Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Welcome to Mini Crush Monday edition, Early morning edition.
Speaker 1: It's a Monday on a Friday day. Boy. No, I'm
Speaker 1: just I can't. I need to stop reading comments of
Speaker 1: this whole What are they saying to you? Cavan On hearing? No, No,
Speaker 1: I thought you meant like iTunes comments. No, our people
Speaker 1: are great. Yeah, that's Kavanaught. Businesses never read the comments
Speaker 1: and sonkers. No, I know, I've I've learned that lesson
Speaker 1: in the hard way. God, I can I can manage
Speaker 1: to stomach everything on my own terms. When I read
Speaker 1: the comments on what like on like like a news site,
Speaker 1: or like on this or even Facebook from other people,
Speaker 1: it's just I can't. I can't even take it. What
Speaker 1: are they saying, Chuck, what are they saying? Oh? No,
Speaker 1: I know you don't want to go down this this dark,
Speaker 1: dark path. Were we keep Movie Crush politics free? Right? Oh?
Speaker 1: We have to it's it's it's in the contract. It's
Speaker 1: in the Movie Crush compact. All right, everybody. So a
Speaker 1: couple of bits of business of business here early on,
Speaker 1: thanks to Laura from the Netherlands, we got our first
Speaker 1: gift Batman returns trading cards. Oh that's where those came from. You.
Speaker 1: You kind of chucked these trading cars. That's what Chuck does.
Speaker 1: He chucks things onto my desk. And I'm like, and
Speaker 1: then you said gift and I was like, I thought
Speaker 1: you meant like, this is a gift from you to
Speaker 1: me exactly how it went down, said this is our
Speaker 1: first band gift. I didn't hear that. And then you
Speaker 1: pounded your fist on my desk. Yeah. They were awesome.
Speaker 1: They were vintage man like and uh, I remember their
Speaker 1: tops trading cards and uh no bubble gum. But that's
Speaker 1: cool because they each had like one of the really
Speaker 1: fancy laminated kind of cards that the more high gloss photos.
Speaker 1: There was always one in each pack special card. I
Speaker 1: didn't see that. I wonder if I didn't get my
Speaker 1: special card, well, you can have one of mine. I
Speaker 1: got three. Uh. And then she also Laura suggested she
Speaker 1: wrote us a nice letter and suggested at the end
Speaker 1: Peter Weir as a great overlook director. Um. I am
Speaker 1: totally on board with that. Peter Weir is one of
Speaker 1: my favorite all time directors and hugely underrated. So look
Speaker 1: for a segment on Peter Weir. Uh and on that
Speaker 1: I want to apologize folks, although I think you've been
Speaker 1: enjoying this format, but I've been a little bit busy
Speaker 1: lately in life and work. I have a lot of
Speaker 1: things converging that has made me legit as busy as
Speaker 1: I've ever been in my life. So if you've noticed
Speaker 1: in these mini crushes lately, I haven't been doing I
Speaker 1: have not abandoned, but I haven't been doing some of
Speaker 1: those older segments like recommended viewing and uh stuff like that.
Speaker 1: Those require a little bit more time and research for me.
Speaker 1: So I've been lazy everyone, and I've been counting on
Speaker 1: you to provide the content for these crowdsourcing man It's
Speaker 1: the way of the future. But people seem to like it.
Speaker 1: Of course they do, so I appreciate it everyone. I
Speaker 1: will I will return to some of those beloved earlier segments,
Speaker 1: um once things settled down for me, which should be November.
Speaker 1: If I make it through this month, I will be well.
Speaker 1: I believe in you joke, and I have a statement
Speaker 1: to make on Facebook. A couple of weeks ago, I
Speaker 1: said something about having guests on that have done bad
Speaker 1: things in their past, like eventually this is gonna come
Speaker 1: up with the me Too movement, Hollywood people being creeps
Speaker 1: and what would I do when face with a Sophie's
Speaker 1: choice of Hey, here's a guest from like a PR person.
Speaker 1: Do you want to have this person on? And that happened.
Speaker 1: So I posted on face Book on the movie Crush page, like,
Speaker 1: I need advice everyone, What do I do? What do
Speaker 1: you think? I don't want to lose your trust as
Speaker 1: a listener, um, But I do also believe in second
Speaker 1: chances for a lot of people and their misdeeds. Not everyone,
Speaker 1: was it, Louisy? Kay? No, I'm not gonna have Bill
Speaker 1: Cosby on here. Well he's not. He's not going on
Speaker 1: anyone to show anyone anytime soon. I'm not gonna have
Speaker 1: Harvey Weinstein on here now. But it's tough, um, And
Speaker 1: I'm trying to decide if I should name this person.
Speaker 1: You know what, I'm not because that's not fair. I
Speaker 1: don't think that's fair to do. But here here's how
Speaker 1: it went down. I got a PR rep got in
Speaker 1: touch and said, hey, this person is is sort of
Speaker 1: uh is interested in coming on movie Crush and they're
Speaker 1: doing press now for the first time in a while. Uh.
Speaker 1: And again it is not luisy K, I can confirm
Speaker 1: that null um and what and what what do you think?
Speaker 1: What would you talk about? Which you know that was
Speaker 1: very loaded thing to say. I knew it, knew what
Speaker 1: she was asking though, like would you bring this up,
Speaker 1: these past misdeeds? So I thought long and hard. I
Speaker 1: consulted you all as listeners. There was a really great
Speaker 1: back and forth, hundreds of comments and replies, and everyone
Speaker 1: was really thoughtful, um as in full of thought, very
Speaker 1: considerate and how you went about answering these questions and
Speaker 1: talking to each other, and it was really kind of
Speaker 1: great to see. I think no one got snippy or mad,
Speaker 1: or was shitty or sarcastic. Everyone was really like, took
Speaker 1: it seriously um And I appreciate that, and I think
Speaker 1: that in itself to me, and I even said so
Speaker 1: on the post was made me feel good about this
Speaker 1: community of listeners um that we have here. So uh,
Speaker 1: here's what I did. I thought long and hard, talked
Speaker 1: to Emily about it as well, of course, and I
Speaker 1: decided I would write this. Uh the this woman back
Speaker 1: at the PR agency, I said this. I said, here's
Speaker 1: the deal. I am a really big fan of this person.
Speaker 1: I am a big big fan of his work over
Speaker 1: the years, and ordinarily it would be a really good
Speaker 1: get for this show. UM, top quality award winning actor.
Speaker 1: I said, but I can't whitewash this. I can't ignore
Speaker 1: this because that would do a disservice to my listeners. Um.
Speaker 1: But I don't also want to make this a referendum
Speaker 1: on this person or put this person on trial and
Speaker 1: make them uncomfortable, because that's shitty to do to invite
Speaker 1: someone on your show and then and then have like
Speaker 1: a gotcha moment. Yeah, I'm not into that, Eve, That's
Speaker 1: not cool. That's not what the show is. The show
Speaker 1: is about talking about movies. And I said, of this
Speaker 1: episode would be us doing that, I said, but I
Speaker 1: would want to bring it up in the spirit of
Speaker 1: having a dialogue about their progress and their uh regrets
Speaker 1: and um in in the hope that we could all
Speaker 1: move forward as a people and let me guess they passed. Well.
Speaker 1: I gotta response back that I believe, And she said,
Speaker 1: you know what. I showed this to him like verbatim,
Speaker 1: and he actually really appreciated where you're coming from and
Speaker 1: degrees and would do this. But our time in uh
Speaker 1: New York is shorter than we thought. I don't think
Speaker 1: we can do this now, but he does want to
Speaker 1: come on in the future. That might have been a
Speaker 1: bullshit way of saying like, Nope, we're only gonna do
Speaker 1: you know, super friendly whitewashing ones. I guess so. But
Speaker 1: like you said, in the past, isn't the soft past
Speaker 1: just the non response? That's true. I could have gotten
Speaker 1: no response or I don't know. Something about the way
Speaker 1: she worded her response rang true, though, and I believe
Speaker 1: that he was down with the way I presented the terms.
Speaker 1: For lack of a better word, good on you, Chuck,
Speaker 1: I mean, seriously, And it is tough because you know,
Speaker 1: we're in the midst of this time where so many
Speaker 1: genuinely awful people are getting taken to task and there
Speaker 1: it's not a gray area per se. But is there redemption?
Speaker 1: Can there be redemption for people that it depends on
Speaker 1: the severity of the act and the willingness to make
Speaker 1: it up to it and make moments how long ago?
Speaker 1: What like people are a lot of people on our
Speaker 1: Facebook page said, was this like someone in the last
Speaker 1: year that did something awful? Was this something happened years ago?
Speaker 1: Watching the Kavanaugh thing, they all made a very big
Speaker 1: point of this is very serious. But it was thirty
Speaker 1: six years ago, so it's like it's a weird time.
Speaker 1: It's a very weird time. I mean, I have seen
Speaker 1: this person that was gonna come on movie crush make
Speaker 1: public amends seemed very genuinely regretful. It has had big
Speaker 1: ramifications on his life. UM rightfully so. But it isn't
Speaker 1: like the thing though, isn't sort of like, Okay, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna make amends and me a kulpa, you know, because
Speaker 1: I got caught and because it's fucking with my money.
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, I think you have to make
Speaker 1: that judgment yourself, whether whether you know to take it
Speaker 1: at face value or whether they think anytime someone apologizes
Speaker 1: publicly for something like that, every single person who watches
Speaker 1: and listens has to make up their own mind about
Speaker 1: whether or not they think that's a is uh genuine.
Speaker 1: I felt like this guy's was genuine. And by the way,
Speaker 1: when I said that it missed his life up in
Speaker 1: a lot of way, I'm not saying like for him.
Speaker 1: I'm saying there are a lot of a lot of
Speaker 1: people on our Facebook page, UM talked about ramifications of
Speaker 1: career in life and stuff like that. So that's that's
Speaker 1: the only reason I bring that up. So it's a
Speaker 1: weird time. I'm kind of glad this all happened because, um,
Speaker 1: it's uh, it's just a weird time. And I don't
Speaker 1: think anyone quite knows what to do. Some people have
Speaker 1: a zero tolerance policy with anything like that person needs
Speaker 1: to be dead and go away forever. Um. I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's all tough, and I'm sure there are people have
Speaker 1: there chomping in the bit, like who are you talking about?
Speaker 1: But you know what, I think, at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, it doesn't really matter. It doesn't because it's like,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's a it's it's it's a very common
Speaker 1: situation that we're in now, and there are grades of it,
Speaker 1: and it's a matter of like where do you stand
Speaker 1: on you know, being able to forgive and move on
Speaker 1: and let people continue to live their lives or whether
Speaker 1: you just like, you know, shut somebody down forever and
Speaker 1: all time. And I think there's some people that deserve
Speaker 1: to be shut down forever and all time. Yeah, Bill
Speaker 1: Cosby's going to jail. Um, But also do like it's
Speaker 1: a personal thing. Don't support that person's career anymore than
Speaker 1: don't support them with your dollars. Um. I think it's
Speaker 1: a very personal decision. So and also this the other thing,
Speaker 1: since I'm on the stangent I'm sick of, is this
Speaker 1: whole It's started with the locker room talk and this
Speaker 1: boy's will be boys and in the Kavanaugh hearing with
Speaker 1: you know, we drank beer and we did this, and like,
Speaker 1: I never did that ship. I never got drunk in
Speaker 1: high school to the point where I did something awful
Speaker 1: to a woman. I always treated women and girls with
Speaker 1: respect growing up because I was raised to do that.
Speaker 1: So this I reject the notion that, like of locker
Speaker 1: room talking, boys will be boys. Like, No, that's not
Speaker 1: all boys and all men were not all like that.
Speaker 1: So that's a shit excuse um for any actor or
Speaker 1: politician to try it out there. Um. Anyway, I'm on
Speaker 1: a soapbox. Let's get back to many crushing. Yeah, all right, everyone,
Speaker 1: what can cleanse the palette better than troupe time? I'm
Speaker 1: going to the movie crushers page as I do now,
Speaker 1: I don't put these out anymore. Good lord, four seventy
Speaker 1: two tropes. I love it. I love it. Keep them coming, everyone,
Speaker 1: All right, I'm gonna start out this week everyone, And
Speaker 1: by the way, I delete these as I go, so
Speaker 1: if you've I don't know. If you get a notification
Speaker 1: that your your comment has been deleted, it's not because
Speaker 1: I don't like you because you did something wrong. Uh.
Speaker 1: This because that's the only way I can keep up
Speaker 1: with these tropes, just to delete them as I go
Speaker 1: and hopefully the list get shorter. But it really doesn't.
Speaker 1: Gabriel Cortez says, uh, when the heroes nice boss is
Speaker 1: actually the bad guy and the mean boss is actually
Speaker 1: the good guy, typical in spy cop thrillers. You got
Speaker 1: five likes for that, Gabriel, that's a good one that
Speaker 1: for sure happens. Um here with these tropes, everyone not required.
Speaker 1: But uh, if you can think of a specific example
Speaker 1: in a movie for some of these, that might be
Speaker 1: fun too. Um farouk uh Baracott, great name. I love
Speaker 1: the name, faruke U. The evil guy has a mustache goatee.
Speaker 1: Very true. Bonus points for twirling it while laughing. Uh. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know if that trope has really ever happened
Speaker 1: except for the initial You can't pay the rent I
Speaker 1: can't pay the rent. You must pay the rent. Man.
Speaker 1: I don't even know where that came from. That was
Speaker 1: like a kid thing, uh, with a dastardly guy and
Speaker 1: a and a lady. Yeah she was she tied to
Speaker 1: the train tracks at the time, but it was something
Speaker 1: like that. Remember Kenneth Branda's villain character and Wild Wild
Speaker 1: West really really fit into this trope. He's got like
Speaker 1: a crazy I never saw that. Yeah, it's not good,
Speaker 1: don't worry about it. But you know the story though, right,
Speaker 1: you know how it's like the Giant Spider, Giant Spider.
Speaker 1: That's how fucking dude whose name I've forgotten now, well
Speaker 1: he tells the story. But it was this producer who
Speaker 1: used to be Barbara Streisand's hairdresser. Uh. And I can't
Speaker 1: remember his name now, but he was like he was
Speaker 1: a producer on like you know, the Tim Burton Batman,
Speaker 1: I think, And that's sort of what got him like
Speaker 1: really in the whole superhero world. And he was working
Speaker 1: with Evan Smith to get him to write a draft
Speaker 1: for this new Superman movie that Nick Cage was eventually
Speaker 1: supposed to star in, and he insisted and he took
Speaker 1: had a meeting in his house and he said, you
Speaker 1: gotta have a giant spider and that ship and yeah,
Speaker 1: well and then and then while while last is that
Speaker 1: he finally got his giant spider sort of the great,
Speaker 1: big big climax because he produced that movie as well.
Speaker 1: Oh that's great, what a specific weird thing. I gotta
Speaker 1: have a giant spider. Everybody, all right, we are moving
Speaker 1: on then too. Um. Lauren Feeney says the maid or
Speaker 1: gardener who never speaks any English, very true. That is
Speaker 1: a probably a bit of a racist trope if you
Speaker 1: think about it, and oftentimes in the past at least
Speaker 1: has been played for comic effect. Um, you know, like
Speaker 1: the the gardener out there who desperately needs to say
Speaker 1: something to the homeowner but they don't speak English. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like it reminds me of Manuel on Fawlty Towers.
Speaker 1: Have you seen Faulty Towers? Dude, I loved Faulty. That's
Speaker 1: so great, But that character is very problematic Manuel Well, sure, yeah,
Speaker 1: because he like doesn't speak English and he's trying to
Speaker 1: learn English, but he's always getting into Kokie misadventures because
Speaker 1: he can't quite express himself even though he's the one
Speaker 1: that always knows the thing that's going to solve the
Speaker 1: problem for Faulty John Clie's character, Um, but he can't
Speaker 1: quite express it to him. And then Faulty just gets
Speaker 1: enraged at him because he this. You know, he can't
Speaker 1: speak English, and that's that's the literally the heart of
Speaker 1: the joke, because he can't speak English. Yeah, alright. We
Speaker 1: move on to Michael Green. The water spray from a
Speaker 1: car too close to the curb after a rainy date
Speaker 1: that splashes the guy or the gal waiting at the
Speaker 1: bus stop after an already crappy morning. Michael, you are
Speaker 1: on the money there, my friend. That is a trope
Speaker 1: of all tropes. Water splash from the car. I think
Speaker 1: about that when it's raining hard and I see people
Speaker 1: walking on the street. I've seen people get seriously splashed
Speaker 1: and always feel bad for him. I'm having a deja
Speaker 1: vu moment here, Chuck. I feel like we've if we
Speaker 1: haven't mentioned it in trope time, we've certainly mentioned it
Speaker 1: in some context before. But it's also like it's all
Speaker 1: about adding insult to injury, where it's like someone's already
Speaker 1: having a terrible day and then you know all this
Speaker 1: bad stuffs happened that their dog died, and then they're
Speaker 1: walking along and then it's like, seriously, it's like the splash.
Speaker 1: It's like, come on, come on. They always say that too,
Speaker 1: come on, come on, alright, Michael Castro with the poker trope,
Speaker 1: good guy always wins the big pot at the end
Speaker 1: with an amazing hand. That is true, Michael, and very
Speaker 1: much a movie trope because if you've ever played poker, um,
Speaker 1: you know, sometimes you get that amazing hand, but most
Speaker 1: hands in with a bluff on a pair of jack's.
Speaker 1: You know, that's real poker, everybody, which I really have
Speaker 1: no no idea about, not much of a poke. Well.
Speaker 1: And also the bad guy cheats. That's a bit of
Speaker 1: a trope too. The bad guys chets. He's either guy
Speaker 1: like a and a s up as sleeve or he
Speaker 1: has a secret card under the table that he shuffles
Speaker 1: into the deck where just see where that happened. I
Speaker 1: just saw a movie. I can't remember what it was. Now,
Speaker 1: have you seen Rounders? I watched that pretty recently and
Speaker 1: I think it holds up. That's a good poker I
Speaker 1: thought it was a good poker movie. Yeah, remember Maverick,
Speaker 1: that was another good poker movie. It's Mel Gibson cowboy
Speaker 1: poker movie. Yeah, that's a There was the old TV
Speaker 1: show Maverick and that's the movie version. Years later, Don
Speaker 1: Morris nervous kid must use asthma and Haylor for sure.
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna go ahead and read down here because
Speaker 1: Don Morris and Kelly Shank had a little convo. Uh
Speaker 1: and Kelly said, and they never use the in haler
Speaker 1: the right way. Never. Don replies to Kelly, what's the
Speaker 1: right way? What's the right way? Well, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Um well, Don says, never ever and also in Hailer's
Speaker 1: a the opposite of calming. And then Kelly responds, exactly
Speaker 1: of ever seen the women and my family have asthma
Speaker 1: tax because they're nervous or overly excited. It's usually air
Speaker 1: quality over exertion. That's a good point. So we have
Speaker 1: some asthmatics really getting Yeah, well, I guess the thing too,
Speaker 1: is like the idea of an inhaler is that it
Speaker 1: gives you instant relief or like that's sort of I
Speaker 1: think what the trope is playing on. Whereas if you
Speaker 1: were really having an anxiety attack, it's not quite as
Speaker 1: a media of a thing, if you like popped a
Speaker 1: pill or something like that. In Haler is almost like,
Speaker 1: you know, it's like, okay, I'm better now. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The way you did that made me think of Dennis
Speaker 1: Hopper inhaling its matress and get out of the car.
Speaker 1: Such a great scar really really insane. Frank booth Man, God,
Speaker 1: oh my god, my brother I might have told the
Speaker 1: story before. He told me about that movie when he
Speaker 1: was in college and I was in high school. He
Speaker 1: was like, man, uh, you gotta watch this movie called
Speaker 1: Blue Velvet. I never heard of David Lynch at that point.
Speaker 1: And you know, Scott always fed me good culture, but
Speaker 1: that was a mind blower in high school. Cannon Fatigue,
Speaker 1: great name horror movie trope. Group of people always split
Speaker 1: up and are inevitably picked off one by one for sure.
Speaker 1: And then Joel responds to him, Joel Coleman and no
Speaker 1: one wears sensible shoes when running through the woods. Uh,
Speaker 1: that's true. Sometimes you don't have a choice, though, Joel.
Speaker 1: If you're all of a sudden face with a murder,
Speaker 1: you gotta you know the old saying, dodge the murderer
Speaker 1: with the shoes. You're in be the shoes you want
Speaker 1: to see in the world. What, Yeah, that's crazy, don't
Speaker 1: worry about it. Um Oh, here's a good one, Tom Skidmore,
Speaker 1: this is a quote trope, a line trope. Take these
Speaker 1: handcuffs off and we'll see who the tough guy is.
Speaker 1: That's a good one. I here's nothing good trope as
Speaker 1: the really really painful, uncomfortable close up shot of somebody
Speaker 1: squeezing their hands out of some sort of bond, you know,
Speaker 1: whether it's like wire wrapped around the wrists or the
Speaker 1: handcuffs or like you break your thumb and do it
Speaker 1: or whatever, you know, super cut of that. I know
Speaker 1: I would not want to see that the nail file
Speaker 1: that you managed to saw through like, that's that's fine.
Speaker 1: I'm more talking about like the really painful, bloody bruise,
Speaker 1: like pulling the hand out of some kind of horrible situations.
Speaker 1: That there's a really crazy shot like that in Mandy,
Speaker 1: which I keep harping on, which I really really wanted
Speaker 1: to see it. I know, you know how I can
Speaker 1: see it, and so I will watch it very soon. Good,
Speaker 1: all right. Gabriel Cortez says the context varies a lot
Speaker 1: in this one, but it's so overused. Here's the situation, everyone,
Speaker 1: Person one, I need to tell you something important. Person
Speaker 1: to me too, let me say my thing. First, Person
Speaker 1: too says their thing. Person Too then says, now, what
Speaker 1: did you want to tell me? Person one says something
Speaker 1: other than the original thing that they wanted to say. Uh,
Speaker 1: that's a big one. And it's usually like in the
Speaker 1: context of person one is in love with person to
Speaker 1: have something I want to tell you, and they're clearly
Speaker 1: going to out themselves and say that I love you.
Speaker 1: Person Too says something like I'm going on a date
Speaker 1: this Friday. And then person number one says they're They're like,
Speaker 1: what were you gonna tell me? What was your important
Speaker 1: thing in? Person number one says, oh, I I I
Speaker 1: got off work early today. I have a really bad
Speaker 1: bunyan thinking about going on the pediatrists can check that.
Speaker 1: That's a good one. Gabriel, very good. And then we
Speaker 1: will finish up troupe time with one of my favorite
Speaker 1: movie crushers, Stellin Carlson, my pal. Everyone, Uh, here we go.
Speaker 1: Person walks into a saloon, the piano stops playing, people
Speaker 1: stop playing cards. Feels like a trope, but I might
Speaker 1: have just seen several parodies of this one specific scene. No, no,
Speaker 1: I'm sure it started off as a trope and then
Speaker 1: it became, you know, just part of the zeit geis
Speaker 1: to the point where it's definitely it's been both it's
Speaker 1: still in parody as those are the best kinds of
Speaker 1: tropes that are elevated so high that then you can
Speaker 1: parody them and still you can do whatever you Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: I love it. Good stuff Stelling and it's Stellan okay
Speaker 1: because I like Stelling. Yeah, I mean you can, I
Speaker 1: think you can lean into the stuff. But uh, you know,
Speaker 1: you got like the Scarce guards, the Stelling Scarce Guard. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And I don't say Stellen Brown, but you could. He
Speaker 1: might say it that way, not to ask him. You know.
Speaker 1: One of my favorite all time bad funny Saturday Live
Speaker 1: bits was, uh, Peter stars Guard was the host and
Speaker 1: that was during the Stars Yes, and he did it
Speaker 1: was so stupid. I love it. I love dumb jokes.
Speaker 1: He did a whole bit on the Stars Guard Stars
Speaker 1: Guard that he invented, which was like guards you against stars. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was I think they just used like a little
Speaker 1: uh allergy mask or whatever as the prop but it
Speaker 1: was The Stars Guard Stars Classics. That's very funny, good,
Speaker 1: good word play, wonderful. All right, we're gonna move on
Speaker 1: to social studies, everybody. So I posted a question this morning, um,
Speaker 1: and I didn't give you much time, so I apologize
Speaker 1: for that. But like I said, things have been busy lately,
Speaker 1: so let's go. Oh. Actually, boy, people are up early.
Speaker 1: I got a hundred and fifty three comments. Geez, here's
Speaker 1: a question, what's your favorite documentary? In fact, I might
Speaker 1: leave this one open everyone and just kind of read
Speaker 1: on it from time to time because this falls under
Speaker 1: the the category of recommendations from listeners, which are always great.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna leave this up. We're gonna go with
Speaker 1: Amanda Galina searching for sugar Man for sure? Do you
Speaker 1: see that one? Noll? Now, we've talked about this and
Speaker 1: I still have yet to see it. I've heard nothing
Speaker 1: but glowing reviews. Well it's a music guy right up here, ally, Um,
Speaker 1: Tom's uh, well this Tom again? Tom Skidmore says the
Speaker 1: Barkley Marathons. I haven't heard of that either, but he
Speaker 1: gives it a rating of amaze balls. That's top rating
Speaker 1: if you're talking balls. How many amaze balls? Well, just
Speaker 1: and out of one amaze balls. But that's all you need.
Speaker 1: That's like, okay, yeah, we should consider switching the Mini
Speaker 1: Crush to judgment review system from thumbs to amaze balls
Speaker 1: or maybe amaze balls would be a perfect score, but
Speaker 1: then other balls ratings. No, I think we stick with
Speaker 1: thumbs if we're giving it like a grade, like a
Speaker 1: you know, like three out of five thombs. But if
Speaker 1: it's five out of five, then it becomes one amaze ball. Okay,
Speaker 1: five thumbs equal? What to make Yeah, there's something really
Speaker 1: dirty about that, you know, speaking of Brick Kavanaugh. Um,
Speaker 1: no one was talking about Breaca. Uh. Let me see here.
Speaker 1: Eric Golden says, not a film, but Anthony Bourdain's shows
Speaker 1: no reservations and parts unknown spotlight human stories across the
Speaker 1: globe through a great New York attitude of not judging
Speaker 1: a book by its cover, healthy reminder of empathy and exploration.
Speaker 1: R I P. Eric, I read that because you were
Speaker 1: right on the money man. Not a documentary, but it's
Speaker 1: got all the great um it qualifies to me as
Speaker 1: a documentary even though it's a multi part series. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm ashamed to say that I had never really seen
Speaker 1: his show until after he passed away, and I watched
Speaker 1: a handful. Um which one the one where he went
Speaker 1: to both I was no reservations where he went to Columbia.
Speaker 1: I saw that one. And it's just so great because
Speaker 1: he's just such an intuitive was such an intuitive, kind
Speaker 1: like giving, you know, generous guy who genuinely wanted to
Speaker 1: just be a part of what he was a part
Speaker 1: of and just like the experienced thing. And that's what
Speaker 1: that's the hallmark of a good documentary. And it's like
Speaker 1: someone who really can get in there and not not
Speaker 1: call attention to the fact that, hey, we're making a thing.
Speaker 1: It's just kind of like be the thing and live
Speaker 1: the thing. And I could also see why he might
Speaker 1: have had some of the sadness that he had. Um.
Speaker 1: I mean, you can't know somebody's heart in that way,
Speaker 1: but it's like you could tell that he knew that
Speaker 1: he was privileged and that he was able to do
Speaker 1: all these amazing things and experience all these fantastic uh
Speaker 1: parts of different cultures. But you could also tell that
Speaker 1: it may be bothered him a little bit that he
Speaker 1: was just kind of swooping in there and then air
Speaker 1: lifting out while the people that he left on the
Speaker 1: ground were still going through life and not the most
Speaker 1: optimal of circumstances. You could tell it that could probably
Speaker 1: like war on him a little bit after time. That's
Speaker 1: my theory. Yeah, I agree, man. I think I was
Speaker 1: a big fan of the guy. Uh. And I think, um,
Speaker 1: authenticity is a trait that is very attractive to me
Speaker 1: and people, and Anthony Bourdain, if nothing else, was a
Speaker 1: very genuine authentic guy. Always liked him and as a
Speaker 1: big top chef fans who was always a treat when
Speaker 1: you is on there as a guest judge. H Stephanie
Speaker 1: greg Olas says lately it's absolutely Won't You Be My Neighbor?
Speaker 1: Not sure it's my all time favorite, but the last
Speaker 1: waltz is pretty amazing. Uh, such great performances, when I
Speaker 1: think is the most perfect concert film I've ever seen. Stephanie, Um,
Speaker 1: you are welcome to come over and move into my
Speaker 1: house and live with me and my wife and my daughter. Um,
Speaker 1: no problem, You're you're our new roommate. Because I just
Speaker 1: saw Won't You Be My Neighbor a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 1: and it is a beautiful, beautiful film and I defy
Speaker 1: anyone to watch that movie and not to cry like
Speaker 1: a baby. Um great, I haven't seen it yet, but
Speaker 1: I don't know. I could use a good cry. Is
Speaker 1: it a positive cry? Yes? Yeah, that's how to keep
Speaker 1: hearing it. It is now more than ever. Everyone go watch. Uh,
Speaker 1: won't you be my neighbor? You need it? Okay, I
Speaker 1: want it, Chuck, I want it. Mr Fred Rogers is
Speaker 1: a He's one of those where's the real deal? Right? Yeah? Man,
Speaker 1: you're like waiting for the the real story, the cracks.
Speaker 1: What was he really like? He was really fucking Fred
Speaker 1: Rogers on and off to the core, genuinely great, great,
Speaker 1: great man and just curious to write. Curious and just
Speaker 1: I mean the way he treated kids. And John Hodgment
Speaker 1: told me this when I had a U when when
Speaker 1: I got Ruby I he said, my friend, he said,
Speaker 1: you will never get better parenting advice than you will
Speaker 1: from Fred Rogers. He went go get his books on
Speaker 1: child rearing. He was a true genius, and um, beyond genius.
Speaker 1: I mean there was obviously some human sciences to it
Speaker 1: and psychology to it that was valid, but he just
Speaker 1: respected children and there what they had to say and
Speaker 1: their emotions and their feelings. It was not a put on.
Speaker 1: It was it was real and a pretty great lesson
Speaker 1: for everyone in this day and age. And the Last
Speaker 1: Waltz Stephanie, good Lord, do you want to be my roommate?
Speaker 1: Is that what you're after? Everyone knows the band is
Speaker 1: one of my favorite bands of all time. Oh, you're
Speaker 1: talking about Last Waltz. That's a good one. That's a
Speaker 1: good times. Have I seen it? Yeah, it's really great.
Speaker 1: Just the thing about that too, is like it's a
Speaker 1: performance documentary performance film, and the performances are amazing, and
Speaker 1: but the backstage stuff and all of the stuff surrounding it,
Speaker 1: it's like it's like a real slice of life, and
Speaker 1: it doesn't feel like here's bonus material of the dudes
Speaker 1: kicking it backstage. It's very like time and place and
Speaker 1: Neil Young's there. And is that cocaine booger old cocaine bugger? Yeah,
Speaker 1: everyone brings that up. It's because it's great, it's funny.
Speaker 1: That's one of the great document pieces of documentary lore
Speaker 1: of all time, is the Neil Young cocaine Bugger. Uh. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I've read all the band doctor books and biographies and
Speaker 1: I'm a huge, huge, fan was that I was lucky
Speaker 1: enough to see the great lem On Helm before he
Speaker 1: passed away perform with my good buddy Eddie. And by
Speaker 1: the way, on Once you Be my name her Um
Speaker 1: Scotty who just was on the show and it's been
Speaker 1: on the show before with the close Encounters of the
Speaker 1: third time, he uh shot some of those interviews. So
Speaker 1: stick around for the credits everyone additional camera work. Scott
Speaker 1: I polito, very proud of my pal for that one.
Speaker 1: All right, let's do a couple of more here. Um
Speaker 1: Adam Papuga says, Fog of war for sure, dude, great
Speaker 1: great movie. The inside of Robert McNamara into some of
Speaker 1: America's more controversial periods was gripping viewing, and Errol Morris's
Speaker 1: stylistic choices as a director were fantastic. Do you ever
Speaker 1: see that one? I did? And that one's neat too,
Speaker 1: because it's so simple. It's like just a lot of
Speaker 1: McNamara just talking and but but it's the way he
Speaker 1: edits it and the way he captures the guy's personality
Speaker 1: and experience. And Morris is a very no nonsense doc maker,
Speaker 1: you know, yeah his in Tarratron, Yeah yeah, And I
Speaker 1: guess he started off doing a lot of like recreation
Speaker 1: type stuff, like with thin blue line, which is great,
Speaker 1: it is great, but then he kind of moved away
Speaker 1: from that and got a little bit more in the
Speaker 1: kind of veritas kind of you know, documentary style. Um,
Speaker 1: really really great. Yeah. Yeah, for everyone who doesn't know
Speaker 1: what the interratron is, that weird word I just throughout
Speaker 1: That was what Errol Morris called his his his invention,
Speaker 1: which was if you've ever seen in Errol Morris documentary, um,
Speaker 1: they were. People are doing this more and more now
Speaker 1: because of Errol Morris, but at the time it was
Speaker 1: very unusual and that most framing of a documentary shot
Speaker 1: is an over the shoulder. That is a well, not
Speaker 1: in over the shoulder. I take that back. It's a
Speaker 1: person talking to someone else. The person being interviewed for
Speaker 1: lack of a better word, is on camera, and that
Speaker 1: camera is set up to the usually to the left
Speaker 1: or right of the person interviewing, so you have this
Speaker 1: sort of angled shot of a person looking past the
Speaker 1: camera to clearly what is a human being. Errol Morris
Speaker 1: brought it to the first person and he had been
Speaker 1: in something called the interrotron. So what he what he
Speaker 1: did was he had to jerry rigg it at first,
Speaker 1: but then was able to build it for real as
Speaker 1: as it developed as a piece of technology. But it
Speaker 1: is basically, it's superimposes Errol Morris's face on a screen
Speaker 1: that sits in front of the camera lens. So the
Speaker 1: person being interviewed is speaking to Errol Morris's face. Like
Speaker 1: imagine putting an iPad in front of a camera lens,
Speaker 1: but you could shoot through that iPad as well, So
Speaker 1: Errol Morris's face is there. They're speaking to him directly,
Speaker 1: but you're but you're looking directly into the lens. So
Speaker 1: that's what gets that first person effect of the people
Speaker 1: speaking directly to camera. And he became very well known
Speaker 1: for that shot, and a lot of documentaries since then
Speaker 1: have utilized that. And uh, it's a great effect. So innovator, genius,
Speaker 1: Errol Morris. Everyone knows a rape about Batman. It's a
Speaker 1: good one, Adam. Uh, these are great everyone. I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna keep keep reading these off every couple of weeks
Speaker 1: and keep adding them and then go to check it out.
Speaker 1: We've got a couple of great threads on recommendations now,
Speaker 1: so we're gonna finish up Noll. There's been a long
Speaker 1: one because of all my ranting. You know, man, it's uh,
Speaker 1: it's it's the time to rant. It's like that bird song,
Speaker 1: A time to rant, a time to rave. You just
Speaker 1: started to fun Neil Diamond, that was great speaking of
Speaker 1: blast Waltz. Oh yeah, that's right, man, it was really good.
Speaker 1: Time to dig your own grave. I want to hear it.
Speaker 1: Turn on your heart light next. Is that from the
Speaker 1: care Bears movie. No, it was a Neil Diamond song
Speaker 1: that was just not from ET, but about Oh okay,
Speaker 1: he wrote a song about Oh man, did I tell
Speaker 1: you that the kid, the guy who played uh Elliott
Speaker 1: on ET? Always see him around town and he's always
Speaker 1: hanging out by himself. You see Henry Thomas in Atlanta
Speaker 1: all over the place. Yeah, I've tried to get him
Speaker 1: on the show. I told you this. I thought he
Speaker 1: was at this aerial pink show at the earl Is
Speaker 1: this local venue, and then I saw I saw him
Speaker 1: at my local bar, the local and uh yeah, the
Speaker 1: people are people just like bugging the ship up. No,
Speaker 1: he's always by himself. He seems to like be like
Speaker 1: kind of a solitary lone wolf type dude. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: I know he's he's he must be gettable. I know
Speaker 1: people that know him. I don't know what he's working
Speaker 1: on in town, but he's definitely around because well, you
Speaker 1: might have told me, because that's when I might have
Speaker 1: emailed his publicist and said, hey, I know Henry Thomason
Speaker 1: town had really loved and they just just know soft path.
Speaker 1: Think I ever, yeah, I think it was a soft patch.
Speaker 1: I might not have. It's so frustrating lately, really annoying.
Speaker 1: Amy Schumer's in town this weekend. I can't I can't
Speaker 1: get a hold of her. Yeah, she's a tough one.
Speaker 1: She's a unicorn. Tear and kill him, you know when
Speaker 1: I don't know, you probably didn't hear that one, But
Speaker 1: who's that he's He was on Saturday Night Line. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: he was talking about this bar in Atlanta, and he
Speaker 1: was like, you know, we're hanging out in the lobby
Speaker 1: of the bar that we were staying in, and they
Speaker 1: were like four or five actors that weren't even on
Speaker 1: our movie hanging out there. Bill Murray was there, and
Speaker 1: I was like, what part is That's what I would
Speaker 1: tell was that, Oh it was it was Lows. That's yeah,
Speaker 1: he said it might have been Lows. No, I heard
Speaker 1: this story from Matt from my other show Stuff. Don't
Speaker 1: want you to know. He must have listened to the
Speaker 1: episode and heard it, and I think it was Los
Speaker 1: because Lows is apparently like a storied Atlanta hotel, so
Speaker 1: that's where the actors. I think that's where the actors saying,
Speaker 1: all right, no, you know what I think. Uh, We're
Speaker 1: gonna skip comment card this week. I feel like this
Speaker 1: episode is chock full and I'm frankly eager to get
Speaker 1: onto the next episode because I'm excited about what I'm
Speaker 1: going to do. It's very special one. So thanks everyone
Speaker 1: for listening and thanks for enduring the rants. But the
Speaker 1: bonus is because of those rants, you got to hear
Speaker 1: Noel's best Neil Diamond, and that wouldn't have happened, So
Speaker 1: I think we can all be Thanks Sweet Caroline, good time.
Speaker 1: Something tastes like wood, Yeah,