November 14, 2025 • 44 mins
We discuss Edgar Wright's remake of "The Running Man," offering a fresh perspective on this dystopian thriller starring Glenn Powell. Does it live up to the original Arnold Schwarzenegger classic? While the new version builds a more comprehensive world with better character motivations, but something seems to be missing.
What did you think of the movie? Do you prefer the original? Would you survive "The Running Man?"
We also discuss the snooze button, pennies & MUCH MORE!!!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Mac over there on the social media's the New England Patriots.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
You might know of them, Sure, yeah, I've heard of them.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
They posted a little video of how many snoozes slash
alarms they need to wake up in the morning, with
many of the players being like, I need at least twelve,
or some saying I don't need any I just know
how to wake up. Let me ask you this, because
you have a bit of a funky schedule being a
librarian and all, how many snoozes slash alarms do you
(00:29):
set when you need to work?
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Yeah, on a work day, I set my first alarm
for five point fifty, my last alarm for six thirty.
But the six thirty is like a saver one, So
it's five point fifty to six ten every five minutes.
So what's that five alarms fifty? You do every five
minutes six oh five six, So that's five alarms and
then a sixth one as like a saver.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Do you try and get up at the first alarm?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Though no, certainly not. The first one is just so like, okay, body,
you have ten or fifteen minutes before you gotta get up.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
All the sleep that you are doing after that first
alarm is useless.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
It's not real sleep. It's just like, okay, fifteen minute
warning until you have to actually get out of bed,
especially on these cold mornings. You know, there's you need
a little bit. You gotta get the engine reven before
you actually get up and get into the full speed. Recently,
very recently, I've been diagnosed with sleep apnea. So I'm
curious how to change my sleep and my waking. So
(01:26):
I still have to go through like the the mask.
You know, literally got diagnosed last week.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
You can ask for a bane mask.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Uh yeah, I'm hoping for a whole face thing. We'll
see how that changes the sleep and awakingness. And I
don't know if I'm gonna need more alarms, less alarms.
I'm looking forward to maybe being rejuvenated. I've probably been
getting poor quality sleep for the last fifteen years of
my life. We'll see, We'll see how it changes. I
somehow work with a lot of people that also have
been diagnosed with it. I have a few friends that
(01:57):
have it as well. It's a lot more common than
you would think, So I'm hoping I'm not tired by
three pm anymore. That'd be nice.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
I do want to give you credit for not dying
in your sleep yet?
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Then, yes, have not perished in my sleep, and hopefully
it doesn't happen between now when I actually get the machine.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Have they said to you at any point that you
have died in your sleep and you've just kind of
knocked yourself back into it.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
No, I haven't gotten that part of a diagnosis yet.
That would be impressive, though. If I have beaten the
what would you call them? The devil? The grim reaper?
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Yeah, don't fear the reaper. It's what I've heard, right, right, right, right, mac.
I'm also going to ask you this, you and your
snooze is in your fake sleep? When you're sick? Do
you just eat sugar pills?
Speaker 2 (02:37):
I don't know what that means.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
What do you mean placebos? They're useless, It's garbage, it all,
it's all in your head like zombies.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Goo.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Let me ask you, on a workday, typical work day,
how many alarms snoozes do you have?
Speaker 1 (02:52):
I have one and I try and beat it.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
You try to well, I mean, there's nothing better than
waking up before your alarm refreshed. You set one alarm.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
I set one alarm, and the goal I have a
daily goal. This is my only goal every day, wake
up one minute before that alarm, and I usually do.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
I don't believe you at all.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
I don't believe Wait to start tracking my sleep.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
You have set one alarm.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
When I say wake up one minute before the alarm,
I mean like I'm waking up constantly throughout the night.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Okay, just wake up. Is it one minute yet? Is it?
Speaker 1 (03:27):
No? What time is it? Oh, it's two o'clock in
the morning.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
I gotta got six more minutes sleep.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
I can get like even when so my wife brag
my life. She loves the old snooze button. I think
the snooze is what eight to nine minutes long or
something like that.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Oh, it's I don't know if it's that long, is it.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
I don't know how snooze work.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
I don't see. I don't use that. I just have
the multiple alarms.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Okay. So she hits the snooze button and then she's
always like wait until the next snooze, and I'm like, okay,
you know what I do during that snooze time? Lay
their eyes wide open?
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Yeah, scroll your phone?
Speaker 1 (03:58):
No, no, no, I'm not allowed to. She's still snow.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Wait, you're scrolling isn't gonna wake her up.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
It's a time for us to lay there together.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
So you just stare at her while she snoozes.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Like the old people at the end of the Titanic
when they decide to go down with the ship.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Yeah, I suppose so. Do you guys get up at
the same time?
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Well, to get my son ready for school? No, what
usually happens is at six o'clock. I wake up just
before the alarm. I am then told to lay in
bed for nine more minutes. After that nine minutes, I
get up, I get all of his stuff ready. I'll
wake him up like twenty minutes later. Where then he
goes and he lays with her. We're out of the
(04:39):
house by a normal time for him to, you know,
go to.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
What are you doing in the are you making breakfast?
Like what happens in the minutes?
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Making lunch, getting snacks ready.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Making the trip to drop the kids off of the pool?
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Oh, I don't do that until I'm at the gym.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Okay, I don't. I don't care for that. I thought
you were like anti public poopin.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
No, I'm for it all for it really?
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Well?
Speaker 1 (04:59):
You know this about Yeah, used to be an electrician
and once you give in to the first time doing it,
once you go in a portajan, once there are no
more standards.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Well, I don't agree with that. When I work a
welding detail Google, sometimes it's early in the morning, six
in the morning, and most of these sites of job
sites with not no real bathroom, so you end up
having to go to a porter partty. But when I
do that, I try not to drink coffee in the morning.
I'll do like an energy drink because the last thing
I need at like seven oh five an hour into
the welding detail is having to run like five floors
(05:34):
down to a portera John, No, thank you.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
There was nothing better than when you were on a
construction site and the portajans were just cleaned and you're like,
I'm gonna go destroy it.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Yes, yeah, one, good three, yeah, job three.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
King of Queen Mill Street.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Entertainment and.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
We are the Mac and Goo program. We are runnnon running.
That's what I was thinking the entire time while watching
Running Man, Like what if they replaced Glenn Powell's Ben
with Forrest Gump.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Oh, I thought you were I think you meant will
I am?
Speaker 1 (06:28):
He just finds a way to live the thirty days
by accident.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Just outruns everyone.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Well, there's running, there's meeting presidents, there's being told to
do things and doing it wrong, but you're actually doing
it right. You're protecting Lieutenant.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Dan uh Goo and I saw The Running Man, and
it is a movie that I'll tell you what. Goo
was very excited for. I was like, mildly excited for.
We like Glen Powell, we like Edgar Wright. I would say, based, well,
you react the way I reacted, I'm going to react
the way you reacted. I would say you came away disappointed.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
A little bit. My reasoning for it is I recently
rewatched The Running Man. Yep, the entire thing took me
force sits because I fell asleep a lot.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
I have now watched the first hour of it. Goo,
What's that I have now watched the first hour of
nineteen eighty seven is The Running Man?
Speaker 1 (07:20):
And can you agree with me that the first hour
slash the movie in general? It's an interesting concept that
I thought they would be able to take and kick
it up a notch.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Yeah, eighty seven it's terrible.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
It's a bad movie.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Concept is good.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
The concept, I'm like, there's two hours here of something
that you can make real interesting, and I felt that
this movie was not interesting enough.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Well, I will say this before we get into you know,
spoilers in plot points here. I have caught so far
one world like building thing from it nineteen eighty sevens
the Climbing Man when he's climbing the rope and the
dogs are trying to bite them. What twenty twenty fives
Running Man does is really like build dealt that underneath
the network stuff, the world building that does a They
(08:07):
do a much better job, I think in twenty twenty fives.
But the bar is really low like nineteen eighty seven's
is bad. I just watched the hockey guy get killed
by Arnie and that was fucking terrible.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
What made that sub zero? Now he's just zero? There
weren't enough one liners too.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Yeah, he did say I would be back, though.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
He did do one of those. He smoked a cigar
for most of it. Did Do you think he dyed
his hair for this movie or is that his natural
hair color?
Speaker 2 (08:36):
I don't know. They definitely put fake facial hair on him,
though for that first like thirty minutes that wasn't great.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Speaking of which, go to Davy's November page, and you
gotta give.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Good, drop good drop right there. The running Man Who
twenty twenty five to The running Man one hundred and
ten million dollar budget. We are discussing this before it's
hitting theaters. Brag, we got to see it early. This
is projecting for a anywhere between fifteen and twenty five
million dollars domestic open.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
That's not great.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
No, it's not great. And it is also up against
now you see me, Now you don't, which is getting
decent reviews.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
You love that Popcorn Bucket.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
I exc I was. I'm glad it was gonna be
in coming up in news dump when we talked about
that Popcorn Bocket box Office.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
It's cool because of how dope it is. Maybe we
should have done that instead.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
So those are both opening this weekend. They're getting similar
rotten Tomato scores, so I'm interested to see what the
audience split will end up being there. They're both projected
for fifteen to twenty five and then they're still dealing
with Predator bad Lands in week two. That's getting really
good reviews, So that might be like a three way
split at the top, like eighteen eighteen eighteen or something.
Like that. It'll be interesting to see how that plays out.
(09:49):
But yes, that's a disappointing open for one hundred and
ten million dollar budget.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Yeah, especially when you have what some might describe to
be like the premiere movie star.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Yeah, in your film, I mean it's it's Glenn Polver's
Jesse Eisenberg and apparently Eisenberg.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
And half of l Fanning and not the not the
better half.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Yeah, yeah, I'm a lower half type of guy.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
My god, what if the Predator was running through those
bad lands with just the lower half of el Fanning on.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
His shelters, just to you know, of this stuff right there.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Yeah, probably I probably shouldn't have said down.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
I'm not gonna go down that path because The Running
Man is an R rated action adventure sci fi thriller.
Sub genres here conspiracy thriller, dark comedy, dystopian sci fi,
one person army action, political thriller, survival.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
And I say about political thriller, I think this was
as poly charged as a Glenn Powell movie will ever get.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Yeah, you you thought it like just dipped its toes
in the in the politics. This is overtly political with
its themes. Now it doesn't dominate the movie. But it
clearly has a message in this movie, and I'm curious.
I'm curious how this all shakes out. We'll get into
this in a couple of minutes.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Not that I want, you know, my stuff to be
poly charged. It's just that this topic and like the
original movie everything else, it's it's nineteen eighty four.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Well it's any Any dystopian sci fi movie is gonna
be political. So if anyone comes away from this upset
with some politics in it, you're a dummy.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
I don't think there's really any politics in it.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
No, it's but it does, it does, it has, it has.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
It is a classic trope.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
And the media is trying to turn you against each other.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
But good. We have six subgenres here, four genres, and
I think the weakest point of this movie is through
two hours and thirty three minutes or what is it
two hours and thirteen minutes?
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Sorry, it felt like thirty three.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
It tries to do a lot, and I don't know
if it necessarily crushes any of those genres. It does
everything okay, but it doesn't actually crush anything. And I
wish it sort of baby would have been maybe more
political or more action or more thriller. It just does
a little bit of everything.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Speaking of the action, I was also going into this saying,
I'm hoping that Edgar Wright finds a way to blow
my socks off with at least one of these actions scenes.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Sure.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Sure, And I left the theater maybe with more socks
on than what I came in with.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
I think my biggest criticism of this movie, goo is
it doesn't feel like an Edgar Wright movie. It feels
just like anyone direct.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
It feels like a generic like his name is you know,
is attached to it. Yeah, but the studio made it.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Yeah, And I have a point about that too. So
this is a run time.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Do you think Richard Dawson made it?
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Shut out? What is it? Hollywood squares?
Speaker 1 (12:42):
No, he was family feud. He used to make out
with everybody. Yeah, what an upgrade. And you know, Richard
Dawson did what he could with that. He's a game
show host. About Richard Karen getting Domingo Coleman to step
in as that character, also splitting the character. He split
the character. Yeah, both and uh Josh Brolin, Josh Brolin,
(13:04):
maybe the two best parts of the movie.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Josh Brolin and Coleman Domingo punched this movie up for sure.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
It makes anything. I needed more Coleman Domingo, I needed
him to anytime Glenn Powell did anything narrate it good.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Runtime one hundred and thirty three minutes. That's two hours
and thirteen minutes. On roddy t is, this currently has
sixty four percent for New critics, which makes sense considering
the genre and what it's trying to do. We don't
have an audience score yet. I'm gonna guess like eighty percent.
I think it's gonna be scores of runn Am mouk.
You already think what you what's your guess here?
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Ninety it's gonna be gonna say eighty two? What is
rotten tomatoes?
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Call it quit fresh?
Speaker 1 (13:42):
No, it's like certified hot.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Oh no, I think over nineties like hot and bothered.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
No, it's hot and buttered. I think, yeah, just like us,
we're always buttered.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Up on Metacritic of fifty five. I'm also interested to
see I believe now you see me now. We don't
know how you don't has a similar writey t score.
I don't know what the Metacritics score is, but I
think they're going to be all kind of all around
it here go. This movie is written by and this
is where I'm having trouble figuring out why the movie
didn't crush it, and I believe it's because of the producer.
(14:14):
But this movie is written by Michael Bacall, who wrote
Scott Pilgrim Project X twenty one and twenty two Jump Street,
and also written by Edgar Wright of course ant Man
and all the movies he's directed. And you this movie,
which I didn't know until about two weeks ago, is
actually based on a Stephen King novel which he wrote
under the pseudonym Richard Bachman, which he adopted to make
(14:34):
sure his early literary success wasn't a fluke. But Bacall,
those movies are great, like a.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Kind of what this movie lacks is comedy.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Yeah, it had some, it had some, But I'm like, man,
where why did it get hamstrung? Why was this under handcuffs?
Who pushed it down? And go? I think the answer
is the producer, Simon Kinberg, who has given us some
good stuff.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
No, Simon Kinberg, but.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
He also is the director of Dark Phoenix. He's given
us some real Yeah, he's given us a lot of shit.
He's given us some good, don't get me wrong, but
he's given us a lot of shit. So this movie
feels more like a Simon Kinberg movie than it does.
Edgar Write or Michael Bacall just.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Go ahead and make up new, cool, cheesy one liners,
and you would have had me hook line and sinker.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Uh. If the folks at home don't know, why, they
would know. Edgar Wright, he gave a Shot of the Dead,
Hot Fuzz, the World's End, I forget what that trilogy
is almost ant manh Yeah, I wrote or got a
writing credit on ant Man also gave a Scott Pilgrim
versus the World, Baby Driver, and Last Night and Soho.
When Edgar writes at his best, there's no one better,
I do think he's a little inconsistent. Like I didn't
(15:43):
love Hot Fuzz, I didn't love the World's End. Shot
of the Dead's one of my favorite movies of all time.
Scott Pilgrim's Great Baby Driver was mostly good. Last Night
and Soho was mostly good.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Scott Pilgrim also has a very unique look to it. Yeah,
an incredible cast, which this movie doesn't have.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Yeah for sure. So again, I think Simon Kinberg in
the studio here had way too much influence. Like, if
you're gonna get Edgar Wright, let him do his thing.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
You heard it here first. This movie is Simon Kinberg's fault.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Yes, yeah, put that on the fucking DVD Goo synopsis
for The Running Man.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
If we ever put out a DVD of this podcast,
we're only putting the negative reviews on there. That's it.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
A man joins a game show in which contestants allowed
to go anywhere in the world, are pursued by hunters
hired to kill them. Another big change for this movie
compared to The eighty seven is it's open world. It's
not like they're in a dome and contained to this arena.
I like that a lot. I also am curious as
to what version happens in the book. Is this version
more like I'm not gonna read the book and I
(16:45):
have no idea. None of us arery for a more.
If you want to be sold on this movie, let
me read you the Roddy T's synopsis because it's a
little better, a little more in depth. In a near
future society, The Running Man is the top rated show
on television. A deadly competent work. Contestants known as runners,
must survive thirty days while being hunted by professional assassins,
(17:05):
with every move broadcast to a blood thirsty public and
each day bringing a greater cash reward. Desperate to save
his sick daughter, working class Ben Richards played by Glenn Powell,
is convinced by the show's charming but ruthless director or producer,
Dan Killion played by Josh Brolin, to enter the game
as a last resort, but Ben's defiance instincts in grit
turn him into an unexpected fan favorite and a threat
(17:28):
to the entire system. As rating skyrocket, so does the danger,
and Ben must outwit not just the hunters, but a
nation addicted to watching him fall. This movie In This
Game version of the show is much more comprehensive than
the eighty seven version, and it also gives Ben Richards
a much better motivation than the eighty seven.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Well, the eighty seven version is that he was in
a prison and this is all he can do.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Well, he was wronged by the government. Yes, basically it
was an enemy of a state. Talk.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Oh what do you think of the opening scene of
the eighty seven isn't it like the most abrupt entering
of a movie ever.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Yeah, and they also in the eighty seven version you
have to figure out on your own that the government
in the network is doctoring the footage. They don't Altright
tell you, which is fine. It's much more obvious in
the twenty twenty five Oh oh my god.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Also the sound effects from the eighty seven movie. Yeah,
are Indiana Jones punching a pie?
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Yeah, it's like Batman.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
It's crazy whip. Even that first helicopter scene, Arnie is
like very deliberate.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Yeah. Good. This movie stars Glenn Powell as Ben Richards.
Amelia Jones a scarflady. I didn't catch her name in
the movie, couldn't find it in IMDb. You wouldn't know
Amelia Jones because you didn't watch Task. She was one
of the co stars in Tasks. She was phenomenal on Task.
Really Good's time to see her in a lot of things.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
I've seen Tusk.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
You've seen Tusk, that's correct. Josh Brolin is Dan Killian
Lee Pace is Evan McCone. Coleman Domingo is Bobby Thompson
Bobby two. Katie O'Brien is Jenny Laughlin. Martin Hurley he
is Tim Jansky Carl Gluseman as Glussman as Blondie McGee.
That's the blonde hunter there. I guess his name is
Frank William Macy is Molly Who. I feel like the
(19:15):
original version of the script had more of him. Was
he just was there one time and you're like, all right, great.
Michael Sarah as Elton George Carroll that is the Boston
rapper slain. That's me in another life as agent Doug
Jamie Lawson as Sheila Richards, Ben's wife, and then Daniel
Ezra as the guy that helps him in Boston. I
don't know what his name was either. He was the
(19:35):
guy that helps the whole Boston escape thing once again.
This movie was made nineteen eighty seven, starring Arnie as
Ben Richards. In that eighty seven movie, Goo was set
in twenty seventeen.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
How about that, Wow, we're in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Yeah, go this movie to me. And of course this
came out well before both of these movies, like twelve
years before one in twenty five before the other is
a little bit of Hunger Games with like a dash
of Enemy of the State.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
That might be the exact comparison that jacent man Zukus
used when talking about the eighty seven movie. Really yeah,
but he calls it Hungy Games.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
So if you're into stuff like that, you're gonna like
this movie. It's the government trying to pin something someone
wrongly convicted, this stuff wrongly accused of stuff, fighting back
against you know, big government tyrants, and you get the
Hunger Games aspect, where it's like this death game. So
there is fun built into the script. However, it just
doesn't quite like both of those movies are better than
(20:37):
this movie. Enemy of the State and Hunger all the
Hunger Games movies.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
This, I feel like is gonna be a forgettable throwaway but.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
Still fun like I enjoyed.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
I think it stands out enough against other ultra that's
movies that have come out in the last couple of years.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
I agree. I don't think the rewatchability is great and
you're not gonna run and tell your friend to go.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
See the original one lived on for years.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Yeah yeah, well what I mean.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
And I know that cable doesn't exist anymore.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
But once again, the original is like a classic corny
eighties movie.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
The original is bad. It's bad, but it's so bad
that it's interesting.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Once again, Goo this does not feel like an Edgar
Wright movie, and that's unfortunate. I think that he just
didn't get his way, and it's weird that he would
sign up to do this movie without being like, let
me do my own version.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
What am I doing right now?
Speaker 2 (21:27):
He doesn't Edgar Wright doesn't give a fuck.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
They gave him at least twenty of those Arnold Schwarzenegger
one hundred dollars bills.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
What I did really like about this world and what
they did in this movie is like the cutter ways
to other shit in the in the world, Like the
underlying world building that they did was really fun and funny.
Some of the laugh out loud stuff. There almost wasn't
enough about that in a movie that's two hours and
thirteen minutes long. I actually think it needed to be
a little bit longer so we could do a little more.
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It just it fell short.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Also, people should have been offering the audience board games
of The Running Man. That's my favorite part of the
eighty seven one is Richard Dawson constantly and you're getting
a copy of the board game The Running Man. What
could you possibly do in that board game that is
similar to what is on the TV.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Yeah, great question. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
I want to do the Gauntlet.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Yeah, let's get to it.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Fun factor not enough?
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Yeah, but still fun. You are at least weighing it
against your expectation of fun factor. This movie's fun. You
have fun in this.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
You're weighing against what you think is fun. Think about
what other people think is fun.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
This movie is baseline pretty fun. I'm not gonna lie.
It's fun.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
It's not fun enough, though, it's fair enough. Satisfact or
how satisfied were you by this new remake of The
Running Man? Once again? Not enough?
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Would you say satisfying conclusion?
Speaker 1 (22:50):
No?
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Okay? What would you like to have had happened at
the end? We'll get into that.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
I guess I don't even know. I don't even know.
I was just by by the climax of this movie.
I was ready to say goodbye to all of our characters.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
All right. I thought it was a somewhat satisfying conclusion.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Let's go on to the borometer, and I kind of
just tipped my hand there. I thought it ran a
little too long.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
No, I didn't think it was long enough. I actually
wasn't bored. I was wanting more because I liked. I
liked what it was trying to do. It just didn't
necessarily success.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
I would have taken more if it fleshed things out.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
More, That's what I wanted, Yes, Or I would.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Have taken less if it was like the eighty seven
movie and it made no sense Halloween. Will your interest
in this movie wane over time? For sure? Probably I'm
gonna forget about this.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
I think I'm down a dog since I left the
theater already.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Like I can see us next year in a podcast
being like, oh, what was that Glenn Powell movie from
last year?
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (23:47):
It was Running Man hit Man?
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Right? No, no, the other one, the other.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Yeah, and then we'll start like naming an actress that's
not even in this movie that we think is in
this movie. Yeah, a quatter world. Is it better than
the nineteen ninety five movie water World? Coherently yes, but
it's not as stylized or interesting.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
It's definitely better, But so what nineteen eighty seven Running
Man shoots for. I feel like nineteen ninety five or
ninety four ninety six is water World succeeds in It's
really bad, but it's great. Eighty seven's Running Men aspired
to be that in Aqua Aqua. Water World got there,
(24:28):
and so in that respect, like I'm gonna for the
rest of my life, I'm gonna watch water World more
times than I watched.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Oh yeah, absolutely, Also the eighty seven movie, and they
filled so much of whatever that run time is with
women doing aerobics. It is insane. Like I thought it
might be like a couple of cutaways, those scenes go
on for what fifteen twenty minutes?
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Oh well, I get fair as I go, fare as
that go.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
It's rolling, it's rolling along. It's crazy. Yes, yeah, not
great pants tent City, Excite bike Mania? Did anything get
you going from this movie? And I do agree with
you that I liked Michael Sarah home aloning his house. Yeah,
that was great, But I thought that could have been
better too, because we've seen hom a loaning houses recently too.
We just got nobody to where he home aloned an
(25:19):
entire theme park, and that was amazing.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
You got you, mudge Ye.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
What a great SNL sketch. And we don't say that
about many these days.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
It's true, It's true Michael Sarah's character, whose name I
already forget, doesn't matter, Michael Sarah. It's Michael Sarah. Yeah,
his home aloning scene was pretty great, but it could
have been better. I will admit that.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Oh, so, you know when life gives you. Jesse Plemmons,
who has recently been doing a lot of interviews because
he's in a new movie coming out, or he was
in Begone Yeah but Gone maggone yea interviews and he's
been asked a lot about his character from Game Night,
and he's talking a lot about it. I'm I'm eating
all that up. I'm gnawn all over that bone.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
You know what pretty similar effect on a movie that
he had in Game Night is Coleman Domingo. In this
movie is Bobby t Oh. Every time he was on screen,
laugh out.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Loud yeap every single time.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
There was two characters, him and then the SNL guy
what's his name? Hurley He every time he was on screen,
that was pretty funny too.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Yeah, And I was like, I could have used Hurley
he for more of the movie, to add more of
those comedic beats, because once he was no longer in
the movie, those beats went away.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Every scene that Hurley he was in, he was just
saying the most obvious thing, and it killed me. It
was funny every time?
Speaker 1 (26:40):
How is that profitable for Freedo lays that's the if. Okay,
you know what, We're gonna do a podcast soon. Greatest
throwaway lines in uh movie history? Yeah, agreat or even
movie and television, because I want that and I want
the ten seconds scene from The Chair Company of the
worst pillow in Town.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
It's made out of metal.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
When you described that scene to me, it's this is
not the Running Man. Yeah, you made it seem like
it was a full lead up.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
That's what you built in your own head. I just
said that.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
It was a cutaway ten seconds scene of him laying
in bed and saying he has the worst pillow in ten.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
But you know, like you know, they had shot like
a thirty second scene, but they just took that because
that was too perfect.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
I'm still an episode behind. Don't spoil it for me, Okay,
Max credit Union, you're giving credit to uh.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
This is a tough one. Glenn Pole is really good.
He's just he's a good leading man. He's he's he's funny,
he's charismatic. I like him. It's hard to give him
credit in this still because I do feel like the
movie could have been a lot better. But this movie
is way better than the original. So I guess Glenn
poll I don't know doming like John you know what,
credit to Josh Brolin. Josh Brolin in this role is
(27:54):
gonna be awesome every time. So Josh Brolan as like
a calculated mean guy. He's a human being Thanos in
this it works.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
For those of you tardy to the mac and Goop party.
We rate everything on a forty hot dog rating system.
In maccaz you have pointed out my expectations of what
fun is. It was not met the satisfactor. I thought
this movie did not quite do it. I thought it
was a little too long, got a little too boring,
a little generic. I was expecting more from having someone
like Edgar Wright in charge, even more than having like
(28:24):
someone like Glenn Powell as the leading man. There were
some funny elements to it. There are some things in
it that I thought was solid. But even remembering this
movie up against the eighty seven movie that we agree
is worse, I don't think that's even gonna stand up.
I think we're gonna forget about this as a throwaway
movie when looking at the year twenty nine. Hot Dogs.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Wow, you know you go a little see C minus
on it there, Goo, Yeah, I'm a little bit higher
than you. I have this gu at thirty two Hot
Dogs my number eleven movie of twenty twenty five. I
have it just as Midge ahead of all the other
pretty good action movies this year. F One, Nova Kane,
Mission Impossible, Final Wrecking, Reckoning, and Nobody Too. But I
(29:10):
think they're all in the same range, all in the
same tewish or so dog range. We just haven't had
anyone any of those movies or anything in this plane
really stand out. I still really enjoyed it, but I
went in with a much lower bar than you did.
But I do like it more than the movies. I
(29:31):
just like Nova Kane was a fun surprise, but F
one was a little I was a little disappointed with
that Final Reckoning, a little disappointed with that Nobody Too,
a little disappointed with that. I wasn't disappointed in this
because I wasn't expecting anything, So I guess that's always
what we're talking about here. But I think all those
movies are in the same tier, same range. So if
you like that all those more than this, I don't care,
so be it.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Shall we get into spoilers.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
Let's do it spoilers and.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Really thank the Lord that this entire movie is based
on ratings and it's not about these these hunters actually
stalking down their prey, because really, midway through this movie,
I'm like, these hunters are they stormtroopers? Glenn Powell has
been shot at at least one hundred times, barely a scratch.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Yeah, And then you come to realize, as Ben realizes
in the movie, like, oh, they're not trying to kill
me unless they get the okay to kill me. The
biggest thing in this movie goes with about ten to
fifteen minutes left, we get the twist that the primary
hunter here, McCone, is actually the original the one mentioned
(30:39):
nine days. They mentioned him a bunch and they make
it pretty obvious that he is probably one of the
prior running men. So Sara coming still liked the twist.
I like that idea because now it pits that character
who made that decision up against Ben, who has that
decision on his plate. So I still liked that, but
(31:00):
you saw it coming from him a million miles away.
I don't like the end of the movie. He comes back,
he kills Killian. You know, he gets his revenge. It's
a little bit like he disappears into the night, he
helps his wife and daughter out.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
Yeah, like that's a little satisfying.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Wildly obvious that they didn't actually kill the wife and
daughter right, Oh for sure, because they needed them for
future leverage if they kept on trying to do stuff. Yeah,
there's just so much of this movie that I'm like,
taking a step further, let's go a little bit further.
Let's just let's let's opt this just a little bit.
For Like, even the start of the movie, I thought
it took too long to get into the running man.
I thought the entire backstory you could have really hammered
(31:38):
out in half the time.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Oh, I don't know. I think it gets it in
quicker than the eighty seven version.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
The eighty seven that is a glacial pace.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
But you needed if you really wanted the people to
root for Ben, you needed to give him a little
bit of what they did, Like you needed to run
through the sick kid thing and and whatnot. I thought
that was fine. I mean it could have been a
little snappier, a little quicker at the beginning, but you
had to do a little bit of that. I also
like I mentioned it a few minutes ago William H.
(32:08):
Macy's Molly. I thought I'd come back at the end
of the movie and help out. He's there for what
five minutes? That's it?
Speaker 1 (32:14):
He is tortured. Correct, that isn't just in Powell's head?
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Yeah? Yeah, They squeezed the shit out of his finger
and he yells the fake name.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
I thing. I'll ask you this. I think I know
the answer, because if I know who you are, do
you believe that you could survive the Running Man?
Speaker 2 (32:31):
Two things? The aforementioned sleep BAP and that'd be snoring
up a storm. They'd find me overnight. H two.
Speaker 4 (32:38):
No, Like, what.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Tactical combat skills do I have? That? Well, I'd be
able to.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
After watching the movie. You don't need any You just
have to be entertaining.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
I mean, don't get me wrong. I have some skills
that I think in a dystopian society would help me.
But to evade these hunter killers for a month, I
don't think I could do it. I think I could
maybe do like three days. I wouldn't be the first
one they kill. I wouldn't be Tim, but I might
be number two, my three Tim. If there's only three,
I'd probably be two. But yeah, I'd probably spend it
(33:09):
up like like Katie O'Brien's character did, knowing that I'm
not gonna outrun them, so I might as well have fun. Good. Yeah,
you just saw the movie The Running Man.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
I just w the twenty twenty five movie The Running Man, in.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Which the movie asks tasks characters with surviving thirty days
from hunters. Good, do you think you could survive The
Running Man?
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Let me first say that I think I would do
an amazing job on that Hamster Wheel question show.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
I loved that, I loved I'm not.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Sure if I'm the type that they would want on
the show. Yeah, I think i'd do pretty good.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
Yeah, so I I would be pissed if I ended
up on The Running Man. I'd certainly go for one
of those other shows The Running Man. No, thank you?
Speaker 1 (33:49):
Oh you know so when they're picking people to be
on The Running Man, I don't think that even choose
me because I have nothing to offer.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
Yeah, you have no story to tell.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
I have no story to tell. And then also the
lead up to The Running Man living in this world
that they live in, I'm probably already dead. Oh okay,
all right, that's how I get around this. I'm not
even surviving to get to the Running Man. But let's
say I do get to The Running Man? Am I
gonna survive on that? You guys have watched this podcast.
I'm not entertaining enough to carry thirty days of television.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
If I had the skills to carry me to week two,
I could see myself being a good villain. I'll give
myself that This.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Guy over here is he's not even is he doing summer.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
Sid I'd have a catchphrase and everything.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
Does he think that's cool? I saw him trying to
do a handstand and.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
Is that a round off back handspring? WHOA?
Speaker 1 (34:42):
I can't do those. I can do very clunky sumrsaults
and almost a handstand.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
Sure?
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Is that what they want for entertainment? Like even when
Coleman Domingo brings you on stage, like, oh, do you
have any last words?
Speaker 2 (34:57):
You would just be like, did I do that?
Speaker 1 (35:01):
Yes? I would? Y'all got in a cheese. He's just
recycling Arkle catchphrases.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
You versus Erkle? Who would survive longer on The Running Man?
Speaker 1 (35:16):
Are we talking Erkele or Julia White Erkele?
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (35:19):
Arkle would fucking smoke me he's a scientist.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
Yeah, I guess that he would be more like Michael
Sarah's character.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
He would turn himself into Stefan. He would turn himself
into Bruce Lee Erkele.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
Good point, actually, good point.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
He has so many allies like Myrtle Erkle.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
Yeah, right right, and everyone would be distracted.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
Oh my god. Think about this Running Man alternate timeline
that I want. I like your idea. Erkele is in
the Running Man. Who is the lead Hunter Carl? Imagine
that Running Man, It's Carl, and then whatever Carl's son's
name is, I forget it, Eddie, Eddie, and then Eddie's
(35:59):
friend cockroach, cockroaches.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
Maybe think of the Steve Harvey Show. But that's not
that guy's name.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Oh my okay, so let's okay, here we go. Rkle
is the Running Man. The hunters are Carl, Steve high
Tower from the Steve Harvey Show, Cedric the Entertainer, not
his character from the show, but real life Cedric the Entertainer.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
Not cockroach. You were thinking of Waldo.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
Waldo Cockroach might be from the Cosby Show. So let's
make Theo Huxtable one of the hunters too.
Speaker 2 (36:38):
Or how about they're all being hunted by Bill Cosby.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
Let's get into Maxack. That's right, Mac, sac could be anything,
it could be a boat, and Mac you have here
because I knew that it was going out of circulation.
I think that was a now either last year or
top of this year. Yeah, but after two hundred and
thirty two years, the penny, yeah, is no longer a thing.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
See Yeah, rip the penny and uh, I mean it's
been pretty useless. Even when I was a kid, I
thought pennies were useless. So this is a long time coming.
The last pennies got minted this past Wednesday. Two hundred
and thirty two years of penny circulation. It is costing
the country almost four cents to make a penny, so
(37:30):
it makes absolutely no sense how much a penny's worth
one cent go, that'd be one So.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
I'm gonna say this, that's too much.
Speaker 2 (37:39):
That's a great call, goo and at all. It's basically
all because there's this dumb psychological effect where people will
buy things if it's nine to ninety nine, but ten
dollars they fucking won't wait.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
So are they no longer allowed to do ninety nine?
Speaker 2 (37:53):
I hope not so either? Make it ten. And you
know what some retailers are doing, Goo, is they're rounding
to fives now, so nine ninety five instead of nine
to ninety nine sort of thing. So you're the whole
psychological thing.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
By us getting rid of the one cent penny that
takes four cents to make, we're going to be saving
four cents.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
Or spending one cent more, one of the two.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
I don't like that second part, but Goo, I ask you, Yeah,
the penny being utterly useless.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
What else do we have in today's world, today's society
that's used pretty often, that exists everywhere? What what? What?
What is it one thing that you think should go away?
Speaker 1 (38:34):
Wow, that is a good question. What is something every
day that is used? Do you have an answer?
Speaker 4 (38:42):
I don't Don'tkay, That's why I was happy to ask you.
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
Actually that's yeah, what's the next penny? There'll be something.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
Most things in life are useless.
Speaker 2 (38:52):
There's a lot of useless ship there's a lot.
Speaker 1 (38:53):
Of useless stuff in life. I'm not sure how many
like things that we do do every day. I guess, uh,
paying for medication that's needed.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
Okay, as I'm thinking about it, I believe New Hampshire
got rid of it this year. I think car inspections
are utterly bullshit.
Speaker 1 (39:10):
Oh, car inspections, excise tax.
Speaker 2 (39:13):
On excise tax a good one.
Speaker 1 (39:15):
Don't don't your car.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
Yeah, as you're adding more bike lanes now I got
a paid driving your own you paid me.
Speaker 1 (39:23):
This podcast into a yelling match about what we hate
about society today.
Speaker 2 (39:29):
Yeah, excise tax, except now you're building bike lanes everywhere. No,
thank you? Yeah. No.
Speaker 1 (39:33):
Having to pay to park my car is insane.
Speaker 2 (39:36):
Oh yeah, I was thinking about this the other day.
So in Watertown, arsenal yards, free parking everywhere, and Assembly
wrote four bucks to watch a movie to pay in
the park a lot.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
And also I had a different car with me, so
I had to create a whole new log in before
I could leave. I was stuck at that terminal.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
Yeah, you had to text the thing and that what
are we doing with that? I got a text a
parking garage to leave the park.
Speaker 1 (39:59):
Looked and felt like an asshole.
Speaker 2 (40:02):
Oh my god. Yeah, if you've been over to Assembly
wrote recently, a lot of malls do this now they're
parking garage. You have to text the garage to get
out and pay. You gotta pay the garage on an app?
Speaker 1 (40:12):
What else do I not like in my life? Let's
see here. I mean really, it's just anything that that
cost me money. I oh my paying bills? Can we
get rid of that?
Speaker 2 (40:22):
Yeah? Telephone bill? It's like dustis show. I don't care
you do?
Speaker 1 (40:28):
So you and me, uh through, don't do too much
because we are getting inundated on our social media's with trios.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
I just texted to you earlier. I haven't talked about
three l W in years to anyone like one of them.
I was scrolling on Instagram. They shoot me a three
l W reel, Like, who's you're listening? My phone's listening.
Speaker 1 (40:49):
You're being targeted.
Speaker 2 (40:50):
Speaking of pennies, I got one here.
Speaker 1 (40:51):
Well that's is that the one we used the other day?
Speaker 2 (40:53):
Yeah? It is.
Speaker 1 (40:54):
Hold on to that. Oh you know what I'm thinking of.
Because we mentioned pennies, it makes me think of my
childhood and how much time we spent collecting state quarters.
Oh how many state quarters did you have?
Speaker 2 (41:07):
I think I got up to about thirty or thirty five.
I never got close to because you.
Speaker 1 (41:11):
Are someone that loves geography, love geography, love shit like that.
So that was right up your ally. It was money
and geography.
Speaker 2 (41:18):
And when you found a state quarder in the wild
that you didn't have, thrilling, it was the best, absolutely thrilling.
Speaker 1 (41:24):
Did they go in order of the state's like how
they were discovered?
Speaker 2 (41:28):
Uh, you know what, I don't remember. That sounds right,
but I don't remember. I just remember it was like
four a year. They were doing like four states a
year or something like that.
Speaker 1 (41:36):
Now I feel like it was one a month. Oh
maybe it was like if you do four a year,
that's going to take you a long time to put
out fifty state quarters, take you twelve years. There's no
way they went twelve years.
Speaker 2 (41:46):
I don't remember.
Speaker 1 (41:46):
That seems more like like a two year operation.
Speaker 2 (41:49):
No, I think it was like a five year plan.
Speaker 1 (41:51):
Can someone let us know how often the state quarters
were released?
Speaker 2 (41:55):
Maybe it was like ten a year. I think it
was like a five year plan. I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 1 (41:59):
I feel like my son would love that. Let me
see if I have one of those, because you would
obviously get them, it.
Speaker 2 (42:03):
Would be hard to collect them now, like instance, not
like going out of your way to buy them online,
but trying to collect the state quarters in the while
I bet it'd be very difficult.
Speaker 1 (42:12):
You know how much they're worth twenty five cents. People
thought they'd be worth real money.
Speaker 2 (42:17):
Goo. How many? How many you have? Fifty quarters? How
much money is that?
Speaker 1 (42:22):
Fifty quarters is twelve dollars and fifty cents?
Speaker 2 (42:26):
Goo? Yeah, how about you?
Speaker 1 (42:28):
Did I do it?
Speaker 2 (42:28):
I think so? I think so.
Speaker 1 (42:31):
I can't confirm.
Speaker 2 (42:33):
Forty forty is ten dollars? Yes, and then you have yeah,
twelve fifty. Nice work, Goo.
Speaker 1 (42:40):
We're exposing ourselves.
Speaker 2 (42:41):
R next work.
Speaker 1 (42:41):
And this is why we wouldn't win fucking running.
Speaker 2 (42:43):
Man common core, no common cory.
Speaker 1 (42:45):
We wouldn't win running Man because we can't figure out quarters.
All right, Where can the folks find us?
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We're not on spreaker, though, we're on Omni Yes' Spotify
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Em Marton Bye.
Speaker 1 (44:21):
Please flip the cassette over to side B to continue
the adventure. Now it's time for girls jumping on trampopa lines.
Mac over there on the social media's the New England Patriots.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
You might know of them, Sure, yeah, I've heard of them.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
They posted a little video of how many snoozes slash
alarms they need to wake up in the morning, with
many of the players being like, I need at least twelve,
or some saying I don't need any I just know
how to wake up. Let me ask you this, because
you have a bit of a funky schedule being a
librarian and all, how many snoozes slash alarms do you
(00:29):
set when you need to work?
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Yeah, on a work day, I set my first alarm
for five point fifty, my last alarm for six thirty.
But the six thirty is like a saver one, So
it's five point fifty to six ten every five minutes.
So what's that five alarms fifty? You do every five
minutes six oh five six, So that's five alarms and
then a sixth one as like a saver.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Do you try and get up at the first alarm?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Though no, certainly not. The first one is just so like, okay, body,
you have ten or fifteen minutes before you gotta get up.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
All the sleep that you are doing after that first
alarm is useless.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
It's not real sleep. It's just like, okay, fifteen minute
warning until you have to actually get out of bed,
especially on these cold mornings. You know, there's you need
a little bit. You gotta get the engine reven before
you actually get up and get into the full speed. Recently,
very recently, I've been diagnosed with sleep apnea. So I'm
curious how to change my sleep and my waking. So
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I still have to go through like the the mask.
You know, literally got diagnosed last week.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
You can ask for a bane mask.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Uh yeah, I'm hoping for a whole face thing. We'll
see how that changes the sleep and awakingness. And I
don't know if I'm gonna need more alarms, less alarms.
I'm looking forward to maybe being rejuvenated. I've probably been
getting poor quality sleep for the last fifteen years of
my life. We'll see, We'll see how it changes. I
somehow work with a lot of people that also have
been diagnosed with it. I have a few friends that
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have it as well. It's a lot more common than
you would think, So I'm hoping I'm not tired by
three pm anymore. That'd be nice.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
I do want to give you credit for not dying
in your sleep yet?
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Then, yes, have not perished in my sleep, and hopefully
it doesn't happen between now when I actually get the machine.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Have they said to you at any point that you
have died in your sleep and you've just kind of
knocked yourself back into it.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
No, I haven't gotten that part of a diagnosis yet.
That would be impressive, though. If I have beaten the
what would you call them? The devil? The grim reaper?
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Yeah, don't fear the reaper. It's what I've heard, right, right, right, right, mac.
I'm also going to ask you this, you and your
snooze is in your fake sleep? When you're sick? Do
you just eat sugar pills?
Speaker 2 (02:37):
I don't know what that means.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
What do you mean placebos? They're useless, It's garbage, it all,
it's all in your head like zombies.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Goo.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Let me ask you, on a workday, typical work day,
how many alarms snoozes do you have?
Speaker 1 (02:52):
I have one and I try and beat it.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
You try to well, I mean, there's nothing better than
waking up before your alarm refreshed. You set one alarm.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
I set one alarm, and the goal I have a
daily goal. This is my only goal every day, wake
up one minute before that alarm, and I usually do.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
I don't believe you at all.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
I don't believe Wait to start tracking my sleep.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
You have set one alarm.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
When I say wake up one minute before the alarm,
I mean like I'm waking up constantly throughout the night.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Okay, just wake up. Is it one minute yet? Is it?
Speaker 1 (03:27):
No? What time is it? Oh, it's two o'clock in
the morning.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
I gotta got six more minutes sleep.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
I can get like even when so my wife brag
my life. She loves the old snooze button. I think
the snooze is what eight to nine minutes long or
something like that.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Oh, it's I don't know if it's that long, is it.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
I don't know how snooze work.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
I don't see. I don't use that. I just have
the multiple alarms.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Okay. So she hits the snooze button and then she's
always like wait until the next snooze, and I'm like, okay,
you know what I do during that snooze time? Lay
their eyes wide open?
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Yeah, scroll your phone?
Speaker 1 (03:58):
No, no, no, I'm not allowed to. She's still snow.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Wait, you're scrolling isn't gonna wake her up.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
It's a time for us to lay there together.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
So you just stare at her while she snoozes.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Like the old people at the end of the Titanic
when they decide to go down with the ship.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Yeah, I suppose so. Do you guys get up at
the same time?
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Well, to get my son ready for school? No, what
usually happens is at six o'clock. I wake up just
before the alarm. I am then told to lay in
bed for nine more minutes. After that nine minutes, I
get up, I get all of his stuff ready. I'll
wake him up like twenty minutes later. Where then he
goes and he lays with her. We're out of the
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house by a normal time for him to, you know,
go to.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
What are you doing in the are you making breakfast?
Like what happens in the minutes?
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Making lunch, getting snacks ready.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Making the trip to drop the kids off of the pool?
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Oh, I don't do that until I'm at the gym.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Okay, I don't. I don't care for that. I thought
you were like anti public poopin.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
No, I'm for it all for it really?
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Well?
Speaker 1 (04:59):
You know this about Yeah, used to be an electrician
and once you give in to the first time doing it,
once you go in a portajan, once there are no
more standards.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Well, I don't agree with that. When I work a
welding detail Google, sometimes it's early in the morning, six
in the morning, and most of these sites of job
sites with not no real bathroom, so you end up
having to go to a porter partty. But when I
do that, I try not to drink coffee in the morning.
I'll do like an energy drink because the last thing
I need at like seven oh five an hour into
the welding detail is having to run like five floors
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down to a portera John, No, thank you.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
There was nothing better than when you were on a
construction site and the portajans were just cleaned and you're like,
I'm gonna go destroy it.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Yes, yeah, one, good three, yeah, job three.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
King of Queen Mill Street.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Entertainment and.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
We are the Mac and Goo program. We are runnnon running.
That's what I was thinking the entire time while watching
Running Man, Like what if they replaced Glenn Powell's Ben
with Forrest Gump.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Oh, I thought you were I think you meant will
I am?
Speaker 1 (06:28):
He just finds a way to live the thirty days
by accident.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Just outruns everyone.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Well, there's running, there's meeting presidents, there's being told to
do things and doing it wrong, but you're actually doing
it right. You're protecting Lieutenant.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Dan uh Goo and I saw The Running Man, and
it is a movie that I'll tell you what. Goo
was very excited for. I was like, mildly excited for.
We like Glen Powell, we like Edgar Wright. I would say, based, well,
you react the way I reacted, I'm going to react
the way you reacted. I would say you came away disappointed.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
A little bit. My reasoning for it is I recently
rewatched The Running Man. Yep, the entire thing took me
force sits because I fell asleep a lot.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
I have now watched the first hour of it. Goo,
What's that I have now watched the first hour of
nineteen eighty seven is The Running Man?
Speaker 1 (07:20):
And can you agree with me that the first hour
slash the movie in general? It's an interesting concept that
I thought they would be able to take and kick
it up a notch.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Yeah, eighty seven it's terrible.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
It's a bad movie.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Concept is good.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
The concept, I'm like, there's two hours here of something
that you can make real interesting, and I felt that
this movie was not interesting enough.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Well, I will say this before we get into you know,
spoilers in plot points here. I have caught so far
one world like building thing from it nineteen eighty sevens
the Climbing Man when he's climbing the rope and the
dogs are trying to bite them. What twenty twenty fives
Running Man does is really like build dealt that underneath
the network stuff, the world building that does a They
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do a much better job, I think in twenty twenty fives.
But the bar is really low like nineteen eighty seven's
is bad. I just watched the hockey guy get killed
by Arnie and that was fucking terrible.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
What made that sub zero? Now he's just zero? There
weren't enough one liners too.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Yeah, he did say I would be back, though.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
He did do one of those. He smoked a cigar
for most of it. Did Do you think he dyed
his hair for this movie or is that his natural
hair color?
Speaker 2 (08:36):
I don't know. They definitely put fake facial hair on him,
though for that first like thirty minutes that wasn't great.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Speaking of which, go to Davy's November page, and you
gotta give.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Good, drop good drop right there. The running Man Who
twenty twenty five to The running Man one hundred and
ten million dollar budget. We are discussing this before it's
hitting theaters. Brag, we got to see it early. This
is projecting for a anywhere between fifteen and twenty five
million dollars domestic open.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
That's not great.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
No, it's not great. And it is also up against
now you see me, Now you don't, which is getting
decent reviews.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
You love that Popcorn Bucket.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
I exc I was. I'm glad it was gonna be
in coming up in news dump when we talked about
that Popcorn Bocket box Office.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
It's cool because of how dope it is. Maybe we
should have done that instead.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
So those are both opening this weekend. They're getting similar
rotten Tomato scores, so I'm interested to see what the
audience split will end up being there. They're both projected
for fifteen to twenty five and then they're still dealing
with Predator bad Lands in week two. That's getting really
good reviews, So that might be like a three way
split at the top, like eighteen eighteen eighteen or something.
Like that. It'll be interesting to see how that plays out.
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But yes, that's a disappointing open for one hundred and
ten million dollar budget.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Yeah, especially when you have what some might describe to
be like the premiere movie star.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Yeah, in your film, I mean it's it's Glenn Polver's
Jesse Eisenberg and apparently Eisenberg.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
And half of l Fanning and not the not the
better half.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Yeah, yeah, I'm a lower half type of guy.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
My god, what if the Predator was running through those
bad lands with just the lower half of el Fanning on.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
His shelters, just to you know, of this stuff right there.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Yeah, probably I probably shouldn't have said down.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
I'm not gonna go down that path because The Running
Man is an R rated action adventure sci fi thriller.
Sub genres here conspiracy thriller, dark comedy, dystopian sci fi,
one person army action, political thriller, survival.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
And I say about political thriller, I think this was
as poly charged as a Glenn Powell movie will ever get.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Yeah, you you thought it like just dipped its toes
in the in the politics. This is overtly political with
its themes. Now it doesn't dominate the movie. But it
clearly has a message in this movie, and I'm curious.
I'm curious how this all shakes out. We'll get into
this in a couple of minutes.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Not that I want, you know, my stuff to be
poly charged. It's just that this topic and like the
original movie everything else, it's it's nineteen eighty four.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Well it's any Any dystopian sci fi movie is gonna
be political. So if anyone comes away from this upset
with some politics in it, you're a dummy.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
I don't think there's really any politics in it.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
No, it's but it does, it does, it has, it has.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
It is a classic trope.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
And the media is trying to turn you against each other.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
But good. We have six subgenres here, four genres, and
I think the weakest point of this movie is through
two hours and thirty three minutes or what is it
two hours and thirteen minutes?
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Sorry, it felt like thirty three.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
It tries to do a lot, and I don't know
if it necessarily crushes any of those genres. It does
everything okay, but it doesn't actually crush anything. And I
wish it sort of baby would have been maybe more
political or more action or more thriller. It just does
a little bit of everything.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Speaking of the action, I was also going into this saying,
I'm hoping that Edgar Wright finds a way to blow
my socks off with at least one of these actions scenes.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Sure.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Sure, And I left the theater maybe with more socks
on than what I came in with.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
I think my biggest criticism of this movie, goo is
it doesn't feel like an Edgar Wright movie. It feels
just like anyone direct.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
It feels like a generic like his name is you know,
is attached to it. Yeah, but the studio made it.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Yeah, And I have a point about that too. So
this is a run time.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Do you think Richard Dawson made it?
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Shut out? What is it? Hollywood squares?
Speaker 1 (12:42):
No, he was family feud. He used to make out
with everybody. Yeah, what an upgrade. And you know, Richard
Dawson did what he could with that. He's a game
show host. About Richard Karen getting Domingo Coleman to step
in as that character, also splitting the character. He split
the character. Yeah, both and uh Josh Brolin, Josh Brolin,
(13:04):
maybe the two best parts of the movie.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Josh Brolin and Coleman Domingo punched this movie up for sure.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
It makes anything. I needed more Coleman Domingo, I needed
him to anytime Glenn Powell did anything narrate it good.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Runtime one hundred and thirty three minutes. That's two hours
and thirteen minutes. On roddy t is, this currently has
sixty four percent for New critics, which makes sense considering
the genre and what it's trying to do. We don't
have an audience score yet. I'm gonna guess like eighty percent.
I think it's gonna be scores of runn Am mouk.
You already think what you what's your guess here?
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Ninety it's gonna be gonna say eighty two? What is
rotten tomatoes?
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Call it quit fresh?
Speaker 1 (13:42):
No, it's like certified hot.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Oh no, I think over nineties like hot and bothered.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
No, it's hot and buttered. I think, yeah, just like us,
we're always buttered.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Up on Metacritic of fifty five. I'm also interested to
see I believe now you see me now. We don't
know how you don't has a similar writey t score.
I don't know what the Metacritics score is, but I
think they're going to be all kind of all around
it here go. This movie is written by and this
is where I'm having trouble figuring out why the movie
didn't crush it, and I believe it's because of the producer.
(14:14):
But this movie is written by Michael Bacall, who wrote
Scott Pilgrim Project X twenty one and twenty two Jump Street,
and also written by Edgar Wright of course ant Man
and all the movies he's directed. And you this movie,
which I didn't know until about two weeks ago, is
actually based on a Stephen King novel which he wrote
under the pseudonym Richard Bachman, which he adopted to make
(14:34):
sure his early literary success wasn't a fluke. But Bacall,
those movies are great, like a.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Kind of what this movie lacks is comedy.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Yeah, it had some, it had some, But I'm like, man,
where why did it get hamstrung? Why was this under handcuffs?
Who pushed it down? And go? I think the answer
is the producer, Simon Kinberg, who has given us some
good stuff.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
No, Simon Kinberg, but.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
He also is the director of Dark Phoenix. He's given
us some real Yeah, he's given us a lot of shit.
He's given us some good, don't get me wrong, but
he's given us a lot of shit. So this movie
feels more like a Simon Kinberg movie than it does.
Edgar Write or Michael Bacall just.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Go ahead and make up new, cool, cheesy one liners,
and you would have had me hook line and sinker.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Uh. If the folks at home don't know, why, they
would know. Edgar Wright, he gave a Shot of the Dead,
Hot Fuzz, the World's End, I forget what that trilogy
is almost ant manh Yeah, I wrote or got a
writing credit on ant Man also gave a Scott Pilgrim
versus the World, Baby Driver, and Last Night and Soho.
When Edgar writes at his best, there's no one better,
I do think he's a little inconsistent. Like I didn't
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love Hot Fuzz, I didn't love the World's End. Shot
of the Dead's one of my favorite movies of all time.
Scott Pilgrim's Great Baby Driver was mostly good. Last Night
and Soho was mostly good.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Scott Pilgrim also has a very unique look to it. Yeah,
an incredible cast, which this movie doesn't have.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Yeah for sure. So again, I think Simon Kinberg in
the studio here had way too much influence. Like, if
you're gonna get Edgar Wright, let him do his thing.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
You heard it here first. This movie is Simon Kinberg's fault.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Yes, yeah, put that on the fucking DVD Goo synopsis
for The Running Man.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
If we ever put out a DVD of this podcast,
we're only putting the negative reviews on there. That's it.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
A man joins a game show in which contestants allowed
to go anywhere in the world, are pursued by hunters
hired to kill them. Another big change for this movie
compared to The eighty seven is it's open world. It's
not like they're in a dome and contained to this arena.
I like that a lot. I also am curious as
to what version happens in the book. Is this version
more like I'm not gonna read the book and I
(16:45):
have no idea. None of us arery for a more.
If you want to be sold on this movie, let
me read you the Roddy T's synopsis because it's a
little better, a little more in depth. In a near
future society, The Running Man is the top rated show
on television. A deadly competent work. Contestants known as runners,
must survive thirty days while being hunted by professional assassins,
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with every move broadcast to a blood thirsty public and
each day bringing a greater cash reward. Desperate to save
his sick daughter, working class Ben Richards played by Glenn Powell,
is convinced by the show's charming but ruthless director or producer,
Dan Killion played by Josh Brolin, to enter the game
as a last resort, but Ben's defiance instincts in grit
turn him into an unexpected fan favorite and a threat
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to the entire system. As rating skyrocket, so does the danger,
and Ben must outwit not just the hunters, but a
nation addicted to watching him fall. This movie In This
Game version of the show is much more comprehensive than
the eighty seven version, and it also gives Ben Richards
a much better motivation than the eighty seven.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Well, the eighty seven version is that he was in
a prison and this is all he can do.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Well, he was wronged by the government. Yes, basically it
was an enemy of a state. Talk.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Oh what do you think of the opening scene of
the eighty seven isn't it like the most abrupt entering
of a movie ever.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Yeah, and they also in the eighty seven version you
have to figure out on your own that the government
in the network is doctoring the footage. They don't Altright
tell you, which is fine. It's much more obvious in
the twenty twenty five Oh oh my god.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Also the sound effects from the eighty seven movie. Yeah,
are Indiana Jones punching a pie?
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Yeah, it's like Batman.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
It's crazy whip. Even that first helicopter scene, Arnie is
like very deliberate.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Yeah. Good. This movie stars Glenn Powell as Ben Richards.
Amelia Jones a scarflady. I didn't catch her name in
the movie, couldn't find it in IMDb. You wouldn't know
Amelia Jones because you didn't watch Task. She was one
of the co stars in Tasks. She was phenomenal on Task.
Really Good's time to see her in a lot of things.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
I've seen Tusk.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
You've seen Tusk, that's correct. Josh Brolin is Dan Killian
Lee Pace is Evan McCone. Coleman Domingo is Bobby Thompson
Bobby two. Katie O'Brien is Jenny Laughlin. Martin Hurley he
is Tim Jansky Carl Gluseman as Glussman as Blondie McGee.
That's the blonde hunter there. I guess his name is
Frank William Macy is Molly Who. I feel like the
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original version of the script had more of him. Was
he just was there one time and you're like, all right, great.
Michael Sarah as Elton George Carroll that is the Boston
rapper slain. That's me in another life as agent Doug
Jamie Lawson as Sheila Richards, Ben's wife, and then Daniel
Ezra as the guy that helps him in Boston. I
don't know what his name was either. He was the
(19:35):
guy that helps the whole Boston escape thing once again.
This movie was made nineteen eighty seven, starring Arnie as
Ben Richards. In that eighty seven movie, Goo was set
in twenty seventeen.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
How about that, Wow, we're in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Yeah, go this movie to me. And of course this
came out well before both of these movies, like twelve
years before one in twenty five before the other is
a little bit of Hunger Games with like a dash
of Enemy of the State.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
That might be the exact comparison that jacent man Zukus
used when talking about the eighty seven movie. Really yeah,
but he calls it Hungy Games.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
So if you're into stuff like that, you're gonna like
this movie. It's the government trying to pin something someone
wrongly convicted, this stuff wrongly accused of stuff, fighting back
against you know, big government tyrants, and you get the
Hunger Games aspect, where it's like this death game. So
there is fun built into the script. However, it just
doesn't quite like both of those movies are better than
(20:37):
this movie. Enemy of the State and Hunger all the
Hunger Games movies.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
This, I feel like is gonna be a forgettable throwaway but.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
Still fun like I enjoyed.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
I think it stands out enough against other ultra that's
movies that have come out in the last couple of years.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
I agree. I don't think the rewatchability is great and
you're not gonna run and tell your friend to go.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
See the original one lived on for years.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Yeah yeah, well what I mean.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
And I know that cable doesn't exist anymore.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
But once again, the original is like a classic corny
eighties movie.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
The original is bad. It's bad, but it's so bad
that it's interesting.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Once again, Goo this does not feel like an Edgar
Wright movie, and that's unfortunate. I think that he just
didn't get his way, and it's weird that he would
sign up to do this movie without being like, let
me do my own version.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
What am I doing right now?
Speaker 2 (21:27):
He doesn't Edgar Wright doesn't give a fuck.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
They gave him at least twenty of those Arnold Schwarzenegger
one hundred dollars bills.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
What I did really like about this world and what
they did in this movie is like the cutter ways
to other shit in the in the world, Like the
underlying world building that they did was really fun and funny.
Some of the laugh out loud stuff. There almost wasn't
enough about that in a movie that's two hours and
thirteen minutes long. I actually think it needed to be
a little bit longer so we could do a little more.
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It just it fell short.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Also, people should have been offering the audience board games
of The Running Man. That's my favorite part of the
eighty seven one is Richard Dawson constantly and you're getting
a copy of the board game The Running Man. What
could you possibly do in that board game that is
similar to what is on the TV.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Yeah, great question. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
I want to do the Gauntlet.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Yeah, let's get to it.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Fun factor not enough?
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Yeah, but still fun. You are at least weighing it
against your expectation of fun factor. This movie's fun. You
have fun in this.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
You're weighing against what you think is fun. Think about
what other people think is fun.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
This movie is baseline pretty fun. I'm not gonna lie.
It's fun.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
It's not fun enough, though, it's fair enough. Satisfact or
how satisfied were you by this new remake of The
Running Man? Once again? Not enough?
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Would you say satisfying conclusion?
Speaker 1 (22:50):
No?
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Okay? What would you like to have had happened at
the end? We'll get into that.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
I guess I don't even know. I don't even know.
I was just by by the climax of this movie.
I was ready to say goodbye to all of our characters.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
All right. I thought it was a somewhat satisfying conclusion.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Let's go on to the borometer, and I kind of
just tipped my hand there. I thought it ran a
little too long.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
No, I didn't think it was long enough. I actually
wasn't bored. I was wanting more because I liked. I
liked what it was trying to do. It just didn't
necessarily success.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
I would have taken more if it fleshed things out.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
More, That's what I wanted, Yes, Or I would.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Have taken less if it was like the eighty seven
movie and it made no sense Halloween. Will your interest
in this movie wane over time? For sure? Probably I'm
gonna forget about this.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
I think I'm down a dog since I left the
theater already.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Like I can see us next year in a podcast
being like, oh, what was that Glenn Powell movie from
last year?
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (23:47):
It was Running Man hit Man?
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Right? No, no, the other one, the other.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Yeah, and then we'll start like naming an actress that's
not even in this movie that we think is in
this movie. Yeah, a quatter world. Is it better than
the nineteen ninety five movie water World? Coherently yes, but
it's not as stylized or interesting.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
It's definitely better, But so what nineteen eighty seven Running
Man shoots for. I feel like nineteen ninety five or
ninety four ninety six is water World succeeds in It's
really bad, but it's great. Eighty seven's Running Men aspired
to be that in Aqua Aqua. Water World got there,
(24:28):
and so in that respect, like I'm gonna for the
rest of my life, I'm gonna watch water World more
times than I watched.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Oh yeah, absolutely, Also the eighty seven movie, and they
filled so much of whatever that run time is with
women doing aerobics. It is insane. Like I thought it
might be like a couple of cutaways, those scenes go
on for what fifteen twenty minutes?
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Oh well, I get fair as I go, fare as
that go.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
It's rolling, it's rolling along. It's crazy. Yes, yeah, not
great pants tent City, Excite bike Mania? Did anything get
you going from this movie? And I do agree with
you that I liked Michael Sarah home aloning his house. Yeah,
that was great, But I thought that could have been
better too, because we've seen hom a loaning houses recently too.
We just got nobody to where he home aloned an
(25:19):
entire theme park, and that was amazing.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
You got you, mudge Ye.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
What a great SNL sketch. And we don't say that
about many these days.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
It's true, It's true Michael Sarah's character, whose name I
already forget, doesn't matter, Michael Sarah. It's Michael Sarah. Yeah,
his home aloning scene was pretty great, but it could
have been better. I will admit that.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Oh, so, you know when life gives you. Jesse Plemmons,
who has recently been doing a lot of interviews because
he's in a new movie coming out, or he was
in Begone Yeah but Gone maggone yea interviews and he's
been asked a lot about his character from Game Night,
and he's talking a lot about it. I'm I'm eating
all that up. I'm gnawn all over that bone.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
You know what pretty similar effect on a movie that
he had in Game Night is Coleman Domingo. In this
movie is Bobby t Oh. Every time he was on screen,
laugh out.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Loud yeap every single time.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
There was two characters, him and then the SNL guy
what's his name? Hurley He every time he was on screen,
that was pretty funny too.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Yeah, And I was like, I could have used Hurley
he for more of the movie, to add more of
those comedic beats, because once he was no longer in
the movie, those beats went away.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Every scene that Hurley he was in, he was just
saying the most obvious thing, and it killed me. It
was funny every time?
Speaker 1 (26:40):
How is that profitable for Freedo lays that's the if. Okay,
you know what, We're gonna do a podcast soon. Greatest
throwaway lines in uh movie history? Yeah, agreat or even
movie and television, because I want that and I want
the ten seconds scene from The Chair Company of the
worst pillow in Town.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
It's made out of metal.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
When you described that scene to me, it's this is
not the Running Man. Yeah, you made it seem like
it was a full lead up.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
That's what you built in your own head. I just
said that.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
It was a cutaway ten seconds scene of him laying
in bed and saying he has the worst pillow in ten.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
But you know, like you know, they had shot like
a thirty second scene, but they just took that because
that was too perfect.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
I'm still an episode behind. Don't spoil it for me, Okay,
Max credit Union, you're giving credit to uh.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
This is a tough one. Glenn Pole is really good.
He's just he's a good leading man. He's he's he's funny,
he's charismatic. I like him. It's hard to give him
credit in this still because I do feel like the
movie could have been a lot better. But this movie
is way better than the original. So I guess Glenn
poll I don't know doming like John you know what,
credit to Josh Brolin. Josh Brolin in this role is
(27:54):
gonna be awesome every time. So Josh Brolan as like
a calculated mean guy. He's a human being Thanos in
this it works.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
For those of you tardy to the mac and Goop party.
We rate everything on a forty hot dog rating system.
In maccaz you have pointed out my expectations of what
fun is. It was not met the satisfactor. I thought
this movie did not quite do it. I thought it
was a little too long, got a little too boring,
a little generic. I was expecting more from having someone
like Edgar Wright in charge, even more than having like
(28:24):
someone like Glenn Powell as the leading man. There were
some funny elements to it. There are some things in
it that I thought was solid. But even remembering this
movie up against the eighty seven movie that we agree
is worse, I don't think that's even gonna stand up.
I think we're gonna forget about this as a throwaway
movie when looking at the year twenty nine. Hot Dogs.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Wow, you know you go a little see C minus
on it there, Goo, Yeah, I'm a little bit higher
than you. I have this gu at thirty two Hot
Dogs my number eleven movie of twenty twenty five. I
have it just as Midge ahead of all the other
pretty good action movies this year. F One, Nova Kane,
Mission Impossible, Final Wrecking, Reckoning, and Nobody Too. But I
(29:10):
think they're all in the same range, all in the
same tewish or so dog range. We just haven't had
anyone any of those movies or anything in this plane
really stand out. I still really enjoyed it, but I
went in with a much lower bar than you did.
But I do like it more than the movies. I
(29:31):
just like Nova Kane was a fun surprise, but F
one was a little I was a little disappointed with
that Final Reckoning, a little disappointed with that Nobody Too,
a little disappointed with that. I wasn't disappointed in this
because I wasn't expecting anything, So I guess that's always
what we're talking about here. But I think all those
movies are in the same tier, same range. So if
you like that all those more than this, I don't care,
so be it.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Shall we get into spoilers.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
Let's do it spoilers and.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Really thank the Lord that this entire movie is based
on ratings and it's not about these these hunters actually
stalking down their prey, because really, midway through this movie,
I'm like, these hunters are they stormtroopers? Glenn Powell has
been shot at at least one hundred times, barely a scratch.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Yeah, And then you come to realize, as Ben realizes
in the movie, like, oh, they're not trying to kill
me unless they get the okay to kill me. The
biggest thing in this movie goes with about ten to
fifteen minutes left, we get the twist that the primary
hunter here, McCone, is actually the original the one mentioned
(30:39):
nine days. They mentioned him a bunch and they make
it pretty obvious that he is probably one of the
prior running men. So Sara coming still liked the twist.
I like that idea because now it pits that character
who made that decision up against Ben, who has that
decision on his plate. So I still liked that, but
(31:00):
you saw it coming from him a million miles away.
I don't like the end of the movie. He comes back,
he kills Killian. You know, he gets his revenge. It's
a little bit like he disappears into the night, he
helps his wife and daughter out.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
Yeah, like that's a little satisfying.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Wildly obvious that they didn't actually kill the wife and
daughter right, Oh for sure, because they needed them for
future leverage if they kept on trying to do stuff. Yeah,
there's just so much of this movie that I'm like,
taking a step further, let's go a little bit further.
Let's just let's let's opt this just a little bit.
For Like, even the start of the movie, I thought
it took too long to get into the running man.
I thought the entire backstory you could have really hammered
(31:38):
out in half the time.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Oh, I don't know. I think it gets it in
quicker than the eighty seven version.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
The eighty seven that is a glacial pace.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
But you needed if you really wanted the people to
root for Ben, you needed to give him a little
bit of what they did, Like you needed to run
through the sick kid thing and and whatnot. I thought
that was fine. I mean it could have been a
little snappier, a little quicker at the beginning, but you
had to do a little bit of that. I also
like I mentioned it a few minutes ago William H.
(32:08):
Macy's Molly. I thought I'd come back at the end
of the movie and help out. He's there for what
five minutes? That's it?
Speaker 1 (32:14):
He is tortured. Correct, that isn't just in Powell's head?
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Yeah? Yeah, They squeezed the shit out of his finger
and he yells the fake name.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
I thing. I'll ask you this. I think I know
the answer, because if I know who you are, do
you believe that you could survive the Running Man?
Speaker 2 (32:31):
Two things? The aforementioned sleep BAP and that'd be snoring
up a storm. They'd find me overnight. H two.
Speaker 4 (32:38):
No, Like, what.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Tactical combat skills do I have? That? Well, I'd be
able to.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
After watching the movie. You don't need any You just
have to be entertaining.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
I mean, don't get me wrong. I have some skills
that I think in a dystopian society would help me.
But to evade these hunter killers for a month, I
don't think I could do it. I think I could
maybe do like three days. I wouldn't be the first
one they kill. I wouldn't be Tim, but I might
be number two, my three Tim. If there's only three,
I'd probably be two. But yeah, I'd probably spend it
(33:09):
up like like Katie O'Brien's character did, knowing that I'm
not gonna outrun them, so I might as well have fun. Good. Yeah,
you just saw the movie The Running Man.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
I just w the twenty twenty five movie The Running Man, in.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Which the movie asks tasks characters with surviving thirty days
from hunters. Good, do you think you could survive The
Running Man?
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Let me first say that I think I would do
an amazing job on that Hamster Wheel question show.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
I loved that, I loved I'm not.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Sure if I'm the type that they would want on
the show. Yeah, I think i'd do pretty good.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
Yeah, so I I would be pissed if I ended
up on The Running Man. I'd certainly go for one
of those other shows The Running Man. No, thank you?
Speaker 1 (33:49):
Oh you know so when they're picking people to be
on The Running Man, I don't think that even choose
me because I have nothing to offer.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
Yeah, you have no story to tell.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
I have no story to tell. And then also the
lead up to The Running Man living in this world
that they live in, I'm probably already dead. Oh okay,
all right, that's how I get around this. I'm not
even surviving to get to the Running Man. But let's
say I do get to The Running Man? Am I
gonna survive on that? You guys have watched this podcast.
I'm not entertaining enough to carry thirty days of television.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
If I had the skills to carry me to week two,
I could see myself being a good villain. I'll give
myself that This.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Guy over here is he's not even is he doing summer.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
Sid I'd have a catchphrase and everything.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
Does he think that's cool? I saw him trying to
do a handstand and.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
Is that a round off back handspring? WHOA?
Speaker 1 (34:42):
I can't do those. I can do very clunky sumrsaults
and almost a handstand.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
Sure?
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Is that what they want for entertainment? Like even when
Coleman Domingo brings you on stage, like, oh, do you
have any last words?
Speaker 2 (34:57):
You would just be like, did I do that?
Speaker 1 (35:01):
Yes? I would? Y'all got in a cheese. He's just
recycling Arkle catchphrases.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
You versus Erkle? Who would survive longer on The Running Man?
Speaker 1 (35:16):
Are we talking Erkele or Julia White Erkele?
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (35:19):
Arkle would fucking smoke me he's a scientist.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
Yeah, I guess that he would be more like Michael
Sarah's character.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
He would turn himself into Stefan. He would turn himself
into Bruce Lee Erkele.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
Good point, actually, good point.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
He has so many allies like Myrtle Erkle.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
Yeah, right right, and everyone would be distracted.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
Oh my god. Think about this Running Man alternate timeline
that I want. I like your idea. Erkele is in
the Running Man. Who is the lead Hunter Carl? Imagine
that Running Man, It's Carl, and then whatever Carl's son's
name is, I forget it, Eddie, Eddie, and then Eddie's
(35:59):
friend cockroach, cockroaches.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
Maybe think of the Steve Harvey Show. But that's not
that guy's name.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Oh my okay, so let's okay, here we go. Rkle
is the Running Man. The hunters are Carl, Steve high
Tower from the Steve Harvey Show, Cedric the Entertainer, not
his character from the show, but real life Cedric the Entertainer.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
Not cockroach. You were thinking of Waldo.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
Waldo Cockroach might be from the Cosby Show. So let's
make Theo Huxtable one of the hunters too.
Speaker 2 (36:38):
Or how about they're all being hunted by Bill Cosby.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
Let's get into Maxack. That's right, Mac, sac could be anything,
it could be a boat, and Mac you have here
because I knew that it was going out of circulation.
I think that was a now either last year or
top of this year. Yeah, but after two hundred and
thirty two years, the penny, yeah, is no longer a thing.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
See Yeah, rip the penny and uh, I mean it's
been pretty useless. Even when I was a kid, I
thought pennies were useless. So this is a long time coming.
The last pennies got minted this past Wednesday. Two hundred
and thirty two years of penny circulation. It is costing
the country almost four cents to make a penny, so
(37:30):
it makes absolutely no sense how much a penny's worth
one cent go, that'd be one So.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
I'm gonna say this, that's too much.
Speaker 2 (37:39):
That's a great call, goo and at all. It's basically
all because there's this dumb psychological effect where people will
buy things if it's nine to ninety nine, but ten
dollars they fucking won't wait.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
So are they no longer allowed to do ninety nine?
Speaker 2 (37:53):
I hope not so either? Make it ten. And you
know what some retailers are doing, Goo, is they're rounding
to fives now, so nine ninety five instead of nine
to ninety nine sort of thing. So you're the whole
psychological thing.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
By us getting rid of the one cent penny that
takes four cents to make, we're going to be saving
four cents.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
Or spending one cent more, one of the two.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
I don't like that second part, but Goo, I ask you, Yeah,
the penny being utterly useless.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
What else do we have in today's world, today's society
that's used pretty often, that exists everywhere? What what? What?
What is it one thing that you think should go away?
Speaker 1 (38:34):
Wow, that is a good question. What is something every
day that is used? Do you have an answer?
Speaker 4 (38:42):
I don't Don'tkay, That's why I was happy to ask you.
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
Actually that's yeah, what's the next penny? There'll be something.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
Most things in life are useless.
Speaker 2 (38:52):
There's a lot of useless ship there's a lot.
Speaker 1 (38:53):
Of useless stuff in life. I'm not sure how many
like things that we do do every day. I guess, uh,
paying for medication that's needed.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
Okay, as I'm thinking about it, I believe New Hampshire
got rid of it this year. I think car inspections
are utterly bullshit.
Speaker 1 (39:10):
Oh, car inspections, excise tax.
Speaker 2 (39:13):
On excise tax a good one.
Speaker 1 (39:15):
Don't don't your car.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
Yeah, as you're adding more bike lanes now I got
a paid driving your own you paid me.
Speaker 1 (39:23):
This podcast into a yelling match about what we hate
about society today.
Speaker 2 (39:29):
Yeah, excise tax, except now you're building bike lanes everywhere. No,
thank you? Yeah. No.
Speaker 1 (39:33):
Having to pay to park my car is insane.
Speaker 2 (39:36):
Oh yeah, I was thinking about this the other day.
So in Watertown, arsenal yards, free parking everywhere, and Assembly
wrote four bucks to watch a movie to pay in
the park a lot.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
And also I had a different car with me, so
I had to create a whole new log in before
I could leave. I was stuck at that terminal.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
Yeah, you had to text the thing and that what
are we doing with that? I got a text a
parking garage to leave the park.
Speaker 1 (39:59):
Looked and felt like an asshole.
Speaker 2 (40:02):
Oh my god. Yeah, if you've been over to Assembly
wrote recently, a lot of malls do this now they're
parking garage. You have to text the garage to get
out and pay. You gotta pay the garage on an app?
Speaker 1 (40:12):
What else do I not like in my life? Let's
see here. I mean really, it's just anything that that
cost me money. I oh my paying bills? Can we
get rid of that?
Speaker 2 (40:22):
Yeah? Telephone bill? It's like dustis show. I don't care
you do?
Speaker 1 (40:28):
So you and me, uh through, don't do too much
because we are getting inundated on our social media's with trios.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
I just texted to you earlier. I haven't talked about
three l W in years to anyone like one of them.
I was scrolling on Instagram. They shoot me a three
l W reel, Like, who's you're listening? My phone's listening.
Speaker 1 (40:49):
You're being targeted.
Speaker 2 (40:50):
Speaking of pennies, I got one here.
Speaker 1 (40:51):
Well that's is that the one we used the other day?
Speaker 2 (40:53):
Yeah? It is.
Speaker 1 (40:54):
Hold on to that. Oh you know what I'm thinking of.
Because we mentioned pennies, it makes me think of my
childhood and how much time we spent collecting state quarters.
Oh how many state quarters did you have?
Speaker 2 (41:07):
I think I got up to about thirty or thirty five.
I never got close to because you.
Speaker 1 (41:11):
Are someone that loves geography, love geography, love shit like that.
So that was right up your ally. It was money
and geography.
Speaker 2 (41:18):
And when you found a state quarder in the wild
that you didn't have, thrilling, it was the best, absolutely thrilling.
Speaker 1 (41:24):
Did they go in order of the state's like how
they were discovered?
Speaker 2 (41:28):
Uh, you know what, I don't remember. That sounds right,
but I don't remember. I just remember it was like
four a year. They were doing like four states a
year or something like that.
Speaker 1 (41:36):
Now I feel like it was one a month. Oh
maybe it was like if you do four a year,
that's going to take you a long time to put
out fifty state quarters, take you twelve years. There's no
way they went twelve years.
Speaker 2 (41:46):
I don't remember.
Speaker 1 (41:46):
That seems more like like a two year operation.
Speaker 2 (41:49):
No, I think it was like a five year plan.
Speaker 1 (41:51):
Can someone let us know how often the state quarters
were released?
Speaker 2 (41:55):
Maybe it was like ten a year. I think it
was like a five year plan. I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 1 (41:59):
I feel like my son would love that. Let me
see if I have one of those, because you would
obviously get them, it.
Speaker 2 (42:03):
Would be hard to collect them now, like instance, not
like going out of your way to buy them online,
but trying to collect the state quarters in the while
I bet it'd be very difficult.
Speaker 1 (42:12):
You know how much they're worth twenty five cents. People
thought they'd be worth real money.
Speaker 2 (42:17):
Goo. How many? How many you have? Fifty quarters? How
much money is that?
Speaker 1 (42:22):
Fifty quarters is twelve dollars and fifty cents?
Speaker 2 (42:26):
Goo? Yeah, how about you?
Speaker 1 (42:28):
Did I do it?
Speaker 2 (42:28):
I think so? I think so.
Speaker 1 (42:31):
I can't confirm.
Speaker 2 (42:33):
Forty forty is ten dollars? Yes, and then you have yeah,
twelve fifty. Nice work, Goo.
Speaker 1 (42:40):
We're exposing ourselves.
Speaker 2 (42:41):
R next work.
Speaker 1 (42:41):
And this is why we wouldn't win fucking running.
Speaker 2 (42:43):
Man common core, no common cory.
Speaker 1 (42:45):
We wouldn't win running Man because we can't figure out quarters.
All right, Where can the folks find us?
Speaker 2 (42:52):
You could find us on x on Instagram, at Mac
and Goo podcast, a platform where you're mac ampersandgo. It's
max just seven Goo that includes facebooks, that Speaker, tune in, castparks,
Google Play, iHeartRadio. We're on Spreaker, more important Speaker. We're
on Spotify.
Speaker 1 (43:07):
We're not on spreaker, though, we're on Omni Yes' Spotify
more Imposeding to Omni is weird, but I like it
all right.
Speaker 2 (43:15):
Okay, that's like butt stuff for the first time we're
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If you do that, maybe someday in a dystopian future,
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(43:36):
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Speaker 1 (43:38):
Teapoplic dot com merchant. If everyone could go to Apple
podcast and change their reviews of us too, It's weird,
but you get used to it. Just like butt stuff.
That's what I want. Whatever Max said earlier.
Speaker 2 (43:56):
Mac Andgoo the analingus of podcasts.
Speaker 1 (43:59):
So check us out out. News Dump might be a
little bit late next week, let's say Wednesday, because I
have family stuff, and then we'll have an episode by
the end of the week Tuesdays or modesdays. I abuse Kangaroos.
Speaker 2 (44:13):
Em Marton Bye.
Speaker 1 (44:21):
Please flip the cassette over to side B to continue
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