WEBVTT - Mini Crush #95 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:03.640 Welcome to Movie Crush, a production of I Heart Radio. 0:00:29.440 --> 0:00:33.160 Hey everybody, and welcome to Movie Crush. Big Bro, Little 0:00:33.159 --> 0:00:38.960 Bro a ditch, Chuck, That warm is my heart little bro? Hey, 0:00:39.000 --> 0:00:40.800 big brawl. What makes you think you're a little bro? 0:00:41.080 --> 0:00:44.800 Good question. I do have the deeper voice because you 0:00:44.960 --> 0:00:47.800 just everyone what you just said? Oh, I just said. 0:00:47.840 --> 0:00:51.760 My my girlfriend listens to the show and she says 0:00:51.800 --> 0:00:56.120 she she enjoys our our dynamic and uh classified it 0:00:56.200 --> 0:00:59.400 as a big bro little bro sitch and then she 0:00:59.480 --> 0:01:01.400 thought it was fun. Well, no, I'm the baby. I've 0:01:01.440 --> 0:01:03.920 never had a little brother. You beat my little brother absolutely. 0:01:04.440 --> 0:01:07.039 You know I'm an only child. Chuck. Oh, so you've 0:01:07.080 --> 0:01:09.039 never had you never noticed about me? Yeah? I knew 0:01:09.080 --> 0:01:11.720 that about it. Okay, Well that's a thing. Uh, that's 0:01:11.840 --> 0:01:13.680 that's This is like the scene in Boogie Nights where 0:01:14.360 --> 0:01:18.320 roller Girl in uh amber Waves are all coked up? 0:01:19.120 --> 0:01:21.920 Would you be my mom? Oh no, that's not the 0:01:21.959 --> 0:01:25.280 same thing at all, because we're not coked up. We're 0:01:25.319 --> 0:01:28.520 just moderately coked, that's true, and fully cooked up. You'd 0:01:28.520 --> 0:01:30.120 be a great mom, And Chuck, you have I ever 0:01:30.200 --> 0:01:33.839 told you that? A pretty good mom? Yeah? Uh, that's funny. 0:01:33.880 --> 0:01:35.280 I feel like I do feel like a lot of 0:01:35.319 --> 0:01:37.000 you guys are little brothers in a way, because I've 0:01:37.040 --> 0:01:39.920 done you for less time but still a while. Now, yeah, 0:01:39.959 --> 0:01:41.840 it's been a minute, But you know, Casey and Paula, 0:01:41.880 --> 0:01:43.640 Maddie and those guys have known those guys for many, 0:01:43.680 --> 0:01:45.640 many years. You've known me longer than you've done Paul, 0:01:45.760 --> 0:01:49.880 Chuck and I have No, that's not true. It is true. Really, yes, 0:01:50.200 --> 0:01:52.240 I thought Paul started before you know, I got Paul 0:01:52.240 --> 0:01:58.640 the job. I want to doubt you know you don't 0:01:58.680 --> 0:02:02.840 gas like me. Chuck. Well, Paul just reeks of little 0:02:02.840 --> 0:02:06.080 brother he does, so maybe that's what it does. And 0:02:06.440 --> 0:02:11.800 I have a have long desired I'm not desired of long, relished, relished. 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:14.720 What the fun is wround relished is right? What is 0:02:14.760 --> 0:02:20.239 relished mean just means enjoyed. YEA experienced with the role 0:02:20.240 --> 0:02:23.920 of mentor and have tried to do that with a 0:02:23.960 --> 0:02:25.880 lot of those guys. But you're older, so I don't. 0:02:26.440 --> 0:02:28.080 I don't feel like a mentor. Are you gonna keep 0:02:28.080 --> 0:02:30.720 in starting? Are you gonna keep insulting me tonight? I'm 0:02:30.720 --> 0:02:33.200 not insulting older is insulting? I don't know, so you've 0:02:33.200 --> 0:02:35.360 already figured out your own way. No, that's fair. Daughter 0:02:35.440 --> 0:02:38.760 is older than mine. It's true, Chuck, it's true. Um, 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:42.480 just for a little background though, Chuck, Paul and I 0:02:42.520 --> 0:02:45.600 worked together at a terrible, terrible place, and I left 0:02:45.639 --> 0:02:48.359 there to come here, and then I kind of rescued 0:02:48.440 --> 0:02:50.440 him from there to come here. So that feel like 0:02:50.480 --> 0:02:52.519 Paul was just always around. I don't know, but it 0:02:52.600 --> 0:02:59.040 hurts me. What a mat chopped Liva. Well, Noel, it's 0:02:59.120 --> 0:03:04.040 beginning to look a lot like Mini Crush. Yeah, Chris, 0:03:04.080 --> 0:03:09.079 miss episode it must be October one. Yeah, that's true. Now, 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:11.640 these next couple, we're going to concentrate on some holiday content. 0:03:12.240 --> 0:03:15.640 And of course I say Christmas, because uh I was 0:03:15.680 --> 0:03:20.119 born a good Christian boy. What happened? I think that's 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:23.640 well documented. But uh we we certainly don't want to 0:03:23.639 --> 0:03:27.800 forget about our Jewish friends, and our Agnostic friends, and 0:03:27.840 --> 0:03:33.680 our our demon Satanist friends and people who don't participate 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:37.800 in Christmas at all. Kuanza. Sure, hopefully this time of year, 0:03:37.880 --> 0:03:41.200 at least you're spending time with friends and family. That's important. 0:03:41.200 --> 0:03:43.160 So I just don't want to feel like I'm excluding folks. 0:03:43.240 --> 0:03:47.000 I don't know, I'm a big proponent of, you know, 0:03:47.480 --> 0:03:51.240 a holiday break, but I like the idea of making 0:03:51.240 --> 0:03:55.000 it more secular, you know. And that's why when politicians 0:03:55.000 --> 0:03:58.240 get all up in arms about they're killing Christmas, it's 0:03:58.240 --> 0:04:01.840 like giving a break. It's it's just an overly Christmas 0:04:01.920 --> 0:04:04.800 is stronger than ever. Yeah, it's well exactly, And and 0:04:04.880 --> 0:04:07.840 you know it's such a commercial holiday anyway, like any 0:04:07.920 --> 0:04:11.360 religious aspect of it has sort of been drained out anyway, 0:04:11.480 --> 0:04:16.799 just by like corporate you know, uh, piles of Amazon 0:04:16.839 --> 0:04:19.640 boxes there you go. Well that's yeah, man, dude, speaking 0:04:19.640 --> 0:04:21.520 of piles of Amazon boxes. You ever just walked around 0:04:21.600 --> 0:04:24.440 New York City? I know you have? They like get 0:04:24.480 --> 0:04:27.640 everything the groceries delivered through Amazon now. So it's like 0:04:27.760 --> 0:04:31.320 Amazon boxes are just everywhere. It's it's taking over the city, 0:04:31.360 --> 0:04:34.080 taking over the city. Well, you know, you know, no, 0:04:34.200 --> 0:04:38.400 the war on Christmas, it's just part of that fearmongering, 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:42.400 that's what they call it. Garbage that uh that happens 0:04:42.440 --> 0:04:45.880 in a certain sector of this country. That just really 0:04:45.960 --> 0:04:49.120 pisces me on just no need for it, man, no 0:04:49.200 --> 0:04:54.320 need make people afraid. I saw that trailer for the 0:04:54.360 --> 0:04:57.840 Fox News movie looks fun it's coming out, and they said, 0:04:57.880 --> 0:04:59.599 and this was I saw it in a book as well. 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:02.720 Maybe it wasn't in the movie. I can't remember, but um, 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:05.720 one of the former higher ups there said, I think 0:05:05.760 --> 0:05:09.200 the rule of thumb was, what was it something that 0:05:09.279 --> 0:05:13.480 will make your grandfather angry and make your grandmother scared? 0:05:14.000 --> 0:05:17.960 And that's a Fox News story? Yeah, I mean yeah, 0:05:18.040 --> 0:05:20.240 that's right that I remember. For the trailer. I saw 0:05:20.240 --> 0:05:25.120 it before knives out over the Thanksgiving holiday. Um, and 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:28.360 my daughter was with us, and she didn't know. She 0:05:28.400 --> 0:05:31.360 just knows Fox News bad. Um. She didn't know anything 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:33.400 about any of the players or sort of about sexual 0:05:33.480 --> 0:05:35.240 harassment stuff, so it was a little over her head. 0:05:35.680 --> 0:05:39.320 But Billie Eilish is bad Guy is in the soundtrack 0:05:39.440 --> 0:05:41.640 for the for the trailer. So is that a song? Yeah, 0:05:41.680 --> 0:05:45.000 I got Julie Eilish. She goes, I'm the bird guy 0:05:45.440 --> 0:05:51.520 and she goes dudsd and she goes duh. Yeah, oh 0:05:51.560 --> 0:05:53.679 that's for the kids. They love it. I like it. Actually, 0:05:53.880 --> 0:05:56.720 Uh did you see the van Halen dust up that happened? 0:05:57.279 --> 0:05:59.480 And did you see how Wolf getting van Halen handled it? 0:05:59.600 --> 0:06:02.760 It was rate well, he's like, what's the issue, It's 0:06:02.880 --> 0:06:06.200 not an issue backstory if you didn't hear. Billie Eilish 0:06:06.240 --> 0:06:08.760 was on Jimmy Kimmel and he asked her about certain 0:06:08.800 --> 0:06:11.039 modern or older groups, and he asked her about van Halen. 0:06:11.120 --> 0:06:13.760 She said, who's that? And a bunch of old van 0:06:13.800 --> 0:06:17.480 Halen fans kind of attacked her on Twitter and Wolfgang 0:06:17.560 --> 0:06:20.279 van Halen came out and he said, why do you 0:06:20.279 --> 0:06:23.520 call him Wolfgang? His name is Eddie, isn't not? That's funny? 0:06:23.800 --> 0:06:27.200 What Wolfgang van Halen the bass player, Eddie van Halen's son. 0:06:27.720 --> 0:06:32.360 Oh okay, excuse me for van Halen. Come on, Billie Eilish, 0:06:32.520 --> 0:06:34.240 what happened to the other guy that was played bass 0:06:34.240 --> 0:06:36.239 for van Halen? Michael Anthony hadn't been in the bandon 0:06:36.320 --> 0:06:38.920 many many years? That right, Yeah, his Eddie van Halen's 0:06:38.920 --> 0:06:41.359 son replaced him of bass many years. Hey, listen, I 0:06:41.400 --> 0:06:44.280 know Wolfgang the reference I mean like because he had 0:06:44.320 --> 0:06:46.719 his his his signature guitar was called the wolf Gang. 0:06:47.400 --> 0:06:50.599 Sure I remember named after his son? Is that true? 0:06:50.800 --> 0:06:52.480 You don't think he named his son after the guitar 0:06:53.360 --> 0:06:56.440 the guitar game later it's like you coming after that, 0:06:58.040 --> 0:07:00.640 and he put on Twitter he said, you know If 0:07:00.680 --> 0:07:03.280 you don't know about Billie Eilish, you should listen to 0:07:03.320 --> 0:07:06.240 her because she's cool. If you don't know about van Halen, 0:07:06.320 --> 0:07:09.920 you should listen because we're cool. And he said music 0:07:10.000 --> 0:07:12.240 is not supposed to divide people. It's supposed to bring 0:07:12.280 --> 0:07:14.120 us all together. Listen to what you like. Yeah, man, 0:07:14.160 --> 0:07:17.080 people and the trolls just jump on that ship. Yeah, 0:07:17.080 --> 0:07:19.360 he handled it really well. I was very, very proud 0:07:19.360 --> 0:07:21.960 of Wolfie. She's seventeen. Why do you keep saying wolf 0:07:22.560 --> 0:07:28.120 because she were referring to God. My daughter doesn't know 0:07:28.160 --> 0:07:30.280 who van Halen is, but she knows who a lot 0:07:30.280 --> 0:07:33.000 of eighties are. She knows who Kate Bush is because 0:07:33.000 --> 0:07:34.880 she doesn't know who van Halen is. That because I've 0:07:34.880 --> 0:07:37.640 never I'm not a van Halen guy. So they're just 0:07:37.680 --> 0:07:40.160 distressing the old Play her and yourself unchained and just 0:07:40.240 --> 0:07:42.360 talk to me later for teacher. I like that one. 0:07:42.640 --> 0:07:45.200 All Right, we're gonna go with the Christmas content. We're 0:07:45.240 --> 0:07:48.240 gonna get going here because today as this is releases 0:07:48.280 --> 0:07:51.040 December sixtel, and we're gonna do a little tribute to 0:07:51.080 --> 0:07:54.720 a movie called Elf that is fast become perhaps my 0:07:54.720 --> 0:07:59.080 favorite Christmas movie. I think we covered the last year. Yeah, 0:07:59.160 --> 0:08:02.320 you've really not seen elf. Still I've seen some choice 0:08:03.120 --> 0:08:05.960 scenes and what's the deal you just had didn't get 0:08:06.000 --> 0:08:08.160 around to it? Are you fighting the fighting it? Not 0:08:08.200 --> 0:08:10.080 at this point, I'm no, I'm not fighting it. It's 0:08:10.120 --> 0:08:12.360 just is there any reason? Do you like fer Old? 0:08:12.400 --> 0:08:15.640 Do you like to laugh? Do you like I hate 0:08:15.680 --> 0:08:18.800 all of those things. I hate comedy, I hate to 0:08:19.000 --> 0:08:23.840 like Mary Steinberg. I hate Happy mainly anti happiness Chuck. 0:08:24.320 --> 0:08:26.720 I'm not a big Christmas movie guy first of all, 0:08:26.720 --> 0:08:31.000 so maybe that's maybe that's a disconnect there. Um, I 0:08:31.040 --> 0:08:33.280 watched step Brothers the other day. I've never seen that. 0:08:33.400 --> 0:08:37.040 I thought of Christmas. Well, I know, but I'm just talking. 0:08:37.800 --> 0:08:39.840 I'm just saying I'm not anyway. You're trying to prove 0:08:39.880 --> 0:08:43.880 that you laugh. I have one at least once I've laughed. 0:08:44.040 --> 0:08:45.840 Does your daughter watch Christmas movies or do you ban 0:08:45.960 --> 0:08:49.720 them in the household? I yes, I am a totalitarian 0:08:49.800 --> 0:08:54.960 dictator like head of household, and there's no dancing or 0:08:55.080 --> 0:08:58.800 fun or Christmas or candy. I'm just trying to do 0:08:59.000 --> 0:09:00.760 a little here. I know what you're I see what 0:09:00.800 --> 0:09:02.800 you're doing. Well, let me say this, if you want 0:09:02.880 --> 0:09:07.680 to watch a funny, genuinely very very funny film. Elf 0:09:07.840 --> 0:09:11.480 is the one. It is legit, super super funny, very 0:09:11.520 --> 0:09:15.120 good movie two thousand three, directed by John Favreau. Of course, 0:09:15.120 --> 0:09:20.960 written by David Baron Baum. Smash Hit inspired a Broadway musical. Initially, 0:09:21.400 --> 0:09:24.760 Baron Bond wrote it with Jim Carey in mind. So 0:09:24.760 --> 0:09:28.120 I'm gonnaugh wrote it. Now, what did you say, David 0:09:28.160 --> 0:09:32.200 Baron Baum? Oh? I thought you said Baron Vaughan, the comedian. 0:09:32.280 --> 0:09:35.080 You know, the comedian Baron Vaughan. Yes, he's great. He 0:09:35.120 --> 0:09:37.520 actually warmed up for stuff you should know one time. 0:09:37.600 --> 0:09:41.480 He's very funny. We did Tigna Taro's Festival and they said, hey, 0:09:41.520 --> 0:09:43.480 we always have a warm up comedian. I was like, well, 0:09:43.520 --> 0:09:45.839 we've never had one. They said, well, would you mind 0:09:45.880 --> 0:09:48.720 if Baron von went up there and honor that Guy's 0:09:48.760 --> 0:09:51.640 did this hilarious. He's fantastic. He's a very nice guy. 0:09:51.960 --> 0:10:01.640 I love to get him on the show. So we're 0:10:01.679 --> 0:10:03.520 gonna go through some trivia. Then I asked the movie 0:10:03.559 --> 0:10:07.640 crushers what their favorite parts of that film were, uh, 0:10:07.679 --> 0:10:10.920 and they responded in spades because normal people love that movie. 0:10:11.240 --> 0:10:14.840 All Right, Well, here's some trivia first. Uh, and this 0:10:14.880 --> 0:10:18.199 is gonna spoil things for you knowl because Will Ferrell 0:10:18.720 --> 0:10:22.160 eats spaghetti with maple syrup. See that. I don't know 0:10:22.200 --> 0:10:24.640 about that part. And he really did it and he vomited. 0:10:24.760 --> 0:10:26.599 Oh that's in real life. So it's is it just 0:10:26.640 --> 0:10:29.640 spaghetti noodles with maple syrup? Is their tomato situation involved 0:10:29.640 --> 0:10:33.760 as well? Just the noodles with the maple syrup? Yes, 0:10:33.800 --> 0:10:39.439 no tomato, Saulso it's supplanted. He has he drinks a 0:10:39.480 --> 0:10:42.280 two leader of Coca Cola and has an epic belch. 0:10:42.880 --> 0:10:46.200 That belch was real from voice actor Maurice la Marsh 0:10:46.600 --> 0:10:50.520 who you might know his brain of Pinky in the brain. Oh, 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:55.079 he did the belch. He did the belch, absolutely did. Uh. 0:10:55.200 --> 0:10:59.240 Jon Favreau voices the narwhal and the stop motion animation scene. 0:10:59.440 --> 0:11:02.400 The director A lot of the movie was shot in 0:11:02.440 --> 0:11:06.600 an abandoned mental hospital kind of in an office building. 0:11:07.240 --> 0:11:10.840 I mean there is an office building. What's the abandoned Uh, 0:11:10.960 --> 0:11:16.360 interior sets for the apartment, Uh, the toy department, and 0:11:16.559 --> 0:11:19.679 there's a prison scene. But they shot it at Riverview 0:11:19.760 --> 0:11:23.760 Hospital where they have shot X files. Jennifer's body final 0:11:23.800 --> 0:11:26.960 destination they just set decked it out to make it 0:11:27.440 --> 0:11:29.360 the studio. It's its own thing. But it's very funny 0:11:29.360 --> 0:11:30.920 if you see elf to think about it being an 0:11:30.920 --> 0:11:35.360 abandoned mental is pretty funny. Uh. Let me psychiatric institute 0:11:35.400 --> 0:11:39.800 if you will chunk please. Wilfarell's Farrell's brother played one 0:11:39.840 --> 0:11:42.880 of the security guards. I didn't know Will Ferrell had 0:11:42.880 --> 0:11:44.600 a brother. Is he is he in? Is he in 0:11:44.640 --> 0:11:47.680 show business? Or was? This? Doesn't think so? Uh? And 0:11:47.720 --> 0:11:50.000 this is for all of the Ghostbusters fans. The apartment 0:11:50.559 --> 0:11:54.119 that James conn lives in Buddy's dad. Uh. The exterior 0:11:54.360 --> 0:11:58.000 is the same apartment that Dana Barrett lived in in Ghostbusters. Now, 0:11:58.120 --> 0:12:00.640 is that the building that ends up being the spooky 0:12:00.679 --> 0:12:04.719 building and Ghostbusters? Like we're with with the zoul situation 0:12:04.760 --> 0:12:07.640 on the roof, Yeah, that's the iconic that happened in her. 0:12:07.840 --> 0:12:10.520 I thought so too, because that's where what's his face 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:14.480 lips too? That's an iconic building marine Orc's skyline. It's 0:12:14.520 --> 0:12:16.600 like it's a thing people point out. It's the Ghostbusters 0:12:16.600 --> 0:12:20.440 building when you're very much iconic. Absolutely. Uh. And now 0:12:20.480 --> 0:12:23.079 we're going to read some of the movie Crusher's favorite lines. 0:12:23.440 --> 0:12:26.720 These will be lost on you because you have never 0:12:26.720 --> 0:12:29.679 seen elf. Yeah, most of the references that you're dropping, Uh, 0:12:29.679 --> 0:12:31.280 the nar I didn't know there was an animated he was. 0:12:31.400 --> 0:12:32.760 I know a little bit. I know about the part 0:12:32.760 --> 0:12:34.640 where he gets on the isn't there like a Peter 0:12:34.679 --> 0:12:36.319 Dinklage is in it? And he gets on the table 0:12:36.360 --> 0:12:40.880 and yells at people. Yeah, that happens. Plays a book publisher, right, um, 0:12:40.960 --> 0:12:44.680 and the the he's a lot of practical effects like 0:12:44.720 --> 0:12:47.880 you dig it he he He homages many Christmas films, 0:12:48.200 --> 0:12:51.640 including the Rank and Bass stop motion animation. That so 0:12:51.679 --> 0:12:54.439 he uses practical effects he uses instead of c g 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:57.440 I because the whole gag is he's an Elf that's 0:12:57.440 --> 0:13:00.840 six ft four or whatever and an adult. Well sure 0:13:00.880 --> 0:13:02.280 we so, semi. I guess he's sort of in a 0:13:02.400 --> 0:13:04.600 state of arrested development. Yeah, but the rest of the 0:13:04.600 --> 0:13:06.720 elves are adults too, but they're small. But he didn't 0:13:06.720 --> 0:13:09.480 see g I that he used forts perspective and build 0:13:09.520 --> 0:13:12.320 these cool sets like Hobbit style. Yeah, well I would 0:13:12.400 --> 0:13:15.119 know about that. But sure you've heard you are familiar 0:13:15.160 --> 0:13:18.000 with the very popular franchise of film The Lord of 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:21.520 the Rings. Yes, I have, and yeah for its use 0:13:21.559 --> 0:13:24.600 of practical effects. So Alicia Dietz says when he tries 0:13:24.679 --> 0:13:26.040 to put the star on top of the tree by 0:13:26.040 --> 0:13:30.320 springboarding off the couch and jumping like it's a trampoline. 0:13:31.040 --> 0:13:37.000 Good one. Jennifer Mudge old Friends says, you did it. Congratulations, 0:13:37.040 --> 0:13:40.360 world's best cup of coffee. Good job everyone? Am I 0:13:40.360 --> 0:13:42.480 spoiling all this for you? Like you don't? You don't 0:13:42.480 --> 0:13:44.120 care though, right? I don't know. I kind of care. 0:13:44.160 --> 0:13:47.040 I like comedy. Do you want to leave the room? No? 0:13:48.880 --> 0:13:51.319 For the next ten minutes. No, this is good. This 0:13:51.440 --> 0:13:53.520 just gives me more reasons to like now. I want 0:13:53.520 --> 0:13:55.520 to I want to be a part of these refs, 0:13:55.559 --> 0:13:57.960 you know, for next year. It's all out there for 0:13:58.040 --> 0:14:01.079 you for next year. Aaron snells as when Zoe Deschanel 0:14:01.120 --> 0:14:03.280 sings in the shower. I never knew she had the 0:14:03.320 --> 0:14:05.240 voice of an angel. What is she is? She's some 0:14:05.320 --> 0:14:09.240 sort of publishing agent. No, she is a department store elf. 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:13.040 That's right. That helps you know? Kids with Santa Claus. 0:14:13.200 --> 0:14:16.120 I can't believe how unfamiliar with this movie I am. 0:14:16.240 --> 0:14:20.960 It's it's sad. You just gotta see it. Krista Mora, Bye, buddy, 0:14:21.040 --> 0:14:23.680 I hope you find your dad. We say it all 0:14:23.720 --> 0:14:26.720 the time, and my son got an inflatable narwhale, so 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:29.200 we get said even more often. So wait, so is 0:14:29.240 --> 0:14:32.440 the idea that Santa Claus is the father of all 0:14:32.520 --> 0:14:37.240 the elves or just buddy? Uh? Santa? I don't know 0:14:37.280 --> 0:14:40.280 if he's the father of the elves necessarily, but they 0:14:40.320 --> 0:14:42.600 all work for Santa. But he's saying, your dad, Christmas 0:14:42.640 --> 0:14:47.400 works find your dad. Is the Santa is not his dad? 0:14:47.440 --> 0:14:49.560 Who's his dad's supposed to be? Is that a different thing? 0:14:49.600 --> 0:14:53.880 All right? Elf is a story about Will Ferrell being 0:14:53.880 --> 0:14:56.280 this giant elf, got it? Who is not really enough? 0:14:56.320 --> 0:14:59.480 He's a human. He was born of human That's why 0:14:59.520 --> 0:15:01.720 he doesn't it in. That's why he's tall. How did 0:15:01.720 --> 0:15:04.760 he end up? Okay? Go on, and he goes to 0:15:04.920 --> 0:15:08.800 in search of his real father, who's out into the 0:15:08.840 --> 0:15:12.000 real world. James con in New York City? Got it? Okay? 0:15:12.120 --> 0:15:14.440 This is all clicking for me, heartwarming stuff in sus 0:15:15.160 --> 0:15:21.480 laughs galore. Uh, that's that's okay, Okay. John millsap old 0:15:21.480 --> 0:15:24.400 friends says, my brother and I always say to each other, thanks, 0:15:24.520 --> 0:15:27.680 Mr narwhale all the time. See people quote this thing, 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:33.400 No it's in the zeitguys. Narwhal's like Arctic creatures. Uh, 0:15:33.560 --> 0:15:35.000 you know, I don't know. I don't think we've done 0:15:35.000 --> 0:15:38.160 a podcast on those yet. Interesting. They're they're little whales 0:15:38.200 --> 0:15:40.000 with horns. That's well, that's the idea. They're sort of 0:15:40.000 --> 0:15:42.560 they're sort of mystical sea creatures. Yeah, that's sort of 0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:44.120 the joke here. I guess right, I think so. I 0:15:44.120 --> 0:15:46.720 don't think you've see narwhals a lot. They may be 0:15:46.840 --> 0:15:50.840 deep livers, that's my guess. I could probably skewer you 0:15:50.880 --> 0:15:53.960 with that horn, though. Sure, I don't think they're mean. 0:15:54.920 --> 0:15:58.280 I mean, if you are a squid, they might, yeah, 0:15:58.400 --> 0:16:02.880 you know, a little kebab squid kebab uh. Dan Pitts 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:04.600 has a great line, It's just nice to meet another 0:16:04.680 --> 0:16:09.480 human who shares my affinity for elf culture. Another fan 0:16:09.560 --> 0:16:13.160 of Zoe Decanell singing, that's Heidi Lauman uh Kia Hawkins. 0:16:13.320 --> 0:16:17.320 I'm in a store and I'm singing. It's great. Megan 0:16:17.400 --> 0:16:20.800 Carroll's favorite line. I like whispering too. She quotes that 0:16:20.840 --> 0:16:26.760 all the time. It's so funny. No little smr. Julie 0:16:27.000 --> 0:16:30.680 debt Meyer says, son of a nutcracker it's a great saying. 0:16:30.880 --> 0:16:33.400 Any time of the year, it's safe to say around kids. 0:16:34.200 --> 0:16:39.119 Was this a P G rated film? It maybe g interesting. 0:16:39.480 --> 0:16:43.400 I mean there's really it sounds like there's potentially some 0:16:43.880 --> 0:16:47.000 little body humor. Maybe not even really let's see, I 0:16:47.080 --> 0:16:48.680 don't I don't know. Check that out in fact check 0:16:48.760 --> 0:16:54.720 that nul Katherine Rennex says all the spaghetti scenes. Yeah, 0:16:54.760 --> 0:16:58.320 I guess you really for ge, you gotta you can't 0:16:58.320 --> 0:17:04.240 even have like one dick. Well, it's dick free, that's 0:17:04.240 --> 0:17:09.000 what gus free. Um PG. Yeah, I don't know, Like 0:17:09.119 --> 0:17:12.600 the rating system has sort of got a little hazy 0:17:12.640 --> 0:17:15.480 over the years. I think, you know, yeah, I guess, 0:17:15.520 --> 0:17:18.120 I guess in favor of well, I don't know. PG 0:17:18.280 --> 0:17:20.680 thirteen now is almost like what are used to be. 0:17:22.119 --> 0:17:26.080 Uh maybe, I don't know, I don't know the rules, 0:17:26.080 --> 0:17:29.119 like how many you can have. That's sort of the point. Like, um, 0:17:29.200 --> 0:17:31.159 there was an episode of Adam Ruins Everything where he 0:17:31.200 --> 0:17:33.760 talks about the m p A And how it's ultimately 0:17:33.840 --> 0:17:37.840 very arbitrary, where like sex gets you a hard are instantly, 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:41.399 but like violence is totally fine, and that's literally a 0:17:41.440 --> 0:17:44.639 philosophical debate, you know that, And you don't know who's 0:17:44.640 --> 0:17:46.199 on the m p a A. That's all kind of 0:17:46.240 --> 0:17:49.760 like a mystery and weird. They've made people do very 0:17:49.800 --> 0:17:52.399 weird things to movies to give it a pass, like 0:17:52.880 --> 0:17:55.480 ten percent less blood spatter and stuff, whatever whatever it 0:17:55.560 --> 0:17:57.639 might be. Yeah, we did a great episode on the 0:17:57.680 --> 0:17:59.359 m p A yeah a while ago. Have to check 0:17:59.400 --> 0:18:02.920 that one out. It's robahly recommended. Mike Doyle says, Oh, 0:18:03.000 --> 0:18:05.400 I don't know, Connie, I've never declaude kittens before. How 0:18:05.440 --> 0:18:07.880 many eight? Just bringing them by the camper. I'll see 0:18:07.880 --> 0:18:12.080 what I can do. The great Amy Sadaris her Dylan Thomas, 0:18:12.119 --> 0:18:14.160 I'm twenty six year old. I got nothing to show 0:18:14.160 --> 0:18:16.320 for it. So that's one of the jokes in the 0:18:16.320 --> 0:18:19.119 movie that apparently the studio did not get. There's a 0:18:19.119 --> 0:18:22.159 guy who looks like he's fifty years old and he 0:18:22.200 --> 0:18:25.919 says he's twenty six, and that's the joke, and the 0:18:25.960 --> 0:18:28.320 studio gave a note that was like, he's clearly not 0:18:28.400 --> 0:18:32.879 twenty six, and Jon Favreau had to say, that's the joke, which, 0:18:33.080 --> 0:18:36.000 anytime you're explaining a joke that means you've lost a battle. 0:18:36.160 --> 0:18:40.200 Jon Favreau is such a Maverick. He's such an interesting, 0:18:40.920 --> 0:18:43.880 very versatile guy. Are you up on Mandalorian? I am, 0:18:43.920 --> 0:18:46.920 and I love it. I am one episode behind. I 0:18:46.960 --> 0:18:50.560 haven't seen last week's Uh. Are you up on Watchman? 0:18:51.720 --> 0:18:55.000 Even better? I adore it. I'm only I think it's fantastic. 0:18:55.240 --> 0:18:58.200 What episode are they on? Do you know? I think 0:18:58.200 --> 0:19:01.480 it's six six? I think I swatched four last night. 0:19:01.560 --> 0:19:04.240 Oh it just gets better and more batship for a 0:19:04.320 --> 0:19:07.040 k A to Downtown Decatur, Georgia episode right with the 0:19:07.119 --> 0:19:10.400 with the clock thing. Yeah, yeah, it's great. They don't 0:19:10.400 --> 0:19:12.520 even like you. Usually they block out the business names 0:19:12.600 --> 0:19:15.679 or change them something. It's all straight. It's great. I 0:19:15.720 --> 0:19:17.560 texted Kim Jennings because I took him to eat there. 0:19:17.600 --> 0:19:19.280 I was like, you're watching The Watchman. It's like that's 0:19:19.280 --> 0:19:21.960 where we so we ate um really quickly though. Just 0:19:22.000 --> 0:19:25.879 to plug there is a Watchman Official Watchman podcast that 0:19:26.040 --> 0:19:29.680 HBO puts out. It's fantastic. It's with Craig Mazin, who's 0:19:29.720 --> 0:19:32.960 the host. Who who was the creator of Chernobyl, another 0:19:32.960 --> 0:19:36.840 fantastic HBO show, And every episode is him and uh 0:19:36.960 --> 0:19:40.199 Linda Lof and they do episodes one through three. In 0:19:40.240 --> 0:19:42.920 one episode, and three through six and one, and then 0:19:42.960 --> 0:19:44.800 what are they talking about the making of it? Now? 0:19:44.840 --> 0:19:47.800 They're just talking about everything, like the insights into the 0:19:47.840 --> 0:19:50.240 actions and the characters, and you know a lot of 0:19:50.280 --> 0:19:53.160 the compared comparisons between the source material and like how 0:19:53.200 --> 0:19:55.320 they ended up, you know, how he ended up conceiving 0:19:55.359 --> 0:19:57.760 of this world because it's like he had such reverence 0:19:57.800 --> 0:19:59.879 for the original Watchman. It was like a game cha 0:20:00.040 --> 0:20:02.520 danger for him creatively when he was a kid um 0:20:02.560 --> 0:20:05.359 and so he had to like revere that source material 0:20:05.400 --> 0:20:08.040 while also creating something new and his whole the way 0:20:08.080 --> 0:20:09.760 he describes it as like, oh, yeah, this was the 0:20:09.760 --> 0:20:11.320 guy that should have done this, and he's doing it 0:20:11.400 --> 0:20:14.359 so well, really really really happy with the show. Have 0:20:14.440 --> 0:20:17.080 to listen to that. I love it. It's not Christmas Eve, 0:20:17.080 --> 0:20:19.080 but no of it. No, it's not. Let's do a 0:20:19.080 --> 0:20:21.919 couple more here, Jim wine Press says, eating the cotton balls, 0:20:22.000 --> 0:20:24.520 wine Press and the doctor's office. I like that. I 0:20:24.600 --> 0:20:27.760 like that too. Good name. Uh Connor Elliott. Watching James 0:20:27.760 --> 0:20:29.920 con lift up that lingerie in his office gets me 0:20:30.000 --> 0:20:33.120 every time. That is funny. I think my favorite line 0:20:33.200 --> 0:20:36.720 is my finger has a heartbeat, which doesn't make sense. 0:20:36.720 --> 0:20:39.920 To you. Nope, he gets a blood test. They prick 0:20:39.960 --> 0:20:42.080 his finger. Oh yeah, and he goes my finger has 0:20:42.080 --> 0:20:46.679 a heartbeat. Because it's very funny. And that's the delight 0:20:46.680 --> 0:20:51.240 of the film is the it's just so sweet. Gosh, 0:20:51.320 --> 0:20:54.560 it sounds great. Chuck it just it just sounds like 0:20:54.600 --> 0:21:00.479 a real Christmas miracle. Get out, just leave, all right, 0:21:00.520 --> 0:21:02.760 and we're gonna finish up today with best Christmas gifts 0:21:03.280 --> 0:21:07.840 as the Facebook community just that question, nol. It's impossible 0:21:07.880 --> 0:21:13.920 for them to screw this one up. Karen drum Bosky says, 0:21:14.080 --> 0:21:17.879 a Costco membership in all seriousness, not romantic or nostalgic, 0:21:18.400 --> 0:21:21.879 but man, is it useful. So just to clarify, are 0:21:21.920 --> 0:21:24.600 these are like the best Christmas gifts you would wish 0:21:24.680 --> 0:21:27.760 to receive, the historically best Christmas gift you have have 0:21:28.160 --> 0:21:30.520 have received? Okay, I think so this is not a 0:21:30.520 --> 0:21:33.280 wish list. Brett well Staid says, I remember getting a 0:21:33.320 --> 0:21:37.960 Sony CD Walkman for Christmas one year, anti skip protection 0:21:38.760 --> 0:21:41.320 cassette player adapter so I could play in my pickup truck. 0:21:42.400 --> 0:21:47.560 Those were the days. Tom Rhodes Nintendo Entertainment system that 0:21:47.680 --> 0:21:49.440 was the gift. That year. I had a Christians. I 0:21:49.880 --> 0:21:52.240 was a younger, but I had an older cousin that 0:21:52.320 --> 0:21:59.920 got one and I was allowed to play it or whatever. Five. Oh, 0:22:00.240 --> 0:22:02.160 that's old enough. I was counting on my fingers. Chuck, 0:22:02.240 --> 0:22:06.280 that's right, go ahead, go ahead, shame me. I didn't 0:22:06.280 --> 0:22:10.600 have to point that out. It was audibly into a microphone. No, 0:22:10.680 --> 0:22:13.520 but I was actually ticking my fingers as well. I 0:22:13.560 --> 0:22:16.240 counted my fingers. Yeah, it's fine. Um, yeah it was five, 0:22:16.760 --> 0:22:21.760 all right? Got earl pal. Kristin bits a guy. When 0:22:21.760 --> 0:22:24.440