WEBVTT - Reel Justice Redux 0:00:01.320 --> 0:00:03.880 Welcome to Verdict with Ted Cruz. This is Ted Cruz. 0:00:03.920 --> 0:00:06.880 I hope you're having a wonderful Valentine's Day. I hope 0:00:06.880 --> 0:00:09.799 you find the love of your life and give them 0:00:09.840 --> 0:00:11.680 a hug, give them a kiss, and let them know 0:00:11.760 --> 0:00:16.840 they mean the world to you. Unfortunately, today Ben is 0:00:17.120 --> 0:00:21.280 sick in bed with a nasty flu. So rather than 0:00:21.360 --> 0:00:23.159 do our normal pod, what we're going to do is 0:00:23.160 --> 0:00:26.720 we're going to rebroadcast our Christmas Day pod. And the 0:00:26.800 --> 0:00:29.320 Christmas Day Pod was one It's one of my favorites. 0:00:29.360 --> 0:00:33.440 It recounted some of my favorite movies, some of the 0:00:33.440 --> 0:00:36.960 movies I enjoy watching the most. I am a movie guy. 0:00:37.120 --> 0:00:40.279 I love movies. I've loved movies my whole life, and 0:00:40.320 --> 0:00:43.120 so I hope today on Valentine's Day, you listen to 0:00:43.120 --> 0:00:45.960 the pod, you enjoy it. Maybe go out and watch 0:00:46.000 --> 0:00:49.560 a movie and take your wife or husband or boyfriend 0:00:49.640 --> 0:00:52.879 or girlfriend and have a great time at the movies, 0:00:53.040 --> 0:00:56.200 and we will see you. We'll do our regular week 0:00:56.240 --> 0:00:58.640 in review tomorrow on Saturday, and Ben and I will 0:00:58.640 --> 0:01:01.920 both be back. God will into the creek, don't rise 0:01:02.040 --> 0:01:04.959 on Monday morning. Enjoy. 0:01:04.800 --> 0:01:06.840 But I mean, you're a movie theater guy. Just so 0:01:06.959 --> 0:01:08.280 people know this, I like. 0:01:08.240 --> 0:01:10.119 The real theater, so I like the big screen. 0:01:10.200 --> 0:01:13.400 I like popcorn and gummy bears, and and you know 0:01:13.480 --> 0:01:16.800 the experience of being there. And by the way, I'm 0:01:16.840 --> 0:01:20.440 also rabbit about staying until the very end, till the 0:01:20.520 --> 0:01:22.759 last moment of the credits play. I will not get 0:01:22.840 --> 0:01:26.440 up and leave. There's a sense of completeness of appreciating 0:01:26.480 --> 0:01:29.760 the entirety of of the the movie. And so what 0:01:29.800 --> 0:01:33.080 we decided we do today is put together just a 0:01:33.120 --> 0:01:36.120 compilation of movies that that that I love, that I 0:01:36.240 --> 0:01:38.840 that I recommend to you, and and and hopefully as 0:01:38.840 --> 0:01:40.640 you're taking some time with your family, maybe you'll go 0:01:40.720 --> 0:01:43.199 watch one of them and laugh or cry, and it'll 0:01:43.240 --> 0:01:45.680 touch you and you'll enjoy it. And I think art 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:48.080 and storytelling are beautiful, beautiful things. 0:01:48.920 --> 0:01:52.000 So that being said, and here in the big shows 0:01:52.040 --> 0:01:55.600 and the big movies on Center Cruise's list, Merry Christmas. 0:01:56.800 --> 0:01:59.160 I get asked all the time from many of you 0:01:59.200 --> 0:02:01.960 guys that are watching or listening right now, what is 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:04.920 Ted Cruz like behind the scenes. 0:02:05.080 --> 0:02:06.640 So we thought we'd have a little fun. 0:02:06.720 --> 0:02:09.320 I'm gonna ask him some questions and you're even gonna 0:02:09.320 --> 0:02:11.359 find out what his favorite movies are. 0:02:11.639 --> 0:02:12.480 Senator, We're gonna have. 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:14.880 A little fun I get asked all the time when 0:02:14.880 --> 0:02:17.280 I'm all over the country. In half of this last 0:02:17.280 --> 0:02:20.079 week in New York, so what is Ted Cruz really like. 0:02:20.280 --> 0:02:21.280 Behind the scenes? 0:02:21.600 --> 0:02:24.079 And I say, I actually, if people got to see 0:02:24.080 --> 0:02:26.639 the side of you that I know, you're actually really 0:02:26.639 --> 0:02:30.240 fun to be around. You're also a huge movie buff 0:02:30.280 --> 0:02:33.960 as well, and so I'm gonna ask some fun questions 0:02:34.120 --> 0:02:36.760 just to kind of let people know behind the curtain 0:02:36.800 --> 0:02:39.480 who you really are. So let's start with this. What 0:02:39.680 --> 0:02:42.639 is the last thing you watched on a plane? 0:02:43.680 --> 0:02:46.120 What is the last thing I watched on a plane 0:02:46.680 --> 0:02:48.120 was Outer Banks? 0:02:48.320 --> 0:02:48.760 Okay? 0:02:48.919 --> 0:02:51.800 Which is a series. It's a teeny bopper series, and 0:02:51.800 --> 0:02:54.440 it's phenomenal. I am in the middle of season three. 0:02:54.480 --> 0:02:56.800 And there's a reason I'm watching a teeny bopper series, 0:02:57.240 --> 0:03:00.000 which is my youngest daughter, Catherine loves Outer Bank. 0:03:00.360 --> 0:03:01.880 She's at camp right now, yep. 0:03:02.160 --> 0:03:04.760 And when I dropped her off at camp, she said, Dad, 0:03:04.800 --> 0:03:07.040 I want you to watch out her Banks, and I 0:03:07.120 --> 0:03:10.160 want you to write to me in letters and tell 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:13.280 me what you think is the season's progressing. And so 0:03:13.440 --> 0:03:15.519 I've been regularly I write to her about every couple 0:03:15.560 --> 0:03:18.000 of days and I tell her, Okay, here's where I am. 0:03:18.080 --> 0:03:20.600 I'm at this point. I'm at this point. This character 0:03:20.720 --> 0:03:24.480 just my favorite character, JB. Yeah, I too. 0:03:24.680 --> 0:03:26.440 So she asked me that I'm a little troubled. 0:03:26.480 --> 0:03:29.640 Her favorite character is JJ, who who is kind of 0:03:29.680 --> 0:03:32.600 a look I guess if you're a thirteen year old girl, 0:03:32.639 --> 0:03:35.720 he's you know, he's always doing the dumbest thing imaginable, 0:03:35.800 --> 0:03:38.000 but he's kind of a I like John B. 0:03:38.120 --> 0:03:39.320 John B is a good character. 0:03:39.400 --> 0:03:40.520 It's such a fun show. 0:03:40.600 --> 0:03:43.080 So when you were growing up, what was it that 0:03:43.120 --> 0:03:45.160 you were watching high school college? 0:03:45.280 --> 0:03:47.640 But by the way, spoiler alert, I apologize if you 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:49.880 haven't seen it. I'm gonna give a spoiler alert right now, 0:03:49.960 --> 0:03:52.000 so just fast forward through this if you don't want 0:03:52.000 --> 0:03:55.280 a spoiler alert. But in season two, when when when 0:03:55.360 --> 0:03:58.080 Ward is blown blown up, I knew Ward was not 0:03:58.200 --> 0:03:59.960 blown up, and so I wrote her, I said, yeah, 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:03.000 Ward just died. I'm very confident he's alive. And I 0:04:03.160 --> 0:04:05.840 remembered they keep scuba gear in the boat. He got 0:04:05.840 --> 0:04:08.040 in the scuba gear and then like sevens. 0:04:09.920 --> 0:04:10.560 There you got to. 0:04:10.600 --> 0:04:12.200 Figure it out, and you're like, they got to keep this, 0:04:12.440 --> 0:04:13.360 they gotta keep the series. 0:04:13.600 --> 0:04:15.560 So I felt pretty good that I was at least 0:04:15.640 --> 0:04:17.599 a step ahead of the teeny Bopper series. 0:04:17.880 --> 0:04:18.440 I like that. 0:04:18.600 --> 0:04:20.760 So what were you watching in high school? Like, what 0:04:20.800 --> 0:04:23.360 were your favorite shows? What was your favorite movie? 0:04:23.839 --> 0:04:25.359 So I love movies. 0:04:25.880 --> 0:04:28.640 My parents love movies, like like we would, you know, 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:32.240 this is what we do. So so every holiday, every Thanksgiving, 0:04:32.279 --> 0:04:34.279 every Christmas, my family would go out and watch. 0:04:34.120 --> 0:04:35.880 Movies that Diehard a Christmas movie. 0:04:35.960 --> 0:04:38.360 Of course, it is okay, good, absolutely, yes, there's only 0:04:38.400 --> 0:04:41.640 one right answer. Diehart is absolutely a Christmas movie. But 0:04:42.720 --> 0:04:44.599 we would go out and do movies. When I was 0:04:44.600 --> 0:04:46.920 a kid, when I was like eight nine years old, 0:04:47.000 --> 0:04:49.279 my dad would drop me off at the theater all 0:04:49.400 --> 0:04:50.360 Saturday and. 0:04:50.360 --> 0:04:51.880 I'd watch like five movies. 0:04:51.920 --> 0:04:53.760 I'd go from one theater to the next to the 0:04:53.800 --> 0:04:55.320 next and just watch everything there. 0:04:55.520 --> 0:04:57.279 It's it's we all love movies. 0:04:57.279 --> 0:05:00.479 So what I've done done today for this show is 0:05:00.520 --> 0:05:03.600 I put together a list of twenty five movies. Now 0:05:03.640 --> 0:05:06.279 this is not exclusive. This is not the only twenty 0:05:06.279 --> 0:05:08.640 five movies I like. And I don't even know that 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:11.760 it's my twenty five favorite, but it's twenty five awesome 0:05:11.880 --> 0:05:15.040 movies which if you haven't watched, I recommend you watch. 0:05:15.120 --> 0:05:17.560 You will enjoy them. You will laugh, you will be moved, 0:05:17.920 --> 0:05:19.800 you will get good things from them. So let's go 0:05:19.839 --> 0:05:20.680 through the twenty five. 0:05:20.920 --> 0:05:22.160 I gotta ask for one more question for you. 0:05:22.279 --> 0:05:24.560 Twenty five what movie have you watched the most in 0:05:24.600 --> 0:05:26.279 your life over and over again? 0:05:26.360 --> 0:05:28.400 Well, that actually happens to be number one on the list. 0:05:28.480 --> 0:05:29.600 I knew it. I like this. 0:05:29.680 --> 0:05:33.280 So my favorite movie of all time is The Princess Bride. Really, 0:05:33.560 --> 0:05:36.960 I love The Princess Bride, the PRIs I think every 0:05:37.360 --> 0:05:40.960 character in it is exquisite. Every line from every character 0:05:41.360 --> 0:05:42.360 is fantastic. 0:05:42.920 --> 0:05:43.480 I'll tell you. 0:05:43.520 --> 0:05:46.560 In college, we used to play a game called Drinking 0:05:46.600 --> 0:05:50.600 Princess Bride. And so the way you play Drinking Princess Bride, 0:05:50.600 --> 0:05:52.080 as you sit down with a bunch of college kids, 0:05:52.120 --> 0:05:54.839 you put the movie on and you try to say 0:05:54.920 --> 0:05:59.479 each line immediately before it's said. If you get it right, 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:02.719 you point out somebody they have to drink. If you 0:06:02.880 --> 0:06:06.880 screw it up even slightly, you drink. And if two 0:06:07.000 --> 0:06:09.440 or more people say the same line at the same time, 0:06:09.560 --> 0:06:10.600 everybody drinks. 0:06:10.920 --> 0:06:12.719 So when you get to the asu wish why you 0:06:12.720 --> 0:06:14.520 were so sober in college. Now I understand. 0:06:14.560 --> 0:06:16.880 Look when you get to the as you wishes, Yeah, 0:06:16.920 --> 0:06:19.320 everyone can get them. So they're all socials and it 0:06:19.440 --> 0:06:22.359 is a fun game. My problem is I know just 0:06:22.400 --> 0:06:24.360 about every line from the movie, but I'll screw them 0:06:24.400 --> 0:06:27.279 up slightly, so I end up kind of getting myself 0:06:27.320 --> 0:06:29.320 because I try an awful lot of them. But is 0:06:29.360 --> 0:06:32.800 an exquisite movie. I probably watched The Princess Bride, I 0:06:32.800 --> 0:06:36.200 don't know a couple hundred times. No way, it is fantastic. 0:06:36.240 --> 0:06:38.920 So that's number one on your list, far and away. 0:06:39.760 --> 0:06:42.080 Number two on my list is The Godfather Saga. 0:06:42.240 --> 0:06:44.359 Couldn't agree with you more. One of the best series 0:06:44.440 --> 0:06:46.440 ever made, period. 0:06:46.240 --> 0:06:48.279 And I'm not going to break it down between one, 0:06:48.400 --> 0:06:50.839 two and three. I even like three, which is a 0:06:50.880 --> 0:06:54.120 bit of a heretical idea. I think three stands on 0:06:54.200 --> 0:06:57.640 its own as its own movie. The least that three 0:06:57.800 --> 0:07:00.880 only makes sense in conjunction with one and two. 0:07:01.200 --> 0:07:02.599 Which is when you're in the club. 0:07:02.640 --> 0:07:04.760 I kind of like that, Like you can't fake it 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:07.719 and go see number three and and think, oh that 0:07:07.800 --> 0:07:08.480 was incredible. 0:07:08.560 --> 0:07:09.560 You have to be in it. 0:07:09.960 --> 0:07:12.400 And look, I quote all of them all the time. 0:07:12.520 --> 0:07:14.640 You know, from three. Every time I get out, they 0:07:14.720 --> 0:07:18.040 keep pulling me back in. I will say it was 0:07:18.040 --> 0:07:21.880 a little depressing with with with my team where I turned. 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:23.720 You know, senate staffers are all children. 0:07:25.240 --> 0:07:25.760 You know your. 0:07:25.640 --> 0:07:28.080 Average to put that on a T shirt, Your average 0:07:28.120 --> 0:07:31.400 senate staffer is like twenty three, twenty four, twenty five. 0:07:31.960 --> 0:07:34.840 So so things like Godfather quotes they just don't get. 0:07:35.560 --> 0:07:36.480 And and so I. 0:07:36.680 --> 0:07:40.360 I said something. I said, you know, this is the 0:07:40.360 --> 0:07:43.720 business we have chosen. And like everyone looked at me confused, 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:44.480 and I. 0:07:44.480 --> 0:07:44.920 Said, okay. 0:07:44.960 --> 0:07:46.720 I had like six staffers there. I said, all right, 0:07:47.040 --> 0:07:49.280 do any of you have any idea what I'm saying. 0:07:49.280 --> 0:07:51.920 They're like no, no, no. I said, okay, this is 0:07:51.920 --> 0:07:56.840 Godfather too. And and this is a conversation between Hym 0:07:56.840 --> 0:08:01.320 and Roth, who is clearly modeled after myerland Ski, Him 0:08:01.400 --> 0:08:04.600 and Roth and Michael Corleone, and they're down in Miami 0:08:06.000 --> 0:08:09.960 and him and Roth goes Michael. I had a friend. 0:08:10.000 --> 0:08:13.720 I had a friend since childhood, Moe Green was his name, 0:08:15.080 --> 0:08:19.040 And one day somebody put a bullet in his eye. 0:08:20.480 --> 0:08:25.800 I did not ask who was responsible. I did not 0:08:26.120 --> 0:08:34.319 seek retribution. I said, this is the business we have chosen. 0:08:36.120 --> 0:08:37.600 None of them had any idea what I was talking 0:08:37.600 --> 0:08:38.840 about team. 0:08:38.600 --> 0:08:40.520 Building night in the Senate. You should totally you should 0:08:40.520 --> 0:08:41.839 totally bring him in one, two and. 0:08:41.800 --> 0:08:43.679 Three nine hours. 0:08:43.280 --> 0:08:45.960 Yes, this is what you're gonna do. That's team building. 0:08:46.000 --> 0:08:50.079 One won Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Wednesday. 0:08:49.679 --> 0:08:52.200 A favorite line from any of the Godfather is the 0:08:52.200 --> 0:08:54.599 best one. Mine's the Canoli. 0:08:54.960 --> 0:08:56.400 Leave, leave the gun and take the cannola. 0:08:56.520 --> 0:09:00.640 Yeah, no brainer. Number three on your list Scarface? Really? 0:09:00.920 --> 0:09:02.480 Oh, I love me some scarfing. 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:06.840 Why I notice Pacino has two spots in my top 0:09:06.960 --> 0:09:09.800 three here. I like Pacina, Okay, I love crime movies 0:09:09.960 --> 0:09:13.320 and look Scarface, Stony Montani's Cuban. 0:09:13.360 --> 0:09:13.960 I'm Cuban. 0:09:15.240 --> 0:09:18.600 It's you know, it is larger than life. I can 0:09:18.679 --> 0:09:20.760 quote a lot of lines from it. To be honest, 0:09:20.920 --> 0:09:23.120 I'm not going to because they're pretty off color and 0:09:23.160 --> 0:09:25.640 I'm going to avoid putting out on the podcast some 0:09:25.679 --> 0:09:27.960 of the language from it. 0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:32.640 But uh, it is, so crime genre is your thing, 0:09:33.320 --> 0:09:34.320 and I like Pacino. 0:09:34.520 --> 0:09:35.280 Yeah, he's amazing. 0:09:35.360 --> 0:09:38.400 So my favorite TV show is Criminal Minds. I love 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:39.400 Criminal Minds. 0:09:39.640 --> 0:09:41.719 I'm actually shocked by that one, because if there was 0:09:41.800 --> 0:09:43.800 only one box that I can take with me, my 0:09:43.840 --> 0:09:44.440 whole life. 0:09:44.880 --> 0:09:46.800 Like if I was stuck on it as island, it'd 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:47.360 be West Wing. 0:09:47.800 --> 0:09:50.240 West Wing is fabulous. I've watched every episode of West Wing. 0:09:50.240 --> 0:09:52.720 I've watched every episode of Criminal Minds. But Criminal Minds 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:55.080 is I just find it fascinating. Heidi hates it, by 0:09:55.080 --> 0:09:57.040 the way, when Criminal Minds is on, She's like, turn 0:09:57.080 --> 0:10:00.320 that garbage off because you know you've got evil Vicious. 0:10:00.360 --> 0:10:02.200 I'm like, no, no, they're the bad guys though, it's all 0:10:02.240 --> 0:10:04.600 about stopping them. But she just doesn't like that. In 0:10:04.640 --> 0:10:09.600 the house, all right. Number four Fletch never seen it. 0:10:09.720 --> 0:10:14.840 You've never seen Fletch. Go home tonight and watch Fletch. 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:17.080 It may be the funniest movie ever made. 0:10:17.600 --> 0:10:18.000 Really. 0:10:18.800 --> 0:10:24.160 Chevy Chase plays Irwin Fletcher, an undercover investigative reporter. It 0:10:24.280 --> 0:10:26.840 is absolutely hysterical. You know you love chevy Chase, so 0:10:26.880 --> 0:10:31.320 that's It's chevy Chase's best movie. Mut much better than 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:34.959 Lampoon's Vacation, much better than and He's Done a ton 0:10:35.000 --> 0:10:38.600 I love chevy Chase, but Fletch is head and shoulders 0:10:38.600 --> 0:10:41.360 above them all. You know Grant, who heads up my 0:10:41.400 --> 0:10:45.880 security detail. Grant and I quote Fletch lines back and 0:10:45.920 --> 0:10:47.760 forth at each other every week. 0:10:48.240 --> 0:10:51.520 Really it is Go and watch the movie. Never seen it. 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:54.520 It is spectacular, all right, fletch, I'm on it all right, 0:10:54.640 --> 0:10:56.720 number five amazing grace. 0:10:57.880 --> 0:10:58.880 Also never seen it. 0:10:59.040 --> 0:11:00.640 A lot of people have not seen it, but it 0:11:00.720 --> 0:11:03.600 is a very good It is the true story of 0:11:03.679 --> 0:11:07.439 William Wilberforce. Now William Wilberforce was a member of Parliament 0:11:07.480 --> 0:11:11.079 in the United Kingdom who led the effort to abolish 0:11:11.080 --> 0:11:11.880 the slave trade. 0:11:12.720 --> 0:11:14.320 Very cool, is it? True? Store? 0:11:14.520 --> 0:11:14.960 True store? 0:11:15.840 --> 0:11:19.280 And Wilberforce So when he started as a young MP, 0:11:20.760 --> 0:11:26.280 the slave trade was the United Kingdom's single greatest source 0:11:26.320 --> 0:11:29.719 of revenue. It was their business. And he begins as 0:11:29.760 --> 0:11:33.040 this young MP arguing we must end the slave trade. 0:11:33.040 --> 0:11:36.120 It is wrong, it is immoral, and everyone laughs at him. 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:38.520 And it would be like if you were in Texas 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:41.320 standing up saying we should ban oil and gas. 0:11:41.960 --> 0:11:44.719 I mean, it was that absurd of an idea back then. 0:11:45.120 --> 0:11:48.520 And he spends fifty years battling for it, and the 0:11:48.520 --> 0:11:53.720 movie ends with him successfully championing and passing the legislation 0:11:54.000 --> 0:11:58.240 abolishing the slave trade and shutting down their most lucrative 0:11:58.240 --> 0:12:02.320 business because it was evil. And by the way, the 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:05.480 title amazing grace. You know where it comes from. What 0:12:06.160 --> 0:12:09.120 So the person who wrote the hymn amazing Grace. 0:12:10.440 --> 0:12:11.880 Was a friar. 0:12:13.160 --> 0:12:17.400 Who had been the former captain of a slave ship. 0:12:18.320 --> 0:12:21.080 Really he was the captain of a slave ship. And 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:24.280 think of the words of the song, amazing grace, amazing grace, 0:12:24.320 --> 0:12:28.280 how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me. 0:12:29.000 --> 0:12:32.480 I once was lost, but now and found, was blind, 0:12:32.920 --> 0:12:36.760 but now I see and imagine the person writing that 0:12:37.720 --> 0:12:40.160 in that context was the captain of a slave ship. 0:12:40.200 --> 0:12:43.800 Presumably he had murdered people, he had beaten people, he 0:12:43.840 --> 0:12:46.320 had whipped people. He mean, I mean you think of 0:12:46.400 --> 0:12:50.720 the evil entailed in being the captain of a slave ship, 0:12:51.280 --> 0:12:57.040 and then the amazing grace that God offered redemption even 0:12:57.520 --> 0:13:00.400 in the face of the horrific evil. It puts a 0:13:00.400 --> 0:13:05.160 whole different character. The book is by Eric Metaxas, who's 0:13:05.160 --> 0:13:08.839 a fantastic author, Christian author does great biographies. I highly 0:13:08.880 --> 0:13:16.080 recommend Amazing Grace number six. Unforgiven, never seen it? Oh, unforgiven? 0:13:16.160 --> 0:13:18.280 Is this is why it makes me laugh when we 0:13:18.280 --> 0:13:20.640 get to do shows like this, because I mean, I 0:13:20.679 --> 0:13:21.720 will go watch these now. 0:13:21.920 --> 0:13:26.040 Okay, so Unforgiven best Western ever Made won the Academy 0:13:26.040 --> 0:13:27.040 Award for Best Picture. 0:13:27.080 --> 0:13:28.160 Clint Eastwood is in it. 0:13:28.880 --> 0:13:31.200 I could do an age joke. Here was it in 0:13:31.240 --> 0:13:31.920 black and white? 0:13:32.160 --> 0:13:32.439 No? 0:13:32.440 --> 0:13:35.800 No, no, no, it was actually laid Eastwood. You were actually 0:13:35.840 --> 0:13:37.120 out of diapers when it came out. 0:13:37.160 --> 0:13:37.840 Okay, gotcha. 0:13:39.000 --> 0:13:41.400 Morgan Freeman is in it. Gene Hackman is in it. 0:13:41.440 --> 0:13:46.200 Gene Hackman is spectacular. What's interesting about Unforgiven that is 0:13:46.200 --> 0:13:51.000 so powerful is it turns all of the stereotypes of 0:13:51.000 --> 0:13:56.160 the Western on its head. So, for example, Clint Eastwood 0:13:56.240 --> 0:14:01.040 plays this this outlaw who had turned over a good 0:14:01.080 --> 0:14:04.440 leaf and was good and then was going back gets hired. 0:14:04.480 --> 0:14:08.760 What happens is a woman who is a prostitute is 0:14:08.840 --> 0:14:12.960 badly cut up by a drunk cowboy, and they put 0:14:13.000 --> 0:14:16.320 out a reward to kill the cowboy who cut her up. 0:14:16.360 --> 0:14:21.360 And Clint Eastwood, as this retired outlaw, needs the money 0:14:21.360 --> 0:14:25.040 and so is coming to collect the reward, and Morgan Freeman, 0:14:25.120 --> 0:14:27.720 his partner, comes with him. But there's a point where 0:14:27.760 --> 0:14:29.960 where Clint east Wood, you know, there's there's a young 0:14:30.040 --> 0:14:33.240 kid who wants to be a gunslinger, and and he's 0:14:33.280 --> 0:14:36.160 like practicing on shooting fast and like Clint Eastwood says, well, 0:14:37.160 --> 0:14:41.680 you know, for me, this is about as fast as 0:14:41.720 --> 0:14:45.320 I can draw my gun, point it, aim at it, 0:14:46.320 --> 0:14:49.200 pull the trigger, and hit what I'm aiming at. And 0:14:49.280 --> 0:14:52.440 he said, in most firefights, people are scared out of 0:14:52.440 --> 0:14:55.560 their mind and they're just terrified. And whoever can kind 0:14:55.600 --> 0:14:59.520 of calmly engages who wins. And there are scenes where 0:14:59.560 --> 0:15:01.760 like everyone like, oh crap, and they shoot their foot 0:15:01.760 --> 0:15:03.960 and they dropped their gun and they're like freaking out 0:15:04.000 --> 0:15:05.720 and he kind of and he would just get drunk 0:15:06.320 --> 0:15:10.600 and just sort of systematically banged and it it really 0:15:10.640 --> 0:15:14.920 did invert many of the conventional wisdom. 0:15:14.560 --> 0:15:17.320 Of being a fast draw on everything else. And Gene 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:20.480 Hackman's character is hysterical. It is. 0:15:20.560 --> 0:15:25.160 He's the sheriff who initially you think might be the hero, 0:15:25.240 --> 0:15:29.480 but he very quickly becomes an anti hero. So excellent 0:15:29.520 --> 0:15:32.760 movie number eight, Team America. 0:15:33.200 --> 0:15:34.280 I've actually seen it. 0:15:34.440 --> 0:15:37.440 Hilarious, okay, and I'm going a little edgy, So Team America, 0:15:37.520 --> 0:15:38.880 Team America, World Police. 0:15:39.320 --> 0:15:40.440 It's a puppet movie. 0:15:40.800 --> 0:15:42.720 I remember when it came out, every red was in shock, 0:15:42.800 --> 0:15:45.640 but I was dying laughing. So Heidi didn't like movies 0:15:45.760 --> 0:15:47.880 very much. I took Heidi to see it. She almost 0:15:48.000 --> 0:15:48.600 fell to the. 0:15:48.520 --> 0:15:50.840 Floor laughing, so she y'all clicked on that. 0:15:51.040 --> 0:15:54.720 It is screamingly funny. Now it makes fun of both sides. 0:15:54.840 --> 0:15:58.080 It makes fun of Republicans, Democrats, everything. It's the guys 0:15:58.120 --> 0:16:00.240 who do South Park who did it. 0:15:59.760 --> 0:16:01.560 It is puppets. 0:16:03.160 --> 0:16:05.400 They are truly equal opportunity offender. 0:16:05.240 --> 0:16:08.640 It is now I'm gonna give a warning. Every third 0:16:08.680 --> 0:16:12.240 word is a profanity. If you're offended by profanity, skip 0:16:12.320 --> 0:16:12.920 this suggestion. 0:16:13.680 --> 0:16:14.320 I will say. 0:16:14.360 --> 0:16:17.160 When we were fairly newlyweds, we went on vacation with 0:16:17.160 --> 0:16:20.320 with Heidie's parents down at Lake Powell, which is fabulous, 0:16:20.520 --> 0:16:23.760 and and we brought it with us and we sort 0:16:23.760 --> 0:16:26.520 of like, Heidi and I remember this is really really funny, 0:16:26.520 --> 0:16:29.480 and I think we didn't quite remember that every third 0:16:29.480 --> 0:16:32.360 word is a profanity. And I'm sitting there with Heidie's 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:35.360 parents as we're listening to the blinkety blink blink blink 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:38.800 blink blink. We didn't finish the movie, like ten minutes 0:16:38.800 --> 0:16:40.840 into it. We just can't believe you brought this in 0:16:40.880 --> 0:16:44.400 front of your parents. Right, Yeah, it was, but it's 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:48.680 still funny, as I'll get it all right, next movie Patten. 0:16:48.600 --> 0:16:53.440 Yep, amazing, amazing movie. I've watched Patten probably five six 0:16:53.480 --> 0:16:54.120 times in my life. 0:16:54.160 --> 0:16:55.880 All right, do you know what I did before every 0:16:55.920 --> 0:16:58.600 Supreme Court argument I ever did? Well, I can figure 0:16:58.600 --> 0:17:01.160 it out now. You watch Patten the whole thing. Just 0:17:01.280 --> 0:17:02.560 which scene the opening speech? 0:17:02.640 --> 0:17:03.400 Okay, yeah, just. 0:17:03.400 --> 0:17:06.159 The opening speech, George C. Scott in front of the 0:17:06.200 --> 0:17:11.479 gigantic flag, standing up and saying, men, the objective is 0:17:11.520 --> 0:17:15.040 not to give your life for your country. The objective 0:17:15.119 --> 0:17:16.720 is to make that other, poor son of a bitch 0:17:16.760 --> 0:17:18.560 give his life for his country. 0:17:19.520 --> 0:17:21.159 I mean I can dig that. I can dig that. 0:17:21.920 --> 0:17:23.480 It is sound advice. 0:17:24.160 --> 0:17:26.920 If you can watch that speech and not be inspired, 0:17:26.920 --> 0:17:27.320 you're dead. 0:17:27.480 --> 0:17:28.800 Yeah, like it is. 0:17:28.920 --> 0:17:30.439 See, those are my weakness. Movies. 0:17:30.720 --> 0:17:34.639 I love true stories. I love good versus evil movies. 0:17:35.080 --> 0:17:37.440 I absolutely love sports movies as well, but there's always 0:17:37.520 --> 0:17:38.720 usually a big speech in those. 0:17:38.840 --> 0:17:41.840 By the way, a buddy of mine collects historical military 0:17:41.920 --> 0:17:46.640 equipment and clothing and uniforms, and he has patents dog tags, 0:17:47.200 --> 0:17:50.720 no way, And I actually have worn patents dog tags. 0:17:50.760 --> 0:17:54.320 They have rested on my bare chest and I literally 0:17:54.320 --> 0:17:56.119 felt like I was ready to pull out a pistol 0:17:56.119 --> 0:17:58.840 and start shooting in an airplane like it made you 0:17:58.840 --> 0:18:02.480 You think about that, that that actually rested right above 0:18:02.520 --> 0:18:03.560 the heart of Paton. 0:18:03.840 --> 0:18:06.320 That's incredibly wild. That's a good thing, all right. 0:18:06.800 --> 0:18:10.720 Next movie The Sting Classic. Have you seen this? You've 0:18:10.760 --> 0:18:11.600 never seen The Sting. 0:18:11.680 --> 0:18:12.840 I don't even know. It's about. 0:18:13.240 --> 0:18:18.440 Oh oh, Benjamin, Benjamin Benjamin the Sting. All time classic. 0:18:18.520 --> 0:18:21.160 Robert Redford, Paul Newman. They're they're con men. 0:18:21.720 --> 0:18:23.560 It is this is this is what I can really 0:18:23.640 --> 0:18:26.360 mess with. Wait. Newman does something outside of like Sasa. 0:18:27.359 --> 0:18:31.200 It is hysterical, it is beautifully done. Go and watch 0:18:31.359 --> 0:18:35.040 what's it about? It's about conman? Okay, and it's it's 0:18:35.080 --> 0:18:38.320 worth watching. I probably watched it one hundred times. It's 0:18:38.680 --> 0:18:39.920 such a good movie. 0:18:40.240 --> 0:18:42.920 All right. Next movie Awakenings. 0:18:43.240 --> 0:18:45.760 Yes, I've seen that, so Awake. It's only one. 0:18:45.880 --> 0:18:48.440 So Awakenings is fabulous. Robert de Niro. 0:18:49.000 --> 0:18:49.960 You're a de Niro fan. 0:18:50.080 --> 0:18:52.119 I like de Niro a lot. Not a fan of 0:18:52.160 --> 0:18:53.760 his politics, but a big fan of his acting. 0:18:53.880 --> 0:18:54.560