Slap Shot 1977 (Brennan finally gets his hockey movie!)

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And welcome everybody to another exciting episode of Fried Rice Podcast.

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I'm your host, Andy Rice.
Let's get fried.
With me as always, it's Brennan.
Shipley up to Boston.
Hello everybody.
And with me as always, it is Michael.
He's the oldest one on the ice today, Larson.
What's up everybody?

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All right.
And welcome everybody.
It's Fried Rice Podcast where we smoke weed so you don't have to, but also you should.
You should go smoke your weed.
Might make it more enjoyable, I have to say.
Exactly, and then join us.
So this, we'll get into what we like to start with, which is what are we smoking?
And that today for me is still Alien Labs OZ Kush.

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It's going to be that way for a while because I bought, it's two for, it was two for one
day and I bought four of them.
So that's what I'm smoking.
Brennan, what did you bring?
I brought the same thing I brought last week.
It's a Toast Sit XXXL, XXXL 5 gram 8.

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I also got it from Jars.
It's a Blue Widow.
And then we have a pre-roll that I've brought the last couple weeks.
We haven't cracked open yet.
I'm assuming it's just kind of a trash free pre-roll.
It's watermelon is the flavor.
Yeah.
Those free pre-rolls you get from dispensaries suck.
Yeah, except I like them because they're the right, they're like what I used to smoke.

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That's the thing.
I actually like those because you can't hardly buy what I want anymore.
Oh, I'm sure you just, no, what you do is you ask for the shakiest weed they have.
Exactly.
That's what I have to do.
Then you can get, like the old days, right?
Get childhood weed, yeah.
Well so that's what we're smoking.

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We're smoking out of the pipe today because the bong, I broke the down stem.
So no bong opening today.
Unless I somehow edited a bubble in there earlier.
So if there was one, that was fake.
That wasn't real.
You're living in a lie.
But yeah, let's get into it.
Today's movie that we're reviewing is the Brennan Appreciation Week pick, a movie that

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he has been trying to get us to watch and is threatened to make us watch for months
now.
And it is Slapshot 1977 starring, what's his name?
Paul Newman.
Paul Newman and then a bunch of other people.
But mainly Paul Newman and the Hanson triplets.
Yeah.

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Or the Hanson brothers.
Well it's two Carlson brothers and one Hanson.
Okay.
Because the other Carlson brother that was going to be the third Hanson actually went
to the NHL because they were real hockey players.
I read, yeah I saw that because they were the only ones that looked like real hockey
players.
Yeah, I think there was them and then the guy with no teeth was also a real hockey player
who wasn't even supposed to be in the film.

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He was just kind of there and then like the director saw him take his teeth out and was
like, all right.
I can use that.
I can use that.
Yeah.
That's fun, yeah.
Well yeah, you could tell they used real hockey players because the hockey action in the movie.
The hockey itself is really, that's one of the highlights of this movie is that like
the hockey games looked like they were just playing games.
They took the best shots of those real games and used them.

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Yeah.
Because that's how I feel like you should do movies.
I feel like if you're playing, like unless, I know that they want to have these big dramatic
moments and you could absolutely have those, but like for the most part watching like just
an actual game and then just highlight the best parts of it would be cool too.
Yeah.
Like, Rocky, it felt like.
Rocky did that.

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Yeah, that's what I was going to say.
Rocky feels.
Feels like a real fight.
Yeah, because it was.
I mean they weren't really hitting each other, but it feels.
Yeah, they were.
He ended up in the hospital.
Well, that was one time with Drago.
Yeah.
But that's, but we're talking about the first three Rockies.
They weren't really hitting.
They were making contact, but maybe most sometimes.
They're like sparring, more like sparring.
Like 10 to 15 percent power.
Yeah.

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But then also there was a lot of times where it was just camera stuff where they're nowhere
near the face.
They don't actually make contact.
A lot of movie stuff.
But yeah, Slapshot, 1970.
My first note is Brandon gets his hockey movie.
So this thing opens with the guy kind of explaining hockey.
So I like he's, so why don't you explain hockey?

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You know, like.
Tell him the rules.
Tell him the rules and stuff.
He's just drunk and he's just sort of he's just French Canadian.
He's a goalie.
Yeah.
So it's supposed to be kind of weird.
That's just kind of how goalies are in general.
That's realistic.
Yeah, that's how goalies really are.
Like one of my favorite goalies to see interview is his name's Ilya Briskolov and he's like

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a Russian or he's somewhere like Eastern European.
And like he's got one of the most quotable things where it's like, you know, someone's
asking him a question.
He's like got like a really high pitched voice for some odd reason like it's only a game.
It's it's hockey.
It's only a game.
Come on, guys.
And but he has a bunch of like just silly goalies in general that just interview really

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weird because they're just they're back there by themselves the entire game, you know, so
they just thinking left to their own watching.
Oh, shit.
Here comes black pop lock.
Yeah.
So I said I put it L.L.L. hitting the reporter.
Yeah.
What happened?
He hits him.
He's like, you know, it's like a rule.
It's like, you know, it's spearing like this.
Oh, he keeps on smacking him and shit.

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Yeah, that was great.
The best part about that, though, is the ending line where he's like, you know, and then you
you go to the box for two minutes and you feel shame and then you get free.
But you don't really feel shame.
Now, half the time you're getting into a fight on purpose.
It's a dumb penalty.
You kind of like, well, fuck.
Now I made my team shorthanded.
They're probably going to score like.

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Yeah, I think it's situational.
It's more situational.
So that's the OK.
So the penalty box, this is what's going on.
These are bad penalties.
But getting put in the penalty box, I didn't know it shorts the remaining players.
I thought you could send someone else out to replace your penalty guy.
And the reason a penalty so bad is because sometimes your best players get penalty.
Well, it's because you're now playing five on four.

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Yeah.
So there's sometimes five on three, right?
Yeah.
Depending.
Like, so there's there's different types of penalties.
Like if you get a match penalty, there's different ways that they do it.
Sometimes they're like five, five minutes each.
Because that means both teams still have five on five and those people are in the box for
five minutes.
And then after five minutes, a whistle has to happen.
Then they can get out of the box.
But sometimes they'll do it where it's like four on four for two minutes.

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You know, just if it's like a double coincidental minor or whatever, they'll do four on four
for two minutes.
And then they both come out once it's up.
Sometimes they come out and immediately fight and go back in there for another five minutes,
just depending on the game or the situation.
Is there a situation that could exist theoretically where of the five players on each team, four.

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So a total of eight players get penalized and they all have to go to the penalty box
and there's two players remaining on the ice.
Wait, are we including the goalie as one of the five?
No.
So the goalie is the sixth guy that's just OK.
So of those five remaining one on one exists.
So the lowest they'll go is three on three.
And then like the way they'll do that is either they will make them like five minute majors

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or like game misconducts or just stacked penalty time.
So like two minutes this guy gets out and they add another two minutes for that other
guy and then they get out.
So there's always a three by three.
So that you could be playing waiting for your penalty to hit.
Yeah.
So it's like, oh, shit, I'm going to go two minutes.
But I know that I'm in the penalty box for two minutes after this, even though it happened

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now four minutes ago, the penalty, whatever.
Yeah.
Like usually when that stuff happens, they'll make it like five minutes, 10 minutes.
They'll do they'll do more than just two minute penalties for the additional people.
And it's like once you have like more people coming in, like third man into a fight is
a game misconduct.
So like if you're two guys are fighting and a third guy comes in to like get into the
fight, that's a game misconduct.

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He's out.
And it could lead to more suspension games, things like that.
Someone comes off the bench to join a fight.
That's like a 20 game suspension.
Like, well, those are suspensions which is different than penalties.
Yeah.
They think you're still playing with all your players.
Yeah.
Sometimes they fighting is legal, but it's still a five minute penalty.
OK.
I had to get in between a fight last night at Cornfest.

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There was these two teenage boys that were squaring up and you could tell that they were,
you know, like like fists up and stuff.
And I was walking with Anthony and Destiny, who's the interpreter or sign language interpreter.
And she got right in between them and was like, no, no, don't do this, guys.
But then like they were getting scary.
So she got either.

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And then they threw a few swings.
And that's when I ran.
I had Anthony hold my beer or whatever.
And I ran up and I got it.
I faced the one dude and I started I just put my hand on his chest.
I was like, fuck you, idiot.
There's cops sitting right over there at that table.
You moron.
Go walk away before you ruin your whole fucking weekend or whatever.
And I just kept pushing him, you know, back and back until he turned around.

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But then we walked around the corner and these two motherfuckers found each other again and
started squaring up.
And that's when the cops went over.
And then it sounds exactly like a hockey game.
Yeah.
Except for at a hockey game, they'll be there.
They'll be standing next to each other and be like, hey, you want to go?
Yeah, sure.
All right.
Good luck.
Yeah, that's fun.
I do.
I've seen Goon and Goon 2, which I think are phenomenal hockey movies.

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Yeah, those are great.
I know that that's have you ever seen those, Mike?
It's Sean William Scott.
And he is just watching a game and a hockey guy.
It's based on true true story guy.
Right.
Like the thing lightly.
Lusely based on.
But he's he's making fun of the hockey player or whatever, or his buddy is.
And the hockey guy, the player comes up with full gear and everything up the end of the

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audience and Sean and he think he headbutts him right and breaks the helmet with his head
and fucks and fucks this hockey guy up.
So the coach is like, I want him.
And so can you skate?
No, but we'll make it work.
And it's a it's it's funny.
It's it's called Goon because all he does is fuck shit up.
That's the whole point of it.
And then and then what it sort of turns into, which is great.

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It's almost a Rocky movie because there's an older goon that doesn't like that there's
a new goon coming up and there's a there's a match that they're going to play against
each other where the whole thing is everyone in the world knows that these two guys are
going to fight.
That's the only reason they're there to watch it because it's they don't even wait for
the game starts and it's just immediate.
And that's the this has always been my thing with hockey is I don't know what just just

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watch boxing.
Yeah, I think watch hockey for the fights, though they don't.
I mean, a lot of people do.
I'm not saying you do a lot.
I'd say 50 50 on fans.
Half of them like it for the gooning.
Yeah, that's you know, and half of them like it.
I highly recommend to people that if you only watch hockey for the fights, watch playoff

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hockey, like just start with just some playoff hockey because that is like that is just the
most beautiful display of the game, like especially in this day and age where it's speed is like
the main thing.
Speed and endurance is like the main thing in today's day and age.
Plus, like hand eye coordination, because like the redirects and like all the crazy
passes like it's the game has changed a lot, especially since the 70s.

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Yeah, I used to try and watch it back in the 70s basically.
Yeah.
And and I just got out of it completely because back then you couldn't see anything.
It was it was crazy to watch on TV.
Yeah, it was not a good spectator sport at all.
They can't see the book.
That's what I'm saying, do they have upgrades now?
Yes.
Now they have a shadow around the puck.

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Yeah, you can see the puck now.
You can used to be able to see the puck.
Plus, they made the ice kind of more like really light.
It's really bright.
So it's a lot easier to see this little black disc.
I mean, I've never had trouble with it, but I grew up playing.
So it's it's kind of different for me.
I highly recommend if you haven't ever seen a game live, go see a game live.

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Sit in the nosebleeds.
They're honestly one of the best spots to sit in the house.
You can watch the play develop, just kind of see everything.
The Jumbotron's there if you can't really see very well.
But yeah, I recommend nosebleed seats are pretty good.
I mean, sitting close to the ice.
You can't see anything.
You cannot see anything if you sit close to the ice.
Yeah.
Except for what you do see, because I've been to several games.

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Yeah.
Dallas had a minor league team when I was a kid and we used to go all the time.
Minors are fun.
Yeah, they were fun.
And but we sat down like right against the glass.
And you can't really see what's going on.
But boy, when they hit right.
Yeah, crazy.
I bet you that's nuts.
And you can hear the chatter on the ice when you're that close.
That's the kind of cool part about being close.
Yeah, no, I would I would love to go.

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I've never been or maybe I have.
It's been I don't remember it.
I would say honestly, go to a minor league game because it's probably I would say it'd
be more fun at first.
You're going to see more fights for sure at a minor league game.
I would go to a minor league game for most sports outings because I feel like the it's
cheaper.
I get better seats and I don't give a shit enough about sports in general that it doesn't

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matter who's playing.
Yeah.
So it's like I could watch these guys who I don't know anybody's name or I could pay
a lot more money to watch these guys who I don't know anybody's name.
They just have a more recognizable logo.
Right.
And and there but are there any better or worse?
I mean, not that you would notice as not as a casual, but then also know, but also at
the same time, I know that.

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OK, this is weird.
So like MLB, the guys that are throwing are throwing faster than, let's say, the guys
in the in the minor leagues.
Right.
Yeah.
And the guys hitting are capable of hitting balls faster than the guys in the minor league.
So then if you just go down to the minor leagues, the level of play is just as impressive.

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They're just not throwing as fast or hitting as fast.
But you can't tell the difference.
But you can't tell because what's the difference between a 95 and a 101 in my mind of a like
a fastball?
Yeah.
But then also for them, because like if you got the you could watch Little League and
still find it fascinating if it's the best little league players against the best little
league players, they're playing at their full maximum potential and they're and they're

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doing the best game possible.
Right.
That's why people watch the little league World Series.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah.
So, I mean, I guess it just it really watching the pro sports.
I really like I've never understood people's allegiances, the allegiances.
And let me explain real quick, because like you're a Chiefs fan, right?

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Absolutely.
Chiefs, you're wearing a Chiefs hat right now.
Your car has a Chiefs thing on it.
But the thing is, is every 10 years, it's an entirely different Chiefs team, new coach,
new players.
The only thing you like is that it's from Kansas City and that it's the logo because
I mean, literally, there's the only two things that have persisted since you've liked their

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team when you first became a Chiefs fan.
The only thing that's carried over from that initial liking is the logo and where it's
from and maybe the music that goes with it.
Well, that's sort of true.
It's sort of not.
Because no players.
Ownership's the same, style's the same.
The teams tend to have in when you get to that level, they tend to have a through that

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is a take the Yankees and Dodgers, for example.
There's a throughput from 1920 till now with the Yankees.
It's not just that.
It's also the way they are built as a team.
But my question would be more, why don't you shift your allegiances around to like what's

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the best team playing or whatever?
Because then you're just a fair weather fan.
Then you just show up when the team's doing well.
I think that that's a silly thing to be criticized for.
I feel like, oh, I'm a fair weather fan because I'm rooting for the guys that are kicking
the most ass right now.
I picked the winner.
It's like, oh, oh, so the Dodgers are doing great this year.
Cool.

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I'm going to root for the Dodgers.
I get to watch the best team in baseball continue to do the best stuff.
Why would I then go, oh, but I'm really an Orioles fan.
Let me go watch their shitty fucking play the whole time.
I don't know if they're doing bad or not, but let's just say they are.
But let's just like, why stick?
Why go to a Chiefs game if they're fucking bombing, right?
Well, the same reason that you have read books by Stephen King that suck and others that

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are great.
Now, they're more often than not great.
But every once while there's a stinker.
No, but here's I think that's a that's an exact same.
Well, no, it's not.
It's so not exact in so many ways.
First off, first off, Stephen King from his initial writing is the same Stephen King.
He has changed mentally, I'm sure.

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He's definitely developed.
He's gotten better like over the years.
So, yeah, his writing style has improved.
So yeah, I could go back and read.
But he's still his first.
Carrie is the first book that was published.
No, no, it's still good.
So but the thing is, that's Stephen King.
He's still Stephen King.
But if he were to die and then somebody else were to be like, OK, I'm now writing Stephen

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King books.
I'm not Stephen King, but I'm going to write now Stephen King.
I would then maybe go, well, you're not Stephen King.
This isn't what I originally signed up for.
But that's also not the point.
You're you are picking a team.
Did you initially pick the chiefs because of location?
Was it just the local team that you had to probably because of my father?

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More than location.
OK, but were you I was in Dallas when I picked the chiefs and they were in Kansas City.
So no, did your father pick it due to location?
Probably.
OK, that's my whole point.
It's kind of like religion in a way.
It's like if you're born into a Christian family, 90 percent of chance are going to
be Christian.
If you're born Mormon, 90 percent Mormon, you're born in a Muslim country, 100 percent.
You're going to be a Muslim.
Right.

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Like it's these things.
That's the only one.
That's 100 percent.
Yeah.
Well, it's that or die.
What do you really you really don't have a choice in some of those countries.
But but if you put what I'm saying is like you're born into it.
And so it's the same like sort of like indoctrination, but it's like it's a lot of a lot of the time

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it's like father son bonding through sports, through.
Yeah.
You know, my dad's a Lakers guy and he's a UCLA Bruins fan.
Bruins, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Trojans or USC.
OK.
Yes.
The Bruins.
He's a Bruins and Lakers guy.
He likes basketball over football.
I know that.
Right.

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But really, he likes watching golf.
But when he watches golf, this is what I like, because I go, well, who are you rooting for?
He's like, well, obviously, I like Tiger because Tiger's been kicking ass over like however
long.
But he has other favorites and he is cool with whoever's like winning and he just wants
to see the game played well.
Well, I think we're that way, too, even with sports fans are the same way.
You don't know.

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You can't.
Most there are.
There are street when your team wins.
There are people that are insane.
Yeah.
However, the average sports fan like me is like I say, that's just the intelligence.
I also like the Cardinals, even though just I live here so I get to see them a lot.
So I like to watch what's going on with is the world.
The World Series going on right now.
World Series is right now.

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That was my dude last night at REC fest.
It was a fucking asshole to me because I'm not a sports guy.
So I'm watching.
There's people watching the game.
And I didn't know his World Series.
I just I just saw Dodgers and Yankees.
I should have put it together because they don't normally play each other.
But also, again, I'm not a sports fan.
So I was just kind of like, oh, like what's going on?
And he just started like being mean because I didn't know.

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He was just like, oh, it's last year's World Series.
And I was like, oh, that's weird.
He's just like, no, it's this it's game one tonight.
And I looked at me.
I almost like if he wasn't an old man, I would have been more confrontational after that.
I've been like, oh, thanks, asshole.
You know, but I yeah, he just is an old man.
He was just probably drunk and he was just being a dick.
But like, yeah, sports fans are just I think the idea of sports fanatics and the level

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to which people go and the amount of money that gets poured into just what is essentially
you could because like that's my whole point of this whole minor leagues thing is you could
go to a minor league hockey game and have as much fun as going to a Kings game, maybe
more and pay and pay a lot less.
But those Kings players are making millions.
Well, I don't know how much hockey players can pay, but like less than football and baseball.

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They get less than everybody else.
But still, it's like sports is such a weird business of of especially like.
And again, the fanaticism of just like your chiefs guy, you have a you have a Kansas City
Chiefs slow cooker, Mike.
You have no idea.
Yeah, I haven't been to your house.
I got a whole room.

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I have a whole room, man.
Really?
Not a whole room.
But it's no different.
You know, it's always funny that you feel that way about it.
But then I look around your apartment and Marvel.
But I also but I also like DC.
I like common people in general.
Yeah.
And I think that's something that he got, like because he had season tickets that he
happened to have season tickets to the Kings games the two years they won the Cup.

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And so one of the years they basically sent him like a care package, you know, saying
thanks for being a fan with a couple of like pictures, autographed things.
And then this little vial of liquid that was supposedly ice from the game that they won
the Cup on.
Oh, that's cool.
So he's got that, you know, in his room with a big picture like he's got a bunch of memorabilia.

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But right now, like he's now a season ticket holder to the rain, which is the Kings minor
league affiliate.
And they go to those all the time.
And like those are a lot more fun.
I mean, it's a lot closer to where they are because Ontario versus L.A. So a lot less
traffic, a lot easier to get to and a much cheaper.
You can spend more money on other stuff when you're there.
It's like a smaller venue.

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So it's like no matter where you are, you're kind of like in the lower deck of like the
Staples Center.
And like it's great.
And it's for him, he likes it because he gets to see the players developing that are going
to eventually become in the NHL, whether they get traded or not.
So it's kind of most people watch college football or minor league baseball, which is

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a lot of fun to you.
Yeah.
No, I look, I don't even question why people enjoy watching sports.
I enjoy sports, too.
But I am a highlights guy.
I will not sit down.
Three hours.
Right.
I'm not you. I'm spending three hours watching a fucking football game.
Are you kidding me?
With 50 minutes action.
Right.

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Yeah, dude.
I the amount of all sports are on TV are commercial machines.
It's like, hey, how many commercials can we physically show people before they're too
sick?
Like, can we exploit people's fanaticism with sports?
How close can we get to it?
And you know what?
They even go, how about this biggest football game of the year?
We're going to have people watch it just for the commercials.

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Really?
This is just what it is.
That's because they make those commercials entertaining.
Well, sure.
That's I mean, yeah.
And I everyone loves Super Bowl commercials, except for that one weird let's wash each
other's feet commercial last year.
That was a I know I'm not trying to be super anti religious.
I think I blocked out.
I don't remember that.
It was a it was a weird.
It was a weird.
It was like a Christian.

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It was just like be Christian.
I guess was the message of the there wasn't a company or anything.
Was just washing feet.
Yeah, because Jesus washed people's feet.
It just showed a bunch of people weird, weird situations washing each other's feet.
It was strange when I went to youth group as a kid.
That was one of the things we we did was not all the time.
One time we were learning the lesson.
I would have left.

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That was that was not a church thing.
Andy, you see where I know you didn't know you were involved in some kind of centerfold
cult, but they're watching your youth.
Baster had something going on.
That's funny.
I actually listen, I was your Nick was with Nickelodeon guy, your youth pastor, Dan Schneider.
No, my youth.
Actually, I want to set the record straight.

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You guys are very funny.
And I'm usually and I'm usually very critical of religion.
No, yes, and I'm not this time because I respect my youth.
Baster is a very good guy.
I was 16 at the time.
No one was taking advantage of me.
That's not making it better.
I was 16.
Still under 18.
I will explain.
How old was he?
Twenty five, twenty six.
That's grooming.

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I would say the feet washing thing was one one kid had to wash someone else's feet in
front of the whole youth group to show what it was like.
You know, like when Jesus did it, so uncomfortable.
I think I was either I was the one washing or getting my foot washed.
But like I did not remember for sure.
No, blocked it out.

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But then we but no, John, who was the youth pastor, I just set the record straight.
Amazing guy.
He's super, super cool.
We did used to he introduced us to paintball.
We used to have like a youth group, sort of paintball group that would go.
Fuck me.
That was so much fun.
But paintball is brutal.

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That's a sport that I would never want to watch because what we're exciting to watch
paintball is it.
I mean, I mean, I like clips of I see airsoft.
Yeah, these are the really good ones, the really ones that are really doing the thing
is because they have GoPros on.
That's the difference.
If NFL players each had GoPros and there was an editor.
No, no, no.
Their helmets.

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A lot of them.
Yeah, they you can see some of that.
It's you go look at that helmet.
Why don't they in the game?
They should do more of it.
Why don't you rate these like so instead of all the downtime, anytime there's a timeout,
anytime there's fucking bullshit going on where there's not a play, have somebody showing
highlights of the from the inside point of view, getting fucked up and shit.
That'd be awesome.
Yeah, it would be really cool.

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But they they're not they just again, it's just a commercial factory that they they're
using.
It's a money making commercial factory.
That's all it is.
And you get about 45 minutes, 50 minutes of football.
What once a week, twice?
What is it?
Monday night, Sunday, Thursday?
Yeah, that's the main day.
Those are the three NFL days.
Yeah.
I mean, it's just like it's modern day gladiators essentially is what all sporting events are.

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Not all.
Have you seen a tennis?
Have you seen a curling?
Have you seen a curling?
People watch it.
People watch it like they did gladiators.
Yeah, no, you're right.
I found myself watching curling once.
What am I doing?
Trying to figure out the rules.
All right.
Well, I mean, I know shuffleboard is it kind of the same.
Curling is interesting.
Yeah.

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But yeah, I I'm a Red Zone fan if it comes to like NFL.
I watched someone.
Someone introduced me to Red Zone where it's just any time shit's happening, it switches
between the games.
And see, that's the thing that I feel like for me not having a team, not giving a one
fuck about any sport team whatsoever.
Right.

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I watch Red Zone.
I can watch Red Zone because then I'm just all I'm seeing is good football or like I'm
seeing exciting football.
Shining stuff.
That's all it is.
That's all that like matters.
It's so I'm not I'm not trying to like but it almost feels like you've subscribed to
the Kansas Chiefs religion and it's it's it's comparable, I'd say to religion.

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But you signed up for it.
But even being rational enough to know that you're in a like the Kansas City.
Mini cult.
Yeah.
Mini cult or whatever.
You don't want to break out of it.
Right.
You enjoy you enjoy being in it.
You're like fine.
I know that I'm a little crazy for liking the Chiefs as much as I do, but that's OK.
I'm not alone.
There's millions of other people that are also sports fanatics.

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So then you feel comfortable with it.
Right.
Just like people are like, oh, yeah, the washing the feet thing.
That was great because all other Christians, there's enough Christians that I'm not the
one washing.
You know, it's not like, oh, no, you're the one.
Yeah.
But because I was a church to and I never washed anybody's feet.
That's true.
I don't I must have missed that sermon.
It will know Jesus.
I know the story, but I must I must have missed that day when they were doing the most demonstration

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not recreate this.
It's just not normal.
I remember one church I went to, they were trying to teach me how to speak tongues and
they're like, just make noise.
That's tongues.
And I'm like, that's that's not right.
If they're teaching you how to speak tongues, you're not speaking.
I was 13 and I was like, this this isn't right.
That's not like.
Yeah, I was like, tongues is like it's supposed to be just natural.
Like you don't know what's happening.

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Like this.
That's not right.
We're not going back to this.
Speaking in tongues isn't real.
That's not a real thing.
That's just I mean, they literally spelled it out for you right there.
You just got to make some noises.
And if enough people make some noises near each other, then it looks like we're all having
a happening or whatever.
Like we're having a spiritual awakening.
Just like if enough people like what's the point?

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It's like there's so many weird fucking things about sports.
What's the point of the wave?
Like I get I get it.
No, no, I get that it's a fun thing for one hundred thousand people to do in an arena
or during the commercial.
Yeah, or whatever.
Yeah.
Well, it's to keep the energy of the crowd.
It's like stand up shows.
You want to keep the energy of the crowd going.
Do you feed off the energy of the crowd when you're on stage?

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Yeah.
Same thing for the players in the field.
Sometimes you just want the crowd to shut the fuck up.
Sometimes.
Yeah.
Just depends if you're home or away.
Sure.
That's why like, you know, like if if the away teams get ready to kick or something
like that, the crowd gets super loud or they're like, you know, getting ready to make a big
play, the crowd gets super loud where they can't hear on the crowd can affect the game.

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They can affect the game.
Yeah.
You know, that's that's where it does actually play, you know, come into a factor for the
fans as if you're there.
Like you can actually.
You know, I guess I'm I'm sort of anti live events in a way.
Like I know that I don't like movie theaters.
I don't like movie theaters.
I also don't really.
I've been to like quite a few concerts in my life and I even having been to a lot and

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having fun at them, I still don't really get they're not as good.
There's no doubt about that.
The music isn't as good.
It's expensive.
A lot of the times like you go to a festival or whatever and you and you're just outside
in the heat and there's not like any like it's just uncomfortable.
I went back.
I won tickets to a backstage concert for was Pennywise and Bad Religion.

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And it was a K-Rock thing where I won.
It's like backstage, you get food, you get to meet the bands and whatever.
And I was excited.
And so we get there.
We didn't get to meet fucking shit.
Do we we got hustled to the bash.
They gave us like kind of like lukewarm hot dogs and a bag of chips and a soda each.
And we were shuffled to this like little area where we could kind of see people walking

(30:43):
up to the backstage.
And then they they just said, oh, yeah, thanks for winning.
And then they sent us off to the pit, which is we did get to finish up the rest of the.
So I was in the pit when Pennywise did Fuck Authority, which is really hit fucking hard.
That's a cool song.
And I like did great.
But I guess live events.
I know that I just don't like they're different for sure.

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There's something about them that's enjoyable in a way, but there's other things you like.
Well, that wasn't as good as I thought it was going to be.
Yeah.
Especially when you can literally watch shit on YouTube where it's like you could watch
their performances if you really want.
But how many people just spend time watching concert performances when you could listen
to the actual music or watch their music video, which is meant to be like a cool thing to

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watch while you're fucking listening to this.
I don't know.
Seeing God's Mac Live was pretty cool.
Like some of the things they did, like the double drum off, like just seeing how talented
the singer really was, like all the different things he does, piano, drums, guitar, sings,
like all at the same time.
It's like, what the fuck?
I did not know that.
Yeah.
Like Taylor Swift right now, I guess, is the kind of the same way she puts on a show that's

(31:48):
supposed to be amazing.
I'm obviously I've never been to a costume change.
All that.
Cher used to do that.
She changed costumes like 20 times.
I guess it depends on the style of music you like, because yeah, if you're into pop divas,
then yeah, they're going to pull out all the stops.
I went to like a Nine Inch Nails concert.
That's my favorite band.

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And it was a little lack, not like lack, like the music sounded great.
Maybe I had to be closer to really see a lot of the I was in the I was in the field area.
But like, it just sort of felt like he was playing his songs and there's nothing wrong
with that.
But like it but it's nothing special.
Yeah, it's like, yeah, there wasn't any.
A lot of it's going to depend on the style, though.
That's what I was.

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Yeah, that's kind of what I was getting at is that there's like what's like Pink Floyd?
I would love.
Oh, Pink Floyd concert would be great.
Or Rammstein.
I've seen I've seen Pink Floyd.
I saw them in a stadium and I could hardly see them.
But with the screens and stuff and then they were doing very similar.
It's almost like a video, almost like watching videos, though.
Yeah, they would put things on the screens behind them that were like a lot like watching

(32:51):
MTV.
Sure.
And if that was a different experience than just listening.
You're going to get peed on if you go to Rammstein.
I don't want to go to that one.
No, no, no, not real pee.
He pulls out a dick.
It's like foam and it's milk or foam or something.
But he or he jizzes on the crowd.
But he like pulls out.
He just fucking starts jizzing all over the crowd in the front.
I mean, sometimes I like the thing that I've been seeing where he shoots like the flare

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gun and it does the.
Yeah.
It will each country has a different thing.
So like, yeah, that have you ever seen a Rammstein video music video?
Yeah.
Oh, my God, they're intense.
Have you ever seen the I forget the name of the song, but it's like.
You have a pussy.
Yeah, I have a dick.
So let's make it quick or the other way around.

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But that video, I think you see their dicks at some point.
There's like it's a porno that they made.
OK.
But what a weird.
Yeah.
But all right.
So back to the little hockey back to hockey, back to hockey.
We didn't really want to do all these.
So we'll just go quick through the movie.
But I think that the I put the crowd.

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And I don't know why is the crowd in the first game pretty funny?
They were kind of like showing it's like some of the wives and stuff like that.
They're like, oh, here we go again.
Oh, yeah.
A lot of here we go again.
Yeah.
The mask, the mask looks fake.
The goalie mask.
It looked like one of those fake ones like that.
That's what the old ones were like.
They're like around that era, there was still goalies with nothing on their heads, nothing

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on their face.
They were wearing shit like that's fucking crazy to think about.
Well, there was a time a little while when I was a kid when they first got masks, they
had masks before, but they were crap.
And then when they first started, they would they would make fun of them like for wearing
masks.
They hated it.
Too much padding on the goalie was a bad thing.
It looked cheap.

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It looked like the one that like Jason, it looked cheaper than the one Jason Jason.
I feel like just picks up a toy mask at some point.
It looks like they're actually playing was one of my one of my notes.
Threading to show his dick and then actually doing it was pretty funny.
Yeah.
When the guys like you make me go out there, I'm going to show my dick.
I'm going to show my dick if you make me go out there and talk to these fucking reporters

(34:58):
or whatever.
It's just like it's like shows and then you just screams and he's like, I love this movie.
I'm going to pee myself if you hit me.
If I get checked, I'm going to be myself.
Her fucking driving that van is just so funny.
That's one of the funnier parts.
It's just anytime she just goes pedal to the metal does not stop.
That was a weird character.

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Why?
I guess so.
She's married to the guy that is the more talented, the talented doesn't want to.
He's pissed that he's in a shitty team.
Talented, but lazy.
And he is what?
He doesn't love his wife.
I've never I didn't really understand the whole thing that was going on.

(35:40):
It's like that's like it's kind of like I guess like back in this time, it was kind
of like a known thing for like hockey, like minor league hockey players to be sacrificing
a lot more than like the actual pros because they're not really making much money.
They're making barely a living.
If that most of them had to work second jobs, things like that to make ends meet.

(36:01):
And so like they're doing all this time, so they're just not with their family.
So the wives at this point are like, I'm done helping you pursue your dream.
It's never going to come true.
But you need to get a real job.
You need to get a real job.
He doesn't want to do that.
And the minor league hockey players, I think they were making like seriously, they get
paid like twenty five bucks for a game.
Yeah, that was it.
Well, it was probably less because this is 70s.

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Well, no, I'm saying back then.
Yeah.
Well, the equivalent of today's twenty five bucks.
No, today it'd be a hundred.
But whatever.
It's twenty five bucks.
It was living.
That's 70s money.
You could buy steak dinner.
Yeah, you buy steak.
A car.
Now it's better.
Not a car.
Now they get paid better.
Now it's usually like they've drafted.
They have a contract, a minimum contract, and then they're sent to the minor leagues

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for a few years and, you know, either work their way into the NHL and then by the end
of their first two year contract, resign a new contract.
Well, how many leagues are there?
Is there only one minor league hockey league?
So there's one main minor league, but there's like a couple different Canadian leagues.
So it's not like baseball where there's like a ball because a ball players in baseball
still get like thirty dollars a game.

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Yeah.
So that's why I was saying now it's kind of like the Canadian leagues have that like
a triple A. Yeah, the league that they were supposed to be in is like the now defunct
like minor minor league teams pretty much.
And it was like the American Hockey League, I believe was what it was.
Yeah, it's based on a real team.
Yeah.
This movie is written by a woman who whose brother was on the Jonestown Jets, which is

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what the Chiefs were based off of, which later turned into the Jonestown Chiefs.
Oh, because of the movie?
After the movie.
Yeah.
Oh, that's funny.
Yeah.
So the chief's manager is actually a nice guy is what I put.

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And I don't know why I put that, but oh, no, I think it's just a friendly conversation
with him in the goal.
Who owns the chief?
Who owned the chief?
Owns.
Owns.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But no, he's a well, at least in the beginning, he's kind of.
And then we get the Hansen brothers and I was like, so they actually play hockey.

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I knew that because I'd read the looked at the IMDb.
Almost none of these women are hot.
That's what I wrote in the entire movie.
Not one woman struck me as like, oh, that's a hottie.
The one hockey player's wife was pretty hot.
Which one?
The one that he slept with.
Yeah, she was hot.
Wait, the lesbian chick?
Yeah.
Yeah.

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Yeah, she was OK.
But then I was actually going to that scene.
Well, we're getting to the unintentionally funny.
No, the scene with Paul Newman.
Yeah.
That scene was so unintentionally funny to me.
I don't know what they were going for there, but I think they were going for the longest
nudity in any movie.
They just like left her there for like it was like a 12 minute scene.

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It was ridiculous.
Just sitting there.
Just sitting there.
This movie almost got an NC 17 rating when it first came out.
Well, for the for the cursing, for the it had a record.
It was not because it wasn't even sexual.
It was just like she would just sit there with her top off, just just having a full
bloke conversation for 12 minutes.
But then that's actually one of the more realistic.
That's what I was saying.

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And, you know, here at Fried Rice Podcast, we like really to compliment
when nudity is done tastefully.
I feel like this is a tasteful.
No, it wasn't sexual at all.
It was just it was funny because it was like they were it felt like they were going
for the longest nude scene just about dude.
Just because just because.
We when we meet the Hansons, we see them all play with their stock cars in the hotel room.

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It's like, which was broken.
I don't want to play anymore.
That was a real ad lib thing.
Like they actually brought their actual cars with them.
So they actually are children.
Yeah. Yeah. That's so funny.
It's like the two brothers like, well, it was originally three brothers
and they're all close, obviously.
But one of the brothers left and then they brought in the actual Hanson

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and they all played together.
So they were all close already.
So they already kind of had that good relationship.
And a lot of the stories were actually based off of them
that were written, like the the climbing into the crowd and fighting a crowd.
That actually happened. They actually got arrested and like all that.
It's based off of real story.
That's cool. They were they were my favorite part.
It's whole. I was like, I can't wait to actually see them play.

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All right. So I put holy shit.
What a deep and realistic coming out story.
Because honestly, she's like, it really is.
Well, I don't know.
Our husbands are gone and I'm hanging out with Nancy or whatever.
And one time we were just sort of fooling around and like we playing
and then like it kind of turned into something.

(40:58):
And, you know, we've we've been together.
And so he he's confused by it all, which again, OK, 1977.
Yeah, this is a big thing to like be like, oh, shit, I'm an actual lesbian.
But then we get
so so yeah, most tasteful nudity.
Great coming out story. Great.
Maddie, then I wish that that's the last we heard of this lesbian

(41:20):
wife, because then it goes immediately into the most problematic part of this
movie, which is I don't think it's once twice.
I think three times he uses somebody's homosexuality
and homosexuality against them to win a game.
So he goes up to that dude's fucking or that chick's husband.
Yeah. And tells her, yeah, your wife's a dyke.

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Like she's she's fucking other women or whatever to piss him off to lose the game.
And I put what what if just a creep, dude?
I think using that recently
trusting admission of coming out to enrage a guy is a low blow,
although that guy did beat his wife.
Yeah, so fuck him.

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I think he was trying to he was trying to pick a fight with him
for that reason, because he hit the wife.
But he's like, no, she's great.
Like because he even talks about it later.
He's like, oh, yeah, she's a lesbian.
Fuck. He didn't.
He didn't really care.
Yeah. Story. Yeah.
It's like she's an amazing woman. Like.
Yeah. But before that, we before
M. Emmett Walsh even turns around.

(42:21):
I or we see him on screen.
I was like, oh, I know who that that guy is.
The his buddy, the the reporter.
OK, he's most recognizable faces in Hollywood.
He was in another hockey movie. He was in Miracle, I believe.
But he was one of the either one of the reporters
or one of the back office guys in Miracle.
I can't remember. He's not that we covered that, though. Yeah.
Listen to our if you if you like hockey, go listen to our

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red in a nice rice ball.
I try to get more hockey movies.
And no, OK.
There's not that many more.
There's not. There's like a couple more.
And then after he after he does get in that guy's head,
Hansen has probably the best line of the movie.
It's like you hit him right in the mind.
Yeah. Which was great.
Damn, I like the look of the old 70s big cities.

(43:05):
Just the static of it.
I mean, it's dirty, it's gross, but it's like there's something about
the vibe of 70s that just doesn't it doesn't have the same feel.
Yeah, especially watch like old New York 70s.
Yeah, it's like everything's too polished to clean up, which is great.
Trust me. I like that.
But it looked just I don't know, man.

(43:26):
There's just something about New York or these cities where like the steam
comes out of the fucking greats and it like looks foggy all the time.
And it's like, it's like when you watch old movies with L.A.
and you really see the smog in the film.
Yeah. Yeah. Now we're all less smog, blah, blah, blah.
But we want that.
Although it's much worse now.
Anytime I go to L.A., I'm like, what the fuck?
I forgot about this. Oh, it's hard to breathe. Yeah. Yeah.

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Then we get a there's OK.
So then there's been three rapes and one murder in this park.
And then she says, well, I didn't do them.
Because he's he's followed her.
And she's like, there's been three rapes, one murder in this park.
It's like, well, I didn't do them.
That was such a great line from her. Yeah.
And then, Mike, what are they all watching in the bar?

(44:12):
What was that TV show?
I don't know if you noticed.
OK. Yeah.
So look at the TV.
Yeah. And then then we see that.
L.A. It's like a little background thing in a movie.
You're like, what was that?
I thought you would take note and say like, oh,
they're watching the part where the Hansons were putting on the foil.
Oh, oh, I think they're. Yeah.

(44:32):
What are you guys doing?
Well, you got to wrap up and foil up on the foil.
They're putting on the foil, boss. You want us to get you? Yeah.
And then they then we finally get the Hansons on ice. Yeah.
And they get into a huge fucking fight before the game even starts.
And this is this is the best part.
And they they're they're all they're all fucking bloody and beaten.

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And then we get the national.
It's so great.
Staying there.
I'm listening to the fucking song.
I'm listening to the fucking song as the ref gets.
Hey, we're going to have no party.
I'm listening to the fucking song.
So he just turns around like, OK. Yeah. Oh, shit.
The thing that I thought was funny that like after that scene,
like any other time they showed the national anthem, the conductors like,

(45:17):
get through it, get through it quick. Come on, get through it.
Like, let's get through the song.
I thought that was because they couldn't wait to see the fight or whatever.
It was a picture of the two. Yeah, that's funny.
And then
them getting arrested was pretty funny.
Why is there a Nazi in the booster club?
There's a guy with the.

(45:37):
Like, I should have taken a note picture wise,
but in their booster club that the Hansen sort of make or whatever,
like the the people that follow them around the bus, there's a guy in a
like a swastika patched fucking SS.
Was it a patch with the cross through the SS or like an anti Nazi?
Like, I don't know if it was anti Nazi.

(45:58):
Yeah, I didn't notice it either.
But I'll look again.
I'm pretty sure there's a fucking Nazi in there in the booster party.
They were maybe. OK.
But anyway, the court is borderline rapey with that dude's wife.
Yeah. With the the the one that he's trying to, I guess, rehabilitate or whoever.
Like, I don't know what his goal is.
She just moves in with him. Yeah. Yeah.

(46:19):
It's like, does he want to fuck her or does he want to help fix his buddy
or his players?
Married. Yeah. It's like a weird.
It's kind of hard to tell because Paul Newman is kind of a whore.
Yeah, he is. Yeah.
The super pervy guy on the team.
Mike is Ziggy from Quantum Leap.
Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. I don't know. I don't know if you knew that.

(46:39):
But the guy that's always like, yeah, man, I want to eat her.
Like, I don't know. You just say just weird, creepy shit the whole time.
I don't even know what it was.
It's the complete opposite of Ziggy. Yeah.
Hello, Michael. I'll help. Or whatever it is.
But yeah, it's like, yeah, why don't you eat a pussy?
My that's what quantum leap would be different.
Oh, I see you're in the body of a Down syndrome boy.

(47:00):
Yeah. Why don't you jerk off in front of the mirror?
That would be if there was a combination of the two.
Yeah. So if you're a real fan of quantum leap and it's slap shot,
I just made the best joke of all time.
Everyone else. Nope.
And then now twice he's using gay evidence as an attack.
I forgot exactly what it was.
But and then I put the 70s was dirty, man.

(47:22):
I don't like it anymore.
This movie is Mortal Kombat now.
Yeah. And more fighting this whole coach and the other day.
Dave's Dave's a killer.
Which was seen when the other guy is.
It's the scene where like Paul Newman's kind of talk.
He's talking to one of his players like, I don't know, man.
I'm getting kind of old and like, I don't know if I can do this.

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What do you mean, coach? Like, you're good.
And like the next scene, he's out there playing and the guy like hits him.
He's like, you're too old for this.
Like, get off the ice.
And he gets into the big fight with him and he gets all fucked up
and he's all bloody and getting stitches.
Do you hear what he said to him? Did you hear what he said to him?
And then like the guy attacks him on the bench and then in the locker room,
they're like, yeah, yeah, Dave's a killer.
Like the Hanson, the other guy is like, Dave's a mess.

(48:06):
I love that scene.
Dave was the yeah. So Dave.
What he's the one that got his ass beat, right? Yeah. Yeah, that's right.
Yeah. All because of what did he do to get his ass beat again?
He stood up for his coach because his coach, because kind of Paul Newman's
character was kind of like that's right.
Yeah. Manipulating them to like try to get he was trying to get them all
to kind of be this show timey.

(48:27):
It's so Dave. Yeah.
And then but everyone was waiting for Dave then in the last fight, too.
Right. To to or the big show off was the big show off with the Dave.
Wasn't it, Dave? There was he's a killer.
Like everyone was expecting him to have a big fight at the end.
They were I don't know if they were expecting.
They were expecting the Hansons to fight for sure. That's what it was. OK.
You look like you could look like Cher

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is one of the things that a woman is telling another or someone is telling.
I think it's Paul Newman is telling the wife.
He's like, well, if you do something with your hair, if you do something,
you could look like Cher, which is funny to think that at a point.
It was Paul Newman's ex wife telling the other players why.
But yeah, it's just funny.
But it's just Cher is now you don't think it shares a sex symbol.

(49:12):
But back then she was she was so weird.
She was she was hot. She still is pretty.
Well, yeah, for 80 or whatever.
She's great. Yeah. No one's shitting on Cher.
I'm just it's just well that she had a lot of plastic surgery.
Oh, yeah. That kind of ruins.
I'll tell you who didn't that we watched last night, Dolly Parton.
No. Well, also, Dolly Parton looks great for age.

(49:32):
But Reba McIntyre. Yeah.
There's a new show with her on.
She's like eight. She's like 70, I think. Yeah.
And she's playing a big sister of like a 19 year old.
Oh, wow. On this show.
That's interesting.
But it works because she doesn't look she doesn't look so.
She looks like that's a little bit like that.
And she hasn't had plastic surgery. Oh, yeah.
There was one Sandra Oh and Awkwafina played sisters recently.

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And that's I mean, but Sandra obviously isn't 70.
Right. But she's at least in her 40s.
Yeah. And Awkwafina's probably to the maybe 30 now.
It would be like 30s and 50s, 20s and 40s.
But there's a 20 year gap.
It's possible. 20 years is possible.
But yeah, yeah. Not Reba.
No, 19 year old.

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So then your son looks like a fag.
And I put Jesus again.
Just like there's so much of it.
But it's also that's part of what makes this movie.
I want to use this word. It's the wrong word.
But charming and endearing is that it's such a microcosm of the time.
Yeah. But you know what?
Here's my here's my counter to that.

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Everything is from the 70s.
If you watch most 70s movies, they're all little snapshots of the time.
That just means that time was bad.
That time was full of slurs and full of just bad shit when it comes to like
they they were not.
It shows the progress and growth of civilization.
Society. But even in here, you see, you see like Paul Newman,
even though some of the things he did were that way, but also

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from where he was coming from was not a bad place. Yeah.
So it's it's kind of weird in that way.
Where he was coming from, when he was trying to fuck that dude's wife, not fuck her.
Well, but then what I'm saying after that, when he really didn't care
that she was, you know, lesbian and all that, and then he was defending her.
Oh, yeah. It's what I'm saying is using her coming out story.

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To get her husband.
But the ramifications of what he did, though,
because they're still married.
It's the 70s. It's not a no fault divorce kind of situation.
The reason she ran away from him is because you have to get
that's the only way to leave a marriage is to run.
You can't get a divorce back in the day.
So now he has evidence that she's gay.

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So he's going to use that in such terrible ways to hurt her in the future.
Like this little fucking one thing that Paul Newman does to piss off a guy
in one match that makes him lose one game that doesn't matter
in the minor minor leagues is nothing compared to what that guy is going to do
to his wife when he finds her and realizes that she's a lesbian.
And she left him like he's going to beat the he's going to beat her to death.

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He's going to kill this woman.
That already happened. That's why she left.
But he's going to know. You think it ends.
We do. I don't think I think that that you're writing a story
in your head at this point.
We saw it. It didn't happen.
You hit a woman once.
That's not what you think every you think guys just know.
It's he's going to hit her again.
He's if he's already beaten her once, you think he's not still together.

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He was going home to her.
I would agree with you. But that's not what's happening.
She ran away.
I already left. Yeah. If he finds her, you think it's going to be just a simple.
I like you to come back home and I'm sorry for all the things I've done.
I'm saying there's a different movie where that could be the case,
but that's a different movie.
That's not what Paul Newman did was irresponsible.
Well, this movie was written by a woman, so it's pro woman.

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I just well, just because a woman wrote it doesn't mean it's your you're
you're trying to cancel this woman.
What I'm trying to do is say that Paul might have been a lesbian.
What Paul Newman did, regardless of if he cared if she's a lesbian or not.
Well, Paul Newman did was was wrong.
Well, yeah. And it's going to hurt her in the long run.
Like I'm just saying this is the 70s.

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Like this. I mean, this woman is in danger.
Like I know we're all like, you know, like, oh, you know, saw her tits and
and whatever, but she's real fucking physical like danger from this guy.
He's a monster.
She could find herself a good, strong, butch woman that could kick his ass.
She'll be OK. See even that.
I I.

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Maybe like if you like a Ronda Rousey type. Yeah.
Maybe she has a gun.
Maybe she has a Rousey is a butch, but you know, like 70s, everybody had guns.
Yeah. Yeah. OK.
That could be a whole different movie.
I would see Slapshot. Well, there is a Slapshot, too.
There is a Slapshot.
And I think it's Slapshot three, right?
I have never made it through it.
Like I start after watching this one.
I was like, I thought I could all start it.

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I started. I made it like 10 minutes in.
I was like, oh, my God, this is so bad.
This is so bad. My no Paul Newman.
I'm a. It was one of the Baldwin's.
Well, that explains a lot.
It's which Baldwin was Alec.
No, not Alec. It was even I think it was Steven.
I think it was Steve. It was the one that was in biodome, I believe.
That's Steven. Steven.
Steven. Is it's not?

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It's not a serious.
No, it's not Daniel.
It's definitely Steven now that. Yeah.
But the Hansons are in it still.
Oh, yeah. They're all three.
I didn't make it to them.
Yeah, I was like, this is bad.
Well, my spin off of this movie is going to be called Slapshots.
And it's going to be this

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recently outed lesbian woman in the 70s
running from her abusive minor league hockey husband.
And who is it? She gets a gun. Right.
And she learns how to protect herself from in like a self-defense class.
I was like, dirty, hairy kind of.
But what I want is like, she's going to first off,

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she's going to learn to protect herself in like a self-defense class.
And then he's going to find her.
It's going to do nothing for her.
He's going to beat the shit out of her anyway. Right.
And then then she needs to get a gun.
Like then she realizes, no, that's not enough.
I'm going to get a gun. And so she does.
And it ends with her murdering him.
No, not ends. This is all the beginning.
She murders the fuck out of him.
And then it's a it's a who done it sort of thing.

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Like like like what's that movie that you like?
Clue like what?
I was even like where the craw dad sing, where like she the whole time is
is like trying to convince or like.
You don't know if she killed him or not, like that's that'll be the thing.
Like we hear some gunshots and we don't know what happens
until she's in jail the next time. Anyway, that could be fun.

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Way better than probably the real slap shot, too.
So I put a scout speak like scouts.
That's there's that was those were pretty funny.
Never in a million years do I think this movie ends
with a strip tease of one of the hockey players.
Just just doing a full blown burlesque show on on ice.

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I was like, what the fuck, dude?
Well, it's because he didn't want to participate in any of the pageantry,
the fighting pageantry that he was that the coach was breeding into the team
that was making them a winning hockey club.
And like this was his way of being like, you know what?
Fuck it, I'm joining in, but I'm doing it my way.
As a former player, how realistic was this?
Because I don't think that a team that fought like this would actually be successful.

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Oh, no, no, definitely not.
I mean, yeah, the amount of fights and things like that,
they have the amount of suspensions and things like the Hansons
would have been suspended pretty quickly.
Like the even just the skating in and just smacking someone with your stick,
like all of that stuff is definitely illegal in the sport.
Like none of that's allowed.
So there's there's so many penalties and things like that.

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Even just a team trying to not not necessarily to this level, because it's a movie.
We all understand it's a movie.
They have to exaggerate things.
But if a team just wanted to be straight hooligan, basically.
So would they be successful around this time?
The Philadelphia Flyers were the Broad Street Bullies,
and that was their play style.
Their play style was a very physical, very fight in your face.

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But doing it to where the refs didn't quite see everything
because you could, you know, the refs will put their whistles away sometimes,
but they'll call a lot of stuff.
So it's more of like a mental game to kind of get in the head of your.
Well, no, I mean, like I could do the NFL, the Raiders.
Yeah, the Raiders spent years, most of their history being that kind of a hooligan team.
Yeah. Yeah.
But it didn't really do them much good.

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As far as they ended up not being that good anyway.
Yeah. So the game has changed so much now to where like this is kind of all died out
back then, like you could kind of potentially take the team like that
with a little bit of talent and like make it somewhere.
But it didn't happen often.
Like it was just kind of more of like a fun kind of get in their heads,

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pissing them off, kind of like getting them to like not think about their game
and think about like, oh, this guy's going to hit me if I touch the puck type thing.
So Goon, it's more like in the in the movie Goon.
It's they have one guy that's a super goon.
So it's not the whole team is brawlers. Yeah.
But they're they still specialize as everyone knows that this one guy
is going to get into a fight.

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It's going to be a good fight. It's going to be brutal, whatever.
So like, well, I think that might be more realistic that because Goon was more realistic.
Yeah, because there's a they come enforcers, I think.
Or she's a slap shot was everyone was a goon.
Yeah, this but goon is like he's the goon.
Yeah. But then what I like about Goon two is he's now the older goon
and a new goon is coming up, like rising up sort of.

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So I think my next hockey movie that I get to pick will be a documentary.
Since you guys are interested in this fighting.
All right. We'll see. It's called Ice Guardians.
It's really good.
It's about it's about the enforcers and the goons and things like that
with actual enforcers and you know, documentary before we did the.
Oh, yeah. You cannot kill my David Arquette.

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You're absolutely right. We have done documentaries on the.
Fuck you. We do all sorts of cool shit.
We've done them all. So then we get the.
Parade again. Yeah.
And I put, dude, the coach's ex wife chose the worst fucking time on the planet to move.
She was in.
She had to wait an hour to just be able to turn or like two hours.

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Why not move tomorrow, bitch?
Or the day before or later that evening?
What the fuck are you thinking?
Leaving on the day after the day after a big game with a parade.
So stupid.
And then I was like, well, if you're going to pay for a parade movie,
you might as well get your mileage from it because the whole end credits
is just that parade that they very much actually put on a parade

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for this town and filmed it.
And I was like, yeah, fuck it.
If you're going to do a whole parade as well, might as well show it all.
And then I put up next.
Goon was my last note.
Yeah. So.
As funny as this movie is.
There's way too much anti-gay stuff for my liking,

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so I ranked it as C minus.
It was going to be a D plus, but then I thought of the Hansen brothers,
and I think they're so fucking funny that they kind of make up
the just the national anthem thing in general, just makes up
for some of the problematic exactly.
Oh, I get my pen. But what's your guys a score?
I'll go I'll go next.
This is your movie and I know what you're going to give it.

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That's right.
OK, basically.
I kind of agree with you a lot on it, Andy,
it's but it is a relic of a different time.
It is it really does capture 70 sports culture really well.
So for a lot of people, it's a it's a classic, you know, hilarious,

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old classic, others find it hard to stomach for the reasons we talked about.
Whether you love it or hate it, it's you can't deny that it left its mark on sports movies.
I mean, there's been a lot since that have taken things from this movie
and you can see it.
Even if some of that mark could use a little sanding down, it's a little less.
Sure. Yeah.

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So I'm giving it a
what do I want to give it?
I'll give it a B minus B minus B minus.
I said four out of five hooligans.
So it's I will say one more thing, though.
The whole hockey thing is just a bunch of hooligans.

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Yeah, it's not even a real sport.
It's just a bunch of guys run around ice with sticks trying to hit a puck into a net.
What's so exciting about that?
I'll tell you what's exciting.
Baseball. Now, that's a real sport.
No, seriously, the owners, I said, I put that in there after watching last night's
World Series World Series game, which, which, by the way, is the most exciting thing
I may have ever seen in any sport.

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I haven't seen it.
I watched. I watched a clip of it.
Well, you will see a clip and what you're going to see is for the first time ever,
a team down three, nothing in the bottom of the ninth, just getting their asses kicked.
Grand Slam walk off home run in the game.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's that's awesome. Yeah. Yeah.
So B minus. Yeah.

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B minus. If you're a C plus B minus, it's it's right on that edge.
So it's like if you remember last week's Buffy, the Vampire Slayer, Andy Rice.
Appreciate it. This is so much better than Buffy.
Oh, my God. Mike threatened to give it a W minus when he first watched it.
And yet Slapshot.
Yeah. Gets a fucking B minus.
You know what? I'm sorry, Buffy didn't have 12 minutes of uncensored titties.

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For to have a conversation.
It should have been a bunch better.
Oh, B minus for Mike. Ridiculous.
Brennan. So I disagree with Mike as far as the baseball being more exciting than hockey.
It was obviously.
I hate watching baseball on TV normally.
I think I'd rather watch golf than baseball, honestly.

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It's so boring.
But no, this movie is like I like I mean, it's like,
I like I mean, the earliest I remember watching it was like 13, 12, 13.
Holy crap. Your father should be slapped.
Well, he fast forwarded like the the tit scene pretty much. Yeah.
But the punch in the face was fine.

(01:03:16):
I was fine. Welcome to America. Exactly.
And it's kind of funny, too, because I remember like after watching this,
like I immediately like had to like I went to a hockey tournament with my team.
We were in San Jose at like a double tree or something.
And we all took over like this conference room while we're eating a dinner, a team dinner.
And we all watched the movie and loved it and quoted it constantly.

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Like it kind of just stuck with us the rest of that season.
And didn't skip the titi scene. Didn't skip the scene.
Of course not. We were all 13 year old boys.
Like, oh, no, we probably were around that scene.
But this movie is definitely like a very quotable hockey movie.
Like despite all of its flaws as far as the timing and things like that, with the views of the time era.

(01:04:03):
It's a great fun watch.
Eventually, I'll show it to my kids when they're old enough.
And yeah, I give it a B minus as well. B minus.
So C minus B minus B minus C plus.
I think makes sense. Yeah. Yeah.
So C plus. C plus. All right.
That's not bad.
I will say this if it comes to when it comes to movies about a team that.

(01:04:30):
If you break this down into the formula of losing team, something happens.
They start winning, make it to the championships.
Yeah, this is low on my list because I prefer the replacements.
I prefer a major league.
I major league.
Major league is a B plus all the way.

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Yeah, I prefer a Mighty Ducks.
All three. I like all three of them.
Yeah, because I like when they go to when they're actually not playing for the Ducks for a little bit,
when they're the American team and they're going up against like the Russian team.
I love the Mighty Ducks, but my problem with the Mighty Ducks is the hockey.
The hockey in this film is much more accurate, even though it's even though they have the crazy slashing and all that crazy stuff.

(01:05:15):
The rest of the play is more accurate comparable to the Mighty Ducks like the Mighty Ducks.
When I watch the Mighty Ducks and they do their flying V every time, I'm like they're off sides.
Whistle should have been blown. They're off sides like this doesn't work.
This no knuckle puck. No, that's bullshit.
That doesn't work. Mighty Ducks really breaks all the rules.
Yeah, but it's a fun. It's a fun Disney movie.
And what's crazy is obviously Disney.

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And what's nuts, though, is that we have the Ducks now as a real team because of it.
Yeah, Disney, Disney owned the Ducks and then now they sold them.
Yeah, we got that team because of that movie.
And then what's what's even more fun about the Mighty Ducks is the short lived,
but pretty amazing cartoon show that the Ducks had.

(01:05:57):
So no, it wasn't Darkwing Duck. It was not Darkwing.
No, that was the Ducks. It was the Mighty Ducks is what it was called.
They did a Mighty Ducks. Yeah, but they were anthropomorphic ducks that used their hockey.
Goldwing. What was the name? Guys?
Goldwing might have been it was a Goldwing.
Yeah, I think it might have been it was because it wasn't Darkwing because he's actually

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he was actually their mascot. I think he still is their mascot.
You type the Ducks.
Keyboard's too far. But.
Yeah, I liked the I like the money.
So and then what else? I like Little Giants.
It's great. I'm just going on.
And I know that these seven this is a 70s, almost NC 17,
you know, adult movie versus now I'm naming awful on it like kids.

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But Hotshots are made. Sorry.
Major Major was like Hotshots.
That wasn't sports.
That was a funny movie, though.
Both Hotshots, a spoof of a war movie.
Yeah. Military, right?
OK, but I always was the Charlie Sheen one, right?
That's why I think a major league and hot major league in the same in the same.
It kind of was the military major league.
Yeah. Yeah. It's a very good comparison, actually.

(01:07:02):
Yeah. I've always thought of it as military major league.
Because that's what it is. But
yeah. But yeah.
Is that the movie where he does the scene kind of mimicking
the one that his dad did the war movie?
His dad did Apocalypse Now, the room scene. Yeah.
Oh, wait.

(01:07:23):
The way. Yeah. Oh, yes. OK.
He breaks. He actually broke.
Wait, is that is he referencing Apocalypse Now or is he?
He's referencing a deer hunter.
Oh, you know, it might be deer hunter.
I don't know that the references, but yes, it's a reference to his dad
to his dad acting in a movie.
I don't remember that. It might be deer hunter.
Well, no, he might have. Does he not also do?

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I think it is both.
Does he know? Because look, Charles gives an apocalypse now.
The Charlie Sheen's character, no, Martin Sheen's character is
not the OK.
Marlon Brando is the crazy one in the forest.
He's not the one that says I love the smell of napalm in the morning.
That's the like the major guy or whatever.
Is he the he's is he naked in the very beginning working out?

(01:08:08):
He's no he's like drunk in his hotel room, but he's completely fully nude.
Water. OK, then. Yeah.
And then in a but it's deer hunter where it's walk in and De Niro
and they get POW and they have to play Russia
and let against each other and then walking gets off on it
sort of and like stays in Vietnam and starts playing it for money.

(01:08:29):
Oh, that's a tough fucking watch.
I watched that when I was young. That's a hard fucking movie.
And I love how they got out, though.
It was that last little like he just shoots off like that.
Like he fires, but it goes kind of like up here.
And then they then they beat like they are so good.
Great. That was our recommendation of recreation.
A bunch of other movies.

(01:08:53):
Yeah, no, this is a standard pod.
So if anyone does have any wrecks, this would be the time to do it
at one oh nine minutes.

(01:09:18):
We would do recreational recommendations for me.
I have been playing the retro realms arcade games in which they it's.
So there's a new game that just came out called Retro Realms Arcade.
That's the name of the game. You buy that game in that arcade

(01:09:42):
that you actually walk around first person view in.
There are two cabinets that are available right now.
One of them is Halloween.
Evil Dead. They both are like style wise, like similar.
They have to be because they can play together sort of.
But their side scroller, old school, pixelated, shoot them up,

(01:10:06):
beat them up kind of thing where you get to play as Mike Myers or Ash
or Laurie Strode or the chick from Ash versus Evil Dead.
I don't know her name.
And you get to play. They each have their own little story.
Like if you play as Ash in the Halloween one, like it changes things.
It's like, oh, Ash, you're not supposed to be here or whatever.
But then as you play as Mike Myers and you're walking through

(01:10:29):
like the hospital killing people, it's very fun.
And then what they just announced is that the newest cabinet they're
working on is for Terrifier.
And so Terrifier, I can't wait.
That's going to be fun. I'll buy that.
I don't know if you I don't know if it's going to be a new game.
I'll buy that. I don't know if you I don't know if it's going to be a DLC
or if it just if it's going to release as the game expands.

(01:10:50):
I don't know if they're going to charge for it or not.
Reach cabinet. I haven't gotten to that point yet.
So far, if you like a good retro style game and you like horror movies,
absolutely top tier right now.
That's my record.
I didn't have a record this week.
I've got one sort of, but it's a long ways away.
I can't help bringing it up because it may be the coolest thing that I've

(01:11:14):
heard in a long time.
And I'm going to show you a picture.
Is it a spoiler picture?
Oh, yeah. Nick Cage is a as Spider-Man.
Nor is it live action?
Started filming live action.
Yeah. Action. Yeah.
I mean, I've known about this movie for a while.
Yeah. But I didn't know they started filming.
On that note, Spider-Man 4 just started is going to film next summer.

(01:11:37):
And it's Tom Holland.
They announced so we get up.
We get another Tom Holland.
Get him at roughly the same time.
Oh, Spider-Man Nor is a series though.
It's a television.
Oh, that's cool.
So I wonder if they'll connect them.
No, I don't think they'll connect.
Well, no, no, no.
No, in the past, right?
Yeah.
No, he's not.
He's not.

(01:11:58):
No, he's okay.
Because it's multiverse.
They all exist and say he just no, he just exists in the noir universe.
So in the noir universe, it's black and whites.
It feels like it's the 20s or the 30s, but it's modern day.
But it's not.
It's their modern day.
It's just like in the Tokyo girl with the spider machine, the spider robot.
I think that's a more futuristic Tokyo where they like she can build a robot or whatever.

(01:12:23):
And then you get like Gwen Stacy exists in pretty much a parallel to Miles.
And Miles exists in pretty much a parallel to us, our Peter Parker or whatever.
Because I don't even know which our Peter Parker in the Spider-Verse movies is dead.
That's the one that we would currently be reading a Spider-Man comic.
He dies.

(01:12:44):
No, no, sorry.
He doesn't because Miles Morales, that's his Spider-Man dies.
Our Spider-Man, I believe, is the one with the kid.
The Ben, like the or not the one that we get the silly actor in the cartoon.
Have you seen the Spider-Verse movies, both of them?
No, only the first one, not the second.
You haven't seen the sequel yet?

(01:13:05):
No, I haven't seen the sequel yet.
Holy shit.
Yeah, it's a cliffhanger ending.
It is a cliffhanger ending.
But don't, I wouldn't wait because it's so worth watching.
I already own it.
I just haven't had time to watch it.
They expand the, you'll see, they talk about it.
It's really, this is about the multiverse.
Like the second one, way more than the first one.
The first one was like, here's some characters.
This next one is like, let's get into it.

(01:13:28):
And they do such a good job with the multiverse that it might be the best example of it in a while.
When's the third one supposed to come out?
This year or next year?
Oh, God, probably 2025.
Yeah, probably.
It's got to be coming soon though because they filmed them, I think, right together while filming.
No, probably like Christmas time next year.
Oh, that late?

(01:13:49):
Okay.
Well, I mean, we're getting a lot of Spider-Man next year because we're going to get this.
We're going to get the Spider-Man four, you're saying?
Well, the Spider-Man four, I think, is slated for...
Well, the following year, 26 probably.
26.
These will probably both be 26, but we just got Tom Holland out.
I'm excited for Tron.
We just got that this week.
I'm excited for Tron Aries because it's the Nine Inch Nails is doing the soundtrack for.
Yeah, I am excited for the live.

(01:14:11):
I'm very excited for that.
That's from the movie.
That's from the movie, yeah.
Who's going to be Superman?
What is...
I don't know, but that's crypto.
It's crypto too though.
It's not Henry Cavill anymore, right?
No, it's not Henry Cavill.
No, this is the start of the new DC Universe.
This is James Gunn.
Oh, shit.
Okay, so they're actually starting a new DC EU?

(01:14:32):
Yes, a whole universe.
Yeah, it's not the EU anymore.
I think now it's just Thor.
It was DC EU, it's not.
Yeah, and I don't think it's going to be DCU.
I don't know.
I don't know.
They'll have to come up with another one.
But it's, yeah, so brand new.
We get starting with the Superman.
Or has it already technically started with...
Pattinson.
Blue Beetle.
No, Blue Beetle isn't in the universe.

(01:14:53):
Was that the last bit of the...
I thought Blue Beetle was the beginning.
And then I thought also The Suicide Squad is also technically...
That's a James Gunn movie.
And it's a James Gunn DC movie.
So wouldn't that technically be in this universe?
I don't know though.
Because it was before he took over, so I don't know.

(01:15:14):
I like that one a lot.
And I like all the Peacemaker.
I feel like all of that they can absolutely bring into the new DC.
Oh, they could bring it in, yeah.
But I don't know if they're going to bring it in.
Because even back then they didn't have that group in the...
No, but you know what?
All of that shit was...
No, you're right.
Because Peacemaker makes it very clear that he exists in the DC EU.

(01:15:35):
Yeah.
Like we see some characters from those movies.
So Peacemaker, The Suicide Squad, all of that, I think,
is the last remnants of...
Except it's still going on.
They could do another season, but they're just continuing an old universe.
Just like we could...
I mean, yeah, they could technically, if they wanted,
do another Ben Affleck Daredevil movie if they wanted, right?

(01:15:58):
Like you could do anything now.
Sure.
Now multiverses exist.
Now multiverses, they can do anything.
That's true.
But anyway, yeah.
So check all that shit out.
And listen to our...
I guess next week, what we're doing is...
Last week was me, my appreciation night,
and this week was Brennan's appreciation night.

(01:16:19):
Well, guess who that leaves?
It is our oldest son of a bitch on the team,
and that is Michael Larson.
And if there's one thing that...
Don't scream it in the mic, but if there's one thing...
Because he almost blew out the speakers when I listened to it last time.
You mean Cellios, motherfucker?
Yeah.
Our boy Cellios.

(01:16:40):
The worst nickname that's ever happened,
the worst thing that could have ever happened to this podcast
was watching Crank One.
And so we thought, why the fuck not?
Let's do, for Mike's appreciation, Crank High Voltage.
We'll get Cellios Part Two, everybody.
And then hopefully we retire that name forever,

(01:17:01):
because I don't know if the Cellios dies in that movie or not.
I hope he fucking does.
But yeah, so with that,
keep in mind that starting the week after Crank
is going to be the beginning of our holiday season,
culminating in eight crazy nights of Christmas,
starting obviously, I guess, no,

(01:17:23):
obviously starting seven days before Christmas,
and then with one extra day after Christmas on Boxing Day,
because that's how we fucking structure our shit.
We did the same thing with the 17 nights of Halloween, you fucks.
We don't even know how many nights it is.
Well, I made it work, it was 17.
And with that, as always,
this has been Fried Rice Podcast with me is Brennan.

(01:17:45):
A-da-da-da-da, da-da-da, da-da-da, da-da-da-da-da.
Da-da-da, da-da-da, da-da-da, da-da-da-da, da-da-da.
Chip The After Boss.
Have a good night, everybody.
And with me as always, it is Cellios, Cellios, Cellios Larson.
It's Michael, motherfucker.
And I'm your host, Andy Rice.
This has been Fried Rice Podcast, let's get fried.
let's get podcast, let's get

(01:18:08):
rice, let's get fried. That's
okay.

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