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September 16, 2025 • 15 mins
A review of my favorite Robert Redford movie (not his BEST, my FAVORITE, and here's why)
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Lucy Robert Redford died.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
I've heard that.

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Yeah, eighty nine years old had popped up here recently
in a couple at least a couple of the Avengers
movies he did. Yeah, he wasn't one of the superheroes,
but pivotal role. Which one he was in one of
the Captain America movies and he I think he was

(00:24):
in the last one, Endgame.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Huh. I'll have to go back and watch it again.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
There's always a there's always a cabal of like senator
type people, American politicians who are like yes, who are
either like, I think the Avengers are great or I
think the Avengers have unchecked power and we should do
what what are you gonna do? What are you gonna
do about thor what exactly you're gonna do? Yeah, I'd
like to see if if this were reality. We got

(00:52):
Spider Man, We've got Thor, we've got Black Panther, we
got all these incredible Avengers. Congress is going to get
together and go, well, we got to tell them, look,
here are your parameters. Thora's like, all right here, let
me talk to my friend Bruce Banner and get right
back to you about what our parameters might be. I

(01:14):
don't know what your congressional parameters are, but what we're
allowed to do. But if you look up in the sky,
they're aliens coming. So please get together and committee and
then get back to us with what exactly you'd like
us to do to save the planet. Over and over again.
That's one of my favorite things about the Avengers movies

(01:34):
is the role of angry members of Congress. Well, who
gives them the authority to do this? What is this shield? Like? Hey,
I understand you're a one of seventeen representatives from California
and your party is in the majority in the House.

(01:54):
But aliens are coming down and no one cares what
you think about it. We're kind of curious as to
whether Iron Man and Captain America are available to deal
with it. Marjorie Taylor Green's out there now, Hold on

(02:15):
a second, she's looking up. See. I told you Jewish
space lasers. I told you get that. Uh, get Captain
Marvel out there to deal with it. Do you believe
there's one Captain Marvel?

Speaker 2 (02:33):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (02:34):
I don't know. I know that Captain Marvel is the
most infuriating of all of the Avengers.

Speaker 2 (02:39):
He's kind of.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
You have no idea what you're talking about. I do.
It's first of all, it's a she, right.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
Oh, I'm thinking Captain America, he's kind of a cry baby.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
He's not a crybaby. He's kind of he's not he's
the he's the furthest thing from a cry baby that
you could possibly find. I'm not going to have you
sit here in bad mouth, Captain America and Lucy, I
can do this all day, ding now, Captain Marvel, this
is the I don't remember the actress's name. I almost

(03:11):
had it don't matter. She's hot, and she's like some
sort of superpowered space alien and she can just come
in there and she can solve every single problem by herself.
But she's got a lot of different worlds and different
dimensions that she apparently has to fight crime in, so

(03:31):
if something bad's happening in Earth, she can't always be
bothered to fly in here and handle it. So I
always love these individual Avengers movies, where like Doctor Strange
is the only one who has to deal with this
power that could completely change life as we know it.
I'm like, are all the other Avengers busy? Iron Man

(03:54):
can't be bothered, We can't get on the horn to
Captain Marvel and be like, I don't know if you
could come down. This should just take a few seconds.
This seems like as well within your power to take
care of We can't get Scarlet Witch to come and
deal with this nothing. It's like, it's just doctor Strange.
And you even got Samuel L. Jackson there, Like you

(04:15):
can push a couple of buttons and get more Avengers here,
but apparently we're not going to do that today. Otherwise
doctor Strange won't learn how to save the planet by himself, Willie.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
And that's as a teaching moment.

Speaker 1 (04:29):
Apparently it's an important lesson. You know what. I'm gonna
go back on something I just said. I think Congress
should be involved, like we would like more Avengers to
deal with this problem. And and Robert Redford was one
of those politician types who felt like he needed to
get him involved and tell Tony Stark how to run

(04:53):
his life or whatever. So it was great to see
Robert Redford come out well into his eighties and do
this role, especially since when I was growing up, Robert
Redford was two things for me. Now again, I grew
up at the greatest time to ever grow up born
in the mid seventies, raised in the eighties, came of

(05:13):
age in the nineties. There is no better swath of
time to do those three things. And I hope everyone
can say that about the time that they grow up
in except you gen zers. You're lost, But not all
of you, but almost all of you. So I can
think two things about Robert Redford. When I was growing up,

(05:36):
I certainly knew who he was. He was the epitome
of this is not only a handsome movie star, he
is the handsome movie star. Robert Redford was the most suave,
debonair coolest guy out there. But there was also another
thing with Robert Redford. Again, I grew up in the eighties,

(05:58):
came of age in the nineties. If Robert Redford was
in a movie during the time I was growing up
and watching movies, there was no chance I was going
to see the movie, because what movie would have been
interesting to a young boy growing up? Now, before you
say the natural, is that what you're gonna say? I was,

(06:19):
as has been. I don't say this defiantly. I say
this with a nod to my own shortcomings. I'm not
a baseball fan, and it's shocking and sad. How few
baseball movies I've seen? Surely, Scott, you've seen Field of Dreams. No,
all right, so that's where we're starting this. Don't yell

(06:41):
at me. I know, I know. Now. Have I seen
The Natural? Yeah? I mean I think so. It seemed
like I was like, oh I should see this and
watch the baseball go slamming into the lights, and it
was a powerful moment. I don't remember anything else but
the movie.

Speaker 2 (07:02):
Not even Sundance or Sting. I mean that would appeal
to a young kid.

Speaker 1 (07:06):
No, No, the Sting, any movie that came out before
I was born, is like the oldest thing ever. Why
would I ever see? Hey, hey, eight year olds, do
you want to watch Goonies or all the President's Men?

Speaker 2 (07:19):
I bet you've seen the Cheeks and Chong movies.

Speaker 1 (07:22):
No, I just just young enough to have missed that.
We only would have watched Fast Times at Richemont High
because we were definitely not supposed to, and we watched
it like as first or second graders, so we were like, oh,
this is naughty, and then we watched it again about
a decade later and went, oh, this is really naughty.

(07:46):
So there's definitely an arc. So I've seen some of
these celebrated Redford films since The Sting is amazing. That
was back in the time when you could take a
movie off of the silver screen and put it on
a stage and you wouldn't lose any of it and
vice versa, you know, because audiences would say, all right,

(08:09):
what is this? Well, it's a character drama driven by
dialogue and story, and it takes a little while to build.
That's why it's a couple of hours long. And it's
incredible acting and very dynamic. Great, let's go see it
and droves no spoilers. No one's gonna do that today.
What's the last movie that you could say that about

(08:31):
today that mass audiences went out and saw and liked
and it was and it got not just worldwide acclaim
but also bazillion dollars of the box office. That you
could take off the silver screen and put on a
stage and not have to try and manufacture a bunch
of special effects. That's what I thought The Sting. All

(08:54):
the President's Man incredible movies, and Robert Redford is amazing.
I have I had. I started to have an appreciation
for him in my twenties and thirties as I was like, oh,
I need to see some Redford films, because really all
I'd seen up to that point is maybe my favorite

(09:16):
Robert Redford movie, in Decent Proposal, which I took as
I took this as life goals, which character any of them? Scott,
you're saying that you would pimp out your wife. Well

(09:38):
we're talking about okay, I'm saying I don't think I would.

Speaker 2 (09:42):
You don't think you would.

Speaker 1 (09:43):
I don't think I would. But I'm willing to sit
at the table and negotiate, and trust me, if it's
a bazillion d dollars and it's Robert Redford in his prime,
my wife is also willing to sit at that tape
and go, well, no, I mean, we can't write like

(10:07):
a couple sitting there going what do you want to
do for dinner tonight? I honestly don't care. You could
name literally anything, and I'm I'm okay with it. All right,
Let's go about Mexican food. Not Mexican food, all right.
Now the spousal negotiation is underway.

Speaker 2 (10:27):
So you didn't even take a date to see the
Horse Whisper. That was in like eighties, nine eighty seven,
ninety seven.

Speaker 1 (10:35):
Probably late nineties, early two thousands.

Speaker 2 (10:37):
You didn't take a date to that.

Speaker 1 (10:39):
No, that was one of the first movies that this
girl I started dating and I watched together and it
worked No, No, it worked out, okay, as I married that. Oh, okay,
I watched that in her apartment.

Speaker 2 (10:55):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (10:56):
And I don't think that she appreciated my review of
the movie where I said, I really liked that forty
five minute stretch where Robert Redford got down in a
crouch and stared at a horse riveting. I've never been
so amazed by anything in my life.

Speaker 2 (11:12):
Wasn't forty five minutes. And she married me anyway, So
she's a good, good woman.

Speaker 1 (11:16):
Back to indecent proposals, I'm I'm willing to sit down
at the table now. I I'd like to think that all
joking aside, I would be able to as the Woody
Harrelson character, the husband in this role. I would that
my wife and I would collectively say there's no amount

(11:38):
of money you could offer. But I mean their situation
was is like that. I don't remember why they needed
the money, but they didn't have a lot of money,
and my wife and I, we don't have a lot
of money. Really, Scott and Radio, you don't have a lot,
that's true. Yeah, I know I don't have a lot
of money. Wow, you work for two hours a day.
I thought you'd be swimming and now as a turn out, no,

(12:00):
And so we don't have a lot of money. But
I'm not worried about putting taco bell on the table tonight.
I mean, I don't mean to brag, but I could
stop at any gas station in town and get hot
dogs and bring them home to my family. You know.
That's that's where we are. So we don't need smarmy
Robert Redford's money. But if we were, if suddenly it

(12:23):
was like we're gonna lose the house and they're gonna
take our kids from us, and all my wife had
to do is spend a night with Robert freaking Redford
to quote Art Alexakis from Everclear, and I changed a word,
but I'd probably be like, yeah, do you guys need
any help? You need me to run video and lights?

(12:46):
What I mean? What o Hey? If we were like
if we were gonna lose everything and all my wife.

Speaker 2 (12:52):
Had to take it that far. But you take it
that far.

Speaker 1 (12:54):
Jump in the sack with Robert heck. And that's where
I'd say. I would also put myself in the Demi morale.
We're gonna lose everything, Scott unless you jump in the
sack with Robert Redford like I'm already taking off my pants.
I'm already taking off my pants.

Speaker 2 (13:09):
Money hasn't been discussed.

Speaker 1 (13:13):
Come to think of it, because skip over that part. Yeah,
I'd be the one that comes like, comes home the
next day doing the walk of shame home. My wife's like,
did you get the money? Money? I didn't know that
was part, which also then leads me to what if
I were the Robert Redford character in this indecent proposal?

(13:36):
My my version of it would be an incredibly indecent,
indecent proposal because I'd be the guy that would like,
I couldn't help it. Over here, I'd walk up to
a couple, young couple, attractive wife. You know I I'm
wearing a tie. It's the same tie I always wear.

(13:57):
If you look at the all the Facebook pictures of
me wearing shirt and tie, most of it's the same
shirt and tie. I got to go shopping more, but
you know, I'm wearing that outfit and I welcome sa
I'm sorry I wasn't listening, but I couldn't help it.
Over here, you guys are in a little dire straits financially.

(14:20):
I think I can help everyone out in this situation.
I have a proposal for you. I get a chance
to spend a night with your wife, and I'm willing
to offer up, pulling out my wallet, rifling through my wallet,
eighty three dollars. Then I see the look in his face.

(14:42):
I'm like, hang on, hang on now, I'm back in
my pockets and getting coins out, dropping coins on the
table and forty seven cents. Eighty three dollars and forty
seven cents. That would help, right, And you take her
out to dinner for that, right all? And all I'm
asking is and then they're walking away. He's punching me

(15:06):
and they're walking away. So I don't think that I
could probably fit in the Redford role. But that's probably
my favorite Robert Redford movie.

Speaker 2 (15:18):
You don't think you could fit into the Robert Redford money.

Speaker 1 (15:24):
I don't look good in scarves and I don't have, however,
much money. I don't remember how much money he offered.
Was it a million bucks?

Speaker 2 (15:32):
I don't remember.

Speaker 1 (15:33):
Was it like two hundred and seventy eight dollars.

Speaker 2 (15:37):
I do remember it didn't fit in his wallet.

Speaker 1 (15:42):
Maybe it did. Maybe, you know, if you can pull
out that kind of money and then later it's like,
this is monopoly money. There's no Orange five hundred dollars.
Bill Scott voices, News Radio eleven ten Kfaby
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