Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Welcome to Mini Crush the Monday edition. Wait, no,
Speaker 1: this isn't Monday. What day is it. It's the Thursday Wednesday. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: we record these on Wednesdays. Usually, I feel like I've
Speaker 1: come unstuck in time. We released them on Mondays. Well,
Speaker 1: we just we just had another whole kerfuffle with the
Speaker 1: numbering system and I've been numbering them in correctly when
Speaker 1: we've been doing this. Let's just start over. Okay, let's
Speaker 1: do it. Start from zero Mini Crush Day one. You
Speaker 1: know what's funny nor zero? When I was when I
Speaker 1: was coming in here to record, I like these morning
Speaker 1: sessions with you. It's kind of fun. They're fun, it's
Speaker 1: a good it's a good way to start the day
Speaker 1: with bagel and a in a morning session with a
Speaker 1: good mood too. But I was, I've been listening to
Speaker 1: our Mini Crushes now for some reason, and I'm a
Speaker 1: fan of us uh, And I've noticed that in almost
Speaker 1: every damn episode we sing at some point, And I
Speaker 1: was like, I never, I've never sing on stuff. You
Speaker 1: should know. I think I like singing you. You're a
Speaker 1: good singer, Chunk on the podcast, you were just singing
Speaker 1: a minute ago. It was something about the heart as
Speaker 1: a drum. Yeah, Becky, And then you walked in right
Speaker 1: after I was thinking that, and you said, tell me
Speaker 1: what I said? I had the Tomato Tomato song stuck
Speaker 1: in my head and then I was gonna bless you
Speaker 1: with it on the podcast. That would actually be a
Speaker 1: good duet because I could be tomato and you could
Speaker 1: beat tomato and potato and potato, and we should call
Speaker 1: the whole thing off. We should just quit the podcast
Speaker 1: right and do it and do uh? You say either?
Speaker 1: I see you say we either? I say, why the
Speaker 1: why the That's that's great. That was a really good
Speaker 1: Louis Armstrug I think I don't think he did that song, though,
Speaker 1: sure he did. He really what are you talking about that, Louis? Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's the O G. I don't know if he's the
Speaker 1: O G, but he definitely did it. I was. I
Speaker 1: guess what are you thinking of? Harry? Uh Bellafonte? I don't.
Speaker 1: I have no idea. I don't associate I don't associate
Speaker 1: that song with any particular voice or artist. Oh all right,
Speaker 1: interesting is it called let's call the whole thing off?
Speaker 1: I think so? It's funny. My my old friend Andrew
Speaker 1: from l A said that, Uh, you know how people
Speaker 1: tell you these kind of dumb stories and fun stories
Speaker 1: from their life. You just remember him, My old friend
Speaker 1: Andrew Cologne back. Uh. He was a production coordinator I
Speaker 1: used to work for in l A when I was
Speaker 1: a p A. And he said that I was singing
Speaker 1: that song one day and he said, growing up in
Speaker 1: New York, he had a friend that, Uh, I think
Speaker 1: she auditioned for like a musical in New York and
Speaker 1: didn't know that song, and they gave her the sheet
Speaker 1: or whatever, and she said, you say tomato, I say
Speaker 1: a tomato and sang the whole song like that. You
Speaker 1: say potato, and I say potato. That's absurd. I love that.
Speaker 1: That is stuck with me all these years. It's beautiful,
Speaker 1: And you're right. It was Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald.
Speaker 1: How did I not know that classic duet pairing there?
Speaker 1: Oh that's right, she did, Yeah, yeah, of course you
Speaker 1: are really good Louis. Though, Dude, I gotta say, it's
Speaker 1: sort of like a Kermit, the froggy kind of Louis.
Speaker 1: I like it. What a wonderful world exactly, all right?
Speaker 1: So and he figures prominently in movies, you know, because
Speaker 1: that song is well, I think the Harry Conic version
Speaker 1: isn't when a Harry mot sally and then what a
Speaker 1: wonderful world that great sequence in Good Morning Vietnam as
Speaker 1: that song plays and the and the bombs are raining down? Man,
Speaker 1: really good, isn't it? In The Doctor Strange Love too
Speaker 1: at the end when the I don't know what is?
Speaker 1: What is the song that plays within the all the
Speaker 1: atomic bombs are going off? Oh? What is it? Man?
Speaker 1: I haven't seen that movie in a minute. All right,
Speaker 1: Nol's checking on that, everyone live. Corrections are not corrections,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? All right, everyone, I listened
Speaker 1: to your you know, I asked for segment ideas and
Speaker 1: previous Facebook posts and I got a lot of good
Speaker 1: ones and I'm actually gonna use some of those and
Speaker 1: we'll continue to And uh, I did want to say
Speaker 1: that we are gonna do some knowls hole. Actually we're
Speaker 1: not gonna do knowles holes until the next episode, so
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to wait on that. No to get angry,
Speaker 1: but you know, I'll start getting like pre righteously indignant.
Speaker 1: You know what your secret is? Though? Say it? My
Speaker 1: secret you're always angry. I'm not. That's not true, Chuck.
Speaker 1: Now that's the Hulk line from the Get It. I
Speaker 1: get it, I get it. Uh So I called out
Speaker 1: for for ideas for segments, and you guys had a
Speaker 1: lot of good ones. I gotta say, it's very impressive
Speaker 1: to see you writing my show for me. And someone said,
Speaker 1: you know what, you don't do the exp laning anymore.
Speaker 1: And I really liked the explaining of things. And I
Speaker 1: believe what he was referencing specifically, specifically was grip this
Speaker 1: when I would kind of walk people through uh uh
Speaker 1: movie jobs, movie job screw jobs, teach people how to
Speaker 1: grip stuff. Yeah, um, so this one is a little
Speaker 1: bit different and that it is not a job. But
Speaker 1: I'm gonna talk a little bit about film screens. Movie screens, okay,
Speaker 1: the actual screen. You walk in there, you see a screen,
Speaker 1: you're like, whatever, they're made of silver, I've got I've
Speaker 1: seen a movie screen. It's just just white. What is
Speaker 1: that drywall? Yeah, I don't know. It's not cool. Uh.
Speaker 1: And I gotta say this this came from and it
Speaker 1: got up up voted by like thirty something people. Wobbles
Speaker 1: j Wobbles is the one who called for me to, uh,
Speaker 1: to start explaining again. So Wobbles, this one's for you.
Speaker 1: And he actually responded he has Wobbles in Sydney even
Speaker 1: so he's Wobbles Jay Wobbles. All right. So here's how
Speaker 1: movie screens work. Everyone. They are usually white vinyl, and
Speaker 1: they have a few They have like four main categories,
Speaker 1: I believe, and uh. They're categorized by the amount of
Speaker 1: light that they reflect. And here's my thing is, I
Speaker 1: don't see why you just wouldn't use the best for
Speaker 1: every theater, but it probably just comes down to financials
Speaker 1: and how much money each theater has or is willing
Speaker 1: to invest in each particular house inside each theater or
Speaker 1: each room. So Matt White, I believe, is the least
Speaker 1: reflective category. It's less than five percent reflectivity. So you're
Speaker 1: what that means is And this is the same thing
Speaker 1: like when you're shopping for a for a high definition television,
Speaker 1: when you go in and you're talking to someone who
Speaker 1: knows about it and they talk about blacks. The blacks
Speaker 1: are very black, and you're like, what does that mean?
Speaker 1: Black is black? Crush the blacks? But you know what
Speaker 1: I'm talking about, you we heard that expression though. It's
Speaker 1: a it's a post production thing. When you crush the blacks,
Speaker 1: you make the blacks as black as they can possibly being.
Speaker 1: And it's a big deal because if you've ever watched something,
Speaker 1: especially in a dark room with like the lights dim,
Speaker 1: the blacks can look gray and they can sometimes kind
Speaker 1: of not pixel out, but they look funny. No, they
Speaker 1: can totally pixel out. They can kind of have that
Speaker 1: like almost distorted kind of like noise quality to a
Speaker 1: visual noise, and it's very distracting for sure. So in
Speaker 1: a movie theater, Matt White, if you have a Matt
Speaker 1: White screen, you're black is actually gonna be more like
Speaker 1: a dark gray to black. The image isn't gonna be
Speaker 1: very bright. Pearl lescent is the next step up. That's
Speaker 1: fift reflectivity. You're black is still pretty much dark gray,
Speaker 1: but the image is brighter. But here's the deal with
Speaker 1: pearl lescent is that it's you're gonna have the best contrast.
Speaker 1: Contrast is very important if you want a good picture. Uh.
Speaker 1: Silver is next the old silver screen. That's thirty reflectivity. Um,
Speaker 1: black is actually medium gray. The image is super bright, uh,
Speaker 1: and the dark colors will seem more dull. And by
Speaker 1: the way, I'm getting all this information from our old
Speaker 1: friends at how stuff works dot com. And then finally
Speaker 1: you have the glass bead screen that is or more reflectivity. Um.
Speaker 1: Black is light gray and the images usually too bright actually,
Speaker 1: and it's normally you don't have a glass beads screen.
Speaker 1: It's just for like special circumstances. So pearl lescent is
Speaker 1: the most common choice for a movie theater typically. Uh.
Speaker 1: And if you want that pearl lescent or the silver screen,
Speaker 1: you still have that heavy white vinyl as the base,
Speaker 1: and then they add a reflective coding to that matt
Speaker 1: white vinyl to make the end screen. So if you
Speaker 1: actually have glass bead that they're actually real tiny glass marbles,
Speaker 1: thousands and thousands of tiny glass marbles embedded in the
Speaker 1: transparent coating on the surface of that screen. So that's
Speaker 1: why you don't see those too much. It's uh, that's
Speaker 1: really over the top. Um. And here's the deal. I
Speaker 1: don't know if you knew this. You see the speakers
Speaker 1: in the theater all around you, but there's actually they're
Speaker 1: actually speakers behind that screen. So these screens are built
Speaker 1: so sound can travel through them. They have little tiny
Speaker 1: perforations so you can hear these speakers and basically, you know,
Speaker 1: usually you're gonna find it depends on the theater and
Speaker 1: what kind of like speaker system they go with, but
Speaker 1: they're generally three speakers behind the screen, left right, and center,
Speaker 1: and that's where your dialogue heavy sound is really going
Speaker 1: to be coming from, because it would be weird if
Speaker 1: the dialogue was coming from behind you, unless it's you know,
Speaker 1: someone at a party and it's mixed that way or something,
Speaker 1: Hey I'm over here, yeah, exactly. So you've got those
Speaker 1: speakers behind there, the tiny perforations coming through the screen,
Speaker 1: and um, then there's the curvature. That's kind of the
Speaker 1: final thing. And you've basically got three choices for curvature.
Speaker 1: You've got a flat screen, horizontal curve screen, and then
Speaker 1: the torre x t O R e X and flat
Speaker 1: screen is just what you think like when you or
Speaker 1: in school or in a home theater or whatever. That's
Speaker 1: a flat screen. And that's fine for a small room.
Speaker 1: So here's the deal, though, when you have a flat screen,
Speaker 1: you're projecting that image from you know, a hundred feet back,
Speaker 1: has that long that far to travel, there's something called
Speaker 1: the pincushion effect that's going on. So this is distortion
Speaker 1: on the edges of the screen, because think about it.
Speaker 1: If you've got a flat screen and you're projecting an
Speaker 1: image from a hundred feet back, the shortest distance to
Speaker 1: that screen is right there in the center, because that's
Speaker 1: where the projection is coming from. Then as it arches,
Speaker 1: you know, as it angles out and hits the edges
Speaker 1: of the screen, that's actually further away then that center image. So, uh,
Speaker 1: there's going to create some distortion, distortion on the edges
Speaker 1: of the screen. That's called the pincushion effect. It's no good,
Speaker 1: you know't want that. So that's very old school um
Speaker 1: mostly these days. And you may not even notice this,
Speaker 1: but and which is good. There will be a horizontal
Speaker 1: curve screen. So what it basically does is it sort
Speaker 1: of evens it all out, so the edges are a
Speaker 1: little bit close or not so much that you notice,
Speaker 1: but that it's picking up the projected image and roughly
Speaker 1: the same area. If you really want the highest end,
Speaker 1: it's the touric screen that actually curves that the edges
Speaker 1: of the screen and the top and bottom of the
Speaker 1: screen and creates a completely concave surface. So on a
Speaker 1: touric screen, the light from that projector is gonna hit
Speaker 1: if it's working right, it's gonna hit every single part
Speaker 1: of that screen at the exact same time, creating basically
Speaker 1: a perfect image. So that's it. That's a movie Screen's
Speaker 1: pretty cool, Chuck, I was just joking about the silver part.
Speaker 1: I thought that was an expression man silver silver knol. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but but it's not actually silver. It's just referring to
Speaker 1: the reflectiveness of the of the of the white. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I don't know, maybe it may have I think
Speaker 1: it does have a silver tin. You think it's got
Speaker 1: It's like mac weldon underwear. It's got some silver in there. Maybe.
Speaker 1: So all right, now we're gonna move on to another
Speaker 1: Curated Listener curated segment. This is from Shannon reading McQueen
Speaker 1: and Shannon, I titled this for you because you didn't
Speaker 1: give a title. It's called Transformers. And uh, I don't
Speaker 1: know if we're gonna repeat this one, but this is
Speaker 1: a good one off at least. This is I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go over some of the best the top nine one, two, three, four, nine. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I did nine on purpose for some dumb reason. Um,
Speaker 1: the nine most transformative physically transformative performances perhaps in movie history,
Speaker 1: and most of these for better or for worse, or
Speaker 1: weight gains and weight losses. So it's usually hot people
Speaker 1: playing ugly people. Well that's for that's a callous way.
Speaker 1: It's a little productive. But you know that's true always
Speaker 1: with oscars. For like, if you're like super attractive and
Speaker 1: then you go super unattractive, then it's like, well, no,
Speaker 1: trust me, that's Oscar baits An. Uh. And in fact,
Speaker 1: we might as well start with that one. Charlie's Thearren
Speaker 1: very famously in the movie Monsters like Charlie' Thearren one
Speaker 1: of the most beautiful women to ever grace the silver screen,
Speaker 1: to be sure, and uh, they really did some work
Speaker 1: on her and Monster. She she did gain a little
Speaker 1: bit of weight, not a ton, but some um. And
Speaker 1: then she had her skin layered with washed off tattoo
Speaker 1: ink to make it look real weathered, washed off tattooing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not even sure what that means. That's a serious
Speaker 1: technique right there. I don't know. Her eyebrows were shaven
Speaker 1: a little bit. They bleached him out because remember her
Speaker 1: eyebrows were barely there. Creates a real freaky look. She
Speaker 1: wore those dentures and then she had her hair repeatedly
Speaker 1: um thinned and fried. Uh and the end result, like
Speaker 1: Charlie Throna, is barely recognizable, you know. And you know
Speaker 1: what I love about her. She she can play at
Speaker 1: all like she can look like a runway model, which
Speaker 1: I think she was early in her career. In one movie,
Speaker 1: she can do monster and then she she really just
Speaker 1: sort of uh playing Jane's it up for lack of
Speaker 1: a better way to put it, like in um the
Speaker 1: in Tully and h what was that? Young Adult? And
Speaker 1: movies like that where she really can just sort of
Speaker 1: um that that just rolled out a bed look. She
Speaker 1: she can pull off and look like the sort of
Speaker 1: the lady next door, which is very impressive. Now, she's
Speaker 1: incredibly versatile. I'm I'm a fan, like physically versatile, and
Speaker 1: I think a really good actor. And I have to
Speaker 1: mention in uh and uh Mad Max Fury Road, Yeah, man,
Speaker 1: I think total badass. Yeah. And I think rolls like
Speaker 1: that are under appreciated because they get kind of chalked
Speaker 1: off as like an action movie or whatever. She was
Speaker 1: really good in that. You know, a lot of good
Speaker 1: acting going on. We're gonna go with Matthew McConaughey next
Speaker 1: for Dallas Buyer's Club. Did you see that? I did not. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was um, it was good and it was really good,
Speaker 1: great performances, and he and Jared Leto actually both physically
Speaker 1: transformed and in a pretty big way. He lost mccannie
Speaker 1: lost about forty pounds and went you know from you know,
Speaker 1: fairly cut dude, cut and tanned two uh, emaciated and
Speaker 1: really really did a great job. I believe he won
Speaker 1: the Oscar for that too. In fact, I know he
Speaker 1: did because he delivered the famous alright, alright, alright on
Speaker 1: stage of the Oscars. Uh, speaking of weight loss. And
Speaker 1: I know you've seen this one all. How about Christian
Speaker 1: Bale and the Machinist? You know I haven't seen that one.
Speaker 1: Oh really, it's one of my holes. I thought that
Speaker 1: was I thought that hole had been plugged by Christian Bale. No,
Speaker 1: I don't know it. Don't gravitate towards movies. That seemed
Speaker 1: like an overt bummer on the outside. Well it's it
Speaker 1: is disturbing. Yeah, yeah, for some reason he did the
Speaker 1: look at him. I was just like this is something
Speaker 1: that this guy needs a cheeseburger. Man, what's going on? Like,
Speaker 1: what's going He's not okay, I don't want to see this.
Speaker 1: I don't want to see this guy's descent into madness. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's a tough movie. It's really I think you
Speaker 1: would enjoy it though, if you could go there. But
Speaker 1: he lost sixty pounds for that, and that was coming
Speaker 1: off of like beefing up for Batman. So he is
Speaker 1: and a lot of these actors have suffered serious health problems.
Speaker 1: This is not safe to do, you know. It doesn't
Speaker 1: seem like Jared Leto got gout from losing a bunch
Speaker 1: of weight and then he gained a bunch to play
Speaker 1: Mark David Chapman and the and the John Lennon Shooter movie.
Speaker 1: Did that? Just come and go? I didn't see that.
Speaker 1: It was pretty small and un noticed for the most part.
Speaker 1: Not bad. You saw it? Uh, yeah, it was all right.
Speaker 1: It wasn't great. So yeah, Christian Bale lost a ton
Speaker 1: of weight. Robert de Niro, this one was notable in
Speaker 1: Raging Bull because he did two things in the same movie.
Speaker 1: He got super cut to pay a young boxer. Jake
Speaker 1: LaMotta just ripped abs and just in great shape, the
Speaker 1: shape of a of a I don't know what he
Speaker 1: was like, a middleweight boxer, perhaps um. And then he
Speaker 1: played old Jake Laomata in The end uh and gained
Speaker 1: sixty pounds. And he did this in the making of
Speaker 1: the movie. So they took four months off and apparently
Speaker 1: Robert de Niro went to Italy and just ate his
Speaker 1: way through Italy gelato and pasta and pasta and cheese
Speaker 1: and gelato and chocolate and wine and put on sixty
Speaker 1: pounds dude in four months and came back to play
Speaker 1: Tubby Jake Clamana. So really really unbelievable, and it's not safe,
Speaker 1: but there there is no substitute. The fat suits is
Speaker 1: that they put people in, and the makeup and the prosthetics.
Speaker 1: It just it's never believable. What about Gary Oldman in
Speaker 1: the Winston Churchill movie. You know, I didn't see it.
Speaker 1: I didn't see it either, but he looked fantastic and
Speaker 1: that was all prostetics' suits and stuff. And they do
Speaker 1: a good job these days. Why you gotta go full
Speaker 1: method man? It just like, no, I know method man,
Speaker 1: um it seems I don't know it seems unnecessary. It
Speaker 1: seems like, hey, look at me, it's a it's a
Speaker 1: it's a movie. You guys, chill out, but on a
Speaker 1: fat suit. The method bugs you. You've you've gotten in
Speaker 1: your soapbox about the method before. It's because I don't
Speaker 1: think it's entirely necessary all the time. Sometimes I think
Speaker 1: it's just like pretentious and like for the purposes of
Speaker 1: the actor, seeming like really hardcore about an I do
Speaker 1: not necessarily think that it is a substitute for just
Speaker 1: what was it? I think that the thing the line
Speaker 1: was Lawrence Olivier telling, Uh, Dustin Hoffman, have you ever
Speaker 1: considered just trying to acting? My boy? Yeah? But you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, I'm gonna disagree with you here
Speaker 1: because everyone has their own method, and some is the method,
Speaker 1: and uh, if that's what they need, I don't think
Speaker 1: they are actors that are doing that just just feel important.
Speaker 1: They may need that. Are you getting a certain little
Speaker 1: weird bubble who knows what you do? Yeah? These actor
Speaker 1: types not into the method, guys. I don't like the method.
Speaker 1: Vincent Donofrio and full Metal Jacket. I know you've seen that, right,
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's good. So I did not know this. Um,
Speaker 1: I thought that he was Tubby because I saw that
Speaker 1: movie and I was like, Who's I think that might
Speaker 1: have been the first thing I saw him in, But
Speaker 1: he gat He put on sixty pounds for that role.
Speaker 1: Was he in a bunch of stuff before that? Not
Speaker 1: a bunch, but he was around And in fact I
Speaker 1: looked it up. He was in that same year Adventures
Speaker 1: in Babysitting was released, and he was like thin and
Speaker 1: cut and uh, you know I wouldn't have thought that either. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he put on weight for that role. To work with
Speaker 1: the great Stanley Kubrick. That's a fantastic film. Here's one
Speaker 1: that had nothing to do with weight gain. But Rooney
Speaker 1: Mara in the American version of Girl with a Dragon
Speaker 1: Tattoo as Elizabeth Salander Man, she transformed herself in a big,
Speaker 1: big way. Remember how she looked in that movie. Looked yeah,
Speaker 1: like just tatted up and and studed out with the
Speaker 1: with the face work. Yeah, but it didn't look like
Speaker 1: it looked it looked legit, Like, oh it totally looked
Speaker 1: leg Yeah. It didn't look like an actor and costume.
Speaker 1: It looked like it's someone living their life. Do you
Speaker 1: watch always study in Philadelphia. Well, I mean, I watched
Speaker 1: that movie for many years, but it's like The Simpsons.
Speaker 1: I don't haven't watched season eight team there's a lot. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well there's a thing in the new season where um,
Speaker 1: his name is Rob mckalehaney. I guess, well he does
Speaker 1: this insane modern dance routine with this like incredible modern
Speaker 1: dancer and he like lost all this way and is
Speaker 1: just like cut as as you could possibly be because
Speaker 1: he gained weight for one season, macketts fat and now
Speaker 1: he's like, you know, eight pack McGhee over eight pac McGhee,
Speaker 1: pac McGhee, and he's like doing this insane and this
Speaker 1: is gorgeous dance routine on this stage it's like covered
Speaker 1: in rain and it's like it's I don't know that
Speaker 1: I haven't seen the episode, but it's in front of
Speaker 1: like a crowd of prisoners and uh, Robert de Niro, um,
Speaker 1: Danny DeVito's character is looking on and he just it's
Speaker 1: like to this Seagar Roast song. It's like this gorgeous,
Speaker 1: it's amazing, and he likes crying and stuff, and it's
Speaker 1: like he is just owning this modern dance thing. And
Speaker 1: he apparently had to train for it for like a
Speaker 1: year just for this one gag, which I love that.
Speaker 1: It's just the most intense commitment to a gag that
Speaker 1: I've ever heard of him my life. Yeah, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. I dropped off of that show a
Speaker 1: while ago. But what I love about it is is
Speaker 1: they they have never um, I think they never just
Speaker 1: phoned it in. Like even years and years and years
Speaker 1: into it, they were still trying to like push the
Speaker 1: envelope and innovate and be weird. It's really great. Well
Speaker 1: this is this is a quintessential example of that. Yeah, totally.
Speaker 1: And man, Charlie Day, God, that guy's funny. Um. Tom
Speaker 1: Hardy and these next couple or people are are dudes
Speaker 1: that got super cut and buffed up and jacked up,
Speaker 1: as you like to say. Tom Hardy when he played
Speaker 1: Bain remember that. I remember seeing Tom Hardy is Baine
Speaker 1: and just being like, dang, dude, well he did he
Speaker 1: didn't he already done that once before in The Warrior
Speaker 1: And uh yeah, sure that's right. Yeah he's aye. That
Speaker 1: was kind of the first one where you but he's
Speaker 1: not naturally a huge dude, I don't think, so he
Speaker 1: worked at it yeah, he definitely worked at it. It's interesting,
Speaker 1: but yeah, Baine Man, what a big guy. And then
Speaker 1: Chris Pratt. Of course, he went from a sort of chubby,
Speaker 1: lovable dude on Parks and Wreck to super cut And
Speaker 1: I don't think that was I'm trying to remember the
Speaker 1: first movie he did it for. Was it Guardians? Yeah?
Speaker 1: That was it? That was it was Guardians. That was that.
Speaker 1: That was his first like big movie. Yeah, but it
Speaker 1: also felt also like sort of like just this is
Speaker 1: the new Chris Pratt. I think it was. I mean
Speaker 1: I remember following him on Instagram when all that was
Speaker 1: going down, and he was posting like you know, Jim
Speaker 1: selfies Yeah, yeah, with a tongue and cheek kind of
Speaker 1: like you know, he seems like he seems like a
Speaker 1: good guy. Here's the thing about all of this stuff though,
Speaker 1: this transformative, especially with the buffing up stuff. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's like the studios paying for it. You've got you've
Speaker 1: got constant monitoring. You know, you're like two chubby guys
Speaker 1: going to rant. It's easy when you've got someone delivering
Speaker 1: your meals, you got a trainer taking you to the gym,
Speaker 1: you're on like house arressed. Yeah, you don't go to
Speaker 1: the bar and they're saying you're gonna get like seven
Speaker 1: million dollars at the end of this, it'll be fine. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I could look like that if someone did that to me.
Speaker 1: Sure good. You need to get in a movie together,
Speaker 1: I could do. I think, I think to me, imagine
Speaker 1: us like jacked up and buff. You know, man, I'm
Speaker 1: working on it, Chuck, Okay, I've been jamming it up.
Speaker 1: I've been becoming a bit of a gym rap. But
Speaker 1: here's the thing, what are you doing? I don't know
Speaker 1: nothing right now. I just do. I like a lot
Speaker 1: of treading, a lot of bike stuff, the stationary bike.
Speaker 1: It's good card out of weights, you know, like the
Speaker 1: weights and uh. But I had to kind of weeks
Speaker 1: where I was like on tour one week and then
Speaker 1: I was in a last week and easy to get up,
Speaker 1: easy to get out of it. But I still walked
Speaker 1: a lot. So I think. I don't think I like
Speaker 1: totally squandered my will, but I'm going back to it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I've been, man, I've been fucking lazy. Good for you, though,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's a nice like boost of like endorphins. Yeah,
Speaker 1: every time we go to the gym. I'm like, man,
Speaker 1: this feels great. Why don't I do this every day?
Speaker 1: It just a matter of getting in there. Uh. And
Speaker 1: then finally, everyone, we're going to finish up Transformers. Thank
Speaker 1: you Shannon Reading McQueen with Hillary Swank and Boys Don't Cry?
Speaker 1: Did you see that one? That's a good film. She
Speaker 1: really transformed herself. That's a bomber she she pulled that
Speaker 1: roll off so great. It was very much a bummer
Speaker 1: of a movie, and even more so that it it was
Speaker 1: a true story. The ending is Brandon Tina right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's such a great film. Chloe Sing he's in that
Speaker 1: one too. I think, yeah, I love her. She's great.
Speaker 1: She's always been a big fan of Hurst. All right, everyone,
Speaker 1: and then finally we're gonna finish today with Social Studies.
Speaker 1: Social Studies movie crush. All right, here's what I did.
Speaker 1: I said, I like this question. You can ask your
Speaker 1: favorite actor any one question. Who is it? And what
Speaker 1: do you ask? And I'm definitely gonna leave this one
Speaker 1: up because we got about a hundred comments and a
Speaker 1: bit A lot of these are great. So we're gonna
Speaker 1: start off with Joe Koski. He would ask Patton Oswalt, Uh,
Speaker 1: when are you going to be in Star Wars? And
Speaker 1: then when are you gonna be on movie Crush? I
Speaker 1: approve of that question. Wait a minute, I thought Patton
Speaker 1: Oswald was on Star Wars. Was in Star Wars like
Speaker 1: he was like an alien or something, or he was
Speaker 1: like wearing a suit. Did I make that up? I
Speaker 1: don't know. They've they've been doing that a lot lately.
Speaker 1: The like hiding Daniel Craig was like Stormtrooper. I think
Speaker 1: it was a Stormtrooper, but there was one comedian maybe
Speaker 1: it was David Cross or something, but that was in
Speaker 1: one of the scenes. And the one of the most
Speaker 1: like the Force Awakens. One was like some like alien
Speaker 1: dude on that like right that kind of tattooing, asked Planet. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I wish I can't remember the name of now with
Speaker 1: the Blue Milk? You know who was it? Though? I
Speaker 1: know you don't know Star Wars like you know Harry Potter,
Speaker 1: So you're right, Chuck, I don't if you could know
Speaker 1: a thing as well as I know Harry Potter. My
Speaker 1: encyclopedic Potter knowledge precedes me. You're going method nol um.
Speaker 1: Paul Cook says he would ask Bill Murray, what did
Speaker 1: you whisper to Scarlett Johanson at the end of Lost
Speaker 1: In translation, Paul, that is great, and I think I
Speaker 1: think we will never know that. I think that has
Speaker 1: been well established from Sofia Coppola, Scarlett Johnson, and Bill
Speaker 1: Murray that they're never going to reveal what he whispered
Speaker 1: to her. Um Matt Poole says a little grim perhaps,
Speaker 1: but I would resurrect Philip Seymour Hoffman and ask him
Speaker 1: what life meant to him and whether death meant something more. Geez, Louise,
Speaker 1: I don't know where to start with that. God man,
Speaker 1: That's that's good. Yeah, I was so upset when Philips E.
Speaker 1: Moore Hoffman passed, and then that upset turned to not anger,
Speaker 1: but frustration to lose another great artist to drugs. You know,
Speaker 1: that's a thing though about drugs. It's like, you know,
Speaker 1: it just goes to show that you have you can
Speaker 1: have everything, You can be the most respected person in
Speaker 1: your field and still be you know, sad inside. You
Speaker 1: need to like cover it up with something like that.
Speaker 1: You know, those drugs don't know who you are, and
Speaker 1: they don't care that you're famous or beloved or a
Speaker 1: son or a daughter. Neither, Just like depression. I know, man,
Speaker 1: tough stuff. Um. J Frasier says John Candy, and he
Speaker 1: would say he'd bring John Candy back and say, can
Speaker 1: I have a hug? Boy? These were good everybody. I
Speaker 1: would love hug from John Candy. That would be great. Um,
Speaker 1: Christopher Austin says Amy Adams. You know how much we
Speaker 1: love Amy Adams. Christopher, Um, how are you so good?
Speaker 1: I feel every emotion watching her transform into these characters
Speaker 1: she plays. Yeah, Christopher, that's a good question. Um. Amy
Speaker 1: Adams would probably say, oh, hush, did you watch that
Speaker 1: Sharp Objects on HBO? Yeah? Man, we yeah, we talked
Speaker 1: about that. We did, Okay, I haven't finished. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: I think she's she's so good at that. She's great.
Speaker 1: She's really great. She's great in every single thing she does.
Speaker 1: Dream guest, Amy Adams, just go ahead and throw it
Speaker 1: out there. Everyone tweet at her. She probably not even
Speaker 1: got a dream guest coming up? Don't you for SF
Speaker 1: sketch fests? Yeah, everybody of getting busy Phillips. That's the
Speaker 1: big announcement. I know I said so on Facebook. But
Speaker 1: if you live in the Bay Area, get your tickets
Speaker 1: to Saturday Mattinee on Saturday nine, where I will be
Speaker 1: in conversation with Busy Phillips about No a bomb Box
Speaker 1: Kicking and Screaming, one of my favorite movies. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be really fun. Everything's coming up Busy these days. She
Speaker 1: wrote a book, she's got a new talk show. She's
Speaker 1: blown up twenty years in. I love it, Um, Timothy Oliphant.
Speaker 1: So John Ashmore would ask Timothy Oliphant, what is your
Speaker 1: favorite cowboy hat? I love it? Oh, dude, do you
Speaker 1: know what I just saw on Instagram? You know Jason Isabel.
Speaker 1: I'd actually know Jason Isabel. Yeah, do you really? Oh.
Speaker 1: We used to be in a band in Augusta, and
Speaker 1: he would We would play with him pretty regularly before
Speaker 1: he kind of blew up because he was in the
Speaker 1: Drive By Truckers and we played with the Drive By
Speaker 1: Truckers a decent amount and then he kind of split
Speaker 1: off and the guy played with. His name is Sean Piazza.
Speaker 1: Um stayed kind of pals with him and he would
Speaker 1: always come around to my hometown, Augusta. We'd play shows
Speaker 1: with him. Dude, I never knew that it's true. I'm
Speaker 1: a huge fan of was it really nice guy? We've
Speaker 1: like hung out and played pool and stuff. Well, he
Speaker 1: is in the new Deadwood movie. Is that right? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's awesome. I don't know. I mean, I don't know
Speaker 1: if it's a big part of a small part. But
Speaker 1: he tweeted a litt picture out with me and some
Speaker 1: of the guys in costume, and Jason isbel looks great
Speaker 1: in period western costume. Yeah, I can see that. He
Speaker 1: totally like pulls it off. Can't wait. He's going to
Speaker 1: be a guest one day. Dude. In fact, maybe, uh
Speaker 1: maybe you can help arrange that. Well, I don't know
Speaker 1: that ship may have sailed. He's a little too big
Speaker 1: for me now. But freaks and geeks, I didn't remember that.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, man, she was. She's awesome. She's the best.
Speaker 1: I'm so Mike Sam's says Chris Evans. But I wouldn't
Speaker 1: be able to ask anyone because of all the staring
Speaker 1: I'd be doing. Uh so, mikeia Chris Evans, handsome guy.
Speaker 1: I'd probably do the same thing. And a good dude.
Speaker 1: I like his Uh I'm not on Twitter much, but
Speaker 1: I like what he's thrown out there. And Mike had
Speaker 1: a slew of interactions with with people about Chris Evans
Speaker 1: that are all on board, all on the Chris Evans train.
Speaker 1: I don't blame him, Becca Lou says Chris Pratt. I
Speaker 1: asked him how he didn't get the role of Thor
Speaker 1: when he it is clearly a god. Yeah. But Chris Helmsworth, boy,
Speaker 1: he's great. How could you deny him? Man? He owns
Speaker 1: that he is Thor. He's totally Thor. Um Akimi Yamaguchi says,
Speaker 1: you and McGregor, if you could go back in time
Speaker 1: and redo any performance, which would you choose and why? Interesting?
Speaker 1: I hope Ewen would say none and leave it at that,
Speaker 1: and just leave it at that. Jason, just Jason, says
Speaker 1: Daniel day Lewis, How do you make ordering breakfast so
Speaker 1: damn captivating? Yeah? That was a powerful scene. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: it made me learn what Welsh rare bit was. It's
Speaker 1: a thing, yeah, didn't it a I looked it up.
Speaker 1: I can't remember now. It's not meat. It's like a
Speaker 1: like a grain, kind of like putting kind of compounds.
Speaker 1: It's delicious. It's like fried bread. Oh well, maybe it's good. Then.
Speaker 1: Nicole Parks says she would ask Melissa McCarthy if she
Speaker 1: wants to push herself creatively or if she would be
Speaker 1: happy to just be remembered as a comedic genius. You
Speaker 1: know what, Nicole, I bet you anything. Melissa McCarthy is
Speaker 1: having a good time making these fun and funny movies.
Speaker 1: But she's got more in there. I guarantee it, and
Speaker 1: I bet you she's gonna do that. No, she's got
Speaker 1: one coming out with that really from with Nail and
Speaker 1: I um Alan Grant, Yes, okay, a little more. It
Speaker 1: looks like a little funny, but I think they're in
Speaker 1: like I think they're mentally ill people in like some
Speaker 1: sort of an institution. And it looks like kind of funny,
Speaker 1: but I think it gets gets serious. Yeah, look it
Speaker 1: up for what it's called. All right, I love it.
Speaker 1: I knew that. I mean, of course that would be coming.
Speaker 1: She's super talented, and uh, it's the only a matter
Speaker 1: of time, you know. You you do some some most
Speaker 1: movies for the catch, then you find some prestige pieces
Speaker 1: once you've built that up, built up your rep I
Speaker 1: love it. Um, Holly Lawless, what's it it's called? Can
Speaker 1: you ever forgive me? Can you ever forgive me all right,
Speaker 1: look for that soon. Holly Lalla, says Tom Hittleston. She
Speaker 1: would say, will you marry me? Tom? I think he
Speaker 1: is married? Really well he was. He was dating Taylor
Speaker 1: Swift for a minute. Oh ship, Maybe he's not because
Speaker 1: I know they're not married. Taylor Swift doesn't marry. She
Speaker 1: doesn't marry. She plays the field. Megan Carroll says Philip
Speaker 1: symore happen again? Was there anything anyone could have done
Speaker 1: to stop you from using again? Man? That one just
Speaker 1: broke a lot of hearts. Yeah, that's you know, he
Speaker 1: was so good man, incredible. I gotta wonder, like, maybe
Speaker 1: the story will come out, like what his history with
Speaker 1: that was? Well, I mean he yeah. I mean when
Speaker 1: you when you're sort of a secret heroin User, you've
Speaker 1: had a history with it, you know. He was also
Speaker 1: like you know, he was a child actor. So I
Speaker 1: gotta wonder, like, how was it he was in like
Speaker 1: a really shitty like movie from the nineties called My
Speaker 1: Boyfriend's Back or like it was like a Dead boy
Speaker 1: Friend or whatever in that, and he was in some
Speaker 1: other stuff too. I want to say he was in
Speaker 1: like one of the never Ending Story sequels, because I
Speaker 1: get it confused because Jack Black was the bully and
Speaker 1: one of them, and I think Philip Symore Hoffman was
Speaker 1: the bully in the even less known third one might interesting.
Speaker 1: Um James Beck says, I don't think I have a
Speaker 1: favorite actor, so I'm just going to shoehorn Tom Waits
Speaker 1: in here and ask him to record my voicemail greeting.
Speaker 1: That's good. Tom Waits is an actor too, though I
Speaker 1: may not be your favorite, but he's he's certainly done
Speaker 1: tons and tons of acting. And then we're gonna finish
Speaker 1: up this week on this but I am going to
Speaker 1: save these are great everyone. Rushelle Jones says Nicole Kidman,
Speaker 1: what's it like to find out that you're pregnant and
Speaker 1: getting a divorce in the same day by two different magazines.
Speaker 1: I don't think I knew that happened. Very interesting she
Speaker 1: found out she was pregnant getting a divorce from Tom Cruise.
Speaker 1: I guess I didn't know that. I do not know.
Speaker 1: Good move for you, Nicole, though, that's uh. Actually, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm gonna I'm gonna do one more here
Speaker 1: from world friend GAYL Kuntz. Kuntz says, I would just
Speaker 1: ask Tom Hanks for a hug. That's a great idea.
Speaker 1: Kuntz and I have hugged Gayl Kuntz, and I highly
Speaker 1: recommend it. She's a great hugger, great hugger of people.
Speaker 1: It's a very warm quality in a person. I love it,
Speaker 1: all right, thanks everybody that does it for this week,
Speaker 1: and uh we are going to come back next week
Speaker 1: with Noel's Holes and some other, uh some other fun segments.
Speaker 1: How does that sound, nol It sounds just delightful, Chuck,
Speaker 1: I can't wait. All right, by everybody,