Full Transcript for Triple Feature: Solo Mio/The Invite/For Worse

your dog might be your therapy dog, so.... 73 00:04:58.769 --> 00:05:04.509 No, because... No, you might have... Sorry, my head went 74 00:05:04.529 --> 00:05:08.149 somewhere else with what you said. I get what you said. 75 00:05:08.170 --> 00:05:11.689 And with that in mind, as we have so over-glorified 76 00:05:11.769 --> 00:05:19.329 this profession of occasionally useful utility, but frequently abusive and 77 00:05:19.430 --> 00:05:23.589 overly utilized. Abusive on both ends. It is overly commercialized. 78 00:05:23.649 --> 00:05:27.269 It is increasingly an unethical pursuit. 79 00:05:27.310 --> 00:05:28.589 Well, I was going to say, like. 80 00:05:29.629 --> 00:05:30.410 Let me finish the point. 81 00:05:30.430 --> 00:05:31.050 Okay. 82 00:05:32.670 --> 00:05:35.269 We've decided that because we've decided to do all that, 83 00:05:35.329 --> 00:05:39.410 those who are practitioners become elevated and are figures of lust. 84 00:05:41.209 --> 00:05:47.759 Okay. I feel like Boy, you couldn't help yourself. I 85 00:05:47.779 --> 00:05:50.720 feel like you had a bone to pick there, but 86 00:05:50.740 --> 00:05:56.639 it wasn't even, like, the specific thing I'm marveling at is, like, 87 00:05:57.860 --> 00:06:01.639 we're not just elevating therapists the way you described it. 88 00:06:02.459 --> 00:06:06.060 There's specifically situations like Ted Lasso, all three of these movies. 89 00:06:06.639 --> 00:06:08.600 I want to say, even going back to The Incredible Hulk, 90 00:06:08.620 --> 00:06:11.939 I want to say the dude who plays Doc Samson 91 00:06:12.000 --> 00:06:15.959 and Betty had a therapeutic relationship before they were romantic partners. 92 00:06:16.860 --> 00:06:19.220 And it's like, I want to be clear about this. 93 00:06:19.319 --> 00:06:24.720 It's not technically illegal, but it's highly unethical. And I 94 00:06:25.240 --> 00:06:29.560 think at least the LCSW standard, licensed clinical social worker standard, 95 00:06:29.579 --> 00:06:31.800 at least for the state of Florida, is you have 96 00:06:31.819 --> 00:06:33.939 to be out of practice with somebody for five years 97 00:06:34.579 --> 00:06:37.800 before you can have a social or romantic relationship with them. 98 00:06:38.199 --> 00:06:40.699 And I've always taken that so seriously that I won't 99 00:06:40.759 --> 00:06:44.029 even be friends with anyone that I've ever treated until 100 00:06:44.069 --> 00:06:47.110 I've met that standard, let alone a romantic interest. And 101 00:06:49.290 --> 00:06:50.930 the fact that it keeps popping up in all of 102 00:06:50.970 --> 00:06:53.750 these different movies, do people just not know that? 103 00:06:54.790 --> 00:06:59.860 No, the entire notion of projection has become a thing 104 00:06:59.899 --> 00:07:02.600 that people think is a joke. No, no, you don't 105 00:07:02.639 --> 00:07:05.699 project yourself onto your therapist. Like, no, that happens all 106 00:07:05.759 --> 00:07:08.779 the damn time. And now everyone's writing about it unironically, 107 00:07:08.800 --> 00:07:11.040 like it's a good thing. And it's a terrible thing for... 108 00:07:11.569 --> 00:07:13.610 the patients and the therapists. 109 00:07:13.649 --> 00:07:15.509 The other side of this is that a lot of 110 00:07:15.529 --> 00:07:18.089 these situations insinuates the therapist is a piece of shit 111 00:07:18.829 --> 00:07:20.670 who would do such a thing and any therapist worth 112 00:07:20.689 --> 00:07:23.430 their salt would say what I'm saying is you don't 113 00:07:23.480 --> 00:07:27.100 do that. You know that going in. Like, it's just 114 00:07:27.160 --> 00:07:29.079 a weird, it's a weird way to start this whole 115 00:07:29.100 --> 00:07:31.759 review since it's, you know, it's one element of these things, 116 00:07:31.779 --> 00:07:34.980 not the whole thing. But it's just so funny to me. 117 00:07:36.000 --> 00:07:37.279 It was funny to me that it happened. I saw 118 00:07:37.300 --> 00:07:38.759 it in Solo Meal, then I saw it in The Invite, 119 00:07:38.839 --> 00:07:40.600 and then I fucking saw it in For Worst. And 120 00:07:40.620 --> 00:07:44.949 I'm like, Why does this keep happening? No real-life therapist 121 00:07:45.129 --> 00:07:45.709 does this. 122 00:07:46.829 --> 00:07:50.370 At least in Solo Mio, it's like the tertiary characters 123 00:07:50.509 --> 00:07:53.240 that do it as a background joke that everyone understands. Like, 124 00:07:53.250 --> 00:07:56.800 this is not a good thing. For worse, it gets 125 00:07:56.860 --> 00:08:00.300 no such. You're written by a childless cat lady in 126 00:08:00.319 --> 00:08:03.500 her 50s. Of course you overly fetishize therapists. 127 00:08:03.519 --> 00:08:05.439 Put that out of the way. 128 00:08:05.459 --> 00:08:05.600 So.... 129 00:08:08.370 --> 00:08:10.209 One of these you asked to do. One of these 130 00:08:10.250 --> 00:08:12.230 we're doing because inevitably we're going to have to deal 131 00:08:12.269 --> 00:08:14.750 with this when the Oscar nominations come out. And the 132 00:08:14.769 --> 00:08:17.930 other one, I needed a third movie. So tell me 133 00:08:17.970 --> 00:08:20.129 why you want to do Solomio. 134 00:08:21.129 --> 00:08:22.889 It was just on the list of things that I, 135 00:08:23.240 --> 00:08:24.939 when you sent your list, like here's all the stuff 136 00:08:24.980 --> 00:08:27.500 I'm going to see and talk about for TikTok and whatnot. 137 00:08:27.540 --> 00:08:29.579 And it was like, if there's any that I want 138 00:08:29.600 --> 00:08:31.730 to talk about with you, we can make shows out of. 139 00:08:33.600 --> 00:08:37.039 And that one's, I said solo Mio kind of on 140 00:08:37.080 --> 00:08:44.590 a lark. I'm trying to expand some of my cinematic preferences. 141 00:08:44.610 --> 00:08:51.250 I have a long history of diminishing the romantic comedy 142 00:08:51.590 --> 00:08:56.629 because almost nothing about it appeals to me personally. 143 00:08:57.289 -->

00:08:59.409 So I came out of the gate swinging at you 144 00:08:59.470 --> 00:09:01.200 and biting at your face. So I'm going to spend 145 00:09:01.220 --> 00:09:04.580 the rest of this unless I'm provoked. um being nice 146 00:09:04.600 --> 00:09:07.370 to you you uh so the way i'm going to 147 00:09:07.379 --> 00:09:09.029 say this i'm going to restructure it than the way 148 00:09:09.070 --> 00:09:11.490 i was thinking in my head i feel like you've 149 00:09:11.529 --> 00:09:18.149 had a very narrow diet of uh the cinema you 150 00:09:18.190 --> 00:09:21.269 know you like a certain genre and as you put 151 00:09:21.350 --> 00:09:23.750 it other genres you you tend to. 152 00:09:25.950 --> 00:09:30.889 Denigrate It's not so much a genre. The problem is 153 00:09:30.950 --> 00:09:36.950 some genres are so inexorably linked with the tropes of 154 00:09:37.009 --> 00:09:40.080 filmmaking that I'm more opposed to. I don't object to 155 00:09:40.500 --> 00:09:47.860 romantic comedies conceptually, but when the romantic comedy genre is 156 00:09:47.879 --> 00:09:51.120 still doing the same crap they were doing with Julia 157 00:09:51.179 --> 00:09:53.799 Roberts and Richard Gere and Sandra Bullock and Bill Pullman 158 00:09:53.799 --> 00:09:57.559 40 years ago, I don't care anymore. There's nothing interesting. 159 00:09:57.580 --> 00:09:58.870 There's nothing worth engaging. 160 00:09:58.889 --> 00:10:02.159 A couple of it. Hang on, a couple years back, Melissa, 161 00:10:02.820 --> 00:10:05.059 in one of her drew a line in the sand 162 00:10:05.120 --> 00:10:07.860 arbitrarily and said, I will stand no more of your 163 00:10:08.279 --> 00:10:10.080 being the leader of this household. You will do what 164 00:10:10.200 --> 00:10:12.529 I want to do. And I went, boy, all you 165 00:10:12.570 --> 00:10:14.350 had to do was ask, but sure, what do you need? 166 00:10:14.370 --> 00:10:18.889 And she's like, watch these romantic comedies with me. And 167 00:10:19.070 --> 00:10:22.759 to your what I think is your point, like they 168 00:10:22.779 --> 00:10:24.779 were fine. They were entertaining enough. I laughed at it. 169 00:10:24.860 --> 00:10:27.159 I think one of them, but I kind of thought 170 00:10:27.179 --> 00:10:33.320 to myself how there is cookie cutter. You can find 171 00:10:33.360 --> 00:10:37.559 cookie cutter in every genre. And I think that's the 172 00:10:37.580 --> 00:10:38.970 point that I'm trying to get. And it's actually one 173 00:10:39.279 --> 00:10:42.029 of the things about this trio of movies that I 174 00:10:42.049 --> 00:10:44.549 think is interesting is that these are not very tropey. 175 00:10:45.710 --> 00:10:47.529 Not a whole lot. Okay. 176 00:10:47.909 --> 00:10:53.129 These in many ways go against, especially The Invite. The 177 00:10:53.169 --> 00:10:55.259 Invite I almost wouldn't classify as a romantic comedy in 178 00:10:55.320 --> 00:10:57.279 any kind of shape or form. It's a drama. 179 00:10:59.039 --> 00:11:01.539 With alleged comedic moments. 180 00:11:01.559 --> 00:11:07.259 That might be the only thing I agree with you on. Yeah, 181 00:11:07.299 --> 00:11:08.870 I didn't laugh a whole lot with The Invite. I 182 00:11:08.879 --> 00:11:10.210 didn't laugh at a whole lot of The Invite at 183 00:11:10.230 --> 00:11:12.649 things I was supposed to laugh at. But we'll get there. 184 00:11:14.490 --> 00:11:18.299 But yeah, so Amir and for worse actually don't really 185 00:11:18.379 --> 00:11:21.340 sit in the cookie cutter for romantic comedy is the 186 00:11:21.379 --> 00:11:25.330 way I have my list here. Some of the other. 187 00:11:26.049 --> 00:11:28.129 While You Were Sleeping, Pretty Woman. 188 00:11:28.149 --> 00:11:31.450 I'm thinking about even just the new ones this year. 189 00:11:31.509 --> 00:11:31.850 Hang on. 190 00:11:31.850 --> 00:11:34.409 13 Going on 30. 191 00:11:34.409 --> 00:11:36.490 You were naming, like, 100-year-old movies. 192 00:11:36.929 --> 00:11:39.460 Yeah, but nothing's changed since then, so I can reference 193 00:11:39.509 --> 00:11:41.879 Notting Hill or About Time, and it's all the same. 194 00:11:42.220 --> 00:11:44.159 About Time's a little bit different, actually. I should redact 195 00:11:44.200 --> 00:11:45.289 that one. Um.... 196 00:11:47.049 --> 00:11:50.029 Oh, I deleted it, duh, because I did a whole 197 00:11:50.070 --> 00:11:53.740 thing with it. But yeah, there's at least six different 198 00:11:53.779 --> 00:11:55.379 romantic comedies. I know that because I made them into 199 00:11:55.399 --> 00:12:00.679 two triple features for myself, where I can almost guarantee 200 00:12:00.700 --> 00:12:04.320 they follow the same basic romantic comedy tropes. It was 201 00:12:04.340 --> 00:12:05.840 one of those things that Patton Oswalt kind of made 202 00:12:05.899 --> 00:12:11.240 fun of. It's like, every romantic comedy is Jennifer Aniston 203 00:12:11.299 --> 00:12:17.029 trying to fuck. And Courtney Cox trying to fuck. Juliette 204 00:12:17.070 --> 00:12:22.330 Lewis trying to fuck. Will they fuck? Who knows? You know, 205 00:12:22.529 --> 00:12:24.769 every romantic comedy for a while. And so you really 206 00:12:24.789 --> 00:12:28.929 have to dig deep to find something that's interesting and 207 00:12:28.990 --> 00:12:29.889 outside the norm. 208 00:12:31.120 --> 00:12:33.820 The fact that the romantic comedy genre has still never 209 00:12:33.860 --> 00:12:37.440 been able to overcome stuff like It Happened One Night 210 00:12:37.480 --> 00:12:39.759 or Roman Holidays and Damning and Diamond and everyone who 211 00:12:39.820 --> 00:12:42.039 tries to dip their toe into this sub-genre. 212 00:12:42.860 --> 00:12:45.559 I wonder when the last time a romantic comedy won 213 00:12:45.580 --> 00:12:46.120 a Best Picture. 214 00:12:48.210 --> 00:12:50.149 Oh, that is a great question. You know what? That 215 00:12:50.190 --> 00:12:52.210 is a really good question. Hang on. 216 00:12:52.750 -->

00:12:55.850 Right? Because, like, we tend to, it's like prestige pictures 217 00:12:55.929 --> 00:12:59.320 and dramas for the most part, the occasional science fiction 218 00:12:59.379 --> 00:13:02.379 or historical thing. Like, I can't think of a time 219 00:13:02.399 --> 00:13:04.159 that I've. 220 00:13:04.159 --> 00:13:04.480 1977. 221 00:13:04.480 --> 00:13:07.100 Holy shit. It's kind of a damning indictment, don't you think? 222 00:13:08.019 --> 00:13:08.500 Annie Hall. 223 00:13:10.740 --> 00:13:11.679 Oh, good old Uncle Woody. 224 00:13:12.830 --> 00:13:15.629 You could maybe argue Shakespeare in Love, which, first of all, 225 00:13:15.669 --> 00:13:17.320 shouldn't have been there, but also leans a bit more 226 00:13:17.360 --> 00:13:19.139 drama than comedy, all things considered. 227 00:13:19.159 --> 00:13:22.440 All right, let's get into Solo Mio, now that I 228 00:13:22.480 --> 00:13:26.419 understand that you are trying to extend your boundaries, and 229 00:13:26.440 --> 00:13:27.980 for that, I applaud you. Why don't you tell the 230 00:13:28.000 --> 00:13:28.970 people what this movie's about? 231 00:13:31.289 --> 00:13:34.049 It's about Kevin James going to get married in Italy, 232 00:13:34.809 --> 00:13:42.250 and his fiancée doesn't show up for the wedding. Predictably.... 233 00:13:40.419 --> 00:13:43.139 She leaves him stranded at the altar. She's in Italy 234 00:13:43.179 --> 00:13:43.500 with him. 235 00:13:44.440 --> 00:13:47.039 Yeah. She leaves him a note. She leaves him at 236 00:13:47.080 --> 00:13:49.779 the altar. He tries to get a refund because he 237 00:13:49.840 --> 00:13:52.539 bought the whole honeymoon package. Like, this is not on 238 00:13:52.580 --> 00:13:55.960 an art teacher's salary. This man had been saving for 239 00:13:56.000 --> 00:13:57.519 this for a while. Yeah. 240 00:13:58.419 --> 00:13:59.980 This was a romantic gesture, ladies. 241 00:14:01.200 --> 00:14:05.950 And she decided it wasn't enough. Infer what you will 242 00:14:05.990 --> 00:14:11.059 from that. And he can't get a refund. He can't. 243 00:14:11.559 --> 00:14:16.580 And on the advice of the concierge at the hotel, 244 00:14:16.879 --> 00:14:20.299 fancy hotel where they would be staying, he just decides 245 00:14:20.340 --> 00:14:23.610 to do all the stuff on the honeymoon package by himself. 246 00:14:24.070 --> 00:14:26.029 Never mind. This might be the most depressing thing in 247 00:14:26.070 --> 00:14:27.929 the world, but he's going through with it because he's 248 00:14:27.970 --> 00:14:28.129 a good. 249 00:14:28.149 --> 00:14:29.690 He fucking spent money on. He might as well go 250 00:14:29.710 --> 00:14:30.230 see the sites. 251 00:14:30.970 --> 00:14:33.740 Indeed. Indeed. So he meets a couple of other couples 252 00:14:33.759 --> 00:14:37.799 who are doing their thing. There's the aforementioned therapist who 253 00:14:37.820 --> 00:14:43.710 married a physical therapist, and that's iffy. Then there's my 254 00:14:43.750 --> 00:14:47.190 favorite couple in this movie, Allison Hannigan and Kim Coates, 255 00:14:48.250 --> 00:14:50.690 who are on their third marriage to each other. Oh, yeah. 256 00:14:51.129 --> 00:14:52.289 Have you ever watched Sons of Anarchy? 257 00:14:52.889 --> 00:14:53.809 Oh, yeah. Okay. 258 00:14:54.429 --> 00:14:56.169 I couldn't remember where I knew him from, and then 259 00:14:56.190 --> 00:14:58.049 I looked it up. I'm like, oh, my God, that's 260 00:14:58.149 --> 00:14:59.669 the guy from Sons of Anarchy, that pervert. 261 00:15:01.059 --> 00:15:08.129 Yeah. So they go through a lot of the, you know, 262 00:15:08.350 --> 00:15:10.679 the gag, the tours around Italy. They go see the 263 00:15:10.759 --> 00:15:15.320 sites and he meets a owner of a coffee shop, 264 00:15:15.340 --> 00:15:18.789 a cafe. Sort of hits it off with her. They 265 00:15:18.830 --> 00:15:20.889 go around. They do stuff together. They kind of fall 266 00:15:20.929 --> 00:15:23.470 for each other. He says, you know, I kind of 267 00:15:23.490 --> 00:15:26.919 like you, but in the interest of full disclosure, I 268 00:15:27.039 --> 00:15:28.720 was here in Italy to get married. He mentioned that 269 00:15:28.740 --> 00:15:31.039 he just got out of a relationship, but he didn't say, like, 270 00:15:31.059 --> 00:15:32.870 I literally got left at the altar a week, like 271 00:15:32.929 --> 00:15:33.549 three days ago. 272 00:15:34.289 --> 00:15:35.129 That comes later. 273 00:15:36.679 --> 00:15:39.570 So he does confess that says, yeah, she left me 274 00:15:39.610 --> 00:15:43.330 at the altar. She left me this note. And the 275 00:15:43.490 --> 00:15:45.830 woman sees the note and sees him and like, oh, no, 276 00:15:45.889 --> 00:15:47.990 I can't do this anymore. So he gets more depressed. 277 00:15:49.070 --> 00:15:53.149 And then as he's leaving the hotel. His fiance who 278 00:15:53.169 --> 00:15:55.129 stood him up shows up and they get to talk 279 00:15:55.220 --> 00:15:56.879 and he they have a bit of a heart to heart. 280 00:15:58.059 --> 00:16:01.440 And he does what every writer of these kinds of 281 00:16:01.480 --> 00:16:04.320 movies wishes real life men would do and just accepts 282 00:16:04.340 --> 00:16:07.139 his scolding and realizes that she was right the whole time. 283 00:16:08.899 --> 00:16:10.419 Wouldn't call it a scolding. 284 00:16:10.440 --> 00:16:14.029 It's a very good nature of scolding. There's no fighting. 285 00:16:14.090 --> 00:16:18.909 She says to him, I wasn't satisfied in this relationship. 286 00:16:18.950 --> 00:16:24.669 There wasn't enough friction for me. You were too accommodating. 287 00:16:25.909 --> 00:16:31.940 You were... You were smothering in the sense of, like, 288 00:16:32.019 --> 00:16:33.860 I didn't feel like I had any more sense of self. 289 00:16:35.279 --> 00:16:38.279 And if I had married you, I would have been perfectly, 290 00:16:39.360 --> 00:16:42.159 nicely miserable in a marriage

where I would have been 291 00:16:42.179 --> 00:16:44.059 given everything that I want. And as we all know 292 00:16:44.100 --> 00:16:46.820 from The Matrix, if you live in a perfect life, 293 00:16:47.000 --> 00:16:49.299 you'll reject it and demand to be put in a 294 00:16:49.320 --> 00:16:49.879 miserable life. 295 00:16:50.759 --> 00:16:54.100 So... And Kevin James kind of just accepts that and 296 00:16:54.120 --> 00:16:55.759 then she says, yeah, I was trying to figure out 297 00:16:55.779 --> 00:16:57.240 how to tell you all this. I'm trying to write 298 00:16:57.279 --> 00:16:59.960 a note in this cafe and the woman who owns 299 00:17:00.019 --> 00:17:01.980 it came over and helped talk me through it and 300 00:17:02.000 --> 00:17:03.559 he realized this is the woman that he's now kind 301 00:17:03.600 --> 00:17:06.720 of fallen for. So he goes to find her and 302 00:17:06.759 --> 00:17:07.839 he says, yeah. 303 00:17:08.039 --> 00:17:09.380 This is an important thing because now you have to 304 00:17:09.400 --> 00:17:12.059 go back a scene or two where he thinks he 305 00:17:12.099 --> 00:17:15.299 drove her off because he had lied by omission when 306 00:17:15.339 --> 00:17:18.920 in reality it had dawned on her, oh, fuck, I'm 307 00:17:18.960 --> 00:17:22.119 the reason this poor fat sap got left at the altar. 308 00:17:22.720 --> 00:17:25.559 And so she runs away in shame. Part of what 309 00:17:25.619 --> 00:17:29.000 makes Kevin James, Kevin James in this movie is that 310 00:17:29.200 --> 00:17:33.599 he's kind of dead inside. Aren't we all? And that's 311 00:17:33.660 --> 00:17:37.349 part of what his fiance's gripe with him is, is like, 312 00:17:38.380 --> 00:17:43.430 you're not you. You're, you're, you're half of me. And 313 00:17:43.450 --> 00:17:47.750 I don't, and you gotta be you. And you died 314 00:17:47.809 --> 00:17:50.750 somewhere along the way and became me for some strange reason. 315 00:17:51.559 --> 00:17:54.200 So part of the journey that Kevin James goes on 316 00:17:54.259 --> 00:17:56.799 is this Italian chick, as all Italian chicks will do 317 00:17:56.839 --> 00:18:00.279 for you, breathes life back into him. And, you know, 318 00:18:00.339 --> 00:18:03.339 he's more self-assured. One of the ways this is expressed 319 00:18:03.420 --> 00:18:07.460 is he sings opera to her at, what is it, 320 00:18:07.539 --> 00:18:08.769 Botticelli's house? 321 00:18:09.769 --> 00:18:13.009 I forget the guy's name, but yeah, there's something like that. 322 00:18:13.470 --> 00:18:14.890 And then at the end, when he goes up to 323 00:18:14.930 --> 00:18:17.009 her on a motorcycle, all romantic, like, and says, please 324 00:18:17.029 --> 00:18:18.710 come to this Ed Sheeran concert with me. 325 00:18:20.000 --> 00:18:21.619 No more romantic words have ever been spoken. 326 00:18:23.140 --> 00:18:25.769 She says, like, I don't know. I'm still not sure 327 00:18:25.789 --> 00:18:28.009 about this. And he basically tells her, like, you blew 328 00:18:28.049 --> 00:18:29.410 up my wedding. Come on, you owe me. 329 00:18:31.589 --> 00:18:36.049 Well, she's ashamed, you know. She's ashamed that she broke 330 00:18:36.109 --> 00:18:38.079 up this fucking wedding because, like, she got to know 331 00:18:38.119 --> 00:18:39.180 the guy. She fell in love with the guy. And 332 00:18:39.200 --> 00:18:40.680 then she realized he's the... I. 333 00:18:43.839 --> 00:18:44.619 Know. 334 00:18:44.660 --> 00:18:46.880 Hang on, hang on, hang on. I'm laughing and I 335 00:18:46.880 --> 00:18:49.839 can't get the line out. I was the author of 336 00:18:49.920 --> 00:18:51.039 all your pain, Kevin. 337 00:18:53.700 --> 00:18:54.539 Unintentionally. 338 00:18:54.779 --> 00:18:56.680 And she can't take it. And that's why she ran 339 00:18:56.720 --> 00:18:58.500 off the first time. And then he sings opera at her. 340 00:18:58.539 --> 00:19:00.099 And she's like, Oh, it's even worse now. I love 341 00:19:00.140 --> 00:19:02.140 this guy, but I fucked his whole life up. And I, 342 00:19:02.440 --> 00:19:03.880 and I don't want to tell him cause I'm shamed. 343 00:19:04.460 --> 00:19:07.069 So he figures that out. He's like, it's fine. I 344 00:19:07.150 --> 00:19:09.150 fucking forgive you. Let's go hot Italian. 345 00:19:09.190 --> 00:19:12.410 Yeah. So they go see Ed Sheeran. We then cut forward. 346 00:19:12.450 --> 00:19:17.390 They get married. Um, Kim Coates and Alison Hannigan then 347 00:19:17.410 --> 00:19:20.210 get married for their fourth time. He proposes at the 348 00:19:20.279 --> 00:19:23.779 wedding for Kevin James and the Italian lady. And everyone 349 00:19:23.839 --> 00:19:25.559 lives happily ever after, as you do. 350 00:19:26.140 --> 00:19:28.359 I wanted this movie to make my top ten just because. 351 00:19:28.779 --> 00:19:31.160 It's not going to. I watched this with my kids. 352 00:19:31.180 --> 00:19:35.079 We all agreed it was lovely. Perfectly nice movie. I 353 00:19:35.099 --> 00:19:41.319 don't love Kevin James. Most modern comedians from the mid-90s 354 00:19:41.420 --> 00:19:48.230 on up, from the... Adam Sandler era of SNL um, players, 355 00:19:48.930 --> 00:19:51.210 I have not liked their comedies. I have more like 356 00:19:51.250 --> 00:19:53.990 their dramas. I know he wasn't an SNL person. He 357 00:19:54.019 --> 00:19:56.480 was in living color, but that goes double for James, 358 00:19:56.819 --> 00:20:02.079 for Jim Carrey. I, I found a lot of SNL 359 00:20:02.119 --> 00:20:04.980 comedy to be way too broad for my liking. Um, 360 00:20:06.809 --> 00:20:09.690 But when they do dramas, as Jim Carrey did dramas, 361 00:20:09.730 --> 00:20:12.309 Adam Sandler did dramas, I tend to like them. Kevin 362 00:20:12.349 --> 00:20:14.970 James especially. A couple years ago, my son and I 363 00:20:15.119 --> 00:20:19.230 did an alternative commentary for Paul Blart. And when you're 364 00:20:19.279 --> 00:20:22.440 watching it with a 10-year-old, sure, it's

fucking hilarious. 365 00:20:22.740 --> 00:20:26.400 It's 10-year-old humor. I mean, it hits the bullseye that 366 00:20:26.440 --> 00:20:28.160 it aims for. The fact that it's not a difficult 367 00:20:28.180 --> 00:20:29.039 bullseye to hit is. 368 00:20:29.539 --> 00:20:31.519 So he was having a ball with it. I was 369 00:20:31.660 --> 00:20:34.099 having a ball watching him have a ball. But would 370 00:20:34.119 --> 00:20:36.359 you get me to watch Paul Blart of my own volition? 371 00:20:36.619 --> 00:20:40.140 Absolutely not. You know, I think I remember like Chuck 372 00:20:40.160 --> 00:20:42.539 and Larry's gay wedding or whatever the fuck it's called. 373 00:20:43.279 --> 00:20:44.720 It's just called Chuck and Larry. 374 00:20:45.559 --> 00:20:48.160 No, there's a whole long name to it. But it 375 00:20:48.180 --> 00:20:50.059 doesn't matter. And I don't. 376 00:20:50.240 --> 00:20:52.019 I don't pronounce you Chuck and Larry. That was. 377 00:20:52.039 --> 00:20:54.369 Yeah, yeah, yeah. And like, it was all right. Like, 378 00:20:54.529 --> 00:20:56.809 it's not the laugh ride that some people seem to 379 00:20:56.849 --> 00:21:00.829 think it is. There are other Kevin. Oh, here comes 380 00:21:00.869 --> 00:21:03.319 the boom. I like that one, but that's more because 381 00:21:03.369 --> 00:21:06.630 I like UFC. So, you know, and there are some 382 00:21:06.650 --> 00:21:08.690 really funny jokes in there, like the bit where Selma 383 00:21:08.750 --> 00:21:10.269 Hayek says to him, like, do you realize that every 384 00:21:10.309 --> 00:21:12.670 time you try to hit on me, you're sitting? Like, 385 00:21:13.650 --> 00:21:15.869 right off my own heart. It's behind the wall of fat. 386 00:21:17.089 --> 00:21:20.589 There's also the gag about Chael Sonnen being submitted by 387 00:21:20.650 --> 00:21:22.930 Kevin James, which one I think is actually possible because 388 00:21:22.950 --> 00:21:26.690 Kevin James actually does a lot of MMA training. And 389 00:21:26.930 --> 00:21:29.869 Chael Sonnen's submission defense is still terrible. But after he 390 00:21:29.890 --> 00:21:31.779 gets admitted, he's like, wait, no, I didn't mean it. 391 00:21:32.450 --> 00:21:33.849 To the referee, like, I didn't mean it. We're just 392 00:21:33.869 --> 00:21:36.190 playing around, right? Which is sort of what he said 393 00:21:36.230 --> 00:21:37.930 about one of the submissions. Like, I thought that ended 394 00:21:37.970 --> 00:21:38.930 the round, not the fight. 395 00:21:40.609 --> 00:21:43.769 Kevin James' really famous stand-up that he got on Comedy Central, 396 00:21:43.809 --> 00:21:46.029 I enjoyed. The one where every time they cut a commercial, 397 00:21:46.049 --> 00:21:48.859 he was shadowboxing. So, like, I don't hate Kevin James. 398 00:21:48.890 --> 00:21:51.539 I just don't like a lot of his comedy movies. 399 00:21:52.279 --> 00:21:54.079 He's great in this. It was a long way to 400 00:21:54.099 --> 00:21:57.230 go to get there,

but... He's great in this. I 401 00:21:57.309 --> 00:22:03.490 think as a kind of middle-aged... I very much identify 402 00:22:03.539 --> 00:22:05.539 with Kevin James, not because I've necessarily done this. I've 403 00:22:05.559 --> 00:22:09.380 always had a good, strong sense of self. But I 404 00:22:09.420 --> 00:22:11.640 can identify with the idea of a guy, or a woman, 405 00:22:11.720 --> 00:22:14.160 but let's focus on a guy for a second, just 406 00:22:14.200 --> 00:22:16.500 feeling so adrift in, and this is the part that 407 00:22:16.519 --> 00:22:18.960 I actually do identify with, being so adrift in your 408 00:22:18.980 --> 00:22:23.529 middle age, you know, feeling like you're not fulfilled in 409 00:22:23.549 --> 00:22:24.930 the way that you would like to be fulfilled, and 410 00:22:24.970 --> 00:22:27.599 then And you've been lonely for a very long time. 411 00:22:27.619 --> 00:22:30.509 And you finally find this woman who likes hanging out 412 00:22:30.549 --> 00:22:32.809 with you. And you're like, you will now be my 413 00:22:32.849 --> 00:22:36.410 personality forever. Everything will be about you. And I will 414 00:22:36.490 --> 00:22:38.710 spend the rest of my life trying to make you happy. 415 00:22:39.069 --> 00:22:41.190 Such is the need for me to be attached to you. 416 00:22:41.690 --> 00:22:45.730 Because without you, I will die. People get there more 417 00:22:45.769 --> 00:22:50.940 often than they should. And Kevin James portrayed that really well. 418 00:22:51.400 --> 00:22:54.079 One of my minor criticisms of this movie is I 419 00:22:54.119 --> 00:22:56.900 wish I'd gotten... more of what their relationship was because 420 00:22:56.920 --> 00:23:00.390 the movie opens with like basically film footage. 421 00:23:01.230 --> 00:23:03.369 It's kind of a montage of his proposal and her 422 00:23:03.410 --> 00:23:04.170 acceptance of it. 423 00:23:04.170 --> 00:23:07.190 Yeah. So you don't really, so a lot of what 424 00:23:07.210 --> 00:23:09.990 I'm talking about is either inferred or stated directly later 425 00:23:10.049 --> 00:23:15.579 in the movie. I wish I got to see some 426 00:23:15.619 --> 00:23:17.880 of that because I think it would have been important 427 00:23:17.920 --> 00:23:21.019 to see for people to really identify with his character 428 00:23:21.380 --> 00:23:25.500 to understand why he is the way he is when he's, 429 00:23:25.579 --> 00:23:28.380 you know, like again, you can use a lot of 430 00:23:28.440 --> 00:23:29.920 inference and you can use your big boy brain to 431 00:23:29.960 --> 00:23:32.839 figure it out, but it would have been nice to 432 00:23:32.900 --> 00:23:36.750 have seen just how bad things were for the Italian 433 00:23:36.809 --> 00:23:38.809 ship to breathe life into him and have that be 434 00:23:39.430 --> 00:23:43.130 even more effective than it already was. It's absence doesn't 435 00:23:43.150 --> 00:23:44.809 ruin the movie or anything. I'm just like, I got 436 00:23:44.829 --> 00:23:47.009 to come up with stuff to think about with this movie. 437 00:23:47.049 --> 00:23:47.970 That's what I came up with. 438 00:23:49.250 --> 00:23:51.420 I don't disagree with that at all. Like a little 439 00:23:51.460 --> 00:23:53.420 bit of contrast would have gone a long way there. Yeah. 440 00:23:53.970 --> 00:23:57.730 But him kind of, you know, kind of being like 441 00:23:57.779 --> 00:24:00.859 the vulture from the Bugs Bunny cartoon through half the 442 00:24:00.900 --> 00:24:04.019 movie of, you know, Kevin, sing opera. Kevin, do this. Kevin, 443 00:24:04.039 --> 00:24:07.660 write about Kevin. Kevin, do the thing. And he's, oh, no, no, no, no, no. 444 00:24:08.240 --> 00:24:11.160 You know, and slowly but surely, this Italian woman's like, 445 00:24:11.480 --> 00:24:13.180 there's no reason for you to be this way. And 446 00:24:13.460 --> 00:24:15.609 you're going to see this with Seth Rogen in The Invite. 447 00:24:15.970 --> 00:24:18.069 There's no reason for you to be this way. You're fine. 448 00:24:18.410 --> 00:24:23.069 You're worthy of love. You're worthy of attachment. Why you're... 449 00:24:23.900 --> 00:24:26.700 And flagellating yourself in the corner thinking you are unworthy 450 00:24:26.720 --> 00:24:28.609 of these things. I'll never know, but fucking get over 451 00:24:28.619 --> 00:24:32.329 it already. And she says it a lot nicer than that. 452 00:24:32.910 --> 00:24:34.450 And so over the course of the movie, he does. 453 00:24:34.470 --> 00:24:38.170 And like the big thing is when he finally, because 454 00:24:38.210 --> 00:24:39.710 he says he can sing opera, but he doesn't want 455 00:24:39.730 --> 00:24:41.819 to because, oh, no, no, no, no, no. And then 456 00:24:41.839 --> 00:24:43.980 he does. And it's like, Oh my God, the whole 457 00:24:44.049 --> 00:24:47.509 room is like tears. Like, Oh my God. Yes. Thank you. Yeah. 458 00:24:47.529 --> 00:24:50.589 There's, there's a lot of things that it's, like you said, 459 00:24:50.609 --> 00:24:53.410 it's kind of intimated and you have to use a 460 00:24:53.450 --> 00:24:55.589 little bit of inference, but you know, he's an art teacher. 461 00:24:55.630 --> 00:24:57.250 So she asked to see his work at one point 462 00:24:57.269 --> 00:24:59.069 and he says, well, here's all the stuff my kids do. 463 00:24:59.109 --> 00:25:01.650 Cause he teaches art to like, you know, 12, 12 464 00:25:01.650 --> 00:25:04.029 year olds or something like that. Like he's yeah. Might've 465 00:25:04.049 --> 00:25:05.859 been younger than that. I forget exactly, but he teaches 466 00:25:05.890 --> 00:25:10.059 like grade school students art, not like first graders, but 467 00:25:10.079 --> 00:25:10.819 you know, young kids. 468 00:25:11.349 --> 00:25:12.849 Let's go with 9 or 10. 469 00:25:12.849 --> 00:25:14.589 Yeah, so he's like, yeah, here's what they do. And 470 00:25:14.609 --> 00:25:16.470 she's like, no, I wanted to see what you do. 471 00:25:16.490

--> 00:25:18.049 And I'm like, I don't have any pictures of my stuff. 472 00:25:18.910 --> 00:25:22.670 Because he hasn't actually, like, you know, painted for himself in, 473 00:25:22.730 --> 00:25:24.690 you know, forever. 474 00:25:25.150 --> 00:25:28.890 Yeah. You get to a point in life where you're 475 00:25:28.910 --> 00:25:31.799 just not doing things for yourself anymore and you kind 476 00:25:31.839 --> 00:25:32.579 of die inside. 477 00:25:32.599 --> 00:25:36.859 A little bit, yeah. So there's that, there's, you know, 478 00:25:36.880 --> 00:25:39.019 the opera thing, there's, oh, I forget the other one. 479 00:25:39.039 --> 00:25:40.420 Because I kind of like, the other one was the 480 00:25:40.500 --> 00:25:42.589 one that I thought worked best for me. And I 481 00:25:42.609 --> 00:25:46.640 can't remember what it was for the life of me now. Um, 482 00:25:46.740 --> 00:25:48.400 but yeah, there was one other, there was something else 483 00:25:48.440 --> 00:25:50.980 that she was like, Oh, you do this thing. Like, Oh, 484 00:25:51.000 --> 00:25:53.480 he won't dance is the other thing. Like she tries 485 00:25:53.500 --> 00:25:55.180 to get him to dance and he just won't do it, 486 00:25:56.529 --> 00:25:58.049 which is a guy without a lot of rhythm. I 487 00:25:58.089 --> 00:26:01.289 completely understand. But as a, it sort of just compounds 488 00:26:01.309 --> 00:26:02.029 with everything else. 489 00:26:03.009 --> 00:26:04.890 I learned when I was in high school, when someone 490 00:26:04.930 --> 00:26:07.980 invites you to dance, you just dance. You don't, you don't, 491 00:26:08.039 --> 00:26:10.690 you don't do the vulture. Uh, You don't think about it. 492 00:26:10.880 --> 00:26:12.660 You don't worry about how you look because no one's 493 00:26:12.680 --> 00:26:16.099 paying attention. It's fucking dark and there's blaring music. Just dance. 494 00:26:17.359 --> 00:26:24.940 And that's what he learns. Just dance. So anyway, I 495 00:26:24.960 --> 00:26:31.009 really like this movie. It doesn't have the gravitas to 496 00:26:31.049 --> 00:26:34.529 kind of make my top ten. It's not nonnas. And 497 00:26:34.750 --> 00:26:35.210 just because I can. 498 00:26:36.950 --> 00:26:38.880 First of all, sometimes it's very hard to turn my 499 00:26:38.890 --> 00:26:43.059 therapist brain off. So it's not that I see myself necessarily. 500 00:26:43.119 --> 00:26:45.200 Let me walk that back a step or two. I 501 00:26:45.240 --> 00:26:46.920 recently said, and I'm going to say something. I don't 502 00:26:46.940 --> 00:26:48.539 want to turn this into one of these podcasts where 503 00:26:49.339 --> 00:26:50.960 some of these guys like to come on here and 504 00:26:50.980 --> 00:26:52.940 think it's a group therapy session. So I'm going to 505 00:26:52.980 --> 00:26:55.079 say this, and I really don't need to explain it 506 00:26:55.180 --> 00:26:57.880 any further than that. But I recently said to somebody 507 00:26:57.940 --> 00:27:01.369 that my life, my family was kind of blown up, 508 00:27:02.380 --> 00:27:05.589 and that part of me died. That's the way I 509 00:27:05.640 --> 00:27:07.140 view life now is the way I think about it. 510 00:27:07.470 --> 00:27:10.210 A lot of the rituals and traditions and the things 511 00:27:10.230 --> 00:27:12.230 that I held very, very dear were very much wrapped 512 00:27:12.289 --> 00:27:14.829 up in my family. And yes, I still have kids. 513 00:27:14.869 --> 00:27:17.809 They're still my family. But my family unit of four 514 00:27:17.829 --> 00:27:20.410 of us building and working together and moving through life together, 515 00:27:22.690 --> 00:27:26.859 blown apart like the Death Star. And a lot of 516 00:27:26.900 --> 00:27:31.859 my sense of self went with it. I see that 517 00:27:31.900 --> 00:27:34.799 in Kevin James. And I see that in a lot 518 00:27:34.819 --> 00:27:40.660 of the people that I treat. And that's great. That 519 00:27:40.700 --> 00:27:46.200 makes the film, you know, relatable. That doesn't make it 520 00:27:46.220 --> 00:27:48.160 a Best Picture nominee. 521 00:27:48.289 --> 00:27:50.029 What it does, and this is one of the things that, 522 00:27:50.430 --> 00:27:53.109 to answer sort of the question that you asked earlier, like, 523 00:27:53.349 --> 00:27:55.069 of all the things, I imagine that was, like, the 524 00:27:55.150 --> 00:27:56.690 one that may have, like, blindsided you. 525 00:27:56.750 --> 00:27:58.849 I think we've had to hold a triple feature because 526 00:27:58.890 --> 00:27:59.069 of it. 527 00:28:03.299 --> 00:28:06.579 I think one of the giant things missing in filmmaking, 528 00:28:09.160 --> 00:28:12.660 and it's especially true in the romantic comedy subgenre, where 529 00:28:13.220 --> 00:28:19.269 you absolutely need this, you just need earnestness. You need honesty. 530 00:28:19.289 --> 00:28:20.089 That's a good word. 531 00:28:20.920 --> 00:28:25.589 And the entire like culture at the moment is, you know, 532 00:28:25.650 --> 00:28:29.109 everything is irony poisoned. Everything is full of bathos and 533 00:28:29.170 --> 00:28:31.650 Marvel quips. And I don't just mean the movie. 534 00:28:31.410 --> 00:28:33.299 Is a better word. Everything is performative. 535 00:28:34.740 --> 00:28:38.079 Yeah. And because it's all performative, no one takes anything seriously. 536 00:28:38.440 --> 00:28:43.220 Everything is viewed through an ironic lens. And everything is 537 00:28:43.259 --> 00:28:45.880 viewed through, well, can I make a joke after this 538 00:28:45.920 --> 00:28:46.509 thing comes up? 539 00:28:46.720 --> 00:28:50.339 Right. In worse hands, Kevin James is like falling into 540 00:28:50.359 --> 00:28:51.099 the well and shit. 541 00:28:51.839 --> 00:28:52.099 Yeah. 542 00:28:52.319 --> 00:28:53.359 You know, this is slapstick. 543 00:28:54.619 --> 00:28:56.660 And thankfully they avoid that. And part of the reason 544 00:28:56.680 --> 00:28:58.319 that I said I'd

be willing to talk about this 545 00:28:58.440 --> 00:29:02.259 one was I watched the trailer and I was struck 546 00:29:02.319 --> 00:29:04.119 not by like, oh, this looks like a great movie. 547 00:29:04.460 --> 00:29:08.859 It's fine. But as just, if nothing else, a tonal 548 00:29:09.059 --> 00:29:13.059 contrast to everything else that we've been watching for years 549 00:29:13.119 --> 00:29:18.779 at this point, that is just... Again, everything has to 550 00:29:18.819 --> 00:29:21.400 be bathos and everything has to be quippy and everything 551 00:29:21.420 --> 00:29:24.509 has to be surface level because God forbid you actually 552 00:29:24.549 --> 00:29:27.230 express yourself seriously and expect the audience to be serious 553 00:29:27.289 --> 00:29:31.109 along with you. It is the mark of deep insecurity, 554 00:29:31.150 --> 00:29:34.460 the way most writers write things these days, that they 555 00:29:34.519 --> 00:29:37.700 make the joke hoping that the audience won't because they're 556 00:29:37.720 --> 00:29:40.319 worried someone in the audience would make it. so they 557 00:29:40.339 --> 00:29:42.220 make it first and haha let's all have a laugh 558 00:29:42.299 --> 00:29:45.380 and again it's just insecure if you have faith in 559 00:29:45.420 --> 00:29:47.859 your ability and you have faith in the product the 560 00:29:47.920 --> 00:29:50.859 audience is going to be there not everyone nothing's perfect 561 00:29:51.579 --> 00:29:53.500 but you ignore the outliers you don't can't you don't 562 00:29:53.539 --> 00:29:57.700 cater to them And lamentably, everyone decided to cater to 563 00:29:58.980 --> 00:30:03.880 making everything as shallow and stupid as possible. And this movie, 564 00:30:04.059 --> 00:30:08.819 even in trailer, was like, again, earnest and sincere. And hey, 565 00:30:09.279 --> 00:30:10.809 it's different, if nothing else. 566 00:30:11.940 --> 00:30:14.490 So this came out by Angel Studios, who years ago, 567 00:30:14.549 --> 00:30:17.069 when they were like, we're going to do our own studio, 568 00:30:17.130 --> 00:30:19.069 the Christians. We're going to do our own studio with 569 00:30:19.109 --> 00:30:22.769 Blackjack and Hookers, but not that, because we're Christians. And 570 00:30:22.789 --> 00:30:26.220 that became Angel Studios. And at the time, I was like, 571 00:30:26.240 --> 00:30:28.940 this is going to be terrible. When everything is just 572 00:30:29.960 --> 00:30:32.220 done by the strict Christians, it tends to not be 573 00:30:32.240 --> 00:30:32.640 that great. 574 00:30:33.240 --> 00:30:36.569 Depends on which subset of Christianity, but yeah. 575 00:30:37.690 --> 00:30:39.930 Angel Studios, not that everyone's a winner, but they've had 576 00:30:39.950 --> 00:30:43.390 some real successful movies that have either been made well 577 00:30:44.190 --> 00:30:46.950 or made money or both. 578 00:30:47.890 --> 00:30:51.009 It's kind of funny. Because they've existed for a while now. 579 00:30:51.710 --> 00:30:52.829 This is not a new group. 580 00:30:53.170 --> 00:30:54.990 And what is this? Didn't this come out of like 581 00:30:55.069 --> 00:30:58.329 around the time of the Gina Carano firing? Cause I 582 00:30:58.349 --> 00:31:00.789 feel like that's, that's what kind of started this whole, 583 00:31:00.809 --> 00:31:01.390 that ball rolling. 584 00:31:01.410 --> 00:31:06.059 I'd have, I don't think so. Um, I think there 585 00:31:06.079 --> 00:31:07.799 are a little bit, I want to say that angel 586 00:31:07.819 --> 00:31:12.000 studios is actually like the outgrow of what used to be, um, 587 00:31:15.299 --> 00:31:18.069 Oh crap. What's the, what was the name of that thing? 588 00:31:18.119 --> 00:31:20.710 Cause they, you'll, you'll remember this. There was the like 589 00:31:20.890 --> 00:31:26.670 a video rental stores that would, re-edit R-rated material into 590 00:31:26.750 --> 00:31:27.880 not R-rated material. 591 00:31:28.119 --> 00:31:29.339 Oh, I don't remember the name of it. 592 00:31:29.799 --> 00:31:31.359 But no, but I think it's like the same outgroup 593 00:31:31.380 --> 00:31:32.940 of that same group of people, basically. 594 00:31:33.519 --> 00:31:35.380 All right, so your final thoughts on Solo Mio, and 595 00:31:35.400 --> 00:31:36.420 then we'll move on to the invite. 596 00:31:36.660 --> 00:31:40.529 It's exactly what you think it is. There's nothing subversive. 597 00:31:40.940 --> 00:31:43.789 There's nothing that's going to come out of left field. 598 00:31:43.829 --> 00:31:45.509 If you watch the trailer and think you'll enjoy it, 599 00:31:45.529 --> 00:31:49.170 you'll enjoy it. And it's just nice to have something 600 00:31:49.190 --> 00:31:52.230 that is, again, just sincere and earnest in the filmmaking 601 00:31:52.609 --> 00:31:55.690 landscape these days when everything is not. Speaking of everything 602 00:31:55.769 --> 00:31:56.569 not being that. 603 00:31:59.009 --> 00:31:59.210 Okay. 604 00:32:02.539 --> 00:32:02.819 Give me. 605 00:32:04.309 --> 00:32:05.160 Two to five minutes. 606 00:32:05.930 --> 00:32:06.130 Okay. 607 00:32:06.910 --> 00:32:11.910 Uninterrupted. What your cultural problem with the invite is so 608 00:32:11.950 --> 00:32:13.369 you get it out of your system and I don't 609 00:32:13.390 --> 00:32:14.849 have to deal with it for the rest of the review. 610 00:32:15.190 --> 00:32:21.309 Go. I don't actually have a cultural problem with the 611 00:32:21.369 --> 00:32:26.019 invite having seen it. If you want my like 50 612 00:32:26.019 --> 00:32:28.680 words or less on why I think open marriages is 613 00:32:28.759 --> 00:32:31.180 a bad idea, I can simply point to the data 614 00:32:31.460 --> 00:32:32.519 on open marriages. Sure. 615 00:32:33.059 --> 00:32:34.220 Get it out of your system because I don't want 616 00:32:34.240 --> 00:32:35.019 to deal with it after this. 617 00:32:35.440 --> 00:32:39.690 Go. I don't feel the need to, because the movie 618

00:32:39.750 --> 00:32:42.470 doesn't actually deal with that. Like it's the catalyst for 619 00:32:42.509 --> 00:32:44.690 the drama. It's not, they're not actually making a point 620 00:32:44.730 --> 00:32:45.670 about it for the most part. 621 00:32:47.190 --> 00:32:49.819 That's not correct. Penelope Cruz goes out of her way 622 00:32:49.859 --> 00:32:51.740 to defend it, but go ahead. 623 00:32:52.980 --> 00:32:57.079 Yeah, she does, but she's a therapist sleeping with a client. 624 00:32:57.119 --> 00:32:58.200 So I don't take her seriously. 625 00:32:58.779 --> 00:32:58.940 Fair. 626 00:33:01.400 --> 00:33:03.509 Look, again, if you want my 50 words or less 627 00:33:03.589 --> 00:33:07.369 on this, I can point to the long tale of 628 00:33:07.430 --> 00:33:10.930 human history. The further away we get from the nuclear 629 00:33:10.990 --> 00:33:14.109 family as the foundational unit of society, the faster things 630 00:33:14.150 --> 00:33:18.819 fall apart. This is true of every society throughout human history. 631 00:33:18.980 --> 00:33:21.349 If you think I'm exaggerating, you're welcome to look into it, 632 00:33:22.579 --> 00:33:26.859 because that's how it goes. Now, whatever you choose to 633 00:33:26.920 --> 00:33:29.670 ascribe the value of, like the reasoning for that to, 634 00:33:30.490 --> 00:33:32.859 I leave up to you. I can tell you I 635 00:33:32.900 --> 00:33:36.220 believe it's because the family is divinely ordered. It is 636 00:33:36.279 --> 00:33:43.000 the standard unit of interpersonal relationship stretching back to before 637 00:33:43.079 --> 00:33:48.460 creation itself. It is divinely ordained, it is divinely mandated 638 00:33:48.480 --> 00:33:50.740 that marriage is to be had between a man and 639 00:33:50.759 --> 00:33:52.980 a woman, lawfully wedded, and children are entitled to be 640 00:33:53.039 --> 00:33:56.619 raised in a stable family. And secure an intact home. Now, 641 00:33:56.660 --> 00:33:59.029 that doesn't mean if you're dealing with abusive jack wagons 642 00:33:59.069 --> 00:34:01.329 that you shouldn't get divorced. My parents are divorced. No 643 00:34:01.390 --> 00:34:07.289 one's perfect. But if we're just talking about like, you know, 644 00:34:07.410 --> 00:34:11.530 what does Robert have against people just wanting to have fun? Like, 645 00:34:12.090 --> 00:34:14.739 I don't necessarily I'm not out here trying to preach 646 00:34:14.760 --> 00:34:16.159 at all of you. I'm just going to tell you 647 00:34:16.239 --> 00:34:20.119 as a general rule, this tends to go badly. And 648 00:34:21.380 --> 00:34:25.050 we have for some reason. we as a society have 649 00:34:25.090 --> 00:34:29.150 decided writ large to become that one scene from Arrested Development. 650 00:34:29.789 --> 00:34:30.530 I don't know what that is. 651 00:34:30.550 --> 00:34:32.789 You've never seen Arrested Development? 652 00:34:33.030 --> 00:34:34.869 Never watched a single episode. I'm aware of the show, 653 00:34:34.909 --> 00:34:35.679 but I've never watched it. 654 00:34:35.789 --> 00:34:38.250 Okay. So, one, you should probably watch it. I think 655 00:34:38.269 --> 00:34:42.630 you'd enjoy it. But two, among the cast of characters 656 00:34:43.050 --> 00:34:46.710 is Jason Bateman's sister, his twin sister, actually, played by 657 00:34:46.969 --> 00:34:51.610 Portia de Rossi. She's married to David Cross, who plays 658 00:34:51.670 --> 00:34:56.360 a therapist named Tobias Funke. who is kind of sort 659 00:34:56.400 --> 00:35:00.300 of famous for making a lot of unintentional homoerotic references. 660 00:35:02.699 --> 00:35:05.630 His big, like his best-selling book is called The Man 661 00:35:05.690 --> 00:35:10.929 Inside Me. Okay, so you kind of see what we're 662 00:35:10.949 --> 00:35:11.469 dealing with here? 663 00:35:11.869 --> 00:35:12.429 I'm with you. 664 00:35:12.449 --> 00:35:16.130 Okay, so they have a daughter. Their marriage is a 665 00:35:16.170 --> 00:35:20.829 little unhappy. And at one point they're sitting there next 666 00:35:20.849 --> 00:35:24.530 to each other and she brings up, well, what if 667 00:35:24.610 --> 00:35:30.239 we open the marriage? And he goes, well, they're sitting there, 668 00:35:30.280 --> 00:35:32.000 they're expressing like, you know, we're not happy. And again, 669 00:35:32.039 --> 00:35:33.900 it's kind of more, this is a comedy. So it's, 670 00:35:34.099 --> 00:35:37.659 you know, not like deep drama, but they're unhappy. Again, 671 00:35:37.679 --> 00:35:40.099 it's sort of intimated that he's gay and doesn't realize 672 00:35:40.139 --> 00:35:42.699 that kind of thing. And Portia de Rossi is, you know, 673 00:35:42.900 --> 00:35:46.239 clumsy and has no sex appeal, which is weird because 674 00:35:46.260 --> 00:35:49.099 she's not an unattractive woman, but there's like no sexual 675 00:35:50.119 --> 00:35:52.730 energy there for the most part with her. Certainly the 676 00:35:52.750 --> 00:35:55.769 way she acts like is presented that way. Anyway, he 677 00:35:55.829 --> 00:36:00.030 says to her, well, you know, I know our marriage 678 00:36:00.070 --> 00:36:03.139 is in trouble. And we've tried a bunch of therapeutic things. 679 00:36:03.159 --> 00:36:05.860 Like I can't be our therapist because he actually has ethics, 680 00:36:05.900 --> 00:36:07.699 which is a wild. That's how you know the movies 681 00:36:07.719 --> 00:36:11.000 from the shows from the 90s or the early 2000s. 682 00:36:11.320 --> 00:36:13.820 And he says, well, I think maybe the only thing 683 00:36:13.860 --> 00:36:17.699 we haven't tried is an open marriage. And she goes, 684 00:36:18.559 --> 00:36:23.050 does that ever work? He says, no. I've seen it, 685 00:36:23.440 --> 00:36:27.280 seen it a lot of times. It never works. But 686 00:36:27.300 --> 00:36:30.679 it might for us, because we're aware of the perils 687 00:36:30.719 --> 00:36:34.280 and pitfalls, and that's where we are as a society. 688 00:36:34.320 -->

00:36:36.099 We look at the long history of this. We look 689 00:36:36.139 --> 00:36:39.159 at all the analytical data and just have decided, but 690 00:36:39.320 --> 00:36:43.170 maybe we're special. And spoiler alert, people, we're not. 691 00:36:44.110 --> 00:36:48.809 So I'm going to rebut that slightly, and then we're 692 00:36:48.829 --> 00:36:50.989 going to move on to the movie. So I did a, 693 00:36:52.190 --> 00:36:52.989 but not in the way that you think. 694 00:36:54.019 --> 00:36:54.320 I did a. 695 00:36:54.320 --> 00:36:57.940 TikTok last year about ethical non-monogamy and all of that. 696 00:36:58.699 --> 00:37:06.070 And I said, from my standpoint of view, barring human behavior, 697 00:37:06.510 --> 00:37:14.230 just as a divorced from religion, just as a structure 698 00:37:14.269 --> 00:37:25.519 of human dynamics and relationships, non- heteronormal relationship dynamics are 699 00:37:25.860 --> 00:37:30.679 equal in value to heteronormative ones. When you take everything 700 00:37:30.719 --> 00:37:33.980 else away from it. Like, if you want to be poly, 701 00:37:34.019 --> 00:37:36.039 if you want to be open, if you want to 702 00:37:36.059 --> 00:37:43.099 be swingers, that's all equal to traditional monogamy. The problem 703 00:37:43.239 --> 00:37:49.829 is I just described a fantasy. Because... Because much like communism. 704 00:37:49.849 --> 00:37:52.269 That might as well have been you saying from each 705 00:37:52.309 --> 00:37:55.969 according to his effort and to each according to his need. 706 00:37:57.110 --> 00:38:01.070 Much like communism, these are all great ideas that work 707 00:38:01.090 --> 00:38:04.289 poorly with humans. And more to the point in what 708 00:38:04.309 --> 00:38:06.889 I was saying at the time, and really goes to 709 00:38:06.929 --> 00:38:15.269 what happens in The Invite, is it's... The vast majority 710 00:38:15.309 --> 00:38:19.019 of people don't have high enough emotional intelligence. to make 711 00:38:19.059 --> 00:38:25.019 this work. Because if everybody has extremely high emotional intelligence, 712 00:38:25.900 --> 00:38:29.079 then you're able to sort through the uglier parts of 713 00:38:29.280 --> 00:38:33.510 ethically non-monogamous relationships. You're able to sort through jealousies. You're 714 00:38:33.530 --> 00:38:37.619 able to sort through other feelings that come up. But 715 00:38:37.820 --> 00:38:41.030 rarely is that the case. And from my experience, more 716 00:38:41.110 --> 00:38:47.090 often than not, people with long histories of trauma, varying 717 00:38:47.150 --> 00:38:52.110 mood disorders, a bit of psychosis and, you know, an 718 00:38:52.150 --> 00:38:54.969 ADHD or two are the ones participating in this. And 719 00:38:54.989 --> 00:38:57.849 guess what? A lot of them don't have high emotional intelligence. 720 00:38:59.710 --> 00:39:01.429 They just want to do what they want to do 721 00:39:01.469 --> 00:39:03.760 when they want to do it without consequence. 722 00:39:06.219 --> 00:39:12.340 Those people have experienced what, you know, heteronormative behavior. It's been, 723 00:39:12.400 --> 00:39:14.800 they've been betrayed by it. So they think doing this is, 724 00:39:15.059 --> 00:39:17.429 is better and, And they assign a lot of weight 725 00:39:17.449 --> 00:39:20.179 to it for that reason. And, you know, I've watched 726 00:39:20.239 --> 00:39:23.579 those people crash and burn. And that's the last I'm 727 00:39:23.599 --> 00:39:25.880 going to say about it. So I don't think they're... 728 00:39:25.900 --> 00:39:30.929 I think this is a debate to be had about the... 729 00:39:31.900 --> 00:39:37.110 value of nuclear families and heteronormative behavior based on statistics. 730 00:39:37.650 --> 00:39:40.210 But it's not really relevant to the invite. The invite 731 00:39:40.250 --> 00:39:42.909 is a whole other thing going on. But I wanted 732 00:39:42.929 --> 00:39:44.210 to get this out of the way so we're not 733 00:39:44.269 --> 00:39:45.849 fighting about that instead of the stupid movie. 734 00:39:47.159 --> 00:39:49.420 Well, I was prepared to have that fight, and then 735 00:39:49.440 --> 00:39:52.360 I watched the movie and went, oh, like, none of my... 736 00:39:53.000 --> 00:39:57.179 None of the lifestyle discussion is relevant to the movie. Like, 737 00:39:57.260 --> 00:39:59.300 almost none of that is relevant to what's actually taking 738 00:39:59.320 --> 00:39:59.940 place in the movie. 739 00:40:00.030 --> 00:40:01.929 This is less about.... 740 00:40:02.909 --> 00:40:03.050 So. 741 00:40:04.010 --> 00:40:06.130 The invite involves swingers. 742 00:40:07.289 --> 00:40:07.469 And. 743 00:40:08.530 --> 00:40:10.489 I'll let Robert do the plot synopsis, but to get 744 00:40:10.530 --> 00:40:14.159 this out of the way, the invite involves a swinging 745 00:40:14.199 --> 00:40:19.610 couple who... extend an invitation for swinging to the host couple, 746 00:40:19.989 --> 00:40:25.039 who are Olivia Wilde and Seth Rogen. And that is only... 747 00:40:26.300 --> 00:40:30.119 one-fourth of what's happening in this movie. The other three-fourths 748 00:40:30.219 --> 00:40:32.340 are about this fucking marriage that's falling apart. 749 00:40:33.900 --> 00:40:34.179 And. 750 00:40:36.039 --> 00:40:38.989 when marriages tend to fall apart, you tend to look for... 751 00:40:39.329 --> 00:40:42.429 other things that bring you, you know, joy and fulfillment 752 00:40:42.550 --> 00:40:47.630 and satisfaction... generally speaking, outside of the marriage, unfortunately. And 753 00:40:47.710 --> 00:40:51.550 that's where these trains met. And we'll talk about whether 754 00:40:51.659 --> 00:40:53.980 or not how successful that was in just a few minutes. 755 00:40:54.039 --> 00:40:59.500 So with all that tortured preamble out of the way, Robert, 756 00:40:59.659 --> 00:41:01.079 what happens in the invite? 757 00:41:01.139 --> 00:41:02.840 There's your clip for TikTok, at least.

758 00:41:03.880 --> 00:41:07.519 I don't do that no more. However, I'm sure it'll 759 00:41:07.539 --> 00:41:08.480 get a mention in the essay. 760 00:41:10.380 --> 00:41:13.820 One would assume. So the invite, again, as Mark mentioned, 761 00:41:13.900 --> 00:41:17.500 it's staged almost entirely within the apartment shared by Seth 762 00:41:17.539 --> 00:41:20.039 Rogen and Olivia Wilde. We meet Seth Rogen as he 763 00:41:20.139 --> 00:41:26.210 is disinterestedly teaching people at a community college, basically, music. 764 00:41:27.090 --> 00:41:28.670 And he goes home and then everything else takes place 765 00:41:28.690 --> 00:41:33.789 in the apartment. He comes home to begin immediately fighting 766 00:41:33.829 --> 00:41:37.920 with his wife, Olivia Wilde. Because he comes in the 767 00:41:37.940 --> 00:41:40.019 door and he lays down on the ground because his 768 00:41:40.079 --> 00:41:41.920 back is killing him and laying down on a flat 769 00:41:41.960 --> 00:41:48.619 surface helps. And she immediately begins going, well, we have 770 00:41:48.659 --> 00:41:53.179 the neighbors coming over and there's a lot of fighting 771 00:41:53.219 --> 00:41:56.880 about this because he's like, well, you could have told me. 772 00:41:56.889 --> 00:41:58.730 He's like, I told you last week. You didn't tell 773 00:41:58.769 --> 00:42:00.650 me last week. You certainly didn't ask my opinion. 774 00:42:00.670 --> 00:42:03.010 This is every couple I've ever met in couples therapy. 775 00:42:05.769 --> 00:42:08.690 And So they fight for a little bit about that. 776 00:42:08.769 --> 00:42:11.969 And then eventually he says, you know what? Fine. We 777 00:42:11.989 --> 00:42:15.139 can have them over. I'm going to ask him about 778 00:42:15.179 --> 00:42:18.480 the noise they make because every freaking night at around 779 00:42:18.579 --> 00:42:22.539 four in the morning, someone's screaming orgasm wakes us up. 780 00:42:24.119 --> 00:42:25.460 And I need to ask about it. I'm kind of 781 00:42:25.480 --> 00:42:28.099 tired of it. And Olivia Wilde says, you will not 782 00:42:28.139 --> 00:42:30.239 bring up. That would make this whole thing socially awkward. 783 00:42:30.260 --> 00:42:31.460 We're not going to do this. We're going to have 784 00:42:31.480 --> 00:42:36.489 a perfectly pleasant evening. I have created a charcuterie board. I, 785 00:42:36.610 --> 00:42:38.510 oh crap, I don't have any wine and they're here. 786 00:42:40.150 --> 00:42:42.489 And the other couple is played by Penelope Cruz and 787 00:42:42.530 --> 00:42:47.190 Edward Norton. And they show up and they talk and 788 00:42:47.269 --> 00:42:49.150 Seth Rogen goes out of his way to make everything 789 00:42:49.250 --> 00:42:54.199 awkward by just deciding that the social niceties are out 790 00:42:54.239 --> 00:42:56.940 the window tonight. He is going to be as blunt 791 00:42:56.980 --> 00:43:02.360 and honest as possible, which Edward Norton finds delightful. And 792 00:43:03.480 --> 00:43:06.489 so they they then find out that, you know, Penelope 793 00:43:06.530 --> 00:43:11.969 Cruz can't eat meat or cheese or anything. And she's 794 00:43:11.989 --> 00:43:18.849 reduced to eating cocktail olives, basically. And there's a little 795 00:43:18.869 --> 00:43:21.530 bit of, again, sniping, a little bit of banter. They 796 00:43:21.809 --> 00:43:24.710 get to know each other a bit and then. Edward 797 00:43:24.730 --> 00:43:26.130 Norton goes on a bit of a tour of the 798 00:43:26.170 --> 00:43:29.400 house with Olivia Wilde because he kind of cares about 799 00:43:29.519 --> 00:43:33.059 certain elements of interior design and decorating. And Penelope Cruz 800 00:43:33.099 --> 00:43:35.639 goes to smoke marijuana with Seth Rogen because it's a 801 00:43:35.659 --> 00:43:38.380 Seth Rogen movie and he is contractually obligated to light 802 00:43:38.420 --> 00:43:44.190 up at least one joint per film he's in. And 803 00:43:44.230 --> 00:43:46.550 they all talk and they kind of hit it off 804 00:43:46.590 --> 00:43:52.230 in various capacities. They reconvene and... At this point, Edward 805 00:43:52.269 --> 00:43:55.130 Norton and Penelope Cruz go, so we really, and it 806 00:43:55.210 --> 00:43:58.469 is revealed that no, this whole thing came together today 807 00:43:58.550 --> 00:44:02.329 when Penelope Cruz met Olivia Wilde in the building. So 808 00:44:02.369 --> 00:44:05.369 there was no prior discussion of this for Seth Rogen's character. 809 00:44:08.389 --> 00:44:11.929 And anyway, they say we came by because we needed 810 00:44:11.949 --> 00:44:14.989 to apologize for all the noise because we know it 811 00:44:15.030 --> 00:44:20.639 gets a little loud. And because Seth Rogen has decided 812 00:44:20.699 --> 00:44:23.559 again that there are no social boundaries tonight, he's, oh yeah, 813 00:44:23.599 --> 00:44:26.639 we talk about the sound in your orgasms all the time. 814 00:44:26.800 --> 00:44:28.340 My wife, she never shuts up about them. 815 00:44:28.880 --> 00:44:32.119 Penelope Cruz just received the best compliment ever. 816 00:44:34.610 --> 00:44:37.730 And so they ask, so which of you makes this 817 00:44:37.789 --> 00:44:40.829 particular noise? And the two, Edward Norton and Penelope Cruz 818 00:44:40.849 --> 00:44:43.690 look at each other and go, oh, I think that's 819 00:44:43.750 --> 00:44:48.730 Vanessa who makes that noise. And they go, I'm sorry, who? 820 00:44:48.750 --> 00:44:51.869 I'm like, yeah, yeah, we, you know, open marriage. We 821 00:44:51.889 --> 00:44:56.829 have sex parties and the whole nine yards. So they start, 822 00:44:57.329 --> 00:45:00.630 this turns into a bit of a PSA about the 823 00:45:00.670 --> 00:45:03.340 conducting of orgies for a little bit. 824 00:45:03.519 --> 00:45:05.699 This is every bunch I've ever been to. 825 00:45:06.539 --> 00:45:07.920 Here's your infomercial segment. 826 00:45:08.260 --> 00:45:08.440 Yes. 827 00:45:09.320 -->

00:45:12.820 And then the swingers say, we'd like to invite you 828 00:45:12.960 --> 00:45:14.880 to share a sexual experience with us. 829 00:45:15.119 --> 00:45:17.380 There's a lot of hemming and hawing about it. Because 830 00:45:17.420 --> 00:45:20.719 they've had to sit through these two idiots fighting all night. 831 00:45:20.949 --> 00:45:23.030 And Penelope Cruz is like, yeah, I really don't want 832 00:45:23.050 --> 00:45:24.449 to swing with people if it's going to be a 833 00:45:24.530 --> 00:45:25.809 negative circumstance. 834 00:45:26.909 --> 00:45:29.289 But they kind of decide, yeah, okay, we can try. 835 00:45:29.349 --> 00:45:32.090 So Edward Norton and Olivia Wilde get started. And then 836 00:45:32.269 --> 00:45:34.210 Penelope Cruz and Seth Rogen go dancing. 837 00:45:34.230 --> 00:45:36.719 They do what is called a separate room swap is 838 00:45:36.739 --> 00:45:38.000 what they do. Okay. 839 00:45:39.480 --> 00:45:42.039 And then Seth Rogen's back gives out on him because 840 00:45:42.079 --> 00:45:43.940 it's previously established it's not great. 841 00:45:44.320 --> 00:45:45.840 He fell into his bookshelf is what he did. 842 00:45:46.840 --> 00:45:49.659 And his back goes out and none of it's good. 843 00:45:49.679 --> 00:45:52.179 So the whole thing falls apart. They try to fix 844 00:45:52.219 --> 00:45:54.380 his back with mixed results. And then he and Olivia 845 00:45:54.440 --> 00:45:57.860 Wilde have another fight. And Penelope Cruz has to is 846 00:45:57.900 --> 00:46:00.739 put in the unfortunate position of now being Mark Radulich, where, OK, 847 00:46:00.760 --> 00:46:02.659 I guess I'm hosting a therapy session I did not 848 00:46:02.699 --> 00:46:04.860 sign up for, nor am I getting paid for. Yep. 849 00:46:05.139 --> 00:46:08.360 Welcome to two thirds of my podcast over the last 850 00:46:08.360 --> 00:46:08.820 10 years. 851 00:46:09.429 --> 00:46:11.320 You're welcome, by the way, for being the third that 852 00:46:11.360 --> 00:46:12.690 do not fall into that category. 853 00:46:13.030 --> 00:46:14.170 Yes, Robert, you're a good boy. 854 00:46:14.190 --> 00:46:15.210 I try. 855 00:46:16.650 --> 00:46:19.030 No, I just had to open up our podcast to 856 00:46:19.070 --> 00:46:21.309 chastise you to please don't attack me tonight for having 857 00:46:21.369 --> 00:46:22.750 opinions or a lifestyle. 858 00:46:25.269 --> 00:46:26.570 Yeah, but I never make you go to therapy. I 859 00:46:26.590 --> 00:46:32.639 never make you therapize me. The fact that you can't 860 00:46:32.659 --> 00:46:34.760 turn it off is a you problem. I never ask 861 00:46:34.820 --> 00:46:35.110 for it. 862 00:46:35.739 --> 00:46:38.239 I am intellectually curious, you bastard. 863 00:46:38.260 --> 00:46:44.269 That's fine. I never dump my trauma into these podcasts. 864 00:46:44.309 --> 00:46:46.679 Anyway. No, I beat it out of you. 865 00:46:47.519 --> 00:46:48.320 Yes, with a stick. 866 00:46:49.159 --> 00:46:51.820 Hey, remember

our Tomorrowland podcast? Good times, huh? 867 00:46:52.300 --> 00:46:55.860 Yeah. Yeah, when you decided you were a dog with 868 00:46:55.909 --> 00:46:57.969 a bone on that one. Like, no, no, no, come on, 869 00:46:58.030 --> 00:46:58.690 dig with me. 870 00:46:58.650 --> 00:47:00.329 A little bit. No, no, yeah, I reached down into 871 00:47:00.349 --> 00:47:02.289 your fucking throat. I'm like, I'm pulling out all of 872 00:47:02.329 --> 00:47:03.889 your trauma. 873 00:47:04.050 --> 00:47:10.510 Something is getting to here. Yeah, this thing. So she 874 00:47:10.530 --> 00:47:14.989 winds up kind of therapizing them through some of their problems. 875 00:47:15.070 --> 00:47:18.039 And Seth Rogen is a good little boy about the 876 00:47:18.420 --> 00:47:22.599 male humiliation ritual that's become more prevalent. I'm glad you 877 00:47:22.619 --> 00:47:24.579 found a version of this that you enjoy, by the way, Mark. 878 00:47:26.099 --> 00:47:28.949 And ultimately they kind of conclude, yeah, our marriage is 879 00:47:28.969 --> 00:47:31.030 pretty much done. We're only staying together for the kid. 880 00:47:32.539 --> 00:47:35.139 And Penelope Cruz, who should know better as a therapist, says, well, 881 00:47:35.179 --> 00:47:36.860 is it better for a kid to, you know, have 882 00:47:36.900 --> 00:47:38.639 two parents who don't like each other or to have 883 00:47:38.760 --> 00:47:41.070 separate parents who are happy? And the statistical data on 884 00:47:41.090 --> 00:47:43.409 that is actually a lot murkier than you might than 885 00:47:43.469 --> 00:47:46.369 the emotional language. Hang on. 886 00:47:46.869 --> 00:47:48.929 No, she says something more important than that. She says 887 00:47:49.289 --> 00:47:52.090 the relationship as you are currently participating in it is dead. 888 00:47:52.250 --> 00:47:55.010 This isn't going to work. Either start a new relationship 889 00:47:55.150 --> 00:47:57.909 with each other or separate. But what you're doing now 890 00:47:58.090 --> 00:48:00.710 is toxic and it's hurting everybody involved, including your kid. 891 00:48:01.210 --> 00:48:07.949 Yeah. So they leave and they sort of, it's left 892 00:48:08.010 --> 00:48:10.230 a little bit ambiguous what's going to happen next, whether 893 00:48:10.250 --> 00:48:12.829 they actually divorce or they actually decide to, you know, 894 00:48:12.849 --> 00:48:13.489 move forward. 895 00:48:13.530 --> 00:48:17.030 Part of what's motivating Seth Rogen is he was in 896 00:48:17.070 --> 00:48:20.159 a band. I couldn't tell in the movie or not, 897 00:48:20.239 --> 00:48:22.159 if he says why the band didn't work out, but 898 00:48:22.179 --> 00:48:22.559 it didn't work. 899 00:48:22.579 --> 00:48:25.719 He never said it's never enumerated. He's just a sad 900 00:48:25.739 --> 00:48:27.219 guy whose band didn't go anywhere. 901 00:48:27.320 --> 00:48:30.159 Right. So, you know, so he's another like Kevin James 902 00:48:30.199 --> 00:48:32.449 in the first movie. So, At a certain point in life, 903 00:48:32.489 --> 00:48:36.050 he died. And he's been walking around as a zombie 904 00:48:36.090 --> 00:48:38.650 ever since. And one of the extensions of that, much 905 00:48:38.670 --> 00:48:40.909 like Kevin James with the opera singing, as you can 906 00:48:40.929 --> 00:48:44.429 see some of the accidental parallels here, is he stopped 907 00:48:44.449 --> 00:48:47.449 playing the piano. So at the end of the movie, 908 00:48:47.989 --> 00:48:50.239 and so part of Olivia Wilde's big issue with him is, 909 00:48:50.239 --> 00:48:58.559 you Where they don't want to not be married to 910 00:48:58.579 --> 00:49:00.500 the person that they're with, but they'd like that person 911 00:49:00.539 --> 00:49:03.519 to come back to life. That's Olivia Wilde's kind of 912 00:49:03.579 --> 00:49:07.139 whole thing. And why she had eyes for Ed Norton 913 00:49:07.260 --> 00:49:11.010 was because her husband seemed to not have eyes for 914 00:49:11.050 --> 00:49:14.070 her anymore. Though he has a different interpretation, and we'll 915 00:49:14.090 --> 00:49:18.170 get to that momentarily. This is all stuff I've heard before. 916 00:49:18.400 --> 00:49:19.119 This is every one of them. 917 00:49:19.139 --> 00:49:22.980 Oh, yeah, this is... They managed to hit just about 918 00:49:23.260 --> 00:49:28.989 every single bullet point for the, like, why marriages break 919 00:49:29.030 --> 00:49:30.869 apart in this one. 920 00:49:30.909 --> 00:49:32.530 I'll say it now. Seth Rogen's like, I ask to 921 00:49:32.550 --> 00:49:33.989 have sex with you all the time. I stopped asking 922 00:49:34.010 --> 00:49:35.489 because you keep saying no, and she was like, who 923 00:49:35.510 --> 00:49:39.170 the fuck wants to have sex with somebody who's fucking dead-eyed? 924 00:49:40.039 --> 00:49:44.710 And sad and, like, and doesn't put any effort in. 925 00:49:44.739 --> 00:49:48.039 I'm sorry, rolling over and asking for sex is not intimacy, asshole. 926 00:49:49.739 --> 00:49:51.300 You know, it's a lot of that. 927 00:49:52.380 --> 00:49:54.780 It is, the whole sex argument, it's one of those 928 00:49:54.820 --> 00:49:57.139 weird things where as soon as, like, it starts falling apart, 929 00:49:57.179 --> 00:50:02.590 it falls apart incredibly fast because for women, generally speaking, 930 00:50:03.360 --> 00:50:06.780 For women, sex is an expression of the emotional intimacy 931 00:50:06.820 --> 00:50:09.960 that they feel. Men feel emotionally close because of sex. 932 00:50:10.639 --> 00:50:14.119 And when that works harmoniously, it's great. As soon as 933 00:50:14.159 --> 00:50:18.929 it falls apart, neither person can get started and neither 934 00:50:19.010 --> 00:50:19.630 one wants to. 935 00:50:19.929 --> 00:50:23.289 Well, here's what I tell people in couple therapy. Intimacy 936 00:50:23.349 --> 00:50:27.389 begins with knowing each other's interior world. When you stop 937 00:50:27.429 --> 00:50:30.239

talking to each other, like sex is the end result 938 00:50:30.280 --> 00:50:33.119 of intimacy. Not the beginning. And everyone thinks that intimacy 939 00:50:33.159 --> 00:50:36.619 is just physical touch. It's not. It's the end, not 940 00:50:36.639 --> 00:50:39.889 the beginning of that journey. If you're talking, if you're communicating, 941 00:50:40.610 --> 00:50:43.190 if you're sharing, if you're experiencing, at the end of that, 942 00:50:44.869 --> 00:50:48.050 your partner will more than likely be very turned on 943 00:50:48.110 --> 00:50:50.449 and very attracted and want to have sex, barring any 944 00:50:50.489 --> 00:50:54.889 unforeseen calamity or outside issues. Anyway, so the point of 945 00:50:54.949 --> 00:50:59.440 all this was, he died... And he doesn't play the 946 00:50:59.460 --> 00:51:02.239 piano anymore. And she brings that up. She was just like, 947 00:51:02.380 --> 00:51:04.239 I have been watching you walk around like a zombie 948 00:51:04.300 --> 00:51:08.219 for upteen years. And it's all because your fucking band 949 00:51:08.260 --> 00:51:10.139 didn't break out as if there was no life after that. 950 00:51:11.940 --> 00:51:13.820 So at the very end of the movie, after they've 951 00:51:14.019 --> 00:51:16.179 like decided they're not going to stay in the same 952 00:51:16.219 --> 00:51:19.969 room tonight, he goes and plays his piano. And, you know, 953 00:51:20.010 --> 00:51:23.110 realizing that I got to pull the plane here out 954 00:51:23.130 --> 00:51:27.139 of the, out of the nosedive. Or, you know, whatever 955 00:51:27.179 --> 00:51:30.360 everyone said about me tonight is absolutely true. I'm basically dead. 956 00:51:30.980 --> 00:51:32.019 So he goes and he sits down and he plays 957 00:51:32.039 --> 00:51:35.039 the piano. And she hears him play. And in, like, 958 00:51:35.139 --> 00:51:37.750 a moment of repair, she sits down with him. They 959 00:51:37.789 --> 00:51:39.670 play together a little bit. And then she puts his 960 00:51:39.710 --> 00:51:44.530 head on her shoulder and Finn, curtain down. So that's 961 00:51:44.630 --> 00:51:46.090 the invite. Is there anything else you wanted to say 962 00:51:46.130 --> 00:51:47.530 about it before I jump in? 963 00:51:47.829 --> 00:51:50.960 Again, the plot is fairly straightforward. We just got into 964 00:51:51.019 --> 00:51:54.559 details because that's how we have to talk about it. 965 00:51:55.590 --> 00:51:58.889 So this is right now probably my top five for 966 00:51:58.909 --> 00:52:02.610 the year. No surprise there, I'm sure. I loved it. 967 00:52:03.719 --> 00:52:05.440 I got done with this movie and went, I know 968 00:52:05.500 --> 00:52:08.579 exactly why Mark loves this movie. Not a knock. Like, 969 00:52:08.659 --> 00:52:12.519 this is a you movie through and through. Yeah. 970 00:52:15.119 --> 00:52:18.630 So the low-hanging fruit is, oh, Mark liked it because 971 00:52:18.650 --> 00:52:22.329 there's a lot of sex and relationship stuff in it. Yeah, sure. 972 00:52:22.429 --> 00:52:22.869 Partially. 973 00:52:23.489 --> 00:52:24.829 You know why I really liked it? Because it stayed 974 00:52:24.849 --> 00:52:27.050 like a play. And I'm realizing just how much I 975 00:52:27.110 --> 00:52:30.329 like a good, dramatic talky play. It's why, like, when you're, 976 00:52:30.429 --> 00:52:33.250 you know, banging a shoe over Aaron Sorkin and I'm 977 00:52:33.269 --> 00:52:35.030 looking at you like, what the fuck with the fire 978 00:52:35.070 --> 00:52:37.920 and brimstone with this guy? Like, part of it for 979 00:52:37.960 --> 00:52:42.260 me is, but I like his dialogue. I like his sing-songy... 980 00:52:42.360 --> 00:52:46.380 I don't want to re-litigate the social network. I like 981 00:52:46.400 --> 00:52:50.909 his sing-songy stage play type dialogue. This is so much 982 00:52:50.949 --> 00:52:54.489 better than Aaron Sorkin. This is, like, miles away better. 983 00:52:55.420 --> 00:52:58.179 And I think that's because it was adapted from a play. Like, 984 00:52:58.199 --> 00:52:59.699 I think it's like a play and then became a 985 00:52:59.739 --> 00:53:03.360 Spanish movie. And then this is a remake of that movie. 986 00:53:03.699 --> 00:53:07.679 So there's a lot of like play theater stage elements 987 00:53:08.320 --> 00:53:12.530 to this. It's in this one apartment. So it's a 988 00:53:12.570 --> 00:53:14.670 lot of just watching them walk around this place, but 989 00:53:14.690 --> 00:53:17.090 I never get bored with the scenery because they're always 990 00:53:17.110 --> 00:53:19.050 doing something with it. It's always shot a certain way. 991 00:53:19.429 --> 00:53:22.409 This is, this is very well directed. I hope the 992 00:53:22.449 --> 00:53:25.000 director of this, this is Olivia Wilde, the, I hope 993 00:53:25.019 --> 00:53:28.219 Olivia Wilde gets a nomination for Best Director. She may 994 00:53:28.260 --> 00:53:30.780 not win it. Probably shouldn't win it. But I do 995 00:53:30.820 --> 00:53:34.469 hope she's recognized because this is wonderfully directed. The way 996 00:53:34.510 --> 00:53:38.949 that they stage and block the four actors in this, outstanding. 997 00:53:39.050 --> 00:53:42.550 I know you hate Seth Rogen, but other than Kevin James, 998 00:53:43.150 --> 00:53:48.960 if the casting sheet is dead-eyed, middle-aged man who's fat 999 00:53:49.000 --> 00:53:54.599 and smokes pot and is basically a zombie.... 1000 00:53:56.519 --> 00:53:59.679 Seth Rogen, top five actor for that. And here's the thing. 1001 00:54:00.000 --> 00:54:02.519 Everything they asked him to do, he does well. Regardless 1002 00:54:02.559 --> 00:54:05.880 of your personal opinion of the guy, regardless of whether 1003 00:54:05.920 --> 00:54:08.530 or not he didn't show very much range in the invite, 1004 00:54:08.550 --> 00:54:11.809 I don't know. I bought him as the character he played. 1005 00:54:12.670 --> 00:54:15.429 I thought it was dead on. And I think working 1006

00:54:15.449 --> 00:54:16.769 with Olivia Wilde was perfect. 1007 00:54:17.579 --> 00:54:21.360 Here's my only thing about that. First of all, Seth 1008 00:54:21.389 --> 00:54:23.449 Rogen didn't quite make me want to claw my eyes 1009 00:54:23.550 --> 00:54:27.909 out most of this movie, so there's that. I'm still 1010 00:54:27.989 --> 00:54:31.650 stuck with the reality that literally anyone in his same 1011 00:54:31.690 --> 00:54:33.630 position would have done a better job than Seth Rogen. 1012 00:54:34.250 --> 00:54:36.230 Who do you get for this? And I don't want 1013 00:54:36.250 --> 00:54:38.610 to have a long discussion about this, but who do 1014 00:54:38.630 --> 00:54:41.130 you get? Fucking Ant-Man? 1015 00:54:41.210 --> 00:54:44.429 You could have done Paul Rudd. Chris Evans. 1016 00:54:46.110 --> 00:54:48.619 What the fuck? The Office. Steve Carell. 1017 00:54:49.739 --> 00:54:52.780 You could have done... Steve Carell does dramas quite well, yeah. 1018 00:54:53.920 --> 00:54:55.429 Steve Carell.... 1019 00:54:56.039 --> 00:54:56.579 Who's fat? 1020 00:54:58.380 --> 00:55:01.960 You don't need fat. You just need not superhero shape. 1021 00:55:03.900 --> 00:55:05.840 None of the Chris... Because the cinema... Because the language 1022 00:55:05.860 --> 00:55:07.400 of cinema at this point is if you don't look 1023 00:55:07.420 --> 00:55:10.840 like Chris Hemsworth, you're kind of a schlub. Sure. 1024 00:55:10.860 --> 00:55:16.730 All right. So back to things. Olivia Wilde. I liked 1025 00:55:16.750 --> 00:55:19.639 her in... But she's kind of a villain. And I 1026 00:55:19.679 --> 00:55:23.000 want your sex. I loved her in this. I thought 1027 00:55:23.099 --> 00:55:27.239 as a middle-aged and erotic woman... Who feels unloved and unseen... 1028 00:55:28.260 --> 00:55:33.630 Spot fucking on. You have to have a masterful... A 1029 00:55:37.829 --> 00:55:40.550 masterful performance of dialogue... To make this movie work. And 1030 00:55:40.650 --> 00:55:45.039 she does that. Olivia Wilde... I haven't seen her in much. 1031 00:55:45.079 --> 00:55:46.920 I know she was in one of the Tron movies... 1032 00:55:47.460 --> 00:55:50.960 But until this year, I couldn't have spotted Olivia Wilde 1033 00:55:51.000 --> 00:55:53.380 in a fucking lineup. And now I've seen two things 1034 00:55:53.400 --> 00:55:56.199 with her. What an exceptional actress she is. I don't 1035 00:55:56.219 --> 00:55:58.550 know if she doesn't have a good agent or if 1036 00:55:58.590 --> 00:56:01.050 she's just really picky about her parts considering she's within 1037 00:56:01.110 --> 00:56:03.650 this and I want your sex this year. That's probably 1038 00:56:03.690 --> 00:56:07.130 closer to the truth. I know she's done some directing. 1039 00:56:08.050 --> 00:56:14.460 She's also barely out of... This is Hollywood BS, mind you. 1040 00:56:15.260 --> 00:56:15.480 But. 1041 00:56:16.369 --> 00:56:19.489 for several years she was kind of soft blackballed for 1042 00:56:19.510 --> 00:56:22.690 being incredibly difficult to work with she was on house 1043 00:56:22.750 --> 00:56:26.219 for a handful of seasons and between that and a 1044 00:56:26.239 --> 00:56:28.300 couple other things she did she got a really negative 1045 00:56:28.340 --> 00:56:30.699 reputation that she finally seems to be clawing her way. 1046 00:56:30.639 --> 00:56:32.860 Out of well you know when you're allowed to direct 1047 00:56:32.960 --> 00:56:35.019 and act in your own stuff you're less difficult to 1048 00:56:35.039 --> 00:56:37.099 work with i would imagine plus this is a really 1049 00:56:37.199 --> 00:56:40.400 meaty role like for what this is for as small 1050 00:56:40.440 --> 00:56:44.420 as it is this is wildly relatable for most people 1051 00:56:44.440 --> 00:56:46.159 who have any kind of lived life experience. 1052 00:56:47.739 --> 00:56:48.260 It is. 1053 00:56:48.280 --> 00:56:51.860 I mean, everything that Seth Rogen and Olivia Wilde said 1054 00:56:51.900 --> 00:56:55.449 to each other, I've heard before a billion times. Which 1055 00:56:55.510 --> 00:56:58.510 means most married couples have said this to each other 1056 00:56:58.530 --> 00:57:01.130 across this country for decades. 1057 00:57:01.170 --> 00:57:04.090 Yeah, as far as the writing goes, it is impeccable. 1058 00:57:04.530 --> 00:57:07.969 Yeah. So I want to talk about Penelope Cruz and 1059 00:57:08.050 --> 00:57:10.050 Ed Norton. I've never been a huge fan of Penelope Cruz. 1060 00:57:10.639 --> 00:57:15.099 And when I saw she was in this, the last 1061 00:57:15.139 --> 00:57:19.199 time I remember thinking about Penelope Cruz was the Tom 1062 00:57:19.239 --> 00:57:23.300 Cruise movie, Vanilla Sky, where she was this big, and 1063 00:57:24.039 --> 00:57:26.239 she had a really thick accent, and I was disinterested 1064 00:57:26.260 --> 00:57:28.059 in her as an actress because I had Selma Hayek. 1065 00:57:31.409 --> 00:57:33.869 So I had no interest in Penelope Cruz. 1066 00:57:34.909 --> 00:57:38.630 For 30 years, you've been just ignoring her? Yes. Yes. 1067 00:57:39.650 --> 00:57:42.969 And I feel sheepish now because she's excellent in this. 1068 00:57:43.610 --> 00:57:46.050 She's actually, I mean, her accent's not as thick as 1069 00:57:46.110 --> 00:57:46.650 it used to be. 1070 00:57:46.670 --> 00:57:48.170 Yeah, that was a big help. 1071 00:57:49.010 --> 00:57:52.239 She's actually a much better actress or actor in her 1072 00:57:52.300 --> 00:57:54.639 native language. If you've ever seen any of her Spanish 1073 00:57:54.679 --> 00:57:55.639 language stuff, it's great. 1074 00:57:56.739 --> 00:57:59.159 I have not, but I'll take a note. So this 1075 00:57:59.199 --> 00:58:00.920 person wants to know, has anyone seen the new Tom 1076 00:58:00.940 --> 00:58:03.340 Cruise movie yet? Yes, we saw Digger. We've already reviewed it. 1077 00:58:03.340 --> 00:58:08.940 It's in the archives. Thank you. So back to this movie. Yeah, 1078

00:58:08.980 --> 00:58:15.789 she's excellent in this. Ed Norton and her stuff... I 1079 00:58:15.829 --> 00:58:19.190 know this from personal experience. The stuff they're saying about 1080 00:58:19.929 --> 00:58:24.010 the kink and ethically non-monogamous community, spot on. I was 1081 00:58:24.050 --> 00:58:26.880 looking for stuff to criticize. Didn't really find anything. 1082 00:58:29.440 --> 00:58:31.980 They read the correct wikis and copy-pasted the information. 1083 00:58:33.449 --> 00:58:35.130 I'm going to give the people who wrote this more 1084 00:58:35.170 --> 00:58:37.289 credit than that, seeing as it's the third iteration of 1085 00:58:37.329 --> 00:58:39.489 the thing that somebody else did in a different language. 1086 00:58:42.090 --> 00:58:43.710 And I don't know anything about that person, so you 1087 00:58:43.750 --> 00:58:46.070 dismissing him is you, but I'm going to assume this 1088 00:58:46.090 --> 00:58:48.889 guy had some knowledge about this when he wrote the 1089 00:58:48.909 --> 00:58:49.570 fucking play. 1090 00:58:49.989 --> 00:58:52.170 Or hired the right consultant, if you'd rather put it 1091 00:58:52.230 --> 00:58:54.329 that way. Okay. 1092 00:58:54.969 --> 00:58:58.230 So either way, they performed the dialogue well, and what 1093 00:58:58.269 --> 00:59:01.789 was in the dialogue seemed accurate to me from where 1094 00:59:01.849 --> 00:59:04.239 I was sitting. Ed Norton's line at the end of 1095 00:59:04.260 --> 00:59:08.119 the movie, Golly, guys, we just wanted to see the 1096 00:59:08.199 --> 00:59:12.989 apartment and fuck a little. I've heard some version of 1097 00:59:13.050 --> 00:59:16.590 that multiple times in my life. Said almost the exact 1098 00:59:16.630 --> 00:59:19.889 same fucking way. I laughed hard at that line just 1099 00:59:19.909 --> 00:59:20.949 because it was so familiar to me. 1100 00:59:22.380 --> 00:59:25.880 I imagine, like, you don't identify with Edward Norton's character 1101 00:59:25.920 --> 00:59:28.079 in every scene, but there's a handful where I feel 1102 00:59:28.119 --> 00:59:30.389 like you were like, oh, my spirit avatar is here 1103 00:59:30.469 --> 00:59:33.349 on screen. Including me while I was almost in a 1104 00:59:33.369 --> 00:59:34.809 threesome against my wishes again. 1105 00:59:36.349 --> 00:59:38.050 Once again, I was in a threesome I didn't want 1106 00:59:38.090 --> 00:59:47.550 to be in. My motto of 2023. Anyway, I mean, like, 1107 00:59:47.650 --> 00:59:50.070 his journey, the stuff that he talks about where he 1108 00:59:50.800 --> 00:59:52.989 is talking about like not being there for his wife. 1109 00:59:53.030 --> 00:59:55.849 And by the time he, by the time he figured 1110 00:59:55.869 --> 00:59:58.269 that out, it was well too late, you know, and 1111 00:59:58.309 --> 01:00:02.369 that he was now trying to, he was trying to 1112 01:00:03.210 --> 01:00:06.719 live in a way that there were no regrets and 1113 01:00:06.760 --> 01:00:08.360 that

he was there for his partner. And does he 1114 01:00:08.380 --> 01:00:08.980 always get it right? 1115 01:00:09.000 --> 01:00:09.059 No. 1116 01:00:09.380 --> 01:00:11.739 And him and Penelope, Penelope Cruz bang heads a couple 1117 01:00:11.760 --> 01:00:13.840 of times. So that was good stuff there. They actually 1118 01:00:13.860 --> 01:00:15.659 had really good chemistry, Penelope Cruz and Ed Norton. I 1119 01:00:15.699 --> 01:00:19.860 believe that couple, um, At the end of the movie 1120 01:00:19.960 --> 01:00:22.139 where Seth Rogen and Olivia Wilde are basically having a 1121 01:00:22.159 --> 01:00:25.679 couple therapy sessions with Penelope Cruz, I actually thought that 1122 01:00:25.719 --> 01:00:30.280 was well handled. Because I've been in that position a lot. 1123 01:00:30.940 --> 01:00:34.280 And I think the way they made Penelope Cruz behave 1124 01:00:34.340 --> 01:00:36.539 in that scene was good. Where she was like, I 1125 01:00:36.579 --> 01:00:38.460 want to de-escalate this so that there's not a domestic 1126 01:00:38.500 --> 01:00:43.510 violence while I'm still here. But I'm not your fucking therapist. 1127 01:00:43.550 --> 01:00:45.050 I'm not going to be your therapist. You guys need 1128 01:00:45.070 --> 01:00:49.070 to figure this the fuck out. But she said something 1129 01:00:49.110 --> 01:00:51.739 really specific that I want to focus on. And when 1130 01:00:51.760 --> 01:00:53.780 she said, do you guys hear how you're talking to 1131 01:00:53.800 --> 01:00:56.420 each other right now? You're being so cruel to one another. 1132 01:00:57.260 --> 01:01:00.320 I say that all the time. I was like, the 1133 01:01:00.400 --> 01:01:02.380 first thing about being in a cup in couples therapy 1134 01:01:02.579 --> 01:01:07.050 is remember you love each other. I say this a lot. 1135 01:01:07.070 --> 01:01:09.349 I said this one couple today. I'm just like, I, 1136 01:01:09.590 --> 01:01:11.730 I'm like, I assume you guys still like each other 1137 01:01:11.789 --> 01:01:13.239 a little bit. Why don't you try acting like it? 1138 01:01:13.409 --> 01:01:16.530 I said it more professional than that, but that was 1139 01:01:16.550 --> 01:01:21.429 the gist of it. Like, Stop assuming the other person's 1140 01:01:21.530 --> 01:01:24.440 acting in bad faith. They're your partner, your romantic partner. 1141 01:01:24.760 --> 01:01:26.920 Stop assuming they have it in for you. Trust me, 1142 01:01:26.940 --> 01:01:31.539 I know what that feels like. It's wildly different. When 1143 01:01:31.559 --> 01:01:33.420 you're in a situation where your partner is acting in 1144 01:01:33.460 --> 01:01:37.610 bad faith, okay. But if that's your default assumption and 1145 01:01:37.630 --> 01:01:39.510 that may not be the case, you're going to wreck 1146 01:01:39.530 --> 01:01:43.179 your marriage faster than anything else. And she brings that up. 1147 01:01:43.510 --> 01:01:45.570 She's like, stop being cruel to each other. Stop talking 1148 01:01:45.590 --> 01:01:48.199 to each other like you're the enemy. That's something I 1149 01:01:48.199 --> 01:01:50.510 have to remind people of on an ongoing basis. Something 1150 01:01:50.530 --> 01:01:52.409 I've had to remind you of with you and me 1151 01:01:52.530 --> 01:01:55.090 on an ongoing basis is we are partners. You're not 1152 01:01:55.110 --> 01:01:57.969 the enemy. Stop treating me like the enemy. Don't treat 1153 01:01:57.989 --> 01:02:01.110 your partner like the enemy. You can disagree. You can negotiate. 1154 01:02:01.150 --> 01:02:05.699 That's healthy. Once you start fighting, once you start attacking, 1155 01:02:06.659 --> 01:02:10.440 once you start calling names and, you know, and trying 1156 01:02:10.480 --> 01:02:12.639 to hurt the other person, now it's a UFC fight. 1157 01:02:13.280 --> 01:02:16.730 Now the object is to just kill the opponent. That's 1158 01:02:16.769 --> 01:02:20.269 no good for a romantic relationship. That's unfortunately where a 1159 01:02:20.289 --> 01:02:23.230 lot of people get to. That's the point she brings 1160 01:02:23.269 --> 01:02:25.769 up in The Invite, and it's one of my favorite 1161 01:02:25.789 --> 01:02:28.150 parts of the movie. I'm going to shut up so 1162 01:02:28.170 --> 01:02:30.070 that you can talk about what you want to talk about, 1163 01:02:30.090 --> 01:02:35.730 but I don't want to commit to this being the 1164 01:02:35.750 --> 01:02:37.250 number one movie of the year for me right now, 1165 01:02:37.730 --> 01:02:44.119 but it's in the top five for sure. I can't 1166 01:02:44.139 --> 01:02:49.710 think of a single thing wrong With this movie. If 1167 01:02:49.929 --> 01:02:52.050 I understand. If you don't like the content. Not you Robert. 1168 01:02:52.090 --> 01:02:53.940 But you anyone. If you don't like the content of it. 1169 01:02:53.949 --> 01:02:56.739 Or you don't like this style of movie. And that's 1170 01:02:56.800 --> 01:02:59.679 a subjective thing. But objectively from a craft point of view. 1171 01:03:01.019 --> 01:03:02.760 Other than maybe it's a little longer than it should be. 1172 01:03:02.880 --> 01:03:05.980 Like it could have been tighter. Like I got a 1173 01:03:06.039 --> 01:03:08.099 gun to my fucking head. If I have to quibble 1174 01:03:08.139 --> 01:03:11.719 about something. Yeah this could have done a tighter pass. 1175 01:03:13.139 --> 01:03:15.780 Outside of that. Darn near perfect. Five stars in the 1176 01:03:15.800 --> 01:03:17.079 Tokyo Dome. Robert? 1177 01:03:19.039 --> 01:03:21.400 I don't have a whole lot to talk about with 1178 01:03:21.420 --> 01:03:23.320 this one, believe it or not. 1179 01:03:23.619 --> 01:03:24.659 Really? After all this buildup? 1180 01:03:26.510 --> 01:03:28.550 Look, I can't control your expectations. 1181 01:03:30.550 --> 01:03:30.849 Okay. 1182 01:03:31.530 --> 01:03:38.070 Sorry. Look, my gripes about it, if I wanted to 1183 01:03:38.409 --> 01:03:40.230 make a few of them for the sake of making

them, 1184 01:03:40.349 --> 01:03:44.190 they kind of go as follows. One, cast anyone other 1185 01:03:44.230 --> 01:03:47.550 than Seth Rogen. That's a blanket bit of advice I 1186 01:03:47.590 --> 01:03:51.710 have for pretty much everything. That's your subjective prejudice against 1187 01:03:51.750 --> 01:03:56.530 the man. I don't find him tragic enough in this role. 1188 01:03:56.670 --> 01:03:58.530 I don't find him sympathetic enough for me to care 1189 01:03:58.590 --> 01:03:59.460 about his tragedy. 1190 01:04:01.280 --> 01:04:03.420 If you were casting, who would you have cast? We 1191 01:04:03.440 --> 01:04:05.559 don't need to go through the list again of the 1192 01:04:05.599 --> 01:04:07.360 people or someone else, but who would you have picked? 1193 01:04:10.619 --> 01:04:13.300 Someone who can do the downtrodden and then like supposed 1194 01:04:13.320 --> 01:04:15.469 to kind of come back to light. Robert Downey Jr. 1195 01:04:15.489 --> 01:04:17.969 I mean, this movie didn't have the budget for him, 1196 01:04:18.050 --> 01:04:21.030 but come on. If he wanted to actually act again, 1197 01:04:21.050 --> 01:04:24.320 I mean, like not just wear a mask and cash 1198 01:04:24.420 --> 01:04:27.619 a hundred million dollar check to be to be Victor 1199 01:04:27.659 --> 01:04:28.119 Von Doom. 1200 01:04:29.039 --> 01:04:30.599 Not in a million years would I have thought you 1201 01:04:30.619 --> 01:04:31.610 were going to say Robert Downey Jr. 1202 01:04:35.039 --> 01:04:38.440 He can act. People forget this about him. He genuinely can. 1203 01:04:38.480 --> 01:04:40.519 He just doesn't most of the time because everyone just 1204 01:04:40.559 --> 01:04:41.500 wants him to be Iron Man. 1205 01:04:41.780 --> 01:04:44.340 Who's Stallone right now? And I don't mean Stallone the body. 1206 01:04:44.400 --> 01:04:51.619 I mean Stallone mush mouth. Like early... 70s Rocky era 1207 01:04:51.659 --> 01:04:55.550 mush mouth John Rambo Stallone. Who is that right now? 1208 01:04:59.250 --> 01:05:02.219 The... Yeah, the guy who's like, we all think he 1209 01:05:02.260 --> 01:05:03.940 might be the next Brando kind of deal. 1210 01:05:03.960 --> 01:05:07.659 Yeah, an actor whose performances tend to be with marbles 1211 01:05:07.679 --> 01:05:08.139 in his mouth. 1212 01:05:09.280 --> 01:05:10.710 Why are you fixating on the.... 1213 01:05:13.849 --> 01:05:15.590 I'm thinking about somebody who. 1214 01:05:15.829 --> 01:05:18.489 The level of elocution is generally at this point higher 1215 01:05:18.530 --> 01:05:22.289 than what Stallone was giving us at that time. 1216 01:05:22.309 --> 01:05:28.420 Okay, but Stallone also had... kind of an everyman thing 1217 01:05:28.460 --> 01:05:30.159 going for him when he did Rocky and when he 1218 01:05:30.199 --> 01:05:30.719 did Rambo. 1219 01:05:31.019 --> 01:05:31.199 Yeah. 1220 01:05:31.219 --> 01:05:34.480 That's what I'm saying. Like, who's Stallone now? 1221 01:05:35.320 --> 01:05:38.269 Yeah, that's... Well, you don't just need Stallone now. You 1222 01:05:38.289 --> 01:05:40.030 need someone who can play, you know, the 40s. And 1223 01:05:41.690 --> 01:05:43.929 I know Robert Downey Jr. is closer to 60s, isn't 1224 01:05:43.949 --> 01:05:45.889 like in his 60s, but it's Hollywood. So, you know, 1225 01:05:46.050 --> 01:05:48.320 we kind of fudge that a little bit. But, okay, no, 1226 01:05:48.480 --> 01:05:53.119 that's a fair question. So let's... Let's kind of unpack that. 1227 01:05:53.179 --> 01:05:57.389 Who in their, you know, 40s... Would you get to 1228 01:05:57.429 --> 01:06:00.789 be this, you know, downtrodden? 1229 01:06:01.829 --> 01:06:03.750 Like, I don't want to go Robert Pattinson because, A, 1230 01:06:03.789 --> 01:06:07.809 I just saw him in the drama. B, I don't know. Like, 1231 01:06:08.030 --> 01:06:11.429 he doesn't feel like middle-aged and dead-eyed to me. I 1232 01:06:11.449 --> 01:06:14.159 think Robert Pattinson's a good actor, so he'd do fine. 1233 01:06:14.179 --> 01:06:15.980 He could do it, but no, no, I get what 1234 01:06:16.019 --> 01:06:16.440 you're saying. 1235 01:06:16.519 --> 01:06:19.400 I need somebody whose soul has been removed from his body. 1236 01:06:21.780 --> 01:06:27.630 Oh, Johnny Depp. Ugh. No, no, no, bear in mind. Again, 1237 01:06:27.670 --> 01:06:30.150 Johnny Depp's another guy that people forget can act because 1238 01:06:30.170 --> 01:06:31.789 everyone just wants him to do Jack Sparrow. 1239 01:06:33.090 --> 01:06:37.010 Yeah, but isn't Johnny Depp also, like, 60 now? And 1240 01:06:37.030 --> 01:06:39.289 likes to do funny voices? Have you seen the fucking 1241 01:06:39.309 --> 01:06:40.230 Ebeneezer Scrooge? 1242 01:06:40.730 --> 01:06:43.690 I have, and I... Oh, no. 1243 01:06:43.789 --> 01:06:45.769 No, no, no, no, no, no, no. First of all, 1244 01:06:45.949 --> 01:06:47.889 can we stop with a fucking Christmas Carol already? 1245 01:06:48.570 --> 01:06:51.070 No, I'm fine with more versions of a Christmas Carol. 1246 01:06:51.110 --> 01:06:53.510 It's one of those things that I don't mind gets readapted, but. 1247 01:06:54.110 --> 01:06:57.070 Alright, so who's in, like, the Paul Rudd category, but, like, dead-eyed? 1248 01:06:58.280 --> 01:07:00.329 Paul Rudd's pretty dead-eyed. There's not a lot going on 1249 01:07:00.349 --> 01:07:00.869 up there. 1250 01:07:00.909 --> 01:07:02.710 But he's already done this. He did it with the 1251 01:07:02.869 --> 01:07:06.269 one cold blonde chick who kind of reminds me of 1252 01:07:06.349 --> 01:07:06.809 Ann Coulter. 1253 01:07:09.159 --> 01:07:11.400 Okay. 1254 01:07:11.719 --> 01:07:14.079 We've seen this out of him already. 1255 01:07:14.260 --> 01:07:16.739 Okay, so you want someone that you've never seen this 1256 01:07:16.800 --> 01:07:19.079 kind of performance from before, but you think could reasonably 1257 01:07:19.139 --> 01:07:19.449 do it? 1258 01:07:19.820 --> 01:07:22.010 So again, I don't want to reuse Kevin

James, but 1259 01:07:22.050 --> 01:07:24.050 Kevin James in Solo Mia was what I'm kind of 1260 01:07:24.070 --> 01:07:24.409 going for. 1261 01:07:24.550 --> 01:07:27.250 Yeah, yeah, okay. No, no, I get what you're going for. Again, 1262 01:07:27.630 --> 01:07:29.619 looks like the everyman. Mm-hmm. 1263 01:07:30.980 --> 01:07:32.639 I was thinking maybe, like, the guy, I don't know 1264 01:07:32.679 --> 01:07:34.260 if he's too old for this, but the guy from maybe, 1265 01:07:35.539 --> 01:07:40.340 who was in Mike and Molly, who's lost a lot 1266 01:07:40.380 --> 01:07:42.659 of weight from what I understood. 1267 01:07:42.679 --> 01:07:46.530 Dude, like, if you were to do this, like, 20, 1268 01:07:46.530 --> 01:07:48.650 I can't quite say 20 years ago, like 15 years ago, 1269 01:07:48.670 --> 01:07:50.329 it would have been John Goodman. And he would have 1270 01:07:50.349 --> 01:07:50.670 been great. 1271 01:07:50.889 --> 01:07:52.750 See, John Goodman was somebody I was thinking of, but 1272 01:07:52.949 --> 01:07:54.429 he looks like Skeletor now, and he's 100. 1273 01:07:54.409 --> 01:07:57.369 Yeah, he's too old now, but John Goodman is, like, 1274 01:07:58.150 --> 01:07:59.530 would have been maybe the right choice. 1275 01:08:00.739 --> 01:08:03.219 Okay, so we have somebody who's participating in the chat 1276 01:08:03.239 --> 01:08:07.960 with us here, and they said Shia LaBeouf. And not 1277 01:08:08.000 --> 01:08:08.559 a bad call. 1278 01:08:08.900 --> 01:08:11.179 Actually, no, yeah. Very much could work. 1279 01:08:11.360 --> 01:08:15.139 Okay, so two people, both are in the Conners. Johnny 1280 01:08:15.159 --> 01:08:19.409 Galecki from The Big Bang Theory. And the guy who 1281 01:08:19.470 --> 01:08:24.689 played whose name I can't remember, but the actor on 1282 01:08:24.729 --> 01:08:28.449 The Conners, who is Sarah Michelle Gilbert's husband. 1283 01:08:29.250 --> 01:08:30.510 I have not seen any of those. 1284 01:08:30.529 --> 01:08:32.800 He is built like Seth Rogen, but he's like a 1285 01:08:32.819 --> 01:08:36.239 better actor. And he's definitely that that that fucking show 1286 01:08:36.359 --> 01:08:37.180 what that did to him. 1287 01:08:37.739 --> 01:08:43.520 You could the guy who was the dad in Young Sheldon, maybe. 1288 01:08:43.539 --> 01:08:46.930 Oh, he seems a little old for that, don't you think? 1289 01:08:48.760 --> 01:08:49.079 I don't know. 1290 01:08:49.539 --> 01:08:52.220 Look, I'm reaching here because I've never seen Young Sheldon 1291 01:08:52.260 --> 01:08:55.149 in its entirety. I've caught a few things here and there. 1292 01:08:55.189 --> 01:09:00.300 I would love to see this with Johnny Golucky. Johnny 1293 01:09:00.319 --> 01:09:01.819 Galecki now after, you know. 1294 01:09:01.840 --> 01:09:04.720 Why don't you ask for Andrew Dice Clay while you're 1295 01:09:04.800 --> 01:09:05.640 at it? 1296 01:09:06.020 --> 01:09:08.729 Okay. Andrew Dice Clay is an octogenarian. God bless him. 1297 01:09:08.750 --> 01:09:10.109 Gilbert Gottfried chiming in. 1298 01:09:10.689 --> 01:09:13.529 Oh, shut up. I don't want to be a swinger. 1299 01:09:13.550 --> 01:09:16.869 All right. Move on. No Seth Rogen. 1300 01:09:17.850 --> 01:09:20.810 Replace Seth Rogen. You're right. Tighten this up. We spend 1301 01:09:20.829 --> 01:09:22.609 a little bit too much time kind of cutting back 1302 01:09:22.649 --> 01:09:25.090 and forth in a few different places. Like, okay, we 1303 01:09:25.109 --> 01:09:28.939 get it. They're bonding individually. We don't need, I don't 1304 01:09:28.949 --> 01:09:32.000 need four different scenes of Penelope Cruz trying to pretend 1305 01:09:32.020 --> 01:09:34.939 she's sexually attracted to Seth Rogen while getting high on marijuana. 1306 01:09:35.079 --> 01:09:40.659 Like let's move this along a little bit. I think 1307 01:09:40.699 --> 01:09:45.369 my biggest gripe is, And this is a sort of 1308 01:09:45.409 --> 01:09:47.850 conceptual level grab, because I wasn't joking when I said 1309 01:09:47.890 --> 01:09:50.979 I'm glad you found the version of the male humiliation 1310 01:09:51.020 --> 01:09:53.800 ritual that you find palatable, because that's what this was 1311 01:09:53.840 --> 01:09:54.060 to me. 1312 01:09:55.319 --> 01:09:55.520 Why? 1313 01:09:55.539 --> 01:09:58.500 I don't understand why. 1314 01:09:58.659 --> 01:10:01.840 You're calling this a male humiliation ritual when this is 1315 01:10:02.060 --> 01:10:05.449 real humans having real problems. As I've laid out, I. 1316 01:10:05.630 --> 01:10:09.569 No, no, no. This is not like the extreme example of, 1317 01:10:09.590 --> 01:10:12.010 you know, you're a bumbling idiot with no redeeming qualities. 1318 01:10:12.170 --> 01:10:15.310 Hang on. When you say male humiliation ritual, my first 1319 01:10:15.329 --> 01:10:17.989 thing is I don't want to reignite this fight, but 1320 01:10:18.010 --> 01:10:19.369 you're comparing this to send help. 1321 01:10:19.390 --> 01:10:21.109 A little bit, yeah. 1322 01:10:21.789 --> 01:10:23.670 I don't understand why. Explain it to me and I'll 1323 01:10:23.689 --> 01:10:24.000 shut up. 1324 01:10:24.449 --> 01:10:29.239 Okay. It kind of just... Look, maybe I'm overly sensitive 1325 01:10:29.260 --> 01:10:30.619 to this because reasons. 1326 01:10:30.640 --> 01:10:33.800 Do you like to talk about it? 1327 01:10:34.279 --> 01:10:34.420 No. 1328 01:10:35.420 --> 01:10:36.409 Okay, go on. 1329 01:10:37.140 --> 01:10:40.060 We don't need to talk about my parents' divorce and 1330 01:10:40.100 --> 01:10:43.970 what it did to me and... ancillary things related to that, 1331 01:10:43.979 --> 01:10:46.090 then knock on consequences. We'll be here all day on 1332 01:10:46.149 --> 01:10:48.630 unrelated things. I told you I don't need you to 1333 01:10:48.670 --> 01:10:49.609 therapize me, Mark. 1334 01:10:52.369 --> 01:10:56.609 Incidentally, I shared a little bit of myself. I'm not 1335 01:10:56.630 --> 01:10:58.409

saying you should, and that's not why I said that. 1336 01:10:58.489 --> 01:11:08.789 I'm saying if there's something about this movie that triggered 1337 01:11:08.810 --> 01:11:10.680 something in you, and that's all you want to say 1338 01:11:10.720 --> 01:11:13.039 about it, that's fine. I shared what my thing was 1339 01:11:13.260 --> 01:11:16.380 in the first movie. And I'm not saying you should. 1340 01:11:16.979 --> 01:11:19.270 I'm saying, like, I'm not asking of you something I 1341 01:11:19.310 --> 01:11:20.359 wasn't willing to do myself. 1342 01:11:20.670 --> 01:11:22.750 No, no, I got it, and I appreciate that. Okay. 1343 01:11:22.770 --> 01:11:27.090 I had to fight back tears while I was doing it, 1344 01:11:27.090 --> 01:11:27.430 by the way. 1345 01:11:29.489 --> 01:11:32.810 I appreciate that, Mark. You're open and honest and emotionally 1346 01:11:32.930 --> 01:11:35.130 mature in ways that we could all only aspire to be. 1347 01:11:36.189 --> 01:11:38.520 Thanks. Anyway, why is this send help? 1348 01:11:42.100 --> 01:11:46.359 Because I didn't think it was for a lot of 1349 01:11:46.399 --> 01:11:48.640 this movie. There was a lot of it where I 1350 01:11:48.680 --> 01:11:52.140 was kind of like, okay, this seems fairly even-handed. They're 1351 01:11:52.159 --> 01:11:56.920 both just kind of... We are living the consequences of 1352 01:11:57.000 --> 01:12:01.619 both of them being deeply deficient and deeply immature in 1353 01:12:01.659 --> 01:12:02.840 some respects. 1354 01:12:03.020 --> 01:12:04.460 One is dead and one is starved. 1355 01:12:05.399 --> 01:12:09.670 Yeah, but we're dealing with the consequences of that. And 1356 01:12:09.710 --> 01:12:12.930 for the most part, I was okay with this. And then, 1357 01:12:12.949 --> 01:12:16.250 of course, there's the scene where they literally have Seth 1358 01:12:16.270 --> 01:12:20.420 Rogen walk into the villain lighting under the lamp. Just 1359 01:12:20.439 --> 01:12:25.119 so you know who's the bad guy here. When we 1360 01:12:25.140 --> 01:12:28.079 get to the end where they're actually airing their grievances, 1361 01:12:31.220 --> 01:12:33.670 and her line to him is just like, you know, 1362 01:12:33.850 --> 01:12:41.539 what's your problem? All he does... is he lays out 1363 01:12:41.619 --> 01:12:45.359 why he feels the way he feels. Like, I live 1364 01:12:45.380 --> 01:12:50.319 in my parents' house. I am professionally unfulfilled. I teach 1365 01:12:50.359 --> 01:12:52.649 the oboe to kids at a community college who do 1366 01:12:52.689 --> 01:13:00.750 not care. I'm, you know, 40. I'm out of shape. And, yeah, 1367 01:13:00.810 --> 01:13:01.409 I'm miserable. 1368 01:13:02.800 --> 01:13:03.779 Just let me be miserable. 1369 01:13:04.220 --> 01:13:05.340 That's where it lost me. 1370 01:13:05.899 --> 01:13:06.920 Okay, that line. 1371 01:13:07.539 --> 01:13:10.439 See, everything before that, I was okay. Like, you asked, 1372 01:13:10.520 --> 01:13:14.539 why are you miserable? Fine. Here's my grieving. Here's what 1373 01:13:14.579 --> 01:13:20.609 I think has gone wrong with my life. In strict detail, I, 1374 01:13:22.229 --> 01:13:24.470 you know, I was never able to get out from 1375 01:13:24.550 --> 01:13:27.590 under my parents' shadow. I literally still live in their apartment. 1376 01:13:29.729 --> 01:13:33.909 I had professional ambitions, which failed. And then not only 1377 01:13:33.949 --> 01:13:38.880 did they fail, but what I did to continue to 1378 01:13:39.840 --> 01:13:43.960 make life livable is watch the thing I love be 1379 01:13:44.079 --> 01:13:47.600 bastardized and dismissed by large swaths of people who do 1380 01:13:47.640 --> 01:13:49.819 not care about me or care about my passion for 1381 01:13:49.840 --> 01:13:55.069 what's going on here. Okay. And I come home to 1382 01:13:55.130 --> 01:14:01.090 a wife who... is you and as previously I only 1383 01:14:01.109 --> 01:14:03.350 say that so I don't relitigate everything the movie has 1384 01:14:03.369 --> 01:14:10.470 already litigated and that all seems reasonable but his risk 1385 01:14:10.510 --> 01:14:12.979 but then his response is please just let me be 1386 01:14:13.029 --> 01:14:17.180 miserable and at this point you're you're actively humiliating yourself 1387 01:14:17.199 --> 01:14:18.260 for no good reason. 1388 01:14:20.000 --> 01:14:23.380 The script is you're entitled you're entitled to have your 1389 01:14:23.420 --> 01:14:25.920 read on that anyway you want it but I read 1390 01:14:25.960 --> 01:14:30.020 that as a professional and as somebody who is like 1391 01:14:30.140 --> 01:14:34.930 most males I know, uncomfortable unpacking their emotional stuff. 1392 01:14:36.689 --> 01:14:38.989 I would be fine with that if that was like 1393 01:14:39.449 --> 01:14:41.810 purely the character. I'm talking about like the structure of 1394 01:14:41.829 --> 01:14:42.329 the film. 1395 01:14:42.350 --> 01:14:46.909 You know, I keep yelling out send help. I think 1396 01:14:46.949 --> 01:14:49.229 I now understand New York. I still don't agree with 1397 01:14:49.270 --> 01:14:51.159 it necessarily, but that's fine. Who cares if I agree 1398 01:14:51.199 --> 01:14:53.520 with it? But at least now I see the analog. 1399 01:14:54.039 --> 01:14:56.220 He's Harrison Ford on the beach in the last Indiana 1400 01:14:56.239 --> 01:14:56.819 Jones movie. 1401 01:14:57.220 --> 01:14:57.539 Yeah. 1402 01:14:57.760 --> 01:15:00.140 Just let me die. Just let me die. Why won't 1403 01:15:00.180 --> 01:15:01.060 you let me die? 1404 01:15:01.079 --> 01:15:05.789 Yeah. He's that's kind of where he is. And the 1405 01:15:05.829 --> 01:15:11.510 movie then is basically like the next scene is just 1406 01:15:11.550 --> 01:15:14.550 Penelope Cruz and Olivia Wilde kind of heckling him about 1407 01:15:15.350 --> 01:15:18.010 shut up and be a man. Like you have a 1408 01:15:18.029 --> 01:15:21.390 good life. Why are you like this? And it

doesn't 1409 01:15:21.529 --> 01:15:25.590 give the character that he portrays like anything in response. 1410 01:15:25.609 --> 01:15:28.739 He sits there and takes it. Like you're the one 1411 01:15:28.760 --> 01:15:31.579 who died inside. You're the one who won't do anything. 1412 01:15:31.619 --> 01:15:35.239 You're the one who won't play the piano. And his 1413 01:15:35.319 --> 01:15:38.859 bit about like, yeah, we, she won't sleep with me anymore. 1414 01:15:38.920 --> 01:15:42.739 And the fact that like the last word on that 1415 01:15:42.800 --> 01:15:46.420 is her basically saying, you don't try hard enough. And his, 1416 01:15:48.359 --> 01:15:50.699 I'm not saying there's no truth to that. I'm saying 1417 01:15:50.779 --> 01:15:53.539 that the reality is it's a mutual thing. And the 1418 01:15:53.579 --> 01:15:56.359 film treats it like it's just his failing. The characters 1419 01:15:56.380 --> 01:16:00.300 all treat it like it's just his failing. Everything in 1420 01:16:00.340 --> 01:16:03.239 this entire relationship would be fine if Seth Rogen wasn't 1421 01:16:03.279 --> 01:16:08.439 just Seth Rogen. And that is where I consider this 1422 01:16:08.479 --> 01:16:11.520 to be just like, hey, let's sit the white guy 1423 01:16:11.560 --> 01:16:15.869 down and yell at him. And 80% of this movie 1424 01:16:15.930 --> 01:16:17.310 is not that. 1425 01:16:17.550 --> 01:16:21.210 Here's the thing. I get your sensitivity to it because 1426 01:16:21.250 --> 01:16:23.050 I've walked this journey with you and I've watched the 1427 01:16:23.090 --> 01:16:25.090 same films as you do and we've had this argument. 1428 01:16:26.109 --> 01:16:30.760 I'll accept that that's what you think this is. Do 1429 01:16:30.800 --> 01:16:35.760 you understand why I 100% don't see it that way 1430 01:16:36.239 --> 01:16:41.310 when I see men, real live men, in therapy all 1431 01:16:41.350 --> 01:16:43.630 the time saying what Seth Rogen said? 1432 01:16:43.649 --> 01:16:47.069 Look, again, my gripe is not that this is what 1433 01:16:47.130 --> 01:16:48.750 Seth Rogen is saying as a character. 1434 01:16:48.770 --> 01:16:50.760 Including the let me die part. 1435 01:16:52.359 --> 01:16:56.819 That's all true to life, and I get that. That's 1436 01:16:56.859 --> 01:16:57.479 not my gripe. 1437 01:16:58.619 --> 01:17:00.760 Your gripe is them telling him you must live? Because 1438 01:17:00.840 --> 01:17:01.359 I've done that. 1439 01:17:02.180 --> 01:17:06.649 My gripe is the movie and the point of view 1440 01:17:06.710 --> 01:17:09.130 of the author and the director and everyone involved in 1441 01:17:09.149 --> 01:17:11.630 the creation of this being shut the fuck up and 1442 01:17:11.670 --> 01:17:14.750 be a man. You are the cause of all of this. 1443 01:17:14.810 --> 01:17:22.760 Okay. Would you be less acerbic about this if they 1444 01:17:22.779 --> 01:17:25.550 tried to understand why this killed him? 1445 01:17:25.560 --> 01:17:25.779 If they. 1446 01:17:26.729 --> 01:17:28.869 There's a therapist in the room. If Penelope Cruz had 1447 01:17:28.890 --> 01:17:32.010 done a better job of trying to ascertain why this 1448 01:17:32.069 --> 01:17:36.329 is all so much too much for him instead of 1449 01:17:36.390 --> 01:17:40.060 just buck up, you know, little camper. 1450 01:17:40.119 --> 01:17:43.260 No, you know, starving children in Africa. What are you 1451 01:17:43.300 --> 01:17:43.979 complaining about? 1452 01:17:44.000 --> 01:17:46.340 I was a buck up little camper. Suicide is never 1453 01:17:46.359 --> 01:17:49.800 the answer. That's the line. Would that have been better 1454 01:17:49.819 --> 01:17:50.060 for you? 1455 01:17:50.760 --> 01:17:53.409 Yeah. Like that. My gripe is not that Seth Rogen 1456 01:17:53.449 --> 01:17:55.310 says the line like that's fine. 1457 01:17:55.800 --> 01:17:58.090 It's being inappropriately sympathetic after. 1458 01:17:58.930 --> 01:18:03.029 Yeah, like the entire... There's a chunk of this movie 1459 01:18:03.050 --> 01:18:05.229 that feels like an ego trip for Olivia Wilde to 1460 01:18:05.250 --> 01:18:07.770 just be, I am every aggrieved woman and we will 1461 01:18:07.789 --> 01:18:11.069 now hash out our issues with men. 1462 01:18:11.090 --> 01:18:15.670 You're not making the assertion that Olivia Wilde looks good 1463 01:18:15.710 --> 01:18:19.579 in this movie, do you? Are you? Because there's plenty 1464 01:18:19.619 --> 01:18:20.739 of faults in this movie with her. 1465 01:18:21.609 --> 01:18:25.449 I don't think she is given the same treatment as 1466 01:18:25.489 --> 01:18:26.510 Seth Rogen's character. 1467 01:18:26.949 --> 01:18:29.779 Because they committed two different sins. 1468 01:18:30.439 --> 01:18:33.239 I'm aware of that, but at what point does this 1469 01:18:33.279 --> 01:18:35.640 movie castigate her the way it castigates Seth Rogen? 1470 01:18:37.619 --> 01:18:40.699 Okay. At this point, you're now asking for a different 1471 01:18:40.720 --> 01:18:41.310 movie to be made. 1472 01:18:41.439 --> 01:18:43.880 No, you're asking about my problem with it. 1473 01:18:44.069 --> 01:18:46.569 No, no, I understand that. The solution to fix this 1474 01:18:46.630 --> 01:18:47.510 movie is a different movie. 1475 01:18:47.989 --> 01:18:51.979 Yeah. Okay. I'm aware of that. You're asking my problem 1476 01:18:52.000 --> 01:18:54.180 with the movie. 1477 01:18:54.880 --> 01:18:59.060 Yes, but this is one of those things where, again, 1478 01:18:59.100 --> 01:19:01.699 I'm intellectually curious about why you think the way that 1479 01:19:01.739 --> 01:19:03.539 you do, and I'm trying to figure out what the 1480 01:19:03.560 --> 01:19:05.880 solution would have been. I figured out what the solution is. 1481 01:19:05.920 --> 01:19:06.899 I'm ready to move on from this. 1482 01:19:07.800 --> 01:19:11.399 It's that or it's, again, their impromptu therapy session is 1483 01:19:11.439 --> 01:19:16.579 a bit more interrogative of Olivia

Wilde's failings. They're utterly ignored. 1484 01:19:17.359 --> 01:19:19.359 See, I don't even think that you need that. I 1485 01:19:19.399 --> 01:19:19.920 don't need that. 1486 01:19:20.600 --> 01:19:24.090 That's fine. I'm not here to say the world needs 1487 01:19:24.109 --> 01:19:24.890 to have my perspective. 1488 01:19:24.909 --> 01:19:29.789 Five minutes ago, you had a very personal moment, and 1489 01:19:29.810 --> 01:19:31.670 this is triggering something very personal with you, and that's 1490 01:19:31.710 --> 01:19:34.489 what I mean. I don't need what you need from 1491 01:19:34.510 --> 01:19:36.550 this movie, and I'll just let it go with that. 1492 01:19:38.239 --> 01:19:39.840 The thing I do agree with you on is I 1493 01:19:39.939 --> 01:19:42.500 wish Penelope Cruz had been– because that's what I would 1494 01:19:42.520 --> 01:19:44.939 have done. If I'm sitting there and I'm listening to 1495 01:19:44.960 --> 01:19:46.340 a– it's what I do do. If I'm sitting there 1496 01:19:46.399 --> 01:19:47.600 and I'm listening to a person who says, just let 1497 01:19:47.619 --> 01:19:52.119 me die, just let me be miserable, there are questions 1498 01:19:52.140 --> 01:19:54.590 I'm asking. What about this band was so important to you? 1499 01:19:54.890 --> 01:19:59.029 Yeah. I think that would be my other major– again, 1500 01:19:59.069 --> 01:20:00.949 if I have another major gripe about this movie. 1501 01:20:00.970 --> 01:20:01.189 Mm-hmm. 1502 01:20:03.000 --> 01:20:06.590 It is heavily implied with the subtext, and in some 1503 01:20:06.600 --> 01:20:09.029 cases the actual text of the movie, that the band 1504 01:20:09.109 --> 01:20:10.369 breaking up was a big deal. 1505 01:20:10.970 --> 01:20:11.149 Right. 1506 01:20:11.649 --> 01:20:13.810 And it's just never actually addressed. 1507 01:20:14.449 --> 01:20:17.369 Yeah, well, none of the stuff with Seth Rogen is addressed. 1508 01:20:18.689 --> 01:20:21.850 And I think that's the thing I agree with you 1509 01:20:21.869 --> 01:20:24.489 most on, is that's the major flaw of this movie, 1510 01:20:24.590 --> 01:20:27.710 is it's not addressed what the importance of the band was. 1511 01:20:27.890 --> 01:20:29.729 It's not addressed why he's in his parents' house. 1512 01:20:30.439 --> 01:20:33.539 Congratulations for not firing your Chekhov's gun, you morons. 1513 01:20:34.920 --> 01:20:37.539 It's not addressed why he teaches at that school. Like, 1514 01:20:37.979 --> 01:20:40.779 it's just these are things that happened to him and 1515 01:20:40.800 --> 01:20:44.220 they're making him miserable. And his misery is making Olivia 1516 01:20:44.239 --> 01:20:47.649 Wilde be unseen. And so she's making connections with Ed Norton. 1517 01:20:47.899 --> 01:20:50.130 And now, you know, the answer to this is the 1518 01:20:50.149 --> 01:20:52.149 exact answer we got out of chasing Amy. Why don't 1519 01:20:52.170 --> 01:20:54.590 we all just fuck each other? It all comes back 1520 01:20:54.609 --> 01:20:54.869 to that. 1521 01:20:56.890 --> 01:21:00.720 So, yeah, those would be my big weaknesses with this. Now, 1522 01:21:00.979 --> 01:21:04.439 purely as a production, yeah, it's fine. I understand this 1523 01:21:04.819 --> 01:21:06.840 is not going to be in my top ten, just 1524 01:21:06.899 --> 01:21:10.800 as a general posture here. Well, might make number nine. 1525 01:21:10.819 --> 01:21:15.090 We'll see when it all shakes out. I know why 1526 01:21:15.130 --> 01:21:18.449 you love this. Again, this is... It's not just the 1527 01:21:18.510 --> 01:21:21.430 subject matter which speaks to you. You like this. As 1528 01:21:21.470 --> 01:21:26.390 soon as I heard the way... Not the actual lines, 1529 01:21:26.470 --> 01:21:31.869 but the rhythm of dialogue between Seth Rogen and Olivia Wilderman. Oh, yeah, 1530 01:21:31.909 --> 01:21:35.310 this is why Mark loves this. This is your kind 1531 01:21:35.350 --> 01:21:40.020 of movie. And again, I say that with love. I'm glad. 1532 01:21:40.380 --> 01:21:42.619 But that's the kind of thing that speaks to you. 1533 01:21:42.659 --> 01:21:49.020 You like this kind of rhythmic, rapid-fire dialogue. 1534 01:21:49.579 --> 01:21:51.840 Yes, again, going all the way back, this is why... 1535 01:21:54.380 --> 01:21:56.720 this is why Aaron Sorkin doesn't bother me the way 1536 01:21:56.760 --> 01:21:59.180 he bothers you for a variety of reasons, but we've 1537 01:21:59.399 --> 01:21:59.779 covered that. 1538 01:22:00.699 --> 01:22:03.859 And if Aaron Sorkin were still, you know, one third 1539 01:22:03.920 --> 01:22:06.000 as talented as he was in his prime, then maybe 1540 01:22:06.039 --> 01:22:10.770 I'd feel differently about him contemporarily, but he's where he is. 1541 01:22:10.869 --> 01:22:16.250 And yeah, this is, I understand the buzz this is getting. 1542 01:22:16.369 --> 01:22:19.829 It will get several nominations. It's fine and dandy that 1543 01:22:19.850 --> 01:22:22.550 it does. Like, I don't need to like every movie 1544 01:22:22.569 --> 01:22:22.989 that is good. 1545 01:22:25.909 --> 01:22:27.970 Do you feel about the invite the way you felt 1546 01:22:28.069 --> 01:22:31.770 about Anora? And as far as whether or not it 1547 01:22:31.810 --> 01:22:33.010 deserves to be a best picture? 1548 01:22:36.090 --> 01:22:48.460 No. Anora, I... Maybe similarly. Not as extreme. Like, look, 1549 01:22:48.479 --> 01:22:50.279 you and I, when we talked about those Oscars, we 1550 01:22:50.319 --> 01:22:54.050 mentioned that anora benefited from things other than it being 1551 01:22:54.090 --> 01:22:58.130 a good movie to win it was hey so and 1552 01:22:58.170 --> 01:23:00.470 so said the wrong thing about such and such topic 1553 01:23:00.550 --> 01:23:04.949 and oh no this shocking revelation about this movie like 1554 01:23:05.010 --> 01:23:10.039 in a sane world it's the brutalist but no no 1555 01:23:10.100 --> 01:23:15.399 there was generative technology used we

cannot And, well, maybe 1556 01:23:15.439 --> 01:23:17.680 it should be, it really kind of should be the substance, 1557 01:23:17.720 --> 01:23:19.819 but Demi Moore didn't say the right things about the 1558 01:23:19.859 --> 01:23:22.039 Middle East, and no, no, now she can't win, and 1559 01:23:22.060 --> 01:23:28.239 the movie can't win. And, et cetera, et cetera, until 1560 01:23:28.270 --> 01:23:30.329 it was just kind of, you and I joked about it, 1561 01:23:30.329 --> 01:23:33.369 like it was the conclave problem in real life. It 1562 01:23:33.390 --> 01:23:35.149 was like, well, we can't vote for this one now, 1563 01:23:35.189 --> 01:23:37.289 we can't vote for that one now, what's left? 1564 01:23:37.590 --> 01:23:40.149 Yeah, it was supposed to be Amelia Perez until the 1565 01:23:40.210 --> 01:23:42.819 October surprise of that movie, and then it wasn't anymore. 1566 01:23:43.109 --> 01:23:46.800 Well, Amelia Perez was digger. Like the one everyone wanted 1567 01:23:46.880 --> 01:23:49.479 to be serious and the one we can latch onto. 1568 01:23:49.500 --> 01:23:52.619 And then it played and everyone was ready to anoint 1569 01:23:52.659 --> 01:23:54.500 it until all the people that it actually like is 1570 01:23:54.520 --> 01:23:57.300 supposed to do big representation for came out and said, 1571 01:23:57.399 --> 01:23:58.020 screw this. 1572 01:23:58.039 --> 01:24:01.329 Yeah. All right. And then you move on to, boy, 1573 01:24:01.369 --> 01:24:04.569 we are not going to talk about four worse. 1574 01:24:05.010 --> 01:24:07.390 There's almost nothing to talk about with four worse. It is. 1575 01:24:07.409 --> 01:24:09.710 All right. I don't even have a big introduction. You 1576 01:24:09.729 --> 01:24:10.850 can just go into the plot synopsis. 1577 01:24:12.039 --> 01:24:15.659 So, For Worst is just about a, you know, 50-year-old 1578 01:24:15.739 --> 01:24:19.619 woman after getting divorced. And she takes up an acting 1579 01:24:19.659 --> 01:24:23.710 class like you do. She tries to start an affair 1580 01:24:23.750 --> 01:24:25.970 with a guy 30 years younger than her-ish. 1581 01:24:26.390 --> 01:24:27.869 He starts it with her. 1582 01:24:29.130 --> 01:24:33.670 Fair enough. And they get invited to one of their 1583 01:24:33.710 --> 01:24:36.229 classmates' weddings, and they go there, and it's a big 1584 01:24:36.270 --> 01:24:39.239 Gen Z gay wedding, and she feels awkward because all 1585 01:24:39.260 --> 01:24:41.319 of her friends are now way outside of her age bracket, 1586 01:24:41.380 --> 01:24:43.079 as she should feel awkward for that, by the way. 1587 01:24:43.220 --> 01:24:44.840 Also, she didn't want to go to this thing, but 1588 01:24:44.880 --> 01:24:48.979 the guy that she's been hooking up with said, I 1589 01:24:49.000 --> 01:24:50.500 will be with you. I will hold your hand through 1590 01:24:50.520 --> 01:24:53.890 this whole thing. He gets there and then gets sucked 1591 01:24:54.020 --> 01:24:56.470 into the wedding party, therefore leaving her abandoned. 1592 01:24:57.800 --> 01:25:00.100 And she meets a kind of creepy guy who she 1593 01:25:00.140 --> 01:25:02.310 doesn't really like. And then she makes a mess of 1594 01:25:02.390 --> 01:25:05.550 the wedding reception and she injures Bradley Whitford, who she's 1595 01:25:05.590 --> 01:25:09.609 kind of been flirting with because Bradley Whitford is the biological. 1596 01:25:09.930 --> 01:25:13.109 They have not been flirting. Bradley Whitford. So the other 1597 01:25:13.149 --> 01:25:15.979 side of this is Bradley Whitford is the father of 1598 01:25:16.029 --> 01:25:18.760 the father of one of the wedding participants. 1599 01:25:19.319 --> 01:25:22.000 The same one that they're there to see. 1600 01:25:22.640 --> 01:25:26.189 And his wife left him for her therapist or their 1601 01:25:26.270 --> 01:25:27.489 couple's therapist, whichever it was. 1602 01:25:27.510 --> 01:25:29.489 I think it was their couple's therapist. Yeah. 1603 01:25:29.850 --> 01:25:32.850 And so he has to, like, if you want to 1604 01:25:32.949 --> 01:25:35.829 make the comment about a male humiliation ritual, I would 1605 01:25:35.909 --> 01:25:38.189 accept it for this one. What they do to Bradley 1606 01:25:38.229 --> 01:25:40.039 Whitford in this movie is more of a male humiliation ritual. 1607 01:25:40.119 --> 01:25:43.340 Somewhere between Bradley Whitford just, like, having to be the 1608 01:25:43.380 --> 01:25:47.479 cuck and Chuck, the guy who replaced him in the marriage, 1609 01:25:48.039 --> 01:25:50.699 being just the biggest goober imaginable. Yeah. 1610 01:25:50.779 --> 01:25:53.199 Yeah. Yeah, trust me. I know what it feels like 1611 01:25:53.239 --> 01:25:55.260 to look at the guy you replaced with and be like, me? 1612 01:25:55.300 --> 01:25:58.319 You left me for fucking this piece of shit? Anywho. 1613 01:25:59.479 --> 01:26:01.060 So he has to get. 1614 01:26:01.119 --> 01:26:04.329 Okay, I shouldn't say flirting. Like, they've interacted, and there's... Like. 1615 01:26:04.350 --> 01:26:06.270 He walked in on her when she was in the bathroom, 1616 01:26:06.510 --> 01:26:09.810 and he was, like, snippy with her. Like, they don't 1617 01:26:10.029 --> 01:26:12.850 ever flirt with each other. He's agitated the entire time, 1618 01:26:12.869 --> 01:26:16.710 but she's now thrown a... She's now made a scene... 1619 01:26:17.590 --> 01:26:20.210 And he's like, let's get you out of here. And 1620 01:26:20.250 --> 01:26:22.109 then they like trip over the cake or some shit. 1621 01:26:22.550 --> 01:26:25.609 They trip and they fall and he injures his arm. 1622 01:26:25.649 --> 01:26:28.500 She injures her ankle. Then they're sitting outside of the 1623 01:26:28.579 --> 01:26:31.520 urgent care. They sort of reminisce about being divorced and 1624 01:26:31.819 --> 01:26:38.699 elderly and lament the state of the youth. life, the universe, 1625 01:26:38.739 --> 01:26:42.079 and everything. And then they go

their separate ways, but 1626 01:26:42.439 --> 01:26:44.380 he shows back up because there was a little bit 1627 01:26:44.399 --> 01:26:46.239 of a connection there, and it turns out that he 1628 01:26:46.279 --> 01:26:49.890 actually meets the criteria that her daughter had established for 1629 01:26:49.930 --> 01:26:54.899 her next boyfriend. And they sort of meet back up 1630 01:26:55.029 --> 01:26:57.600 after she books a few commercials, and they're doing a 1631 01:26:57.619 --> 01:26:59.899 thing for the acting class, and he's there for both 1632 01:27:00.000 --> 01:27:03.539 his daughter and for her. And they sort of start 1633 01:27:03.560 --> 01:27:05.520 dating at the end of it. And life is great 1634 01:27:05.560 --> 01:27:08.420 in your autumn years, Mark. That's really the message here, 1635 01:27:08.460 --> 01:27:10.800 that life can go on if you just show up 1636 01:27:10.880 --> 01:27:14.760 to a 20-something's wedding and make a complete jackass out 1637 01:27:14.779 --> 01:27:15.300 of yourself. 1638 01:27:17.100 --> 01:27:17.760 I don't hate this movie. 1639 01:27:17.779 --> 01:27:21.260 This is every 50-year-old single white woman's fantasy writ large. 1640 01:27:22.739 --> 01:27:24.520 So I watched this and I was like, yeah, I'm 1641 01:27:24.560 --> 01:27:27.539 not going to enjoy discussing this. The invite, I was, 1642 01:27:28.800 --> 01:27:31.260 it was like, I know we'll have, I know if 1643 01:27:31.520 --> 01:27:36.710 we can get past both of our predilections and particulars, 1644 01:27:37.430 --> 01:27:39.930 we'll have a good conversation with the invite despite we 1645 01:27:39.949 --> 01:27:43.050 set some ground rules. For worse, I was like, oh, 1646 01:27:43.069 --> 01:27:44.850 I don't want to fucking talk about this with Robert. 1647 01:27:45.770 --> 01:27:47.970 This has got nothing for him. Like, oh, this is 1648 01:27:47.989 --> 01:27:48.829 going to suck. 1649 01:27:48.869 --> 01:27:52.170 It's got nothing for almost anyone. Like, it's so shallow 1650 01:27:52.229 --> 01:27:53.010 and stupid. 1651 01:27:53.250 --> 01:27:55.470 Yeah, it's one of those where it feels like an 1652 01:27:55.550 --> 01:27:59.010 episode of a television show, not a full-length movie. And 1653 01:27:59.050 --> 01:28:00.329 it drags in parts. 1654 01:28:00.930 --> 01:28:04.789 Oh, God. This is a movie that stretches runtime by having, like, okay, 1655 01:28:04.810 --> 01:28:08.289 we're going to cut to a musical montage of activities. Yeah. 1656 01:28:08.850 --> 01:28:10.550 First of all, they spent too long on the fucking 1657 01:28:10.810 --> 01:28:16.090 acting class. That goes on interminably. When ChatGPT pitched this 1658 01:28:16.130 --> 01:28:18.270 movie to be part of the trilogy of this, it 1659 01:28:18.310 --> 01:28:19.729 was like, yeah, it kind of deals with the same 1660 01:28:19.850 --> 01:28:23.180 kind of thing. Middle-aged, dealing with relationships. It's a perfect 1661 01:28:23.199 --> 01:28:26.539 fit for the invite in Solo Mio. I'm like, all right, great. 1662 01:28:27.479 --> 01:28:31.399 You need to inform your ChatGPT after the fact now 1663 01:28:31.439 --> 01:28:33.750 that it was wildly enacted. 1664 01:28:33.850 --> 01:28:36.810 It's not as off-base as all that. The problem is, 1665 01:28:37.010 --> 01:28:39.420 I look at the plot of this thing, and it's like, oh, 1666 01:28:39.430 --> 01:28:41.500 50-year old goes to a wedding with a bunch of 1667 01:28:41.520 --> 01:28:45.079 Gen Zers and hilarity ensues that's like by the time 1668 01:28:45.119 --> 01:28:46.859 we get to the wedding we're almost into the third 1669 01:28:47.050 --> 01:28:50.930 act the whole like the first act and a little 1670 01:28:50.949 --> 01:28:53.829 bit after the into the second act is the acting 1671 01:28:53.850 --> 01:28:58.649 class and it's boring as shit there's the acting class 1672 01:28:58.729 --> 01:29:01.899 and then there's her hooking up with the dude, and 1673 01:29:01.920 --> 01:29:05.279 then her being convinced to go to this wedding, and then, like, fighting, 1674 01:29:05.420 --> 01:29:08.619 you know, with her co-parent, and then they're at the wedding, 1675 01:29:09.159 --> 01:29:12.529 and then she's slowly fucking, speaking of humiliation rituals, she's 1676 01:29:12.550 --> 01:29:15.750 slowly fucking, like, abandoned and humiliated, and then she snaps 1677 01:29:15.789 --> 01:29:18.210 at the end. And it's like, alright, we could have 1678 01:29:18.229 --> 01:29:21.270 gotten there in 45 minutes. We didn't need this. This 1679 01:29:21.310 --> 01:29:22.670 didn't need 90 minutes to do this. 1680 01:29:23.229 --> 01:29:23.989 Not even close. 1681 01:29:24.409 --> 01:29:30.100 Um, it's fine. Everyone gives serviceable performances. Amy Landecker, this 1682 01:29:30.140 --> 01:29:33.859 is her... She wrote, directed, and acted in this thing. 1683 01:29:33.880 --> 01:29:36.680 This is definitely her fucking star vehicle. 1684 01:29:37.520 --> 01:29:37.970 Here's the thing. 1685 01:29:38.010 --> 01:29:41.250 There are some movies that are just like someone's editorial 1686 01:29:41.329 --> 01:29:44.960 turned into a drama. That's what this feels like. 1687 01:29:46.180 --> 01:29:49.319 I wrote this big essay on what it means to 1688 01:29:49.359 --> 01:29:52.439 be 50 and divorced. 1689 01:29:52.510 --> 01:29:54.250 She wrote one of my fucking TikToks. 1690 01:29:54.289 --> 01:29:57.449 This was a piece published in the Atlantic and now 1691 01:29:57.489 --> 01:29:59.069 we must turn it into a movie. 1692 01:29:59.409 --> 01:30:03.430 Yeah, might as well have been. I related to what 1693 01:30:03.470 --> 01:30:09.340 she was talking about. I have to say this. For 1694 01:30:09.739 --> 01:30:11.960 all the negative things I have said and will continue 1695 01:30:12.000 --> 01:30:16.560 to say and whatnot where my ex and i do 1696 01:30:16.579 --> 01:30:18.859 well together is we we do co-parent with each other 1697 01:30:18.880 --> 01:30:21.189

we do work with each other um i'm pretty you 1698 01:30:21.210 --> 01:30:23.310 know every time she's called on me for help i've 1699 01:30:23.409 --> 01:30:26.930 been there when the kids were concerned um it's not 1700 01:30:27.010 --> 01:30:29.989 it's not always the easiest thing to navigate and it 1701 01:30:31.520 --> 01:30:33.439 is hard to watch your ex even if you don't 1702 01:30:33.460 --> 01:30:35.439 want to be together and trust me i don't but 1703 01:30:35.739 --> 01:30:37.399 even but it's so hard to watch your ex with 1704 01:30:37.439 --> 01:30:41.090 somebody else And I've had that coming and going, because 1705 01:30:41.109 --> 01:30:42.750 I've had it said to me. It's, like, hard to 1706 01:30:42.789 --> 01:30:45.329 watch you with somebody else. That you was me. 1707 01:30:46.170 --> 01:30:48.689 You were supposed to just die alone pining after me 1708 01:30:48.789 --> 01:30:49.550 after we broke up. 1709 01:30:50.010 --> 01:30:51.949 That was the plan, yes. And as per usual, I 1710 01:30:51.989 --> 01:30:52.449 did not. 1711 01:30:52.869 --> 01:30:56.130 It's a terrible plan. I'm glad you didn't follow it. 1712 01:30:56.369 --> 01:30:59.989 Yeah, I did not cooperate. Anyway, so, like, all that 1713 01:31:00.029 --> 01:31:02.829 stuff was meaningful to me. Like, I got it. You know, 1714 01:31:02.850 --> 01:31:07.010 I am 50. And I have dated in my, you know... 1715 01:31:07.470 --> 01:31:09.850 middle age and it's not easy and it is kind 1716 01:31:09.890 --> 01:31:12.350 of humiliating at times and you deal and when you 1717 01:31:12.390 --> 01:31:15.350 do deal with young people it feels like you're dealing 1718 01:31:15.369 --> 01:31:19.449 with aliens all of that was relatable all of that 1719 01:31:19.689 --> 01:31:21.890 I watched and I enjoyed to the degree that you 1720 01:31:21.909 --> 01:31:25.289 enjoy things that are relatable my problem with this movie 1721 01:31:25.369 --> 01:31:28.550 is it's there's not enough here and they're spending too 1722 01:31:28.590 --> 01:31:32.449 long on things that aren't interesting like her hooking up 1723 01:31:32.479 --> 01:31:35.239 with the guy because the guy's not interesting he's a 1724 01:31:35.420 --> 01:31:38.750 dumb he's a bag of hammers Yeah, the dumb Gen 1725 01:31:38.789 --> 01:31:42.970 Z guy. So he's there to abandon her so that 1726 01:31:43.010 --> 01:31:46.529 she has to, you know, feel alone and freak out 1727 01:31:46.560 --> 01:31:49.859 in the middle of a wedding. And it's like, we 1728 01:31:49.899 --> 01:31:51.920 had to go through this entire journey for her to 1729 01:31:52.020 --> 01:31:54.939 erupt at this wedding. And that's like the big denouement. 1730 01:31:55.000 --> 01:31:57.659 That's the big, you know, high point of this movie. 1731 01:31:57.680 --> 01:32:04.189 And it's like, all right. I could have gotten that 1732 01:32:04.270 --> 01:32:06.250 earlier in the movie. We didn't have to wait this long. 1733 01:32:07.199 --> 01:32:09.100 So I

don't have anything else to say about Fort Worth. 1734 01:32:09.199 --> 01:32:12.970 It's fine. The stuff is relatable. Just too long and 1735 01:32:13.189 --> 01:32:14.670 there's not enough meat in the middle. 1736 01:32:15.970 --> 01:32:19.609 This reeks of someone convinced that their own material is 1737 01:32:19.649 --> 01:32:22.449 good and no one, for whatever reason, nobody else stepped 1738 01:32:22.489 --> 01:32:24.189 in and said, no, you need help here. 1739 01:32:24.409 --> 01:32:26.069 This is a very film festival film. 1740 01:32:27.590 --> 01:32:30.109 In the most negative way possible, yes. 1741 01:32:30.140 --> 01:32:34.239 Yeah. All right. Anything else about Fort Worth? 1742 01:32:35.890 --> 01:32:40.210 No, this is like... Again, there's stuff to say about 1743 01:32:40.270 --> 01:32:43.229 Solo Mio for no other reason than because earnestness in 1744 01:32:43.270 --> 01:32:46.600 filmmaking is dying. There's stuff to talk about with the 1745 01:32:46.659 --> 01:32:51.840 invite on a craft level, certainly on the writing level. 1746 01:32:51.880 --> 01:32:55.359 There's stuff there. There's nothing here. There's just nothing to this. 1747 01:32:57.800 --> 01:32:59.300 Picked it because we needed a third movie. 1748 01:32:59.460 --> 01:33:01.970 I'm glad you got your vanity project out there, lady. 1749 01:33:03.909 --> 01:33:06.090 With these triple features, it's always like that third movie. 1750 01:33:06.250 --> 01:33:08.600 You know, you have to swing for the fences or 1751 01:33:08.659 --> 01:33:09.939 it's crapola. 1752 01:33:10.539 --> 01:33:15.500 It's because we trust the investigative tools that we have. 1753 01:33:15.939 --> 01:33:19.800 Mm-hmm. And they're... Okay, was there another movie that you 1754 01:33:19.819 --> 01:33:20.939 could have replaced For Worst with? 1755 01:33:20.960 --> 01:33:22.399 Oh, me? Off the top of your head? Off the 1756 01:33:22.420 --> 01:33:25.119 top of my head, no. Like, I'm not... Like, I'm 1757 01:33:25.159 --> 01:33:28.250 just tracking the cause. Like, why do we end up here? Well, 1758 01:33:28.289 --> 01:33:30.229 because we have two that we feel good about, like, 1759 01:33:30.289 --> 01:33:33.939 talking about. Mm-hmm. We just feel like we need a third. 1760 01:33:33.960 --> 01:33:38.100 And neither of us really have the time to, like, 1761 01:33:38.220 --> 01:33:39.960 dig into this on our own, so we kind of 1762 01:33:39.979 --> 01:33:41.659 just trust the correlative data. 1763 01:33:42.149 --> 01:33:45.329 So, I actually have Chachi's BT up. 1764 01:33:45.829 --> 01:33:50.649 Um... Yeah, ask him for a third movie. 1765 01:33:50.670 --> 01:33:54.250 No, no, no, but here's my current working list. If 1766 01:33:54.289 --> 01:33:56.390 we were to replace 4 or worse, which one... Because 1767 01:33:56.409 --> 01:33:58.310 I specifically told him, don't pick from this list, because 1768 01:33:58.329 --> 01:33:59.510 I didn't want to have to redo some of these 1769 01:33:59.529 --> 01:34:03.520 triple features myself. So... I'm just going to read through these. 1770 01:34:03.579 --> 01:34:06.159 Not all of these obviously would have been available to us, 1771 01:34:06.220 --> 01:34:11.229 but relationship goals, office romance, ladies first. Yeah, there's no 1772 01:34:11.270 --> 01:34:14.159 fucking way I'm talking to you about ladies first. I'd 1773 01:34:14.189 --> 01:34:21.930 rather do three invites. The love hypothesis. You, me, and Tuscany. 1774 01:34:22.149 --> 01:34:22.949 Maybe that one. 1775 01:34:25.510 --> 01:34:29.550 Come on. We have to sit here and live through 1776 01:34:29.590 --> 01:34:31.270 Halle Bailey acting again? 1777 01:34:33.000 --> 01:34:36.189 The Last Sunrise, Miss You, Love You, Voicemails for Isabel, 1778 01:34:36.229 --> 01:34:43.770 Love of Your Life. I think those were the only... Yeah, 1779 01:34:45.270 --> 01:34:48.100 I think those were the only romantic stuff that I 1780 01:34:48.140 --> 01:34:48.720 had on my list. 1781 01:34:49.439 --> 01:34:52.640 Look, I'd have to go through them and try to 1782 01:34:52.680 --> 01:34:55.619 find something. But again, this is kind of the point is... 1783 01:34:56.880 --> 01:34:59.140 neither of us really have the time or inclination to 1784 01:34:59.739 --> 01:35:02.520 sift through all of this after you've already set some 1785 01:35:02.539 --> 01:35:05.159 stuff up and be like, wait, wait, the minutia of 1786 01:35:05.220 --> 01:35:08.140 this third movie on that triple feature in the middle 1787 01:35:08.159 --> 01:35:11.479 of October should be replaced with this other one. Yeah. 1788 01:35:13.100 --> 01:35:14.340 That neither of us have heard of. 1789 01:35:15.439 --> 01:35:18.479 So I probably should have said this at the beginning, 1790 01:35:18.500 --> 01:35:20.180 but this kind of came to be because I initially 1791 01:35:20.199 --> 01:35:24.439 had solo Mio with like matchbox and animals. And it 1792 01:35:24.460 --> 01:35:27.500 was just a grab bag of like, Those would. 1793 01:35:27.439 --> 01:35:29.439 Be three wildly unrelated topics, yes. 1794 01:35:29.840 --> 01:35:32.100 Yeah, and I didn't want to, and after I thought 1795 01:35:32.140 --> 01:35:33.619 about it, I didn't want to do a grab bag. 1796 01:35:34.220 --> 01:35:36.899 So I was like, okay. Part of it was like, well, 1797 01:35:36.939 --> 01:35:38.689 he only said he wanted to do solo Mio, and 1798 01:35:38.699 --> 01:35:40.609 I don't want to upset Robert, so I got to do, 1799 01:35:40.810 --> 01:35:42.289 I got to make him happy. Let me try to, 1800 01:35:42.289 --> 01:35:44.449 and then I was like, fuck Robert. So I was like, 1801 01:35:44.489 --> 01:35:44.850 let me. 1802 01:35:44.890 --> 01:35:46.430 Probably the more appropriate attitude. 1803 01:35:46.909 --> 01:35:48.890 And then I saw the invite was on the Best 1804 01:35:48.949 --> 01:35:50.449 Picture list. I'm like, okay, well, now I have to 1805 01:35:50.489 --> 01:35:53.149 force him to watch

the movie. He can't argue with 1806 01:35:53.189 --> 01:35:54.310 me about it. He can't be like, why did you 1807 01:35:54.340 --> 01:35:56.890 make me do this? because it's a Best Picture nominee. 1808 01:35:57.130 --> 01:36:00.289 So that solved that problem. And once I had Solomio 1809 01:36:00.329 --> 01:36:01.720 in the invite, I was like, well, now I've got 1810 01:36:01.729 --> 01:36:03.819 to find something that seems like that. And you didn't 1811 01:36:03.880 --> 01:36:07.159 name anything else on the list I just read that 1812 01:36:07.199 --> 01:36:07.989 you were interested in. 1813 01:36:08.479 --> 01:36:14.159 So I dug deep is what I did. I, look, again, 1814 01:36:14.520 --> 01:36:16.119 if you and I both had more time and more 1815 01:36:16.180 --> 01:36:19.550 energy for the minutia of this, yeah, I would have 1816 01:36:19.560 --> 01:36:21.909 found something. I would have found something else, but. 1817 01:36:21.869 --> 01:36:24.329 Life is what it is. Had I not been committed 1818 01:36:24.409 --> 01:36:26.630 to these other movies in the way that I had them, 1819 01:36:26.670 --> 01:36:31.109 I probably would have put you, me, and Tuscany on this. And, yeah, 1820 01:36:31.210 --> 01:36:32.779 who knows how that, I still don't even know what 1821 01:36:32.800 --> 01:36:33.439 that movie's about. 1822 01:36:33.460 --> 01:36:40.430 That is Halle Bailey, you know, Ariel. as a black 1823 01:36:40.470 --> 01:36:42.329 girl going to Tuscany. 1824 01:36:42.390 --> 01:36:44.050 Oh, that's right. I've seen the trailers for that. 1825 01:36:44.250 --> 01:36:46.420 Yeah, if you've seen the trailer, you know the movie. 1826 01:36:46.939 --> 01:36:49.199 The problem is, at that point, the invite doesn't fit 1827 01:36:49.220 --> 01:36:51.859 because it's not a romantic comedy in Italy. 1828 01:36:53.859 --> 01:36:55.930 Now I'm searching for a third movie. The whole thing's fucked. 1829 01:36:56.270 --> 01:36:57.949 Yes. We'd have to reconfigure again. 1830 01:37:01.449 --> 01:37:01.649 All right. 1831 01:37:01.869 --> 01:37:04.550 All right. So that's it. That's our review. We have 1832 01:37:04.590 --> 01:37:07.390 to reconfigure again. The Rattlesnake Broadcasting Network way. 1833 01:37:07.710 --> 01:37:10.960 That does flash across your forehead more than once a week. 1834 01:37:11.520 --> 01:37:13.899 So that is our review of Solo Mio, The Invite, 1835 01:37:14.000 --> 01:37:14.699 and for worse. 1836 01:37:14.720 --> 01:37:18.180 Two movies might be worth your time. One very much not. 1837 01:37:19.659 --> 01:37:24.710 Earlier this week, we did Event Sevenfold Statica. We reviewed 1838 01:37:25.250 --> 01:37:32.140 Street Fighter. Robert, Alexis, and whoever else reviewed Carrie. Next week, 1839 01:37:33.520 --> 01:37:35.390 myself and Alexis, and I will be the one leading 1840 01:37:35.409 --> 01:37:39.569 because I cannot. She can do her own podcast when 1841 01:37:39.609 --> 01:37:42.989 I'm not there, but I can't let her lead discussions 1842 01:37:43.010 --> 01:37:45.090 when I'm on it anymore. Our brains don't work together 1843 01:37:45.210 --> 01:37:49.420 well when that happens. So I will be doing a, well, 1844 01:37:49.439 --> 01:37:52.060 it used to be I would let her do it 1845 01:37:52.119 --> 01:37:53.800 because I didn't want to put the time and energy 1846 01:37:54.439 --> 01:37:57.739 into hosting every single show. I figured I'll just let 1847 01:37:57.779 --> 01:37:59.970 her do it. Plus, I didn't know how it would go. 1848 01:38:00.130 --> 01:38:01.609 Now I know how it would go, and I don't 1849 01:38:01.649 --> 01:38:02.970 do as many shows as I used to, so I 1850 01:38:02.989 --> 01:38:09.020 have the energy again. That's fair. So we'll be doing Monster, 1851 01:38:09.060 --> 01:38:14.340 the Lizzie Borden story. Monday, Clayface. Alan Ng, or whatever 1852 01:38:14.359 --> 01:38:16.479 the hell you pronounce his last name from Film Threat, 1853 01:38:16.739 --> 01:38:18.380 apparently loved Clayface, thought it was great. 1854 01:38:19.239 --> 01:38:23.609 Yeah, there's... Look, there were a few early reviews that 1855 01:38:23.630 --> 01:38:27.520 were comparing it to Morbius. Mm-hmm. And then here's kind 1856 01:38:27.560 --> 01:38:29.670 of the reality of it if you're me. I don't 1857 01:38:29.689 --> 01:38:34.899 know how much. you'll appreciate this, but... I need to 1858 01:38:34.920 --> 01:38:38.329 remember this. Because I looked up the director. 1859 01:38:42.829 --> 01:38:47.170 He said, if you didn't... If you didn't know Clayface 1860 01:38:47.250 --> 01:38:49.609 was a Batman villain and there wasn't the DC logo 1861 01:38:49.649 --> 01:38:51.609 plaster all over it, you wouldn't know this was a 1862 01:38:51.640 --> 01:38:54.279 superhero movie. It looks like a good body horror movie. 1863 01:38:54.340 --> 01:38:54.979 That's what he said. 1864 01:38:55.520 --> 01:38:57.779 Yeah. He, the director in this case has done a 1865 01:38:57.819 --> 01:39:02.020 couple of horror movies that I'm familiar with. And one, 1866 01:39:02.260 --> 01:39:06.970 I absolutely, I loathe his speak no evil for a 1867 01:39:07.010 --> 01:39:11.369 number of reasons, but I really like Eden Lake. It 1868 01:39:11.430 --> 01:39:16.569 is a very, very unhappy movie. And I mean that 1869 01:39:16.609 --> 01:39:20.489 like as a compliment. It's one of the bleaker, darker, 1870 01:39:20.560 --> 01:39:25.399 like British horror movies of the last little bit. So again, 1871 01:39:25.420 --> 01:39:28.260 I hate his Speak No Evil remake because it changes 1872 01:39:28.300 --> 01:39:30.119 the ending and the ending is the point of Speak 1873 01:39:30.140 --> 01:39:30.560 No Evil. 1874 01:39:31.579 --> 01:39:34.020 So next week, you guys, you and Alexis have big 1875 01:39:34.039 --> 01:39:36.340 weeks ahead of you. You got, she's doing a triple 1876 01:39:36.380 --> 01:39:38.710 feature of Iron Lung Obsessions and Back Rooms. 1877 01:39:38.750 --> 01:39:39.630 That

will be Wednesday. 1878 01:39:40.210 --> 01:39:45.890 That's Tuesday. And Wednesday is Camp Crystal Lake. And then 1879 01:39:46.210 --> 01:39:48.470 I'll be back here Thursday for my own triple feature 1880 01:39:48.550 --> 01:39:52.960 with Sean and presumably cat. We're doing a director focus, um, 1881 01:39:53.199 --> 01:39:56.520 on West Craven. You're looking at shocker vampire in Brooklyn 1882 01:39:56.579 --> 01:40:00.079 and my soul to take. That's what I got going 1883 01:40:00.100 --> 01:40:01.739 on over here. What do you got going on over there? 1884 01:40:02.619 --> 01:40:11.109 Yeah. Um, yesterday, uh, we reviewed the 2026 prime mini series, Carrie, uh, 1885 01:40:11.130 --> 01:40:14.449 show run by Mike Flanagan, uh, I got together with 1886 01:40:14.520 --> 01:40:17.800 Alexis Haina and Benjamin J. Cologne, and we tackled the 1887 01:40:17.840 --> 01:40:20.920 highs and lows, the perils and pitfalls, the choices and 1888 01:40:20.979 --> 01:40:23.239 the consequences of said choices. 1889 01:40:23.819 --> 01:40:24.539 Did you bang his shoe? 1890 01:40:26.460 --> 01:40:33.270 I mean, literally, no. Metaphorically, not really. I have my 1891 01:40:33.310 --> 01:40:35.409 issues with it. I have my positives with it. Listen 1892 01:40:35.430 --> 01:40:37.010 to the review if you want to know. Okay. 1893 01:40:37.470 --> 01:40:38.670 How did it compare to Midnight Mass? 1894 01:40:41.399 --> 01:40:46.920 I don't think it was as good. Okay. Again, there's 1895 01:40:47.000 --> 01:40:49.060 ups and downs for it. So you can tune in 1896 01:40:49.100 --> 01:40:52.579 for that. Yeah. As mentioned next week, I will be 1897 01:40:52.600 --> 01:40:55.970 part of a triple feature for movies directed by current 1898 01:40:56.010 --> 01:40:59.149 or former YouTubers. So it will be the iron lung, 1899 01:40:59.189 --> 01:41:07.970 which is directed by Markiplier obsession, which has started up 1900 01:41:08.010 --> 01:41:15.050 another round of controversy. Apparently Because they're putting Nikki in Fortnite. 1901 01:41:16.350 --> 01:41:16.770 Oh, goody. 1902 01:41:17.710 --> 01:41:20.869 Which is normally not a thing that should matter, because 1903 01:41:23.109 --> 01:41:34.130 it's not. But, you know, people. So, that, which is, again, 1904 01:41:34.149 --> 01:41:37.760 directed by a former YouTuber, and The Backrooms, which was 1905 01:41:37.800 --> 01:41:39.859 directed by a YouTuber, in fact, the guy who created 1906 01:41:39.880 --> 01:41:43.609 The Backrooms YouTube videos, so. We will break down all 1907 01:41:43.630 --> 01:41:47.069 of those for better and for worse. And then Wednesday 1908 01:41:47.109 --> 01:41:50.000 will be Camp Crystal Lake, which I am almost done with. 1909 01:41:52.619 --> 01:41:57.020 And I am unsure about. Yeah, next week, Clayface. Oh, 1910 01:41:58.720 --> 01:42:00.739 Ben may not be able to make the Clayface review. 1911 01:42:00.979 --> 01:42:03.850 That's a little up in the air, but seemed unlikely 1912 01:42:03.869 --> 01:42:08.090 when we talked on Tuesday. So there may only be 1913 01:42:08.130 --> 01:42:13.989 four of us instead of five. You're, you know, three, 1914 01:42:14.090 --> 01:42:15.590 only two more to go before we get to Mark's 1915 01:42:15.630 --> 01:42:24.270 ideal number. So, yeah, that I cover mixed martial arts 1916 01:42:24.310 --> 01:42:28.449 and professional wrestling over at 411mania. com. WWE Smackdown on Fridays. 1917 01:42:29.460 --> 01:42:31.760 Last week's Smackdown was not good. Hopefully this week's is 1918 01:42:31.819 --> 01:42:34.300 better as they all gear up to just fly into 1919 01:42:34.340 --> 01:42:35.939 a war zone to do Crown Jewel. 1920 01:42:39.199 --> 01:42:40.220 Money is very important. 1921 01:42:43.699 --> 01:42:45.470 If you're in a boardroom, sure. If you're the one 1922 01:42:45.479 --> 01:42:48.029 who has to fly into Riyadh and go, please don't let. 1923 01:42:48.609 --> 01:42:51.250 It'll be fine. Saudi Arabia's got a mutual protection pact 1924 01:42:51.289 --> 01:42:54.689 with Turkey and Pakistan, so it'll be fine. The Pakistanis 1925 01:42:54.710 --> 01:42:56.289 will protect them. 1926 01:42:56.770 --> 01:43:01.949 The American State Department evacuated the embassies of non-essential personnel 1927 01:43:02.069 --> 01:43:08.189 in Riyadh, the United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain. Surely nothing 1928 01:43:08.229 --> 01:43:09.069 could go wrong. 1929 01:43:09.090 --> 01:43:12.250 They'll be fine. They'll be protected by Pakistan. 1930 01:43:15.890 --> 01:43:18.029 The Pakistanis are going to stand up to, you know, 1931 01:43:18.069 --> 01:43:21.130 the various insurgent groups that are going to try and 1932 01:43:21.149 --> 01:43:23.140 run roughshod on Saudi Arabia. 1933 01:43:23.159 --> 01:43:25.460 They'll just tell their friends to, you know, stop for 1934 01:43:25.479 --> 01:43:27.020 a day. Take a siesta. 1935 01:43:29.439 --> 01:43:35.250 So, UFC 333 is in the UAE this Saturday. 1936 01:43:35.409 --> 01:43:35.850 Wow. 1937 01:43:38.789 --> 01:43:40.569 So, in a couple of days, I'll be covering that. 1938 01:43:40.590 --> 01:43:43.479 Hang on. In defense of all that, where... Other than 1939 01:43:43.520 --> 01:43:46.319 South America, what part of the world isn't currently on fire? 1940 01:43:47.039 --> 01:43:49.779 Fucking Europe's all on fire. The Middle East is bombing 1941 01:43:49.800 --> 01:43:51.260 itself to smithereens. 1942 01:43:51.840 --> 01:43:56.369 Look, hang on. There's places in Europe you'd be okay. 1943 01:43:57.189 --> 01:43:58.890 Not everywhere in Europe, but there are places. I mean, 1944 01:43:58.949 --> 01:44:01.510 I know France is like rioting right now and the 1945 01:44:01.550 --> 01:44:05.170 government is weak and ineffectual and it's all going to 1946 01:44:05.210 --> 01:44:10.359 go real bad. But, you know, there are places Germany's okay. 1947 01:44:12.640 --> 01:44:15.399 Poland is fine. They absolutely run Poland. 1948 01:44:16.399 -->

01:44:21.100 Send all the events to Poland. Until Russia gets fucking 1949 01:44:21.199 --> 01:44:23.380 uppity again and then starts bombing Poland. 1950 01:44:24.180 --> 01:44:26.039 They've got to deal with Ukraine before they can get 1951 01:44:26.060 --> 01:44:31.380 to Poland. Look, the vast majority of the United States 1952 01:44:31.439 --> 01:44:33.579 is fine. It's where they've been running stuff. 1953 01:44:34.539 --> 01:44:36.340 Oh, no. Here in the great state of Florida, our 1954 01:44:36.380 --> 01:44:40.199 governor said if you protest in the streets, people can 1955 01:44:40.239 --> 01:44:41.439 just run you over with their cars. 1956 01:44:42.319 --> 01:44:44.180 Well, stop obstructing traffic. 1957 01:44:44.220 --> 01:44:47.239 We're all just blocking the street. We're all just blocking 1958 01:44:47.260 --> 01:44:47.640 the street. 1959 01:44:49.430 --> 01:44:51.130 Come on, I've got to deliver this pizza. It's a 1960 01:44:51.170 --> 01:44:51.949 company policy. 1961 01:44:52.789 --> 01:44:54.649 We're all just blocking the street. 1962 01:44:55.109 --> 01:44:56.989 Turning around, still blocking the street. 1963 01:44:57.010 --> 01:45:01.050 I've had that stuck in my head all day today. 1964 01:45:01.529 --> 01:45:04.380 I'm sorry. I'm glad I gave you the opportunity to 1965 01:45:04.479 --> 01:45:04.760 use it. 1966 01:45:04.800 --> 01:45:06.640 Keep going with your plug. Get out of the bathroom. 1967 01:45:08.420 --> 01:45:11.340 So you can, so I will be covering again, SmackDown, 1968 01:45:11.380 --> 01:45:16.289 the UFC event in the UAE. And then if you 1969 01:45:16.329 --> 01:45:18.569 want details on the wide, wacky, wonderful world of mixed 1970 01:45:18.609 --> 01:45:20.630 martial arts, you can find me on the hosting the 1971 01:45:20.630 --> 01:45:24.649 411 Ground and Pound MMA podcast. I have a full 1972 01:45:24.689 --> 01:45:28.550 preview of UFC 333. And this week we'll be, we'll 1973 01:45:28.590 --> 01:45:31.659 be reviewing 333. We'll be previewing the upcoming card. And, 1974 01:45:34.229 --> 01:45:36.140 And remember, if you do want to watch UFC 333, 1975 01:45:36.140 --> 01:45:38.859 it has a start. The early prelims start at 10 a.m. 1976 01:45:38.939 --> 01:45:41.060 Eastern because they're going to be primetime in Abu Dhabi. 1977 01:45:42.420 --> 01:45:46.159 So that's where you can find me. And yeah, three 1978 01:45:46.199 --> 01:45:48.890 more shows next week because I am a glutton. 1979 01:45:49.520 --> 01:45:52.130 Yeah, really. Well, part of that was, you know, she 1980 01:45:52.170 --> 01:45:54.029 left her cake out in the rain and that made 1981 01:45:54.090 --> 01:45:54.510 a delay. 1982 01:45:55.510 --> 01:45:57.649 Jason also had a scheduling conflict. So that one was 1983 01:45:57.670 --> 01:45:59.189 going to get pushed back one way or the other. 1984 01:45:59.529 --> 01:46:01.409 Yeah, a lot of stuff got piled into one week 1985 01:46:01.470 --> 01:46:02.680 because of various things. 1986 01:46:02.720 --> 01:46:05.079 So. Life happens. What do you want me to say? 1987 01:46:05.319 --> 01:46:06.960 It certainly does. Just ask my ex. 1988 01:46:07.659 --> 01:46:07.939 All right. 1989 01:46:09.229 --> 01:46:13.010 So for Robert Winfrey, who was a good sport tonight, Robert, 1990 01:46:13.170 --> 01:46:14.390 you're a good boy, Charlie Brown. 1991 01:46:15.869 --> 01:46:18.430 I do what I can, Lucy. 1992 01:46:20.350 --> 01:46:24.199 And for Mr. Passive Aggressive, this has been Triple Feature. 1993 01:46:24.260 --> 01:46:26.119 Be well, be safe, and behave. 1994 01:46:41.750 --> 01:46:44.539 Got to get, got to get, got to got to 1995 01:46:44.939 --> 01:46:46.949 got to get money.