A.I. EP. 296: “I Know He Can Get The Job, But Can He Do The Job” - Joe Versus The Volcano 35th Anniversary

We’ve done quite a few episodes on Tom Hanks movies and if they’re from the eighties or early nineties, chances are we’ve brought on our good buddy Abe Sword. We kept that streak alive and brought Abe back to talk about Joe Versus the Volcano. He got the job and did the job well. Enjoy!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:36):
The indoors Man.

Speaker 3 (00:40):
What is happening? I'm roblne Quist. Hello, I'm Boo. Helloy,
are the Avid indors on?

Speaker 1 (00:47):
Everyone?

Speaker 3 (00:48):
Hello? Hello?

Speaker 4 (00:48):
How are you sir?

Speaker 3 (00:50):
Doing great? Buddy?

Speaker 4 (00:51):
Just living the dream?

Speaker 3 (00:52):
How about you? Oh man? I got here a little
later than we said we would get together. I was
not smart and I left my phone in my kitchen
while I was playing catch with my son. And that
sounds like a pretty good reason. It was pretty great.
I'm enjoying it. He starts baseball tomorrow. Amazing where he's

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gonna play. He's gonna have practices two days a week
for like five weeks, and then games for five weeks.
Fun and I'm stoked.

Speaker 4 (01:23):
I'm really the sly pitcher. Is this like te ball style,
I'm assuming it is, but we're going to see it
at the coaches pitch or whatever.

Speaker 3 (01:32):
Probably, Yeah, cool would be my guess. Yeah. Fun, But
we had to go get him a baseball glove and
I've been trying to like break it in so that
he can like actually claim so right, right, because he
had one even just from last year, and it's just
way too small. Yeah right. So yeah, so I was
a little tirdy fun anything new and fun with you, No.

Speaker 4 (01:57):
Not really, just hang it out doing the fine.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
Doing the thing. Yeah. We got Timberwolves playoffs, which has
been fun. That has been fun.

Speaker 4 (02:05):
Big game last night. They're up three to one, which
I didn't think was gonna happen.

Speaker 3 (02:09):
So that's nobody did.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
Right.

Speaker 3 (02:11):
It's so much fun. I know, it's been amazing. Have
you been watching any fun movies? Yeah.

Speaker 4 (02:19):
I went to the theater and I saw The Accountant
to You.

Speaker 3 (02:23):
Tell Me, Tell Me some Things, Tell Me Everything. No,
really fun.

Speaker 4 (02:31):
It definitely plays off the first one. It feels like
a different movie than the first one, but mostly in
a fun way. This one is a little bit more
straight action movie, I would say, okay, but not in
a bad way.

Speaker 3 (02:45):
You know what I mean? I said, I didn't really
feel like the I wouldn't have said the first one
was an action movie at all.

Speaker 4 (02:50):
Yeah, it had components of that. I feel like this
one more so that, but in a fun way. Some
great action. They make a couple very strange choices, I thought.
But also I was still just having a great time.
So I really liked it. I thought it was nice.
If you liked the first one, you'll like this. If

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you like action movies, you'll also like this. It's just
it's gonna be a great time. I promise you'll like it.

Speaker 3 (03:15):
So that's awesome. It was fun. You go with someboddies, Yeah,
I went with the Dave and Matt and Powells.

Speaker 4 (03:21):
It was fun, nice, It was a good time. How
about you, What have you been watching?

Speaker 3 (03:25):
I went and took a recommendation from you. Oh and
I watched Keiki, Palmer and Sizza in the movie One
of them days.

Speaker 4 (03:34):
Well, yeah, what'd you think of that?

Speaker 3 (03:36):
I enjoyed it. I enjoyed it quite a bit. It's
currently being played on Netflix. Super enjoyed it, very fun time.
While watching it, it really reminded me of the movie Friday,
Big time. It's all in one day. It's dealing with
some people on like the lower income side of things,
and the goofy characters involved in that group. Cat Williams

(04:00):
was really funny in his small role. He was the
goofiest of that. He was very silly, Lil Rel Howie
had a little cameo that was funny. Yeah like that.
But yeah, I had a great time with it. It
was just fun, you know. I didn't have to think
too much. I'm I'm becoming a big fan of Keiki Palmer.
I feel like I'm late to the Kiki Palmer tranger,

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but her whole personality. I'm just I'm there for it.
I'm in.

Speaker 4 (04:28):
Yeah, I really liked it. I thought that was great.
I felt like it was like kind of Booksmarty Slash Friday,
almost like it felt like a combo of things.

Speaker 3 (04:37):
But it was fun. It was fun. Have you been
streaming anything fun? Uh?

Speaker 4 (04:42):
Not streaming. But I did go take one of your
suggestions and I saw the Minecraft movie. Oh you did
with the post Boys. I went and hung out with that,
which was fun, and man, you were right. That movie
is bizarre but fun, like super wacky and fun. It
doesn't make like a lot of sense, I feel like,

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but it was a good time as a Minecraft player.
There are parts that I really loved seeing and then.

Speaker 3 (05:10):
Yeah, I didn't have any of that because I never
played Minecraft, so I didn't know if it was if
you'd played it.

Speaker 4 (05:16):
Because of that, you know, it was just like, oh
they did this you know thing or whatever. I was
laughing so hard at the spot I felt bad. But
the spot where Charlie was so sad.

Speaker 3 (05:28):
Yeah, he was so sad, I know, dude. And like
afterwards we're explaining it to Kelsey and he is bawling
about this one Piggy he made this beautiful picture, sweet boy?
Is that so funny?

Speaker 4 (05:47):
And I was like, I'll tell you later, Like it
was just cracking me up.

Speaker 3 (05:51):
But seriously, a two second scene.

Speaker 4 (05:54):
So early too.

Speaker 3 (05:55):
I was just like, oh it stuck within the whole movie.

Speaker 4 (06:00):
Yeah, oh bless his sweet little heart. But yeah, it
was like you said, Jack Black is just crazy in this.

Speaker 3 (06:09):
Dude. That song, that Lava Chicken song is like a
top forty hit in the UK right now.

Speaker 4 (06:15):
It's so silly.

Speaker 3 (06:16):
It's the shortest, it's like forty second song. It's the
shortest song to ever be in like the top forty.

Speaker 4 (06:23):
Ever really, Oh that's funny, love Chicken, It's perfect. What
else do you need?

Speaker 3 (06:29):
You know?

Speaker 4 (06:30):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (06:31):
It's really Jack Black.

Speaker 4 (06:32):
It's really really wild. But yeah, I thought overall it
was really fun. It was a good time.

Speaker 3 (06:37):
It was silly.

Speaker 4 (06:38):
I'm sure they'll make more now because it probably made
a bunch of money.

Speaker 3 (06:41):
But dude, if Jack Black was not in that movie, no,
it wouldn't work. It wouldn't be good.

Speaker 4 (06:46):
I swear he was the pitch and then they were
like I and minecraft. I don't know, Yeah, it doesn't matter.

Speaker 3 (06:51):
We have Jack Blie. Jasimo was great in parts, but
otherwise I was like, if he was just gonna be
like leading that movie, it would not have work.

Speaker 4 (07:00):
Well his character is kind of like a douche to
Yeah yeah, so but yeah, I don't know. I really
had a good time.

Speaker 3 (07:09):
It was fun. That's good. This is a silly good
time for sure. How about you? What are you streaming?
I'm streaming something that I know you've been streaming because
we've watched a little bit of or talked a little
bit about it. But one of my favorite shows that
come out in a while is The Studio on Apple TV.

Speaker 4 (07:25):
Plus oh yeah, iven't.

Speaker 3 (07:28):
Actually talked about it on here. It feels like a
smarter version of Entourage in the sense that it's the
behind the scenes of the entertainment industry, and it opens
itself up to a bunch of fun star cameos. So
many in the first couple of episodes we saw Martin Scorsese,

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Brian Cranston, Katherine O'Hara. I think, is she's more more
than Yeah, Greta Lee, Ron Howard, Olivia Wilde more. It's crazy.
But then just like the cast, you got seth Rogen
and Catherine Hahn and Ike Barnholds such a good time.

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The coolest thing is that they're doing these incredibly long
one shot takes, which you know, I'm a sucker for.
And I've also heard that that adolescent show is like
all one shot.

Speaker 4 (08:21):
I heard that too, But that doesn't sound nearly I know, yeah.

Speaker 3 (08:25):
It sounds more intense for sure. But yeah, the second episode,
I know we've talked about, but the entire forty plus
minute episode was done in one take, and it was
also just the cringiest finished you stopped it in the
middle of it.

Speaker 4 (08:44):
I haven't finished it.

Speaker 3 (08:46):
It was so cringey.

Speaker 4 (08:47):
I was just like, I can't. I can't handle this
right now.

Speaker 3 (08:50):
I got to get out here. In the most recent episode,
I think it's five or six now, but the one
that just came out also super cringe, like he's really
laying into the crew.

Speaker 4 (09:05):
It's really good at it. It was just that night
because I think because I'd watched the first episode and
I was like just rolling through and I was like, no,
I don't. This isn't a roll through, not on this
one for me.

Speaker 3 (09:17):
Oh, you just feel embarrassed, just like, dude, no, stop it.
He just keeps making the wrong so great though.

Speaker 4 (09:26):
It's so funny though, I mean, it's funny.

Speaker 3 (09:28):
Yeah, I'm loving it. It's really cool.

Speaker 4 (09:32):
He had a cool interview to Seth Rogan about He
was like, everybody can do edits now, so these one
shots are like a sign of actual having money and
doing like a professional show now. And I was like, oh,
that's kind of interesting. It's a cool take on it,
you know, as to why they seem like they're really
prevalent right now. Ish you know, but yeah.

Speaker 3 (09:52):
They're cool. Yeah, they're super hard to pull off. I
can't believe they're all doing them. Yeah, dude, I mean
it just takes so much more up and yeah, patience,
it would just I would be the guy at the
end of the forty minute take that's like and then
I lie and then.

Speaker 4 (10:12):
No yeah, no no, yeah, but uh that's awesome. I
love it. I can't wait to watch your rest.

Speaker 3 (10:19):
But yeah, man, it's something. Yeah, it's not currently done,
but I think I think there's six episodes out currently.

Speaker 4 (10:27):
Nice are they doing? I suppose you don't know, probably
ten or something.

Speaker 3 (10:30):
I would guess. I haven't looked it up.

Speaker 4 (10:32):
I don't know either.

Speaker 3 (10:33):
Yeah, just eight to ten though. Nice? Well love that.

Speaker 4 (10:38):
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Speaker 4 (11:51):
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Speaker 3 (11:53):
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Speaker 4 (11:59):
But we're here to to talk about a great little film.
That is what are we thirty five years old from
nineteen ninety correct, Well, this is a movie called Joe
Versus the Volcano head to head match Sunday Sunday Sunday,
like they're fighting. Yeah, but this is a whimsical movie,

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and so we had to get our most whimsical pawback
with us. Welcome him from the Land of Organ give
it up for everybody.

Speaker 3 (12:33):
Babe, what's up? Abe? Hi, Hi buddy, how are you good?

Speaker 5 (12:41):
Lovely day out here in the in rural Oregon. Been
run around my chickens and dogs and things.

Speaker 3 (12:47):
I love it.

Speaker 2 (12:48):
I love it a little mine, machete work or.

Speaker 3 (12:50):
Just out there does oh nice?

Speaker 4 (12:54):
Hopefully on none of the i'n tall on vegetation right,
none of the animals so far, so far.

Speaker 3 (13:00):
Nobody mouthed off yet. Good good good.

Speaker 4 (13:03):
Yeah, you got to keep them in line, but you
don't want to do it right.

Speaker 3 (13:06):
Last resort they make you.

Speaker 4 (13:10):
That's fun. We're happy to have you here. Also happy
to get out and see that beautiful.

Speaker 3 (13:16):
Tract of land that you have out there.

Speaker 4 (13:18):
You should do it org and get away. The August eighth, ninth,
and tenth coming up.

Speaker 3 (13:24):
We're booking then we're there.

Speaker 4 (13:26):
Well I'm not booked.

Speaker 3 (13:27):
Yeah, I'm not booked, but we will be.

Speaker 4 (13:29):
I have it in my calendar, that is. It's a
long way down the road.

Speaker 3 (13:34):
Yep.

Speaker 4 (13:35):
It's super super fun. You guys check it out if
you're thinking about it, and go to Tim Fuss music
dot com if you want to get tickets right.

Speaker 5 (13:42):
Indeed, Yes, lots of surprises lots of new things coming
and some old favorites too, So yeah, I'm very excited.

Speaker 4 (13:49):
It's music, it's food, it's general tom foolery. It's really lovely.

Speaker 3 (13:54):
It's a very camp on your property. It's like, oh yeah,
it's really great.

Speaker 4 (14:00):
Excited for it, so check it out, check it out.
But we're here today to talk about a wonderful film,
Joe Versus the Volcano YEP.

Speaker 3 (14:11):
Which is old. I didn't know it was that old.
Thirty five years I figured I figured it was old.
It feels old.

Speaker 4 (14:18):
I only vaguely remembered this movie. But we're going into
all that. Rob started with a rough SYNOPSI I would
love to.

Speaker 3 (14:26):
Okay, Joe Banks is dying. Apparently this is good news,
since his life is not much worth living anyway. On
the upside, a strange millionaire offers Joe a way to
die with meaning and dignity by hurling himself into a volcano.
With plenty of spending cash and an ensemble of new luggage,

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Joe embarks on an absurdist journey to his demise, guided
by two very disparate sisters and trying to puzzle out
the meaning of existence.

Speaker 4 (14:59):
All right, just that that's all he's trying to do.

Speaker 3 (15:01):
That's all he's trying to do. I love it.

Speaker 4 (15:03):
Let's go to Rotten to models and here, but they
have to say. Critics have is coming in at a
rock solid sixty six percent.

Speaker 3 (15:10):
Yeah, you know, before rewatching this, I would have guessed that,
but now after the rewatch, I'm surprised.

Speaker 4 (15:17):
Yeah, me too. It sounds like a critics kind of movie. Yeah,
you know, there's a lot of nuance to it.

Speaker 3 (15:23):
It's interesting.

Speaker 4 (15:24):
Audience members liked it less. They have it at fifty
four percent.

Speaker 3 (15:29):
Yeah, it's a little wild. That's low. It's very low.
It's low.

Speaker 2 (15:33):
I thought it would have been more of a crowd pleaser.

Speaker 4 (15:36):
But I think it's important to know what we think.
So let's go into our hot take.

Speaker 3 (15:40):
Hot take. That's a hot take. That's a hot take. Hot. Yeah,
it's so hot, nice timely.

Speaker 4 (15:51):
Yeah, good for you, for you. I'll go first on
this one. I don't think i'd ever seen this movie before.
I've definitely seen pieces of it before, but I think
I just was a little too young to actually understand
what was going on or have watched the whole thing.
I thought this was a lovely film. I really enjoyed
it a lot. It is a farce, which is, you know,

(16:13):
very fun. I enjoyed those kind of movies. They've got
some great music in this movie, Like the soundtrack is wonderful.

Speaker 3 (16:22):
And I think I saw the director did some of
the music too, he wrote some of the score. Oh really,
that's fun.

Speaker 4 (16:28):
I miss that. That's really cool, really really great stuff.
It is one of those you know films that like
it seems silly and you know, kind of surface levely
at first, and then you get into it, like they're
tackling some big questions here. You know, this is akin
to well, all the books that he says, right, like
Romeo and Juliet, Yeah, which I think is super fun.

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That was, but they really are covering all those things.
It's all about people that are choosing to live a
different life for however long they have left. And more
and more as I age, those types of movies with
those messages really mean something to me. So I really
had a great time watching this. I can't believe it's
rated so low, Like you said, Rob, after seeing it now,

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it is silly and weird, but in the best ways,
I guess to me now and I really thought they had,
like the director really put in some some very like
cool artsy choices in it, you know, like the cityscape
and stuff looked really interesting. There was a lot of
like saturation of colors and things and interesting motifs.

Speaker 3 (17:35):
And just random fake hammerhead shark that was so good.

Speaker 4 (17:41):
I was giggling away at that, Like the whole the
people on the island were what did they say? I
can't remember the line, but they're like they were Jews
and there were something else, and then they got there
and they're doing like a Polynesian version of Havanaguila like
all these things, which is really fun. I just thought
it was a really a really interesting, silly, fun movie

(18:05):
that was. It was a great time. I really enjoyed
it a lot with some great acting. I thought it
was interesting the scene where he uh, where he goes
and like buys all the trinkets that he ends up
using later in the trip and stuff. Yeah, he's Tom
Hanks is absolutely doing his own voiceover for that scene,
which is really funny because they try to make it,

(18:27):
I think, sound like it's someone else. He puts on
like a little bit of a voice, but it's definitely
just him, so it seems like it was maybe like
a little bit of a rough and ready budget, you know,
lower budget film that they just made happen, which I
really like. I don't know, I really enjoyed it a lot.
I guess that's my hottest take.

Speaker 3 (18:46):
It was fun hot take. Hat we have such a
similar take. So I saw it when I was a kid,
and I didn't get it. Honestly, I don't know if
I got past the beginning with the horrible fluorescent lighting
in that office, because everything else kind of seemed new

(19:06):
to me. Sure, So this is the first time I've
seen it in probably thirty years. I was so pleasantly
surprised by it. It feels kind of like a movie
fairy tale, kind of like a princess bride's kind of vibe.
It's written and directed by John Patrick Shanley, who I
knew because he wrote and directed the amazing drama Doubt

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with Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Meryl Street, Amy Adams, Viola Davis.
You should see it. It's much more intense than this movie,
way more intense. But yeah, this was the beginning of
the Tom Hanks Meg Ryan collaboration. We have seen several
times in Love I think I thought this movie was

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really dark when I was a kid, but it's just
so much more silly than dark.

Speaker 4 (19:55):
Sure.

Speaker 3 (19:56):
I like the theme of needing to get out of
your head and live life to its full. It makes
you feel good. They kind of hit you over the
head with some of the themes. It's it's uh, you know,
they put the b in subtle a little bit, like,
you know, his shoe is messed up and he's like,
I'm losing my soul. But there's like a bunch of

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symbolism throughout, you know, there's a lightning bolt that you
see throughout the whole thing, Like the shape of the
path to work is a lightning bolt, the company sign
is a lightning bolt, obviously, the boat getting hit with
the lightning bolt, and then the path up to the volcano.

Speaker 5 (20:34):
Also in his apartment, the big crack on the wall
is that same shape too.

Speaker 3 (20:39):
Yeah. Oh, I don't think I noticed that, which is cool.
I like that. Yeah, So that was interesting. And all
three versions of Meg Ryan they grabbed his hand and
the first one, Didi kept a closed fist, which was
kind of the only reason I noticed it because it
was so weird. And then the second version like gives
him a handshake, but that it's like it, and then

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the last one like actually like fully accepts him, and
I thought it was kind of interesting what they were
doing there. But yeah, hot take. I liked this film
so much more than I remembered. And it's one of
the many reasons I love doing this podcast because I
get to enjoy old movies that I didn't.

Speaker 4 (21:19):
Know I liked, nice hot hot take take, Hey, what
do you got?

Speaker 3 (21:24):
What's your hot take?

Speaker 5 (21:25):
Pretty similar to y'all as far as as heat and
temperature there, I didn't think several times. Let's see, So
it was in nineteen ninety, so I would have been
thirteen when it came out, and so similar to when
we talked about The Burbs, it hit me at a
really impressionable time.

Speaker 2 (21:42):
And you know, we had the taped off TV VHS cassette.

Speaker 5 (21:46):
With Joe Versus written on it, and so it was
one of those things put on like homestick from school
type thing, along with Princess Bride. Yeah, and like you
mentioned the Hammerhead Shark, I appreciated more the absurdity of it.
I feel like it keeps it from aging poorly because
they're like they're not trying to trick you with special effects.
It's like, clearly, Okay, this is where you suspend your disbelief.

(22:09):
This is a fairy tale play along. And so that
stepped me a little more. And then also, as Rob
mentioned the early parts the gray scene, I didn't realize
that basically just the last twenty minutes of the movie
they're on the volcano. It's pretty late into the story
that they actually yeah, the volcano shows up. It's in
the title of the movie. And so I appreciate that more,

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the pacing of it, the time to let it breathe,
time for those big cinematic shots.

Speaker 2 (22:37):
And things like that.

Speaker 5 (22:39):
We're pretty fun and like you said, pretty heavy handed,
but like in a playful way, like not so serious,
and so I think it's more palatable because of that.

Speaker 3 (22:47):
Sure love that. Yeah, I totally agree with that. Hot
take hot, super hot.

Speaker 4 (22:56):
Love it should we talk about our favorite acting performance and.

Speaker 3 (22:59):
Shall I him the dude? Dude?

Speaker 6 (23:02):
I'm the dude, So that's what you call me, you
know that, or his dudeness or duder or you know,
el dud reno. If you're not into the whole brevity thing, Okay, hey, what.

Speaker 5 (23:15):
Do you got for your dude, I'm going to go
do that here and go with Meg Ryan and her characters.
It's it's fun to see, you know, her is a
through line, but these different characters she's playing and just
seeing how she gives you those almost exaggerated versions of
the first two to set up the third full person

(23:37):
and yeah, so that's She's so easy to watch for me,
you know, especially that era of her where she was
a lot of ways kind of typifies that late eighties
early nineties like mannic Pixie dream girl as they would
call her these days.

Speaker 3 (23:55):
Right, yes, yeah, yeah, I love that.

Speaker 5 (23:58):
I found myself having three different crushes the same actress
in the in the.

Speaker 3 (24:01):
Movie, absolutely, dude. Yeah, I had such a crush on
her back in the day, and it was so weird
seeing her with those brown contacts that like totally changed
her whole It was weird, right, it was weird. It
freaked me out. But yeah, I also picked her and

(24:22):
for all the reasons you say. The different voices were
really fun. I didn't know that she like had those,
you know, it was so funny.

Speaker 4 (24:28):
The first time I was like, why are we doing this?
And then I was like, oh I get it. Yeah, like,
what big swing here? Good?

Speaker 3 (24:39):
Her second la one was so goofy deeper and I
was into it. Yeah, big meg Ryan Fan, I'm with you.

Speaker 4 (24:49):
That's great, clean sweep here. I'm with y'all. I thought
she really also, like you said, rob the with the
holding of the hands and the three different ways that happened.
M hmm, I thought, was like really indicative of how
this film, like it did hit you over the head
with themes, and then also it snuck in some as

(25:10):
well when it wasn't being absurd, because yea, at least
to me, that felt like, we also are going to
meet people along the you know, the route of life
that are either willing to go with us on this
travels or aren't but can still be beautiful and we
can have a moment with them, you know, like the
one was closed off, she couldn't quite commit, the other
one had stuff going on she wanted to but wasn't

(25:32):
quite there. And then the third one, you know, was
a little bit closer to where he was on his
you know path.

Speaker 3 (25:37):
Which I was like, after her dream was done and
she was ready to jump in with him and exactly, yeah,
which is really cool.

Speaker 4 (25:47):
So I loved it and I'm with you, guys. She
was just wonderful, really clean, sweet.

Speaker 3 (25:52):
But you know, Tom Hanks, he was so much fun
in this too. It kind of reminded me like once
he had his brain cloud and knew he was, you know,
going to do what he was doing. He kind of
felt like his character in Big a bit. Sure. Sure,
I saw a lot of Big in his performance.

Speaker 4 (26:16):
But it's funny early on. I was getting a lot
of separency vibes early on with like how much he
hated the job and like that long hair and you know, sure,
all the all the vibes there, which was kind of fun.

Speaker 3 (26:30):
Yeah, but he's so great. I love him.

Speaker 4 (26:33):
They're wonderful together too, they really are. It makes sense
why they made so many movies together.

Speaker 3 (26:38):
So much chemistry.

Speaker 5 (26:39):
Yeah, there was some moments where it felt like there
was a little bit of a smirk between the actors
as they're having fun with the performances too, and almost
like almost like an SNL cast member almost cracking, you know,
he say a little twinkle in their eye.

Speaker 4 (26:51):
Yeah, yeah, totally, which is so lovely to say.

Speaker 3 (26:55):
I like that.

Speaker 4 (26:56):
That's great, clean sweep, nicely done. Let's talk about the
rest of the folks, shall we name the Ducci World?

Speaker 3 (27:04):
Sure for this one, eh.

Speaker 5 (27:06):
I'm going with mister Wapooti as my Tucci the boss,
and that's the first act. It's just it's so pitch
perfect as far as you know, unlikability, like it really
you know, gives you a great villain to start things
out with, to sort of typify as you said that
that severance motif.

Speaker 3 (27:26):
Of like get my job.

Speaker 2 (27:28):
Everything's gray or.

Speaker 5 (27:29):
Fluorescent lighting and yes, you know, just he just really
like choose up the scenery so well, which is you know,
saying something when you're on screen with Tom Hanks.

Speaker 4 (27:38):
It's so great.

Speaker 2 (27:43):
Yeah, that's just like gives me a.

Speaker 3 (27:45):
Good so funny. That's Dan Hideya And so I always
think of him as like the dad and clueless or
what's the other one First Wives Club, he's one of
the husbands in that. But yeah, I would like definitely
think of him for this role, like he really stands out.

(28:07):
He's perfect. It's incredible. Yeah, yeah, I had him way
up there as well. I went with Abe Vigoda because
that was one that I remembered when I was a kid,
and I remembered him as the old guy and look
who's talking to I was like, I think I put
that together that that was the same guy, and I
was like excited about it. But it's so funny, man.

(28:30):
I loved that that they showed that it was like
the Jewish folks out there and what it just made
it so to ad for no reason, which was great.
But it was so good and you can't be like, oh,
well this doesn't age well because they're on this island,
explain it. Oh god, it's funny. They like rite it away.

(28:54):
They're like, no, don't worry about it. You're fine. Yeah. Yeah,
I was into it.

Speaker 2 (28:58):
And did you notice that Nathan Lane also as one
of the natives and.

Speaker 3 (29:02):
There so so good. God, he was great.

Speaker 4 (29:07):
I love him. Fun to see Robert Stack for a
hot minute in this movie.

Speaker 3 (29:13):
Rescue nine one one guy.

Speaker 4 (29:14):
That crazy voice.

Speaker 3 (29:16):
Yeah he was the guy who did rescue nine Ye.

Speaker 4 (29:18):
Well, I think so that's what I feel like.

Speaker 3 (29:19):
I was one of those or unsolved mysteries. Maybe it
was that right when I said rescue nine one one,
I was like no, because he would always be like,
if you know the location, yeah, wasn't it him? I
think anyway? I think he was an airplane.

Speaker 2 (29:35):
Also, he was.

Speaker 4 (29:37):
Definitely an airplay. Yeah, that's a good call. YEP, for sure.

Speaker 3 (29:41):
That's really funny. Did you find it? He said? They
said Rescue nine on one was William Shatner. Really, I
don't remember that, but probably hosted Unsolved Mysteries. That's Robert Stack.
You were right. Okay, you're right.

Speaker 4 (30:00):
I was with you when you said it at first,
and I was like, wait, but he always says something like, yeah,
we don't know what.

Speaker 3 (30:05):
Happened mystery still Yeah, that makes sense. But as soon
as I said, I was like, I don't think I'm right.

Speaker 4 (30:11):
Yeah, something has gone wrong.

Speaker 3 (30:14):
But I made a terrible mistake him.

Speaker 4 (30:16):
He's got that crazy voice and he basically did that
in everything I ever heard him in, which.

Speaker 3 (30:21):
Ye fair play. I would too.

Speaker 4 (30:25):
Lloyd Bridges also was wonderful, as it turns out, a
terrible devil like character. Yeah, it's just tricking people into
killing themselves be rich in things.

Speaker 3 (30:38):
It's pretty cood. Yeah. This guy, he goes to the
doctor all the time. He's a hypochondriac. He doesn't live anyway.

Speaker 4 (30:44):
The guy, he's fine, we'll get him, he'll buy some
stuff first, it'll be great. Yeah, and he said his
daughter right, doesn't have a great relationship with any of
his daughters, it seems, so it's interesting. Also, I didn't
know if because the two daughters were related, were we
supposed to believe the other one was like a other

(31:06):
daughter that we didn't know anything about.

Speaker 3 (31:09):
I didn't feel that way. To do you feel that way?

Speaker 5 (31:13):
I hadn't thought about that, But now my mind's kind
of racing on it, Like how deep was the con
because the one little plot point, not that this is
a plot point movie, but it was like, how did
they set him up with that doctor? How do they
get Joe to go to a doctor that doesn't see
anybody else?

Speaker 2 (31:28):
But that could maybe be the keep it unlocks that?

Speaker 3 (31:32):
Sure, Yeah, I like that. I like that.

Speaker 4 (31:36):
But yeah, Lloyd Burgess was great. And then that Ozzie Davis,
the driver guy, he.

Speaker 3 (31:41):
Was really wonderful. He was wonderful. That's a cool scene.
It's fun.

Speaker 4 (31:46):
Those were kind of all the ones I had written
down though, same what we said?

Speaker 3 (31:51):
Same? Did you did you have anybody else? A if
you want to talk about.

Speaker 5 (31:54):
I think we covered my performances. I I think it
was Carol Caine that had little brief appearance in there too.

Speaker 3 (32:00):
Yes, dude, it's the hair dresser and she was, and
she was in it for like nine seconds. Yeah, and
I think I saw that she did it like she
didn't even put her name in the credits. It was
like a faith game. Yeah, weird. I don't know what
they're going for there, but.

Speaker 4 (32:18):
A contract thing. I feel like sometimes they play games
with that or.

Speaker 3 (32:21):
I don't know, maybe she just didn't have anything to
do that day and it was like, I'll be there address.

Speaker 4 (32:25):
He's so recognizable for some reason.

Speaker 3 (32:28):
I don't know why.

Speaker 4 (32:29):
Yeah, it probably is the voice.

Speaker 3 (32:31):
You're right, but crazy voice. She's great.

Speaker 4 (32:34):
It's a good call.

Speaker 3 (32:35):
Nice. Well, why don't we talk about some of the scenes,
and let's choose the Dingus the.

Speaker 2 (32:42):
Sodas.

Speaker 3 (32:43):
It's quite simple really Ingus Dingus.

Speaker 4 (32:45):
I could talk about my Dingus all night long.

Speaker 3 (32:48):
Her favorite scene, abe, so.

Speaker 5 (32:50):
My Dingus is that that first opening sequence at the factory.

Speaker 3 (32:56):
You know you have that yeah.

Speaker 5 (32:57):
Sixteen tons song going, and yeah, I like that. They
let it breathe, They take their time with it. It's like,
I don't know if it's an actual tracking shot, but
just following him, you know, from parking lot to desk
and just the drudgery, the flower in the concrete, which
you know, if you want to use a heavy handed symbolism, yes,

(33:18):
and you know, the soul, all all those things. Really
it's you know, I was trying to see it for
the first time again, and you know, you don't know
where it's going to go from there, but it's you know,
there's it's setting up something big, some some big change,
and so it's it's a fun ride and just so
well executed with that stupid path that goes, you know,
in a non straight.

Speaker 2 (33:38):
Line, and you know, all the grays, the lights.

Speaker 5 (33:42):
I did notice this time, rewatching in high depth on
a big screen, the some of the background stuff that
I hadn't noticed or at least remembered from first seeing it,
and that that was cool to see, just like the
various medical model things on.

Speaker 3 (33:57):
The walls and.

Speaker 5 (34:00):
Too that I might not have noticed on our nineteenish
magnavox back in the day.

Speaker 3 (34:04):
Sure home of the rectal Probe or whatever it was.

Speaker 4 (34:12):
The testicles, the like prosthetic testicles. He's just playing with
them on his desk, like.

Speaker 2 (34:18):
The Loue pump that he's filling cans with.

Speaker 3 (34:21):
Yeh, yeah, yeah, totally, yeah, that was gross.

Speaker 4 (34:25):
I thought that he steps in like four different puzzles
or puddles.

Speaker 3 (34:28):
To Yeah, and then they had that crazy shot. It
was probably tough to do back then too. I was wondering, Yeah,
they like go way up, you know when he looks
up total after he's stepped.

Speaker 4 (34:41):
In the puddle, big crane shot or something.

Speaker 3 (34:43):
Yeah, had to have been yeah, pre drone definitely definitely, Yeah,
I definitely had that up there as well. I went
with the quitting scene. I love the quitting scene. That
was so much fun to see him get all excited
because he's just been so miserable leading up to that

(35:04):
point and him like kind of realizing like, yeah, I'm done,
I'm done with this out. I've sold you my soul
for three hundred bucks a week, and also I would
like to take you out, lady, or you know. It
was just so much fun. All of it was, and
that's why we're doing it for our Top five draft.

Speaker 4 (35:24):
So I like too that he had the physical comedy,
like with the fake arm and all that stuff too,
and that scene which was really fun.

Speaker 3 (35:31):
You know before he was fighting with that and it
was just such a Tom Hanks delivery too, and he's
like I can feel it, just like sucking my eyeballs
or whatever. He's just so Tom Hanks to love that.

Speaker 4 (35:45):
Well, we already mentioned it, but I did love the
fishing scene as well, just for pure silliness.

Speaker 3 (35:51):
He's so silly. I thought was really great.

Speaker 4 (35:53):
You know, she's catching fish after fish.

Speaker 3 (35:56):
And real fish, so we assume he's going to be
catching something. And then I love their.

Speaker 4 (36:03):
Choice to just make it the goofiest looking shark, too possible.
It's so wonderful.

Speaker 3 (36:09):
I really liked it a lot. I thought that was good.

Speaker 4 (36:12):
Uh, and then that the Hollywood Date. I really liked
the Hollywood Date. I thought that was really lovely.

Speaker 3 (36:18):
Yeah, she explained to her poem and.

Speaker 4 (36:20):
Stuff, she's super weird and it's just so weird.

Speaker 3 (36:24):
Would you like me to read it again?

Speaker 4 (36:26):
Yeah, One Life, Sure, yes I would. And then just
any movie that's kind of like that Brewsters Millions, a
kind of situation where someone's just like spend as much money.

Speaker 3 (36:41):
Yeah, I think that's always fun. I was debating on
asking for that for a top five draft, like a
shop montage, because I feel like there's some good ones
and that was fun. It's a good call.

Speaker 4 (36:53):
Yeah, that'd be a good one for the future for sure. Well, yeah,
it's just they're silly and fun.

Speaker 3 (36:57):
Yeah, did you have any other on her upsade?

Speaker 5 (37:01):
You mentioned the Hollywood scene, and so that that whole
sequence where you know, she she talks about how La
is horrible and I love it or something to that
effect when they're first driving through.

Speaker 2 (37:12):
And also the.

Speaker 5 (37:13):
Progression of the color is getting added to his life,
you know, and then you're an all and everything's color
and he's left that black and white life behind. And
so I think that kind of wake woke me up to,
you know, and you start realizing this excitements building, something
is coming still, So that was great.

Speaker 2 (37:30):
And then when the natives greet.

Speaker 3 (37:32):
Them on the island, yeah, fun, yes, and you.

Speaker 5 (37:37):
Know you start realizing, okay, they have Ava Gooda and
Nathan Lane here, so this is going to continue on
the absurdity and the silliness. And you don't get to
say that's not realistic because they've already taken that away
from you.

Speaker 2 (37:47):
And so I like that little trick that they flip.

Speaker 3 (37:51):
And just drinking their their orange soda.

Speaker 4 (37:54):
What was it called orange soda? Yeah, that's so good,
that's a that's neat.

Speaker 5 (38:02):
You go so that is a reference, I believe to
what they call cargo culture and cargo cults that actually
happened like in the South Pacific around World War two
in particular, where they would have like misguided cargo that
would land on these islands of like isolated natives and
they would take whatever they found from these things and
basically they fold that into their religions and they're a

(38:26):
wild And so there's still islands out there that are
worshiping things like you know, soda cans and stuff because
that walked up on their shores as part of the
war effort.

Speaker 3 (38:35):
Yeah. Wild, I've never.

Speaker 4 (38:37):
Heard of that.

Speaker 3 (38:39):
Cargo cults very neat. I'm into it. I want to
read more about that.

Speaker 4 (38:45):
That's cool.

Speaker 3 (38:46):
Yeah. On that volcano. I just I enjoyed the marriage scene.
I loved all of the dialogue in that and then
the jumping and getting spat out. It was just all fun.
He's just like do you and do you? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (39:03):
We did it?

Speaker 3 (39:04):
Yeah yeah, yeah, really fun.

Speaker 4 (39:08):
I also liked the Lloyd Bridges scene where he's just
being the devil in retrospect, you know, like but he's
really I don't know, he's just so engaging in that scene.
I really thought that was fun when he's trying to
talk him into it and yeah, you tell me why
he needs him and all those things that that was cool.

Speaker 3 (39:25):
That was fun. Well not but yeah, I would do
I would kind of do that whole opening. Yeah, seen
through the quitting scene. It's kind of a lot the
first twenty five minutes, first act, the first act. Yeah,
I love it.

Speaker 4 (39:42):
I'm into it.

Speaker 3 (39:44):
Well, it's been chosen nice. Let's talk about some of
these quotes.

Speaker 4 (39:47):
Let's show me the money, show me the money, show
me the money.

Speaker 3 (39:56):
What do you have for quotes?

Speaker 2 (39:57):
Say?

Speaker 5 (39:58):
So, the one that I kept coming back to is
maybe not the most pulled quote from it, but Rob
mentioned it earlier when he's doing his I quit freak
out and he asked Dede out to dinner and just
the delivery. It's such a simple exchange, but he says,
you know, dide how about dinner tonight? Yeah, okay, And
like how quickly she came with that comeback, and how
just sort of sweet. It was like that the feels

(40:21):
a bit and you know, there was a lot of
other ones I liked a lot, but that was the
one that I really settled on because it is a
pivotal moment too, you know where she's breaking out a
little bit. She's like, yeah, I like.

Speaker 2 (40:32):
This version of you, and yeah, it made me feel good.

Speaker 3 (40:37):
Yeah, that's cool. I love that too. I like that.
I had a few he is, Hi, Joe, what's with
the shoe? He said, I'm losing my soul. Yeah, I
just thought, like that really great. The second version of
Meg Ryan Jake, So what did you do before you
signed on with Daddy? He says, I was an advertising

(40:59):
librarian for medical supply company. Oh, I have no response
to that, which she's like, I enjoyed that a lot.

Speaker 5 (41:11):
I used that line in my life occasionally as like
an inside joke with myself.

Speaker 3 (41:17):
There's no response to that. It's good. It's good, but
Kenny do the job. I know we can get the job,
but Kenny do the job. I'm not arguing that with you.
I'm not arguing that with you. It's so good. Just
over Harry, Harry, Yeah, Harry, but Kenny do the job.

(41:39):
Loved all of that so funny.

Speaker 2 (41:41):
That was a close second for me.

Speaker 3 (41:44):
Oh dude, he says it a hundred times. So though
it is really good. Towards the end, Yeah, when she's
saying pretty much getting married. It's like, Joe, nobody knows anything. Well,
take this leap and we'll see, will jump and we'll
see that's life. That's kind of felt like the main

(42:07):
theme of the movie too, you know, the ethos of
the whole thing.

Speaker 4 (42:11):
Yea, yeah, kind of, Yeah, for sure.

Speaker 3 (42:14):
Why don't you say some bukes?

Speaker 4 (42:16):
Well, part of that scene that you said they talked
about getting married and then she's like, what's the problem.
Are you afraid of the commitment? You're gonna have to
love an honor me for about thirty seconds, yeah, because
they're just about to jump in.

Speaker 3 (42:30):
I like that a lot. Okay, all right.

Speaker 4 (42:35):
The interaction between Dan Hdea and Tom Hanks when he's like, Joe,
I want those catalogs and he's like, well, you insisted
that you had to be the one to order them,
so I don't know. If he's like I want them,
he's like, well, I agree, please order them that watch yourself, Joe.

Speaker 3 (42:52):
Yeah, Like it just felt.

Speaker 4 (42:53):
Like such a great you know, boss dynamic. You know,
that's what everybody thinks their boss is doing all the
But I'm just like, you make this so hard. I
don't know what you want from me, But I love that,
then please order them, sir. I also loved when he's like,
I'm not sick other than this terminal disease. The doctor

(43:14):
He's like, otherwise, I'm in perfect health. So that was funny.
Let's see, Oh Man the luggage guy. I should have
gave him a shout out. I don't know, but he
was so weird and great. But he was just like,
have you thought much about luggage, mister Banks? No, I
really never have. It's the central preoccupation.

Speaker 3 (43:36):
Of my life.

Speaker 4 (43:38):
And he just pants, it's so great. Is the central
preoccupation of my life?

Speaker 3 (43:46):
All right, creeper, calm down? That was great? What else
do we get? I don't know.

Speaker 4 (43:59):
I had some exchmalty ones. When he's talking about the
moon on the ocean, I thought that was lovely, yeah, dude,
Or even just when he's yeah, when he's talking.

Speaker 3 (44:07):
To the moon, he's like, name, I do not know,
thank you for my life? I forgot how big? Thank you?
Thank you for my life? It was really I thought
that was wonderful. Moving. Yeah, agreed, that was beautiful.

Speaker 5 (44:23):
Around that time too, Meg Ryan three, when he's he's
asking like, well, where are we going to go?

Speaker 2 (44:29):
What's gonna happen? She just goes, It's always going to
be something with you, isn't it, Joe?

Speaker 5 (44:33):
And that was really touching and like kind of, you know, funny,
but also kind of represents like that true love that
he's found with you know, that version of her too,
where she's like, I love you and it's always going
to be something with you.

Speaker 4 (44:47):
Yeah, I love That did feel like a very old relationship, ye,
you know, like here we go.

Speaker 3 (44:53):
And as soon as he finds out that he probably
got tricked and he's probably healthy, like immediately starts like
having a sniffle and just like he's going to go
back to his old ways, and she kind of hasks.

Speaker 4 (45:06):
To snaps like, no, we're not doing that right.

Speaker 3 (45:09):
It was fun. That's funny.

Speaker 5 (45:13):
Oh and then brain cloud brain cloud. I don't know
if that counts as a quote or not. What's the
matter with you, Joe?

Speaker 2 (45:22):
Brain cloud?

Speaker 5 (45:23):
That's something that my family does to each other sometimes
when we do something.

Speaker 3 (45:29):
I love that. That's good brain cloud. Yeah, and that's great.
He's like, I still have a problem. I have a
brain cloud. A brain cloud? What's a brain cloud? It's well,
maybe I should get a second opinion so good. You
didn't get a second opinion on something called a brain cloud?

Speaker 4 (45:47):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (45:47):
Pretty good? Dumb.

Speaker 4 (45:48):
Yeah, I can't remember who he even says it to.
That must be his boss. I guess you look like
a bag of stuffed in a cheap suit for.

Speaker 3 (46:00):
Sure, mister oh Man. Yeah that was good to mean nice.

Speaker 4 (46:08):
I think that was all the ones I wrote down, though.

Speaker 3 (46:09):
Yeah, I didn't have any more. Did you have any more?

Speaker 2 (46:11):
Aim? I'm going to make sure I didn't find anything else.
I think I think we hit them all. Yeah, losing
my soul? What's the night with you?

Speaker 3 (46:20):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (46:20):
There was also I guess a quote that I came across.
It wasn't in the movie, but when I was looking,
I was thinking about the flower in the in the sidewalk,
because he was approaching and I was I think I
was trying to find a quote that i'd heard years
ago from a philosopher about that, like some people step
over a flower when an artist can write a.

Speaker 2 (46:37):
Poem about it.

Speaker 5 (46:38):
And as I was trying to find that, I didn't
quite find the one I wanted. But Hans Christian Anderson
said one that I thought applied to this movie pretty well,
where he says, just living is not enough. One must
have sunshine, freedom and a little flower. And I think
that that applies to Joe here too.

Speaker 3 (46:56):
Otally. That's great.

Speaker 4 (46:57):
I love that he like props it back up too
on his way, you know, like he's like trying to
cultivate that.

Speaker 3 (47:02):
That's great. Nice. Well let's move to Bukesh moments a
crying game. I don't think he cried too much. There
were some. There were some sweet moments. The one that
I thought was the one that I mentioned with the
quotes where he says, dear God, whose name I do
not know, thank you for my life. I forgot how

(47:23):
big thank you. I loved that, but I mean me personally,
I didn't really get too emotional about anything else. It
is so silly for this story, you know. So that
was the one I picked, Abe, do you have any others?
So you thought he might have the hood.

Speaker 5 (47:44):
The two the two quotes I mentioned when he asks
d d out to dinner and she says yeah, okay,
Like I said, that touched me so I thought maybe
it might get bugs too, and then I cry.

Speaker 4 (47:54):
But I did like it. I loved how I'm with you,
like how quickly she was just like yep, I mean,
you know, and then.

Speaker 5 (48:01):
As they're floating off into the moon set or whatever,
you know, just that that final scene where they're kind
of yielding to each other and being vulnerable.

Speaker 2 (48:11):
I thought that might trigger something too.

Speaker 4 (48:13):
Yeah, that definitely got me for sure. Nice, just the
sort of ending I'm kind of starting with the like
the line that we said of nobody knows anything. We
take this leap and we'll see, we'll jump and we'll see.
That's life. Like I like that too, And that got me,
Missy let me going.

Speaker 3 (48:31):
There are two more oh wow, okay, yeah, more than
I thought it a five banger.

Speaker 4 (48:40):
Yeah. So Meg Ryan too electric boogaloo. When she is
talking to him in the car and she's like or
he's talking about how he doesn't want to waste time
or any moments and she just says that I have
no response to that. But again, and like this time
not in a casting him a sideway.

Speaker 3 (49:02):
But in like, I'm really seeing you the kind.

Speaker 4 (49:04):
Of way, and I just, yeah, I don't know. I
loved that. I thought that was really well played by them.
So I liked that a lot. And then Meg Ryan
three the meganing when.

Speaker 3 (49:16):
She says the meaning I'm sorry, I don't know what
you want from me.

Speaker 4 (49:21):
When she's talking about she's so mad that she let
her dad dragger back into his like sort of lifestyle,
and she was like, I feel so ashamed because I
had a price. And I thought that was like a
really sure, that's a great part. I thought, I thought
that was really interesting. Again, they kind of snuck in
some like sincerity, you know, in spots, and I thought

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that was one because he had convinced her basically with
the ship, right, because he knew she wanted this, this
fancy ship or whatever. But yeah, I had a price.
I thought that was really great. That got me nice.

Speaker 3 (49:59):
So four fill was five, bro, five, you're right, it's five.
It's five counting. Sorry, it's okay, not great at it?

Speaker 4 (50:09):
Okay at movie trivia? Should we do some of that? Yeah,
there wasn't a ton for this one, but I did
get a few. Not only did Meg Ryan play all
three female leads, but she also was the voice of
the flight attendant welcoming the flight to Los Angeles. So
I thought that was fun.

Speaker 3 (50:24):
Oh, I don't think I noticed that. I didn't notice it.

Speaker 4 (50:26):
In time, that's for sure, or at the time the
lamp that Joe brings into his office. I thought was
fun that it displays all the future events in the movie,
including the yacht a volcano with that's the twisting road
right but is throughout the whole thing. And then the
large full moon is also on that lamp, which I

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thought was fun.

Speaker 3 (50:48):
That's really fun.

Speaker 4 (50:49):
Yeah, it was neat. Also a bit of like foreshadowing.
We said it at the top, But the three books
that you know he uses to describe the thing are
the plot.

Speaker 3 (51:01):
Shows them to so heavy handed. I Love and.

Speaker 4 (51:06):
Juliet Robinson Cruso and The Odyssey. So that's really fun. Also,
it tangentially related to The Odyssey. If folks liked the
sort of life, you know, melancholy part of this story,
you should check out the poem Ithaca because it's wonderful
and it's all about that sort of idea of don't

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worry about where you're going, worry about the beauty that
you see along the way. And it's really great.

Speaker 3 (51:34):
So check it out. Check it out.

Speaker 4 (51:36):
I don't know who wrote it, but just look up
at the poem you find it. Oh her when they're
overlooking Los Angeles. Her license plate reads or license plate
reads Bad Girl. But then when she's dropping them off
at the hotel and the next scene I missed that one, so.

Speaker 7 (51:58):
I didn't see the bad Girl. Yeah, so she had changed,
interesting has changed within her. The song the Mexican Restaurant
plays in it is a Spanish language version of On
the Street Where You Live from My Fair Lady of Course,
which of course I recognized from the great film Blast
in the past that we don't all have to see worries.

Speaker 3 (52:22):
His quote there was good too when he asked them
to play something. Oh, I don't know it, but however
he worded that, just asked them to play something that
would fill our hearts with I don't know.

Speaker 4 (52:35):
That's right, Yeah, make him burst or something or something
like that. Yeah, yeah, that was great, you're right, which
I'll wrote that one down. That's a good one. The
coordinates that she gives when she's doing the May Day
placed them ten miles south southwest of Carolina Island in
the South Pacific. I just thought that was fun that
they picked an actual place, or they lucked out. Maybe

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maybe that's all it was. Let's see the shot of
Joe and Dedie on the ferry against the surreal multi
colored Manhattan skyline that was so neat was shot on
a smoke filled soundstage. The moonlit water is actually made
of black plastic garbage bags with fans blowing on them,
and the skyline is just a backdrop, I guess.

Speaker 3 (53:18):
So.

Speaker 4 (53:19):
I just think that's kind of amazing because it looked
so cool and they delicately pieced it together. I like
when they can do that, Like, you know, when you
look closer, you're like, is that all it is?

Speaker 3 (53:30):
Well? That worked.

Speaker 4 (53:32):
The only major issue that executive producer Steven Spielberg took
with the production was with a long, unbroken take of
Joe leaving doctor Ellison's office building. The issue was that
John Patrick Shanley didn't shoot any coverage of the scene
beside the one shot, so Spielberg sent him back to
the location to film additional angles later, which were all

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then discarded in favor of the one shot take. I
just thought that was great that they were like, no,
go now, you're right, this will work. You're right, this
is the Yeah.

Speaker 3 (54:03):
I noticed right away that it was ambulance entertainment. I
was like, oh, Spielberg's in this, Yeah cool.

Speaker 4 (54:08):
Yeah, I thought that was really neat.

Speaker 5 (54:09):
Yeah, I was an executive producer on there, and they
were like, step back, Spielberg, we got this.

Speaker 4 (54:15):
Yeah, get out of here.

Speaker 5 (54:18):
The hack.

Speaker 4 (54:19):
The cab scene scene taking Joe's steamer trunks to the
sailboat belongs to Neil Abercrombie, who at the time was
a congressman from Hawaii. Abercrombie drives a refurbished Plantation era
taxi and the graphic on the side of the cab
is him, and it's a small nod to residence of Hawaii,
where some of the movie was filmed. So I just

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thought that was kind of neat that they used that.
I was wondering why they zoomed in on that, because
they never really talked about it again or anything.

Speaker 3 (54:47):
But I thought that was cool.

Speaker 4 (54:50):
We said the thing about the crooked or winding road
showing up in all the places, which I thought was cool,
the like lightning shape and all that, and then I
thought it was on the handle of mister Granamore's cane
is a duck's head. A duck also appears as Joe
is being prepared by the wa Ponies for his leap
into the volcano, and the French word for for duck

(55:12):
is cannard of course, which in English also means a
ruse or a hoax, so symbolically implying that mister Granamore
is playing a ruse on Joe Banks.

Speaker 3 (55:23):
And wow, Yeah, I thought that was neat.

Speaker 4 (55:25):
I didn't pick up on it, of course, but because
he's not you know, he's not really dying. And additionally,
the doctor is a quack, as we say, because you know,
not giving him the real things. So I thought that
was fun. All the duck illusions there.

Speaker 3 (55:42):
Nice.

Speaker 4 (55:43):
Yeah, I thought that was neat. That was all I had, though,
Did you find anything, rob.

Speaker 3 (55:47):
The only other thing that I saw that you did
not mention was that Julia Roberts auditioned for the female lead. Oh,
I bet she could have done it too. She could have.
She's worked with the Tommy Hanks a few times now.

Speaker 4 (55:59):
Yeah, like this chemistry though, what are we doing?

Speaker 3 (56:03):
What are we doing? Yeah? Love it? That's great. Yeah,
but will there be a sequel judgment day? No, probably
not unless it's like.

Speaker 4 (56:15):
A climate change like world ending movie.

Speaker 3 (56:19):
Now what they do?

Speaker 4 (56:20):
You know, a volcano strikes back, they're both around.

Speaker 2 (56:24):
The volcano versus.

Speaker 3 (56:26):
Yeah, break it, Joe, but probably who knows, Maybe the
fortieth they'll they'll redo it, that'd be cool or something.

Speaker 5 (56:35):
You know a little piece of trivia that applies here
to is there was an original ending they didn't.

Speaker 2 (56:40):
Use where let's see here the crew and.

Speaker 5 (56:46):
Other people are picked up by a rescue ship and
so you know, you're not wondering if they survived the shipwreck.

Speaker 2 (56:52):
Or anything like that. Okay, So in that version of
the story they survived.

Speaker 4 (57:00):
That's interesting. They do just die and they seem okay
with it.

Speaker 3 (57:04):
Yeah, we kind of just don't worry about that. As
did you notice that the woman crew member I think
her name is Amanda Plumber, but she she was that woman?
And so I married an axe murderer.

Speaker 4 (57:17):
I know, I did know that, and I was like, well,
that's weird. How did that what?

Speaker 3 (57:23):
Yeah, that was funny. I like that. That's cool that.

Speaker 4 (57:28):
There was a moment because I didn't remember how it
ended where I thought they were gonna like the ship
going down was just going to you know, someone would
find the ship and be like, well they're dead, what
are you what are you going to do? And they
were just going to live on the island form I
thought that was like I was going to end. For
a moment, I thought that would have been nice. They
were just like, they're hanging out with the native native juice.

Speaker 3 (57:51):
What ponies? What pony woods? Did you so one thing?
We have a local band in many A, yes, called
the Big Woods and lived up. I looked.

Speaker 4 (58:05):
I had no idea that's what it was from.

Speaker 3 (58:07):
Yeah, I mean I I didn't look anything up, but
I just assumed that from this movie.

Speaker 4 (58:13):
I did very at least on their Wikipedia they say
that is where that name comes from. I mean it
has to be. That's kind of what I thought too.
But I was like, wow, that's crazy. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I thought that was really neat.

Speaker 5 (58:24):
I've worked with them a couple of times. I booked
them in Oregon back when I was running a venue here.

Speaker 3 (58:29):
Nice.

Speaker 4 (58:30):
Yeah, he books the one guy books box for a
bunch of his shoes and stuff too. So I was
actually kind of like, oh, well, if I dodn't know Matt,
we could have talked to them. They must like this
movie then, right, presumably that would have been.

Speaker 3 (58:45):
I just always thought it was a fun name, but
now I know it's from this movie. Yeah, I love
even more.

Speaker 4 (58:51):
Call him Grundy what's his Grundhoffer or something like that.

Speaker 3 (58:54):
Anyway. I don't know.

Speaker 4 (58:55):
He's the one guy I know from there, but I
thought that was pretty wild. I was like, whoa weird.

Speaker 3 (59:00):
Super fun like it. Do you guys want to play
a game?

Speaker 5 (59:04):
Yeah, I'll play a game.

Speaker 3 (59:06):
Okay, thank you, Abe. I was waiting. We're gonna do
starting five again. I know you've done this before. I
gonna name five actors. You're gonna ring in with your
name when you know the name of the film. If
you get it wrong, there's no negative points, but you
won't be able to guess again for that movie. If
their actors' names remaining, you can guess those for a

(59:28):
point each. If you get any of those wrong, the
other person can come on in and steal those points.
And all of these films have something in common. When
you know the theme, you can ring in at any
time for a point. It probably has something to do
with the movie we just talked about. Ooh, okay, yep,
are you ready? Yeah, I'm getting a nod? All right,

(59:53):
we got this, all right. Number one, the first name
is Julie Warner, The second name Brian Dennihey, ooh, Number
three dan Ackroyd you four yes, Bukes, Tommy Boy Tommy Boys. Correct.

(01:00:20):
Two names remaining Chris Farley correct. H five, Oh, David Spade.
There we go, nicely done. Three points for bukes. Way
to go. Let's go number two. I feel like this
one's gonna be tougher. The first name is Diane West.

Speaker 4 (01:00:43):
I know that name, and I never know who she is.

Speaker 3 (01:00:45):
Yeah, she was in a bunch of movies. Yeah, a
bunch of them. Sweet sweet lady. The second name is
Laura Dern, also a sweet lady. The third name is
Dakota Fanning. The fourth name is Michelle Pfeiffer Fifer, and

(01:01:09):
the fifth and final name is Sean Penn. Five. Oh uh,
bug bug?

Speaker 4 (01:01:22):
Is it the one where it's her dad?

Speaker 3 (01:01:26):
Three?

Speaker 4 (01:01:26):
Is that called two?

Speaker 3 (01:01:28):
Son of Sam?

Speaker 4 (01:01:29):
Nobe?

Speaker 2 (01:01:32):
I am Sam?

Speaker 3 (01:01:34):
You are? You got it? Way to go with the
assist their bukes? Sam can't be right.

Speaker 5 (01:01:42):
I don't think Dakota Fanny was in that one.

Speaker 3 (01:01:48):
Abe gets the point there, but thanks to bugs. Let's
go to number I don't think I ever saw that movie.
Was it good? Who's very touching because he's.

Speaker 4 (01:02:01):
Like he's got some mental stuff going on, right or
something like that?

Speaker 3 (01:02:05):
Correct? Yeah, and he wants to adopt Dakota Fanning. That's right,
and it's dealing with that or she's already I think no,
he might already be her dad, and it's about keeping
custody or something.

Speaker 4 (01:02:21):
I'm not sure, sorry to cast us aside.

Speaker 3 (01:02:23):
There, you're good, you're good. All right, Let's go to
number three. The first name is Jessica. The second name
is Hume cronin Abe Abe Cocoon. They are both in
that movie. That is not correct. No, it's a great guess,

(01:02:48):
but it's not correct. Well, they are. They were married
in real life, which is real fun, and they were
in a bunch of movies together. The third name is
John go okay. The fourth name is Glenn Close okay in.
The fifth and final name is Robin Williams five four

(01:03:16):
three two Jack one. Jack is a good guess. It's
not right, but it's a very good guess. Okay. What
I feel like you might know what the theme that was.
I was going to guess that next. Well, feel free
to guess that. Okay.

Speaker 4 (01:03:33):
I think the theme is something with like a like
a young man's name Sam Tommy, right.

Speaker 3 (01:03:41):
Not a young man's name child. No, it's not that. Uh.
This movie was called oh do you want to know, well.

Speaker 2 (01:03:51):
I guess I'm already guessed.

Speaker 3 (01:03:53):
So this is a movie called the World according to Garp.

Speaker 4 (01:03:57):
I never saw that. Okay, h just someone's first name there.

Speaker 3 (01:04:03):
It is, you got it, and it's not just a
man's name. That makes sense. Yep, yep.

Speaker 4 (01:04:11):
So yeah, none of these will have yes, of course obviously.

Speaker 3 (01:04:17):
And I think technically that might have been his last name,
but they all called him Garb, so I'm going with
that was his first name.

Speaker 1 (01:04:24):
Ye.

Speaker 3 (01:04:26):
So yeah, none of these will have like a last name,
so that you don't like, wait for Aaron Brockovich one
name thing.

Speaker 4 (01:04:35):
It's just the first name, yes, share, I say, pukes,
I don't know, right, yes.

Speaker 3 (01:04:43):
So that's what we're looking for. Let's go to number four.
The first name is Scott Mosure. The second name is
Jason Lee mm hmm. The third name do you have it, abe?

(01:05:04):
I have it narrowed down right there. The third name
is Ethan Superly.

Speaker 4 (01:05:13):
Well, I have one I want to guess, but that's
not a person's name.

Speaker 3 (01:05:16):
The fourth name is his name mal is Joey Lauren Adams.
Oh and final.

Speaker 2 (01:05:26):
Abe, yeah, Chase you namy boom, you got it.

Speaker 3 (01:05:30):
And there's one name remaining.

Speaker 2 (01:05:33):
Okay, so you said Scott Moser.

Speaker 3 (01:05:36):
I said Scott Moser, Jason Lee, Ethan soup Le and
Joey Lauren Adams. Then the lead of the film five
four three two one Bukes Ben Affleck. It's Ben Aflec.
So you guys split that one one. Oh just wanted

(01:05:59):
one just Yep, he got the title.

Speaker 4 (01:06:05):
This is his first name, mal Ma.

Speaker 3 (01:06:10):
Yeah. All those people were in it up until Joey
Lauren Adams. That all that was in my brain. Let's
go number five. First name is Danny Elfman. Second name
Christopher Lee.

Speaker 4 (01:06:27):
Mm hmmm.

Speaker 3 (01:06:28):
Third name Helen up Bonham Carter. Number four Freddie Highmore
from the fifth and final name is Johnny Depp.

Speaker 2 (01:06:47):
Babe Abe Edward Scissorhands.

Speaker 3 (01:06:51):
That is incorrect. It's not a bad guess, so, but
it's incorrect. Bus Rango that is correct either, both guesses.
I went with Charlie and the Chocolate Fast. Yeah, where
are we after five? I have five?

Speaker 4 (01:07:10):
Abe has two. Everybody's in it.

Speaker 3 (01:07:12):
Everybody's in it, all right. Let's go to number six.
The first name is Justin throw Thorau. He's a good man.
And let's go to number two. Alan coming going, I
can say anything about that. Name. Number three Janine Garofo.

(01:07:40):
Number four Lisa Kudrouh. And the fifth and final name
is Mira Sorvino. Five four, Yes, Bukes, bro.

Speaker 4 (01:07:58):
Me and Michelle high school reunion.

Speaker 3 (01:08:01):
Is that called got it? Got it? That's exactly what
it's called. Did you have a name? Yeah, you had
it too? Nice? All right, Let's go number seven. The
first name is Bobby kind of Valley. The second name
is Paul Walter Houser. He was just a great actor.

(01:08:23):
He's wonderful. The third name is Sebastian Stan. The fourth
name is Alison Jenny, Oh.

Speaker 4 (01:08:37):
Bukes bukes Itanya, you are I forgot that.

Speaker 3 (01:08:42):
Sebastian stands in that nice. Yeah, he played the main guy,
the bad guy. And then you have one name remaining,
Marcot Robbie. You got it. You're doing very well. All right,
Let's go number eight. Like, these next three are pretty tough. Okay, guys, crap,

(01:09:04):
so put your thinking caps z. The first name is
Edie mcclerg. Who we love, We love Edie. The second
name shocked me, Steve Carell. Very early. I had no
idea he was in this movie until I looked at
the cast list. Yeah. The third name is Alison Porter.

(01:09:32):
The fourth name is Kelly Lynch. The fifth and final
name is James Belushi or Jim Belushi. Five four three
two one. This was the John Hughes film Curly Soon.

Speaker 4 (01:09:58):
Wow, Steve Carrell's in that.

Speaker 3 (01:10:00):
Steve Carell is in it? No kid, Yeah, I.

Speaker 4 (01:10:04):
Really like Curly.

Speaker 3 (01:10:05):
I thought that her name was Alison Porter.

Speaker 4 (01:10:08):
That's okay, that's her then, okay.

Speaker 3 (01:10:10):
Yep, I didn't realize that was looking to be pizza. Yeah,
it was John Hughes.

Speaker 4 (01:10:15):
They had great looking pizza in that movie.

Speaker 3 (01:10:18):
Yeah, she's pizza and then she's like, yeah, you're right.
I really liked that movie. Yeah, that's great. Yeah, that
was a cute movie. It's go number nine. The first
name is Alan Rickman. The second name is Anna Hathaway.

Speaker 4 (01:10:35):
Oh.

Speaker 3 (01:10:38):
The third name is the afore mentioned Helena Bonham Carter
hm hmm. Number four, the afore mentioned Johnny Depp. The
fifth and final name is Mia Wassakowska five four three Yes, bugs,

(01:11:06):
maybe Corline. It's not that same director.

Speaker 4 (01:11:10):
What's her name?

Speaker 3 (01:11:11):
It's not animated.

Speaker 4 (01:11:12):
I didn't know that lead person's name.

Speaker 3 (01:11:14):
Yeah, Abe, you got a guest buddy.

Speaker 2 (01:11:18):
Total blank.

Speaker 3 (01:11:21):
This was al I didn't think of.

Speaker 4 (01:11:25):
That until later. I never saw either of those.

Speaker 3 (01:11:28):
Yeah, because wasn't there two of them? I think the
looking Glass. Yeah, it was a lot. I watched both
of them, one of which was when I bought that
three D TV. It came with the TV that I
shouldn't have bought. I didn't have the money. You shouldn't have.

(01:11:49):
I really shouldn't have.

Speaker 4 (01:11:51):
We knew that at the time, you know, I didn't really.

Speaker 3 (01:11:55):
Think that that I'd have to pay back taxes and
then I'd need to borrow that's money from my parents.
I made an irresponsible purchase, and I'm in trouble. We
were young, all right. Let's go to the last one.
Where are we sitting at doing in the last one?

Speaker 4 (01:12:17):
I've abs two?

Speaker 3 (01:12:19):
Abe, you got to guess it right out the gate'll do.

Speaker 2 (01:12:22):
It right now.

Speaker 3 (01:12:26):
Any first name movie. And it's also really hard for
old people and everyone in it. I'm not feeling great
about it. It's very hard, Abe. Yes, Oh god, I

(01:12:46):
wish it was King. That would have been great. First
name King. You can still guess here. Let's go to
number ten. The first name is JK. Simmons. The second
name is Chris Pratt. The third name is Adam Brodie.

(01:13:09):
Number four is Amanda Seyfried. The fifth and final name
is Megan Fox.

Speaker 4 (01:13:20):
Five bors bugs, Jennifer's body.

Speaker 3 (01:13:25):
Jennifer's body either, I just know that name. Yeah, nicely done.

Speaker 4 (01:13:33):
Bukes was in that, Huh.

Speaker 3 (01:13:36):
Yeah, it's got a got a pretty stacked cast. Gotta
check that one out. Uh, bonus is gonna be Elvis.

Speaker 1 (01:13:42):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:13:43):
Then there's also like Ingrid Goes West, there's Lars and
the real girls. So some of these were tough.

Speaker 4 (01:13:49):
And also not ones you think of right away, right
if you.

Speaker 3 (01:13:52):
Yeah, and I didn't want to just do like a
name like a you know, Coralinea, and I felt like
all these are animated, yeah, that which is way harder. Yeah.
So Buge's a nice job. But are you're going to
tell us how we do our top five? Quitting your
job scenes draft, I.

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Speaker 3 (01:14:50):
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Come check out another movie next week. You'll find out
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so it'll be great.

Speaker 3 (01:15:06):
It'll probably be good, Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:15:08):
Probably probably amazing. Dare I say incredible?

Speaker 3 (01:15:11):
Yeah? Say it? That wasn't a hint about the movie.
I actually don't know, but yeah, that does it.

Speaker 4 (01:15:16):
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