May 22, 2025 • 35 mins
What do your favorite movies reveal about your personality, values, and life experiences? In this captivating journey through cinematic nostalgia, we each share our top five movies of all time, working our way from number five to that special number one pick that holds a unique place in our hearts.
The conversation takes unexpected turns as we discover shared favorites and surprising selections spanning decades of film history. From Clint Eastwood's contemplative western Pale Rider to the cult comedy Galaxy Quest, from the powerful true story of Remember the Titans to the mob influences of The Godfather II, our selections cover remarkably diverse territory. Yet what's truly fascinating is how each film represents something deeper about our worldviews and personal stories.
The highlight comes when two hosts independently select the same movie as their all-time number one—Shawshank Redemption—sparking a thoughtful discussion about hope, perseverance, and finding meaning in difficult circumstances. We explore how this film's profound messages about the human spirit continue to resonate years after first viewing.
Throughout the episode, we share memorable quotes that have become life mantras, debate what makes a film truly great, and reflect on how certain characters and stories have shaped our perspectives. Is it the relatability of an underdog story? The truth-telling power of historical dramas? Or simply the escape of a well-crafted adventure? Each selection offers a window into what moves us most.
What movies would make your top five list? Join the conversation by sharing your favorite films and quotes on our Facebook page—we'd love to know what cinematic stories have left their mark on your life journey.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We're back here on Half Century Hangout.
What's been going on Spring,Spring time?
Well, you know that's whathappens.
We got showers outside and allthat stuff.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
I was in a little golf scramble yesterday with my
son-in-law, nice had a super funtime.
We actually did pretty good, Ithought.
So, yeah, we're looking Bestball.
Yeah, it was best ball, and Igot another one coming up in
July with another friend of mine, so hopefully between now and
then I can take a few strokesoff the game.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Boy, you know there's some really good movies about
golf.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Bagger Vans the Long Game yeah.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Have you guys seen that?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
one.
No, that's a really good oneSome good movies.
There's some great movies aboutgolf.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
I think we ought to talk a little bit about movies
today.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
We are going to talk about movies and you know what.
So we're just going to kind ofgo around the table and we're
going to go one by one, we'regoing to do a top five, give a
quote, give whatever yourbackground is about the movie,
why you think it's in your topfive, whatever it is, and you
know, just have some fun with it.
See what it is.
This is a helpful tool to learnsome more about each other, but
(01:15):
also for our listeners to learna little more about us and
maybe go watch a movie that youhaven't seen since 1985.
So we're going to go one at atime.
Who's going to start us off?
We're going to go around.
I think, John, you should start.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
I should start.
Okay, all right.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Number one.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Number one.
We're going one to five, okay.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
But we're going one at a time, you're just doing one
Wait a minute and then you'redoing your.
One're going to go start, butfrom the bottom of the list, and
go up right.
So, like the first.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Okay, we can do that so you should do your fifth one
first.
Yeah, okay, all right.
So, um, my fifth one, and I'mI'm a little bit of a western
fan, so pale rider oh boy why ishey wait now?
You guys just got to stop,because I'm going to start doing
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that to you.
Oh, you might.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
When you hear mine, you will, don't worry.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Pale Rider released in 1985.
Maybe that's why I graduatedhigh.
We don't want to hear that.
So starred Clint Eastwood, andClint Eastwood was a great
Western movie and actually hedirected this movie too, michael
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Moriarty.
Cary Snodgrass was in it as well.
It's about a gunfighter whocomes in and helps some settlers
kind of fight off the stripmining in California.
So a little bit about that.
(02:56):
A couple of quotes.
This is a preacher who, clintEastwood, played Nothing like a
hangman's noose to inspire aman's faith, kind of like that
one.
And there's plain few problemscan't be solved with a little
sweat and hard work.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
You know I've been excited about this episode
because we talked about thislike a week or so.
This is going to show someserious personality differences
in each of us.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
It will, and that's okay.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Yeah, perfect there you go, pale Rider.
My number five, chuck, you'reup Five to one.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Mine.
My fifth one would be Back tothe Future.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Oh, I like Back to the Future.
Yeah, Back to the Future.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
You know you have marty and uh, whatever the
doctor, crazy doctor's name was,I can't remember doc, yeah, doc
, doc, martin no, I don't knowwhat it was.
But anyway, the the favoritequote from that movie is roads.
Where we're going, we don'tneed roads, we don't need roads.
Yeah, I like straight fromroads.
Yeah, I like that one Straightfrom a Jeep I'm going to start
(04:06):
my number five with the actualquote.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
See if you can name the movie.
Oh, that's a good way to dothat.
Cut the horse shit, son.
I've got their disciplinaryfiles right here.
I have no clue.
Animal House.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Animal House oh my goodness, there you go Animal
House.
That oh my goodness, there yougo Animal House.
That's another good one I like.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Animal House too.
That was Dean Wormer that hadthat line, you betcha.
Who starred in that movie.
Oh, the late, great JohnBelushi.
Yeah, john.
Belushi, there's lots of guysin that Actually Kevin Bacon is
in that movie too Is he reallyhe's very young.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
He's in the other fraternity, but all right, john,
so so we had a western and twocomedies there.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
I don't think back to the future is a comedy, is it
yeah, it's a drama, it's acomedy, it's a comedy anyway.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Number four, number four here I'll start with the
quote too.
All right, never give up, neversurrender.
Galaxy quest, galaxy, yeah,galaxy quest.
I like galaxy.
When was that mean?
Galaxy quest was released in1999 and it starred Tim Allen as
(05:27):
John Naismith.
Commander Peter Quincy Taggart.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Is this the same dude that was in Home Improvement?
It is yes, and he was in GalaxyQuest in the 70s.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
He was also in the Santa Claus no 99.
99.
Not the 70s.
No, was also in the Santa Clausno not 99.
99.
Not the 70s.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
No, mine are a little more recent All right, my next
On the top five, number four isI'm already laughing.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
I don't know why.
Every man dies.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Not every man really lives.
You know where that comes fromBraveheart, braveheart,
braveheart.
I know where that comes from.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Brave heart, brave heart.
I almost put that on mine.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
I like that one.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
That's a pretty good one.
Who starred in that?
Mel Gibson.
Don't ask me who else, butthat's the main one.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
That was good.
That was a good movie.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
When I did genre my movies out, one of the larger
genres, if I put it together,was mob influenced and crime.
Okay, and so that leads me tonumber.
I kind of lied.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Number four.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
I kind of lied I couldn't get down to five, I got
down to six.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Oh my gosh Animal House was actually number six.
This is my number five Pied fornumber five.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
This is Godfather II.
My father taught me many thingshere.
He taught me in this room.
He taught me keep your friendsclose but your enemies closer,
yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
End quote.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Okay, so closer, yeah , and well, yep okay, so do you
want me to say my fourth one now?
Speaker 4 (07:07):
so we're on sure yeah , now that you cheated.
Tied for fourth, they were tiedfor fifth.
Oh, tied for fifth all right,so the next one is 1976, the
original.
I am not real big, even thoughI just named a sequel.
I'm not real big on sequels,like if the movie's good enough,
you don't need a sequel.
Okay, it's kind of the way I'vealways thought about it most of
the sequels.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
I don't need a sequel , it's kind of the way.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
I've always thought about it.
Most of the sequels, I don'tthink, live up to it.
Sometimes they do, but theoriginal Rocky.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Okay, I like Rocky.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
It's just one of those things.
It's the story of a guy thatgoes from nothing, and there's
mob influence there, by the way,too.
I don't know if you ever pickedup on it.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
At the beginning up on it.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Yeah, at the beginning he works for a loan
shark, who's who's who's withthe outfit.
So, yep, he's kind of there.
He says he's in real estate,you know, but that's kind of the
the side note there.
That's philly, that's thephilly mob in the 70s.
Okay okay, real estate um myfavorite, my favorite one is
what shot did you ever take?
So he's at the bar.
We've talked about this line alot, where he's at the bar and
they're watching the tv andthey're talking about Apollo
Creed.
It's right at the beginning ofthe movie and he says they're at
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the bar and he goes look atthis bum up on the TV, the
bartender and he says what doyou mean, the bum?
He's a man.
He took a shot at the title andhe won.
What shot did you ever take?
And he walks out of the bar andthe bartender's like you want
me to take a shot.
I'll take a shot.
He pours himself.
That's great, but I think it'sjust cool.
I've always liked the movie,only because it's like the, the
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little guy who did it and took ashot and he did it you know, I
mean, it's just a lot of workethic.
There's a lot of other stuffthat goes with it, but now we're
on the three.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
You'll know this one by this quote.
Are you ready?
You can't handle the truth ohyou good man you good man yeah,
that, yeah, that one made numberthree for me Tom Cruise, jack
Nicholson.
It was released in 1992.
Just a great movie.
(08:59):
I thought I like those kind ofmovies.
I think it was John Grishambook and that was really a good,
good time for that too.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
That's the first movie that you've had so far,
that I'm like ah, yeah, oh well,thank you very much on that.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Yeah, pale writer is a good one.
Come on, but you got to watchthat I'm not much of a Western
guy.
But you know just mypersonality.
I got them all over the place.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
I like anything.
Yeah, that's good, Just about.
I don't know what you guys willthink about this one Star Wars
Revenge of the Sith.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
I like.
Made my top.
Made my top five.
I like most of the Star Wars.
I didn't have any of that onmine.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Just because I just couldn't put them there.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
I really liked Star Wars Episode 3 because it told
the story of Darth Vader and howAnakin went from.
Anakin to Darth Vader, and Ithought it was a great, great
movie.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
The Return of the Jedi was the one I liked, was it
yeah?
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Three I can get a good look at a T-bone by
sticking my head up a bull's ass, but I'd rather take the
butcher's word for it Tommy Boy,that's a great one.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
That is a great one.
I could not put him on there,that is a great one, and you
know, if you think about it,there's so many things in that
movie that just are just toofunny.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
I can't 95, I mean it's kind of right there.
And I mean it's kind of rightthere, and I think it's one of
those things too where I kind ofnoticed that in some of my
movies it's like some of theseguys that were just awesome at
what they did and aren't hereanymore, that died way too young
.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Animal House, yeah, I mean it's just like the guy was
.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
he was, he was hilarious, he was just there's
and there's only certain rolesthat, like you look at roles
sometimes and these are the guysthat could do it the way that
it was meant to be done, right,I mean, you'd be hard pressed to
find somebody else as tommy boythat could do it as well as he
did all right, number two,you're next number two.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Life is like a box of chocolates.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
You never know what you're going to get.
That's Forrest Gump.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Yep, forrest Gump, tom Hanks, forrest Gump, sally
Fields was in it too.
Great, great movie I justthat's a lot of good lessons in
it and just a kind of a feelgood movie.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
My wife's uncle.
His name was John Barbie, butthat was one of his favorite
quotes.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Yeah, he'd always say that his name was John Barbie,
but that was one of his favoritequotes.
It's a great quote.
There were a lot of greatquotes in that movie you're not
going to believe this.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
I've never seen the movie straight through.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Well, it's a good movie.
It really is.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Is that weird Kind of ?
Yeah, I don't know what wouldinterrupt you.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Chuck.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
What would interrupt you in the middle of watching
that movie?
What would draw your attentionaway?
Speaker 2 (11:48):
I don't know.
Evidently commercials, maybesmoking weed, I'm not sure.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
I know I was doing something.
What was I doing?
And I stopped.
I don't remember.
All right, what do you got?
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Number two I'll give you the quote If you guys can
guess this one, I'll buy thefirst round.
All right, all right, here itis.
Your voice is nice when yourmouth isn't screwing it up, oh I
got nothing.
Classic.
It's probably the greatest, oneof the greatest movies ever.
(12:19):
I got nothing.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
That might be an overstatement, but it's ringing
the bell, but I can't.
I got nothing.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Goonies.
Oh the Goonies.
Yeah, it's a good one, I likeGoonies.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
I would definitely argue with you that it's one of
the best movies ever.
Oh, it's one of the best movies.
It's a good movie.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
I don't know what I'd put it at.
It's kind of fun to watch on aSunday afternoon on TBS or
whatever.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
It's alright.
Have you watched that one allthe way through?
Oh yeah, and you haven'twatched a lot.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
It tells us a lot about you.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
It tells us a lot about you.
All this stuff is telling me alot about you guys.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
You have probably never heard of my number two.
If you did, it's probably onlyfor me talking about it because
I probably have before.
So the lead character, his nameis Mitchell.
Okay, he says you know what,mitchell, you're the biggest P
word I've ever seen in my life.
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Didn't even try.
How does that feel?
the name of the movie is threeo'clock high oh yeah yeah and
I've talked about it's a b movieit's it would put it into the
comedy thing, but it's a littlemore than that.
It kind of goes into this wholekind of high school life thing,
like about different stuff.
But this, this goofy, nerdy kidwho's in the journalism class
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there's there's going to be anew kid that's coming in the
building.
Everybody's talking about himbecause he got kicked out of his
other school because he puncheda teacher.
Okay, so he comes into theschool.
His name is buddy revel and hecomes in and it's his first day
and he's just this big bad dude.
He's wearing a leather coat andhe's just walking through the
halls and everybody's scared ofhim and Mitchell goes up to him
and puts his hand on hisshoulder and says hey.
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I'd like to interview you forthe school newspaper.
Nobody touches me and he slamshim up against the mirror and
we're going to fight at 3o'clock.
We're going to fight at threeo'clock, and that was the whole
movie.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
The whole movie is him Leading up to three o'clock.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
The whole day and you hear it in the background, you
hear the clock ticking, you hearthe whole thing and there's
it's great cinematography, likeit goes to the clock and all
these angles and it's him thewhole day trying to get away, to
get out of school.
And then doing things like this.
Kid's never been in theprincipal's office and he does
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all this stuff, stealing moneyfrom the student store like
anything to get out of thebuilding, and that's why that
quote came up, because it waslike you never even tried.
How does that feel, you know?
So it turns into this wholething about all right he's gonna
.
It's kind of like a little bitof a rocky thing at the end but
uh, just a great the way that itportrays high school and how
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the students interact with someof the teachers.
And you always have that oneteacher who's kind of like the
dude, like that guy in the 80s,and you go into the assistant
principal's office and he's gota bunch of stuffed like boar
heads, like staring down at you.
Oh, it's hilarious, you've gotto watch it.
It's great, it's cool.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Never heard of it.
Yeah, it's good stuff, so weare about to share our number
one pick.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Is this number one?
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Of all time right.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
Our number one movie.
I cannot tell you how much Istruggled with this All right.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
John, all right, number one Get busy living or
get busy dying.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
It's the same one as mine.
Are you kidding me Really.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
That's awesome.
Get busy living or get busydying.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Or you can say this this is really one of my
favorite quotes.
Is really one of my favoritequotes.
The guy crawled through 300yards of the foulest smelling
crap to come out clean on theother side.
Oh, and I don't think he saidcrap, he said something else but
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is that a uh?
Tim robbins, morgan freeman ohyeah, oh shoot.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
What's that?
Speaker 1 (16:17):
is a great 1994, 1994 .
Speaker 4 (16:23):
That is a great that's that's just one of my
favorites yeah, so the thingabout that movie, and I'll just
jump in, since we picked thesame one- how about that?
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Can you believe that Chuck Go figure?
Speaker 4 (16:34):
Is that it wasn't like.
One of the major things aboutit is the idea that if you were
in prison for something youdidn't do, okay, and you're
going to spend your life inprison for something you didn't
do.
okay, like what that must feellike first of all, and how
you're going to try to makesomething positive out of it,
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which he does in the movie.
You know he goes through anddoes his thing.
But I think the thing that blewme away more than anything else
was that they one of the guyswho was really old, who had been
there his whole life, and theynever really led on to the fact
of whether he was actuallyguilty or innocent.
But he got let out, he gotparoled, he was, and they never
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really led on to the fact ofwhether he was actually guilty
or innocent, but he got let out,he got paroled, he was in his
80s.
The old dude did, yeah.
And when he goes out and he'swriting, and they're narrating
in the background and he hadnever seen a car because he had
been in there so long.
And so you start to think aboutthat.
You start to think about peoplethat are incarcerated.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
That far Life has gone and got itself Such a big
hurt.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
Yeah, I mean, it's like, and you know, and then he
kills himself because he justdoesn't know what to do it's too
much and it's and it's I thinkit's a big that movie.
I've watched it so many timesbut I think that it really tells
a story about our system ofincarceration and things.
I think there's a lot of otherunderlying themes in that movie
that are really really superlayered down.
(17:55):
Like you can go.
You can go a long way in thatmovie.
It's not just the story ofthese two guys that then wind up
going to Mexico and meeting ata beach again.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
You know what I mean.
It's not just that I like thepart where they're.
I thought you would like here's.
Here's a great quote from thatmovie Fear can hold you prisoner
Hope can set you free.
Yeah, that's a good line.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
The one part I really like about that movie is when
Tim Robbins whatever hischaracter's name was- Andy.
Dufresne, they do the AndyDufresne, dufresne.
And they do the deal up on theroof On the roof.
Yeah, and he said how about getsome suds, some bottles of suds
for me and the boys.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
That was because he gave the guard the tax advice.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
But he grabs him first and he's going to toss him
off right.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
No, that was a good movie.
Alright, so you two?
I can't believe you two agreedon.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Well, we didn't talk about it.
That's a great.
No, we didn't.
Yeah, yeah that's what.
I mean it was blind.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
Completely blind.
I'm perplexed as to what yoursis going to be.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Are you really?
What is it like?
What year is it from?
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Fish 1997.
Maybe, okay, maybe somethinglike that, okay.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
Remember the Titans.
I thought maybe you would gothere.
Remember the Titans?
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Yeah, that is one of my favorite movies, or my
favorite movie of all time.
I could probably watch it overand over Denzel Washington, Yep
yep.
And it's about football andit's based on a true story,
which I thought was pretty, youknow, kind of cool.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
All those things that have, those stories that come
out of the South and how, like,unless you lived it, sometimes
for us it's a little difficultto understand what it really
meant to integrate schools andthings like that, Like the
struggle that that was you know,so I've always I've always
looked at those movies like that, like it really is.
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I mean it's educational on topof it.
I mean I realized it's a, didyou?
Speaker 2 (19:54):
experience?
You didn't experiencedesegregation at all, did you?
Speaker 4 (19:57):
Mm-mm.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Yeah, so I experienced a little bit of
desegregation, you know, inDayton, yeah, they bused us over
to the west side of town whichis you know different ethnicity
than where we were 100%, and soit kind of felt a little bit
more like home.
And obviously it's about myfavorite sport you know football
and I thought Denzel Washingtondid a great job portraying
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Herman Boone and yeah, I mean itwas a great flick.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
It definitely was.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
So, as we formed our top five guys, what was the
process that you went throughand how you formed those, how
you came up with them?
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Gosh, we had a week and, of course, my um.
My process is to put things offas long as I can until I really
have to do it, and I wasthinking about are you a
procrastinator by nature?
I am, okay, I am.
So there's another thing you'relearning about me, anyway.
Uh, I I really had thought alot about the movies that I
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watch, and I watch.
I have watched a lot of movies,but, um, some of them are and
don't take this the wrong waybut some of them are like the
Goonies, where you just kind ofthey're OK movies, they're not
bad, but would they be in my top?
I mean, it's kind of like StarWars too.
I just I don't know that thatrises to the top for me.
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So I really was looking atthose movies that, and who knows
knows, maybe galaxy questdoesn't either, but uh, those
movies I I like and I reallycould watch them over and over
and over again, and not that Ihaven't seen the goodies more
(21:48):
than once.
But and I did kind of look atgenres too.
I did want a Western in there.
I'm a big, I do like Westernsand I like kind of the modern,
more modern ones, like ClintEastwood Kind of looked at
actors and actresses too.
That's kind of how I did it.
(22:09):
I just I thought about themovies I liked and then I had
some of them that rose to thetop.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
How'd you come up with yours?
Speaker 4 (22:20):
You know what it was funny was that I I initially,
when we first did it I justjotted some down on my phone and
notes, right, I just put somedown and then 40 movies later.
Yeah, I just would.
Then I think of one, like inthe middle the night and I'd
have to type it because I'dforget it, but it's like oh.
I forgot about that one, or Iforgot about that one.
I think that it's for me, Iguess personally, if you want to
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say, I probably live in thepast a little bit sometimes, and
I think that it's sometimes amovie to me, a movie that makes
me think deeper than the surface, is a good movie to me if I can
apply something from a movie orI can relate to something in
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the movie.
Yeah, I think that's kind ofwhere I'm at.
You know, I probably couldn'trelate to anything in goonies,
but I could probably relate tosomething like the feeling like
in Shawshank right, where youdon't know what to do, like what
am I going to do?
Like I'm in a shitty spot.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
What am I going to do ?
Yeah, as I was thinking aboutthis, what to put on my top five
, I was thinking.
I was asking myself thequestion if I were to meet
somebody new and what, what'sthe movie?
I would say you got to see thisand this tells you a little bit
about about who I am.
And that's the reason, likeremember the titans came, it
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quickly rose to the top.
Um, I love true stories, so,like braveheart was in there.
Another similar, similar moviethat's kind of like remember the
title is Glory Road.
It's about basketball insteadof football, so that's a good
one.
And then some of the like, thereason Goonies is on there is
just because it's kind of just afun fantasy adventure type of
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thing, and you know it's so.
I mean, I think, as we thinkabout movies and talk about
movies, I think they do.
The reason we can connect withthem is because they reveal a
little bit about our soul, whowe are.
Yeah, we can connect with them,but I don't know.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
Sorry, saying deep down inside, I always wanted to
be a gangster.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
I think so.
I think you'd be a greatgangster.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
And you just wanted to be a kid that found a
treasure right.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
That's it.
There you go yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
I just wanted to be on a spaceship out in space, or
a pale horse, a pale horse.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
You do wear your cowboy boots to school once in a
while.
Do what you do.
He does wear his cowboy bootsto school once in a while.
I do Once in a while.
So the last part of this we'rejust going to go through and I
will mention quick.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
We're going to name our five right, we're going from
six to ten.
Are we going?
Speaker 4 (24:59):
well, we're just, you're gonna name all yours this
, we're not going one, okaywe're just gonna go through yeah
, all right, all right.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Honorable mentions john oh I'm going first all
right, let's start them off leanon me, okay, all right.
The green mile all right,that's a good one.
I like that one.
Teachers, teachers in New YorkCity Okay.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
The.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Untouchables, the Untouchables.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
I had that on my not on my honorable mention, but it
was in my initial list and Signs.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
That's kind of a sci-fi.
Yeah, you've talked about Signsbefore.
Yeah, that's a good one.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
It it's a good list Sci-fi so there you go Good list
.
Honorable mentions for me Rambo, First Blood.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
Grease oh man, I was just.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
I'm laughing folks because he started singing this
the other day.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
It's work and I'm like, if you put that on your
list, okay, go, whatever, we'regood, all right, wait's work.
And I'm like, if you put thaton your list.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Okay, go.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
Whatever, we're good, all right, wait, wait.
Can I ask why Grease?
Why Is it just the music?
Or what is it?
It's partly the music, or is itOlivia Neutron Bomb.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
No, no, it's partly the music.
No how old were.
So I didn't really see it untilmy kids were, uh, you know,
older, and so we would sit thereand watch it.
We probably watched it a bunch,and my boys.
They're gonna hate this, but myboys would do the dance that
the guys would do in the in themovie and so when I think of
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greece, I think of my boys youknow up there some Yep, it sure
does.
So they're going to hate thatI'm going to have to, anyway.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
There's no editing that out.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Sorry, all right.
Lord of the Rings, the TwoTowers.
I like Lord of the Rings, Ilike that one.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
I'm a big fantasy fan too.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
This is the movie that almost made the Rocky thing
.
I don't know if you guys haveseen it, but Warrior with Tom
Hardy.
I've not seen that one Greatmovie.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Is it boxing?
Great fight movie.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Yeah, it's MMA type fighting, so it's real good.
And then you know, Ode to RobinWilliams' Jumanji, I like.
Jumanji yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
That was good.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
So you kind of see this fantasy adventure type of
combination with true stories.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
And it was the first Jumanji, not the other two.
Yeah, the one with RobinWilliams.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Yeah, yeah, that to me is the best one.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
I like Robin Williams .
Speaker 4 (27:26):
Good.
So the reason I asked you aboutGrease and if it was the music,
one of mine, a lot of it isbecause of the music there's a
lot of other things that go intoit.
But Blues Brothers, Okay, Ilike the Blues Brothers.
Great music throughout thewhole the whole thing Just.
John Lee Hooker's in there.
I mean it's, that's great, it'sgood stuff.
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I like that.
We're on a mission from God.
I love it, uncle Buck oh yeah.
John Candy, john, there's umuncle buck, oh yeah candy john.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
There's another guy that died too soon he did.
Yeah, uncle buck love uncle.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
I was gonna give you a quote.
I probably shouldn't yeah, goahead.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Oh, it's a great one.
Why not it's?
Speaker 4 (28:05):
the girl's boyfriend and his name is bug his name is
bug.
Yes, and he, and he's likewhat's his last name, spray?
Speaker 2 (28:12):
oh, it's great.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
But he comes up and he pulls up to the school to
give her a ride in that car thatkeeps backfiring.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
That old LTD.
Speaker 4 (28:19):
And he's like.
You ever hear of a tune-up?
Hee, hee, hee.
And Candy goes.
Oh yeah, hee, hee, hee.
You ever hear of a ritualkilling Hee?
Speaker 3 (28:26):
hee, hee.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
You gnaw on her face like that in.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
That's great.
Uh, my newest movie in theentire list 2007.
Speaker 4 (28:44):
Mark walberg, shooter .
Okay, oh, love that movie, love.
You don't understand.
These boys killed my dog.
Uh, 1973.
My last two involve colors thesame color, 1973, white
Lightning, burt Reynolds as awhiskey runner.
Oh, that's great, great stuff.
White Lightning was part of aseries.
(29:04):
Actually it wasn't reallysequels.
He was Gator, mccluskey was hisname, but it was all down south
like in the bayou.
And last one, the oldest moviein my list 1949 for james cagney
white heat, the originalgangster movie oh my gosh so
good never, never heard of it Itold you to keep away from that
(29:27):
radio.
If that battery is dead it'llhave company.
Probably the best scene, oh,it's great.
There's a guy who's kind of arat and he and he locks him in
the trunk of a car and they're,it's cold, it's like in the
winter time, and so they'releaving and they're just going
to leave him in the car to todie, whatever it is.
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And he goes by and the guyyells from the trunk.
He's like, hey, cody.
He's like I can't breathe inhere.
That you know what's that?
You can't breathe here.
I'll give you some air.
And he shoots about six slugsinto the trunk lid can you
breathe now?
Speaker 3 (30:01):
that's great, it's great.
Speaker 4 (30:02):
But yeah, it's a great movie.
It's uh black and white, youknow it's uh, it's good, but
yeah, I got so many others.
Get one more.
Give yourself one more.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
You got one more I do not, I just chuck.
You got one more, I did 10 myone more.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
You got one more.
I do not, I just did ten, chuck.
You got one more, I did ten.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
My one more would probably be go ahead and give
your one more.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
I can think of one here, I would say Goodfellas.
Yeah, I'm really surprised thatI and I could have put that
over into my list.
But such a great movie and it'strue story based as well yeah,
I'm really surprised that I andI could have put that over into
my list.
But such a great movie and it'strue story based as well Henry
Hill and all that is all real.
Now, they did dramatize some ofit.
What was that?
Speaker 1 (30:43):
again Goodfellas, goodfellas.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
I love that movie and it's, and if you read stuff
about it and talk about HenryHill and he actually wound up.
When Henry Hill ratted him out,they put him in WITSEC and he
wound up in Omaha.
That's where his first stop was.
But, then, he got arrested inOmaha and went back.
So yeah, that's how he got outof New York the first time.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
But yeah, I like that movie.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
So when you guys were talking Al Pacino, I loved
Ascent of a Woman, Just a greatgreat movie.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
I just love that one and that kind of tells a little
bit about with.
I like sci-fi but you know, Ilike those kind of make you
think type of movies that, uh,you know are are a little more
drama I think my one more wouldbe uh, us marshals oh, that's
good, tommy lee jones andharrison ford yeah, my feel-good
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movie was it's a wonderful lifeI like.
Speaker 4 (31:48):
It's a wonderful life , and and that was all about the
whole thing of being thankfulfor what you have and not always
thinking the grass is greenerand always looking for something
better, and I think that thatwas a great story for men to
look at.
Like hey look what you have.
You have your family, you'vegot your wife, you've got this
(32:09):
home.
You've got everything you need.
You don't need to look further.
Anyway hey, we should have madepopcorn.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
We should have doggone that we missed it.
Speaker 4 (32:21):
I wish we would have been in the garage, because I'm
sure the conversation would havebeen even more lively had we
had a couple drinks in our hand.
Yeah, that's good but, mygarage actually is a garage too,
it's not just a dedicateddrinking slash recording studio
so it is a little bit dirty.
At the moment there's somestuff, so we passed it off.
So hopefully one of these dayswe'll get back in there once I
get all these projects done.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Not like sickies, huh .
Speaker 3 (32:44):
Yeah, yeah no.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
I think you wanted to start something like that.
Speaker 4 (32:48):
Something.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
What's a sickie Sickies garage?
Never heard of that, uh-uh.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
Sikki.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Sikki's Garage.
Never heard of that.
The restaurant chain Neverheard of it.
Started out like Luke's Garage.
Speaker 4 (32:58):
Literally.
It's kind of one of thosethings, this topic I talk about
movies all the time.
You know, I quote stuff all thetime and I'll say it but it is
kind of it's always fun.
I mean I like it and I likewatching new stuff, but I always
sometimes roll back to the oldstuff.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
Yeah, We've had so many quotes.
Are we quoting anything?
Speaker 1 (33:16):
We don't need quotes.
How about this one?
We each owe a death.
There are no exceptions.
It's from the Green Mile.
Remember how he lived a lotlonger, lots of good life
lessons in that one yeah.
Yeah, maybe that's what I lookfor is the life lessons it is
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kind of cool when you watchsomething.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
It kind of grabs your interest and kind of keeps you
in it to see what are they goingto come up with hey, just a
reminder to all of our listenersif you enjoy what you're
listening to, recommend it tosomeone, share the show with a
friend.
We would really appreciate that.
And then, on the Facebook postthat we usually put up each week
, make sure that you comment.
Maybe your favorite movie.
Speaker 4 (33:59):
Give us your favorite movie, yeah, your favorite
movie with a quote.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
Because you know.
Speaker 4 (34:02):
I've got so much spare time.
I need to watch a new movieonce in a while.
That's exactly right.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
Super fun.
Yeah, All right guys.
Well, hey, thanks for hangingout.
We're back here on Half Century Hangout.
What's been going on Spring,Spring time?
Well, you know that's whathappens.
We got showers outside and allthat stuff.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
I was in a little golf scramble yesterday with my
son-in-law, nice had a super funtime.
We actually did pretty good, Ithought.
So, yeah, we're looking Bestball.
Yeah, it was best ball, and Igot another one coming up in
July with another friend of mine, so hopefully between now and
then I can take a few strokesoff the game.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Boy, you know there's some really good movies about
golf.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Bagger Vans the Long Game yeah.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Have you guys seen that?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
one.
No, that's a really good oneSome good movies.
There's some great movies aboutgolf.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
I think we ought to talk a little bit about movies
today.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
We are going to talk about movies and you know what.
So we're just going to kind ofgo around the table and we're
going to go one by one, we'regoing to do a top five, give a
quote, give whatever yourbackground is about the movie,
why you think it's in your topfive, whatever it is, and you
know, just have some fun with it.
See what it is.
This is a helpful tool to learnsome more about each other, but
(01:15):
also for our listeners to learna little more about us and
maybe go watch a movie that youhaven't seen since 1985.
So we're going to go one at atime.
Who's going to start us off?
We're going to go around.
I think, John, you should start.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
I should start.
Okay, all right.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Number one.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Number one.
We're going one to five, okay.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
But we're going one at a time, you're just doing one
Wait a minute and then you'redoing your.
One're going to go start, butfrom the bottom of the list, and
go up right.
So, like the first.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Okay, we can do that so you should do your fifth one
first.
Yeah, okay, all right.
So, um, my fifth one, and I'mI'm a little bit of a western
fan, so pale rider oh boy why ishey wait now?
You guys just got to stop,because I'm going to start doing
(02:08):
that to you.
Oh, you might.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
When you hear mine, you will, don't worry.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Pale Rider released in 1985.
Maybe that's why I graduatedhigh.
We don't want to hear that.
So starred Clint Eastwood, andClint Eastwood was a great
Western movie and actually hedirected this movie too, michael
(02:35):
Moriarty.
Cary Snodgrass was in it as well.
It's about a gunfighter whocomes in and helps some settlers
kind of fight off the stripmining in California.
So a little bit about that.
(02:56):
A couple of quotes.
This is a preacher who, clintEastwood, played Nothing like a
hangman's noose to inspire aman's faith, kind of like that
one.
And there's plain few problemscan't be solved with a little
sweat and hard work.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
You know I've been excited about this episode
because we talked about thislike a week or so.
This is going to show someserious personality differences
in each of us.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
It will, and that's okay.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Yeah, perfect there you go, pale Rider.
My number five, chuck, you'reup Five to one.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Mine.
My fifth one would be Back tothe Future.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Oh, I like Back to the Future.
Yeah, Back to the Future.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
You know you have marty and uh, whatever the
doctor, crazy doctor's name was,I can't remember doc, yeah, doc
, doc, martin no, I don't knowwhat it was.
But anyway, the the favoritequote from that movie is roads.
Where we're going, we don'tneed roads, we don't need roads.
Yeah, I like straight fromroads.
Yeah, I like that one Straightfrom a Jeep I'm going to start
(04:06):
my number five with the actualquote.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
See if you can name the movie.
Oh, that's a good way to dothat.
Cut the horse shit, son.
I've got their disciplinaryfiles right here.
I have no clue.
Animal House.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Animal House oh my goodness, there you go Animal
House.
That oh my goodness, there yougo Animal House.
That's another good one I like.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Animal House too.
That was Dean Wormer that hadthat line, you betcha.
Who starred in that movie.
Oh, the late, great JohnBelushi.
Yeah, john.
Belushi, there's lots of guysin that Actually Kevin Bacon is
in that movie too Is he reallyhe's very young.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
He's in the other fraternity, but all right, john,
so so we had a western and twocomedies there.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
I don't think back to the future is a comedy, is it
yeah, it's a drama, it's acomedy, it's a comedy anyway.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Number four, number four here I'll start with the
quote too.
All right, never give up, neversurrender.
Galaxy quest, galaxy, yeah,galaxy quest.
I like galaxy.
When was that mean?
Galaxy quest was released in1999 and it starred Tim Allen as
(05:27):
John Naismith.
Commander Peter Quincy Taggart.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Is this the same dude that was in Home Improvement?
It is yes, and he was in GalaxyQuest in the 70s.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
He was also in the Santa Claus no 99.
99.
Not the 70s.
No, was also in the Santa Clausno not 99.
99.
Not the 70s.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
No, mine are a little more recent All right, my next
On the top five, number four isI'm already laughing.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
I don't know why.
Every man dies.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Not every man really lives.
You know where that comes fromBraveheart, braveheart,
braveheart.
I know where that comes from.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Brave heart, brave heart.
I almost put that on mine.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
I like that one.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
That's a pretty good one.
Who starred in that?
Mel Gibson.
Don't ask me who else, butthat's the main one.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
That was good.
That was a good movie.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
When I did genre my movies out, one of the larger
genres, if I put it together,was mob influenced and crime.
Okay, and so that leads me tonumber.
I kind of lied.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Number four.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
I kind of lied I couldn't get down to five, I got
down to six.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Oh my gosh Animal House was actually number six.
This is my number five Pied fornumber five.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
This is Godfather II.
My father taught me many thingshere.
He taught me in this room.
He taught me keep your friendsclose but your enemies closer,
yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
End quote.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Okay, so closer, yeah , and well, yep okay, so do you
want me to say my fourth one now?
Speaker 4 (07:07):
so we're on sure yeah , now that you cheated.
Tied for fourth, they were tiedfor fifth.
Oh, tied for fifth all right,so the next one is 1976, the
original.
I am not real big, even thoughI just named a sequel.
I'm not real big on sequels,like if the movie's good enough,
you don't need a sequel.
Okay, it's kind of the way I'vealways thought about it most of
the sequels.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
I don't need a sequel , it's kind of the way.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
I've always thought about it.
Most of the sequels, I don'tthink, live up to it.
Sometimes they do, but theoriginal Rocky.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Okay, I like Rocky.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
It's just one of those things.
It's the story of a guy thatgoes from nothing, and there's
mob influence there, by the way,too.
I don't know if you ever pickedup on it.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
At the beginning up on it.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Yeah, at the beginning he works for a loan
shark, who's who's who's withthe outfit.
So, yep, he's kind of there.
He says he's in real estate,you know, but that's kind of the
the side note there.
That's philly, that's thephilly mob in the 70s.
Okay okay, real estate um myfavorite, my favorite one is
what shot did you ever take?
So he's at the bar.
We've talked about this line alot, where he's at the bar and
they're watching the tv andthey're talking about Apollo
Creed.
It's right at the beginning ofthe movie and he says they're at
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the bar and he goes look atthis bum up on the TV, the
bartender and he says what doyou mean, the bum?
He's a man.
He took a shot at the title andhe won.
What shot did you ever take?
And he walks out of the bar andthe bartender's like you want
me to take a shot.
I'll take a shot.
He pours himself.
That's great, but I think it'sjust cool.
I've always liked the movie,only because it's like the, the
(08:28):
little guy who did it and took ashot and he did it you know, I
mean, it's just a lot of workethic.
There's a lot of other stuffthat goes with it, but now we're
on the three.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
You'll know this one by this quote.
Are you ready?
You can't handle the truth ohyou good man you good man yeah,
that, yeah, that one made numberthree for me Tom Cruise, jack
Nicholson.
It was released in 1992.
Just a great movie.
(08:59):
I thought I like those kind ofmovies.
I think it was John Grishambook and that was really a good,
good time for that too.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
That's the first movie that you've had so far,
that I'm like ah, yeah, oh well,thank you very much on that.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Yeah, pale writer is a good one.
Come on, but you got to watchthat I'm not much of a Western
guy.
But you know just mypersonality.
I got them all over the place.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
I like anything.
Yeah, that's good, Just about.
I don't know what you guys willthink about this one Star Wars
Revenge of the Sith.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
I like.
Made my top.
Made my top five.
I like most of the Star Wars.
I didn't have any of that onmine.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Just because I just couldn't put them there.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
I really liked Star Wars Episode 3 because it told
the story of Darth Vader and howAnakin went from.
Anakin to Darth Vader, and Ithought it was a great, great
movie.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
The Return of the Jedi was the one I liked, was it
yeah?
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Three I can get a good look at a T-bone by
sticking my head up a bull's ass, but I'd rather take the
butcher's word for it Tommy Boy,that's a great one.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
That is a great one.
I could not put him on there,that is a great one, and you
know, if you think about it,there's so many things in that
movie that just are just toofunny.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
I can't 95, I mean it's kind of right there.
And I mean it's kind of rightthere, and I think it's one of
those things too where I kind ofnoticed that in some of my
movies it's like some of theseguys that were just awesome at
what they did and aren't hereanymore, that died way too young
.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Animal House, yeah, I mean it's just like the guy was
.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
he was, he was hilarious, he was just there's
and there's only certain rolesthat, like you look at roles
sometimes and these are the guysthat could do it the way that
it was meant to be done, right,I mean, you'd be hard pressed to
find somebody else as tommy boythat could do it as well as he
did all right, number two,you're next number two.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Life is like a box of chocolates.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
You never know what you're going to get.
That's Forrest Gump.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Yep, forrest Gump, tom Hanks, forrest Gump, sally
Fields was in it too.
Great, great movie I justthat's a lot of good lessons in
it and just a kind of a feelgood movie.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
My wife's uncle.
His name was John Barbie, butthat was one of his favorite
quotes.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Yeah, he'd always say that his name was John Barbie,
but that was one of his favoritequotes.
It's a great quote.
There were a lot of greatquotes in that movie you're not
going to believe this.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
I've never seen the movie straight through.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Well, it's a good movie.
It really is.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Is that weird Kind of ?
Yeah, I don't know what wouldinterrupt you.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Chuck.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
What would interrupt you in the middle of watching
that movie?
What would draw your attentionaway?
Speaker 2 (11:48):
I don't know.
Evidently commercials, maybesmoking weed, I'm not sure.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
I know I was doing something.
What was I doing?
And I stopped.
I don't remember.
All right, what do you got?
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Number two I'll give you the quote If you guys can
guess this one, I'll buy thefirst round.
All right, all right, here itis.
Your voice is nice when yourmouth isn't screwing it up, oh I
got nothing.
Classic.
It's probably the greatest, oneof the greatest movies ever.
(12:19):
I got nothing.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
That might be an overstatement, but it's ringing
the bell, but I can't.
I got nothing.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Goonies.
Oh the Goonies.
Yeah, it's a good one, I likeGoonies.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
I would definitely argue with you that it's one of
the best movies ever.
Oh, it's one of the best movies.
It's a good movie.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
I don't know what I'd put it at.
It's kind of fun to watch on aSunday afternoon on TBS or
whatever.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
It's alright.
Have you watched that one allthe way through?
Oh yeah, and you haven'twatched a lot.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
It tells us a lot about you.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
It tells us a lot about you.
All this stuff is telling me alot about you guys.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
You have probably never heard of my number two.
If you did, it's probably onlyfor me talking about it because
I probably have before.
So the lead character, his nameis Mitchell.
Okay, he says you know what,mitchell, you're the biggest P
word I've ever seen in my life.
(13:19):
Didn't even try.
How does that feel?
the name of the movie is threeo'clock high oh yeah yeah and
I've talked about it's a b movieit's it would put it into the
comedy thing, but it's a littlemore than that.
It kind of goes into this wholekind of high school life thing,
like about different stuff.
But this, this goofy, nerdy kidwho's in the journalism class
(13:42):
there's there's going to be anew kid that's coming in the
building.
Everybody's talking about himbecause he got kicked out of his
other school because he puncheda teacher.
Okay, so he comes into theschool.
His name is buddy revel and hecomes in and it's his first day
and he's just this big bad dude.
He's wearing a leather coat andhe's just walking through the
halls and everybody's scared ofhim and Mitchell goes up to him
and puts his hand on hisshoulder and says hey.
(14:04):
I'd like to interview you forthe school newspaper.
Nobody touches me and he slamshim up against the mirror and
we're going to fight at 3o'clock.
We're going to fight at threeo'clock, and that was the whole
movie.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
The whole movie is him Leading up to three o'clock.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
The whole day and you hear it in the background, you
hear the clock ticking, you hearthe whole thing and there's
it's great cinematography, likeit goes to the clock and all
these angles and it's him thewhole day trying to get away, to
get out of school.
And then doing things like this.
Kid's never been in theprincipal's office and he does
(14:38):
all this stuff, stealing moneyfrom the student store like
anything to get out of thebuilding, and that's why that
quote came up, because it waslike you never even tried.
How does that feel, you know?
So it turns into this wholething about all right he's gonna
.
It's kind of like a little bitof a rocky thing at the end but
uh, just a great the way that itportrays high school and how
(14:59):
the students interact with someof the teachers.
And you always have that oneteacher who's kind of like the
dude, like that guy in the 80s,and you go into the assistant
principal's office and he's gota bunch of stuffed like boar
heads, like staring down at you.
Oh, it's hilarious, you've gotto watch it.
It's great, it's cool.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Never heard of it.
Yeah, it's good stuff, so weare about to share our number
one pick.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Is this number one?
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Of all time right.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
Our number one movie.
I cannot tell you how much Istruggled with this All right.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
John, all right, number one Get busy living or
get busy dying.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
It's the same one as mine.
Are you kidding me Really.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
That's awesome.
Get busy living or get busydying.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Or you can say this this is really one of my
favorite quotes.
Is really one of my favoritequotes.
The guy crawled through 300yards of the foulest smelling
crap to come out clean on theother side.
Oh, and I don't think he saidcrap, he said something else but
(16:10):
is that a uh?
Tim robbins, morgan freeman ohyeah, oh shoot.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
What's that?
Speaker 1 (16:17):
is a great 1994, 1994 .
Speaker 4 (16:23):
That is a great that's that's just one of my
favorites yeah, so the thingabout that movie, and I'll just
jump in, since we picked thesame one- how about that?
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Can you believe that Chuck Go figure?
Speaker 4 (16:34):
Is that it wasn't like.
One of the major things aboutit is the idea that if you were
in prison for something youdidn't do, okay, and you're
going to spend your life inprison for something you didn't
do.
okay, like what that must feellike first of all, and how
you're going to try to makesomething positive out of it,
(16:56):
which he does in the movie.
You know he goes through anddoes his thing.
But I think the thing that blewme away more than anything else
was that they one of the guyswho was really old, who had been
there his whole life, and theynever really led on to the fact
of whether he was actuallyguilty or innocent.
But he got let out, he gotparoled, he was, and they never
(17:18):
really led on to the fact ofwhether he was actually guilty
or innocent, but he got let out,he got paroled, he was in his
80s.
The old dude did, yeah.
And when he goes out and he'swriting, and they're narrating
in the background and he hadnever seen a car because he had
been in there so long.
And so you start to think aboutthat.
You start to think about peoplethat are incarcerated.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
That far Life has gone and got itself Such a big
hurt.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
Yeah, I mean, it's like, and you know, and then he
kills himself because he justdoesn't know what to do it's too
much and it's and it's I thinkit's a big that movie.
I've watched it so many timesbut I think that it really tells
a story about our system ofincarceration and things.
I think there's a lot of otherunderlying themes in that movie
that are really really superlayered down.
(17:55):
Like you can go.
You can go a long way in thatmovie.
It's not just the story ofthese two guys that then wind up
going to Mexico and meeting ata beach again.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
You know what I mean.
It's not just that I like thepart where they're.
I thought you would like here's.
Here's a great quote from thatmovie Fear can hold you prisoner
Hope can set you free.
Yeah, that's a good line.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
The one part I really like about that movie is when
Tim Robbins whatever hischaracter's name was- Andy.
Dufresne, they do the AndyDufresne, dufresne.
And they do the deal up on theroof On the roof.
Yeah, and he said how about getsome suds, some bottles of suds
for me and the boys.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
That was because he gave the guard the tax advice.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
But he grabs him first and he's going to toss him
off right.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
No, that was a good movie.
Alright, so you two?
I can't believe you two agreedon.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Well, we didn't talk about it.
That's a great.
No, we didn't.
Yeah, yeah that's what.
I mean it was blind.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
Completely blind.
I'm perplexed as to what yoursis going to be.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Are you really?
What is it like?
What year is it from?
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Fish 1997.
Maybe, okay, maybe somethinglike that, okay.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
Remember the Titans.
I thought maybe you would gothere.
Remember the Titans?
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Yeah, that is one of my favorite movies, or my
favorite movie of all time.
I could probably watch it overand over Denzel Washington, Yep
yep.
And it's about football andit's based on a true story,
which I thought was pretty, youknow, kind of cool.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
All those things that have, those stories that come
out of the South and how, like,unless you lived it, sometimes
for us it's a little difficultto understand what it really
meant to integrate schools andthings like that, Like the
struggle that that was you know,so I've always I've always
looked at those movies like that, like it really is.
(19:51):
I mean it's educational on topof it.
I mean I realized it's a, didyou?
Speaker 2 (19:54):
experience?
You didn't experiencedesegregation at all, did you?
Speaker 4 (19:57):
Mm-mm.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Yeah, so I experienced a little bit of
desegregation, you know, inDayton, yeah, they bused us over
to the west side of town whichis you know different ethnicity
than where we were 100%, and soit kind of felt a little bit
more like home.
And obviously it's about myfavorite sport you know football
and I thought Denzel Washingtondid a great job portraying
(20:19):
Herman Boone and yeah, I mean itwas a great flick.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
It definitely was.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
So, as we formed our top five guys, what was the
process that you went throughand how you formed those, how
you came up with them?
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Gosh, we had a week and, of course, my um.
My process is to put things offas long as I can until I really
have to do it, and I wasthinking about are you a
procrastinator by nature?
I am, okay, I am.
So there's another thing you'relearning about me, anyway.
Uh, I I really had thought alot about the movies that I
(21:02):
watch, and I watch.
I have watched a lot of movies,but, um, some of them are and
don't take this the wrong waybut some of them are like the
Goonies, where you just kind ofthey're OK movies, they're not
bad, but would they be in my top?
I mean, it's kind of like StarWars too.
I just I don't know that thatrises to the top for me.
(21:26):
So I really was looking atthose movies that, and who knows
knows, maybe galaxy questdoesn't either, but uh, those
movies I I like and I reallycould watch them over and over
and over again, and not that Ihaven't seen the goodies more
(21:48):
than once.
But and I did kind of look atgenres too.
I did want a Western in there.
I'm a big, I do like Westernsand I like kind of the modern,
more modern ones, like ClintEastwood Kind of looked at
actors and actresses too.
That's kind of how I did it.
(22:09):
I just I thought about themovies I liked and then I had
some of them that rose to thetop.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
How'd you come up with yours?
Speaker 4 (22:20):
You know what it was funny was that I I initially,
when we first did it I justjotted some down on my phone and
notes, right, I just put somedown and then 40 movies later.
Yeah, I just would.
Then I think of one, like inthe middle the night and I'd
have to type it because I'dforget it, but it's like oh.
I forgot about that one, or Iforgot about that one.
I think that it's for me, Iguess personally, if you want to
(22:43):
say, I probably live in thepast a little bit sometimes, and
I think that it's sometimes amovie to me, a movie that makes
me think deeper than the surface, is a good movie to me if I can
apply something from a movie orI can relate to something in
(23:05):
the movie.
Yeah, I think that's kind ofwhere I'm at.
You know, I probably couldn'trelate to anything in goonies,
but I could probably relate tosomething like the feeling like
in Shawshank right, where youdon't know what to do, like what
am I going to do?
Like I'm in a shitty spot.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
What am I going to do ?
Yeah, as I was thinking aboutthis, what to put on my top five
, I was thinking.
I was asking myself thequestion if I were to meet
somebody new and what, what'sthe movie?
I would say you got to see thisand this tells you a little bit
about about who I am.
And that's the reason, likeremember the titans came, it
(23:47):
quickly rose to the top.
Um, I love true stories, so,like braveheart was in there.
Another similar, similar moviethat's kind of like remember the
title is Glory Road.
It's about basketball insteadof football, so that's a good
one.
And then some of the like, thereason Goonies is on there is
just because it's kind of just afun fantasy adventure type of
(24:09):
thing, and you know it's so.
I mean, I think, as we thinkabout movies and talk about
movies, I think they do.
The reason we can connect withthem is because they reveal a
little bit about our soul, whowe are.
Yeah, we can connect with them,but I don't know.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
Sorry, saying deep down inside, I always wanted to
be a gangster.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
I think so.
I think you'd be a greatgangster.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
And you just wanted to be a kid that found a
treasure right.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
That's it.
There you go yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
I just wanted to be on a spaceship out in space, or
a pale horse, a pale horse.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
You do wear your cowboy boots to school once in a
while.
Do what you do.
He does wear his cowboy bootsto school once in a while.
I do Once in a while.
So the last part of this we'rejust going to go through and I
will mention quick.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
We're going to name our five right, we're going from
six to ten.
Are we going?
Speaker 4 (24:59):
well, we're just, you're gonna name all yours this
, we're not going one, okaywe're just gonna go through yeah
, all right, all right.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Honorable mentions john oh I'm going first all
right, let's start them off leanon me, okay, all right.
The green mile all right,that's a good one.
I like that one.
Teachers, teachers in New YorkCity Okay.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
The.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Untouchables, the Untouchables.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
I had that on my not on my honorable mention, but it
was in my initial list and Signs.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
That's kind of a sci-fi.
Yeah, you've talked about Signsbefore.
Yeah, that's a good one.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
It it's a good list Sci-fi so there you go Good list
.
Honorable mentions for me Rambo, First Blood.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
Grease oh man, I was just.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
I'm laughing folks because he started singing this
the other day.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
It's work and I'm like, if you put that on your
list, okay, go, whatever, we'regood, all right, wait's work.
And I'm like, if you put thaton your list.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Okay, go.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
Whatever, we're good, all right, wait, wait.
Can I ask why Grease?
Why Is it just the music?
Or what is it?
It's partly the music, or is itOlivia Neutron Bomb.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
No, no, it's partly the music.
No how old were.
So I didn't really see it untilmy kids were, uh, you know,
older, and so we would sit thereand watch it.
We probably watched it a bunch,and my boys.
They're gonna hate this, but myboys would do the dance that
the guys would do in the in themovie and so when I think of
(26:29):
greece, I think of my boys youknow up there some Yep, it sure
does.
So they're going to hate thatI'm going to have to, anyway.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
There's no editing that out.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Sorry, all right.
Lord of the Rings, the TwoTowers.
I like Lord of the Rings, Ilike that one.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
I'm a big fantasy fan too.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
This is the movie that almost made the Rocky thing
.
I don't know if you guys haveseen it, but Warrior with Tom
Hardy.
I've not seen that one Greatmovie.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Is it boxing?
Great fight movie.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Yeah, it's MMA type fighting, so it's real good.
And then you know, Ode to RobinWilliams' Jumanji, I like.
Jumanji yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
That was good.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
So you kind of see this fantasy adventure type of
combination with true stories.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
And it was the first Jumanji, not the other two.
Yeah, the one with RobinWilliams.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Yeah, yeah, that to me is the best one.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
I like Robin Williams .
Speaker 4 (27:26):
Good.
So the reason I asked you aboutGrease and if it was the music,
one of mine, a lot of it isbecause of the music there's a
lot of other things that go intoit.
But Blues Brothers, Okay, Ilike the Blues Brothers.
Great music throughout thewhole the whole thing Just.
John Lee Hooker's in there.
I mean it's, that's great, it'sgood stuff.
(27:47):
I like that.
We're on a mission from God.
I love it, uncle Buck oh yeah.
John Candy, john, there's umuncle buck, oh yeah candy john.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
There's another guy that died too soon he did.
Yeah, uncle buck love uncle.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
I was gonna give you a quote.
I probably shouldn't yeah, goahead.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Oh, it's a great one.
Why not it's?
Speaker 4 (28:05):
the girl's boyfriend and his name is bug his name is
bug.
Yes, and he, and he's likewhat's his last name, spray?
Speaker 2 (28:12):
oh, it's great.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
But he comes up and he pulls up to the school to
give her a ride in that car thatkeeps backfiring.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
That old LTD.
Speaker 4 (28:19):
And he's like.
You ever hear of a tune-up?
Hee, hee, hee.
And Candy goes.
Oh yeah, hee, hee, hee.
You ever hear of a ritualkilling Hee?
Speaker 3 (28:26):
hee, hee.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
You gnaw on her face like that in.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
That's great.
Uh, my newest movie in theentire list 2007.
Speaker 4 (28:44):
Mark walberg, shooter .
Okay, oh, love that movie, love.
You don't understand.
These boys killed my dog.
Uh, 1973.
My last two involve colors thesame color, 1973, white
Lightning, burt Reynolds as awhiskey runner.
Oh, that's great, great stuff.
White Lightning was part of aseries.
(29:04):
Actually it wasn't reallysequels.
He was Gator, mccluskey was hisname, but it was all down south
like in the bayou.
And last one, the oldest moviein my list 1949 for james cagney
white heat, the originalgangster movie oh my gosh so
good never, never heard of it Itold you to keep away from that
(29:27):
radio.
If that battery is dead it'llhave company.
Probably the best scene, oh,it's great.
There's a guy who's kind of arat and he and he locks him in
the trunk of a car and they're,it's cold, it's like in the
winter time, and so they'releaving and they're just going
to leave him in the car to todie, whatever it is.
(29:48):
And he goes by and the guyyells from the trunk.
He's like, hey, cody.
He's like I can't breathe inhere.
That you know what's that?
You can't breathe here.
I'll give you some air.
And he shoots about six slugsinto the trunk lid can you
breathe now?
Speaker 3 (30:01):
that's great, it's great.
Speaker 4 (30:02):
But yeah, it's a great movie.
It's uh black and white, youknow it's uh, it's good, but
yeah, I got so many others.
Get one more.
Give yourself one more.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
You got one more I do not, I just chuck.
You got one more, I did 10 myone more.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
You got one more.
I do not, I just did ten, chuck.
You got one more, I did ten.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
My one more would probably be go ahead and give
your one more.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
I can think of one here, I would say Goodfellas.
Yeah, I'm really surprised thatI and I could have put that
over into my list.
But such a great movie and it'strue story based as well yeah,
I'm really surprised that I andI could have put that over into
my list.
But such a great movie and it'strue story based as well Henry
Hill and all that is all real.
Now, they did dramatize some ofit.
What was that?
Speaker 1 (30:43):
again Goodfellas, goodfellas.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
I love that movie and it's, and if you read stuff
about it and talk about HenryHill and he actually wound up.
When Henry Hill ratted him out,they put him in WITSEC and he
wound up in Omaha.
That's where his first stop was.
But, then, he got arrested inOmaha and went back.
So yeah, that's how he got outof New York the first time.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
But yeah, I like that movie.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
So when you guys were talking Al Pacino, I loved
Ascent of a Woman, Just a greatgreat movie.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
I just love that one and that kind of tells a little
bit about with.
I like sci-fi but you know, Ilike those kind of make you
think type of movies that, uh,you know are are a little more
drama I think my one more wouldbe uh, us marshals oh, that's
good, tommy lee jones andharrison ford yeah, my feel-good
(31:45):
movie was it's a wonderful lifeI like.
Speaker 4 (31:48):
It's a wonderful life , and and that was all about the
whole thing of being thankfulfor what you have and not always
thinking the grass is greenerand always looking for something
better, and I think that thatwas a great story for men to
look at.
Like hey look what you have.
You have your family, you'vegot your wife, you've got this
(32:09):
home.
You've got everything you need.
You don't need to look further.
Anyway hey, we should have madepopcorn.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
We should have doggone that we missed it.
Speaker 4 (32:21):
I wish we would have been in the garage, because I'm
sure the conversation would havebeen even more lively had we
had a couple drinks in our hand.
Yeah, that's good but, mygarage actually is a garage too,
it's not just a dedicateddrinking slash recording studio
so it is a little bit dirty.
At the moment there's somestuff, so we passed it off.
So hopefully one of these dayswe'll get back in there once I
get all these projects done.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Not like sickies, huh .
Speaker 3 (32:44):
Yeah, yeah no.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
I think you wanted to start something like that.
Speaker 4 (32:48):
Something.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
What's a sickie Sickies garage?
Never heard of that, uh-uh.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
Sikki.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Sikki's Garage.
Never heard of that.
The restaurant chain Neverheard of it.
Started out like Luke's Garage.
Speaker 4 (32:58):
Literally.
It's kind of one of thosethings, this topic I talk about
movies all the time.
You know, I quote stuff all thetime and I'll say it but it is
kind of it's always fun.
I mean I like it and I likewatching new stuff, but I always
sometimes roll back to the oldstuff.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
Yeah, We've had so many quotes.
Are we quoting anything?
Speaker 1 (33:16):
We don't need quotes.
How about this one?
We each owe a death.
There are no exceptions.
It's from the Green Mile.
Remember how he lived a lotlonger, lots of good life
lessons in that one yeah.
Yeah, maybe that's what I lookfor is the life lessons it is
(33:36):
kind of cool when you watchsomething.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
It kind of grabs your interest and kind of keeps you
in it to see what are they goingto come up with hey, just a
reminder to all of our listenersif you enjoy what you're
listening to, recommend it tosomeone, share the show with a
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We would really appreciate that.
And then, on the Facebook postthat we usually put up each week
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Maybe your favorite movie.
Speaker 4 (33:59):
Give us your favorite movie, yeah, your favorite
movie with a quote.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
Because you know.
Speaker 4 (34:02):
I've got so much spare time.
I need to watch a new movieonce in a while.
That's exactly right.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
Super fun.
Yeah, All right guys.
Well, hey, thanks for hangingout.
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Ding dong! Join your culture consultants, Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang, on an unforgettable journey into the beating heart of CULTURE. Alongside sizzling special guests, they GET INTO the hottest pop-culture moments of the day and the formative cultural experiences that turned them into Culturistas. Produced by the Big Money Players Network and iHeartRadio.