The Sausage ( and Movie) King Of Chicago!

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Speaker 2 Hello, may I help you? You can sure as hell try. Hi, I'm Abe Froman.
Party of three for 12.

Speaker 2 Sir problem. You're Abe Frohman.
That's right. I'm Abe Froman, the Sausage King of Chicago.

Speaker 2 Yeah,

Speaker 2 that's me.

Speaker 2 On this episode of the Commercial Break. So that's what is in their family.

Speaker 2 Every line is quotable.

Speaker 2 So you're the sausage king of Chicago?

Speaker 2 Yes. Yes.

Speaker 2 Beta, better, better, better. So we better.

Speaker 2 The next episode of the Commercial Break starts now.

Speaker 2 Oh, yeah, Catherine Kittens. Welcome back to the Commercial Break.
I'm Brian Green. This is my dear friend and the co-host of this show, Chris and Joy Holy.
Best to you, Chris. Best to you, Brian.

Speaker 2 Best to you out there in the podcast and the streaming universe live on YouTube and on Twitch. Backslash the commercial break.

Speaker 2 We'll be doing this from now on at least a couple times a week, though we're just testing it right now. So we haven't put anything on Instagram or any of that jazz.

Speaker 2 But welcome if you're here and you're not. But welcome.
We love you.

Speaker 2 Anyway, yesterday we had started a conversation that got kind of cut off because of a technical issue about a very popular cult classic movie for anybody who grew up in the 80s and probably the 90s too.

Speaker 2 The never-ending story. Yes.
With Falcor and a Trey You, the story that never ends, if you will. That's why they call it the Sphinx Tits.
Yes. All four of them.
My little six-year-old eyes.

Speaker 2 And they're like, remember, they're like frozen or something? They're icy. Well, no, they shoot out lasers.
Well, they do shoot out.

Speaker 2 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 They were crystal.

Speaker 2 Yes, they were crystal and then they turned into gold and then they went. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Literally, that was the eyeballs that shot, but I imagine the tits shot

Speaker 2 because that was a lot cooler for me.

Speaker 2 It got me a lot more jazzed up

Speaker 2 three years ago. So I kind of remember the tits, too.
We all remember the tits.

Speaker 2 It's the Mandela effect on the Neverending Story about the tits on the Sphinx, on the whatever those were, those Egyptian sculptures a mile in the sky.

Speaker 2 Just like solve the riddle today that they put out there. I thought it was the fear killer.
Like,

Speaker 2 if you showed fear,

Speaker 2 yeah, then it got

Speaker 2 a run-through. That's right.

Speaker 2 So, in other words, and this is good, this is a good lesson in life for everybody, especially the young ones. If you show fear, the tits will come to life and destroy you.
Just don't show fear.

Speaker 2 Lasers will shoot out of the eyeballs. You have to be careful, kids.
Be careful. Anyway, never-ending story.
Great movie. We got onto Goonies too.

Speaker 2 So, Chrissy and I thought we'd dedicate an episode to our favorite 80s and 90s movies, critically acclaimed, called Classics. Very exciting.

Speaker 2 We shall start the debate, and the debate shall rage on for at least the next 40 minutes.

Speaker 2 All right, okay, you ready? You go, you tell me what. I mean, when you

Speaker 2 there was this girl on TikTok the other day, I want to share this. This girl on TikTok, beautiful young girl.
I'm going to guess she's a 25, 26 years old.

Speaker 2 And she's in her car and she's making a TikTok about imagine being born in 1971 or 1972. Now, I'm not that old, but

Speaker 2 and she goes, You're born in a generation of great music, great movies, no telephones, no computers. You are no processed, highly processed foods quite yet.

Speaker 2 You are living in a time, like a golden era. And

Speaker 2 there was a stitch, which means that another guy was commenting on her, so like going back and forth. And he said, you're right.
I was born in that era. And you're absolutely right.

Speaker 2 And then the 80s, you're a teenager and you're growing up in the hair and the fashion and the music. I wasn't so much about the music in the 80s, but okay.
I was a teen in the 90s.

Speaker 2 I was a teen in the 90s. Yeah.
But of course, you remember the 80s movies because that's what you were growing up on. Well, yeah, you wanted to be a big kid.
You couldn't go out.

Speaker 2 You know, you weren't going out with your friends. No.
And so you were inside watching the TV. Yes.
And it was okay to watch rated R movies because HBO would let you do that.

Speaker 2 And your parents didn't care. They largely left us to

Speaker 2 raise ourselves. Now I'm helicoptering everything.

Speaker 2 And because the world, I think, is a lot more, it's faster and more dangerous. I don't need my kids seeing hardcore porn at age two.
You know what I'm saying? Right.

Speaker 2 So, but back then, it was just a squiggly tit on Cinemax in the middle of the night. But this girl was making a great point is that there really is kind of this golden era of 70s, 80s, 90s, and maybe

Speaker 2 after 2001, this is a different world. You know what I'm saying? But the movies back then seemed to be so much better than they are today.
Classic. Twisters 2 is not a classic.

Speaker 2 Twisters with an S is not a classic. I debate anybody on this.
Okay, go. What's your first? Love how I fix this terrible squeal in the microphone.

Speaker 2 Well, I mean, my first one that came to mind was Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Ferris Bueller's Days Off.

Speaker 2 Ferris Bueller's Day Off is one of the greatest

Speaker 2 movies ever made. John Hughes made that movie.
Chicago-based,

Speaker 2 all the action takes place in Chicago. It is every kid's dream

Speaker 2 once you get in, certainly middle school, high school, to skip school and go on a great adventure.

Speaker 2 But likely, if you ever skip school, well, now you can get arrested for like terrorism for skipping school. And your parents know because they're tracking you.
That's right. They're tracking you.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Yeah.
So, yeah. Anyways, it is the dream.
And that kind of takes me back to the Never Ending story, too. And Goonies, it's almost like you put yourself as a kid into these situations.

Speaker 2 And you're like, I would love to do that. What a great job.
I want to go find treasure.

Speaker 2 Find a pirate ship's treasure like the Goonies do. Save their parents' house.
I want to go look at Sphinx Tits.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I want to go look at Sphinx Tits, be in a, you know, a library upstairs in an attic and saw, you know, help save the world. Fly Falcor around the Sphinx.
Exactly. Exactly.
Fly a dog dragon

Speaker 2 around. And then Ferris Bueller, once again, you want to be that kid.
This is the adult. Would you like to give daddy a kick?

Speaker 2 So that's how it is in their family.

Speaker 2 Every line is quotable. It is.
So you're the sausage king of Chicago.

Speaker 2 Yes. Yay.

Speaker 2 Beta, better, better, better. So wing, better.

Speaker 2 Every line quotable in that movie. John Hughes is roller old bones in here.
Go ahead and roll her old bones down here. Go ahead.
Show me that dead man. Oh man, you stopped like dirty hairy just then.

Speaker 2 With your bad back, you shouldn't be throwing anybody.

Speaker 2 He's quite a little duob.

Speaker 2 It's the greatest movie. I have to agree with you.

Speaker 2 There's no dissenting on this one. If you've seen Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and listen, I wear my Save Ferris shirt around.
I've had it for about 25 years.

Speaker 2 That's Save Ferris, which we used to be the name of a band. But I bought it because, of course, Save Ferris is what is all around the town.
Bastards around the school. Bastards around all of Chicago.

Speaker 2 Save Ferris.

Speaker 2 I heard he needs a new lung. Yeah, Ferris fakes that he's sick and that everybody's putting out donations for him to get better.
Just the lengths he will go to to elude his parents, the smoothness.

Speaker 2 Ferris Bueller is the ultimate cool kid.

Speaker 2 But he seemed attainable, not like, you know, the quarterback of the high school football team. This guy was attainable and everybody liked him.
He was just one of those guys.

Speaker 2 No one could ever play that role like Matthew Broderick played it in that moment. And every other casting is spawn on

Speaker 2 Jennifer Gray. His sister and that was before Dirty Dancing.
Charlie fucking Charlie Sheen is the

Speaker 2 dirtbag boyfriend that she meets at the police station.

Speaker 2 He is the dirtbag boyfriend.

Speaker 2 And rumor has it, and I think this might have been dispelled, but rumor has it, and I like to think the rumor is true, that Charlie Sheen stayed up for two and a half days to make himself look like he had stayed up for two and a half days.

Speaker 2 I believe that. And it's just from beginning to end.
In the beginning,

Speaker 2 the music. Yes, yeah, the

Speaker 2 small people, yeah. Oh, Sloan.
Oh, every.

Speaker 2 Fast cars. Fast cars, fast cars.
Camerons, fast cars. Yeah.
This is the ultimate wet dream of any high schoolers to have an adventure like this.

Speaker 2 But if you've ever skipped school, you know the adventure usually is like hiding in someone's basement, smoking bad weed, right?

Speaker 2 That's probably the extent of your adventure, or maybe driving around for the entire team. Think about what all they do.

Speaker 2 They leave, so they go to, well, they go do the restaurant where they act like the

Speaker 2 restaurant, Sausage Kingdom of Chicago. Abe Freud, Abe Froman, the Sausage Kingdom.

Speaker 2 Check.

Speaker 2 Well, first of all, they take out Cameron. So it's the three of them, and I like that.
It's like the three of them.

Speaker 2 Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's Sloan, it's Cameron, it's Ferris.
Uh-huh. They all get together.
They take out Cameron's dad. It's

Speaker 2 beautiful.

Speaker 2 What is that? Like a Lamborghini or something? It's like 60s Camaro or something. I don't know what it is.
It's convertible red.

Speaker 2 Yeah, somebody was driving that car around on Instagram the other day, like the exact same, the replica of it. It's like, it's a $2 million car or something like that.

Speaker 2 But they actually trashed one of those cars for the movie. Got it in one shot.
They actually trashed one of those cars. Well, because they have to put it out the window in the back.
They do.

Speaker 2 You can't fake that one. You just got to throw it out the window.
But so then they all go, they go to the restaurant. They park downtown.
They go to the restaurant. They go to the museum.

Speaker 2 Beautiful scene. They go to the baseball game.
They go to the stock exchange. They go to the stock exchange.

Speaker 2 And then they end up at the parade.

Speaker 2 A real parade, by the way.

Speaker 2 They were not allowed to film at. And all the camera crew goes down there.
And it starts getting a little hairy because everybody realizes that John Hughes is now filming a movie down at this parade.

Speaker 2 Well, the scene where he gets up and he sings. All of a sudden, they're like, Where's Ferris? Where's Ferris? And all of a sudden, he's on a float.
He's shaking a baby.

Speaker 2 He's on a float and he comes out as the main guy singing.

Speaker 2 Singing the Beatles, Shake It Up, Baby.

Speaker 2 Everybody's like on the steps doing a tandem dance.

Speaker 2 Those dances, those dances were choreographed. However,

Speaker 2 what's improv is is Matthew Broderick on that float. And this is so, this is like, this is just the universe.
I'm excited thinking about it. Kissing this movie.
John Hughes had an epic run.

Speaker 2 He is one of the greatest directors of all times. Where is he? When is he ever going to direct another movie? I don't know.
I think he died. John Hughes died? I think so.
Did he?

Speaker 2 You heard it here last. Yeah.

Speaker 2 I thought John Hughes was still alive.

Speaker 2 Oh, no, I think you're right. He died in 2009.
Yes,

Speaker 2 Just a short 18 years ago. That was a big tribute to

Speaker 2 Brian. What are you thinking? Anyway.
Where is he? When is he? Where is he? What is he going to do another goddamn movie? Well, he's up in the goddamn sky with that goddamn guy named God.

Speaker 2 All right. Okay.
I'm sorry. I apologize to all the John Hughes fans out there.
I wasn't up to date. But all the great movies.
He died too young now at Dunn. Oh, for sure.

Speaker 2 Well, he stopped making movies. He just stopped making movies.
And

Speaker 2 no one captured teenage

Speaker 2 like John Hughes did. That's very true.

Speaker 2 And that's why it connected on so many levels, not only with teenagers, but with people who are going to become teenagers like us and people who had been teenagers, like our parents, because John Hughes nailed it.

Speaker 2 He nailed the angst. He nailed the verbiage.
He nailed the pop culture. He nailed it.
The Indian Pink.

Speaker 2 Breakfast Club. Breakfast Club.
Home Alone. All these.

Speaker 2 So many.

Speaker 2 What was that movie? Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. Yeah, 16 Candles.
16 Candles. All of it.
It's so fucking, he's so fucking good at what he does.

Speaker 2 And what is the common denominator in all of his movies?

Speaker 2 Teenaging. Chicago.
And Chicago.

Speaker 2 That's right. Chicago is the common denominator.
He was a lifelong lover and liver in Chicago, and he made Chicago essentially another actor in the movie. Another character here.

Speaker 2 And he did such a great job of it. One of my favorite scenes in any movie ever is not only the Wrigley scene where they are at the baseball game and Ferris Bueller's Day off, but when

Speaker 2 Ed, the principal, when Ed goes to the pizza joint and he thinks he sees Ferris and it's just a girl in Ferris's coat. It is at the arcade.

Speaker 2 It's a pizza joint with an arcade. She turns around, she spits the Coke on him, and

Speaker 2 he goes, Your ass is mine.

Speaker 2 She turns around, spits the Coke. He's wiping it off.
He's staring at the guy behind the counter. There's a cub game on.
And he goes, What's the score? The guy goes, 0-0.

Speaker 2 He goes, Who's winning?

Speaker 2 And he goes, The Bears.

Speaker 2 So now, when I'm so now for the entirety of my life, whenever anybody says, Who's winning? I say, The Bears. The Bears.
The Bears. All right, Chrissy.
That's

Speaker 2 a big one.

Speaker 2 You had a big one. I will share with you that one of my favorite movies

Speaker 2 that might be considered in a similar ilk, but a different director and a different topic is the Blues Brothers. Ooh.
The Blues Brothers came out in 1980, and it is a.

Speaker 2 I don't think there's a movie that does a better job of mixing entertainment, comedy, and music in the 1980s than the Blues Brothers. Some of the greatest blues songs ever written.

Speaker 2 I mean, you have gotten some of it's a heavyweight list of musicians that make their way into that movie, but they do it organically. I mean, it's all ridiculous, right?

Speaker 2 But it's in a way where you're enjoying yourself, and it doesn't seem like Blues Brothers 2, 3, and 4, where they're just fitting

Speaker 2 famous musicians in to sing a lick. This had who? I mean, first of all, the Blues Brothers, in and of themselves, were a great band.
They were a great band.

Speaker 2 Those two guys, Dan Ackroyden and John Belushi, put together one of the better blues ensembles of all time by putting real blues musicians behind them and singing classic blues songs or their take on classic blues songs.

Speaker 2 It's another adventure movie, you know?

Speaker 2 Jake gets out of jail. His brother Elwood picks him up and they're on a mission from God.
They got to save the orphanage that raised them.

Speaker 2 And every scene is a ball-bustingly nutcracking, funny fucking scene done only the way that John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd could together. It is.
They're a great team. It is a fucking fantastic movie.

Speaker 2 And I don't, so here's a little thing you might not know about me.

Speaker 2 My grandmother is in the Blues Brothers. What?

Speaker 2 My grandmother is in the Blues Brothers because the mall that they destroyed at the beginning of that movie, when the Blues Brothers are getting chased by the cops and they drive into the mall and they're driving all around, destroying the mall, and there's all these police officers, you know, police cars driving around the mall.

Speaker 2 That was a mall that was set to be demolished. It was for sale.

Speaker 2 It was going to be abandoned essentially. Back before abandoned malls were a thing.
Yeah, back. This was, they were on trend, on topic.
This happened.

Speaker 2 They bought the mall, I think for a million bucks or something like that. They bought it and they just went ape shit.
Well, they needed people to fill the mall, to fill certain scenes in the movie.

Speaker 2 She was an extra. She was an extra in one of the scenes where

Speaker 2 my grandma. And so I have always been tied to this movie in a way that feels like family because literally.
Your family was in it. And you could barely see her.

Speaker 2 I mean, you have to stop it at the right exact moment. You could see part of her red hair sticking out.

Speaker 2 It's not that you could see her face, but this movie is one of the greatest movies of all times, my opinion. It might be familiar.
It might be something that's familiar with me.

Speaker 2 I've seen it a million times in my dad. I've seen it a million times in my family.
I love this movie. Anytime it comes on, I have to watch the fucking Blues Brothers.
Of course. Great movie.

Speaker 2 And I have the soundtrack.

Speaker 2 It is wonderful. Okay, you go.
All right. Next up, I've got, I'm going to go with The Big Lebowski.

Speaker 2 When did The Big Lebowski come out? It came out in the 90s. It did? Okay.
Well, of course you have to put the Big Lebowski on there.

Speaker 2 Any Cohen Brothers movie.

Speaker 2 I will one-up you, Chrissy. I will say,

Speaker 2 do you know what's better than The Big Lebowski? What? Raising Arizona. Raising Arizona is better than the Big Lowski.
That's a big movie, but I don't know. The Big Lebowski movie.

Speaker 2 I argue. It came out in 98.
Came out in 1998? Okay. I love the Big Lebowski.
I think this movie is brilliant.

Speaker 2 I mean, what a classic role for him. He's the dude.
Like, he wasn't even always. I mean, he was the original Tron.

Speaker 2 He was the original.

Speaker 2 He was original and Starman.

Speaker 2 Oh, that's right.

Speaker 2 He was Starman.

Speaker 2 That's a string of roles for you. Starman into Tron into the dude.
He was in Tron. Yeah, he's in the Neutron, too.

Speaker 2 Yeah, the new one was okay. Which don't see, I guess.
Anyway, listen, Big Lebowski. There's so many classic lines from that.
Of course, there are. White Russians, drinking white Russians.

Speaker 2 I mean, oh, we've got,

Speaker 2 you know um uh god not john john candy but what why am i blanking on his friend john goodman john goodman john goodman yes yeah steve muscemi john goodman

Speaker 2 again and a lot of good movies this is an infinitely quotable movie also i mean they have whole festivals dedicated to like the big lubowski and the dude and everybody dresses up like the dude and even

Speaker 2 He's even showed, the dude has even showed up at these festivals sometimes dressed as the dude. And I don't know where the character stops and he begins.
He ends and the character begins.

Speaker 2 He's got a bathrobe on. He's smoking weed in the bathtub.
Listen, man, shit has gotten like, you know, complicated.

Speaker 2 Watch the white Russian.

Speaker 2 It's so good. It's great.
And then I don't know who that lady is who plays the lady

Speaker 2 who's flying around naked. Right.
No, and it's paint all over her body. Hold on.
Let's see here because it is

Speaker 2 Julian Moore. No, no, no, no.
Julianne Moore plays the

Speaker 2 girlfriend. Okay, it's not her.
Okay.

Speaker 2 Who's the lady in the middle? Philip Seymour Hoffman's in it. Philip Seymour Hoffman.
John Torino's in it. Taruro's in it.
That's right. God, Jeff Bridges, John Hoffman.
Don't fuck with the Jesus.

Speaker 2 It's Tara Reed. Tara Reed.
It's Tara Reed. No, Tara Reed is the young girl who's his boyfriend.
No, I'm thinking of Julian. I'm thinking of the lady who's flying naked.

Speaker 2 Okay, yeah, that's Julianne Moore. That's Julianne Moore.
Yeah, I'm thinking of her. Making that artist.
It's weird. Yeah, it's a weird fucking scene.
It's weird.

Speaker 2 And then Kenny Rogers, of course,

Speaker 2 his song plays in that movie. It's the first time I had ever heard this song.

Speaker 2 I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in.

Speaker 2 That is,

Speaker 2 okay, it's a great movie, but I still think Raising Arizona has to take the cake. for Cohen Brothers straight comedies.
Okay. Because Raising Arizona is just so, it's also another,

Speaker 2 I know that Nicholas Cage's character is not as iconic as the dude. I get that.
No one's running around dressed up like, you know, a tot high from Raising Arizona. It's a great movie.

Speaker 2 It's a great movie. And it's got, it's got emotion.
It's got heart. It's like

Speaker 2 you're rooting for the bad guy. There's an anti-hero.
I love Holly Hunt. Holly Hunter.
Holly Hunter.

Speaker 2 Yes. Holly Hunter's great.
Nick. It's about the last movie that Nicholas Cage made where he wasn't a fucking total kookbag.

Speaker 2 I mean, and he was a kook bag in this movie, but another movie where John Goodman shows up in that movie also. And just the stakes are high.
It's a fun, fast-paced, super fantastic movie.

Speaker 2 Not to take anything away from the Big Lebowski, but I just have to edge. It's my favorite Cohen Brothers movie.
I just have to edge that out. Just a little, just a little scooch, Chrissy.

Speaker 2 Just a scooch to say that the original is the best. The Air Raising Arizona is a brilliant movie.
And I think that came out two, three years before the Big Lebowski. I think so.
Maybe.

Speaker 2 But I think it was like, I do believe it won or it was nominated for a couple of awards, but I don't think it won anything. I think you're right.
But I think that set them off.

Speaker 2 But then if we really want to talk about Cohen Brothers movies, then let's not forget Fargo. Fargo, it was on my list.
Let's not forget Fargo.

Speaker 2 Fargo's on my list, too. Because Fargo,

Speaker 2 while The Big Lebowski is a kind of a fun,

Speaker 2 ridiculous, non-sequential, weird movie with great character development in it, mainly the dude.

Speaker 2 And Raising Arizona is a plot-based caper where you have a lot of slapstick comedy, a lot of physical comedy, and one-liners that do well.

Speaker 2 Fargo does such a great job of painting the desperation of a man who has done something wrong. Right.
Right. But

Speaker 2 where the rest of us might just go, I really fucked up here.

Speaker 2 I should not fuck up while I'm fucking up. I stole some shit.
I'm going to have to pay the consequences.

Speaker 2 He keeps going. He keeps digging himself a hole.
It's a feeling that all of us can understand

Speaker 2 when he, when the guy calls from the GM dealership, financing, and he knows he's busted and he says, if I don't get those VIN numbers by the end of the day, I'm going to have to call the authorities, right?

Speaker 2 Or whatever he says. I'm going to have to call, you know, corporate, whatever.

Speaker 2 And he slams down the phone and he, you know, wrecks his desk. The desperation.

Speaker 2 You could, it's almost something you could chew. It's like, it's so palpable.
And then the rest of the movie just gets worse and worse. It just gets worse and worse.
It does. To the point of

Speaker 2 getting into a wood chipper. Yeah, it do go into a wood chipper.
And Steve Buscemi again shows up and makes a brilliant turn in this movie, as does Svengad Oscofin.

Speaker 2 I don't know what his name is, but the guy who's like, I want the pancake.

Speaker 2 I want pancake house. It's like, dude, you want pancake house.
But Steve Buscemi, screwing those hookers, screw it. The hooker scene in that movie.

Speaker 2 I forgot about that. It's one of the better Cohen Brothers movies.

Speaker 2 The hookers are like, oh, yeah, give it to me. Oh, yeah.
Right there. Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah. Feeling it now.
Oh, yeah. Give it to me.

Speaker 2 Hey, fuck it, movie. I want to watch all these movies right now.
I know me too. I want to watch all of them.
They all make me feel some way. Absolutely.
All right, go.

Speaker 2 We're going to go. Yeah, go ahead.
Okay. I give the floor back to you.

Speaker 2 Oh, wait. You know what we should do? We should take a break because we've got.

Speaker 2 Yeah, my external timer. All right.

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Speaker 2 All right, back talking about great movies from the 80s and 90s. These are not necessarily critically acclaimed movies.
These are Chrissy and I's list of top 20.

Speaker 2 We'll probably get through about four of them at this current pace, but okay, whatever. Let's get ongoing.
That's the way that it is. Hey, at least we're sticking to topic.
That I like, Chrissy.

Speaker 2 All right. Okay, go.
What's your next one?

Speaker 2 Ah, Silence of the Lambs.

Speaker 2 This redefines a generation of thrillers, I think, in a lot of ways. It is a scary movie that is realistic.
And I think that's why it's so scary. Yes.

Speaker 2 Not that any, you know, you'd ever put someone in a chainmail face and, you know, put them in the middle of an.

Speaker 2 The weird thing about that is they put him in the middle of like that hall, like the you know what I'm saying? Chained up in that, or not chained up, but in that cage. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 2 Do you remember Hannibal Lecter goes in the cage? And is he in the middle of a museum or something? No, he's in that glass cage, and they're transporting him.

Speaker 2 No, I'm saying when they transport him and they put him into the big, like, you know, cage in the middle of the room. That's right.

Speaker 2 And he's talking to Clarice, and he's, you know, hands her some papers. Give me the papers, Clarice.

Speaker 2 Yeah, he makes her figure it out. Yes.
There's so many elements to that whole movie. I mean,

Speaker 2 you're scary. It's psychologically scary because you could have been the person that was kidnapped that that guy, you know, then takes your skin.
Yeah. He made you put the lotion in the basket.

Speaker 2 Wild Bill.

Speaker 2 Yeah. He puts the lotion in the basket.

Speaker 2 Shut up. It's so weird.
It's all weird. The first time you see.
Silence of the Lambs,

Speaker 2 I saw it at the movie theater. It's almost a religious experience, but not in the way that you had hoped, right? It was, it's like a very, it was a very scary movie.
It was.

Speaker 2 And it had you on the edge of your seat almost from the beginning. There are no frills in this movie.
It cuts out a lot of the mustard. And I like that about the direction of the movie.

Speaker 2 I read the book and I read the book before it, Red Dawn Rising or Red Dragon, something along those lines. Red Dragon.

Speaker 2 And there is a little bit of fluff in the book that Times and the Lambs is based on. But in the movie, they cut all of that out and they just really get to the action very quick.

Speaker 2 Jodi Foster, there's nobody else who could play that. Storage unit.

Speaker 2 All of it. Weird storage.
All of it. Yeah.
The insects. The insects, the butterflies, the moths.

Speaker 2 He's putting into the throat. When she goes to like the middle of Indiana and finds this bedroom and she's got like weird.

Speaker 2 It's all just creepy. Everything about the next scene is creepier than the next scene, topped off by Anthony Hopkins.
Absolutely terrifying. Yeah.
Terrifying.

Speaker 2 I mean, he was a big actor on his own before that, but I think that really catapulted him.

Speaker 2 on the top of

Speaker 2 everybody's list. Yeah, I mean, Anthony Hopkins beat, just like he went super global after he took that turn.
I think he won the Academy Award for that. He must have won the Academy Award for that.

Speaker 2 He should have. He should have, for sure.
I don't know who he was against, but that movie is terrifying. It redefines a genre of thrillers.

Speaker 2 Academy Award for Best Picture, Best Actor in a Leading Role. Hold on, let's see.
I'm going to. Best Actress for Jodi Foster.
I know she was nominated. Okay.

Speaker 2 Outstanding performance. Okay.
Most recent winner was... Okay, well.
He didn't win? No, he won. He won, but she didn't? I don't think so.
Let me see.

Speaker 2 I don't know. I'm getting lost on that interview.
I know she should have. She should have won.
What a great role. She does a great job of playing

Speaker 2 an FBI agent who's in way over her head, but she manages to pull it through. And that final scene where they have the night vision goggles on.

Speaker 2 Wait, wait, she got best actress? She got best actress.

Speaker 2 It won so many awards. Okay.
Best picture, best actor in a leading role, best actress in a leading role, best directing, best writing. And then it got some BAFTA awards, Golden Globes, Writers' Guild.

Speaker 2 All of it. Deserved all of it.
Deserved every bit of it. That was certainly a great movie.
Now, I'm going to throw a movie in here that many people are probably going to go, what the fuck, Brian?

Speaker 2 But I'm going to throw it out there. Dances with Wolves.
Oh, a great one. Is a great

Speaker 2 fucking Kevin God.

Speaker 2 i mean it his best work that was one of the ones too that i remember kind of being like it was a really long movie it's like three and a half hours long about that but it's so good so good all three and a half hours is good

Speaker 2 beginning to end and when you watch it and you can appreciate what's going on and the totality of what kevin costner is trying to do in that movie because he also directed it

Speaker 2 You can understand that the three and a half hours is not wasted. It's not, there's, there, there is a lot of dead space in that movie.
There's a lot of places where there's no talking.

Speaker 2 There are long scenes that go on forever, like when he's trying to communicate with the wolf, like when he meets the wolf.

Speaker 2 That scene must go on for five or six minutes, and it's just a wolf running back and forth, right? But it's, it's, it's crux to the story.

Speaker 2 And you have to understand the characters in order to be so involved in their perspective and their reasoning and their motivations. Kevin Costner doesn't know that the U.S.

Speaker 2 government is in the wrong, but he only learns that as he gets to know the people. And

Speaker 2 you can only essentially root for the people and root for Kevin Costner's cause if you understand the like the buildup to it. And so all of that is needed.

Speaker 2 It's first of all, it's one of the best scores in any movie ever. Dances with Wolves, the score is like the music to the movie.
It's beautiful. It stands alone on its own.
And the movie itself.

Speaker 2 It comes on usually about this time every year, Thanksgiving. I don't know why.
I guess they're Indians, Cowboys and Indians. I don't know.
I haven't watched it in a while.

Speaker 2 But I will watch it every time that it comes on

Speaker 2 because I just think it's a beautiful movie. I think it's a.
It is. It's

Speaker 2 and I think it does a great job of,

Speaker 2 you know, when we were kids, when we were growing up, right, it was cowboys and Indians. That's essentially how the world was painted.
Cowboys and Indians. And Indians,

Speaker 2 Native Americans, Indians, people in our American history books, they were treated so disrespectfully.

Speaker 2 And while we had some teachers that tried to teach us, like, that this wasn't exactly how things all went down, that's hard to explain to a seven and an eight-year-old.

Speaker 2 So there's a yeah, there's a through line, there's a narrative. And then when I watched that movie, I remember, and I was very young, and my mom took me to see it.

Speaker 2 And I do remember how long it was, but I also remember being very involved in the movie. But I remember feeling

Speaker 2 the

Speaker 2 unjust nature of what the American

Speaker 2 government was doing to these people and how bloodthirsty they were, essentially.

Speaker 2 Now, of course, that's just one narrative and many, but I'm just sharing that I loved the movie. I thought it was great.
And I thought Kevin Costner did a good job. I agree.
Great job.

Speaker 2 Dancing with the wolves. I loved it.
Go.

Speaker 2 Pulp fiction. Pulp fiction.
Yeah. Pulp fiction.
I'll go one better. Reservoir dogs.
Ooh, yes. Yes.
That was a little too violent for me at the time. Probably looking back on it.

Speaker 2 And if I watched it again now, it would seem like nothing. But at the time,

Speaker 2 a little too violent for me. But Reservoir Dogs, yeah, yeah, it was.
It's pretty bloody. But Quentin Tarantino would go on.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I mean, that was the least violent of his movies when you think about it. Pulp Fiction doesn't have a ton of violence.
That was John Travolta's big comeback.

Speaker 2 He was kind of a pretty boy sitcom actor who did Greece, and everybody knew him as a dancer, singer, fluffy ass. Saturday Night Live, Greece.
Yes, I did Welcome Back Kata. Well, hey, Mr.
Kata.

Speaker 2 Hey, Mr. Cater.
I hated that show. I hated that show.
And I don't know why. Something about the beginning of Welcome Back Cotter,

Speaker 2 the, you know, welcome back, welcome back, welcome back.

Speaker 2 That whole music, the music, the scene, and then that classroom that was so like dark and dingy and jersey, something about that show, it almost scared me. I don't know what it was.

Speaker 2 Maybe it was John Travolta. Maybe he's the one who scared me.
But in any case, John Travolta makes a comeback. Yeah, he did do Urban Cowboy, though, too.
That was a great one.

Speaker 2 Okay, he did Urban Cowboybook. I love it.
But many years later, he's kind of gone away, but then pulp fiction really brought him back. And Uma Thurman, all of that.

Speaker 2 I mean, there's quite, I mean, the whole, it's such a fantastic, maybe the briefcase. You don't know.
You still don't know what's in the center. We still don't know what's in the briefcase.

Speaker 2 We can only assume. No, it's heroin.

Speaker 2 It's heroin. That's what it is.
It's heroin. But there's a glow.
I know because it's the glow. Everyone wants to get high.

Speaker 2 That's what it is.

Speaker 2 This movie about essentially heroin addicts. I mean, that's essentially at the end of the day what it is.
And these weird criminals that we don't know what they do. We don't know why they do it.

Speaker 2 We don't know why they can call somebody and have a car cleaned up. We don't know why all that.
Quentin Tarantino introduces us to a new type of movie.

Speaker 2 a pulp fiction, essentially, like the old pulp magazines that they had. You know, they're just kind of these detective, whatever, these weird noir

Speaker 2 magazines that then came to real life in pulp fiction. It is, again, another non-sequential movie that happens in weird timing, weird pacing, but it is beautifully shot.

Speaker 2 Uma Thurman was born to play that role. Wow, born to play that.
I can't now think of anybody except for John Travolta who I would rather have playing that.

Speaker 2 And Samuel Jackson is menacingly scary in that movie. Scary.

Speaker 2 Yes. Sam Jackson would make a name for himself in that movie.
And the first 15 minutes of that movie tells you everything that you need to know about Sam Jackson's character. He is scary as shit.

Speaker 2 Loved pulp fiction. Watched it a million times.
Loved Reservoir Dogs.

Speaker 2 Watched it a million times.

Speaker 2 I like all of Quentin Tarantino's stuff.

Speaker 2 Quentin Tarantino, he's a great director. Now, what's he going to do next for his final movie? He was going to do this, and now he's going to do that.

Speaker 2 He's changing his mind. He's changing his mind.
Maybe Quentin's decided that it's not that easy to top. I haven't, you know, I've never seen Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
Oh. Have you ever seen it?

Speaker 2 I did. With Brad Pitt? Yeah.
You didn't like it? It was okay. Everybody says it's like the perfect movie.
What I don't understand. No, not to you.
Okay.

Speaker 2 Isn't it my favorite movie? You can have an unpopular opinion. That's okay.

Speaker 2 All right. Okay.
I am going to bring one more out. Dazed and Confused.

Speaker 2 Dazed and Confused. is a movie that any

Speaker 2 teenager smoking pot or thinking about smoking pot in the 90s saw. It's a movie that met the moment.
And here's what I meant. Here's what I mean by that.

Speaker 2 Now it's cool for the young kids, like the teenagers, are wearing Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Allison Chain shirts. They're going back to the 90s fashion and style.

Speaker 2 It's what's hip and trending. Every 20 or 25 years, these trends recycle themselves.
They look at their parents and they go, yeah, that wasn't so bad. I like that.
That music was pretty good. Right.

Speaker 2 And the reason why is because you look, you know, when you're a kid and your parents are listening to their music, whatever it is, you go, and then you get to this point where you're like, ah, fuck you, dad.

Speaker 2 That's kind of like a high school, college.

Speaker 2 And you go, oh,

Speaker 2 yeah, maybe it wasn't so bad.

Speaker 2 So in that moment, the 70s are becoming a thing. The fashion, the style, the trends.

Speaker 2 You go to a fish concert, a widespread concert, you could go to a rave, you could go anywhere and see that the 70s music and fashion was influenced all throughout the culture in this kind of mid-90s.

Speaker 2 And then Dazed and Confused comes along and really cements that in our brains and says, Yeah, it was pretty fucking cool back then. And one of the greatest lines in any movie ever is wrong Mr.

Speaker 2 Pickford altogether. When he brings the keg of beer to the house before the parents leave, they're having a house party.
Keg of beer shows up, like a delivery truck shows up with a keg of beer.

Speaker 2 And the parent, the dad opens the door. And he's like, Mr.
Pickford? And the dad goes, yes. And he goes, got a keg keg of beer for you? Got a sign right here.

Speaker 2 And he goes, I didn't order a keg of beer. And he goes, you didn't.
And then the kid who had ordered the keg of beer, his son, is right behind him going like this. No, no, no.

Speaker 2 And the guy goes, oh, you know what? I think this is the wrong, wrong Mr. Pickford altogether.

Speaker 2 So, wrong Mr. Pickford altogether.
That is a great movie, Dazed and Confused. One that I could watch over and over.
It really is. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 Okay, go. Am I going up next? You'll go.
You'll go one more and then we'll take a break. Everything Everything that we've been talking about has now been dictated.

Speaker 2 Okay. Okay.
Well, at least we got it written down. All right.
I'm going to go

Speaker 2 with, I've got quite a few on here. I'm going to go with Austin Powers.

Speaker 2 Okay. Yeah.
Okay.

Speaker 2 Interesting. It started a whole new thing, too.
It did. Mike Myers.
I mean, it spawned, what, two, two more? Three more.

Speaker 2 Three total or whatever. I don't know.
Three total. I mean, the classic.
One million.

Speaker 2 It's got a lot of quotable lines. Yeah, it does.
Mike Myers is a brilliant comedian, and he had an epic run there. When it came out, Brains World.

Speaker 2 I didn't enjoy it as much as a lot of my peers did. I did not think it was as funny as a lot of other people did.

Speaker 2 Something about it didn't sit like comically well with me, although I did find moments funny, and I did think overall it was a pleasant movie to watch. I didn't find it like gut-bustingly hilarious.

Speaker 2 I wasn't laughing out loud like a lot of the people around me were. I thought, oh, okay, all right, that's kind of silly, but okay.

Speaker 2 But I do understand why you put it in there. I'm just going to say unpopular opinion,

Speaker 2 not in a list of my favorite movies of the 80s or 90s, but okay, all right. I would share with you that there are probably way more people that agree with you than disagree with you.
So there you go.

Speaker 2 All right. Why don't we do this? We're ending on.
Austin Powers for this segment. We'll be back and then we'll maybe, maybe we got time for two or three more.
Oh, yeah, we do. We do.

Speaker 2 I've got some I still need to pull out here. Okay, well, maybe we have to do a second episode.
You know, hold your powder. Yeah.
Maybe, maybe we'll be back. I mean, there's so many.

Speaker 2 Too many. All right.
We'll be back.

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Speaker 2 Oh, yeah, we're having fun in here. Just having fun in here.
All right, I'm gonna.

Speaker 2 I know we've done a lot of comedy movies, but I'm gonna hit you with one since you hit me with one. Okay.
This is Spinal Tap.

Speaker 2 This is Spinal Tap. Of course.

Speaker 2 Have you seen the new new one? I haven't. I haven't either.
Is it out yet? I think it's out. It is? I mean, it didn't make a lot of noise.
Well, it did leading up to it, but.

Speaker 2 Well, I mean, I saw them everywhere, like Good Morning America and all that other stuff, but

Speaker 2 it can't be out. I thought it was like Thanksgiving.
Is it? This is Spinal Tap 2. Spinal Tap 2 continues.

Speaker 2 Spinal Tap. You think it's? It was released the 12th, September 12th.
It was? Yes. How have we not seen this? Well, I guess it didn't do that well.

Speaker 2 Well, it's got a 66% rotten tomatoes, but I don't care. I've still got to see it.
Of course, I'm going to see it. I think.
Or do I just want to let the original live on?

Speaker 2 I'm going to see it.

Speaker 2 But listen, I saw Bluetooth Brothers 2. Also, I can't ever wash that out of my eyes.
But at the same time, I watched it because I love the original.

Speaker 2 I just wanted to see if there's anything to take away from that. And largely, it's just the same movie with a bunch of new, dumb, you know, appearances by famous people.
I don't understand

Speaker 2 why there needed to be a Spinal Tap 2. I can understand the premise of it, but Spinal Tap in and of itself

Speaker 2 is as close to a perfect movie as you can get. It is almost all improvised.
It is totally ridiculous.

Speaker 2 It set the tone for mockumentary filmmaking and television shows to come.

Speaker 2 There is no office without Spinal Tap. There is no office.
And Christopher Guest, I mean, he kind of then set the tone, and he did quite a few. Quite a few.
And he went on on a run too. Beston shows.

Speaker 2 Beston show is famous.

Speaker 2 I tried to put that in here, but it was in the, it was 2001. Oh, it was.
I would have guessed it was like in the late 90s. But okay.
But this is Spinal Tap is the original. Yeah.

Speaker 2 84, I think is when it came out. It is a cult classic and now just become a regular classic because if you've seen Spinal Tap, then you know these guys.
And Rob Reiner, they were all improvising.

Speaker 2 Rob Reiner is brilliant in the movie, too. And he's the director who's directing the director, the mockumentary.

Speaker 2 He is great. This movie is so fucking funny.
This one goes to 11.

Speaker 2 This is another infinitely quotable movie that if you see it and you watch it a few times, every time that you watch it, something else pops out at you that is funny.

Speaker 2 You have to pay attention to the background players. You have to pay attention to every word that's being said.

Speaker 2 You have to pay attention to the things that aren't being said because sometimes the space in between is just as funny as what's going on. It is great.

Speaker 2 It's a, I just love this movie with all my heart. And I'll watch Spinal Tap 2.

Speaker 2 If anything, just to put a little extra jingle jingle in Christopher Guest's pocket, I'm assuming that's why they did it, is because they paid them.

Speaker 2 They drove the money truck up to them and said, do Spine Tap. However,

Speaker 2 I didn't know the movie had been released, but man, did I see them everywhere for a minute? Yeah, I know. And I was kind of like,

Speaker 2 so I could watch it, but then I don't even know where I can. Let me see.
Hulu? Everything's on the Hulu.

Speaker 2 No, it's not even Apple. Apple TV.
You have to pay for it all.

Speaker 2 But it seems to be discounted. That's just silly.

Speaker 2 That's just silly.

Speaker 2 It seems to be discounted.

Speaker 2 Michael McKeon. This is just.
Oh, God, I love him. They're all great.

Speaker 2 God bless them. Harry Scheer, Michael McKeon, Christopher Gethseman, Fran Drescher.

Speaker 2 Spank the Glove. What was that?

Speaker 2 What was the name of the alpha? Spank the wet glove or something.

Speaker 2 Oh,

Speaker 2 it was just brilliant.

Speaker 2 Brilliant. Spank the wet glove.

Speaker 2 Oh, I love it. I love everything.
You can't have a free form jazz exploration in front of a festival crowd.

Speaker 2 It's just, I need to watch it again.

Speaker 2 There's so many. Oh, one time when I was in 33 penis,

Speaker 2 the same uh night that we got up and started playing and i said when we have is this the sound check and he said no this is just your

Speaker 2 just your show

Speaker 2 you want to sound check it go ahead bud that's on your time not on yeah he got an hour yeah

Speaker 2 i

Speaker 2 I think I responded by saying, well, you can't have a free form jazz exploration in front of a festival crowd. It's on tape somewhere.

Speaker 2 I tried to

Speaker 2 calm the 12 people in the audience down with a little humor. All right, go ahead.

Speaker 2 Oh, God. Well, there's two here that I'm debating on which one.
I'm just going to say them both. Cape Fear and Shawshank Redemption.
Oh, both great movies. Yes.
But I think Shawshank is probably

Speaker 2 the critical darling.

Speaker 2 We made the kids watch Shawshank. Yeah.

Speaker 2 It's a good movie. It's a must-see.
It is a must-see. Yeah.
It's about the human spirit and connection and staying alive and

Speaker 2 staying hopeful in times of absolute desperation and how the little things matter, how just the little things matter. And so it's a great movie.
And Cape Fear is just a weird,

Speaker 2 fucking trippy

Speaker 2 Lolita type movie. Yeah, Juliet Lewis as a teenage girl who gets seduced by a mass murderer

Speaker 2 played by Robert De Niro. Yes.
That is a scary, scary movie. When I first saw that movie, it is a scary movie.
Yeah, there's not a bit of sunshine in that movie.

Speaker 2 Not in the way it's shot, not in the actual, like,

Speaker 2 nothing, not in the script, nothing. It is dark and dreary from the beginning to the end.

Speaker 2 But it is a great movie. I haven't seen Cape Fear in so many years.

Speaker 2 So many years. But, man, when I first saw it, again, another movie I saw in the movie theater, I did enjoy it.
Come out, come out wherever you are. Come out, come out, wherever you are.

Speaker 2 This is Robert De Niro's terrible southern accent.

Speaker 2 Counselor?

Speaker 2 Counselor? Counselor? Oh my god, isn't it Nick Nulty? He's the dad. Yeah.
Yeah, Nick Nulty.

Speaker 2 I can smell him from here. Where is Nick Nulty? Is he dead too? No.

Speaker 2 Okay, just checking. I don't want to make anybody alive that's dead or anybody dead that's alive.

Speaker 2 Okay,

Speaker 2 I'll I'll throw.

Speaker 2 I have so many. Me too.

Speaker 2 Well, of course,

Speaker 2 you know, this is late, late, late 90s, so we're right on the edge here. But Office Space is a great movie.
You have

Speaker 2 to go to the Office Space is a great movie. It really is.
So many, again, so many quotable lines. So man.
I mean,

Speaker 2 the flare, get your flare on. Jennifer Anderson.
Jennifer Anderson's brilliant in that movie.

Speaker 2 The boss played by whoever the boss is played by. I'm going to go ahead and need you to come.
Yeah, I'm I'm going to need you to go ahead and do our

Speaker 2 TPS reporting. TPS reports.
Okay.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Made by Mike Judge. Is it Mike Judge? Yeah.
Is it Mike Judge? Mike Judge did it. The guy who did Office Space.
I mean, Beavis and Butthead.

Speaker 2 Because a lot of this, you can almost hear the same characters in the movie. So it is just.

Speaker 2 That was released on my birthday. It was? Oh, there you go.

Speaker 2 That's a Mike Judge movie. Mike Judge, yes.

Speaker 2 So, Mike Judge hadn't done a ton of movies, but he's really a master at the cartoons. You know what I saw the other day?

Speaker 2 Mike Judge did for a period of time on MTV, did a television show like Stories from the Road, where he would take real musicians and tell their craziest stories from their time touring.

Speaker 2 And it was a story about George Clinton and how bow, wow, wow, yippee-yo, yippee-yay, how that song

Speaker 2 came to be was essentially George Clinton super high on sniffing sniffing cocaine and smoking crack. I saw that.
Yeah, but it's done in a cartoon. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 2 George Clinton's telling the story, but then they cartoonize it. Uh-huh.
The story. And it is just so fucking crazy and funny.

Speaker 2 He's essentially been up for like 10 days in a row smoking crack and snorting cocaine. Yeah, yeah, I saw that same thing.
What was that?

Speaker 2 It's called like stories from the road. Like, I don't know, Tales from the Road or Tales from the Tour bus.
Tales from the Tour bus, I think is what it's called.

Speaker 2 Yeah, and I often think of that movie, too, when I'm in traffic because

Speaker 2 you go and then you get over and then your lane stops. The one that you were just in flies.
That's how it works.

Speaker 2 Every single

Speaker 2 time. Every single time.
Yeah. That's why I pick a lane and I just stay with it.

Speaker 2 But then I'll see the other lane going for like six minutes just flying and I'll pull over and then it stops. And there is a well-known reason for that.

Speaker 2 It's because everybody else is thinking the exact same thing. So everybody moves over and it just stops.
It's crazy. But listen, The Office Space is a great movie.

Speaker 2 So many made by Mike Judge, who I think is one of the better comedy writers of our time. He, of course, did King of the Hill, Beavis and Butthead, and on and on and on.

Speaker 2 And by the way, the King of the Hill reboot,

Speaker 2 I wish it was much better than it actually is. I watched it.
I wish. You were watching a couple episodes.
I watched, I got through like three.

Speaker 2 I started the fourth, and I was like, man, am I just watching this? There's other things I could be watching. And I wanted it to be good so badly.
I hate that.

Speaker 2 But it didn't show up on any television station. So that probably should have been a first indication about how good it was.
It just went straight to Hulu or whatever.

Speaker 2 Okay, one more from each of us. Okay.
All right. I'm going to put in a sentimental favorite, probably from a lot of people, and say the Princess Bride.
Oh, of course. God.
The Princess Bride. Yeah.

Speaker 2 I mean, fairy tale,

Speaker 2 love story.

Speaker 2 Again, so many wizards and dragons.

Speaker 2 And we were just talking about that because that's where Billy Crystal plays the nuts. Yes.
He plays. And Carol Kane, his wife.

Speaker 2 Mailage.

Speaker 2 And the mailage.

Speaker 2 Mailage is what brings us here.

Speaker 2 Robin Wright. That was her first.
I mean, and she's gone on to become so good at so many different roles. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Not as Sean Penn's wife, but other roles she's been really good at. Are they still married? Robin Wright, Sean Penn, or whatever her name was.
Robin Wright-Penn.

Speaker 2 Robin Wright is probably one of my first crushes. Yeah, because she is so stunningly gorgeous in that movie.

Speaker 2 But then just her, like the personality of Robin in that movie is so gentle and beautiful. And then whatever his name is, he plays this

Speaker 2 chivalrous,

Speaker 2 handsome devil that comes. He's also, you know, a good looker.
There's nothing wrong with him either. I mean, they're all.
Yes. Yeah, all of them are good looking, except for Andre the Giant.
Yes.

Speaker 2 And Andre the Giant had to be like. It's another Rob Reiner.

Speaker 2 That's a Rob Reiner film. I did not know that.
Andre the Giant had to be managed, like pain managed in that movie because he was in failing health when he filmed that movie.

Speaker 2 And he was having a lot of trouble doing some of the physical stuff they were asking him to do, like lift people above his head and all this stuff. Wesley.
Poor Andre. Wesley Wesley.
Wesley.

Speaker 2 Yeah, and that was Ivan Simon Carey Eules. Ivan Simon Carey Gules? Eules.
Eules. Did he ever do anything after that? I mean, I know he did.
I saw him in something. Yeah, he was in Robin Hood.

Speaker 2 Oh, yeah, yeah, that's right. He was in Robin Hood.
Men in Tights. Yeah, and he was in the Saw series.
Wow. He was? Yeah.
Wow. From Princess Bride to the Saw series.
He was in Hot Shots.

Speaker 2 Hot Shots was a good movie. Days of Thunder.
Days of Thunder was

Speaker 2 Twister.

Speaker 2 He was in Twister.

Speaker 2 Well, the original, okay. I agree with the original.
But do we really need to? Do we need Twisters with an S? I say no. I say no.
The Princess Bride is just a brilliant

Speaker 2 movie, and it hits all the right notes, and it's well done, and it's well crafted, and it's a gentle but fun story.

Speaker 2 And it's adventurous but playful at the same time. The stakes are not super high, so you can let the kids watch it.

Speaker 2 It's like, you know, I remember watching that over and over and over again when I was a kid, over and over and over.

Speaker 2 We had like a VHS copy of that or something.

Speaker 2 My parents, that was one of the few movies my parents would let us just put on repeat. That Ferris Beeler's Day Off, Blues Brothers, a couple of other ones.
All right, last one, Chrissy.

Speaker 2 Well, I'm debating on these two, too but in in honor of the holiday season that is upon us i'm going with scrooge scrooge

Speaker 2 yes

Speaker 2 bill murray carol kane carol kane bill

Speaker 2 wow yes fantastic holiday great movie one of the most under

Speaker 2 recognized christmas holiday uh holiday movies it bill murray's great in this movie he plays a tortured soul he is a tortured soul so when he plays a tortured soul he he does a really good job.

Speaker 2 He does your take on Christmas story. And

Speaker 2 Christmas story. What's the

Speaker 2 past, the present, the future?

Speaker 2 Christmas Carol. Christmas Carol.
Yeah, Christmas Carol. Yeah.
And he's a TV station owner and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. You can go watch it.
It's really, really, really good.

Speaker 2 You know, I want to piggyfront off that and say Groundhog Day was another fucking fantastic movie.

Speaker 2 I mean, it's one of my favorites. I have to watch it every Groundhog Day.
Yes. I want to piggyfront off.

Speaker 2 Kelly and I loved that movie so much. We said we were going to go to to Puxetani.
It exists. It does exist.
And there's Puxatoni Phil. He exists too.
Yeah, he does.

Speaker 2 But then when we actually looked into it, we were like, eh, it's Puxatoni. Yeah, I mean, come on, Chrissy.
You're really going to go to Puxatoni? Is that really what you're going to do?

Speaker 2 We were going to do a pilgrimage. Okay, that sounds like fun.
And I will say, if we're going to throw out a holiday movie that deserves some street cred here, it's a Christmas story. Yes.
Which has

Speaker 2 become probably the biggest

Speaker 2 National Lampoons Christmas Vacation is another one. National Lampoons Vacation is another one.
That didn't come out in the 70s, did it? No, it came out like in 1981 or something like that.

Speaker 2 The original Lampoon's Vacation, I think 1981, because he drives that truckster, that Family Road. The Family Roadster.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I think station wagons are a distinctly late 70s, early 80s, 80s in general thing. All these great movies.
Oh, unbelievable. All right, what's your favorite? Write in, let us know.

Speaker 2 We'll do another one of these because I didn't even get through half my list. No, I know, me either.

Speaker 2 either i i'm gonna go ahead and go fear and loathing in las vegas fear and loathing in las vegas is another great movie when that come out 98

Speaker 2 i don't know

Speaker 2 not on that 2012 i don't know it was in the 90s it was should have been in the 90s yes okay oh oh all great movies

Speaker 2 the doors

Speaker 2 the doors the doors is another great movie that came out in the 90s wow i know we've had so many we could go on and on forever we should have narrowed it to one decade we should have narrowed it to two years really we should have said 84 to 86 we should go through like two-year periods because you know you look back on that time it's just a it's a golden era for for filmmaking it really is and now twisters with an s yeah at least we got wicked

Speaker 2 at least we got wicked to look forward to wicked part two

Speaker 2 We'll see. I don't know.
Wicked part two. We'll see.
We'll see how it all goes down. Have you seen Wicked One? I did see Wicked 1.
Did you like the book? Oh, yeah, that's right.

Speaker 2 So I wrote the book, which is different. Yeah, it's like a sex.
It was like a lot of sex in the movie, huh?

Speaker 2 In the book. Yeah.

Speaker 2 No sex in the movie. Straight G rating there.
Well, they had to take it to Broadway. I actually just watched this whole thing about how they, it's on Peacock, how they

Speaker 2 did a whole thing of The Wizard of Oz about how he did, how he came up with that story, then

Speaker 2 Wicked, then how that went to Broadway. Stephen Schwartz, how he got it to...

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Great story.

Speaker 2 And those people will never hurt for another dime in their life. I mean, that guy who wrote Wicked,

Speaker 2 he was like a struggling hater.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Okay. He wrote children's stories before that, but then this was one for adults.
Yeah, he wanted to write an offshoot of The Wizard of Oz. Anyway, it's good.
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Speaker 2 Okay, Chrissy, that's all I can do for now. I think so.
I'll tell you that I love you. I'll say best to you.
Best to you. And best to you out there in the podcast universe.

Speaker 2 Until next time, Chrissy and I will say. We do say, and we must say.
Go. Goodbye.
Bye.

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