Days of Thunder

This is Free with Ads, the podcast that asked the question: why pay a movie theater 20 bucks to watch F1 when you can go online for free and watch a race car movie that's inherently superior because it has a character named Harry Hogg?

I'm Jordan Morris.

And I'm Emily Fleming, reporting to you live from my parents' house in Nashville.

Today's movie is Days of Thunder: the Top Gun, but with Cars movie that's not as good as Top Gun because it doesn't have a scene where everyone sings.

You've lost that love

and feeling.

feeling.

Whoa, that

loving

feeling.

You've lost that love and feeling.

Now it's gone,

gone,

gone.

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

With us, as always, is the super producer, the he freak, Matt Lieb, hitting us with those rubber-burning drops.

It's the Daytona theme song from the video game Daytona 500.

Dude, that slaps hard.

It is one of the greatest arcade game songs ever made.

Sometimes I just listen to it like while I'm driving, but I'm going in like a, I'm in a Kia Sorrento and I'm going 35, but I'm like, yeah, Daytona.

Yeah, that song rules, actually.

I like it.

Rules.

That beginning of that.

That era of video games, especially from Sega, had some real good music.

It's real good music.

They didn't fuck around.

They were like, no,

we're going to have a banger.

We're going to have a radio banger for this

1600.

Is Sega still around, by the way?

Or is it done?

Yeah, Sega's still around.

They make the Sonic games.

There's more Sonic games?

Oh, man.

I think they crank out kind of a bad Sonic game every year.

So I usually have to play them to talk about them on podcasts.

That's the only reason I consume media these days.

I know, saying.

Yeah, I think, you know, and you know, hey, they say there's a new crazy taxi coming out.

Wouldn't that be fun?

Speaking of great soundtracks.

Well, I will say, I had a Sega Game Gear.

I think I've talked about this.

It's broken.

I'm really bummed about that.

But I had the Lion King game and an X-Men game.

So they've got the rights to Disney stuff, which is pretty cool.

So

those are back in the days.

Come back going, Sega.

Let's get a vintage, like, also throwback with new Sega Game Gears.

Let's go.

Yeah, let's start cranking it.

Come on, Sega.

Start cranking out the game gears.

Yeah, yeah.

Get that big brick.

I know.

Someone showed me their Nintendo Switch, and I was like, yeah, I guess this is cool, but how come it's not 32 pounds and takes 17 AA batteries?

No, but Matt, for those 17 AA batteries, you could play for an hour and a half.

A whole hour and a half, dude.

It was crazy.

You could extend it, though, if you took out the battery and shook it and then put it back in.

You get another five minutes.

No, no.

My family had the rechargeable AA batteries and that the little thing where you charged up the batteries.

So I would take that to summer camp as well.

Hell yeah.

Sega Game Gear, a legend gone too soon.

Yeah.

Hey, before we talk about Days of Thunder, which is, as of this recording, streaming free with ads, we're going to talk about something else we saw for free on the internet this week.

Other free stuff.

Emily, you got a clip for us.

What are we listening to?

All right.

I was on Mythical Kitchen this week

making fancy versions of Chili's double or chili's like triple dippers.

It's like their appetizer

trio that yeah, it's brought chilies back.

Apparently, Chili's is having a renaissance.

I had one of these triple dippers not too long ago.

I can confirm this is a truly amazing meal.

They have new thicker mozzarella sticks.

I don't like those.

I didn't like them.

I was a huge fan.

They have a coating on them.

Obviously, different strokes for different folks.

But yeah, the Triple Dipper, a wonderful chain restaurant.

It's all about the egg rolls.

It's all about those.

So you were on Mythical Kitchen, the YouTube cooking show, talking about these.

What are we going to listen to?

So I managed to squeeze in a plug.

And like Mythical Kitchen, they're the best.

They love our show.

They let me just run my mouth about our fabulous podcast.

Hell yeah.

Here it is.

So good.

You have to see it.

You have to see it.

And that movie is free with ads on YouTube, much like the name of the podcast I have on maximumfun.com.

It's free with ads.

Sorry.

Movies that are free with ads.

I'm doing a plug.

We got our beautiful lamb sliders down there.

It smells.

Emily, tell them how good this smells.

It smells good.

All right, tell them more about your podcast.

Jordan Morris and Matt Lieb, and we talk about movies that are free with ads on YouTube, Tubi, Pluto, all that stuff.

We just did, we did Land Before Time recently.

That's fine.

We just did, we just recorded No Country for Old Men, which is amazing.

Wildly different movies, Land Before Time and.

Oh, yeah, we don't care.

If it's free, we're watching it.

I love that.

Yeah, I love the jazzy music they put behind it, too.

They are, the editors at Mythical are the superstars of Mythical, in my opinion.

They're just

Taylor is one of the editors for The Kitchen.

Taylor's so funny.

Add like little like whoopsh sound effects over nothing.

I like if I like spank

like a piece of tofu, which I did,

they add

this like whip noise to it.

Like, they're so funny.

They even put the podcast logo.

They did.

They put the thumbnail.

I know.

We love them.

Well, hey,

we will plug them because they let us plug us.

So

mythical kitchen over there on YouTube, you can watch it for free.

Emily's on all the time.

I've been on once or twice.

Tons of fun.

You get food.

You get food.

You get comedy.

It's a blast.

I just want to say special thanks to Josh.

He sets you up to look good all the time.

He's very good at that.

Yeah.

He did.

Good looking guy.

He sets you up.

I love a I stand a hot king who is gracious

we can all agree Josh is a hunk.

Oh, yeah, big hunk.

Oh, yeah, sure, he is big hunk.

He's the hunk watch of mythical kitchen.

Oh, yeah, no need to, no need to, you can only do that segment once on that show because yeah, everyone's good looking in the kitchen, though.

Every single one,

that's true.

But Josh has got those abs, so you know, the abs.

What's that?

Okay, um,

uh, well, yeah, uh, listen, hunks, hunks for days on the mythical kitchen, uh, and hunks for days days in this movie,

Days of Thunder.

I had never seen this.

I was happy to get the opportunity.

It's one I've been meaning to watch.

I love the testosterone movies of this era.

Like, you know, Top Gun Point Break,

Roadhouse.

I think Over the Top is kind of one of them.

So I really like these movies.

I was kind of aware that this existed.

So, yeah, I was.

I knew that this was when Tom Cruise met Nicole Kidman.

Tom Cruise met Nicole Kidman.

This is like the legend of how they like met and fell in love.

So I was like, all right, let's see that chemistry.

That ruined her life.

Let's go.

Yes, let's see.

Let's see the beginning of the end.

Was that dick that good that it ruined your life?

Yeah.

Let's go.

Although she is thriving these days.

She's in

every single prestige TV show.

She's one of the best.

She's producing all of our movies in the theaters.

Well, both of them are two of the best movie stars of our generation.

Let's hands down.

Movie stars.

Like, I don't care.

I don't know who is a bigger movie star than these two people at this time.

Like,

we don't really have that now.

We got Sidney Sweeney with her fuck soap, but we don't like.

I guess, you know, I guess like Denzel still opens a movie.

I guess you can count on Denzel.

You know, they say, like, who can you count on to like, you know, when they're in the movie, the movie just makes money.

I think it's like Denzel, it's Tom Cruise.

And then other than that, it's like IP stuff.

It's like, you know, is it a Marvel?

Is it a.

Yeah, I can't think of another actor.

Meryl Streep.

She can, she does good, I think.

Streep.

I mean, Streep is, if she's in something, I'm going to watch it.

So maybe I am not a good cross-section of the American public, but I think she's, you know, the best actor.

But you want to know something?

This is a hot take.

Tom Hanks not making good movies anymore.

He has actually has this weird thing where with for the last 10, 15 years, he actually does a fuck ton of movies and like 90% of them are bad and barely see the light of day.

And then there'll be one that's amazing and you're like, oh, Tom Cruise.

Or sorry, Tom Hanks.

He's so good.

I haven't seen a Hanks in a minute.

I do know that he kind of cranks out movies.

They all seem to be just on Apple Plus.

Yes.

But yeah, I haven't seen him.

Despite loving, you know, loving the golden era of Tom Hanks so much.

Well, yeah, but it's like he,

yeah, it's all straight to video, but he needs to do TV is what I think.

He needs to do a TV show.

I'd take a Hanks Hulu Mini.

Oh, hell yeah.

Also, he's been on the Mythical Kitchen.

Isn't that crazy?

That's wild.

I know.

That's wild.

Well, yeah, let's talk about Days of Thunder.

None of us have seen it, right?

This is everybody's first time.

First time.

Okay.

So I thought I hadn't seen it, but my little bar where it shows you like you've watched a video for a long time.

I had been watching it at some point.

Okay.

Maybe you fell asleep in an autoplayed or something?

I think that might have been it, or I was imbibing and forgot.

Yeah.

You're saying imbibing now, huh?

I like it.

So we gotta get Emily a fedora.

I'm trying to find a way to make my drinking problem elegant.

And I do imbibing it.

You imbibing.

Imbibing, good sir.

Libations for all.

Me?

I was merely imbibing spirits behind the wheel.

Yes.

Boy.

Having a merry time with my fellows and gentlemen at the taverns.

Drunk?

I'm not driving drunk.

Oh, awesome.

I was merely making merry with the fellows down at the drinkery.

I was traveling merrily

and whimsically.

Yes.

Hail fellow, well met,

please.

Anyway.

Days of Thunder, it starts out with waving flags.

American, Confederate, Pepsi.

All the main flags.

You know, a lot of shots of Confederate flags in this.

I don't think we were reckoning with it

back then in 1990.

I think they just showed it to show that you were in the same place.

I think we're

struggling to reckon with it now.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

We're still getting over it.

We're still figuring that shit out.

Those fucking

statues, goddammit.

So, yeah, obviously, I think we all knew going into this, Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, but you're looking at the cast list coming by.

All your faves are in this.

Michael Rooker, Randy Quaid, Robert Duvall, every severe-looking white guy is in this.

I'll say for Carrie.

Severe-looking white carriels.

Oh, well,

he's he's

a hot look.

Yeah, he's a hot-looking white guy.

He was my

biggest childhood crush for a long time.

Sure, sure.

Well, Princess Bride is

my favorite movie of all time.

So if we ever do it, we got it because Carrie always

that butt cut.

That butt cut.

So, yeah,

we're watching some racing.

Michael, some great names in this.

Tom Cruise plays Cole Trickle.

Michael Rooker is Rowdy Burns.

And as we mentioned in the intro, Robert Duvall plays Harry Hogg.

So wonderful names in this movie.

Robert Duvall, he builds race cars, but he's retired.

Something about his buddy dying.

We don't really get into it.

But we find him on a tractor, which is like.

Oh, yeah, doing the opposite of a race car is a tractor.

Yes, there you go.

And so he's on a tractor with his good old, good old hound dog, and he is approached by rich guy, Randy Quaid, who needs him to come out of retirement to build a car.

I just wrote down, Randy Quaid is playing a rich guy?

This is probably the only movie replaced someone who's rich.

Boy, Randy Quaid, goddamn good actor.

I know.

This was the first time I have actually ever watched a Randy Quaid performance and been like, oh, he's making me think he's playing a kid.

He's in it.

Yeah, he's disappeared into character.

He's in the zone.

Damn good leather jacket, too.

I wanted that aviator-style brown leather jacket real bad.

I'm more into Randy Quaid for his social media videos.

Oh,

what?

He's got social.

Oh, he's off the DV.

He's off the DV.

Oh, I know.

I know.

He and his wife think that the government's after him or something.

Yeah.

But I do want to watch those, and maybe we should.

Is it sad?

Or is it funny?

It's a bummer.

It's a bummer.

It's funny.

You'd be like, Cousin Eddie.

Oh, bummer.

Anyway.

Well, because here's the thing.

If he was, Matthew McConaughey's stuff is just as sad, but he's hot.

so we got to be able to.

Right, sure.

Oh, old so-and-so.

They're both equally delusional, but one is delusional in a way that's completely harmless, and the other one, you're just like, oh, man, I feel kind of bad for you.

It seems like things are going on.

I know we do need to talk about the movie.

I shouldn't mention those because Matthew McConaughey came up.

Matthew McConaughey's book of poetry soon to be released.

So just

the Matthew McConaughey update.

We're definitely going to need to read some of those to the audience.

Well, if I subscribe to his newsletter, you would

see some teasers

stop plugging his newsletter for the last five years

I'm just a big newsletter guy anyway so Robert Duvall has to come out of retirement to build to build a race car and they found just the guy to drive it he's from Eagle Rock Eagle Rock Arkansas no Eagle Rock near Glendale that's where I'm from yeah fun to hear Glendale mentioned I know the fact that you thought Arkansas too blew my mind because I went oh they say it in the it's a it's a little moment in the movie because because they assume that like everybody who drives these cars is southern.

And then Tom Cruise

being a SoCal

one guy.

What was it they said about, he goes, is he a Yankee?

And it's like, no, he's from California.

It's something else.

Yeah, which means it makes him nothing.

Yes.

Yeah.

I like that.

Just a Glendale dude heading down to Porto's.

I'm going to eat one of them cheese rolls and drive 100 miles per hour.

Maybe I'll grab a kebab at Rafi's.

Yeah, get a kebab.

Get some Glendale references.

Maybe I'll hang out with guys all wearing Puma jumpsuits on the corner.

Hell yeah.

Go to the Americana, you know, put a coin in the wishing well, and I don't know, maybe drive 90 down the 134.

These are all fun Glendale references, people.

If you know Glendale, you are delighted by all these references.

It's pretty fun.

Glendale kind of rules, actually.

Glendale's great.

Oh, yeah.

Tons of fun.

Oh, yeah.

Love it.

So

Tom Cruise,

he's a a brooding bad boy of racing.

He comes from the world of,

I think it's F1.

He comes from some other kind of racing.

I don't really, that never really was clear to me.

Can we discuss the entrance of his character and the,

I mean, the red carpet machismo of him coming in on a motorcycle.

So, yeah, so this is like, so, you know, this is a couple years after Top Gun, same director, Tony Scott, the great Tony Scott.

Oh, okay.

R.I.P.

And like, you could tell they just said, do top gun with cars.

And he, like, comes in on a motorcycle and it's like, just say he's Maverick.

Just say Maverick drives cars now.

Like, you don't need to make this a different guy.

That's a good point.

It should be the same universe.

Yeah, it totally should be.

Maverick can do whatever.

But you made it a different guy and you called him Cole Trickle.

Coal Trickle.

He goes from playing Maverick to Cole Trickle.

That sounds like gonorrhea.

Sounds like a veneer.

Oh, I got the Cole Trickle.

I got the Cold Trickle.

I got the Cole trickle down in Mexico.

Oh, boy.

Oh, boy.

So

Tom Cruise, he and Robert Duvall, they don't like each other.

John C.

Reilly is his, like, you know, pit crew guy.

I think he's the tallest person in the movie.

Oh, for sure.

Tallest guy.

You guys, I have a little bit of a humble.

Well, it's not a humble brag.

It's just a brag.

Sure.

Do a brag.

John C.

Riley followed me two days ago on Instagram.

Hey, okay.

Oh, that's amazing.

That's not bad.

I think he just joined Instagram.

He's pretty new.

So, like, go ahead and follow him.

He might follow you back.

Hey, you know what you need to do?

Invite him on the pod.

John C.

Riley, come on.

There is no way.

But also,

do you know?

Come on, John C.

Riley.

You want to watch Alien vs.

Predator Requiem?

Oh, I bet he would.

Can I say something?

I looked it up.

He's like been married to the same woman for so long, and he's got a kid.

And he just seems like cool guy.

I don't know, cool guy, love him.

So, you know, Tom Cruise and Robert Duvall, they're buttonheads,

but they eventually start to like each other because Tom Cruise takes Robert Duvall's racing advice, and he does better.

Robert Duvall does a little trick to him about,

oh, if you go around the outside, you'll be fine.

I put special tires on the car.

Tom Cruise is a good guy.

That sounds illegal.

He's really easy to trick in this.

Like, he's just kind of gullible.

Well, at one point, he says, he tells Robert Duvall, the problem with me is I'm a fucking idiot.

Yeah.

And he says, I don't know about cars,

which sounds like something a Tim Robinson character.

Yeah, I don't know what any of this shit means.

Honestly, that's pretty much me in stand-up comedy.

Every time I go somewhere, I'm like, I don't know how to write a joke.

I don't know.

I'm just kind of saying stuff, man.

I just go.

And sometimes people laugh.

Sometimes people call me.

People don't.

A lot of times they don't.

So he, so Tom Cruise, he starts taking Robert Duvall's advice.

He starts a winning.

He becomes the hot, hot driver.

And we kind of get a little bit of his backstory.

His dad lost all the family's money in the old driving thing that he used to do.

So, you know, he's on the lookout for a new dad.

A real Billy Ray Cyrus guy.

Yes.

And they do a thing where their tour bus gets pulled over.

And

there's like a hot state trooper who's feeling him up.

And it turns out to to be a stripper.

Whoa.

Fun moment.

That'll come back.

I got to say that I think that bras were way cuter at this time period.

Oh, yeah.

Nice bra.

Nice bra in this league.

It was so, I was like, why are our bras so ugly now?

I don't know.

Just a little thing I noticed.

Yeah, no, that's, I didn't notice, but I'm interested in that.

She was super hot.

She was super hot.

Let's be honest.

So the next day at the race, he has a big old crash with his like rival driver, Michael Rooker, who's like definitely supposed to be the ice man of this movie.

It's like, hey, he's got to have an ice man.

Yeah.

They don't have the scintillating sexual chemistry that Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer have in Top Guns.

Right.

Not as inherently sexual.

They're not like nipping at each other's noses.

No, but Val Kilmer could have sexual chemistry with a fucking metal post.

Yeah, sure.

At that time.

But yeah, no, this actor I recognize from like Guardians of the Galaxy and all this stuff, but I didn't know he was like doing movies back at this time period.

Like, it was kind of yeah, he kind of like uh Michael Rooker.

He's a great that guy from that thing.

He, yeah, is in Guardians of the Galaxy, and I think before that, he was in a bunch of like horror movies and B movies.

I think he maybe was at this point maybe gonna be a star, but then kind of like just kind of settled into like working actor.

But yeah, he's one of those like great dudes.

He's got, you know, a severe, memorable face.

And yeah, that's true.

Yes, He's, yeah, he's really, he's looked the same.

I know.

There's a few actors.

And John C.

Riley, too.

John C.

Riley

has always looked 50.

It's crazy.

Here when he's 20, and he looks great.

Like he's a great 50, but here and now, he looks 50.

Exactly the fucking same.

And, you know, even Tom Cruise to some extent, you know, obviously he's had a lot of work done.

Has he?

You think so?

I mean, I can't be certain.

It could be natural.

Probably a little bit.

Maybe.

I think the bangs help.

I got to get my bangs back because it's either it's Botox or bangs, I think.

Tom Cruise has this thing now where he's a little puffy.

But other than the puffs,

yeah, he looks about the same.

And, you know, maybe Randy Kuwait is the only one who didn't age great.

But yeah, there's a few actors in this who I couldn't believe were,

you know, still

relatively the same looking.

Carrie Elways.

Elways?

Jules?

However you pronounce it.

I saw him recently in something and I was like, still looks good.

Still a hottie.

Still.

He hasn't.

He's in the new Mission Impossible movies.

He is.

He is.

Yeah.

He's like just some kind of like random,

you know, like general guy.

Do not ask me the overarching story of those movies.

I have seen every one.

Cannot tell you what happens in those movies.

All right, cool.

He is a, he plays just kind of a random general that pops up in all those movies.

So he's playing American in this.

He plays American in Mission Impossible.

He sounds pretty good in this, but in the Mission Impossible movies, he has maybe the craziest example of a British guy trying to be American and hitting the R's.

Hitting the R's.

Ethan Hunt,

you are out of control, Ethan Hunt.

I gotta get to Brooklyn where I live

and grow up.

They gotta stop casting him as an American guy.

Yeah.

He's okay in this.

He doesn't talk a lot in this.

He kind of just smiles and then like is Tom Cruise's enemy once he makes friends with Michael Rooker.

But yeah, it's

to me that Carrie L is like after he did Princess Bride and Men in Tights, he went strictly into villain mode.

Like he does so many villain characters.

Yeah, yeah,

yeah.

I wonder why, like, that happened.

I don't know.

He's a good villain, though.

He's a good villain.

He's a good villain.

He's great.

So this, so he's Tom Cruise.

He's a star.

Nothing can go wrong, except when it does, he gets in a big old crash with Michael Rooker.

He goes in the hospital where the doctor is, Nicole Kidman.

Yeah, looking like someone who's a doctor.

Bullshit.

Yeah, too hot.

Not fair.

It's just the hair.

Like, you know, doctors.

Yeah, her hair's amazing.

Her makeup's amazing.

Yeah, she definitely looks amazing.

Well, also, it's like, okay, if you're a doctor, your hair's got to be back because that hair is getting in a surgery.

It's getting

in the wounds.

You got to put that back, girl.

If that hair gives me sepsis, I'm okay with death.

You'll get that Nicole Kidman sepsis.

But it is, it's cool to watch, to see Nicole Kidman with the original hair.

And it's like, who knew that her hair was like this big, beautiful, curly

situation?

And the original face.

It's really cool.

And she, I do, because she's a doctor in this, I do always, I just want to refer to her as Dr.

Chase Meridian, her character from Batman Forever.

I'm like, again, I hope, again, let's just make these the same characters.

Why not?

Yeah, same universe.

So,

and they, they, you know, there's even a little reference to the fact that she is far hotter than your average doctor.

Tom Cruise assumes she's a stripper at the beginning when she first comes in.

He, like, puts her hand, it's like a good bit.

He, like, puts her hand on his dick, which is like, okay, this is like

going over into weird and creepy, but it is a fun, like, bit overall, and she, like, plays it off nice.

Um, all of his, like, racing buddies are there, and like laughing their asses off, help laughing their asses off.

And in the background is a giant

tub, like a plastic tub you get from the container store, full of grapes.

Someone just brought him a tub of like, get better, eat all these grapes.

That's the prop guys.

It's a huge amount of grapes.

Yeah.

They're like, I don't know.

It's

like a fruit basket.

And someone's like, well, if I just do one fruit,

people just finished the

bit.

The bit is grapes at craft service today.

Yeah, everyone ate all of the,

pineapple and the strawberries, but then it's just a big thing of grapes.

Yeah, that's a man's idea of a fruit basket.

They just went, I don't know, put some fucking fruit in there.

Who cares?

Don't put it in a basket or wrap it nicely.

Just dump it in a plastic tub you would use to store Christmas lights.

Boy, men who don't give a shit about their family must have loved it when edible arrangements came out.

Oh,

they were like, thank God, I don't have to think about this bullshit anymore.

I just got to wash off the tubs afterwards.

I could just throw them away.

So he and Michael Rooker, they're recovering and but they just can't stop racing each other.

They have to go to dinner with this like guy who runs the racing company.

And they like to get to the restaurant, they like rent cars and then just like race over to the restaurant, but they're like smashing into each other and then driving on the beach and I'm sure just endangering so many lives.

Yeah.

Yeah.

They like this is this like weird cartoony thing that happens.

It's so funny.

It's so cool.

It's just nonsensical and dumb.

I feel like I want the rest of the movie to kind of be like this.

Me too.

It's a very like, it's a pretty serious movie, but these like little things are fun.

And yeah, this is like, you know, it's them becoming like,

you know, frenemies to enemies to friends.

And yeah, it's definitely like the Iceman relationship.

Yeah, and I like the, you know, playful competitiveness between two masculine men.

There is something about it that's just like you're watching.

I just like watching when everyone's friends.

I want everyone to be friends.

Although watching the scene where they're crashing the rental cars, I really could have used just a small scene of them at the rental company deciding to get the insurance so that it would make me feel better.

50 bucks, yeah.

I'm watching it, going, Come on, guys, just get the insurance.

I just want to know that they're covered, please.

Yeah, so uh, while all this is happening, kind of Tom Cruise is like romancing Nicole Kidman, Dr.

Chase Meridian.

Um, look out, Tom, or Batman will beat you up.

Um,

So he's romancing.

Oh, and I guess Val Kilmer was her Batman.

So I guess there's a fun little connection there.

Look at that.

Look at that.

Anyway, connections.

We love them.

Do they mean anything?

Not really.

But

they didn't have chemistry.

Yeah.

I mean, Batman and Robin had a ton of chemistry in that movie.

So, you know, I think that, you know, there was just chemistry elsewhere.

And so, yeah, and, you know, and like Nicole Kibman can be kind of like a chilly actor sometimes.

And I think that's why, you know, that's why she's so good in so much stuff.

I think her and Tom Cruise do have great chemistry in this.

It's really fun.

You know, they're like flirting through all this.

And he's like kind of trying to like, you know, get her to go out with him.

And she's a little reluctant because it's so unprofessional.

Guess what?

She gives in.

He like takes her on the road with him so he can like, she can like inspect him before he does his races.

Yeah, vaccine.

So, yeah, there's a thing where he, she's, like, giving him an exam.

He, like, leans in to kiss her, but she, like, you know brushes him off and then like makes out with him later in the hallway.

And yeah, there is like that great, you know

eighties, nineties sex scene where it's like sex music and you kind of cut away before anything happens.

And yeah, I just loved when like movies had to have that.

Like if it was a movie for mom and dad, you had to have that kind of like, you know,

you know, nudity-free or like a little bit of nudity sex scene with Jackie.

PG 13 passionate kissing scene where they're having sex allegedly, but you've never seen sex or had sex that looked like that.

Every movie, I feel like, in the 90s had that, right?

Yeah.

And then now there's none.

Like,

there's no sex scenes in movies anymore.

Like the Marvel movies, nothing.

That's a good point.

There are very few sex scenes that aren't about how sex is either.

Or pushing the envelope about it or something.

Right.

It's either making a statement about the sex or the sex is somehow tied into the story that's like, oh, well, it's cheating or whatnot.

You're right.

You don't see a lot of fucking.

Yeah, you know, it's never just like we have these two hot actors.

People want to see it.

And, you know, and yeah.

So

they're always like afterwards, they kind of cut away when they're like about to do it or when they're in the kind of opening motions of doing it.

And then you come back to them.

And the woman has the sheets tied around her boobs and the man has it draped over his penis, you know, like you do after you have sex.

Honestly, as soon as I can cover up, I do it.

Yeah.

I'm like, the stomach, don't look.

Yeah, I like to, I like to actually cover my whole body except my penis.

I cut a hole out.

He's put on a ghost outfit with a little hole.

Yeah, exactly.

Oh, that was great.

He's like,

can you look at me?

No, just my penis.

I'm going to head to the bathroom.

I just put on a morph suit,

cut a hole in the bottom.

You know what I mean?

So he does a little thing.

And this is like, you know, I don't, I don't like car racing.

I don't watch it.

I don't consume it.

And I, you know, the racing scenes are really thrilling in this.

Like,

Tony Scott's good at action.

I don't understand what's going on in the races.

The closest thing we get to like a description of what happens in NAS car is like he does this thing on her leg after they had sex with like sugar packets where he's like, the car goes like this, and then the car goes like this, and then they head to Victory Lane, which means her pussy.

Fingering stories.

Yeah, kind of.

Or sugar packeting.

Yeah, I don't know.

That's how you get spiders in your pussy.

Oh, yeah.

That's how you get spiders.

That's how you get spiders.

Have you guys heard that

urban legend that somebody put jam on there, whatever, and someone ate out this girl, and then she, like, spiders were in there?

I've not heard that urban legend, but that's definitely how you get ants.

Yeah, for sure.

That's how you get angry.

Ants in the pants, huh?

Ants in the pants.

Yeah, literally.

I hope that's part of the movie Urban Legend.

I haven't seen that in a while.

I haven't either, but yes.

Pussy Spider-Man there.

Urban Legend should be just that.

It should be that.

Richard Gere getting a gerbil up his ass.

You know, Elton John having cum drained out of his stomach.

See, I always heard that that was Rod Stewart.

You know, I think it's a regional thing, probably.

Someone said it was Jordan Knight from New Kids on the Block.

I feel like that story gets updated every generation.

No, I always heard it was Rod Stewart.

Also, is his name Rod?

Yeah, Rod.

Oh, Jesus, that's too horny.

Short for Rod Burt.

Yeah.

Wait, really?

I don't know.

It's probably not Rod Burt.

Okay, so, you know, Tom Cruise, he's getting better with the help of Dr.

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Tom Cruise, he's back in the game.

He's got a new enemy, Carrie Elways, because he made friends with his old enemy.

And so

they're driving.

Carrie Elways kind of wins the first race.

And then Tom Cruise intentionally smashes into him during the victory lap.

And then, you know, he's kind of like, this is kind of like his dark night of the soul here.

He's driving with Nicole Kidman in the car later, and she's kind of like reading him the riot act.

And then he does this truly terrifying thing where he like drives like a maniac with her in the car, like up this parking garage.

And I'm like, what a fucking metaphor for what their relationship was probably.

Oh, she's just in the passenger seat, and he's going insane.

Um, yeah, so it did seem like uh, I don't know, abusive, yeah, he's very good at um playing these kinds of characters, and I truly do believe he is a fantastic actor.

Oh, of course.

But the fact is, is that sometimes you're just like, oh, I bet some of that's in there.

Yeah.

And there's a scene right after this where she like tears him down.

Like, there's this big monologue.

She calls him an infantile egomaniac.

Yeah.

And it is so good.

She's so fucking good in this scene.

It's like the, it's the best acting in this movie that doesn't have a lot of acting in it, but she, you know, damn it would faint praise a little bit, but she's great in this scene.

Yeah.

And like,

and, you know, it is like kind of investigating like what makes these guys do this and what, you know, and

yeah, is it trauma?

Is it they're, you know, trying to fill a void?

Like, is this like this movie is trying to be like smarter than most of these movies.

It like makes it less fun, but it is like trying to like, you know, yeah, unpack this or like explain the adrenaline junkie a little bit.

I kind of think that this, you know, we're talking about how macho and like, you know, a lot of testosterone in this movie, but I really like these men.

Like, I feel like they,

I think they're, it's, it's that movie where all the men are super macho, but they're kind of like these old American salt of the earth, like kind of like anything with Robert Duvall, you're like, that's a good guy.

Like,

yeah,

it's an attractor and a dog.

It's masculinity, and it's, but there's no hatefulness to it.

It's like, it's

toxic, but they're not hateful.

And it does make it more fun to watch.

It makes it easier to root for even the villains of

the movie.

Good to each other.

I think these are, like, it's just nice to see men doing stuff.

You know, like having a hobby, getting out there, having a project.

That's nice.

Yeah.

Nice to see men on a project.

So, yeah, so Tom Cruise, he's in the final race.

Michael Rooker can't drive.

He's like, he's got a brain injury.

It's pretty, pretty sad.

He can't do what he's doing.

It is sad, actually.

Tom Cruise's car.

And wouldn't you know it, Tom Cruise wins the big race.

Wow.

He and Robert Duvall have a little moment where he's like, I'll race you to Victory Lane.

So I guess Nicole Kidman's pussy.

I don't know.

Trying to follow the threads in the movie.

Is that what he's talking about?

Get those spiders and those sugar packets ready.

Let's fucking go.

And then he, then they like do this little run to Victory Lane, and it's kind of the fat final shot of the movie.

And Tom Cruise runs like such a fucking dork in this.

His signature Mission Impossible run had not been perfected yet.

That's right.

He, like, he runs with, like, you know, like, oh, pizza's here.

Yay!

Yes.

Dad's taking us to Thrifty for ice cream.

He does run like an elementary school kid's trying to get to McDonald's before breakfast ends.

Yeah.

Like, oh, it's 1020.

Audio pancakes.

Not to brag, but I'm really good at t-ball.

Exactly.

He does look like he's running towards mommy in the minivan after baseball.

But yeah, this is actually a thing I see with a lot of actors

where

they

play these,

you know, whatever characters they play.

And then you see a movie where they run and you go, oh, they've never had to run before.

Well, here's something I was thinking about was like, we watched Honey, right?

And it's a movie with an actress who's supposed to be a dancer but can't dance.

Right.

And but Tom Cruise is just sitting.

He's just sitting.

I mean, he didn't have to be good at driving.

That's true.

Like, and that's what actors should do.

They should act and not do anything.

Yeah, I like that.

An actor who sits is my favorite actor.

Yes.

Oh, that sounds like a show.

An actor who sits.

An actor who sits with James Lipton.

That's kind of what we're doing.

But we're not actor.

What's your favorite kind of chair?

Lazy boy.

How much lumbar support do you need?

What do you think about rocking chairs?

I'm pro.

Pro-rocking chair, by the way.

Pro-rock.

Of course.

So, yeah, that's Days of Thunder.

We'll tell you what we thought about it, but first, we got to do the hunk watch.

It's hunk watch.

You know what I'm going to do, I think.

You know,

I didn't write this down.

I mentally wrote it down.

I think there's a 90% chance Emily says Randy Quaid.

No!

No!

Well, that's why he said 90, not 100% chance.

Okay, so I, you know, I rolled the dice.

Y'all know who I'm picking.

Yeah.

Does Carrie always write?

Kelly always.

It's Robert Duvall.

Oh, okay.

See, that's the same.

All right.

Same universe of what Jordan was guessing, though.

Yeah.

No, it's not.

Okay, all right.

Well, here's the thing.

At one point, Jordan, you said that I clearly have a kind of a pattern of hunk watch where it's a guy who makes decisions and he's like kind of

nice, decisive man.

The nice decisive man who's responsible and would fix my credit score.

Like that kind of thing.

Yeah.

I mean, he'd put me into shape.

Absolutely.

I like that he's a coach.

It's hot.

Yeah.

It's hot.

My hunk watch.

A lot of porn searches with that, by the way.

Oh, yeah, I can imagine.

You just go into porn hub, upstanding gentlemen.

Fixed credit score.

You know what?

They got something for it.

There's something for it.

Honestly, I'm going to go to upstanding gentlemen,

Big Dick, and see what happens.

Yeah, just see.

Just see.

And send us links.

There is a, you know, there's a genre of porn where it's like.

like somebody getting it on with their like real estate person, you know, like they're getting like shown a house.

I love that.

Yes.

And then they get it on with the real estate person.

I'm like,

the sex in this is fine.

I just, I like the fantasy that I can afford a house.

I know.

I love that point.

I'm like, ooh,

maybe.

I also like the idea of like, is this, will

you, I mean, because it's not like the realtor is the one who gets to decide who gets the house.

So

it'd be more interesting if the,

you know, if the actual owner of the house is anyways, point being.

So you want it to be the banker in there with the real estate person?

Kind of.

Actually, it would be really funny to just have porn.

That's just someone fucking someone who's giving them a home loan.

That's honestly.

Yeah.

I'm into it.

I'll tell you this: in Nashville, they have the thing where you've got like porn hub.

You can't, you've got to like sign in and put, like, there's like a little bit of a porn ban in Tennessee.

Oh, damn.

That's crazy.

In Texas, they did it too.

I went to Texas and I couldn't watch porn.

It was really sad.

See, this is why I have a VPN.

Okay, so my,

we should get that as a sponsor.

We should.

So, my hunk of the movie, in a movie filled with hunks, because I think there is a few.

I am going to go with

John C.

Riley.

And the reason I'm going with him, even though obviously his character is not doing anything hunky, I mean, he, I think he plays a guy named like Butch Brotherton or some shit.

Yeah, what is I wrote down his name?

What is it?

It's another one of the great names in there.

Yeah,

it's a strange name it's not it's not great yet it's a buck yeah buck bertherton no are you fucking kidding me yes his name is buck

everyone in this

has like a low-key porn name um well i think it is like i think it is like what you know a what what movie executives from la and a director from australia think southern names are yes like someone who's never been to the south just a crazy australian whose brother is ridley scott yes

Tommy was so coming up with a child name and landing on Denny, you know, where it's just like honestly, that's better than whatever the fuck this is.

Yeah, Buck Brotherton.

Also, oh,

worth mentioning, too, is Tom Cruise has a story credit on this movie.

So maybe some of these names are his.

Like, yeah, the first time I've seen it.

I don't know if Tom Cruise has written anything else, but yeah.

That checks out.

I've been talking about it.

That's what Tom Cruise thinks the South is like coal trickle.

I would love to know what his contribution to the story was.

He just goes to a room where he's just like, I I want to do race car movie.

Yeah, I do.

I do planes.

Now I do cars.

Yeah, no, I do cars.

Listeners, if you know anybody who worked on this movie and you got stories, you got it.

Let us know.

Please, please let us know.

But yeah, I would go John C.

Reilly.

I like looking at a young John C.

Reilly, even though he still looks like an old John C.

Reilly.

And I liked his character was this very sweet.

guy whose dad died at Daytona

the year before.

And he's just really good at this, like, I don't know, sad character that I just wanted to, like, hug him and give him, you know,

oh, definitely.

He's got that vibe.

He's got dead dad and race car thing.

If he was at the bar, every girl would be like, I could fix him.

Yes, 100%.

100%.

I can make him happy.

But yeah, I love him.

I love him.

I think he's great.

Jordan, what about you?

Yeah,

I'm right there with you, Matt.

John C.

Riley was mine too.

For all the reasons you said.

Yeah, always great when this guy pops up.

And yeah, it's fun to see that he's been popping up and things and being great since 1990 oh yeah he's got a one-man show called mr romantic i love it it's amazing like

if you get a chance to see it it's like he sings it's just like romantic songs and he's doing this character oh my god it's so good and i also just want to say i love that there is sort of this new resurgence of people's uh appreciation for walk hard a dewey cock story i feel like that movie was low-key slept on by a lot of people and i was like guys this is like the most perfect parody movie that's ever been made.

It's so funny.

It really is.

It really is.

And now I'm starting to see people talk about it more.

And his performance in that, fucking incredible.

So funny.

Yeah, and it's one of those things where like a guy who doesn't come from comedy, like a guy who comes, like he was a stage actor, you know, he was like in the actor's gang or something.

And then like, yeah, he, but just like...

didn't didn't do improv, didn't do second city, but just is so funny because he's committed.

Yeah.

It's just like, if you give a fucking committed ass actor a good script that's like you know funnier than somebody who's you know improv in a bunch but he's also just got timing like i think that he does yes i think that knowing timing is something you can't teach like yes you just feel it and it makes sense that he's a singer and a musician and stuff because that's the same thing i think yeah and on

that you know note uh tom cruise i think is an example of someone with who's like i think we can all agree is an amazing actor who can't do comedy.

Like,

everyone points to Trump

as, like, oh, wasn't he funny in that?

And I was like, he really wasn't.

I thought he was good at yelling.

Yeah, costumes doing a lot of work.

It wasn't funny.

The costumes are doing most of the work.

I think sometimes when, like, a good-looking person puts on a funny costume, they get a lot of points for being funny.

Right.

Like, that's.

Or if you're Nicole Kidman, you get an Oscar.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

that's true.

Like, the costumes do a lot for hot, talented actors, yeah.

I think we're past this era, but there was that kind of annoying era where like people talked about how funny Justin Timberlake was.

I'm like, I think he just will put on a mustache if you ask him to, and that's great, it's great that he does that, it's cute.

We all

he's down to clown, and yes, he's self-effaced, and that's great, that's fine.

But comedic timing really isn't something you can teach, uh, and uh, you know, it's like it's not just timing, but instincts.

And John C.

Riley just has it.

And I love him in everything.

Yeah.

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Let's rank Days of Thunder on a scale of 1 to 10 super loud commercials.

Emily, you want to go first?

I'm giving this thing a 9, dog.

Okay.

I

loved this movie.

I thought it did not need to go as hard as it did.

It's like the actors are just so fun to watch.

This cast made me so happy.

And the jokes were fun.

Like, the bits and stuff were fun.

And I like the relationships between the guys.

It's cool to see Nicole Kibman and Tom Cruise, which it's very hot.

They're very chemistry.

I totally get it.

I thought it was, I don't usually like movies like this with race cars.

I didn't really like Top Gun that much, I'll be honest.

But I liked this one.

I liked it a lot.

I'd watch it again.

Nine.

Nice.

All right, Matt, what do you think?

I am going to do something similar.

I was going to give it an 8,

which I thought was, you know, is very high.

And I loved it.

And it was just one of those movies that even though I'd never seen it before,

it immediately

went into that slot in my brain, which is, oh, if it's on TV, I'll just start watching it from any point in the movie.

It's just like one of those movies where it...

Not my favorite movie ever or whatever, just like Shawshank Redemption is not my favorite movie, but if it's it's on i'm thoroughly entertained i don't care at what point i start it i'm going to love it so yeah i'm giving it an eight okay um yeah i'm i was like a little little less hot on this i think for me it's more of a five i think that i

i like

this category movie i just want something different from i want it to be a little crazier i want it to be a little funnier campier you know like you want that ballad of ricky bobby you know i wanted some kenny loggins music you know there's not a single Loggins in this whole movie.

What, you know, we don't have to move it.

You wanted it to be more camp.

Sure, yeah, exactly.

I think, you know, I think that the seriousness is like amiable in this movie, but I'm like, that's kind of not why I'm watching one of these.

So, you know, I did appreciate the

investigation on what makes these men do what they do and stuff.

I'm like, but also, like,

let's, you know, let's have him and Michael Rooker get nose to nose and look like they're going to kiss more.

And then let's have some more bitching guitar solos over this racing.

So, yeah, I'm like glad I watched it.

I think it's like a good movie in the canon of these movies.

But yeah, just as far as

is it one of my favorites in this genre,

you know,

give me a Roadhouse.

Give me an over-the-top.

Give me a Top Gun any day of the week.

Man, if Roadhouse ever gets free with that, come on.

If you're.

It's not.

Hold on.

There's got to be, well, Roadhouse has to be free somewhere, right?

Somewhere.

It's not on YouTube, and I think that's crazy.

Like, Daddy, YouTube, get on it.

You can watch the new Roadhouse on Amazon Prime.

Yeah, I agree.

I agree.

Fuck that.

Yeah.

At some point, it will be available free with ads, and we will watch Roadhouse.

Oh, yeah, we gotta.

It's gonna happen.

Okay.

Anybody got any plug?

Emily?

I'm doing some stand-up, which

honestly, a little nervous about.

I haven't done it in a while, guys.

This could be disaster.

You're going to do great.

You're going to do great.

But please come.

We've got some mythical people on this show as well.

The show is called Skin Contact.

It's hosted by our friend at Mythical Rachel Pegram, really funny comedian.

And Jordan Myrick is on the show as well.

There's a guy named Carl Tarte.

Yeah, Carl Tarte.

That's a cool name.

Anyway, Larry Stude writes for SNL this season 9.

Oh, God, I'm going to bomb so hard.

Anyway,

it's on the 16th, July 16th,

at at Bar Coval.

Cool little bar, by the way.

8 p.m.

And it's on a Wednesday.

So if you want to come out, I could use the support.

Nice.

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angels.

Los Angeles.

That's correct.

Matt, you got anything?

Yes, absolutely.

Once again, if you are in the Seattle area, August 1st and 2nd, please come out to see me and my wife perform.

We're going to be at Laugh's Comedy Club on the 1st, and we're we're going to be at the Rainier Arts Center on the 2nd doing a live podcast, the habituation room, hosted by my wife.

It's a lot of fun.

Francesca Fiorentini, by the way, is the name of my wife.

She's great.

Follow her.

And yeah, go to that.

And hey, I will be at San Diego Comic-Con this year talking about comics, signing comics.

If you want to see me, I will be there Thursday at 10 a.m.

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Friday, I will be there 2 p.m.

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That is in room 28DE.

And on Saturday, I'll be doing a panel called How to Pitch Your Story for Comics, Graphic Novels, Film, and Animation.

Wow.

That is 11.30 a.m.

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Hit up bit.ly slash JordanCon if you are going to San Diego Comic-Con and come see me there.

I would love to meet you.

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