Speaker 1: Welcome to Movie Crush, a production of I Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: Hey everybody, welcome to Movie Crush Monday, Mini Crush Edition,
Speaker 1: very special two part edition. And now the studio is
Speaker 1: very crowded today. Yes, I forgot to do my vocal
Speaker 1: warm ups. It's me John Hodgman. I'm here. That's right, everybody.
Speaker 1: John Hodgman is in the studio with us. In case
Speaker 1: you were worried, he is here to save the day,
Speaker 1: to save the Mini crist Do you know what happened?
Speaker 1: I left for a second to go grab a free
Speaker 1: soda from the incredible well stocked refrigerator. Yes here at
Speaker 1: Stuff Media h Q. When I came back, my chair
Speaker 1: was real low. You can crank it up, Yeah, you
Speaker 1: guys crank dude, you know what happened. I'm cranking it up,
Speaker 1: but you pranked it up. Every time you left. You
Speaker 1: would hop up and the chair with the arm would
Speaker 1: raise the table and almost fill your coffee. So you
Speaker 1: can go back up now. I don't like crank it up.
Speaker 1: He just just pulled a little film like this. I
Speaker 1: came down to Atlanta on my own dime to see
Speaker 1: my friend Chuck and YouTube. No, I appreciate that and
Speaker 1: do some movie crushing, and I'm getting hazed. You getting
Speaker 1: hazed here. This is a cycle, this is a head game.
Speaker 1: Sure is, everyone's chair has got to be lower. The
Speaker 1: off mike for a second. It's gonna sound terrible. You
Speaker 1: knew he was gonna notice. I think this chair right here,
Speaker 1: crank it up from each crank it up. All right,
Speaker 1: let's crank it up. So John, I know you don't
Speaker 1: listen to the many crushes, which is great because we've
Speaker 1: got some bits on here that are Hodgman specific that
Speaker 1: I think everyone is going to enjoy. I'm sorry that
Speaker 1: I don't listen to them. You don't have to be sorry.
Speaker 1: But it's sort of like it's sort of like a
Speaker 1: deal that I have with my my, my, my readers.
Speaker 1: You know, I have a new book coming out, Medallion Status,
Speaker 1: and it's a great book of funny stories about me
Speaker 1: being somewhat famous and then losing that fame and trying
Speaker 1: to make up for it by chasing diamond medallion status
Speaker 1: on Delta. I'm approaching what's the lowest status that you
Speaker 1: can get? Silver? Don't even say silver, No, No, I
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't understand how it works. You have
Speaker 1: to explain this to me or I should read your book.
Speaker 1: Probably you're the first level of of medallion status on
Speaker 1: in Delta's loyalty program is silver than so there's no bronze. No. Okay,
Speaker 1: good to know. But it's better to be nothing than silver.
Speaker 1: Oh god, Silver's is a cruel joke. So you get
Speaker 1: nothing because silver doesn't get your ship. You can cuss
Speaker 1: on the show. By the way, well, okay, silver silver
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Speaker 1: It's sucking a garbage I'm approaching said fucking garbage medallion
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna still take. But that's how that's how they.
Speaker 1: That's how they. That's the first taste for free, right,
Speaker 1: and then then they suck you in. They want to
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Speaker 1: if you subscribe to your book. No, I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: buy it. Well, look, if you read it, you'll enjoy it.
Speaker 1: If I listened to this, I would enjoy it. The
Speaker 1: important thing is I subscribe. You should have an installment
Speaker 1: plan where you subscribe and get a chapter a month. No,
Speaker 1: I haven't even better deal with my readers. If you
Speaker 1: buy the book, it frees you from the obligation to
Speaker 1: read it. That's fair. By the book. You don't have
Speaker 1: to read it. I can't wait to read it because
Speaker 1: Vacation Land was and I told you this in private,
Speaker 1: but I thought it was a real achievement. And after
Speaker 1: your your three books of fake facts, which was fun
Speaker 1: and I love them, thank you so did I. I
Speaker 1: really enjoyed seeing this new uh, this honest, Yeah, this
Speaker 1: new honest John vulnerable. Yeah. It was very like moving
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Speaker 1: a pleasure to be here with you, guys. Thank you
Speaker 1: so much for having me. All Right, John, we wanna
Speaker 1: talk about it ever again. We doubt that we'll talk
Speaker 1: about the next podcast. Fair, Fair, Fair. We we have
Speaker 1: a bit here that we do with Noel called Knowles holes,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna do hodgments holes right now. This does
Speaker 1: sound like wherein we have just compiled while you went
Speaker 1: and got your diet coke a twenty movie list. Yeah,
Speaker 1: science fiction is what we're going with, where we are
Speaker 1: going to determine what your holes are. Okay, So all
Speaker 1: you have to do is give the affirmative that you
Speaker 1: have seen the film or not or the negative. So
Speaker 1: the holes would be the gaps in my cultural exactly. Yes,
Speaker 1: and we keep score, Ramsey. Can you keep score Ramsey?
Speaker 1: Thumbed it up? Thumbs up, Brandy Ramsey. And feel free to,
Speaker 1: you know, give us some musings about said film if
Speaker 1: you that's all? What come on? Do you really think
Speaker 1: you have to tell John to feel free to muse?
Speaker 1: I got I got a license to muse. That was
Speaker 1: the original Beastie Boys album titled but no One got
Speaker 1: it right. So we're gonna start off John with Metropolis.
Speaker 1: I have seen it. I saw it, Fritz Lang's Metropolis.
Speaker 1: That is correct. Yeah, because when when when I was
Speaker 1: a youth, they restored it and re released it in theaters,
Speaker 1: including at the at the Coolidge Corner Theater where Yeah,
Speaker 1: but this is before I worked there. This is when
Speaker 1: I would just show up there to see Samurai movies
Speaker 1: because that was a real cool twelve year old You'd
Speaker 1: show up with your vest in your bow tie, just
Speaker 1: hoping they would they would let you take tickets or something,
Speaker 1: you know, kind of and you know what else, it
Speaker 1: worked because that's that's what ended up happening. But um, yeah,
Speaker 1: the Coolidge Corner Theater is still They're still there in Brookline, Massachusetts.
Speaker 1: At the at the time I was growing up, a great, great,
Speaker 1: great repertory movie house, and then it kind of and
Speaker 1: then it became a second run house and it kind
Speaker 1: of suffered, but then it came back as an as
Speaker 1: an art house, which is what it is now. And
Speaker 1: somewhere in there they they released this new restored cut
Speaker 1: of Metropolis. I think they found footage. They may have
Speaker 1: colorized some of it, stuff like that was happening, and
Speaker 1: commissioned all new music from Georgio Moroder, King of the
Speaker 1: King of the eight Sounds with an incredible song by Queen.
Speaker 1: One of the last songs that Queen released, how do
Speaker 1: You feel about this. Isn't this sort of revisionist kind
Speaker 1: of like you're sort of remixing a classic and colorizing
Speaker 1: it and adding a new score. It's a little weird. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it felt intrusive at the time, and also
Speaker 1: the movie itself is a weird artifact and interesting bit
Speaker 1: of film and science fiction history and movie making, cinema
Speaker 1: cinema history. Right. I guess I said film early s
Speaker 1: I'm used too much, but kind of not. I didn't
Speaker 1: find it particularly memorable, and I didn't find like putting
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of Georgio Morodor gloss on it made
Speaker 1: it an enjoyable movie, got it? But I like that
Speaker 1: Queen song. You know that song Radio Gaga, that's from
Speaker 1: That's from they were. They created that song for the soundtrack.
Speaker 1: They were kings of the soundtrack for a while. They
Speaker 1: did flash right, every one of us Boom Local, He's
Speaker 1: a miracle, just a man with a man's carriage. Here
Speaker 1: is Radio Gaga, Radio Google, it was, It was Queens,
Speaker 1: it was Freddie Mercury's owed to classic radio. Lady Gaga
Speaker 1: got her names from this. It is it is. So
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what doesn't that describe doesn't this describe
Speaker 1: the podcasting world today? All we hear is radiot got
Speaker 1: very much so well, I just made I just made
Speaker 1: a connection. Nineteen. I'm not leaving it to conclude news alright.
Speaker 1: Number two the Martian? No, wait, is there is there
Speaker 1: an old Martian and a new Martian? Or is there? No?
Speaker 1: I don't have now got it? Number three solaris Original. No,
Speaker 1: but I looked for a long time at the Case
Speaker 1: Movie Gallery in Greenfield, Massachusetts, but opted No. I fell
Speaker 1: asleep during both of them. The original I read about
Speaker 1: it and I felt like I did my job on
Speaker 1: that one. I think that's fair right. Next solaris the Remake? No, okay?
Speaker 1: Was that a Soderberg? Who was? You worked with him?
Speaker 1: And I think it's a shot for shot ish kind
Speaker 1: of remake as well. Yeah, I read about that when
Speaker 1: I'm like hard Pass, I've seen I've seen the restored
Speaker 1: kind of Metropolis. I've been tricked into this before. Somebody
Speaker 1: somebody's weird art project is not does not mean I
Speaker 1: have to go see the movie. Are you a Tarkovsky
Speaker 1: fan at all? Are there any of his films that
Speaker 1: you enjoyed? I never never got into I really like stalker.
Speaker 1: That's one that I saw a pretty recently was Laris
Speaker 1: and that was it. He's got a bunch andre Ruebelove,
Speaker 1: which is a big period piece, big sweeping thing that
Speaker 1: used to be that used to be advertised in the
Speaker 1: coolidge corner, little pamphlet that they would print out like
Speaker 1: here's what's coming this week, and I would go, I'm
Speaker 1: not seeing that it's fair. The next one silent running. Yes,
Speaker 1: of course I've seen silent running. Is that the same
Speaker 1: as cool runnings? No silent running? What is that? Sort
Speaker 1: of like a Brewster and future things. Brewster is on
Speaker 1: a deep He's a he's a gardener on a garden spaceship.
Speaker 1: Earth has been, you know, gone through climate change, and
Speaker 1: they sent out these different spaceships to preserve different kinds
Speaker 1: of plant life, presumably for the idea that they're gonna
Speaker 1: re re redo the Earth eventually or something. So he's
Speaker 1: on there with a bunch of jocks. He's the gardener
Speaker 1: and a bunch of really cute or I think two
Speaker 1: really cute robots who walking around and waddle. They look
Speaker 1: like Wally if Wally walked around, right, very very very
Speaker 1: impractical way to build a robot and then he gets
Speaker 1: the word from Earth time to time to blow up
Speaker 1: the gardens. We're not going to use them, and he
Speaker 1: refuses to do it and stops the jocks, and then
Speaker 1: he's alone on this ship because this is his own
Speaker 1: little personal eating kind of right or something. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: also it's sort of like, don't it's been a while
Speaker 1: since I've seen it, but I can't fathom what the
Speaker 1: explanation would be for blowing up the garden ships. Let
Speaker 1: let it be, just let it keep it going expensive,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I have it right here. Lowell rebels
Speaker 1: when he's ordered to destroy the greenhouse in favor of
Speaker 1: carrying cargo. So get rid of all those plants. We
Speaker 1: need to put some fucking cargo on there. And the
Speaker 1: plants are in these big silarium pods. That's perfect for cargo.
Speaker 1: Who knows, I don't, I don't know. It's you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's one of tho science fiction movies. It's
Speaker 1: much more allegory than it is story or sort of
Speaker 1: echo warning, you know. But that's great, and it was
Speaker 1: the it was John Destra directed. I believe Douglas Trumbull.
Speaker 1: Douglas Trumbull, right, that was. He's a different science, different
Speaker 1: special effects master crafts person. He did the Star Wars
Speaker 1: stuff and this was his this is his directorial thing. Interesting.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'm confusing Dike straight again, but anyway, screenplayed by
Speaker 1: Michael Chimino and Steven Bochco, the TV guy. Yeah, Bochco
Speaker 1: is around for a long time. You know who young
Speaker 1: Bruce Dern looks like on this poster here he looks
Speaker 1: like Josh Clark. He does. Look at this Chuck. Isn't
Speaker 1: that eerie one image? His hair is kind of cropped out.
Speaker 1: I think he has a bushy mane of like mullety hair.
Speaker 1: And this actually was before Star Wars because I remember
Speaker 1: that there was accusations that the two robots, the two
Speaker 1: cute robots Huey and Louis. We're um sort of an
Speaker 1: inspiration for two Huey and Louie. That was his nickname
Speaker 1: for al Right, next film, Soylent Green. Yes, of course
Speaker 1: it's apparently people. It is next movie. I guess that
Speaker 1: one spoiled the original Westworld film. Yes, I have seen
Speaker 1: it with you, Brenner. Okay, the film Moon Yes with
Speaker 1: Sam Rock Sam Rock while directed by Duncan Jones my
Speaker 1: friend on Twitter. Okay, he's a really nice guy. Next,
Speaker 1: we have the classic Jaine Fonda film Barbarrella. Of course,
Speaker 1: we have the classic Jain fund of science fiction film
Speaker 1: on Golden Pond. I have really that's science fiction. But
Speaker 1: today was the Golden Pond actually in a pod on
Speaker 1: Brucetern spaceship. It was on Golden Pod Katherine Eppard and
Speaker 1: Henry found to have to take a shuttle out there.
Speaker 1: That would be a real sort of new New West
Speaker 1: World retake on Golden Bond. To get on the shuttle,
Speaker 1: you old bookin the air locks, Henry, do you hear
Speaker 1: the air lots? The loons? The loons is the famous line.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm referencing. I don't think people see on
Speaker 1: Golden Pond anymore. Man, I love that movie. That was
Speaker 1: a big HBO movie from that was that was one
Speaker 1: that was heavy rotation in culture. And now Gone Gone
Speaker 1: got mad about You? Oh wow, people don't think about
Speaker 1: mad about You anymore. I don't think Chuck had until
Speaker 1: it's here. It's act moment. Now now they're now they're
Speaker 1: they are rebooting that about You finally, you know, but
Speaker 1: after decades of Seinfeld and Friends Nosstalgia. They're finally rebooting
Speaker 1: mat about You. But that's rebooting, isn't showing the old
Speaker 1: show or no, no restarting it doing it again. But
Speaker 1: that's purely through the I think the force of will
Speaker 1: of Paul Riser, who, by the way, is an incredible
Speaker 1: actor and a great guy. Just letting you know, but
Speaker 1: he should have gotten seven Emmys for Oak Red Oaks.
Speaker 1: Didn't didn't see that it was robbed. So next was there.
Speaker 1: I was there. I was there at the American Comedy
Speaker 1: Awards when Chris Rock crafted a joke making fun of
Speaker 1: Paul Riser. He's Chris Rock is going to be in
Speaker 1: the new season of Fargo, which I'm pretty excited about.
Speaker 1: Still haven't seen any of Fargo. The TV show is
Speaker 1: so good. Yeah, I saw a little bit the first one.
Speaker 1: Well this, yeah, there's a three Yeah you know Holly right. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And he made Legion, which I love and I think
Speaker 1: he's incredibly talented. But I would say the first season
Speaker 1: of Fargo was just a little you know what the
Speaker 1: problem was, Um, it was a little bit just too
Speaker 1: much wearing the movie clothes. You know. It was just
Speaker 1: kind of felt it wasn't going in new directions. At
Speaker 1: first the Billy Bob Thornton was great in it, yeah,
Speaker 1: but the second one was totally not like that those
Speaker 1: Season two was Jesse Plemons and Kirsten Dunes. It was
Speaker 1: Jean Smart. It was so awesome. What's the Season three
Speaker 1: was you and McGregor in a dual role as as twins.
Speaker 1: That was really really good. But why am I blanking
Speaker 1: on this person's name, Bilbo Baggins? Not even Holme The Office?
Speaker 1: You know, I mean Fargo season one, Black Panther, Sherlock,
Speaker 1: Sherlock the Office did he played on the Office. He
Speaker 1: was the gym character Jim, Only his name wasn't Jim
Speaker 1: Tim Tim the original? Oh yeah, the guy. Do you
Speaker 1: know what people are screaming at their devices? I was recording.
Speaker 1: I was recording a podcast the other day. Martin Freeman.
Speaker 1: Martin Freeman is one of the greats. Love Martin Freeman,
Speaker 1: love him in Sherlock terrific, no one, no one, everyone.
Speaker 1: The reason he gets cast and everything because everyone loves him,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. He's kind of very pleasant
Speaker 1: demeanor and he's also very versatile. But I it's not
Speaker 1: nothing to do with him. Take the job. He did
Speaker 1: a great job and Fargo, it's just like there's you know,
Speaker 1: there are American actors because he didn't do a great
Speaker 1: accent either, neither of you and McGregor. Uh, we'll talk
Speaker 1: about this more when we talk about endgame about accents.
Speaker 1: But I just feel like on the on movie Crush main. Sure,
Speaker 1: but I just like, we come on, American actors, let's
Speaker 1: get out there, Let's get these roles. Yeah, there are
Speaker 1: Midwestern actors. Yeah, and I don't think you know, let's
Speaker 1: let's try. I want to flip this idea out to
Speaker 1: you guys. I heard British actor being interviewed on NPR
Speaker 1: and uh, the interviewer said, so, what's the deal with
Speaker 1: British actors being able to do American accents so well
Speaker 1: but not the other way around? And this British actor said, well,
Speaker 1: it's because we grew up steeped in American cinema, whereas
Speaker 1: Americans don't necessarily grow up steeped in you know, British culture. Ie, well,
Speaker 1: you're you know, I grew up watching Brian Blessed on
Speaker 1: I Claudius, can let me tell you what this It
Speaker 1: was an education gardens alive. That was that was that
Speaker 1: was exclusively for all the Brian Blessed heads out there.
Speaker 1: Brian Blessed. Oh well, First all, he played what's his name,
Speaker 1: hawk King hawk Leader in Flash Gordon from Flash No, No,
Speaker 1: No No. He was a good guy, was the I
Speaker 1: think they were called the Hawkman actually, and he was
Speaker 1: the one who shouted gardens alive and may have never seen.
Speaker 1: Very very famous British character actor also voiced Boss Nass
Speaker 1: in The Phantom Menace. Next District nine, Great, okay, Next
Speaker 1: Beneath the Planet of the Apes. I think that this is, yes,
Speaker 1: I have that's the second one. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: think it's the one where there are humans living underground
Speaker 1: who are weird? Where Dana Gold when you need him
Speaker 1: Dana Gold Power Podcast, Great podcast Subscribe, Next film Dark Star,
Speaker 1: No No, John Carpenter like a lesser John Carpenter Phone
Speaker 1: and lesser whatever. I just haven't seen it. Ramsey flashed
Speaker 1: that one to me on the phone. I never even
Speaker 1: heard of it. It was It was very much in
Speaker 1: in my growing up science fiction e Etha or Ecosystem.
Speaker 1: It was known it was a comedy, a science fiction comedy,
Speaker 1: and I gathered that it was a little bit of
Speaker 1: a I kind of feel like it was a little
Speaker 1: bit of a stoner comedy. And I only think that
Speaker 1: that may be true because my older friend, who was
Speaker 1: a little bit of a stoner, was really into it.
Speaker 1: Why haven't I seen it? Am I right? And right?
Speaker 1: I know it's like Radio Gaga out here in podcast land?
Speaker 1: Am I right? I don't even know what that means.
Speaker 1: Just dad joke to dad jokes. Yeah, And I kind
Speaker 1: of took it as it so I was and I
Speaker 1: was a very good kid, so I didn't want to
Speaker 1: get near that stoner comedy. Thought you might get high
Speaker 1: just by watching the movie. Was a little worried it's fair.
Speaker 1: Might need you know, maybe we should watch it tonight. Chut,
Speaker 1: we could. We should preview it a little bit, all right,
Speaker 1: Go go go? Next film, Destination Moon? Was that the
Speaker 1: the original? I don't know what this is, Ramsey dug
Speaker 1: it up. I think that was me. Actually, it's from
Speaker 1: like the fifties. It's probably a low blow I've never seen.
Speaker 1: But this is not voy to the Moon. This is
Speaker 1: not the air. How dare you know it's not? It's
Speaker 1: Destination Moon? No, well, I don't know. You seem he
Speaker 1: seemed like a guy that might have seen an obscured
Speaker 1: sci fi movie from the fifties. Who was in it?
Speaker 1: Do you do you ever see Angry Red Planet from
Speaker 1: that period of time? That was inline novel Red Planet? Yeah,
Speaker 1: Angry Red Planet was a staple on Channel fifty six
Speaker 1: afternoons when I was growing up in Brookline. Or maybe
Speaker 1: it was a creature double feature on Saturdays, but Channel
Speaker 1: fifty six all the same, fifty six for life eat
Speaker 1: at Channel thirty eight. The capsule review of Angry Red
Speaker 1: Planet in the in the TV guide the description on
Speaker 1: whose astronauts go to Mars, fight giant monsters then head home.
Speaker 1: That's the trajectory either A lot of strong sounding male
Speaker 1: leads in this movie, John Archer, Warner Anderson, Tom Powders
Speaker 1: and Dick Wesson. But the fame one, one of the
Speaker 1: famous first films is they Go the French silent film
Speaker 1: where they go the rocket to the Moon and the
Speaker 1: land of the Moon's Eye. Right, Ice Pirates, the Ice Pirates. No,
Speaker 1: I never did, I never ever did see that. I
Speaker 1: guess science fiction comedy is not. It doesn't work all
Speaker 1: the time. Robert Urich Spencer for High, Big, Big Celebrity
Speaker 1: and Boston during Cell Battery salesman better known for Spencer
Speaker 1: for higher I know you've seen this one. This is
Speaker 1: a gimme you're welcome, Time Bandits. Yes, of course, all right,
Speaker 1: let's do a quick talent. You think that's someone who
Speaker 1: loves British character. I think it's not. I wonder if
Speaker 1: Brian Blessing some Time Bandits. I'm gonna look at it
Speaker 1: three all right, I think it's nine to six. It's
Speaker 1: pretty good heading into the final five. John the Fly
Speaker 1: the Ridge, Yes, okay, John, I'm trying to find out
Speaker 1: if Brian Blessed was in Time Bandit's what the creature
Speaker 1: from the Black Lagoon. There's that book The Woman Who
Speaker 1: a woman wrote, uh, a nonfiction book about the woman
Speaker 1: who created the creature. We just did a little bit
Speaker 1: on her on stuff you should know because she was
Speaker 1: famously fired for being a woman by this jerk guy
Speaker 1: and the story didn't come out until much later, and
Speaker 1: so we're trying to Her name was Millicent Patrick, Yes,
Speaker 1: and the book about her life as the lady from
Speaker 1: the Black Lagoon. Right, she designed the costume. Yeah, stuff
Speaker 1: you should know. Just did an episode on movie special
Speaker 1: effects and we gave her her due Mallory Omira is
Speaker 1: the author. Check it out. Next Cocoon, Yeah, of course,
Speaker 1: telling with the old people yep. Okay, well, also Cocoon too,
Speaker 1: So it's a could be could answer either way. I
Speaker 1: got it, got it? Uh? Next the movie Czar does. Yes,
Speaker 1: I saw it at paul if Tompkins's house, okay, when
Speaker 1: I was famous for that outfit, Yes, and for its
Speaker 1: overall weirdness sort of a bathing suit thong situation where
Speaker 1: it's like a mid Sean Connery, very hairy that that poster.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm grateful to the movie for giving us
Speaker 1: that image. But the rest of the all the other
Speaker 1: frames of the movie do not need to exist. They
Speaker 1: did how did this get made? On it? Which is
Speaker 1: a lot of fun. The other frames garbage? They got
Speaker 1: one frame, that's good. You know what. Some people don't
Speaker 1: even get one frame. Some movies don't even get a frame.
Speaker 1: And then finally John Yes, number twenty x Markina, No,
Speaker 1: I am not gotten around to seeing that, and I'm
Speaker 1: very good. Alright, do we have a total Ramsey? What
Speaker 1: do we got? Sevens? Alright? Anything over deeper said means
Speaker 1: you win? Oh good, that's good, all right, nice job
Speaker 1: he was not Brian Blessed was not in Time Bandits,
Speaker 1: and I would I fired Brian Blessed. I would be
Speaker 1: very very frustrated. Quinn Tellius Fargus, where is my Time Bandits?
Speaker 1: It's a great last name, Blessed, Brian Blessed, I know
Speaker 1: who this is. Of course. All right, we're gonna move
Speaker 1: on to a social studies segment, Movie Crush. Yes, and John,
Speaker 1: this is where I get on the movie Crush Facebook
Speaker 1: page and I pose a question to the listeners to
Speaker 1: the movie crushers, and then we read some of their stuff,
Speaker 1: and then you guys chime in with your own answers
Speaker 1: as well. And you know, let me let me like
Speaker 1: the movie Crush Facebook page. Oh you bastard, haven't liked
Speaker 1: it yet. Well, I'm not a book I don't live
Speaker 1: in the Facebook world that much. And I'm looking at
Speaker 1: it now and confetti just went off on my screen
Speaker 1: when you liked it. Oh yeah, hooray. All right, John,
Speaker 1: I asked the movie crushers this very simple question, who
Speaker 1: is your favorite m c U hero? And why? Uh
Speaker 1: huh do you have yours already or do you want
Speaker 1: to think about it? I got it, all right? Well,
Speaker 1: we'll get to you both in a second. Let me
Speaker 1: go through some of these old friends. John millsap says
Speaker 1: Tom Holland Spider Man is Stanley's creation, right off the page,
Speaker 1: perfect teen energy. Uh delete that question, not the MCU
Speaker 1: oh johnson very recently no longer. Sorry John, Yeah, you're right, technically,
Speaker 1: Sony Sonny got greedy, top fan and oldest of pals.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say it right this time, Alex Glasnovitch. I
Speaker 1: think Bruce Bruce Banner by Mark Ruffalo is is fleshed out,
Speaker 1: an empathetic hero out there in these movies. Also the
Speaker 1: most fleshy. I see what I did there, because he's shirtless. Sorry,
Speaker 1: I thought you were fat shaming Martin. He has a
Speaker 1: normal body. The Hulk is fleshy, He's green and fleshy.
Speaker 1: Rob Craigels is Thor one of the most powerful, powerful characters,
Speaker 1: still looks for redemption and uh after seeming failure, great arc,
Speaker 1: great art. And it's a character too that I was like,
Speaker 1: this is gonna be goofy, how are they going to
Speaker 1: do this? And they made it delightful. He's so funny. Boy,
Speaker 1: he's great, He's he's everything you want and a character
Speaker 1: like that. The first the first I didn't see I've
Speaker 1: never seen the Dark World. Uh I missed that one.
Speaker 1: But it didn't matter. There was a little bit. I
Speaker 1: was like, wait, what happened? How they get who cares?
Speaker 1: And it's never and as much as yeah, well that's
Speaker 1: when they clued into what the character is. He's comically
Speaker 1: and yeah, he really did evolve and then and then
Speaker 1: changed again. We'll talk more about this on the movie
Speaker 1: Crush Main. That's right, old friend Andrew Ryan White says,
Speaker 1: Tony Stark ultimate redemptive character. Fair hard to argue. Everyone,
Speaker 1: you know what the m c U is good at arcs,
Speaker 1: good arcs. Yeah, they got good arcs. Don Morris, old friends,
Speaker 1: says star Lord Man. From the first second he danced
Speaker 1: across that screen, I mean that ship was so funny
Speaker 1: kicking those lizards, and I mean, and you know, the
Speaker 1: Guardians of the Galaxy let people know that they were
Speaker 1: gonna be that this is a big universe and they
Speaker 1: were gonna be different kinds of movies in this shared universe,
Speaker 1: in different moods and tones. That was man, he really
Speaker 1: shipped the bed with Thanos though, Man, he like overreacted
Speaker 1: and screwed everything up for everybody. He really shortsighted jerkwak.
Speaker 1: I didn't know that Noel was the Internet, because yeah,
Speaker 1: people got mad at it was annoying because I liked
Speaker 1: the character so much. He just overdid it and there
Speaker 1: was a device. I get that, but it just had
Speaker 1: bothered me because I didn't think the character, No, it
Speaker 1: wasn't it. I mean, I think that that's what makes
Speaker 1: Marvel movies good, is that the characters are fallible and
Speaker 1: it's really screwed up. It's really, really, really really screwed up.
Speaker 1: Do you think he owned up to it? Did he
Speaker 1: feel like he owned it? And the next movie I
Speaker 1: can't even remember, it's not mentioned, does not come up,
Speaker 1: and I don't know that he learned anything from it.
Speaker 1: We didn't spend much time with him, but it was
Speaker 1: but yeah, that that that moment is supposed to be
Speaker 1: that enervating and angrifying. You know, one of those is
Speaker 1: a word. It was Shannon reading McQueen, says Nick Fury,
Speaker 1: some some mysterious and secretive love seeing some of the
Speaker 1: backstory and Captain Marvel. That was fun. Old friend Kevin
Speaker 1: Herbond says, I love how mcu Lets the little guys
Speaker 1: be heroes too. The old guy in Germany that wouldn't
Speaker 1: kneel for Loki. Yeah, the Shield Tech and Winter soldier
Speaker 1: that wouldn't launch the Hell carriers even with a gun
Speaker 1: to his head. Yeah, that's yeah. Nice. Regular human heroics.
Speaker 1: Do you have one who was your h human hero
Speaker 1: or or my favorite favorite m c U hero? Did
Speaker 1: you forget where you were for a minute? No, no,
Speaker 1: but we were talking about the ordinary humans. Who I
Speaker 1: mean the main question here? Uh yeah, Captain American. Okay, Well,
Speaker 1: Captain America was not a character that I cared about
Speaker 1: at all as a comic book reader. Very very hard
Speaker 1: character to get a beat on. If you look at
Speaker 1: the history of Captain America, you know, he wavers between
Speaker 1: you know, the the propaganda patriotism of the era in
Speaker 1: which he was born and created in World War Two
Speaker 1: by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, to a more self
Speaker 1: reflective Captain America in the nineteen seventies who questions the
Speaker 1: value of patriotism in itself. Postwatergate, Captain America and the
Speaker 1: comics went off and gave up being Captain America to
Speaker 1: become Nomad for a period of time, a person without
Speaker 1: a country see the name. And all of these arcs
Speaker 1: were reflected in the in the MCU Captain America. But
Speaker 1: one of the thing that the comic book character never
Speaker 1: had in order to ground all of these takes on
Speaker 1: Captain America and make it one whole human person that
Speaker 1: you cared about, was Chris Evans. And Chris Evans, you know,
Speaker 1: when he was cast as Captain America, I had seen
Speaker 1: him in Half a Fantastic four movie when he was
Speaker 1: the human Torch and he was great in that movie,
Speaker 1: but he was like young hot shot. I'm like, how
Speaker 1: could this guy be capt ever be Captain America? And
Speaker 1: boy did he own it? And he create he created
Speaker 1: a whole human being that you care about. And it
Speaker 1: was the first time I cared about that character in
Speaker 1: the in my long history of comics. And he had
Speaker 1: to do it from this template that had that you know.
Speaker 1: You know, there is Spider Man Peter Parker straight off
Speaker 1: the page, right, there is Sony Stark straight off the page.
Speaker 1: Although I think I think obviously Robert Downey Jr. Brought
Speaker 1: a lot of new elements to Tony start or no
Speaker 1: one knew who he was, and he was a total
Speaker 1: cipher of a character. It wasn't until they movies later
Speaker 1: that they locked in on, oh, he's the tragic comic relief,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. They made him the comic
Speaker 1: relief and they made him the tragic relief and that
Speaker 1: was amazing, And Chris Hemsworth was was awesome at it,
Speaker 1: and Quill is Quill and everyone's great. Captain America was
Speaker 1: Captain America from the beginning. You believed in who he
Speaker 1: was at the start, and you followed his journey and
Speaker 1: it felt completely consistent, and I just thought it was
Speaker 1: a triumph to make as bland a character as that interesting,
Speaker 1: and that, to me is an element of what the
Speaker 1: whole m c U is like. They translated something from
Speaker 1: the page to the screen and in a way that
Speaker 1: no one had done it before, with a mix of
Speaker 1: taking it seriously, taking it lightly, reimagining being being honoring,
Speaker 1: you know, honoring the source material, but messing with them
Speaker 1: when they had to, and appreciating they need to be
Speaker 1: real human beings. But to mention the insane continuity and
Speaker 1: crossover in the whole way weaves together and the post credits,
Speaker 1: I mean it's a feat I mean it's unreal. Really, yes, absolutely,
Speaker 1: so that was my son. Any frame of any movie
Speaker 1: with Cap with Chris Evans is Captain America. You know what,
Speaker 1: you got one, here's your favorite hero. I like Thor
Speaker 1: a lot. I just I mean, you know, I'm not
Speaker 1: a big Marvel guy like I. I've came to this
Speaker 1: largely from the movies. I read like Watchman and more
Speaker 1: like the Vertigo kind of comics and Sandman and stuff.
Speaker 1: But I was never really a Marvel loyalist. So I'm
Speaker 1: learning all of these character arts from the movie didn't
Speaker 1: comic books at all, except for Ritchie Rich and Archie.
Speaker 1: So uh true. I feel that Riverdale. I haven't seen it.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, to check that out. It's good, it's good,
Speaker 1: it's interesting. I'm gonna go with I'm gonna I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go with Thor. I think and and Cap like those
Speaker 1: are my guys. Yeah, hard to not pick those two.
Speaker 1: What does Sony think they're doing? Stealing blond blonde white males?
Speaker 1: I get it. What do they think they're gonna do?
Speaker 1: Stealing next Spider Man back? Like all the Sony Spider
Speaker 1: Man movies suck like, I mean, the early ones, I
Speaker 1: guess with those are good couple of more. Then they
Speaker 1: lost their way with the other dude, and then immediately
Speaker 1: when the Marvel one came out, they were great, and
Speaker 1: now what are they gonna, like, how are they gonna
Speaker 1: here's do it. I completely understand why Sony wants Spider
Speaker 1: Man Ben because they first of all, they own him, sure,
Speaker 1: you know, so he was on loan to the m
Speaker 1: c U, and when they loaned him to the m
Speaker 1: c U, they had nothing to They had nothing to
Speaker 1: lose and everything to gain because the m c U
Speaker 1: was you know, Disney, Marvel Studios. We're clearly creatively on
Speaker 1: the right track. They knew what to do, and they
Speaker 1: knew a way to execute it, and Sony had no plans,
Speaker 1: and they had just come off of the total uh
Speaker 1: FCS show of the making of and releasing of Fantastic four. Um,
Speaker 1: so they had no faith in their own creative enterprise,
Speaker 1: and they're like, why not take this money? That makes
Speaker 1: perfect sense because we can't we don't know what to
Speaker 1: do with this character. But then on accident, almost they
Speaker 1: didn't realize they were about to release the greatest Spider
Speaker 1: Man movie of all time, which is Spider Man into
Speaker 1: the Spider Verse. Which is as great. It's one of
Speaker 1: the most beautiful, well constructed, thrilling like it's it's thrilling
Speaker 1: as a movie. It's throwing is what it represents for
Speaker 1: storytelling and an animated movies. Um, I mean, it's just
Speaker 1: it's such an incredible feat That was Sony. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: what they did. Instead they gave they gave Spider Man
Speaker 1: to the m c U. But then, uh, and I
Speaker 1: really wanted to do justice to the filmmakers because I
Speaker 1: it was sverse. So hang on on section. I can't
Speaker 1: get enough of that Spider Ham It's great, it's so funny.
Speaker 1: And that's Laney John Maloney. That's what I said last
Speaker 1: night after nine martinis. So it's co directed by Peter Ramsey,
Speaker 1: Rodney Rothman and Bob Paris Ketti and Rodney I I
Speaker 1: we've friends in coming from back in the old McSweeney's days.
Speaker 1: So I was like, go team. But but Peter Ramsey
Speaker 1: is an incredible filmmaker, and um you know, he's a
Speaker 1: person of color making a superhero movie about a person
Speaker 1: of color in a way that is not at all provocative,
Speaker 1: just exciting, do you know what I mean? And so
Speaker 1: all of a sudden Sunny realizes they're sitting on this
Speaker 1: brain trust that know how to make Spider Man. Question.
Speaker 1: I had no idea, but I think it makes perfect sense.
Speaker 1: And I think they expected into the Spider Verse to
Speaker 1: just go off into the into the night and con
Speaker 1: street to video or whatever, because it's an animate movie,
Speaker 1: and they like that upon first glance, Like when I
Speaker 1: saw the trailers, I was like, oh, it's a cute
Speaker 1: little Spider Man cartoon, and then it was this powerhouse,
Speaker 1: psychedelic Marvel and yeah, I thought it was fantastic. So
Speaker 1: they I think they they're feeling there. And they had
Speaker 1: the success with Venom, to which I did not see
Speaker 1: but apparently did very well. So like, hey, we own
Speaker 1: the whole Spider Verse. Let's get our Marquee character back
Speaker 1: and deal with it. And I think it's really, um,
Speaker 1: it's very bittersweet. Yeah, all right, John, I never felt
Speaker 1: sadder about corporate in fighting. The Cola Wars didn't do
Speaker 1: it for you, Pepsi versus versus Coke. Look, it's not
Speaker 1: just because I'm in Atlanta, Pepsi. Yeah, exactly. Sorry, all right, John,
Speaker 1: We're gonna finish today with a comic card. This is
Speaker 1: where we take. I go into a restaurant and that's
Speaker 1: a pepsi restaurant. I walk out. Oh yeah, I had
Speaker 1: the very least roll my eyes. I do enjoy diet
Speaker 1: a diet mountain dew from time to time. Is that
Speaker 1: a pepsi product? Yeah, dont do a pepsi product. And
Speaker 1: I do enjoy a diet mountain dew from time to time,
Speaker 1: especially the bodega at the end of my street in Brooklyn, sometimes,
Speaker 1: says him in cans. And it's just like a great day.
Speaker 1: We finished with comic card, which is questions from the listeners,
Speaker 1: and I told them you were coming on, and so
Speaker 1: we have some Hodgman specific questions. I can't wait, and
Speaker 1: we're going to take a few of those. Who is
Speaker 1: John Hodgman. John Hodgman is the author of Medallion Status
Speaker 1: coming up October preorder Hodgment preorder, but doubly slash Medollons
Speaker 1: hads goat Nick Kelly, old pal, says John toes seeing
Speaker 1: friends of yours in a movie take you out of
Speaker 1: the movie or make you feel more invested. I think
Speaker 1: it's a really good question. Well, it's interesting because you
Speaker 1: mentioned John mullaney is the voice of Peter Porker, the
Speaker 1: Spectacular Spider Ham and Spiderman into the Spider Verse, and
Speaker 1: John John and I, Uh, I know each other. We've
Speaker 1: never hung out, but we used to run in the
Speaker 1: same comedic circles years ago before he hit it real big,
Speaker 1: and he was very kind and he and Nick Kroll
Speaker 1: had me on their Oh Hello Broadway run. I was
Speaker 1: a guest, which was a treat. He is by far
Speaker 1: one of the nicest people in the world, and yet
Speaker 1: when I see him or anyone I know on screen,
Speaker 1: it absolutely takes me out of the movie. Is like,
Speaker 1: why did they get that job? I'm around and it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter what the job, Like, I could be completely
Speaker 1: wrong for the job, and I'm like, Oh, John mulaney
Speaker 1: gets another But I don't have funny voice to lots
Speaker 1: of funny voices. I was on Adventure Time. I was
Speaker 1: on I was on Venture Brothers Two Voices. I was
Speaker 1: in I was in Coraline. I was the father and
Speaker 1: other father in Coraline. God damnit, who are you on
Speaker 1: Adventure Time? I love Adventure Time. I was the King
Speaker 1: of the Blob. That was the king of the slime Kingdom, Yes,
Speaker 1: slime king and uh and yet and yet for all
Speaker 1: of the deep professional jealousy, you know, as gore Vidal said,
Speaker 1: it's not it's not enough that you succeed your your
Speaker 1: your peers must suffer for all the the dysfunctional professional
Speaker 1: jealousy that takes me out of movies. Even Sweat into
Speaker 1: the Spider Verse was so good that even I couldn't
Speaker 1: get mad. I was so happy for John mulaney and
Speaker 1: he was so great and then obviously so Alright, old
Speaker 1: Pal Michael Griffith. On that note, John, are they all
Speaker 1: your old pals? You get old pal status if Oh,
Speaker 1: it's a status loyalty program within the movie Crush universe. Okay,
Speaker 1: I thought they were just all your friends from high school.
Speaker 1: No, no no, no, these are old pals, people that are
Speaker 1: really active. How do you earn the old pal status?
Speaker 1: You answer? You know, you get involved on the Facebook
Speaker 1: stuff and I recognize your name after it appears over
Speaker 1: and over so On Delta Airlines, you can you can
Speaker 1: buy diamond Medallion status at the end of the year
Speaker 1: for thousands of dollars. Could I do that? Could I
Speaker 1: get old Pal status? Old Pal Michael Griffith says this, John,
Speaker 1: I'd like to know what your favorite voice over work
Speaker 1: that you've done has been just talking about it personally.
Speaker 1: I'm a fan of your work in the Venture Brothers. Well,
Speaker 1: thank you very much much. Uh, I'm not because that
Speaker 1: character Snoopy on Venture Brothers. Why I'm an enormous fan
Speaker 1: of Venture Brothers, and Doc and Jackson publicly make it
Speaker 1: um that that voice sounds too much like me and
Speaker 1: there and so my own self loathing kicks in and
Speaker 1: I don't like it. But recently I've had the extreme
Speaker 1: pleasure of of of working for Disney on the New
Speaker 1: Duck Tails And there's a character that I voiced in
Speaker 1: season two called John D. Rocker Duck. Who is it was?
Speaker 1: Was created by Carl Uh? That was it? Carl not
Speaker 1: Carl Barks. Oh, never mind, he was. He was a
Speaker 1: member of the original Duck Tails comic strip universe, a
Speaker 1: rival billionaire to Scrooge McDuck. But then they kind of
Speaker 1: got dropped from American comics and no one ever remembered
Speaker 1: him except for the Italians, where he became a huge
Speaker 1: character and in Europe. A lot of those uh duck
Speaker 1: Scrooge McDuck comics in Europe were written in Italy and
Speaker 1: Rocker Duck became this big character, this iconic character in
Speaker 1: Italy and throughout Europe as a result. But he had
Speaker 1: never been animated before, and so I was the first
Speaker 1: person to ever voice this character. So it was very
Speaker 1: exciting for me. Do you get to originate? I got
Speaker 1: to originate the voice of John D. Rocker Duck. That's great.
Speaker 1: Who is this historic character within this world that people
Speaker 1: care about? What was the voice? Do it? Well? Hard?
Speaker 1: Is that it? I'm John D. Rocker Duck. You can't
Speaker 1: put up your dukes, mad billionaire? What did the Adventure
Speaker 1: Time characters sound like? Let's run through these? I think
Speaker 1: it was just me. Okay, but wait a minute, I
Speaker 1: just I'm dropping some news here on on movie crush minis. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's now been revealed that John D. Rocker Duck survived
Speaker 1: and we'll return in season three Nice as part of
Speaker 1: Foul the evil organization f A f O w L
Speaker 1: Foul Nice. What was that acronym stand for uh? Friend
Speaker 1: of Wildlife Lands? Got it? It's important? No, I don't
Speaker 1: remember Fiendish. Something we do want to shout out Karma
Speaker 1: Haw Maddie because she did ask what you thought of
Speaker 1: Spider Man leaving the m c U. So we'll consider
Speaker 1: that answered. But it's a it's a real drag. It's
Speaker 1: a real drag, fiendish organization for a world larceny, which
Speaker 1: is classically let me see, let's do let's do a
Speaker 1: couple of more here and then we'll wrap this one up.
Speaker 1: I had a good one. But yeah, I liked doing
Speaker 1: Rocket Duck because he didn't sound like me and it
Speaker 1: felt like acting. I liked that. All right, John, here's one.
Speaker 1: This is for one of the oldest apals, Debbie Franka Dakas. John,
Speaker 1: do you think movies accurately portray Ivy League college life? Uh?
Speaker 1: What movie? So? Iby? No? Is that I attended Yale University.
Speaker 1: That's an accredited for your institution in southern Connecticut. So
Speaker 1: you know what's out there? Paper Chase never saw it,
Speaker 1: school ties never saw it. That one with Brendan Fraser.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's a Harvard one, right, I think so? Yeah?
Speaker 1: And Soulman is Harvard to good lord? Um, how accurate
Speaker 1: with soul Man. Let's just say it accurately portrayed its
Speaker 1: times and how we thought about race at that time.
Speaker 1: It's true, all right, I'm looking at Ivy League movies.
Speaker 1: The Skulls. The Skulls is loosely based on Bones Skull
Speaker 1: and Bones Senior Secret Society at Yale, where supposedly, if
Speaker 1: you get tapped into Skull and Bones, you are initiated
Speaker 1: into a worldwide secret world government or something. Now you're
Speaker 1: supposed to do a guest spot on my other show
Speaker 1: Stuff That Don't want you to know later where supposedly
Speaker 1: are going to tell a story about happening upon one
Speaker 1: of these types of meetings. So no, scoopa here, I
Speaker 1: don't happen upon it. I was invited to Fantastic. It
Speaker 1: was not Skull and Bones. It was booking Snake. That's
Speaker 1: a tease check out, Yeah, do it. Um. It was
Speaker 1: Chicken and Waffles. Chicken and Waffles Secret Society. Uh yeah,
Speaker 1: that one. That that one. I mean the only thing,
Speaker 1: the thing that I flashed in my mind was Indiana
Speaker 1: Jones and the Temple of the Crystal Skulls or whatever
Speaker 1: in the Kingdom of the Crystal Skulls, because that's supposedly set.
Speaker 1: Like there's a whole motorcycle chase scene at his college
Speaker 1: which is supposed to be I think Princeton, but they
Speaker 1: shot it at Yale. Yeah, and and I enjoyed seeing
Speaker 1: that campus because you don't see it often on film,
Speaker 1: So that was the most accurate portrayal of Yale. I
Speaker 1: would say Motorcycle Chase at least at least you get
Speaker 1: to see the Linonia and Brother's room in Sterling Memorial Library,
Speaker 1: a place right where I took many a napse, any knaps.
Speaker 1: All right, we'll finish up with once again with old
Speaker 1: pal Alex Klasnovich, John and could be Noel as well
Speaker 1: and me. What's a movie that you can't wait to
Speaker 1: share with your kids when they're adults, but are too
Speaker 1: young for now? Your kids are older, they can probably
Speaker 1: see most of anything, right, Yeah, but I had that
Speaker 1: experience for sure. What was one of the big ones
Speaker 1: for you? Um? I remember showing my daughter The Brood
Speaker 1: by David Cronenberg around Halloween. Nice, that was That was
Speaker 1: a big one for me. Uh. Rosemary's Baby also was one.
Speaker 1: Now that's my daughter's favorite movie. I haven't seen rosem
Speaker 1: but I did not show Rosemary's Baby because like there's
Speaker 1: there are lots of movies now. So our daughter is
Speaker 1: seventeen or sons fourteen, you know, I remember, like for
Speaker 1: my son, it's like, yeah, go see our movies. I
Speaker 1: don't care, like, you know, like it's good to see
Speaker 1: movies that are a little bit above your pay grade
Speaker 1: in terms of language content like it's it's I remember
Speaker 1: seeing movies where I was like, I'm not sure I
Speaker 1: should be seeing this, and that kind of opens up
Speaker 1: some thinking about I think it also isn't like an
Speaker 1: instant license to like be a bad kid or something.
Speaker 1: It all depends on how it's handled by the parent.
Speaker 1: And if it's it's, if it's this awful, secretive thing,
Speaker 1: they're much more likely to sneak off and do it
Speaker 1: anyway and then rebel by doing the things. That's that's
Speaker 1: you're absolutely right, and you know, like I should I
Speaker 1: showed him I Claudius the six BBC mini series and
Speaker 1: he loves I Claudius and that has nudity and and
Speaker 1: sexual content in it, and like they're they're like, it's
Speaker 1: the production values are very love So it's like a
Speaker 1: bunch of British character actors pretending to have an orgy orgy,
Speaker 1: a bunch of British character actors pretending to have an
Speaker 1: orgy in a in a rec room made out of cardboard.
Speaker 1: It's not very you know what I mean, But like
Speaker 1: I can't. I really I want him. I want him
Speaker 1: to see Midsummer the Arioster movie because I think I
Speaker 1: think it's one of the greatest movie I've ever seen
Speaker 1: and revisit that we we we just a lot of
Speaker 1: people are mixed about it. I'm not, but like and
Speaker 1: I have no I would have no problem if he
Speaker 1: snuck over to see Midsummer on his own at the
Speaker 1: Nighthawk Theater in Prospect Park, but I don't want to
Speaker 1: sit through that sex scene with him. About that and
Speaker 1: like my my daughter a year or two ago, I
Speaker 1: was watching Call Me by Your Name, which has some
Speaker 1: some hugging and kissing, and it's a great movie, and
Speaker 1: it was that was where I was, like, I articulated
Speaker 1: that feeling of like, it's not that it's inappropriate for you,
Speaker 1: it's totally appropriate for you as it is for me.
Speaker 1: I'm a grown person. But we don't want to be
Speaker 1: watching this movie together. Both of you. Don't want to
Speaker 1: have your dad watching this movie with you. I will
Speaker 1: excuse myself and go up to dare we say, recuse mine?
Speaker 1: I'm really looking forward to is uh obviously obviously et
Speaker 1: and the Goonies is really the big one that I
Speaker 1: can't wait to show Ruby E t could do pretty early. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think she's close. And here did ET come out
Speaker 1: something like that? Yeah? So yeah, I was eleven. We
Speaker 1: were the perfect tage because we were the age of tie.
Speaker 1: I'm sure I did. I do now, I got close,
Speaker 1: probably more than I would have been. I'm not and
Speaker 1: I'm but like I was so, as I discussed in
Speaker 1: my book Medallion Status, but not ley slash Medallion Status.
Speaker 1: Try stories from secret rooms upgrade. Now, Um, I didn't.
Speaker 1: I didn't cry ever during my childhood, and it was
Speaker 1: not a point of pride. It was I got nervous
Speaker 1: that I was something was wrong with me. So I
Speaker 1: felt a little bit of leaf when I got close,
Speaker 1: and I got a little misty. What about now? Are
Speaker 1: you more emotional now with stuff? Yes? Well, it comes
Speaker 1: up in the in the context of an audition for
Speaker 1: a play for in the role, and I had to
Speaker 1: cry on command on stages, one of those actory things
Speaker 1: that I had never done before and was terrified of,
Speaker 1: especially since I had I had this problem in my life,
Speaker 1: which I did well. Yeah, I mean I I had.
Speaker 1: I had formulated a theory as a child to explain
Speaker 1: my weirdness in this regard and in general, which is, well,
Speaker 1: maybe I'm an android, maybe I'm incapable of tears. Oh,
Speaker 1: I thought you were going to say you were a sociopath.
Speaker 1: So for the stage play, the way you got to
Speaker 1: cry was you thought about not killing people and that
Speaker 1: made you so sad. No. But what I hadn't appreciated
Speaker 1: was that between seeing ET two or three or whatever,
Speaker 1: and when I was auditioning for this role, time had
Speaker 1: passed and my mom had passed away, and I had
Speaker 1: had kids, and the kids were getting older, and we're
Speaker 1: disappearing before my head, and I didn't realize that I
Speaker 1: had this ship to draw from. And the minute I
Speaker 1: was rehearsing my lines walking down the street and I
Speaker 1: hit that line, burst into tears immediately, sobbing, racking tears.
Speaker 1: It was intense, and I was great because hey, I
Speaker 1: knew I could do it and be like my neighbors
Speaker 1: on the street didn't want to talk to me. It
Speaker 1: was great. And I went into the audition and the
Speaker 1: woman who wrote the play, Hallie Feiffer, was like, and
Speaker 1: I was nervous and I couldn't do it again, and
Speaker 1: I did again. It's like bloom tears, huge tears, and
Speaker 1: how I was like, are you okay? And I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm fantastic, he said, this is the first time I
Speaker 1: cried in years old and such a liberation. And that's
Speaker 1: when I realized that my superpower is I'm like Bruce
Speaker 1: Banner and Avengers isn't always crying. At any moment. I
Speaker 1: can just turn around and stare down the Chitari invading
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