking 586 00:33:44.299 --> 00:33:46.680 kind of a thing. And sometimes it works and sometimes 587 00:33:46.720 --> 00:33:54.940 it doesn't. This is one of those where I can 588 00:33:54.980 --> 00:33:59.369 kind of see when they were writing this, what Ben 589 00:33:59.410 --> 00:34:02.769 Affleck was wanting to talk about. He's wanting to talk 590 00:34:02.809 --> 00:34:06.450 about the uncomfortable positions you have to put yourself in 591 00:34:06.650 --> 00:34:10.150 as you try to achieve power in this country, that 592 00:34:10.170 --> 00:34:14.030 there's always going to be people like once, once you 593 00:34:14.070 --> 00:34:17.300 put yourself out there, whether as celebrity or as politician 594 00:34:17.440 --> 00:34:20.420 or as athlete, there'll always be willing people willing to 595 00:34:20.460 --> 00:34:23.559 take a shot at you to extract something from you. 596 00:34:23.579 --> 00:34:28.760 I think he also through the Kerry Washington character also 597 00:34:28.800 --> 00:34:33.130 talks about how in order to achieve greatness in this world, 598 00:34:33.690 --> 00:34:36.590 sacrifices have to be made and some people can't handle 599 00:34:36.650 --> 00:34:40.039 the weight of the sacrifice. So, like, maybe you're not 600 00:34:40.639 --> 00:34:43.159 around as much of your family as you should be. 601 00:34:43.639 --> 00:34:46.420 Maybe you're inviting too much of the media into your 602 00:34:46.460 --> 00:34:49.099 life more than they should be. I mean, you know, 603 00:34:49.300 --> 00:34:51.519 this sort of thing came up with the Carter daughters. 604 00:34:52.179 --> 00:34:55.380 This poor Chelsea Clinton was, like, abused by the press. 605 00:34:56.010 --> 00:34:59.489 You know, the Obamas specifically kept their daughters away from 606 00:34:59.530 --> 00:35:04.019 the press and it was a very, very meticulously kept 607 00:35:04.099 --> 00:35:06.920 veneer so that nobody could see anything else about those 608 00:35:06.980 --> 00:35:09.420 kids that the obamas didn't want them to see i 609 00:35:09.559 --> 00:35:12.039 don't remember what happened with bush's kids that that's how 610 00:35:12.179 --> 00:35:15.159 like it was like like poor chelsea clinton was like 611 00:35:15.820 --> 00:35:20.539 the warning uh label for like what not to do 612 00:35:21.340 --> 00:35:24.590 um and so i think like i think after that 613 00:35:24.750 --> 00:35:25.849 you know bush. 614 00:35:25.630 --> 00:35:27.969 Well in the case of hw bush's kids grew up 615 00:35:27.989 --> 00:35:29.650 to be politicians well. 616 00:35:29.550 --> 00:35:33.690 I was talking about w um My point is, like... 617 00:35:35.489 --> 00:35:37.869 I think Ben Affleck was trying to explore all those things, 618 00:35:37.949 --> 00:35:40.630 but he also has to tell the story, so... And 619 00:35:40.650 --> 00:35:43.730 I think that's, like, the biggest problem with animals for me, is... 620 00:35:43.550 --> 00:35:47.019 I think all of those things are worth talking about. 621 00:35:47.840 --> 00:35:51.840 You probably didn't need the ransom plot. You especially didn't 622 00:35:51.880 --> 00:35:56.340 need the ransom plot of your gardener, your illegal alien gardener, 623 00:35:57.039 --> 00:36:02.090 and his wife, who, like... Kerry Washington's like weirdly attached to. 624 00:36:03.179 --> 00:36:07.119 Yeah. That was a really, the irony of like Kerry 625 00:36:07.179 --> 00:36:09.340 Washington being attached to them when she doesn't even speak 626 00:36:09.400 --> 00:36:15.219 Spanish and Mark and Ben Affleck's character is pretty fluent. Um, yeah, 627 00:36:15.699 --> 00:36:17.929 it's a bad decision. 628 00:36:20.010 --> 00:36:24.150 So like, I think the subject matter is worthy. I 629 00:36:25.429 --> 00:36:30.659 think the execution is really poor. Um, better version of 630 00:36:30.719 --> 00:36:32.420 what they were trying to do here is the very 631 00:36:32.480 --> 00:36:38.440 first episode, the very first season of Black Mirror, where.... 632 00:36:39.429 --> 00:36:41.989 The first one of theater? Yeah. 633 00:36:43.170 --> 00:36:46.349 You know, I have kidnapped so-and-so, and if you don't 634 00:36:46.409 --> 00:36:48.449 fuck a pig on live television, I'm gonna, you know, 635 00:36:48.489 --> 00:36:50.010 I'm gonna start sending her back to you in pieces. 636 00:36:51.090 --> 00:36:53.489 And because technology is what it is, they can't find 637 00:36:53.530 --> 00:36:55.989 the person, and then, like, the Prime Minister doesn't know 638 00:36:56.010 --> 00:36:59.019 what to do with himself. And finally ends up just 639 00:36:59.420 --> 00:37:02.199 fucking the pig and they let her go and they 640 00:37:02.219 --> 00:37:04.489 never did anything to her. You know? 641 00:37:04.550 --> 00:37:07.829 And I

think he's actually released before he, yeah. 642 00:37:08.510 --> 00:37:10.289 But I want to say like, like the perpetrator actually 643 00:37:10.309 --> 00:37:11.969 like kills himself. Cause like the point of it was 644 00:37:12.010 --> 00:37:13.469 to see if he could think, do it or whatever. 645 00:37:14.170 --> 00:37:14.650 Yeah. 646 00:37:14.710 --> 00:37:19.679 Um, my point being that like, there wasn't, this has 647 00:37:19.699 --> 00:37:27.250 been dealt with better other ways. Um, So then you 648 00:37:27.289 --> 00:37:29.489 flop the needle on this. You're like, well, what if 649 00:37:29.530 --> 00:37:33.150 you just focus on it's a kidnapping plot with very famous, 650 00:37:33.349 --> 00:37:34.150 important people. 651 00:37:34.630 --> 00:37:37.070 Oh, we can talk for ages about how this is 652 00:37:37.110 --> 00:37:38.630 a bad kidnapping story. 653 00:37:39.130 --> 00:37:41.469 Well, that's my point. It's like, okay, but then you 654 00:37:41.510 --> 00:37:45.329 really have nothing. The only reason why you have something 655 00:37:46.590 --> 00:37:50.309 in this movie is the stuff with Kerry Washington and 656 00:37:50.429 --> 00:37:53.650 Ben Affleck and her cheating is something to talk about. 657 00:37:53.829 --> 00:37:56.519 It's a very real thing. And I think there's a 658 00:37:56.539 --> 00:37:58.679 movie to be made out of that. The stuff about 659 00:37:59.400 --> 00:38:03.420 wanting to be mayor and then president and how that 660 00:38:03.460 --> 00:38:05.559 affects your family and how that affects you and the 661 00:38:05.599 --> 00:38:08.489 kind of person it turns you into, I think there's 662 00:38:08.550 --> 00:38:13.650 something to talk about there. But if you start to 663 00:38:13.690 --> 00:38:15.690 talk about the actual action of the movie, which is 664 00:38:15.730 --> 00:38:19.349 this kidnapping plot, the kidnapping plot's stupid. And then they 665 00:38:19.409 --> 00:38:25.159 introduce the female version of fucking... Harvey Keitel from Reservoir Dogs, 666 00:38:25.179 --> 00:38:29.960 you know, so in walks the wolf. And because Gillian 667 00:38:30.099 --> 00:38:34.239 Anderson was told to play this character like she's dead, like, 668 00:38:34.389 --> 00:38:40.030 there's nothing there either. Like, what she's doing is not virtuous. 669 00:38:40.989 --> 00:38:41.769 Not even close. 670 00:38:42.130 --> 00:38:44.429 She's like, I'll save you, but then I own your soul. 671 00:38:44.530 --> 00:38:48.590 That needs to be dastardly. That needed to be malevolent. 672 00:38:49.110 --> 00:38:51.369 And she just kind of plays it like, alright, it's 673 00:38:51.389 --> 00:38:54.230 a This is a Tuesday. This is what I do. 674 00:38:55.469 --> 00:38:56.989 And you're going to do it because everybody does it. 675 00:38:57.650 --> 00:39:03.400 And there's no problem here. There's no drama. This is 676 00:39:03.480 --> 00:39:12.659 a weirdly artificially tense movie. All the tension is... All 677 00:39:12.679 --> 00:39:15.769 the tension in any movie is manufactured. That's the nature 678 00:39:15.789 --> 00:39:20.050 of creating fiction. So when I say this is very artificial... 679 00:39:20.159 --> 00:39:24.739 There's no naturally occurring tension based on anything you, the viewer, 680 00:39:24.780 --> 00:39:28.280 have to worry about going on in Animals. It's all, like, 681 00:39:28.320 --> 00:39:29.460 it's tense because we said it's tense. 682 00:39:29.920 --> 00:39:35.059 Yeah, and I'm like, this is just... The movie, like, yes, 683 00:39:35.119 --> 00:39:38.409 this is a tense scene. Really? Because you've not earned that, 684 00:39:38.449 --> 00:39:40.389 and nothing about what's going on says that it is. 685 00:39:40.809 --> 00:39:44.210 And then, like, Steven Yeun's character, you know, if you're 686 00:39:44.230 --> 00:39:47.619 going to make him very, like, wag the dog-ish... If 687 00:39:47.699 --> 00:39:49.659 you're going to make him De Niro's character from Wag 688 00:39:49.679 --> 00:39:55.440 the Dog, or Michael J. Fox's character from Spin City, 689 00:39:56.360 --> 00:40:00.659 then he needs to also be slimy. This is one 690 00:40:00.679 --> 00:40:04.440 of those movies where there needed to be no likable people. 691 00:40:04.960 --> 00:40:08.860 Except for maybe Ben Affleck, or then there's nobody to 692 00:40:08.909 --> 00:40:09.280 root for. 693 00:40:09.699 --> 00:40:14.309 Well, there's something to be said for... The problem is, look, 694 00:40:14.349 --> 00:40:17.320 if we're just going to talk about the kidnapping... component 695 00:40:17.340 --> 00:40:28.150 of this there's about three good kidnapping movies and one 696 00:40:28.170 --> 00:40:31.559 of them stars mel gibson in the 90s it's called 697 00:40:31.619 --> 00:40:38.079 ransom it's a surprisingly deep cast actually you have gibson 698 00:40:38.119 --> 00:40:41.519 and gary sinise and donnie walberg and a handful of 699 00:40:41.559 --> 00:40:46.719 other people And the other is probably Proof of Life 700 00:40:46.760 --> 00:40:49.699 with Russell Crowe and Meg Ryan, which is a different 701 00:40:49.719 --> 00:40:53.269 kind of kidnapping. That's somewhere in South America. I want 702 00:40:53.289 --> 00:40:56.250 to say Columbia, but don't quote me. And the guerrillas 703 00:40:56.269 --> 00:41:00.710 kidnap Americans there all the time. So much so that 704 00:41:00.769 --> 00:41:03.179 kidnapping is part of a business. It's a whole thing. Anyway, 705 00:41:04.539 --> 00:41:08.119 one of the things that those stories do fundamentally understand, 706 00:41:08.139 --> 00:41:12.739 to one degree or another, they fumble the ball in 707 00:41:12.760 --> 00:41:16.829 different places. But what's going on with the kidnappers is 708 00:41:16.869 --> 00:41:22.469 an important component of what makes these stories tick. This 709 00:41:22.550 --> 00:41:26.460 movie never puts us over there, never introduces us to 710 00:41:26.500 --> 00:41:29.739 the kidnappers, never

shows us what's going on over there. 711 00:41:29.860 --> 00:41:36.389 And if you choose not to do that, that can 712 00:41:36.449 --> 00:41:38.570 be made to work in your favor, to be very clear. 713 00:41:39.900 --> 00:41:42.059 But you have to be a lot defter with what 714 00:41:42.099 --> 00:41:45.000 you're doing than this, where they don't have the narrative 715 00:41:45.039 --> 00:41:49.820 momentum or the story to support it. This is a 716 00:41:49.889 --> 00:41:52.150 better episode of television, if you're going to do it 717 00:41:52.190 --> 00:41:56.710 in this perspective, than it is a 90-minute movie, or 718 00:41:56.750 --> 00:41:57.849 however long this thing was. 719 00:41:57.869 --> 00:42:00.570 I was going to say, the West Wing handled this 720 00:42:00.630 --> 00:42:01.639 very same thing better. 721 00:42:01.659 --> 00:42:07.480 Yeah. Yeah. And that's kind of where this movie winds 722 00:42:07.539 --> 00:42:10.849 up falling flat is there's nothing here really worth engaging with. 723 00:42:10.869 --> 00:42:14.789 There's nothing here to draw you in. The performances are 724 00:42:14.809 --> 00:42:17.730 a little uneven, very up and down in ways that 725 00:42:17.750 --> 00:42:22.289 you wouldn't necessarily expect. You don't get invested in the 726 00:42:22.650 --> 00:42:26.769 kidnapping plot. You don't get invested in Ben Affleck's ambitions. 727 00:42:26.789 --> 00:42:30.710 You don't get invested in anything. It's just a sequence 728 00:42:30.750 --> 00:42:35.090 of events. Hmm. frequently that barely connect to each other 729 00:42:35.130 --> 00:42:36.570 in any sort of real capacity. 730 00:42:37.070 --> 00:42:39.070 Like if I was sitting down with Ben Affleck and 731 00:42:39.090 --> 00:42:40.929 he was pitching me this movie, I'd be like, can 732 00:42:40.969 --> 00:42:45.190 you just write about your frustrations with politicians and famous 733 00:42:45.230 --> 00:42:50.699 people and, you know, feeling you can be extracted from 734 00:42:50.820 --> 00:42:53.380 any person at any time, especially with the way technology is. 735 00:42:53.699 --> 00:42:56.239 Just write that movie. Don't worry about the, don't do 736 00:42:56.280 --> 00:42:59.119 the kidnapping stuff. Just write that movie. And then if 737 00:42:59.139 --> 00:43:02.139 there's nothing else compelling about what you've written here, then 738 00:43:02.219 --> 00:43:06.110 we can kind of tack on something else. Maybe it's 739 00:43:06.130 --> 00:43:12.030 a kidnapping plot. Maybe it's something else. But I think 740 00:43:12.050 --> 00:43:14.519 this movie suffers from a lack of cohesion. 741 00:43:14.539 --> 00:43:16.480 Oh, yeah. 742 00:43:17.519 --> 00:43:21.340 And from somebody... I don't think the strands are very 743 00:43:21.380 --> 00:43:22.059 well integrated. 744 00:43:23.230 --> 00:43:24.750 Not even close. I mean, you can even see it 745 00:43:24.809 --> 00:43:27.510 under your little box there. The tagline for this is 746 00:43:27.570 --> 00:43:30.369 power can't protect you, but Ben Affleck's not a powerful 747 00:43:30.429 --> 00:43:34.199 person in the movie. He's running for office, and he's 748 00:43:34.239 --> 00:43:38.059 independently wealthy. But he's never established to be a person 749 00:43:38.119 --> 00:43:42.139 of prior political power. He's not a corrupt mob boss. 750 00:43:42.159 --> 00:43:45.039 He's not anything like that. He's just a dude who's 751 00:43:45.059 --> 00:43:45.940 a successful lawyer. 752 00:43:46.239 --> 00:43:48.090 Yeah, I think he's just a lawyer. So he has 753 00:43:48.110 --> 00:43:49.530 a lot of money, and he's throwing a lot of 754 00:43:49.570 --> 00:43:52.300 his money into this campaign. or I think he's running 755 00:43:52.360 --> 00:43:53.139 as an independent. 756 00:43:53.539 --> 00:43:55.460 Yeah. Like that's the other thing is like, Oh, we 757 00:43:55.500 --> 00:43:57.800 don't want to try and say he's from one political 758 00:43:57.860 --> 00:44:00.139 party or the other that may get part of the 759 00:44:00.219 --> 00:44:01.760 audience to not tune in to begin with. 760 00:44:02.800 --> 00:44:05.769 Well, again, you can, you can talk about what it's 761 00:44:05.789 --> 00:44:06.989 like to run as an independent. 762 00:44:07.889 --> 00:44:10.849 That's a very interesting concept for a movie. And it's 763 00:44:10.869 --> 00:44:12.170 not enough. It's nowhere here. 764 00:44:12.730 --> 00:44:15.670 Like the Ross Perot story is actually really interesting. 765 00:44:15.690 --> 00:44:16.050 Oh yeah. 766 00:44:16.070 --> 00:44:18.739 You know, the stuff that like Ralph Nader went through 767 00:44:18.909 --> 00:44:24.969 as a green party candidate was interesting. you know, Schwarzenegger running, 768 00:44:25.090 --> 00:44:27.010 he ran as a Republican, but he, you know, but 769 00:44:27.050 --> 00:44:30.760 he came out of nowhere basically and ran on the, 770 00:44:30.820 --> 00:44:38.639 the recall election in California. Like Jesse Ventura actually is 771 00:44:38.679 --> 00:44:42.139 probably the best example of this. Jesse Ventura ran as 772 00:44:42.179 --> 00:44:44.340 an independent. He was the mayor of Brooklyn park. And 773 00:44:44.360 --> 00:44:45.980 then he ran for governor of Minnesota. 774 00:44:46.719 --> 00:44:48.619 Yeah. He, and the crazy thing about that is like, 775 00:44:49.239 --> 00:44:50.920 if you listen to him talk about the strategy when 776 00:44:50.940 --> 00:44:54.840 he's lucid enough to do so, he didn't announce that 777 00:44:54.880 --> 00:44:58.139 he was running because normally people announce at the very 778 00:44:58.179 --> 00:45:01.090 beginning of what would be the campaign. And then you 779 00:45:01.110 --> 00:45:06.250 spend all your time building. He announced like at the 780 00:45:06.309 --> 00:45:10.489 very last minute you could announce after the other two 781 00:45:10.530 --> 00:45:12.230 had kind of beat each other up for a while. 782 00:45:12.250 --> 00:45:14.010 And he said,

Hey, by the way, if you don't 783 00:45:14.030 --> 00:45:18.079 like those two right here, and Minnesota went, you know what? 784 00:45:18.260 --> 00:45:18.639 Why not? 785 00:45:19.849 --> 00:45:26.030 Yes, they voted none of the above. But that's my point. Like, 786 00:45:26.050 --> 00:45:28.610 you could have really drawn from the Jesse Ventura campaign 787 00:45:28.630 --> 00:45:31.010 because Jesse Ventura talked about how when you're running for 788 00:45:31.050 --> 00:45:34.340 an independent, nobody wants to ever give you money because 789 00:45:34.380 --> 00:45:37.320 a lot of the money stuff is entrenched to the 790 00:45:37.360 --> 00:45:39.940 two parties. Like, there's a lot of talk on TikTok 791 00:45:39.980 --> 00:45:41.699 right now about, like, why do we have the two-party system? 792 00:45:41.719 --> 00:45:42.039 It's dumb. 793 00:45:44.059 --> 00:45:47.769 The reality is that system became– first of all, there's 794 00:45:47.809 --> 00:45:49.670 nowhere in the Constitution that says there can only be 795 00:45:49.710 --> 00:45:53.849 two political parties. We have an adversarial system, which means 796 00:45:53.889 --> 00:46:01.030 more than one. What really solidified the entrenchment of Democrat 797 00:46:01.050 --> 00:46:06.260 and Republican was first-past-the-poll voting, which I forget which amendment 798 00:46:06.280 --> 00:46:10.360 that is, but– If you understand, like, political theory and 799 00:46:10.380 --> 00:46:12.760 what goes on, that's what really made it to be. Nope, 800 00:46:13.000 --> 00:46:14.500 it's two. That's it. That's all we get. 801 00:46:15.099 --> 00:46:17.280 If you talk to people who run as independents and, 802 00:46:17.500 --> 00:46:20.360 you know, people who run, frankly, as Republican or Democrats, 803 00:46:21.619 --> 00:46:25.269 there's more to running than just putting your name, getting 804 00:46:25.289 --> 00:46:27.170 your name on a ballot and going out there and 805 00:46:27.190 --> 00:46:30.409 making campaign speeches and, you know, shaking babies and kissing moms. 806 00:46:32.110 --> 00:46:33.710 Fundraising is its own skill. 807 00:46:34.369 --> 00:46:35.570 There's a machine behind. 808 00:46:36.130 --> 00:46:36.369 Oh, yeah. 809 00:46:36.969 --> 00:46:39.070 Behind them in a very entrenched machine. Like, you know, 810 00:46:39.570 --> 00:46:41.650 there's a lot of talk about, we got to pull 811 00:46:41.670 --> 00:46:44.989 the money out of, out of politics, which is laughable. 812 00:46:46.050 --> 00:46:48.860 Um, it would be nice, but there's no way to 813 00:46:48.940 --> 00:46:51.380 do it. This is one of those things like we 814 00:46:51.400 --> 00:46:53.260 need to get so much of this out of politics. 815 00:46:53.280 --> 00:46:57.550 Like guys, it would be nice if there, if there 816 00:46:57.570 --> 00:47:01.929 was not like lobbyists and have an outsized, uh, influence. I, 817 00:47:01.949 --> 00:47:05.219 I agree, but, there's no mechanism for doing it. 818 00:47:05.489 --> 00:47:05.730 Yeah. 819 00:47:05.969 --> 00:47:07.730 And you don't know what it would look like afterwards. 820 00:47:08.110 --> 00:47:10.829 Like we've tried doing campaign finance reform. It doesn't not, 821 00:47:12.809 --> 00:47:15.530 it ends up running against the first amendment. There's huge 822 00:47:15.570 --> 00:47:17.719 problems with it. And I don't think anybody really wants it. 823 00:47:18.179 --> 00:47:20.360 You know, we're both doing so well on this podcast 824 00:47:20.409 --> 00:47:24.340 and I quit the coughing. I don't know if there's 825 00:47:24.360 --> 00:47:25.650 a lot of people in Washington that really want it. 826 00:47:25.679 --> 00:47:28.159 I mean, Oh, no one in Washington wants it. They 827 00:47:28.199 --> 00:47:29.380 all benefit from it. Yeah. 828 00:47:29.440 --> 00:47:32.889 Like they, Exactly. They all benefit from it, so there's 829 00:47:32.929 --> 00:47:36.590 no real appetite to try to change it. So again, 830 00:47:36.610 --> 00:47:39.449 if Ben Affleck wanted to talk about those things and 831 00:47:39.489 --> 00:47:42.360 talk about them, why do you need this stupid fucking plot? 832 00:47:43.119 --> 00:47:49.360 Because you could have done an exposure to a common 833 00:47:49.420 --> 00:47:54.070 person and their gripes differently than what you did here, 834 00:47:54.909 --> 00:47:55.489 to make your point. 835 00:47:56.280 --> 00:47:58.659 They don't even talk about the gripes of the kidnappers 836 00:47:58.719 --> 00:48:01.500 in this case. We never really get into what they're 837 00:48:01.699 --> 00:48:04.820 after or why they're doing what they're doing or whatnot. 838 00:48:04.840 --> 00:48:06.599 Why they targeted him especially. 839 00:48:07.280 --> 00:48:12.449 Yeah, there's so much unexplored territory there. And if your 840 00:48:12.530 --> 00:48:18.349 goal was instead to foster a general attitude of paranoia 841 00:48:18.449 --> 00:48:21.710 and you never know and the world's a crazy place 842 00:48:21.730 --> 00:48:25.269 full of random violence and you may never know, this 843 00:48:25.369 --> 00:48:28.510 is not structured and constructed in a way to get 844 00:48:28.570 --> 00:48:31.199 that message across in any way shape form or fashion. 845 00:48:31.099 --> 00:48:33.280 I kept waiting for that to be a revelation like 846 00:48:33.320 --> 00:48:36.800 the reason why they picked on him well they do 847 00:48:36.860 --> 00:48:40.260 say at the beginning like I think like some guys 848 00:48:40.280 --> 00:48:43.670 like retail outlets shut down they. 849 00:48:42.949 --> 00:48:46.070 Imply it but it's never like stated right. 850 00:48:45.750 --> 00:48:49.190 And then I don't I didn't see the connection to 851 00:48:49.210 --> 00:48:54.389 Ben Affleck either there was never one made yeah The 852 00:48:54.429 --> 00:48:58.170 implication is that somehow Ben Affleck's fault, the economy crashed 853 00:48:58.190 --> 00:49:02.440 and this guy lost his store. Except

that the movie 854 00:49:02.480 --> 00:49:04.679 doesn't do a good enough job of really explaining that, 855 00:49:05.400 --> 00:49:11.679 or explaining why that's the case. The kidnappers sort of 856 00:49:11.739 --> 00:49:16.730 infer it, because the movie just wants to deal with us. Also, 857 00:49:17.239 --> 00:49:19.900 you gotta narrow some of the subject matter down here 858 00:49:19.920 --> 00:49:23.679 because this movie wants to talk about you know the 859 00:49:23.719 --> 00:49:29.000 price of fame uh the price of political ambition immigration 860 00:49:29.019 --> 00:49:33.260 gun control like like the list of fucking things this 861 00:49:33.320 --> 00:49:35.989 movie like wanted to talk about like slow the like 862 00:49:36.389 --> 00:49:37.449 narrow that list. 863 00:49:37.230 --> 00:49:40.219 Down Somehow Ben Affleck got most of the way through 864 00:49:40.239 --> 00:49:42.380 the writing process and then went, oh, there's all these 865 00:49:42.420 --> 00:49:44.219 things I wish to whine about. Well, let's write a 866 00:49:44.280 --> 00:49:48.320 bedroom scene where I express to my wife all the 867 00:49:48.360 --> 00:49:50.360 things that I, as Ben Affleck, wish to talk about. 868 00:49:51.179 --> 00:49:57.400 Yeah. This was kind of background noise for me. I 869 00:49:57.739 --> 00:50:00.559 was playing a game on my phone almost the entire 870 00:50:00.579 --> 00:50:03.960 way through this movie. This was one of those where, well, 871 00:50:04.079 --> 00:50:05.280 I put it on the list, so I guess we're 872 00:50:05.300 --> 00:50:07.760 going to talk about it, but You know, that's why 873 00:50:07.780 --> 00:50:10.420 I'm not normally when you bitch and complain like my kids, 874 00:50:11.119 --> 00:50:13.099 I just roll my eyes and I think about my 875 00:50:13.119 --> 00:50:15.760 life decisions tonight. I'm like, yeah, this one's on me. 876 00:50:21.130 --> 00:50:22.329 So anything else? 877 00:50:23.610 --> 00:50:27.530 No, this movie, this might make it up. It's inept 878 00:50:27.570 --> 00:50:28.429 in so many ways. 879 00:50:28.849 --> 00:50:30.269 Oh, are you really going to put this on your 880 00:50:30.309 --> 00:50:30.809 bottom five? 881 00:50:31.210 --> 00:50:34.739 It might. I don't know for sure. I have my 882 00:50:34.780 --> 00:50:37.260 list of possibles. I haven't actually, like, whittled it down 883 00:50:37.300 --> 00:50:38.679 to five yet. Gotcha. 884 00:50:38.940 --> 00:50:39.980 All right, let's talk about. 885 00:50:40.000 --> 00:50:42.119 I've got Mark. There's a whole other month of crap 886 00:50:42.139 --> 00:50:43.889 that may, in fact, make the list. 887 00:50:43.989 --> 00:50:45.909 There's a good chance of Violent Night 2 is going 888 00:50:45.969 --> 00:50:49.110 on mine, having not even seen the... only seen the trailers. 889 00:50:51.070 --> 00:50:53.070 And then there's a small part of me, because I 890 00:50:53.090 --> 00:50:55.690 like to tweak the internet's nipples, that wants to put

891 00:50:55.730 --> 00:50:56.929 Doomsday on my bottom five. 892 00:50:57.710 --> 00:51:00.510 If you don't like it, then, like, look, I'm happy 893 00:51:00.530 --> 00:51:03.280 to throw it on mine if I think the movie sucks. Yeah, well. 894 00:51:03.820 --> 00:51:09.219 We'll make Alexis cry. Speaking of making Alexis cry, Sacrifice. 895 00:51:10.219 --> 00:51:15.000 This is one of those Megan deals where it hit 896 00:51:15.019 --> 00:51:18.559 the festival circuit last year, but it got released to 897 00:51:18.579 --> 00:51:22.300 the public this year. So technically, it's a 2025 movie, 898 00:51:22.340 --> 00:51:24.849 but it debuted in 2026. 899 00:51:24.849 --> 00:51:27.710 It also has the lowest score on Rotten Tomatoes of 900 00:51:27.750 --> 00:51:29.230 anything that made the festival circuit. 901 00:51:29.969 --> 00:51:35.460 Yeah. Sacrifice is a 2025 action-adventure No, it isn't. Comedy. 902 00:51:35.699 --> 00:51:35.900 No. 903 00:51:36.199 --> 00:51:40.809 Drama film. Directed by Romaine Gavris, who co-wrote it with 904 00:51:40.869 --> 00:51:44.630 Will Arbery. It's an ensemble cast that features Chris Evans, 905 00:51:44.869 --> 00:51:50.449 Anya Taylor-Joy, Vincent Cassell, Sam Richardson, again, John Malkovich, and 906 00:51:50.550 --> 00:51:54.179 Salma Hayek. The film had its world premiere in the 907 00:51:54.639 --> 00:51:58.440 special presentation section of the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival. 908 00:51:59.079 --> 00:52:02.320 On September 6, 2025, it was released on Netflix in 909 00:52:02.340 --> 00:52:06.489 the United States and France. on October 16th, 2026, and 910 00:52:06.550 --> 00:52:10.659 received mixed reviews from critics. Yeah, mixed is about right. 911 00:52:11.199 --> 00:52:12.920 It did do a little bit of box office, because 912 00:52:12.940 --> 00:52:15.059 I guess it was in theaters here, there, and everywhere. 913 00:52:15.079 --> 00:52:32.130 It made $ 453, 104. Um... It is one of the lowest 914 00:52:32.170 --> 00:52:33.929 rated films of the year to have fulfilled at fall 915 00:52:33.949 --> 00:52:42.730 film festivals. Fantastic. All right, Robert. This is one of those... 916 00:52:43.659 --> 00:52:45.900 It's not quite Triangle of Sadness for me, but we're 917 00:52:45.920 --> 00:52:47.360 going to end up having a fist fight. I can 918 00:52:47.400 --> 00:52:47.800 see it now. 919 00:52:48.719 --> 00:52:50.179 You like this that much, huh? 920 00:52:50.719 --> 00:52:52.579 It's not going on my top ten. I'm not going 921 00:52:52.599 --> 00:52:54.099 to gush about it the way I did Triangle of 922 00:52:54.119 --> 00:52:56.400 Sadness or some of the other really silly independent movies 923 00:52:56.440 --> 00:52:59.780 I've watched. But I didn't hate it. And of the three, 924 00:52:59.840 --> 00:53:00.460 this is my favorite. 925 00:53:03.190 --> 00:53:04.969 We're not going to fist fight as much as you think. 926 00:53:05.389 --> 00:53:10.090 Of these three, I didn't like this one, but bizarrely, 927 00:53:10.150 --> 00:53:12.090 I wound up respecting it a little bit by the end. 928 00:53:12.880 --> 00:53:16.480 That's where I'm landing. This was at least an interesting picture. Like, 929 00:53:16.659 --> 00:53:20.300 not quite something I've ever seen of this nature before. 930 00:53:20.860 --> 00:53:23.300 And at this point, as long as you're not continually 931 00:53:23.360 --> 00:53:26.280 feeding me the kind of gruel we got with Matchbox, 932 00:53:27.059 --> 00:53:27.800 I'll fucking take it. 933 00:53:30.179 --> 00:53:33.679 So this movie opens with Anya Taylor-Joy and a bunch 934 00:53:33.719 --> 00:53:38.639 of other fanatics, you know, 20-somethings burning a woman alive 935 00:53:38.760 --> 00:53:42.300 after getting a prophecy that they have to sacrifice people 936 00:53:42.320 --> 00:53:45.380 to a volcano to stop it from erupting and causing 937 00:53:45.420 --> 00:53:48.840 an extinction-level event. This is not just a volcano. This 938 00:53:48.880 --> 00:53:52.380 is like the volcano, the giant caldera that will wildly 939 00:53:52.440 --> 00:53:55.949 reshape the face of the planet. So they all gear 940 00:53:56.050 --> 00:53:58.869 up and get a bunch of weaponry, and they decide, well, 941 00:53:58.909 --> 00:54:02.050 there's a group of people nearby in Greece. We'll go 942 00:54:02.090 --> 00:54:08.789 find the people we need. So at an entirely up-its-own-ass 943 00:54:09.369 --> 00:54:12.550 kind of Hollywood gathering, we find the people we're going 944 00:54:12.570 --> 00:54:16.449 to wind up following. There's Vincent Cassell, who is... They're 945 00:54:16.489 --> 00:54:20.719 sort of standing for Elon Musk as the, like, rich weirdo. 946 00:54:22.860 --> 00:54:31.320 We have... Our primary lead is Chris Evans playing Chris Evans. 947 00:54:33.679 --> 00:54:35.940 He's awfully concerned about the environment. 948 00:54:37.280 --> 00:54:42.199 Well, sort of. He is a movie star who has 949 00:54:42.239 --> 00:54:45.670 had a few breakdowns, including publicly when he's been recorded 950 00:54:46.510 --> 00:54:48.670 with a flamethrower in the middle of the street at 951 00:54:48.690 --> 00:54:50.949 the premiere of one of his movies. I feel like 952 00:54:50.969 --> 00:54:52.789 they were trying to take a jab at Russell Crowe, 953 00:54:52.969 --> 00:54:54.110 but I couldn't swear to it. 954 00:54:55.570 --> 00:54:59.750 He's doing Robin Williams from, I think it's Reality What 955 00:54:59.769 --> 00:55:04.170 a Concept, where he's specifically, like, I think this is 956 00:55:04.369 --> 00:55:07.409 where he's doing the improv Shakespeare bit, and he starts 957 00:55:07.449 --> 00:55:11.050 talking about, like, you know, I wanted to do Death 958 00:55:11.070 --> 00:55:15.090 of a Salesman. They're making me do Mark and Mindy. 959 00:55:16.300 --> 00:55:18.840 He's doing this whole, like, I want to be a 960 00:55:18.880 --> 00:55:21.440 serious actor, and everything is shit, and I can't take 961

00:55:21.460 --> 00:55:23.079 any of it seriously. He's having one of those. 962 00:55:24.550 --> 00:55:27.309 How, like, everything is fake and nothing is real, and 963 00:55:27.349 --> 00:55:31.699 I'm one of these tortured actors, artistic types, obsessed with 964 00:55:31.780 --> 00:55:32.940 finding the real. 965 00:55:32.960 --> 00:55:37.119 I want my work to matter, goddammit. 966 00:55:38.280 --> 00:55:41.239 So he's there, he has a mild breakdown. Then the 967 00:55:41.280 --> 00:55:44.469 people attack. And they're like, okay, we need a couple 968 00:55:44.550 --> 00:55:48.449 of people to throw into the volcano. One, we need 969 00:55:48.469 --> 00:55:50.889 the person who my brother here falls in love with. 970 00:55:51.460 --> 00:55:53.940 And the awkward brother Don, your Taylor Joy, looks around 971 00:55:54.000 --> 00:55:56.739 and goes, you, you're good enough. They grab a woman. 972 00:55:56.800 --> 00:55:59.019 Come here, pretty lady. And like King Kong, he grabs 973 00:55:59.059 --> 00:56:00.030 her and climbs up. 974 00:56:00.659 --> 00:56:05.989 They grab Vincent Cassell because they grab Vincent Cassell. 975 00:56:06.030 --> 00:56:07.769 He's a bald white guy. We've already been over this. 976 00:56:07.929 --> 00:56:11.530 That's true. That's very true. He's either like Jeff. He's 977 00:56:11.570 --> 00:56:17.050 more Jeff Bezos than he is Elon Musk in this movie. Yeah. 978 00:56:17.110 --> 00:56:19.230 He's married to Selma Hayek. So she's in this movie 979 00:56:19.250 --> 00:56:23.289 for like five minutes. And then they grab Chris Evans 980 00:56:23.389 --> 00:56:25.619 to be the one who chooses to throw himself into 981 00:56:25.639 --> 00:56:29.340 the volcano when it's all said and done. And they escape. 982 00:56:30.090 --> 00:56:32.289 There's a bit of a chase. Not much of a chase. 983 00:56:32.329 --> 00:56:35.860 Bit of a chase. Then the woman they kidnap winds 984 00:56:35.949 --> 00:56:38.869 up killing the guy who was responsible for kidnapping her 985 00:56:38.909 --> 00:56:40.889 after he confesses that he's in love with his sister 986 00:56:40.949 --> 00:56:44.329 and not her. And before he dies, he tells his sister, yeah, 987 00:56:44.409 --> 00:56:46.769 I didn't love the person that you brought, and I'm 988 00:56:46.809 --> 00:56:49.449 supposed to sacrifice the person I love, and that's you. 989 00:56:50.070 --> 00:56:53.170 Everyone goes, ew, incest, but also weird movie, so okay. 990 00:56:53.989 --> 00:56:54.670 No, it's French. 991 00:56:56.510 --> 00:57:01.010 French, Greek, somewhere in that vicinity. Yeah. So she's like, yeah, 992 00:57:01.489 --> 00:57:03.469 Anya Taylor-Joy is like, okay, I can go along with this. 993 00:57:04.190 --> 00:57:05.909 So they resume marching to the volcano. We get a 994 00:57:05.949 --> 00:57:08.550 little bit of backstory. These are like the offspring of 995 00:57:08.590 --> 00:57:13.230 a couple of crazy doomsday preppers who got religious about 996 00:57:13.269

--> 00:57:18.000 the volcanoes. They saw one too many Werner Herzog movies 997 00:57:18.059 --> 00:57:24.480 on the topic. And they're marching to the volcano. The 998 00:57:25.039 --> 00:57:27.719 crazy old man in this case is John Malkovich who 999 00:57:27.780 --> 00:57:31.250 kidnaps both Chris Evans and Anya Taylor-Joy to try and 1000 00:57:31.289 --> 00:57:32.550 yell some sense into his daughter. 1001 00:57:33.469 --> 00:57:35.610 He has the best line. He was like, because you're 1002 00:57:35.630 --> 00:57:36.090 an idiot. 1003 00:57:37.949 --> 00:57:41.030 Yeah, he's like, look, I know that there's a problem. 1004 00:57:41.070 --> 00:57:43.369 I know the thing's going to explode. I'm a genius, 1005 00:57:43.409 --> 00:57:46.210 and I've calculated when this volcano erupts all the bad 1006 00:57:46.250 --> 00:57:49.070 things that are going to happen. You're the idiot thinking 1007 00:57:49.110 --> 00:57:51.349 throwing a human being into the volcano is going to 1008 00:57:51.429 --> 00:57:52.309 change anything. 1009 00:57:53.090 --> 00:57:55.809 Yeah, that was... I legit laughed out loud when he 1010 00:57:55.849 --> 00:57:56.730 said you're an idiot. 1011 00:57:57.949 --> 00:58:04.170 Best line delivery all year, pretty much. Um... They wind up... 1012 00:58:04.840 --> 00:58:07.909 He winds up dying in the end. All of our 1013 00:58:07.949 --> 00:58:10.349 relevant players get to the rim of the volcano. A 1014 00:58:10.369 --> 00:58:13.150 bunch of people throw Vincent Cassell in. They throw Anya 1015 00:58:13.190 --> 00:58:17.059 Taylor-Joy in. And then Chris Evans looking around going, you 1016 00:58:17.099 --> 00:58:20.780 know what? The crazy blonde who just got thrown into 1017 00:58:20.800 --> 00:58:22.760 the volcano was correct. This is the only thing that's 1018 00:58:22.820 --> 00:58:25.300 real in the world. And he throws himself into the 1019 00:58:25.360 --> 00:58:27.860 volcano and the volcano stops erupting and the credits roll. 1020 00:58:31.090 --> 00:58:34.989 Um... I like weirdo indie pictures. This is kind of 1021 00:58:35.030 --> 00:58:36.110 a weirdo indie picture. 1022 00:58:36.570 --> 00:58:37.440 Very much so. 1023 00:58:39.360 --> 00:58:44.480 This is very performance driven. This speaks to fanaticism. A 1024 00:58:47.380 --> 00:58:49.980 real anxiety in the world that people have about the 1025 00:58:50.000 --> 00:58:54.360 doomsday clock. Something that we've talked about on here before. 1026 00:58:56.130 --> 00:58:59.289 Something me and Jesse have talked about. There's a real 1027 00:58:59.349 --> 00:59:05.119 anxiety that You know, in terms of maintaining human civilization, 1028 00:59:05.139 --> 00:59:08.070 not whether or not the planet will survive. The planet 1029 00:59:08.090 --> 00:59:08.710 will be just fine. 1030 00:59:09.699 --> 00:59:12.599 The planet's a big hunk of rock. It takes a 1031 00:59:12.659 --> 00:59:14.059 lot to destroy it. 1032 00:59:15.000 --> 00:59:20.420 But human civilization is maybe not as strong as we 1033 00:59:20.440 --> 00:59:23.159 think it is. And, you know, you knock a couple 1034 00:59:23.199 --> 00:59:25.710 of dominoes over and the whole thing collapses. And there's 1035 00:59:25.730 --> 00:59:29.610 some real anxiety about people about that. about climate change, 1036 00:59:29.750 --> 00:59:34.320 about the ozone layer. I think it's fine now, but 1037 00:59:34.940 --> 00:59:36.960 for a while there, it was a real concern. 1038 00:59:36.980 --> 00:59:38.639 When you and I were kids, it was all about 1039 00:59:38.659 --> 00:59:39.639 the ozone layer. 1040 00:59:40.400 --> 00:59:41.400 I haven't heard about that in a while. 1041 00:59:42.460 --> 00:59:45.369 Again, it kind of got fixed, and nobody wants to 1042 00:59:45.429 --> 00:59:49.250 actually credit the fact that we fixed a lot of 1043 00:59:49.269 --> 00:59:52.869 these problems once they were brought to our attention. They 1044 00:59:52.889 --> 00:59:54.250 just have to move on to the next thing we 1045 00:59:54.269 --> 00:59:55.070 have to panic about. 1046 00:59:55.489 --> 00:59:57.909 There's the amount of diseases coming out of the Amazon 1047 00:59:57.929 --> 01:00:00.130 and all of that. And so there's all of these 1048 01:00:00.250 --> 01:00:04.130 different conversations happening that cause people to have a bit 1049 01:00:04.170 --> 01:00:08.000 of anxiety about the end of human civilization. And why 1050 01:00:08.039 --> 01:00:10.599 are people worried about human civilization rule? Because they're humans 1051 01:00:10.679 --> 01:00:14.239 and they don't want to die. So this movie speaks 1052 01:00:14.300 --> 01:00:19.000 to that. I think it also speaks to another anxiety 1053 01:00:19.019 --> 01:00:22.710 that people deal with. And that is, you know, the 1054 01:00:22.730 --> 01:00:25.989 meaning of life. Now, Maybe this isn't something that you 1055 01:00:26.010 --> 01:00:28.909 struggle with because you are devoutly religious and God bless 1056 01:00:28.929 --> 01:00:31.769 you for it. I'm not even about to approach making 1057 01:00:31.809 --> 01:00:36.010 fun of you for that. But people who do not 1058 01:00:36.150 --> 01:00:42.380 have something that they are, something outside of themselves, bigger 1059 01:00:42.409 --> 01:00:49.780 than themselves to devote themselves to, find themselves struggling. You know, 1060 01:00:49.820 --> 01:00:51.119 they don't know what it's all about. And that's kind 1061 01:00:51.139 --> 01:00:53.820 of Chris Evans' old bit. is I have fame, I 1062 01:00:53.860 --> 01:00:57.019 have fortune, people love me, I'm handsome, I'm successful at movies, 1063 01:00:58.219 --> 01:01:04.519 I don't feel fulfilled. So there's a deep dissatisfaction that 1064 01:01:04.539 --> 01:01:06.889 people go through, even when they're successful. And you don't 1065 01:01:06.909 --> 01:01:08.599 have to be a rich, famous actor to go through it. 1066 01:01:08.630 --> 01:01:11.050 These people go through it, you know, we're

just talking 1067 01:01:11.070 --> 01:01:13.769 about Kerry Washington, who is deeply unfulfilled in her marriage. 1068 01:01:14.550 --> 01:01:17.750 There's a zillion Kerry Washingtons out there. You know, there's 1069 01:01:17.769 --> 01:01:21.659 people whose political ambitions, like, it's never enough. Like, I 1070 01:01:21.699 --> 01:01:23.320 go and I do these things and I feel like 1071 01:01:23.340 --> 01:01:25.099 I'm going to be fulfilled. And I just have this 1072 01:01:25.119 --> 01:01:28.440 hole inside of me that I can't stop beating. And 1073 01:01:28.460 --> 01:01:29.980 so there's Chris Evans. Like, I don't know what to 1074 01:01:30.000 --> 01:01:34.320 do with myself. Like, it's all bullshit. And then he's like. 1075 01:01:34.380 --> 01:01:38.159 And to assuage himself, he engages in silly performative BS 1076 01:01:38.219 --> 01:01:42.769 as well. So... His character being just this grating hypocrite 1077 01:01:42.809 --> 01:01:43.630 is kind of genius. 1078 01:01:44.130 --> 01:01:47.679 Yeah. One of the things I... I struggle with the movie. 1079 01:01:48.219 --> 01:01:51.239 I struggle with anything that's nihilistic because nihilism is a 1080 01:01:51.260 --> 01:01:56.929 dead end. So, like, the movie having your lead character 1081 01:01:56.969 --> 01:02:02.849 struggling with fulfillment and joy, deciding, you know, being convinced 1082 01:02:02.889 --> 01:02:05.219 by the pretty girl that the only thing worth doing 1083 01:02:05.260 --> 01:02:15.519 is killing yourself. I struggle with the movie telling me that. 1084 01:02:16.269 --> 01:02:19.670 Whether or not it wants people to follow that, I 1085 01:02:19.829 --> 01:02:24.389 can't really tell. But the fact that the movie says 1086 01:02:24.489 --> 01:02:33.659 it bothers me deeply. Again, I think Anya Taylor-Joy actually 1087 01:02:33.699 --> 01:02:37.179 has a more interesting story because hers is one of 1088 01:02:37.239 --> 01:02:40.800 fanaticism and then realizing that you've devoted yourself to a 1089 01:02:40.840 --> 01:02:44.599 cause that is bullshit. And then what did we do 1090 01:02:44.659 --> 01:02:50.320 all of this for? I think it speaks to, again, religion, 1091 01:02:51.659 --> 01:02:58.559 institutional structures where you become a good worker, a good follower, 1092 01:02:58.599 --> 01:03:01.820 a good devotee, and then you realize it's all bullshit 1093 01:03:01.840 --> 01:03:07.050 being run by Wizard of Oz-type characters, just con artists. 1094 01:03:07.769 --> 01:03:09.829 And it's like, what the fuck was my life all 1095 01:03:09.869 --> 01:03:14.889 about then? And then her not wanting to be thrown 1096 01:03:14.909 --> 01:03:20.039 into the volcano. So, like, I like the movie because 1097 01:03:20.079 --> 01:03:22.420 it's interesting. I like the movie because it's talking about 1098 01:03:22.480 --> 01:03:25.440 things that I think are important and that are worth discussing. 1099 01:03:25.920 --> 01:03:28.500 I think it's got pretty actors who give great performances. 1100 01:03:32.079 --> 01:03:35.619 It's okay. Like I said, it's not quite as absurd 1101 01:03:35.679 --> 01:03:38.489 as Triangle of Sadness, so for me then it's not 1102 01:03:38.510 --> 01:03:41.409 quite as good because this needed to be sillier than 1103 01:03:41.449 --> 01:03:47.449 it was. The John Malkovich stuff was fun. but it 1104 01:03:47.570 --> 01:03:51.400 kind of was like a detour that went nowhere. It 1105 01:03:51.440 --> 01:03:53.300 just gives us a little bit more insight into On 1106 01:03:53.340 --> 01:03:56.139 Your Tale of Joy, and it gives John Malkovich an 1107 01:03:56.179 --> 01:03:58.079 opportunity to say the funniest thing I've heard all year. 1108 01:04:01.309 --> 01:04:04.949 Outside of that, the locations I thought were interesting. Not 1109 01:04:04.989 --> 01:04:09.170 necessarily the top of the volcano parts. That looked like Mordor. Well, 1110 01:04:09.190 --> 01:04:13.010 I mean, the fact that the Hollywood... The party, where 1111 01:04:13.030 --> 01:04:14.610 they are at the party. Oh, sure. 1112 01:04:14.699 --> 01:04:16.760 They went into a marble quarry and they all decided 1113 01:04:16.800 --> 01:04:17.860 to commemorate the time. 1114 01:04:19.860 --> 01:04:21.320 You know, I wasn't going to make that. 1115 01:04:21.380 --> 01:04:22.159 Adrian Brody. 1116 01:04:22.179 --> 01:04:23.980 God damn it. I wasn't going to make that joke. 1117 01:04:25.119 --> 01:04:25.800 I was. 1118 01:04:26.820 --> 01:04:28.860 But yeah, like the marble quarry is pretty looking. It's 1119 01:04:28.889 --> 01:04:32.480 a very, it's a very interesting looking set. So that's it. 1120 01:04:32.489 --> 01:04:35.590 This is kind of my thoughts about Sacrifice. Of the three, 1121 01:04:35.630 --> 01:04:38.050 this is the one I most enjoyed watching because it's 1122 01:04:38.070 --> 01:04:40.449 a really interesting film. I just don't know if I 1123 01:04:40.530 --> 01:04:43.110 agree with what I think the message was. Your thoughts? 1124 01:04:45.369 --> 01:04:47.170 I didn't quite get the nihilism out of this that 1125 01:04:47.210 --> 01:04:49.300 you did, but I see where you're coming from with it. 1126 01:04:51.840 --> 01:04:57.360 I kind of just wound up... Giant chunks of this 1127 01:04:57.400 --> 01:05:00.000 movie want to point and laugh at the Hollywood machine 1128 01:05:00.039 --> 01:05:03.070 and its faux... It's like faux outrage and its faux 1129 01:05:03.110 --> 01:05:06.969 sincerity about the urgency of current things. 1130 01:05:07.340 --> 01:05:09.659 Yes, if you were mad at all the celebrity singing 1131 01:05:09.719 --> 01:05:12.219 imagined during COVID, this is the movie for you. 1132 01:05:13.119 --> 01:05:15.820 My problem is, like, at the same time, it's too 1133 01:05:15.929 --> 01:05:18.230 self-important to actually, like, go all the way with that 1134 01:05:18.269 --> 01:05:19.010 kind of farce. 1135 01:05:19.690 --> 01:05:19.869 Mm-hmm. 1136 01:05:20.889 -->

01:05:23.409 Because it thinks it's pointing out some... It thinks it's 1137 01:05:23.469 --> 01:05:25.610 pointing this out and that it's brave for pointing this out, 1138 01:05:25.650 --> 01:05:28.039 so it winds up being a bit too self-serious to actually, like, 1139 01:05:28.099 --> 01:05:29.059 lean into the satire. 1140 01:05:29.079 --> 01:05:30.420 Mm-hmm. 1141 01:05:31.579 --> 01:05:33.699 And I think that's a mistake because that's the strongest 1142 01:05:33.719 --> 01:05:36.719 stuff in the movie is... We have to do something. 1143 01:05:36.760 --> 01:05:39.199 And then someone shows up and says, okay, here's a 1144 01:05:39.219 --> 01:05:47.610 thing you can do. And they all go, how about not? Like, 1145 01:05:47.780 --> 01:05:51.030 we have to stop the volcano from erupting. Well, what 1146 01:05:51.050 --> 01:05:53.360 can we do? Well, you can throw yourself into it. 1147 01:05:53.429 --> 01:05:57.929 Can I give you a check? Like, what do you 1148 01:05:57.949 --> 01:05:59.949 mean I have to suffer personally? What do you mean 1149 01:06:00.010 --> 01:06:02.730 I have to give up something to try and do anything? No. No. 1150 01:06:03.460 --> 01:06:07.010 I'm important. I'm rich. I'm a celebrity. I'm a whatever. 1151 01:06:07.030 --> 01:06:11.829 I don't think there's particularly anything interesting or deep about death. 1152 01:06:13.829 --> 01:06:17.889 And death is such an intrinsic part of like cult behavior. 1153 01:06:19.090 --> 01:06:25.260 And there's a lot of flowery discussion full of therapy 1154 01:06:25.280 --> 01:06:28.739 speak about the nature of death and what it means 1155 01:06:29.280 --> 01:06:32.090 to us living here and I'm willing to just accept 1156 01:06:32.190 --> 01:06:34.110 death as one of those things that makes life precious 1157 01:06:34.190 --> 01:06:36.809 and leave it alone. I don't need to examine it 1158 01:06:36.869 --> 01:06:40.969 any more than that. And like this movie desperately wants 1159 01:06:41.030 --> 01:06:41.510 to do that. 1160 01:06:42.750 --> 01:06:44.829 It's weird. Cause it kind of, it does, but it 1161 01:06:44.889 --> 01:06:47.670 doesn't know what it wants to talk about with relationship 1162 01:06:47.710 --> 01:06:53.340 to death. It's more trying to get it like, again, 1163 01:06:53.380 --> 01:06:58.139 like the nature of sacrifice for something that is of 1164 01:06:58.219 --> 01:07:03.050 supreme importance is And a bunch of people who give 1165 01:07:03.110 --> 01:07:06.099 lip service to the notion, but don't actually care anything 1166 01:07:06.139 --> 01:07:09.300 about what it actually takes to affect change or to 1167 01:07:09.360 --> 01:07:14.480 do anything. Right. And that's, again, I think that's behavior 1168 01:07:14.539 --> 01:07:17.500 in a worldview worthy of scorn and derision and being 1169 01:07:17.539 --> 01:07:20.940 called out and castigated like this. But I think the 1170 01:07:20.980 --> 01:07:24.010 movie itself is, again, a little too self-important about, look 1171 01:07:24.030 --> 01:07:27.110 at us being brave and calling out the hypocrisy to... 1172 01:07:28.659 --> 01:07:30.719 actually be effective in most of those respects. 1173 01:07:31.059 --> 01:07:33.820 When I got in a fight last year with the 1174 01:07:33.900 --> 01:07:36.820 online communists, you know, and their whole thing was like, 1175 01:07:37.059 --> 01:07:41.380 seize the means of production. If you get past the 1176 01:07:41.420 --> 01:07:44.659 silliness of that antiquated statement, a lot of what they 1177 01:07:44.719 --> 01:07:47.019 wanted was to just see the entire system as it 1178 01:07:47.059 --> 01:07:52.570 currently operates being torn down and changed so that people 1179 01:07:52.650 --> 01:08:00.030 aren't suffering. And they can say that Somewhat. I'm helping 1180 01:08:00.070 --> 01:08:00.909 a lot here with that. 1181 01:08:01.179 --> 01:08:05.039 You're giving them way too much grace. 1182 01:08:05.539 --> 01:08:07.380 But they don't have any concrete plans for how you 1183 01:08:07.400 --> 01:08:13.579 would actually execute that plan. After you've burnt the system down, 1184 01:08:13.679 --> 01:08:17.670 after you've taken out the leaders, you've cleaned out Washington, 1185 01:08:18.010 --> 01:08:21.489 you've killed all the billionaires, you've eaten the rich, what 1186 01:08:21.510 --> 01:08:24.590 does day two look like? Who's in charge? How are 1187 01:08:24.630 --> 01:08:27.930 we keeping people from being taken advantage of by ruffians 1188 01:08:27.989 --> 01:08:30.449 and barbarians that are going to come up from the 1189 01:08:30.489 --> 01:08:35.250 woodwork because the institution's gone that kept those people in place. 1190 01:08:35.750 --> 01:08:37.409 They don't have an answer for that because they've never 1191 01:08:37.449 --> 01:08:39.090 thought that deeply about it and they all like to 1192 01:08:39.109 --> 01:08:41.750 put their head in the sand about what happens every 1193 01:08:41.810 --> 01:08:45.500 time right but every single time it's joseph stalin or 1194 01:08:45.539 --> 01:08:48.000 chairman mao these are your choices guys. 1195 01:08:48.039 --> 01:08:50.619 But that's my frustration with this movie is this movie's 1196 01:08:50.659 --> 01:08:54.050 just like Burn it all. You know, if Chris Evans 1197 01:08:54.100 --> 01:08:57.789 is a metaphor, like a living, walking, breathing metaphor for 1198 01:08:58.210 --> 01:09:03.359 fresh with the, with institutions and lip service and all 1199 01:09:03.380 --> 01:09:05.859 of that, and him throwing himself in the volcano is 1200 01:09:05.899 --> 01:09:09.359 symbolic of burn it all down. Then they don't ever 1201 01:09:09.479 --> 01:09:12.880 give you anything more than that. And I'm sorry, you 1202 01:09:12.920 --> 01:09:15.560 have to have more than burn it all down. It works. 1203 01:09:15.619 --> 01:09:18.470 If you're a professional wrestler, kinda, it doesn't really work 1204 01:09:18.529 -->

01:09:23.840 as a political, uh, It just doesn't. Like, everybody likes 1205 01:09:23.880 --> 01:09:29.899 to take the laziest, low-hanging fruit approach to radical change, 1206 01:09:29.979 --> 01:09:33.960 political revolution, all of that. But nobody ever thinks it through. 1207 01:09:34.399 --> 01:09:39.159 Either because they can't or because they... It's not fun. 1208 01:09:39.479 --> 01:09:42.659 It's not fun to do... It's fun to throw the 1209 01:09:42.680 --> 01:09:44.600 party and destroy the house. It's not fun to clean 1210 01:09:44.619 --> 01:09:45.680 the party up afterwards. 1211 01:09:46.140 --> 01:09:46.439 Yeah. 1212 01:09:48.000 --> 01:09:48.159 But. 1213 01:09:48.909 --> 01:09:51.510 you have to clean the house up afterwards or there 1214 01:09:51.569 --> 01:09:56.029 is no house anymore. Your party, you know, destroyed the house. 1215 01:09:56.760 --> 01:09:59.060 So now you're just in the street to carry this 1216 01:09:59.100 --> 01:10:02.859 tortured metaphor even further. And I'm over here going, no, no, no, no. 1217 01:10:03.279 --> 01:10:05.439 Before we throw the party, what's the plan to clean 1218 01:10:05.479 --> 01:10:08.460 the house? And nobody wants to talk about that second part. 1219 01:10:08.720 --> 01:10:11.449 God knows this movie doesn't. That's my great frustration with it. 1220 01:10:14.159 --> 01:10:14.779 But I cut you off. 1221 01:10:15.340 --> 01:10:20.699 No, I don't disagree. Um, I think the interest, if 1222 01:10:20.720 --> 01:10:22.699 there was something that I wish would have explored a 1223 01:10:22.720 --> 01:10:25.460 little more, it actually is the John Malkovich character because 1224 01:10:26.359 --> 01:10:28.859 when he confronts Anya Taylor-Joy, she's happy to tell him like, 1225 01:10:28.899 --> 01:10:32.659 you know, you actually believed everything that I believed until 1226 01:10:34.359 --> 01:10:36.039 it came down that, by the way, this is going 1227 01:10:36.060 --> 01:10:41.689 to cost you personally. And suddenly you abandoned that and 1228 01:10:41.729 --> 01:10:44.029 you are trying to adopt a new worldview that just 1229 01:10:44.210 --> 01:10:50.239 asks less of you. And that relationship and that dynamic, 1230 01:10:50.279 --> 01:10:53.890 I think, is the more interesting and the more cutting one. 1231 01:10:54.869 --> 01:10:56.689 The number of people in the world who just were 1232 01:10:56.729 --> 01:10:59.890 happy to adopt. Yeah, sure, we need to do something 1233 01:10:59.909 --> 01:11:03.149 about climate change. Okay, please stop with the private jets. No, 1234 01:11:03.430 --> 01:11:08.359 I will not fly commercial. We have to do something about, 1235 01:11:09.100 --> 01:11:14.949 you know, exploited child labor in Africa. Great, quit buying smartphones. No. 1236 01:11:16.739 --> 01:11:22.430 We have to do something about anything. And they're happy 1237 01:11:22.449 --> 01:11:24.310 to say this is a problem. We need to fix it. 1238 01:11:24.750 --> 01:11:29.890

Do you remember Al Gore's carbon fucking thing that he 1239 01:11:29.909 --> 01:11:35.210 was doing where it was carbon offsets or offshoots? Oh, yeah. 1240 01:11:35.550 --> 01:11:38.470 Where I wasn't willing to make any personal sacrifices, but 1241 01:11:38.510 --> 01:11:44.430 I'm selling this other thing that will somehow affect climate 1242 01:11:44.449 --> 01:11:48.079 change positively. What a scam that was. 1243 01:11:49.220 --> 01:11:59.789 Of course it was. It's Al Gore. And that dynamic 1244 01:11:59.810 --> 01:12:02.470 I find more interesting because Anya Taylor-Joy is still a 1245 01:12:02.510 --> 01:12:05.069 believer in all of this. And she's like, you were 1246 01:12:05.109 --> 01:12:08.229 a believer too. What happened? Oh, suddenly you might have 1247 01:12:08.270 --> 01:12:11.420 to sacrifice. You might have to suffer. And now you're like, please, 1248 01:12:11.460 --> 01:12:17.029 where's the science? Now you're just retreating from one ideology 1249 01:12:17.090 --> 01:12:20.829 to another. Desperately trying to save your own ass. 1250 01:12:21.069 --> 01:12:23.729 So a little ways back, Jesse and I reviewed SLC Punk. 1251 01:12:24.470 --> 01:12:25.020 And a lot of. 1252 01:12:25.649 --> 01:12:29.090 Deconstructed. 1253 01:12:29.109 --> 01:12:32.840 A lot of what this movie talks about was the 1254 01:12:32.850 --> 01:12:34.579 same kind of stuff that came up in SLC Punk. 1255 01:12:35.000 --> 01:12:40.319 At what point does all of your nihilism and your 1256 01:12:40.600 --> 01:12:46.119 wanting to tear down institutions get us to any kind 1257 01:12:46.159 --> 01:12:48.960 of progression. It's not. You're just dancing in a circle. 1258 01:12:49.939 --> 01:12:56.550 You're just putting off adulthood. You're putting off responsibility. That's 1259 01:12:56.590 --> 01:13:00.189 all you're really effectively doing here. My big problem with 1260 01:13:00.229 --> 01:13:03.939 a lot of these leftist movements is you're not serious 1261 01:13:03.979 --> 01:13:10.399 people making serious plans with serious ideas about how this 1262 01:13:10.439 --> 01:13:13.939 world will work. it's either pie in the sky or 1263 01:13:14.020 --> 01:13:16.819 it's just, we're going to dance all night and party 1264 01:13:16.859 --> 01:13:19.399 every day. Um, that's frustrating. 1265 01:13:19.420 --> 01:13:22.340 But everyone can become an artist, Mark. Sure. 1266 01:13:23.000 --> 01:13:27.010 Um, but I, but again, so like, and you will be. 1267 01:13:26.909 --> 01:13:31.250 The community YouTuber instead of going into the mines, you morons. 1268 01:13:32.109 --> 01:13:33.890 So on your tail of joy is like frustration with 1269 01:13:33.909 --> 01:13:36.090 John Malkovich. And then her like decision, like, I don't 1270 01:13:36.130 --> 01:13:38.989 really want to be thrown into a fucking volcano. This 1271 01:13:39.060 --> 01:13:42.810 is a pointless gesture. That means nothing. And I was like, yeah, that, Okay. 1272 01:13:44.130 --> 01:13:47.550

Which gets undermined by Chris Evans then jumping into the volcano. 1273 01:13:48.289 --> 01:13:51.310 Well, it's one of the... I was waiting for the 1274 01:13:51.409 --> 01:13:53.189 end of this to see if anything interesting was going 1275 01:13:53.210 --> 01:13:57.550 to come out of it because Anya Taylor-Joy does question everything, 1276 01:13:57.590 --> 01:13:59.430 but then to the very end, she's like, you know what? 1277 01:14:00.989 --> 01:14:03.220 She just chooses to go through with it anyway because 1278 01:14:03.229 --> 01:14:07.020 she chooses to believe. And whether that's futile or not, 1279 01:14:07.079 --> 01:14:12.010 I suppose is a little bit up to interpretation. And then, yeah, 1280 01:14:12.050 --> 01:14:14.590 Chris Evans is like, you know what? The artificiality of 1281 01:14:15.189 --> 01:14:18.409 my previous existence was not worth it. And if my 1282 01:14:18.470 --> 01:14:21.789 sacrifice leads to the volcano not erupting, then it will 1283 01:14:21.829 --> 01:14:27.590 have been worth something. And I really wanted this movie 1284 01:14:27.609 --> 01:14:31.869 to end with the volcano erupting. Yeah. If you want 1285 01:14:31.890 --> 01:14:37.520 to talk, that's the nihilistic ending. What else could we 1286 01:14:37.539 --> 01:14:39.979 have done? We did everything we could and then everything 1287 01:14:40.020 --> 01:14:40.720 blew up anyway. 1288 01:14:41.010 --> 01:14:42.689 You know, a movie does a better job of what 1289 01:14:42.710 --> 01:14:44.130 this movie is trying to do. Don't look up. 1290 01:14:45.609 --> 01:14:49.250 A bit, yeah. Only a bit, though. That movie annoyed me. Sure. 1291 01:14:49.890 --> 01:14:51.710 You don't love Adam McKay. I get that. 1292 01:14:54.149 --> 01:14:56.859 I'm closer. That's closer to a coin flip than me. 1293 01:14:56.899 --> 01:14:58.659 Just like not been like Aaron Sorkin. 1294 01:14:58.939 --> 01:15:02.439 But it's like every week with Aaron Sorkin. 1295 01:15:03.039 --> 01:15:05.880 I'm just reaching for a relevantly recent. 1296 01:15:05.899 --> 01:15:08.939 Adam McKay's frustration with why don't you listen to smart people? 1297 01:15:10.430 --> 01:15:14.859 I think cut closer to the point than this one does. Yeah. 1298 01:15:14.920 --> 01:15:15.859 That, that I agree with. 1299 01:15:15.880 --> 01:15:19.359 So anything else about sacrifice? 1300 01:15:20.060 --> 01:15:23.579 Again, of the three, like it's just weird enough. And 1301 01:15:23.600 --> 01:15:27.310 that much as I didn't necessarily like it by the 1302 01:15:27.409 --> 01:15:30.069 end of the movie, I wound up respecting it and 1303 01:15:30.109 --> 01:15:33.600 its respect. I respect it being weird and I respect it, 1304 01:15:33.609 --> 01:15:35.050 you know, kind of going for some of the stuff 1305 01:15:35.069 --> 01:15:41.210 that it does. But it's largely buoyed up because I 1306 01:15:41.270 --> 01:15:44.729 watched Animals and Matchbox after it and went, you know what? 1307 01:15:44.810 --> 01:15:48.029 By comparison, maybe not quite as bad. 1308 01:15:48.510 --> 01:15:51.210 I watched it in reverse order. I watched Matchbox, then Animals, 1309 01:15:51.289 --> 01:15:52.189 then Sacrifice. 1310 01:15:53.210 --> 01:15:56.430 Same. So you felt even better about it than I 1311 01:15:56.470 --> 01:16:00.729 did because you were coming from the worst stuff. I 1312 01:16:00.770 --> 01:16:02.369 think the other thing that's going to hurt this when 1313 01:16:02.409 --> 01:16:04.510 it's all said and done, there's a giant chunk of 1314 01:16:04.550 --> 01:16:07.569 this that is too close thematically and whatnot to Digger. 1315 01:16:08.180 --> 01:16:09.720 And Digger just does a lot of it better. 1316 01:16:09.739 --> 01:16:15.600 It's weird that, like, Digger and Sacrifice are, you know, 1317 01:16:16.159 --> 01:16:18.680 at least available to the vast majority of people around 1318 01:16:18.739 --> 01:16:23.130 the same time. Like, there's this, like, swell of dissatisfaction 1319 01:16:23.649 --> 01:16:26.619 in Hollywood, and I'm just so unsympathetic towards it. 1320 01:16:27.289 --> 01:16:30.149 They fomented it themselves, and now they're convinced that they're 1321 01:16:30.170 --> 01:16:31.989 the ones who can be the arbiters of how we 1322 01:16:32.029 --> 01:16:34.170 talk about it, and it's pathetic. 1323 01:16:36.149 --> 01:16:38.760 Yeah, it's... I just keep thinking of the line from 1324 01:16:38.819 --> 01:16:41.050 Rick and Morty, like, your booze mean nothing, I've seen 1325 01:16:41.090 --> 01:16:41.619 what you cheer. 1326 01:16:42.510 --> 01:16:45.289 Yep, that is such a great line. Yeah. 1327 01:16:46.409 --> 01:16:52.529 Well, folks, that is our review of Da Animals. Da Animals. 1328 01:16:53.069 --> 01:17:00.020 Matchbox and Sacrifice. Tomorrow, if you're missing DMU Hollywood, it'll 1329 01:17:00.039 --> 01:17:03.460 be here tomorrow, but I won't be. Alexis will be 1330 01:17:03.539 --> 01:17:10.630 leading Robert and the Diva himself. Mr. Podcast. Mr. Don't 1331 01:17:10.670 --> 01:17:15.010 put the comments over my face. Mr. I have 20 1332 01:17:15.010 --> 01:17:17.720 bits I want to do and an impression and a 1333 01:17:17.720 --> 01:17:19.979 llama and pots and pans I want to bang together. 1334 01:17:20.000 --> 01:17:20.060 Mr. 1335 01:17:20.739 --> 01:17:25.500 I bring an audience, pay attention to me. Zach Strobel. 1336 01:17:26.500 --> 01:17:29.659 And they will be doing Oh Baby, It's a Wildwood. 1337 01:17:30.199 --> 01:17:32.550 Let me talk about that. Of the four things I 1338 01:17:32.590 --> 01:17:34.149 watched this weekend, that was the best. 1339 01:17:34.840 --> 01:17:37.600 Oh, Wildwood is, I haven't seen it yet, but I'm 1340 01:17:37.680 --> 01:17:39.520 almost certain it's going to be one of my 10 best. 1341 01:17:39.729 --> 01:17:41.630 So I've been complaining a lot on TikTok and it's 1342 01:17:41.649 --> 01:17:45.010 getting me a lot of views about the modern state 1343 01:17:45.029 -->

01:17:48.989 of fantasy and what a terrible place it's in. That 1344 01:17:49.310 --> 01:17:52.170 a lot of fantasy is hot garbage. It's a lot 1345 01:17:52.189 --> 01:17:55.640 of cookie cutter stuff. In case anyone's just like, oh, 1346 01:17:55.659 --> 01:17:57.399 you just don't like anything that's new. You know, go 1347 01:17:57.439 --> 01:18:00.939 back to your old 1970s, 1980s stuff. No, no, no. 1348 01:18:01.760 --> 01:18:02.180 Wildwood. 1349 01:18:02.819 --> 01:18:05.920 Wildwood was perfect. Wildwood is exactly what I want fantasy 1350 01:18:05.960 --> 01:18:08.899 to be. Like, it was... I was on the edge 1351 01:18:08.920 --> 01:18:10.520 of my seat, mostly because I didn't want to cough, 1352 01:18:10.560 --> 01:18:14.560 but I was actually really into the movie. It's the 1353 01:18:14.760 --> 01:18:18.100 perfect example. Like, it's definitely, like... And I know it's 1354 01:18:18.159 --> 01:18:21.390 an adaptation of a book, but... And I'm not entirely 1355 01:18:21.399 --> 01:18:24.069 sure how liberally the book takes from, like, Labyrinth and 1356 01:18:24.090 --> 01:18:27.170 The Wizard of Oz and Alice in Wonderland, but... Well, 1357 01:18:27.869 --> 01:18:28.449 it's the same. 1358 01:18:29.670 --> 01:18:32.390 I hesitate to say it this way, but... Mm-hmm. Like 1359 01:18:32.649 --> 01:18:37.970 Labyrinth and Alice in Wonderland, that is a subtype of story. 1360 01:18:38.989 --> 01:18:43.329 And it's almost its own archetype in some respects. So 1361 01:18:43.390 --> 01:18:45.109 it's within that genre. 1362 01:18:45.609 --> 01:18:48.270 Well, I don't want to take Alexis' thunder. I just 1363 01:18:48.289 --> 01:18:50.340 want to give my quick word on Wildwood. and then 1364 01:18:50.840 --> 01:18:52.640 you guys can have a full discussion about it tomorrow. 1365 01:18:54.619 --> 01:18:55.539 But yeah, I. 1366 01:18:57.750 --> 01:18:59.680 I couldn't think of a single thing wrong with it. 1367 01:18:59.850 --> 01:19:01.789 I enjoyed every single minute of it. I thought all 1368 01:19:01.810 --> 01:19:04.189 the voice work was good. I thought the stop motion... 1369 01:19:04.930 --> 01:19:07.590 If that doesn't win Best Animated Feature, I'll be surprised. 1370 01:19:09.489 --> 01:19:12.689 It is... One of the best movies of this year. 1371 01:19:12.729 --> 01:19:14.470 I can't say enough good things about it. I hope 1372 01:19:14.649 --> 01:19:17.970 you really enjoy it. I'm sure you, Zach, and Alexis 1373 01:19:17.989 --> 01:19:21.609 will have just the most positive speech conversation about it. 1374 01:19:21.689 --> 01:19:24.890 And really should. I'm not trying to be sarcastic. I 1375 01:19:26.770 --> 01:19:29.369 get on Alexis because I think she artificially praises things 1376 01:19:29.409 --> 01:19:32.680 because sometimes she's not the deepest of thinkers. But I 1377 01:19:32.720 --> 01:19:34.479 think here she's going to gush over this thing and 1378 01:19:34.500 --> 01:19:36.880 it's going to be well-deserved. So

have fun with that. 1379 01:19:38.479 --> 01:19:41.100 Yeah, that's what we'll be doing tomorrow, and I'm looking 1380 01:19:41.140 --> 01:19:42.220 forward to it. Yep. 1381 01:19:42.779 --> 01:19:47.090 Thursday, Jesse and I return to the studio. Since it's 1382 01:19:47.149 --> 01:19:49.869 Veterans Day coming up, I decided to take our Band 1383 01:19:49.909 --> 01:19:53.409 of Brothers Pacific and Masters of the Air reviews and 1384 01:19:53.470 --> 01:19:57.710 make a Sabaton-style appreciation of the military song called Tanks 1385 01:19:57.750 --> 01:19:58.289 for the Memories. 1386 01:19:59.810 --> 01:20:00.770 Even though they're not so good? 1387 01:20:01.859 --> 01:20:03.739 Well, you know, Jesse's the one that said it, and 1388 01:20:03.760 --> 01:20:05.100 I thought it was so funny, I stuck with it. 1389 01:20:05.460 --> 01:20:07.640 You just, you went with the pun. Okay. Yep. 1390 01:20:07.970 --> 01:20:10.109 Thanks for the memories. No one listens to my music anyway. 1391 01:20:10.130 --> 01:20:12.689 Who gives a fuck? Hey, I listen to your stuff. 1392 01:20:13.140 --> 01:20:16.500 That's true. Monday, we're back on DMU Hollywood on its 1393 01:20:16.539 --> 01:20:21.140 regular Monday's time slot with Godzilla. And then on Thursday 1394 01:20:21.260 --> 01:20:24.560 of next week, oh boy, Robert, I can't wait. It's 1395 01:20:24.619 --> 01:20:31.079 part one of two of our seafaring monster shark movie trilogies. 1396 01:20:31.659 --> 01:20:38.699 Triple features. We got the Bay Let me see what 1397 01:20:38.720 --> 01:20:43.220 I got here. We got The Bay, Deepwater, and Chum. 1398 01:20:43.239 --> 01:20:46.659 I've heard Chum is one of the worst movies of 1399 01:20:46.680 --> 01:20:48.420 the year, so I'm very excited about this. 1400 01:20:49.300 --> 01:20:50.520 I'm sure it is. 1401 01:20:51.279 --> 01:20:55.000 So, you wanted to review Deepwater, so I had to 1402 01:20:55.039 --> 01:20:56.159 build a triple feature around it. 1403 01:20:56.180 --> 01:20:58.920 You did not have to build a triple feature. 1404 01:20:59.239 --> 01:21:01.260 I had to build a triple feature. Why am I 1405 01:21:01.279 --> 01:21:05.000 supposed to just talk about Deepwater all willy-nilly and unstructured? 1406 01:21:07.189 --> 01:21:09.329 I mean, there's any number of ways we could have 1407 01:21:09.350 --> 01:21:10.029 approached it. 1408 01:21:11.529 --> 01:21:13.569 No, I suppose we could have done an on-trial, but 1409 01:21:13.590 --> 01:21:16.210 it would have been like five minutes. No, this is 1410 01:21:16.250 --> 01:21:16.649 much better. 1411 01:21:17.369 --> 01:21:20.350 I'm just saying, there's other ways we could have approached it. 1412 01:21:21.810 --> 01:21:22.880 You made this choice. 1413 01:21:23.489 --> 01:21:26.600 I did. I'm happy to... You like a nice, schlocky 1414 01:21:26.640 --> 01:21:30.239 shark movie. So three of them in a row should 1415 01:21:30.260 --> 01:21:33.500 be fantastic. This won't make you regretful of your life 1416 01:21:33.520 --> 01:21:34.520 decisions at all. 1417 01:21:34.539 --> 01:21:35.579 Uh-huh. 1418 01:21:37.680 --> 01:21:39.119 All right, that's what I got going on over here. 1419 01:21:39.159 --> 01:21:40.140 What do you got going on over there? 1420 01:21:40.899 --> 01:21:45.970 I cover mixed martial arts and professional wrestling over at 411mania. com. 1421 01:21:45.189 --> 01:21:48.010 They're going to be SmackDown on Fridays. I think they're 1422 01:21:48.050 --> 01:21:51.569 currently taping this episode, so spoilers should be out in 1423 01:21:51.590 --> 01:21:52.250 the near future. 1424 01:21:52.270 --> 01:21:55.380 Have they gone to Riyadh yet? Did they go early? 1425 01:21:56.539 --> 01:21:57.140 This Saturday. 1426 01:21:58.020 --> 01:22:01.159 I know it's this Saturday, but if they're taping now. 1427 01:22:03.439 --> 01:22:05.500 I'm wondering if they're making travel plans to go earlier, 1428 01:22:05.520 --> 01:22:07.010 seeing as it's not the safest trip right now. 1429 01:22:07.020 --> 01:22:11.859 Well, you know, flying from somewhere in the United States, 1430 01:22:13.979 --> 01:22:16.239 you would have to, like, leave either late Friday night 1431 01:22:16.260 --> 01:22:20.899 or early Saturday morning and then do the show Saturday. Like, 1432 01:22:21.220 --> 01:22:24.319 the travel's just not feasible for the Friday crew. Mm-hmm. 1433 01:22:26.449 --> 01:22:28.689 So maybe you get a couple of days off. Maybe 1434 01:22:28.710 --> 01:22:30.689 you just go over there later and suck up to 1435 01:22:30.729 --> 01:22:33.840 the bloodthirsty, murderous regime and try not to get shot 1436 01:22:33.880 --> 01:22:36.859 down by any of the number of the violent rebels. 1437 01:22:37.399 --> 01:22:39.920 It was nice of our president to not start another 1438 01:22:39.939 --> 01:22:42.020 war with Iran until after Ground Jewel. 1439 01:22:42.739 --> 01:22:44.460 I hope he starts it while they're over there, and 1440 01:22:44.479 --> 01:22:45.199 I hope they get bombed. 1441 01:22:46.060 --> 01:22:51.289 Robert, don't wish people death by bombing. What do the 1442 01:22:51.329 --> 01:22:52.529 pro wrestlers ever do to you? 1443 01:22:56.310 --> 01:22:56.789 Really? 1444 01:22:59.010 --> 01:23:02.170 You know, I say that, but I have a TikTok 1445 01:23:02.189 --> 01:23:06.609 coming up about Ted Lasso season four, Fuller House, and 1446 01:23:06.630 --> 01:23:11.270 The Mandalorian and Grogu that starts with, I'm tired of 1447 01:23:11.329 --> 01:23:14.029 television hurting me. So I take it back. I take 1448 01:23:14.069 --> 01:23:14.510 it all back. 1449 01:23:16.289 --> 01:23:18.699 Of all the genres that you could ask me, like, hey, 1450 01:23:18.750 --> 01:23:20.649 what did these people ever do to you? And you 1451 01:23:20.670 --> 01:23:22.109 chose pro wrestlers? 1452 01:23:24.130 --> 01:23:27.670 Yeah. In my defense, you would not have such a 1453 01:23:27.750 --> 01:23:29.710 long list of grievances that you

want to nail to 1454 01:23:29.729 --> 01:23:32.090 the church door had you not been paid to cover 1455 01:23:32.109 --> 01:23:35.670 it for the past 20 years. However long you've been 1456 01:23:35.710 --> 01:23:40.489 doing it. Paid. Here's your 40 shillings and a hay penny. 1457 01:23:40.510 --> 01:23:44.239 Yeah, that is now two months behind, so there's about 1458 01:23:44.279 --> 01:23:44.720 to be a. 1459 01:23:45.899 --> 01:23:47.180 A work stoppage you're going on strike? 1460 01:23:48.220 --> 01:23:50.140 Something. We'll see. 1461 01:23:51.079 --> 01:23:52.739 You know, those old gray mares ain't what they used 1462 01:23:52.779 --> 01:23:52.939 to be. 1463 01:23:53.399 --> 01:23:56.800 That is the truth. But also, like, professional wrestling is 1464 01:23:56.840 --> 01:23:59.979 a cesspool of the worst people in the world, and 1465 01:24:00.060 --> 01:24:01.079 pretty much always has been. 1466 01:24:01.100 --> 01:24:04.560 Okay, I feel like that's a strong statement, considering there's, like, 1467 01:24:04.960 --> 01:24:08.359 you know, gang violence and terrorists out there. 1468 01:24:08.560 --> 01:24:10.930 Oh, you want to go through the sheer number of 1469 01:24:11.029 --> 01:24:14.090 child predators that hit in the ranks of professional wrestlers 1470 01:24:14.149 --> 01:24:14.710 over the years? 1471 01:24:14.729 --> 01:24:16.789 No, I didn't mean to touch you in your no-no square. 1472 01:24:16.869 --> 01:24:18.189 Please just get on with your plugs. 1473 01:24:18.289 --> 01:24:20.210 Because it's a long-ass list if we want to go 1474 01:24:20.250 --> 01:24:20.560 down it. 1475 01:24:20.750 --> 01:24:22.609 I hear you, Martin Luther. Keep going. 1476 01:24:22.630 --> 01:24:22.810 Okay. 1477 01:24:26.800 --> 01:24:29.260 Everyone who heard me thinks I'm actually talking about Martin 1478 01:24:29.279 --> 01:24:32.329 Luther King. I'm referring to the real Martin Luther because 1479 01:24:32.369 --> 01:24:33.750 I keep doing the nailing to the. 1480 01:24:34.289 --> 01:24:35.170 No, I was with you. 1481 01:24:35.670 --> 01:24:37.829 I know you are, but the rest of the adults. 1482 01:24:37.850 --> 01:24:40.840 Hey, remember that time when Jerry Springer was the guest 1483 01:24:40.880 --> 01:24:42.000 host on Monday Night Raw? 1484 01:24:43.420 --> 01:24:45.319 I try to forget that era. 1485 01:24:45.340 --> 01:24:47.670 And they did the segment that was like a spoof 1486 01:24:47.750 --> 01:24:49.989 on his show, and Jerry Lawler was up there talking 1487 01:24:50.010 --> 01:24:53.050 about how he slept with Kelly Kelly, and Jerry Springer 1488 01:24:53.069 --> 01:24:54.590 looked him dead in the eye and said, isn't she 1489 01:24:54.609 --> 01:24:55.569 a little old for you? 1490 01:24:58.449 --> 01:24:59.050 Okay, Robert. 1491 01:25:00.670 --> 01:25:07.279 Rapists. So many rapists. You're a rapist. So I cover... 1492 01:25:08.260 --> 01:25:12.010 Mixed martial arts and professional wrestling. Smackdown on Friday. This 1493

01:25:12.060 --> 01:25:15.829 last Saturday, the UFC was on Halloween in the Apex 1494 01:25:16.430 --> 01:25:19.489 and featured the single, maybe the single worst stand-up I've 1495 01:25:19.529 --> 01:25:24.270 ever seen in my life. And Otto Moicano has the 1496 01:25:24.310 --> 01:25:28.170 back with a full body triangle locked in. And the 1497 01:25:28.210 --> 01:25:30.829 referee goes, you know what? How about we just restart 1498 01:25:30.869 --> 01:25:32.369 this on the feet? 1499 01:25:33.109 --> 01:25:33.710 Oh, wonderful. 1500 01:25:35.489 --> 01:25:39.090 Yeah. You want details, listen to the 411 Grand and 1501 01:25:39.130 --> 01:25:43.760 Pound MMA podcast. This week is... This week lost its 1502 01:25:43.800 --> 01:25:47.539 main event. So now its headliner is Waldo Cortez Acosta 1503 01:25:47.579 --> 01:25:49.699 and Johnny Walker, and I don't know what I'm doing 1504 01:25:49.739 --> 01:25:50.199 with my life. 1505 01:25:51.829 --> 01:25:52.710 Wasting it, I would assume. 1506 01:25:53.590 --> 01:25:54.229 Probably. 1507 01:25:54.250 --> 01:25:56.770 Okay, at least you don't have kids yelling at you 1508 01:25:56.810 --> 01:26:00.199 every weekend. You know. 1509 01:26:01.340 --> 01:26:04.579 The dull silence and then having to watch what the 1510 01:26:04.659 --> 01:26:07.439 UFC has become for seven hours on a Saturday, I 1511 01:26:07.539 --> 01:26:12.399 would welcome the opportunity to expand my life with progeny 1512 01:26:12.430 --> 01:26:15.229 that would enrich it in all kinds of meaningful ways. 1513 01:26:16.170 --> 01:26:20.130 I'm at a Taco Bell with my daughter and her friend. Now, 1514 01:26:20.149 --> 01:26:21.649 she doesn't get to see this friend very often, so 1515 01:26:21.670 --> 01:26:25.689 this was a very special affair. And I won't even 1516 01:26:25.729 --> 01:26:29.649 get into the surrounding stuff about this, about how her parents... 1517 01:26:29.819 --> 01:26:32.619 Just let her get into a car of a strange 1518 01:26:32.640 --> 01:26:36.579 50-year-old without meeting me or exchanging any information. But that's okay. 1519 01:26:36.600 --> 01:26:40.760 My girlfriend said it was fine, Boomer. So it's fine, Boomer. 1520 01:26:40.800 --> 01:26:43.220 It's not fine. I'm with you on that one entirely, 1521 01:26:43.279 --> 01:26:43.939 by the way. 1522 01:26:44.020 --> 01:26:46.380 Let's skip all of that. Let's go straight to I 1523 01:26:46.439 --> 01:26:49.020 took this girl and my two kids to dinner. And 1524 01:26:49.050 --> 01:26:51.310 I'm sitting at the table. And they're talking about how 1525 01:26:51.550 --> 01:26:54.710 my daughter can't find a skirt because it's mixed in 1526 01:26:54.750 --> 01:26:57.560 with a bunch of her black T-shirts. And I go, well, 1527 01:26:57.600 --> 01:26:59.850 you should use some racial segregation and put the shirts 1528 01:26:59.909 --> 01:27:04.170 over here and the skirts over there. And because apparently 1529 01:27:04.229 --> 01:27:07.869 this Fabergé egg

of a child, a 15-year-old child, couldn't 1530 01:27:07.949 --> 01:27:11.859 stand to hear the words publicly said, racial segregation, from 1531 01:27:11.899 --> 01:27:14.680 her father who frequently makes jokes like that, I got 1532 01:27:14.819 --> 01:27:19.239 shushed repeatedly. So, never mind all that. 1533 01:27:19.260 --> 01:27:23.060 Yeah, that does sound pretty terrible. 1534 01:27:23.630 --> 01:27:23.909 Yeah. Yeah. 1535 01:27:25.119 --> 01:27:28.140 How dare you make a suggestion to fix the problem 1536 01:27:28.159 --> 01:27:29.640 that she's complaining about? 1537 01:27:29.760 --> 01:27:31.630 Yes, and I just used a silly word to do it, 1538 01:27:31.670 --> 01:27:34.289 but never mind all that. 1539 01:27:35.289 --> 01:27:39.430 You could have asked why her closet isn't an apartheid 1540 01:27:39.489 --> 01:27:41.630 state where all the different kinds are kept separate. 1541 01:27:42.229 --> 01:27:43.560 I'll keep that in my back pocket. 1542 01:27:43.960 --> 01:27:45.359 Use it next time. You're welcome. 1543 01:27:45.380 --> 01:27:46.220 Yeah, thanks. 1544 01:27:46.680 --> 01:27:47.939 And she'll ask what apartheid means. 1545 01:27:48.680 --> 01:27:51.100 I'm doing my TikTok on Sunday, and it was about 1546 01:27:51.140 --> 01:27:53.579 who gets to say what cooning is. And it was 1547 01:27:53.640 --> 01:27:57.619 my whole thing with Sean discussing Cat Williams. And my 1548 01:27:57.659 --> 01:28:00.789 son comes running out of the room. Father, no! I'm like, 1549 01:28:00.810 --> 01:28:05.510 what's wrong, son? He's like, you are an old white 1550 01:28:05.609 --> 01:28:09.289 guy with a long beard. You can't say cooning on TikTok. 1551 01:28:09.930 --> 01:28:13.800 And I was like, I'm fucking quoting Cat Williams. And 1552 01:28:13.819 --> 01:28:17.140 he was like, no! Like, no one will hear anything 1553 01:28:17.199 --> 01:28:19.659 else you said. They'll just have heard the word coonings. 1554 01:28:20.239 --> 01:28:23.119 I'm like, oh, my God, Jonas, calm the fuck down. 1555 01:28:23.819 --> 01:28:25.850 And I look over and I look at my daughter, who's, 1556 01:28:25.890 --> 01:28:28.109 you know, still repelled by the very. 1557 01:28:27.970 --> 01:28:29.810 Idea that I made a sheet and looking at you 1558 01:28:29.869 --> 01:28:32.329 like your head just rotated 360 degrees. 1559 01:28:32.569 --> 01:28:35.670 You know, just couldn't handle her father, you know, saying 1560 01:28:35.710 --> 01:28:39.470 get another another thing. And I'm like, what do you 1561 01:28:39.489 --> 01:28:39.949 mean another way? 1562 01:28:40.189 --> 01:28:42.010 Epithet in some capacity? 1563 01:28:42.130 --> 01:28:43.470 Look at her. And I'm just like, well, you got 1564 01:28:43.510 --> 01:28:46.449 comments too. And she's just like, you know, father, she 1565 01:28:46.640 --> 01:28:49.180 called me father with disdain in her voice. She said, father, 1566 01:28:52.880 --> 01:28:54.739 you're a grown ass man. If you want to say 1567 01:28:54.800 --> 01:28:56.859 a racial slur and get yourself fired, what am I 1568 01:28:56.880 --> 01:28:59.760 going to do to stop you? I could not have 1569 01:28:59.819 --> 01:29:02.779 dropped them off at their mother's fast enough. 1570 01:29:05.220 --> 01:29:06.939 That may be the worst thing you could have said. 1571 01:29:07.100 --> 01:29:09.779 I couldn't wait to drop you off at your mother's. 1572 01:29:10.159 --> 01:29:12.750 Normally, it's like 7 o'clock. I'm like, oh, I missed you. 1573 01:29:12.869 --> 01:29:13.869 It was 3 o'clock. 1574 01:29:13.890 --> 01:29:16.350 I'm like, get out. 1575 01:29:16.369 --> 01:29:17.069 Get out. 1576 01:29:17.130 --> 01:29:19.050 You're lucky I drove you to the driveway and didn't 1577 01:29:19.090 --> 01:29:21.010 just leave you on the side of the highway. Get out. 1578 01:29:21.649 --> 01:29:24.539 Yeah, I'll just drive past the back and you can 1579 01:29:24.640 --> 01:29:24.939 hop it. 1580 01:29:26.350 --> 01:29:29.289 I'll slow down to about 30 and you can tuck 1581 01:29:29.310 --> 01:29:30.170 your shoulder and roll. 1582 01:29:30.189 --> 01:29:32.100 Oh God, I'm such a monster when I just drive 1583 01:29:32.109 --> 01:29:33.939 into the fucking living room and let him out there. 1584 01:29:35.640 --> 01:29:36.939 Pull a Jamie Lee Curtis. 1585 01:29:37.720 --> 01:29:43.399 Yes. Coding! I just drive out again. 1586 01:29:44.560 --> 01:29:46.180 At which point someone else is going to wait. Did 1587 01:29:46.220 --> 01:29:48.279 you say that with a C or a G? Because 1588 01:29:48.300 --> 01:29:49.539 those mean very different things. 1589 01:29:50.119 --> 01:29:52.960 Oh God, I don't want to hear it. Two weeks ago, 1590 01:29:52.979 --> 01:29:56.409 we were at the movies and... My son's telling me something, 1591 01:29:56.449 --> 01:29:58.350 and I'm like, oh, they were LARPing at something or other. 1592 01:29:58.430 --> 01:30:00.789 I'm just like, I'm actually wrong. I told you this one. 1593 01:30:00.829 --> 01:30:03.470 He's like, LARPing means posing. And I'm like, I hate 1594 01:30:03.489 --> 01:30:05.609 this Orwellian newspeak you guys do. 1595 01:30:06.449 --> 01:30:08.439 I get why LARPing kind of made the jump into 1596 01:30:08.479 --> 01:30:09.380 meaning the same thing. 1597 01:30:09.960 --> 01:30:10.840 They're all idiots. 1598 01:30:11.760 --> 01:30:14.539 Well, that's a universal truth of everyone younger than you. 1599 01:30:15.060 --> 01:30:18.140 That was known by everyone older than you. Fair. 1600 01:30:18.500 --> 01:30:21.939 So now that I'm done venting about my children, let 1601 01:30:21.960 --> 01:30:22.779 me tell you. 1602 01:30:22.800 --> 01:30:23.840 Publicly on the internet. 1603 01:30:24.960 --> 01:30:26.659 A safe place publicly on the internet. 1604 01:30:26.699 --> 01:30:33.520 It really is. I heard unironically the appropriate counter to that. 1605 01:30:33.619 --> 01:30:39.819 The internet never forgets. If it's on the internet, it's forever. Yeah, 1606

01:30:39.859 --> 01:30:42.460 but attention is real finite and the internet's real big. 1607 01:30:42.960 --> 01:30:47.399 Yeah. By the way, this TikTok that was going to 1608 01:30:47.439 --> 01:30:49.239 get me banned from the internet and called of it 1609 01:30:50.439 --> 01:30:54.600 currently has a little less than 1,000 views. And something 1610 01:30:54.659 --> 01:30:57.770 like 100 likes or something like that. A lot of 1611 01:30:57.810 --> 01:30:59.909 black folks, by the way. So, you know. 1612 01:31:01.250 --> 01:31:04.350 That's because you don't patronize people on the internet. You 1613 01:31:04.390 --> 01:31:05.310 just speak your mind. 1614 01:31:05.569 --> 01:31:09.789 Right. And I have a small enough audience that actually listens. So, 1615 01:31:10.170 --> 01:31:13.270 you know. Whatever. He's 12. What the fuck does he know? 1616 01:31:14.520 --> 01:31:17.560 The TikTok algorithm. 1617 01:31:17.600 --> 01:31:17.920 Anyway. 1618 01:31:17.939 --> 01:31:20.380 Something else I was going to say to you before 1619 01:31:20.399 --> 01:31:26.789 we end the show tonight. Um. It escaped me. But yes, 1620 01:31:27.630 --> 01:31:33.630 that is our show. Oh, yeah. Okay, now I remember. So, like, 1621 01:31:34.229 --> 01:31:36.300 my friend was asking me how my weekend was, and 1622 01:31:36.350 --> 01:31:38.939 I said, you want to know how my mood is 1623 01:31:38.979 --> 01:31:40.800 this weekend after what I had to deal with with 1624 01:31:40.840 --> 01:31:44.659 my kids who don't stop complaining about me? The father 1625 01:31:44.699 --> 01:31:47.500 who loves them so much. I sent her the video 1626 01:31:48.279 --> 01:31:54.850 of Pappy from the Popeye movie singing about kids. You 1627 01:31:54.869 --> 01:31:57.130 give him candy. You give him toys. And what do 1628 01:31:57.149 --> 01:32:00.189 you get? You get a lot of noise. Na, na, na, na, na, na. 1629 01:32:00.409 --> 01:32:03.430 Papa don't know nothing. Ugh, children. 1630 01:32:03.829 --> 01:32:07.369 That's a glorious callback. I'm glad you made it. 1631 01:32:07.760 --> 01:32:11.680 All fucking day in my head. So, if you'd ever 1632 01:32:11.720 --> 01:32:13.640 like the thankless job of being a father, you can 1633 01:32:13.659 --> 01:32:15.199 have it for a day. Just for a day, though. 1634 01:32:15.300 --> 01:32:16.100 I'm going to want it back. 1635 01:32:16.539 --> 01:32:17.520 Look, I will have it. 1636 01:32:17.800 --> 01:32:18.720 Thankless as it is. 1637 01:32:20.659 --> 01:32:22.260 I'll worry about my own kids, not yours. 1638 01:32:22.279 --> 01:32:28.760 Okay, well. Like I said, you may buckle under the 1639 01:32:28.800 --> 01:32:31.510 dull silence of your household and the occasional having to 1640 01:32:31.590 --> 01:32:33.529 cover a UFC event, but at least you don't have 1641 01:32:33.550 --> 01:32:36.850 a 12-year-old stopping you from allegedly making an ass out 1642 01:32:36.869 --> 01:32:37.850 of yourself on the internet. 1643 01:32:38.989 --> 01:32:43.039 I will also have no problem dismissing the concerns of 1644 01:32:43.079 --> 01:32:46.100 a 12-year-old about what I'm going to do publicly. 1645 01:32:46.479 --> 01:32:48.489 It's the feather that's breaking the camel's back. 1646 01:32:49.069 --> 01:32:52.710 I'm sorry about that. The appropriate thing to do next 1647 01:32:52.750 --> 01:32:55.229 time he expresses himself that way is to just go, 1648 01:32:55.250 --> 01:32:56.789 you know what? I'm going to do it even more 1649 01:32:56.869 --> 01:33:00.229 in public when I'm out with you. Then the next 1650 01:33:00.300 --> 01:33:02.979 time you're at the Taco Bell, gather your children close 1651 01:33:03.020 --> 01:33:06.880 in your arms and loudly have the discussion about... Oh, no, no. 1652 01:33:06.880 --> 01:33:08.279 My next time I go to take the Taco Bell, 1653 01:33:08.319 --> 01:33:10.319 I'm going to have them sit at their own fucking chair. 1654 01:33:10.359 --> 01:33:13.390 I'm like, I'll be over here not offending anybody, you 1655 01:33:13.439 --> 01:33:14.270 pansy fucks. 1656 01:33:15.130 --> 01:33:15.630 So.... 1657 01:33:16.899 --> 01:33:19.800 As I say loudly in the Taco Bell. Which, considering 1658 01:33:19.840 --> 01:33:21.619 the way the Taco Bells operate now, may not be 1659 01:33:21.659 --> 01:33:22.100 out of place. 1660 01:33:22.979 --> 01:33:26.159 No, I'm just going to say, you'd fit right in 1661 01:33:26.199 --> 01:33:27.880 with Taco Bell. If you want to make a scene, 1662 01:33:27.899 --> 01:33:28.779 you go to Wendy's. 1663 01:33:30.729 --> 01:33:32.810 Sir, this is a Wendy's. Calm yourself. 1664 01:33:33.369 --> 01:33:36.550 And if you ever get really fed up with them, 1665 01:33:36.569 --> 01:33:37.470 you go to Waffle House. 1666 01:33:38.409 --> 01:33:39.170 Just leave them there? 1667 01:33:39.890 --> 01:33:42.649 No, but then you have the discussion with them in 1668 01:33:42.689 --> 01:33:44.489 Waffle House, so you start a fight. 1669 01:33:45.069 --> 01:33:48.279 I see. All right, I think I'm done venting about 1670 01:33:48.300 --> 01:33:50.399 my children and safe space on the internet. 1671 01:33:51.609 --> 01:33:53.810 Well, I'm a safe space if the internet isn't, so. 1672 01:33:54.329 --> 01:33:58.529 Yes, indeedy. All right, so for Robert Winfrey, I'm sweaty 1673 01:33:58.550 --> 01:34:20.170 and coughing. Be well, be safe, and behave. Got to get, 1674 01:34:20.390 --> 01:34:23.170 got to get, got to, got to, got to get 1675 01:34:23.250 --> 01:34:23.569 money