Episode 7: We Talk Movies

We chat about "The Color Purple" remake.

Upcoming 2024 films

Scary movies

Cheesecake Factory

Episode Transcript

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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome toanother episode of It's Not
About You. My name is Jamal Harrington,
hailing from the great city of Brooklyn, NY And with me is my
colleague, my Co host with the most Marianne Raleigh from the
great city of Sumner, WA. Ladies and gentlemen, That's
right. You're probably wondering how do
we do this at the same time? Well, it's called the time zone.

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It is called the time zone for sure.
I know. I'm over here going, Oh my God,
it feels late. And then I look at the clock.
I know. And you just rolled your eyes
when I said that, which was hilarious.
As you should. As you should, because I looked
at the clock and I'm like, Oh myGod, it's only 6 and you're over
there going bitch, it's nine over here, so.
Spare me well. I say that, but I don't use the

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word bitch. I'm just like you, crazy lady.
It's, it's nine over here and it's Thursday, you know, it's
Thursday. You guys may get this episode
next week, Wednesday maybe, depending on how I feel.
But yeah man, it's, it's, it's, it's great.
It's the holiday season, you know, it is the holiday season

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and I'm excited about the holiday season.
I I I did not think that I was going to be, but for some, and
it's probably because of my workschedule.
But man, I am pumped about the holiday season.
I feel like I'm in school all over again.
I am pumped we got. So it's it's strange, I'm going

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to be in Seattle from the 28th of December till about the 2nd
of January. And The funny thing is we have
Christmas and the day after Christmas off.
So basically that's going to be Monday and Tuesday, so that's

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the 25th and the 26th. Now the 27th, I go into work and
that's the only day of the week that I'll be working because I'm
hopping on a plane on the 28th, early in the morning.
Wow. To go to Seattle.
Wow. It's yeah it's.
And not only that I just learnedwhile I was working with my

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working on my schedule with my boss.
He was like, oh, you know you have the 2nd of January off too.
I was like shut the fuck up. Like, yeah, I was like wait,
January 1st and the 2nd we have off, he's like, yeah.
So if you want to come on the, if you want to come to work on

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the 3rd that would probably be best for you.
I'm like, yeah. That's what we'll do, yeah.
Wow. How did you end up getting?
How did you end up getting that kind of a schedule?
That's that's the weird thing isthose are the days off.

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We that's the days off we have. So it's not really like a
scheduling thing. It was just like, oh, you get
the first or second, you get the25th and the 26th of December.
And I thought I saw, hell, why don't I just take the entire
Christmas week off well into theNew Year's?
But The thing is, other people at my job also schedule days off

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around that. So I don't want to step on
anybody's toes. But I'm super.
I I'm super excited. I could use the break.
And you and I, I'm just going tothrow a little shameless plug
out there. Me and Marianne is actually
doing a show at comedy slash Barb in Capitol Hill in Seattle.

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We're doing that. That's right.
That's us. We're doing that.
We're doing that. There's going to be a lot of
good people there. So for those of you who are,
just get your damn tickets, you're going to want to do this
because we're we're we're fucking awesome.
You want to get your tickets? So yeah, do that.
Oh, OK. I just saw something that has my

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attention. I I don't know.
I don't know how I feel about this.
OK, I'll tell you how you shouldfeel about this.
Tell me what it is. The remake of The Color Purple.
Oh yeah, some things you just you shouldn't touch.

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But tell me about the remake. Like who's in it?
See, this is what I'm looking at.
The the the people who play Sophia is Danielle Brooks.
Silly is played by Fantasia. She was an American Idol.

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OK. Fantasia Burry began lasting
because of the B right. Yeah.
Yeah, she was in. Wow, she's still around.
Shit. OK.
Yeah, she was. She was in.
I think she was one of the winners of American Idol.
Halle, Bailey, who is from the the.
Little Mermaid. Yeah, good.

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And I never can. Pronounce this woman's name
Tahara Tahjara. Tahjari P Henson.
Yes. OK.
I hope I should Avery. OK, here's the word thing.
You're telling me all of this. I've not even seen the original
1 yet. It's on my list before I yeah, I
know, I know. I'm a bad black person.

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No judgement out loud. Dion Cole is in it.
Oh really? Yes.
Wow. Sierra but she's.
I don't know why they have her as listed bill where she's at,

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because she doesn't have a that's the adult sister and she
doesn't have much of A part in there.
OK. Coleman Domingo.
OK. Corey Hawkins, I think I said
that. OK, I know who he is.
Yeah. Tamela Mann I don't think she

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has that much. Let me ask you this, who's
directing this? The.
Other thing I don't quite understand is is why this says
that it's a musical slash drama.I wonder if they put A twist on
this. They usually do with these

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movies just so they could oh, OK, so it's oh, so it's coming
out this year. It's coming out in 2 weeks.
Oh, it's coming out on ChristmasDay.
Yeah. That so?
Hold on. So Steven Spielberg, Oprah
Winfrey and Quincy Jones are theproducers of this.

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So they got the OK, so yeah, youcan't you can't just say, hey, I
want to remake The Color Purple and not get these guys involved
because I know Steven Spielberg,I believe, directed the the
original and he definitely had his hands on it.
So OK, it's a coming of age drama by directed by Blitz

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Bazawell. OK, Huh.
You know what? I know the movie's a classic,
and I don't know if it's something that you really need
to remake before I even watch this one.

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I'm going to watch the original 1, but I'm just the.
One is this, you know, I think I'm with you.
I think I want to watch the original again.
Yeah, it's. Been a few years since I've seen
it, and I absolutely, absolutelyfucking love that movie.
I don't look at it as just a black movie.

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I look at it as just there's so many the the so the main
character, which was what? Who?
Whoopi Goldberg played? Silly, silly Cecilia.
Yeah. OK, very quiet, very meek, very

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like dominated by the the men and other people around her.
And I think that that resonates with a lot of women.
Right until she has this, this woman who comes into her life.
There's a very beautiful, strongwoman who is very used to get in

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her way when it comes to men andempowers her, empowers her to to
look for better, to to to have better for her own life.
And when they say it's kind of acoming of age, I wouldn't.
I would not call this a coming of age at all.

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I would look at this more as a coming to empowerment.
There's a big difference to me and so she absolutely like
embodies that and and some and how she was able to do that was
by seeing the example of strong women around her and that it was

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OK to to be her own voice her own advocate and being a a voice
of of a voice where she to protect herself to take care of
herself in an in an era where women did not have that let
alone black women. Black women would absolutely not

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have something like that. And it was such and and I'm so
mad that to this day I'm still pissed that Whoopi Goldberg did
not get the the Oscar for that she.
Shook up, OK. So when you see that movie, when
you see the original, you are going to be mad too, that she

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didn't get it because you're going to look and go, what movie
was she up against? Because there wasn't any movie
at that time that was worth that.
There was nothing that was a stronger act actor at that time,
male or female, that deserved that more than she did.

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Yep, that I I I couldn't believethat it's phenomenal.
So as I'm looking at this you know and David Alan Grier is in
it which yeah David Alan Grier and Louis Casa Junior they got
they got some good actors in here.
I mean they they really got somereally good, you know,

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especially, you know, I mean Fantasia, I I've really never
seen her act before, but somebody must have saw something
in her for her to be in this movie.
I mean we already know Tajiri P Henson.
We already know how good she is.But no, it's it's.
I mean, it's two hours and 20 minutes.
That name is so freaking hard topronounce, Tarjiri.

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You got to hear it enough. But I'm looking at the trailer
right now with the with the sound off and it looks, I mean
it, it looks pretty good. I mean it looks good, you know.
But like I said I would have to watch the the first one first
before I could even give this a chance.

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So luckily and again the the cool thing about this movie I
will say this is the fact that Steven Spielberg and Whoopi
Goldberg. I'm sorry.
Steven Spielberg got Oprah Winfrey and Quincy Jones.
Like, like I said, I kind of felt like, hey, you know what?
Let's re let's remake this movieand let's give these, you know,

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let's give these new act, these not new actors.
A lot of these guys have been around for a while, but let's
give, let's give it a new cast. Yeah.
So, I mean, at first I was apprehensive about it only
because I'm like, there's certain movies you should, you
should keep your hands off, you know, don't, don't mess with it.
This movie, I mean, again, I'm looking at the trailer right

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now. Again, the sound off, it looks
pretty damn entertaining and it,as you say, it's a musical.
I see Tajiri P Henson in a very nice looking dress singing.
I don't like musicals, but I didwatch The Wiz with you guys the
last time I was there and it brought me back.
I'm going to say I have a hard time looking at it as a musical.

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And I'm gonna have, I'm gonna have to watch it because the
original was not a musical, OK? It had some parts in it.
So Suge is a singer. Her that character.
Suge is a singer. OK, so that's what I mean by
she's a beautiful entertainer. She's a very beautiful

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entertainer. And it's a couple of spots in
there where she sings and it's phenomenal.
Oh, and I've never heard Tejari thing, so I'm a little bit.

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Well, I will say this, I've heard Fantasia sing and she is
phenomenal. So no wonder it's a musical
because you got her who's also an artist.
You got Fantasia, who's also an artist.
I mean the Corey Hawkins, he played Doctor Dre in Straight

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Outta Compton. I don't know how much singing
he'll be doing, but but no, I mean, it looks like a good
project that they wanted to do. And again, Steven Spielberg and
Oprah Winfrey. I mean, there's about two of the
most powerful people in the entertainment industry.
It's not like somebody's like, hey, they're doing this behind

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their back. No, they're like, oh, you want
to do this? We have to produce it because we
don't want to mess this up that.You could have possibly done a
remake of Color Purple without having Oprah Winfrey started
like first of all, Oprah Winfrey's character that she
played in that movie, She wasn'ton screen a lot, but holy shit,

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it was very impactful, right? So to try and and I think that
that was her first acting creditas well.
I think that that was Oprah's first acting credit and it was
very powerful. It was a very powerful
performance. Like you, you would think that

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you were expecting to see Oprah Winfrey.
But you know, back in that time,keep in mind that Oprah Winfrey
was the the number one talk showhost in the country.
She was one of the most powerfulwomen ever.
And she she wasn't quite there yet, but she was getting there
at that point when that movie came out.
And so when she did that movie, a lot of people had a hard time

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thinking of her as anything other than that talk show host
or a reporter. And when she performed, it was
mind blowing. She did such a powerful
performance that you did not even realize that that was
Oprah, right. And so it was a phenomenal,
phenomenal movie. I mean, and again, you had

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Whoopi Goldberg. Whoopi Goldberg.
She did comedy. Yeah, and.
She did funny movies. She did jumping Jack Flash.
I'm a little. Black woman.
In a phone booth. Yeah.
And she did this movie and you were like, so that's what made

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it so powerful is you took theseactors or you took these these
entertainers that you could not imagine stepping into these
roles. And when you walked away from
that movie, from seeing it for the first time, it left an

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imprint on you. And there's not a lot of movies
that have that much of an impacton you.
You felt this movie. You didn't just watch this
movie, You felt this movie. And it was something that had a
lasting impression. And so when you say there's some
movies that should not be revisited or remade, I don't

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know if this one's I I don't know if this one's going to be
able to pull it off. But the if in order for them to
really pull this movie off, they're going to have to do it.
Not a remake of the exact same movie.
They're going to have to put their own brand on it.
They're going to have to put their own mark on that movie if
they hope for it to be even halfas successful as you know.

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What? But OK, so with that being said,
like I said while we were talking about it, I was just
watching the the the trailer andI kind of it felt like it felt
like they did that. It felt like they put again it's
a musical, but it felt like theyput their own spin on on the

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story. Now again, I don't know what
kind of a spin because I haven'tseen the original one.
But let me, I will say this though, I'm doing some research
on this right now. I'm actually on theimdb.com and
I always like looking at the trivia part of certain movies.
So I So as a now I see why Fantasia is actually in this in

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this movie. So Fantasia, who's playing
Cecile, is actually reprising her role in this movie from the
original 2005 Broadway production of The Color Purple.
And Danielle Brooks, who's playing Sophia, is reprising her
role from the 2015 Broadway revival.
So they've been seen playing these roles off on Broadway.

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So that's why casting these two girls alone was probably the
most easiest thing. Oh, we're going to cast these
two, they. So that's why they got cast.
The Color Purple was first written as a book by Alice
Walker, which was turned into a film that was directed by Steven
Spielberg. The book then was turned into a

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Broadway musical in 2005 and thesecond film adaptation of The
Call of Purples based on the musical adaptation.
OK, so it's a musical adaptation.
OK, so that makes sense. And that makes me.
That intrigues me. It intrigues me that they're
using actors from the the Broadway cast that intrigues me

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to see like that tells me that they did put a different flavor
on it. They did make it their own.
I still want to see it regardless if I think.
It's well in the box. Watch it, I think.

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It's going to do well in the boxoffice.
I mean, because it's, it's coming out Christmas Day, so I
mean, not for nothing. You're off that day.
What are you going to do? You know, like, so I think it's,
I think it's well played. It's, it's, well, I did not even
know this movie was coming out. Like this is a movie where it's
like, you know, six months in advance, even longer than that.

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Hey, this movie's come out on Christmas.
Like, I didn't. So when you told me that they
were doing a remake or I'm just like, really now I'm looking.
So this is real. And you know what?
Like I say, I I I'm more. I'm less apprehensive about it
now than I was 10 minutes ago. Right.

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You know, because I'm just like,you know, like I say I'm one of
those guys like, oh, they're remaking The Color Purple.
And again mind you I haven't seen the first one but I'm just
but I know how much of A I've been told how much of A great
movie it's been. You know and it's one of those
things where it's like you know we had a segment a while back
where I did I had a list of movies that I should have seen

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being I'm a movie buff that I didn't and I still have that
list. I probably out of the 10 movies
that I should have seen I probably already saw four of
them so far. But no this this looks like AI
mean again I don't like musicals.
I'm not a huge fan of it, but inthis case you you know this
looks like this looks like this looks very entertaining.

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And you know, there are a lot ofmovies that are actually still
coming out right now. Some of them might be a little
bit more up your lane. Aquaman.
Yeah, I'm going to pass on Aquaman.
I'll wait till it comes out. Yeah, I could wait on that.
Yeah, I have not seen the trailer for that, so I don't

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know if I'm going to. What about the one?
I just, I just found out about it and then I watched the
trailer on it just to see the fall guy.
The trailer to it How awesome isthat movie?
How? Hold on, how awesome does that
movie look? It does look pretty good it.

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Looks. Great.
And I've been watching the fall guy season one and I I mean, it
takes me so far back. I love that show.
Yeah. They don't make shows like that.
I'm sorry, they do not make shows like that anymore.
No they don't. I so I could imagine how awesome
this movie is going to be. Oh, I'm.

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I'm looking for it. And you know what though?
I think that of all the things that have not fully recovered
from the Pandemic movies or it'sone of them, and there's it's
starting to come back. But I'm looking at right now

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like movies. I'm I'm kind of coming up like
movies that are coming out in theaters because I just plugged
in movies that are coming out and there's things in there and
I was like wait a minute, that Candy Cane Lane with Oh my God,

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Eddie Murphy. Oh yeah, I.
Think that's coming out in the theaters.
I think that that's coming out in like Netflix or Prime.
No Netflix. Is it?
Yeah. So there's a big difference.
Interesting. Although they do show the cast

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of Aquaman and Amber, Heard is still in it.
Yeah, well, yeah, we knew she was going to be in it still.
Yeah, that's interesting. And Michael Keaton's in it.
Really. Yeah.
OK, I'm going to watch it. Yeah.

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Yeah. Michael Keaton can get.
Michael Keaton is probably one of the very few actors that
could easily get me off the couch.
Yeah. You just said Michael Keaton is
in this movie. I will go.
I I'm all right. Cool.
I'll go to the theaters and I'llwatch.
I'll watch it. Yeah, let's see what some of the
movies the color this is for just December of 2023.

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Mom's Christmas Boyfriend. That does not sound that sounds
like something that's like a Netflix thing.
I don't know. Mom's Christmas boyfriend, OK?
The five most Oh, what about OK,The five most anticipated movies
of 2000 for December Godzilla. OK. -1 Yeah, I I I've actually

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been hearing about that movie. Wow.
So it it says in the month of that included a new superhero
flick, a family friendly confection, and a sci-fi epic.
Who could have guessed that the most anticipated movie by far

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would be the latest Japanese Godzilla movie?
Sure, we knew it would be popular, but Godzilla -1 led to
all of our social media polls, even if it tied with Wonka for
the top spot for 10. Unrelated to the opening monster
verse franchise, this installment serves as a stand
alone film that takes place softshortly after the end of World

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War 2 as Japan is terrorized by the famous Kaiju once again.
So I think that there's some movies that are coming out that
look, I don't know this one. The Boy and the Heron, Heron,

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Heron, the Boy and the Heron. Now I sound like an idiot who
can't speak Willy Wonka. It's not Willy Wonka.
It's Wonka. Yeah.
So I don't know. I I think that I personally did

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not watch the Johnny Depp, WillyWonka movie in the chocolate.
Factory OK. I watched bits of it and I went
no, no, this is horrible. You OK?
I have to watch. I haven't watched that one
either. I just can't bring myself to

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watch it for some reason. I can't either.
I can't watch it because I honestly feel that Johnny Depp
has no like, you don't go from being Jack Sparrow to Willy
Wonka, OK? You just don't.
There's not. You cannot make me suspend

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disbelief enough to believe thatthis guy is somebody like Wonka.
Wonka was Willy Wonka the Gene Wilder Wonka that that we grew
up with, right. Was magical.
He was absolutely magical. And he made you want, should be

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better. You wanted to be in his presence
because you would be better. You know, like you could, you
could do the things that Charliedid because you would be a good
kid if you were around Willy Wonka.
And that's just what that magic of it made it made it feel.
And he let you suffer the consequences of your own

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actions. He told you, He warned you, You
didn't listen. So now you're going to suffer
the consequences. So you because of that, you saw
the bad consequences and you knew that you needed to do
better to be better. Johnny Depp just made you want
to say, fuck it, jump in and start swimming in that lake of
chocolate and start drinking it.You know, right?

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I mean, like, who cares? Like, he didn't make you, He
just was creepy as fuck looking too.
Like, why did they make him so creepy?
He wasn't approachable, really. Wonka was somebody who was
approachable. Johnny Depp made you feel
creepy. Like he was kind of rapey or
something, like you wouldn't want to find him in a back

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fucking alley. He was creepy, Creepy, like
creeperson. No, get away from me.
I didn't want to win the golden ticket.
If you were it, if you were the one who was going to take me
through this, I'm out of here, you know?
And so I'm looking at the actor that they have playing Wonka,
and I'm like, I I could see this.

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Tell me about his back story. Tell me about the man Wonka
before he became and the Chocolate Factory.
OK, right. So I'm thinking that this is
going to be one that I'm going to have to watch.

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It's a musical again. What is it with musicals?
Hey man, yeah, I know. It's like not.
I'm not a musical person. I'm actually scrolling through
right now the release dates of movies in 2024 and a couple of

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things actually pop out that that so everybody's talking
about, Oh well, Mean Girls, they're doing that movie, which
is Jon Hamm is going to be in a Tina Fey, Jenna Fischer.
So they're doing that. I think Tina Fey actually wrote
this one. So it's like Mean Girls?

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Oh, is it like a a remake? I.
Don't know if it's a remake. I think it's a sequel, OK.
I think it's more of a sequel, because yeah, I'm looking at,
yeah, everybody's all grown up now.
Oh, OK. Yeah, yeah, Tina Fey wrote this

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one. Jon Hamm is in it.
Let me see. Katie Heron is a hit with the
Plastics and a list girl click that draws.
I'm sorry That an A list girl click at her new school when she
makes the mistake of falling forAaron Samuels the ex-girlfriend

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of the Alpha plastic Regina George.
OK. It's been a long time since I
saw the original. So yeah.
Wow that that looks like a lot of stuff going on there.
So yeah we and and we talked about this early earlier this
year even. Yeah.

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It's and again I've been scrolling through.
I'm like, what's the one movie that's going to pop out that I'm
going to be like, oh, I can't wait.
And so far I'm just like nothing.
Not even a super movie. I've I, yeah, it's I have such a
hard time. So one of the things I got to
tell you, I was actually watching, I was reading, it was

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kind of a review of some stuff on Netflix and the one thing
that kind of popped out, I don'teven know how I got on to this
one. I'm telling you, they're saying
that it's surpassing squid game.And it's one of the ones if you
read the description on, it's a Netflix one.
And if you read the description on it, you'd be like, OK, this

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looks stupid, but when I read this article about it, I went,
Oh my God, that looks entertaining.
And it is right now #2 in the top ten.
OK And how it it got there. When I started listening to it,
I went, Oh my. I told Romeo, I said I and I I
kind of watched. I've tried to watch the trailer.

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I haven't really watched the trailer before, but I've kind of
watched a little bit on like flipping through Netflix and I
was like again, even that wouldn't have got my attention.
But it's like one of these little miniseries ones.
So they have like I think 8 episodes and it's called
obliterated. OK, here's the premise of it.

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This is what kills me. The premise of it.
It's a group of special agents in Las Vegas that have to stop a
nuclear bomb, OK? They stop the nuclear bomb and

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afterwards decide that they should party like the heroes
that they are. And they get just tore the fuck
up, right? And then find out that the bomb
that they stopped was not the real nuclear bomb.
It was a fake. And now they have to go stop the
real bomb while they're totally tore up.

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So. And they say that it's a very
raunchy humor. And I'm like, yes, yes.
That has me written all over it.Where is this in my life?
I need to watch this. So because I've been watching,
it's so funny because I've been binge watching the 24, I've been
binge watching 24 and they did astop where they had, you know,

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our point where they had to season two was a nuclear bomb.
Well, so imagine Imagine Jack Bauer just fucked up on drugs
and alcohol. Basically, I guess combined
season three was season 2, but get tore up and have to go stop

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a nuclear bomb. Now imagine that they're all
these people who are in it together, Tore up and it gets.
And I'm like, Oh my God, I need this in my life.
This sounds very, it sounds entertaining, it sounds like
it's an action adventure and it's entertaining with humor.

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Those are my favorite kind action adventure humor.
That's my favorite when you combine them.
OK, well Speaking of that, I just ran into two movies that
that caught my attention as far as the 2024 is slowly but surely

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approaching us Ghostbusters, Frozen, Empire that is going to
be released next year. On and hold on, let me go back
to see what date it is. Circle your calendars folks.
It is coming out on March 29th of next year, but also and it's

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and the and the cool thing aboutthis, I don't think I'm really
giving anything away because if you read the synopsis, there's
an evil that is threatening the planet and they are going to
need the help of new and old Ghostbusters.
So, you know, so as I'm looking at it and Ernie Hudson is in it,

(36:00):
Bill Murray is in it and of course Dan Aykroyd along with
Paul Rudd and his gang. So that and I just need to see
this, that that looks pretty good.
But also also that's something that's coming out.
I know you and Romeo would love this.

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Another movie that's coming out on the same day, Kung Fu Panda
Four. I know, right?
I love. Kung Fu Panda that's like you go
to a movie theater you buy 2 tickets for you just you can
spend all day at the movies watch Ghostbusters and then end
it with Kung Fu Panda Four. I mean that's just that is, I

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mean it's it's it's really hard to choose really one, because I
like, I love the Kung Fu Panda film franchise and I grew up
watching Ghostbusters. I got two Ghostbusters movies
with me right now and I haven't seen like the Afterlife and the
the ones after after that or even before that.
So but I'm excited about this one because it's like OK, gives

(37:11):
me something to look forward to and it's good to see Paul Rudd
working, you know period. So yeah so that's that's March
20. March 29th.
Oh man, that, that's and that just grabbed that.
Just grabbed my attention right there.

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Wow, there's a new OK, so there's some movies that are
coming out that I definitely need to pay attention to.
I saw this on a smaller one and it said the beekeeper and I was
like, eh, that sounds like a whore.
And then I saw Jason Statham is in it.
Ah, OK. Talk about somebody who will get
you out of a A your living room to go to a movie.

(37:54):
Jason Statham, because you know he's he's got the action.
I love action. I love comedy.
My favorite is action comedy combined.
I'm not a horror person. I don't watch horror movies.
I'm not about it at all. There's definitely some things
that are coming out. We talked about what is Joker.

(38:16):
Oh it's oh it's it's Joker was so Joaquin Phoenix, it's a stand
alone movie that Joaquin Phoenixwas in.
He he played the Joker as in theBatman's Joker.
It's basically a stand alone movie and it almost seemed like
it was like a like a, like a bio, like a like a Joker origin

(38:37):
movie. And then they're coming out with
Part 2, which they filmed here in New York, which I've ran into
some of the sets that they had when I was delivering caskets of
funeral homes. I ran into a couple of their
sets. So it's it's going to be Joaquin
Phoenix and Lady Gaga playing the his girlfriend.

(39:00):
Wow. So that, I mean, that's that
looks pretty good. I would watch that.
I'm not. I'm not a huge Joaquin Phoenix
fan in the slightest. I met him once.
He's a douche. But I and I, and you know what?
I Well, I remember when I read that he was going to be the

(39:21):
Joker, I was like, you know what?
I'm not going to watch this movie.
I don't even like him that much to give a shit.
But then I I had to remember, you got to put your feelings
aside, your feelings and art, you got to put it aside.
So I went to go. I went, I was visiting a friend
in Kansas and we went to go watch this movie, And that movie
was disturbing as shit and we loved it.

(39:44):
We love Joker. That movie was incredible.
He did a great job and he deserved the Oscar and the fact
that they're doing a second one,Yeah, it's going to be
interesting. I can't wait till that comes
out. Also, if you're a Planet of the
Apes fan, May 24th, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes come out

(40:06):
on May 24th, along with a Mad Max saga.
The the the New Mad Max Movie. Will be coming out that same day
and Garfield comes out. So May 24th they got the the Mad
Max movie. They got the.
Planet of the Age? Labor Day weekend.
That's going to be your Labor Day weekend.

(40:27):
No. Well, this is Memorial Day
weekend. Right Memorial Day.
Sorry, you got you. Got the Garfield movie coming
out. All these three movies are
coming out on the same day. I mean, don't get me wrong,
they're doing a really good again, I see myself going to a
handful of movies. This here's what the text is.
Surprising. And Speaking of fucking Johnny

(40:48):
Depp, Johnny Depp, not Death A Depp Beetlejuice 2.
All about that. I'm all about.
Well wait, yeah, I'm all about Beetlejuice, isn't it?
Also, the girl who plays Wednesday going to be in it?

(41:11):
God, her name escapes me. I feel like such an idiot
because I was just watching Jenna Ortega.
Yes, I knew it was Ortega. Yeah, Bad boys, four and inside
out two coming out June 14th. So this Will Smith's hurrah.

(41:34):
Wow. How do you feel about that?
About bad boys. Yeah.
Oh, I could. I'm very indifferent.
I could easily skip that movie. Interesting.
I could easily Despicable Me 4 coming out on labor on 4th of
July weekend. All right.

(41:56):
Despicably Deadpool 3 coming out.
Oh my God, I was last. When is 6 fucking wait?
Till Deadpool comes out, What day is Deadpool coming out?
July 26th. Damn it. 11 day, nine days after
my birthday. Oh, I'm thinking.
Oh my. God.

(42:18):
I need to get tickets for that one now.
Here's a one. I cannot believe that they're
making a second one. Winnie the Pooh to Blood honey.
Oh, they're they're making a sequel.
Yeah. Oh, OK.
That was the. Look on my face too when I saw

(42:39):
that. I mean, OK and and again, I know
we talked about this in the past.
Sure. I mean, I guess the first one
was that big of a success where they need to make it AI mean
it's just OK, cool. You know, I haven't seen the

(43:01):
first one. I still haven't even seen the
first one, so but OK. I'm not about horror movies and
you just took a lovable character like Winnie the Pooh
and made him a killer. Not just him.
It was a gang of them. Piglet, I think.

(43:24):
Or Rabbit Tigger I. Yeah, And and The funny thing
about that whole thing is their production company, the, the
people who worked on the movie got death threats.
So but they're like, yeah, we'lldouble down on it.

(43:48):
Do you remember this book calledHarold and the Purple Crayon
about a Little kid who OK, well,that's being made into a movie.
And if you're like Zooey Deschanel, then this is This is
a movie for you. Is.

(44:10):
She in it. Yes, her Laurel.
I mean, I'm sorry. Yeah.
Lil rel. Zachary Levy in this movie.
Let's see what else we got here.Here, have a fun Beetlejuice 2
coming out September 6th. Jenny Ortega, Catherine O'Hara,

(44:37):
Monica Balducci and Wynona Ryder.
But my question is who is playing the yeah, so Jenna
Ortega? Oh, so Tim Burton's.
Tim Burton's directed this. Well, first of all, it's great
to see that he's actually again working and Michael Keaton

(44:59):
returns as Beetlejuice. Willem Dafoe was in it.
Not a bad cast, Hope. I hope it's good.
Wow. And of course, yeah, I hope it's
good Winona Ryder's back. Cast members.

(45:21):
That's some some different Mufasa, The Lion King.
I'm a huge fan of The Lion King.I really am like to my core,
huge fan of The Lion King. So we've.
Got Seth Rogen as Pumba. OK, I can see that.

(45:45):
As Mufasa, Billy Eichner as Timon.
OK. And Calvin Harrison Junior is.
Scar OK. So.

(46:13):
Oh shit. OK, I know you don't like horror
movies, but I had made recommendations to my friends
about this particular horror movie, Smile 2/20/24.
I knew that was going to make a sequel because they made a lot
of room for a sequel in the first one and the first Smile.

(46:34):
I enjoyed the shit out of that movie only.
I love horror movies that have like a bit of originality to it,
And Smile definitely was one of those movies that I kind of wish
I saw it in the theater. Definitely.
I saw it in my at home by myselfwith the lights off and it

(46:56):
scared the shit out of me. But Smile is a really good the
the first one was really good. What was it?
What was it about smile that made it good?
You know what it So the thing that really made it good is even
it's it's a it's like it's one of those psychological horror

(47:17):
movies. You know, like with horror
movies, for the most part you always have like you're your
your serial killer who's haunting you or you're being by
something. Smile was something that was
like completely different from what I'm used to when watching
horror movies. And it's it's like Oh my and and

(47:38):
it's not really hard to explain.It's just one of those things
where it's just like smile the the the, the the first smile.
It it, it's scary, but it's not like, I mean, the scares are
more like thrilling scares. It's not like it's not really
gory or even gross for that matter, but the idea of smile,

(48:02):
so, so it's like it's so with smile.
It's like this. After witnessing A bizarre,
traumatic incident involving a patient, a psychiatrist becomes
increasingly convinced she's having a she's being
threatening. She's being threatened by like
an uncanny entity. And that's the thing that's

(48:24):
crazy about this movie. It's, I mean the name alone of
this movie. It's like smile, how was that a
horror movie? It's more, it's more of a
thriller to me that it is a whore and Kev and and Kevin
Bacon's daughter Susie Bacon, she was really good in this
movie. I mean she was really good.

(48:47):
So it's one of those movies thatit's just you're like, how is
this movie going to end? Like it's a whole new evil it
and not for nothing. I know you're not into horror
movies, but if you watch this movie because like I said, it's
not really like a scary movie asfar as.

(49:07):
But it's just more like of a bizarre kind of like a like all
my friends who are into like horror movies, who saw this
movie was like, oh dude, this movie's fucking good, you know?
And I just like the fact that this particular movie did away
with your usual horror, you know, it it it, it, it kind of

(49:31):
it, it brings like a whole new refreshing, like I said it, it's
so original. Like even as much as I think
about, oh what would make a great horror movie, I would have
never came up with this idea. And this was such a good idea.
And it's it's just it's good. It is fucking and.
That's, you know, I think that that's because a lot about a

(49:53):
movie, any kind, you know, it's to come up with something
completely and totally original and to be able to put your own
kind of mark on it and to have somebody who to have an audience
that does like to have that scare.
It is something that is, you know it.

(50:17):
You know, I don't like scary movies.
There's there's still ones that I've watched that I think
everybody should like. Silence of the Lambs.
Oh, classic. That's a classic one.
Right. Nightmare on Elm Street.
See and and The thing is, I likeNightmare on Elm Street.
The reason why I love that, It'sbecause of the premise.

(50:38):
It's because of the idea. You know, like, not for nothing.
All of your major horror movies like Halloween, you know, it's
based on a premise, it's based on an idea.
And again, mind you, these movies way back in the day, you
know what I'm saying? Like in the in the 70s and 80s.

(50:58):
And I remember when there I saw the original Fly movie.
Oh yeah, in black and white. And so when you watch those
types of movies like the like the movies of the 60s and the
50s, you got to keep in mind these are the ideas that they
came up with night. Of the Living Dead.

(51:19):
Night of the Living Dead. Yes, I watched the original.
So scary. Oh yeah.
Oh, it's got the crap out of me.Yeah.
Because it's just like it's likepeople were coming up with these
original, fresh ideas of horror movies.
And not for nothing, I remember.And especially with Smile, when,

(51:42):
when, when Hort. Like OK, so the Saw movies, you
know, the Saw franchise came through and you know, and then
the Hostel, you know Hostel before that came through.
And it was almost like I wasn't me.
I wasn't really going to the movie theaters.
I mean, I think, oh, I went to see, I saw one Saw movie in the

(52:03):
theater. No, I saw two actually.
And and they came out with like seven of them at the time.
I always saw two of them in the theater and then, so I'm not
really finding myself going to the movies to see horror movies
as much. Had I had known how good Smile
was after watching it at home, Iwould have seen it at the movie

(52:24):
theater and and and the thing was like, I have friends who are
very big into horror movies. I asked him like, hey, did you
go see the new, did you go see Smile?
What did you think of it? And he was like, bro, that movie
is fucking crazy. And I'm like, OK, so you're
saying I should see it? He's like, dude, yeah, go watch
it. And then and then you tell me

(52:45):
what you what you gathered from it.
So I remembered I made dinner. I sat at home and I watched that
movie with the lights off. I would stay 1/4 halfway into
the movie. I turned the lights on.
I had turned the lights on because I was kind of get, I

(53:05):
mean, yes, it's a movie, but I was getting a little freaked
out. I was like, you know what?
This movie's hitting me a littledifferently, you know?
And I didn't even smoke or do shrooms or do acid.
I watched it. I had AI had like 2 beers before
I watched the movie, and I recommend it.
I I was telling a listener of our podcast about the movie

(53:29):
because while I was watching it,I posted on Facebook how awesome
I thought this movie was. And she watched it and she was
like that movie was really good.So the fact that they're so, so
I what I'm really what I was trying to say was the point I
was trying to make was the fact that they're making this the
sequel to this movie. I will definitely go and watch

(53:51):
it in a movie theater because the first one was so good.
Now usually when it comes to horror movies, sometimes the
second one is a little bland. It's not as good as the first,
but I would, I would give this particular movie a shot.
This movie was one of those movies that I thought was the
much better horror. And again, I keep saying that I

(54:14):
say it's a horror movie, but to me it was more of a
psychological thriller. And I think that sometimes
psychological thrillers are way better and way more scary.
Because yes, I agree. They have a like the blood and
guts. I'm not into blood and guts with
the psychological and I think that that's why I've I've seen a

(54:38):
few, a handful of scary movies, but like you know Scream, so the
classics. But I think that what makes what
made Silence of the Lambs so fucking scary was the potential
that could happen. You could absolutely see

(55:01):
something like that happening, the thing.
I think also what's great about Silence of the Lambs was the was
the actors Jodie Foster and you know, Anthony Hopkins.
Anthony Hopkins over the top. Amazing.
Yeah. Iconic lines from that movie.

(55:21):
Iconic lines, people. Yeah.
And, you know, it's something that there there's there's
something to that. The mental mind fog of a good
scary movie. But I'm not into blood and guts.

(55:42):
That part I'm, you know, senseless killing.
I saw Hellraiser in the theater.Oh, I love I that.
I love Hellraiser. I fucking love Hellraiser.
I was not prepared to go see. I don't like if I'm going to
watch a scary movie. I don't like to do it in the
theater, although I probably if I thought about it, I'm probably
better off seeing it in a theater than in my own home,

(56:06):
because then I can disassociate once I leave.
But when I see something like a scary movie, when it's something
like the blood and like I went, I used to do this thing where
I'd go to the theater and I'd show up at a certain time and

(56:30):
they're like, OK, what are you here to see?
And I go, what's the next movie that's playing?
And they're like, what what's the next movie that's playing?
And that's how I ended up seeingit was because that was the next
movie that was playing. OK.
So I I I kind of go, I vacation the same way.
I love vacationing, like going to the airport with a bag and

(56:53):
going OK, what's the cheapest flight leaving in the next
couple of hours? Really.
Right. And you, because you, you don't
know where you're going to go. Pressure gone.
Like I I have people that are sorigid that they have to have
when it comes to vacation, they have to know where they're

(57:16):
going. They have to have all their
itineraries spelled out, plannedout, everything down to it, like
tours, all this shit. And I was like, that sounds like
a lot of fucking work for vacation.
Yeah, right. Doesn't that seem like a lot of
work? The best, one of the best
vacations that I've ever been onwas the one that I just recently

(57:37):
took. We were supposed to go to Mexico
and we did our lemons to lemonade tour and we ended up in
South Dakota. You know, I mean, we got the car
and we drove. That's how we saw Yellowstone.
That's how we saw the monument. That's how we saw.

(57:59):
What else did we see when we were there?
There's we saw. Go to the Grand Canyon.
Huh. Did you guys go to the Grand
Canyon? Yes.
No, not the Grand Canyon. We haven't.
We've tried to go to the Grand Canyon three Times Now.
We've just never made it. It's too close to Vegas and we
get distracted. We have Shiny.

(58:19):
Things on I guess the next Everytime I see you guys in Vegas,
they're like try to go to the Grand Canyon again, huh?
Can't make it. Yes, exactly.
That's exactly what happens. So we ended up like, I think
what I'm going to have to do is actually plan a trip just to the

(58:43):
Grand Canyon. And I think that I'm going to
have to have like a tour or something that's going to
require us to, to not lose our money to go to it.

(59:07):
So I don't. Know you should do.
You should probably, instead of having a connecting flight to
Vegas, just take the long way around, just go down to San
Diego and then just cut straightacross.
There you go, There you go. That's what I should probably do
something like that, because we get someplace close to Vegas and

(59:29):
we we're like, we literally get the shiny thing moment and
there's nothing shinier than Vegas.
Oh God not. Yeah, that desert.
Everything is bright. Yeah.
And then you could almost hear from a distance the Ding, Ding,
Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding Ding from all
the slot machines. Yeah.
Although it's very to me this isvery upsetting that and I've

(59:54):
seen like I saw this in New York, we went to the casino in
New York and then we this is something that's happening here
in Washington, it's happening inVegas.
And this to me is absolute utterbullshit.
They're doing away with all the the card dealers, like the your
blackjack dealers and your roulette, like all the dealers,

(01:00:16):
and they're replacing them with machines.
You mean like machines that are dealing the cards?
To you, they're not dealing themto you, they're it's all
electronic. They're dealing the cards
electronic. Oh.
Hell, what the hell, right? Why?
Why? Why would?
OK, so here's my issue with thatright off the bat.

(01:00:37):
Why are you substituting humans?Who needs jobs?
Who have character like? I mean, like, not for nothing.
I, I, I talked to Romeo about his dealing days and he tells me
how much fun he had when he did it.
Sometimes you need guys like that to kind of keep the table,

(01:00:58):
you know? Right.
And you do. Well, here's the other thing.
That human interaction is huge. It's not just to me.
A good card game isn't just about like playing with the the

(01:01:18):
the dealer, it's the other people that are on the table.
OK, so when you have just a big machine that deals out the cards
it's already, it's even more they can stack it in the
house's. Favor.
True. But what it also does, and I'm
treating this like in my head, like the self checkout aisle.

(01:01:42):
I never do the self checkout. I fucking hate self checkouts,
you know? I mean, unless that there's no
cashiers and that's the way that's the policy, that's one
thing. But if I had to choose, if I
have a choice, I'm going to havesomebody check it out.
Why the human interaction? Yep.
I'm saying the human, so I wouldnot.
I mean, yeah, it's one thing to play the slots or whatever, but

(01:02:06):
you go to a blackjack table, you're you're there because of
the human. I mean, you're you're trying to
win money, number one. You're trying to test your luck
also, But that human interactionmeans a lot.
It's more so for the recreational gambler.
And I know that there's a big difference between a
recreational gambler and an addict gambler.

(01:02:29):
I've seen addict gamblers. I don't think that they would
care if it's a machine or not. Maybe they think that a machine
would give them better. I don't know.
I just think that for me as somebody, like one of the most
fun I ever had gambling was at ablackjack table with two of my

(01:02:51):
brothers, a brother-in-law, myself and my sister, my step
sister. So there's oh and the
ex-husband. So there we took every seat at
the table, OK And we kept, we had so much fun.
We kept telling the my sister Stephanie, we're like, take a
hit. Stephanie, take a hit.

(01:03:12):
And she's like, no, I'm gonna bust.
We're like, yes, but the rest ofus are going to win.
And she would bust every time and it would be enough to to
throw us. So every all the rest of us
would win. She was mad as hell.
We had a ball. But The thing is, is that we
were able, like when you're at and I can see the pros and cons,

(01:03:35):
but to me, if you're at a table with people you don't know,
there's always the chance that you have some fucking idiot in
what I call the clunker seat, which is the last, the last one
before the dealer gets a card. And that is an idiot that will
take a hit on 12 when the dealershowing 16 or showing a six

(01:04:03):
because they'll fucking bust andthe dealer gets the card, gets a
face card and wins and everybodyelse that held on the table
loses. That's that part.
But I don't see, again, there's no accountability on a machine.

(01:04:30):
They're programs to have a certain they're programs, right?
So they have a program of what they're supposed to be able to
deal, what the the percentage ofwin loss is.
The house already has the advantage.
All that does is increase their advantage because they can skew

(01:04:55):
it even more regardless of how many people are at the table or
whatever. It's the same thing.
I was talking to somebody who used to do the maintenance and
stuff on on slot machines, and he was telling me that slot
machines are designed to hit at a certain point, have the

(01:05:19):
jackpot hit at a certain point. OK, see, he said.
So one of the things that you dois if you have a game that you
like to play, walk through the casino and see if other people
are playing it. If there's a lot of play going
on with that and you'll see, youalways see this at the at this
casino where people doing this, he goes, let them continue, He
goes, because they're going to have the majority of the losses.

(01:05:42):
They're going to lose more than you will.
You just hit at a regular even and that's where you have the
higher chances of winning. Do I believe him at the time
that he did the that as Yes, absolutely it was correct.
Is it still true today? I don't know.

(01:06:02):
I don't know that that's true, but I do know that there's
certain, you know, there is a definite, there's definitely a a
algorithm to it and there's definitely a trigger where
things are going to hit a jackpot.

(01:06:23):
I understand that. I mean, I go when I play my
little bingo every week. I couldn't see if I go on a
Friday or a Saturday morning. I can see where the jackpot is.
They have these different kinds of machines that they're all
pulling off of the same jackpot.I think I was there last week.
It was $28,000 for the win. Yeah, but you had to bet $2.00 a

(01:06:48):
spin to win. OK, that's a lot of money.
You can go through $100 like that.
Yeah, I've seen plenty of peoplefeed those machines 100 after
100 after 100 and keep spinning and lose all that money could.
And I just, I it makes me sick to think of somebody sitting
there at the same machine, feeding it $100 bills and

(01:07:10):
losing. Because to me, I'm I'm losing my
shit. But the algorithm, I can tell
you know that that you know whenthat when those machines hit
people are leaving and and they walk away.
But stop and think about $28,000that casino has made quadruple

(01:07:36):
that money before that jackpot hits.
OK, they've made way more money than that money.
Then they're, you know, they're not losing that money.
They're not losing it at all. It draws in a huge amount.
And if, if it's high numbers like that on a Friday night,
Thursday night, Friday night, Friday, Saturday is usually

(01:07:59):
people will stay there all nightlong until it's hit.
And it's crazy to me, like if I if I'm on a machine and I see
it, if I'm winning, then I mightbump up to $2.00 but if I'm
playing their money, not mine. Yeah.
I got to play their money beforeI'm doing.

(01:08:20):
That, yeah. I'm, I'm not comfortable with
spending that kind of money, butyeah.
You know, it's funny. When I went to Vegas earlier
this year, I think I sat down atone slot machine.
I didn't really. I don't think many of us really
even gambled. I went to a one slot machine,

(01:08:43):
played for a little bit, and that was like the extent of my
gambling, you know? But me and my brother, we're
walking late at night in Vegas. It was probably, gosh, 2:00 in
the morning, 2-3 in the morning and we were walking through
these casinos and they were justempty, empty, especially the

(01:09:04):
smoking section. We're just like where is
everybody? You go to a non-smoking section.
There's people there just, you know, like you said, the sounds
of the casinos and and you know,we're just like wow, there's
really, you know, and I believe it was like a Saturday night and
it was just kaput my favorite casino that I've ever been to.

(01:09:32):
And I am not ashamed to say thisis Tulalo by near Marysville.
I love that casino. It's a.
Beautiful casino. It's really nice.
I remember when I was, I would go there once or once every
month or so. And I mean, I like the outlet

(01:09:54):
mall that they have out there, but I'll go to the outlet mall,
I'll shop and then what little money did, I knew that I could
afford to lose. I went straight over to drove
one parking lot over to Tulalo Casino and was just like take
all of my money. They have at that Tulalo casino.

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There's a restaurant in there that it's it's an Asian
restaurant. Oh my God, the food is so good.
I will drive. I would drive from Spanaway to
Tulala, which is what? Like, yeah, it's like what, an
hour and a half two hour drive? I would say it's about an from

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Spanaway to Seattle. That's like half an hour or 40
minutes per SE. And it Oh yeah, that's about an
hour. At least an hour.
So it's over an hour drive with no traffic.
That's with no traffic. If there's traffic, it's easily
two 2 1/2 hours. I would drive there just to go
to eat at that Asian restaurant.The food was so good.

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It was so good. Very.
And that's one of the things I have to say that, like with a
lot of these casinos, Oh my God,Snoqualmie Casino, hands down,
the best buffet ever. I have eaten at their buffet

(01:11:18):
before. Have you eaten?
It I've eaten at their buffet before.
I remember, oh gosh, I was therewith my ex and her family.
We went to Snoqualmie and yeah, they they came down to visit and
they were like, they wanted to go to a they wanted to go to a
casino. And the closest one by us on

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Mercer Island was actually Snoqualmie.
Even though I wanted to go to Tulalo, I just didn't feel like
taking the drive. So I was like, let's go to
Snoqualmie since it's right there with the Snoqualmie.
We ate at that Asian restaurant and I was eating lobster with

(01:12:01):
impunity. I'm like, I'm not even supposed
to be eating this good. I was eating lobsters out the
ass. It was so fucking good.
And yeah, I think their buffet was like 60 something dollars
and you just went ham, you just went at it.
It was great. I loved it.
Yeah. You know that's why like some of

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them are expensive. I I go to my favorite local one
is emerald queen in five and they have, I am so spoiled on
their prime rib because I've gone to Outback and you get an
Outback steak and it's a a primerib that's about 1/4 of an inch

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thick, less than half of an inchthick.
Yeah. And it's like 30 bucks.
Or, you know, but you go to Emerald Queen, you order
yourself a prime rib. That sucker is like 2 inches
thick. It is thick.

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And it's like 25 bucks. Yeah, so.
You get some fill. Oh, it is so.
That's, that's the important thing when eating at a buffet, a
restaurant or whatever. You know, if I, if I go to a
casino and like nothing, nothing, I don't care how much I

(01:13:30):
pay to eat the food because you know, the food's going to be
good. The question is, am I going to
get my feel? And if it's a buffet, I know I
will because I'm a fucking. I'm a pig.
I mean, I I try to make sure that I eat $62.00 worth of food,
you know what I'm saying? I don't want to sell my and
that's the thing that worries me.
Whenever I go to those kind of places where it's like, OK, the

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buffet is 60 some odd dollars, Ilook and see what's around.
I'm like, all right, can I eat at least sixty?
I don't want to eat $40 worth offood because then I'm just
giving. I'm just giving away 20 bucks.
I make you. Feel stiff.
I make sure that I'm getting topshelf food.
So at least anything that I eat after that, it's like, OK,

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anything that I eat after that is like, all right list a
little. You know, you have to go for the
big, you have to go for the, the, the brass ring first before
you, you know. So that's what I like to do,
man. I was, I was telling a friend of
mine, like whenever I'm in town I take my mom to Trapper Sushi
and trappers have like a lunch special where it's all you can

(01:14:37):
eat. But then they have a dinner
special, which is a little bit more, well, I should say a
little bit. It's a lot more than the lunch
special, but they open the menu more, there's more options.
So when me and my mom do it, I tell her straight up, hey look,
between you and I, it's like $60.00.

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We got to make sure that we eat $60.00.
Well, we split it in half. We got to make sure we eat at
least $30.00 worth of sushi. Well don't worry about me.
I'm going to I'm going to clear easily $80.00 to like $150.00.
I go ham on sushi no problem. But I need to make sure that you
just I'm not going to think and I tell I'm not going to think

(01:15:19):
little of you if you just if we're here for an hour.
You know what I'm saying? Like they got our money now we
need to make sure that we just gorge so and and and it's funny
because and my mom she she lovesshe she likes sushi.
She loves eating sushi with her kids now And you know my thing

(01:15:39):
is I don't like people wasting. I don't like wasting food but
also I don't like is if I go on a date with you and you end up
getting a doggy bag and that doggy bag sits in your
refrigerator for three weeks. I get upset.
I'm just like wait a minute. That's still there.
What's going on? Like come on with my mom.

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Oh she's eating it. She's like she's making up
different roles and all that. I'm like, yes, yes, you know,
we're, we're, we're getting to our, we're we're almost getting
to our quota. Right.
We actually went to a restaurantfor the first time.
I'd never eaten there before andsince we were in the in the

(01:16:20):
area, I actually I don't know ifI told you I I I got my iPad Pro
last week and. Hey, showed it to us.
And sorry, we eat it. Cheesecake Factory.

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I've never eaten that CheesecakeFactory before.
I've seen it plenty of times. I've just never eaten in there.
I didn't know. Fact, I saw it.
Big Big Bang Theory is one of myfavorite TV shows I've watched
it from. I've watched the entire every
single season, every single episode, twice.
Like binge watched all of this. So, and yet I've never eaten at

(01:17:04):
Cheesecake Factory. So I was like, you know what?
Fuck it. It was open.
It was there. I was hungry.
Let's go. Oh my God, where has this little
jewel been hiding? The food was so.
Good. It's been brown.
It was amazing. I had.

(01:17:25):
First of all, I had to try. I couldn't pick what kind of egg
rolls I wanted, so I had to get the sampler because there was a
particular ones that I wanted totry.
It was like the Tex mex ones, but I knew Romeo wouldn't touch
it. OK, so I was like, OK, I can't
get it, Sam. I can't get an appetizer that he

(01:17:47):
won't eat. That's just not the cool thing
to do. So I got the sampler and it had
like 4 different kinds and none of them were fish, which that is
huge. You can't have.
We can't have fish. I don't need my husband to die.
And so they didn't have anythingwith fish in it, which was

(01:18:08):
fantastic. And they were all so good, like
the seasonings, the, you know, the dips that they had with
them. The sauces were so good.
And then I did because I I I hadthe heavy appetizers.
I wanted something lighter for for for my entree they have

(01:18:31):
these lettuce what what did theycall it?
The the lettuce wrapped chicken tacos.
OK. So but it was like, no, it was
like Thai. It was like a Thai food and it
was Thai taka. So it had the sauces.

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The chicken on there was perfectly crispy on the outside
and just soft and juicy on the inside.
So good, so amazingly delicious.The flavors that they all had in
there was just it was, it was. I highly recommend it.
And Romeo had like a Parmesan chicken that he was just like,

(01:19:14):
Oh my God, this is amazing. So we ended up taking a bunch of
our food home with us. And by the way, the brown bread
for that, they served the bread that they served, The hot bread
that got that right there to me elevates you.
If you're a restaurant that gives me bread to begin with, a
warm bread that elevates you some to some next level, I'm

(01:19:35):
like y'all. Keep in mind my my palate is
very low. Like I I'm a little bit better
than my husband. But I'm still backwoods.
I'm old country girl. So for me, you threw the bread
down first. I'm starving and I'm eating some
warm bread with some butter on it.
Oh, I try to ignore that becauseit's like I want to eat all of

(01:19:59):
my food. So, so, you know, so like, when
I took my dad out for his birthday, they they brought the
bread, they brought the butter, they bought the butter knives.
And I'm sitting there and I'm like, I'm not going to touch
that bread, just going to wait. So me and my dad, we're having a

(01:20:21):
conversation. And before he knew it, he was
like. You're going to eat all that
bread, huh, 'cause I was alreadyhalfway into it and I was
picking it with my hand, with mybare hands.
I was just, I was like, grab. I was like, oh, I'll try a
little bit, you know, 'cause, you know, I just grabbed it and
I just started eating it and I was like, huh, Bread.

(01:20:43):
It's kind of good. But I was like, you know what I
just ordered like a 24 oz. Sirloin.
It's going to weigh. And the next thing I know, we're
we're talking. They're bringing us, we order.
We order like glasses of wine and I'm drinking it and I'm just
pick just and he's not having any because I know he's looking

(01:21:06):
forward to his meal and he doesn't want to spoil it, spoil
his appetite. But me, I'm just like and half
that bread is gone. The butter is sitting right
where half the bread used to be.He's like, you're not going to
eat any bread. I'm like, Nah, but yeah, it was
just I I try. I always tell myself that I'm

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not going to eat any of the bread.
I'm like, no, because I don't want to swim appetite.
I want to focus on the meal at hand.
And of course they bring it because it's just like, hey,
while you're waiting, while we're making your food to
perfection, here's here's some bread.
But I fall for it every time. You know, I'm telling you that
if it's a good restaurant, they bring you the warm bread because

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it does help you from being. The only thing is they almost
didn't bring me my bread and I was like, hey, the menu said
that I get bread with my my entree.
We ordered an entree. Did we get our bread or what?
Right. And they brought us with the
bread. And I ate.

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I ate the bread. It was the vine.
I'm not going to lie. I ate that bread and I loved it.
Yeah, I Cheesecake Factory. And boy, we're really giving
them a lot of of a plug. They should be sponsoring this
show. But I I eat at the one in
downtown Seattle next to the Convention Center, and then

(01:22:32):
there's one in Bellevue that I've eaten at.
And, and to be honest with you, I've never eaten at a Cheesecake
Factory until I lived in Seattle.
Yeah, and. And that's shit, though, is is
that I didn't even realize that there was a Cheesecake Factory
in Tacoma over by the mall. I was like, huh, We were talking

(01:22:55):
about different restaurants around here locally that had
some really good food and some of the different kinds of like
how you have to have some, like certain kinds of food.
And for a chain, for a chain like The Cheesecake Factory,
it's really not that bad. Yeah, I was really surprised for
a chain, you know, and that's something that like good food,

(01:23:18):
good food when you have good conference.
It was funny because we were talking to the people around us
while we were sitting there waiting and we were just chit
chatting and having a great conversation, tell, you know,
they got their table. And then the people that the
other people, a couple that we were sitting there talking to,
they ended up getting seated right next to us.
That's a little bit awkward. Like.

(01:23:40):
Right. Is is it me or was that a little
bit awkward? Like, I'm done talking to you
now. Why are?
You sitting next to me, like, I hope you don't think we're going
to continue talking because we're sitting in the same
vicinity as each other, but you tend to hear.
Nothing. Nothing.
There was literally like maybe 2feet of space between us.

(01:24:01):
No it. Was your chair than her chair?
Yeah, I mean, we could have. Been at the same.
Freaking table. We weren't, We can quote.
Yeah. So we were on a bench that we
were sitting right next to each other.
Wow. Making a special special
appearance on the on the podcast.

(01:24:23):
Yes. Yeah, it's.
Yeah, Cheesecake bag. Yeah.
Good. Yeah, man.
So to me, I mean that's that's kind of like very awkward when
you have, it's one thing to havea conversation with somebody
when you're sitting in the lobbyarea or the waiting area and
everybody's talking and you're having these weird you know,
interesting conversations and then they go, OK, your table,

(01:24:44):
you know Mr. and misses your table is ready.
We're like, OK, well enjoy your guys's dinner and you go sit
down and you're looking at each other and you're wondering and
then all of a sudden people sit next to you and you're like.
Let me ask you this and this is very important.
Were they like, oh, we're meet again.
Hey. Yes.
OK. Yeah.
I I hate those people already. I just hate them.

(01:25:06):
I hate those people already. I'm just like, you know what?
Yeah, duh. They sat us next to they must
have thought, hey, you guys are good friends.
Maybe we should sit up next to each other.
Maybe they want to continue their, you know, their
conversation, which is hell. No, that's not the case.
So. Awkward.
We had a lovely conversation where it was meant to happen out

(01:25:30):
there in the waiting area in thefront.
Now that we're sitting here, we don't want to talk.
And it was almost kind of like, they're like, they had the same
look of disappointment, too, like when they saw us, they're
like, oh, we we already ended our conversation.
Why are we? You know we're done.
We're all on the same page. With yes, the.

(01:25:51):
Awkwardness. Yes, we got that.
They felt they felt just awkwardas we did.
Yeah, so it wasn't. It wasn't like they were.
They were like. Oh my God, we get to.
Sit next to each other for dinner.
No, it wasn't like that. They came over, it was like, OK.
It was very much. It was very much like, Oh my
God, we get to sit next to each other for dinner, you know that.

(01:26:14):
And that's exactly, I think theysaid what we were thinking.
Yeah, You know, it was like. Yeah.
I mean, yeah, that is just, thatis kind of awkward because it's
almost like I'm sure the conversation was great, but then
when they sat you guys down, it's like, well, you know, I

(01:26:35):
guess we could continue talking about whatever we were talking
about. And it's like, yeah, I think I'm
done talking about the weather with you guys.
I'm good. I'm, I'm focused on dessert.
I'm focused on the cheesecake part of my dessert.
That's what I'm thinking about. I'm not thinking about you
people. Oh man, that's that's kind of a
yeah, that's. Yeah, it was definitely a like

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that is such an odd thing. So servers, yeah, don't do that.
Don't just because people are are sitting there talking.
I mean look this is kind of the this is kind of the drawbacks to
be in with my husband. Romeo has never ever met a
stranger. He has never met a stranger.

(01:27:23):
There is no such thing as a stranger to Romeo as somebody he
just hasn't struck up the conversation with yet and he
will literally talk somebody's ear off.
So there was, we were sitting there at at at at like a bench

(01:27:47):
seat, and the woman next to us, we started talking to.
And we were talking about how the dude at the kiosk had just
had his phone stolen and how that caused us to change our
plans. Instead of getting the cover for

(01:28:10):
my iPad, I had to, you know, we were like, oh wow, we got to
give this guy a break and let him spend some time and he can
re assess everything so he can go, you know, So anyways, so

(01:28:31):
that's what we were talking about.
And we were actually having a really good conversation with
her. And then all of a sudden, like,
she got pulled away and she had her table with her friends.
And so we're like, oh, OK Then this couple sat down next to us.
And so we were like, you know, Iwouldn't have minded if it was
the other people here. I got to do this.
This seems so weird, but I got to hear it.

(01:28:54):
Oh, oh. OK.
Wow. Pork chops.
Didn't I? That's, that's chicken.
Chicken breasts. Oh, oh, even better.
I beat it down and then. He beat the Oh my God, it smells

(01:29:14):
so good. He beat the chicken.
I gotta. I have to try it.
But I did this. This looks so freaking.
Good. Yeah.
He asked me. Are you hungry?
Good job. Good job, Romeo.
Yeah. I'm hungry.
I could eat. Well, I mean we are approaching

(01:29:38):
the two hour mark. We might as well talk about what
we've been binge watching if we've been binge watching.
Oh yeah. Sex education, so on Netflix, is
called sex education. OK, what's that about?
It's actually in this fourth season.
It's been pretty good. It's a, it's AI guess, it's an

(01:30:00):
English or British movie TV series and it's called sex
education. And it's about this kid and his
mom is a sex therapist and he ends up, he's in high school
when he starts up and he goes tohigh school and he's a little
awkward. He's a little bit awkward,

(01:30:22):
except. He.
Meets this girl and they start asex therapist.
They start a sex therapist classin this in the school.
So all these kids are going to him for sex therapy or sex
education, sexual education in in in like the this old showers,

(01:30:50):
the all day the showers. That's a joint to the school.
So he sets up a little shop where kids come and talk to him
about sex and stuff and and and like I said it's in season 4 now
it starts up in early high school.
Now this is season four and they're in college and you know

(01:31:10):
him and the girl. Well, it's it's a really good
series. I've been watching it for the
last. Gillian Anderson Is that the
chick from The X-Files? Yeah, I.
Think so. She's in it.
Yeah. Yeah.
OK. All right.
Yeah, it's called sex education.It's a pretty good show.

(01:31:31):
It's really good. It's really good sex education.
OK. Yeah.
I'm looking at the what? What?
I guess the question is, oh, oh,it's on Netflix.
Yes, on Netflix. All right.
So, yeah. OK.
Gillian Anderson. Yeah, she's she's very talented.
I like, I like her. I like her work and looks like,

(01:31:53):
yeah, OK, so sex education, OK? That's been what you want,
Crapopolos. Not really.
I've I've watched Crapopolos every once in a while.
I I actually. Binge watching Archer.
I didn't. Oh yeah.
I didn't know that. What What is it?

(01:32:15):
Judith? Judia.
Walters. Jessica Walters, She passed
away. Passed away.
I didn't realize that. Yeah, I mean, I was watching.
I was binge watching it and it came up to season 13 and at at
the end of season 12 it said in love and memory of Jessica.
I'm like, what the fuck? Oh yeah, she I I remember I was

(01:32:38):
like listening to the radio and they made the announcement and I
was not aware that she was ill in any way.
But she, I mean, she was also inthat one show on on Fox.
Yeah, yeah, she was. Gosh, that that that show.

(01:33:00):
It has. It's Tony Hale and Will Arnett
and Jeffrey Tambor and all thesestars that are in it.
And for some fucking reason I can't even think of the name of
it. But yeah, she was in that show
and that, and she was really good.

(01:33:21):
She was super good. I'm sorry, was.
That Glee? No.
No, no, not no, not Glee. Jason.
I I find myself doing a lot of research now that I'm.
I love. OK.
So, Arrested Development. That's what it was, yeah.

(01:33:42):
Yeah, wrestled development. It's so funny.
I have to because I watched so little TV.
Then when it comes to the binge watching, I have to put in my
pitch hitter. Yeah, you know what was weird?
My my son came over yesterday. Kyle came over yesterday.
OK. American Kyle comes over
yesterday. Oh, oh, OK.

(01:34:02):
Helped me set up the Christmas tree and then he's never seen
Die Hard, right? And I'm like, what?
Well, he goes, I think I've seenthe first one.
So we watch the second one. So we're talking and he goes,
well, he's never seen. He's never seen none of the
Batman either. I'm like, God damn, what
generation did I come from whereyou didn't see the only Batman

(01:34:25):
he saw was Batman and Robin. He's the only one with with with
Arnold Schwarzenegger as Iceman and.
That's the one he saw and I told.
Him, I said. Well, the best, the best Batman
to me. Oh actually he's seen The Dark
Knight. I said The Dark Knight was good.
I said the best Batman to me wasBatman Returns.

(01:34:46):
Of all his movies, The Batman Returns was the best.
But I said that's. But to to me on that footnote,
mostly DC does better with theirsecond movies anyways because
Superman was great, but SupermanTwo was so much better.

(01:35:06):
That is true. Batman was good, but Batman
Returns was so much. Better.
You know, I will say this, I wasnever a huge fan of Batman
Returns until I saw it for the third time.
And then first of all you got Michelle Pfeiffer and you got

(01:35:27):
Christopher Walken. So there and there are top notch
actors in my opinion. Then you also then you got Danny
DeVito, who was a really good Penguin.
He was. He was phenomenal.
He's got. Awards he's got.
Awards for that. Yeah, so if you really, if you
really think about it, the the cast of this one I felt was much

(01:35:53):
better than the cast in the first one, even though we're
talking about Jack Nicholson as the Joker.
So. But the second one had a lot.
They added more stars in the second one and but, but and and
on top of that the follow through.
I don't even think Tim Burton even liked that one but the to

(01:36:16):
me the follow through was much better.
You know I love the original Batman.
Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson. Right, right.
It was good. It was very, very good.
But I think. The second one was better.
And I think they did that because they were able to
introduce more villains at the same time.

(01:36:37):
Because you only had Jack Nicklaus in in in in Batman he
was the only villain. And and and then in Batman
Returns you had, you had a cluster of villains.
I mean, it wasn't like a whole bunch of them, but you had the
Penguin and you had Catwoman, right?
And then. That's right.
Yeah. And they was.
And they was implemented. They was implemented in Shrek.

(01:37:02):
You. Know.
They implement in track and you know, for them to even put in
his parents, you know, Pee Wee Herman, I was.
I thought that was awesome. Yeah, yeah.
That was kind of that was reallygood.
You know that was but you know and then you know also the
Penguin had his little gang of of of villains who was out there
terrorizing the city. So I thought it was a little bit

(01:37:24):
more, thought it was a little bit more, a little bit more
action-packed as far as villainy.
Villainy goes, you know, they had a lot more, they had a lot
more villains in there. And it was just, it was, it was
so much better. I thought that Michelle Pfeiffer
brought sexiness to to that thatmovie that was off the chain.

(01:37:49):
The. Only Catwoman I know.
Loved her as Catwoman. She was my favorite Catwoman.
I used to love Jessica KITT whenI was a kid, but.
I mean, I mean, that was, she was great too.
I mean, as far as, like the Catwoman from the Adam West
Batman, There wasn't one that I didn't like.

(01:38:09):
Julie Newmar, I like them all. The one that I didn't like was
Halle Berry, and that's the onlyCatwoman that I'm just like.
Yeah, I didn't like that one either.
As a matter of fact, and I'll even take it, I'll even take it
a step further. I didn't like Anne Hathaway's
Catwoman either. I was not a huge fan of Anne

(01:38:30):
Hathaway's Catwoman in Bat, the the third Batman movie in the
Christopher Nolan. I did not like her.
I wasn't feeling her. I felt nothing.
Even the even the Catwoman in The Batman, Matt Reeves, the
latest Bat. For some reason, I wasn't
feeling her either. Yeah, I didn't like the Batman

(01:38:53):
at all. I thought that was weak.
I thought that they tried to go dark with it and it fell off.
It fell off the rails. With me it was.
Well, I mean it was a three hourlong movie, so that also was a
reason a lot of people didn't like it either.
It was like 3 hours of boredom. Then it yeah, it was a three

(01:39:16):
hour movie, but it was for for comic book based movie.
It was too boring. It was very boring for a comic
based book, a comic book based movie.
Because with a comic book based movie you can you are supposed

(01:39:38):
to be able to keep everybody at least intrigued with what's
going on. You know you you got to keep the
interests of of everybody. You know, Black Panther, I
stayed. I stayed interested in that.
The Avengers, I stayed interested in that.
Spider Man. I stayed interested in that.

(01:40:00):
You know, they don't fall off. What what they did was they were
able to keep the suck the consumer in to the the the
characters, the plots and all that.
That's why I you know, whenever somebody tells me that the
Christopher Nolan Batman trilogysucked and I was just like, did
you not? First of all, not that it

(01:40:23):
matters, but it made a lot of money in the box office.
Second of all, Heath Ledger's Joker, he took that Joker and he
made you forget about Jack Nicholson.
Sorry he did. You know, he definitely made you
do that. Also, The Dark Knight.

(01:40:43):
The Dark Knight itself, probablyby far one of my favorite Batman
movies, easily and and the latest Batman movie with Matt
Reeves is probably my 4th. I actually enjoyed it.
I watched it on a plane twice actually.
I actually enjoyed it. I am surprised.

(01:41:03):
I was surprised that the one thing that I would say was
probably the negative was the fact that they made Robert
Pattinson look like some emo Bruce Wayne.
And I'm just, I was just like, OK, that I wasn't feeling.
I thought the Riddler was a really was a Jeffrey Wright, The

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Riddler. I thought they were great.
And now I'm very curious on how they're going to follow up with
that with The Batman 2. So they coming out with the
Batman 2. Oh, yes.
Oh, that was always happening. Well, all I know is I'm.
I'm waiting to see King Kong andGodzilla Part 2.
That's what I'm waiting to see. That's the that's the movie to

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come and see. Well, we did talk about some of
the movies too, and my battery'sprobably about to die on my my
laptop or my iPad. But binge watching?
What are you binge watching, Jamal?
Well, I'm actually been watchingmovies.
I oh, actually, I mean, aside from Cropopolis, I've been
watching that. I've been actually binge

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watching movies and I've been binge watching a lot of movies.
So usually what I like to do is if I have not been watching
shows, I usually just like to pick out a movie that I watched
and just say this is a movie that you guys should see.
Now this movie is is pretty not old, but the movie that I highly
recommend and I still laugh my ass off is Hot Fuzz.

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I was watching that movie last night and it it it's just it's
such a great movie and and and and and for those of you who
have never heard of it it's it'san English movie.
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost they're in it and they play they
they they pay police officers inEngland actually there we go.

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Hot Fuzz. Yeah, so.
And and what it also does is it pokes fun at at like, buddy cop
movies. That's what Rudy does, and
that's what I love about it, because I'm a huge buddy cop
movie fan. So a skilled London police
officer after irritating superiors with his embarrassing

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effectiveness, is transferred toa village where the easygoing
officers subject to his nonsenseof regulations as a string of
grisly murder strikes the town. It's it's it's such a good
fucking movie. Have you ever heard of it?
Yes, Rubio. No.

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I've. Heard it, man.
Yeah, I've actually heard of it.Yes.
You know, Todd, there, there's awhat is that, The Plex?
The Plex. OK, I was looking on the Plex
and I've been watching Spider Man, but I've been watching old
school Spider Man. Know what I mean?

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Old school. 19. 77 Spider Man, the TV series, When he was
climbing up the walls and you could see the cables and stuff
and he was swinging on the rope from building the building and
I'm it's live action. I was like, Oh my God, I
remember watching this all the time.

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Wow. I never knew that was even a
thing. Yes, yes, yes, I I showed Kyle
was like, Kyle was over. I said, I said check out what
I've been watching, so I put thePlex on.
They have showed it. So he goes, he goes, he goes,
oh, you can watch Spider Man. I said yeah, he goes, that's
just the amazing Spider man. I said, yeah, check it out.
I turned it on. And then walking around with
bell bottoms on, it's 1977. He's like, Oh my.

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God, I gotta find that. You can see the cables, held
them, got crawled up the walls. You could probably in the 1977
version where they're wearing bell bottoms, you could probably
see the moose knuckles too. Probably, yeah, they had, but
they had no like it's it was no CGI.

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None. Of that, you know, yeah.
Oh, it was and and it's so it was so cheesy about.
And every every time he got out he was he had his hand out and
he was looking around. He's got to run like this.
It was it was great. It was great.
But I'm going to go and. Yeah, we're going to wrap this

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bad boy up. Ladies and gentlemen, that has
been our broadcast. We do appreciate you listening
and hanging out with us, but special thanks to Romeo and of
course, my Co host, Marianne. Thank you ladies and gentlemen.
As Marianne always say, make good choices.

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I do say that. Yeah, I know.
Right as my and as. Jamal.
Always. Says Please remember it is not
about you and we're signing off.Have a good day everybody take
care. Bye, bye and.