WEBVTT - Crofton's Media Blackout: It's A Wonderful Life 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:04.720 Hello the Internet, and welcome to this special holiday episode 0:00:04.760 --> 0:00:09.320 of Guys, the production of iHeart Radio. This is the 0:00:09.320 --> 0:00:12.080 podcast where we take a deep dive into American shared consciousness, 0:00:12.360 --> 0:00:15.880 and for the holidays, we like to take a deep 0:00:15.920 --> 0:00:19.880 dive into America's shared Christmas spirit. 0:00:20.600 --> 0:00:23.119 The Christmas Geist. Exactly exactly. 0:00:23.400 --> 0:00:25.560 I'm joined as always by my co host, mister. 0:00:25.440 --> 0:00:31.280 Miles graund Oh, all right, thanks for having me on, Jack. 0:00:31.560 --> 0:00:32.199 I can't do it. 0:00:33.479 --> 0:00:36.800 It's just domb part of I got to move. 0:00:36.680 --> 0:00:40.519 My shoulders and watching is worse than hearing to get 0:00:40.520 --> 0:00:41.800 into Jimmy Stewart. 0:00:43.159 --> 0:00:46.360 You at home or missing something he's having Jimmy Stewart seizure. 0:00:46.880 --> 0:00:48.880 Vocal stem right now, new vocal. 0:00:48.640 --> 0:00:50.080 Stem Christmas seizure. 0:00:50.520 --> 0:00:53.920 Oh boy, let me just be it. That's called the 0:00:54.000 --> 0:00:59.840 Christmas Spirit. Chris, for this special series of two holiday episodes, 0:00:59.840 --> 0:01:03.640 were calling Christmas blind spots. We've got a hilarious stand 0:01:03.720 --> 0:01:06.200 up comedian, actor, musician, one of the very faces on 0:01:06.280 --> 0:01:06.959 mounta Zeite Moore. 0:01:07.080 --> 0:01:08.880 Oh yeah, you can listen to his podcast. 0:01:08.920 --> 0:01:12.679 Colebrew got me like anywhere the poetry window was open 0:01:12.720 --> 0:01:19.640 because it's Chris, motherfucking craft up. Che Che, what's up? Hello, happening, Chris. 0:01:19.840 --> 0:01:22.399 Oh, just getting ready to talk about this movie, which 0:01:22.440 --> 0:01:23.880 I forgot a lot of. 0:01:24.600 --> 0:01:27.480 Hey, Chris, for the for the poetry window, could you 0:01:27.520 --> 0:01:30.280 just like riff a poem about how it twas the 0:01:30.360 --> 0:01:31.280 night before Christmas? 0:01:31.360 --> 0:01:31.800 Before me? 0:01:31.840 --> 0:01:35.600 Real quick, twas the night before Christmas and all through 0:01:35.640 --> 0:01:36.080 the house? 0:01:36.360 --> 0:01:38.200 Oh ship, this is good right away? 0:01:40.160 --> 0:01:41.959 I can't think I got a ship? 0:01:42.440 --> 0:01:43.520 What else? What else? 0:01:44.240 --> 0:01:47.720 That poem was actually originally in a cipher that was 0:01:48.040 --> 0:01:51.600 it came up with it off off the dome. They 0:01:51.600 --> 0:01:54.520 went freestyle, a rap battle, a rat battle. 0:01:54.600 --> 0:01:56.040 Yeah. Absolutely. 0:01:56.240 --> 0:02:00.160 So for the first episode of this series, Chris, I'd 0:02:00.200 --> 0:02:03.320 never seen Home Alone, so we came in. Chris watched 0:02:03.360 --> 0:02:07.680 Home Alone, and then we got his initial impressions of 0:02:07.720 --> 0:02:12.280 the film that were better than my impressions of the 0:02:12.280 --> 0:02:13.880 film because I've seen it so many times. It was 0:02:13.880 --> 0:02:17.480 like burned into the fucking back of my brain, you know. 0:02:17.880 --> 0:02:19.680 You know, I thought I'd seen more of that movie 0:02:19.680 --> 0:02:22.360 than I had. You know, over the years, there's so 0:02:22.400 --> 0:02:24.200 many clips of it, but then it turns out I 0:02:24.280 --> 0:02:26.400 really never saw most of that movie. I kind of 0:02:26.400 --> 0:02:28.680 thought I must have seen it in pieces or something, but. 0:02:28.720 --> 0:02:32.200 I had the exact same experience of this movie. I 0:02:32.320 --> 0:02:35.880 was so that this time we're doing a movie that 0:02:36.040 --> 0:02:38.160 is a blind spot for Miles and I. It's a 0:02:38.200 --> 0:02:41.760 wonderful life of a holiday classic that every time I've 0:02:41.800 --> 0:02:44.360 ever told somebody I hadn't seen it, they were like, 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:47.040 what the fuck is that starts shaking me about the 0:02:47.080 --> 0:02:48.000 shoulders and neck? 0:02:48.400 --> 0:02:50.480 What are your parents not white? Is what I heard. 0:02:51.440 --> 0:02:53.720 I was like, yeah, exactly. 0:02:55.240 --> 0:02:57.880 Yeah, I just i'd never had But I thought one 0:02:57.919 --> 0:03:02.920 of the main reasons I hadn't seen it white another reason. 0:03:03.120 --> 0:03:05.480 So I think it's just a black and white reason 0:03:05.520 --> 0:03:08.480 I have. It's no, no, no, it's just black and white. Yeah, yeah, 0:03:08.520 --> 0:03:08.880 I don't know. 0:03:10.240 --> 0:03:13.120 When choosing between there there's plenty of holiday movies I 0:03:13.120 --> 0:03:16.679 haven't seen, and uh yeah, I'd rather go with one 0:03:16.720 --> 0:03:19.080 that's colorful and cheerfully. 0:03:19.080 --> 0:03:21.720 I think it's to Chris's point about Home alone, it's 0:03:21.760 --> 0:03:26.079 like I want something that's societal value when its like 0:03:26.400 --> 0:03:29.799 I need to melt away. And I think also as 0:03:29.840 --> 0:03:32.080 a kid, when this is always on, I considered black 0:03:32.120 --> 0:03:35.800 and white movies homework. I b no, this is homework. 0:03:35.920 --> 0:03:38.040 This is not enjoyable because like I have to pretend 0:03:38.080 --> 0:03:40.680 it's in color. I can't do that, very child. 0:03:41.000 --> 0:03:43.040 That's not something I'm proud of. It's not something no, 0:03:45.320 --> 0:03:48.240 get on board with this ship, So like why am 0:03:48.240 --> 0:03:51.200 I on trial here now? And then the other reason 0:03:51.840 --> 0:03:54.480 is I thought I knew what the movie was about. 0:03:54.480 --> 0:03:55.360 I was like, yeah, I get it. 0:03:56.760 --> 0:03:57.760 What a wonderful life. 0:03:58.080 --> 0:04:01.680 I assumed it open and with him on the bridge, 0:04:02.520 --> 0:04:04.640 that's what I thought was going to be happy. Oh 0:04:05.640 --> 0:04:11.360 and that shit takes a while, but I will say 0:04:11.400 --> 0:04:13.320 I was like pleasantly surprised by some of the shit 0:04:13.400 --> 0:04:18.800 in here, like the the uh accuracy of the snapshot 0:04:18.920 --> 0:04:22.400 of like how capitalism works. In this movie I thought 0:04:22.600 --> 0:04:26.520 was more realistic than any like mainstream pop culture classic 0:04:26.960 --> 0:04:29.440 that I'm aware of, where it's just like, man, this 0:04:29.480 --> 0:04:34.640 shit will drive you crazy on purpose, relentlessly, it will 0:04:34.680 --> 0:04:38.159 grind you down. And the first hour of the movie 0:04:38.960 --> 0:04:43.000 is much more of like watching somebody just be ground 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:49.360 down by the forces of capital. Then I was expecting, Yeah, 0:04:50.080 --> 0:04:53.839 it's how long is the movie again? It's uh fifty 0:04:54.760 --> 0:04:58.840 to ten, actually to ten, yeah, to ten. And it's 0:04:59.080 --> 0:05:01.920 not until it w an hour and forty minutes in 0:05:02.920 --> 0:05:05.360 that you start to be like, oh, the movie is 0:05:05.400 --> 0:05:05.960 actually going. 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:08.880 In another direction. Oh this is the one. Yeah, the 0:05:08.960 --> 0:05:09.920 whole time I was. 0:05:10.480 --> 0:05:13.279 My first note was why is everyone so worried about 0:05:13.320 --> 0:05:15.760 George Bailey. Sounds like he's a pretty fucked up dude. 0:05:15.800 --> 0:05:18.440 Everyone's just praying for you as a bad sign. Like again, 0:05:18.800 --> 0:05:21.480 I have no idea what this movie was about. I 0:05:21.520 --> 0:05:23.240 just know Jimmy Stewart in the end, he's like holding 0:05:23.279 --> 0:05:25.080 a little girl by a Christmas tree. Those are the 0:05:25.160 --> 0:05:27.360 only snapshots I have of the movie. Is like the 0:05:27.600 --> 0:05:28.839 end like sort of frame. 0:05:29.000 --> 0:05:31.600 Yeah, I see it. I've seen it a bunch of times. 0:05:31.680 --> 0:05:34.440 And I thought the angel gave him three wishes or something. 0:05:34.520 --> 0:05:38.279 I had no id I totally turn out. I remember nothing. 0:05:38.440 --> 0:05:41.640 I remember nothing about anything. I thought he was on 0:05:41.680 --> 0:05:43.440 a bridge and the angel gave him three wishes and 0:05:43.480 --> 0:05:46.960 he wished for to nice or something. 0:05:47.200 --> 0:05:47.440 Yeah. 0:05:47.560 --> 0:05:49.640 I thought it was all gonna be flashback, you know, 0:05:49.880 --> 0:05:52.280 which I guess it kind of is. But instead of 0:05:52.400 --> 0:05:55.080 like having it be like I'm George Bailey and I 0:05:55.240 --> 0:05:57.960 bet you're wondering how I got here, about to jump 0:05:58.040 --> 0:06:01.080 off a bridge and kill myself? Help, uh, you know, 0:06:01.200 --> 0:06:04.440 and then flashback instead of showing that, it just shows 0:06:05.080 --> 0:06:08.839 a bunch of people praying for George Bailey, and then 0:06:09.720 --> 0:06:13.440 some stars talking to each other for like a weirdly 0:06:13.600 --> 0:06:14.520 long period. 0:06:14.920 --> 0:06:19.400 I'm Joseph the Human Father of Jesus because like I feel, 0:06:19.400 --> 0:06:21.440 at one point someone says something about Jesus Mary and 0:06:21.600 --> 0:06:23.120 Joseph help him or something. 0:06:23.240 --> 0:06:26.880 It's just assuming a lot of biblical knowledge on a 0:06:27.560 --> 0:06:31.240 modern viewer's part that I don't think is quite I mean, 0:06:31.279 --> 0:06:34.080 you got you gotta be like give me Joseph's last 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:39.760 name here, like Joseph of Father Jesus or or you know, 0:06:40.080 --> 0:06:42.200 like I would have thought like Saint Peter or somebody 0:06:42.320 --> 0:06:47.640 like that, because my knowledge of like how Christian heaven 0:06:47.720 --> 0:06:51.880 works is based on very very old memories and just 0:06:52.000 --> 0:06:55.120 like New Yorker cartoons, where like it's always Saint Peter 0:06:55.320 --> 0:06:56.480 at the Pearly Gates. 0:06:56.360 --> 0:06:56.920 You know what I mean. 0:06:57.960 --> 0:06:59.080 Who directed this movie? 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:00.400 Capra? 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:03.880 Right, So it's like I think it's it's pretty pretty 0:07:03.920 --> 0:07:06.360 damn good. And I think Frank Capra, you know, he 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:08.800 must have had his reputation for some reason. You know, 0:07:09.080 --> 0:07:12.320 everybody talks about Frank Capra, you know, or at least everybody. 0:07:12.480 --> 0:07:17.080 Everybody everyone's talking about this Frank film. People talk about 0:07:17.120 --> 0:07:19.960 Frank Capra, you know up there with like talking about 0:07:20.080 --> 0:07:25.200 Capra the Greats. You know. So, like this movie is 0:07:25.280 --> 0:07:27.520 pretty pretty good, you know in terms of like it's 0:07:27.560 --> 0:07:29.520 pretty fun the way they structured it, like in the 0:07:29.560 --> 0:07:32.680 way they also the like even the stars talking to 0:07:32.720 --> 0:07:36.600 each other. I mean, it's some primitive special effects, I mean, 0:07:37.000 --> 0:07:38.000 but it kind of works. 0:07:38.160 --> 0:07:38.320 You know. 0:07:38.360 --> 0:07:40.800 It's like because they're illuminum oil hanging off of a 0:07:40.840 --> 0:07:41.720 fishing line. 0:07:41.600 --> 0:07:44.000 Yea with make it light up a little bit. When 0:07:45.320 --> 0:07:46.880 that's the one that's talking right now. 0:07:49.240 --> 0:07:51.680 I'd rather say that than Vin Diesel. I don't know why. 0:07:51.760 --> 0:07:53.680 You know, it's like somehow like seeing something like that 0:07:54.000 --> 0:07:55.520 like makes me. 0:07:55.560 --> 0:07:57.680 Maybe I'm a little bit fucked up. But I'd rather 0:07:57.840 --> 0:07:59.080 see this than Vin Diesel. 0:08:00.880 --> 0:08:03.200 But yeah, those are the two only two choices too. Yeah, 0:08:03.800 --> 0:08:05.600 that's what it feels like. That's how I feel like 0:08:05.680 --> 0:08:08.560 in capitalism, it's either like black and white or Vin Diesel. 0:08:08.640 --> 0:08:10.880 I'll take black and white. And I used to think 0:08:10.920 --> 0:08:13.840 black and white was like suck too, Like if I 0:08:13.880 --> 0:08:16.200 saw black and white, I thought snoozefest right, you know, 0:08:16.800 --> 0:08:19.440 you know, like because I went to fucking school and 0:08:19.560 --> 0:08:22.080 like tried to be whatever I want to. Took a 0:08:22.120 --> 0:08:24.720 film class and they showed you like Battleship Attempkin, which 0:08:24.760 --> 0:08:26.920 is about some baby carriage going down the staircase, which 0:08:26.960 --> 0:08:28.960 was like rocked everybody's world. 0:08:28.840 --> 0:08:31.600 Like in nineteen twelve from the naked Gun opening scene. 0:08:32.280 --> 0:08:34.800 Yeah like what yeah, oh yeah they that was supposed 0:08:34.800 --> 0:08:36.599 to be like ill nerds who watched it. 0:08:37.720 --> 0:08:43.319 I was three references because thats yeah, yeah, yeah, and 0:08:43.360 --> 0:08:46.520 then I think it was Naked Gun thirty black. 0:08:46.320 --> 0:08:48.800 And white with like yeah, like okay, like this is 0:08:48.880 --> 0:08:52.400 back when an action sequence man was was was boring, 0:08:52.760 --> 0:08:55.360 you know, like a baby carriage going downstairs like apparently 0:08:55.440 --> 0:08:57.679 Russia went crazy, Like you gotta see this. 0:08:57.840 --> 0:08:59.760 This is like a this thing is crazy. 0:09:01.360 --> 0:09:03.400 That's another one where the baby carriage going down the 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:05.920 stairs is like five seconds in the middle of this 0:09:06.200 --> 0:09:08.640 hour long film. But I was like, oh, the one 0:09:09.840 --> 0:09:12.480 the baby carriage better be there at the beginning middle and. 0:09:12.920 --> 0:09:17.000 The cabinet of doctor Caligari or yeah, Metropolis or whatever. 0:09:17.000 --> 0:09:20.360 They're fine. But but I didn't realize for a long 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:22.439 time that there are some black and white movies that 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:26.280 are worth seeing. I really action packed directors that just 0:09:26.400 --> 0:09:28.640 happened to be around when that was like what they 0:09:28.679 --> 0:09:29.040 were doing. 0:09:29.080 --> 0:09:32.200 But yeah, I'd say, I don't know, I'm a little 0:09:32.200 --> 0:09:37.280 bit fucking weird. But I like this movie Citizen Kane, right, 0:09:37.640 --> 0:09:40.559 that one does hold up like that. That is one 0:09:40.600 --> 0:09:42.280 where you like watch it and you're like, this just 0:09:42.360 --> 0:09:44.120 feels like it was shy yesterday. 0:09:44.160 --> 0:09:45.400 Well, yeah, I was wrong about this. 0:09:45.600 --> 0:09:46.400 I found out. 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:48.319 I mean I wrote a whole column about how you 0:09:48.360 --> 0:09:50.280 don't want to you know, I won't go on a 0:09:50.360 --> 0:09:51.880 date if it's a black and white movie or some 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:55.760 shit like that. And it turns out that like A 0:09:55.880 --> 0:09:59.520 Face in the Crowd, that movie A Face in the 0:09:59.559 --> 0:10:02.640 Crowd directed by Elia Kazan, that movie is like so 0:10:03.320 --> 0:10:07.120 fucking awesome and modern and incredible, And that's the one 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:09.959 that like turned me like, holy crap, am I stupid? 0:10:10.080 --> 0:10:15.079 Like this movie's unbelievable. Talks about Trump basically, you know, 0:10:15.240 --> 0:10:18.200 or that phenomenon of an egomaniac taking over the country, 0:10:18.400 --> 0:10:20.120 and it's just in black and white. But just go 0:10:20.240 --> 0:10:22.719 see that movie if you like this movie, if you 0:10:22.880 --> 0:10:26.640 think that's something, Yeah, you like these guys talking about values, 0:10:26.679 --> 0:10:28.280 you wait till you see this movie about this. 0:10:29.440 --> 0:10:32.800 Chris Andy Griffin, how often did you see this movie. 0:10:33.000 --> 0:10:34.160 It's a wonderful, wonderful. 0:10:34.160 --> 0:10:37.000 I thought I'd seen it like almost like every year 0:10:37.080 --> 0:10:37.440 for a while. 0:10:37.480 --> 0:10:39.319 I thought it was like, but were you tuning in, 0:10:39.480 --> 0:10:42.079 Like I know it's a tradition on American broadcast. 0:10:42.120 --> 0:10:43.800 I must not have seen it that many times, because 0:10:43.800 --> 0:10:46.280 I really did think the beginning was like the Bridge, 0:10:46.400 --> 0:10:48.000 same kind of thing with Jack, Like I thought it 0:10:48.080 --> 0:10:50.120 was like the angel was involved from the beginning. I 0:10:50.160 --> 0:10:53.480 thought the I thought it was like a modern Ebenezer 0:10:53.559 --> 0:10:56.199 Scrooge type thing, like were they take him around the 0:10:56.240 --> 0:10:58.240 whole movie? Was I thought was that I didn't realize 0:10:58.280 --> 0:11:01.439 the movie was like an anti Capitol hour and a 0:11:01.520 --> 0:11:04.600 half with just like some you know, some fun stuff 0:11:04.600 --> 0:11:07.120 at the end for like the kids, Yeah, some value stuff, 0:11:07.120 --> 0:11:10.280 but mostly it's a really yeah, it's a really understandable 0:11:10.360 --> 0:11:13.959 critique of capitalism, which I did not remember, which, of 0:11:14.000 --> 0:11:15.240 course I didn't. I saw it when as a kid, 0:11:15.320 --> 0:11:17.199 mostly and you're not gonna remember that part. That part's 0:11:17.240 --> 0:11:17.719 the worst part. 0:11:17.760 --> 0:11:19.520 There's a lot of emotional nuance that I feel like 0:11:19.640 --> 0:11:21.040 if I saw this as a kid, I'd be like, 0:11:21.120 --> 0:11:25.000 this movie sucks, But as watching it now, I'm like, God, 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:30.080 damn like it was. The movie is so heavy to start. 0:11:30.280 --> 0:11:32.400 I was almost like this is a lot. Yeah, but 0:11:32.720 --> 0:11:34.520 I'm looking at it in the context of the forties 0:11:34.640 --> 0:11:36.040 or whatever when it was made, and I'm like, okay, 0:11:36.080 --> 0:11:38.480 this is probably like this is like laugh out loud fun. 0:11:38.760 --> 0:11:40.960 They're like, oh, yeah, I think I saw the sound 0:11:42.000 --> 0:11:42.920 yeah right, right right. 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:45.000 I think I saw the Sound of Music more times, 0:11:45.440 --> 0:11:48.200 Like I think that was more like our family thing. Yeah, 0:11:48.600 --> 0:11:50.440 Like then it's a wonderful life. I think we watched 0:11:50.480 --> 0:11:51.760 Sound of Music over and over again. 0:11:51.920 --> 0:11:55.199 Brandon editor is pointing out that there's a classic Tom 0:11:55.240 --> 0:11:58.640 and Jerry episode that is based on this where the 0:11:58.800 --> 0:12:02.760 cat is like once to kill himself and then like 0:12:02.840 --> 0:12:05.079 gets saved by it and all sorts of wild shit. 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:07.959 I was and like, I think that is that's the 0:12:08.240 --> 0:12:12.000 version of it that exists. Is like guy on Bridge 0:12:12.240 --> 0:12:17.800 Angel visits, shows him his life without yeah, uh, shows 0:12:17.840 --> 0:12:19.599 him the life without it, but it yeah, so it 0:12:19.640 --> 0:12:24.319 doesn't happen until fairly late in the movie. Just a 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:26.520 little bit of background that I didn't know just looking 0:12:26.840 --> 0:12:30.440 briefly into it is that this movie fucking tanked at 0:12:30.520 --> 0:12:32.640 the box office when it came out. It like did 0:12:32.760 --> 0:12:37.480 not do well, and then it was just like cheap 0:12:37.880 --> 0:12:40.240 to put on TV, and they just put it on 0:12:40.360 --> 0:12:43.920 TV every year and it just slowly by slowly, like 0:12:44.000 --> 0:12:45.920 it was nominated for an Oscar. It wasn't like a 0:12:46.000 --> 0:12:47.280 movie that like didn't exist. 0:12:47.480 --> 0:12:49.839 Yeah it didn't. It just didn't didn't go see it. 0:12:50.720 --> 0:12:53.240 And then just by putting it on TV, which is 0:12:53.320 --> 0:12:56.000 like a new technology at the time, they were like, oh, 0:12:56.640 --> 0:13:00.560 I guess we we like this now. It was sort 0:13:00.600 --> 0:13:04.360 of like to America what Home Alone is to Romania. 0:13:04.520 --> 0:13:06.599 As we covered in the last episode, Yes, were the 0:13:06.679 --> 0:13:07.800 show at every Christmas Eve. 0:13:10.280 --> 0:13:12.480 How I was probably trying to think of like my 0:13:12.600 --> 0:13:15.400 next joke or something, So we talked about that last time. 0:13:15.760 --> 0:13:20.640 Yeah, it was Ania and poland boat. Home Alone is 0:13:20.679 --> 0:13:24.040 what we talked about last time. I'm like, mister President, 0:13:24.320 --> 0:13:25.160 are you okay, sir? 0:13:25.800 --> 0:13:27.920 No, No, I just met that part. I like the 0:13:27.960 --> 0:13:30.600 way certain things are popular like in only some countries. 0:13:30.640 --> 0:13:33.240 Like there's a song called Boys Do Fall in Love 0:13:33.640 --> 0:13:37.880 by Robin Gibb and it didn't charge anywhere except it 0:13:38.000 --> 0:13:40.160 like went to like number one in Italy or something 0:13:40.200 --> 0:13:42.920 in like nineteen seventy six, and it's just like, yeah, 0:13:43.040 --> 0:13:45.920 it's like Italy had some had some screw loose for 0:13:46.040 --> 0:13:46.440 that song. 0:13:46.679 --> 0:13:46.880 Yeah. 0:13:47.400 --> 0:13:50.000 Should we do the little rock through like we did 0:13:50.080 --> 0:13:50.880 with Home Alone? 0:13:51.200 --> 0:13:54.520 Yeah, just like happening in the movie and our impressions 0:13:54.559 --> 0:13:57.760 as it goes by. So you covered the opening, the 0:13:57.880 --> 0:14:01.120 opening where it's like we see the Earth. We hadn't 0:14:01.200 --> 0:14:04.400 been to space yet, so it kind of looks like shit, 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:06.880 the version of the Earth. They're like, I don't know, 0:14:06.920 --> 0:14:10.360 it probably looks like a big ball of like Gumby, 0:14:10.600 --> 0:14:13.120 Like Gumby was smashed into a ball. And we see 0:14:13.160 --> 0:14:18.079 prayers coming out of the earth, and then the angels 0:14:18.240 --> 0:14:23.000 are the stars and the bones are their money, and 0:14:23.680 --> 0:14:27.280 they're they're talking to each other and they're like, we 0:14:27.680 --> 0:14:29.920 we need to help this guy George, because he were 0:14:29.960 --> 0:14:33.120 praying for him and the other guys like, well, what's 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:36.480 his deal? And he's like, well, journey with me, won't 0:14:36.560 --> 0:14:41.160 you and takes him back to see some scenes from 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:45.680 his childhood at first where what's that? 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:49.040 So the flashback to the childhood. I was so jealous 0:14:49.360 --> 0:14:53.040 and frightened at the same time because my one of 0:14:53.080 --> 0:14:54.800 my first and I was like, damn, look how much 0:14:54.880 --> 0:14:58.600 fun these kids are having on a shovel yes, the shovel. 0:14:58.960 --> 0:15:01.240 The shovels led on a shovel. 0:15:01.400 --> 0:15:04.040 And the set looked like they act there was maybe 0:15:04.200 --> 0:15:06.640 that shit looked like ice, like that they had that 0:15:06.720 --> 0:15:09.200 they were actually sliding on. I was so into the 0:15:09.320 --> 0:15:11.960 production value of that Winter Sing was like, okay, was 0:15:12.040 --> 0:15:13.600 this a sound stage? And then I was like, okay, 0:15:13.600 --> 0:15:16.280 this is at RKO Studios is where they actually shot this. Yeah. 0:15:16.480 --> 0:15:20.360 So yeah, his brother Harry falls in, he saves them, 0:15:20.680 --> 0:15:23.640 and it causes like just hearing loss in his left ear. 0:15:23.840 --> 0:15:26.080 He loses the ability to hear in his left ear, 0:15:26.120 --> 0:15:29.000 which is going to become important later when World War 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:31.760 two happened exactly exactly because. 0:15:31.520 --> 0:15:34.960 They like people who can hear war in stereo. Yeah. 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:38.080 So yeah, then, like, there's just another moment that I 0:15:38.200 --> 0:15:39.760 liked to how like him and all his friends like 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:42.920 walking him to his after school job. I'm like, motherfucker 0:15:43.040 --> 0:15:45.320 ten years old. Yeah, and they're like, all right, man, 0:15:45.400 --> 0:15:47.560 get your ass in there. Time to go to work. 0:15:48.920 --> 0:15:49.640 At a druggist. 0:15:50.200 --> 0:15:50.400 Yeah. 0:15:50.880 --> 0:15:57.040 Mister hours hammered both within the story and the actor 0:15:57.280 --> 0:16:03.600 is hammered apparently while making this always actually so he 0:16:04.040 --> 0:16:09.480 is accidentally poisoning people with the drugs that he's providing them, 0:16:10.120 --> 0:16:14.840 and uh, Jimmy Stewart George Bailey as a child is like, 0:16:14.960 --> 0:16:16.800 I think you're I didn't really follow how this all 0:16:16.880 --> 0:16:21.000 came together, like a hard time. Yeah, he figured out 0:16:21.720 --> 0:16:23.720 that it was because. 0:16:23.440 --> 0:16:25.880 He watched he watched him bag it up. He watched 0:16:25.920 --> 0:16:27.640 him bag up the capsules and he saw the big 0:16:27.720 --> 0:16:31.600 skull and crossbones John. He's like, wait, bro, what the fuck? 0:16:33.280 --> 0:16:37.960 And so he tells the druggist, Hey, you just like 0:16:38.120 --> 0:16:41.160 poison that kid, and the druggist just starts beating the 0:16:41.200 --> 0:16:44.600 ship out of him, which apparently was not fake. The 0:16:44.680 --> 0:16:47.440 druggist was actually drunk and slapped that kid so much 0:16:47.440 --> 0:16:48.600 as ears started to bleed. 0:16:49.880 --> 0:16:55.360 Yeah that really, are you serious? Wikipedia, Yeah, yeah, that kids. 0:16:56.440 --> 0:16:58.640 He really was smacking the ship out of that kid. 0:16:58.800 --> 0:17:01.560 Yeah, he was really smacking him. And then uh, the 0:17:02.160 --> 0:17:05.040 it's like the nineteen forties version of like a happy 0:17:05.160 --> 0:17:07.680 ending for a child actor. He then hugged him after 0:17:07.800 --> 0:17:10.359 the scene, so it was like, cool, wait, so. 0:17:10.520 --> 0:17:13.560 How did his ear start? What the fuck happened? His 0:17:13.800 --> 0:17:14.280 ear was? 0:17:14.800 --> 0:17:17.480 He was his ear was leading Yeah. 0:17:19.960 --> 0:17:20.680 Yeah, yeah, I mean. 0:17:22.640 --> 0:17:26.119 And then yeah to people on the set and who 0:17:26.200 --> 0:17:28.159 knows if they were just throwing this actor under the 0:17:28.200 --> 0:17:28.640 bus too. 0:17:28.720 --> 0:17:31.360 Well, that actor was like playing that his son had 0:17:31.440 --> 0:17:34.560 just passed away, right, that was the idea, Like his 0:17:34.760 --> 0:17:38.159 son had passed away, and the idea was normally this 0:17:38.320 --> 0:17:41.440 guy was a nice guy, this druggist, and he was 0:17:41.520 --> 0:17:43.960 just having a bad day, was the idea. Right, He 0:17:44.119 --> 0:17:45.879 just was like his son died, and so the what 0:17:46.000 --> 0:17:48.240 are you gonna do if your son dies except for 0:17:48.320 --> 0:17:49.360 slap the ship out of his dog? 0:17:49.440 --> 0:17:51.959 Boy, yeah exactly, and then poison a lady who has 0:17:52.000 --> 0:17:52.800 dip theory or whatever. 0:17:52.880 --> 0:17:55.160 Yeah yeah, yeah, I mean everyone knows what happens when 0:17:55.240 --> 0:17:56.040 druggists grieve. 0:17:56.600 --> 0:17:59.359 Yeah yeah, yeah, Oh I'm poisoning him. 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:02.800 Put on a helmet. Don't take any of your pills. 0:18:03.359 --> 0:18:06.399 The one thing that I thought was very old timing 0:18:06.440 --> 0:18:10.760 and dog died was when I think it was Mary. 0:18:10.880 --> 0:18:12.600 He was given some ice cream too, and he's like, 0:18:12.640 --> 0:18:14.399 you don't do you want coconuts? And he's like, you 0:18:14.440 --> 0:18:15.840 don't know where coconuts are from? 0:18:16.359 --> 0:18:18.720 And my boy little George pulled out a full on 0:18:18.920 --> 0:18:22.800 Nat Geo magazine from his pocket like it was a smartphone. Yeah, 0:18:22.880 --> 0:18:25.639 and he's like, you had back then that's my childhood too, 0:18:26.080 --> 0:18:28.680 pulling a magazine out and I'm like, there, you you 0:18:28.760 --> 0:18:29.560 don't understand. 0:18:29.720 --> 0:18:30.439 I'm not kidding. 0:18:30.840 --> 0:18:33.119 No, I mean I definitely had I mean I was 0:18:33.160 --> 0:18:35.879 carrying around Slam magazine, the Source double XL, Like, I 0:18:36.000 --> 0:18:38.119 definitely had things like that in my back. But I 0:18:38.240 --> 0:18:42.119 just love the idea of like how he's like, within 0:18:42.200 --> 0:18:45.359 my pocket, I have this magazine with information about coconuts. 0:18:45.400 --> 0:18:48.160 There's just so many of these sort of bygone era 0:18:48.359 --> 0:18:51.200 things that I was these are really nice textures that 0:18:51.320 --> 0:18:54.520 I'm like, we've lost touch with humanity completely. 0:18:54.400 --> 0:18:58.720 And the coconut was like this exotic thing to them. 0:18:59.119 --> 0:19:01.440 It was like want to try coconut. 0:19:02.640 --> 0:19:02.960 Mary? 0:19:05.359 --> 0:19:07.840 Because they were starting from square one. They fucking wiped 0:19:07.840 --> 0:19:09.679 out the Native Americans who could have told them all 0:19:09.680 --> 0:19:12.440 about coconuts, probably, except they were starting from the scratch, 0:19:12.560 --> 0:19:17.440 Like what I discovered, yeah exactly, Yeah, have you heard 0:19:17.440 --> 0:19:18.000 about porn? 0:19:19.280 --> 0:19:21.200 Would be great if he tried to pass it off 0:19:21.240 --> 0:19:22.200 as his own discovery. 0:19:23.160 --> 0:19:25.640 I mean it really was like it was like, that's 0:19:25.680 --> 0:19:27.879 why white people are so out of controls because they 0:19:27.920 --> 0:19:30.080 think that, Yeah, like they started with this clean slate 0:19:30.119 --> 0:19:32.000 that was artificially cleaned by them. 0:19:32.760 --> 0:19:36.080