Planes, Trains and Automobiles: A Thanksgiving Survival Guide

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Speaker 1 (00:26):
Welcome to another episode of Quantum Recast.
I was thinking about singinglike a festive Thanksgiving song
coming in, but there are none.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
There's zero, zero Thanksgivings.
You could sing something forPocahontas, I guess, but yeah,
but like.
I don't remember anything butColors of the Wind.
That's just revisionist history, man.
Yeah, you're right, you'reright, you're right.
Yeah, so on this episode.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
We we're gonna talk about Thanksgiving because the
best holiday of the year,because it gets a bad rap.
All right, we're probably theonly podcast in the
oversaturated market of podcaststhat's doing an episode on
Thanksgiving.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
Damn it we're taking, we're giving it its time.
Everybody else already jumpedto Christmas yeah and we're like
, well, hold on now, hold on asecond.

Speaker 1 (01:03):
Let's, let's, let's be reasonable about this so,
nick, when you think ofthanksgiving, like four things
come to mind sure and probablyin this order, um football okay
okay, I think probably at thetop of the list sure, sure food
and family probably tie or jumpback between two and third, just
depending on your familysituation rotates, yeah, I mean,
food's always good.

(01:24):
Family get leave or take, Iguess depends on what what you
do shows up yeah, um, and thenparades or just the parade.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
The parade mainly if you wake up early enough, you
get to watch the parade.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
I don't even know if towns like have thanksgiving.
I don't even know if our smalltown here has a thanksgiving
parade.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
I don't think we do very highly like we have a vet.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
We're in the south so we have a veterans day parade
we're really finished South sowe have a Veterans Day parade.
We're really fetishist aboutmilitary, so we're like, hey,
they get one, and then it's kindof like do we want to have
another one before Christmas?

Speaker 2 (01:48):
That's a really short period of time.
That's a lot of parades.
I just got the Halloweendecorations down.
The spiderwebs are hard to getout.
Maybe we just hold off.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
Black Friday is coming up.
I don't know if that's actuallypart of Thanksgiving, because
it happens.
Well, it used to happen afterRight Now.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
They've tried to save people's literal lives and go
like we're going to soft openBlack Friday on Thanksgiving Day
.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
I miss when Black Friday was survive, die or
survive.
Man, you want to get yourfamily affordable gifts, then
you should have to put your lifeon the line.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
None of this.
Oh, walmart black friday dealstarted in september.
It starts at 5 pm onthanksgiving day.
Now, cory, that's no, it's likehappening now.
It's now the black friday dealsare like happening three weeks
before thanksgiving on theinternet I think a majority of
americans and the world havejust kind of given up on
thanksgiving yeah they've justsaid you know what?
I'm putting up my tree tomorrow.
Look, court, the world's not inthe best state at all right now

(02:46):
, so everybody's just going.
I'm putting up my tree and I'mplaying some tunes and I got to
be happy, I got to enjoy myselfwhile I can.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
So okay, so lacking from that list, though that I've
read right Like family footballfood parades.
And then, I guess, black Friday, which used to just happened
the day after, which was reallyjust day one of christmas yes um
, because it's about shopping,the commercialism set in.
But now I guess thanksgivingcan now claim black friday,
since it happens now all ofnovember.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
I guess they can say, cory, I've been saying it for
years that thanksgiving it'sjust a pre-game.
It's just a pre-game forchristmas.
Lacking from that list ismovies.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
That's true, that's true there's just not a lot of
holiday like Thanksgiving.
Holiday movies there are notLike if you.

Speaker 2 (03:26):
if you ask the regular person, hey, name a
Thanksgiving on a, on a familyfeud or something they're going
to bring up Charlie Brown, orplanes, trains and automobiles,
I would say they're going to sayCharlie Brown.
They'll probably say CharlieBrown first and when.

Speaker 1 (03:36):
Steve Harvey says show me Charlie Brown.
It's going to be like.
90% of the survey said that onePlanes, trains and Automobiles
will get like a seven.
Yeah, he'll get a seven, andthen I think just Miscellaneous
gets the remaining three or likea shoulder shrug if that's an
option on Family Feud.

Speaker 2 (03:53):
So why do you think we don't have that many
Thanksgiving movies?

Speaker 1 (03:56):
Okay, so there's a lot of reasons, I think.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
Okay, it's a subdued holiday.

Speaker 1 (03:59):
It's kind like.
It's like you show up andyou're supposed to be thankful
and no one wants to be thankfuleveryone.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
Everyone dreads thanksgiving like christmas.

Speaker 1 (04:08):
At least there's presents, you know there's
eggnog show up with a goodattitude.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
There's movies annoying out the gate you can be
distracted by basketball andnow football, I guess, and and
presents and movies, butthanksgiving that's.
You just gotta take that thingraw like you can't.

Speaker 1 (04:21):
You can't get away from it no one wants to be there
and also it's forced.
Man, I mean like, don't get mewrong, I know some people have
really great families yeah, yeahin my house, thanksgiving has
always been this forced thingwhere it's like all right, let's
all show up and smile at eachother.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
I guess we gotta I guess we gotta make some turkey
and do my mom.
My mom, uh, tapped out, she'sretired from thanksgiving.
She, after cooking thanksgivingmeals not just for our family
but extended family for multipleyears now, she just says you
know what I'm pre-ordering atcracker barrel.
We're calling it good becauseit tastes just as fine.
And I'm and I've told her I'mlike I'm totally down with this.
Don't, don't make thisstressful.
It's already stressful enoughyeah, no for sure.

Speaker 1 (04:57):
And like I, I think my mom's doing something similar
this year.
She's told us, like I'm notcooking like main street
barbecue or someone like in townlike says we'll sell you a
thanksgiving dinner right, youjust gotta basically reheat it
or whatever.
Yeah and so I and I'm likethat's fine with me, um, but now
, like I'm the youngest child inmy family, like, and I'm almost
40, my sister's nearly 50 andmy parents are, you can't

(05:18):
supposed to say that on the air.
Sorry, she's older than you she,she's mid-40s, mom's pushing 70
, dad's in his 70s, and so it'skind of like, and I have one
nephew, we only have one childholding all the holiday stuff
together.

Speaker 2 (05:35):
I think if this one child, my nephew didn't exist,
we wouldn't do holidays.
Yeah, the kids are monumental.
As you become an adult withyour family, you've got to have
the nieces and nephews or yourown kids, you know, and that
really was what keeps the magicalive.

Speaker 1 (05:43):
There's been a few years where my mom has convinced
us, like let's just go to acasino and have a buffet.

Speaker 2 (05:49):
I went.
So in my hometown we went to arestaurant local restaurant and
ate at the buffet there forseveral years.
Yeah so yeah, it's an option.

Speaker 1 (05:56):
It's kind of like.
It's like being Jewish onChristmas.
It's like in my familyThanksgiving.
It's like we're not.
We're going to go to arestaurant.

Speaker 2 (06:02):
Yeah, we're just.
We're going to all this stressabout cooking stuff, like look,
look, it's right.
Cracker Barrel's right there,it's fine.

Speaker 1 (06:09):
And so it's, it's, it's, it's fun, it's interesting
, but, like it's, it's one ofthose things where it's like we
kind of need Thanksgiving moviesas a buffer, maybe.

Speaker 2 (06:16):
I think you're right.

Speaker 1 (06:17):
Football just puts people in a bad mood.

Speaker 2 (06:20):
He always got someone pissed off in the room.
Listen, the Cowboys suck.
The Lions are finally good thisyear and they always have a
Thanksgiving game.

Speaker 1 (06:25):
So I guess Detroit will be happy, michigan will be
good, but the rest all theseCowboys fans across the nation.
I'm sorry about you, but it'snot going to get any better, and
we live just north of Dallas,man.

Speaker 2 (06:34):
There's just going to be a lot of bad moods on
Thanksgiving, and that's goingto lead into Black Friday.

Speaker 1 (06:40):
Um, also, I think another reason is that
thanksgiving's like okay if youtake christmas, pisses me off
okay because every year theytake more like territory like I
mean it's just, at some pointthey're gonna have the whole
year, oh lowes, and home depotand walmart, they have their
christmas stuff the section isalready there before halloween
is done christmas is hitler'sgermany and my favorite holiday

(07:01):
is poland.
Man, we're right there, likewe're we are we are the border,
like they've already takenThanksgiving man, christmas is
already like rendered.

Speaker 2 (07:14):
Thanksgiving.
Who's England in this, in thisscenario?
Is it?
Is it fourth of July?

Speaker 1 (07:18):
that's America we got to be drug in, okay, okay.

Speaker 2 (07:21):
So before that you'd have to have like labor day,
labor day.
Yeah, we're holding, we'reholding on and so like, um, but
that's.

Speaker 1 (07:28):
That's the thing, though, like I'm pissed all the
time because my favorite holiday, just every year I lose a
little bit more of it, sure,sure, because of christmas.

Speaker 2 (07:35):
Now to be fair, cory, and maybe it's just that my or
the change in age and stuff aswell, like I've become,
halloween's become higher on thetier list for me like it's.
It's almost 1b, 1a for me nowand potentially taking over,
just because it's fun, likethere's not this, like not that.

Speaker 1 (07:51):
I don't love my family, but there's not anybody,
anything yeah you don't buyanybody.

Speaker 2 (07:54):
You get to.
You get to.
It's all about you and yourfriends.
Whoever you want to hang out,you choose what you want to do.
You want to dress up cool.
You want to stay in and watchhorror movies all night?
Absolutely there's no wrong wayto do it, really, unless you're
just hating on people becauseit's the devil's night or
something.

Speaker 1 (08:05):
Yeah, and like Halloween's not doing it.
By the way, they're not pullingthis crap Labor Day's in no
trouble.
No, there's no trouble At allHalloween's like you have your
Labor Day and then you start.

Speaker 2 (08:14):
I always make the argument that we need more
Halloween time.
Me too Like, and I neverunderstand why Halloween movies
aren't released in Octoberbecause you'll have, like, the
September Beetlejuice came outSeptember 6th.
I don't know To give you time,I guess, but movies don't last
two weeks.
It just doesn't take, yeah, notanymore Like you need to
release that October's first,middle of October or early

(08:35):
October if you want rush atthanksgiving and try to just
extend itself.

Speaker 1 (08:42):
you know what?

Speaker 2 (08:42):
halloween's problem is cory is it needs more lore?
Think?
about plenty of no no but thinkabout, think about christmas,
especially like from thecatholic tradition.
Like that thing starts earlyand there's, there's, they got
dates and stuff from, from likecandlelight all the way to like
potentially february, dependingon who you ask.
Like this, this thing stretchesand they can make excuses just
to do whatever they want, keepthe tree up as long as they want
, and this is coming from aChristmas person, like it's

(09:05):
starting to even affect me whereI'm like, okay, guys, maybe
it's just again the state of theworld that we're in right now,
but I'm like, guys, do we reallywant to just kickstart this
right away?
Like I'm just now kind ofgetting into the Christmas mood,
which I feel is natural stateof affairs.

Speaker 1 (09:19):
I, I mean like I don't know, it's just.

Speaker 2 (09:23):
Everybody's talking about the war on Christmas, and
what we're talking about, guys,is the war on Halloween, exactly
, and we're not even talkingabout Thanksgiving, which is
what the whole episode's about.
That tells you how unimportantThanksgiving is to everyone.

Speaker 1 (09:33):
It is.
It's all a bunch of Xmas versusChristmas.
It's like, oh my gosh, you gotthree months of it so but, okay,
but, but okay, but that's mything though.
If you take Christmas andHalloween, though those are
seasonal holidays.
Like October, we're inHalloween mode.
The day after Halloween we'rein Christmas mode for some
dumbass reason, but likeThanksgiving's a day.

Speaker 2 (09:53):
You know what?

Speaker 1 (09:53):
the problem is we don't seasonally celebrate.
No one's getting their shit outright now.

Speaker 2 (09:57):
There's not enough money in Thanksgiving, corey,
that's the problem.
See costumes, candy costumes,candy party favors alcohol, if
that's your thing.
Christmas on the other sidealso maybe alcohol, but gifts
and clothes and songs and moviesand music and everything.
There's not enough money in theThanksgiving business.

Speaker 1 (10:17):
Let me ask you this Is Thanksgiving, the most
sacrosanct thing then.
Are we protecting it Becausewe're not allowing it to be
commercialized?

Speaker 2 (10:22):
No one cares about it , but it's the thing everyone
still feels like.
Dads still feel compelled to doLike they're like no, we gotta
have Thanksgiving.

Speaker 1 (10:28):
We're Americans, man, we want the dumb stuff.
I mean it is our holidaytechnically, we don't like
Thanksgiving because we're likeeh.

Speaker 2 (10:49):
I mean and it doesn't also help three okay like aside
from the fact that it's just aday and no one really gears up
for thanksgiving, sure, likedon't.
No pumpkins, no trees, I guessit most some like basic white
girls put up some extra.
In the 90s used to have likethe the, you know the cowboys
and indians kind of pilgrim andindians throw some hay bales
outside or something I don'tknow we're all confused about,
like what's even appropriate tocelebrate about the holiday
anymore.

Speaker 1 (11:02):
Um, because it's a Point three clunky history, yeah
, clunky history.

Speaker 2 (11:06):
Because we were growing up, we were told this is
when the Indians excuse me,native Americans and the
pilgrims all sat down.

Speaker 1 (11:12):
Well, we were grown up.
They would have just saidIndians.
Yeah, they would have saidIndians In school.

Speaker 2 (11:14):
They would not have said Native Americans.

Speaker 1 (11:23):
This is when we all sat down and then, uh, the
pilgrims gave, uh, the indiansblankets, you know right full of
diseases, so that they couldtake their land because you're
dead, my land so um, that's,that's so.
You're kind of like oh so wecelebrate this?
What is this?

Speaker 2 (11:39):
you grow up and you're like wait, what are we
doing?
It's kind of like wheneveryone's starting to figure
out columbus day, why do we dothis?

Speaker 1 (11:44):
Yeah, it's like the guy thought he discovered India.
He's an idiot.

Speaker 2 (11:47):
He just decided to murder Native Americans.
He's a moron.

Speaker 1 (11:51):
He literally wrote letters back to England saying
like oh dude, these natives canbe so enslaved so easy.
Like literally verbatim.
That simple and you're like,wow, he got a holiday.
Oh, ghost the show, cory, ghostthe show, yeah, I know, but but
hey now it's indigenouspeople's day too.

Speaker 2 (12:09):
They also said, yeah, screw that guy.

Speaker 1 (12:09):
We're slowly taking it over, so and then if you're,
if you're like into the vikingside of it, you got lee ferrison
day, if you're, if you're aviking purist yeah, they were
here first.

Speaker 2 (12:18):
That's right, that's right so um, I love it.

Speaker 1 (12:20):
I love that we're just cannot agree on who was
here first, when it's very clearthere were people living here.

Speaker 2 (12:25):
It's like they're all going who discovered America
first?
It's like every Native Americantribe's like guys.
We've literally been here.

Speaker 1 (12:31):
Yeah, like this is just home.

Speaker 2 (12:32):
Sorry, we didn't have a phone or a letter to let you
guys know.
Hey, add this to your map.

Speaker 1 (12:36):
Yeah, so we didn't expect Vikings or Spaniards to
show up and wreck shop.
So it has a bad history.
And then the biggest thing,it's between the two bigs man.

Speaker 2 (12:50):
The two bigs.

Speaker 1 (12:51):
Yeah, it's between Halloween and Christmas.

Speaker 2 (12:53):
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, it gets suffocated.
Man, it's the middle child.
That's what it is.

Speaker 1 (12:56):
That spark can't catch a flame man.
It cannot.
It cannot.
Halloween and Christmas take upall the oxygen.

Speaker 2 (13:03):
And they Halloween and Christmas, taking up all the
oxygen.
They're just stuck in themiddle.
The two are warring with eachother.
Really, it's Christmas, tryingto take more space from
Halloween Thanksgiving's.
Like guys, I can barely breatheright now, please.

Speaker 1 (13:14):
We should also speak that we live in the southern
part of the United States, theMidwest, and so fall.

Speaker 2 (13:20):
Doesn't exist.

Speaker 1 (13:21):
Halloween okay, doesn't really exist.
Fall we get like two days of ithere.
Fall doesn't exist.
Halloween okay, it doesn'treally exist.
Fall we get like two days of ithere, but it's more of a fall
season pushes into decemberright, which is why we're kind
of like halloween.
Yeah, we should still betalking about halloween or
thanksgiving, should getsomething, because we're not
going to get snow or coldweather till almost january,
right like christmas.
It could be 80 on christmas hereit can so I'm wondering if up

(13:42):
north they're're like Christmasshould be year-round.

Speaker 2 (13:45):
Probably it's always cold.
They're like what is with thisHalloween?

Speaker 1 (13:48):
No, they probably get seasons.
No, they're super intoHalloween up there because
fall's real.

Speaker 2 (13:52):
Right, yeah, they actually get leaves and changing
of colors.
It doesn't all just happen in aweek.

Speaker 1 (13:56):
Yeah, my sister went to Sleepy Hollow the town in
October and she said it wasawesome, awesome.

Speaker 2 (14:01):
Bucket list item.

Speaker 1 (14:02):
I know.
So that's why Thanksgiving justgets lost in the middle of it.
So Hollywood said why should itget movies?

Speaker 2 (14:10):
That's fair, that's fair.

Speaker 1 (14:11):
Collectively, they said well, and again I get it.
Like your studios.
You're like hey, someone comesin and says let's make a
Thanksgiving movie.

Speaker 2 (14:20):
You're like or you can make a Christmas or
Halloween movie, Right yeah, oryou just make it, you know fall.
Yeah, fall is a better optionthan Thanksgiving.

Speaker 1 (14:24):
Yeah you're like Thanksgiving, yeah, and like the
few movies that exist that takeplace on Thanksgiving, it's
usually just about dysfunctionalfamilies.

Speaker 2 (14:31):
Right, yeah.

Speaker 1 (14:32):
Or just dysfunction in general.

Speaker 2 (14:34):
Do we have a list of excuse me, thanksgiving movies?

Speaker 1 (14:37):
Well, my next question before we get to the
movies.

Speaker 2 (14:41):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (14:41):
Is Thanksgiving, more TV friendly.
In the sense of I'm just sayinglike let's just say, nick, you
are one of the few people in theworld or in this country that
are like Thanksgiving is my jam,okay, Like screw Halloween,
screw Christmas.

Speaker 2 (14:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (14:55):
Because there are people who are just triggered by
our conversation right nowalready just getting mad.
Screw both.
Both of those holidays give memore thanksgiving.

Speaker 2 (15:07):
So let's say you're one of those.

Speaker 1 (15:07):
Let's just say you're a 50 year old mom okay, who
loves her family yeah, yeah andso um and loves thanksgiving got
it and you wanted to puttogether like a like, a like, a
viewing part, like athanksgiving movie night.

Speaker 2 (15:17):
Well, you're kind of screwed your options are limited
a lot.
You got the charlie brown thing.
You got planes, trains,automobiles.
You got and then We'll talkmore later.

Speaker 1 (15:24):
You got some other stuff, but nothing great.
But you could probably find 100TV episodes.

Speaker 2 (15:29):
This is true On Thanksgiving, I think that's the
hard part is that TV episodesare harder to find.
You can't just type in hey,give me the Friends Thanksgiving
episode.

Speaker 1 (15:37):
Well, I think we're getting to that point, though,
where you probably will in thenext, if it's not already a
thing like peacock will probablyhave thanksgiving, and it'll
plug all the thanksgivingepisodes from whatever shows it
had.

Speaker 2 (15:48):
We're getting there, they do it for christmas.

Speaker 1 (15:49):
They do it for halloween at some point
someone's gonna go.
Hey, there's thanksgivingepisodes right, because I mean
like fresh prince of bel-airfriends, seinfeld simpsons.
They're all gonna havethanksgiving episodes.
I know cheers has one of myfavorite thanksgiving episodes.
They all go to Ray Perlman'shouse.
It's a lot of fun.
Frasier has some good ones.
Bob's Burgers has really toptier Thanksgiving episodes.

Speaker 2 (16:09):
I mean even the Simpsons has Thanksgiving
episodes, like everybody's, allthe classic shows.
I mean how I Met your Motherhas Slapsgiving their
Thanksgiving episode reallyripples throughout the whole
show.
Yeah, it does.
That's true.

Speaker 1 (16:21):
It's an important episode, alright okay, and so
that 70s show has Thanksgivingepisode.
I mean, it's just whatever FullHouse has multiple, it's going
to be great.
I'm just saying maybeThanksgiving we need to shift
from movies to television.

Speaker 2 (16:37):
Okay, the normal thing when you try to find an
episode is you look it up online, then you try to find what
streamer the TV has it or you goto YouTube.

Speaker 1 (16:45):
An episode is you?

Speaker 2 (16:45):
look it up online.
Then you try to find what.
What streamer, the tv has it oryou go to youtube and go
episode and sometimes some, somegraceful soul will like upload
a christmas episode in low deffrom a potato and then, like you
, can watch that it's got theold pizza hut, big commercials
still in it.

Speaker 1 (16:57):
Okay, and you?
Have just enough peace of mindfor 23 minutes to uh, to not be
talking about politics oranything else yeah, for sure, um
, so I was just gonna bring thatup, that maybe, if you are one
of the holiday or you know,thanksgiving purists out there
just maybe start getting your.

Speaker 2 (17:12):
Get your list together, your tv episode list,
because also tv shows,especially old sitcoms, they're
safe.
Your mom can watch it, your dadcan watch it, your grandpa can
watch it, the little kids canwatch it.
Safe, the little kids can watchit, it's safe.

Speaker 1 (17:24):
Corey, yeah, because it's made for TV.

Speaker 2 (17:25):
I do think the Sopranos has a Thanksgiving
episode so maybe don't put thatone on, maybe not that, but
that's HBO, that's not cable,that's not cable satellite.
Yeah, you know that that's notsafe.
Yeah, did they have?

Speaker 1 (17:33):
Thanksgiving in Westeros.

Speaker 2 (17:35):
No, okay, they had Name Day, feast Birthday.
Didn't go well, that didn't gowell.
No, no also.

Speaker 1 (17:42):
Maybe don't put that one on for the children.
Don't play that one um, so okay, so nick we're talking about
thanksgiving movies and we knowthat the main two, sure which I
really think there's a main one?
Yeah, I think there's thecharlie brown thanksgiving.

Speaker 2 (17:55):
When you run out of think, when you don't want to
watch charlie brown three timesin a row, you go.
Hey, what about that?

Speaker 1 (17:58):
steve martin, john candy movie yeah, there's planes
, automobile, which is aThanksgiving movie.

Speaker 2 (18:03):
Right, yeah.

Speaker 1 (18:04):
But again not conventional.

Speaker 2 (18:06):
No.

Speaker 1 (18:07):
So what?
But obviously there areThanksgiving movies.
They don't have the hits.
No, they don't they just don'thave the same hits.

Speaker 2 (18:17):
Not quite.

Speaker 1 (18:18):
October.
I can't watch all of theHalloween movies I want to watch
.

Speaker 2 (18:21):
It's impossible, there's too many.

Speaker 1 (18:22):
So you just kind of go.
Which ones am I going to hitthis year?
Christmas, Christmas, I'm alittle, since I'm less
Christmassy, I have the sameones.

Speaker 2 (18:28):
I watch every year.
I rarely deviate from that list.
I've gotten to the point whereI know the ones that I will
probably watch with my family,so a lot of times I'm just
digging for now I'm digging tofind what's that secret movie?

Speaker 1 (18:46):
that's actually pretty good that nobody talks
about.
So I mean, and we'll have aChristmas episode and we can
dive deeper into that type ofstuff, but so you have okay.
So what in your mind makes aThanksgiving movie?
Because I think the reason I'masking this is we have to get
loose with the criteria.
Yeah, it can't necessarilyinvolve the holiday, I don't
think.

Speaker 2 (19:03):
if you want a real list, Okay, so we've already
established that some of thethings people enjoy about
Thanksgiving, you've gotfootball.

Speaker 1 (19:09):
Yeah, but are all football movies, thanksgiving
movies?

Speaker 2 (19:12):
No.

Speaker 1 (19:13):
No.

Speaker 2 (19:14):
So like Remember the Titans.

Speaker 1 (19:16):
Mm-hmm.
You could argue it's aThanksgiving movie.

Speaker 2 (19:22):
Fall aesthetic, a lot of warm tones, okay, so you
just named two things.
Okay, fall in warm tones.

Speaker 1 (19:24):
Okay, I think are very helpful for a thanksgiving
movie, even though I don't thinkthanksgiving's involved in
remember the titans no, ever,it's not, it's so it's around
the time because of fallfootball, so but it's also, you
know its theme it's about.

Speaker 2 (19:37):
You know the racial tensions and them coming
together to make a team.
It falls into that same theidealistic I version of
thanksgiving where it's like wecome together, because it's not
just about fame.
I mean, if you're going to thestoryline, you know that were
the americans and the pilgrimslike put their differences aside
and ate together, like yeah,that's kind of it's like
everyone's putting theirdifferences aside to come

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together just and just spendsome time together.

Speaker 1 (20:00):
So yeah, you could say stuff like that could
qualify okay, um and so uh, butokay, the next thing food.
Does food make a thanksgivingmovie?

Speaker 2 (20:10):
like all food, though .
Like well, okay, what do youmean?
Okay, uh like, give me a foodmovie I mean ratatouille.
I don't think ratatouillecounts as a thanksgiving movie.
I mean, you could probably giveyou a food movie.

Speaker 1 (20:23):
I gave you a food movie, you gave me the food
movie.

Speaker 2 (20:25):
I apologize.

Speaker 1 (20:25):
All right.

Speaker 2 (20:29):
American Pie Not quite shit.

Speaker 1 (20:30):
American Pie is super American and a staple of all
Thanksgiving dinners.
Just because a teenagerfornicates with an American Pie,
you're disqualifying it.

Speaker 2 (20:38):
What's your criterion , nick?
It's not family friendly, hasto not family friendly.
Has to be family friendlyslightly.
Well, okay, mostly family,mostly enough that I could turn
my kids eye away from us one ortwo scenes.

Speaker 1 (20:50):
Well, he only has sex with the pie for like five
seconds on screen.

Speaker 2 (20:53):
There's the whole band camp thing, there's
siffler's mom, there's there'sthe hot foreign girl elizabeth
yeah, you're right, it's bad.

Speaker 1 (21:00):
Don't watch it for thanksgiving.

Speaker 2 (21:01):
We can't okay, you got, so I came up first.

Speaker 1 (21:04):
right Ratatouille was first.

Speaker 2 (21:05):
That's right asshole as food movies, not as
Thanksgiving food movies.
You got Chef the Menu.
The Menu should be aThanksgiving movie.
I think the Menu is more of aThanksgiving movie than
Ratatouille is, because it'salso about because any about
like a family or just people, agroup of people at odds with
each other.

Speaker 1 (21:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (21:24):
I would argue, knives Out could be a great
Thanksgiving movie.

Speaker 1 (21:27):
Well, it's fall, it's fall, I think it's fall, and
it's Chris Evans in fashionablesweaters and it's a family.

Speaker 2 (21:31):
It's the fashionable sweaters.

Speaker 1 (21:32):
Absolutely the dysfunctional family, but the
dysfunctional family.

Speaker 2 (21:35):
Everybody coming together, so I think it's
adjacent enough.

Speaker 1 (21:39):
Yeah, I out qualifies .
So right now, our list hasremember the titans ratatouille.

Speaker 2 (21:44):
Maybe no ratatouille's out.
Okay, it takes place in france.
All right, you're right.
Yeah, no american, nored-blooded american would watch
a french movie um so yeah, Ithink, uh supersize me no,
because that's that just makesyou.
You can't eat.
Mcdonald's eventually killedthat man.
That's true, that's so I don'tthink so.

Speaker 1 (22:00):
I think, essentially, food documentaries are off the
table because they're gonna totell you you're wrong.

Speaker 2 (22:04):
Okay, okay, pig.
Pig's not really even aboutfood.
Oh, you're talking about theNicolas Cage movie.
Yeah, the Nicolas Cage movie.
I'm just listing the moviesthat are showing up to me.
No, because you eat, babe.
That's fair.
Okay, on Thanksgiving.
Yeah, you're right.
You're right, it doesn't haveto have food.

Speaker 1 (22:21):
There's not really movies about parades, no parades
.

Speaker 2 (22:23):
You know there's.
I mean there are movies withparades Like Butching All the
Way is a Christmas movie, it'sgot a parade.
I'm trying to think of movieswith parade scenes Like there's
that we're Back to Dinosaursstory.
I don't know if that's thatmight be during Thanksgiving
parade.
You remember that movie, the 91, 93?

Speaker 1 (22:39):
I was not Dom DeLuise or whatever his name was.

Speaker 2 (22:43):
He wasn't Dom DeLuise , it was a Spielberg production.

Speaker 1 (22:47):
You're right, I think we have this conversation all
the time.

Speaker 2 (22:49):
I think it's the guy the giant.
Okay, it took place duringMacy's Thanksgiving.
Oh, wait, wait, wait.
They promote the film's release.
They had a balloon of the T-Rexfrom the movie.

Speaker 1 (23:02):
I'm just trying to see if watches we're Back the
Dinosaur Story on.

Speaker 2 (23:05):
Thanksgiving, it's got dinosaurs.
That's your thing.
Listen, I feel like you justgotta Reach into the bag and
pull out the closest thing youcan find.
You're right.

Speaker 1 (23:11):
I think what we're really discussing is you gotta
pick your own Thanksgivingmovies.

Speaker 2 (23:16):
Right, something.
Okay, there it is they.
Day Parade, if anything couldqualify this movie could?

Speaker 1 (23:23):
It takes place on Thanksgiving.

Speaker 2 (23:24):
I want to give it Okay, we're back to your
potential Thanksgiving viewingparty.
We're back on the list so farguarantee we've got Charlie
Brown, we've got Planes, trainsand we're back at our first.

Speaker 1 (23:38):
We said Remember the.

Speaker 2 (23:39):
Titans counts.
It's got warm tones we diddiscuss this, though.

Speaker 1 (23:43):
I asked if Westerns count, because they're all sepia
, warm tones, but you said no,not quite, I mean your dad, your
boomer dad and above.

Speaker 2 (23:50):
They will watch a Western late at night or
something, probably, if no oneelse has the remote control and
football's over and football'sover, like you're going to watch
a Western probably.

Speaker 1 (24:05):
So here's one of the things I think why all football
movies, movies can't count, okay?

Speaker 2 (24:06):
I mean, like I'll say this any given sunday also has
warm tones, but they're likeweird gross miami tones.
It's dirty gross.
We watch.
We watch mostly nfl games onthanksgiving and it is a movie
about basically the nfl so fakenfl.

Speaker 1 (24:15):
So you could argue that it's very thanksgiving, no,
but I don't think so, becausethere's a lot of cocaine, drug
use and a full frontal malegenitalia I was was at a
football night.

Speaker 2 (24:27):
We were at somebody's house, they cooked for us and
everything.
And we went to my friend's roomand we were just watching Any
Given Sunday, and his mom walksin on the scene where they're
doing drugs off of the woman'sbreast.

Speaker 1 (24:40):
And we paused it.
What's worse, she walks inthere or when there's a naked
black man, just full frontalswinging well, as we've learned,
corey, like male, male, malegenitalia is just funny.
It's never so but the biggestthing I'll bring is Varsity

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Blues.
It's high school, it's fall,it's not.

Speaker 2 (25:04):
It's not Okay.
We did have an earlyconversation about this because,
remember, the Titans is verymuch set in the fall.
Yes, varsity Blues is very muchset in August.

Speaker 1 (25:13):
It's got.
It's also weird to get intofootball.
It's got like a cold aesthetic.
It's all grays and blues yeah.

Speaker 2 (25:23):
Yeah, gray's and blues, yeah, yeah, yeah, but the
vibe of it is like that'ssomething you would watch to get
into football season, not inthe middle of it or towards the
end, but if there's a scenewhere you're like 12th grade
math teacher is a stripper.

Speaker 1 (25:29):
it disqualifies the movie from being a Thanksgiving
movie, so that one's out.

Speaker 2 (25:35):
Someone had the audacious comment to be like
Miracle on 34th Street istechnically a Thanksgiving movie
because it has the Macy'sThanksgiving parade.
It's like no, it's about Santa.

Speaker 1 (25:46):
Well then, nick, you got to take.
We're Back Off.
Santa doesn't show up at theThanksgiving parade At the
Thanksgiving Day parade.

Speaker 2 (25:51):
John Goodman, as a dinosaur, does a whole dance
number and Santa never shows up.
All right, that's all I'msaying.

Speaker 1 (25:56):
I think you're getting loose.
I think we're getting too loose.

Speaker 2 (25:58):
We already the rules were loose so and we only agreed
that thanksgiving is just apredecessor.
It's, it's the?
What do you call it?
When, like the, the harbiter,arbiter or whatever harbinger?
Harbinger of christmasbasically so so basically, once
the food's eaten and thefootball's over with, people
probably start watchingchristmas, abc, family or
whatever free form.
Whatever it is, I guarantee youthey have they start shoving
down our throats that and likeharry potter movies, because

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allegedly they're christmas,they're not Christmas.

Speaker 1 (26:22):
I've heard, though, that Harry Potter and the Lord
of the Rings movies are a lot ofpeople's November movies.

Speaker 2 (26:29):
So when we did the Lord of the Rings episodes that
was the argument I made.
It was like if there was a timeto potentially like, try to put
like a rewatch of them, I couldargue fall Because, like
Fellowship has real fall vibes.

Speaker 1 (26:40):
I will not allow you to put them before October.
Don't get in the horror movie.
No, not September.

Speaker 2 (26:46):
Look, fellowship has some horror vibes.
November.

Speaker 1 (26:50):
They got.

Speaker 2 (26:50):
Nazgul, they got the Balrog demon Thing from hell,
literally hell Like.
You can play that in Octoberand it's okay, but you should
wait on Two Towers and Return ofthe King for November.

Speaker 1 (27:01):
I disagree.
I don't want Lord of the Ringsanywhere near my holiday.
Listen.

Speaker 2 (27:04):
I'm flexible, earlymber you can watch.
You can watch some fellowship,it's okay.
When does it start?
Let's see here 25 days ofchristmas schedule, free form
what's your sunday?
Okay, so they did wait untilsunday, december 1st, but that
doesn't.
That's just their official 25days of christmas.
I guarantee you they areplaying christmas movies out the
wazoo Thanksgiving night.

Speaker 1 (27:22):
I'm sure they are, yeah, so.

Speaker 2 (27:24):
I just said wazoo on a 2024 podcast.
I apologize, I don't know whatovercame me, but we can continue
.

Speaker 1 (27:29):
Is that a problematic term?
It is for me.
Okay, I don't know the, I don'tknow the history of that word.

Speaker 2 (27:36):
It's just something an old man would say.

Speaker 1 (27:37):
For some reason I have these old man Z and Alpha
listeners, so okay, nick, let meask you this then Since we've
established that there's reallyno rules for a Thanksgiving
movie, other than this reallyshaky criteria, we have maybe
the parade qualifies it, maybeit doesn't.

Speaker 2 (27:51):
Maybe the parade cements it a little bit.

Speaker 1 (27:53):
If the parade doesn't feature, santa, you got
Thanksgiving.
If for some reason Santa Clausdoes what Santa Claus does and
gets on someone else's holiday,then it doesn't qualify.

Speaker 2 (28:03):
Okay, so it's't qualify.
Okay, oh, no, okay, so it's thereverse rule of a Christmas
movie which we can get into in aChristmas episode.
If the Miracle on 34th Streetis mostly during December, it
opens.
It has a scene set at theMacy's Parade.

Speaker 1 (28:14):
Like at the opening, at the opening Okay.

Speaker 2 (28:16):
So it doesn't quantify as a Christmas movie,
in the same way that itshouldn't quantify as a
thanksgiving movie wait, you sayit's not a christmas movie.
Sorry, I got mixed up itshouldn't be a thanksgiving
movie just because it has onescene at thanksgiving santa's in
it, man, no, no yeah, he's,it's literally all about santa,
so nick, do you have anythanksgiving movies,
conventional or unconventional?

Speaker 1 (28:38):
the only other movie I know that takes place on
thanksgiving is family stone andis one.

Speaker 2 (28:42):
I thought it was a Christmas movie.
It's Thanksgiving, I believe.

Speaker 1 (28:44):
Family Stone and I only watched it one time and it
was just like really, it wasjust really stressful.

Speaker 2 (28:52):
I'm sorry, but it is a Christmas movie, Corey.

Speaker 1 (28:54):
Okay, sorry my bad.

Speaker 2 (28:56):
It's because it falls into the Thanksgiving vibe of,
like we're going to tell a storyabout a dysfunctional family.
Now, christmas movies have that, but thanksgiving movies, when
they try to make something oryou think about adjacent
thanksgiving stuff the thebroken family is often the thing
that's brought up or is used asa plot device for sure.
Do you have any?
Do you have any thanksgivingmovies that you happen to watch?

Speaker 1 (29:18):
um, I mean, I got a lot dude give me.

Speaker 2 (29:22):
Give me a list, because I don't know what you
watch on Thanksgiving.
Oh, dude.

Speaker 1 (29:25):
Okay, I just made a list of what I consider to be
appropriate viewing material forthe month of November.
Okay, maybe that's what weshould call November movies.

Speaker 2 (29:35):
Just what.

Speaker 1 (29:35):
Just November movies, because I don't know that
Thanksgiving has anything to dowith any of these movies.
That's fair.
I think Nightmare BeforeChristmas is perfect.
It takes thing to do with anyof these movies, that's fair.
Um, I think nightmare beforechristmas is perfect.

Speaker 2 (29:45):
It takes place between yeah, I I think, though,
like you, either watch that atthe end, like around halloween,
or the beginning of christmas.

Speaker 1 (29:51):
I'm just saying, though, that whole movie has to
take place in the month ofnovember I mean it does, it has
to, it literally does when ittakes place.

Speaker 2 (29:56):
Yeah, it's november to december, basically so I'm
just saying watch it okay, okayall I have a weird one.

Speaker 1 (30:02):
I'm listening and it's only because, for whatever
reason, this movie like myfamily.
When I was little, we did itwith my dad's side of the family
.
We did Thanksgiving.
We did Christmas with mom'sside.
Okay, Thanksgiving with dad'sside.
And at some point we decided tostop talking to of that
conversation but for whateverreason, we had it at my
grandmother's house and Legendwas always on every year.

Speaker 2 (30:25):
The Tom Cruise killing unicorns Tim.
Curry is the devil movie.
It's like Lord of the Rings.
There's a fantasy aspect to it.

Speaker 1 (30:32):
Yeah, I just don't know why it was always on.
Maybe it was just I think mygrandma just had it on VHS and
popped it in.

Speaker 2 (30:36):
Maybe that might have done it, that is thanksgiving
movie in my mind is one of yourtop two movies of all time, a
thanksgiving movie saint elmo'sfire is 100.

Speaker 1 (30:46):
A fall movie?
Okay, it takes place during thefall it's got a lot of changing
of leaves.
Judd nelson's wearing cooljackets the whole movie yeah,
yeah, it's totally fall okay,okay.
They literally drive the jeepthrough leaves and stuff and
it's all fallish okay, so itcounts.
That's fair, that's fair.

Speaker 2 (31:01):
Um what else you?

Speaker 1 (31:01):
got.
I also think anything NancyMeyers really is associated with
Father of the Bride.
It's complicated.

Speaker 2 (31:07):
It's got a vibe Something's got to give.
It's weirdly November-ish.
Well it's also.
You also have to think it'ssomething you watch with your
family.
Yeah, like we're talking about,because we're really just
distract them and really not getthem to talk about anything.

Speaker 1 (31:20):
If it's about old people and love, it's November.

Speaker 2 (31:23):
Yeah, all right, yeah , okay, yeah, or Steve.

Speaker 1 (31:25):
Martin or Jack Nicholson or Diane Keaton.

Speaker 2 (31:26):
Why are?
Why does that work?
Why does that make sense?
I don't know man.
You just said you never havespoken these words into my ears
and yet I'm like yeah, that's it, it's complicated it, so that's
not Julia, julia or whatever.

Speaker 1 (31:40):
No, no, no, no, no I mean, I think that movies exist
and maybe it counts.

Speaker 2 (31:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (31:45):
I don't know, I OK.
So here's what about this one?
What about the Robin Williamsone?
To punch of Dead Poets Societyand Good Will Hunting?

Speaker 2 (31:52):
Those are very fall movies.

Speaker 1 (31:53):
Those are fall movies Very fall Double the Robin
Williams.

Speaker 2 (32:00):
You could do a back to back Robin Williams marathon
right there, a little littledrive-in theater style yeah,
it's not your fault, nick.

Speaker 1 (32:05):
What?

Speaker 2 (32:05):
do you mean it's not my fault, it's not your fault?
I don't know what you'retalking about, corey it's good
hunting.

Speaker 1 (32:10):
So, um, and then I, before I get to two that I think
everyone might go oh yeah um, Ithink in our part of the world
twister or twisters let me nowyeah tornadoes happen around
fall in the last five years theyhave, I guess, and so um, if
you're just really in the mood,for I watched twisters Nick

(32:30):
how'd you?
Feel um.
You worked on this movie, so Iwas expecting I was a stand-in.
But yeah, I was.
Who'd you stand in?

Speaker 2 (32:35):
for I was the kid that gets sucked up into the in
the Jeep.
Basically, yeah, the idiot, Iwas playing, I was standing in
for the idiot, okay, okay,alright.
Who actually was BillParkinson's son?
Yeah, yeah, in the hotel.
He himself is not an idiot, hewas just yelling at the hotel
man, yeah, okay.

Speaker 1 (32:49):
We were watching with my wife and his girlfriend in
that scene is like tornadoesaren't real it's always a false
alarm.

Speaker 2 (32:54):
And she looked at me and said that's what you say
every time, and I'm like I'mstill here.

Speaker 1 (32:59):
But I also know that if it's really there not to get
in my car and drive, Right.
So I still know what to do.
Right right, right.
I would have followed thehandsome guy into the pool.

Speaker 2 (33:08):
Well, yeah, because the handsome people survived the
movie.

Speaker 1 (33:10):
Yes, what I appreciate about Twisters is
it's got a real 80s John Hughesvibe to it.

Speaker 2 (33:15):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (33:16):
In the sense that we wrote Glenn Powell as a perfect
man.

Speaker 2 (33:19):
Yeah, you did, you did, man yeah you did, he did.

Speaker 1 (33:21):
At no point does that movie ever introduce a single
flaw, not even a character flawhe cares too much, cory, that's
literally the thing.
He's chiseled, jawed pecs andabs walking in the rain.
It not no movie since pretty inpink has there been like a look
at the friend, the friend's inlove with the girl, but oh, oh
no who's this really?

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Handsome, perfect man and thefriend in the whole movie is
just trying his damnedest andsomehow ends up being the
villain working for the bad guy.
The military yeah he was in themilitary, stole some of their
radars and now he's helping somedude steal land from tornado
victims.

Speaker 2 (33:57):
I don't really get that plot.

Speaker 1 (33:59):
They kind of cram that in there and the whole time
Glenn Powell's, just like here.
Babe, come cry on my chiseledchest.
I know what it's like to chasetornadoes.
He shows up at mom's house andmom loves him and I'm like this
is the most 80s.

Speaker 2 (34:12):
I like him.
Not since a John Hughes hasthere been a writer that's like
if you don't take him, I will.

Speaker 1 (34:17):
Jocks always win, so why should it be any different
in the movies?
So I just I appreciated thatpart of the movie that at some
point I kept waiting for it tointroduce.
And then powell has some flawand you're like, oh, it's not
happening no, no, no no, a greatman and so listen he's.

Speaker 2 (34:35):
He's a wild man that needs a good woman to bring him
back down to earth.
Here's the problem, though,nick.
Here's the problem.
I'm listening.

Speaker 1 (34:40):
I'm listening in pretty in pink blaine has women
after him yeah, and uh 16candles.
Jake ryan just broke up withthe hot girl in school or is
with the hot girl?
Yeah, I don't know why is glennpowell single in this twisters
universe because he's chasingtornadoes.
No, I'm sorry but that man okay, we learned nothing, single
okay I kept waiting for it, likeit is her to find his wedding

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ring or something and he'sfinally the piece of shit.

Speaker 2 (35:02):
We literally saw what happened in the first movie.
Bill Paxton's fiance was like Ican't do this, I'm out, you're
going to get killed.
You gotta go.

Speaker 1 (35:08):
They end up back together.
Nick he marries Helen Hunt.
Well, I mean like, yeah, thenew wife leaves and that's a
mistake.

Speaker 2 (35:15):
Jamie Girtz is worth billions, that's because Helen
Hunt matches Bill Paxton's freakCorey.
They're both crazy.
They want to die with beltsaround pipes and tornadoes.

Speaker 1 (35:23):
But the friend also wants to take 3D pictures of
tornadoes.
Yeah, but he's notconventionally attractive Corey.

Speaker 2 (35:28):
That's the thing, man .
That's the problem.
I look at the guy from Hamiltonand I'm like I know why you're
single.
Do you think that's Lin-ManuelMiranda or is he actually in
Hamilton?
No, that dude's actually inHamilton.
He plays the son that dies.
Oh, okay, okay, okay and thenyou know they all play dual
characters yeah, yeah, yeah,he's the son Got it, and so Some
Hamilton lore for you, yeah.

Speaker 1 (35:49):
So but yeah, he's.
I just think that's a problemwith the movie.
Also, it also Like in 96, itmakes sense for people to be
able to drive through in atornado sneak up on you.

Speaker 2 (36:07):
Okay, sneak up on you .
Okay, you have cell phones,sure um sure, you just had cable
at best.
So if you're not at home, youdon't have cable, or?

Speaker 1 (36:08):
access to information period in 2024.
You gotta have an antenna, yougotta have a radio.
2024.
There's two scenes where it's abunch of okhomans are literally
out enjoying their day andsomeone goes dude damn a tornado
right there, right there in thesky.

Speaker 2 (36:15):
I'm like this is not realistic at all.

Speaker 1 (36:16):
We get no we get alerts days before.

Speaker 2 (36:18):
They're like tornado watch hey, by the way, they
don't have a softball game or arodeo.
There is the rare day where youwake up and somebody's like,
hey, you get a text from afamily member or friend.
You're like, hey, watch out,there's, there's a chance for
bad weather.
And you're like, really, today,yeah you gotta pack a bag and
you gotta get, or you get likeyour core.
You get your lawn chair set upwith with a iced tea, or I'm
just I'm not driving somewhereto find a basement.

Speaker 1 (36:39):
that's's a lot.
If that tornado hits man, ithits, and if that's offensive to
anyone, my parents just got hitby a tornado and I still don't
have a fear of them.
Oh, that's right, and so yeah,they'd gotten nailed straight on
Walk-in freezer, saved them AnRV like there's a scene in the
new Twisters movie where, like ahorse trailer almost falls on
the handsome guy.
And I literally looked at himand I was like hey, that

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happened to dad.

Speaker 2 (37:01):
Only it was an RV.

Speaker 1 (37:03):
Almost fell on top of him, goodness.
Okay.
So the two big ones, though,that I think everyone should put
on their November watch listyes, fantastic, mr Fox.

Speaker 2 (37:11):
Oh, that is a good one.
That movie is falling shit.
There's food in that.
There's food All the farmreaders he's I'll do you one
better Chicken.
Run, that's a double featureright there.
Write it down.

Speaker 1 (37:22):
That's about chickens not becoming food.

Speaker 2 (37:25):
There's no movie about a turkey trying not to die
.
Is there At least thewell-known?

Speaker 1 (37:29):
one I'm not aware of.
I'm sure there's one out there.

Speaker 2 (37:31):
It's probably a low-budget animated movie or
something Like the people thatmade Open Season.
Movie about turkeys.

Speaker 1 (37:39):
We got Freebirds.

Speaker 2 (37:45):
Freebirds.
That sounds exactly like whatyou're describing.
Literally 2013 Looks like someturkeys trying to escape it gets
crazier.
A pair of turkeys discover atime machine and decide to use
it to travel to the firstThanksgiving To take turkeys off
the menu forever.

Speaker 1 (37:56):
That's badass.
They skipped like three movies.
They did.

Speaker 2 (38:01):
We were just thinking like the turkey has to get away
For Thanksgiving.

Speaker 1 (38:04):
It doesn't want to die remake chicken run with
turkeys and then, by the way,wilson, are the turkeys?

Speaker 2 (38:11):
oh, that's going on my watch list, but to to go, to
go straight to terminator keithdavid and george jakai are in it
, oh nice this is good, okay,dana dana carrie, not dana carby
, excuse me okay, we've neverseen this, so we're not saying
it's good, but put this on thelist rating is 5.8.
Not terrible, but not good it'son paramount plus damn okay,
all right cool um wow that'sokay.

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So fantastic, mr fox, chickenrun and free birds.
It's a good triple feature.
Um, rover dangerfield doesn'thave like a turkey that's trying
not to die or something Icannot believe you just drop
rover dangerfield, okay, unlessyou're like exactly our age.

Speaker 1 (38:48):
You don't know, no idea.

Speaker 2 (38:49):
You're like trying to explain the concept.

Speaker 1 (38:51):
Hey, remember that old comedian yeah, the no
respect comedian they made acartoon about him as a dog and
he goes to a farm goes to a farmum, and that's it's got fall
vibes.

Speaker 2 (39:02):
It does have fall vibes.

Speaker 1 (39:06):
What's the dumbass movie about the chicken?
That?

Speaker 2 (39:07):
thinks he's Elvis Rock-A-Doodle.
Is that a Thanksgiving movie?
I don't know.
No, it's not.
Okay, I didn't know.
All right, that's more likespring April, because it's
raining and stuff.

Speaker 1 (39:19):
So yeah, I wouldn't call that.
And then a little known gem.
I don't know how many peopleknow about this movie but, Steve
Carell.

Speaker 2 (39:25):
Dan in Real Life?
Oh, okay, dan in.

Speaker 1 (39:27):
Real Life is a delightful fall movie.

Speaker 2 (39:29):
Got it.

Speaker 1 (39:29):
Not sure if it's Thanksgiving, but the family
gets together for something, gotit, and I think it's
Thanksgiving.

Speaker 2 (39:35):
Okay, but it's up north.

Speaker 1 (39:37):
It's all fallish Dane Cook's in there.
For some reason, the dad fromuh frazier he was big at the
time.
Yeah, 2007, yeah it's a greatmovie.

Speaker 2 (39:45):
Yeah, it takes place for thanksgiving uh, big money,
big money, big money, big money.
Thanksgiving no results.
Um so they're just going tovisit, but it has fall vibes
annual family gathering might aswell be thanksgiving.
Yeah, it's fall vibes, justcall it thanksgiving yeah, it's
great.

Speaker 1 (40:02):
Um, hey, let me ask you this okay, juno, is that a
fall movie?
It's fall vibes.
Just call it Thanksgiving.
Yeah, it's great.
Hey, let me ask you this Okay,juno, is that a fall movie?
Yeah, it's fall vibes.

Speaker 2 (40:08):
There's a lot of orange going on.
There's a shit ton of orange inJuno.
Does that include like HarryMet Sally, because that's a fall
movie, that's a fall movie.

Speaker 1 (40:13):
We didn't bring that up because I think people
already watch it in November.

Speaker 2 (40:17):
If you're like a deep diver of Julia Roberts movies,
you're a horror guy.
What about Thanksgiving?

Speaker 1 (40:22):
See, like that one's tough man.
I just don't think horror worksfor Thanksgiving man.

Speaker 2 (40:26):
Not even like the new Eli Roth Thanksgiving.

Speaker 1 (40:28):
No, like the one with the Patrick Dempsey and stuff.
And there's Thanksgiving aboutthe rubber turkey that wants to
kill people.
Yeah, I think that's what thisis.

Speaker 2 (40:35):
There's a Jim Henson TV movie that aired called Jerky
Hollow.
Don't watch it because itfeatures narration by Ludacris,
so that's relatively new.

Speaker 1 (40:44):
Hey, isn't there a Muppets Thanksgiving?
Don't they all go to someone'shouse?

Speaker 2 (40:47):
No, that's the Muppets family Christmas, corey,
that's where the Swedish chefis just causing chaos.
He sees Big Bird and he's likeI have to cook this.

Speaker 1 (40:54):
Yeah, that's a pretty intense movie.

Speaker 2 (40:55):
It is pretty intense that was the Avengers before
assembled or Endgame before endgame Corey.

Speaker 1 (41:00):
What about October Sky?

Speaker 2 (41:02):
I mean it has a title .
I mean it's October, yeah, butit has the vibes.
I mean there's no horror movieelement, so it's fall.
It's the right time.

Speaker 1 (41:08):
But it's about rockets, that's close enough.

Speaker 2 (41:11):
That's the yeah, put it in the pot.

Speaker 1 (41:13):
And kids that don't want to be coal miners.

Speaker 2 (41:17):
Hey, I can relate.

Speaker 1 (41:18):
Their dads are their dads with broken backs, saying
what do you mean?
You don't want to be a coalminer.

Speaker 2 (41:21):
Not good enough for anymore.
It's like, dad, it's not mydream.
I don't want to have your dream, dad.
The future's in rockets, thefuture's in batteries, dad.

Speaker 1 (41:32):
Meanwhile, that kid's dead.
Elon Musk is a thing.
His dad wasn't a coal miner,his dad just part of genocide or
something.

Speaker 2 (41:40):
So, anyway, do you have any other gems that you
want to share?

Speaker 1 (41:43):
No, that's really it Okay.

Speaker 2 (41:45):
So I will throw a list at you of some what IMDB is
throwing at you potentially assome Christmas movies.

Speaker 1 (41:49):
I gave you the personal.
Yeah, you gave me the personal.

Speaker 2 (41:51):
Sorry, so the new world Okay again.

Speaker 1 (41:56):
John Smith Pocahontas .
Yeah, is it realisticallydepicting the slaughter of
natives?

Speaker 2 (42:00):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (42:01):
Or Realistically depicting the slaughter of
natives, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (42:03):
Or is it also revisionist history?

Speaker 1 (42:04):
It's probably some revisionist, but it's Terrence
Malick, so it's going to beartsy as it can be.
It's going to suck, colin.

Speaker 2 (42:09):
Farrell and Christopher Plummer are in it,
so that's great.
Okay, home for the Holidays.

Speaker 1 (42:13):
Oh, the Jodie Foster movie Holly.

Speaker 2 (42:14):
Hunter and Robert Downey Jr.

Speaker 1 (42:18):
And Bancroft yeah, I learned that on this podcast
once.
Oh, wow, okay, meet the Fockers.
Is that Christmas orThanksgiving?
Or meet the parents.

Speaker 2 (42:24):
Any of them I don't know Meet the parents holiday.

Speaker 1 (42:27):
Come on.

Speaker 2 (42:29):
Big money, big money, big money.

Speaker 1 (42:32):
Like Thanksgiving Christmas.
It just says holiday season.
They don't.

Speaker 2 (42:35):
Okay, I don't think it takes place during.
It's usually like he's meetingthe parents.
They get engaged, they bringthe kids to visit, like Meet the
Fockers.

Speaker 1 (42:46):
I don't think so I'm counting it.
It's about family.

Speaker 2 (42:49):
It's about family.
Any problematic family, peopleat odds.

Speaker 1 (42:53):
Meet the Parents is about family and how hard it is
to travel.

Speaker 2 (42:56):
Right, yes, that counts, I'm allowing it.

Speaker 1 (43:00):
Meet the Fockers?
Not so much.

Speaker 2 (43:02):
If you're going to watch, watch one.
You could keep watching theothers well, you got meet the
parents, is it?
And?

Speaker 1 (43:09):
meet the fuckers, which is great because it's
Dustin Hoffman, have a lot offun right.
And then you have littlefuckers.
I don't see that one, okay.
I might have once it, once upona time, you seen someone like
have you seen this thing, though, where someone is like
essentially said, get out andmeet the parents for the exact
same movie, and they make somany good points.
It's just they took out theracial overtones.

Speaker 2 (43:32):
It's without the racial message, so it's just
guess who's coming to dinnerwithout the racial aspect to it.

Speaker 1 (43:38):
It just feels like everyone's under some sort of
spell.
They're like why is Owen Wilsonstill around if he's not like
brain trapped to this familybecause he wants to marry the
daughter like an unhingedbrother of wilson?
There's the unhinged brother,the psychotic parents yeah, yeah
it is, it's just okay okay Ithought it was.
I thought it was fun that's agood.

Speaker 2 (43:57):
That's a good point.
The weird crossover we neverthought we'd think about, but
here we we are.

Speaker 1 (44:02):
I'm going to double feature that one day meet the
parents and get out.

Speaker 2 (44:04):
We should.

Speaker 1 (44:05):
So all right, Was there other?
You only named me two.

Speaker 2 (44:08):
Oh no.

Speaker 1 (44:09):
IMDB just said.
Here's the two other ones.

Speaker 2 (44:11):
There's just a lot of random ones.

Speaker 1 (44:12):
Scent of a Woman.

Speaker 2 (44:13):
I think that falls into Fall.

Speaker 1 (44:16):
Vibes, black Friday's a horror movie.
Four brothers.

Speaker 2 (44:19):
Avalon is a Polish Jewish family Comes to the US at
the beginning of the 20thcentury.
So kind of a family journey,historical piece, I guess.

Speaker 1 (44:27):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (44:27):
Adam's Family Values has technically-.

Speaker 1 (44:30):
Has a great Thanksgiving play.

Speaker 2 (44:31):
Yeah, yeah yeah, okay , you could work that in.
Yeah, no, I think it counts.
Yeah, rescue Dawn, I do notthink of it makes you hungry
because they're starving, Iguess yeah funny people.
The adam sandler movie, uh, I,I could not tell you if it was
set during the ice storm uh.

Speaker 1 (44:48):
Angley movie kevin klein's gordon weaver, joan
allen, hannah and her sistersman, they time to be put between
charlie brown thanksgivingnumber 16.

Speaker 2 (44:56):
That is, yeah, that's low hannah and her sisters
between two thanksgivings twoyears apart, and it's about
hannah falling in love with hersisters.
Falls in love with her sisterlee.
While, what in the world?
While her hypochondriacex-husband rekindles his
relationship with his her sisterhall?

Speaker 1 (45:10):
what is happening.
The only thing I know abouthannah or sisters.
It comes up every time we do anepisode in 1986 that's like
you're like won all the oscars.
Yeah, oh what hold on betweentwo thanksgivings two years
apart, yeah.
Hannah's husband falls in lovewith her sister Lee, yes.
While her ex-husband rekindleshis relationship with her sister
Holly.

Speaker 2 (45:30):
So nothing's happening for Hannah.
So Hannah's just getting she'sjust stuck in the middle, she's
just getting a third degree atThanksgiving.
Okay, I got it.
Wild movie Interesting the LastWaltz.

Speaker 1 (45:38):
Those sisters are breaking all sorts of code.

Speaker 2 (45:41):
They really are.
There was not a conversation,that happened even.

Speaker 1 (45:45):
Yeah, that's pretty much it.
Am I the only one that thinksMystic Pizza counts?

Speaker 2 (45:50):
I don't think I've seen Mystic Pizza.
You need it, dude.

Speaker 1 (45:52):
It's Julie Roberts' top tier.
Grumpy old man.
I just think of snow.

Speaker 2 (45:55):
Yeah, I think more snow than I do fall, but I think
it does have some fallaesthetics, some warm aesthetics
.
They got Pocahontas.
I guess if you need somethingfor the kids that's not Chicken
Run and Fantastic, mr Fox.

Speaker 1 (46:06):
I put mine above those.

Speaker 2 (46:07):
Paint with all the colors of the wind, guys, I
guess.

Speaker 1 (46:10):
All right, dutch, dutch counts.
I've seen Dutch.
I need to watch Dutch.
I really wanted to watch DutchDutch counts.
That's a fall movie.
I mean it's set in the summer,but it's a horror movie.
It's kind of like Goonies.

Speaker 2 (46:29):
Goonies counts, man, goonies could count.
Goonies counts, goonies couldcount.
They're all wearing jackets.
Yeah, you're right.
You're right.
Never say die, son-in-lawson-in-law, oh man we did it oh
that's it moving on.

Speaker 1 (46:44):
Son-in-law is required.
They go.

Speaker 2 (46:47):
Oh my god, it's polyshore yeah, yeah, yeah,
there you go, there you gopolyshore is one of those career
college guys.

Speaker 1 (46:53):
Some girl from midwest moves into his la like
college.
I don't think they ever saywhat college in la no, carla
gugino ucla, I'm sure um, movesinto his dorm and she takes him
home for thanksgiving judgereinhold's in it judge reinhold
is in brian cranston I'm sorry,wrong, wrong movie.

Speaker 2 (47:07):
Wrong movie.
I didn't scroll high enough.
Parley shore carla gugino,steve rash, lane smith, two, two
recognizable names.

Speaker 1 (47:14):
Yeah, it's good stuff .
Okay, we can move on.
All right, we've done it.
No, we're not.
We're not.
I'm trying to think of anaction movie that's fall based,
but nothing ever came man,there's huh.

Speaker 2 (47:22):
You would think somebody would have been like
twisters as close as I guess.
So I guess it's as close as youcould get.
There's no schwarzenegger's tolow movie.

Speaker 1 (47:28):
There's no changing of the leaves in the john wick
movies.

Speaker 2 (47:30):
No, no so it's all pretty cold and underground and
in europe most of the time yeah,new york yeah, um yeah, okay,
all right.
All right, that's fair, I'lltake it okay, corey, we've gone
through a list of potentialChristmas or not Christmas
Thanksgiving movies at thispoint, if you're listening to
this, you have a cornucopia ofoptions.

Speaker 1 (47:50):
Okay, okay, watch.
Yeah, thanksgiving, we'vehelped two weeks really.

Speaker 2 (47:53):
This is just the Thanksgiving viewing guide.
Yeah, the survivalist guide forThanksgiving for you guys yeah
well, corey, I don't know if youhave anything else on the
docket, but I did want to bringup one more thing.
Is there anything else you have?
None so, in the spirit ofquantum recast, we recast on
here, and so the one generallyeveryone considers, other than

(48:15):
the Charlie Brown Thanksgivingmovie, plane, strains and
Automobiles there's only reallytwo characters in it, and then
just an onslaught of additionalcharacters.

Speaker 1 (48:23):
It's one of those movies we've never been able to
get on the podcast because therereally is only two characters,
and we did it once with FightClub and it just got away from
us.
We started recasting the dudes.

Speaker 2 (48:33):
Random guy here, Listen.
Hellabottom Carter's there,Jared Leto's there.
Meatloaf's there.
There were more characters inthat.

Speaker 1 (48:40):
This one's literally just Tyler Durden and the
narrator.
It was as if they were just theonly ones in the movie, and
then you just run into peoplealong the way.
Okay, and here's the thing youhave to kind of consider with
Planes, Trains and Automobiles.
It is a Thanksgiving moviebecause it takes place around
them trying to get home for butit's also more appropriately
like the buddy road trip movieyes, yeah, it's, it's, I would

(49:00):
say.

Speaker 2 (49:01):
Would you say it's the buddy road trip movie, it's?

Speaker 1 (49:03):
it's definitely one.
The like oldest one I can thinkof is um, like I mean you have
like rain, man and stuff likethat, yeah, um but like there's
a, what was it called?
It happened one night yeah, umI believe is uh clark gable um,
easy rider.

Speaker 2 (49:16):
That's one of the easy riders, a big one, little.
Technically, due Date is almostlike a remake, a copy of Planes
, trains and Obvios Dumb andDumber is technically a road
trip buddy movie Harold andKumar go.

Speaker 1 (49:26):
That's right.

Speaker 2 (49:27):
Tommy Boy.

Speaker 1 (49:28):
Blues Brothers.

Speaker 2 (49:28):
Thelma and Louise.
Oh Brother, when Art Thou islisted?

Speaker 1 (49:31):
as.
And could also movie it's onethat you could watch with your
family, for sure, for surekingpin, I love kingpin which
cassie and sundance kid yeah, soI mean, like it's those bill
and ted, if time travel is aroad um midnight run is one I've
been wanting to see with deniro is that charles groden?

Speaker 2 (49:47):
yeah, and charles groden, yeah, nice um but yeah,
it's a buddy road trip movie butit's set on them trying to get
home for the holidays so youwant to like recast this, since
we finally brought it up.

Speaker 1 (49:58):
Yeah, we're here.
This is the only moment we'regonna get.

Speaker 2 (50:00):
We feel like we can't carry a whole episode with
planes not we could talk aboutit like it's a great movie, I
enjoy it.
Yeah, no, it's a great movie.
Yeah, um weirdly.

Speaker 1 (50:08):
I would say that you can't have a thanksgiving movie
that's rated r other than thisone.
It's technically rated rbecause of one scene one scene,
one scene could fast forward,right and I have seenins and
Automobile and I've never seenthe scene.
You've never seen it Because Iwas watching it with my girl for
the time and her mom said let'sskip the scene.

Speaker 2 (50:24):
So I always saw it on TV.

Speaker 1 (50:25):
So you didn't see the scene.

Speaker 2 (50:26):
So I didn't see the scene until a few years ago when
we watched it, I guess on astream or something.

Speaker 1 (50:31):
And you were just shocked.

Speaker 2 (50:41):
No, grow up and you're an adult and you watch
movies, and then you're like myparents might enjoy this movie.
And then you remember, oh yeah,the sex scene or the cursing
scene or the really awkwardscene here where this happens
and you're just cringing in yourchair.
This scene pops up and me andmy brother are watching it.
He's just dropping what is it?
26 F-bombs, and I don't look atmy dad, but my dad just doesn't
make a sound or anything.
Nobody died, so it was good, Iguess.

Speaker 1 (50:58):
So same ex-girlfriend .
Okay, I found myself in thissituation and maybe I've told
this story on this podcastbefore, but we were watching the
Mark Wahlberg movie Fear.

Speaker 2 (51:07):
Oh, have you seen Fear?
I have not, but I know whatyou're talking about.

Speaker 1 (51:09):
So Fear's incredible, it's essentially Reese
Witherspoon starts dating a guyand he turns out to be obsessed
and crazy, and not above killingher friends who disagree with
their relationship, and there'sa very lengthy scene where he
sexually pleasures her on aroller coaster using his digits.

Speaker 2 (51:30):
His fingers, fingers, okay.

Speaker 1 (51:32):
Right, and it takes a while and I forgot about this
scene.
And my dad came and sat downand started watching the movie
with us and that's every dad inthe world.
Yeah, yeah I can give it a shotand then they stay, yeah and
which is fine.
I like my dad, he's a cool dudeyeah and so, but I knew this
scene was coming up.
I excused myself to thebathroom and left my girlfriend

(51:57):
with my dad is this a secretyou've kept with you?

Speaker 2 (52:00):
uh-huh, did you tell her that you did?

Speaker 1 (52:02):
she was furious when the night came to an end and she
was able to be blunt about whatI had done and so and I was
like I wasn't gonna watch itwith my dad, I'm not doing this,
um.
So yes, I have been in asituation, but I was a coward in
the well you, you did not takeone for the team.
You let her, you let her, I lether fall on that grenade.

Speaker 2 (52:24):
Okay, so Steve Martin says the word fuck 18 times.

Speaker 1 (52:28):
Okay, during that time In one scene.

Speaker 2 (52:29):
In one scene and you only get one, you only you only
get one, like just like that one, yep, so there you are.

Speaker 1 (52:38):
So, Nick, okay, you want to go first?

Speaker 2 (52:40):
Yeah, let's give a quick in the tradition.
Let's give a quick uselesscritic stats here For those of
you that don't know and areconsidering watching Planes,
trains and Automobiles if wehaven't sold it on you yet.
Released November 25th 1987,directed by John Hughes, of
Breakfast Club fame and all thepretty pinks of the world is
also written by him, pretty muchin a fever dream of like three
nights in a hotel, I believe aswell.

(53:01):
The budget was 15 million.
It made 49.5 million.
The IMDb gives it a 7.6.
Rotten Tomatoes a 92 critic 87fans.
Metacritic 72 critic 77 fans.
Letterboxd, it sits at 3.8.
I gave it a four.
What would you give out of five?

Speaker 1 (53:18):
planes, engine automobiles yeah, yeah I mean
like honestly, just for theconclusion, I would give it like
four okay, that's about where I, that's where I sat, yeah, it's
just john candy firing at allfreaking cylinders.

Speaker 2 (53:30):
It's like the I don't know what you consider the holy
trinity of john candy movies.
You gotta consider uncle buckcool runnings and this movie for
sure.
Um, but Ebert and Siskel gave ittwo thumbs up from them Good,
they declared it's Candy's bestroll of date.
It's featured in Robert Ebert'sGreat Movies collection.

(53:51):
He wrote that it's perfectlycast, soundly constructed and
all else flows naturally.
He just compliments the mainactors, saying they don't play
characters, they embody them,and that's why the comedy works
so well, basically, and it hasheart and truth to it too.

Speaker 1 (54:04):
Okay.
And any additional informationyou have no you got me on the
Holy Trinity, On John Candy, sonow I'm like what's going on?

Speaker 2 (54:11):
You're like well, wait a minute.
What's the John?
Candy, because if you don'tknow John Candy.
We lost him early on in life.
He passed away at 43 years ofage, so he was very young when
he did pass away.
So, Corey, are you looking athis?
Yeah, he was the announcer inRookie of the Year in 93.

Speaker 1 (54:29):
You've got a so he's got a lot of movies like Little
Shop of Horrors.

Speaker 2 (54:35):
Sure, yeah, you know, whatever when he's kind of
appeared, rookie of the Year,where he's mostly cameo he just
plays a character.

Speaker 1 (54:41):
Okay, my Holy Trinity .
And it's hard because I have toleave out one of my favorite
movies but, I, just don't thinkhe's necessarily the.
He actually plays the straightman in Nothing but Trouble which
is great.
It's considered horrible, butDan.
Aykroyd directed that ChevyChase mess.
But it's incredible.
I'm going Cool Runnings Plane,train, strange and Automobile
and then a movie called Only theLonely.

Speaker 2 (55:03):
Only the Lonely.
That's really good with AllySheedy.
Is that a?

Speaker 1 (55:05):
80s movie.
It's like a rom-com, Okayinteresting.
And he's the leading man in therom-com.

Speaker 2 (55:12):
I feel like that was a shot.

Speaker 1 (55:13):
They took in 1991.

Speaker 2 (55:16):
Only the Lonely.
It's not appearing for me atthe moment anyone.
Oh, there it is okay it'sessentially a dude.

Speaker 1 (55:22):
That's like his mom is dependent on him and then he
falls in love and it's likebeing, you know, torn back and
forth opposite marino hera orali sheedy uh, ali sheedy is the
love interest wow, here's themom, okay so adding that to my
watch list.

Speaker 2 (55:36):
Yeah, it is, it's so good sounds good.

Speaker 1 (55:38):
Not a thanksgiving movie, though I don't think.

Speaker 2 (55:39):
Think not not, probably not a thing.
I mean, we can find out this.
You know what November is?
It's the test ground.
If you want to think, if youwant to try to see if a movie is
a Thanksgiving movie, uh,that's when you do it.

Speaker 1 (55:54):
You try to watch it and go well it why Married and
Axe Murder is a fall movie to me.

Speaker 2 (55:58):
Okay, you're going to explain.

Speaker 1 (56:03):
Well, it's just, mike Myers thinks he marries a
serial killer and it's hilarious.

Speaker 2 (56:06):
Family issues, relationship type stuff.

Speaker 1 (56:09):
It's got a lot of fall vibes.
Fall vibes okay, they go to abed and breakfast at the end.
I think that's all it is Bedand breakfast.
Those are fall.
Yeah, john Candy he pops up ina lot of classic movies like a
little shop of horrors stripesspace balls.

Speaker 2 (56:24):
He's there, but he's kind of behind somebody else
home alone I mean he was he'sbig.
In that movie, the rescuersdown under, he takes the voice
of the seagull wilbur wilbur,and then you start to see in the
90s, before he passes away,that he's starting to take on a
lot of more interesting dramaticroles, like in jfk, like there
was definitely it's kind of likeChris Farley.

Speaker 1 (56:39):
Like there's runnings is.
Yeah, he's a straight man, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (56:42):
Like there's, you can tell that he's starting to take
that turn to be like I want tobe an actor like I would be
really appreciated for my work.
So I think it's just a shamethat we lost him so early in
life because, like he is one ofthe wants to see more of him
doing stuff for sure, but sadlywe lost him early on in age.
But luckily we still have hismovies to watch we do so in that

(57:04):
tradition.
Cory, two names.
I need from you a period oftime I gotta go first.

Speaker 1 (57:09):
Um, okay, I okay.
I was thinking like, for firstof all, we could just if I
wanted to make this in the 90syeah, I'm just getting the tommy
boy back together.
I was doing david spade andChris Farley.

Speaker 2 (57:20):
Okay, right.

Speaker 1 (57:21):
Okay.
However, I would be interestedto see him play the opposite.

Speaker 2 (57:25):
Oh, because I don't think.

Speaker 1 (57:26):
David Spade's never shown a lot of dramatic.

Speaker 2 (57:29):
No, I mean, he's, he just played, he can play I think
he could be the sympatheticidiot, yeah, whereas Chris
Farley I think it be dramatic.

Speaker 1 (57:39):
Yeah, mm-hmm, mm-hmm, I don't know Spades just.
He could be the straight guy,but then it's just Tommy Boy.
Damn it, it's just Tommy Boy.

Speaker 2 (57:47):
That's what you're going to get.
I will raise you another late90s, potentially early 2000s.
It probably fits best in thelate 90s, though, and I would
give you the powerhouse.

Speaker 1 (57:56):
Hold on hold on Before you you go, because this
matters more to you I just saidpowerhouse.

Speaker 2 (57:59):
I'm just saying hold on, I'm gonna give you my real
answer.
Okay, because that's not myreal answer.
Oh okay, I was just sayingtommy boy is pretty much this
movie but, um, I would do amodern one and I'm gonna.

Speaker 1 (58:11):
I'm right, I really care mostly about the john candy
role.
I'll give you two names for thesteve martin role okay but like
for john candy, I actually wanttom hardy, because tom hardy
can can play a lovable idiot.
I think he's just got a slurredvoice about him.
He can look really unkempt.

Speaker 2 (58:27):
I could see him.

Speaker 1 (58:27):
yeah, I don't have to fall into the fat guy archetype
these days Because you couldget a Charlie Day.

Speaker 2 (58:35):
Maybe the lazy answer is like Kevin James fat,
lovable guy and it's like Idon't want to do that.

Speaker 1 (58:40):
It's like let's just put maybe a conventionally or
unconventionally handsome.

Speaker 2 (58:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (58:46):
You know, because Tom Hardy's weirdly attractive.

Speaker 2 (58:49):
Right, but he shouldn't be for some.
You know Exactly.

Speaker 1 (58:50):
It's kind of like Adam.

Speaker 2 (58:52):
Driver.

Speaker 1 (58:52):
You're like.

Speaker 2 (58:53):
Yeah, yeah, You're like I should be hot.

Speaker 1 (58:58):
What's?

Speaker 2 (58:59):
going on.

Speaker 1 (59:00):
But so I want him.
And then, when push comes toshove, at the end he's going to
break your heart, man.
Oh yeah, for sure Like he is,but you tell me, would you have
Clooney or Idris Elba in theSteve Martin role, babysitting
and unhinged Tom Hardy on a roadtrip?

Speaker 2 (59:15):
Hmm, hmm, hmm.
Clooney, because the thing wasSteve Martin's role in this
movie.
He's a dick through most of themovie and, like you, can be a
dick and like it's hard.
It's one of the first time, thefew times, where you watch
Steve Martin like man.
You're a jerk, like I don'tlike.
You're likable but it's it'sbecause you're Steve Martin okay
, let me give you a name then.

Speaker 1 (59:33):
Okay, let's just, let's just fire them to say you
know what?

Speaker 2 (59:36):
we're done with you yeah, yeah john krasinski jim
from the office because I thinkjim's a dick okay.
Anytime I watch the office I'mlike this guy's an ass.
Yeah, yeah, I see what you'resaying.

Speaker 1 (59:46):
Yeah, okay, I think he can be the.
I think I'm better thaneveryone else.

Speaker 2 (59:49):
You could put kind of put jim and dwight on the same
movie and it would be like thesame kind of thing.

Speaker 1 (59:53):
Basically, I just I still want tom hardy yeah that's
fair.

Speaker 2 (59:55):
That's fair.
Okay, I've seen the vision.
It's definitely left field, butI get what you're saying.
He probably would be dressedthe same way.
He's got the mustache.

Speaker 1 (01:00:05):
Yeah, I could see it.
I could see it.
Yeah, just take Tom Hardy offthe street in a given day where
he looks homeless.
Right and just say Just givehim a giant suitcase and you're
good to go, and then at the endit's just really sad and you're
crying.

Speaker 2 (01:00:21):
Now, okay, I'm going to give you the late 90s
powerhouse pairing, becausewe've talked about this, I think
, in the past before, but we'venever seen these two together in
a co-starring movie, and you'llprobably balk at it at first,
but I'll go ahead and give it toyou.
Jim Carrey and Adam Sandler.

Speaker 1 (01:00:36):
Who's who?

Speaker 2 (01:00:37):
I think Jim is Steve Martin.
Because both could do eitherBoth could do either, but I
think because Steve Martin'srole is very physical comedy.

Speaker 1 (01:00:44):
It is.

Speaker 2 (01:00:45):
And I think Jim would have fun doing that and Adam
would have more fun playing acharacter.
Now the caveat is you've got totell them both like there's a
line here that you have to write.
It's not Dumb and Dumber, it'snot Hubie Halloween, but it's
also not Punch Drunk Love andthe Majestic.
You've got to find that middleright there where you're.

Speaker 1 (01:01:02):
Well, it's a dramedy.
Yeah, it's a dramedy.

Speaker 2 (01:01:03):
So it's like you're still being Jim Carrey and
you're still being kind of goofyAdam Sandler.
But it has heart to it too andAdam Sandler has that ability.
To him he's like yeah, he's towear a suit and look like a
stiff.

Speaker 1 (01:01:23):
Basically, what's wild is, either can do it right,
you could flip it and it couldstill work.

Speaker 2 (01:01:28):
But I just think it's like this is a perfect
concoction for them to finallyplay off of each other, because
that's kind of the thing youthink about when you're like
okay, what would it Adam Sandler, jim Carrey movie look like,
other than the word chaos comingto mind?
But I think it it grounds themenough that they could exist in
their own universe together,okay, so, so that's that's my
pitch to you.
I like it a little late 90s,addition to the crazy run they

(01:01:48):
both had in the 90s I like itfor sure, for sure.
So yeah, any other thoughts.
What are you gonna give me?
A different version you?

Speaker 1 (01:01:55):
just gave me a late 90s oh, no, that was my version.

Speaker 2 (01:01:57):
Oh, I thought you.
I thought you said you'regiving me a late 90s.
Oh, no, no, no, that was myversion.
Oh, I thought you said you weregetting a late 90s in a
different version.
Oh, no, no.
Sorry, I misled you.
I was like come on, and what'sthe other one?
Much like Thanksgiving, corey.
It was a little bit of aletdown there.

Speaker 1 (01:02:10):
No, no, no, I just thought there was more coming,
oh sorry, and here's anotherreason we can't do this on a
normal episode now, thinkingabout 18 different other pairs
sure, sure, this is like theface.
This is original idea was thisjust to be about the movie?

Speaker 2 (01:02:22):
face off if we ever do our plan for for face off, we
could also do a planes, trainsand automobiles one too, you
know?

Speaker 1 (01:02:27):
yeah, it's true, it's fair because I mean could
travolta and cage do planes?

Speaker 2 (01:02:34):
hmm, I don't know, but could john candy and steve
barton do face off?

Speaker 1 (01:02:37):
absolutely, and I'd watch every damn second when
john candy's trying to cut hisown face off, and so that's
great.
This and see, this is what aishould be doing, just like the
things that hollywood's notactually going to make this is

(01:02:57):
what it should be used.

Speaker 2 (01:02:58):
We just need.

Speaker 1 (01:02:59):
I want to see five minutes of this, please, like
there should be a board yeah meand you should be on it, and
people can pitch their ai thingsand we can say no, absolutely
we could actually make that.

Speaker 2 (01:03:08):
We've made five years of credentials yeah, but this
john candy's dead I want to seeit, you're well let's, let's see
what happens, let me know whenit's done in 30 minutes, if and
so um, but yeah, no, that's manokay all right, I'm trying to
think a movie.

Speaker 1 (01:03:23):
Okay, let me give you this, though judd nelson is
steve martin in the 80s yeah,yeah, who is who would be his
gotta give me a brat packer here, brat packer.

Speaker 2 (01:03:33):
Well, I can't, I'm not gonna say robert dayne jr,
because he literally was duedate was a thing yeah, but he
would be the opposite.

Speaker 1 (01:03:38):
He'd be the, the, the , the galvanacus, and this one
you could be the galvanacus youcould get.

Speaker 2 (01:03:42):
Oh, oh, what's, what's his co-star from from the
other 80s movie, uh?

Speaker 1 (01:03:47):
oh, there's a lot of those, the great the?

Speaker 2 (01:03:50):
uh, not dana california.
Uh, is that?
Is that james spader?
James spader, yeah, robertcalifornia, robert california,
thank, you spader would be kindof fun.
I, because he's not really thatlike I just don't know if he's
comedic I think, wait, he was myfavorite character in the
office oh cool, but that's thatwas leaning into his creepiness
dark creepy.

Speaker 1 (01:04:07):
Yeah, that just leans into it, it's not like really
the, the sympathetic oaf, if youwill uh, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:04:12):
We get norm from cheers oh man, that'd be good
there you go, yeah, give me judd, nelson and ge Because you're
going to feel it when yourealize that his spoilers that
his wife's been dead for 10years.

Speaker 1 (01:04:25):
Oh man, that's going to.

Speaker 2 (01:04:26):
That was right out of the hat, right there that was
good.

Speaker 1 (01:04:29):
I miss George Wendt.

Speaker 2 (01:04:30):
Really you could just get Norm and the main crap.
Now my brain shot off again,but the main character from
Cheers.

Speaker 1 (01:04:35):
Ted Danson.
Ted Danson, that would havebeen a great movie.
That would have been a good one.
Okay, I'm trying to think who'srelated to George Way?
Here's my only, jason.

Speaker 2 (01:04:41):
Sudeikis, sudeikis.

Speaker 1 (01:04:43):
Oh no, he's like his nephew.

Speaker 2 (01:04:44):
Interesting.
Here's my one question aboutTrains, planes and Automobiles,
corey, is that there was a lotof footage.
Apparently they shot.
A lot of it was cut out, but wehave no like.
Clearly there there's like thisidea that there's like tension
between them or something, butall we see is just like glances

(01:05:07):
out the window as they're likelying in bed and then when they
get home, it's just like theyhave this long engaged, look
like they haven't seen eachother in years or like they had
left after a fight or something.
But and maybe I just missed itin the movie or something but he
gets there and they stare ateach other forever and the
family's just like.
Nobody sits there and goes.
You, you guys.
Okay, did something happen?

Speaker 1 (01:05:26):
I need to rewatch it.
I haven't seen it since.
I watched it last night and Ijust I couldn't find any.

Speaker 2 (01:05:30):
I was like where's the, where's the story here,
like what's really going on?

Speaker 1 (01:05:35):
The wife I don't know man.

Speaker 2 (01:05:38):
It's a mystery, unsolved mystery.
Well, that's our Thanksgivingepisode of Quantum Recon.
We hope that we have preparedyou for Thanksgiving.
We've given you plenty ofdistractions.

Speaker 1 (01:05:50):
I hope we got you jazzed about Thanksgiving.

Speaker 2 (01:05:52):
You got a watch list going.
That's true, yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:05:54):
If nothing else, hopefully you're just like hell.
Yeah, I'm going to watchChicken Run.
Then we've done our job youknow, or Legend.

Speaker 2 (01:06:02):
Right, right If your grandma has a VHS recording in
her back pocket For some reason,for some weird reason.

Speaker 1 (01:06:07):
Yeah, okay, I mean.
So I mean we just hope you'relike more enthused about
Hopefully this is the spark thatignites a resurgence in fall
Thanksgiving movies where peopleslow down on Christmas.

Speaker 2 (01:06:18):
There you go.
Yeah, we're just trying tofight back against the Christmas
empire.

Speaker 1 (01:06:21):
Corey, my birthday is December 2nd and I should like
my birthday should be the startof Christmas.

Speaker 2 (01:06:27):
That's true, it should.

Speaker 1 (01:06:27):
Instead it's like I feel like I've been in it for
two months.

Speaker 2 (01:06:29):
We watch every year around your birthday.
That's right, so that's theonly way to start.

Speaker 1 (01:06:33):
Christmas Thanksgiving episode.
Please tune in for our nextepisode, which I'm sure will be
Christmas themed.
I'm sure, I'm sure we're stillworking.

Speaker 2 (01:06:41):
Some ideas.
Yeah, maybe I'm plotting overhere.
Don't worry, we'll figure itout.
I'm ready, we'll figure it out.

Speaker 1 (01:06:46):
But so tune in, we'll ramble about Christmas.
For some reason, I'll be cranky, I'll be the Scrooge.
You enjoyed this.
Let us know if any of thesemovies make your watch list, or
let us know if we forgot one,because I'm sure we did.
I'm sure there's some reallyprecious intricate thanksgiving
movie that we're just.
That's just staring us in theface that we have not probably

(01:07:08):
someone's screaming it right nowtanner ash cash alley ash
doesn't get a say he's not fromthis country.
I guess I'm sorry, I don't knowwhat they celebrate we need to
introduce him to Thanksgiving.

Speaker 2 (01:07:20):
He'll spread the good word and then it will become an
English holiday, even thoughthey hate Americans.
What about?

Speaker 1 (01:07:26):
the Patriot.
That's not, it's all.
When Mel Gibson's hackingredcoats, it's like the leaves
are changing, maybe, maybe whenthe redcoats set a church full
of people on fire, it feels veryfall.

Speaker 2 (01:07:44):
Chestnuts roasting on an open fire.

Speaker 1 (01:07:45):
That's Christmas, Danny, Sorry, sorry sorry,
they've got me All right, allright, okay.
So that was our Thanksgivingepisode.
Hope you enjoyed it.
Say goodnight, nick.

Speaker 2 (01:07:53):
Goodnight Nick.

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