December 10, 2024 • 46 mins
LOOK OUT! It’s only Films To Be Buried With!
Join your host Brett Goldstein as he talks life, death, love and the universe with the hilarious and awesome comic, actor and writer HASAN MINHAJ!
A lovely episode featuring someone big in the game, from a good handful of comedy specials to appearances in films like the recent hit 'It Ends WIth Us' - you can expect a proper goody right here. You can also expect talk upon crafting a comedy special and the mechanics of the whole damn thing, tour feels, to crowd work or not crowd work, the opposite of Toy Story, the current lack of moustache mischief, physical media collections, overwatched films, and so much more. A paintcan to the head, you kiddin' me? ENJOY!
Video and extra audio available on Brett's Patreon!
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
Look how it's only films to be buried with. Hello,
and welcome to films to be buried with. My name
is Brett Goldstein. I'm a comedian and actor, writer, a
director at Postcard Artist, and I love films. As Claudia
(00:22):
Rankin once said, the world is wrong, you can't put
the past behind you. I was just telling my friend
Charliekorman that, and then he went off and write in
Turn of Sunshine Out the Spotless Mind.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
It makes you think, doesn't it? Well, yes, Claudia. Yes.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Every week i'wnbute a special guest over. I tell them
they've died, then I get them to discuss their life
through the films that meant the most of them. Previous
guests include Barry Jenkins, Kevin Smith, Sharon Stone, and even Radbots.
But this week we have the brilliant comedian mister Hassen Minaj.
Head over to the Patreon at patreon dot com forward
slash Brett Goldstein, where you'll get an extra fifteen minutes
of chat with Hassen where we talk beginnings and endings.
(00:55):
He tells me a secret, you get the whole episode
uncut adfree and does a video. Check it out Patrin
in dot com forward slash Brett Goldstein. Episode ten of
Shrinking Season two is now available on Apple TV. Get
caught up on all episodes. You'll fucking love it. So
Has Minaj is a two time Peabody Award winning comedian.
You might know him from The Daily Show or his
show Patriot Act. You might know him from his many
(01:19):
Netflix specials. He's got a brand new Netflix special off
with his Head and it is excellent.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
You should all watch it.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
We never met before, but we recorded this on Zoom
a few weeks ago. He was an absolute joy and
I really think you're going to love this one. So
that is it for now. I hope you're all well,
and I very much hope you enjoy episode three hundred
and twenty nine of Films to be Buried With.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Hello, and welcome to Films to be Buried With.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
It is me Brett Goldstein, and I am joined today
by an actor, a writer, a Daily shower, a and
a podcaster. I hear a legend and a brand new
Netflix special this week.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
He's here.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Can you believe it? He's right in front of me.
Please welcome to the show. It's the brilliant I said,
been nice thank you.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
How are you?
Speaker 3 (02:17):
I'm doing great, man, Thanks for having me. This is
gonna be so fun. This is how we this is
how we meet. This is how we meet. Now, this
is how we meet people, isn't it?
Speaker 1 (02:24):
This is how we meet people just the any way, Yeah,
let's talk about your special, shall we? Since I watched
it today and it's excellent. How long were you making?
How long were you touring that? How long did it take?
Speaker 3 (02:34):
You know what I was working on it. I've been
working on it for about two years.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
But it takes me about.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Year year and a half to kind of get it
where I think it needs to be. And then and
then I'll go on tour for about yeah, nine months
to a year. Okay, there's like a touring year for me.
I love finishing. Finishing a tour is the best. You
love the end? I love the end. I love There's
just there's this beautiful moment where if you go to
you know, Brett's website, and he goes, I'm on tour
(03:04):
and you're always adding you're adding a second, third, and
fourth show. But if I were a fan of yours
and getting a ticket on the road, may I recommend
if you see an act. About a third of the
way into their tour, there is, in my opinion, this
beautiful alchemy where the set it's almost like a relationship.
It's still new enough, but there are these moments that
(03:24):
have like really calcified in a very beautiful sort of way.
So and it's that perfect combination of the new, the
exciting new, and unknown and the like.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
This is not an acoustic B sides album.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
This is this is gonna be something really really special.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Yeah, how much did you change in the last say
three months, if any, it.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Changed a lot, you know, getting getting ready for Netflix.
There's a feeling of you gotta know that. And this
is the toughest thing about stand up, which you know,
is trying to translate something that happened there that night. Yeah,
and then watching what is essentially a certain film. Yeah,
there's a difference. You know, if I go up in London,
if I go up at the comedy seller, the comedy store,
(04:06):
there's just an energy that night. Yeah, I was the
fourth spot at the eight o'clock show.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Someone had heckled the comedian before.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
There is all these like little subtle nuances that go
into the show that you can great comics, some of
my favorites. I don't know if you've ever seen someone
named Godfrey. Godfrey in New York City is a master. No,
I've never seen seeing something like strange happen in the room,
and he can literally turn that into a fifteen minute
stet Ian bag. Another legend at doing that. That's a
(04:33):
that's a live skill set. But when you shoot the special,
one of the things that you kind of have to
be mindful of, this is my third is just knowing
that it's going to be seen by people at home
on their phone, And it's really just about the ideas
connecting from one idea to the next, to the next
to the next, and being a little bit judicious about that.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
That's pretty interesting, So you kind of like get rid
of the elements of that night that made it specific
to that night.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Well, for this special, we took all one show, so
for Off with his Head one of the things that
I wanted to do and you may know this knowing
comics in the UK, I took a ton of inspiration
from you guys with Homecoming King and The King's Jesture.
I took all this inspiration from like the great storytelling
comics in the UK, where you build an hour, but
it's you know, a show, and there's long it's longer
(05:20):
form stories, and there's stage.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Design and lighting design.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
And in this special, the stage design that we built
kind of put me in the middle of the crowd,
so you know, we built bleachers around me. So it
was kind of like there was a thrust and I'm
just in this kind of public execution. And I did
that on purpose, like I left, you know that there
was there's moments in the special where I like, I
wipe sweat off my head with the towel, I take
(05:43):
a sip of water, I moved the mic stand these
things with that would get lifted normally. What I wanted
to kind of show is like, hey, this is what
it was like, you know, that night in the bay,
and it was all just kind of one take. And
for that we just wanted to really dial in coverage
to make sure no matter where we were shooting from.
And I remember talking to the cinematographer Cameron. He was like,
(06:04):
you know, there're gonna be people on the shot and
I go, that's exactly That's exactly what I'm going for.
And he's like, do you want us to you know,
lower the light on the crowd. I'm like, no, keep
them lit.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Oh yeah, I definitely not is that the crowd were
very brightly lit, and I thought that was interesting. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I thought that's stressful for the crowd. I wonder if
they're like the light stuff at a little bit.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
But there was also a part of me that's like,
you're you're part of this.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Yeah, And I think stand up specifically Stand Up Specials
went through a moment. I think, you know, twenty fifteen,
twenty sixteen, twenty seventeen, at least I felt when I
was watching them they were really cool in the way
they were being presented, big beautiful stage design, and then
they would black out the audience completely.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
And so if I look at my first two specials,
unless it's a reverse shot, it really feels like it's
almost like a presentation, like, yeah, here's the show. But
the thing that makes stand up so beautiful is it's
the little It's the nooks and crannies of it. It's
the hearing the cackle of the person's laugh and you
know that row f to the left of you, or
(07:05):
hearing you know, this guy kind of chortle at something.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Right here in roe b to the right of you.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
And so in a world where every we're kind of
voyeurs to everything, the thing that I wanted to capture
was like, no, let everyone, Let the audience be a
part of the show, right, yeah, don't hide the ball.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
So the special is one is one show? How many
did you record? We did three? They did three?
Speaker 2 (07:26):
We did three? Yeah, we did one on Friday and
two on Saturday. Yeah, And why do you pick that take?
Or it was just simply the best one.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
I just felt dropped in, Like I just felt dropped
into the set in a way.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
What number was it of the three? Which which one
is it? It was kind of two, It was either
two or three. Yeah, but we took one. But I
just remember this moment where you're dropped in. Yeah, and
it's not even about the audience per se. It was
one of those performance where I just felt dialed into
every beat of the show.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Yeah, because that must be a part of you thinking
when a big guy's big must be a part of
you thinking fuck, I'm glad that film in this one.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
But a thing that I tried to do and be
mindful of this time was just like just be and
you must know this as an actor too, just be
in it. And so that's sometimes been challenging for me
as someone who you know, you write it, you perform it,
you produce it. You want to be in control of everything,
and there is a little bit of like the no,
there's beauty and the smudges.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
It's okay, Yeah, sure, it's okay.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
And and like I remember, even my director told me
he was like with the second and third show, he
was like, hey, do some CrowdWork.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Just do some crowd work.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Yeah, before you transitioned into a bit, he's like, settle
the room in it's so bright, everybody can see each other.
Just connect everyone in the audience. And those that crowd
work stuff all made it into the show, you know,
like the guys with the chains and the uncle to
the left and Ian this guy over here to my right,
Like they were all in that show. And I was
just like, yeah, you're part of the show. So there's
(08:57):
no need to go to show one or show three
year show too. We don't have to Franken edit.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
This what happens to you now? So you finished this
tour and you were like relieved it's done. Are you
already starting the next or do you take a break?
Speaker 3 (09:09):
What do you do?
Speaker 2 (09:09):
This is the fun part.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
I'm starting to write the next one. But you know,
I'm married, I got two kids, so we went to
you know, we went to Disneyland.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Yeah. Man, I got a six year old. I got
a four year old. I gotta yeah, bro like that love.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Yeah, I got I got children who know who I am,
who know that I'm missing you know that. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
I was gonna say, they know who I am, they
know that I'm not there, That's what I was trying
to say. So it's like, I'm glad that I got it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
So it's it's that dude, I'm in, I'm in drop
off and pick up and taking them to soccer practice
and you know, we's go to Lego Land and that
that type of vibe, and then I'm just it's the
early stages of the next show where it's just writing
little bits and getting on stage. And this is a
really fun part too. But I already have the next
show in my mind. Do you that's exciting?
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Yeah, yeah, I think I've having just finished my tour.
I'm very excited to get back to doing new material
and also very like fuck. When you think about how
much the show has changed over the eighteen months I've
been touring, and how much better it's got every add on,
every yeah, new material, like well, this is a long
way from that, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Like, yeah stuff? Who opens for you?
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Well?
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Yes, yeah, oh, I love most She's so great, She's
fucking brilliant. I love her so much. Who happens for you?
It's a whole grab bag mix. It's a mix. Sometimes
I'll do a local person.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Sometimes I'll have a person regionally, like, hey, do these
four cities with me?
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Because there's just something I like. I like mixing it up.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
I like it's just that feeling of, you know, they
can push me in a certain way. Yeah, or it
just changes yeah, yeah, I especially when i'm you know,
I'm doing maybe sixty cities or something, or ninety shows,
you know, with doubles, just like I kind of want to.
I want it to feel a little fresh and new
and different every night.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
You know, I love it.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
I've forgotten to tell you something. I should have said
it earlier, so that I didn't let me just check.
Now I just say, I say you've died. You're dead.
Oh fuck, how did you die. So sorry.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Lawnmower accident what Madman style? Well, I just went it
just went haywire. I just went haywire. That that's not
They don't build them the way they used to.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
You know what, you were pushing or you were sat
on it, or you were just walking.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
I was pushing it. Just it was yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
And then and then my wife called me from inside
and was like hey, and I turned and it just
went haywire. So my my, my, my family, you know,
my love, my my beloved, my beloved wife got to
see me.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Just ripped the shress. Your children, you know who you are.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
We're like, oh god, yeah, they go He's definitely not
going to pick us up now.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Youmaining His limbs.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Turned, the little mouth came out of your hands, spun around,
and then ran away.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
There.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Yes, yes, Ocky powerful Jesus. Yeah, and your children and
wife covered in just just my wife. The kids are
It's okay.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
But they'll find out. They'll find out later. Yeah, Oh
they'll fucking find out. Oh they'll find out for sure.
Do you worry about death? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Yeah I do every day, not every day, but I'm
thirty nine and I know that I'm at that age
where I am starting to lose things, and I have
friends that have lost parents. I'm at that age where
many of my friends we you know, there's there's breakups
and divorces and it's just you know, we're at you know,
(12:34):
so much of I don't know if you felt this
way your early years, and even in just the creative arts,
those first kind of ten years for me was just
about pursuing competence.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Am I even? Am I even good at this? Am
I am I good at anything?
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Like?
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Do I have.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Any skill sets to for the world? Then like there's
the second part where you go, oh shit, I can
make money. I'm making money doing this, you know. And
then there's the third part, which is like, I guess
this is my career because I have no other skill
sets to offer the world. But I'm also at that phase,
that that next phase where my parents are older. Many
of my friends parents are getting older. I have to
(13:09):
take care of them. I'm the parent. I have friends
that have you know, been diagnosed with illnesses and those
sort of things and funerals and death is like a
thing that now exists. That's not an intellectual exercise, it's
just a real it's a real thing.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
I think it makes I think it makes me funnier. Yeah,
you know what I mean, like because because there is
like truly like what what what? What does it matter?
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Then?
Speaker 2 (13:36):
What does it even matter? Like?
Speaker 3 (13:37):
What am I worried about? It doesn't matter, you know,
which I think is great for comedy. I think for
people that aren't comedians, they're not cool with the morbid humor.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
But I find I find it to be quite quite funny.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
What you I haven't asked this in a long time.
What are your thoughts on legacy?
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Do you feel artistically like I just want to make stuff,
make stuff, make stuff, and then die and you don't
think about beyond your death? Or do you think about
making stuff? Is it ever a thing you think about?
Of what will you leave artistically when you die? And
does any of it matter?
Speaker 3 (14:09):
I mean the beautiful thing about my children and you know,
having my wife who has supported me for just my
whole fucking career. Those things like burgeoning and happening simultaneously
with the rise of the I would call it the
Internet and social media. Those two things running in parallel
got me to see that one of these is clearly
very important and real.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
It's the real thing, and one of.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
These is just this ineffable and articulated scroll of you know,
endless content.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
And that thing is your family.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Yeah, it's just a photo reel of it's just nonsense.
It's just bullshit, just me eating with them and changing
clothes and standing at a doorstep and holding holding an
idiotic just chalkboard that said first grade. Yeah, what a
waste of time toilets meaningless meaningless? Yeah, you know what happened, man?
(15:00):
Do you remember this might date this a little bit,
but about a month or two ago, James Earl Jones
passed away? All right, beat the legend, the legend. Now,
now what what a career and what a life he had.
But the day he died, some politician also did something idiotic.
And I just remember his passing and I go, holy shit,
Mufasa died. Yeah, fucking Darth Vader died. And they didn't
(15:25):
stop my daughter's elementary school. They didn't They didn't break
to a commercial break like on local news. Instagram didn't
stop and go hey, just just for a moment, you know,
before we see a new Kaisanat video, can we just
acknowledge that James fucking Earl Jones passed away there, Brett.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
I'm going to say this, with all due respect.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
You can combine my career and your career combined, it
will not measure up to Darth fucking Vader.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Yeah yeah, I mean stage, screen, everything.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
And I realized I was like, oh, the speed and
rapids of modernity has turned legacy into something that is
effectively worthless because because you can't beat now, you can't.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Beat right now, Like, what what about right right now?
You know? And it sucks because we know how much
work we put into everything that we do. Yeah, when
people are like so what about.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
The next season of Shrinking, You're like this, this fucking
season just came out.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
What are you talking about? Can you you haven't even
enjoyed every episode.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Yeah, it's like I can't. I cannot beat the rate
of the scroll. But in a weird way, man, what
it made me realize is that, well, if nothing matters,
if what I've done yesterday or ten years ago doesn't matter,
then the only thing matters is just what we're doing
right now.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Okay? Is that weird? Is that weird? Is that weird?
Speaker 1 (16:45):
You brought me back from the brink. I was close,
but then you brought me back.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Well, there's a lot of stuff that's happening right now
politically where people are like, well, nothing matters. And what's
weird is if you were to see nihilism as the
circle and you really go down in his comics, you
know that we will we can get super dark. Yeah,
but the snake will eat its own tail. Where it's
like if well, if nothing truly matters, then kind of
everything the next everything matters. Yeah, every little action you
(17:10):
take matters. Then if you were to take it to
it's yeah, I agree. I do think everything matters and
nothing matters. What do you think it happens when you die? Man?
Speaker 2 (17:19):
I don't know, but I'm but I have faith. I believe.
I believe in something bigger than myself. You have a
do you have a visual for we? Oh? Like, is
there a heaven? Is there? I just believe.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
I just I can't even articulate. I just think there is.
I'll say this. I was I was having a conversation
with my dad and my dad was telling me. He goes, uh,
you know the thing I think that's extremely strange about
your generation is your your generation is obsessed with this
idea of justice, And he goes, I don't think you
guys will ever understand that absolute justice will not be
(17:55):
possible in this world. It's only possible in the hereafter.
And that really resonated with me because the world that
we are living in has so much context and is
so highly variable. Each of our lived experiences is loaded
with all of this historical context. There's no way any
(18:15):
one person can do the long division on your life
for my life, for you know, the history of a
country or whatever. And I love that idea of just
like I don't think we'll be able to pull out
the advocus of justice here. It'll all make sense somewhere else.
And that kind of that made sense to me.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Yeah, does that mean that there's punishment on the other
side for people and rewards?
Speaker 3 (18:39):
And maybe it's just not that at that crul, but
I just believe that, like, if you got short changed,
you'll God's gonna come with I don't know, there's gonna
be a receipt, right, You're gonna have a receipt and
just be like, hey, hey, someone owes me twenty five dollars.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
And like you like you will be made.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
I don't know why, I just I just don't have
to give you twenty five dollars night.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Hey man, sorry about that, you know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (19:02):
And then you and then you're like really in once
you know, you know, like my bad.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Do you think do you think God has a sense
of humor? Yes? Do you same? Yeah? Yeah, for sure,
for sure, for sure.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
I got news for you, buddy. There is a heaven
and you'll go into it amazing and it is filled
with your favorite thing. What's your favorite thing?
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Probably playing basketball on a summer night.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Well, there's a summer basketball court. It's a perfect temperature,
and all your friends and legends are playing, and you
play basketball as long as you want. However, everyone there
they want to talk to you about your life, but
they want to talk about your life through film. And
the first thing they ask him is what's the first
film you remember seeing?
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Hassan mint Oh, man, I don't know if we're the
same age, but Tim Burton's Batman.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Fuck Yeah?
Speaker 3 (19:53):
The second one, the best one, the best super of
memorable time returns?
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Is it? Batman Returns? Batman Turns?
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Yeah, was the first movie that I got to see
in theaters, and it's the first memory that I had
of like watching a feature film, and specifically the scene
where Michelle Pfeiffer starts to act and behave like a cat.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
A lot was happening in my in my mind.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
I was seven at the time, and where was this
visit in Davis, California at the Holiday Cinema. It was
the theater was called the Holiday Cinema. And I remember
going to see that film and being you know, it's
it was the first time that I felt art can
move you in many different ways, like you can be enthralled,
(20:42):
you can be terrified, kind of aroused. Yeah, yeah, all
of this is happening at once, and it was the
first time, you know, like I got to really feel
what like, uh, you know, Tim Burton was dare I
say in his bag during that era?
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Yeah? Fuck, I love the film. The film was great.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
It kind of got at the time like it wasn't
wildly loved or revered, you know it was.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
It kind of got mixed reviews.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
But I just remember the thing that I remember about
that that I still chase to this day is like,
make them feel something. Yeah, just make them feel something,
you know, through your art. And I remember being somewhat
disturbed watching it.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
That's great, that's great.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Yeah, what's the film that scared you the most? And
do you like being scared? I hate being scared? Do
you hate being scared? I remember what they used to be.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
You know, we didn't have cable television growing up, but
Return of the Living Dead was a film that was
playing just on TV one weekend in the afternoon, and
it was the first time, like I was maybe eight
or nine years old. But just the zombies eating, the eating,
the eating of the brain was the thing.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
That's just like not a fan of the brain eating. No, No,
And also did you ever have this?
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Were you the are you the oldest, older sibling or
the younger sibling youngest? So sometimes i'd go to a
friend's house to like, you know, just play and they
would have an older brother. But there was always this
like my older brother, my older sister, they're renting a
movie and they're watching it downstairs. And I remember Child's
Play was really popular, the Chucky movies. Yeah, And I
remember we walked downstairs while one of my buddies, his
(22:20):
older sister, was watching Child's Play and she's like.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Don't get it, get out of here. You guys can't
be here.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
And I was like, no, we can, we can, we
can watch like you're gonna get freaked out. And I
just remember it was it was the scene where Chucky,
you know, comes to life and was chasing this little
kid in the apartment, and it just I just remember
just being fucking horrified and being like, yeah I had
I had like stuffed animals and I chucked them out
of my room and yeah, I hated I hated the
(22:45):
genre said, yeah, man, yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Had like all toys. It's like the opposite.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Yeah right, yeah, I had all these like action figures
and whatever. And I remember I just I lifted them
and I just chucked them like I put them in
the My Mom's like, what's what is going on? And
I just I couldn't. It freaked me out. It freaked
me the fuck out. It made me so scared of
just the nights as a concept.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Do you still even if you see clips of Chucky,
does it still give you a PTSD?
Speaker 2 (23:13):
You Know what's weird is I revisit it on YouTube now.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
It's like a as like a cognitive behavioral therapy exercise
to be like you won't you won't spook on me,
you can't get me.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Yeah, I didn't even have toys anymore.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Chucky yeah, yeah, fuck you Yeah, fuck you Chucky, Fuck
you Chucky.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
What about crying? What's the film that made you cry
the most? Are you a crier?
Speaker 3 (23:39):
I'm a big crier, bro, Oh yeah, I cry all
the time in movies.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
I cried.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Yeah, I cried at the Big There's a Pixar movie
where I was watching with my wife. Oh, any pixel movie,
Inside Out too. No, it was The Good Dinosaur, The
Good Dinosaur. Yeah, it was the It was the movie.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
With the case.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Yeah, a little cave Boy, Yeah, with the dinosaur and uh,
the little cave Boy has to describe how he lost
his family and he draws it in the dirt, and
I just started.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Crying and the yeah, I started. I started crying in
the in the movie theater. But I cry all the time.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
You know. My my soft spot is generally kind of
like these like father Son. Yeah, movies Catch Me If
you Can't makes me cry.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Right exactly. The saddest film everybody, Catch Me if you Can? Yeah,
if you if you haven't seen the film.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
Christopher Watkins's character the way Frank I think is his
name is Frank Appingdale apping Gail.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Yeah, and uh, there's.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Just something about this father figure having to carry a
lie with such confidence, and he asked. He kind of tells,
you know, Leonardo DiCaprio, his son, like everything's gonna be okay.
Me and your mom are all right, you know, and
his his mom leaves his father, you know. And it's
that like trauma that makes him go commit wire fraud apparently.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
What if that was an excuse with the SEC And
you're like, why did you do this? Why did you
commit security fraud? And you're like, do you have any
idea who my mom's fucking right now? I'll tell you what.
It's not my dad. You ever heard a divorce?
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Yeah, Yeah, that's a fucking depressing film. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
But it's just there was moments where there's the scene
where basically Frank is with his son and he knows
Leonardo DiCaprio's up to something shady, and he's kind of
like smiling and accepting it.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Oh, where you're going? Where you off to?
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Where are you taking your trip to? And I'm just
kind of balling. I don't know why, man, Yeah, where
you're going?
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Yeah? And I'm just like crying. Yeah. That film is
a real BAMA.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
I've talked about it before on this but that film
is the most like miss marketed film, the biggest lie.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
That film looks like it's like do do oh? Totally yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Yeah they make it.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
They marketed it like it was like mad Men meets Disneyland,
just kind of like do you want to be a pilot?
Even the credits like yeah, totally, totally he's got the
pilot had and oh yeah, yeah totally. Speaking of a
film that makes me cry though, is if I'm in
heaven and it's a beautiful summer night, and may I say,
since we're in heaven? Yeah, when you play summertime basketball
(26:12):
in a city that's notoriously hot summer, it makes summer
nights so much sweeter. So like a Scottsdale, Arizona night
playing outdoor basketball or a Sacramento night, like it's one
hundred and three degrees fahrenheight during the day, but at
night it's like seventy one sixty nine degrees for and
it's just beautiful. But the film that also made me cry,
(26:37):
that's one of my all time favorites. Did you ever
see the movie He Got Game by Spike Lee? It
directed by Spending Yes, So there's the scene where Denzel
Washington gets out of jail, and he goes back to
his wife's tombstone, and Spike just holds on Denzel as
he kisses the tombstone and hugs it, and they just
(26:59):
pull out. They see him at the cemetery and it's
just this powerful scene.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Yeah, man, I'll be a full full tears. Man.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
What is the film that you love? It is not
critically acclaimed, but you love it unconditionally. You don't care
what anyone says. She's the man. You think she's the
man with Amanda Bynes. Yeah, yeah, that is a great shot.
That is the perfect hard set to this.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
Yes, I'm telling them, but by the way, Brett, you reckon,
you say this publicly. It's an all time classics sees
the man.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
It's a great Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Like people you know, oftentimes bring up missus doubtfire of
like it was so funny Robin Williams, he dresses what no, no, no,
Amanda Bynes pretending to be a male soccer player is
and she woos Channing Tatum.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
It's it's it's Channing Tatum. Yeah. Yeah, it's an incredible movie. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Yeah, there's not enough. There's not enough. I would even
say in the present there's not enough mustache work. There's
not enough kind of let me put on a wig
and trick people.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
There's enough trickery going on with no no, no, no no.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
When was the last time I'm in tricks to with astache?
It's been ages.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
There was this Man on the Street segment that that
was on Jimmy Kimmel where Drake dressed up.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Drake is actually very good at comedy.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
Drake dressed up as not Drake, as like a civilian
and he went on the street and he asked.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
People what they what they thought of Drake. It was
very very funny. And then you I'm Drake.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
You know, yeah, mustache, you know, fake mustache is in mischief.
We don't have enough of that. We have real mischief
in society. We don't have enough of this, Like do
you know what I mean? This kind of naughtiness, not
just a little naughtiness, a.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
Little bit enough? Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Is that corny in the UK? Like is the Nutty Professor?
Was that a thing for me? It was the Nutty
Professor coming to America. But I saw I saw them
as like real kind of comedic performances that were I
truly didn't care what the critic had to say about it,
I was like, I cannot believe Eddie Murphy's playing twelve
different people in this movie.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Yeah, I mean it's incredible. He's one of the greats.
He is such a good actor.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
And to do that without the other person in the
room because it's him, it's amazing. His timing with himself
is incredible. You think about how long it must take
for him to put on the makeup, yes, get out
of the makeup, put on different makeup, and then time
your responses and no, how he does it.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Fantastic, unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
What is the film that you used to love but
you've watched it recently and you've gone, I don't like
this anymore.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Scarface? Scarface? Why what happened? Yeah? It was.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
You know, there was this like teenage of my cheesemo
to it that I thought was so great, and I
kind of was like, Scarface kills Manolo's piece of shit.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
You know, this isn't like even this idea that it
was an aspirational thing. I was like, what are we
talking about here?
Speaker 1 (30:01):
So you were like, Scotface is a really bad guy.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Yeah, he's an outright piece of ship.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
And then a movie that I've changed my tune on that.
I go, you know, it's actually like it really is
quite beautiful. Is Donny Brasco, Well, you know, al Pacino
is kind of you know, this down and out mobster
and you know it's really about like his friendship and insecurity.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Yeah, that's a really moving film there.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
I also like that it's like low low end mobsters,
like they're just getting money out of parking meters and
ship and it's.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
Like ship like that. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
Yeah, my favorite scene, My favorite scene is like when
he when he shows Johnny Depp the newspaper and he goes,
just you like you part of this and he goes,
do you know what that makes me look like?
Speaker 2 (30:44):
You know?
Speaker 3 (30:44):
And if if this is you, I'm fucking and he
holds he does the gun thing does that. It was
just it was just like there's something so moving about
seeing a person whose back is truly against the wall. Yeah,
and they don't they don't have another move, there's nowhere
else for them to go, and it's just really there's
just yeah, you know what I mean, it's just heartbreaking.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Yeah, what what's the film that means the most to you?
Not necessarily the film itself is good, but the experience
you had around seeing it will always make it special
to you.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Man, this is gonna sound corny, I would say, Mean Girls.
I fucking love that film, guy for it. I love
Mean Girls.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
So there was a period of time, I think it's
around two thousand and five where having a DVD collection
Slash Blue Rick was a real kind of indicator of.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
It was your personality. Yeah, it was our record collection
at the time. Yeah. But Mean Girls to me.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
Was always I had the fondest memories of because at
the time when I was dating my now wife. There
are certain movies that are deemed kind of quote unquote
classics that can be gendered at times, and I remember,
you know, like having my DVD collection of like The
Minority Report. There's you know, just certain certain movies, The
godfa whatever, Jurassic par Chappelle Show Season one or whatever.
(32:05):
But Mean Girl, Mean Girls in Easy A were these
two films that I felt like perfectly crossed over both
ways and like in the best way where I was
like and if you look at just the writing, the timing,
even the like the comedic interstitials in that film were
just incredible.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
It's like one of my all time favorite. Have you
watched the music? I haven't seen the musical. How is it?
I haven't seen it yet. Oh okay.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
It was also a huge inspiration to me too, in
the sense that, like, the comedy is so good without
it being needlessly grass or vulgar or blue or not
to say that I have a problem with that type
of comedy, but its resonance was just like, oh, I
could watch this, my girlfriend can watch this, and I
can watch this with my parents.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
Yeah, it's very good.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
It's a very beautiful, like a beautiful thing, and so
it's like one of my all time favorites. It's also
just like put it on whenever and scene for scene,
you're just everybody is really firing at a very high level.
Amy Poehler is fucking hilarious in it, and she's doing
a full on character as like a quote unquote cool mom.
Tina's great in it, Lindsay Lohan is in her back.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
It's just like the whole cast is like just spectacular.
It's really hard up as well.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
It's in the area a school of rocket films, which
I think look easy on paper, but it's so rarely
pulled off as perfectly as that one.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
And I would. I mean, how many Edge of seventeen.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
There's only like a handful of films since then that
have kind of worked it somewhat on that level. It's
very difficult to pull off coming of age, high school,
early college.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
It's so hard to do.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Yeah, what is the film that you think is the
sexiest one of all time?
Speaker 3 (33:49):
I mean, I would say, Man, if we're going to
get back to it, I think I think Batman Returns
is probably.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
Yeah. Yeah, hard to be.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
There was a lot moving, you know, there's a lot
of zimes and the chemical reactions happening.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Man, there was something something was stirring within me. Yeah. God,
she's marvelous. She really is.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Yeah, Michelle Feiffer, she really is all the way through
the film. I just think she's so brilliant in that.
I think it's sort of everyone tells how sexy she is,
but it's underrated, like it's a great performance.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
I remember when I was in undergrad, I took a
film class and we learned about what a fe fetal was,
and I just I remember pitching the professor. I go, oh,
so you mean, like like Michelle Fiffer and Batman Returns,
and my professor, my college professor looked at me like
he wanted to kill me.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
He's like, what the fuck are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (34:42):
You know, this is one of those classes where they
talk about me on sin and this and that.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
I was like, what are you talking about? She's woman's
quite literally she said, you were right. Yeah, goddamn it.
All right.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
There's a sub category to this traveling bone is worrying.
Why don't film you found a rousing that you weren't
sure you should?
Speaker 3 (34:59):
I mean, I would Saynalla in the Lion King, you
wouldn't be the first. Yeah, it's the it's the rolling
around in it.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
It's the rolling around, rolling, the rolling around, it's the
rolling around. Yeah, in the pinning, the look the pinning
and then she looks hello. Yeah. Yeah. It's kind of
the shoulder movements too. It was like, whoa lovely shoulders
on it?
Speaker 3 (35:23):
Yeah, yeah, so I would yeah something like that.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
Yeah, that is the loveliest shop quite seductive.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
Yeah, what is objectively, objectively the greatest film of all time?
Speaker 2 (35:36):
Might not be your favorite, but it's the greatest.
Speaker 3 (35:38):
The way I would classify this because I got you
sent over a PDF before when I thought about it.
The way I interpret that question is I think this
is maybe by all means take take it.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
You can reframe it this way.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
Everybody has a movie they make other people watch when
they come over to be like, you have to watch. Yeah,
buddy has the prestige. He's like, you gotta watch. You
want to understand, you gotta watch the prestige. For me,
I would say a Bronx Tail. A Bronx Tail is
so fucking good. It's a great movie. De Niro is
(36:13):
so good in it was its chas commentary.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
I mean, it's like, probably is great. It won't be
his greatest performance of his career.
Speaker 3 (36:22):
The kid is great, but it also it unfolds like
a play in that one where just every scene you know,
upstairs their apartment, stoop. It really is like that and
do the right thing. But what I loved about both
of those is just it's really like a play.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
Yeah, yeah, fucking great chat that has not been put
in this category, And I think you're right.
Speaker 3 (36:45):
I think you're right too. Nobody's ever brought up a
Bronx Tail, not in greatest and they should have. Okay,
what is the film you could or have watched? The
mist Ivan Iver again, Bad Boys, Michael Bey Yeah. Directed
by Mike Og the Og nineteen ninety five Bad Boys
Michael Bay fucking hell, bro. I mean, my god, dude,
(37:09):
you were watching Martin Lawrence at the peak of his superpowers. Yeah,
you were watching Will Smith at the beginning of what
would be his his tear and takeover of Hollywood. The
two of them combined. Holy shit. I mean when I
tell people it's one of my favorite comedies, They're like,
what are you what are you talking about? And I'm like,
just let's just watch, just watch the scene of the
(37:31):
two of any scene of them in the Porsche, in
that iconic Porsche get Yeah, they're timing their rapport. You
know this directing too, Yeah, Bad.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
Boys Too is one of the best coming, one of
my favorite codes. I love. Yeah. It's just funny, it's
just spectacular.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
And it's also one of those things where you can
put this on paper the same premise a million times.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
It's it's not gonna work.
Speaker 3 (37:53):
I feel the same way about Rush Hour, Like rush
Hour is so fucking hilarious, But if you were if
you were to actually pay the premise, like go into
a studio and pitch it, they'd be like, are you racist?
Speaker 2 (38:05):
I'm telling you. I'm telling you.
Speaker 3 (38:06):
I'm telling you this, I promise, and this dude and
he's gonna repeatedly accuse him of not being able to
speak the language properly. But I'm telling you it's gonna work.
And they but they love each other, Carter and him,
they love each other. They'd be like, this is not
this is the most insane. This is an insane idea.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
This is not gonna work.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
And what happens at the end one it's gonna jump
down a very big ribbon. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, and
it's all gonna work. It's it's totally gonna work. Yeah,
great shout. We don't like to be negative.
Speaker 2 (38:32):
Hassen. What the West film You've ever say?
Speaker 3 (38:36):
You know, I've I haven't seen it, but I remember
when you're traveling, do you ever do this where you
don't watch a movie on the plane, but you're watching
somebody else watch a movie on the plane.
Speaker 2 (38:45):
Yes, I have done.
Speaker 3 (38:46):
Okay, so I'm I'm technical. I don't know if I'm
right or wrong, but I watched another person watch Fantastic
Four on.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
The reach one with the one with just yes, Chris
have it. I think Chris, he's the one.
Speaker 3 (39:06):
He gets on fire. Yeah, he's a torch. But man,
oh man, was this guy? Was this guy sitting next
to Michael Chickliss was Yeah, the rock Man thing, the
Rockman the thing. But the guy I was sitting next
to was fucking livid. Watching him watch Fantastic Four was
just spectacular. It's up it's It's one of my favorite memories.
(39:29):
It's up there with if you live in if you
live in New York City watching people break up in public.
Oh yeah, that's Watching this man watch Fantastic Four as
we flew to Charlotte.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
Was like an all time, all time memory because he
was living. He was so angry and he didn't stop though,
he didn't stop it. I have to finish this. Yeah,
that's fun. That's fun.
Speaker 1 (39:52):
Tell me this. You're in comedy. You're very funny. You've
had three specials for goodness sakes. So what's the film
that made you love the.
Speaker 2 (40:00):
This has been said, right, they've they've I mean home alone.
Speaker 1 (40:03):
Alone, No, I don't think what's the funniest I think
this has been the greatest.
Speaker 2 (40:09):
Brett.
Speaker 3 (40:09):
You're on like episode number three seventies, I mean, yeah, man,
so my son is four and a half. Yeah, I'll
forward the movie just to when they break in, Oh
my god, a paint can to the head?
Speaker 2 (40:23):
Are you kidding me? Dying? Yeah? Are you kidding me?
Bb gun to the balls? Are you fucking kidding?
Speaker 3 (40:29):
I mean these are just yeah, timeless, timeless, Yeah, all.
Speaker 2 (40:35):
The time, all time movie. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:38):
Do you want to continue to ignore the related to question?
Or have you got an answer? You don't have to
ever answer it, but if you do have one, you
know what it is. I'll tell you right now. Yeah,
go ahead, right now. I'd love that. I'd love it
if you would.
Speaker 2 (40:52):
Yeah. Did you ever see the movie Carlito's Way cutage?
Way is in my top ten.
Speaker 3 (40:56):
With the opportunity Okay, So when I was coming up
and stand up, the character played by John Leguizamo Benny
Blanco from The Bronx h so reminded me of like
what it's like to be a comedian coming up in
New York City.
Speaker 4 (41:13):
Table sitting at the table, yeah, sitting at the table,
yeah yeah, or whoever you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (41:18):
And they go, why won't you wyon't you? You know?
Speaker 3 (41:20):
Like whatever that used to be you oz, that was
never me? And it just so reminded me of like
the the struggle and the come up of being like
a young comic, you know, trying trying, trying to impress
the upper classmen. Yeah, Benny, Benny Blanco from The Bronx,
shout out to John Leguizamo, one of the great, one
of the great comedic, one of the great dramatic actors. Yeah,
(41:40):
medic actors, dramatic actors.
Speaker 1 (41:42):
Bro, you went from not having an answer to having
an incredible answer on that one. Yeah, I fucking love
That's one of my favorite opportunities. Is Cully's great.
Speaker 2 (41:55):
Oh he's incredible. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (41:56):
When he pulls out he's coked out of his mind,
he pulls out the gun. He thinks it's so funny.
Just reminded me. It reminded me of comedy in that way. Yeah,
of just like the comedy scene is just this kind
of like group. It is the mafia. There are rules,
but there are simultaneously no rules and.
Speaker 4 (42:12):
Yeah, yeah, and there's tables, always tables. There's always a table.
Can I sit at the table?
Speaker 2 (42:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (42:19):
And then also it was like to me, the whole
thing at the end when he finally gets out of
the game and then he goes you remember me and
Spenny Blanco from the from the Bronx and he shoots them.
Is also the thing of like anger, hatred and revenge
in and of itself can't be the thing that drives you.
Speaker 2 (42:34):
You know, it ends in tragedy in that way.
Speaker 1 (42:36):
You can't be a headliner if you kill people, if
you literally kill people.
Speaker 2 (42:41):
If you literally kill people. Yeah, yeah, you're not good.
Speaker 1 (42:46):
Hasten. You have been amazing. However, what's up when you
were maying you alone because you're trying to be handy,
you were trying to impress your wife. Yes, frankly yes,
because she's not in your long time. She's used to
your com she's used to all your achievements. What she
isn't used to is you taking care of some jewels
and you're like, I'm going to load this more, load
(43:07):
this morn.
Speaker 2 (43:08):
You're gonna load this one. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (43:09):
Of course, as they say in America, they say differently,
I'm going to load this morn.
Speaker 2 (43:14):
Yeah, let's participate in domestic labor. I'm going to load
them on. I'm going to load them on. So you're
lowering the.
Speaker 1 (43:22):
Yeah, your wife pops outside and she waves and she says,
has I've never felt so aroused just watching you do this,
and you go, oh really, and you turn to her
and as you do your hands let go of the
law man. It spins in a circle and at your
feet it catches you and you're like, and she goes, yea,
(43:44):
ages you're going.
Speaker 2 (43:46):
And then find you and as you do, it goes
and it ribbons all the way up. Yeah. Yeah, yeah,
she covered in blood. Oh god, Jesus got yeah, blood
guts everywhere. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (43:58):
I'm walking past with a coffin. You know, I'm like, I, guys,
I signed around. She goes, is he around? He's fucking
all over me? And I go, yeah, Jesus, night, look
and I go ship and I go when your kids
come home, and she goes, yeah, the kids.
Speaker 2 (44:09):
Know who he is? I go fuck.
Speaker 1 (44:11):
So anyway, I go, well, let's clear him up before
they get here. So we're having to dig you up.
And by the way, I've had to shoot the law
mower because it's just going.
Speaker 2 (44:19):
I just had to shoot it repeatedly. Anyway, me and
your wife we get so we're.
Speaker 1 (44:24):
Having to sort of use a spade dig up fucking
bits of the field is just so embedded in it. Anyway,
we put all of you in the coffin. There's more
more of you than I was expecting. Coffin is absolutely round.
There's only enough room for me to slide one DVD
into the coffin for you to take to the other side.
And on the other side, it's movie night every night.
What film are you taking to show the basketball players
in heaven when it is your movie night on the
(44:45):
other side.
Speaker 2 (44:47):
Blue Streak starring markin Lawren to David.
Speaker 3 (44:54):
I love Marks, I love yeah, love.
Speaker 1 (44:59):
Has And thank you so much for doing this. Would
you like to tell anyone to look look, look for
watch things with you coming up?
Speaker 3 (45:06):
Hey, please watch Off with his Head streaming now on Netflix.
And you know, just enjoy your enjoy your family, enjoy
your loved ones. And yeah, man, nothing matters, nothing matters,
So everything matters.
Speaker 2 (45:17):
I appreciate you being here. Thanks so much, man, it
was really nice to meet you. Thanks for doing this.
Thank you man. Yeah, thank you, dud. Good day to you, sir. Cheers.
Speaker 1 (45:28):
So that was episode three hundred and twenty nine. Head
over to the Patreon at patreon dot com forward slash
Brett Goldstein for the extra fifty minutes of Chat Secrets
video with Hassan go to Apple Podcast, give us a
five star rating and write about the film that means
divice to you and why it's a lovely thing to
read and it helps numbers, et cetera.
Speaker 2 (45:42):
It's really appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (45:43):
My name bit Moreen loves here. Thank you very much.
Thank you too, Hassen for giving me his time. Thanks
to Scruby's PIP and the distraction pieces of Network. Thanks
to Buddy Peace for producing it. Thanks to iHeartMedia and
Wilfaw's big money players Neby posting it. Thanks Adam Richardson
for the graphics, at least land them for the photography.
So come and join me next week for another incredible
get Thank you all for listening. That is it for now.
In the meantime, have a lovely week, and please, now
(46:06):
more than ever, be excellent to each other.
Look how it's only films to be buried with. Hello,
and welcome to films to be buried with. My name
is Brett Goldstein. I'm a comedian and actor, writer, a
director at Postcard Artist, and I love films. As Claudia
(00:22):
Rankin once said, the world is wrong, you can't put
the past behind you. I was just telling my friend
Charliekorman that, and then he went off and write in
Turn of Sunshine Out the Spotless Mind.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
It makes you think, doesn't it? Well, yes, Claudia. Yes.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Every week i'wnbute a special guest over. I tell them
they've died, then I get them to discuss their life
through the films that meant the most of them. Previous
guests include Barry Jenkins, Kevin Smith, Sharon Stone, and even Radbots.
But this week we have the brilliant comedian mister Hassen Minaj.
Head over to the Patreon at patreon dot com forward
slash Brett Goldstein, where you'll get an extra fifteen minutes
of chat with Hassen where we talk beginnings and endings.
(00:55):
He tells me a secret, you get the whole episode
uncut adfree and does a video. Check it out Patrin
in dot com forward slash Brett Goldstein. Episode ten of
Shrinking Season two is now available on Apple TV. Get
caught up on all episodes. You'll fucking love it. So
Has Minaj is a two time Peabody Award winning comedian.
You might know him from The Daily Show or his
show Patriot Act. You might know him from his many
(01:19):
Netflix specials. He's got a brand new Netflix special off
with his Head and it is excellent.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
You should all watch it.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
We never met before, but we recorded this on Zoom
a few weeks ago. He was an absolute joy and
I really think you're going to love this one. So
that is it for now. I hope you're all well,
and I very much hope you enjoy episode three hundred
and twenty nine of Films to be Buried With.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Hello, and welcome to Films to be Buried With.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
It is me Brett Goldstein, and I am joined today
by an actor, a writer, a Daily shower, a and
a podcaster. I hear a legend and a brand new
Netflix special this week.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
He's here.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Can you believe it? He's right in front of me.
Please welcome to the show. It's the brilliant I said,
been nice thank you.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
How are you?
Speaker 3 (02:17):
I'm doing great, man, Thanks for having me. This is
gonna be so fun. This is how we this is
how we meet. This is how we meet. Now, this
is how we meet people, isn't it?
Speaker 1 (02:24):
This is how we meet people just the any way, Yeah,
let's talk about your special, shall we? Since I watched
it today and it's excellent. How long were you making?
How long were you touring that? How long did it take?
Speaker 3 (02:34):
You know what I was working on it. I've been
working on it for about two years.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
But it takes me about.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Year year and a half to kind of get it
where I think it needs to be. And then and
then I'll go on tour for about yeah, nine months
to a year. Okay, there's like a touring year for me.
I love finishing. Finishing a tour is the best. You
love the end? I love the end. I love There's
just there's this beautiful moment where if you go to
you know, Brett's website, and he goes, I'm on tour
(03:04):
and you're always adding you're adding a second, third, and
fourth show. But if I were a fan of yours
and getting a ticket on the road, may I recommend
if you see an act. About a third of the
way into their tour, there is, in my opinion, this
beautiful alchemy where the set it's almost like a relationship.
It's still new enough, but there are these moments that
(03:24):
have like really calcified in a very beautiful sort of way.
So and it's that perfect combination of the new, the
exciting new, and unknown and the like.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
This is not an acoustic B sides album.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
This is this is gonna be something really really special.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Yeah, how much did you change in the last say
three months, if any, it.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Changed a lot, you know, getting getting ready for Netflix.
There's a feeling of you gotta know that. And this
is the toughest thing about stand up, which you know,
is trying to translate something that happened there that night. Yeah,
and then watching what is essentially a certain film. Yeah,
there's a difference. You know, if I go up in London,
if I go up at the comedy seller, the comedy store,
(04:06):
there's just an energy that night. Yeah, I was the
fourth spot at the eight o'clock show.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Someone had heckled the comedian before.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
There is all these like little subtle nuances that go
into the show that you can great comics, some of
my favorites. I don't know if you've ever seen someone
named Godfrey. Godfrey in New York City is a master. No,
I've never seen seeing something like strange happen in the room,
and he can literally turn that into a fifteen minute
stet Ian bag. Another legend at doing that. That's a
(04:33):
that's a live skill set. But when you shoot the special,
one of the things that you kind of have to
be mindful of, this is my third is just knowing
that it's going to be seen by people at home
on their phone, And it's really just about the ideas
connecting from one idea to the next, to the next
to the next, and being a little bit judicious about that.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
That's pretty interesting, So you kind of like get rid
of the elements of that night that made it specific
to that night.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Well, for this special, we took all one show, so
for Off with his Head one of the things that
I wanted to do and you may know this knowing
comics in the UK, I took a ton of inspiration
from you guys with Homecoming King and The King's Jesture.
I took all this inspiration from like the great storytelling
comics in the UK, where you build an hour, but
it's you know, a show, and there's long it's longer
(05:20):
form stories, and there's stage.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Design and lighting design.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
And in this special, the stage design that we built
kind of put me in the middle of the crowd,
so you know, we built bleachers around me. So it
was kind of like there was a thrust and I'm
just in this kind of public execution. And I did
that on purpose, like I left, you know that there
was there's moments in the special where I like, I
wipe sweat off my head with the towel, I take
(05:43):
a sip of water, I moved the mic stand these
things with that would get lifted normally. What I wanted
to kind of show is like, hey, this is what
it was like, you know, that night in the bay,
and it was all just kind of one take. And
for that we just wanted to really dial in coverage
to make sure no matter where we were shooting from.
And I remember talking to the cinematographer Cameron. He was like,
(06:04):
you know, there're gonna be people on the shot and
I go, that's exactly That's exactly what I'm going for.
And he's like, do you want us to you know,
lower the light on the crowd. I'm like, no, keep
them lit.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Oh yeah, I definitely not is that the crowd were
very brightly lit, and I thought that was interesting. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I thought that's stressful for the crowd. I wonder if
they're like the light stuff at a little bit.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
But there was also a part of me that's like,
you're you're part of this.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Yeah, And I think stand up specifically Stand Up Specials
went through a moment. I think, you know, twenty fifteen,
twenty sixteen, twenty seventeen, at least I felt when I
was watching them they were really cool in the way
they were being presented, big beautiful stage design, and then
they would black out the audience completely.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
And so if I look at my first two specials,
unless it's a reverse shot, it really feels like it's
almost like a presentation, like, yeah, here's the show. But
the thing that makes stand up so beautiful is it's
the little It's the nooks and crannies of it. It's
the hearing the cackle of the person's laugh and you
know that row f to the left of you, or
(07:05):
hearing you know, this guy kind of chortle at something.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Right here in roe b to the right of you.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
And so in a world where every we're kind of
voyeurs to everything, the thing that I wanted to capture
was like, no, let everyone, Let the audience be a
part of the show, right, yeah, don't hide the ball.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
So the special is one is one show? How many
did you record? We did three? They did three?
Speaker 2 (07:26):
We did three? Yeah, we did one on Friday and
two on Saturday. Yeah, And why do you pick that take?
Or it was just simply the best one.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
I just felt dropped in, Like I just felt dropped
into the set in a way.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
What number was it of the three? Which which one
is it? It was kind of two, It was either
two or three. Yeah, but we took one. But I
just remember this moment where you're dropped in. Yeah, and
it's not even about the audience per se. It was
one of those performance where I just felt dialed into
every beat of the show.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Yeah, because that must be a part of you thinking
when a big guy's big must be a part of
you thinking fuck, I'm glad that film in this one.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
But a thing that I tried to do and be
mindful of this time was just like just be and
you must know this as an actor too, just be
in it. And so that's sometimes been challenging for me
as someone who you know, you write it, you perform it,
you produce it. You want to be in control of everything,
and there is a little bit of like the no,
there's beauty and the smudges.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
It's okay, Yeah, sure, it's okay.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
And and like I remember, even my director told me
he was like with the second and third show, he
was like, hey, do some CrowdWork.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Just do some crowd work.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Yeah, before you transitioned into a bit, he's like, settle
the room in it's so bright, everybody can see each other.
Just connect everyone in the audience. And those that crowd
work stuff all made it into the show, you know,
like the guys with the chains and the uncle to
the left and Ian this guy over here to my right,
Like they were all in that show. And I was
just like, yeah, you're part of the show. So there's
(08:57):
no need to go to show one or show three
year show too. We don't have to Franken edit.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
This what happens to you now? So you finished this
tour and you were like relieved it's done. Are you
already starting the next or do you take a break?
Speaker 3 (09:09):
What do you do?
Speaker 2 (09:09):
This is the fun part.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
I'm starting to write the next one. But you know,
I'm married, I got two kids, so we went to
you know, we went to Disneyland.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Yeah. Man, I got a six year old. I got
a four year old. I gotta yeah, bro like that love.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Yeah, I got I got children who know who I am,
who know that I'm missing you know that. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
I was gonna say, they know who I am, they
know that I'm not there, That's what I was trying
to say. So it's like, I'm glad that I got it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
So it's it's that dude, I'm in, I'm in drop
off and pick up and taking them to soccer practice
and you know, we's go to Lego Land and that
that type of vibe, and then I'm just it's the
early stages of the next show where it's just writing
little bits and getting on stage. And this is a
really fun part too. But I already have the next
show in my mind. Do you that's exciting?
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Yeah, yeah, I think I've having just finished my tour.
I'm very excited to get back to doing new material
and also very like fuck. When you think about how
much the show has changed over the eighteen months I've
been touring, and how much better it's got every add on,
every yeah, new material, like well, this is a long
way from that, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Like, yeah stuff? Who opens for you?
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Well?
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Yes, yeah, oh, I love most She's so great, She's
fucking brilliant. I love her so much. Who happens for you?
It's a whole grab bag mix. It's a mix. Sometimes
I'll do a local person.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Sometimes I'll have a person regionally, like, hey, do these
four cities with me?
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Because there's just something I like. I like mixing it up.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
I like it's just that feeling of, you know, they
can push me in a certain way. Yeah, or it
just changes yeah, yeah, I especially when i'm you know,
I'm doing maybe sixty cities or something, or ninety shows,
you know, with doubles, just like I kind of want to.
I want it to feel a little fresh and new
and different every night.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
You know, I love it.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
I've forgotten to tell you something. I should have said
it earlier, so that I didn't let me just check.
Now I just say, I say you've died. You're dead.
Oh fuck, how did you die. So sorry.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Lawnmower accident what Madman style? Well, I just went it
just went haywire. I just went haywire. That that's not
They don't build them the way they used to.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
You know what, you were pushing or you were sat
on it, or you were just walking.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
I was pushing it. Just it was yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
And then and then my wife called me from inside
and was like hey, and I turned and it just
went haywire. So my my, my, my family, you know,
my love, my my beloved, my beloved wife got to
see me.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Just ripped the shress. Your children, you know who you are.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
We're like, oh god, yeah, they go He's definitely not
going to pick us up now.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Youmaining His limbs.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Turned, the little mouth came out of your hands, spun around,
and then ran away.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
There.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Yes, yes, Ocky powerful Jesus. Yeah, and your children and
wife covered in just just my wife. The kids are
It's okay.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
But they'll find out. They'll find out later. Yeah, Oh
they'll fucking find out. Oh they'll find out for sure.
Do you worry about death? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Yeah I do every day, not every day, but I'm
thirty nine and I know that I'm at that age
where I am starting to lose things, and I have
friends that have lost parents. I'm at that age where
many of my friends we you know, there's there's breakups
and divorces and it's just you know, we're at you know,
(12:34):
so much of I don't know if you felt this
way your early years, and even in just the creative arts,
those first kind of ten years for me was just
about pursuing competence.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Am I even? Am I even good at this? Am
I am I good at anything?
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Like?
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Do I have.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Any skill sets to for the world? Then like there's
the second part where you go, oh shit, I can
make money. I'm making money doing this, you know. And
then there's the third part, which is like, I guess
this is my career because I have no other skill
sets to offer the world. But I'm also at that phase,
that that next phase where my parents are older. Many
of my friends parents are getting older. I have to
(13:09):
take care of them. I'm the parent. I have friends
that have you know, been diagnosed with illnesses and those
sort of things and funerals and death is like a
thing that now exists. That's not an intellectual exercise, it's
just a real it's a real thing.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
I think it makes I think it makes me funnier. Yeah,
you know what I mean, like because because there is
like truly like what what what? What does it matter?
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Then?
Speaker 2 (13:36):
What does it even matter? Like?
Speaker 3 (13:37):
What am I worried about? It doesn't matter, you know,
which I think is great for comedy. I think for
people that aren't comedians, they're not cool with the morbid humor.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
But I find I find it to be quite quite funny.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
What you I haven't asked this in a long time.
What are your thoughts on legacy?
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Do you feel artistically like I just want to make stuff,
make stuff, make stuff, and then die and you don't
think about beyond your death? Or do you think about
making stuff? Is it ever a thing you think about?
Of what will you leave artistically when you die? And
does any of it matter?
Speaker 3 (14:09):
I mean the beautiful thing about my children and you know,
having my wife who has supported me for just my
whole fucking career. Those things like burgeoning and happening simultaneously
with the rise of the I would call it the
Internet and social media. Those two things running in parallel
got me to see that one of these is clearly
very important and real.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
It's the real thing, and one of.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
These is just this ineffable and articulated scroll of you know,
endless content.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
And that thing is your family.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Yeah, it's just a photo reel of it's just nonsense.
It's just bullshit, just me eating with them and changing
clothes and standing at a doorstep and holding holding an
idiotic just chalkboard that said first grade. Yeah, what a
waste of time toilets meaningless meaningless? Yeah, you know what happened, man?
(15:00):
Do you remember this might date this a little bit,
but about a month or two ago, James Earl Jones
passed away? All right, beat the legend, the legend. Now,
now what what a career and what a life he had.
But the day he died, some politician also did something idiotic.
And I just remember his passing and I go, holy shit,
Mufasa died. Yeah, fucking Darth Vader died. And they didn't
(15:25):
stop my daughter's elementary school. They didn't They didn't break
to a commercial break like on local news. Instagram didn't
stop and go hey, just just for a moment, you know,
before we see a new Kaisanat video, can we just
acknowledge that James fucking Earl Jones passed away there, Brett.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
I'm going to say this, with all due respect.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
You can combine my career and your career combined, it
will not measure up to Darth fucking Vader.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Yeah yeah, I mean stage, screen, everything.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
And I realized I was like, oh, the speed and
rapids of modernity has turned legacy into something that is
effectively worthless because because you can't beat now, you can't.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Beat right now, Like, what what about right right now?
You know? And it sucks because we know how much
work we put into everything that we do. Yeah, when
people are like so what about.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
The next season of Shrinking, You're like this, this fucking
season just came out.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
What are you talking about? Can you you haven't even
enjoyed every episode.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Yeah, it's like I can't. I cannot beat the rate
of the scroll. But in a weird way, man, what
it made me realize is that, well, if nothing matters,
if what I've done yesterday or ten years ago doesn't matter,
then the only thing matters is just what we're doing
right now.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Okay? Is that weird? Is that weird? Is that weird?
Speaker 1 (16:45):
You brought me back from the brink. I was close,
but then you brought me back.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Well, there's a lot of stuff that's happening right now
politically where people are like, well, nothing matters. And what's
weird is if you were to see nihilism as the
circle and you really go down in his comics, you
know that we will we can get super dark. Yeah,
but the snake will eat its own tail. Where it's
like if well, if nothing truly matters, then kind of
everything the next everything matters. Yeah, every little action you
(17:10):
take matters. Then if you were to take it to
it's yeah, I agree. I do think everything matters and
nothing matters. What do you think it happens when you die? Man?
Speaker 2 (17:19):
I don't know, but I'm but I have faith. I believe.
I believe in something bigger than myself. You have a
do you have a visual for we? Oh? Like, is
there a heaven? Is there? I just believe.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
I just I can't even articulate. I just think there is.
I'll say this. I was I was having a conversation
with my dad and my dad was telling me. He goes, uh,
you know the thing I think that's extremely strange about
your generation is your your generation is obsessed with this
idea of justice, And he goes, I don't think you
guys will ever understand that absolute justice will not be
(17:55):
possible in this world. It's only possible in the hereafter.
And that really resonated with me because the world that
we are living in has so much context and is
so highly variable. Each of our lived experiences is loaded
with all of this historical context. There's no way any
(18:15):
one person can do the long division on your life
for my life, for you know, the history of a
country or whatever. And I love that idea of just
like I don't think we'll be able to pull out
the advocus of justice here. It'll all make sense somewhere else.
And that kind of that made sense to me.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Yeah, does that mean that there's punishment on the other
side for people and rewards?
Speaker 3 (18:39):
And maybe it's just not that at that crul, but
I just believe that, like, if you got short changed,
you'll God's gonna come with I don't know, there's gonna
be a receipt, right, You're gonna have a receipt and
just be like, hey, hey, someone owes me twenty five dollars.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
And like you like you will be made.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
I don't know why, I just I just don't have
to give you twenty five dollars night.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Hey man, sorry about that, you know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (19:02):
And then you and then you're like really in once
you know, you know, like my bad.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Do you think do you think God has a sense
of humor? Yes? Do you same? Yeah? Yeah, for sure,
for sure, for sure.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
I got news for you, buddy. There is a heaven
and you'll go into it amazing and it is filled
with your favorite thing. What's your favorite thing?
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Probably playing basketball on a summer night.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Well, there's a summer basketball court. It's a perfect temperature,
and all your friends and legends are playing, and you
play basketball as long as you want. However, everyone there
they want to talk to you about your life, but
they want to talk about your life through film. And
the first thing they ask him is what's the first
film you remember seeing?
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Hassan mint Oh, man, I don't know if we're the
same age, but Tim Burton's Batman.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Fuck Yeah?
Speaker 3 (19:53):
The second one, the best one, the best super of
memorable time returns?
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Is it? Batman Returns? Batman Turns?
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Yeah, was the first movie that I got to see
in theaters, and it's the first memory that I had
of like watching a feature film, and specifically the scene
where Michelle Pfeiffer starts to act and behave like a cat.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
A lot was happening in my in my mind.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
I was seven at the time, and where was this
visit in Davis, California at the Holiday Cinema. It was
the theater was called the Holiday Cinema. And I remember
going to see that film and being you know, it's
it was the first time that I felt art can
move you in many different ways, like you can be enthralled,
(20:42):
you can be terrified, kind of aroused. Yeah, yeah, all
of this is happening at once, and it was the
first time, you know, like I got to really feel
what like, uh, you know, Tim Burton was dare I
say in his bag during that era?
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Yeah? Fuck, I love the film. The film was great.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
It kind of got at the time like it wasn't
wildly loved or revered, you know it was.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
It kind of got mixed reviews.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
But I just remember the thing that I remember about
that that I still chase to this day is like,
make them feel something. Yeah, just make them feel something,
you know, through your art. And I remember being somewhat
disturbed watching it.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
That's great, that's great.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Yeah, what's the film that scared you the most? And
do you like being scared? I hate being scared? Do
you hate being scared? I remember what they used to be.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
You know, we didn't have cable television growing up, but
Return of the Living Dead was a film that was
playing just on TV one weekend in the afternoon, and
it was the first time, like I was maybe eight
or nine years old. But just the zombies eating, the eating,
the eating of the brain was the thing.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
That's just like not a fan of the brain eating. No, No,
And also did you ever have this?
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Were you the are you the oldest, older sibling or
the younger sibling youngest? So sometimes i'd go to a
friend's house to like, you know, just play and they
would have an older brother. But there was always this
like my older brother, my older sister, they're renting a
movie and they're watching it downstairs. And I remember Child's
Play was really popular, the Chucky movies. Yeah, And I
remember we walked downstairs while one of my buddies, his
(22:20):
older sister, was watching Child's Play and she's like.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Don't get it, get out of here. You guys can't
be here.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
And I was like, no, we can, we can, we
can watch like you're gonna get freaked out. And I
just remember it was it was the scene where Chucky,
you know, comes to life and was chasing this little
kid in the apartment, and it just I just remember
just being fucking horrified and being like, yeah I had
I had like stuffed animals and I chucked them out
of my room and yeah, I hated I hated the
(22:45):
genre said, yeah, man, yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Had like all toys. It's like the opposite.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Yeah right, yeah, I had all these like action figures
and whatever. And I remember I just I lifted them
and I just chucked them like I put them in
the My Mom's like, what's what is going on? And
I just I couldn't. It freaked me out. It freaked
me the fuck out. It made me so scared of
just the nights as a concept.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Do you still even if you see clips of Chucky,
does it still give you a PTSD?
Speaker 2 (23:13):
You Know what's weird is I revisit it on YouTube now.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
It's like a as like a cognitive behavioral therapy exercise
to be like you won't you won't spook on me,
you can't get me.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Yeah, I didn't even have toys anymore.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Chucky yeah, yeah, fuck you Yeah, fuck you Chucky, Fuck
you Chucky.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
What about crying? What's the film that made you cry
the most? Are you a crier?
Speaker 3 (23:39):
I'm a big crier, bro, Oh yeah, I cry all
the time in movies.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
I cried.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Yeah, I cried at the Big There's a Pixar movie
where I was watching with my wife. Oh, any pixel movie,
Inside Out too. No, it was The Good Dinosaur, The
Good Dinosaur. Yeah, it was the It was the movie.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
With the case.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Yeah, a little cave Boy, Yeah, with the dinosaur and uh,
the little cave Boy has to describe how he lost
his family and he draws it in the dirt, and
I just started.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Crying and the yeah, I started. I started crying in
the in the movie theater. But I cry all the time.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
You know. My my soft spot is generally kind of
like these like father Son. Yeah, movies Catch Me If
you Can't makes me cry.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Right exactly. The saddest film everybody, Catch Me if you Can? Yeah,
if you if you haven't seen the film.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
Christopher Watkins's character the way Frank I think is his
name is Frank Appingdale apping Gail.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Yeah, and uh, there's.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Just something about this father figure having to carry a
lie with such confidence, and he asked. He kind of tells,
you know, Leonardo DiCaprio, his son, like everything's gonna be okay.
Me and your mom are all right, you know, and
his his mom leaves his father, you know. And it's
that like trauma that makes him go commit wire fraud apparently.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
What if that was an excuse with the SEC And
you're like, why did you do this? Why did you
commit security fraud? And you're like, do you have any
idea who my mom's fucking right now? I'll tell you what.
It's not my dad. You ever heard a divorce?
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Yeah, Yeah, that's a fucking depressing film. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
But it's just there was moments where there's the scene
where basically Frank is with his son and he knows
Leonardo DiCaprio's up to something shady, and he's kind of
like smiling and accepting it.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Oh, where you're going? Where you off to?
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Where are you taking your trip to? And I'm just
kind of balling. I don't know why, man, Yeah, where
you're going?
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Yeah? And I'm just like crying. Yeah. That film is
a real BAMA.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
I've talked about it before on this but that film
is the most like miss marketed film, the biggest lie.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
That film looks like it's like do do oh? Totally yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Yeah they make it.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
They marketed it like it was like mad Men meets Disneyland,
just kind of like do you want to be a pilot?
Even the credits like yeah, totally, totally he's got the
pilot had and oh yeah, yeah totally. Speaking of a
film that makes me cry though, is if I'm in
heaven and it's a beautiful summer night, and may I say,
since we're in heaven? Yeah, when you play summertime basketball
(26:12):
in a city that's notoriously hot summer, it makes summer
nights so much sweeter. So like a Scottsdale, Arizona night
playing outdoor basketball or a Sacramento night, like it's one
hundred and three degrees fahrenheight during the day, but at
night it's like seventy one sixty nine degrees for and
it's just beautiful. But the film that also made me cry,
(26:37):
that's one of my all time favorites. Did you ever
see the movie He Got Game by Spike Lee? It
directed by Spending Yes, So there's the scene where Denzel
Washington gets out of jail, and he goes back to
his wife's tombstone, and Spike just holds on Denzel as
he kisses the tombstone and hugs it, and they just
(26:59):
pull out. They see him at the cemetery and it's
just this powerful scene.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Yeah, man, I'll be a full full tears. Man.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
What is the film that you love? It is not
critically acclaimed, but you love it unconditionally. You don't care
what anyone says. She's the man. You think she's the
man with Amanda Bynes. Yeah, yeah, that is a great shot.
That is the perfect hard set to this.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
Yes, I'm telling them, but by the way, Brett, you reckon,
you say this publicly. It's an all time classics sees
the man.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
It's a great Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Like people you know, oftentimes bring up missus doubtfire of
like it was so funny Robin Williams, he dresses what no, no, no,
Amanda Bynes pretending to be a male soccer player is
and she woos Channing Tatum.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
It's it's it's Channing Tatum. Yeah. Yeah, it's an incredible movie. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Yeah, there's not enough. There's not enough. I would even
say in the present there's not enough mustache work. There's
not enough kind of let me put on a wig
and trick people.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
There's enough trickery going on with no no, no, no no.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
When was the last time I'm in tricks to with astache?
It's been ages.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
There was this Man on the Street segment that that
was on Jimmy Kimmel where Drake dressed up.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Drake is actually very good at comedy.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
Drake dressed up as not Drake, as like a civilian
and he went on the street and he asked.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
People what they what they thought of Drake. It was
very very funny. And then you I'm Drake.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
You know, yeah, mustache, you know, fake mustache is in mischief.
We don't have enough of that. We have real mischief
in society. We don't have enough of this, Like do
you know what I mean? This kind of naughtiness, not
just a little naughtiness, a.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
Little bit enough? Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Is that corny in the UK? Like is the Nutty Professor?
Was that a thing for me? It was the Nutty
Professor coming to America. But I saw I saw them
as like real kind of comedic performances that were I
truly didn't care what the critic had to say about it,
I was like, I cannot believe Eddie Murphy's playing twelve
different people in this movie.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Yeah, I mean it's incredible. He's one of the greats.
He is such a good actor.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
And to do that without the other person in the
room because it's him, it's amazing. His timing with himself
is incredible. You think about how long it must take
for him to put on the makeup, yes, get out
of the makeup, put on different makeup, and then time
your responses and no, how he does it.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Fantastic, unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
What is the film that you used to love but
you've watched it recently and you've gone, I don't like
this anymore.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Scarface? Scarface? Why what happened? Yeah? It was.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
You know, there was this like teenage of my cheesemo
to it that I thought was so great, and I
kind of was like, Scarface kills Manolo's piece of shit.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
You know, this isn't like even this idea that it
was an aspirational thing. I was like, what are we
talking about here?
Speaker 1 (30:01):
So you were like, Scotface is a really bad guy.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Yeah, he's an outright piece of ship.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
And then a movie that I've changed my tune on that.
I go, you know, it's actually like it really is
quite beautiful. Is Donny Brasco, Well, you know, al Pacino
is kind of you know, this down and out mobster
and you know it's really about like his friendship and insecurity.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Yeah, that's a really moving film there.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
I also like that it's like low low end mobsters,
like they're just getting money out of parking meters and
ship and it's.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
Like ship like that. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
Yeah, my favorite scene, My favorite scene is like when
he when he shows Johnny Depp the newspaper and he goes,
just you like you part of this and he goes,
do you know what that makes me look like?
Speaker 2 (30:44):
You know?
Speaker 3 (30:44):
And if if this is you, I'm fucking and he
holds he does the gun thing does that. It was
just it was just like there's something so moving about
seeing a person whose back is truly against the wall. Yeah,
and they don't they don't have another move, there's nowhere
else for them to go, and it's just really there's
just yeah, you know what I mean, it's just heartbreaking.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Yeah, what what's the film that means the most to you?
Not necessarily the film itself is good, but the experience
you had around seeing it will always make it special
to you.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Man, this is gonna sound corny, I would say, Mean Girls.
I fucking love that film, guy for it. I love
Mean Girls.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
So there was a period of time, I think it's
around two thousand and five where having a DVD collection
Slash Blue Rick was a real kind of indicator of.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
It was your personality. Yeah, it was our record collection
at the time. Yeah. But Mean Girls to me.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
Was always I had the fondest memories of because at
the time when I was dating my now wife. There
are certain movies that are deemed kind of quote unquote
classics that can be gendered at times, and I remember,
you know, like having my DVD collection of like The
Minority Report. There's you know, just certain certain movies, The
godfa whatever, Jurassic par Chappelle Show Season one or whatever.
(32:05):
But Mean Girl, Mean Girls in Easy A were these
two films that I felt like perfectly crossed over both
ways and like in the best way where I was
like and if you look at just the writing, the timing,
even the like the comedic interstitials in that film were
just incredible.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
It's like one of my all time favorite. Have you
watched the music? I haven't seen the musical. How is it?
I haven't seen it yet. Oh okay.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
It was also a huge inspiration to me too, in
the sense that, like, the comedy is so good without
it being needlessly grass or vulgar or blue or not
to say that I have a problem with that type
of comedy, but its resonance was just like, oh, I
could watch this, my girlfriend can watch this, and I
can watch this with my parents.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
Yeah, it's very good.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
It's a very beautiful, like a beautiful thing, and so
it's like one of my all time favorites. It's also
just like put it on whenever and scene for scene,
you're just everybody is really firing at a very high level.
Amy Poehler is fucking hilarious in it, and she's doing
a full on character as like a quote unquote cool mom.
Tina's great in it, Lindsay Lohan is in her back.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
It's just like the whole cast is like just spectacular.
It's really hard up as well.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
It's in the area a school of rocket films, which
I think look easy on paper, but it's so rarely
pulled off as perfectly as that one.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
And I would. I mean, how many Edge of seventeen.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
There's only like a handful of films since then that
have kind of worked it somewhat on that level. It's
very difficult to pull off coming of age, high school,
early college.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
It's so hard to do.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Yeah, what is the film that you think is the
sexiest one of all time?
Speaker 3 (33:49):
I mean, I would say, Man, if we're going to
get back to it, I think I think Batman Returns
is probably.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
Yeah. Yeah, hard to be.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
There was a lot moving, you know, there's a lot
of zimes and the chemical reactions happening.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Man, there was something something was stirring within me. Yeah. God,
she's marvelous. She really is.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Yeah, Michelle Feiffer, she really is all the way through
the film. I just think she's so brilliant in that.
I think it's sort of everyone tells how sexy she is,
but it's underrated, like it's a great performance.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
I remember when I was in undergrad, I took a
film class and we learned about what a fe fetal was,
and I just I remember pitching the professor. I go, oh,
so you mean, like like Michelle Fiffer and Batman Returns,
and my professor, my college professor looked at me like
he wanted to kill me.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
He's like, what the fuck are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (34:42):
You know, this is one of those classes where they
talk about me on sin and this and that.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
I was like, what are you talking about? She's woman's
quite literally she said, you were right. Yeah, goddamn it.
All right.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
There's a sub category to this traveling bone is worrying.
Why don't film you found a rousing that you weren't
sure you should?
Speaker 3 (34:59):
I mean, I would Saynalla in the Lion King, you
wouldn't be the first. Yeah, it's the it's the rolling
around in it.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
It's the rolling around, rolling, the rolling around, it's the
rolling around. Yeah, in the pinning, the look the pinning
and then she looks hello. Yeah. Yeah. It's kind of
the shoulder movements too. It was like, whoa lovely shoulders
on it?
Speaker 3 (35:23):
Yeah, yeah, so I would yeah something like that.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
Yeah, that is the loveliest shop quite seductive.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
Yeah, what is objectively, objectively the greatest film of all time?
Speaker 2 (35:36):
Might not be your favorite, but it's the greatest.
Speaker 3 (35:38):
The way I would classify this because I got you
sent over a PDF before when I thought about it.
The way I interpret that question is I think this
is maybe by all means take take it.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
You can reframe it this way.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
Everybody has a movie they make other people watch when
they come over to be like, you have to watch. Yeah,
buddy has the prestige. He's like, you gotta watch. You
want to understand, you gotta watch the prestige. For me,
I would say a Bronx Tail. A Bronx Tail is
so fucking good. It's a great movie. De Niro is
(36:13):
so good in it was its chas commentary.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
I mean, it's like, probably is great. It won't be
his greatest performance of his career.
Speaker 3 (36:22):
The kid is great, but it also it unfolds like
a play in that one where just every scene you know,
upstairs their apartment, stoop. It really is like that and
do the right thing. But what I loved about both
of those is just it's really like a play.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
Yeah, yeah, fucking great chat that has not been put
in this category, And I think you're right.
Speaker 3 (36:45):
I think you're right too. Nobody's ever brought up a
Bronx Tail, not in greatest and they should have. Okay,
what is the film you could or have watched? The
mist Ivan Iver again, Bad Boys, Michael Bey Yeah. Directed
by Mike Og the Og nineteen ninety five Bad Boys
Michael Bay fucking hell, bro. I mean, my god, dude,
(37:09):
you were watching Martin Lawrence at the peak of his superpowers. Yeah,
you were watching Will Smith at the beginning of what
would be his his tear and takeover of Hollywood. The
two of them combined. Holy shit. I mean when I
tell people it's one of my favorite comedies, They're like,
what are you what are you talking about? And I'm like,
just let's just watch, just watch the scene of the
(37:31):
two of any scene of them in the Porsche, in
that iconic Porsche get Yeah, they're timing their rapport. You
know this directing too, Yeah, Bad.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
Boys Too is one of the best coming, one of
my favorite codes. I love. Yeah. It's just funny, it's
just spectacular.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
And it's also one of those things where you can
put this on paper the same premise a million times.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
It's it's not gonna work.
Speaker 3 (37:53):
I feel the same way about Rush Hour, Like rush
Hour is so fucking hilarious, But if you were if
you were to actually pay the premise, like go into
a studio and pitch it, they'd be like, are you racist?
Speaker 2 (38:05):
I'm telling you. I'm telling you.
Speaker 3 (38:06):
I'm telling you this, I promise, and this dude and
he's gonna repeatedly accuse him of not being able to
speak the language properly. But I'm telling you it's gonna work.
And they but they love each other, Carter and him,
they love each other. They'd be like, this is not
this is the most insane. This is an insane idea.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
This is not gonna work.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
And what happens at the end one it's gonna jump
down a very big ribbon. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, and
it's all gonna work. It's it's totally gonna work. Yeah,
great shout. We don't like to be negative.
Speaker 2 (38:32):
Hassen. What the West film You've ever say?
Speaker 3 (38:36):
You know, I've I haven't seen it, but I remember
when you're traveling, do you ever do this where you
don't watch a movie on the plane, but you're watching
somebody else watch a movie on the plane.
Speaker 2 (38:45):
Yes, I have done.
Speaker 3 (38:46):
Okay, so I'm I'm technical. I don't know if I'm
right or wrong, but I watched another person watch Fantastic
Four on.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
The reach one with the one with just yes, Chris
have it. I think Chris, he's the one.
Speaker 3 (39:06):
He gets on fire. Yeah, he's a torch. But man,
oh man, was this guy? Was this guy sitting next
to Michael Chickliss was Yeah, the rock Man thing, the
Rockman the thing. But the guy I was sitting next
to was fucking livid. Watching him watch Fantastic Four was
just spectacular. It's up it's It's one of my favorite memories.
(39:29):
It's up there with if you live in if you
live in New York City watching people break up in public.
Oh yeah, that's Watching this man watch Fantastic Four as
we flew to Charlotte.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
Was like an all time, all time memory because he
was living. He was so angry and he didn't stop though,
he didn't stop it. I have to finish this. Yeah,
that's fun. That's fun.
Speaker 1 (39:52):
Tell me this. You're in comedy. You're very funny. You've
had three specials for goodness sakes. So what's the film
that made you love the.
Speaker 2 (40:00):
This has been said, right, they've they've I mean home alone.
Speaker 1 (40:03):
Alone, No, I don't think what's the funniest I think
this has been the greatest.
Speaker 2 (40:09):
Brett.
Speaker 3 (40:09):
You're on like episode number three seventies, I mean, yeah, man,
so my son is four and a half. Yeah, I'll
forward the movie just to when they break in, Oh
my god, a paint can to the head?
Speaker 2 (40:23):
Are you kidding me? Dying? Yeah? Are you kidding me?
Bb gun to the balls? Are you fucking kidding?
Speaker 3 (40:29):
I mean these are just yeah, timeless, timeless, Yeah, all.
Speaker 2 (40:35):
The time, all time movie. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:38):
Do you want to continue to ignore the related to question?
Or have you got an answer? You don't have to
ever answer it, but if you do have one, you
know what it is. I'll tell you right now. Yeah,
go ahead, right now. I'd love that. I'd love it
if you would.
Speaker 2 (40:52):
Yeah. Did you ever see the movie Carlito's Way cutage?
Way is in my top ten.
Speaker 3 (40:56):
With the opportunity Okay, So when I was coming up
and stand up, the character played by John Leguizamo Benny
Blanco from The Bronx h so reminded me of like
what it's like to be a comedian coming up in
New York City.
Speaker 4 (41:13):
Table sitting at the table, yeah, sitting at the table,
yeah yeah, or whoever you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (41:18):
And they go, why won't you wyon't you? You know?
Speaker 3 (41:20):
Like whatever that used to be you oz, that was
never me? And it just so reminded me of like
the the struggle and the come up of being like
a young comic, you know, trying trying, trying to impress
the upper classmen. Yeah, Benny, Benny Blanco from The Bronx,
shout out to John Leguizamo, one of the great, one
of the great comedic, one of the great dramatic actors. Yeah,
(41:40):
medic actors, dramatic actors.
Speaker 1 (41:42):
Bro, you went from not having an answer to having
an incredible answer on that one. Yeah, I fucking love
That's one of my favorite opportunities. Is Cully's great.
Speaker 2 (41:55):
Oh he's incredible. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (41:56):
When he pulls out he's coked out of his mind,
he pulls out the gun. He thinks it's so funny.
Just reminded me. It reminded me of comedy in that way. Yeah,
of just like the comedy scene is just this kind
of like group. It is the mafia. There are rules,
but there are simultaneously no rules and.
Speaker 4 (42:12):
Yeah, yeah, and there's tables, always tables. There's always a table.
Can I sit at the table?
Speaker 2 (42:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (42:19):
And then also it was like to me, the whole
thing at the end when he finally gets out of
the game and then he goes you remember me and
Spenny Blanco from the from the Bronx and he shoots them.
Is also the thing of like anger, hatred and revenge
in and of itself can't be the thing that drives you.
Speaker 2 (42:34):
You know, it ends in tragedy in that way.
Speaker 1 (42:36):
You can't be a headliner if you kill people, if
you literally kill people.
Speaker 2 (42:41):
If you literally kill people. Yeah, yeah, you're not good.
Speaker 1 (42:46):
Hasten. You have been amazing. However, what's up when you
were maying you alone because you're trying to be handy,
you were trying to impress your wife. Yes, frankly yes,
because she's not in your long time. She's used to
your com she's used to all your achievements. What she
isn't used to is you taking care of some jewels
and you're like, I'm going to load this more, load
(43:07):
this morn.
Speaker 2 (43:08):
You're gonna load this one. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (43:09):
Of course, as they say in America, they say differently,
I'm going to load this morn.
Speaker 2 (43:14):
Yeah, let's participate in domestic labor. I'm going to load
them on. I'm going to load them on. So you're
lowering the.
Speaker 1 (43:22):
Yeah, your wife pops outside and she waves and she says,
has I've never felt so aroused just watching you do this,
and you go, oh really, and you turn to her
and as you do your hands let go of the
law man. It spins in a circle and at your
feet it catches you and you're like, and she goes, yea,
(43:44):
ages you're going.
Speaker 2 (43:46):
And then find you and as you do, it goes
and it ribbons all the way up. Yeah. Yeah, yeah,
she covered in blood. Oh god, Jesus got yeah, blood
guts everywhere. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (43:58):
I'm walking past with a coffin. You know, I'm like, I, guys,
I signed around. She goes, is he around? He's fucking
all over me? And I go, yeah, Jesus, night, look
and I go ship and I go when your kids
come home, and she goes, yeah, the kids.
Speaker 2 (44:09):
Know who he is? I go fuck.
Speaker 1 (44:11):
So anyway, I go, well, let's clear him up before
they get here. So we're having to dig you up.
And by the way, I've had to shoot the law
mower because it's just going.
Speaker 2 (44:19):
I just had to shoot it repeatedly. Anyway, me and
your wife we get so we're.
Speaker 1 (44:24):
Having to sort of use a spade dig up fucking
bits of the field is just so embedded in it. Anyway,
we put all of you in the coffin. There's more
more of you than I was expecting. Coffin is absolutely round.
There's only enough room for me to slide one DVD
into the coffin for you to take to the other side.
And on the other side, it's movie night every night.
What film are you taking to show the basketball players
in heaven when it is your movie night on the
(44:45):
other side.
Speaker 2 (44:47):
Blue Streak starring markin Lawren to David.
Speaker 3 (44:54):
I love Marks, I love yeah, love.
Speaker 1 (44:59):
Has And thank you so much for doing this. Would
you like to tell anyone to look look, look for
watch things with you coming up?
Speaker 3 (45:06):
Hey, please watch Off with his Head streaming now on Netflix.
And you know, just enjoy your enjoy your family, enjoy
your loved ones. And yeah, man, nothing matters, nothing matters,
So everything matters.
Speaker 2 (45:17):
I appreciate you being here. Thanks so much, man, it
was really nice to meet you. Thanks for doing this.
Thank you man. Yeah, thank you, dud. Good day to you, sir. Cheers.
Speaker 1 (45:28):
So that was episode three hundred and twenty nine. Head
over to the Patreon at patreon dot com forward slash
Brett Goldstein for the extra fifty minutes of Chat Secrets
video with Hassan go to Apple Podcast, give us a
five star rating and write about the film that means
divice to you and why it's a lovely thing to
read and it helps numbers, et cetera.
Speaker 2 (45:42):
It's really appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (45:43):
My name bit Moreen loves here. Thank you very much.
Thank you too, Hassen for giving me his time. Thanks
to Scruby's PIP and the distraction pieces of Network. Thanks
to Buddy Peace for producing it. Thanks to iHeartMedia and
Wilfaw's big money players Neby posting it. Thanks Adam Richardson
for the graphics, at least land them for the photography.
So come and join me next week for another incredible
get Thank you all for listening. That is it for now.
In the meantime, have a lovely week, and please, now
(46:06):
more than ever, be excellent to each other.
Host
Brett Goldstein
Popular Podcasts
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com