1 00:00:01,280 --> 00:00:01,680 Speaker 1: Welcome. 2 00:00:01,800 --> 00:00:05,040 Speaker 2: It is Verdicus Center, Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you. 3 00:00:05,080 --> 00:00:07,920 Speaker 2: It's so nice to have you listening today on this 4 00:00:08,160 --> 00:00:12,000 Speaker 2: fourth of July weekend. And we're gonna have a little 5 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:16,079 Speaker 2: fun with today's show because it is look for the 6 00:00:16,200 --> 00:00:19,840 Speaker 2: July a lot of families hanging out having fun watching movies. 7 00:00:20,480 --> 00:00:23,040 Speaker 2: And there was a list that came out and it 8 00:00:23,239 --> 00:00:27,120 Speaker 2: irritated Center Ted Cruz the point where we're now doing 9 00:00:27,120 --> 00:00:29,120 Speaker 2: a show over it, which makes me laugh. 10 00:00:29,160 --> 00:00:29,640 Speaker 1: I love this. 11 00:00:29,840 --> 00:00:32,200 Speaker 2: We're gonna you're gonna get see the real Center Ted 12 00:00:32,280 --> 00:00:35,640 Speaker 2: Cruse in this show, which makes me very happy. This 13 00:00:35,720 --> 00:00:37,879 Speaker 2: list came out, you were a little cranky about it, 14 00:00:37,880 --> 00:00:38,440 Speaker 2: and I love it. 15 00:00:38,840 --> 00:00:40,479 Speaker 3: Well, let me say to everyone, I hope you're having 16 00:00:40,479 --> 00:00:43,720 Speaker 3: a fantastic Fourth of July weekend. I hope you're celebrating 17 00:00:43,800 --> 00:00:48,240 Speaker 3: America's birthday. I hope you're you're grilling hot dogs and 18 00:00:48,640 --> 00:00:52,040 Speaker 3: burgers in the backyard and playing with your kids. By 19 00:00:52,040 --> 00:00:53,880 Speaker 3: the way, if you are grilling burgers, I hope you're 20 00:00:53,920 --> 00:00:56,000 Speaker 3: doing a better job of it than Chuck Schumer does. 21 00:00:56,080 --> 00:00:58,320 Speaker 3: Do not put the cheese on the burger while the 22 00:00:58,360 --> 00:01:02,600 Speaker 3: burger is still raw. That that that's a rookie mistake. 23 00:01:03,240 --> 00:01:07,479 Speaker 3: But if you're anything like me, holiday weekends, what I 24 00:01:07,560 --> 00:01:09,520 Speaker 3: love to do is go to the movies. When I 25 00:01:09,560 --> 00:01:11,280 Speaker 3: was a kid, I went to the movies with my 26 00:01:11,360 --> 00:01:14,039 Speaker 3: mom my dad all the time. And I love movies. 27 00:01:14,040 --> 00:01:17,080 Speaker 3: And it happened this past week that the New York 28 00:01:17,120 --> 00:01:20,959 Speaker 3: Times put out this list of the top thirty best 29 00:01:21,040 --> 00:01:24,400 Speaker 3: films of the twenty first century, according to over five 30 00:01:24,480 --> 00:01:28,679 Speaker 3: hundred actors, directors, and other names in Hollywood. And I 31 00:01:28,720 --> 00:01:30,920 Speaker 3: got to say, this is the worst list I have 32 00:01:31,080 --> 00:01:35,480 Speaker 3: ever seen. This is a list of a bunch of politicized, 33 00:01:35,600 --> 00:01:40,240 Speaker 3: woke feet, out of touch Hollywood types, and no wonder 34 00:01:40,720 --> 00:01:43,680 Speaker 3: the movie business is in trouble because most of these 35 00:01:43,720 --> 00:01:46,920 Speaker 3: movies nobody's seen, and the movies that people go to 36 00:01:47,040 --> 00:01:48,560 Speaker 3: don't make the list. So I'm just going to read 37 00:01:48,560 --> 00:01:54,760 Speaker 3: you their top thirty, starting with number thirty. Lost in Translation, Arrival, 38 00:01:55,240 --> 00:01:59,920 Speaker 3: The Dark Night Adaptation, Anatomy of a Fall, Phantom Thread, 39 00:02:00,360 --> 00:02:05,600 Speaker 3: Her Boyhood, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Royal Tenenbaums, Wolf 40 00:02:05,640 --> 00:02:11,480 Speaker 3: of Wall Street, Zodiac, Ethu, Mama, ta'm Ying, Broke Back Mountain, 41 00:02:12,120 --> 00:02:17,560 Speaker 3: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, City of God, Inglorious, Bastards, Children 42 00:02:17,560 --> 00:02:21,119 Speaker 3: of Men, The Zone of Interest, mad Max, Fury Road, 43 00:02:21,440 --> 00:02:26,639 Speaker 3: The Social Network, Spirited Away, Get Out, Eternal Sunshine of 44 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:31,560 Speaker 3: the Spotless Mind, No Country for Old Men, Moonlight in 45 00:02:31,639 --> 00:02:35,440 Speaker 3: the Mood for Love, There Will Be Blood, Mulholland Drive. 46 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:38,639 Speaker 3: And the number one movie of the last twenty five 47 00:02:38,760 --> 00:02:42,519 Speaker 3: years according to the New York Times, is Parasite. Now, 48 00:02:42,560 --> 00:02:44,920 Speaker 3: I gotta say there's some good movies on that list. 49 00:02:44,919 --> 00:02:49,400 Speaker 3: They're not all dogs, but number one i'd be willing 50 00:02:49,480 --> 00:02:51,960 Speaker 3: to bet of that list. Have you seen more than 51 00:02:51,960 --> 00:02:52,760 Speaker 3: five of those movies? 52 00:02:52,760 --> 00:02:56,240 Speaker 1: Ben Ah, I have seen maybe five. 53 00:02:56,480 --> 00:02:59,359 Speaker 2: There's a couple like Inglorious Bastards that I've watched that 54 00:02:59,440 --> 00:03:00,000 Speaker 2: was pretty good. 55 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:01,240 Speaker 1: I don't throw that one in there. 56 00:03:01,480 --> 00:03:03,880 Speaker 2: But overall I would have to google the majority of 57 00:03:03,919 --> 00:03:06,119 Speaker 2: the list you just read right, Like the majority, I'd 58 00:03:06,160 --> 00:03:06,600 Speaker 2: have to google. 59 00:03:06,639 --> 00:03:08,360 Speaker 1: Make what is this? They were not on my top 60 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:09,040 Speaker 1: list at all. 61 00:03:09,800 --> 00:03:13,520 Speaker 3: Well, it is a pretentious list, and it's a list 62 00:03:13,560 --> 00:03:16,880 Speaker 3: with an agenda, and I actually liked so. Twitter was 63 00:03:16,919 --> 00:03:19,320 Speaker 3: going back and forth about it. And there's this fellow 64 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:23,400 Speaker 3: named Mike Henry who asked chat gpt to analyze that 65 00:03:23,480 --> 00:03:26,840 Speaker 3: list of film look for similarities and rank the films 66 00:03:26,880 --> 00:03:29,400 Speaker 3: by how woke they are, and it came up with 67 00:03:30,880 --> 00:03:34,760 Speaker 3: tier one. These are straight up ideological vehicles. Message is 68 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:38,680 Speaker 3: greater than story and according to chat GPT, number five 69 00:03:38,720 --> 00:03:44,560 Speaker 3: Moonlight is about black queer identity, poverty, masculinity, deconstruction, Get Out, 70 00:03:44,680 --> 00:03:47,640 Speaker 3: number eight is about white liberal racism, body autonomy and 71 00:03:47,720 --> 00:03:53,240 Speaker 3: performative allyship. Number one Parasite is about anti capitalism, class warfare, 72 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:57,600 Speaker 3: rich equals evil symbolism. Number twelve the zone of interest 73 00:03:57,600 --> 00:04:02,560 Speaker 3: Holocaust reimagined via ambient horror or villainy through banality. Number 74 00:04:02,600 --> 00:04:05,960 Speaker 3: seventeen Broke Back abount and least surprising movie on the 75 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:09,120 Speaker 3: list if all was putting it together, and that is 76 00:04:09,480 --> 00:04:13,840 Speaker 3: according to chat GPT, about queer repression, masculinity and rural stigma. 77 00:04:14,640 --> 00:04:19,600 Speaker 3: Number eighteen itavamataming, sexual liberation, political awakening, class divide, and 78 00:04:19,720 --> 00:04:26,160 Speaker 3: number thirteen Children of Men, anti fascist immigration, dystopian surveillance society. 79 00:04:27,520 --> 00:04:31,799 Speaker 3: That's what they went with. Politics instead of good movies, 80 00:04:32,480 --> 00:04:36,440 Speaker 3: instead of movies people like, instead of movies that inspire you, 81 00:04:36,920 --> 00:04:39,440 Speaker 3: instead of movies that make you laugh, instead of movies 82 00:04:39,440 --> 00:04:42,480 Speaker 3: that make you hug your kids. And so I decided 83 00:04:43,320 --> 00:04:45,039 Speaker 3: to come up with my own list, I will say. 84 00:04:45,360 --> 00:04:48,080 Speaker 3: A number of reporters called and said, all right, all right, 85 00:04:48,360 --> 00:04:51,480 Speaker 3: you don't like this one, what's your alternative? And listen, 86 00:04:51,720 --> 00:04:54,240 Speaker 3: We're going to put out a list of thirty. And 87 00:04:54,279 --> 00:04:56,600 Speaker 3: I'm not going to claim it is the definitive list 88 00:04:56,640 --> 00:04:59,320 Speaker 3: of the thirty greatest films of the last twenty five years, 89 00:04:59,320 --> 00:05:02,800 Speaker 3: but the aready excellent movies that came out in the 90 00:05:02,880 --> 00:05:05,560 Speaker 3: last twenty five years. And I tried to think about 91 00:05:05,560 --> 00:05:08,200 Speaker 3: how to do it, because you know, I do actually 92 00:05:08,240 --> 00:05:10,080 Speaker 3: have a day drik job and I'm not a film critic. 93 00:05:11,160 --> 00:05:12,880 Speaker 3: So what I did is I went and printed out 94 00:05:12,920 --> 00:05:15,200 Speaker 3: a list of all of the nominees for the Academy 95 00:05:15,240 --> 00:05:17,800 Speaker 3: Awards for Best Picture each of the last twenty five years. 96 00:05:17,839 --> 00:05:20,800 Speaker 3: I figured, okay, that's a good place to start, and 97 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:23,400 Speaker 3: starting in two thousand and one for the two thousand movies, 98 00:05:23,440 --> 00:05:25,440 Speaker 3: the winner of Best Picture in two thousand and one, 99 00:05:25,480 --> 00:05:30,880 Speaker 3: any idea, ben no clue. Gladiator one of the best 100 00:05:30,960 --> 00:05:34,520 Speaker 3: movies ever made. It is in my top ten all time, 101 00:05:34,560 --> 00:05:37,960 Speaker 3: if not top five. And these idiots didn't put Gladiator 102 00:05:37,960 --> 00:05:38,440 Speaker 3: on the list. 103 00:05:39,320 --> 00:05:41,280 Speaker 2: That doesn't surprise me, though, Like I feel like, if 104 00:05:41,279 --> 00:05:43,599 Speaker 2: it's a movie that just makes you smile or makes 105 00:05:43,640 --> 00:05:46,240 Speaker 2: you excited or happy. You're like, no, no, no, can't have 106 00:05:46,320 --> 00:05:48,719 Speaker 2: that movie on the list, right, like, because that would 107 00:05:48,760 --> 00:05:50,120 Speaker 2: just be too normal, insane. 108 00:05:50,760 --> 00:05:54,680 Speaker 3: Gladiator was an extraordinary, fantastic movie. I can't watch it 109 00:05:54,720 --> 00:05:57,120 Speaker 3: at enough times. It's perfectly done. You know what also 110 00:05:57,160 --> 00:05:58,960 Speaker 3: came out in two thousand. It didn't get nominated to 111 00:05:58,960 --> 00:06:01,280 Speaker 3: the Academy Awards, but it came out the same year, 112 00:06:01,279 --> 00:06:05,880 Speaker 3: you know what movie The Patriot, which is another fantastic, 113 00:06:05,960 --> 00:06:09,880 Speaker 3: amazing movie. It is an amazing movie. It also makes 114 00:06:09,920 --> 00:06:12,600 Speaker 3: my top ten. It's not on their list, both of them. 115 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:14,560 Speaker 3: So two thousand was a good year for movies. You 116 00:06:14,600 --> 00:06:19,920 Speaker 3: had both The Patriot and Gladiator come out that year. Fantastic, uplifting, 117 00:06:20,680 --> 00:06:23,520 Speaker 3: nowhere on their list. How about two thousand and one? 118 00:06:24,279 --> 00:06:26,520 Speaker 3: Two thousand and one, just from the list of Academy 119 00:06:26,520 --> 00:06:29,919 Speaker 3: Award nominees, the winner was A Beautiful Mind, which is 120 00:06:29,960 --> 00:06:36,280 Speaker 3: a great, powerful, touching movie. Doesn't make their list. Also 121 00:06:36,400 --> 00:06:39,680 Speaker 3: that year in the Academy Award, didn't win it, but 122 00:06:39,800 --> 00:06:42,560 Speaker 3: came out that year was Bulan Rouge, which was a musical. 123 00:06:42,600 --> 00:06:44,160 Speaker 3: It was fun, it was interesting. 124 00:06:45,160 --> 00:06:45,839 Speaker 1: I laughed. 125 00:06:47,279 --> 00:06:49,800 Speaker 3: It's a good movie. All right, doesn't make their list. 126 00:06:50,720 --> 00:06:53,520 Speaker 3: How about two thousand and two, two thousand and two, 127 00:06:54,960 --> 00:06:57,080 Speaker 3: there are two of the movies that the winner for 128 00:06:57,160 --> 00:07:02,520 Speaker 3: Best Picture was Chicago. Chicago is a great musical. You've 129 00:07:02,560 --> 00:07:06,080 Speaker 3: got Rick Richard Gear. I still like when he when 130 00:07:06,080 --> 00:07:08,240 Speaker 3: he is trying to get out of trouble and goes 131 00:07:08,240 --> 00:07:12,120 Speaker 3: and now a tap dance. And I will say more 132 00:07:12,120 --> 00:07:14,400 Speaker 3: than once, when I have been in trouble at home 133 00:07:14,400 --> 00:07:16,120 Speaker 3: with Heidi, I sort of think of Richard Gear going 134 00:07:16,200 --> 00:07:17,400 Speaker 3: and now a tap dance. 135 00:07:18,560 --> 00:07:21,360 Speaker 2: Also that year. All right, I got one thousand and two. 136 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:25,040 Speaker 2: We gotta hit pause here. I'm noticing a trend. Hold on, 137 00:07:25,040 --> 00:07:26,880 Speaker 2: You're not getting out of jail on this one. All right, 138 00:07:26,880 --> 00:07:28,920 Speaker 2: I got it. There's a trend here. Are you a 139 00:07:29,120 --> 00:07:32,800 Speaker 2: Broadway musical guy? I'm not making fun I just have 140 00:07:32,880 --> 00:07:35,560 Speaker 2: never asked you this question before. I've gone to I 141 00:07:35,600 --> 00:07:39,960 Speaker 2: don't know, maybe four or five you know plays. Hamilton's 142 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:42,320 Speaker 2: one of them, for example, that I've seen. Wicked was 143 00:07:42,360 --> 00:07:43,960 Speaker 2: another one. Most of the time, it's going to New 144 00:07:44,080 --> 00:07:46,800 Speaker 2: York with my wife and we'll go see a play 145 00:07:46,840 --> 00:07:49,960 Speaker 2: because that's on her list. But I'm noticing a trend here. 146 00:07:50,080 --> 00:07:51,880 Speaker 2: Do you like will you go to the Kennedy Center 147 00:07:51,880 --> 00:07:53,080 Speaker 2: this year for some of the plays. 148 00:07:53,600 --> 00:07:56,200 Speaker 3: Absolutely hell, yes, And in fact I have already. I 149 00:07:56,240 --> 00:07:58,560 Speaker 3: saw Le Miz just a couple of weeks ago in 150 00:07:58,600 --> 00:08:02,480 Speaker 3: the Kennedy Center. It was fantastastic Ley Miz, Ley Miz 151 00:08:02,640 --> 00:08:05,720 Speaker 3: or Hamilton or I think the two greatest musicals ever died. 152 00:08:05,800 --> 00:08:08,920 Speaker 3: I love Le Miz. In fact, I'll tell you a 153 00:08:08,960 --> 00:08:13,000 Speaker 3: story in just a minute about Ley Miz. Back when 154 00:08:13,040 --> 00:08:16,520 Speaker 3: I was living for the summer in New York after 155 00:08:16,520 --> 00:08:20,600 Speaker 3: my first year of law school. I'm living there and 156 00:08:20,720 --> 00:08:25,000 Speaker 3: I send my mother an airplane ticket via FedEx flyer 157 00:08:25,080 --> 00:08:27,280 Speaker 3: to New York, take her to Le Miz, take her 158 00:08:27,280 --> 00:08:31,679 Speaker 3: to see Camelot, and take her out to a fancy dinner. 159 00:08:31,680 --> 00:08:33,760 Speaker 3: We had a great weekend, just just my mom and me. 160 00:08:34,480 --> 00:08:36,880 Speaker 3: Also in two thousand and two was Gangs in New York. 161 00:08:36,920 --> 00:08:39,839 Speaker 3: It didn't win Best Picture, but great film. Daniel day 162 00:08:39,920 --> 00:08:43,719 Speaker 3: Lewis rough Rugged, really well done. The next year, two 163 00:08:43,800 --> 00:08:45,959 Speaker 3: thousand and three, the Best Picture winner was Lord of 164 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:48,480 Speaker 3: the Rings Return of the King. All three of the 165 00:08:48,480 --> 00:08:50,840 Speaker 3: Lord of the Rings movies came out in the two thousands. 166 00:08:50,920 --> 00:08:53,480 Speaker 3: All three were nominated for Best Picture, only number three 167 00:08:53,600 --> 00:08:56,200 Speaker 3: one none of them make the list. All three of 168 00:08:56,240 --> 00:09:01,240 Speaker 3: them are great movies, fantastic adaptations of of probably the 169 00:09:01,280 --> 00:09:05,640 Speaker 3: greatest fantasy book ever written. All right, let's move forward 170 00:09:05,679 --> 00:09:08,640 Speaker 3: to two thousand and six. Two thousand and six, a 171 00:09:08,679 --> 00:09:10,600 Speaker 3: movie that came out that is not on this list 172 00:09:10,600 --> 00:09:14,400 Speaker 3: and should be is a movie called Amazing Grace. Amazing Grace. 173 00:09:14,440 --> 00:09:16,360 Speaker 3: If you haven't seen it, I would recommend you go 174 00:09:16,400 --> 00:09:18,199 Speaker 3: see it. I'd recommend you take your kids to it. 175 00:09:18,760 --> 00:09:23,160 Speaker 3: Amazing Grace is the true story of William Wilberforce. William 176 00:09:23,160 --> 00:09:27,480 Speaker 3: Wilberforce was a Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom 177 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:31,760 Speaker 3: and he led the fight to end the slave trade 178 00:09:31,800 --> 00:09:35,560 Speaker 3: in Britain and Britain at the time, the slave trade 179 00:09:35,600 --> 00:09:40,760 Speaker 3: was the leading industry in the UK and Wilberforce, as 180 00:09:40,800 --> 00:09:43,960 Speaker 3: a young MP, he leads the fight and it is inspirational, 181 00:09:44,040 --> 00:09:47,600 Speaker 3: it is powerful, and at the end of his life 182 00:09:47,640 --> 00:09:51,959 Speaker 3: he succeeds in getting the slave trade abolished. And do 183 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:54,760 Speaker 3: you know where the title comes from? Ben, Where's that 184 00:09:55,400 --> 00:09:58,200 Speaker 3: the title of the movie, Amazing Grace comes from? Of course, 185 00:09:58,679 --> 00:10:03,040 Speaker 3: the Great Gospel him Amazing Grace. Uh. The person who 186 00:10:03,080 --> 00:10:06,840 Speaker 3: wrote it, who was a friar, was friends with Wilberforce, 187 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:11,760 Speaker 3: and before he became a friar, he had been the 188 00:10:11,920 --> 00:10:15,440 Speaker 3: captain of a slave ship. And you think of the 189 00:10:15,480 --> 00:10:19,360 Speaker 3: words of amazing grace, amazing grace, how sweet the sound 190 00:10:19,400 --> 00:10:22,760 Speaker 3: that saved a wretch like me. I once was lost 191 00:10:22,800 --> 00:10:25,800 Speaker 3: but now I'm found. Was blind, but now I see, 192 00:10:25,840 --> 00:10:28,520 Speaker 3: and you think like it. It is hard to think 193 00:10:28,559 --> 00:10:31,400 Speaker 3: of a more evil profession than being the captain of 194 00:10:31,400 --> 00:10:34,640 Speaker 3: a slave ship. He had murdered people, he had whipped people, 195 00:10:34,720 --> 00:10:38,599 Speaker 3: he had obviously enslaved people, and yet he repented and 196 00:10:39,960 --> 00:10:42,679 Speaker 3: became a friar and gave his life to Christ. And 197 00:10:42,720 --> 00:10:46,680 Speaker 3: that you think of the guilt and horror and evil 198 00:10:46,760 --> 00:10:50,640 Speaker 3: that man had committed. To write maybe the greatest, greatest 199 00:10:50,679 --> 00:10:54,760 Speaker 3: him ever ever written. That's where the title comes from. 200 00:10:54,840 --> 00:10:58,080 Speaker 3: That it's from a book by Eric but Texas. Fantastic movie, 201 00:10:58,120 --> 00:10:59,840 Speaker 3: of course, not on the New York Times list. 202 00:11:00,960 --> 00:11:04,079 Speaker 1: You look at these movies that are left off, and I'm. 203 00:11:03,600 --> 00:11:07,560 Speaker 2: A true story guy. I love true stories. There are 204 00:11:07,640 --> 00:11:10,760 Speaker 2: some movies that I just I think of instantly. If 205 00:11:10,760 --> 00:11:13,240 Speaker 2: someone said, hey, give me ten movies that you got 206 00:11:13,240 --> 00:11:15,679 Speaker 2: to see. One of those, I don't know if you've 207 00:11:15,679 --> 00:11:18,840 Speaker 2: ever watched it. Man on Fire with Denzel Washington. True story, 208 00:11:18,880 --> 00:11:23,840 Speaker 2: actually great movie, incredible movie, and I go to those 209 00:11:23,920 --> 00:11:28,679 Speaker 2: and Saving Private Ryan, I go, you know, these are 210 00:11:28,679 --> 00:11:31,400 Speaker 2: the types of movies that I watch over and over again, 211 00:11:31,520 --> 00:11:34,880 Speaker 2: and it's like Hollywood hates them, and they were successful. 212 00:11:35,280 --> 00:11:39,000 Speaker 3: Well, and Saving Private Ryan is another phenomenal movie. And 213 00:11:39,520 --> 00:11:42,840 Speaker 3: I went last year to Normandy for the eightieth anniversary 214 00:11:42,880 --> 00:11:44,480 Speaker 3: of D Day and I actually got to meet Tom 215 00:11:44,520 --> 00:11:48,360 Speaker 3: Hanks and Steven Spielberg. And look, both of their politics 216 00:11:48,440 --> 00:11:50,400 Speaker 3: are are left. But I said to both of them, 217 00:11:50,440 --> 00:11:53,920 Speaker 3: thank you, thank you for bringing bringing World War two 218 00:11:54,120 --> 00:11:57,240 Speaker 3: alive to so many people. And I will say the 219 00:11:57,280 --> 00:12:01,360 Speaker 3: first thirty minutes of Saving Private Ryan, when they're landing 220 00:12:01,400 --> 00:12:05,040 Speaker 3: on that beach and the war, I will tell you 221 00:12:05,080 --> 00:12:09,040 Speaker 3: that genuinely changed my view about war. Listen, I've never 222 00:12:09,040 --> 00:12:11,720 Speaker 3: served in the military. I've never been in combat. And 223 00:12:11,760 --> 00:12:13,440 Speaker 3: you know, look, when you're growing up as a kid, 224 00:12:13,480 --> 00:12:15,280 Speaker 3: as a young boy, you're like, Okay, if I was 225 00:12:15,320 --> 00:12:17,280 Speaker 3: in war, I'd be tough and I'd try to survive. 226 00:12:18,280 --> 00:12:21,360 Speaker 3: And one of the things that opening thirty minutes for 227 00:12:21,480 --> 00:12:25,240 Speaker 3: me like made me see in a way I never 228 00:12:25,360 --> 00:12:28,800 Speaker 3: had before, was how utterly random it can be. One 229 00:12:28,880 --> 00:12:32,480 Speaker 3: guy is dead because his head was in the wrong place. 230 00:12:32,480 --> 00:12:34,000 Speaker 3: And if his head had been six inches to the 231 00:12:34,080 --> 00:12:36,480 Speaker 3: left or right, he'd still be alive. And just the 232 00:12:36,800 --> 00:12:40,320 Speaker 3: utter randomness and brutality of it. And I'll tell you 233 00:12:40,360 --> 00:12:43,959 Speaker 3: something interesting, Ben, My uncle was a Vietnam vet and 234 00:12:44,200 --> 00:12:46,760 Speaker 3: he spent about forty years as a counselor at the VA. 235 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:50,560 Speaker 3: And he said when the movie Saving Private Ryan came out, 236 00:12:51,600 --> 00:12:54,680 Speaker 3: it was the first movie that had gotten the sound 237 00:12:54,960 --> 00:12:58,760 Speaker 3: of warfare right, the sound of gunshots and ricochet. And 238 00:12:59,040 --> 00:13:02,280 Speaker 3: my uncle said he had that's who'd been at Vietnam, 239 00:13:02,320 --> 00:13:04,920 Speaker 3: and the movie triggered their PTSD. They were back in 240 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:07,760 Speaker 3: combat and they would come in and and and seek 241 00:13:07,840 --> 00:13:10,400 Speaker 3: counseling because it brought them back. And I mean, that's 242 00:13:10,440 --> 00:13:14,040 Speaker 3: the power of cinema to trans transport you to a 243 00:13:14,080 --> 00:13:16,880 Speaker 3: different life, a different time, a different world. And and 244 00:13:16,880 --> 00:13:20,840 Speaker 3: and it's it's powerful and beautiful if it's not just 245 00:13:20,840 --> 00:13:25,800 Speaker 3: just a agenda for left wing propagandizing. 246 00:13:26,440 --> 00:13:29,160 Speaker 2: Yeah, and you go back to, as you mentioned, propagandizing, 247 00:13:29,240 --> 00:13:32,400 Speaker 2: and that's one of the core things here. I also 248 00:13:32,600 --> 00:13:35,000 Speaker 2: look at some of these movies that are on this list, 249 00:13:35,679 --> 00:13:38,680 Speaker 2: and they do have just a disdain also for family. 250 00:13:39,040 --> 00:13:41,560 Speaker 2: Did you notice that, like it's it's the extreme of 251 00:13:41,640 --> 00:13:45,080 Speaker 2: Hollywood that they're promoting is quote the best. 252 00:13:45,679 --> 00:13:51,000 Speaker 3: No, I think that's exactly right, and and it's there 253 00:13:51,240 --> 00:13:55,000 Speaker 3: is look the fact that people don't go see these movies. 254 00:13:55,040 --> 00:13:57,000 Speaker 3: People like to see movies there. There are a lot 255 00:13:57,040 --> 00:14:02,720 Speaker 3: of big blockbusters. It's just the folks running Hollywood don't 256 00:14:02,760 --> 00:14:06,320 Speaker 3: actually like anything that that that moviegoers go go see. 257 00:14:06,360 --> 00:14:08,280 Speaker 3: You know, if you move on to to two thousand 258 00:14:08,280 --> 00:14:10,040 Speaker 3: and seven, two thousand and eight, two thousand and nine, 259 00:14:10,920 --> 00:14:13,920 Speaker 3: a couple that were on the list, No Country for 260 00:14:13,960 --> 00:14:16,160 Speaker 3: old Men, great movie. I agree with them on that 261 00:14:16,280 --> 00:14:19,560 Speaker 3: there will be blood another excellent movie. One of the 262 00:14:19,600 --> 00:14:22,120 Speaker 3: movies they left off was that Departed. Departed as a 263 00:14:22,200 --> 00:14:27,440 Speaker 3: great great story and in fighting organized crime, and it 264 00:14:27,640 --> 00:14:31,040 Speaker 3: really well done. And then one another one they included 265 00:14:31,040 --> 00:14:33,480 Speaker 3: that I agree that I agree with is The Dark Knight. 266 00:14:33,560 --> 00:14:36,600 Speaker 3: And The Dark Knight I got to say, was a 267 00:14:36,640 --> 00:14:42,080 Speaker 3: fantastic superhero movie. Yes, but but Heath Ledger's Joker was 268 00:14:42,280 --> 00:14:45,000 Speaker 3: twisted it. I think it will go down as one 269 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:49,440 Speaker 3: of the greatest villain portrayals in cinema. It's right right 270 00:14:49,520 --> 00:14:51,800 Speaker 3: up there with with Hannibal Lecter. It's right up there 271 00:14:51,840 --> 00:14:58,000 Speaker 3: with Darth Vader of like classic all times. The creepy 272 00:14:58,280 --> 00:15:01,080 Speaker 3: nonchalance of the evil of he Ledger in Dark Knight 273 00:15:01,200 --> 00:15:03,040 Speaker 3: was truly spectacular. 274 00:15:04,200 --> 00:15:06,640 Speaker 2: All right, Senta, let's get back into it. I do 275 00:15:06,760 --> 00:15:09,720 Speaker 2: want to ask real quick, you're if you were on 276 00:15:09,760 --> 00:15:11,640 Speaker 2: a desert island. This is what I love doing shows 277 00:15:11,680 --> 00:15:14,480 Speaker 2: like this. You're on a desert island. You can only 278 00:15:14,600 --> 00:15:18,000 Speaker 2: take five DVDs with you. Now, I've given you a 279 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:21,560 Speaker 2: Blu Ray, but I'm giving you above VHS quality only five. 280 00:15:21,840 --> 00:15:23,720 Speaker 1: What five movies are you taking with you? 281 00:15:23,800 --> 00:15:27,080 Speaker 3: And why oh look, my number one favorite movie is 282 00:15:27,120 --> 00:15:29,800 Speaker 3: The Princess Bride. I've probably seen it one hundred times 283 00:15:29,880 --> 00:15:33,440 Speaker 3: or more. I would take the Godfather trilogy, and I 284 00:15:33,440 --> 00:15:38,120 Speaker 3: would take Scarface. Those are my top three. I might 285 00:15:38,160 --> 00:15:43,760 Speaker 3: well throw Fletch onto that list. Fletch is pretty fabulous, great, 286 00:15:44,040 --> 00:15:51,680 Speaker 3: great movie, funny as all get out. Early Eddie Murphy 287 00:15:51,720 --> 00:15:55,120 Speaker 3: I love just about everything, but Beverly Hills cop or 288 00:15:55,120 --> 00:15:57,920 Speaker 3: Trading Places are probably two of the very best early 289 00:15:58,040 --> 00:16:04,160 Speaker 3: Eddie Murphy that are just hysterical. So that Ingladiator might 290 00:16:04,160 --> 00:16:06,080 Speaker 3: well make the list. So so you know, I'm sort 291 00:16:06,120 --> 00:16:08,560 Speaker 3: of rejecting your hypo and taking more than five. But 292 00:16:08,560 --> 00:16:11,360 Speaker 3: but that's that would be the bag from which I 293 00:16:11,400 --> 00:16:11,840 Speaker 3: was pulling. 294 00:16:12,040 --> 00:16:14,680 Speaker 2: Ha ha, And you all right, I'm gonna I'm gonna 295 00:16:14,720 --> 00:16:16,600 Speaker 2: tell you there is a different there's a difference between 296 00:16:16,640 --> 00:16:19,040 Speaker 2: you and I. By the way, because in age, this 297 00:16:19,120 --> 00:16:22,440 Speaker 2: is when it shows, Senator, I have never seen the 298 00:16:22,520 --> 00:16:23,280 Speaker 2: movie Fletch. 299 00:16:23,480 --> 00:16:25,160 Speaker 1: I just googled it. As you said it. 300 00:16:25,160 --> 00:16:27,360 Speaker 2: It came out at nineteen eighty five. I was four 301 00:16:27,440 --> 00:16:30,360 Speaker 2: years old. You were obviously older than I am. Uh, 302 00:16:30,400 --> 00:16:32,080 Speaker 2: and we're able to see it. So I don't even 303 00:16:32,120 --> 00:16:33,360 Speaker 2: know what Fletch is about. 304 00:16:34,040 --> 00:16:36,840 Speaker 3: Okay, Ben, I love you, but you're a communist. You're 305 00:16:36,840 --> 00:16:41,880 Speaker 3: a philistine. You have been raised by wolves in a cave. 306 00:16:43,640 --> 00:16:47,560 Speaker 3: Go watch Fletch. It's Chevy Chase. It is hysterical. I've 307 00:16:47,600 --> 00:16:51,880 Speaker 3: probably seen Fletch fifty times. And and then you know, well, Grant, 308 00:16:51,880 --> 00:16:54,080 Speaker 3: who heads up my security detail. Grant and I are 309 00:16:54,080 --> 00:16:57,040 Speaker 3: about the same age, and I think the only way 310 00:16:57,080 --> 00:16:59,280 Speaker 3: Grant and I communicate is in movie quotes, most of 311 00:16:59,320 --> 00:17:02,360 Speaker 3: which are from Fletch. Like It's It's every line of it, 312 00:17:02,840 --> 00:17:06,160 Speaker 3: much like The Princess Bride. Every line of Fletch is exquisite. 313 00:17:06,560 --> 00:17:09,200 Speaker 1: So it's Chevy Chase. But what's the premise of the movie. 314 00:17:09,640 --> 00:17:14,240 Speaker 3: So Fletch Irwin Fletcher is an investigative reporter for the 315 00:17:14,400 --> 00:17:18,119 Speaker 3: La Times. But it's a comedy, and so he goes 316 00:17:18,200 --> 00:17:21,639 Speaker 3: under cover. But he wears all sorts of different outfits 317 00:17:21,640 --> 00:17:24,560 Speaker 3: on the beach and he's investigating drug dealing on the beach. 318 00:17:25,200 --> 00:17:29,480 Speaker 3: But it's just it's funny as hell. There are all 319 00:17:29,520 --> 00:17:32,840 Speaker 3: sorts of lines, love your body, Larry. It's all ball 320 00:17:32,880 --> 00:17:35,040 Speaker 3: bearings these days, none of it. This will make sense 321 00:17:35,480 --> 00:17:39,159 Speaker 3: without I will say one scene that that everyone who 322 00:17:39,200 --> 00:17:43,920 Speaker 3: knows the movie knows is Moon River. I will say 323 00:17:43,960 --> 00:17:47,159 Speaker 3: that that would That would be when when Fletch was 324 00:17:47,160 --> 00:17:53,600 Speaker 3: getting an exam and he does does say to the doctor, 325 00:17:54,720 --> 00:17:57,080 Speaker 3: ever do time. Doc at the end of the day 326 00:17:57,119 --> 00:17:59,399 Speaker 3: said I'm sorry, I couldn't find anything. Well, it's not 327 00:17:59,440 --> 00:18:00,320 Speaker 3: for lack of looking. 328 00:18:02,600 --> 00:18:04,720 Speaker 2: All right, you're convinced me. Now I need to watch 329 00:18:04,720 --> 00:18:07,080 Speaker 2: this movie. I just hope they still have it out there. 330 00:18:07,280 --> 00:18:08,720 Speaker 2: It may have to borrow. Do you have it on 331 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:11,560 Speaker 2: HS or or is it like Beta CAS. 332 00:18:11,400 --> 00:18:13,840 Speaker 3: That's probably Beta max. Like like there's a point where 333 00:18:14,440 --> 00:18:17,240 Speaker 3: Fletch falls asleep and he's sleeping and dreaming and he's 334 00:18:17,240 --> 00:18:20,400 Speaker 3: watching a Lakers game and he and he Irwin Fletcher, 335 00:18:20,480 --> 00:18:23,439 Speaker 3: the star of the Lakers six' five six' nine with, 336 00:18:23,480 --> 00:18:25,880 Speaker 3: the afro and it has him flying through the air 337 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:30,600 Speaker 3: and like biting people's arms. And defense it's it is 338 00:18:31,040 --> 00:18:33,960 Speaker 3: one of the best comedies. Ever written but it is not. 339 00:18:34,560 --> 00:18:38,280 Speaker 3: The last back To The. Hollywood list let's get to 340 00:18:38,280 --> 00:18:40,639 Speaker 3: two thousand and Eight And. Glorious bastards they put it on. 341 00:18:40,680 --> 00:18:44,560 Speaker 3: Their list, they're right. Terrific Movie. Quentin tarantino just About 342 00:18:44,560 --> 00:18:48,760 Speaker 3: everything tarantino does. Is great he's a. Fabulous Writer But 343 00:18:48,960 --> 00:18:52,200 Speaker 3: glorious bastards is a Great pro america film About killing 344 00:18:52,440 --> 00:18:57,639 Speaker 3: Nazis or Nazis as Brad Put brad pitt, Puts it Nazi. 345 00:18:57,800 --> 00:19:05,080 Speaker 3: KILLING nazis, i mean it's it's exquisite. And powerful. All 346 00:19:05,160 --> 00:19:07,400 Speaker 3: right go to. Twenty eleven another movie that came out 347 00:19:07,400 --> 00:19:10,120 Speaker 3: in twenty Eleven With brad pitt And. A moneyball you're 348 00:19:10,160 --> 00:19:12,520 Speaker 3: a big. Sports. Guy moneyball both the book and the 349 00:19:12,840 --> 00:19:17,480 Speaker 3: movie changed, true story but changed till everyone thought about 350 00:19:17,480 --> 00:19:18,679 Speaker 3: baseball and putting a baseball. 351 00:19:18,680 --> 00:19:21,360 Speaker 2: Team together, All right so you're gonna laugh So at 352 00:19:21,400 --> 00:19:25,879 Speaker 2: moneyball came OUT and i Love Again, True stories like 353 00:19:25,920 --> 00:19:28,040 Speaker 2: if it Says, true story there's a ninete Percent chance 354 00:19:28,080 --> 00:19:28,480 Speaker 2: i'm gonna go. 355 00:19:28,520 --> 00:19:32,040 Speaker 1: SEE it I. Love sports the movie comes OUT and 356 00:19:32,520 --> 00:19:34,960 Speaker 1: i was so excited to. SEE it i kid. You 357 00:19:35,080 --> 00:19:38,880 Speaker 1: not my wife fell asleep in the. 358 00:19:38,920 --> 00:19:41,919 Speaker 2: MOVIE and i was, Like rivaged like that was one 359 00:19:41,920 --> 00:19:43,520 Speaker 2: of the most Boring movies i've ever seen in my. 360 00:19:43,640 --> 00:19:45,119 Speaker 1: Entire LIFE and i, was like how did you? 361 00:19:45,160 --> 00:19:48,320 Speaker 2: Fall asleep like this kid figured it out and then 362 00:19:48,440 --> 00:19:50,600 Speaker 2: like he got traded for him And It's, Brad pitt 363 00:19:50,640 --> 00:19:53,199 Speaker 2: like you should just stayed away Because It's brad pitt for. 364 00:19:53,280 --> 00:19:55,400 Speaker 2: Goodness sakes and she so to, THIS day i don't 365 00:19:55,400 --> 00:19:58,359 Speaker 2: think she's ever watched the. Entire movie i've probably watched 366 00:19:58,359 --> 00:20:00,560 Speaker 2: that movie Every time I'm. ON united i fly a 367 00:20:00,640 --> 00:20:03,720 Speaker 2: time You're, on united probably ninety percent, of time and 368 00:20:03,840 --> 00:20:06,520 Speaker 2: money balls on there right now on, Their flights AND 369 00:20:06,560 --> 00:20:07,920 Speaker 2: so i literally watched it like five. 370 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:10,880 Speaker 3: Days Ago and i'll, tell you by, The way heidi 371 00:20:10,960 --> 00:20:14,640 Speaker 3: falls asleep in just about. EVERY movie, i mean she 372 00:20:14,640 --> 00:20:16,960 Speaker 3: she doesn't, do movies and she can't sit still for. 373 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:19,160 Speaker 3: Two hours and if you put her in a dark 374 00:20:19,240 --> 00:20:21,320 Speaker 3: room with the, lights out she'll she'll be asleep within. 375 00:20:21,359 --> 00:20:23,119 Speaker 3: Ten minutes now you are going. 376 00:20:23,200 --> 00:20:25,200 Speaker 1: To movies by, THE way i. 377 00:20:25,160 --> 00:20:27,320 Speaker 3: Like being in. THE theater i like the, big screen, 378 00:20:27,440 --> 00:20:30,000 Speaker 3: the sound, the popcorn every bit. OF it i like the. 379 00:20:30,040 --> 00:20:32,840 Speaker 1: Real experience all, Right, now senator this and making a break. 380 00:20:32,840 --> 00:20:35,080 Speaker 2: Good question it's gonna it's gonna show how true you 381 00:20:35,160 --> 00:20:38,920 Speaker 2: are to the. Theater experience are you a must get 382 00:20:38,960 --> 00:20:43,359 Speaker 2: there for the, previews moviegoer or do you say the 383 00:20:43,440 --> 00:20:45,919 Speaker 2: movie says it starts, today Fifteen so i'm gonna get 384 00:20:45,960 --> 00:20:46,480 Speaker 2: there at eight. 385 00:20:46,600 --> 00:20:49,960 Speaker 3: TWENTY eight i usually sit through, the PREVIEWS but i 386 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:51,880 Speaker 3: don't Cry if i'm a few minutes late and miss 387 00:20:51,880 --> 00:20:54,600 Speaker 3: a preview. Or Two but i'm usually there pretty close to. 388 00:20:54,600 --> 00:20:57,919 Speaker 3: Dow time on the, BACK end i stay till the 389 00:20:58,000 --> 00:20:59,879 Speaker 3: very end of. THE credits i will. NOT leave i 390 00:21:00,160 --> 00:21:02,720 Speaker 3: view it as like there's a complete experience that the 391 00:21:02,800 --> 00:21:05,560 Speaker 3: artist to put. This together and so many of the 392 00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:08,159 Speaker 3: movies have like a tiny bit of content at the 393 00:21:08,240 --> 00:21:11,119 Speaker 3: end of. The, credits ANYWAY and i. LEARNED something i 394 00:21:11,200 --> 00:21:13,119 Speaker 3: read the CREDITS and i. LEARNED something i bet you 395 00:21:13,200 --> 00:21:15,600 Speaker 3: half THE movies I see i learn oh that was so, 396 00:21:15,720 --> 00:21:18,199 Speaker 3: and so or you just find interesting things in. 397 00:21:18,240 --> 00:21:22,080 Speaker 2: The, CREDITS hey i love that you're giving credit to 398 00:21:22,119 --> 00:21:24,240 Speaker 2: those that made. The movie well played on. That one, 399 00:21:24,240 --> 00:21:26,320 Speaker 2: all right let's get back to the list and where 400 00:21:26,320 --> 00:21:26,560 Speaker 2: they got? 401 00:21:26,720 --> 00:21:27,680 Speaker 1: Another? One? Maybe right? 402 00:21:28,480 --> 00:21:31,840 Speaker 3: All right Twenty Twelve zero dark thirty that did not make, 403 00:21:31,880 --> 00:21:34,040 Speaker 3: their list, of course not because it's a true story 404 00:21:34,040 --> 00:21:36,320 Speaker 3: of Taking out Osama. Bin laden it makes you Cheer 405 00:21:36,320 --> 00:21:38,960 Speaker 3: for america that could never make their list of the, 406 00:21:39,440 --> 00:21:41,199 Speaker 3: best Movies because america's got to be the. 407 00:21:41,200 --> 00:21:43,560 Speaker 2: Bad guy one of my, top five by, the way 408 00:21:43,560 --> 00:21:46,080 Speaker 2: on my List Is zero. DARK thirty i Bought the 409 00:21:46,119 --> 00:21:49,879 Speaker 2: blu ray right when it, came out paid full price 410 00:21:49,880 --> 00:21:52,080 Speaker 2: because that's HOW much i want to support movies like that. 411 00:21:52,160 --> 00:21:52,320 Speaker 1: Being. 412 00:21:52,359 --> 00:21:56,000 Speaker 3: Made amen, all right let's go to. Twenty thirteen the 413 00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:58,200 Speaker 3: Winner Of best picture of that Year Was twelve Years. 414 00:21:58,240 --> 00:22:04,200 Speaker 3: Of slave, great story true story About An african american 415 00:22:04,240 --> 00:22:07,880 Speaker 3: man who was kidnapped and sold into slavery and spent 416 00:22:07,920 --> 00:22:11,080 Speaker 3: twelve years as a slave. And escape it's an amazing 417 00:22:11,080 --> 00:22:13,679 Speaker 3: story and it's a. True story didn't make. Their List 418 00:22:14,520 --> 00:22:16,560 Speaker 3: the Wolf Of wall street that made, their LIST and, 419 00:22:16,560 --> 00:22:19,679 Speaker 3: I agree Wolf Of wall street. Was terrific it, was fun. 420 00:22:19,800 --> 00:22:22,879 Speaker 3: Great acting that's on their list and. Belongs There but 421 00:22:22,920 --> 00:22:26,080 Speaker 3: i'll tell you what didn't make their list, Same Year Dallas, 422 00:22:26,119 --> 00:22:32,040 Speaker 3: buyer's club, fantastic movie another true Story And Dallas. Bier's 423 00:22:32,080 --> 00:22:34,439 Speaker 3: club matthew McConaughey. 424 00:22:33,920 --> 00:22:35,280 Speaker 1: Is the, weight loss just the. 425 00:22:35,320 --> 00:22:40,080 Speaker 3: Weight, loss yeah so you've heard. THIS story i spent several, 426 00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:43,040 Speaker 3: years ago got to hang out With with matthew mcconniey 427 00:22:43,040 --> 00:22:45,040 Speaker 3: and spend spend a weekend with him and his wife 428 00:22:45,080 --> 00:22:48,439 Speaker 3: and his kids and another couple of their kids and 429 00:22:48,480 --> 00:22:52,480 Speaker 3: our kids and. Great guy really enjoyed getting to, know 430 00:22:52,560 --> 00:22:55,240 Speaker 3: him hanging out. With him but we talked. A lot 431 00:22:55,320 --> 00:22:57,359 Speaker 3: we Talked About Dallas, buyer's club and it's a true 432 00:22:57,400 --> 00:23:02,040 Speaker 3: story about a a guy in the Rodeo In fort 433 00:23:02,080 --> 00:23:05,840 Speaker 3: worth who gets injured and has a blood transfusion and 434 00:23:05,880 --> 00:23:10,679 Speaker 3: he ends UP GETTING Hiv aids and this is early 435 00:23:10,720 --> 00:23:13,879 Speaker 3: on IN the, aids crisis and so. He's dying there 436 00:23:13,880 --> 00:23:16,960 Speaker 3: are not a lot. Of treatments and. You're right for, 437 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:19,480 Speaker 3: the movie McConaughey lost i, don't know like forty. Fifty 438 00:23:19,480 --> 00:23:21,480 Speaker 3: pounds he was emaciated by the end of. The movie 439 00:23:22,040 --> 00:23:26,719 Speaker 3: but he began driving Down to mexico AND buying aids 440 00:23:26,840 --> 00:23:29,560 Speaker 3: medicines on the black Market in mexico and bringing them 441 00:23:29,600 --> 00:23:32,879 Speaker 3: Back to Dallas And fort worth and selling THEM to, 442 00:23:32,920 --> 00:23:38,040 Speaker 3: aids patients mostly gay men who HAD contracted aids in. 443 00:23:38,080 --> 00:23:40,960 Speaker 3: The EIGHTIES and i Was, TELLING matthew, i said, you 444 00:23:40,960 --> 00:23:44,920 Speaker 3: know that is a profoundly. Conservative movie and. He didn't 445 00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:47,680 Speaker 3: he didn't quite see it through. That lens but, you know, he, asked, 446 00:23:47,720 --> 00:23:49,680 Speaker 3: me well what do. YOU mean, I, say look it's 447 00:23:49,760 --> 00:23:55,160 Speaker 3: all about, government regulations ridiculous Regulations from washington that made 448 00:23:55,200 --> 00:23:58,600 Speaker 3: it illegal for people to get life, saving medicines medicines 449 00:23:58,640 --> 00:24:01,119 Speaker 3: they needed to have the right. To have i'm a 450 00:24:01,160 --> 00:24:05,000 Speaker 3: big believer in right. TO try i THINK the fda 451 00:24:05,160 --> 00:24:08,640 Speaker 3: puts huge barriers to getting medicines we ought to be able. 452 00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:10,920 Speaker 3: To have and it's a true story of in the 453 00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:16,160 Speaker 3: face of that, oppressive regulation this guy just went Down 454 00:24:16,240 --> 00:24:19,719 Speaker 3: to mexico and saved countless. People's lives it's just a, 455 00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:21,040 Speaker 3: fantastic movie. 456 00:24:21,240 --> 00:24:22,720 Speaker 1: All right so what's next on? The list? 457 00:24:23,720 --> 00:24:27,920 Speaker 3: All right in, Twenty Fourteen, american sniper another, true story 458 00:24:27,960 --> 00:24:30,720 Speaker 3: the Story Of, chris kyle SOMEONE actually i got, to 459 00:24:30,800 --> 00:24:34,360 Speaker 3: Know the navy's deadliest sniper that we, ever had sadly 460 00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:39,479 Speaker 3: was killed by a fellow VETERAN. With ptsd. Terrific movie 461 00:24:39,520 --> 00:24:43,000 Speaker 3: another movie that same Year Was The, imitation game another 462 00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:47,880 Speaker 3: true Story Of alan turing that the scientists who Cracked 463 00:24:48,040 --> 00:24:51,280 Speaker 3: the nazis code and helped Us Win World. War two. 464 00:24:51,560 --> 00:24:56,920 Speaker 3: Great movie neither of those make. Their, lists instead they 465 00:24:56,920 --> 00:24:59,119 Speaker 3: go with Movies where america is the bad guy and 466 00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:04,000 Speaker 3: anyone fighting To defend america's especially the. Bad guy, all 467 00:25:04,119 --> 00:25:06,320 Speaker 3: right so we've. Done twenty we have ten more to 468 00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:09,040 Speaker 3: do of movies that came out in the twenty. First 469 00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:13,080 Speaker 3: century in, twenty sixteen two movies, In particular, Number One, 470 00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:17,560 Speaker 3: hidden figures. Great movie. TERRIFIC movie i took, my wife, 471 00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:21,040 Speaker 3: my daughters my mom to see true story Of The 472 00:25:21,080 --> 00:25:26,159 Speaker 3: african american women mathematician who were FOUNDATIONAL to nasa going To. 473 00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:29,800 Speaker 3: The moon it's an. Amazing Story, and ben as, you 474 00:25:29,880 --> 00:25:32,800 Speaker 3: know my mom was also a mathematician at the dawn 475 00:25:32,880 --> 00:25:36,680 Speaker 3: of the. Computer Age hidden figures Begins with sputnik being 476 00:25:36,760 --> 00:25:40,800 Speaker 3: launched in the space race. Being started my mom in 477 00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:43,680 Speaker 3: the nineteen fifties worked At. The smithsonian one of her 478 00:25:43,680 --> 00:25:47,639 Speaker 3: first projects was helping to compute the Orbit. Of sputnik, 479 00:25:48,480 --> 00:25:52,240 Speaker 3: and actually in honor of, THIS movie i introduced legislation 480 00:25:52,320 --> 00:25:55,879 Speaker 3: that resulted in the street WHERE the nasa headquarters IS 481 00:25:55,920 --> 00:26:00,000 Speaker 3: in dc being Changed To hidden figures way to Honor 482 00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:05,800 Speaker 3: Those african american women mathematician who were foundational In our 483 00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:08,600 Speaker 3: going To. The moon it's Not on hollywood's, list either 484 00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:10,679 Speaker 3: but it's a, great movie and it's a fabulous. Family 485 00:26:10,720 --> 00:26:15,040 Speaker 3: movie another great, Family Movie La la land. Same year it's, 486 00:26:15,080 --> 00:26:18,920 Speaker 3: a musical, it's fun, it's light It's about hollywood. It 487 00:26:19,560 --> 00:26:22,320 Speaker 3: is it's a, terrific movie and yet it's nowhere on. 488 00:26:22,359 --> 00:26:26,879 Speaker 3: Their list. Twenty seventeen twenty seventeen a, Great Movie The 489 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:31,120 Speaker 3: Darkest Hour winston churchill in the Middle Of WORLD. War 490 00:26:31,160 --> 00:26:35,919 Speaker 3: Ii Powerful gary oldham does a terrific Portrayal. Of churchill highly. 491 00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:40,439 Speaker 3: Recommend it. Twenty Eighteen. Black Panther black panther was a. 492 00:26:40,520 --> 00:26:42,520 Speaker 3: Terrific movie it's a comic. Book movie but there's a 493 00:26:42,520 --> 00:26:45,080 Speaker 3: reason so many people go go go see them because they're. 494 00:26:45,080 --> 00:26:50,880 Speaker 3: Really good. Twenty nineteen once Upon a Time in Hollywood Another. 495 00:26:50,960 --> 00:26:54,840 Speaker 3: QUENTIN tarantino i thought it, was terrific. Loved It brad 496 00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:57,520 Speaker 3: pitt was in it. As Well, brad Pitt when tarantino is, 497 00:26:57,520 --> 00:27:02,399 Speaker 3: directing him is really. Really good you then get on 498 00:27:02,440 --> 00:27:06,479 Speaker 3: to twenty Twenty Two Top. Gun maverick just a great, 499 00:27:07,359 --> 00:27:10,600 Speaker 3: fun movie. Action film fun to go to the theater 500 00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:13,520 Speaker 3: and see the jets rocketing through the sky fighting the. 501 00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:17,640 Speaker 3: BAD guys i will note That no hollywood theater will 502 00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:20,159 Speaker 3: Now Make communist china the, bad guys because they all 503 00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:23,240 Speaker 3: want to sell Movies, in china so the bad guys 504 00:27:23,480 --> 00:27:28,800 Speaker 3: are always some made up. Fictional place onto twenty. Twenty 505 00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:32,639 Speaker 3: three two movies in twenty twenty three on, The. List 506 00:27:32,680 --> 00:27:39,200 Speaker 3: oppenheimer oppenheimer, was terrific, true, story, powerful interesting really. Well done, 507 00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:43,120 Speaker 3: Same year killers Of The flower moon another, true story, 508 00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:47,480 Speaker 3: really powerful. Well done, all right Pull. 509 00:27:47,560 --> 00:27:50,000 Speaker 2: THE scorture i missed that movie apparently when it. Came 510 00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:51,359 Speaker 2: out what's? It about Because now. 511 00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:55,359 Speaker 3: I'm Interested So martin scorsese. Did it and it's based 512 00:27:55,359 --> 00:27:57,680 Speaker 3: on a. True story so it's Set in oklahoma in the, 513 00:27:57,760 --> 00:28:01,680 Speaker 3: nineteen twenties and it focuses on a series of Murders 514 00:28:02,359 --> 00:28:06,800 Speaker 3: Of osage indians after oil is discovered on their. Tribal 515 00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:12,080 Speaker 3: lands and it's got a. Fabulous Cast leonardo DiCaprio's, In 516 00:28:12,119 --> 00:28:15,440 Speaker 3: it Robert de niro is, in it and look. It's 517 00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:20,720 Speaker 3: brutal it doesn't paint a pretty insanitized picture, of history but. 518 00:28:21,119 --> 00:28:26,480 Speaker 3: It is our history has moments, of brutality moments of evil, 519 00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:30,800 Speaker 3: and Oppression and scorsese can tell a story as well 520 00:28:30,840 --> 00:28:31,840 Speaker 3: as anyone in. 521 00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:34,880 Speaker 1: The, Business awesome i'm gonna have to grab that movie 522 00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:35,480 Speaker 1: and check. It out. 523 00:28:35,560 --> 00:28:39,200 Speaker 3: Keep, going well that takes us to Twenty eight and 524 00:28:39,640 --> 00:28:41,440 Speaker 3: for the LAST two, i said, YOU know, i figured, 525 00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:45,480 Speaker 3: all right who ought to decide what are really? Good 526 00:28:45,520 --> 00:28:47,880 Speaker 3: MOVIES and i came up with a, crazy idea how 527 00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:52,240 Speaker 3: about the? Ticket buyers AND so i just pulled what 528 00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:55,760 Speaker 3: are the top ten highest grossing films from twenty to twenty? 529 00:28:55,800 --> 00:28:59,320 Speaker 3: Twenty five any idea with the number one film of 530 00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:01,920 Speaker 3: the last twenty five years has been in terms of box, 531 00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:03,080 Speaker 3: Office dollars. 532 00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:05,840 Speaker 1: And god's a. HARD one i have no clue go. 533 00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:06,160 Speaker 1: For it. 534 00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:09,720 Speaker 3: I'm ready so number One is avatar two thousand and 535 00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:14,240 Speaker 3: nine and it brought in two point nine. Billion Dollars, 536 00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:17,040 Speaker 3: And avatar i'm Gonna put avatar on my list because 537 00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:19,320 Speaker 3: it's a. Great film it really was novel how it 538 00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:23,800 Speaker 3: sort of stretched but brought you into an entirely, different 539 00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:28,120 Speaker 3: world and the effects. Were fantastic it was a well. 540 00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:31,920 Speaker 3: Done story the number two grossing film of the last 541 00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:35,719 Speaker 3: twenty five Years Was, avengers endgame and that brought in 542 00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:39,320 Speaker 3: two point eight. Billion dollars i'm gonna include both of 543 00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:41,360 Speaker 3: those as the final two on. My list they're the 544 00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:45,600 Speaker 3: top two. Grossing films. THEY'RE fantastic i like most comic, 545 00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:49,080 Speaker 3: book MOVIES but i Do think Avengers at endgame was, 546 00:29:49,080 --> 00:29:52,760 Speaker 3: was really, really good and it. Says something if you 547 00:29:52,840 --> 00:29:56,160 Speaker 3: look at the list of, top ten none of the 548 00:29:56,160 --> 00:30:00,239 Speaker 3: top ten grossing films Are on. HOLLYWOOD'S list i have 549 00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:02,440 Speaker 3: number Three As Avatar the way Of. The water number 550 00:30:02,480 --> 00:30:05,880 Speaker 3: Four Is star wars, Episode Seven The, force awakens number 551 00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:08,880 Speaker 3: Five As Avengers. Affinity war number Six Is Spider Man No, 552 00:30:08,960 --> 00:30:11,320 Speaker 3: way HOME which i thought was the best Of The spider. 553 00:30:11,360 --> 00:30:15,440 Speaker 3: Man movies number Seven Was. NIJA ti i don't know, 554 00:30:15,520 --> 00:30:18,560 Speaker 3: that Movie, MAYBE chinese I just i don't know. That 555 00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:23,240 Speaker 3: movie number Eight Was inside, Out too number Nine Was, 556 00:30:23,320 --> 00:30:25,520 Speaker 3: jurassic world and number Ten Was The lion king in. 557 00:30:25,560 --> 00:30:30,320 Speaker 3: Twenty nineteen it says something when you have a product 558 00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:34,560 Speaker 3: and the people making the product don't like the product 559 00:30:35,160 --> 00:30:38,520 Speaker 3: that people like and, are buying there's a real. Disconnect there, 560 00:30:39,880 --> 00:30:41,840 Speaker 3: you know you go back To That New york. Times 561 00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:45,360 Speaker 3: list most of the movies on the list nobody has 562 00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:49,680 Speaker 3: seen and nobody wants. To see and that really. Is 563 00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:53,360 Speaker 3: sad there used to be. A time look what's fun 564 00:30:53,360 --> 00:30:57,200 Speaker 3: about going to? The movies you'll. Notice THEMES so i like. 565 00:30:57,280 --> 00:31:01,719 Speaker 3: TRUE stories i like. WAR movie i like, gangster movies 566 00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:07,040 Speaker 3: Things like Godfather. AND scarface i, LIKE westerns i. LIKE 567 00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:12,320 Speaker 3: comedies i like. Some MUSICALS but i like. A STORY 568 00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:16,200 Speaker 3: when i go to the to, THE movies i want 569 00:31:16,240 --> 00:31:18,960 Speaker 3: to tell me. A story it can be a, sad 570 00:31:19,040 --> 00:31:21,240 Speaker 3: story it can be a. Funny story it can bring 571 00:31:21,280 --> 00:31:24,600 Speaker 3: me in, an adventure, you know CLASSIC movies i grew, 572 00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:28,320 Speaker 3: up With Like, indiana jones like like it can be, 573 00:31:28,440 --> 00:31:33,520 Speaker 3: You Know, star wars The Whole star, wars Series The. Hero's, journey, 574 00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:36,400 Speaker 3: Actually bet i'm going to say something, really funny really 575 00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:39,720 Speaker 3: good buddy of MINE that i went to high, school 576 00:31:39,760 --> 00:31:43,360 Speaker 3: with you Bet him, joel's's name great friend of mine 577 00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:48,320 Speaker 3: came came to our place IN. D c. Last weekend 578 00:31:48,360 --> 00:31:49,880 Speaker 3: he and his family were in town and, He, said 579 00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:51,560 Speaker 3: HEY can i crash at? YOUR place i, Said sure 580 00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:54,640 Speaker 3: and HE and i have gone to a lot of, 581 00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:57,440 Speaker 3: movies together and he's A Huge star, wars buff and 582 00:31:57,480 --> 00:32:01,280 Speaker 3: so he went To The STAR wars I, Guess museum 583 00:32:02,440 --> 00:32:06,200 Speaker 3: AND when i get back TO my, dc apartment he's 584 00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:10,080 Speaker 3: replaced my Sheets With star wars sheets And A star 585 00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:14,160 Speaker 3: wars Comforter In star wars pillowcases and it looks like 586 00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:16,800 Speaker 3: a nine year old, boys ROOM and i just cracked. 587 00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:20,160 Speaker 3: Up laughing and then actually it was RIGHT after i 588 00:32:20,160 --> 00:32:22,480 Speaker 3: Had The tucker carlson interview that was a lot. Of 589 00:32:22,520 --> 00:32:26,160 Speaker 3: fireworks so He Bought tucker carlson's book and he rested 590 00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:29,080 Speaker 3: it on. The PILLOWCASE so i was doubled over LAUGHING 591 00:32:29,080 --> 00:32:31,560 Speaker 3: when i walked in Walked in monday morning to the 592 00:32:31,560 --> 00:32:33,360 Speaker 3: apartment and saw my bedroom