Kurt Braunholer and Lauren Cook on Broadcast News

Comedians Kurt Braunholer and Lauren Cook are also husband and wife and industry pals of Chuck's. When pressed on a movie they could agree on, they picked the delightful James L. Brooks classic, Broadcast News. Listen in as Chuck, Lauren and Kurt talk all things comedy and dive into the hysterical, moving and heartwarming Broadcast News. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:25):
Hey, everybody, Welcome to Movie Crush. Charles W. Chuck Bryant
here at the end of a very long day in
Los Angeles knocked out four of these in a row
to day everyone, And quite frankly, I'm tired of hearing
my own voice, but I must intro and outro the show.
Because I had Kurt Browneller and his lovely wife Lauren
Cook in my first my first couple, which I was
really excited. I met Kurt and Lauren on the Max

(00:48):
Fun cruise, which was Jesse Thorne, you know, does his
Max Fun Con every year, which I've talked about is
the way I've met a lot of these great comics
that I know. And he did a cruise one year
only cruise have ever been on, and he had a great,
great roster of talent of comedians on that cruise, and
Kurt was one of them. And Lauren his wife as
an actor who does a great thing called Radio Picture

(01:10):
Show here in l A. And they're just lovely people.
And when we hung out on the cruise, I was like,
these are these are my kind of folks, and uh
they're just both very nice and I called upon them
because uh, well they're great and they're funny and fun
and I wanted to get a couple. I thought that'd
be interesting to get a married couple in here. And
they picked the movie. They were kind enough to try
and agree on a movie. Um that is probably not

(01:33):
either one of their favorites, and they agreed on the
movie Broadcast News, The Great, Great James L. Brooks film
with Albert Brooks, Holly Hunter, and William Hurt from nine seven.
Wonderful movie. I hope you've watched that one before this one, uh,
this episode, because it's it's a really, really great film,
and we had a great time talking about that and
life and kids. Have a beautiful little baby, and it

(01:55):
was fun to kind of swap parenting stories with them
as first time parents. So here we go with Courage
brown Over and Lauren Cook on Broadcast News. Yeah, there's
a lot of words that you shouldn't say that are
just sort of like regular words. Yeah, you can't say no,

(02:16):
like fuck you're screaming. Yeah, we're not very good about
watching the language. Yeah, we're pretty bad at it. And
she has not repeated any of it yet. It's weird
repeat stuff all the time. Yeah, that's great. Where you
know the other day she said something that's disgusting. It's like,
told you that, And then I heard it on pepper Pig,

(02:37):
which we just downloaded. Pepper Pig, I get ready, yeah,
saying about that little British pig. They just go nuts
for it. It's crazy, man. We gotta yeah, yeah, we're
just gonna be yeah exactly, because she just you know,
they see no screens until two, and we were like, fun,
that's just for the flight. But she does Sesame Street

(03:00):
to Okay, she does no. Ruby, We I mean she
started watching stuff here and there a little bit early,
and you know, you just gotta let yourself up and
give yourself a bit of a break. I was watching, Yeah,
our screens were just shittier. Yeah. I sat around and
played the Merlin and the handheld football game like constantly.

(03:21):
It was just low, fine and crappy. Yeah exactly. It
was pointless the moral of the story. I mean, Ruby
sat through a movie and she was probably too really yeah, nice,
I got a movie theater. No, but we actually we
took her to see Cocoa. That was the only movie.
That's the only movie she's ever been to in the theater.
And she for of that one because my wife. Family

(03:43):
was like, it's too young. She won't sit still, and
I bet you she'll just sit there and of it.
She was like this, and then the other ten percent
she wanted to play on the stairs a little and
then sat back down. That's great. It wasn't like a
children's screening or did you just go we I mean
it was an afternoon screening, so it was largely kids,

(04:03):
and so you don't worry about, you know, other people. Yeah,
but yeah, that's my biggest fear, is just putting people
out where. She just starts screaming in restaurants, but out
of happiness. She's excited about the food, and then she
just very loud. That's what I always want to yet,

(04:24):
like she's just Harry does isn't she adorable? So you're
going to do your first flight soon? Or no, it's
not our first fight. Her first flight since our worst flight.
We had a tough one when she was like six
four or six? How old was she? Kurt was in Montreal,

(04:47):
so I took her to Montreal. Must have been six
see him, I don't even It was a nightmare. She
didn't sleep a single moment, NonStop loud out crying. Yeah,
eating the seat belt, you know, like mouth on whatever
Jeremy thinks she could get. Yeah, Ruby went well. We

(05:08):
adopted her. So she flew at five days old, which
was fine, but then um, we took her actually about
Olive's aged. We took her to New Orleans and she
was great. On the way They're a perfect flight, like
this is great, and for about on the way back
she was great. But the last fifteen minutes of that

(05:29):
flight was just we were that that family. Yeah, and
I usually am like it really embarrassed. Michael got to
get out of here. But there was something about me
and being on the flight just being like, funk all
you guys, I don't care, that's me. That's me in
this scenario. I wish I could have some of more
of that because I'm usually embarrassed and I don't want

(05:50):
to be causing the disruption. Yeah, I don't want to
be causing the disruption, but I always probably will get
over that. Headphones were made for a reason. Everyone put
on your headphone. Yeah. I really discovered about humanity though,
the people that are and then the people are like,
I'm so sorry, I've been there, yeah totally. Uh yeah,
it's just whether or not their parents are not pretty much.

(06:13):
Oh if you're a parent and you look scornfully, then
there's a special place and help. Uh. So we always
like to talk a little bit, we meaning me about
like the growing up movie years. And I knew you
grew up in New Jersey because I lived in New
Jersey for a while. I lived in Bernardsville. Do you

(06:34):
know what? Where is it? Basking Ridge, Morristown and Morris
Towns the town always though up, but you were more beachy, right, yeah?
Neptune and Asbury Park, Yeah, which is a totally There
are many different New Jersey system a. Yeah, I love it.
Uh And where did you grow up? I started in Boston,

(06:56):
outside Boston and I started my life. I never know
how to answer this question, Like people always accuse me
of line because I can say I'm from three different places. Honestly,
I just moved and then my mom moved whole thing.
Um but Boston, a suburb of Boston, a tiny little
suburb called Natick, and then elegant City, Maryland, which just

(07:17):
recently flooded a second time. A second time. Yeah, that
made where were the formative years movie going? Wise? Like
where was nine Maryland? Okay? And you were Jersey throughout. Yeah.
Oh yeah. What were some of the movies for you
guys earlier or was it even a thing that you
cared about? Definitely The Explorers Beaches. It's great. I've never

(07:43):
had a couple in here. This is exciting, I think
and Emily are coming on. Yeah, yeah, alright, so Explorers
the yeah, the little little Ethan Hawk right, yeah, and
they make a spaceship out of a tilted world containers. Yeah,
and then they meet and then they meet aliens and

(08:04):
they've never seen listening to Turn of the Navigator, which
I did that Return of the Navigator with movie. Was
that your favorite movie? No? I did love Flight of
the Navigator, though I did. It's a great movie. It
is a great movie, and nobody talks about it. It
doesn't get any love these days. Yeah. That, and there's
a like kids flying stuff movies around that time, like

(08:26):
Daryl was another one flying the Navigator for something too.
Wasn't the data analyzing robotic something? Yeah you think you're
just Darrel young, but it was like young Why was
young young life form? I think data adam whatever, I
think that's right, probably young life, but as data analyzing

(08:49):
and young life for and then two are robotic righteous
there h So Beaches you threw out, so that clearly
I knew some some young ladies back when I was
in I guess that was high school. I'm older than
you guys, but Beaches was a very big deal for
a lot of young women. Yeah. I just remember I was.
I was little the first time I saw it, like
maybe six, and I cried so hard that my mom

(09:12):
was worried about me, like she was like she felt
as if she'd done something really wrong, but by showing
it to me and then and then I went to
bed like still crying and cry right now I can.
It's a It's just how I expressed a lot of emotions.
But I uh, the next morning, when she woke up

(09:34):
really early I would usually sleep in on the weekends,
I was up watching it again, still crying. That was
like me and et yeah courts et story. Like I
saw it like four or five times in the theaters,
and so I knew the movie frontwards and back. And
they we went, my mom and I and my uncle

(09:55):
who my uncles were always of the opinion that because
my mom raised me, that I was going to be
too soft. They're always like like trying forcing me to
play sports and stuff, and I hated it and we
were watching it, uh and it's pat so the place
is sold out and the only place we could sit.
We're all sitting in different places from each other in
the theater, and because I know what's coming, I start

(10:16):
like scream crying before anything sad and everyone's like no,
And then like my uncle physically removes me from the
theater because he's ashamed, and my mom has to have
like a screaming fight with him in the theater, like
he's just sense itive emotion. You had a similar moment
with tinker Bell watching Peter Pan, right, Yeah, I would,

(10:41):
just I was just yelling back at it. That was
during a performance with I think a Broadway performance. He
yelled out Olivia Newton John, I think tinker Bell, or
I might be I might be wrong about that, but yeah, no,
I've screamed out like when pinker Bell died. I was like,
so you were being taken to Broadway shows and stuff

(11:03):
as a kid. Uh, yeah, we were like five minutes away.
We had I had my mom's cousin lived there, so
we would go and visit her and see a show.
But I honestly when I was a kid. I think
I saw just that Peter Pan and that was it.
It wasn't like a they were like, yeah, we'll just
do on. Like I've never seen a Broadway show since. So, um,

(11:28):
do you guys have siblings? I don't. I have a seven,
but they're all half from many different women. Um. Dad
loves to get it on, hates condoms. Um. So yeah,
So I have one brother and six sisters. But were
they like in your formative years? Was their culture being

(11:50):
exchanged from older siblings and stuff like that, Not really
from older siblings, but my brother and I, so my
my younger brother and I were probably closest, and then
now I'm close with a few of my sisters as well. Right, yeah,
that's cool because I have an older brother, and that's
just a common way to pick up what's cool. Yeah totally,
or even maybe it's not cool. You don't even know
at the time, but it's just whatever they're watching. Yeah

(12:12):
two and yeah, yeah I like that specifically because my
friend's older sister loved it. I watched that in college,
believe it or not, Like there was a period where
my roommates and I thought, I don't think we were
being ironic or anything. I think we were just like, yeah,
we're like the four guys that watch and I two,

(12:32):
and like maybe we thought it was a good way
to get girls over or something. It was a good show.
But we had like a Brenda poster up in our
apartment at one point. It was sure that sounds like
a good place to hang out. Yeah that Melrose. Remember
those days, um, so at home. Obviously you're watching movies

(12:57):
on VHS like any normal American kid, right, the local
video store, the local Blockbuster or whatever video and Neptune
Video Paradise. And I used to say my mom told
me that when I was little. I was like just
starting to talk, and I would say, and next on
to Paradise is that the commercial? It should have been? Right,

(13:20):
I just made that up. I don't know. Yeah, I
was a nerdy kid, yeah, very precautious. I think I've
seen pictures of you on Facebook from your youth, and
uh yeah, nerdy seems to be a pretty good description.
Very nerdy, such a mess. But those those stores were
the best, just like roaming the aisles for for hours

(13:42):
and stores now and then you're right, and then Blockbuster
of course, But like we would spend a long time
and there, and yeah, we would go day after day,
so nothing had changed, but you would still just check
every inch to make sure there wasn't about me. So
you read boxes. Yeah, and I remember there's so many movies.

(14:03):
To this day, the only experience I have with it
is reading and looking at the box and never rending. Yeah, lostimes.
They'd be out too, you know, they'd have like seven
of them and they were all out there because there
was no video. But that was always devastating when you're
going in there for the specific movie and it was out.
And I've also talked to other people in here about

(14:24):
the Blockbuster thing where you you could go check the
cart of had just come in before they were back
on the show. Like that was always where we stopped first,
because like, it's got to be in here, it's on
the cart, but you were shut out of look, you know,
it wasn't there, It wasn't there. But I think that
made you kind of explore other things, you know. I

(14:44):
think I saw a lot of movies that way, because
the thing I wanted to watch was out right, you
were going to get a movie no matter what. Yeah, exactly. Yeah,
very rarely, I think I don't even know if you
ever left a video store empty handed. No, it's a
sad night. Yeah, I remember it was. We would always
rent this was same the same movie which was called

(15:04):
north Shore, which was like a surfing movie, right. Yeah,
it was a surfing movie of the eighties, and in
New Jersey at the time, it was just like the
thing to do, and it was often out and we
would rent it so often that we would just start
like going into like the backlog of other movies that
were made after it that we're kind of like it. Um,

(15:25):
and I'm trying. I can't some of them. I can't
even remember the name of Under the Boardwalk, that's one
of them. That's a pretty bad one. But that's about
California in the Summer was before that though, Unless Summer
and and Unless Summer was like a so documentary quote unquote,
whereas north Shore is just narrative. Um, and then Under
the Boardwalk is like the so cal version of north Shore.

(15:47):
So north Shore was set in Jersey. No, north Shore
was in Hawaii. Oh yeah, of course, Yeah, I was
thinking down the shore. Uh yeah, surfing movies, I mean,
that's it a weird. I don't I don't get It
feels like a very stoner thing, like you'd only appreciate
it if you're very high. Oh wow, No, I just

(16:09):
love them Instagram accounts or child as a child. That
makes it still down. Well, I saw Endless Summer for sure. Yeah,
I don't think I saw north Shore. Yeah, unless Summer
is kind of I don't know. It's fine. Yeah, and
I love I love the fact that he made it,

(16:30):
Bruce Campbell. Bruce Campbell, I think it's his name, and
I might be wrong about that, um he recently died.
But it's not great. It's not like it doesn't you know,
it's just like, oh, it's kind of goofy and you know,
but north Shore it is great. Clearly you're on that camp.
It's so good. Where does Point break figure into? Oh man,
I love Points. It's it's fine. You know. It's not

(16:52):
really a surf movie, no, of course not, but it
does have some surfing and and and it's a good
movie in general. Yeah. Yeah, for It's time. For It's
time exactly. I feel like there was one other surf
movie I watched, and now it's not the Blue Crash. Well,
Blue Crush wasn't bad. It wasn't bad. Some great. Well,

(17:13):
I mean as a surf movie or period, it's not
even a good surf movie. I don't think it's a
good surf movie. And I think I was only judging
it on that on that the photography was great. Yeah, okay,
I don't have the surfing. Yeah, okay, Yeah, that's about
this all you're gonna give it. From my person, It
just made me want to move to Hawaii and like

(17:34):
hang out with those girls. They were. Yeah, my wife
likes that movie and she cares nothing about surfing. Yeah,
but I think she sort of dug that thing. And
what's his face? Isn't it the hunky guy Josh chunky monkey?
I don't even chunky monkey, that hunk Josh do not domo?
How do you pronounce it? Do? Mel? I don't know.
I just remember all the hot girls. I didn't know

(17:56):
even know there was a hot dude. I don't even
remember remember dudes. I don't remember. I remember anything really
about the movie other than I saw it in the
theater in New York City and left disappointed. But that's
all I remember. Because you had like street cred to maintain. No,
we know, this was so dorky a surfing website went

(18:19):
as a group, and so we went as a group
on opening night to do Crush and you walked out?
Did everyone? I wouldn't have doubt walked out? No, I didn't.
I didn't walk out of the movie. I've never walked
out of a movie. Has anybody walked out of a movie? Yes?
Well that is one of the last five questions. But

(18:42):
I'm let to know the answer. Yeah, some people won't.
I Haad Gorely in here earlier. I guess no, Matt
and he will not walk out of the movie. I
will not. Yeah, I have several times. Yeah, I think
it's sort of a thing from when I so far
the guests like it's either something you will death do
or not not, Like I don't know, maybe you're either

(19:02):
a movie walker or you're not. Um. I'm found that
as I'm older now, like I have, I don't take
a risk on a movie. So there's no chance of
me walking into a piece of ship. Especially you're just
like you choose it. Yes, yeah, right, yeah, the last
h sure, the last few years, it's like four or

(19:24):
five movies a year maybe, and my wife almost none
because I get I get to steal away the matinees
every now and then because of a loose work schedule. Yeah, yeah,
that's true, which is good. Did guys, did you have

(19:44):
an early movie date that was significant sixth grade? It
was It was the first boob It was the first
booboo you saw on screen, first burnt. Yeah, I was
during Dirty Dancing a second time during the movie. During

(20:05):
the movie. It was a very uncomfortable and awkward way
to do it. We were just next we were just
sitting next to each other, and I like just touched
her boom and then just held it there while we
watched the movie. It was awful. It was very awkward. Yeah. No,
I remember when you would talk about like what bass
you'd been to. There was like over the shirt and

(20:26):
under the shop. Those are two. All the bases were
very I remember hearing about some people's faces and I
was like, oh my god, that's a base. Wait, let's
do the base. So it's like first based hand holding,
second base is, third base is cheeks cheeks movies, and
then a home run is telling them you love them.

(20:49):
I know what the bases are. Well. I grew up
a little church kid, so my bases were a little
more along those lines. For sure, But what I meant
by that question, even though I loved hearing your boob story,
was with you guys? Was there a that we went to? Yeah?
Was there an early formative movie date for y'all together

(21:11):
that we went to? And you're like, yes, and I
grabbed her boob and we got married. He just the movie.
It's kind of my move. That's what I do. Um,
what can we Can you think of an early date movie?
I don't think we what? Uh? Midnight? It was a

(21:34):
woody Ellen Midnight Married in Paris. Yeah, it was a
good movie, very early on in our dating. Um, where
did we see it? I have a terrible memory. Does
sound like the Sunset or Landmark recently? Is it not
the Lambley anymore? Landmark Sunset? Sun Set on the House

(21:56):
and it's now closed? Really? Oh wait, wait, you're him
in New York? Yeah? I was sorry. I'll thout the
Lambley five on Sunset We met in New York City.
Oh okay, Yeah, that clears it up. Yeah. And the
Angelica was the other one. They were the two really
good ones. Angelica was always nice because the screen was
the size of a television set and you could hear
the subway. Yeah, constantly. I think I saw Welcome to

(22:20):
the Dollhouse and the smallest theater at the Angelica, I
think I saw Welcome to the Dollhouse there as well.
Was there a guy remember remember the scene where um
the sort of I mean, I guess it was the
rape part where he was where the guy was like,
I'm gonna rape you now, but he doesn't even know
what that means. And it was funny. It was played

(22:42):
for laughs because he was just a kid. He didn't
you know what that word means. And in our screening
a guy got up and stormed out and yelled at
everybody like you're all awful people, You're bad, then laughing
in yeah, so you went in that one. Okay, that
would have been that would have this is just you're

(23:04):
all burning in hell. He moved his hand from my
boob to stand up to say that, Oh man, um
se y'all met in New York then, huh what we
were both pursuing acting, I guess in comedy. Yeah, I mean,
Kurt was a stand up and I was always I've

(23:27):
always been trying to trying to act. But that's not
how we met. We met at a concert. What concert? Yo?
La tango and actually there's a whole Twitter thing, like
I was following him on Twitter, all right, you followed
me back after I followed you because I saw him

(23:48):
at fifty first jokes and I thought he was funny.
And then he followed me back, which not most comedian,
that's not something everybody does. And so then when we
met at the concert, it was like, I know you,
So it was sort of like Twitter first and then
the modern couple. Yeah, look at that, but I didn't

(24:08):
see I saw her from behind, and I commented on
her stripes. I said, you had nights nice stripes, right,
So then I turned around and said, I know you.
What are stripes? She was wearing a striped shirt. Okay,
something his long legs or something. I don't know. I
don't know. Uh. And so you started dating in New
York lived there, did you live together or for couple

(24:32):
of months? Yeah, And then we decided to move to
l A together, like real early in life, really early
in the relationship and a half in probably maybe less. Yeah. Yeah,
but that was kind of proved whether or not we
would make it because we're driving together, driving across country, yeah,
and then being in a new city together. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

(24:55):
it was. It was right in. Yeah. And then we
drove across the country like four more times. We've driven many,
many times across country. I feel like I've kept up
with a little bit that on the social meds. You
guys have road tripped a lot. Does someone not fly
or is it just it was because I have wondered.
I was like, what are they doing this? There was

(25:16):
a bunch of different reasons. One was we needed to
get our dog across country. We were living in on
the East Coast for a little bit. Only monsters fly
their dogs. And she's too big. Yeah, and she would
I think she would lose her mind. Yeah, yeah, it's
not nice. Uh So that was two trips. And then
we drove a butt across the country, a giant like

(25:37):
four foot but um for a great TV show that
no one will ever see. What was it for? It
was for a pilot for Comedy Central, Dumber Faster. Okay,
I thought it was just a a Kurt brown Er
fun It was, it was, But I mean, it requires
a lot of money to build a butt like that, right.

(26:00):
People might not understand just how expensive a butt is.
I know it was weighed like a ton. Really, Yeah,
it was like ready for any weather. And yeah, I
mean tall, twenty ft long. But yeah, you can go
see where it's charliel Ar Park i X Art Park
in Charlottesville, West Virginia, just regular regular Virginia vills in Virginia, right, yeah,

(26:27):
but it was never made to stay outside. I didn't know.
It's done like two full winters. It's definitely going to
be falling apart soon. Who owns it the park? Oh yeah,
we just donated it and they wanted it, huh, because
that was one of our stops. I mean, just before
they hate it that they wish it wasn't there. It's

(26:49):
really just don't have the means to move it. I mean,
I don't know what they're going to do with it
when it really starts the king and falling apart. What
are they doing with it? It's just photos. People come
by and write dirty photos. Yeah, it's just part. You know.
They have sculpture gardens, an outdoor sculpture garden, so there's
just a big yeah. Yeah, yeah, that was great trip.

(27:12):
Memory lives on. Uh. Yeah, my wife and I moved
from l A back to um Atlanta with two dogs
and two cats, and it was a tough trip. Was
it just one car with now it was me in
a in the largest truck that they will let a
normal drive, m towing my car and then her behind us.

(27:37):
We rented a minivan and took out the seats to
just transport her in the animals because there's a really
no good way to do two dogs and two cats
like big dogs. So you had your whole house, in
the whole apartment, the whole house, the rocket. We rented
and packed it all up and moved across country over
like whatever three and a half days. Yeah, it was tough,

(28:01):
really like chest your relationship metal. We thought most of
the way in different cars we were we were fighting.
It was you get there and you're like, I don't
want to live here with you, and this is how
cutely adorable. The time period was that we had cell phones,
but it was pre smartphone, and I think it was

(28:23):
like you know, the Nokia. Yeah, and so they didn't
work that great a lot. So we bought little walkie
talkies and and it sounds like this is like forty
years ago, but this was just you know, two thousand
four or five. Yeah, And that's how we communic We
had walkie talkies when we were but yeah, doing the butt. Yeah,

(28:43):
because because there was so many, so many of the
areas and have no coverage. Yeah yeah, so we would
communicate through the walkies. Scotty was there too. Yeah, we
had another vehicle as well. Go sure, you gotta have
a follow the ic for safety for the camp Marca,
I guess yeah, no, it was actually it was just
that there was three of us doing it, so we
could like switch out this guy like met us. It

(29:08):
was a whole It's just logistics reasons, right, Yeah, only
two people could fit in the butt. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I think we should talk also a little bit about
the jet ski adventure because that's a really kind of
fun cool thing. Yeah, jet skied from Chicago to New Orleans.

(29:29):
In order to raise money to send We tried to
send five goats and one thousand chickens to families in Africa,
but we couldn't raise that much money. So I think
we only send three three D eight and seven sixty.
That's great, still a lot. Yeah, and what was that?
How I mean I've written jet skis it's it gets

(29:52):
old after about forty five minutes for me. Yeah, it was,
It's fun and awesome in seven days of eight hours
a day, Oh my god, going how fast about? I
could have gone a lot faster, um, but the camera
boat was was what slowed us down. So you had
to go what I would say thirty yeah, which feels

(30:16):
fast on the water. It does feel fast on the water.
It still is going pretty fast, but you know, kind
of crawling as far as making time goes. Yeah, exactly,
because I think with that, with the jet ski that
we had, you could go like fifty, which is which
is crazy, and it had to be there had to
be absolutely no wind for that to happen. Yeah, but
but there was often no wind. That's crazy. He was
in heaven though. Really Yeah, no, I mean I remember

(30:37):
you calling me and you were like, I think I
found what I wanted to. I found my thing and
it's fun for a bit. Sure, I really to take
them to travel somewhere. Is is I think really cool
because it's kind of like riding a motorcycle. But um,
at a certain point, I remember this one where you
when you get past on the Mississippi River, you get

(30:59):
past St. Louis and it just becomes very like bucolic
down there, because up until that it's very industrial around St.
Louis Um and it just opens up and there's nothing
because there's nobody out on the water other than barges.
And if you're in an area where there is isn't
barges for a second, it's just gorgeous. And it's like

(31:20):
a mile wide at that point, and we're just going
for hours on end, and you just kind of like
enter into like almost like a meditation because it's just
like constant wind, constant the same sound, constantly doing the
same thing. Everything is the same. Yeah, but it's just gorgeous.
I was very happy before that though. The water was

(31:41):
the water was like electric right there was one We
ran out of gas the first day. They literally are
electrocuting the water as a means of killing these fish
that are like Asian carp. Yes, they're trying to keep
them from getting electric. Can you know, therify the water
and it bothers the fish so the fish don't want

(32:02):
to swim through it. They don't just like throw a toaster,
you know, but they do sink like wire under the
river for a mile. I don't I never touched them. Well,
I mean like we literally ran out of gas above
that area. It was put in further down. We had
to we actually had to have like a p a

(32:22):
go to like a Sears and like buy gas canisters
and fill them up with gas and then like run
across like a rat infested field and throw canisters of
gas down to us like stuck on the river. And
this was like an industrial section of the of the
Illinois River. That was like just it was disgusting. It

(32:43):
was like, so no longer in the business. Her last
job in television. It's probably her first job too. Yeah, man,
that is nuts. Yeah, it was. There was a lot
of insane san Si, you're gonna look at all that's
all called. It's called Roustabout. There's like I think seven
episodes of it online. It's it's on Comedy Central. I'm

(33:04):
just on YouTube. Oh well, your last um Netflix special
was so good. Yeah, um, it was great. Thank you
very much. I appreciate that. Yeah, and I think just
a real like evolution of your comedy and very sweet
and personal. And that was great. Oh. Thanks, I just

(33:24):
finished en, I just finished my new hour. Look. I'm
trying to get recorded and soon. Congratulations, Thank you very much.
Did you shoot that? I haven't shot it yet. I
just kind of like finished it, like finished, I finished
writing it and I have a tape of it now
and so like shopping it around. Yeah, alright, let's talk
broadcast news. Yes, um, this is one where, like I said,

(33:46):
I haven't had a couple in here yet. We'll make
it work. Yeah, no, I'm sure it'll be fine. Um.
But as far as asking, like what a favorite movie is, um,
I imagine you guys probably don't have the same favorite movie,
Like what would you each have picked? I'm curious as
a solo guest, man, I know that's putting you on

(34:07):
the spot. So hard to answer that question. And the
thing is, like I used to always say Annie Hall,
which is problematic for a couple of reasons. Now yeah,
it's so great. I know it's cliche, and now everybody is.
I mean, he probably enlisted his daughter and he definitely
married his other daughter. But god damn, it's a good movie.
I know. It's very trust me, I have a lot

(34:30):
of Woody Allen turmoil in my life because he was
always one of my favorite filmmakers. Yeah, and it's hard
to just be like, yeah, man, let's go watch Manhattan.
It's very strange, especially especially because you see all those
themes right there, Yeah, for sure. Yeah, but what about

(34:52):
all that? Um, you know, whenever I asked this question,
I always just say The Abyss because it was my
favorite movie, like for years and years and years, and
now I have so many it's it's so many competing
things in my world that I just go back to
The Abyss. I love this, holds up us holds up

(35:12):
about water. I love water. I'm a big water fan.
It's great. We should watch it someday. You haven't seen
The Abyss. I haven't. I don't even know it's what
it's about. It's about an underwater oil drilling current form
that kept contacts aliens. But good, like a really good,
solid emotional core of that movie. Elizabeth Master, Antonio Harris

(35:37):
and Ed Harris is a former And yeah, yeah, it's good.
It's got pretty great more to it than then they've
got that One character has a rat as a pet
who cares, who sits on his shoulder and he puts
them in a little plastic bag when the place learns
how to breathe water. That's right, remember that? Yeah? Oh
I thought about that all the time, how it was
obsessed with Jacques Cousteau as a kid. Oh really, yeah,
And I remember reading books where they said that you

(36:00):
know that tech is from like the eighties or something
that like like you know, water with so hyper oxygenated
water that your lungs can breathe um. And I think
they actually can do that. Really, I'm not sure, but
they definitely have. There was a photograph of it in
the in the in the Book of of the Mouse
breathing that stuff. Sometimes, Kurt, just make sure this is true.

(36:21):
I swear to god, it's tough for a podcast because
he knows that, like it's very check a boat. But
if we were not recording, he'd be like, oh, no,
you definitely can. You can't. Yeah, you can breathe underwater.
I'm glad you said that, because at first Lauren was
just kind of laughing and nodding, just sort of that
I know you so well. Mary a couple of things

(36:42):
where I was like, Okay, this is the thing. But
when you agree to agree on the same movie, you
came back with Broadcast News, which from written, produced directed
by the great James L. Brooks. So it is a great,

(37:07):
great movie. And I watched it with Emily the other night. Again,
I hadn't seen it in a long time though. Yeah, yeah,
we just watched it last week when we had to
pick one. We sat down and watch it again, and
there were parts of it I had never seen. You know,
it's one of those movies that used to be on
like Sunday Afternoon or whatever, so I had seen parts
of it many, many times. But yeah, it was great

(37:29):
to watch it all the way from beginning to end.
It's so well directed and so funny, so funny, the
jokes are so specific and unlike any other movie jokes
like that. You just don't see jokes like that really. Yeah,
the very character based, you know, like the characters are
all such three dimensional weirdos that you feel like exists

(37:52):
in the world. They're not these tropes. They're just like
very specific people. And so then when they say stuff,
you believe it in the way that doesn't even feel
like if they're delivering a joke. Yeah. Yeah, well it
was a movie that, um, they don't It didn't feel
like they make a lot of these movies anymore. And
I call them adult films, which is kind of funny sounding,

(38:13):
but like, you know, movies in the eighties, they made
these movies that were made by adults about adults and
for adults that were just they weren't dumbed down. They weren't. Um.
I mean, there's a little bit of silliness in here
that work. But you know what I'm saying, like these
like kind of mature ish movies, even comedies, and you
just don't see that a lot anymore. You really don't.

(38:34):
You definitely don't see a comedy too that has so
many dramatic moments. I mean, like it's hard to even
call it a full comedy. Um. And that type of
genre bending is really hard to find I think now.
And also that ending is straight up sad. Oh yeah,
the ending is sad ending. We talked about the ending
a little bit, uh, and our buddy told us that

(38:56):
they actually filmed that ending several times. Um, and it
really sort of falls off, like when you think about
it knowing that like, oh, I don't know, they picked
the right one, it just feels like an afterthought or
something Like it feels like it wasn't fully executed and
it could have kind of age. Yeah, I mean, it's
weird that, like, because it's that gazebo scene, right, they

(39:18):
needed to get to get them to the same place,
but they all go to this gazebo in the rain,
and then William Hurt is there for like three minutes.
Albert Brooks just insulted him a few times. But it
does have that good joke where Albert Brooks's son to leave.
That was adorable. It was so cute. That was good.

(39:41):
That was good. That may have been Albert Brooks's kid too, Like, yeah,
I don't know, it looked like the other Brooks, which Brooks. Well,
so the actor is one Albert Brooks Brooks and then
the director. Sorry, I thought you were saying the directors
got it well, James Brooke, because I think I did
get confused because his daughter is in the movie. Um

(40:04):
in that very funny scene where the rafting scene. Yeah,
it's such a great joke. We love for like two days.
And then there was also the I wore a bright
yellow raincoat the whole time, And that's what triggers it, right.
She's like, yeah, it's such a funny joke because I

(40:28):
think it's like because I write stuff too, and I
think as a writer, like to put the thing that
takes it to the next level is the wrath you're
on the most confined small things. He might as well,
literally said I was trapped in a box with you
for two weeks. Remember. But again, the way he delivers
it though it doesn't even sound like a joke so

(40:50):
hard because it's like not so straight, don't hit it
at all. It's so subtle, it's so funny, because it
would be too much, it would be too much. But
Albert Brooks plays a joke on the page so funny.
I died at that because I don't know, maybe I
hadn't seen the movie a long time or but I

(41:10):
didn't remember that joke. Just we're the same exact way.
But that's James Oldbrooks's real daughter. And when I saw her,
I was like she I said, that's gotta be. She
looks just like she had a great job. Yeah, she
was great. Um. So, jumping back to the beginning of
the movie, it starts out with those great little flashback

(41:31):
flashback scenes of setting up those three characters when they're young,
and the little Holly Hunter is just like one of
the cutest little scenes ever as the precocious young girl
with the with the big vocabulary. Yeah, it was just great.
She was great. And the first one is really funny too,
with William hurt and yeah, and it's like postal delivery,
like truck or whatever. Yeah, yeah, I don't remember it exactly,

(41:53):
but I just remember the punch line that it's like
I think I discovered what I can or something like
I don't have to try and I just get to
look good. And then and then the title comes up
and it's like future. Yeah, it's like I don't even
know what these ladies mean. Fighting the mom with a stick,
I don't even know what that means. And then Albert
Brooks's is great with the great line You're never going

(42:15):
to make more than nineteen thousand dollars a year. It's
so good. It's such a great way to establish those characters.
The tape scene in the in the news room with
Joan Cusack, the Great Joan cusackass is one of the
funniest scenes in movie history, I think, and watching him

(42:36):
again the other day, I was just dying, just the
frenetic pace and trying to get and anyone who's ever
I don't know if you guys ever worked in like
journalism like that, but apparently it's just Roger Ebert said,
like that is what a newsroom is. Like He's like,
it's just nuts, like down to the second. We kept
commenting on it, like how much news has changed to Yeah,

(42:57):
and just like like I think at one point she
goes to get the newspapers in the morning, and we
commented on that, like that used to be how people
got the newspapers, five newspapers. She had to leave her house,
go to these little boxes, pay money, bring all this paperback.
But also that TV would cover just cover what the

(43:18):
newspapers put out, do you know what I mean? Like
that that was the primary reporting for a lot of
the stuff, which is kind of fascinating. Yeah. Yeah, Well
in the evening news anchor it was such a such
a thing like that there were three men who like
America trusted with everything. Yeah, not anymore. It's so sad
how far we've come. Yeah, it's it's weird, especially right now.

(43:41):
It's a weird time for news. Weird time. And also
it is interesting too to watch it now where the
big you know, I don't know if I'm jumping to
the end here, but like the big reason that Holly leaves, Yeah,
actually because of the fact that he turned the camera
around and cried on camera, which now doesn't seem like
that big of a deal. Oh no, Now people are

(44:05):
encouraged manipulate. Yeah, yeah, the audience, Yeah, exactly. And also
it's like, well it's for a good reason. It's about
date rape, right, and it doesn't matter to her, you know,
like that that is fascinating that we have come so
far that to me it wasn't I almost didn't think
it was a big deal. But also with you, yeah,
but it And I think in the context of the

(44:27):
film too, it broke such a trust I think because
it was journalistically unsound and then just between them that
was clearly like a breach of trust that he didn't
go to her and say, by the way, like I
did this thing, it's probably not right. So then here's
a question. Is Albert Brooks character a good guy in

(44:48):
that movie? Because I think the argument is that he's not.
And it's because at the end, you know, there was
only one camera at that shoot. I'll just leave you
with that, you know, like he just doesn't let her
be happy, like he already knows he's not getting her,
and he still does that to destroy that relationship. Yeah,
but I mean, okay, that was a selfish thing to do, maybe,

(45:13):
But the point is he knows her and he knows
she's going to find out eventually true, and so he's
trying to save her time. Like, this is not the
guy for you. He's gonna disappoint you. He's definitely going
to disappoint you. I wish it ended that she ended
up with him. With Albert Brooks, Yeah, I just love
them together. I just know. But like, I'm glad you

(45:34):
asked that, because he's And that's the great thing about
this movie. Is there so much complexity of character. Yeah,
nobody is all good or all Yeah, it's not black
and white. And Albert Brooks, like he's very lovable in
some scenes and in some I'm like, man, he's so manipulated. Yeah,
and he's so jealous and he's so whiny and that
he can't get what he deserves. Yeah, but that's great though.

(45:57):
I love that they're all flawed. And I think he
knows that he did the wrong thing too. I think
he understood. He probably felt bad about it later, you know. Yeah,
I mean I'm on his side just because he's a sweater.
You know, I'm a I'm a bad sweater. I'm a
bad sweater. And it's caused a lot of anxiety in

(46:20):
my life. I've ruined so many things for you and me, brother. Yeah,
and then you start thinking about it and it gets
worse that whole thing. Oh it's work. I mean, Like
the thing is I do like pitch meetings of constant
I'm like doing them constantly right now, and I just
start sweating during like a conversation like this. There's no
way to like to like hide. It's the word. I'm

(46:41):
just like, It's not that I'm like hyper nervous. It's
just like this is how my body kind of like
responds to slight, uncomfortable. Same here, man. I've seen him
tape TV shows that he's hosting and the temperature of
the room is like fifty degrees and also he just
made had a creative choice to not wear shoes because

(47:03):
you're hoping that would help. Yeah, and you still sweat. Yeah. No,
I've always said, like I can. It can be thirty
five degrees outside and I'll sweat if it's whatever conditions
are right. Humidity, I mean, there's actual weather that comes
into play for me. That's why I love l A
so much. Like this light humidity, it was so great
for Yeah, you guys are detoxing really well though, I
tell you true, not true. But that scene in the

(47:26):
movie is so so pouring off of his body. Again
on the page, you can read that and be like,
that's hack, that's yeah. I don't get how that would
be funny. It's just too much. It's like a SNL sketch.
And then you watch it and you're like, you're doubled over.
It's just so good because it's so extreme in the movie.

(47:48):
And I've been there. I've totally been there, like shooting.
I think the first time I shot like this the
first pilet I shot for Comedy Central. The first show,
the audience was just not on board and it was
a pouring sweat like that to the point where I
had to change my shirt. And then we did it
again and it was great, But that first it was
real tough. Yeah, and then the uh with hair and makeup,

(48:10):
like there is no powder that fix what happens to me.
It just makes it worse. Yeah, it's the worst. It
just continually gets caked up and caked up running. Oh man,
I'm so good. I'm glad to know we share this. Yeah,
people understand it's it's terrible. I know that, like sweaty
palms for some people like you can actually have surgeries

(48:32):
because some people, yeah have like super sweaty palms, which
I don't have. It just all comes out from between
my neck and the top of my head and also
like weirdly like the middle in between my Yeah, that's
like that little wet valley. That was such a great
sequence in the movie though, because he's has this big

(48:52):
night um not I guess sort of auditioning for a
for an anchor position, and it could not have gone
any worse. Um And because he's so complex of character,
like I kind of wasn't. I didn't know whether to
root for him to get that job, you know, because
he's sort of has belittled that job, but he wanted it.

(49:12):
But then he wanted it. Yeah, yeah, because he was
the reporter with integrity and uh he and William Hurt
have so many interesting exchanges to where you're like, are
they like, are they about to punch each other or
each other? Yeah? Yeah, I always rooted for him. It's interesting.
I don't know what it is about why I liked
him so much, but um, I was always firmly in

(49:33):
his camp. But then William Hurt helps him out. They
have that whole kind of coaching session. Yeah, he totally does.
And they just love an underdog for sure. But it's
nice that it's not just a very clear cut on.
And then that's I think the complicated thing about writing
that movie, and that's why I had to give it
up for James L. Brooks, is that it's such a

(49:56):
delicate balanced to have you just be like, she should
definitely be with Albert Brooks's character, Yeah, with this guy. Yeah,
he keeps like changing the changing. Yeah, and you do
know they'd have a great time on that island. She
should have just gone yeah. Yeah. And you also sort
of know. I think that she and Albert Brooks can't

(50:17):
be together like as soon as And I've had friends
like that where you think like, oh goodness, is this
like should we be dating? And the answer is usually
like no, don't. Don't ruin that great friendship because they
were such good friends in this movie and colleagues who
supported one another through thick and thin. I just I
don't see a good end if they end up with
one another. Yeah, yeah, it's true. It would have happened

(50:40):
long ago if it was gonna happen exactly. Yeah, there
was clearly no chemistry but I still wanted there to
be Yeah, I see, I noted in the swdding scene,
I should mention when the when the world map is
swinging in the Background's so funny. Just what a train, right,

(51:00):
I love a good train rec scene in a movie.
It's great. Um, So the movie kind of finishes up,
like you said, with William heard getting out as a
bit of a phony for for the fake crying, and
then it awkwardly just sort of has that seven year jump. Um. Yeah,
it's a weird ending. It is weird, and for a
movie that was so kind of perfectly constructed, it makes

(51:25):
me wonder if, like, if there were different endings. Yeah,
it was definitely a reshoot because I feel you think, yeah, no,
that's what a director friend of ours was like, they
shot a bunch of different endings, gotcha, So that's a fact.
Or is that Kirt making something up again? But he
may have made it up. We don't don't, But I
don't think he made up. I think for directing, he's

(51:46):
a big time director. I think he's like I think
you would know. It's a tough movie to end, though,
I would love to know the backstory, like what were
the other options? Yeah, how were they turned down because
they're like a DVD that we could buy with the
other ending, how would you end it? Who That's a
hard question. Well, they all Here's how I would end.

(52:08):
They all move in together and start a three way
like that movie Three Way. Do you remember that movie
Three Way? I think Josh Charles, I don't know. I
don't know. It's it's it was. It was about like
three people like trying to It was like an art
house film. And maybe then I remember that movie was

(52:31):
called it was called something like maybe it was called Yeah,
maybe it's called threesome. Threesome, I think threesome. Yeah, so yeah,
it just becomes the movie Threesome. Yeah it was called threesome. Yeah, yeah, no,
I remember. I feel like I wouldn't jump to the future.
I liked when he sort of said what was going
to happen Albert Brooks's character, I don't think we need
to see that. He's right, and that's ultimately what they're

(52:52):
showing us is that his he sort of described what
the future would be like, and that's what you see,
and it's just like anticlimactic and kind of a bummer.
And I mean, I guess the ultimately they're going to
work together again. That seems to be on the table.
But yeah, it just wasn't satisfying. It really wasn't, which

(53:13):
was a bit of a letdown because it was so good. Yeah,
it was so good up into that point in some ways, though.
What I do like about it, and this is I
will This is not something you would say about a movie.
I don't think is or you should say, is that
it felt very much like what actually might happen in
real life. Yeah, right, nothing zebo scene is just ridiculous.

(53:35):
Nobody just meets at a gazebo in the ran and
then for five seconds and then leaves. Yeah, and some
times life is that you see each other seven years
later and you're like, well, I'm honey hunter now I
have eighties hair and some new rando guy heard new haircut,
eighties hot wife. Yeah. They should have all just looked
at the camera and gone, life is meaningless, and then
it should have faded the black. It's a hard movie

(53:57):
to end, though, I think, Yeah I would. I'm gonna
try and dig that up. I'll email you guys if
I can find the original endings. That would be great. Yeah,
can we go back just to one one scene with
the fight in between James Brooks, James Brooks, James Albert
Albert motherfuck let me try to the fight after he

(54:20):
fails so miserably and she comes back and she says,
I think I'm in love with him? Yes, and he
get get out and it's so dramatic. It has every
ounce of of drama of like a Meryl Streep scene,
you know, but it's this comedy and it's this very
comedic character doing it too. And and then when she's like,

(54:44):
this isn't partant, tell me and she and it's like screaming.
That sounds like a ridiculous thing, but if you feel it,
you feel that they're like, it's just such a real
fight scene. I would argue that it's the best fight
scene in any movie I've ever seen. It's just so
it's a great scene because it's long and just the
choreography of it. They're all over the apartment. He has

(55:06):
to need the room, he has to go outside, and
then he comes in and around that weird corner and
that comes back in the other door. Yeah, it was
really I'm glad you brought that up because I have
it down here to talk about that scene it was
just great. And it has that wonderful line where he
says that he thinks he loves her and he goes,
how do you How do you like that? I buried
the lead. It's just like such a great like you

(55:28):
just want to cry, but it's Holly Hunter is just
so She's so good. She's one of the most naturalistic,
like you always believe every emotion exactly. Every laugh is
just like Holly Hunter is really laughing. She thinks that's funny.
And also she does she when she does take it's
always completely different. It's like it's fascinating to watch she

(55:52):
does like a little weird things constantly because you've acted
with her. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. And I was also
an onset writer for The Big Second, so I was
there a lot when I wasn't on camera, so I
was just watching her and it would be amazing. It
was amazing she would have I think. I think the
character she plays in broadcast news is again. I would
put it up with like the top five best female

(56:14):
characters too, just because she is so complex. The crying
every day, it's funny, it's like she just does it's
so good. She's so damaged. But like so functional, so smart.
To have a female character so well drawn and complex. Yeah, yeah,

(56:36):
And they talk a lot about how she's not like stereotypically,
like you said, she's not the eighties hot chick, but
he's this hot eighties dude and he's so you know,
drawn to her just because of her brain and he
says that it's just like everything about it. She's so
cute too, And you know that scene after they have
the great uh, when she's in his earpiece just sort

(56:59):
of dictating what he's going to say. Afterwards, he just
just like, you know, it's like, yeah, yeah, that was
like I was great. It was like having you inside me. Yeah. Yeah,
that seems there's just a million good scenes and something
hot about that scene for sure. And she's like at
the desk. Yeah. Yeah, he was really good. William Hurt

(57:20):
was really really good in that part too. Yeah, Because
that's a tough role to take on, is to be
Um sort of a doofy adult, Yeah, who's sort of
likable but not especially likable because he didn't have much
of a personality. That's hard gole to play. That's hard.
But I again though, this is why it's such a
well written script is that you ultimately understand that he

(57:42):
hasn't He's very talented. It's not easy what he does,
and they show you that he actually is, you know,
one of very few who can do this job. He
does have a skill. He has a skill. And yeah,
and when she's in his ear like that too, you realize, like,
I could never fucking talk listen at the same time
in that way. And he's sort of he's like making

(58:03):
the words his own. And yeah, oh man, I love
that movie. And gad we watched it. It was great.
It was intrigued to get to watch it. Yeah, yeah,
to prep Well, um, all right, you know Debor Ringer
almost played that role really, oh see, yeah, totally differently,
Oh my god, and like was in the movie and

(58:24):
got pregnant and had to drop out because they had
just done in terms of endearment. Oh, of course was
James Elbrook the first movie. Yeah, she was in. Yeah,
but it would have been a different movie. Oh, it
would have been totally and she would have been great
in it. But Holly Hunter is just so lovable. Yeah,
and more cerebral, I think, yeah, in more hate the

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word quirky, but she is. She's like a stranger person that. Yeah,
there's so many famous roles that we're supposed to be
someone else, and it's just like, it's so crazy because
as an actor, whenever, whenever, like you hear like, oh,
you're like you feel like a replacement if you get
a role like that. But then it's like, oh, no,
you're not, You're not the replacement because you know that's

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it could have never been any other way. Yeah, exactly,
because now that's the way it is. Yeah, it's interesting.
It's always hard to reframe and think about like Tom
Selleck is Indiana John's what Yeah, yeah, because that stuff happens,
yeah all the time. Um. I watched Terms of Endearment
for the first time ever last year on a fucking
plane flight. Did you cry so hard? Yeah? I'm a crier.

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So I was like just trying to contain myself and
that movie is like a sobber and I was at
the end sitting like I might have even been a
middle seat literally just trying to be like, planes make
me cry harder, yea, planes make me. I'll cry at
comedies on planes, I really will. If it's just like slightly,

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I'm like we've had this conversation, like they do something
to the air the air thinner or whatever, and you
just really want to go for it, but very awkward.
It was a bad choice. Like called Emily right after
literally I got off just terms of here, and she
was like on a plane, She's like, what is wrong
with you? Like, I know, I knew it was sad,
but it's devastating. See. That's another one that I have

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seen parts of it, truly, probably thirty times, but I've
never seen it sat down from Beau. What have you
seen it? I saw it as a kid, and I
don't remember it. You guys watched that soon it is.
And James Elbrooks is like in his twenties when he
made this movie. What kind of genius is this guy?
I know? And he's only made like six smoothes or so. Yeah.

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I looked him up. He hasn't done a ton. Yeah,
I thought, um, what was his last movie that you made?
I had it right here. It was Reese Witherspoon. Yeah,
how do you know? Shitty movie? Yeah. And before that
he did Spanglish, which was pretty good. I love Spanglish. Yeah,
is really good. Yeah, but yeah, he's only done. He
had terms overrem at Broadcast News. I'll do Anything, which

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this weird Nicknoled team movie that didn't do much, and
then As Good as It Gets in Spanglish, which were
pretty great, but As Good as It Gets was huge.
He does a lot of writing and producing, though, does
he Yeah? For TV? Yeah, like all the way back
to like Mary Tyler morrishaw and then of course the

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Simpsons is you know one of his babies are partially
his baby? Alright, guys. We finished with two segments what
Ebert said, this movie is a complete disappointment, and then
five questions. Roger Ebert gave this four stars out of four.
He said, the tricky thing about broadcast News, the quality

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and director James L. Brooks's screenplay that makes it so
special is that all three characters have a tendency to
grow emotionally absent minded when it's a choice between romance
and work. Frankly, they'd rather work. After Hunter whispers into
Hurts earpiece to talk him through a crucial live report,
he kneels at her feet and says it was like sex,
have your voice inside his head. He never gets that

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excited about sex, and neither does she. And it kind
of dawned to me, like, yeah, like a lot of
this movie was about work and being a Newsy. Yeah,
it's really interesting and very Yeah, I would not have
thought of that, but that's that's true. They're all obsessed
with the work, with the job, and also a holly hunter.
At first two Is is just willing to have sex

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with William Hurt, like on a first date and like
get it out of the way and then like get
back to the work. But then it doesn't happen, and
that's kind of kicks everything off, which is kind of
against her character too. She's not the lady who jumps
into bed with the band, right, and she's like I'm
gonna do it. Yeah, I'm gonna do it this once.
And then she's like bummed out that he doesn't want to. Yeah,

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but yeah, it is is it is a lot about work,
and it's about and also that and that is why
in like the bad Guy's close in quote unquote like
moment of the second act is when everybody gets fired.
So powerful when everybody gets fired. Yeah, and of course
Jack Nicholson didn't even talk about him. Yeah, you could
take a million off of your salary and then just

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stares at him. That was a bad joke. And I'm
so sorry, Yeah, that was pretty funny, and Jack just says,
of course the gravity toss like to come in there
for that role. He just played it so perfectly, a
very small role, but on him back, he did it wonderfully. Yeah,
it was great. Yeah, he came to be with the
troops when they fired everyone. Alright, five questions guys, first movie?

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Oh you took notes? Yeah, I just wanted to look
up one thing I'm preparing. Keep going. First movie, you
remember seeing in the theater and I think you already said, right, no,
my first movie in the theater. Oh, I remember my
first R rated moving the theater. I don't remember my
first normal movie. Well those are the first two questions. Wow,
look at that. I don't remember normal Little Mermaid? Oh really,

(01:03:53):
well that's sweet. Yeah, okay, first R rated movie? Then Christine?
What is that? Stephen King? My mom really wanted to go.
My mom she slasher movies, slash her books. Really she
was really into Stephen and uh yeah, so Christine is

(01:04:17):
about a car that murders people and repairs itself. It's
a weird movie. Do you remember your first R rated movie?
Are rated? No? I mean I remember my mom when
I was really little, was always watching Twin Peaks and
it's scared the living shift out of me. Um, But
I don't remember the first rate in movie. She wasn't

(01:04:39):
really good about sort of monitoring what I saw, so
I probably didn't know it was are But you know,
if your parents have a tighter grip, then it's usually
a bigger deal then you know. Yeah, but I mean,
like I remember watching um uh, Silence of the Lamb's
really young. Yeah, I watched a lot upsetting chip. I'm

(01:05:02):
going to talk about that in about fifteen minutes. Sounds
of the Lambs. That's my last one of the day
with Karen and Georgia. Very cool. I love them. Yeah,
that'll be fun. Uh will you walk out of a
bad movie? That's the one that you talked about doing earlier?
So you will. I will not, Oh you won't. But
I want to tell you that you did walk out

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on one with me, And that's what I'm trying to
look up right now. We walked out of a movie
we did. It had um Savages. It's called Savages. It
was with Blake Lively. It's a horrible, horrible movie. It
makes no sense, and it was so bad that we
walked who else is in it? I don't think I

(01:05:45):
know that movie. Oh god, it's really bad. It was
two thousand twelve. Um, who else is in it? Beneathio
del Toro, Samahiak Taylor Kitch. I've never heard of that movie.
Oh god, well you should watch it. It's an Oliver
Stone movie. I think, Oh, but it's so yeah. Remember
the Actually she's like this amazingly hot girl and she's

(01:06:09):
sleeping with two men and they live in this house, right,
and then they're gonna like it's like marijuana. I have
seen that movie really comically bad. I have totally seen
that movie. Like, we should have stuck around, just I
should have a thing I want to stick around. I
should have stuck around because maybe it got amazing in
the second half. No I didn't, Okay, no, No, it's

(01:06:30):
like like I think Joe Mandy has like stuff. He
used to tell jokes about how that it was. But yeah,
we walked out of that movie. I can't believe you
when and saw that in the theater. Shame on both
of you. Ye kind of sexy, you know. I think
we thought, like I remember thinking, like this is gonna
be a hot well Blake Lively, I mean she's fun
to look at for a couple of hours. Yeah, of course.

(01:06:52):
And and Selma High. It's like I'm into all those
people and the guy from Friday Night Lights. Yeah, don't
get me started. It's always fascinating when all all like
interesting good people make a horrible film and Oliver Stone
is up there, just so you know what. He's had
a lot of flops, hasn't he He hasn't been on

(01:07:12):
his game. And yeah, quite a long time since. Um yeah,
I mean it shows how hard it is to make
a good movie. Sometimes there's so many like outside of
your control. Sure, yeah yeah, um Number four Taylor for
the guests, who would pay? Who would play Kurt and

(01:07:34):
Laura in the movie about your love story? Who would
play you? Guys? We would? We would? We need the
money if you had to catch someone else? Uh? Can
we choose for actors from any time period? For sure?
They don't have to align so like, uh, nineties early

(01:07:56):
nineties Aeric Stalts for me? Oh, nice's Eric Stultz again.
Eric Stalts says he had the red red hair. He
was in pulp fiction. He's the guy who was showing
you pictures of in pulp fiction. The heroin dealer in
pulp fiction. He was also in um some kind of wonderful,
kind of wonderful? Was this like main first one, big one?
You know, Eric, those references are like, um, I don't know.

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People used to tell me that I look like a
young an Nette Bending. I can see that, like wait,
like a while ago, um, and I adore her. I
think sixties, so love it. That's great, that's her answer.
Final answer just a picture of those who standing in

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front of a giant but it's a movie. And then
finally movie going one on one? What is what is
y'all's deal at the movie theater? What's your ritual? Where
do you sit? You get at the snack stand? Man?
So this is making me sad because I used to
really have a ritual and it was when we were
in New York. I would go to the Sunset place

(01:09:06):
and get um junior mints and they were chilled and
that's clutch um. And then sometimes like if you're really
going for it, somebody gets popcorn. You mix them together
and yeah, when you're with that chill junior mints and popcorn. Yeah.
But now we don't, you know, we don't go anywhere

(01:09:26):
that even offers junior Mints, and like, now we don't
go to the movies really, we sit in front of
our television watch a lot of We went to one
movie what it was the premier of the Big Sick Yeah,
and I had to leave in the middle to go
pump pump in the middle of it. You pumped in

(01:09:47):
the bathroom at the at the Arc Light. Everybody was
really weirded out when I got up, Like, you don't
get up in the A sucks. Where do you sit? Middle?
Pretty normal? Probably like if if there's a if there's

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like a walking area and there's a part down front
and then a part in the back, maybe second, second
or third row in the middle of the stadium seating,
That's what Kur would choose. I like, I did the
thing where you find like the middle seat dead middle,
dead middle. I totally do and find the dead center
a lots of times. I find myself in a totally

(01:10:32):
empty movie theater too, So you can do that. The
theater at Glendale's pretty cool, though. You know in the
in the mall there the air connor or whatever you
can get like flavored coke, like peach coke. I think
that's pretty much. That was cool. For me. I thought

(01:10:53):
it was pretty cool. Peach Coke. I was at flood
Ruckers yesterday and they have the same machine, do they. Yeah,
it's an exciting you into food records reference. I buried
the lead. Well, that's a perfect way to end. Good job, guys,
thank you for coming. That was fun. Thank you all right, folks,

(01:11:21):
that was fun. I think it went pretty well. It
was fun having a married couple in here. I'm gonna
try and do that again in the near future. Um,
it was fun listen to them talk about the crazy
things that they've done, whether it's jet skiing up the
Mississippi River or driving a giant butt across country together. Uh,
they are game to try anything, it seems like, and

(01:11:42):
a lot of fun. You can follow Kurt at Kurd
Brown Aler k U R T b R a U
n O h l e R and um. You know,
I tried to look up Lauren's Twitter. I don't know
if she's on Twitter because there are a lot of
Lauren Cooks, So apologies Lauren if I am not shouting
out your Twitter because I'm not sure which one it is.

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But knowing Lauren, she's probably not even messing around with
that stuff. She's got more important things to do, and uh,
it was a lot of fun. I hope you guys
enjoyed that broadcast news. What a great movie. We really
got into that one, and all kind of agreed on
the major points, including that kind of strange tact on ending,
which is to me, the only flaw in that film.
It's a really really great one otherwise, So I hope

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you enjoyed it. And until next week, why don't you
go get married because being married's great movie. Crush is produced, engineered, edited,

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and soundtracked by Noel Brown and Ramsey Hunt at how
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