WEBVTT - Mini Crush #7 0:00:24.840 --> 0:00:27.360 Hey everybody, and welcome to Movie Crush. This is Chuck 0:00:27.440 --> 0:00:31.080 here the home studio Pont City Market with Knoll. Hey Chuck, 0:00:31.160 --> 0:00:34.919 Good morning, Chuck, Good morning. We are this is our 0:00:34.960 --> 0:00:39.320 earliest recording yet hailing it. Come on, it's not clock. 0:00:39.360 --> 0:00:43.440 It's fine. We'll just wood like it was six fifteen. 0:00:44.920 --> 0:00:48.960 How you doing doing well? Yeah? How about you? I'm great. 0:00:49.000 --> 0:00:51.000 I was just reading this New Yorker article when you 0:00:51.040 --> 0:00:54.240 walked in on Atlanta Monster. I know. We're really like, 0:00:54.840 --> 0:00:58.480 we're living with the swells with that show, aren't we crazy? Um? 0:00:58.520 --> 0:01:02.640 All right, so welcome every body to uh Mini Crush 0:01:02.800 --> 0:01:06.160 number five. This week's We're gonna just get right into it. 0:01:06.200 --> 0:01:09.960 We've got a few segments and this one first one 0:01:10.080 --> 0:01:13.920 is a new one. I'm gonna call it Hollywood History. Hollywood. 0:01:15.760 --> 0:01:18.880 How about that? I like it very much. So maybe 0:01:18.920 --> 0:01:20.440 every once in a while just do a little stuff. 0:01:20.440 --> 0:01:23.280 You should know, stop short bit on something that I 0:01:23.280 --> 0:01:26.640 found interesting, and this was certainly that um story of 0:01:26.680 --> 0:01:29.959 Peg Entwhistle. Do you know who that is? Nold? There's 0:01:29.959 --> 0:01:32.600 a bass player with the last name Entwistle from the 0:01:32.640 --> 0:01:35.400 who right, John? It was not the same guy? No, No, 0:01:35.440 --> 0:01:37.759 this is Peg and I don't think there was any 0:01:37.800 --> 0:01:40.240 relation there. In fact, I know there's not because Peg 0:01:40.520 --> 0:01:45.760 was very well known um in two for leaping to 0:01:45.880 --> 0:01:49.639 her death from the age of the Hollywood Sign. Wow, 0:01:49.920 --> 0:01:51.600 have you ever heard that? I have not heard that. 0:01:51.680 --> 0:01:54.160 But that's a high age. That would definitely be a 0:01:54.320 --> 0:01:56.040 be a death fall that would do it. And so 0:01:56.240 --> 0:02:00.559 if I'm not mistaken, back then the sign said Hollywood Land. Um. 0:02:00.600 --> 0:02:01.960 I did not look this part up, so I'm not 0:02:01.960 --> 0:02:04.640 sure when it switched. But if you didn't know that, 0:02:04.680 --> 0:02:07.680 it used to say Hollywood Land, the big famous iconic 0:02:07.720 --> 0:02:11.120 sign in the Hollywood Hills there in Los Angeles. And 0:02:11.200 --> 0:02:14.440 I think it was like a a developer or something, 0:02:15.560 --> 0:02:17.880 and it wasn't you know. Then the land came down 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:21.400 just became Hollywood. Have you seen that movie Hollywood Land? No, 0:02:21.840 --> 0:02:25.120 But I wrote a movie years ago called Hollywood Land, 0:02:25.680 --> 0:02:27.680 which had nothing to do with the movie that came 0:02:27.680 --> 0:02:30.800 out called Hollywood Land. But I wrote a movie years 0:02:30.840 --> 0:02:32.560 ago that never went anywhere. It was not very good 0:02:32.560 --> 0:02:37.080 of course, um that ended up being uh, sort of 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:40.919 like the movie Crash remember that one. Yeah, it actually 0:02:40.919 --> 0:02:42.760 won the Oscar but wasn't a very good movie. It's 0:02:42.800 --> 0:02:45.320 a weird one right that everyone loved and years later 0:02:46.200 --> 0:02:48.000 I like to think it was a better version of Crash. 0:02:48.160 --> 0:02:50.960 But it had the name Hollywood Land, which later became 0:02:50.960 --> 0:02:52.240 a movie. So I was kind of like, well, this 0:02:52.360 --> 0:02:57.239 is clearly I'm not gonna go anywhere serendipity because the 0:02:57.240 --> 0:03:01.799 plat and the titler taken anyway, Peg Entwhistle in two 0:03:01.880 --> 0:03:05.160 leapt from the Hollywood signs. Huh. Some say that area 0:03:05.200 --> 0:03:10.600 is still haunted today. Uh, there are reportings of uh, well, 0:03:10.639 --> 0:03:13.520 I'll get to that actually, Um, but here's PEG's story. 0:03:13.639 --> 0:03:16.520 She well, here, there's kind of two parts to this. 0:03:16.680 --> 0:03:21.040 She uh came to Hollywood and she ended up working 0:03:21.520 --> 0:03:23.320 a little bit. She got a big role in David 0:03:23.320 --> 0:03:27.200 O'sel's Next Thirteen Women, but was cut from the final film. 0:03:27.320 --> 0:03:31.640 Unfortunately that happens. Uh, And the kind of legend goes 0:03:31.680 --> 0:03:34.440 that she she came to Hollywood and did not ever 0:03:35.240 --> 0:03:38.280 Um did not ever make it as the young starlett 0:03:38.360 --> 0:03:42.320 that she wanted to be, So she leapt from the 0:03:42.520 --> 0:03:47.120 h because of that. On September six, two beautiful Hollywood 0:03:47.120 --> 0:03:53.920 actress grief stricken, supposedly intoxicated, uh drunk, I guess um 0:03:54.120 --> 0:03:57.080 hiked from her uncle's house to the Hollywood signed and yes, 0:03:57.080 --> 0:04:00.600 actually to see it did say Hollywood Land back then. Um, 0:04:00.720 --> 0:04:03.360 and that's a serious hike. Yeah, get to that side 0:04:03.440 --> 0:04:05.560 is no small task. Yeah, I mean and now there 0:04:05.560 --> 0:04:09.280 are trails. I don't even know what it was like. Um, 0:04:09.320 --> 0:04:12.520 but yeah, it's it's it's not easy and uh so 0:04:12.560 --> 0:04:15.240 she hiped from her uncle's house, climbed up the maintenance 0:04:15.320 --> 0:04:18.920 ladder in the back, and then uh leapt to her death. 0:04:19.000 --> 0:04:22.719 The next day, a female hiker unidentified found her body 0:04:23.320 --> 0:04:25.440 with a shoe, a jacket, a person a suicide note 0:04:25.480 --> 0:04:28.920 that said, I'm afraid. I'm a coward. I'm sorry for everything. 0:04:29.320 --> 0:04:31.520 If I had done this a long time ago, it 0:04:31.520 --> 0:04:34.320 would have saved a lot of pain. P e for 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:38.440 peg end whistle man, how about that? It's sad. So 0:04:39.279 --> 0:04:41.880 here's the deal though, uh people have said it's been 0:04:42.800 --> 0:04:46.680 haunted for years. According to legend, the ghost is accompanied 0:04:46.680 --> 0:04:49.880 by the smell of Guardinius, which was her favorite perfume. 0:04:49.960 --> 0:04:52.520 People say they have smelled that. You know, it's one 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:55.440 of those you know, I don't believe it, but it's 0:04:55.480 --> 0:04:57.800 one of those stories that you hear. Smell is a 0:04:57.880 --> 0:05:01.400 very powerful sense Chuck, it is it is. But here's 0:05:01.440 --> 0:05:06.040 the truth actually, Um, it's sort of been rewritten all 0:05:06.080 --> 0:05:10.119 these years that peg Entwhistle was upset because she didn't 0:05:10.120 --> 0:05:13.560 make it as a big actress. And while she may 0:05:13.600 --> 0:05:15.400 not have loved the fact that she was never a 0:05:15.400 --> 0:05:20.440 big actress, she actually was. Today you would probably call 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:24.719 her clinically depressed and who knows, maybe bipolar or maybe 0:05:24.760 --> 0:05:28.320 had some other you know, uh, some other mental illness 0:05:28.400 --> 0:05:31.000 going on. Uh. It's really easy to paint her as like, oh, 0:05:31.040 --> 0:05:32.560 she didn't make it in Hollywood, so she left to 0:05:32.560 --> 0:05:34.360 her death. But there was a lot more going on 0:05:34.400 --> 0:05:36.839 with pegg Ent Whistle. Well, that stuff was largely un 0:05:37.600 --> 0:05:40.359 treatable or undiagnosed in those days. Yeah, she would have 0:05:40.360 --> 0:05:45.880 been hysterical, hysterical woman probably. Um so back east that 0:05:45.960 --> 0:05:49.720 as the true story goes, or the more full story. Um, 0:05:49.800 --> 0:05:54.600 she lived and worked on Broadway, had a had a 0:05:54.600 --> 0:05:57.039 decent career on Broadway. Actually, when she was nineteen, she 0:05:57.080 --> 0:05:59.440 married an older actor this is kind of interesting, named 0:05:59.480 --> 0:06:02.640 Robert key h. Two years later they divorced and she 0:06:02.800 --> 0:06:07.560 alleged deception and cruelty and uh because she found out 0:06:07.600 --> 0:06:10.160 that he had been previously married and had a six 0:06:10.240 --> 0:06:12.640 year old son, and that six year old son would 0:06:12.640 --> 0:06:15.719 grow up to be the actor Brian Keith. So that's 0:06:15.720 --> 0:06:19.880 a little, uh little side note there. Um So anyway, 0:06:19.880 --> 0:06:21.839 at the end of the day, it looks like she 0:06:21.960 --> 0:06:24.120 told her uncle that she was gonna step out to 0:06:24.120 --> 0:06:27.120 buy a book from a drug drug store and then 0:06:27.120 --> 0:06:30.440 to maybe go see some friends, and she disappeared. And 0:06:30.880 --> 0:06:33.279 the uncle did say she was always fascinated by that sign. 0:06:33.360 --> 0:06:36.720 But by all accounts, peck Ent Whistle had had serious 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:40.359 mental problems, um most certainly depression, and it was not 0:06:40.440 --> 0:06:44.159 all just wrapped up in this starlet never made it 0:06:44.200 --> 0:06:47.640 as an actor's story. Um it sounds like her when 0:06:47.640 --> 0:06:50.479 we've got real bad reviews too, I guess that. Yeah, 0:06:50.880 --> 0:06:53.480 I'm sure that doesn't help depression. She got cut from 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:55.560 the studio. I think it looks like right. But her 0:06:55.640 --> 0:06:58.920 uncle Charles did say that she was depressed, suffering an 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:03.719 intense mental anger wish and um, I just I hate 0:07:03.720 --> 0:07:06.000 it when stories like that are just neatly tied in 0:07:06.080 --> 0:07:09.200 such a bow that you never really realized that there's 0:07:09.240 --> 0:07:12.360 probably really something serious going on there and it wasn't 0:07:12.400 --> 0:07:15.560 just about the movie industry. Uh So that is Hollywood 0:07:15.640 --> 0:07:18.280 History for this week. Uh. And now we'll just move 0:07:18.400 --> 0:07:24.440 right on into recommended viewing. As you know, I recommend 0:07:25.200 --> 0:07:29.280 a foreign film, a documentary film, and an independent film 0:07:29.280 --> 0:07:32.400 in the recommended viewing segment, and I will start with 0:07:32.600 --> 0:07:35.000 not Born in the USA. My foreign film pick for 0:07:35.120 --> 0:07:39.440 the week is Run, Lola Run. I knew you would 0:07:39.480 --> 0:07:41.760 have seen that one years ago. I haven't seen a lot, 0:07:41.800 --> 0:07:43.520 but it's such a cool one. I haven't either. I 0:07:43.560 --> 0:07:45.320 was kind of just picking through my brain about I 0:07:45.360 --> 0:07:47.320 used to watch a lot more foreign films. I think 0:07:47.360 --> 0:07:50.440 it's the deal. Um. And I don't know why I 0:07:50.440 --> 0:07:52.760 haven't been on that train lately, but I need to 0:07:52.760 --> 0:07:55.640 get back on it. Run Lola Run, the Great German 0:07:55.640 --> 0:08:02.160 film from directed by Tom Tickover. It's a thriller, um. 0:08:02.240 --> 0:08:04.160 I guess you would call it a thriller. Uh. And 0:08:04.200 --> 0:08:08.880 it starts Franka Potente and more. It's bleep trough and 0:08:09.080 --> 0:08:11.440 the story is very basic. Basically is right at the 0:08:11.520 --> 0:08:14.760 very beginning, Lola, this character gets a call from her 0:08:14.800 --> 0:08:19.800 boyfriend Frantic and she has to get ahold of one 0:08:19.840 --> 0:08:24.080 hundred thousand Deutsche marks in twenty minutes to save his life. 0:08:24.760 --> 0:08:26.560 And when you start a movie like that, you get 0:08:26.600 --> 0:08:28.920 that clock ticking in such a frantic fashion. It's not 0:08:29.000 --> 0:08:32.720 like you've got forty eight hours twenty minutes. So it 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:36.520 just launches like a cannonball right out of the gate 0:08:36.640 --> 0:08:38.720 right there. Does not let up, and it does not 0:08:38.800 --> 0:08:41.240 let up, and it tells the story in three, um 0:08:41.240 --> 0:08:43.720 three different ways. There are three different runs with three 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:46.480 different outcomes, and each time she starts over in the 0:08:46.520 --> 0:08:49.680 same place and basically at the end of each run, 0:08:50.360 --> 0:08:53.320 you know, um, I won't spoil it, but like I said, 0:08:53.320 --> 0:08:55.520 there are three different outcomes depending on what happens on 0:08:55.559 --> 0:08:57.079 her run. So it's got a little bit of a 0:08:57.120 --> 0:09:01.400 sliding doors quality to it. Uh. But it's just like 0:09:01.960 --> 0:09:05.080 the pace of this movie is just nuts. Yet it 0:09:05.120 --> 0:09:08.600 doesn't feel like, you know, it's sort of edge your seat, 0:09:08.640 --> 0:09:11.199 but it's not exhausting as a as a viewer. It's 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:14.679 very nineties. It's very like techno soundtrack and it's almost 0:09:14.760 --> 0:09:17.720 kind of like an electro groundhog Day situation or like 0:09:17.800 --> 0:09:20.360 Rashaman or something. Yeah, that's a good way to put 0:09:20.360 --> 0:09:22.560 it actually. Uh. And they call it Run Lola Run 0:09:22.600 --> 0:09:24.720 because you know, she's got twenty minutes. She spends a 0:09:24.760 --> 0:09:27.680 lot of this movie running literally physically running in the 0:09:27.760 --> 0:09:30.360 Midtown Arts Cinema like on our local movie theater. They 0:09:30.360 --> 0:09:32.839 have all these foreign posters in the lobby and one 0:09:32.840 --> 0:09:34.760 of them is for that and the German version is 0:09:34.800 --> 0:09:39.600 just called Lola rent Yeah, it's at rent Um anyway, 0:09:39.640 --> 0:09:42.520 great movie, check it out. The next up, we have 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:45.280 our documentary What's Up? Doc? I Am Going to Go 0:09:45.360 --> 0:09:47.959 with the Kids stays in the picture from two thousand 0:09:47.960 --> 0:09:51.560 to this movie from uh Nanette Bernstein and Brett Morrigan. 0:09:51.600 --> 0:09:54.559 It's about the life of fame film producer Robert Evans, 0:09:55.320 --> 0:09:58.280 his his history in Hollywood, starting from when he was 0:09:58.320 --> 0:10:01.480 in a kind of a bad actor by all accounts, 0:10:01.520 --> 0:10:03.920 he was sort of a rags to riches to rags 0:10:03.960 --> 0:10:07.400 story because he doesn't make it as an actor, becomes 0:10:07.400 --> 0:10:09.640 a producer, eventually becomes a studio chief, they head of 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:13.000 Paramount Pictures, and then kind of loses it all and 0:10:13.040 --> 0:10:15.880 there is um there's a lot involved along the way 0:10:16.440 --> 0:10:20.800 and Uh. They focused on his personal relationships, notably his 0:10:21.559 --> 0:10:25.200 marriage to Ali mcgrawl, the actress from Love Story, which 0:10:25.200 --> 0:10:28.320 he produced very big hit with Ryan O'Neill. He also 0:10:28.360 --> 0:10:32.480 produced The Godfather. He also produced Chinatown and Paramount under 0:10:32.520 --> 0:10:35.680 his watch was those were so sort of the golden 0:10:35.720 --> 0:10:39.000 years of Paramount Pictures. Uh in the nineteen seventies when 0:10:39.080 --> 0:10:42.440 Robert Evans was was chief. Have you seen it? I 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:44.640 have not. Oh dude, didn't you say you went to 0:10:44.679 --> 0:10:47.560 the premiere of that? And yeah? I think, Um, I 0:10:47.600 --> 0:10:51.640 want to say, Paula Tompkins in that episode. Um, it 0:10:51.720 --> 0:10:54.200 wasn't the premiere. I just want an opening night in 0:10:54.320 --> 0:10:57.800 Los Angeles on Sunset Boulevard and it was. It felt 0:10:57.800 --> 0:11:00.679 like a premiere because there were at least tenders, well 0:11:00.720 --> 0:11:03.360 famous people in that audience. It was a very highly 0:11:03.360 --> 0:11:08.160 anticipated movie. Um, in the in the Hollywood community. And uh, 0:11:08.200 --> 0:11:10.800 it was just visually really compelling the way they told 0:11:10.840 --> 0:11:14.559 the story. And people have ripped it off since then. Um, 0:11:14.600 --> 0:11:17.719 but at the time, you know, documentaries didn't do things 0:11:17.800 --> 0:11:22.080 like this had these animations. Um, you really just got 0:11:22.080 --> 0:11:24.520 to see it like almost like cut out animations that 0:11:24.600 --> 0:11:27.560 tell the story. And Evans narrated it of course, which 0:11:27.600 --> 0:11:29.680 is there's no way it could have been anyone else 0:11:29.720 --> 0:11:33.680 than Robert Evans telling his own story. Yeah. I mean 0:11:33.720 --> 0:11:36.679 sure there are parts of it that are funny. Um, 0:11:36.720 --> 0:11:38.920 and he's he's he tells the story in a very 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:42.040 real way, and he's just got this booming voice and 0:11:42.280 --> 0:11:44.520 the way he talks about, you know, making pictures, and 0:11:44.559 --> 0:11:48.240 he's sort of a throwback um visually though just off 0:11:48.240 --> 0:11:50.880 the charts as far as what documentaries were doing at 0:11:50.880 --> 0:11:52.920 the time. You could like it had a budget, you know, 0:11:52.920 --> 0:11:56.319 which is that's the reason most documentaries back then didn't 0:11:56.320 --> 0:11:58.520 look great because of course there's some kid with a 0:11:58.600 --> 0:12:02.120 camera guerrilla style. Let's check that up, uh and it it. 0:12:02.440 --> 0:12:04.439 I think it made a big difference in the kind 0:12:04.440 --> 0:12:07.640 of budgets that documentaries did get because they kind of 0:12:07.679 --> 0:12:10.280 started looking better after kids stays in the picture made 0:12:10.280 --> 0:12:18.720 a lot of money. It was a big hit. And 0:12:18.760 --> 0:12:23.200 then finally my Independence Day pick I'm going to go 0:12:23.320 --> 0:12:27.640 with the day Trippers from talked very briefly about this 0:12:28.280 --> 0:12:32.280 on the episode with Guy Brandham, which should be out 0:12:32.320 --> 0:12:35.880 by now, I think, um, but if not, look forward 0:12:35.880 --> 0:12:38.480 to that. And it was written and directed by the 0:12:38.520 --> 0:12:41.520 wonderful Greg Mazzola and and I think it was his 0:12:41.559 --> 0:12:44.280 first movie, a little small indie. It was a very 0:12:44.320 --> 0:12:47.520 simple story. That's a story about a woman who finds 0:12:47.520 --> 0:12:50.880 a letter that indicates that her husband may be cheating 0:12:50.920 --> 0:12:54.320 on her, so she decides to pile in the car 0:12:54.840 --> 0:12:58.079 in the station wagon with her sister, her sister's boyfriend, 0:12:58.160 --> 0:13:00.680 and her parents and go from Long Island into the 0:13:00.679 --> 0:13:04.360 city of Manhattan to uh do a little spying and 0:13:04.360 --> 0:13:08.959 find that out. Very simple story, just a delightful fun movie. Uh. 0:13:08.960 --> 0:13:11.360 The woman has hope. Davis Stanley Tucci is her husband, 0:13:11.720 --> 0:13:15.079 Parker Posey as her sister, Liev Schreiber as her boyfriend, 0:13:15.679 --> 0:13:17.920 and her mom and dad are the great Anne Mara 0:13:18.440 --> 0:13:22.240 and Pat McNamara. Also Campbell Scott is in it. And 0:13:22.240 --> 0:13:25.600 it's just so funny. Uh. It's just one of these 0:13:25.720 --> 0:13:30.760 movies that really captures family so well because their whole 0:13:30.800 --> 0:13:34.360 family is kind of playing detective in Manhattan, snooping around 0:13:34.400 --> 0:13:36.520 his office trying to find out if he's cheating on her. 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:41.280 And um, just a very very delightful fun movie. The 0:13:41.360 --> 0:13:46.000 Day Trippers from nineteen nine six go check it out, 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:49.360 all right, and we finish up with stream this and 0:13:49.400 --> 0:13:54.880 comment card I am gonna go for streaming this. It's 0:13:54.920 --> 0:13:56.920 a bit of a cheat because it's an HBO show 0:13:57.800 --> 0:14:00.120 and you don't exactly stream that, although it gets you 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:01.599 can you can buy that all the cart Now, I 0:14:01.640 --> 0:14:03.319 think you don't even have to have a subscription. There's 0:14:03.320 --> 0:14:06.080 an HBO Now or whatever, HBO go, you can just 0:14:06.480 --> 0:14:08.360 you can just buy now. Yeah, all right, we're good 0:14:08.360 --> 0:14:11.360 for them. High Maintenance Season two. Do you watch this show? 0:14:11.520 --> 0:14:14.199 This is the we Delivery show. Yes, I've seen a 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:16.439 little bit of it. Alright, So how this show started 0:14:16.520 --> 0:14:19.800 was started as a web series which I watched. Um, 0:14:20.040 --> 0:14:22.360 I can't remember who sent it to me, but someone 0:14:22.400 --> 0:14:24.480 sent it to me, and I watched the web series. 0:14:24.520 --> 0:14:27.120 There were shorts, Um, I feel like they were about 0:14:27.320 --> 0:14:29.240 six or seven minutes long and just told like one 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:32.240 little piece of a story. Uh. And then I found 0:14:32.240 --> 0:14:35.080 out it was from husband wife team Ben Sinclair and 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:40.640 Katcha Blitchfeld. Um. And I'll finish up with their story 0:14:40.640 --> 0:14:44.960 in a second. But they got signed by HBO to 0:14:45.080 --> 0:14:48.520 do the series, and I was super stoked because it's 0:14:48.560 --> 0:14:50.920 just such a good The web shorts were so great 0:14:51.560 --> 0:14:54.200 and um, to be picked up by HBO was just 0:14:54.440 --> 0:14:57.640 obviously a huge, huge deal for them. HBO didn't have 0:14:57.680 --> 0:15:00.400 a habit of picking up random web shows about weed 0:15:00.400 --> 0:15:05.080 delivery guys. Uh. And you know it's that's the easiest 0:15:05.120 --> 0:15:07.280 way to describe it. It's about a weed delivery guy 0:15:07.280 --> 0:15:10.040 in New York City. But it's really not about a 0:15:10.080 --> 0:15:13.240 weed delivery guy. He he happens to do that. It's 0:15:13.280 --> 0:15:16.440 about it's about New York City and the stories of 0:15:16.480 --> 0:15:18.520 the people of New York City. It's a perfect frame 0:15:18.560 --> 0:15:21.040 story for telling that kind of stuff. You know, absolutely 0:15:21.440 --> 0:15:24.920 different different character every episode. You know, seeing the landscape 0:15:24.960 --> 0:15:29.560 as he's biking around, I believe yeah, Uh it is. Uh. 0:15:29.640 --> 0:15:33.560 It's probably the most accurate portrayal of modern New York 0:15:33.600 --> 0:15:36.080 that I've seen because it tells the stories of everyone. 0:15:36.520 --> 0:15:38.400 And that's that. You're right, that's the great thing about 0:15:38.400 --> 0:15:42.200 the weed delivery guy. One episode and in each episode 0:15:42.200 --> 0:15:44.840 now the thirty minute version weaves together two or three 0:15:44.840 --> 0:15:47.680 different stories. Um. So one he might visit a high 0:15:47.680 --> 0:15:51.400 powered um stockbroker in Wall Street, and then he bikes 0:15:51.440 --> 0:15:54.760 over to like a young Cuban girl, uh, in a 0:15:54.760 --> 0:15:58.120 tenement apartment, and all these stories kind of weave together 0:15:58.160 --> 0:16:00.000 somehow a lot of times, and a lot of times 0:16:00.160 --> 0:16:03.200 he is the through line before how they weave together. 0:16:03.720 --> 0:16:06.880 But it's got so much heart and it's real, and 0:16:06.960 --> 0:16:11.240 it can be heartbreaking and sad or funny. Um it's 0:16:11.280 --> 0:16:14.280 just really really awesome. Uh. And the reason I said 0:16:14.360 --> 0:16:17.400 I'll finish up about their marriage. They actually Ben Sinclair, 0:16:17.600 --> 0:16:19.600 who stars in the movie. They don't even name him. 0:16:19.640 --> 0:16:22.640 He's just weird guy or the guy. Uh, and his 0:16:22.680 --> 0:16:26.720 wife was behind the scenes writing and directing along with him. 0:16:27.160 --> 0:16:32.360 They actually got divorced before season two and decided to 0:16:33.560 --> 0:16:36.680 you know, she she they got divorced. She is now 0:16:36.720 --> 0:16:41.000 living with her new girlfriend and they're all friends, and 0:16:41.040 --> 0:16:43.320 he was like, you know that that kind of life happens. 0:16:43.320 --> 0:16:45.600 It was rough, but we have a good thing going 0:16:45.640 --> 0:16:47.760 here with the show, and they decided to keep making 0:16:47.760 --> 0:16:51.040 the show together through season two. Yeah. It's really interesting 0:16:51.680 --> 0:16:53.240 that they can make that work like that, and so 0:16:53.320 --> 0:16:55.400 hats off to them. I'm trying to get Ben Sinclair 0:16:55.440 --> 0:16:57.680 on the show, um and have actually been in touch 0:16:57.720 --> 0:17:01.800 with HBO, and it may be possible. He's The problem is, 0:17:01.840 --> 0:17:03.800 I'm going to New York at the end of February 0:17:03.840 --> 0:17:05.320 and I was trying to land him there, but he's 0:17:05.320 --> 0:17:09.199 in l A through February. UM, but it sounds like 0:17:09.200 --> 0:17:11.320 it's possible, so I'm gonna make it happen. It's like, yeah, 0:17:11.320 --> 0:17:14.640 it's awesome. He just the character that he plays. It's 0:17:14.680 --> 0:17:18.440 just such a sweet guy. Um. He always just wants 0:17:18.480 --> 0:17:23.240 to do right by people in whatever situation he's launched into. 0:17:23.800 --> 0:17:25.760 He always just has a good heart and wants to 0:17:25.760 --> 0:17:28.359 do the right thing. Um. And he's just one of 0:17:28.520 --> 0:17:30.680 one of the beloved characters on TV. To me, it's 0:17:30.680 --> 0:17:33.240 interesting too, because I think people have a perceived idea 0:17:33.280 --> 0:17:37.000 of like what kinds of people by Maryland Yeah or 0:17:37.040 --> 0:17:39.600 Deliver Maryland. Yeah. What you realize in the show is yeah, 0:17:39.600 --> 0:17:42.160 like it's it's it's every kind of person. It's every 0:17:42.240 --> 0:17:45.240 kind of person exactly, um and all I mean that 0:17:45.320 --> 0:17:47.000 is certainly not the focus of the show, but yet 0:17:47.040 --> 0:17:50.040 that ends up sort of bleeding through for sure. Uh 0:17:50.080 --> 0:17:52.520 So High Maintenance season two, check out season one, and 0:17:52.560 --> 0:17:56.040 I believe on HBO they had a They have the 0:17:56.040 --> 0:17:58.640 web shorts up there too, and I recommend all of them. 0:17:58.680 --> 0:18:00.680 And it's kind of funny if you watch the web shorts. 0:18:01.119 --> 0:18:05.000 Some of those characters later appear um on various episodes. 0:18:05.119 --> 0:18:08.000 And sometimes it will be like a girlfriend who was 0:18:09.720 --> 0:18:12.600 a girlfriend who later ends up with a different boyfriend 0:18:12.920 --> 0:18:14.960 and he'll be like, wait a minute, didn't I know 0:18:15.119 --> 0:18:18.439 you from the other place? And so It's kind of 0:18:18.560 --> 0:18:20.639 kind of cool how they do that. All right, And 0:18:20.680 --> 0:18:23.960 now we finish with comic card listener mail from you guys, 0:18:24.359 --> 0:18:27.679 and I specifically ask for questions for for me and 0:18:27.760 --> 0:18:31.840 nol on this one. You ready, no, I am? This 0:18:31.880 --> 0:18:36.440 is from Avalon Rector. Great name, very intense name. Reboots. 0:18:36.800 --> 0:18:40.560 Huh what are they good for? Absolutely nothing? Or is 0:18:40.600 --> 0:18:42.560 it just a basic desire to see things we have 0:18:42.640 --> 0:18:46.240 created before through the lens of our new technology. What 0:18:46.400 --> 0:18:50.080 are your thoughts, guys, I'll let you go first here. 0:18:50.640 --> 0:18:53.400 I think it just depends on their reboot, right, Like, 0:18:54.440 --> 0:18:56.680 some of them are such obvious cash grabs that you 0:18:56.720 --> 0:18:58.879 can't help it just be offended by it, especially if 0:18:58.880 --> 0:19:00.800 you have like a special place in your heart for 0:19:00.840 --> 0:19:04.800 the original and speaking in generalizations here, um, Like, for example, 0:19:04.920 --> 0:19:08.000 there's The Ocean's eleven reboot that's coming out with all women. 0:19:08.160 --> 0:19:11.520 I think that's interesting and and could be, if handled well, 0:19:12.000 --> 0:19:13.919 a good thing. You know, that franchise is so kind 0:19:13.920 --> 0:19:16.720 of open ended anyway that it's not like a remake. 0:19:16.840 --> 0:19:19.800 It's just kind of like we're gonna resuscitate this concept 0:19:19.840 --> 0:19:22.080 of a group of people doing a heist. I'm all 0:19:22.080 --> 0:19:24.320 about stuff like that. But then if you have like 0:19:24.359 --> 0:19:27.679 you know, uh, for example, there's this Heather's there's a 0:19:27.680 --> 0:19:31.439 Heather's TV show, and it looks like utter trash. It 0:19:31.520 --> 0:19:34.159 just looks it's like this modern reboot of Heathers in 0:19:34.160 --> 0:19:37.360 a TV show form and it looks just like offensive 0:19:37.480 --> 0:19:39.879 and just really crass. And I know the original is 0:19:39.920 --> 0:19:42.280 crass as well, but it's got you know, it's got class, 0:19:42.320 --> 0:19:45.280 it's classy crass, you know, but this just looks really 0:19:45.280 --> 0:19:48.919 really bad. Um. It replaces characters from the originals with 0:19:49.000 --> 0:19:51.840 kind of more modern versions. It just looks like kind 0:19:51.880 --> 0:19:54.840 of a gross glee kind of you know, So that 0:19:55.119 --> 0:20:04.520 bothers me stuff like that, you know. All right, My 0:20:04.640 --> 0:20:09.600 take is, um, I'm kind of throwing remakes and reboots 0:20:09.600 --> 0:20:13.000 into the same bucket, even though I know they're a 0:20:13.000 --> 0:20:17.479 little different. Um, when it comes to like here's our 0:20:17.520 --> 0:20:21.480 third version of Spider Man, it gets a little tiresome 0:20:21.520 --> 0:20:23.840 to me. And that feels like, just hey, let's just 0:20:23.840 --> 0:20:26.639 try and print some money for the studio. Let's not 0:20:26.680 --> 0:20:29.879 be original. Having said that, the latest iteration of Spider 0:20:29.880 --> 0:20:34.080 Man with the young kid is great. I really thought 0:20:34.080 --> 0:20:35.480 it was really good, and that was a lot of 0:20:35.480 --> 0:20:40.879 studio weirdness with like owning the rights and Marvel or whatever. 0:20:41.480 --> 0:20:43.239 Now Marvel has it and they can do whatever they 0:20:43.240 --> 0:20:46.600 want with the characters, So I think that makes sense. Yeah, um, 0:20:46.880 --> 0:20:49.480 I guess like that middle version with Andrew Garfield, I 0:20:49.480 --> 0:20:52.240 didn't care for it all, So maybe that was the problem. 0:20:52.320 --> 0:20:57.240 Is is just throw those movies out and uh keep 0:20:58.160 --> 0:21:01.320 one and two of Toby McGuire because the third one 0:21:01.400 --> 0:21:04.000 wasn't great. I think they just you're right, like a 0:21:04.000 --> 0:21:06.400 lot of times it feels like a cash grab. We're 0:21:06.440 --> 0:21:08.760 just ill conceived. Like, um, you know one of my 0:21:08.800 --> 0:21:11.240 most beloved movies of all time, the great comedy Arthur 0:21:11.680 --> 0:21:14.720 with Dudley Moore. You know when they remained that with 0:21:15.000 --> 0:21:18.800 Russell Brand I didn't I wouldn't even see it, you know, 0:21:18.840 --> 0:21:20.879 because I knew. I was like, this is not going 0:21:20.920 --> 0:21:23.200 to be good. But is that a remake or a reboot? 0:21:23.200 --> 0:21:25.800 Like as it was that, Like it's a remake, yeah, 0:21:25.840 --> 0:21:29.040 straight up. Remake. Reboots are more about like franchises maybe 0:21:29.200 --> 0:21:32.239 or yeah. I mean they're doing it with TV now 0:21:32.280 --> 0:21:34.800 to like Roseanne comes back or Willing Grace comes back. 0:21:34.800 --> 0:21:37.400 And my whole thing is just there's so many good 0:21:37.400 --> 0:21:40.720 writers out there, so many great ideas. We heard of 0:21:40.760 --> 0:21:44.440 the Blacklist in l A, the list of screenplays that 0:21:44.520 --> 0:21:48.040 don't get Oh no, there's a podcast. No, there's something. 0:21:48.119 --> 0:21:50.240 It's it's been around for years they put it. Uh, 0:21:50.480 --> 0:21:52.640 I can't remember what organization puts it out, But there's 0:21:52.640 --> 0:21:56.560 something called the Blacklist where the best unproduced screenplays each 0:21:56.640 --> 0:22:00.800 year are put on a list. And uh, like they're 0:22:00.840 --> 0:22:03.679 great ideas. They're great original ideas out there. It's not 0:22:03.760 --> 0:22:07.240