Hustle 2022

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Wrap your minds around this. Gentlemen, come we come close. I hate
I hate you. Just give eachother a kiss and makeup. Man,
the guys thought about it. It'snot funny to guy Na's help. Ryce
is wrong, bitch, I can't. You don't like me, I explowed.

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I award you no points, andmay God have mercy on your soul.
Welcome to Adam Sandler, Please stop. A complete retrospective of all of
Adam Sandler's movies, past, present, and unfortunately future. I'm Marie Maloney
and with me, as always aremy co hosts Kayle George and Robert Bacon.

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This week we're watching what the hellis the name? Oh my God,
Hustle Hustles, released last Friday,June third, twenty twenty two,
the Year of Our Lord. Rightnow, this one's fresh off the presses.
You guys, I've just been callingthis the Basketball the Basketball. So

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I was already in the intro thatI was like, shit, I don't
know who the movie. Well,we're gonna have to figure out at the
end whether this basketball movie is asgood as the last basketball movie at that
and I'm saying they're made crazy night. It's a crazy night if there's a
reference to Whitey and if there's afucking technical foul, and then like a

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look at the camera, I'm gonnalose my mind. That's a technical foul.
All of those things are going tobe in this movie. If Rob
Schneider shows up and says you cando it in the audience, that's a
stop card. Yes, we're callingour stop cards. Now. Well,
I think that's a free stop card, right. I think one of us
might be jumping out the window ifthat happens, and so we get stop

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cards. Oh yeah, let's dothe rules. Well, it's rules.
We have to watch the whole movie. Yeah, that's that's a rule that
we never really said. But we'vealways we've always died, We've always done
We've never quit on a movie never, I mean inappropriate comedy was now why
we continue to watch it? Normanthe Norman was enjoyed that one. I

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enjoyed the recording of that one.I did not enjoy that. Oh yeah,
that's that's see, that's got dark. Oh that was a rough one
to quit on that one. Yeah, but the rules, we don't quit
on it. Usually we stop atevery thirty minutes and then talk about the
movie. On this one. Itdoesn't feel like that's the best case.
So we're going to watch the wholething and get the whole drama and then

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talk about it. But we eachhave a stop card where if there's something
that we just can't wait till theend of the movie to talk about,
we could throw it and then we'llcome in here and talk about it.
Usually we're pretty upset, distraught,and I think it's been described. Yes,
Caleb, you were in charge offinding facts about Hustle. Ohoh boy,
and do I have facts? Letme let me tell you that right

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now, because there is a lotbeing said about this film. The buzz
is tight on this one. Buzzthe buzz is tight. Yeah, the
buzz is tight. You know wheneverbuzzes described it's tight. Yeah, you
know, like the bee that shakenreally quick, the beak that can barely
get that fucking honey out. Ohmy god, I was that gross?

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Was that gross that the beak?Did you take honey out? It's like
a constipated be It's tight. Allthere's a lot of constipated be about this
movie. Oh, tons of it. Oh my god, strap In we
haven't even started. Yeah, yep, this film was almost shot in China,

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but then Netflix was like, no, why because of because of they
don't do business in China. Netflixnotoriously does not business business. So now
it's been changed to Spain. Spoileralert. Oh we didn't know that.
I mean, okay, I don'teven think we're gonna be able to tell
the difference Spain China, same samelanguage, culture flag I believe all right,

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we already have angry emails. Yeah, I don't know. Um.
Second fact about this movie, theaction sequences of the movie were choreographed by
legendary you Young Wooping of the Matrix. So that's fun. Oh okay,
So they're keep an eye on onthe fight scenes, see if they're any
good. Oh, I'm sorry,that's from the movie, Kung. I'm

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never going to be in charge offacts ever again. What are you looking
at? American Hustle? What areyou looking at? Oh? I should
look up facts about American Hospital becausethere's only one goddamn fact that that's the
only fact. It's the only oneI have. I will say, I
took a peak the other day atRotten Tomatoes, And do you guys want

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to know or should you already know? I don't go ahead and land.
Okay, it's currently sitting at aneighty eight percent on Rotten Tomatoes, so
that's you know, promising and ninetypercent of audience. But I never trust
the audience on I'm standing there.How many how many audience ratings are there?
Uh? Fifty? See fewer thanfifty verified ratings. Yes, I'm

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gonna because these are sand fans forsure. Oh you one percent? You
got to see all of them?Uh? Yeah. This is uh Adam
Sandler's newest movie on Netflix. Itwas released in theaters June third, and
it was released on streaming today theday that we are recording. So really

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excited to see this one. Anythingyou guys want to talk about before we
start this? I have another fact? Oh you found another? Yeah?
Yeah. It was Bradley Cooper's ideato give Richie Demasso a prom hairstyle as
wearing as well as wearing hair curlersin the scene at Richie's apartment. So
look for that again. I gointo all of these wanting them to be
good. Yeah right we I weall do? We all want him to

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be good? Yeah? For somereason, why am I not excited about
this at all? Why I didn'teven remember the name. Yeah, I
couldn't even remember the name of it. I don't know why I'm not excited.
This is an Adam Saidler movie.We haven't done it in a long
time. It feels like it's it'sgoing for like the grit of uncut Gems,

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but we know it's not going tobe uncut gems. Yeah. So
I don't know every Netflix film AdamSaidler does. It just feels like an
obligation for him. So why shouldI be excited? You know, Like
I just don't. I don't know. Maybe that's it. Maybe because it's
a Netflix one, and if itwas one by that was put out to
only the theaters by a different productioncompany, maybe we would be more excited.

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But maybe that sets low expectation.Is that your point? Like,
yeah, maybe it's great. Maybeit's great, and we walk out of
it being like, I really enjoyedthis one. Uncut Jims basketball jobs.
Yeah, all right, Um,that's it. One another fact about this?
No, no, what do youhave another? Um? Yeah,

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it's about bees. The script wasoriginally called American Bullshit, and it came
in at eighth Placewood's two Blacklists,which ranks unproduced screen plays. All right,
let's let's watch Hustle twenty twenty two. Taking me to see basketball or
bare knuckle boxing. We do everything. I'm Stanley Sugarman. I'm a scout

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for the seventy six. So you'retwenty two years old because you can't be
in the draft if you're over twentytwo. Yes, I'm twenty two years
old. Who's this? It's myson. How old is he? He's
ten years old? Okay, okay, yeah, this Philly thing, there's

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room to grow there. I wantto coach someday. Do you love being
away from home all the time?The chance to men in here is with
you out there? What the hellam I still chasing this for? So
he's just gonna give up money,journey and in the sleep for thirty years,
and it's like, I'm nothing.We're gonna start. Will you come

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to Philly? Your whole world's gonnachange on the night. I gotta work.
My mom, I'm my daughter.They mean everything to me. Salaries
nine hundred thousand dollars. He willcall him sick. That don't be out.
In all the years I've been doingthis, have I ever reacted this
way? He's wrong? We trainedhim, get him an NBA shape.

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What do you say it's not gonnahappens. Then you just gonna get back
out here. You know I haven'tbeen home on my daughter's birthday for nine
years running. I'm not asking thesixes. Don't know you stashed him.
Being the guy who finds the guymatters in this business won't inspire you for
this, sund I just want tomake sure I do what's right for the
kid. He's got a daughter tosupport. You gotta daughter to support.

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Where are you from? From Spainsounds? Where do you think you can
stop me? Welcome to America.That wasn't him, That wasn't even close
to him. Home to Moto.Is that what you want to do?
Hey, you love this game.I love this game. I live this
game. Let's get to work.They got the draftings in six weeks.

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If we're gonna do it this,we gotta do it ourselves. No doubt
a doubt that kid's got Do youneed a hand out? You don't need
nobody's health. We need to spark. This is all for you. Well,
it's for us, Okay, it'sfor us. It took like three

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notes and then just I really didn'ttake note. I have verbal film,
alright, Well, I took notes. I took enough notes for all of
us. Are all perfect? Iwrote Alan Covert. Believe he's Caleb.
You want to bring us in?I can. I'm gonna fuck it up.

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Welcome to Are we ready? Okay, it's already started. It's already
started. Hey, welcome back.We have just finished the movie Hustle.
I'm nailing this. Keep this stake. I'm gonna take it one more time.
Welcome back to Adam Sandler. Pleasestop. We just watching Adam Sandler

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film The Hustle. No, justHustle, just Hustle, because the Hustle
is a different film. Yeah,a lot of facts. No, please
stop telling us the whole movie.Caleb was telling us Hustle facts from any
film they had a Hustle on thetitle. I was spewing facts. We
just finished the film. How's everybodyfeeling about it? This is different than

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a vacation movie. But Ruth veryastutely kind of nailed it with saying that
this is like his dream. Hebasically got to like be an MBA guy
Adam Sandler. Well, first ofall, Ruth is my fiance and now
she just watches the movies with us. And then as soon as he's he's
ever gooding and she retreats into thebedroom. Yeah, you've talked her about

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her on the Oh. Yeah,Adam Sandler's done vacationing places. Yeah,
he wants to vacation. In reality, he is. This is basically Adam
Sandler's total recall. He goes intoHe's like, I need to go on
mind vacation, and this is hismind vacation. Is that? And at

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best he's a washed up scout.Yeah, you can't be a coach for
some reason, for no reason.Really, Yeah, this is his total
recall moment. The only difference isthat in total recall he was a spy
or was he? Or was he? No one knows, very invented reasons
why he can't be a coach.Yeah, ye, star studed, cast

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star studed. So many people.Also, more cameos than oh, actually
about a normal amount of cameos thatyou get in an Adam Sandler movie.
I was just gonna say it waslike we were watching grown ups, but
it was all basketball players, basketballplayers and Queen Lativa and Robert Duval in
there for three seconds. Yeah,and Ben Foster in the worst bald cap

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we've ever seen in film, mightbe the worst bald cap. Uh yeah,
I think ever seen in film.Ben Foster is better than this film.
I think he's graded himself by beingthis because Ben Foster, I think
is a phenomenal actor. Like Ithink he is an amazing actor. However,
by water he is freaking insane.I think he's a really good actor.

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Well that's what they were trying togo for. Maybe they were like,
you know what, We'll give himthe worst bald cap in the world
and see if he could act hisway out of this. Every time he
raises his eyebrows, it's it's incrediblydistract really bad. And in the middle
part of the movie that just puta hat on him to try to cover
it up. Do we know whyhe's bald? Is it because so I

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have no facts to back this up, Okay, but I'm thinking it might
have he might have been filming thatum, that drama where he's a boxer.
He's like a Holocaust survivor boxer.It's like AMAX. I think he
might have been filming that around thesame time as this, and and maybe

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that's why. But he's bald inthat film. I think he's a Jewish
holocauster, right, So why wouldhe just had better makeup on that film.
I don't know why they needed tomake him bald in this film,
but I felt like some of hislike accent from the other film was kind

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of like bleeding, Yeah, intothis. He's trying really hard to do
like a Philadelphia accent, like aPhiladelphia Jew. Yeah, to do your
best Philadelphia Jew. Okay, anymore, you did it. I'm not going

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to open myself up a cancelzation,not me. But I know, I
really think his some of his accentfrom that movie was kind bleeding into this,
and maybe he was just filming thison brakes on the side. He
isn't in it a ton technically.No, Well, he is the what
would you say, he's the mainvillain. Yeah, he's a quote unquote

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villain other than Anthony Edwards. Iwould say, yeah, the biggest villain
would probably be the end of asong because that means that they would have
to stop the montage and get backto the movie. Um, but yeah,
I'd say he's the villain. He'sa horrible villain. He is the
new owner of the team because hisdad just died and Robert Duval just died

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in his arms. I don't know, we never see it. Heaven's off
screen. Uh. And Adam Sandlerfinds out Es and then calls his cell
phone, which I thought was wasjust the rain, just to make sure
to make sure, hey, isthis fake news? Yeah, got the
voice got to be dead. Itwas going to do like take a hokey

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turn, and they were going tolike not give him the assistant coach job
because Robert Duval died dead. Theyinvented a reason, like a bad reason.
Almost would have preferred if he justdied and they didn't give him the
position. Yeah, They're like,we don't have this in writing because it
feels so contrived, and it feltlike it added twenty minutes the film.

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You didn't need. Just have himgo back to scouting, finding this guy
coming back and saying I got thisguy, and Ben Foster's like, no,
fuck you, and we lose thatwhole scene where he argues about like,
you're more valuable. I learned alesson, like ye deeming element to
Ben Foster. Ever again, no, so just make him the villain all
the way through. Why have thatmoment where you're like you're more that,

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like, you're more valuable as aas a scout than as like a coach,
like in kind of understanding where heis good And it just doesn't make
any sense literally anything could any otherchoice besides the choice than made. So
just to explain to don't see thismovie, So let me explain. Adam
Sandler's a scout, uh he buthe really wants to be an assistant coach.

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He finds out one night from theowner of the team that he's been
made an assistant coach. He findsout the next day or the same day,
that he died. Yeah, andhis son is taking over. Now
a scene was already put in thereearlier that going over Adam Sandler's scouting than
him and the Sun don't get alongtoo well. So all you really need

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is once the dad dies, theson just goes, yeah, I'm the
only other person who knew that,and I don't like you. But instead
we get this really weird scene wherehe says that he does enjoy his input
and says that he's very valuable toa scout. Yeah, and then even
though moments earlier he didn't. Butthis is after they drafted this hot shot

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player that Adam Sandler didn't want,but the Sun's owner did and then gave
up on that player with three monthsand it was and he was proven wrong
in front of the other guy.So like all the stuff in the beginning
is set up to help Adam Sandler, but it's just completely ignored. Yeah,
that's because one of my notes thatI wrote down is because when you
watch this movie, you see onlythe outline, like you know everything that's

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happening. You kind of like,Okay, this is the scene where this
happens, this is the scene wherethis happens. This is going to happen
to this, because the writing inbetween is so horrible. Yeah, and
sometimes they confuse you or they sendyou for a loop because even the outline
doesn't make any sense allah what we'rejust talking about right now, where it
doesn't it just doesn't flow. Yeah, the movie has such a hard time

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with its own self. Yeah.I mean, to that point, it
seems like it wasn't like a writtena well written script. It was just
like the outline, the beats werewritten, and then it seems like it
was kind of just like filled in. This is definitely a script that if
you run it through like a scriptdoctor. They would be like, cut

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this, just go to this.Like there's just so many moments like that
where you're like, you don't needthis. You can make an hour and
a half. You can make itby cutting this. This is this is
contrived, this is unnecessary, andyou just whittle it down like it seems
like there was no one who kindof went through and said, no,
we don't need that. Remove twoof the four montage montages. There was
a back to back montages at onepoint, and we were so close to

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a stop guard. I was losingmy money. You were going nuts because
we were in like five plus minutesof a montage. We had a montage
about how he was struggling, andthen the second part of that montage,
which we know was the second partbecause the music shifted from a rap inspirational
song to this swelling music of himgetting better. So we had literally a
back to back montage of the struggleof how he's going to get to the

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level he needs to get to andthen he's doing it. Yeah, and
a lot of times on this podcastwe exaggerate, but we are not exaggerating
what we say. Montage was backto back, basically to back because then
we saw like a basketball game.Yeah, these are not short montages.

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These are like five minute montage.Yes, this movie is not deep enough
to be two hours. No,it is so shallow. It is if
you've seen a sports movie, youknow this movie. Yeah, it does
nothing different, It doesn't add anything. There's really no emotion. The acting
is not good. The camera anglesare horrible, the shots that they do,

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there's too much cutting. It's justso much. The b plot with
Queen Latifa and the daughter is evencontrived and kind of dropped. Does it
have anything to do with anything.Some of the shots, to your point,
are fucking weird as shit. Thethe the pan zooms are weird,
the smash zooms are weird. Likeit's just so weird, Like you know

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why I wrote down. They knowthat they've seen these shots, so they're
they're literally just like copying shots thatthey've seen and they're throwing them in to
you. They don't know why theyshould be using those shots, and that's
a huge problem. We get thesethings to try to build things, and
it's just it's just shots that theythink look cool and have really nothing to

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do because it's a sports movie.And but even even when they're just talking
to each other, they editing.The cutting is so hard. Yeah,
I have so many notes. CanI get to these nutes? Yeah?
Yeah, you're the only one whowrote now cool, So I think we
can get well. And then I'msure you guys have the same notes.
Yeah. Problem number one, QueenLatifa is not a dove. That's a

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call back to Pinocchia. I reallywish Queen Lati. This is the second
Queen Latifa movie that we've done onthe blot. She's never done another Adam
Sandler. I feel like she's inthe universe already, but she's not.
Now welcome to the Madison universe.To be back, I wrote down in
the beginning Wendy's Burger King McDonald's lows. Getting pizza hut in Greece is a

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fucking crime. It's a crime.It's a crime. Because of you.
You can take two steps out ofyour hotel and get like an amazing kebab,
like the Peta kebab. Yeah,here's the thing. I totally agree
with you, only because I thoughtthat his character was just going to be
obsessed with fast food, Like Ithought that was a big part of his

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character. It would have been funnyif like, that's even when he goes
out and that's all he ever eats. But it was only just for the
beginning because it's never touched on itagain. His product placement, Hey,
that was that was half the budgetright there. That was soft placement,
Layton. It doesn't tell anything abouthis character. If it would have told
us something about his character, Ikind of would have thought it. And

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it was just like he eats foodand Queen Latifa gives him shit about it.
Yeah. It kind of not thatI'm trying to defend this film,
but it kind of like, youknow, he just he eats whatever you
can find, which is weird becausehe's in Europe, but like, yeah,

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food is so cheap and so deliciousin Europe, Like, are you
joking? I wrote down Ruth saidAdam Sandler looks old, and then Marie
said, I think he looks kindof hot. Yeah, explain, we've
seen him and it is it is, it's it's the best. I feel
like, if you're coming into it, you haven't seen Adam Sandler in a

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while, like over Murder Mystery.I think he looks better than Murder Mystery.
I think you don't I don't know. He looks a little scraggly in
this well yeah, I mean he'sgetting older. Yeah, but he looked
less scraggly. He looked like hewasn't a schlub who was bouncing around down
Europe as a scout. He's okay. I think when he's not trying to

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be the hottest, most amazing,most incredible witty guy, like and he
does in his comedies, he's actuallyhotter because he's just being normal, I
mean, just looking normal. Ithink he's rather good in this film.
I think in terms of acting,I think I think he's very good.

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I agree, because he's passionate aboutit. Yeah, he enjoys this project.
Yeah yeah, unfortunately, disagree.Well, I guess it's just really
hard because like everything he's saying islike platitudes, and like nothing he's saying
is original. I can't. Iguess his character is just so poorly written.

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I can't see who he is.There are moments where he's endearing and
charming, and those are the momentswhen he's being comedic, like when they
when they when the dude Cruz bringsthe bread and he's like, I don't
want that bread. Fuck I'll eatthe bread like. There are moments that
are funny, but then there aremoments when he's giving that raw row speech
to him about you know, passionand all that that really falls short because

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I don't know that he's that great. He's not that type of actor.
But when it comes to just beingnaturally charming, I do think there is
something there. I also wrote down, Oh remember how they found that knuckle
puck guy in D two Mighty Duckstoo, that's the exact same thing that

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happens in this movie. Yeah,Adam Sandler just runs into an outdoor basketball
game that has a crowd of athousand people. He gets frustrated and he's
like, is there somewhere I canshoot hoops? And we never see him
shoot hoops in the movie ever.Ever is he shooting hoops? It's crazy
because he absolutely killed Keenan Thompson andthat one on one game. And that

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was the other thing I wrote.I said, Oh, wow, this
guy eat some dickhead off the streetand it was like, wow, he
must be the best guy ever.Well, and it's so funny to hear
like NBA players talk about like streetball players are absolute fucking garbage. And
they could never play in the NBA. So it's so funny that an NBA
player or scout what you hope wouldbe like. This guy's incredible. He

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beat a guy who could dribble andhit it off a guy's face. Yeah,
and how he does that? It'sseven feet tall. I have no
idea. Uh okay, I actuallyhave a few clips from the movie that
I like to play, and Ithink that's the Bread one that you were
talking about. Let yeah, let'ssee here love Bread. I'm just kidding.

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That's Stand the man right there.He's a legend. What's your name
kid? Boo Cruise? Were youplay at bo Cruise? Nowhere? I
just woke construction. We'll not forlong as stand is calling me about you,
right, you see just me,amigo, Amigo, thank you so
much, Dark and say hi toyour grandmother for me. That's right.

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You're told me that my bad,solid joke, solid joke. Anytime there's
a throwaway kind of like that,I think they're really good. I also
and then okay, so here isthe one where he's on the planet.
I don't want to start a riotback here. It's it's cool. Thanks,
but no, I just I'm tryingnot to badly. It's really good.

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Just give me a fucking role,thank you. It's solid, Tie,
it's solid. He's charming. Yeah. Can we go back to something
about the dirt clip real quick?Yeah? What would you like to know
about? I just want to no, no, no, I just wanted
to say that with the Dirk DirkNevinski, he's the greatest power forward to
ever play the game and one ofthe few players to win a championship without

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another All Star. In his prime, he shot ninety fifty forty from the
field. Rare, rare thing,and he did it seven foot Now all
seven footers are doing I just wantto say this real quick. The greatest
players to ever play the game revolutionizethe game. Caleb George, big basketball
fan, big Dallas Mavericks fan,Huge Dirk is my favorite player of all

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time, and I'm gonna use thisas a pulpit to speak his praise of
the defined this generation of three pointshooting from seven footers. There was nobody
who did it before him, nobody. Well, and this is coming from
a huge fan of people that we'reseeing on screen, Caleb George still didn't

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enjoy this movie. I did notknow except when Dirk, Boby and Luca
were on the screen. I wasjust like, you're giving me the facts,
and I'm like cool. So ifCaleb, who really likes the sport,
hated it, Marie did not enjoythis at all, did you enjoy
it? I thought it was waytoo long, way too long. I

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do feel like it's one of thebetter Sandler films we've seen. Sally don't
disagree about that. It's not acomplete I mean, what the best part
of about the whole thing was AdamSandler's daughter having an eagle eye and on
a man who is covered in tattoos. She's like, what's that tattoo about?

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And points at his underarm and it'sa tiny little like tiny, tiny
little peep, tiny little peep tattoo. And he knows exactly what she was
talking about. Pep, we mean, like the peep that you eat like
peeps. Yeah, like a littlechick, a little yellow chick an easter
treat. Yeah, Hey, what'sup with that tattoo? And he knows
exactly. Oh, that one,that tiny one underneath my arm. It's

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like they found a tiny little spaceon what's the what's the real guy's name
Herman Hermann. Okay, Wancho.They found the tiniest place on Wancho where
there wasn't a tattoo. They're like, oh, can we put a little
tempt out of a little chick?And and everything else is in black and

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white. It's all gray scale,essentially yellow chick and its yellow chick.
It's completely different like style than anyof his other tattoos. It literally looks
like somebody on set just kind ofthe child it was intended for drew a
million percent. What's up with thatlion on your chest? But they have
I'm talking about that peep right,Yeah, he has two huge lion heads

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on his titties. And then thelike design goes up and around his back
and all over one side, andthe tiniest little space where there wasn't tattoo
they put a little what's going onwith that little peeper? But the whole
family has it. Even Sandler hasthe Sherlock Holmes thing where he's like,

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I noticed your fingers are moving.You must be nervous. They show a
shot of his hand for half asecond and then I'm sorry, I see
her being very nervous right now,just because he was moving his hands.
I wrote down, Queen Latifa doesa lot of head acting. So we
didn't believe the relationship between Adams.I didn't. I didn't. I didn't

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buy it. Chemistry there. Ifelt like the friendship chemistry. Yeah,
he didn't feel like the romantic chemistry. I gotta say, Queen Landiva looks
great. Oh yeah, oh yeah, because she's in our fifties now,
right, Yeah, she looks great. She let me look up facts.

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God damn it. I also wrotedown drone basketball. Do you guys remember
do you remember in the middle ofthat one on one there's a drone flying
around everybody and they're all cool withthat. Yeah. Well, wait,
before we get to the drone,we have to get to why the drone
was needed. Okay, why Bowneeded to go viral. And he had

(31:48):
to go viral because he assaulted thelike stepdad of his daughter in Spain where
he is from. Yeah, andthe NBA found out about it and they're
like no, and they were like, no, we can't have somebody who's
assaulted somebody one and again we're theNBA. Yes, yes, Is that

(32:14):
the same sport where those guys cameout and punch people in the crowd.
Yes. Yeah, it was socontrived of just being like, oh,
he has this simple assault charge inanother country, doesn't condone. Yeah,
and the NBA is not going todraft him. No, if he's good
enough, they're going to draft him. So they need to create social media

(32:36):
buzz, which was so obnoxious.I'm so sick of montages and movies where
it's just overlays of social media andlive chats a fucking cry. I hate
It's easy. There's nothing to earnthere. You immediately go back to fame
like Lowis Lowe just immediately skyrockets.Just it's the easiest way to do it,
and all you need to do isshow this overlay of a bunch of

(32:59):
hearts going up on the side ofthe screen. Also just completely negates like
how the internet works, Like youcan't predict how anything goes viral. There's
no rules or like rhyme or reasonto how like how and why things go
viral. They just kind of do. Yeah. But also his movies are

(33:22):
like it's going viral. He didn'teven do anything that would He was playing
basketball, he didn't hustle. Also, there's no hustling in this. There's
one part of hustling. Two partsof hustling in this movie, and then
it's completely forgotten about. I thoughtit was going to be. Caleb and
I both talked during the movie abouthow we thought the hustle was going to
be a bigger part of it becauseit was a gambling aspect. So we

(33:45):
thought, like, well, didn'tthe people have to pay fifty bucks to
like try to get to like geta basket on bow and then if they
hit the rim, they got them. They did have a hustle, So
that's that's in the viral video stuff. The hustle had nothing to do with

(34:07):
the movie. Like you literally couldhave called it anything else and the hustle
had nothing to do with it.Queen Latifa fifty two years old. Wow,
she looks great. Looks great.Do you know? What I also
read is that three six Mafia dida bunch of the music for this won
an Oscar for it. Actually,what I'm sorry, Caleb got me on

(34:31):
that one. God damn it.Don't trust anything, Caleb says, these
are straight facts. Trust them all, but they don't. They're not associated
with this movie at all. Iwrote a long movie with five ohs.
It was long, almost an hourand a half too long. It should
have been a short film. Itshould have been a thirty minute making there

(34:52):
what The performances weren't enough to keepit going. The story wasn't detailed enough
to keep it going. The shotsan interesting of basketball I really don't understand.
I mean, there's if you're anNBA fan, yeah and you're watching
this, there's so many cameos abasketball players, insane amount of game.
So if you really just like tosee these people in a film, that

(35:15):
would be pretty interesting. And incameos that I know as a basketball fan,
I'm watching it going, Oh,it's Brad Stevens, it's Mark Jackson,
like I'm seeing it. I don'tthink either one of you were picking
up on most of the cameos.I didn't be wrong. I didn't see
Michael Jordan, Scottie Pipman, Tonyco coach Dennis Rodman. I didn't see
any of the players that the playersI know, Caleb, the players I

(35:39):
know. I didn't see anybody fromSpace Jam six Bulls. I did see
Shack and I did see Charles Barkley. I didn't see a single Airbud not
A didn't see it. I didn'tsee a dog, but he wasn't wearing
sneakers, so it was an airbubut his snout was fun. Dan Patrick

(36:05):
showed up. This is the firsttime he showed up where it was like
appropriate. Also Shack showed up,you know, another shock Adam saying their
film. Uh, this is anotherAdam saying their vanity projects. He wants
to be in the NBA. Itjust oh the movie at the end of

(36:27):
it just all happens to come together. There's literally like made up problem,
made up problem, made up problem, made up problem until the very end
where they're just like, okay,none of that stuff before even mattered.
It's it just this one random game. Yeah, a secret game. Yeah,
the top secret game is how ishow bo makes it into the NBA.

(36:50):
Yeah, that's all the notes Ihave, honestly, just this.
I'm gonna say, this is whatI thought it would be, which is
like, it's not a horrible movie. No, it's a dad In my
opinion, it's a tad better thanlike an okay movie, right, Like,
yeah, moments where I laughed,I kind of enjoyed it, but

(37:13):
overall it's like I am I gladI watched it. I don't give a
shit. It's like, do youlove sports movies? Is the flavor you
want to watch basketball? I guesswatch this. Yeah. I am excited
for Boban Marianovitch to build his uhis acting career because he is no no

(37:38):
John Wick and the commercials. Yeahwith toe with Tobias Harris, who's also
in this film. Oh god,Toby and Bobie babies. Uh, anything
else you guys want to say aboutthis movie. I can come up with
some facts. Oh, no,stuff, No, yeah, that's it.

(38:00):
It's it's honestly again, Adam ishaving fun. He's loving it.
Yeah, he's really trying. Sofor that, it's like it's kind of
fun for I guess me. Iknow you guys didn't really like it,
but it's fun for me to seehim happy and trying enjoying. I don't

(38:23):
disc Yeah, I don't disagree.I think I Actually there was a moment
when he was in the scene withwith Herman Gomez and Queen Latifa and their
daughter and they were having dinner andthere she's telling a story the first time
they met, and he's reacting offof Queen Latifa, and I'm watching him
being like, this is really he'sreally doing a great job reading this natural

(38:46):
scene. And I think he's aI think he cares about this project.
Yeah, and it was impressive consideringthat was an awful meat cute like,
yeah, the story of how astory, but Adam Sandler was given us
all yeah, but like we broughtup murder mystery, and I think about
his acting in that, and it'slike he's just he doesn't even want to

(39:07):
be there. He's just showing upto set and being like, Okay,
yeah, another fucking scene with myfriend. Why they're making a second it's
wild. So it's it's nice tosee him like wanting, like wanting this
and wanting to be there. Ijust wish that they did the stuff at

(39:29):
the beginning that you're supposed to do, like write an interesting script with interesting
characters and interesting plot points and interestingthings that happened besides montages. Yes,
I agree, Uh, Mury,do you know where this is going to
go in your rankings? Yeah?Do you want to pull up your rankings?
Yeah? Let me give him agander. You pull up yours.

(39:51):
I have mine up here and I'mlooking and U make me a while to
find that I could. Where's thisgoing to sit for you. I'm interested
for you, you Bacon now lookingat it because I can visualize it.
I'm interested to see your list injust second. But visualizing your list,
I'm like where you get through it. Yeah, I'm gonna say I liked
it more than Pixels Okay, butI don't know if I liked it as

(40:14):
much as Hotel Transylvania three. Thatstatement with the utmost sincerity. I do,
and it is a ridiculous I do. I do, And so it's
it's worse than ridiculous six. Isthat what you're telling you? Now?

(40:35):
I have ridiculous six up pretty high, and yeah, you do at eighteen,
And uh, it's because it's it'sshit and it's such you have it.
So we have shakes the clown aboveridiculous six. Yeah, shakes and
meet the Are you fucking out ofyour goddamn mind? Look, it made
a lot more sense when you watchthem all in a row. And now

(40:57):
that we've had to wait like ayear between movies. My yeah, no,
you know what I enjoyed, shakesthe clown more. Yeah, but
that's number sixteen. Shakes the clown. You know what I'd say, because
I enjoyed ridiculous six because it wasso bad that it was enjoyable. Yeah,
it was like amazing. And HotelTransylvania three is just a lot of
movement and color, but it wasdone so well. Yeah, so you

(41:21):
know what, I'm gonna put thisone at number twenty. Your critique of
Pixels is that there's a lot ofmovement. No, no, no,
that's Hotel Transylvania three. There's alot of movement in color. Yes,
so I'm gonna put this in frontof Pixels, but behind Hotel Chransylvania three.
So my top five and bottom fivestill say stay the same, Caleb.

(41:43):
Can you read my top five goingfrom five to one? Can you
read that? Um? Yeah,zbtc oh, I thought it was an
exam. Billy Madison is your fifth, Wedding Singers your fourth, The Myerwitz
Stories is your third. Punch DrunkGlove is number two, and Uncut Gems
is number one. Yeah, HappyGilmore at six, just outside the top

(42:06):
five. And my bottom five.Oh, I mean this is just a
power bottom five right here. Thisis good. Oh so this is thirty
eight to forty two, Well,it's going to be actually a thirty nine
to forty three after I added thisone, and so Caleb, can you
read the Yeah, your thirty ninthis grown Ups to your fortieth is grown

(42:27):
Ups. Jack and Jill's forty one, the dw Overs forty two, and
that's My Boys forty three. Yeah, and once again grown Ups two better
than grown Ups one, just barely. It always made me Jack and Jill
up. Yeah, And so thisone kind of sits in the middle for
me. I mean, it's unoffensive. If you like basketball, if you're

(42:52):
really into this world, maybe you'llget something out of this. But the
story has been done a billion times. It's really tired. There's really nothing
about this movie that's memorable. Nocharacter sticks out, none of the acting
is any good. It's shot likepoo poo. There's too many montages.
But Adam Sandler's having fun. Sothat's enough to get it into the top

(43:13):
twenty. Marie, do you knowwhere this one's gonna sit for you?
It is better than click okay,but worse than just it's taking the twenty
eight, twenty eighth slot. Wow. Okay. So to go over Marie's

(43:34):
top five, she has the MerriwitzStories at five, Happy Gilmore at four,
Billy Madison at three, Uncut Gemsat two and the Wedding Singer at
one. Your bottom five stay thesame. It's eight Crazy Nights, Jack
and Jill, Grown Ups two,The Do Over, and That's My Boy.

(43:57):
Our bottom two are still about thesame, Caleb, knowing what you
know, where would you say?What would you say? A top middle?
You don't have to say a numbermiddle for sure? Yeah, I
mean yeah, yeah, I meanit's not a terrible movie. If I
had to watch it again, i'dhave I'd watch it again, versus like
the bottom five that you all havesaid, I would never fucking ever watch
again. It wasn't horrendous and wasI bored at times? Yes? Extremely

(44:23):
Yeah, But was it the worstthing I've ever seen? No? No,
definitely not. How about next timethat we record. We keep forgetting
to check our emails and our voicemails, and I know we have a bunch
of stuff. So if you checkour show notes for emails and voicemail stuff,
if you have something you'd like tosay, well listen to it next
time around. Because we're recording thisthe day it came out and it's almost

(44:46):
midnight. I will say that AdamSandler has another film that is in.
We has two films in post productionright now, and one of us is
be kind kind of good. Yeah, well, let's talk about the one
that's not going to be good.Murder Mystery two is coming up. Oh
yeah, maybe this year. Ithink Murder Mystery too. Let me deuvil

(45:10):
check to see maybe end of summer. All I see is that it's not
coming in May of this year.So that's good. That's all I know.
So we don't have a release dateon that one yet. But he
has another one called space Man,yes, where it's about an orphan boy
who was raised in a check countrysideby his grandparents overcomes his odds to become

(45:34):
the country's first astronaut. What thislooks? Legit? Good? Who's the
director on this? It's like alegit director. Joe and Roenickick Renick,
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't know that. Done some
episodes of Breaking Bad, done,some episodes of The Walking Dead, Chernobyl

(45:57):
Heavy, These are amazing. That'swhy I'm I think this might be legitly
like okay, good, okay,space Man, I'm very interested in.
Does this one have a release dateyet? It's expected in twenty twenty two.
That's all it says there's no releasedate yet. Very more Adam Sandler
films. Yeah, we gotta.We might have two Adam More Adam Sandler

(46:19):
films this year. And we stillhave yet to watch the Pantavert, which
I've watched. We've now watched threeepisodes, okay, and Jimmy was like,
I don't want to watch this.Okay, you know what, maybe
we could do it. Yeah,we could do it. Now I have
to watch them by myself. Iwas like, I can't watch this.

(46:42):
Watch the trailer the other night andwas like, absolutely not. Yeah,
maybe that's a we could do thatone remote And it just seems in that
movie, seems in that show seemsinsane to me. Yeah, I'll just
quickly say, they just let mydo whatever the hell he wanted and put

(47:04):
a lot of money behind it.And as we know, he's better when
he's had some sort of control aroundhim because when he things get crazy.
Yeah. Also, I watched theNorm McDonald last stand up special aka him
recording himself and with his computer.I don't think we need to do an
episode on that one. I thinkif you like Norm McDonald, it's a

(47:25):
great last little extra bit that wethat you wouldn't have been able to see.
It was very interesting. I enjoyedwatching it. The talking at the
end by the celebrities really didn't addanything to it. But check it out.
It's on Netflix. If you haven't, I think it's worth your time.
If you're a big norm fan.Some stuff's really funny. Some stuff

(47:46):
doesn't hit at all. But he'sjust sitting in his room by himself.
Yeah, he's just trying it out. So what do you guys say,
Adam Sandler please stop on this one, or what would we say until next
time? I'd say, Adam saybetter scripts, Adam Sandler take some time
writing though, Yeah, and I'msaying let's try again. Let's do all

(48:08):
of those at the saies. Okay, ready, on Adam Sandler. You
play a basketball scout and your jobis basically to convince the team that you
found the next big thing. Giveus your best sales pitch to see the

(48:30):
movie. How would you get usinto the theater? It's very The guy
who plays the basketball players there real. His name's Wacho Hernan Gomez. He's
on the Utah Jazz. He's fromSpain. He's one of the sweetest,
most charismatic guys never acted a dayin his life, and in the movie
he's just incredibly just so smooth,so relaxed, and just a good guy.

(48:53):
So I would come to see himin that. I don't know if
he's ever acted before. It wascrazy he we were putting it together the
movie. We needed a guy whowas an incredible ballplayer, and Juancho just
auditioned during the pandemic. He said, I didn't even didn't even want to
who. My sister just said,come on, read that thing and read
it and we saw his type andhe was so cool and natural, and

(49:15):
that's how that happened.

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