Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, welcome to Movie Crush. Many Crush edition is
Speaker 1: a special edition? Is it? Like? Is it signed, a
Speaker 1: numbered or something? What? Wait? What does an addition mean?
Speaker 1: No is back and you're gonna be in trouble. Hey nah,
Speaker 1: he enaugh blah blah blah blah. He's got a nose full.
Speaker 1: It's not it's very true, but he's gonna podcast anyway. Hey,
Speaker 1: na go nose full, it's not. Um. I had an
Speaker 1: interesting weekend, Yeah, man, I want to hear about. Well,
Speaker 1: first of all, let's just get going with the fact
Speaker 1: that on last Friday, I did the saddest movie Crush ever.
Speaker 1: No sitting in this goddamn room alone. Ramsy even left.
Speaker 1: He just hit records, just like talking to the ether.
Speaker 1: Just it's strange yelling into the abyss. It's like the
Speaker 1: true definition of a podcast started, which is some sad, chubby,
Speaker 1: middle aged, lonely guy by himself in a room talking
Speaker 1: to nobody. Well, now you know the life of Jonathan Strickland,
Speaker 1: only he's super jacked. Now. Uh so, yeah, we got
Speaker 1: caught with her pants, don Old because you were away,
Speaker 1: I didn't know that you were traveling. You went to
Speaker 1: Los Angeles, would you go for a happy face. No,
Speaker 1: it's this other thing. Um. I kind of think I
Speaker 1: can talk about it after. It's it's sort of like
Speaker 1: a startup entrepreneurial type show where we talked to different
Speaker 1: like hot shit ceo s and like, you know, people
Speaker 1: that have like come from nothing and made themselves into
Speaker 1: these like obscenely rich luminaries. Basically like me, just like
Speaker 1: Hugh Chuck. We'll have you on the show before you
Speaker 1: know it. Um. But yeah, So it was all surrounding
Speaker 1: this conference that was going on there called the Summit
Speaker 1: l a eighteen conference. I saw Jaden Smith interview Al
Speaker 1: Gore about climate change. That was good. Yeah, it was surreal.
Speaker 1: It was a little bizarro world, but it was It
Speaker 1: was cool. It was Jaden Sharp. Yeah, she did a
Speaker 1: good job. He did do a good job, right. Al
Speaker 1: Gore though, was funny. He's like, now, Jaden, I want
Speaker 1: to tell I want to tell you. Jaden. He kept
Speaker 1: he kept like putting his hand on him and saying
Speaker 1: his name, which I thought was a little weirds like, dude,
Speaker 1: I'm fucking twenty. Yeah, I don't even know U. But
Speaker 1: it was interesting, and it was in all these old
Speaker 1: beautiful theaters down in downtown l A on Broadway. Um,
Speaker 1: so I got to go to the Orpheum. I went
Speaker 1: to the the Palace. He pointed out to me on
Speaker 1: the social that that was where the Thriller movie theater
Speaker 1: scene is shot. Josh and I performed there, and I
Speaker 1: learned that, yeah, and was like, man, this is pretty cool,
Speaker 1: and he sent some nice screenshots and little A B comparisons.
Speaker 1: I was stoked. And also I think I've I maybe
Speaker 1: mentioned in that thread that Big Lebowski the scene where
Speaker 1: the dude's landlord does his cycle remember cycle the Palace
Speaker 1: as well, which is hysterical because by all accounts that
Speaker 1: scene should have been in like a thirty theater and
Speaker 1: they made it look like that. So I don't know
Speaker 1: why they even Maybe they just had a deal on
Speaker 1: the Palace that day or something. I mean, the Palace,
Speaker 1: it's had to come back lately during the Big Lebowski days.
Speaker 1: It was just like shuttered, really okay. So I went
Speaker 1: to the Orpheum, the Palace, the Ace hotel, which was
Speaker 1: really beautiful that show. That's right. Yeah, Casey was was
Speaker 1: mentioning that that he stayed there as well as yeah,
Speaker 1: staying downtown l A. Is weird because it's very much
Speaker 1: feels like New York. But then you look up and
Speaker 1: you're like, hea, hey, there's palm trees in the background,
Speaker 1: and you know, you're it's it's Los Angeles, but it's
Speaker 1: a very downtown New YORKI field. Well, the whole thing
Speaker 1: about this event was it was like, you know, this
Speaker 1: was a very exclusive event that I just happened to
Speaker 1: look into getting a free pass too. And I felt like,
Speaker 1: you know, the kid that from the slums, that that
Speaker 1: got to go to Harvard, you know, because you're good
Speaker 1: I was good will hunting. Yeah, and so it was
Speaker 1: like but the thing was interesting was like, you know,
Speaker 1: the people that were at these events had paid a
Speaker 1: pretty penny to be there, and there was this interesting
Speaker 1: juxtaposition of this like obscene wealth and opulence and these
Speaker 1: bizarro events. Like I went from seeing you know, Eckhart
Speaker 1: totally who's like this uh kind of like meditation guru guy,
Speaker 1: to seeing Jaden Smith and um and al Gore uh
Speaker 1: to hanging out in this weird pavilion with iced coffee
Speaker 1: you know, on tap and stuff and the backdrop of
Speaker 1: downtown l A. To this event was very stark and interesting.
Speaker 1: Because it's very you know, it's a very gritty kind
Speaker 1: of yeah, I mean dashy downtown. Downtown has come a
Speaker 1: long way in some areas, but like skid Row is
Speaker 1: still down there. I mean, there's still they've tried to
Speaker 1: revitalize downtown. But it's interesting in all those old the
Speaker 1: ors I worked. Um, I was working on a music
Speaker 1: video downtown. I can't remember who it was for. I
Speaker 1: want to say, like Michelle Branch if that name even
Speaker 1: rings a bell, I don't even know. No listeners, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm talking about. Um, And I was to
Speaker 1: run an errand over to get something from an Aerosmith
Speaker 1: shoot down the street, and I went to one of
Speaker 1: those old theaters and that was when there was nothing
Speaker 1: really going on downtown, like they've done a lot in
Speaker 1: the past fifteen seventeen years, but there was nothing going on.
Speaker 1: And I remember walking in this theater and seeing this
Speaker 1: whole row of just these grand majestical theaters that were
Speaker 1: now like uh Latino churches interestingly or just closed, and thinking,
Speaker 1: oh my god, the opulence is off the charts. But
Speaker 1: it's like a haunted mansion, you know, Yeah, I know,
Speaker 1: I know. I mean, it's some of these the architecture,
Speaker 1: I believe it was the Palace in particular. Wait, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's right, that's where I card. Holy was. It looks
Speaker 1: like it's so Gothic, and it's like it's like something
Speaker 1: out of like a Tim Burton Batman. Like it's really
Speaker 1: really it's got this textured look that almost makes it
Speaker 1: look like organic like dead plant matter mixed with like
Speaker 1: bones or something like some sort of hostuary. I'm serious.
Speaker 1: It was gorgeous and really like nothing I've ever seen before.
Speaker 1: So I was really glad I got to That was
Speaker 1: my favorite part of the whole trip, which is seeing
Speaker 1: those buildings inside and out and getting to kind of
Speaker 1: hang out. Did you stay downtown too? No? No, I
Speaker 1: stated I should have. I stayed at the Hollywood Roosevelt.
Speaker 1: So I had I had a stayed there. I had
Speaker 1: a very very broad l a experience. But I went
Speaker 1: to a friend of the show, Kevin Pollock's house um
Speaker 1: and helped him with some some podcast related stuff. To
Speaker 1: Pollock's house, he got me in everything croissant, which is
Speaker 1: apparently a thing now the bael but it's like the bagel,
Speaker 1: but it's a croissant and it's filled with cream cheese.
Speaker 1: Holy shit, it's very decorative. Um. But he's super sweet
Speaker 1: guy Kevin Pollock really really cool and went from his
Speaker 1: hood to Venice for the day and just took a
Speaker 1: bird scooter and kind of just tootled around Venice. It
Speaker 1: was a fun little solo trip. I did a lot
Speaker 1: of soul searching, you know. Yeah, did you go by
Speaker 1: one of those weed shops. I don't know what you're
Speaker 1: talking about, Chuck, I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1: Jaden Smith is twenty by the way, nail, but total
Speaker 1: guess he strikes me as a bit of a twenty. Um.
Speaker 1: What's Pollock's house size? It's super cool, it's really nice.
Speaker 1: It's it's it's it's just really everything in its right place.
Speaker 1: He had this amazing like nudy uh stripped tease machine
Speaker 1: from like the thirties where you can put in a
Speaker 1: nickel and then you crank the crank uh and then
Speaker 1: it's it's like a light and a little I piece. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but it was like you could see that it was
Speaker 1: like a kind of a old, like very um worn
Speaker 1: flipbook that has a low mechanism. It just flips through
Speaker 1: and it's just this is the gal doing a little
Speaker 1: strip tease. It's great. So he had some he had
Speaker 1: a jar nickels up there, and he had he had
Speaker 1: a cool, cool collection of weird stuff. Yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 1: I've never been to the Pollock House. He's invited me
Speaker 1: over for he has his sort of famous poker and yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I sat at the famous poker table. Yeah, and he's
Speaker 1: all in every time in in l A. He's like, oh,
Speaker 1: you come over for a pokram, Like, dude, I'll just
Speaker 1: write you a check and go watch there you go.
Speaker 1: So like, here's three hundred dollars, I'm just gonna watch
Speaker 1: you and three d is going to get you in
Speaker 1: and probably not. I can't lose more than that. I
Speaker 1: can't even lose that. Um. All right, Well it's good
Speaker 1: to have you back, buddy. I saw you posted about
Speaker 1: Jumbo's clown Room this morning. Did you go No. I
Speaker 1: just passed it and thought it was like quite The
Speaker 1: first thought that I had was, is this a weird
Speaker 1: children's place? From like children's place? I could second tell
Speaker 1: when I looked a little closer at the side, it's there,
Speaker 1: Claremont Lounge. It is. Yeah, okay, God, and that was
Speaker 1: in kind of Lost Filas area where I can't remember
Speaker 1: where I passed. Yeah, I mean we used to go
Speaker 1: to Jumbos. It's it's a it's a It's like the
Speaker 1: Clearemounts in l a institution. So I thought, oh, man,
Speaker 1: Al's discovered the clown room. No, I mean I stayed
Speaker 1: on Hollywood Boulevard and I ended up going I didn't
Speaker 1: realize that Los Filas is like the other side of
Speaker 1: Hollywood of our kind. You keep you keep going right there.
Speaker 1: I got a tie massage that was pretty cool, just
Speaker 1: the regular kind of standard. Um. It was awesome though, man,
Speaker 1: it was Yeah. So I ended up in Thai Town,
Speaker 1: which is like right on the edge of Los Filas,
Speaker 1: I believe, and then kind of right where I live
Speaker 1: the Dresden, which I'm always going on about how much
Speaker 1: I love the Dresden. But it was during the day,
Speaker 1: so I couldn't go and see. Uh was Marty in Elane? Yeah,
Speaker 1: they wouldn't be there during the day. But it's funny,
Speaker 1: um don't I'm sure you haven't listened. But the Shawn
Speaker 1: Gunn episode, we had sort of the same favorite die
Speaker 1: bar back in the day, which was what the drawing
Speaker 1: room in Los VELAs, which um is a six am bar. Wow, okay,
Speaker 1: and we sort of both um delighted in the six
Speaker 1: am bar and just that whole notion and uh that
Speaker 1: that it's kind of great. Meaning you can just walk
Speaker 1: out and then the sun's up and you're like, no, no,
Speaker 1: it opens at six Oh yes, I'm confused. Yeah it
Speaker 1: opens at six am. So oh it just it just
Speaker 1: stays open, stays open until uh what over two? I
Speaker 1: got you? I think in l A is is it too?
Speaker 1: I think so yeah, and then you can come right
Speaker 1: back four hours later. I really like the frolic Room.
Speaker 1: I always go to the Frolic Room. Yeah, that's a
Speaker 1: good old dive. It's just a good old dive. It's
Speaker 1: right next to the Pantageous Theater that's right there in
Speaker 1: the middle of Hollida. I like the old school stuff.
Speaker 1: I like that, like confidential. It really oh kind that
Speaker 1: makes sense. I had a steak dinner at Musso and
Speaker 1: Frank's by myself. Yeah, no, it was good. The other
Speaker 1: thing that I think that everyone should know about Mousso
Speaker 1: and Franks know is that everything is all a cart.
Speaker 1: So you get the steak that's a charge. You get
Speaker 1: some mashed potatoes, that's like ten. Every steak you get
Speaker 1: like a gravy boat with some sauce in it, that's
Speaker 1: five bucks every steak out back. Well, that's where I go, dude,
Speaker 1: that's my that's my that's my my bar steak. No,
Speaker 1: you gotta take you out for good. So I had
Speaker 1: a good steak. It was great. It was really good.
Speaker 1: Musso and Frank just top notch. He's already worked up
Speaker 1: everyone way till we get to knowles holes. It's gonna
Speaker 1: get it's gonna get ugly. Well, it's gonna have you back,
Speaker 1: buddy back. If you listen to the first five minutes,
Speaker 1: even in that solo podcast, you will hear me just
Speaker 1: gushing over you. So oh man, let need a little
Speaker 1: confidence booster. When when I do need one, I'll keep
Speaker 1: that in my back pocket. Yeah, keep it in your
Speaker 1: back pocket. Um right where you fart. M hmm, that's
Speaker 1: what I say. Yeah, all right, So let me see
Speaker 1: what can we do today. I put up some things
Speaker 1: last night because last night was election night, and I
Speaker 1: don't know what you did, but I flipped it over
Speaker 1: to CNN with John King, and I literally felt like
Speaker 1: I had PTSD, just seeing him in front of that
Speaker 1: screen with his little magic fingers, and I'm like, I can't,
Speaker 1: I can't, I can't. I can't do it again. Well,
Speaker 1: in Georgia, I got the sense that the polls were
Speaker 1: staying open really late because of Fucory with vote counting,
Speaker 1: which let's get into that. Um oh wait, the secretary
Speaker 1: of state ran for governor. Yeah, that's not no problem
Speaker 1: at all. Okay, anyway, letsten this is in the political show.
Speaker 1: But no, I I made the very conscious choice to
Speaker 1: pay no attention to it because I knew it wasn't
Speaker 1: gonna come in till late, and it's just not worth
Speaker 1: staying up and biting your nails. So I went to
Speaker 1: bed and had a nice sleep, good and my friends
Speaker 1: that were out checking out the counts and stuff texted
Speaker 1: me middle of the night with you know, some good
Speaker 1: news ish but modest games. That's what I'm saying, though, dude,
Speaker 1: I woke up to two very mad feelings about because
Speaker 1: I had the middle of the night text from somebody
Speaker 1: was probably quite drunk, feeling optimistic and set me in
Speaker 1: all caps like Dems take the house, And in my
Speaker 1: mind I read that as Dems win everything right, that
Speaker 1: was not the case. Yeah, I think for for liberal
Speaker 1: hippies right now, just turn it off right now, and
Speaker 1: or hey, listen, if you don't agree with what we're
Speaker 1: about to say, just give it a pause or hit
Speaker 1: the little fast forward button like seconds. Yeah, because we
Speaker 1: don't want to piss anyone off. This will be a
Speaker 1: short soapbox. But for liberal hippies like us, I think,
Speaker 1: you know, my modest gains are gains like we want
Speaker 1: everyone to win. We want Stacy Abrams to win and
Speaker 1: uh A Rour to win and the Gilliam in Florida
Speaker 1: to win and to take the house and all the things.
Speaker 1: And you're just not gonna get all those. So we
Speaker 1: took the house. That's great, Abrams. If I honestly believe
Speaker 1: if it hadn't been for voter disenfranchisement, she would have
Speaker 1: won well as all. There's also they're talking about like
Speaker 1: they're being potentially a run off whenever that's that's the last.
Speaker 1: Just I mean, she's so close, and that's a lot
Speaker 1: about Georgia that a black woman is within spitting distance
Speaker 1: of the governor seat. So I don't like moral victories,
Speaker 1: but um it, you gotta take what you can get
Speaker 1: these days, you know, how about you quiz me about
Speaker 1: some sorry movies I haven't seen or something well that
Speaker 1: that's coming up. That's all right everyone, if you're and
Speaker 1: we're back, and then we're back. All right, here we go.
Speaker 1: So here's what I did last night, and all I
Speaker 1: worked on mini crush and sort of prepping everybody with
Speaker 1: some good questions and polls, and watched TV that was
Speaker 1: not the election, and then just sort of checked in
Speaker 1: every now and then to see how things were going.
Speaker 1: So here was my first question though, for social studies,
Speaker 1: social movie crush. How about an election night distraction everyone
Speaker 1: with some mini crushed stuff. Name your favorite political movie?
Speaker 1: See what I did? I was cute. That was just
Speaker 1: jerking everyone's chain. But political movies are some of my
Speaker 1: favorite movies. Uh, like The Maltese Falcon and you know,
Speaker 1: I talked about All the President's Men a lot, and
Speaker 1: movies like Michael Clayton Love a good heavy political thriller
Speaker 1: or political film, bulwarth movies like that, even Wag the Dog.
Speaker 1: I'm into it. So we're gonna go over some of these.
Speaker 1: I mean, remember really in joining Wag the Dog. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I haven't seen it. A long time. It was fine. Uh.
Speaker 1: Matthew Hanson says A contender agreed, dude, that was a
Speaker 1: great movie right off the bat. Tony Bucko says, All
Speaker 1: the President's Men. Kerry mcquit says, Dave, I never saw that,
Speaker 1: did you? With Kevin Klein. That's the one where he's
Speaker 1: the president, right, I think so, President Dave, I haven't seen. Uh,
Speaker 1: let me see here. All the President's Men again from
Speaker 1: Sally Mackenzie. Megan Nichole says, The American President, which I
Speaker 1: did not see, but that is the love story. I
Speaker 1: feel like I've asked this question before. I think I
Speaker 1: might have said political thriller. So this is not necessarily that,
Speaker 1: because certainly The American President is a romantic comedy wrapped
Speaker 1: up in politics. Twelve angry men from Gracie Anne. Does
Speaker 1: that count? Gracey says sure, I think so for sure. Boy.
Speaker 1: A lot of people are saying American President Vanessa Lopez
Speaker 1: our old friend. She's who sent that box of food.
Speaker 1: By the way, no box of food. Yeah, there's a
Speaker 1: box of food on your desk, which chips and popcorn,
Speaker 1: and but I haven't been to my desk. I came
Speaker 1: straight here. Chuck straight here. Vanessa Lopez say thank you, Thanks,
Speaker 1: Vanessa Lopez. Karl Gaffney says thank you for smoking uh.
Speaker 1: Richard Stokes suspect to the Future, Hm, just because the
Speaker 1: Goldie Wilson thing. That's a bit of a stretch, my friend. Well,
Speaker 1: back to the Future to predicted the rise of Trump.
Speaker 1: Let's not forget did it really? Man? Biff is like
Speaker 1: a Trump character. Okay, that's just kidding. He doesn't really
Speaker 1: become president, but he does. He does using this is
Speaker 1: a spoiler for a movie that came out decades ago,
Speaker 1: just putting it out there. Using the knowledge he gleaned
Speaker 1: from that sports uh almanac, right, he elevated himself to
Speaker 1: a position of of extreme power and practically dictatorship over
Speaker 1: the weird Back to the Future to Future world. So
Speaker 1: he was kind of a trumpy figure in my opinion. Dude,
Speaker 1: I have not seen Back to the Future two and
Speaker 1: three did not impact me much, so I don't know
Speaker 1: if I've seen those movies since it came out. Two
Speaker 1: is a lot of fun. Three there they're well, they're
Speaker 1: all fine. Three. I remember seeing three in the theaters
Speaker 1: because that had to have been like early nineties, maybe
Speaker 1: late enough eighties that I was, you know, cognizant of
Speaker 1: of movies and the Yeah, and I also remember that
Speaker 1: Pizza Hut had that had like sunglasses you could get
Speaker 1: that we're back to the future theme that were like
Speaker 1: crazy you know, retro futuristic sunglasses or whatever. Yeah, right
Speaker 1: on the cusp and Little Mermaid. I want to say
Speaker 1: it was eighty nine. That's one of the first movies
Speaker 1: I remember seeing in the theater. And also Home Alone. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was graduating high school. It was it was a
Speaker 1: wild time for both of us. Uh. Lincoln, Megan Carol,
Speaker 1: oh boy, you know what she said. The drama's tense
Speaker 1: despite me knowing how it ended, and Daniel do Lewis
Speaker 1: and Sally Field not get out of the park. The
Speaker 1: acting was great, for sure, Megan. But I think I've
Speaker 1: said so on the show. I thought Lincoln was a
Speaker 1: bit of a snooze. I feel a little bad for
Speaker 1: saying that, but it was a bit of a snooze. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, people seem to really dig it. I guess
Speaker 1: you know, Daniel day Lewis really embodies Lincoln, but I didn't.
Speaker 1: I never felt compelled to watch it. You did not.
Speaker 1: I did not know I'm sure it's fine, but those
Speaker 1: really hyper accurate or whatever trying to be political or whatever,
Speaker 1: historical reenactment type movies, they typically don't grab me unless
Speaker 1: there's some like fresh take on it or some weird
Speaker 1: new angle. Yeah, I don't know. It's just Lincoln versus vampires,
Speaker 1: that would be fun. I would go to that. They
Speaker 1: did that, right, Abraham Lincoln vampire did? They kind of
Speaker 1: came and went though, didn't it? Think? Uh? Kirsten Well
Speaker 1: says The Iron Lady, even though I'm Canadian. Well, you're Canadian,
Speaker 1: but there there probably some England in you if you're Canadian,
Speaker 1: right or France? One would hope. I don't even know
Speaker 1: what I'm talking about. I don't either. Hutch Allen says
Speaker 1: The IDEs of the IDEs of March with Cluny and Gosling.
Speaker 1: I still haven't seen that, man. I need to see that.
Speaker 1: Oh that, But it's not about Caesar. It's just called
Speaker 1: that they're like political operatives. Yeah. Yeah, um, ed buy
Speaker 1: no says Herod's Law. A janitor becomes mayor in a
Speaker 1: tiny town, desert town in Mexico quickly learns the ups
Speaker 1: and downs of politics. If you don't mind Spanish dialogue
Speaker 1: with English subtitles. This is a real treat. Wow. I
Speaker 1: love that, Ed. I appreciate that. I like getting a
Speaker 1: good foreign film. Wreck the Gooch David Gooch says election. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's high school politics, that's true. Yeah, but it's meant
Speaker 1: to be like a like a satire, like a microcosmic
Speaker 1: view of you know, politics at large. Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1: I guess I'll count it using like kind of like
Speaker 1: the lens of a high school election. Good point. Um
Speaker 1: Mark Villipondo says the campaign. Uh, Will Ferrell punching babies?
Speaker 1: That was That's one of my guilty pleasures. That's a
Speaker 1: funny movie. I'll take Will Ferrell any day. People. Alison
Speaker 1: Gallagher are old friend, Allison says Argo or Ken, Yeah,
Speaker 1: my buddy wrote that article that Argo was based on.
Speaker 1: That's my claim to fame. Bob Roberts, many, Chuck, one
Speaker 1: of many Bob Roberts comes from Trent More. Bob Roberts
Speaker 1: is good, And he said, is is Bob Roberts as
Speaker 1: good as I remember it being? Yes, Trent, it was
Speaker 1: very good political satire. Bob Roberts. Yeah. Tim Robbins, Oh
Speaker 1: I don't know this. Yeah, it's good. It's a political satire. Cool,
Speaker 1: that's ultra. Yeah, you should. You should check it Out's good.
Speaker 1: Jack Blacks in it too, I think. Um let me
Speaker 1: see here, Let's go through a couple of more. Uh
Speaker 1: the East Scott Rofs Fold. Excellent performance by Britt Marlings. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Remember Britt Marling, she did that show he didn't like
Speaker 1: with the dancing. The I liked that show. You liked it, Okay,
Speaker 1: you said you didn't like the dancing, the the er,
Speaker 1: the er, the Oh I'd like to see a mashup
Speaker 1: of that one. Now. I did like that. I just yeah,
Speaker 1: I didn't like the interpreted d speaking of what I
Speaker 1: don't want to derail as too much. But right across
Speaker 1: from the hotel was staying out in Hollywood. There's this
Speaker 1: story called La La Land that's like just you know,
Speaker 1: trashy kitch, you know, souvenirs and stuff. But on a
Speaker 1: loop they have that that Phantom Planet song with the
Speaker 1: theme for the o C playing like California. Every time
Speaker 1: I walk out of my hotel is here California. It's like, dude, cliche,
Speaker 1: can you be killed me? It was pretty funny, But
Speaker 1: it's funny because a lot of people probably go home
Speaker 1: and with their little imitation Academy award and or like
Speaker 1: that shop was the best. It is large. It is large.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I love it. Charlie Wilson's War. It's from
Speaker 1: Christie Boyd. I have not seen that. I need to
Speaker 1: check it out. All right, that feels good. Oh no,
Speaker 1: here's another good one. Eric Keith says Michael Keaton and
Speaker 1: Gina Davison Speechless. It was about speechwriters. If I'm not mistaken,
Speaker 1: that sounds romantic, like a rollicking good time. I'm you know,
Speaker 1: that's that is. I gotta give them credit for that,
Speaker 1: for making like something that seemingly on paper would be
Speaker 1: such a snooze, be a nice, delightful romantic comedy. And speechless.
Speaker 1: It's like these people who were paid to talk or
Speaker 1: right words for people to speak, they're so in love
Speaker 1: that they're fucking speechless. The titles is pretty terrible. This
Speaker 1: is the New York like the producer guy that I'm
Speaker 1: channeling here. You know. Another one good one is Network.
Speaker 1: I would count that as a political film just because
Speaker 1: it's all about like, you know, laws surrounding television news.
Speaker 1: And I don't know, I think that's a good one.
Speaker 1: That's a great movie too, man that I'm mad as
Speaker 1: hell and I'm not gonna take it anywhere. Yeah, one
Speaker 1: of the classic, classic classic films. A lot of people
Speaker 1: are saying Napoleon Dynamite. I didn't even I saw it,
Speaker 1: but not even like most people saw it, Like I
Speaker 1: barely remember it. I guess it was a no vote
Speaker 1: Pedro so there was some sort of election. Was no.
Speaker 1: That not a political movie, not at all, know that that.
Speaker 1: That was the message at the heart of that movie
Speaker 1: was not one of any politics. It was just about
Speaker 1: being a being yourself, dancing like no one's looking, you know.
Speaker 1: That's what that movie is about. Napouline Dynamite. Somebody. I'm
Speaker 1: so mad at you, guys, so mad. I like that
Speaker 1: movie a lot, and I saw it in the theaters
Speaker 1: not knowing what to expect, and I was purely um
Speaker 1: charmed by. Yeah. Yeah, I was way late on that
Speaker 1: because it uh, I didn't see it initially, and then
Speaker 1: it became such a big thing. It was one of
Speaker 1: those deals sometimes, you know, and something such a big thing,
Speaker 1: you're kind of like fun that I'm not gonna like
Speaker 1: the Beatles guy, right, Oh no, it's good to have
Speaker 1: you back? So, uh did you know Buddy that? Um?
Speaker 1: This past weekend was our one year anniversary for the ship.
Speaker 1: Happy Anniversary, Chuck Cappy Anniversary. I brought you this T
Speaker 1: shirt that's very nice. John Roderick's band, The Long Winters.
Speaker 1: Where did that come from? I got at at a
Speaker 1: good will and in the heart of Hollywood. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: was for a chandler because he produces the show. John
Speaker 1: Roderick is on the Omnibus with Ken Jennings and I
Speaker 1: wanted to bring him a little something back. But I
Speaker 1: got a smattering of shirts. They were all dollar I
Speaker 1: got like a West l A Dialysis Center shirt, which
Speaker 1: was a prime find the w l A d C
Speaker 1: Premier Dialysis Center Lodic. Of course, that's when you say
Speaker 1: like that, it sounds like some sort of Russian bathhouse
Speaker 1: going to the lod Vodka. When we got next, Chuck,
Speaker 1: all right, we're going to Uh. I think since we
Speaker 1: mentioned the one year anniversary, I did ask people yesterday. Uh,
Speaker 1: here at the one year anniversary, let's hear what your
Speaker 1: favorite movie Crush Interview edition has been. So far we
Speaker 1: get a hundred and four people. Um, and I'm kind
Speaker 1: of curious and this is not a popular contest. Everyone. Um,
Speaker 1: I say that mainly for you know, because you were
Speaker 1: a guest, so it's not like I'm looking you know,
Speaker 1: you say I wasn't the number one choice? Is that
Speaker 1: what you're preparing? Frederick Gimseer says the Big Trouble and
Speaker 1: Little China pisode that was a Kyle Knane uh, Ran
Speaker 1: Dixon says Casey Wilson and Eric Slick I like that,
Speaker 1: Brandon uh Sara Guio says Ross markand On die Hard.
Speaker 1: I loved his story the impressions in the movie discussion.
Speaker 1: I agree, man, that was a great one. Our buddy
Speaker 1: Don Morris's Raymond car Dax in the My Favorite Murder,
Speaker 1: Ladies and The Stranger Things. Guys, No, you want to
Speaker 1: hear something that's gonna make you soups jelly. Uh. My
Speaker 1: Favorite Murder is doing Alive podcast at the Fox Theater
Speaker 1: on Friday night, and I am going on stage to
Speaker 1: tell a local murder story with the ladies in front
Speaker 1: of five thousand people at the very venue where I
Speaker 1: saw my very first concert when I was twelve years old. Well,
Speaker 1: pretty neat, Huh, that's pretty neat, Chuck. You don't have
Speaker 1: to rub it in my face like that though, Hey,
Speaker 1: you were just hob nobbing with fucking Al Gore. That
Speaker 1: wasn't hobbed outing. I was in the crowd. Jaden Smith
Speaker 1: knocking back flaming Dr Pepper shot. No, he has. He
Speaker 1: has a boxed water company called Just Water. I was
Speaker 1: knocking those back. It's not called just Jaden Nope, that's
Speaker 1: the name of his clothing line. The water is made
Speaker 1: from Jaden Smith's tears, which is, as we all know,
Speaker 1: the purest water. It really is. Um let me see
Speaker 1: here the gooch again. He said, this is really hard.
Speaker 1: My favorites of no order are my Mark band on
Speaker 1: die Hard, Mark Hand, Mark wand Raymond Carl Labyrinth, and
Speaker 1: Casey Wilson on Clue. That's very nice. Um let me
Speaker 1: see here. Christine Fordham said, really difficult. But I really
Speaker 1: liked Boots Riley on Mishima, even though it's a movie
Speaker 1: I had never watched. That's great. Paul Sheeran Beverly Hills
Speaker 1: cop Um Chris Whimpany really enjoyed Aaron Manki on the
Speaker 1: Village and the Silence of the Lamb Special with the
Speaker 1: Ladies from MFM. Gabe David says I can't choose. They've
Speaker 1: all just been great, fun conversations about solid movies. Uh,
Speaker 1: that is really nice, Gabe. I appreciate that, it really is.
Speaker 1: It was funny. I was like when I was at
Speaker 1: Kevin Pollock's house, he was talking about how he had
Speaker 1: listened to some of the minis with with the two
Speaker 1: of us, and I was saying, hell, yeah, it's super
Speaker 1: fun and we don't even really have to prep or anything.
Speaker 1: We just kind of like hang out and talk about
Speaker 1: movies and read the social media stuff. He's like, it's
Speaker 1: so only slightly apparent that you don't prep. Oh Pollock,
Speaker 1: that's I could hear him saying that, And that's funny.
Speaker 1: Um Celeste Edwards Uh, Kenna Guiter says Dack Shepherd by
Speaker 1: far Big Deck Shepherds fans. Edward Force Glenn says Schalub.
Speaker 1: I like getting to know him better. He's great. I
Speaker 1: just like saying that last name, Chalub, Chalub. Yeah. John Mills,
Speaker 1: our old friend, says Griffin McIlroy about Groundhog Day was spectacular.
Speaker 1: Another vote for Griffin and Aaron Mankey from Caroline Gaston.
Speaker 1: Raymond Carr gets some more love. Roman mars On Jaws
Speaker 1: from Mickey McGee Morgan Wheat from My Favorite Murder, I
Speaker 1: got some some straight up regular listeners because of those ladies,
Speaker 1: my favorite Murder fans who came over and didn't know
Speaker 1: what was going on going on here and said, hey,
Speaker 1: I listened to the show now, like on the reg
Speaker 1: That's good, that's very nice. That's what you want people. Uh.
Speaker 1: Sam Herring gave some love to our old friend Janet
Speaker 1: Barney episode number one. I love it, Andrew Anderson says
Speaker 1: my favorite Murder our buddy, Zack Pointer says Aaron Mankey.
Speaker 1: He made me want to watch the Village again. In
Speaker 1: Casey Wilson on Clue, Tom Evans says Janet Barney again,
Speaker 1: Casey Wilson. Another vote from Laura B. Yorkland. Great name um, Nikki,
Speaker 1: all right, Nicky gives some constructive criticism. Nicky, Dennis, you
Speaker 1: didn't ask, But my least favorite ones are the ones
Speaker 1: with the groups of people. One is great, two is fine,
Speaker 1: but more than two is too many in my Sorry,
Speaker 1: don't apologize, Nikki. I get it, those those can be
Speaker 1: a little unwieldy, but there's only been like two of them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it just depends. I mean, I guess when it's sort
Speaker 1: of a more of a personal thing like a movie,
Speaker 1: it might be a little harder than to get everyone's
Speaker 1: kind of personal perspective if everyone's talking over each other.
Speaker 1: But I thought the ones that you've done have been successful,
Speaker 1: considering that that's kind of a pitfall of those types
Speaker 1: of interviews in general. But I think they're okay. I
Speaker 1: thought the Stranger Things, It's Stranger Things one was great,
Speaker 1: The Broken Lizard one. Those guys are just so like
Speaker 1: bombastic and all over the place. Well, and we only
Speaker 1: have like thirty minutes with those guys. That one might
Speaker 1: have been that sort of crazy, a little kind of
Speaker 1: gasping for air and that right. Yeah, I had fun though.
Speaker 1: Chris bob It says Eric's look on Big Lebowski is
Speaker 1: one of my favorite drummers. And your joy and his
Speaker 1: joy for the movie was delightful. Um, Mike Baron Holts
Speaker 1: on Good Fellows. That's from Jody Nevile. Um, it's all
Speaker 1: over the map man, everyone, it is really nice. Paul Schneider,
Speaker 1: I'm back to the future. Brett Giles said that one
Speaker 1: even got a John Hodgeman fan here. Everyone. Kevin Craig, Uh,
Speaker 1: that's great. John is the best. The time you disc
Speaker 1: Quentin Tarantino in front of Broken Lizard, as from Allan
Speaker 1: SMITHI yeah, I kind of did, dude, What did you say? Oh,
Speaker 1: just sort of my usual Tarantino rant, which is that
Speaker 1: like he's just being a little too indulgent these days,
Speaker 1: and uh, movies are too long. Don't put yourself in them.
Speaker 1: Get it. Get someone to get in there and tell
Speaker 1: you know. Occasionally he hasn't really hasn't been in the
Speaker 1: last few has he. He wasn't in Django or he
Speaker 1: was in Django. He played a that's right, Australian bad accent.
Speaker 1: He was a racist Australian too, I believe, Yes, of
Speaker 1: course he was. But he got blowed up. He did
Speaker 1: get blowed up, which is kind of great fun. Was
Speaker 1: he in the one in the Snow? Uh? I don't
Speaker 1: think so, I don't recall. Surely he'll be in the
Speaker 1: Manson one. Yeah, I am looking forward to that one.
Speaker 1: Looks a lot of fun. And they were, they were
Speaker 1: shooting it all over when I was really like some
Speaker 1: people that I know who had just moved there not
Speaker 1: too long ago said that it was like all over
Speaker 1: the place. That's awesome and I've said it before to like,
Speaker 1: I will still go see all the Tarantinos everyone, So
Speaker 1: you know, maybe I'm the chump at the end of
Speaker 1: the day. All right now, I feel like that's a
Speaker 1: pretty robust episode. So because we got to catch up
Speaker 1: and everything, So let's finish with a couple of comment
Speaker 1: card questions and we'll save some of this other goodness
Speaker 1: for subsequent shows. Um, Teresa Baker, I'm sorry, Barker says,
Speaker 1: is there a movie that moved you so deeply that
Speaker 1: you couldn't get it off your mind days, weeks or
Speaker 1: even months later. Um. Yeah, sure, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: There are a lot of movies that stay with me. Um.
Speaker 1: The first one that just popped into my head it
Speaker 1: was the more recent ilk, which was Room. Um. I
Speaker 1: read that book and saw that movie. That one kind
Speaker 1: of hung with me. And that was before he even
Speaker 1: had a kid, So I imagine that would destroy me
Speaker 1: now and actually now that I'm thinking about it, Um,
Speaker 1: I was just thinking Bree Larson because of Room. Short
Speaker 1: Term twelve was another movie that really stuck with me.
Speaker 1: Great great film. If you guys haven't seen Short Term twelve,
Speaker 1: check it out. I'm not aware, I just I think
Speaker 1: Bree Larson is the best. She's wonderful. And I saw
Speaker 1: the first teaser trailer for Captain Marvel. Have you seen it?
Speaker 1: Looks pretty cool. Yeah, it looks rad. It's gonna be awesome.
Speaker 1: I saw that. I think it Halloween. Did you see
Speaker 1: Halloween yet? No? Not yet? Okay, well it's probably too
Speaker 1: late now. You didn't want to see it in Thanksgiving?
Speaker 1: I don't know why I did. I do what. I'm
Speaker 1: interested to see what a Danny McBride horror movie looks like.
Speaker 1: It's pretty traditional throwback slasher film. You did see it? Oh? Yeah,
Speaker 1: Oh that's right. You said you saw it and Phoenix
Speaker 1: and Phoenix's that's right. Alright, great question though. That was good.
Speaker 1: Let's just move on to another one. Robbie Styles go
Speaker 1: straight up fight Club. If you could fight anyone from history,
Speaker 1: who would it be? Um? I would fight Donald Trump?
Speaker 1: What about you know Gandhi? That was a first from
Speaker 1: fight Club? Yeah, he just ripped off fight Club? Was it?
Speaker 1: What was it? Homage? It was a ref who would
Speaker 1: you fight? We're not fighters, but I feel like I
Speaker 1: get rage up enough to kick the ship out of Donald. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that'd be fine. Um, maybe maybe Ted Cruise. He has
Speaker 1: a pretty punchable face, man, the most punishable face. He
Speaker 1: looks like Eddie Munster. You ever thought about that. It's
Speaker 1: the most punchable face of the world. Eddie Munster. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's not punchable, though, he's huggable. Um let me see here.
Speaker 1: Dan Maynard says, when a studio decides to green light
Speaker 1: of film, what gets taken into consideration to build the
Speaker 1: budget to the final number? Does a director or whoever
Speaker 1: go forward with an estimate or idea? Wow, Dan, that's
Speaker 1: a great question. Um, well, the director doesn't budget the film.
Speaker 1: The director is told what the budget of the film is.
Speaker 1: I mean, unless it's like a super duper indie, the
Speaker 1: director might have their their fingers in that pie a
Speaker 1: little bit more. But the line producers who sort of
Speaker 1: gets all the numbers together and probably presents the final
Speaker 1: budget too. In the case of a studio, I guess
Speaker 1: just a you know, not the studio head. Well, maybe
Speaker 1: if it's a big enough movie. But um, I think
Speaker 1: when it's when it's a studio to these days, a
Speaker 1: lot of times it's just a math problem, like they
Speaker 1: have a It's as uncreative as it sounds. They know
Speaker 1: basically how much of movie will likely do after the
Speaker 1: first couple of weeks, and that really paints a picture
Speaker 1: of how the movie is going to do overall. And
Speaker 1: they say, if you put this star in this movie,
Speaker 1: pair them with this person as a co star, and
Speaker 1: if it's this genre of film, then historically it will
Speaker 1: make this kind of money. And it really is a
Speaker 1: bit of a buzz kill for like, what you feel
Speaker 1: like is the creative process, but budgeting a film is
Speaker 1: the least fun part of anything. Really, leave it to
Speaker 1: the bean countess, Chuck, leave it to the bean countess.
Speaker 1: Good of a noll Um. All right, let's do one
Speaker 1: more here and then let's get out of here, go
Speaker 1: to that stupid HR meeting and then we'll record some more.
Speaker 1: How about that? Um this is from Kristen glenn Kister.
Speaker 1: What movies are your holiday traditions? In my house, it's
Speaker 1: the color purple while making pies for Thanksgiving. I gotta
Speaker 1: stop there and just say that is awesome, such a
Speaker 1: specific tradition to make pies and watch the color purple.
Speaker 1: I love that. And then die Hard and Christmas Eve,
Speaker 1: just to name a couple. Um. Well, one of the
Speaker 1: things that we do in our family is when the
Speaker 1: Christmas Story a Christmas Story is on the loop on TBS,
Speaker 1: A lot of times we will just keep it on
Speaker 1: in the background and catch bits of it. Women can um.
Speaker 1: Now that I have a daughter, I'm gonna start the
Speaker 1: tradition of Emma Dater's jug band Christmas. And I think
Speaker 1: they just reissued that and some sort of new soundtrack
Speaker 1: that soundtrack. Man, speaking of Christmas Story, I told you
Speaker 1: that's the only way I've ever experienced that movie. I
Speaker 1: don't think i've ever seen it linearly, like in the
Speaker 1: right order. I think I've just seen little snips of
Speaker 1: it because of the loop, you know. And he kind
Speaker 1: of pops on. I'm like, oh, he's getting his eyes
Speaker 1: shot out here. Wait wait, wait, wait this this come
Speaker 1: before after he wears the bunny suit, Like, I'm confused. Uh,
Speaker 1: and then one else like I try to watch plane
Speaker 1: strains and automobiles um around Thanksgiving Hope, he's just frustrating eating.
Speaker 1: I just feel bad for those characters. There's nothing good
Speaker 1: happens to them. You know. It's an exercising futility. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, for sure, but it's such a sweet story
Speaker 1: in the end, sad story. Yeah, punishing, not for you.
Speaker 1: Those aren't pillows, no, all right, So that's it for
Speaker 1: this week. Everyone. Glad you're back. Buddy. We're gonna record
Speaker 1: a couple of more of these in a couple of
Speaker 1: hours because we got a beef up for the holidays, bro,
Speaker 1: and uh yeah you down. You know I'm down, Chuck,
Speaker 1: all right, So thanks for tuning in everybody, and see
Speaker 1: you next Monday. Goodbye.