1 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:06,000 Speaker 1: This is the most dramatic podcast ever and iHeartRadio podcast. 2 00:00:07,760 --> 00:00:09,480 Speaker 1: Chris Harrison and Lauren Zema coming to you from the 3 00:00:09,480 --> 00:00:13,280 Speaker 1: home office in Austin, Texas. I hope everybody had an 4 00:00:13,320 --> 00:00:18,880 Speaker 1: amazing Thanksgiving week last week as we I guess officially 5 00:00:18,960 --> 00:00:20,560 Speaker 1: kick off the holiday season and. 6 00:00:20,760 --> 00:00:24,919 Speaker 2: If you dare to find me, look to the western sky. 7 00:00:25,560 --> 00:00:28,560 Speaker 1: We also thank you LZ kicked off movie season. 8 00:00:28,960 --> 00:00:31,040 Speaker 3: Have you guys seen Wicked? 9 00:00:31,960 --> 00:00:37,599 Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, okay, we did. Here's the thing, Thanksgiving 10 00:00:37,680 --> 00:00:42,040 Speaker 2: winding down. Hoping everyone had an excellent Thanksgiving with your 11 00:00:42,040 --> 00:00:45,040 Speaker 2: loved ones. Hope that no one turned away their loved 12 00:00:45,040 --> 00:00:47,360 Speaker 2: ones for whoever they voted for. 13 00:00:49,080 --> 00:00:51,120 Speaker 1: By the way, I am interested to hear if anybody 14 00:00:51,159 --> 00:00:53,400 Speaker 1: had any great like political moments. 15 00:00:54,080 --> 00:00:55,720 Speaker 2: But yeah, great in a funny way, not in a 16 00:00:55,720 --> 00:00:59,400 Speaker 2: horrible I hope you. For the record, I'll say, everybody 17 00:00:59,480 --> 00:01:02,960 Speaker 2: on MSNBC or whatever it is saying that you should 18 00:01:04,200 --> 00:01:07,959 Speaker 2: turn away family members from holidays because of who they 19 00:01:08,080 --> 00:01:08,720 Speaker 2: voted for. 20 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:11,039 Speaker 4: No, that's not what America is about. 21 00:01:11,080 --> 00:01:14,279 Speaker 2: To me. America, the America that I hope and dream 22 00:01:14,319 --> 00:01:19,800 Speaker 2: and idolize, is one where we can all feel differently 23 00:01:19,920 --> 00:01:23,119 Speaker 2: and still come together and love each other and. 24 00:01:24,120 --> 00:01:28,120 Speaker 1: Yeah there was once a dream called Rome. 25 00:01:28,520 --> 00:01:30,000 Speaker 3: Oh we also saw Gladiator. 26 00:01:30,080 --> 00:01:33,400 Speaker 1: Okay, just seemed like the time to slide that in. 27 00:01:34,240 --> 00:01:37,679 Speaker 1: There seemed very both both actually both movies seem very apropos. 28 00:01:37,800 --> 00:01:39,880 Speaker 1: But the cool thing about the holidays. Elsie and I 29 00:01:39,920 --> 00:01:43,319 Speaker 1: are big, obviously journalism fans, but we also love the movies, 30 00:01:43,400 --> 00:01:45,920 Speaker 1: and we love to dissect these movies and we went 31 00:01:45,959 --> 00:01:48,280 Speaker 1: deep with the family when they were in town. 32 00:01:48,760 --> 00:01:51,200 Speaker 4: So I grew up in a movie loving family. 33 00:01:51,440 --> 00:01:53,360 Speaker 2: And I don't know if this was a tradition for you, 34 00:01:53,440 --> 00:01:56,040 Speaker 2: but no, it was not movies at all period done 35 00:01:56,080 --> 00:01:57,040 Speaker 2: not really. 36 00:01:57,080 --> 00:01:58,960 Speaker 1: My brother and I we would go see movies, the 37 00:01:59,040 --> 00:02:01,760 Speaker 1: kids would. My family. We weren't big. 38 00:02:01,600 --> 00:02:03,640 Speaker 2: Movie we were we I mean, I think that's part 39 00:02:03,680 --> 00:02:06,600 Speaker 2: of why I got into entertainment journalism. My dad loved movies, 40 00:02:07,080 --> 00:02:09,720 Speaker 2: my grandmother did. We went to see a movie like 41 00:02:09,960 --> 00:02:12,640 Speaker 2: almost every weekend as a family, or if not, we 42 00:02:12,639 --> 00:02:14,799 Speaker 2: were at Blockbuster. And you know that was those those 43 00:02:14,840 --> 00:02:17,400 Speaker 2: great times where it was the family activity to go 44 00:02:17,600 --> 00:02:20,360 Speaker 2: and everybody could pick out one movie and you better 45 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:24,520 Speaker 2: not get those late fees. But the movies really feel 46 00:02:24,600 --> 00:02:27,519 Speaker 2: like a holiday thing to me as well, because for 47 00:02:27,600 --> 00:02:31,560 Speaker 2: sure on Thanksgiving and or Christmas, there was always a Okay, 48 00:02:31,600 --> 00:02:33,480 Speaker 2: what movie are we going to see as a family? 49 00:02:33,880 --> 00:02:37,080 Speaker 2: And I do really love that this year Wicked and 50 00:02:37,120 --> 00:02:39,480 Speaker 2: Gladiator are kind of bringing people back out for that. 51 00:02:39,800 --> 00:02:42,480 Speaker 2: I bought our Wicked tickets a month ago, back at 52 00:02:42,520 --> 00:02:45,480 Speaker 2: the end of October, and it was almost the showing 53 00:02:45,560 --> 00:02:48,440 Speaker 2: was almost sold out at that point. I couldn't even 54 00:02:48,440 --> 00:02:52,320 Speaker 2: get all six seats together in October. So I was happy, like, Okay, 55 00:02:52,360 --> 00:02:54,400 Speaker 2: I love when we as a country can have a 56 00:02:54,480 --> 00:02:57,280 Speaker 2: kind of communal experience too, Like Barbie felt that way, 57 00:02:57,320 --> 00:02:59,080 Speaker 2: and movies used to always feel that way, and I 58 00:02:59,080 --> 00:03:00,320 Speaker 2: think Wicked is feeling that way. 59 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:02,640 Speaker 1: Yeah, I definitely. You know, they tried to link it 60 00:03:02,680 --> 00:03:06,359 Speaker 1: to Barbenheimer. I think because Licked. Oh, I think we're 61 00:03:06,400 --> 00:03:08,880 Speaker 1: we're now so uncreative that we just have to go 62 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:10,320 Speaker 1: back to something that we knew. 63 00:03:10,360 --> 00:03:13,680 Speaker 2: That does every movie have a sequel, But every like 64 00:03:13,760 --> 00:03:16,440 Speaker 2: phenomenon has to have a sequel, Every cultural moment has 65 00:03:16,480 --> 00:03:17,440 Speaker 2: to somebody. 66 00:03:17,160 --> 00:03:19,400 Speaker 1: Has to be something. It's like, Okay, what is Taylor Swift? 67 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:22,120 Speaker 1: Now she's the new beat. It's like she's just Taylor Swift. 68 00:03:22,280 --> 00:03:23,960 Speaker 1: But they they so they tried to link it and 69 00:03:23,960 --> 00:03:26,600 Speaker 1: it was very This was this experience I felt was 70 00:03:26,960 --> 00:03:32,800 Speaker 1: very unlike Barbenheimer Wicked. I had this weird ebb and 71 00:03:32,840 --> 00:03:36,840 Speaker 1: flow excitement about Wicked. I went from unbelievably excited to 72 00:03:36,960 --> 00:03:41,520 Speaker 1: very trepidacious to very plea, why are you because of 73 00:03:41,560 --> 00:03:42,080 Speaker 1: the press? 74 00:03:43,080 --> 00:03:46,400 Speaker 2: Oh, there's see, they didn't really worry me. I mean, 75 00:03:46,720 --> 00:03:48,960 Speaker 2: if everybody's seen it, They've been doing a lot of 76 00:03:48,960 --> 00:03:53,200 Speaker 2: press for Wicked. I'm quoting Puck the Hollywood News outlet here. 77 00:03:53,720 --> 00:03:59,120 Speaker 2: Apparently three hundred and fifty million dollars spent on the 78 00:03:59,240 --> 00:04:02,400 Speaker 2: marketing for the movie itself only cost one hundred and 79 00:04:02,440 --> 00:04:04,560 Speaker 2: forty three million, So it needs to make a lot 80 00:04:04,560 --> 00:04:06,400 Speaker 2: of money to make that back. I think it will. 81 00:04:06,800 --> 00:04:09,280 Speaker 2: But they have been doing so many interviews, and you 82 00:04:09,320 --> 00:04:13,400 Speaker 2: all have probably seen the Ariana Grande Cynthia Rivo interviews. 83 00:04:13,880 --> 00:04:17,120 Speaker 2: They've gotten very emotional. They've cried in multiple interviews. They've 84 00:04:17,120 --> 00:04:20,400 Speaker 2: been holding hands, and it's definitely been poked for that. 85 00:04:20,560 --> 00:04:22,320 Speaker 1: They've lost themselves, they've lost. 86 00:04:22,200 --> 00:04:22,920 Speaker 3: It in these roles. 87 00:04:22,960 --> 00:04:24,960 Speaker 1: And so anyway, I was so excited because it is 88 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:27,560 Speaker 1: one of, if not my favorite musical. It has a 89 00:04:27,640 --> 00:04:30,160 Speaker 1: very emotional tie. It's one of the first big musicals 90 00:04:30,200 --> 00:04:32,520 Speaker 1: I took my daughter Taylor to when we did a 91 00:04:32,520 --> 00:04:35,680 Speaker 1: big Broadway trip when she was younger. So I love 92 00:04:35,760 --> 00:04:39,920 Speaker 1: this musical and I was so excited for it. Then 93 00:04:40,600 --> 00:04:42,800 Speaker 1: I saw the press and I'm like, just please stop talking. 94 00:04:42,839 --> 00:04:45,600 Speaker 1: Everybody stopped. I just I just want to enjoy this. 95 00:04:45,920 --> 00:04:47,039 Speaker 3: I would like they were. 96 00:04:47,040 --> 00:04:49,000 Speaker 2: They were doing so many trailers and commercials too. I 97 00:04:49,040 --> 00:04:51,120 Speaker 2: would look away. I was I'm like, I don't want 98 00:04:51,120 --> 00:04:52,640 Speaker 2: to know any more about this movie. I just want 99 00:04:52,640 --> 00:04:53,040 Speaker 2: to go to see it. 100 00:04:53,160 --> 00:04:54,760 Speaker 1: They almost over exposed it. 101 00:04:54,760 --> 00:04:57,159 Speaker 3: It was fifty million dollars. 102 00:04:58,040 --> 00:04:59,720 Speaker 1: They lit up the Arc de Triomph for crying out 103 00:04:59,760 --> 00:05:02,359 Speaker 1: loud in Paris in pink and green. I am pleased 104 00:05:02,360 --> 00:05:08,719 Speaker 1: to report it was fantastic, incredible Arianna and Cynthia fantastic. 105 00:05:09,040 --> 00:05:12,640 Speaker 1: The movie was spectacular. I'm going to say this right now. 106 00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:15,520 Speaker 1: I'm dropping the mic, dropping the tea. This will win 107 00:05:15,600 --> 00:05:18,880 Speaker 1: Best Picture this year at the Oscars, period dot full stop. 108 00:05:18,920 --> 00:05:22,200 Speaker 1: You heard it here first. Wow, Wicked will win Best Picture. 109 00:05:22,440 --> 00:05:25,240 Speaker 2: Okay, I'm absolutely with you that it should win. I 110 00:05:25,279 --> 00:05:27,760 Speaker 2: don't know that it will only because the Oscars always 111 00:05:27,800 --> 00:05:30,200 Speaker 2: vote for well, at least in recent years, vote for 112 00:05:30,279 --> 00:05:33,359 Speaker 2: something for the most part, that's like an art house 113 00:05:33,400 --> 00:05:37,200 Speaker 2: film versus an actual blockbuster movie. The last time a 114 00:05:37,320 --> 00:05:39,440 Speaker 2: music I think the only time a musical has won 115 00:05:39,520 --> 00:05:42,839 Speaker 2: Best Picture was Chicago, and it won's if I believe 116 00:05:42,920 --> 00:05:48,080 Speaker 2: six Academy Awards. Other Academy Award nominated musicals, Mulan Rouge 117 00:05:48,200 --> 00:05:50,599 Speaker 2: was nominated for eight. I don't know if it won any, 118 00:05:50,720 --> 00:05:54,159 Speaker 2: and le Miss I think nominated for eight as well, 119 00:05:54,200 --> 00:05:57,440 Speaker 2: and it won a couple of them, but Chicago definitely 120 00:05:57,440 --> 00:06:01,480 Speaker 2: the most winningest. I would absolutely love to see Wicked 121 00:06:01,480 --> 00:06:04,520 Speaker 2: win Best Picture. I at the end of the movie, 122 00:06:04,880 --> 00:06:06,320 Speaker 2: Taylor and I were sitting next to each other. We 123 00:06:06,360 --> 00:06:08,560 Speaker 2: turned to each other, both crying in a good way. 124 00:06:09,040 --> 00:06:12,520 Speaker 2: I laughed, I cried. I walked out, saying that is 125 00:06:12,560 --> 00:06:15,719 Speaker 2: the best movie I've seen. And I don't remember how long. 126 00:06:15,720 --> 00:06:18,159 Speaker 1: It reminded me. I'm gonna I'm going to date myself here. 127 00:06:18,560 --> 00:06:22,599 Speaker 1: The last time I felt an energy like that, And 128 00:06:22,600 --> 00:06:25,919 Speaker 1: it's a very different crowd, very different, different demographic, but 129 00:06:26,080 --> 00:06:31,400 Speaker 1: the same energy in Rocky one and two, when when 130 00:06:31,400 --> 00:06:36,160 Speaker 1: people stood up and cheered, and I vaguely remember that 131 00:06:36,240 --> 00:06:37,679 Speaker 1: people were going people applauded. 132 00:06:37,680 --> 00:06:38,280 Speaker 4: At the end of Wicked. 133 00:06:38,360 --> 00:06:40,200 Speaker 1: They appl at the end of Wicked. It felt weird 134 00:06:40,240 --> 00:06:42,320 Speaker 1: that they weren't applauding at the end of every si. 135 00:06:42,600 --> 00:06:45,040 Speaker 2: I kept wanting to because you do feel they did 136 00:06:45,040 --> 00:06:48,080 Speaker 2: an excellent job of creating the movie in a way 137 00:06:48,120 --> 00:06:51,960 Speaker 2: where you feel like you are watching a musical in 138 00:06:52,040 --> 00:06:56,440 Speaker 2: a theater, meaning on stage, but not but it isn't 139 00:06:56,480 --> 00:06:58,640 Speaker 2: so primitive as a stage like they made it a movie, 140 00:06:58,680 --> 00:07:00,479 Speaker 2: but it had the feeling of a stage musical. And 141 00:07:00,520 --> 00:07:03,159 Speaker 2: I mean that most complimentary way. A couple times I 142 00:07:03,200 --> 00:07:04,960 Speaker 2: wanted to applaud at the ends of songs. 143 00:07:05,040 --> 00:07:08,240 Speaker 1: I just there was an energy walking in young and old, 144 00:07:08,400 --> 00:07:10,800 Speaker 1: which I love. A bunch of young people coming to 145 00:07:10,840 --> 00:07:12,640 Speaker 1: see this movie, a bunch of old people who just 146 00:07:12,680 --> 00:07:13,360 Speaker 1: love the musical. 147 00:07:13,480 --> 00:07:15,280 Speaker 4: I've seeing a movie in a credit and so there. 148 00:07:15,200 --> 00:07:18,680 Speaker 1: Was this energy. Everybody was talking and so excited for 149 00:07:18,720 --> 00:07:22,440 Speaker 1: this and when it launched, everybody just was spellbound. And 150 00:07:22,480 --> 00:07:25,440 Speaker 1: when it was over, applause rang out in the theater 151 00:07:25,960 --> 00:07:29,600 Speaker 1: and the buzz as everybody was walking out, there were 152 00:07:29,640 --> 00:07:31,640 Speaker 1: girls singing at the top of their lungs. You went 153 00:07:31,680 --> 00:07:33,360 Speaker 1: into the bathroom, and the girls I went. 154 00:07:33,560 --> 00:07:35,600 Speaker 2: Now, I went in the bathroom in these sweet girls, 155 00:07:35,640 --> 00:07:38,640 Speaker 2: probably like ten or eleven. They actually had not gone 156 00:07:38,640 --> 00:07:40,160 Speaker 2: to see it yet, but they heard me talking about 157 00:07:40,160 --> 00:07:41,960 Speaker 2: it and they said, did you just come out of Wicked? 158 00:07:42,320 --> 00:07:44,520 Speaker 2: I said, yes, it's so good. Are you guys going 159 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:45,000 Speaker 2: to see it? 160 00:07:45,320 --> 00:07:46,040 Speaker 4: And the girl was. 161 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:48,080 Speaker 2: Like, it's my birthday today and I'm so excited, and 162 00:07:48,080 --> 00:07:50,880 Speaker 2: I said, oh, it's my birthday tomorrow, and it just 163 00:07:51,040 --> 00:07:54,160 Speaker 2: was a It really was a nice moment of like, oh, 164 00:07:54,240 --> 00:07:57,160 Speaker 2: this thing, as you're saying, this movie is crossing generations. 165 00:07:58,200 --> 00:07:59,880 Speaker 3: I think Barbie did that. 166 00:08:00,200 --> 00:08:03,880 Speaker 2: I think Wicked's a better movie. I think you know, 167 00:08:04,040 --> 00:08:07,000 Speaker 2: I remember I would put Wicked up there. You're saying, Rocky, 168 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:08,360 Speaker 2: I would put it up there for how I felt 169 00:08:08,360 --> 00:08:10,640 Speaker 2: in the theater after like the Lord of the Rings 170 00:08:10,680 --> 00:08:14,440 Speaker 2: movies in the early two thousands, where I just thought, no, notes, 171 00:08:14,640 --> 00:08:19,640 Speaker 2: what a movie. And before I went in, I was wondering, 172 00:08:19,680 --> 00:08:21,520 Speaker 2: what is this run time? I think it's two hours 173 00:08:21,560 --> 00:08:23,840 Speaker 2: and forty minutes and it's only part one. There's still 174 00:08:23,840 --> 00:08:27,320 Speaker 2: a part two coming. I only saw the musical once 175 00:08:27,400 --> 00:08:30,640 Speaker 2: on stage years ago, and obviously it's not like a 176 00:08:30,680 --> 00:08:32,959 Speaker 2: six hour musical, so I guess they must have had 177 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:34,600 Speaker 2: a dialogue to make part one in. 178 00:08:34,559 --> 00:08:37,120 Speaker 1: Part two, Yeah, lots of and there was a lot 179 00:08:37,200 --> 00:08:39,079 Speaker 1: There was an I won't give any spoilers away, but 180 00:08:39,120 --> 00:08:43,000 Speaker 1: there was a whole section in there that wasn't really apart. 181 00:08:43,040 --> 00:08:45,680 Speaker 1: Really they lifted it out. Yes, I'll just say about 182 00:08:45,720 --> 00:08:46,320 Speaker 1: the animals. 183 00:08:46,600 --> 00:08:47,720 Speaker 4: I thought that was in the musical. 184 00:08:47,880 --> 00:08:51,840 Speaker 1: Not really. They didn't very vaguely in the musical. 185 00:08:51,880 --> 00:08:53,520 Speaker 4: It was definite more scenes. 186 00:08:53,679 --> 00:08:56,480 Speaker 1: Yeah, oh that was ply a much deeper meteor part 187 00:08:56,559 --> 00:08:57,200 Speaker 1: of the movie. 188 00:08:57,280 --> 00:08:59,320 Speaker 2: But I was worried about the runtime. I did not 189 00:08:59,360 --> 00:09:00,240 Speaker 2: feel the run time. 190 00:09:00,320 --> 00:09:02,640 Speaker 1: I passed the squorm test, and they definitely passed the 191 00:09:02,640 --> 00:09:04,600 Speaker 1: squirm test. I wasn't ready for it to be over, 192 00:09:04,640 --> 00:09:06,640 Speaker 1: and then I realized this is probably where they're going 193 00:09:06,679 --> 00:09:08,000 Speaker 1: to cut. Yeah, they did. 194 00:09:08,320 --> 00:09:12,839 Speaker 2: I thought it was expertly cast. Jonathan Bailey, Cynthia Arrivo, 195 00:09:12,920 --> 00:09:14,840 Speaker 2: Ariana Grande all amazing. 196 00:09:15,080 --> 00:09:17,360 Speaker 1: Ariana Grande probably going to win Best Actress. 197 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:19,840 Speaker 4: I mean, I think they should all be nominated. 198 00:09:20,679 --> 00:09:23,080 Speaker 1: Cynthia Rivo, she was fine, She was good, She was 199 00:09:23,200 --> 00:09:26,440 Speaker 1: very good. There was nothing wrong with her. Ariana Grande 200 00:09:26,559 --> 00:09:29,000 Speaker 1: was just she does such comedic chops. So I think 201 00:09:29,040 --> 00:09:30,760 Speaker 1: we saw that when she was on Esen l Well. 202 00:09:30,800 --> 00:09:33,600 Speaker 2: I think what you're alluding to is that they are 203 00:09:33,640 --> 00:09:35,880 Speaker 2: going to potentially be competing against each other, and that's 204 00:09:35,880 --> 00:09:36,360 Speaker 2: the problem. 205 00:09:36,400 --> 00:09:37,920 Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm both best afters. 206 00:09:38,240 --> 00:09:41,000 Speaker 1: I will say, even with Kristin Chenowith and Dina Menzel 207 00:09:41,480 --> 00:09:45,520 Speaker 1: back in the day, the part of Golinda just it 208 00:09:45,640 --> 00:09:47,640 Speaker 1: lends itself so you can do more with it. Yeah, 209 00:09:47,679 --> 00:09:51,079 Speaker 1: I have better comedy chops. She has better lines. You know, 210 00:09:51,240 --> 00:09:55,680 Speaker 1: the the the bad Witch, the Wicked Witch definitely lends 211 00:09:55,720 --> 00:09:58,240 Speaker 1: itself to just emoting emotions and stuff. 212 00:09:58,320 --> 00:10:00,680 Speaker 3: Right, Glinda has the range. 213 00:10:00,679 --> 00:10:04,720 Speaker 2: She's funny, she plays airheady, she has like poignant moments. 214 00:10:05,280 --> 00:10:07,280 Speaker 1: It's like legally blonde. You know, you get to like. 215 00:10:07,400 --> 00:10:11,640 Speaker 2: Totally and I think that you know, we've seen Ariana's 216 00:10:11,720 --> 00:10:15,280 Speaker 2: comic timing on SNL, but I had not seen the 217 00:10:15,320 --> 00:10:18,000 Speaker 2: full range of her acting skills and they are all 218 00:10:18,520 --> 00:10:20,800 Speaker 2: at play here. And you know, she's talked for years 219 00:10:20,800 --> 00:10:24,000 Speaker 2: about loving this musical and obviously she took training for 220 00:10:24,080 --> 00:10:29,360 Speaker 2: it so seriously, and she was incredible. I definitely thought 221 00:10:29,400 --> 00:10:31,360 Speaker 2: hers was was the standout performance. 222 00:10:31,400 --> 00:10:34,080 Speaker 1: Okay, you said no notes, I'm going to give you two. 223 00:10:34,360 --> 00:10:34,640 Speaker 4: Wow. 224 00:10:35,800 --> 00:10:38,120 Speaker 1: Jeff Goldbloom and trying to sing well. 225 00:10:37,960 --> 00:10:38,520 Speaker 4: It wasn't great. 226 00:10:38,679 --> 00:10:39,760 Speaker 1: I love Jeff Goldbloom. 227 00:10:39,960 --> 00:10:40,680 Speaker 3: He was funny. 228 00:10:41,760 --> 00:10:44,080 Speaker 2: I saw in an interview that he hired a vocal coach. 229 00:10:44,120 --> 00:10:45,520 Speaker 2: I don't know where that money went. 230 00:10:45,679 --> 00:10:46,960 Speaker 3: Yeah, it was. 231 00:10:47,360 --> 00:10:49,800 Speaker 1: Maybe more than three hundred and fifty million should have gone. 232 00:10:50,080 --> 00:10:53,920 Speaker 1: So that was he plays. Obviously the wizard that was. 233 00:10:55,240 --> 00:10:56,920 Speaker 4: His singing was snuck. Okay. 234 00:10:57,200 --> 00:10:59,760 Speaker 1: People gave Richard gear a hard time for singing in Chicago. 235 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:02,120 Speaker 2: I thought the memory it was very infamous that he 236 00:11:02,160 --> 00:11:04,120 Speaker 2: wasn't He was the only one not nominated because they 237 00:11:04,120 --> 00:11:18,000 Speaker 2: said his singing was bad. Please, yeah, Richard, you're fine. 238 00:11:20,400 --> 00:11:22,400 Speaker 1: I also think one of the brilliant parts of this 239 00:11:22,480 --> 00:11:26,080 Speaker 1: movie was they went further than the musical with just 240 00:11:26,200 --> 00:11:33,360 Speaker 1: a little notes of kind of just homages to the 241 00:11:33,400 --> 00:11:34,760 Speaker 1: Wizard of Oz, homages to. 242 00:11:36,080 --> 00:11:36,600 Speaker 4: Remember the music. 243 00:11:36,679 --> 00:11:38,439 Speaker 1: I feel like the beginning, the way they started the 244 00:11:38,480 --> 00:11:40,480 Speaker 1: whole thing was a little bit different than obviously the 245 00:11:40,559 --> 00:11:43,360 Speaker 1: musical because they have, you know, the cgi of the way. 246 00:11:43,400 --> 00:11:45,240 Speaker 1: They kind of included a nod to the Wizard of 247 00:11:45,240 --> 00:11:47,920 Speaker 1: Oz in the beginning. That was really cool. They just 248 00:11:47,960 --> 00:11:50,839 Speaker 1: did a good job. I thought with like throughout the movie. 249 00:11:50,640 --> 00:11:52,560 Speaker 2: I can't speak to because I don't remember them. Details 250 00:11:52,559 --> 00:11:54,240 Speaker 2: of the musical well enough to know how much it 251 00:11:54,320 --> 00:12:02,600 Speaker 2: was different. I did love the costumes, the set pieces. 252 00:12:02,679 --> 00:12:05,000 Speaker 2: I mean you really, That to me was the big 253 00:12:05,040 --> 00:12:07,480 Speaker 2: difference of why it was worth making this a movie 254 00:12:07,480 --> 00:12:11,800 Speaker 2: beyond it being an on stage musical, because even Chicago, 255 00:12:12,200 --> 00:12:14,800 Speaker 2: like Chicago, isn't all these set pieces and that kind 256 00:12:14,840 --> 00:12:15,079 Speaker 2: of thing. 257 00:12:15,120 --> 00:12:15,320 Speaker 3: You know. 258 00:12:16,360 --> 00:12:22,640 Speaker 2: This movie has magic, has you know, animal characters and 259 00:12:23,040 --> 00:12:27,360 Speaker 2: sorcery and color and the Emerald City and forests and 260 00:12:27,600 --> 00:12:30,640 Speaker 2: their schools. So it had all this opportunity where you 261 00:12:30,679 --> 00:12:32,520 Speaker 2: can do a lot more with a movie than you 262 00:12:32,559 --> 00:12:33,040 Speaker 2: can with. 263 00:12:33,120 --> 00:12:34,200 Speaker 3: A stage play. 264 00:12:34,720 --> 00:12:38,079 Speaker 2: And the costumes and set pieces and the use of 265 00:12:38,160 --> 00:12:39,440 Speaker 2: CGI were all great. 266 00:12:39,600 --> 00:12:41,520 Speaker 1: You might be more wise about this than I am 267 00:12:41,559 --> 00:12:43,880 Speaker 1: in the movie industry. But what I liked about it, 268 00:12:43,920 --> 00:12:45,360 Speaker 1: and I don't know how to describe this, Maybe you 269 00:12:45,360 --> 00:12:48,640 Speaker 1: can articulate it better. The CGI didn't bug because it 270 00:12:48,679 --> 00:12:50,520 Speaker 1: seemed like they used a lot of real sets. 271 00:12:50,840 --> 00:12:52,520 Speaker 2: I would love to know what they used or not, 272 00:12:52,559 --> 00:12:54,800 Speaker 2: because yes, sometimes you know, you watch a movie and 273 00:12:54,840 --> 00:12:56,559 Speaker 2: you're like, will they spend a lot of money on 274 00:12:56,600 --> 00:12:57,040 Speaker 2: the CGI? 275 00:12:57,120 --> 00:12:59,280 Speaker 4: And it just looks like CGI? So this feels stupid. 276 00:12:59,440 --> 00:13:02,120 Speaker 1: Just didn't too much green screen this didn't feel like. 277 00:13:02,120 --> 00:13:04,880 Speaker 2: That well in Lord of the Rings, Like I think 278 00:13:05,200 --> 00:13:07,520 Speaker 2: you can tell the movies that hold up because they 279 00:13:07,640 --> 00:13:12,599 Speaker 2: used miniatures and animatronics and CGI Like in Lord of 280 00:13:12,600 --> 00:13:14,640 Speaker 2: the Rings. Those movies are, you know, more than twenty 281 00:13:14,720 --> 00:13:16,400 Speaker 2: years old, and I think they hold up because they 282 00:13:16,480 --> 00:13:17,400 Speaker 2: use a lot of miniatures. 283 00:13:17,640 --> 00:13:20,360 Speaker 4: Draassic Park holds up because they us a lot of animatronics. 284 00:13:20,600 --> 00:13:22,720 Speaker 2: I think the New Jurassic Park, you just feel like, well, 285 00:13:22,760 --> 00:13:24,200 Speaker 2: I'm looking at a CGI dinosaur. 286 00:13:24,679 --> 00:13:25,520 Speaker 4: This didn't feel that way. 287 00:13:25,600 --> 00:13:29,520 Speaker 1: Yeah, and so ten out of ten, ten. 288 00:13:29,360 --> 00:13:34,240 Speaker 4: Out of ten, Now let's swing the other way, okay. 289 00:13:34,280 --> 00:13:37,800 Speaker 1: And by the way, just box office wise, Week one 290 00:13:38,320 --> 00:13:41,480 Speaker 1: of Wicked, what one hundred and fifteen million, and I 291 00:13:41,480 --> 00:13:43,680 Speaker 1: think is what I think, that's what you said. They 292 00:13:44,160 --> 00:13:48,440 Speaker 1: they're I would think they're about six to seven hundred 293 00:13:48,440 --> 00:13:51,320 Speaker 1: and fifty million into this thing. So it has to 294 00:13:51,360 --> 00:13:53,480 Speaker 1: do about a billion dollars for them to really feel 295 00:13:53,520 --> 00:13:56,360 Speaker 1: good and pull this thing off. And so they're in 296 00:13:56,400 --> 00:14:02,079 Speaker 1: week two. It did really well in opening weekend, and 297 00:14:02,600 --> 00:14:06,240 Speaker 1: I think the number was in that range. Right. 298 00:14:07,840 --> 00:14:11,160 Speaker 4: It looks like the latest numbers are that. 299 00:14:12,679 --> 00:14:13,239 Speaker 3: Wicked. 300 00:14:14,720 --> 00:14:17,079 Speaker 2: I believe it was the highest grossing opening weekend for 301 00:14:17,120 --> 00:14:20,120 Speaker 2: a musical of all time. It's over two hundred million 302 00:14:20,160 --> 00:14:21,880 Speaker 2: in the middle of its second weekend. I think so 303 00:14:22,240 --> 00:14:25,280 Speaker 2: by Sunday, Wicked expected to reach just under two hundred 304 00:14:25,280 --> 00:14:29,200 Speaker 2: and sixty three million domestically worldwide three hundred and fifty 305 00:14:29,240 --> 00:14:29,760 Speaker 2: eight million. 306 00:14:29,840 --> 00:14:32,160 Speaker 1: And I think, you know with some of these movies 307 00:14:32,200 --> 00:14:34,320 Speaker 1: that where they're shooting to putting them in the can 308 00:14:35,440 --> 00:14:37,520 Speaker 1: that have been failures lately, like you look at Mission 309 00:14:37,520 --> 00:14:40,240 Speaker 1: Impossible that really worried the box office and worried the 310 00:14:40,280 --> 00:14:43,160 Speaker 1: studios because the first one did not do great, to 311 00:14:43,240 --> 00:14:45,400 Speaker 1: the point of having to change the name of the 312 00:14:45,440 --> 00:14:48,720 Speaker 1: second one and move the date. And so I think 313 00:14:48,720 --> 00:14:51,040 Speaker 1: there was probably some lessons learned, and that's probably why 314 00:14:51,080 --> 00:14:54,000 Speaker 1: they put three hundred and fifty million dollars into promoting this, 315 00:14:54,040 --> 00:14:58,040 Speaker 1: because they realize if they don't launch Wicked one, Wicked 316 00:14:58,040 --> 00:15:00,840 Speaker 1: two is dead in the water. So it's it's going 317 00:15:00,920 --> 00:15:03,160 Speaker 1: to be a massive success worldwide, and it's going to 318 00:15:03,160 --> 00:15:04,360 Speaker 1: be a huge it and I think it will be 319 00:15:04,400 --> 00:15:08,120 Speaker 1: the darling of the Oscars this year. I think it's 320 00:15:08,120 --> 00:15:10,880 Speaker 1: going to crush I hope, well all of a word season, 321 00:15:10,880 --> 00:15:12,520 Speaker 1: when you know, get to the Golden Globes and all that. 322 00:15:12,520 --> 00:15:14,200 Speaker 4: I can't even really think of other movies that have 323 00:15:14,280 --> 00:15:15,000 Speaker 4: come out this year. 324 00:15:15,080 --> 00:15:19,920 Speaker 1: So and then we also went and saw Gladiator. Gladiator too, 325 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:24,280 Speaker 1: which everybody have been talking about, obviously, the Russell Crowe, 326 00:15:24,720 --> 00:15:27,840 Speaker 1: huge epic hit that was a massive success back in 327 00:15:27,840 --> 00:15:30,880 Speaker 1: the day. And now we have Pedro Pascal, we have 328 00:15:31,080 --> 00:15:33,880 Speaker 1: Denzel Washington, Paul mes Cow Ams Cow. 329 00:15:34,840 --> 00:15:38,400 Speaker 3: And it wasn't great. 330 00:15:39,600 --> 00:15:41,240 Speaker 1: It was a mess. It was a bit of a mess. 331 00:15:41,360 --> 00:15:42,960 Speaker 4: I was very disappointed. 332 00:15:43,160 --> 00:15:50,160 Speaker 2: I it felt like not a sequel but a remake 333 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:54,640 Speaker 2: but worse. And I wanted it to be great. I 334 00:15:54,680 --> 00:15:58,800 Speaker 2: love the original Gladiator. This didn't even I couldn't even 335 00:15:58,840 --> 00:16:00,720 Speaker 2: say this was as good as so you know, maybe 336 00:16:00,760 --> 00:16:02,440 Speaker 2: if it was just as good as remake. 337 00:16:02,480 --> 00:16:04,680 Speaker 4: Okay, I get to watch Gladiator again. It doesn't need 338 00:16:04,720 --> 00:16:05,160 Speaker 4: a remake. 339 00:16:05,160 --> 00:16:09,560 Speaker 2: But it was bad the bad CGI first of all, 340 00:16:09,600 --> 00:16:12,160 Speaker 2: but much more importantly bad script. 341 00:16:13,680 --> 00:16:18,960 Speaker 3: Some not all not great acting plot line that like didn't. 342 00:16:18,840 --> 00:16:21,440 Speaker 1: A lot of holes, a lot of holes in the script. 343 00:16:22,080 --> 00:16:24,560 Speaker 2: I think Paul mescal is a really good actor, but 344 00:16:25,920 --> 00:16:30,400 Speaker 2: his character is basically, you know now Russell Crowe's character 345 00:16:30,920 --> 00:16:34,920 Speaker 2: and in the original Gladiator. I think my biggest issue 346 00:16:34,920 --> 00:16:37,760 Speaker 2: is in the original Gladiator. Russell Crowe's character was this 347 00:16:37,800 --> 00:16:40,040 Speaker 2: man everybody rallied around, and that's how he was able 348 00:16:40,040 --> 00:16:43,120 Speaker 2: to change everything in this movie. Paul Mescal's character had 349 00:16:43,160 --> 00:16:45,840 Speaker 2: like no reason for everybody to rally around him. I 350 00:16:45,880 --> 00:16:47,200 Speaker 2: don't know, he wasn't very likable. 351 00:16:47,240 --> 00:16:49,600 Speaker 1: We just had to I felt like they rushed in, 352 00:16:49,880 --> 00:16:51,240 Speaker 1: was like, okay, we got to just hit these plot 353 00:16:51,280 --> 00:16:53,120 Speaker 1: points real quick, and let's get back into the coliseum 354 00:16:53,120 --> 00:16:56,160 Speaker 1: and let's get going. And there was such great character 355 00:16:56,160 --> 00:16:59,520 Speaker 1: building with Russell Crowe that made us love him, understand 356 00:16:59,560 --> 00:17:02,000 Speaker 1: why he was loved, and we went on this journey 357 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:04,320 Speaker 1: with him, and they just did not do that in 358 00:17:04,359 --> 00:17:06,240 Speaker 1: this movie at all. And you're right, I was trying 359 00:17:06,280 --> 00:17:09,480 Speaker 1: to think of, you know, was it the fate of 360 00:17:09,520 --> 00:17:11,679 Speaker 1: trying to follow up such an epic film, But you 361 00:17:11,720 --> 00:17:13,520 Speaker 1: know what, Top Gun did that the last time, and 362 00:17:13,560 --> 00:17:15,760 Speaker 1: they did a fine job. And there have been others 363 00:17:15,800 --> 00:17:18,639 Speaker 1: that have gone on to do great sequels. This was 364 00:17:18,680 --> 00:17:22,240 Speaker 1: a really rough sequel. And I get that sophomore album 365 00:17:22,280 --> 00:17:24,440 Speaker 1: is a tough one to make, but this one. 366 00:17:24,280 --> 00:17:27,160 Speaker 2: Really, I mean, look, we waited twenty years. It should 367 00:17:27,160 --> 00:17:28,720 Speaker 2: have been good, you know, Like, honestly. 368 00:17:28,440 --> 00:17:29,320 Speaker 1: We've waited twenty five. 369 00:17:29,400 --> 00:17:29,840 Speaker 4: I mean with. 370 00:17:29,800 --> 00:17:31,840 Speaker 2: Wicked, we waited twenty years for the movie and it 371 00:17:31,840 --> 00:17:32,639 Speaker 2: didn't disappoint. 372 00:17:32,800 --> 00:17:34,439 Speaker 3: Like they have that in common. 373 00:17:34,560 --> 00:17:38,360 Speaker 2: And I think it's going to do well in these 374 00:17:38,400 --> 00:17:40,919 Speaker 2: first couple of weekends because people loved Gladiator and they 375 00:17:40,960 --> 00:17:43,639 Speaker 2: want to go see it. It's not the worst movie 376 00:17:43,640 --> 00:17:45,600 Speaker 2: ever I've ever seen, but it wasn't good. 377 00:17:45,720 --> 00:17:47,280 Speaker 1: Yeah, if you want to turn off your brain and 378 00:17:47,320 --> 00:17:48,960 Speaker 1: you're like, it is, I couldn't even. 379 00:17:48,800 --> 00:17:50,600 Speaker 2: Turn off my brain. It didn't, as you say, passed 380 00:17:50,600 --> 00:17:53,359 Speaker 2: the squirm test. Another's a long run time. 381 00:17:53,680 --> 00:17:55,080 Speaker 1: I was going to say the same thing. I was 382 00:17:55,160 --> 00:17:57,960 Speaker 1: really ready for it to be over. I was like, okay, 383 00:17:58,000 --> 00:18:00,920 Speaker 1: I kind of started getting tired nodding off, and I'm like, oh, 384 00:18:00,960 --> 00:18:02,160 Speaker 1: that's this is rough. 385 00:18:02,280 --> 00:18:03,959 Speaker 2: I had a bit of a headache towards the end. 386 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:06,840 Speaker 2: To be honest, I can't say the same good things. 387 00:18:06,960 --> 00:18:09,320 Speaker 2: Would not recommend maybe catch it on a plane. That's 388 00:18:09,320 --> 00:18:10,080 Speaker 2: really how I felt. 389 00:18:10,200 --> 00:18:12,240 Speaker 3: Wow, I'm bummed. I love the first movie. 390 00:18:12,320 --> 00:18:13,320 Speaker 4: I wanted it to be good. 391 00:18:13,640 --> 00:18:14,560 Speaker 3: I don't know what's going on. 392 00:18:14,640 --> 00:18:15,000 Speaker 4: I do. 393 00:18:15,119 --> 00:18:21,679 Speaker 2: I think that like I think that today, like some 394 00:18:21,720 --> 00:18:23,480 Speaker 2: people say, movies aren't as good as they used to 395 00:18:23,480 --> 00:18:26,400 Speaker 2: be because all we make is sequels. I think it's 396 00:18:26,480 --> 00:18:30,560 Speaker 2: more than that. I think that tech people are running 397 00:18:30,600 --> 00:18:33,440 Speaker 2: movie studios instead of creative people. I think that there's 398 00:18:33,560 --> 00:18:36,800 Speaker 2: so many there's like way too much analysis of data 399 00:18:36,880 --> 00:18:39,960 Speaker 2: instead of just feeling what a good story is and 400 00:18:40,119 --> 00:18:43,840 Speaker 2: like making art. And I think that there's way too 401 00:18:43,880 --> 00:18:46,440 Speaker 2: many boxes trying to be checked, like well, we need 402 00:18:46,440 --> 00:18:49,359 Speaker 2: an action scene every five seconds, and we need, you know, 403 00:18:49,520 --> 00:18:53,119 Speaker 2: to fill all the you know, reach all these different 404 00:18:53,160 --> 00:18:56,320 Speaker 2: audiences through these paths. And it's like, if you followed 405 00:18:56,320 --> 00:18:59,600 Speaker 2: that path, Godfather never would have been made, Citizen Kane 406 00:18:59,600 --> 00:19:02,080 Speaker 2: never would have been made, the whole industry wouldn't exist. 407 00:19:02,480 --> 00:19:07,200 Speaker 2: And I don't think people are just making good movies anymore. 408 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:09,280 Speaker 1: I think you just hit the nail on the head 409 00:19:09,480 --> 00:19:10,679 Speaker 1: with We we Get Aside. 410 00:19:10,720 --> 00:19:12,640 Speaker 4: I'm just going to. 411 00:19:12,560 --> 00:19:15,479 Speaker 1: Say with Wicked, so brilliantly put together and done and 412 00:19:15,640 --> 00:19:18,879 Speaker 1: edited in the script, and and they they took the 413 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:20,879 Speaker 1: musical and I think they went even a little deeper, 414 00:19:20,960 --> 00:19:24,600 Speaker 1: and I think brilliantly done. What I felt like I 415 00:19:24,680 --> 00:19:27,480 Speaker 1: was watching with Gladiator, I almost felt like I was 416 00:19:27,520 --> 00:19:31,480 Speaker 1: like flipping through reels on Instagram, Yes, on Instagram, where 417 00:19:31,480 --> 00:19:32,000 Speaker 1: I'm like, uh. 418 00:19:31,920 --> 00:19:35,359 Speaker 4: There's the little yet that made no sense together. 419 00:19:35,160 --> 00:19:37,040 Speaker 1: Like you said really quick of like, okay, guys, every 420 00:19:37,040 --> 00:19:39,560 Speaker 1: five minutes, we need a little dialogue. Okay, we're at 421 00:19:39,560 --> 00:19:40,919 Speaker 1: five and a half minutes. We got to get back 422 00:19:40,960 --> 00:19:44,080 Speaker 1: to a fight scene. Okay, now for minutes it seemed 423 00:19:44,280 --> 00:19:47,600 Speaker 1: very It was like I you said into Ai, make 424 00:19:47,680 --> 00:19:51,000 Speaker 1: me Gladiator too, and that's what AI kind of spit out. 425 00:19:51,119 --> 00:19:55,320 Speaker 2: I truly had a headache after which, as if I 426 00:19:55,320 --> 00:19:56,520 Speaker 2: had had too much screen time. 427 00:19:57,000 --> 00:20:01,840 Speaker 1: Not going to do well. Probably, I think week two 428 00:20:01,960 --> 00:20:04,000 Speaker 1: three in the box office will start to fall off. 429 00:20:04,560 --> 00:20:06,879 Speaker 1: Denzel did his job, Denzel. 430 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:07,600 Speaker 4: He's just having fun. 431 00:20:07,640 --> 00:20:10,600 Speaker 1: Denzel was Denzel, and he's he seemed very theatrical. He's like, 432 00:20:10,600 --> 00:20:13,600 Speaker 1: I'm just gonna have a good time with this. Out 433 00:20:13,640 --> 00:20:18,960 Speaker 1: of ten, where are you four? Yeah, I might give 434 00:20:18,960 --> 00:20:22,240 Speaker 1: it a four point five, but it struggled. 435 00:20:22,440 --> 00:20:26,560 Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, hope that everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Let 436 00:20:26,680 --> 00:20:29,600 Speaker 2: us know what movie you saw in What was not 437 00:20:29,760 --> 00:20:33,040 Speaker 2: the glicked phenomenon, but it was a wicked weekend. We 438 00:20:33,119 --> 00:20:35,320 Speaker 2: really enjoyed it and hope that you had a good time. 439 00:20:47,040 --> 00:20:48,440 Speaker 1: We have to wish you a happy birthday. 440 00:20:48,640 --> 00:20:50,480 Speaker 4: Thanks It doesn't feel it really doesn't feel like my 441 00:20:50,520 --> 00:20:51,320 Speaker 4: birthday this year. 442 00:20:51,800 --> 00:20:54,280 Speaker 2: I don't want it. It's too close to Thanksgiving this year. 443 00:20:54,400 --> 00:20:56,399 Speaker 2: Usually I get like a week and even then it 444 00:20:56,440 --> 00:20:59,159 Speaker 2: feels a little close to Thanksgiving. This week, Thanksgiving is 445 00:20:59,240 --> 00:21:01,359 Speaker 2: very late, and so a day between my birthday and 446 00:21:01,400 --> 00:21:04,639 Speaker 2: Thanksgiving it feels a little weird. It's wonky's it is 447 00:21:05,320 --> 00:21:07,439 Speaker 2: Thanksgiving us Thursday, we had Friday, and now my birthdays 448 00:21:07,440 --> 00:21:08,520 Speaker 2: and Saturday, it feels wung oh. 449 00:21:08,520 --> 00:21:11,800 Speaker 1: Without giving away your age where it's not a big one, 450 00:21:11,880 --> 00:21:14,160 Speaker 1: do you feel like when they're not big ones, you're 451 00:21:14,200 --> 00:21:17,960 Speaker 1: kind of like, what is this one? You know what 452 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:20,159 Speaker 1: I mean? When it's not like that kind of a 453 00:21:20,240 --> 00:21:21,600 Speaker 1: five or a zero in it. 454 00:21:21,600 --> 00:21:25,600 Speaker 2: Or I don't know, and I don't care about giving 455 00:21:25,640 --> 00:21:29,720 Speaker 2: away my age. I'm turning thirty seven. I mean sometimes 456 00:21:29,720 --> 00:21:32,400 Speaker 2: I still feel the weird funkiness of like the way 457 00:21:32,480 --> 00:21:36,080 Speaker 2: the past couple of years, like the pandemic and on, 458 00:21:36,680 --> 00:21:39,479 Speaker 2: have affected all of our sense of time. You know, 459 00:21:39,720 --> 00:21:42,160 Speaker 2: it's weird. I think, like, I don't know if everyone 460 00:21:42,160 --> 00:21:46,560 Speaker 2: feels this way, but my early thirties were all in 461 00:21:46,600 --> 00:21:51,959 Speaker 2: the pandemic and that didn't like feel normal, and you know, 462 00:21:52,040 --> 00:21:54,680 Speaker 2: I think that like we have had a few things 463 00:21:54,680 --> 00:21:58,680 Speaker 2: in the works that have taken a lot longer over 464 00:21:58,720 --> 00:22:03,000 Speaker 2: the past year then we wanted them to, so that 465 00:22:04,040 --> 00:22:06,240 Speaker 2: I think I don't totally know how I will mark 466 00:22:06,320 --> 00:22:09,119 Speaker 2: this past year in like, you know, usually I can 467 00:22:09,160 --> 00:22:10,880 Speaker 2: look back and say like, oh, that was the year 468 00:22:10,920 --> 00:22:12,919 Speaker 2: I started at ET, or that was the year we 469 00:22:12,960 --> 00:22:15,679 Speaker 2: moved to Austin, And I don't totally feel how to 470 00:22:15,680 --> 00:22:16,800 Speaker 2: mark this year right now. 471 00:22:17,720 --> 00:22:22,600 Speaker 1: Yeah I get that. Yeah, yeah, but a great but 472 00:22:22,680 --> 00:22:23,919 Speaker 1: oddly a great one. 473 00:22:23,760 --> 00:22:26,919 Speaker 4: As well, though, no, there was a well yeah of course, yeah. 474 00:22:26,960 --> 00:22:28,439 Speaker 1: But yeah, I know I understand what you're saying though, 475 00:22:28,440 --> 00:22:30,240 Speaker 1: because usually yeah, you think back of like oh that 476 00:22:30,359 --> 00:22:32,880 Speaker 1: was when I was thirty two, I did this or whatever. Yeah, 477 00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:33,280 Speaker 1: I get that. 478 00:22:33,600 --> 00:22:37,480 Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's been really a really good year. 479 00:22:41,400 --> 00:22:47,080 Speaker 2: I think I feel a little a little rudderless right now. 480 00:22:47,720 --> 00:22:54,160 Speaker 2: So I'm I mean, I don't mean to sound ungrateful. 481 00:22:54,160 --> 00:22:56,159 Speaker 2: I wouldn't call this like one of my best years, 482 00:22:56,480 --> 00:22:58,400 Speaker 2: but I think it was a good year. Last year 483 00:22:58,440 --> 00:23:00,679 Speaker 2: felt like, oh we got married. This year, you know, 484 00:23:00,760 --> 00:23:06,840 Speaker 2: this year, I don't know what the the thing was 485 00:23:07,520 --> 00:23:12,000 Speaker 2: and that makes me feel a little rudderless, And so 486 00:23:12,080 --> 00:23:14,040 Speaker 2: I don't know how to mark the year yet and 487 00:23:14,080 --> 00:23:16,919 Speaker 2: then at the same time, I'm reminding myself, like, you know, 488 00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:22,080 Speaker 2: life is good and everyone's healthy and happy and be grateful. 489 00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:24,000 Speaker 4: I mean, maybe this will be the year that my 490 00:23:24,040 --> 00:23:24,800 Speaker 4: nephew was born. 491 00:23:24,880 --> 00:23:27,240 Speaker 2: But that feels like a thing that's not mine, so 492 00:23:27,240 --> 00:23:28,120 Speaker 2: it feels weird too. 493 00:23:29,960 --> 00:23:34,480 Speaker 1: So yeah, and we did finally go on our honeymoon, 494 00:23:35,119 --> 00:23:36,440 Speaker 1: which was nice. 495 00:23:37,040 --> 00:23:39,399 Speaker 2: Yes that's true. Well not okay, so now we're wrapping 496 00:23:39,440 --> 00:23:45,160 Speaker 2: that up. Well, yes, everybody, we just went on our honeymoon. 497 00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:46,919 Speaker 2: We didn't go on a honeymoon when we got married 498 00:23:46,960 --> 00:23:49,879 Speaker 2: because we had our two weddings and there were so 499 00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:52,280 Speaker 2: much celebrating. So we decided we'll go on our honeymoon 500 00:23:52,320 --> 00:23:55,119 Speaker 2: for our one year anniversary. And so we are also 501 00:23:55,359 --> 00:23:58,399 Speaker 2: just coming back. No joke landed, and then our family 502 00:23:58,440 --> 00:24:01,920 Speaker 2: came in for Thanksgiving. We are just coming back from 503 00:24:02,040 --> 00:24:08,600 Speaker 2: Portugal and Spain, which were incredible. We did Porto, the 504 00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:12,240 Speaker 2: city of Porto and the Doro Valley, the wine region 505 00:24:12,240 --> 00:24:15,439 Speaker 2: of Portugal, which you'd always wanted to do, and Bilbao, Spain, 506 00:24:15,680 --> 00:24:17,280 Speaker 2: which had been on our list. 507 00:24:17,280 --> 00:24:20,359 Speaker 1: We se yeah, spectacular cities. The people were wonderful, it 508 00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:24,119 Speaker 1: was great. It was very interesting to be over in 509 00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:29,080 Speaker 1: Europe too. A few people kind of leaned in softly 510 00:24:29,119 --> 00:24:32,720 Speaker 1: to our politics, which was really interesting. Oh you know, 511 00:24:32,800 --> 00:24:33,639 Speaker 1: like a couple of people would be. 512 00:24:33,640 --> 00:24:35,680 Speaker 2: Like so well, like people wanted to ask us. A 513 00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:37,600 Speaker 2: couple of people were like, so who did you vote for? 514 00:24:37,720 --> 00:24:39,720 Speaker 2: And so what's the vibe over there? And it really 515 00:24:39,760 --> 00:24:42,320 Speaker 2: is interesting to see or to and I don't mean 516 00:24:42,359 --> 00:24:45,760 Speaker 2: people like American people, I mean Portuguese people and Spanish people. 517 00:24:46,480 --> 00:24:48,879 Speaker 2: It's interesting to be abroad so close right after the 518 00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:52,360 Speaker 2: election and see how much news of our election had 519 00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:53,400 Speaker 2: reached other countries. 520 00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:56,400 Speaker 1: For sure, I happened to be filming. I forget where 521 00:24:56,400 --> 00:24:59,360 Speaker 1: we were in the world the first time Trump was elected, 522 00:24:59,560 --> 00:25:01,360 Speaker 1: and I remember remember being at the airport and people 523 00:25:01,520 --> 00:25:03,760 Speaker 1: coming up and just they would know where Americans and 524 00:25:04,040 --> 00:25:08,680 Speaker 1: same thing. You realize how heavy of an influence our 525 00:25:08,760 --> 00:25:12,720 Speaker 1: culture and our politics and our news has around the world. 526 00:25:12,760 --> 00:25:15,399 Speaker 1: Even in small towns. People kind of just want to 527 00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:18,359 Speaker 1: know what's going on and like, what's the vibe over there? 528 00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:20,560 Speaker 2: Yeah, which is why you know, We've talked about the 529 00:25:20,640 --> 00:25:24,359 Speaker 2: media specifically related to the election on several podcasts, and 530 00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:27,760 Speaker 2: it's why I feel so adamant about the need for 531 00:25:27,800 --> 00:25:34,320 Speaker 2: the media to become better and get back to really 532 00:25:34,359 --> 00:25:38,000 Speaker 2: being a vehicle of discovering the actual truth and seeking 533 00:25:38,040 --> 00:25:41,800 Speaker 2: actual truth because you kind of realize that, like our 534 00:25:41,840 --> 00:25:47,400 Speaker 2: news stories become the sources for news broadcasts in other countries, 535 00:25:47,480 --> 00:25:51,520 Speaker 2: like about American news and the way that that message dissipates. 536 00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:54,400 Speaker 4: So there's so much power in that. 537 00:25:56,840 --> 00:25:57,000 Speaker 1: You know. 538 00:25:57,040 --> 00:26:00,000 Speaker 2: We were kind of talking to like to one gentleman, 539 00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:04,359 Speaker 2: and it's interesting he was talking about Portugal, sounding like, 540 00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:06,600 Speaker 2: you know, just from him, Portugal having a lot of 541 00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:09,320 Speaker 2: the same concerns a lot of Americans have about immigration 542 00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:14,800 Speaker 2: issues and economic issues and and cultural issues and uh. 543 00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:17,560 Speaker 2: And he was just like explaining to us the way 544 00:26:17,560 --> 00:26:21,000 Speaker 2: that he sees he saw Trump and he saw Harris 545 00:26:21,040 --> 00:26:23,000 Speaker 2: and everything, and so that was interesting. 546 00:26:23,119 --> 00:26:25,800 Speaker 1: Yeah, it was a good and a beautiful trip. Yes, 547 00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:28,640 Speaker 1: even though year later it was wonderful to celebrate and 548 00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:30,879 Speaker 1: we're gonna wrap this up because we need to go 549 00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:32,480 Speaker 1: celebrate you right now. 550 00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:37,200 Speaker 4: Wow, I really sounded depressing talking about my birthday. 551 00:26:38,240 --> 00:26:39,879 Speaker 2: I think it's I think I would feel better if 552 00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:42,119 Speaker 2: it wasn't supposed to Thanksgiving. I don't think I've had 553 00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:47,280 Speaker 2: time to process what it is from they you know 554 00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:49,359 Speaker 2: it's maybe it's because we just saw Gladiator. If we 555 00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:51,600 Speaker 2: if we'd recorded this after I saw Wicked, I might 556 00:26:51,600 --> 00:26:52,520 Speaker 2: have feel better about my own. 557 00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:54,720 Speaker 1: Birth halfway through there, which I'd just cut my head off. 558 00:26:56,880 --> 00:26:58,720 Speaker 4: And that's a dad joke for your holiday. 559 00:26:59,200 --> 00:26:59,959 Speaker 1: Gladiator, Dad, Joe. 560 00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:01,840 Speaker 4: We love you and we're thankful for you. 561 00:27:02,080 --> 00:27:04,080 Speaker 1: Yes, happy birthday, babe. I love you very much. 562 00:27:04,160 --> 00:27:05,560 Speaker 4: I love you too. I can't wait to see what 563 00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:06,080 Speaker 4: you caught me. 564 00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:07,439 Speaker 1: Oh, I know we need to go up in our 565 00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:10,200 Speaker 1: presents right now. We will do this again next time 566 00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:12,480 Speaker 1: because we have a lot more to talk about. Thanks 567 00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:15,280 Speaker 1: for listening. Follow us on Instagram at the most dramatic 568 00:27:15,320 --> 00:27:17,680 Speaker 1: pod ever, and make sure to write us a review 569 00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:20,480 Speaker 1: and leave us five stars. I'll talk to you next time.