Hello, and welcome back to episode 4 of the 3 hamster boys podcast. We have been going through I well, we've been calling the hero's journey essentially of basically our top threes. We were talking about our top 3 protagonists, top 3 villains. Last week we talked about our top 3 mentors, and I think we had a really good conversation about it where we really had different characters and different kind of, embodiments of what a mentor was, and, I really enjoyed that. So kind of going in that sort of vein, but into a broader sense, today we're talking about comfort picks for movies specifically.
So what movies do we can we always kind of sit down and watch? And I think we'll talk about in a second of what we determine as a comfort pick. Each time I feel like we have a different definition of like a hero, a villain, a mentor, and I think comfort will also have a
Yeah. And also the caveat that, okay, I'm their dad, so they grew up watching movies that I I watch and then they're pretty close to the same age. So they kinda grew up. So there's a lot of crossover, I think, with how we we watch things and what we do. So there's a possibility that we're gonna get some duplication of stuff or at least close to duplication.
Yeah. We we try not to have the same things, and we each kind of go off and do our list. I think this week in particular, we were really trying not to step on each other's toes because we knew that a lot of our comfort movies would be similar and are similar, if not the same movies. So there's a little bit of variety, and because of that, we also have an honorable mentions that we'll talk about today as well. Just because I feel like we we all have, like, movies that we're like, ah, well, yeah.
We we all watch this as a family.
Also, like, 3 didn't feel, like, enough for some of them. And I I will say, the definition of comfort pick, I think, will change based on, like, our justification for each movie.
That's true.
Right? Like, it won't all be, like, oh, these are all the same feeling of comfort. You know, it'll be like,
this is a comfort for, like, this
is why it's comfortable for me, and stuff. But before we begin Yeah.
Let's get a little comfortable. Nick, what are we drinking?
Alcohol. We are back to, a more beer episode. It's not cocktails. There wasn't a like central, liquor or spirit that we're doing it off of. We're we're back to a brewery. And this one is from Decipher, which is a local, brewery that we went to.
Yeah. We we had never gone to this brewery per se. We saw it. The beers and stouts and ales looked really, really interesting. Just kinda like with random row where we saw the sours is very interesting.
Although we had been there before, this this brewery just looked very different. And when we went there, we were kinda caught by surprise because it's like real right in the middle of this very, Industrial. It's part industrial part, a residential because there's always houses around it too. So it was it was we did not know was there. We we knew something else was there.
Yeah.
We didn't realize that the the brewery was there. So, so we're really we are this is one of the few ones where we're gonna say, we've never tasted this before.
Yeah. I we're all starting from like 0. Similar to last episode where I was like, I made the cocktails and we're drinking them for the first time. None of us have really tried and we we chose, like, 3 odd or unique flavors for this. I think this is the smoked Hellas.
Yep.
I believe. I'm very excited. It smells crazy. So It's
got yeah. So I know you can't smell this, but it's got this very, very woody smell to
it. Yeah.
Which is more closer to a whiskey or a bourbon or something like that. So
Well, I think without further ado, let's take a drink.
Alright. Here's to the burps.
No. No. Vito denied.
Oh, very much a whiskey no, a scotch. This is the peatiness of a scotch.
It's so upfront when you taste it.
Do you it kind of tastes like smoked bacon or
anything. A little bit. You definitely have like that essence of like like when you're breathing it. Mhmm.
So it's like remarkably smoky like I can definitely
So when you drink Scotch, there's this concept of peatiness. Like, you're you're you're tasting the ash, and this has that essence in it. So it's almost I I think the beer flavor is very subdued. Yeah. You you get the smoke, you get a little bit of back end beer, and then you get the the carbonation.
The Hellos itself is like very clean. Yeah. It's very clean. There's no like aftertaste. There's no like, other like really strong like, like grain flavors. It's just like a very clean beer with this like very heavy smoke
over time.
And I agree with you. As it clears out, you get the sweetness of like a a smoked bacon, that kind of keeps lingering on the top of your head. When was the last
time you had that?
Yeah. As a vegetarian, it's been 40 years. So I I am going on what I smell.
I'm really just guessing. Come, come, come.
Well, I mean, as growing up as a child, I had bacon, but I have not had bacon in 40 years. Yeah.
It's a long time. Yeah. Alright. I think this is interesting. A
really fun start.
Yeah. I'm not I'm not sure how how much I would like.
I don't know.
I guess I would sit down and drink this, but I don't think this would be like a on the rotation kind of thing. Like I think this is a fun once in a while.
Yeah. So this is more my style because I like whiskeys, I like scotches. This is really up my alley. This this would be something that if I was instead of having a a Scotch, which is a little bit heavier, getting this as something light and refreshing instead of a Scotch.
It also might be like a good, like, winter cool beer.
You know, convincing me.
Yeah. Yeah.
Well, like I said, it it it it I think it is not for everyone.
Yeah. Yeah.
Alright. Well, hopefully something that is for everyone. Yeah. We'll we'll go with data. I think I'd like you to kick us off here. What are comfort movies in in your mind and and what is your kind of like number 3 or the first comfort movie that you wanna talk about here?
Yeah. So I took this at a I took the what I call the Netflix approach to this. Okay. And this is gonna be very strange. So I basically said, what are the 3 genres that I will always stop for in Netflix to watch? Okay. Alright. And if you go to to Netflix and you look under my name, you'll see well, because everyone else looks under my name.
Right. Yeah.
I know. You'll see some chaos in there, but there are basically 3 types of movies that you'll see. Discounting documentaries, you'll see military, you'll see kind of comedies, and then you'll see action adventure. So I thought and if you look at that list you'll see the most frequent ones I do and then the least frequent ones. So least frequent is really the comedies.
It's really hard for me to look at a comedy and go, I wanna watch it or I don't wanna watch it. Usually, I fall into them because I say, oh, looks curious. I I do like British comedy, so, you know, Fawlty Towers and Holy Grail are things I like, but but when I looked at what is a movie I would sit down and and watch if it was on, 2 movies came to my mind initially, but they're never played anywhere. Strange Brew and Better Off Dead are 2 movies that if I saw them I would sit down and watch them, but nobody ever plays them. So I discounted those.
Those would probably be my top 2 if anyone ever played them.
So I I feel like you are very outdated like, oh, I'm waiting for it to be played on the the TV. But I think a lot of them are not on, like, your typical streaming services kinda way.
Actually, on no streaming services, you have to pay for them. You have to rent them. There are no free streaming services with these 2.
Well, none
of the streaming services are free.
I know.
But, you you know, they eventually, they'll hit Netflix or Prime. Mhmm. Right? Yeah. But these happen. Yeah. So that that's what YouTube exists. YouTube doesn't only has to rent it. You have to rent it. Yeah. You do. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, so what I said was I was thinking about movies that were free that just they play all the time.
So my my choice so there's another one. So there are some older movies that really fell in this category too. One is it's a mad, mad, mad, mad world. And this is my nephew's favorite movie. He he could watch it all the time. This is a movie from the early sixties, don't know why he likes it but he loves this movie, so he's gonna be mad at me that I didn't pick it.
It's a really fun movie.
It is a fun movie. It has a lot of stars in it playing offbeat roles, and so that's why the movie I'm gonna say is my always comfort movie from a comedy standpoint is Airplane. No matter where in the movie it is, I can sit down and watch that movie. And it's just one of those ones where you see a lot of characters that are older characters from very different like, missus Cleaver, June Cleaver's in this movie. Leslie Nielsen is in it, and he ended up that ended up launching his comic career.
So I think Airplane was just such a revolutionary film as as just a good fun time to watch. And a lot of very serious actors from the fifties sixties were playing these very comedic roles, which made it even fun to watch. So that's that's my comfort movie for that genre. Yeah. Very complicated. Sorry.
I was like, we we hit like 4 or 5 movies in in the explanation here, but no. That's fair. Yeah. I I think I don't see you watching a lot of comedies, but I I can definitely see where you're coming from with that being like that that big comfort pick, for you. Yeah.
Would you like to go? Sure. I'll I'll go next. I think when I think of comfort movies, I think of movies that I can sit down and, like, watch and, like, just chill or do anything else. It's a movie that I can, like, have playing on in the background, and I just kind of like especially on a day like today, it's been very rainy.
I'll put on a movie, get some tea, maybe play a game like Stardew Valley or like potion permit. Just kinda chill. And so for me kind of in that in that genre is, like, kind of movies that I know are not, like, great or they're a little dumb, and I love them anyways. And And I think the Lego movies in in all of their their glory fit into that. Yeah.
They're kinda dumb, but they're silly. And like I love the jokes. Specifically, like I love the Lego movie. But I think in this case, the Lego Ninjago movie is gonna fit into that because I don't know. I didn't really watch the show. I don't really know a lot about the Ninjago lore, but it's just a silly, dumb movie that I can put on in the background, and just just like listen to, laugh at the very, like, dumb bad jokes. And and it's great. And
You're green.
Yeah. Exactly. Green. And I I think that the the that's the the fun movie that I I don't need to be like having my full attention to. It's it's not a thinker, and that's what I really like about it where I can just kinda have it playing in the background, and it just kinda very chill.
I think when we were trying to, like, not step on our any of our toes or, like, we're, like, making sure, like, oh, you know, like, hey, what are you doing? Like, am I gonna are we gonna say the same thing?
It's, like, that none of the
Lego movies came to my mind, you know?
Like I was No way. That's not true. But the Lego games did come to you. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
We'll talk about them in the future.
I'm sure.
But like, I think I
think that's like one of the things. But when I think about it I'm like, yeah. It's just a fun those are just fun movies.
Yeah.
And I I think that like that adds to the comfort a lot of the times. Because like, yeah you're like, oh you know doing whatever, you know, if you're working or writing something or just like hanging out you're like, oh I can make snacks while the movie's still going or like I can you know get up and whatever. Yeah. I
can walk away
and drink a cup of water and come back.
Yeah. It's like you're not you're not like you don't feel as invested because like you just enjoy it for what it is. And I think like there's no there's no like depth or nuance usually. And if there is, like, you've usually, like, figured it out. You're like, I know the gimmick for this movie Yeah.
And you're, like, totally bought in. So you don't need to be, like, what what what are they doing in this specific scene or, like, how intrinsic is it getting, you know. And I think I think that's for for, like, all these comfort movies and and I think I relate to it heavily.
Alright, Nick. What do we got here?
So my my first comfort movie is is one that, like, I've just only recently gotten really familiar with, and I I absolutely adore it. I've seen it twice, but they were on the same trip. I watched it to the place you're going on a plane and then back after that trip.
And that is bullet train.
And that is such a fun movie. I think all the characters are so exciting.
The wait wait. The the 2022 Netflix movie?
With Brad Pitt.
With Brad Pitt. Okay. Yeah.
Yeah. And the twins. And the 2 brothers.
Tangerine and lemon. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Like the fruit. Yeah.
But like stuff like that it's so it's so character heavy,
you know, like this the story is nothing.
It's it's all like heavy on like character, like, motives. Like
if you're like okay what's the story? It's like
they are characters that, you know, get
on a bullet train and they're all going after this one thing.
Yep. And that's kind of it, like, there's like and everything else is like character heavy
and like everyone else it's like everyone's like going on their own like motives and purposes and it's just like
And it's also hyperbolic action, you know. You you would never these are situations that would never occur and the the mistakes that occur and whatever. It's a lot like the Pink Panther where you just
Yeah. It's like a lot
of, like, like, oh, good good how did we how are we doing this? Yeah. What yeah. What I was gonna say is is it's almost like a detective movie too in the fact that these characters are, like, interacting with each other, but they don't know that, like, that's the person that they should be of like fighting right now in this moment.
It is like a weird, like, who done it Yeah. Like, feel because you're like enclosed space, but like
the who done it is like, are we friends? Yeah. Or like Yeah.
Or like should I be actively trying to kill you?
Yeah. Yeah.
And no, I I think it's so fun. I think you can just turn your brain off and the way that all the characters interact I think is just so fun. And and yeah, I enjoy
the heck out of it.
It was funny because like we were just looking at this movie and your mother and I were like, what's what is this movie? And we just sat down and watched it. At the end of it we're like, well that was just
a fun movie to watch.
I think we all watched it separately. Yeah. I went over to a friend's house and we watched that at her place. You watched it on the airplane Yeah. And you guys just like naturally found it and watched
it. It made my action adventure for some reason list and so we just watched it. It makes sense.
Action adventure. Alright. Cool. Well, that's, one down. Many more to go.
Many more.
Not many more, but
Honorable mentions?
Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah.
We'll be right back. Alright. We'll be right back after this break. Back. Back. Alright. Drink number 2. Nick, what do we have here?
We are continuing with the weird and the odd. We have a Creamsicle. A creamsicle beer. Those words just
don't feel like they get
But it's it's actually a creamsicle kolsch ale. Ale. Which doesn't doesn't look like an ale at all.
I'm letting you know, it smells weird. Yeah. It's like a creamsicle, but then you
Have the maltiness of the beer.
You add the just very beer smell to it.
I'm like kinda nervous to drink this actually.
Alright. Cheers. Good
luck. Cheers. Good luck.
We aren't that picky but
It's it's very it's got a very citrusy smell. How long do they got?
Oh. Oh. Oh.
Okay. Wait. I actually like it more than it. I I like I like the taste of it better than the smell of it.
I'm gonna be honest. I can't the more I smell Yeah. It kinda smells like bile.
Oh. Oh, my gosh.
It does have a it has that kind of acidic kind of smell.
Super acidic with like the weird stuff in it.
I was about to say do you have a a creamsicle drunk story though? No.
I really don't want one.
It's it's, it's very strange that creamsicle taste is the first flat taste you feel.
Yes. Not so weird.
And then you get the beer, barley, malty taste afterwards. I Not not not not your favorite?
I'm not my I can't imagine me drinking this basically after this now. Yeah. No. You know what?
I I was hopeful that it would be something like, a Radler where it's like the the rice beer and the lemon, but I don't think it has that at all in it.
It it kind of I feel it in the the back top of my mouth Yep. And like the back of my tongue, and then I feel like the ale in the tip of my tongue, and it just stays there. It's not getting off my
tongue at
all. Yeah.
This doesn't feel as clean as the
first one. No. No. It's definitely not as clean.
Yeah. I take it back. I definitely drink the other one more.
It it likes to linger. Yeah. But it's an odd one, you know. I I think I was like super curious to at least try it.
Yeah. I mean, I think that that's why we picked this brewery is because we saw some really curious ones that we wanted to try.
Yeah. Something we didn't mention is when dad and I walked in here to get this alcohol, they just had a glizzy stand right in the front.
Like, you could you could just pick
up hot dogs from, like, the, like, the little heater oven thing that they had there. You know, like, the stuff you see at 711?
They're like the the spinning? Yeah.
Yeah. They spin it. And had the bun, they were like buttons underneath in the But
it's a drawer. Yeah. It's great.
So we were like, they were having a some sort of dart competition there. And, so we're like, there was no cost. There was no one watching. It was right there by the door. Yeah.
She just grabbed the glitzy. You showed up.
Yeah. It was it was it was it was different, but it looked like a fun place to go to.
I agree.
Really good outside area too for Yeah.
They had a lot of, like, a lot of outdoor space, which is nice, especially now that it's not summer and super hot. We can actually go outside and and sit out and enjoy until it gets too cold, then mom can't enjoy it. Yeah. Yeah. Basically, the humidity is sunny. Yeah.
We're trying to drop down. It's really rainy today, so not yet. But No. It's getting there.
Alright, Nick. Rainy Days. What's movie number 2 for your comfort movie pick? And maybe it's not like a rainy day movie.
This one is is one of them that I thought I thought our dad would immediately pick. Because he he talked when he showed it to me, he talked about it with such affection and, like, memories
with it. And like I you
know, him walking me through all the stuff about it. I was like, oh, this is such a fun movie. And that is Blues Brothers. That movie is just so fun. It's so like after knowing all the lore and like all of like the actors and and musicians that are in it, and like it's such a like a fun movie. It's like so bright and like, it's like such a positive movie. I feel I feel about Blues Brothers. It's like it's very hopeful, especially because like the main characters aren't good people.
No. They're like check out a jail at the start and you know, but they're like, hey, we gotta we gotta get money for the church.
Can I get it for the penguin? Yeah, exactly.
And then like just it's so there there's a joy about like building a band, you know? Like you're like, we're getting the band back together. Like that sort of niche and like seeing that in a movie, I think is so fun. A lot of times it's like, yo, it's it's the Blues Brothers. They're back, back, you know, and like we we're we're doing 1 night only giant show, you know, like we're we're making it we're making all the money while the most absurd things happen like a rocket launcher blowing up their apartment building and them just climbing out of the rubble and being like, alright, time to move on.
You know?
Yeah. But that was the ex girlfriend Princess Leia.
Yeah. Exactly. Carrie Fisher, you know. It's it's so funny to see all these actors doing these like weird things.
And not only that, but I I spent my like middle school years in Chicago. So a lot of these places I knew Yeah. From just going to the the town of Chicago. So that was what made it even better. You know, just you know, because like the Nazi scene in there, every year in Skokie, the Nazis would get there and it was always just chaos thing and they they really turned it around into something totally, you know, totally crazy, you know, cause it wasn't a good it's not a good situation that was going on in Skokie, but they kind of made it they made fun of it really well.
I am really surprised that when we talked about it, Blues Brothers did not make your list.
So that's probably not one that I I think about watching all the time and it's I don't know why now if my brother would have been here. Yeah. I think Steve would have watched it.
Yeah.
Steve would have done Blues Brothers because I know he really likes that movie. It's just not one of those ones that, I I love the movie, but it's not just one not one of
those things that, you know. We we gotta get one of your brothers to to come up here and and
What an interesting perspective. Yeah.
Yeah. We should do a show with me and my 2 brothers.
Yeah. That was crazy.
We're just off to the side. Yeah. Yeah. We're just drinking the rest. Yeah.
Yeah. I think I think I'll go next. Do it. This for me is kind of when I think about comfort movies, again, very similar to Lego movie. I think of, like, movies that I'm able to sit in and, like, get some tea, curl up, get a blanket, watch. And, Sue Ghibli, of course, is I think the master of that. They capture that environment. Yeah. Yeah. They they capture it so well.
And even if there's, like, fights or whatever the the artwork, the scenery, everything is just so beautiful that I can just still watch it and enjoy it without feeling, like, too anxious or kind of all over the place. I think for this one, obviously, there's so many great movies, and we've been we've been slowly showing them to the parents. I I think right now, the parents have seen spirited awake. It's a classic and Howl's Moving Castle. Yep.
I I think for this one, I'm gonna say princess Mononoke is my comfort pick. I was
gonna say we haven't seen Mononoke.
We haven't. No. It's also my favorite to Ghibli movies. So at some point, we're definitely gonna watch it. But it's I think in the same way, it's not necessarily one of those movies that you can, like, turn your brain off, like the Lego movies, because I think it's, like, so important to just, like, watch and kind of absorb the the narrative storytelling that's happening through this show.
But I think that the storytelling is not fast. It's slow and deliberate when they do the story, and you're watching things evolve and go and whatever.
You'd be surprised.
Mononoke is a lot chain like a different tempo than like Spirit of Hawaii. Than Spirit of Hawaii. Or else. It's like it starts off with, like, an immediate threat.
Oh, really? So it's very different.
It's very different. And in this one, a lot of times, like, Spirit of Away and even Howl's Moving Castle to a point, there's not really, like, a, like, big antagonist. It's kind of like, I need to get my parents. I need to get back to my parents, but there's not a big antagonist. In, like, Princess Mononoke, there are like two sides that are clashing.
Oh, okay.
And, arguably, neither of them are wrong in, like, their wants or their desires. It's like this clash in trying to find, the the solution for this sort of situation. Yeah. I think you can definitely side with one side a little bit more than the other, but at the end of the day, it's like this kind of balance that needs to be found.
And so from the main character's perspective, it's like a dilemma that he is having because he likes both sides. Like, he's connected with both.
Oh, right. Yeah. It's a great movie. We're definitely gonna watch it, but it's yeah.
I definitely agree a lot of, like, Ghibli, movies are, like, very feel good. I think Mononoke is a little surprising just because, like, I think that is one of the more, like, tense ones.
Yeah. Yeah. It's it's less feel good than some of them.
It has, like, a lot of stakes going on and they they set up like like I said it's like immediately like there's no shit.
I mean I don't I don't think Spirit Away is a feel good movie. There there are parts in there where you're just not where you're uncomfortable.
I think it has like uplifting moments. Yeah.
It does have uplifting moments.
Like I I don't know like no face, like being like, oh no this is not a good spirit, and then all of a sudden he's like, oh wait he's actually just kind of a chill guy. He's
just hanging out.
Yeah. He's just hanging out.
Yeah.
But yeah. We we have plenty more studio Ghibli movies for you you all to watch and for you to see.
I haven't seen a lot also.
Yeah. Well, both you. Line them up. Let's go. Alright, dad. What what's what's your second?
Okay. So the third the second one that I'm gonna do is one that cut them by surprise when I said this was a comfort movie.
It still does. Yeah. So,
so as I grew up, my dad was in the Navy and traveled a lot. So when he came home, he he watched certain movies and they were almost entirely westerns and military movies. So I grew up with a dad in the navy and then I end up going in the navy for 9 years. And so I've also loved documentaries. So military or war movies have really been a comfort place for me to go to, and it's been because I can relate to the characters there on some level.
Right? There are some, like, if you watch Apocalypse Now, I'm not relating to anybody on that in that movie because they're just so far out. But there are characters in almost all these movies where I can say that's me or or that's my dad or whatever. And so one of the and there's been some great ones. I we were joking about is that Saving Private Ryan is probably my favorite military movie, but there's no way I can call that a comfort movie.
The reason the reason that the reason that's my favorite film is because it is the most realistic military movie I've ever seen based on what I've seen And so because that is so close to home, it can't be a comfort film for me. Right. However, we don't live in black and white. So there is my comfort film is a very old World War 2 movie that's in black and white and had basically every star from the forties in it. And the movie was The Longest Day, and it was the longest movie that I ever saw.
It was it was longer than Gone With the Wind. It had every British, Canadian, Australian, American, and German actor all in it, and it's all about d day. It's about the troops that were in the back, the paratrooped in, and all this stuff. And it led to a lot of great movies like Midway, A Bridge Too Far, Big Red One, all these really great military movies that were different aspects of the war as Americans went across Europe. And I think that when you see and it and it had all of these American actors that always played hero types and they were all the generals and the the the guys in charge, you saw them in these very heroic heroic roles doing this.
A lot of them got killed as part of the movie, which is once again why you have a hard time
Yeah.
Finding it a comfort film. But for me it was when you when you join the military, you do it because either you you're a prisoner and you have to criminal and you have to join the military to get out of jail time, or there's a certain part that's what that's the truth. Just 22 times 2 ways you go in. You go in as a criminal because you don't want to go to jail or you go in because you have this sense that you have to serve.
And now I mean, I I believe you. So it's just a crazy statement.
It is. It is a crazy statement. So, so when you when you go there and you've served you have this certain link to these characters doing these things that anybody that wasn't in the military could never imagine doing, But, you know, I I joke with them is that I would be up for 36 or 40 hours on a submarine, and that was normal for me. So you just know what these guys are doing, and so that relationship or that connection to these characters is what makes it a comfort film for me. And I can sit down there for hours and watch these military movies.
Yeah. And there's and there's all sorts of facets because you have, like, the Navajo radio operators with the with, Nick Cage was in it. That was really a great movie. Hacksaw Ridge, very different movie. And so I think that, Red Tails, another different really really different movie. And I think that you can see such a great wide variety of movies and you and all of them, you see these characters coming forward and really being greater than than they are, which is why I like watching them.
And all the submarine movies.
And all submarines. So yeah. So like, Hunt for Red October, the German version of Das Boot, I've seen which was fantastic. Yeah. And, it just all these movies, you have this connection to the characters of them. So I'm sorry I'm being very very serious right now, but I actually I do love I love just watching these and and losing myself in these characters.
Yeah. It's definitely a bit of a surprise when we were talking about it earlier because I know you've mentioned, like, going to the the theater with some of the people that you were serving with and, like, crying and, like, sobbing in the theater. And, like, for me yeah. I think I think a little bit of crying is, like, sometimes but, like, a lot of times when I think of, like, Disney movies and crying during Disney movies, those are, like, happy tears. Yeah.
Like, I'm not necessarily upset that a character is like
This is this is why Saving Private so Saving Private Ryan, I was working with a guy that was a medic that worked for special forces and him both of our wives did not want to go see Saving Private Ryan. Understandably. I wonder why. So both of us went there and as we were going through it so much of our past was brought forward and in the end of it, I don't want to I guess most people are Yeah.
It's I think it's an old movie. It's past the rule.
Yeah. What's the rule?
For me it's like 15 years. Yeah. It's
been it's been more.
It's been way more.
And so in the end when the young character morphs into the old character
Yeah.
And he goes, tell me I lived a good life. Because both of us had seen people that we served with die. Yeah. We'd seen them save people. We'd seen people get saved, and you're always there's always this regret about surviving. This is survivor regret. And so you always wanna think that did you earn the life that you got? Yeah. And so that's why we're balling. That's why that can never be a comfort movie.
Yeah. But but that's why you that's what you're thinking about is you're thinking about that that side of it and and and take nothing away from it. Mhmm. Right? But, you know, when I think about it, I think about the fighting Seabees and John Wayne throwing the hangar aid as their construction guys are tearing down the Japanese oil field. You know, it's it's one of those it's it's kind of true, but it's just kind of over the top because it's it's Hollywood.
Yeah. It's like the picture that they
Yeah.
It has to be a little more cleaner.
Yeah. I think I think today when you see these movies, they're much more realistic. Right? They're they're much more true to what it was in general.
Yeah.
And I mean, I
I think Hacksaw Ridge maybe was a little more
Dramatized. Hollywooded. But yeah. Yeah. But anyways, why am I talking to most in this episode?
I mean I feel like it's like Yeah. Most justification and Yeah. And at least like I think you have the most like
out there from like our point of view. Like we
we don't I don't need to justify too much on why like, oh, this movie is comfy. Yeah.
Yeah. I very rarely watch movies that's not true. When we get to the my number one you'll see. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It becomes a almost a routine when watching those sort
of things.
Alright. And with that, we're gonna take a quick break and when we come back, we'll have number 3 and some honorable mentions. Even though I feel like we've mentioned like a bunch of honorable mentions
Or maybe a little more. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe a little more. Just to know where we're coming from.
Yep. And we are back for our last drink. We'll do some honorable mentions, and we'll talk about the the number one comfort pick that we have. So Nick, kick us off. What are we what are we drinking here?
We are drinking the most unique one, I think. It's at least got the most, like, layers of it.
I was like that creamsicle one was very unique.
This one is super odd. It is a toffee, coffee coconut oak barrel aged beer. Yeah. Yeah. It's a beer.
It's a beer.
And what's really fun is, we have bottle like 300 and this is the first time it's been made. We got we have a serialized bottle.
You just said a bunch of words that I know what the word individually means, but I don't know what this is gonna taste like.
So I think that when you think about the coffee caramel and coconut flavor, it means that the barrel has been burned on the inside and based on that burning hasn't infused that flavor into the beer. Right. Because that's how that's how you taste these, whiskeys that have been aged for a long time in in these barrels. So I think it should be very unique.
It's gonna be odd. I hope I like it.
Yeah. I hope I like it too. Although it's it's, it's it's not $10 for a 12 pack.
Yeah. This is a this is a nice bottle.
Smells kind of like toffee.
It's almost like a stout.
Oh. Wait. That that sweetness that comes through with your hand.
I really like this actually. This is good.
The you know what? The butterscotch is a lot more present than I thought it would be.
You're only changing the flavors.
Toffee coffee Well Coconut. Coconut.
Well, see butterscotch sorry. Butterscotch and and toffee is the same kind of flavor to me.
Okay.
But yeah. I that it could think about a craft caramel.
Yeah. Craft caramel. Yeah. No. I I like this. This is good. It's kind of sweet. What did you say? Stout?
It's like a stout. It's if they've turned this beer into like a much heavier denser drink. Yeah. And it and it's it's smooth still like a stout.
And you know what? It does not have the bitterness that a lot of dark ales have.
No. No. Very cool.
Yum. It
is it is different and I do like it.
I like it a lot.
It's sound like a dessert. Yeah.
I was just thinking like I I would have this like after dinner or something. Yeah.
Vanilla ice cream with
Oh, my gosh. Well, now I'm gonna
I mean, you could probably do it. Pretty killer float with this. Oh, my.
Alright. You guys are giving me bad ideas. This is not cheap.
I don't know. It's still fun though.
Yep. Yep.
Alright. Here's my thought here, dad. We're gonna go from you and we're just gonna kinda rapid fire honorable mentions.
Yeah. So yeah. So we're gonna do 2 each and because I've said so many movies.
I feel like you've already said so already. Yeah. It's your limit.
So yeah. So the 2 that I said that were honorable mentions for me is, Monty Python Holy Grail. We kind of talked about this is something that we brought the boys up with and so they kind of seen it, and we cut out parts that were not appropriate for their age and they saw it. That's true. But Holy Grail has always been one of those great movies that we can quote in all time. And then the next one is a horrible movie. It is Riddick, just because I've watched it so many times.
Which one? Actual
the Riddick, the middle one.
But I've watched you know what?
I've only seen pieces of pitch black.
You haven't seen the full movie? No. I've seen the full movie.
That one's less interest to me. I love it because the other two are so bad.
They're so bad.
They're so bad that I love watching them.
First one's not much better.
I'm gonna be honest. But but but yeah. So the the other ones are just great, but I put Riddick there because it really is it's really Vin Diesel being Vin Diesel in that movie.
It's so She's doing whatever.
Like like Triple X. Yeah. No. Triple X or or passive fury.
Those are
all those are all sort
of very different characters.
But, yeah.
I see where you're coming from.
Yeah. So so but but that movies plays all the time. And every time I see it, I stop. And so that
Yeah. For me, I think my honorable mentions, there are a lot of movies kinda going through my head. But Disney, of course, we we haven't mentioned any Disney. And, sorry, Disney heads. I none of us are gonna throw in a Disney movie for the last one.
So I'll throw it in as an honorable mention. Tangled, a phenomenal movie, with lots of banger songs in it. Nick and I were singing 2 different songs at dinner tonight, from Tangled, but still really good. Also, I like Moana as well. It kinda fits in that Disney category.
I've watched that movie so many times at this point. And then, my other honorable mention is, hardcore Henry, just because I feel like I was a part of the journey of watching the biting elbows music videos into the whole, like, movie and production that came into it. And now he's, like, following the behind the scenes, little, like, snippets that people were releasing. They were, like, oh, dude, one of our Russian stunt guys got run over by a car, and he jumped up and was, like, totally cool. And, like, I was super excited for the release of the movie.
I think a lot
of people are like, yeah,
this is not a great movie. And, like, I get it. But I think it's such a fun movie with so many cool, like, stunt and action, like, practical effects and practical things in it that it is just a a fun movie for me.
Plus it it was groundbreaking and that it was first person.
It's such a novelty.
It it makes some people sick
and I
get it.
Yeah. Yeah. My honorable mentions. First one, obviously, it's one that I think a lot of people would would choose as their like number one comfort. Like they would immediately and like instinctually go to this, which is The Princess Bride. Yep. I feel like that's like so many people have grown up on that movie. Yeah. You showed it to us and like it's so quotable. It's such a charming, film.
There's just so many great scenes and moments. Yeah. It's just so many quotable, like, sort of moments. It's yeah.
I don't think you know what that word means.
It's so funny. It's so good. I it's so it's so quotable. It's it's so fun. And then my other one is one that sort of like just came to me, which is, Brother Bear. Which I feel like it's it's it's like a very heartwarming. It's like very tragic in the beginning, but it's it's like one that you can you can like get invested in like easily, I feel. I haven't seen it in
so long. It's been a minute.
Yeah. It has been a while.
But like I feel like it's such a comforting movie, and like it has a great message and, I think animation was still pretty solid back then, and I think, honestly, that movie might have made me, like, just fall in love with the northern lights. Yeah. Just, like, of how they always described it and, like, every time you see it, you're like, dang. Those are kind of beautiful. Yeah. And then the moose, the the 2 mooses voiced by those 2 guys.
Bob and Doug McKenzie from Strange Brew.
Yeah. Exactly. You were ready for that.
Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas. Your 2 guys name.
It all goes whole circle.
Wait. That is insane. I'm sorry. Viewers, listeners at home, you may not know how much of a incredible feat of
achievement we just witnessed here.
Our father is terrible at names. The fact that he just listed off two sets of names here, crazy.
Yeah. You you know, it's it's funny because I I don't know why I know those names. I
think that makes it even better.
Strange Brews like one of my I told you, it's one of my favorite movies.
Yeah. Yeah. Well, I think I'll kick it off here. We'll go to Nick, and then, dad, you'll finish us. Yep. So could you start us here? A name that we've said a lot on the podcast, especially when we're talking about movies, is of course Bruce Willis. Dad, I think that's your fault at the end of the day here. Mhmm. But we grew up on a lot of Bruce Willis. And because of that, there are a lot of Bruce Willis movies that have become staples for our household
or just kinda comfort picks. Household names. Yeah. They're ever present.
So for me, my number one kind of comfort pick aside from I'll be honest, like, the 2 other comfort picks that Nick and dad chose are also very much my own comfort picks here. But the 5th element, definitely just a fun movie that we can watch at any time. I remember I was watching it on my computer, and mom opened the door. I paused it, and she goes, oh, you're watching The Fifth Element again? I'm like, you'd you're you see, like, a snippet of the movie where they're, like, on the airplane to go to the planet.
Like, I'm like, how does she know
this? One frame.
Yeah. One frame. She she just knows, because we've seen it so many times, and it's still just kind of like a a fun movie, that that's kind of just a staple.
Yeah. I mean, I think another, like, very quotable movie. And, like, there's there's, like, so many moments where you're, like,
gosh this is this doesn't make any sense, but it's so good.
Right? Like, it's such a flashy film, like, they it's so over the top. The setting is crazy. The, like, actual, like, purpose of why they're all doing
you, like, what are we actually doing?
What is happening here? You know? And I I think it just, like, like and then Bruce Willis just being, like,
I'm basically just a New York cop in the future. You know? Yeah. He's not playing a different game.
No. No. No. So and and nobody takes himself seriously.
No. No. Yeah. No. It it's crazy. And, like, quotable I think we say, like, hey, lady. I only speak 2 languages, English and bad English. You know, like, we say that so often. I I think there's there's some like, so many of the performances you're like, god, how do they keep a straight face? Yeah. Like a lot of these times. No. It's it's just a really charming movie.
Yep. Absolutely. Okay. Yeah.
For for not my number one, you definitely like you and I. Yeah. We're like, who's gonna who's gonna choose it? Which is Scott Pilgrim versus the world. Yes. Which it's incredible on so many levels. The first one being, like, the cast is just crazy for no apparent reason.
It's like a young everyone. Yeah.
It it's like how did oh, they weren't like that big back then, but like it's so good. Like Michael Cera, Chris Evans, Aubrey Plaza. Oh, God. Just like so many good characters, and it's so crazy. I think it's it is such a special, movie, because it's like it was adapted from the the comic. Right?
The comic. Yeah.
Those usually don't go too well, especially when it came out. And like the the premise of it, you're like, this would never this would never be good. But then you're like, wow, this is awesome and it has so many like it's so geeky. Yeah. It's like it's like such a charming movie in the sense that you're like, I play video games.
I know what they're talking about. I I know oh, I know what they're doing. And saying just like a socially awkward person be the main character. He's like so unlikely. It's so good. And once again so quotable. You just turn off your breath your brain. It's so it's so good. I think it's like easily in my top five movies like of all time. Yeah. You can just hop in you're like, oh, Scott Pilgrim. Bread makes you fat?
Yeah. It's like literally like a a cult classic. Yeah. And, like, it's absurd is such a good way of putting it. Like, the bad guys explode into coins, which, like, Michael Cera's character, Scott is, like, oh, I guess I have bus fare now. It's it's so I don't know. It's so good. A lot of great characters. Yeah. A lot of lot of quotable moments. Really just a movie that we've seen so many times.
And can I say Yeah? Incredible soundtrack. Oh. This sounds like an incredible soundtrack. Yeah. Sex Bob omb, the fictitious band that they made. Yep. So incredible.
So good.
Envy's band with Black Sheep. Oh, my goodness. Yep. It's musically, it's fantastic. Same with So good. This is how I feel about Blues Brothers. Yeah. They're like so, like, in
I was just supposed to say Blues Brothers and Scott Pilgrim versus the World have a lot more similarities than I thought until you mentioned them. And now I'm thinking about how it kind of thematically similar these like cult classic movies are for different generations. Yeah.
Well, I mean, almost all the cult classics have a a music part to it like, look, record picture show.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
I mean, think about the music with that. Yeah. I think that all of these because the reason they become called classics is because they're not a standard approach to making a movie.
I think so. Yeah. Absolutely.
Admirable. Yeah.
It's like
the Life of Brian.
Yep.
And, sort of like the bright side. Always look on the bright side. Like I feel like that song that song goes to spam a lot and like other versions of of the Monty Python's. Yeah.
Yeah. So Alright. I will finish this out.
Bring it home.
And I hate to be the obvious choice here.
To no one's surprise.
One of us was gonna say.
But everyone's support.
But so my number one so my number one genre is action adventure, and the one that I always think about is Die Hard. It's just the one that I if that movie's on, I'm watching it. I'm probably saying the lines with everybody else around it because I've seen it so many times. Welcome to the party. But yeah.
So it's just it's one of those movies that really started a whole new approach to action adventure, where the hero is an unlikely hero, and he has humanity, and he does great things, and it's just fun to watch.
Yeah. You know?
And it was like Bruce, Bruce Willis' like breakthrough movie as well because before that he was like the
He was in a series called moonlighting. Yeah. And moonlighting was kind of a weird approach for him and he had one movie that was a flop before that. Mhmm. And then then he got this movie and then started down the road of 5 die hards.
And and once again like crazy good cast.
Oh, yeah.
Right? Like Alan Rickman as the the the villain Hans. Yeah. If you didn't mention, I was gonna mention it. Alan Rickman. There's also, like, behind
the scenes that movie is so fun to, like, learn about.
Yeah. How, like, when they dropped Alan Rickman's character, like, shooting his reaction, they miscounted.
On purpose.
So they said
they said we're gonna drop you on 3, and they dropped him on 2.
Oh, no. So the look in his face is actual material. It's actual betrayal.
So he said How can you do this? This is what the guy said. He said he did it as the last thing they did on the movie because he knew he would be so mad he wouldn't do anything else. So it was the very last thing they did out of all the acting pieces of it.
Which is crazy because movies are filmed
so out of like order.
Out of order, but that was like the last thing they did. And he said he was so mad.
I bet. But yeah, Die Hard is the best Christmas movie. I don't care what anyone says. It's the best Christmas movie.
Everyone argues, oh, it's not a Christmas movie. It absolutely is, and it's it's it's the greatest one.
You're singing jingle bells at the end?
Ho ho
ho. I have a machine gun now. Now I
wanna go watch Starheart. It's a great movie.
Anyways, I think that's it.
Yeah. Yeah. We we had all.
We had
weird drinks tonight.
Very weird. But I think it was well worth going to this brewery. Yeah.
I think this one's my favorite.
That's I think this is my favorite as well.
I do like this one. I am it
You you really like the first one.
I like the cocktails
a lot.
The the cream sickle didn't make the top 3.
Cream sickle. Not not a hit. I think eventually you might have to like rate all the drinks we've had. Oh my gosh.
This might be up here. I'm gonna start taking notes. Yeah.
Yeah. We're
gonna have to look back on episodes and be like, how did I react to that?
Yeah. Exactly. Alright. So I guess that's it and we will talk to you next week.
Yeah. Yeah. I don't even think we know what next week's theme is gonna be yet.
I don't I don't think we do. We've got so just so you know, we've got so many different things that we're thinking about. If you have any recommendations as always write in the comments Yeah. We'll do the regular subscribe, like Do all the good stuff. Do all that stuff. So now that we've got video,
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