Ep 48 - Highlander

Swole Cinema Episode 48 is here, and there can be only one! Ryan and Mark are diving into the 1986 cult classic "Highlander"! Starring Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery, and Clancy Brown, this legendary fantasy-action film delivers epic sword fights, immortals battling through time, and an unforgettable Queen soundtrack. 

We’re talking about everything—Connor MacLeod’s journey, the scene-stealing Kurgan, and why "Highlander" remains one of the most unique action-fantasy films ever made. Is it a perfect movie? Maybe not. But is it an absolute blast? You bet!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:05):
What's up everybody?

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Hello, we're back. Did you miss us? It's us.

Speaker 1 (00:14):
We'll send him a.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
We were still here. We just were doing a poor
job of podcasting. We weren't doing a poor job of
drinking beer, but podcasting. Yes. Yeah, So to do a
little housekeeping. You thought last week we would drive her.
Two weeks ago, we drop an episode about pulp fiction.
We didn't drop a damn thing. I mean, we recorded

(00:38):
an episode about pulp fiction.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
We did well.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
One person out of the duo didn't plug his microphone in,
so all the witty banter that you've come to know
and love was not captured. But it's okay. Yeah, because
we're both sick anyway, we're both sick. We didn't have
a quality body tone and our voices not as much
as Gusto. And it turns out pulp fiction isn't very

(01:08):
action y. It's a long movie. It's a good movie.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
It's a good movie, Quentin Tarantino. Not a lot of action.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
Yeah, some sweet death, there you go. But that's it.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
So if you're wondering about our paulp fiction, some death in.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
A man on man rape scene, Yeah, there you go,
pulp fiction.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
That's okay. Just get ready.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
On this episode, we're going to talk about the greatest
movie ever made in the eighties, Highlander. Man, you in
the eighties, I mean that's that's my nineties or a
couple of years older than me. So I know you
look back fondly at the eighties, but I don't look
back as fondly at the eighties as you do. Well,

(01:49):
I don't understand that it's not my thing. Man. I
was the great movies that came out of the eighties,
Star Wars and Miana Jones. There was some good ones,
but et but I was this iw full disclosure, I know,
I didn't realize I've watched one scene of this movie
before yesterday, and yesterday's the first time I watched the
whole thing. And to end, I know, I'm pretty sure

(02:11):
Nick Offerman is that his name, Nick Offerman running out
a theater just to show Chris Pratt this movie because
when he found out that Chris Pratt has never seen Highlander,
which is Nick Offerman. Yeah, it's like his favorite movie.
So when he found out Chris Pratt has never seen it,
he made sure, huh, that he showed it to Chris.

(02:33):
He got the experience, he got the fool experience. Huh yeah,
I don't know. I was getting Conan flashbacks. Really yeah,
this actually is far more fast paced and exciting and
more exciting than Conan. Yeah, you know, there's.

Speaker 3 (02:51):
Definitely more action than Conan. I felt like Conan was
a lot of walking and talking. You think there was
a lot of walking and talking in this.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
Uh, it was.

Speaker 3 (03:00):
There's a lot of backstay. I felt like the movie
was backstory. Yet I still don't know the backstory.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
Wow, it was.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
It's unfortunate. I wanted to like it. I feel like,
where'd you watch it on? Maybe? Yeah, I think two
B has the director's cut. I don't know.

Speaker 4 (03:17):
It was.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
It was just one of those things where I just went, man,
I'm just not I even I was.

Speaker 3 (03:24):
Born in seventy nine, so you know, my youth youth
was eighties, early nineties, mid nineties whatever. But and I
knew everything, Like I knew everybody everybody in that era
knows the general premise of this movie, Like.

Speaker 1 (03:38):
There can be only one right, Like that line is
the movie is quotable?

Speaker 3 (03:42):
Yeah, yeah, But it was just one of the things
I was watching. I was like, man, I'm just not
enjoying us as much as I thought I would, What
the fuck.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
It was? It's just I don't know, like.

Speaker 4 (03:55):
I think, I think uh as much as Christopher Lambey, yeah,
knocks it out of the park as a raiding, I
thought he was just fucking creepy.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
Really, you thought he was creepy.

Speaker 3 (04:11):
I thought his delivery was creepy, like he gives that.
I mean, I love his little weird laugh. That's great
as raiding. But I was like, as a man just
walking the streets of New York City, I was like, Oh,
this guy's got people locked up in his basement.

Speaker 1 (04:24):
Didn't see that?

Speaker 2 (04:25):
All right? I'm sorry. I know you love this movie,
like man, it was, it just wasn't hitting it for him.

Speaker 1 (04:29):
How can you not sword fighting? This soundtrack done by Queen.

Speaker 3 (04:35):
Like that's the best part for me. The Queen soundtrack
is fucking amazing, and sword fighting it was. I just
felt the sword fighting wasn't that great. I'm not a
sword fighter, so I can't judge. Maybe it was amazing,
but sorry, let's talk. Let's talk about it. Let's talk
about it.

Speaker 2 (04:53):
So this movie opens up with a pretty eighties scene
in my opinion, because it gave me flashbacks of like
that eighties wrestling moment, said w w F and they
still had f in it before they got the f out.
I love the opening at the wrestling arena Madison Square Garden.

(05:16):
But even that, the way they come up, even when
they come the camera comes over the audience and everything
and up to his eyes like shadowed, you see his eyes.
Cinematography is on the point. Yeah, but I was like,
how cool like to have like the Highlander fights another
sword guy in the basement of the Mass Square Garden.

(05:42):
But it's like it's an arena. There's a fight going upstairs,
everybody's cheering for almost like the Roman Colisseum. But then
unbeknownst to all the audience members down below, the real
you know, in the garage. Yeah, there are real fights
going on that's going to end with only one victor.

Speaker 3 (06:00):
That fight wasn't a bad fight. I just didn't understand
parts of it. At one point, the one guy's doing
backflips down there, Okay, he did so many. There's no reasons,
there's no reason for it. I just didn't understand.

Speaker 2 (06:14):
And then even his backlips the sound effects was like
I'm like, I'm well, I've done a backflip. Not well, yeah,
but you don't. That sound effect never comes into py right. Yeah,
he did what like fifteen or thirty, So yeah, for
no reason, like he had he had the Highlander on
the ropes, like he had a cloud on the ropes,
Like he locked his sword away and he just goes
flipping off into nowhere is it? Because like I can right,

(06:39):
it's like I didn't know like was he going to
get his sword or like what are you up to?
Because I can tell you just running over to pick
it up is way faster than backflipping over to get it, right. Yeah,
And it was just a weird scene, but it makes
for great comedy, unintentional comedy. Right. So that was well,
that was their thing.

Speaker 3 (06:57):
Everything you get you come to know about Russ Nash
is that he's like he's an antiques sealer or whatever.
But you know, but everything about his personality made me go,
why was this dude watching wrestling? It seems like he
wouldn't be interested in that. He wasn't he was there
to meet Oh was that like he was there to meet.

Speaker 2 (07:15):
Meet the other guy? Yeah, so that's that.

Speaker 3 (07:17):
I just thought, like, uh, yeah, he was just there
and he had the sense because they were like you know,
we're all going to be drawn to, like, you know,
eventually learned that they're all going to be drawn to somewhere,
and apparently it's New York City.

Speaker 2 (07:27):
And I feel like, yeah, he was drawn there for
the fight, so he knew it was going to be
a fire. Like maybe I'm wrong, but I never saw
him as there like having a time. Yeah, he was like,
oh shit, I sent somebody. I feel like, uh, it's
going down here. I guess I'll just wait till I
know it's time.

Speaker 3 (07:46):
The best part of this that thing is the fact
that he made it into Madison Square Gardens with a sword.

Speaker 2 (07:55):
You can't even get into barely a water bottle anymore.
You learn a sword, Yeah, have a big sword fight.
He'd beheads a guy. He gets the the quickening, he
gets the power from the other guy.

Speaker 1 (08:06):
Lightning cars are gone.

Speaker 2 (08:08):
Oh that that was insane. There's not a single person
in the basement that the wrestling match is so amazing
that nobody's fucking around in the in the garage. I
mean it was the free Birds. They were a pretty
big attraction. Okay, I mean legit, So that was a
real idea.

Speaker 3 (08:23):
I recognize the free Birds okay, but there was.

Speaker 2 (08:27):
One weird scene when they're look at the audience when
the free Birds were wrestling. It's looked like this young
girl she has doing this weird thing with her tongue.
I'm like, why would you edit that into this movie.
It's just so bizarre and like awkward to even see.
I told my cousin with the mental disability that she
could be on the movie.

Speaker 3 (08:45):
Just be cool ship whatever, just.

Speaker 2 (08:48):
Trying to pan away from quick. They editor thought that's hilarious.
I got the oppression and she was like, oh, the
free Birds are hot, Like, you look like you're twelve?
Should we can we cut away from this? Guys just
doesn't look right. This is uncomfortable. Yeah, but he kills
the guy after like a hundred backflips and the you know,

(09:11):
the cops. You can hear the cops coming, so because
the cops in New York are so inept, oh my god.
And all he has to do is he just jumped
up and put his sword unlike a little metal basket.
Oh when the costs came in and did you know,
because it's a crime scene, nobody looked up there.

Speaker 3 (09:31):
I love the fact that, uh, well, I mean one
they're fighting, and I'm I'm gathering in this movie that
his night is his sword is the sharpest thing on
the planet and doesn't even like other even other other
people maybe better fighters, but their blades aren't nearly as
good as his. Because they're fighting at one point and
he has this doesn't what a pipe or whatever, and

(09:52):
like their guys like that, so he had to like
the other guy knocks his sword out of his hand,
so he grabs a pipe and is defending himself a
little bit and that sword, you know that pipes has
taken the sword, but his whenever he finally beheads that dude,
his sword gets embedded like two inches into a steel
column or a cement column or whatever, and then he
has folded over.

Speaker 1 (10:11):
Two hundred times in medieval.

Speaker 3 (10:12):
Japan, right, Yeah, but that was their thing. That he
goes like scooting that tries to screw out of his garage.
Will the cops come? And he's just leaving it. And
if you were there, like if he wasn't the real killer,
the real killer could have gone away very easily because
they just surrounded because he was exiting the car the garage.

Speaker 2 (10:30):
The immediately surround him and he's the one. Like the
cops are so aggressive, right, they stop him and start
throwing up against into the one. I forget there one
cops name. But he was just all over ash. Oh yeah,
the whole the whole time, just real asshole. Would no
proof that anything happened. He just treated him like he's

(10:50):
definitely guilty. Right.

Speaker 3 (10:52):
They immediately like, well, he was leaving the garage, so whatever.
They don't even know what happened in there yet.

Speaker 1 (10:56):
Yeah, Like I could be like, what are you doing there?

Speaker 2 (10:59):
Was? I got that my mom's being rushed to the
emergency room. I gotta go, like, there's so many reasons
why somebody would be rushing out of the garage. Did
you hear that there was cars exploding down? I was
trying to get the funk out. It's that easy.

Speaker 1 (11:13):
There's a maniac for the night down there.

Speaker 2 (11:14):
Yeah, just anything.

Speaker 1 (11:16):
Did the immediately grab hand thrum against the thing. Oh
and he even like.

Speaker 2 (11:21):
Elbows copy one aggressive and they don't do ship. I'm
like whoa.

Speaker 1 (11:27):
I'm like, oh, he probably would have got beat Oh.

Speaker 2 (11:31):
He had been tased, tasted and beaten down, but they
kind of just let him slide.

Speaker 3 (11:35):
Right, They just throw him up against that's the other
guy pools the guns. The tough guy, get me reason
whatever the hell he says.

Speaker 2 (11:41):
Yeah, And then back at the station when they're talking
to him, that same cops being like so overly aggressive
about everything. Uh, he was asking him questions.

Speaker 1 (11:53):
Oh he was. He was like basically it was like
are you are you gay?

Speaker 2 (11:57):
Right? That the harsh eighties F word term. But I
love the response. Why what's the name Calfield? Why you
cruising for a piece of ass? You? No?

Speaker 1 (12:10):
I said it like Arnold.

Speaker 2 (12:11):
I love that you talk funny. Where are you from?
That is one of my favorite things because he replies
lots of different places.

Speaker 1 (12:19):
Yeah, because he's supposed to be from Scottish.

Speaker 2 (12:23):
But Christopher Lambert is like, see frenchier, where is he from?
And I read that. I can't believe it. I didn't
know this, but he for like study for six weeks.
He couldn't speak English that well, wow, so he studied
for six weeks for this movie. I love the laugh.

(12:43):
It's iconic. No, I'm not saying it like again, all
these things put together like it now that I'm talking about, Like,
I enjoyed it apparently more than I realized. See, And
I love that he doesn't have a Scottish accent, because
that's been a lie for hundreds of years.

Speaker 1 (12:58):
So he would pick up.

Speaker 2 (12:59):
Die right uh from where he lived here for like
one hundred years. You know, it would start to influence.
I'm like, you know, Madonna, she lived for like a
year in uh England, came back like you know, you know,
with an English accent. I love how she got called
out immediately. It was like, crap, I guess I'll stop.
Like Johnny Depp when he's he started having like a

(13:20):
British accent for some reason, but he's Johnny Depp.

Speaker 3 (13:22):
So I think you just started trying to talk like
a pirate. People just went, are you talking like your French?

Speaker 2 (13:27):
Numb? So it's like like that little line lots of
different places, Like that's great. It explains why he doesn't
sound very Scottish, right, But then you know we'll get there.

Speaker 1 (13:41):
But I do talking about dialect.

Speaker 2 (13:44):
Fast forward to Sean Connery, who gave zero ships about
his character's accent should be. He just did straight up
Sean Connery, Uh, Scottish. Jean's bond kind of accent Scottish
and his name was Ramirez. Yeah, he was like Juan
fill of Lobos Ramirias sudden like I'll find it, but yeah,

(14:08):
he was also Egyptian. Yeah, and then Sean Conner is like, aah,
I'm just speaking my regular accent. I give you.

Speaker 3 (14:17):
That, and I love the the thing of like, you know,
if you're a highly knew your immortal whatever, like, then
why do you throw Sean Connery there with his gray hair?

Speaker 2 (14:25):
Like I don't understand. He's like, at one point you
see McLeod.

Speaker 3 (14:29):
He's he's you know, burying his wife and he hasn't
aged the day since they met. Sean Connery there looking
like he's about fifty five, so I know at.

Speaker 2 (14:39):
Least you know, not like I heard from the horse's mouth,
but horses can't talk. True.

Speaker 1 (14:46):
My theory is, uh, that's when he died.

Speaker 2 (14:50):
So like, if you were an immortal, you just didn't
know it, and I came in right now as the
kurgan and killed you.

Speaker 1 (15:00):
This is how you look until you were beheaded.

Speaker 2 (15:05):
But if you were fifty and you had some grain
in your beard, but that's when you got killed for
the first time it is immortal, then that's the look
you would retain. So I assume when Sean Connery met
his demise for the first time. He was whatever age
for that gray hair, Like if I got killed right now, right,

(15:27):
I would retain this look. I wanted d age to
my younger self, which be cool too. Yeah, So I figured, like, yeah,
he met his demise later in life. That's why I Hey,
gray hair.

Speaker 3 (15:40):
Everything that would suck if you realize you were mortal.
But it wasn't until you're like a hundred, right, Absolutely,
you want to wait after the walk arounds. This is
the crepit old fart in the rest of the rest
of existence.

Speaker 2 (15:50):
I feel like once you got once you came back
to life and you your mortal, your body felt awesome,
but in the mirror you're like, why the fucking and
I yeah, like what's your prime like when you're nine, right, yeah? Yeah,
feeling the flow. For me, it'd have to be like
twenty one. So I'm had a little bit of hair hair,
My fucking hair left way too early in my life.

(16:11):
My hair was going gray when I was twenty nine.
Oh yeah, I have a I say, if you're immortal, though,
you could diet, right, That's what I mean. Yeah, I'll
take gray hair over no hair. Yeah, but with today's science,
you know, maybe then grow some back. So you know,
it'd be Okay, you're immortal, I'm not.

Speaker 3 (16:28):
Well, yeah, if you're immortal, I'm not gonna say I'm
not spending money for it now. No, you're immortal, Yeah,
that's different. So you could mass wealth over the years,
that'd be nice.

Speaker 2 (16:38):
Like I feel like the whole antique thing was like,
what a great idea. Just over years he's just keeping
the ship and shah, you could have stolen it, you
could have bought it. You know, you could have killed
somebody for it. But now it's like treasures and he's
selling him off, keeping his own his whole lifestyle. Going
my life and his place was awesome. My luck is

(16:59):
I would have saved beanie babies. These things are worth
a ton. Now wait till waiting thirty years, one hundred years,
it's gonna be worth so much more. Right you need
I to say, like if you could know when to
invest in Apple back in the day, that's well, that's
a pretty much hot tub time machine, right, I gotta go. Yeah,
you need a time machine. It has done do with
being immortal. You need a time machine.

Speaker 3 (17:20):
Yeah, that was that was one of the few things
like times she was funny, But I was like, I
think they overdid it with it. What lou did whenever
he like in that span of time again, I was like, Ah,
that's a little bit much like maybe a little lower
profile would have been smart.

Speaker 2 (17:36):
You got you got to you're right. Uh. Well, one
funny thing about hot Tub Time Machine is just Craig Robinson.
Robinson with the doing uh at least a lobe? Did
you say, have all the musicians you could have ripped off?
You went that one? That's hilarious.

Speaker 1 (17:58):
Don't they make fun of like.

Speaker 2 (17:59):
Your dance looks like your sucking dicks pulling dicks out
of the air. We digress back to the ashes, back
to the movie. If you haven't watched Time Machine, it's
it's pretty fun solid ye. Now because of that and
the police station, uh, we start to get like flashbacks

(18:20):
where he's thinking about past lives and that's how they
tell the story of how we got here and who
this guy really is. He was the clam McCloud Scottish Highlands. Yeah,
going into battle apparently his clansmen apparently very arrogant.

Speaker 3 (18:36):
Yeah, because in my head, like you know, because it's
flashing back and stuff and you're like obviously you know
this dude's mortal, and they don't really tell you, like,
oh no, he's going to a battle not knowing he's immortal, right,
So but like I was like wow, looking back, like wow,
pretty arrogant for not being immortal, Like.

Speaker 2 (18:51):
Are you going to be okay, I'll be fine whatever,
I'm We're going to crush these nerds whatever, like holy shit,
like super arrogant. And then and no, you know, I
assume that they had to be like yeah, get get
pumped up. You know, you don't want to say like, hey, yeah,
I don't know, maybe we won't win to day you
kill them. Yeah, but yeah, but yeah he gets I
feel like for some reason, the Kurgan knew that he

(19:14):
was immortal before he knew he was a mortal. Yeah,
I know he gets sense, right, Yeah, there's no there's
not really an explanation how he can sense that he
is one of them, right, I know, if Miriz tries
to explain it. Yeah, just like he was talking about
when you get closer, you could feel this the quickened,
you can feel something. Yeah, And before they even went

(19:35):
into battle, he was telling everybody else like nobody kills
him but me. He come on, somebody fight me. Yeah,
nobody will. That was great. Everybody's running away at that
part was hilarious. He's just like standing in the middle
of the battlefield every time someone runs up. No, I
guess the Kurgan made a deal with the other Klan.
They're like, oh, yeah, I'll help you kill a bunch

(19:57):
of people. But he's mine, right, and he does. He
kills him, and you know, he feels he gets he
gets a little bit of that lightning on the battlefield.
Oh that's right, because they saw his klansman bum rushed him. Yeah,
he was ready to cut his hand before he gets
job his head off.

Speaker 3 (20:18):
But that's the thing, like at the end of the movie,
like they're trying to build the Kurging up as being
the most strongest being on the planet. I'm like, he
couldn't offended off a couple other people and chop this
dude's heads off?

Speaker 2 (20:27):
Right? What happened? What? What cool story we needed? Right?
I mean I understand, but at the same time, come on,
but I love how it gets back and he's kind
of dead. But when he and everybody's so sad, but
then he's like, hey man, I'm feeling great. Well, immediately
they're like, he's a witch. Well that was like yesterday

(20:51):
you guys are best bros. You were his girlfriend. Now
you're like right away, you're going right to like he's
a witch. Well what got me was, uh, he's.

Speaker 3 (21:00):
Laying there on the on like a bed, just dying
and he uh but he's not done breathing.

Speaker 2 (21:07):
And they're like, he's day like hero like kids. You know,
he got a big chest woman where he got stabbed.
And they're like, you know, stop crying, bitch, Like that's
the last thing he needs. I don't know he said bitch,
but like wench, maybe ever stop crying. That's the last
thing you know, a warrior needs to hear before he dies.
And blah blah blah. But he's still breathing, right, these
guys are like, just everybody, all right, everybody walk out
of here because he's gonna die.

Speaker 3 (21:26):
We don't need to watch him die. I'm dying peace
type thing. No, he's he never stopped breathing.

Speaker 2 (21:30):
Yeah, unless it's just bad acting like I can't hold
my breath. That could be we need you to not
breathe while we get this shot, but I can't. Yeah,
the town turned on him quick oh yeah, immediately. Yeah,
they had him like in stocks. Yeah. Uh, literally beating
him everybody, I think, even little kids, but like his

(21:54):
one cousin or uncle. Yeah, it was like can you
can you walk? I'll bloody well walk out of here.
And he gets away and then he's got this.

Speaker 1 (22:05):
Big ass castle. Yeah, like I did he kill somebody
for that?

Speaker 2 (22:10):
Did he? Is?

Speaker 3 (22:10):
He squatting? Didn't even show heard he get this. He
didn't even get out of the yoke or stocks or
whatever like they I got out.

Speaker 2 (22:15):
He was just he's walking.

Speaker 3 (22:16):
He's walking, and then he's out of it and he
has a castle. Yeah, and then and a girlfriend and
a girlfriend Heather.

Speaker 2 (22:23):
Yeah. Yeah, it was.

Speaker 3 (22:28):
It was weird how someone were trying on me that quick,
not like how does happen? You're like, I don't know,
I just I just I feel fine now.

Speaker 2 (22:35):
The the battle, the clan battle, Uh, when he got killed,
all those extras, Uh. I think there was a lot
of accidents, a little you know, cuts and bruises and
whatnot because they were apparently drinking. So all the people

(22:55):
that were you know, swinging fake sores at each other,
they you know, they were getting hammered.

Speaker 1 (23:00):
Like even when they broke for like lunch. I guess
these people were drinking. So then a few mishafs on set.

Speaker 3 (23:07):
You mentioned if there was there was one one guy
that like wasn't drinking, Like, no, come on, guys, We're like,
I get it, We'll have some beers afterward, and the
wrong person clocks him. Then he becomes a juggernaut on
the field because he's the only just waring people left
and right.

Speaker 1 (23:23):
He's on ship like there could be the only one
just taking him out.

Speaker 2 (23:26):
That's actually where they got the line from someone sober extra.

Speaker 1 (23:32):
Great line.

Speaker 2 (23:32):
Where'd you get it? Well? No, what he actually said,
like I said, only have one guys? Nice? Yeah, But
then it leads like yeah, he's got a girlfriend. He's
got like a little mini castle. He's got goats, and
she's a weirdly mini castle. It's like it's like a

(23:55):
one room with a turret. Was the second floor just
not finish yet? I wasn't sure. But Ramirez shows up.
Now we go back and forth between that time period
and modern modern day, which is one of my favorite
things about the movie, the transition between what he's doing

(24:18):
now and then we give a flashback. There's one scene
where he's thinking about his training with Ramirez, and the
camera pans over to his aquarium, his fish tank, and
then it starts to pan up, and then all of
a sudden, we're on the surface of the water and
is in a boat giving him lessons. It's like it's

(24:39):
just great transitions rather than just like a wipe or
a faded black.

Speaker 1 (24:45):
It's every transition. This movie is freaking awesome.

Speaker 2 (24:51):
But yeah, Ramirez shows up, tells him all about Ramirez
is are what do you call that? Exposition guy? He
is letting us know about up immortals. We've been here
since the dawn of time. He's doing a voiceover too,
but explains to him that starts training him because I
guess there's good immortals and bad immortals. Well, well that's

(25:13):
that's his whole his whole deal is like, yeah, I'm
we're I'm training you now because the more people that
can fight versus the Kirk get the better, because that's
the one guy, if there can be only one. But
as long as it's long him, yeah, let's just let's
just all get better. So it's at least it's not
that piece of ship, you know, And yeah, and he does.
He gets better, and one of the lessons he tries

(25:34):
to get him is like, leave your girlfriend now, right,
trust me, trust me all the story I was in love, YadA, YadA, YadA.
What do you think I got that sword? Because you're
you're not gonna age she is. He's gonna be so
hard for you to deal with. But he doesn't listen.
He tells ramires, oh, well, gets killed, but Heather does

(25:55):
get on. It'd be the one thing about being immortal.
You would have to be completely detached.

Speaker 3 (26:01):
Yeah, from loved ones, right, But I feel like that's
one of those like you can say that, but I'll
just fucking deal with it, you know. Yeah, And if
you're not mentally prepared for it at that time, well,
that's on you, you know, if you if that's what
kills like, if it's old age that kills your loved one, like,
then that's on you that you you weren't mentally prepared
for that at that point, because you know the situation.

Speaker 1 (26:24):
Yeah, well I think.

Speaker 2 (26:25):
The first time after that, you'd be like, okay, right, yeah,
maybe I won't do that again. Be able to be
a loner. Well yeah, that and the fact that that
she's kind of a bitch on her deathbed, right, I
just wish I could be young, leave me done in peace,
and they're like, whoa, he just.

Speaker 1 (26:43):
Fucking like whoa mirrors is right? Never have a girlfriend ever, This.

Speaker 2 (26:48):
Fucking bitch acting like an asshole on her dead, Like
all all I did was love her, and now she's like,
you're in a Basically, he's like, but I build you
a bloody castle over there. No, I've made I feel
like he had to steal that castle. Yeah, I don't. Yeah,
he's not a brick layer. He's not amazing, right because
he was still I know he's immortal at this point,
but still, yeah, one hundred years didn't pass and he yeah,

(27:12):
he had built that castle, right.

Speaker 1 (27:14):
I feel like he walked down the road bumped into heather, like.

Speaker 2 (27:17):
Hey, this might be a groundhog Day situation where he's like, well,
it was about one hundred and fifty years before I
took another lover. You know, I had time to learn
how to be amazon, be a mason, build a castle,
all right, got to build up my assets, right, right,
if you're immortal, that's what you would do, be like, well, yea,

(27:38):
I want to play piano. I have nothing else to do,
unless someone comes to take your head off, right, Yeah,
so rather than learn how to play piano, you should
always be sword fighting. You should be the best you
could possibly be if you want to keep yeah, you know,
keep going for the ultimate prize, which I.

Speaker 3 (27:56):
Find that part is weird, Like at some point all
the immortals just have to to us one place and
fight it out.

Speaker 2 (28:01):
Yeah why Yeah, there's I don't understand why. Yeah, that
was one thing, like why why do you can't you
guys just keep like, hey man, we're mortal and we
keep a massing well, so don't we just can we
have an agreement like that? Fuck it, Like, let's just
keep being immortal.

Speaker 3 (28:15):
Right, you would be the grand Master, go for it, dude,
I'll stay here. I'll just be a mortal like living
my life, have a good time.

Speaker 1 (28:21):
Yeah, you get to you get to be in charge
for for a year.

Speaker 2 (28:24):
Go ahead. Or is it like Mortal Kombat, Like once
you got this grand crank, you know, champion whatever, all
of a sudden more immortals start to be born, and
now he's start over. I don't know, because like some
of them were friends, right yeah, something mortals seemed like
chill with each other and even had like funny stories.
They would tell, Oh, no, man, you may the time

(28:45):
you got wicked hammered and got into a duel. That
was pretty hilarious.

Speaker 1 (28:48):
That was really hilarious.

Speaker 3 (28:50):
Cloud's drunk into a duel with some British pomps. Yeah,
and it just keeps getting stabbed, just kidding.

Speaker 2 (28:57):
That's so good. I find it's just like even he
was even the grants. You know what, sorry your wife.
If you were mortal, I found another mortal, Like my
instinct wouldn't want to be to kill them. I'd be like,
oh shit, you mean have someone to hang out? I
have a friend. Now you can tell it, swap stories,
you know, even if you're like, hey, I you know,

(29:19):
I'm gonna head out for a couple hundred years. I
want to explore this area.

Speaker 1 (29:22):
Cool, I'll see you.

Speaker 2 (29:23):
I'll see you soon. So you want to see you? Man,
a hundred years doesn't seem like that long. I don't
know why you're like, oh, you're an immortal, well I
have to kill you?

Speaker 1 (29:31):
Like why why?

Speaker 2 (29:32):
That can be only one dumb ass? So I thought
you knew this. They're battling for an ultimate prize at
the end. Yeah, but these stories have been passed down there, like,
how do you know? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (29:46):
Yeah, I mean I guess when you do behead one,
you get that.

Speaker 2 (29:50):
Yeah, the lightning and everything happens, you get something sucked
into you. I don't know if you're getting their knowledge.
I wasn't getting sucked.

Speaker 3 (29:58):
If you wouldn't have giggled, I would have getting something
sucked in.

Speaker 1 (30:02):
The getting sucked in you worry out of here. I
don't know. Depends on what side of the head job
you're on. Uh, but I know, did you get some of.

Speaker 2 (30:14):
The knowledge from that person to get strength? Yeah? Well,
because the irony of it all for the Kurgan, because he
had no idea what the prize was. Right, this is
the ultimate prize, which to me the ultimate prize. Uh,
we won't get there yet. Wait came out in the eighties.

(30:36):
We'd spoil anytime. You want the ultimate prize being mortal,
being mortal and being able to have kids and all
that normal ship.

Speaker 1 (30:44):
And die die of old age.

Speaker 2 (30:47):
If the Kurgan knew what it was, he would have
been like yo, yo, yo, hey guys, why don't we
why don't we just like you know, former club tell
you know you can meet the champion over here, over there.

Speaker 1 (30:57):
We don't need to be ahead each other.

Speaker 2 (31:00):
It's cool because I think he wouldn't have ultimate power
and being a mortal was part of it. Oh yeah,
you think? Uh so the ultimate prize is being like, boom,
you're mortal. You can now die, right, Well, what a
shitty So so you're saying is if we're gonna fight
and at the end of this fight, one of us
is gonna die and the winner is gonna die. Yeah,

(31:24):
just not right now.

Speaker 1 (31:25):
It's of old age.

Speaker 2 (31:26):
So what you can have a family?

Speaker 1 (31:28):
How old?

Speaker 2 (31:28):
How much long would Ramirez get the laugh mother?

Speaker 1 (31:30):
Would that even be?

Speaker 2 (31:31):
Like? Oh yeah, I think that was part of it.
And he became mortal, then he could have a family, right,
And I'm like, you've lived several hundred to one thousand
years on this planet. You've seen a lot of kids.
You think by then you'd be like, oh, so I
could finally have kids. No, I'd be like, no, no, no,
I'm got fucking good. I've seen a lot of kids

(31:52):
in my life I can raise in hell, I don't
need to.

Speaker 3 (31:55):
I had a chance to adopt about three hundred Jordan,
I'm good pass.

Speaker 1 (32:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (32:01):
The the ultimate prize was not the well. Also, I
think he could hear other people's thoughts. Yeah, shit like that. Yeah,
I'm like, okay, all right, that's like a weird, obscure
Mel Gibson movie where he could hear women's thoughts, what
women want?

Speaker 1 (32:20):
That's how that's how great this show is.

Speaker 2 (32:23):
Do you ever think that we could connect Highlander to
What Women Want? Starring Mel Gibson, which was like maybe
a late eighties or early nineties movies. I think nineties
only swole cinema can somehow connect those two movies. Yeah,
that's a power. I don't think i'd want, uh, not
even women, just in general humans. I think human race

(32:46):
is weird. I wouldn't want to be able to hear thoughts.
I mean only if I could control it. I don't.
I would walk around right, if you could turn it
on and off, right, because if it can benefit you,
like oh let me yeah, but yeah, just if you're
just walking or somebody you hear some shit like fuck, oh,
I mean, the world's too crazy to hear random thoughts.
It would be like it would be like Happy Gilmore

(33:09):
where he's like or no Billy Madison, where he's like,
we're all now dumber for having listened to you, like
you walk around me, You're like, Holy shift, there's a
lot dumb people out there, right, you'd want to start
beheading people if you can actually hear their thoughts. I
got I gotta shut this voice up. I'm sorry, I
gotta shut them up.

Speaker 1 (33:26):
Well, should we take a break and put something else
in this cup?

Speaker 2 (33:29):
Yeah, okay, we'll be right back and we're back, all right.

Speaker 1 (33:36):
People losing their heads in Highland. You know, let's.

Speaker 2 (33:42):
Let's talk about our our our villain weird a little bit.
What do you think of Clancy Brown as the Kurgan.
Very bold choices in the costume.

Speaker 3 (33:55):
Yeah, like for the time, like great for the times,
Like it's pretty normal now, like to see kind of
stuff like that on.

Speaker 2 (34:02):
People, but for the time, very bold. Yeah, especially when
they like had him like with the shaved head look
at towards the end, Yeah, like tattooed on the side
of his head like shaved head except for a little
bit in the back. Like it's like, very bold choices
for the time. In the day. Yeah, he was, he
was looking at really crazy when he walked into the church,
because that's one of the lures or thing about being

(34:26):
a highlander.

Speaker 1 (34:27):
You can't fight on the head of the church or
you know hollow gram yeah.

Speaker 2 (34:30):
Which I use in the movie. I mean karma.

Speaker 3 (34:34):
I thought I thought, uh, I thought they kept filming
him at angles below him to make him look bigger. Ah,
like Clancy Brown's a big guy, right, But I feel
like a lot of the angles shot with him seemed
like they were kind of like pulled back a little
bit and like just below him to make him look
more imposing.

Speaker 2 (34:52):
Could have been maybe maybe, but that he was like,
oh like punk rock looking jacket like safety pins every where.
I think he had some of them in in his face,
scaring the ship out of the nuns in the he
was the church, he leaves, Yeah, that was pretty greed

(35:13):
and I love that line.

Speaker 1 (35:14):
Like when he leaves like it's.

Speaker 2 (35:16):
Better to burn out than fade away. Did he gets
like def Leppard got it? It's just like I thought
that Neil Young oh h Russ never uh but I
was like, you know, solid villain.

Speaker 1 (35:30):
Uh dare I say campy?

Speaker 2 (35:33):
But in here he felt less campy over the top, right, yeah,
but you know, complete opposite of uh.

Speaker 1 (35:41):
Uh cloud but clouds. Christopher Lambert his uh you know
was saying like that trench.

Speaker 2 (35:48):
Coat on for a little bit. Oh yeah, very quiet, creepy.
He was loud and creepy. Loud and creepy, quiet and creepy. Uh.

Speaker 1 (35:55):
The Curran was the Kurgan was creepy.

Speaker 2 (35:57):
Like when he got to New York and got a room,
well a scene always kind of dug though. He had
his sword is like a takedown you know, put together
like he had like a small case. I was like,
I questioned, you intake it a sword like he put
it all together with spinning and then a hooker knocked
on the door and she's like, hey, I'm Candy, cany

(36:19):
that you are, and then god knows what you did
to the poor woman. What I saw his sword was like,
I was like, that's that's cool, but yeah, you're right,
like how terrible is it? Right? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (36:33):
Well that was the thing that got me the most
about him was so he's fighting Ramirez and that's and
of course that's the way they play it off as
Ramirez comes to teach McLeod, because you know, it's basically
it's all of us against this Kurgan. That's that's the
end game, is you know, anybody but him type endgame
so he comes and teaches him, and then you get

(36:54):
the sense like, oh, he taught him everything he knows and.

Speaker 2 (36:56):
He's just a little bit better now.

Speaker 3 (36:59):
But he fights Ramirez and does the whole you know,
like he fought the Master and he cuts him up twice.

Speaker 2 (37:06):
And the dude just walks through it.

Speaker 3 (37:10):
Yeah, Like I like, he cuts him in the throat,
walks through, shoves him off the top of the turret,
walk like just gets right back up. And then all
of a sudden were he like he puts like one
cut across mirrors his chest and it was like a
practically a death blow.

Speaker 2 (37:24):
I was like, come on, like, Ravia seemed like he
was a tough guy up until this exact moment. Very weird.
I don't know that.

Speaker 1 (37:33):
It's just see my cut has improved your your voice.

Speaker 2 (37:37):
Right, yeah, because I mean he cut his head a
quarter off. Yeah, and he'd like no effect.

Speaker 3 (37:41):
I was like, oh, so it has to be completely
off effectively all like.

Speaker 2 (37:45):
Or the immortal things is just stitching back together with
paper Yeah, with paper clips, sir. When he's fighting McLeod,
was he telling down to the church you can't remember
lets him know that he uh raped his raped ramis
this woman and then you know, with just a look,
he's like, oh, it wasn't his woman. Huh. He never

(38:07):
told you, No, he never told me, like you fucking
killed him. She never told me. She never. Yeah, I
was like, where did I get that again?

Speaker 1 (38:18):
Like we got reinforced that this guy is bad?

Speaker 2 (38:20):
Yeah? Nothing, yet didn't even kill her, just raped her,
like for no reason, just raped her and left him.
Wouldn't you just.

Speaker 3 (38:26):
Kill her if you're like you're you're weirdly evil, you know, yeah,
you'd think you would be rape kill, you know, kill
rape kill, and then you're gone, still looking from a close.

Speaker 2 (38:37):
Well, he he definitely wasn't worried about he left her
line because he couldn't.

Speaker 1 (38:40):
There wouldn't be an Uh, he's not gonna be a baby.

Speaker 2 (38:42):
Daddy's mortal, can't get a pregnant, so he didn't worry.

Speaker 1 (38:45):
Like why just her coming after him for child support,
so he like he let her live.

Speaker 2 (38:49):
Well, I mean I feel like that, but that is weird. Why,
Like this dude is like he's like they describe as slime, like,
you know, practically pure evil. Yet he left her live.

Speaker 3 (39:03):
Later, whenever he gets to New York City, he gets
in a fight with his buddy that got drunk in
the cloud. And then there's there's some ex military guy
that just starts shooting him out, like putting like you know,
puts half a clip into him, a noosy or whatever,
and like we.

Speaker 2 (39:18):
Want to know more about that guy, right, you're just
driving around in your fireburden with an oozy street street level. Yeah, yeah,
there's a whole movie there. Puts you know, runs him
through the sword, but then like throws him off the
sword and lets him live. Why is he letting people
live like this dude's pure evil? Why is he letting

(39:40):
him live?

Speaker 1 (39:40):
Maybe it wasn't a bad guy.

Speaker 3 (39:42):
Actually, if we look at it from his perspective, he's
actually the good guy.

Speaker 2 (39:46):
Good guy, I'm taking out these other immortals walk around
here stealing our antiques and then getting drunk. I'm just
trying to be pure. Yeah, maybe he only killed and
he only killed immortals because he wouldn't get any gains.
Nothing from a mortal gets no power. They're just like
an insects. He smacked that guy away, which is one

(40:08):
they didn't want toake waste any more time killing him
because he's not going to gain power.

Speaker 3 (40:13):
Right, which is which is weird because I as a
guess in my head, I always like thought that.

Speaker 2 (40:18):
I was like, oh, you get power whenever you, you know,
kill another immortal. But I assume McLeod's never killed another mortal.
I assume the Kurgans killed like twenty thirty. No wonder,
he's so strong. How did you beat this dude? Well,
we know he McLeod at least killed one that's in
the beginning. Well one, yeah, right, I guess we assume
you had to kill a few more. I guess, yeah,

(40:42):
do you get stronger? I guess the thing like, when
you get the power, do you actually get stronger? Yeah? Yeah,
they never defined It's not like a sudden The Kurgan's
flying around like Superman. He's neoing a matrix. Right, One
more mortal and I can fly. I mean, I'd sign
up for that movie. All I want to do is

(41:05):
kill like ten immortals. After ten, you get the fly.
That's all I wanted. Just give me ten and then
throughout the whole movie we're talking about he does have
a love interest because you know, yeah, just gotta squeeze
a love interest in somewhere there. Yeah, it can't be
a movie without love Brenda, who also happens to just

(41:29):
be somebody who really knows metallurgy. Right, So she finds
the sliver of his sword in that she dug slip huge,
like that sword was structurally compromised with the sliver she
dug out of the concrete. But also the CSI, the

(41:51):
cops nobody found any clues.

Speaker 1 (41:55):
She walks in at night and she's.

Speaker 2 (41:57):
Like, oh, look at this. Yeah, well that's what I
was laughing.

Speaker 3 (41:59):
I was like, she found slivers of a sword embedded
in concrete. They couldn't find a sword, like just thrown
into it. Literally is just like right there. You think
if you stood below, you'd be like, hey, what's that?

Speaker 2 (42:11):
It was like it was like a grated thing too,
Like yeah, definitely like not part of the garage built,
so he had somewhere to chuck it. It was so stupid,
right right up there with the one hundred backflips, right,
and I love that. So she goes to like she
knows he's a prime suspect, which is hilarious, like, oh,
I'm gonna I'm just gonna wander and I'm so enthralled

(42:35):
by this two hundredfold Japanese sword that I'm gonna go
to this suspected killer's house. It's not just a killer beheaded.
He wear a trench coat people that flashers wear, Yeah
all the time. I'm just gonna go to his place
and see what he's up to, and then you know,
I'm gonna bite him to my house. I mean, she

(42:57):
put a pistol in a drawer and a recorder tape record.

Speaker 1 (43:00):
Right, but yeah, I gotta shoot me or recording me.

Speaker 2 (43:04):
She was so interested in that fucking sword that she
was willing to risk life and limb. Yeah, uh to
interview this dude and have a date with him. I
guess they were minds for some reason. Just had a
flash back to the police station where they were asking
the questions and then he was like, you know, am
I under arrest And they're like, no, you can go
like you just uh arrassed some dude. Yeah, you, but

(43:29):
also you elbowed a cop or you grab like you
actually you assaulted a police officer. I think they would
have been like, yes, you just but maybe in the
eighties you're like, yeah you could, it doesn't matter.

Speaker 1 (43:42):
I mean at the same time, eighties actually movies anyway,
they just.

Speaker 3 (43:45):
Threw a guy without reading his rights up against the
car for no like, for no real reason, without yeltex
saying like hey, no questioning, no idea, threw him up
against the car looking for it, like I think some
RTRO violated on both sides.

Speaker 2 (43:59):
Right, So they're like, you know, yeah, you're good, You're good.

Speaker 1 (44:02):
If you shut up, will sell me?

Speaker 2 (44:07):
Ah the eighties good times, good good times. Yeah, but
Branda has to be love interest. Is motorcycle going by springtime?
I guess we just need that to ground him, to
show that he once love as I say.

Speaker 3 (44:28):
Yeah, I guess you need that in the end. Yeah,
So he's so whenever he's mortal, he's not just like,
well now what now I have to go fucking meet
some chick on Tinder? What the hell?

Speaker 2 (44:38):
Right?

Speaker 1 (44:39):
But he's still rich, right true? Oh and that's how.

Speaker 2 (44:45):
You know with her trying to you know, check out
his background. The one guy who's a hand a hand
what do you go? The handwriting analysis or something expert
was great, the technology, it's just so funny. But they
realize that he's been signing over a well to like

(45:06):
a dead person, right, a dead child. So again I'm like,
so he also was able to easily get access to
a new Social Security number.

Speaker 3 (45:14):
Oh yeah, that's what got me the entire time, was
like I mean, I feel like you'd fly more undo
the wridar if you just didn't, you know, just stay.

Speaker 2 (45:21):
Off the grid man cash transactions only. Yeah, it'd be easier, right.

Speaker 3 (45:27):
Because suppose up So apparently, like from what I've learned,
like every one hundred years they reuseal security number. So
if you're a hundred years old, someone else has that
security number, social secret them, but they're infants and are
not going to use do really anything with it for
a few years. Probably by the time you're gone, it's
not going to really overlap. But yeah, for it was
the weird, weird situation where like you've been wanting you're

(45:51):
not even changing countries anymore. You just got Laziers has
been living in New York City.

Speaker 2 (45:55):
Yeah, doing new thing.

Speaker 1 (45:57):
Yeah, I don't know, I know how I would do it.

Speaker 2 (45:59):
Would you just like find a confidant and like I'm
gonna sign over my stuff to you. You own all this,
but the money's mine. You get the benefit and just
keep that going, right, And maybe we even like do
it with the family member of yours as we keep going,
I don't exist anymore. It just be a ghost. I

(46:20):
think that's the way to get you still have your money,
because you need a place to live, right, and so
you essentially have I guess like a we're tractically had
Renfield to take care of all the shit because it's
not like he can walk around and you know, get
a lease on a new apartment because well, the undead,
which is so is the Highlander. He's the undead just

(46:44):
not riding away and needs blood to survive. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (46:48):
I think it'd almost be you would need a rent.

Speaker 2 (46:50):
Field to take care of your your stuff, right, because
you don't really exist. You know, even when people bump
into you at the mall, you're just a ghost. Yeah,
they're like, oh who was that? You'll never see him again?
You gotta almost you gotta lay low. Why you cruising
for a piece of ass? You gotta uh Yeah, I

(47:13):
think that's the way you go. I would go lay low,
cabin in the woods. Yeah yeah, proxy, proxy for everything, yep.
And then whoever you get to be your Renfield, Like, dude,
you're gonna get wealthy, so just go in town and
get my beer. Yeah cool, go ahead, and tell everybody
I'm here, because then I'm gonna kill you. And guess what,
I'm not gonna die. They could bear me at the stake,

(47:34):
and I'll just get out and do this all over
again a thousand years from now, right, Yeah?

Speaker 1 (47:39):
Who would say no? Would you say no?

Speaker 2 (47:41):
If it more was like, uh, gonna pay you this
much money, You're gonna have access to all this, You're
gonna be awesome. I was just gonna do is just
get my supplies and I can shut up. I mean,
I'd be weirded out a little bit at first if
some dude, just random dude approached me. Oh right, right,
right right? Yeah, yeah, we didn't establish Yeah, how you
it just comes up. Hey, I'll give you a whole

(48:02):
bunch of money if you don't tell people what I'm
up to. Yeah, I just okay, that's that's not right.
I feel like you're killing and or eating people.

Speaker 1 (48:10):
Right. Oh, and you want me to come over, just don't.

Speaker 2 (48:14):
Yeah, I'm just going to give you all this money
and you just do these.

Speaker 1 (48:16):
Just yeah, you didn't really think about your approach.

Speaker 2 (48:20):
We're off to be buds for a little while. I'm
gonna have to have you, you know, We're going to
hang out, drinks of beers at your place, my place,
all the thing. And you couldn't even like build a
cabin off the grid as an immortal because eventually that
off grid and you'll be like a ship. They're building
town homes are.

Speaker 3 (48:36):
Right, Yeah, I mean it has to be real fucking
off grid.

Speaker 2 (48:39):
Yeah, like Antarctica. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, would you
want to Live Forever? Which is one of the songs
here by Queen, Yeah, I mean it's tempting, but I
probably know you know, Yeah, I mean after yeah, I
literally after a few hundred years, you're like, this is
this kind of sucks. So the movie spawned a couple

(49:02):
of the movies not really worth talking about, but it
did spawn a TV show with Duncan McLeod, so it
was another uh McLoud. I feel like, yeah, Connor was
in like the first episode, I guess setting up like, yeah,
this is you know, a.

Speaker 1 (49:18):
Family, and I think, Damon Joegla, you know, one day they.

Speaker 2 (49:20):
Might even have to meet and duel and battle it out.
But again, Duncan, just like Connor, I think I don't
know if he's antiques or whatever dealer, but he had
a lot of money. But he had this bitching houseboat
that was like just on the you know, the waterway,
and I don't know where they were. I don't know
if it was in.

Speaker 1 (49:37):
France, whatever. I'm like, yeah, that's okay.

Speaker 2 (49:40):
That's why I'd want to be immortal, because he met
you know, he has this wealthy He's just chilling on
this cool ass houseboat. You know.

Speaker 1 (49:47):
Ladies are like, oh, you're so hot.

Speaker 2 (49:50):
Yeah, you know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (49:51):
Times like that's because I got a secret.

Speaker 2 (49:53):
I'm mysterious. It's on the Highlander too. My cousin technically
is the first one. You're so hot and mysterious and rich. Yeah,
but I tell you, the world's fucking crazy. Would you
want to live through all like hundreds and hundreds and

(50:14):
hundreds of years of the you know, like Wolverine. So
he's essentially immortal, right, I mean he can't live forever,
but it's a long time. But his backstory, you know,
being like in World War one, World War two, just
things you're seeing like it's got to be at some
point you're like, fuck, right.

Speaker 1 (50:35):
I mean you can't anymore. I mean, I'm fucking humans.

Speaker 3 (50:38):
I'm curious about what's going to happen like years and
years after. I'm yeah going, but at the same time
like yeah, like I mean there's only so much or
after a while, I thnk it. You could just be like, yeah,
this is.

Speaker 2 (50:49):
This is a bit much.

Speaker 3 (50:50):
Yeah, I'm ready to If there's another stage in this existence,
I'm ready for it.

Speaker 2 (50:54):
Like I'm out. This is this is depressing with the
immortal ass back just like being in great shape period forever.
Right yeah, yeah, thinking about getting holds the human You're like, eh,
shit's you know, what would I do? Why is my
ass cheek hurt? It's like, oh was I doing? Did
I squat a bunch yesterday? Like what's going on? Well,

(51:15):
that's my right ass cheek. I didn't change my mom's
flat tire. Let's just say that's a very specific part
to be I just think it was the way I
was squatting down the undo everything or uh using my
my my right foot tore like unloosely's log nut something
and then like the next day I'm like what the fuck,

(51:35):
I'm like, oh yeah, just doing that a little bit
with that because she had to run over something.

Speaker 1 (51:41):
Yeah, that's that's being mortal, and that's the prize. Day,
won make it up going.

Speaker 2 (51:46):
What the fuck did I do yesterday? Man?

Speaker 1 (51:50):
Also being immortals at me.

Speaker 2 (51:51):
You don't wake up with a hangover? I no, I
don't think you don't wake up on a hangover. I
think you just wake up. Yeah, no hangover.

Speaker 3 (51:58):
No, I feel like you have to have a hangover,
like that's part of that's just part of existing.

Speaker 2 (52:02):
Okay, I didn't know even more like, yeah, my body does. Yeah,
I'm good. Like I could paddle on a bottle of scotch.
I'm good.

Speaker 3 (52:09):
I mean that would be sweet. I'm not gonna lie.
That wouldn't be like I had no hangers. Well are
you changing my.

Speaker 2 (52:17):
Mind a little bit here? So his prize was body aches,
getting on dying, the ability to have kids, which some
could say good, some could say good all that money
you amssed, it's not going to be there anymore you
have kids. So I don't know, like was that prize
where it? Yeah? I would have maybe even like, hey, Kirgan,

(52:39):
you sure maybe we want to do this? Maybe want
to wait a year and see what you feel? Do
you really want to do this?

Speaker 1 (52:45):
But he again, he thought he was getting ultimate power
controlled the world.

Speaker 3 (52:48):
Right, Oh yeah, yeah, he was. I don't think he
was looking for kids. His h his person, his character
doesn't think his his prize was kids.

Speaker 2 (52:58):
Well maybe that's it. Maybe pros would have been different.
Never know. You know the funny thing about the Kurgame
I read this, Uh, I'm like a fun facts about highlander. Uh.
He was trying to picture the director what if I
were like a suit and a bolo, we didn't be
more scarier like this this Kurgan, But he's dressing in

(53:20):
a way where it's even more unnerving, like but you
look so fancy, right, And they were like, yeah, no,
we're gonna right on punk. Yeah. And I don't think
it would have worked the other way.

Speaker 3 (53:34):
No, I mean there are definitely movies that that works
were the bad guy is just in a suit, like
dressed up nice and nuns and like it works. But
this one is like whenever you're it wouldn't have worked.
Whenever he's wearing a suit and tie or whatever bolo
and he's like looking at the nuns and making noise,
it wouldn't have worked as well. Then like this guy,

(53:54):
you know, everybody's already on the lookout, like, oh this guy.

Speaker 2 (53:56):
A fucking right.

Speaker 1 (53:57):
Once you see him like a ship.

Speaker 3 (53:59):
Yeah, who is this? Who is this monster? This big dude,
but just that looks like a fucking freak.

Speaker 1 (54:04):
Yeah, yeah, he really for some reason, he really.

Speaker 2 (54:07):
Wanted to end. I read it too that he almost
hit Sean Connor with the sword. He was so nervous
to being a scene with him that when he goes
to Connor's suspicious castle, Yeah, and he jumps down and sorry,
he cuts the table in half. I guess he swung
it and kind of hit a chandelier and when it

(54:28):
came down it almost hit Sean Connery, which pissed off
Sean Connery, but he had to apologized to him. But
he was just so nervous to act in the same
scene with Sean Connery. Right, it's one of those I'm sorry,
but did it hit you? Then shut the fuck up? Right, yes,
you are an iconic actor. But then there was it

(54:49):
was a rumor at Sean Connery well was being a dick,
but had like nobody in his content. I don't want
anybody to bring up James Bond.

Speaker 3 (55:01):
I could see that from what I could tell, like
a lot of the guys that played James Bond were
fucking pissed after doing it, like it ruined my career
to really Yeah, that's that's one of those things. Well,
because you become James Bond and what they call that typecast. Yeah,
like everybody knows you're James Bond. Like Daniel Craig like
has done a phenomenal job of doing movies afterwards to

(55:22):
distance himself a little bit from h Yeah.

Speaker 2 (55:24):
But he's still James Bond.

Speaker 3 (55:26):
Yeah, you know, I loved him, like and that's that's
the part is like he might be my favorite James Bond,
Like he was really good at it.

Speaker 2 (55:33):
And it's it's but it sucks.

Speaker 3 (55:34):
But at the same time, like I get actors being like, no,
I don't want to be James Bond because fuck now
I'm James Bond, you know.

Speaker 1 (55:42):
I Like Sean had a big career.

Speaker 3 (55:45):
Right oh yeah, so he grew he was in the Rock,
he grew out of it. Yeah, there's a lot of
good movies after me, Like, yeah, he was shunk, he.

Speaker 2 (55:53):
Was Yeah, so many days that he was gonna be
on set. I mean even there, I mean locking him
in probably was like the big deal for it's probably
big get Yeah, like that that we have a name
on the poster that everybody knows, and so we'll if
he's got some requests, we'll fucking we'll deal with a
guy green em and m's fine. Yeah yeah, overall, what

(56:18):
do you think, especially since you never saw it just
bits and pieces.

Speaker 3 (56:23):
Uh Like, like I said, it was, I think it
was just the length that was part of the problem.

Speaker 2 (56:31):
I just think it felt like it could be longer,
in my opinion, more sort she said.

Speaker 1 (56:37):
More sword fighting, Yes, longer sword.

Speaker 3 (56:40):
Fightings what I'm asking for? Uh No, it was just
like those. I don't know, it just it just felt
like it was. It was long like that.

Speaker 2 (56:48):
Just I was on the sword fighting scenes didn't seem
as good as others some other movies and anything else,
man like.

Speaker 3 (56:55):
But not again, now we're talking about it, I realized
I enjoyed it, probably a little more than I don't.
It's probably like six and a half seven for me.

Speaker 2 (57:01):
That's pretty decent.

Speaker 3 (57:02):
Yeah, Like like I said, it was, it like it
just felt like some parts of drug.

Speaker 2 (57:07):
But yeah, like like I said, we're talking about now
and I go like, ah, yeah, that was funny.

Speaker 3 (57:12):
But maybe I enjoyed it more the way it wasn't
supposed to be enjoyed.

Speaker 1 (57:17):
Oh, okay, ten out of ten best movie ever.

Speaker 2 (57:21):
There can be only one movie.

Speaker 1 (57:22):
This movie can be only one movie. Sat Queen. Uh
what a killer soundtrack?

Speaker 2 (57:28):
Uh? Swort fighting, great cinematography. I don't know all around,
I love it.

Speaker 3 (57:34):
Yeah, well, yeah, I stuck, I said, even though I've
never watched it, I knew so much about the movie
already because it was so iconic, such a such a
big movie in that era. Like, like I said, how
many times has everybody that grew up in ages science
has at least said one time knowing something stupid playing
a video game, Yeah, you know outdoor game where you're

(57:55):
eliminating people dodgebar or something, and you're like, there.

Speaker 2 (57:57):
Can be only one and that's made Like yeah, yeah,
of course. Yeah. But even like you know the rule
you can't you can't fight on hologround. I included that
a short film I made because I'm like just in
my head, like, ah, that's right. Some people will get
the character says in Agatest the curse Beau's on hologround.

Speaker 1 (58:18):
So yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (58:19):
For me. Sometimes you see a movie at the right
time and it just it sticks. Oh.

Speaker 3 (58:24):
I assume there's multiple movies that we've talked about on
this on this podcast that I was like, I really
liked that. There's people have to going, who.

Speaker 2 (58:30):
The fuck is this guy? Why does he like that movie?
That's movie? I love the room from tell Me Wizzel right,
like it's considered one of the worst movies ever made,
like Harley Davidson and marble Man. Terrible movie. Yeah, I
loved it. I know you did, right, it's terrible and
I know that.

Speaker 1 (58:47):
I know that, Like, yeah, what was your rating on
that one?

Speaker 2 (58:50):
Probably like eight or nine?

Speaker 3 (58:51):
Okay, I fucking loved it, like it just right. It
was a point in time in my life where I
watched it. I it just hit everything and I loved it.

Speaker 2 (58:59):
Well, speaking of that at movies your life, it's your pick,
I know.

Speaker 3 (59:06):
And funny that was that came up because I was debating,
all right, how long has it been since you had.

Speaker 2 (59:14):
To pay for a movie? A couple of weeks ago?

Speaker 3 (59:18):
Okay, then I'll go this way because I was skinning
through tub now it's a bad movie, and I was
looking at him like, that's not a good movie, but
I think it'd be hilarious to talk about. But I
also have one in my head it's like I can't
find streaming anywhere for free. You know what, Fuck it,
let's go. Let's go with the terrible movie on tube.
That would be funny to talk.

Speaker 2 (59:35):
About Wild Wild Westwood Will Smith, No, you keep his
name out your motherfucking mouth.

Speaker 1 (59:46):
Well there you go. Maybe we'll never Oh. I never
listened to our podcast ever again.

Speaker 3 (59:51):
I can't wait to trash this movie, like, oh, okay, no,
I don't like it.

Speaker 1 (59:55):
Oh, let's trash it.

Speaker 3 (59:56):
Yeah, oh yeah, for sure because I but I was
going through two be when I realized Hoylander was on
there and I was.

Speaker 2 (01:00:02):
Like, well, what's on tubby?

Speaker 3 (01:00:03):
We haven't haven't looked at to me recently to find
a movie for free, you know. And I was just like,
oh shit, Wild Road West God, oh that movie is
so bad. But I kind of think it'd be a
funny podcast.

Speaker 1 (01:00:15):
All right, there you go, we're doing it.

Speaker 2 (01:00:19):
See you later, bitches. I'll wait wait until next time.
Keep lifting out weight, bitches,