Mini Crush #119

told me it was not defensive. I'm just easy, you'd like, but it is funny how it was rebranded, probably unnecessarily with the more pc ozark mouth harp moniker I'm doing okay, Chuck Quarantine has been a little nuts um. And the reason I busted this out I just found this in my freezer, the juice harp. Yeah, what was it doing in there? Well, I I obviously put it in there while it's drunk or something, you know, quarantine drunk, which is drunk. I mean it is, but you know it was.

It was a nice surprise. It was sort of resting on a bag of frozen peas, and uh, now I have it at my desk here. Well, so I'm now going to buy one of these. I just went to Amazon and they have them listed as jaw harps. And now I'm wondering if the Internet lied to me, and if that is truly an offensive thing to say the Internet never lied, Chuck. I mean, the Internet is just a mirror reflecting back our own greatest fears and insecurities. And now I'm wondering the difference between a four and

any nine jaw harp and a fifty seven dollar jaw harp. Well, it's all in the vibrations, Chuck, in the in the material, you know. The four one is probably like what I've got here, It's probably made of some you know, crappy metal, when the expensive one is probably made of like wrought iron or like some So was like it was like,

you know, pulled up from an old railway line. You know, I feel like I need to get one of the maybe the middle ground ones, like the thirty dollar one, work your way up to the high end one you got. I mean, you know, first of all, I know you can pick it up, Chuck, but it took me a while. You really have to press it against your teeth really hard, and that really triggers some people. Some people don't like teeth and metal, and uh so it's not for everyone. Well, I had one when I was a kid, and I

did not touch my teeth with it. I wrapped my lips around my teeth and did it that way. Are you supposed to press it against your teeth. That's the only way that it vibrates. It needs to vibrate like vibrates against your whole skull. So it's the whole thing. I don't know how your lips. It would your lips would dampen the vibrations. I would say, hey, it's not here, Try it real quick with your lips. Don't understand. Oh you're describing here? Oh my god, you're right. Shock. See

you don't have to put against your teeth. The Internet lied to me too. Oh I hate you Internet. You're so dishonest and shitty. We can't live without you, especially during these are troubled core times. Yeah. So, um, this is the first time you've been on in a few weeks. I I've sent you a text just to make sure

that you knew. It was nothing personal. I just while people are stuck at home, I thought i'd throw some just different sort of special shows their way and had hodgment on for a couple and then Josh made his first appearance, which was a very big deal on movie Crush. Was it like a proper crush. It was like a proper sit down. He he did a mini which I thought, you know, he was gonna come on for a regular crush.

We've been talking about it since the show started, but I thought the many would be a more fun thing to do right now with him then to sit around and talk about paper Moon for an hour, which is a great movie, to be shorter, and it was. We had a blast. We did it a cocktail hour. We'ch had a drink and uh, it was a lot of fun na. Chuck. I just want to point out, you know, there are such a thing as a three way podcast. You know, you could have invited me to the cocktail hour.

I wouldn't have been like offended or anything. Can we do that? Can we It's a technology there? Oh, the technology is there, my man. So we just we just do a three way skype call and everyone and then we all record our sides and then we put it all in post into the magic computer bucket and then it comes out, Shake it up, and it comes out a podcast that's exactly right. Uh, you know what, I'm gonna have to try that then, because I was just wondering.

I just recorded with Annie Reese and uh, I was thinking because she wants to do Empire strikes Back, but so does Paul, and I was like, I wonder if we can all three do this in quarantine. Dude, we do stuff that I want you to know with three of us. Yeah, so yeah, all right, well you and I should get it go and then I would love

that that'd be a lot of fun. Um. So you, let's catch up a little more when I when I know you saw the picture of my face, but when I popped up on your skype, you you jumped back in horror at my big, ground naked face. I think you look great. Honestly, Chuck, it was it was for effect. It was for your benefit. Um. But yeah, no, it's uh. I think I've told the story about how the one time I shaved my face when my kid was like maybe two, she started crying and she freaked out and

didn't know who I was. So I was just jarring. It's a jarring experience. You know. It is certainly a good thing to have a beard that everyone recognizes you with so that if you ever have to run from the law, you can just shave and then no one will ever know it was you. Yeah, and it's funny, you know, people go incognito by wearing fake beards and things.

I am unrecognizable right now in public, Not that I get recognize that much anyway, but uh, I definitely without my hat and my beard and about twelve years younger and unrecognizable as me. Yeah, I would look very young too. I have a bit of a baby face as well. Um, yeah, I didn't look a slight spoiler for like a twenty five year old movie. But there's a Spanish film called Amorros Paros, which is wonderful, but that's sort of one

of the devices in it. There's this character you always see as this light, homeless kind of like bum who true picks up strays that are like from the dog fighting world and trains them and has them as pets or whatever, and then something happens. I remember exactly what happens, but he ends up shaving, trimming his nails, putting on a suit, and he just looks like a completely different human And it's one of the coolest like transformations in

a movie that I've ever seen. It was really great. Yeah, I was worried about Ruby, and um. She spent the night in my mom's house and came back the next day and I met her at the car and she had a very sad look on her face, and she said, why did you cut your beard? And she said I don't like you with your beard cut. Oh no, And I was like, you know, it's still me, kiddo, And she kind of couldn't look me in the eye for about probably about fifteen minutes. She sort of sulked around

and didn't want to look at me. And then I wormed my way in there and got a snuggle, and she eventually touched my face and said I looked funny, And then that was fine. Yeah, isn't it funny? How? I mean, obviously with children, but anyone, you know, uh, really get a personal attachment to either like the length of people's hair and they're like, oh my god, you cut your hair. It's like it's on the front to

me personally that you've made this choice. You know, people are very strange, Chuck, Well, kids get attached, you know. She cried the other day because I had a new horse and Red dead redemption, Um, because she was kill your horse. I didn't. I got a better horse, and I couldn't tell her that. I was like, oh no, no, no, the other horse is still in the stable. I didn't tell her just sort of you know, I got rid of the horse, definitely didn't send it to the glue factory.

So what else is going on? Anything else you need to catch up on? And I think you mentioned before that you were moving. I've decided to move you and I got the the email from my landlord that my lease is up. I didn't realize it was quite so soon, But I've been wanting to get a bigger place. Uh not. I have a roommate I love dearly. Um. We've been friends for a long time, and it's not really out

of necessity. It's more just like we like each other and enjoy living together and it's you know, cheaper and fun. But you're gonna hang with this roommate in the new place too, No, I'm not, That's what I'm saying. I've got to this place where, like I just really want you know, he's got a girlfriend and I've got eleven year old and I just have got to the point where I want my own space, like form my recording equipment.

You guys can't see it, obviously, but I'm in my bedroom right now and I'm surrounded by synthesizers and guitars and it's all like feet away from my bed. And I want a house with like a office, like a third room where I can have all that, especially not knowing how long this work from home situation is gonna go on. I've really realized I want to better space for myself because I've been stuck in this one and really kind of hit home the fact that I don't

really like it anymore. I've outgrown it. So so you're gonna go han solo and live alone with alone, use a house. I mean, I've got I've got a ton. It's funny. My ex wife I've mentioned she and I are really really good friends. She has taken this cause on and she is just so kind me the perfect place. So we're actually she's coming over this afternoon and we're

gonna go look at a few spots together. But part of East Lake, uh, kind of Candler Decatur area, really really really close to where you guys and she U lives, and um, yeah, I just want to be closer to her and the family because I really spent a lot of time with them, and I really love love that love their family and their their daughter and not not mine the other one. We're kind of un Uncle Noel,

they call me. So it's like a weird, excredied family and we're excited about they're sort of an East Lake Candler mccafee, Yeah, kind of. Well, it's funny, it's not. I mean, you're you're ten minutes from there. All these neighborhoods are so close exactly. It's really that's just kind of secondary. But I also, like, you know, I've I've been doing well with work and put a little little put a little money away, and um, couldn't have happened

at a better time. I just feel like the universe was telling me, this is what you want to do and I do. Is this is this going to be your first, um time you've lived by yourself? It is, actually, yeah, it's a big deal and it's a lot of fun. I remember the first time I lived by myself was when I moved to l A. I got my first apartment by myself, and it was fucking awesome, so fun to have your own space in charge of your own domain. Roommates are great, but when you finally make that move, uh,

you're gonna be better for it. Dude. I can't wait to get for you to get your home office and studio up and running. Yeah. No, I'm really excited, and I feel like I'm at this place where I'm ready to kind of go to the next stage of my existence, and I think this is a good push in that direction. So thanks, Chuck. You're all grows up. Noel. Well, I don't like took me thirty six years. Well, when I moved to l A. I moved to l A in like two thousand one, so night to let's say, twenty

years ago. I was in my late twenties, early thirties. I guess I'm a labo late bloomer, Chuck, I mean I was to There's there's no shame in that, alright, Noel. So I can write I can mark catch up off my list because we did that. That's sure. What a chore. That was too, A real slog. It's good seeing you, man. Yeah, he's too, dude. So we're gonna move on. I've been

meeting I wanted to do this with Hodgeman. I wanted to do it with Josh, but we ran short on both of those, and so I'm finally getting to use it now. On the movie Crush page, I posted geez a couple of weeks ago now, and this is something I borrowed from movie Crusher. Jason Roberts. He posted this on the crushers page and I reposted to get to get some more traction here, and he posted a very cool question. And I don't think we've ever discussed, which is what two actors? Two or more actors do you

get confused? Oh gosh, I've got one immediately, let's hear at the point to the point where I already can't even differentiate them in my mind. Uh, Christopher Maloney? Um, who was Let's see he was in? Uh, he's in a lot of stuff. Um Christopher, hold on, I got I got because I really can't even remember the other guy's name. Maloney. Christopher Maloney. He's an actor. He's an actor, Okay, I got him. Isn't he in? Uh? An I'm trying to decide who he looks like. Now? Wait is that No?

This is not an actor that I just pulled up? Yeah, So Christopher, if you I can I can text you his IMDb. Really Maloney with it, Okay, I know that guy. I know you're gonna say, Elias Cotias probably exactly. They look they look like indistinguishable to me. I always am having a hard time differentiating them. Elias Katias exactly. And when you and when you type in Christopher Maloney and then the letter E Elias Cotius comes up, so it is.

And there are a lot of comp pictures listed of them side by side, So this is not, like, you know, unusual, But it's the one that always gets me because I will often say, remember that guy from that one movie, and it'll be the movie the other guy was in, and like Casey Jones and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, I don't, I can't. I couldn't tell you which one of them played him. I know it was one of

those two guys. It's funny that looking at celebrity look alikes. Now, of course, the Will Ferrell Chad Smith thing, it's always funny. That is funny and true they look a lot alike. Actually it's weird al right. So let's see what the crushers have to say. Um, this's got a lot of good traction Uh, let me see here. Let's start off with and some of these make total sense. And some of these people admit they're like I don't even know why. They don't even really look alike. But it's just one

of those brain things. Uh. One of our favorite names here on the Crushers page, Margarita Shadowmago, says, I don't know why in God's name I mix them up, but Christopher Walkin and Steve Bashimmy, I always need a beat before remembering who is who. Sometimes it's characters people play um. Sometimes it's like a Paxton Pullman thing where it's just the name. Yeah, it's tough too, especially if you have, like some actors that are known for their characters and

really chameleonic. You could definitely, you know, confuse one version of them with like somebody that maybe they were inspired by even a little bit. Yeah, totally. See my laptop Finn has just fired up again. I told you I was having the issue, so there may be some background noise in this one. Everyone apologies. Brandy Burdan says Jessica Alba and Scarlett Johnson. I think it has to do

with the fact that they both play in superhero movies. Okay, m you know Jessica Alba, she doesn't act so much anymore because she's busy running her fucking billion dollar empire. What what what a variety of empires? It chuck makeup or something? No, it's I think it's kids stuff she honest, that's right, honest brand like the soap and stuff. Yeah, I mean I think she sold honest if if I'm not mistaken for a boatload of money, um, and good for her. Like that's what you do. That's the whole

thing is you. You build up this company and wait for like Procter and Gamble to come by. Can I backtrack really quick and say I apologize for being uh so stereotypical and saying what was it makeup or something? What a dick move? Gosh, well, it's fine, they're there. There are definitely some some famous women who have makeup lines or nothing. I give what you're saying. No, but don't beat it so hard on yourself. And now I'm obsessed with finding out how much she sold that business for.

Maybe she still wants it. I don't know. Uh, I can't get back. I can't get sidetracked with honest stuff. No, no, no, we've got so much more ground to cover. Let me see our old pal. Vanessa Lopez says, Uh, Ron Livingstone and Kyle Chandler, Yeah, they look alike. I get that. Uh And m clark says east Left Fisher and Amy Adams. I don't get them confused because they're very distinct in my brain, but I could see how people would get them confused. You know, Oh, there's definitely some Ron Livingston

Kyle Chandler. Yeah, you can always tell if there's a split screen. If there's a split screen of me and Kevin Smith out, there're gonna be pretty upset. People used to say I look like honestly, Chuck, it's a it's a chubby beard guy thing. I People used to say I looked like Zach Galifannakis when he was hot. And then back in high school, people used to say I looked like Kevin Smith. They'd call me lunchbox. It really hurt my feelings. Jack Black, did you ever get that?

I got Jack Black a lot, But I really like Jack Black. Uh. He's so spry and I love his TikTok videos of him just like flopping around doing these crazy like TikTok dances. Boy, I got a lot when I posted this beardless Chuck thing I got. First of all, I don't even know how I got like eight thousand views and there's only like five or six thousand people on that page, so I must have gotten shared out.

I got shared out a little bit, but um probably you know, obviously with stuff you should know people because no one else gives a ship. But uh, I got a lot of different people with the no beard, everyone from Nathan Lane to um. A lot of people, said the lead singer of the endance, which I was totally stoked about, sounds like that. A lot of that has to do with your glasses though, Yeah you got those kind of like thick, black, cool hipster glasses. Yeah, I

got the ray Bands. Let me see Tyler Pace says Jason Schwartzman and Jason Biggs. Yeah, they're pretty distinct to me, but I get it. I would say more like David Swimmer and Jason Biggs. The Swims, the Swims, uh Alyssa Galmish says Ryan Gosling and Ryan Reynolds. They're pretty much one person to me. I prefer Gosling though, like both those guys, they should be in a buddy movie. I think it just has to do with the fact that they're both like obnoxiously handsome man, you know, and talented.

They've got it all. Uh what what was the movie that was so fucking funny with Gosling and uh Russell Crowe that I think was kind of undersung the the other guys. Was that it? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, the nice guys. It was a nice guys. I didn't see that. No, dude, it's so funny Brian Gosling is Isn't it like a period one, like is it in the sixties or something? Yeah? I did see it was seventies. It was awesome. Oh man,

he is so funny in that movie. Veronica Summerhill says Toby Maguire and Jake Jillenhall might as well be twins to me. Absolutely not. No, yeah, I don't see that one either. But again, these are all like personally people's brain. Uh, we'll just play a trick on them that may not make sense to the rest of us. Here's an interesting one, Chris Nap says, Hugh Hefner and Larry King all right, interesting,

all right, this is very interesting. Jason Brown says. Jeremy and Jason London one was in Days to Confused and mall rats the other I think Seventh Heaven. I don't really know. Maybe they're the same person. Well, Jason, my friend, I want to introduce you to a little concept called twins. They're twins? You mean the movie like with with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito. No, twins is just the biological

life concept of of twins. Oh, I get, I get, and I get it now that they used They sort of turned that on its head with twins because Arnold Schwarzenegger a day Vito look nothing alike. I think it's funny that this guy didn't know that Jeremy and Jason London were twin brothers. Well, let's not shame him for it. But no, I'm not gonna shame it. I know, I know, of course not just I got a good one. Um. Bill Hicks and Alex Jones. Uh oh, interesting, It's it's

pretty wild. There's like a conspiracy theory they're the same person. Well, which is hysterical because Bill Hicks was a liberal champion and Alex Jones is a Cretan toad. Bill Hicks Alex. Oh, so there's like they look alike. They really do there's even like images where people are like comparing their bone structure and stuff, and like, you know, it's a people have too much time on their hands, so they sure do, they sure do. Uh. Let me see. Here's a good one, Carrie.

This is from Amanda Tassie, Carrie Mulligan and Michelle Williams. Yeah. Yeah, that's a good that that I agree with for sure, totally get that. I find them that there. That's another one of those pairs that are sort of interchangeable in my mind. Yeah. Jim Frank says Jason Patrick and Patrick Wilson. M hmm, okay to me them, the more famous someone is, the tougher it is to like Amanda Karen says, Mark

Wahlberg and Matt Damon. Uh. And then Jeremy Carpenter commented that The Departed was so confusing because he gets those two people confused they were in the same movie. Hmm. I've seen this one before. Abby Kitts Miller says, Nicknolty and Gary Busey. Oh yeah, they both have kind of a blonde, wild eyed, unhingedness to them, you know. Yeah, And I think that was aided by various mug shots over the years, because there's that one very famous Nick

Nolty mug shot where he just looks batshit crazy. Yeah, he looks like Gary Bucey. He does. He's very it's very busy. Gary Busey just looks like that all the time. Nick Nolty only looks like that in mug shots. Man, why don't we develop a podcast with Gary Busey That would be a hit. Didn't he have a crazy reality show for a while or something? Probably I feel like he did. But I mean, I think all you need to do is just sit him and down in front of a microphone and and let him go. I love it.

I let your show. Yeah, here's the one that used to get me to when I was a kid, but now as an adult, um, not at all. Laura Limkey uh verdic no verderame for Deremy Verdin. Great name, Laura. She says, I used to get Glenn close and Meryl Streep confused, and that was definitely one for me growing up. They were sort of the same person until I realized they're both great actors. But Meryl Streep, you know, it's

sort of the legend of the two. Well, they both sort of occupy a similar strong female powerhouse kind of space, you know, like in uh in movie history. They were both kind of like coming up at the same time and had similar types of like was it uh so Glenn Close is in terms of endearment? Yes? Right? No? No, no, terms of endearment? Was neither of them? Oh? Wait, what am I thinking that? I think Steel Magnolia has excuse me? And she wasn't in that either. Never mind, we're cutting

all of this. We're cutting all of them. No, leave it all in. Glen Post was in The Big Chill? Is that what you were thinking? Now, I haven't Fatal Attraction. Glenn Close is in Fatal Attraction. That's probably her biggest, most famous role. It's Alex the bunny boiling murderous side piece. She boiled that she boiled a bunny and yeah, man, you didn't see was it? Was it a pet bunny? That's terrible. Yeah, that's a big spoiler, but it's such a part of the public consciousness. It didn't feel bad

revealing it. Did I tell you? I went I went to an event with Glenn Close, Like I was like feet for feet from her. Yeah, because she was in that podcast that my buddy John Cameron Mitchell I can I I'm not flexing when I say that we were talking stuff. Um, but he uh had her in his podcast anthem Homunculous, which is fantastic on the Luminary Network if you haven't heard it. It's a psychedelic head trip. It's just fantastic with music and everything. And she played

a character in that. And he did this marathon listening party at the i F Center, New York, and Glenn Close came and did a little speech and brought her dog pipe and she seemed very nice. I didn't like, you know, say hello, Mrs Close, thank you so much for all your contributions to American cinema. I loved you. And Steel Magnolia's Yes, you were so good and you were so good and uh, what was the other one? Like the other one that I was wrong about in

terms of terms DeArment? She like, nope, still no, still not me. Thank you, thank you for playing. Let me see this is when I used to get confused a little bit. Lauren Duke says, Cure Knightly and Natalie Portman, Uh, they're they're they're similar. I think a lot of Paxton im Pullman's James ds, says Amy Adams and Rachel McAdams. I don't see that one so much. Must just be the atoms thing that's throwing them, you know. Yeah, oh boy, this is a good one because they really do look

a lot alike. Victoria Reid says Jamie Pressley and Margot Robi or Robbie. Yeah, yeah, I can see that. Yeah, they look a lot alike. They should play sisters. All right, we're gonna finish up here with our old pal Robert Paulson. I hope you're hanging in there out in l a buddy. Emma Watson and Emily Watson, just their names. I just want to call them each other. I get that too, totally. Um. All right, so we are going to move on to

another post. And this is from the Crushers page. This is from one of our oldest of pals, Patrick Gorman, and he always posts a lot of fun stuff on the Crushers page. And this is very simple, and I can't believe I've never asked this, but what is the movie that made you realize I love movies? Very simple? No, just I don't know if you have one. Do you

remember your first one? It's probably the first movie I ever saw, it would have been a little later for me, Like I definitely loved liked movies and enjoyed movies, but like, as far as what really got me into digging a little deeper and getting into directors and cinematographers and stuff, it would have been a movie like Platoon maybe, or I went through you know a lot of those movies.

We talked about the very Influential Year, which the year itself escapes me, but Fight Club and American Beauty were too where did Yeah, I was like, Okay, this David Fincher character has got something going on, and I looked into all of his work and started researching all of his influences. This thing away for music. For me, it was Smashing Pumpkins because they had really interesting bands that influenced them. So because of them, I got into like

Black Sabbath, Enjoy Division, and my Bloody Valcein. So that's sort of how I think of it. You know, I'm doing that, uh that silly Facebook thing where you name your ten most influential albums, and that has been a lot of fun because it's uh, I usually don't do that stuff, but this, uh, there was something about influential

as opposed to favorite. That really intrigued me because you really got to put a lot of thought into what bands do you simply love the record and what band's really kind of altered your the way you look at music or maybe introduce you to a genre you had never heard before. And it was really interesting to kind of go back through I'm almost done with it now, but to kind of look at these touchstones through my life of music that influenced me. It's a lot of fun.

Have you Has anyone nominated you for that? And all? No, please do? I would do that all day long. I just haven't been checking Facebook very much. I need to put notifications back on because I've been like, yeah, mainly using Instagram, but I would love to do something like that. I'll turn notifications on, all right. So what movies? What

movie made you realize you love movies? One of our oldest friends, Jane Jenneb who by the way, she won the garden competition, we I posted a picture of my backyard and garden because you know, we've been working hard on it, and I was like, I know a lot of you guys have been working hard to during quarantine. So a lot of people posted Pictures and Jayne's is off the hook. It is so damn lovely, so a way to go, Jane, She says, Raiders of the Lost Dark Um that was right up there for me too.

I think Raiders in Et were those early movies for me that that sort of magical, and of course Star Wars that really took me to a place where I was like, man, this is gonna be watching movies for the rest of my life. Uh. Jenny Livett says Close Encounters of the Third Kind totally the Danger Oven. By the way, Gail Koont's revealed what The Danger Oven means via email. I can't tell you, guys, but it's a great story, she says. This is spinal tap made her

realize she loved movies. That's a good one. The author of this thought experiment, Patrick Gorman says, Saving Private Ryan and Titanic, all right, so that came on a little later, unless he's younger than I thought. Heidi Lawman says, Jewel of the Nile Man that was great. That Romancing the Stone, big big movies for me as a kid. Which one came first? Romancing the Stone was first, That's what I thought. And Juel den I was the uh slightly lesser sequel,

not not quite as good, but still fun. Jason Roberts says Tarantino movies period, they made me feel like I was at least as cool as his characters for simply having seen the movie. Okay, that was back in those days where it's like I was so ignorant about you know, culture and stuff that I was like this pulp fiction man, no one else has heard of it. I'm the only one.

It's like just for me. It's kind of like I remember like going to see Ween in concert to Coca Cola Roxy and I got there really early and there was like nobody there, and I was like, you guys, I'm like the one. It's gonna be for me. I figured it out. I have my finger on the pulse, you know. Yeah, that's a special thing though. That has

to do with a certain age and discovering things. Because I said the very same thing and one of my music albums posts because I did a two for one day, I did r MS Life Life Search pageant and you two's Unforgettable Fire as a two for. And when I was first getting into music when I was a kid, it was American top forty and MTV and pop hits and classic rock radio which was just always on and

still is on the radio. But when I first discovered album MAYDI eight which is our great uh college radio station here in Atlanta for Georgia State University, eight point five left of the dial. When I discovered that radio station, when I was like thirteen and fourteen and fifteen, uh and heard R E. M and you two for the first time, I thought, I was like, this is a secret. No one knows that no, no one knows about these guys. And you would only tell friends that you thought would

get it. You wouldn't broadcast it too loudly. It's a pretty special thing. Of course, every you know, there were other people listening to them, But that's that kind of connection that a band or a movie can have with a young It of like, this is for you. It's pretty special. Oh totally agree. Let me see here, Josh Toko says watching Superman catch Lois Lane and the Helicopter and Superman the movie as a kid and then as

an adult, still getting chills every single time. I always thought Superman was kind of a dick, the way he like just drops her out of the window, you know, and then like catches there. It's like he's sort of like talking. Yeah, it's like pulling the girls hair on the playground a little bit like her. Let me see Tyler burns his dead posts Society. Yeah, that was pretty pretty monumental movie for me too, as was stand By Me. And that comes from Jodi Sells queen big big movie

American beauty. That comes from old friend Megan Carol. Uh. Scott Marvel says die Hard made him love movies. That's certainly a great crash course and awesome filmmaking. Did you see die Hard with a Vengeance? Chuck? It was from all I thought die Hard with a Vengeance really kicked ass. Like Sam Jackson. Yeah, that was Sam Jackson. Jeremy Irons is a total totally evil villain, mad bomber guy. You know. I thought that really held up and in many ways, I mean, it's hard to say it's better than the

second one is forgettable to me. With the Vengeance really stuck out in my mind. I think I saw in the theaters like a couple of times when it came out. Yeah, it was really good. It had a clever concept with the whole sort of scavenger hunt around New York and the ticking clock, and I thought it was really really good. I didn't actually I said I saw him odd, did not see that last one with with the kid when it when his son came on the scene. Yeah, it's isn't Bruce not in that one? Like at all? No?

I mean he's in it pretty sure, Like I didn't. I didn't see it, But maybe he wasn't in it as much? Was he not in it that much? I I And for some reason in my mind, I think that he wasn't in it, but he maybe was like just sort of the elder statesman, die hard guy, sort of passing the baton. But I could be wrong. I got you, Matt Yos, says the Royal tannin Bombs Magical Magical Movie. I'm really worried this new West Anderson movie is going to be delayed now, No, everything's delayed. I'm

so upset. Why uh do you don't think it was done already? Then they released the trailer. It seems like it was pretty fully formed, seeming or the very latest shot. And then but they're they're delaying stuff anyway because we can go to the theaters. That's right. I wonder how this experiment has been working out at with it because they haven't been doing many more of them. I've noticed,

like they did like Trolls. Yeah, and they did like Emma and then that movie The Hunt, and I haven't really seen any other Invisible Man to um or whatever the version of that was called the new one with Peggy for Madman. Uh, I don't know. I mean you did see all the ruckass called with AMC Theaters and Universal, right, yeah,

of course. I mean you know, like there's also a whole situation where um they're they're kind of having to see how much money they're going to make off of this, and I just sort of feel like, because there haven't been more of them, like it's not doing well, you know what I mean, Like because even troll It Trolls did well. Oh yeah, yeah, that's why Universal came out and was like, hey, this may be the way forward. See,

I didn't hear that news. I and I just noticed that, like I would have thought there would like Wonder Woman for example, that was just about to come out, and like I would have thought maybe they would have dropped it in the O D. But you know, they haven't done that yet. I just wonder if they're just hedging their bets and waiting to see because oh, I know you're talking about I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to to gloss over what you said. Is this you're talking

about the theaters that like, did you reduced pricing? Uh? There. So Universal came out after the success of Trolls and said, the CEO whatever made this statement of kind of like, hey, even when things get back to normal, we might do some of this like in theaters and at home. And the whole way theaters work is that windowing period. And so a MC said, you know what, We're not gonna

show any more Universal movies in our theaters. And then Regal came out and said, you know, we're not going to show any more Universal movies in our theaters because you're breaking a a pact that's been in place since the beginning of film, which is that we get a window to show these things and then it goes out

on video on demand or DVD or whatever. So it is, do you think there's obviously there has to be to some degree like a formal agreement with some sort of union or some sort of like you know, group that represents all of the theaters or I think there's an agreement in place, but I don't know now that you mentioned that, because they couldn't just Willy narally break that.

It may have just been like, yeah, like, hey, this is just how it works, because it's always been yeah, like, we'll go out of business as a movie theater if you start doing this, or as a movie chain. And then there's people saying, like, AMC even letting your chain go downhill for years with shitty screenings and poorly behaved patrons and high price snacks. So a lot of people are welcoming this. I'm someone who thinks that you've got to keep theaters alive. Man, It's like, there's nothing like

that experience. I I agree with you for certain movies, for sure, but then there are some that I would be much more likely to just casually check out on demand, for sure, than if you know that. I would never go to the theaters to see you know, Emma, for example, but on demand I might check it out. You know.

So I agree with you, but I almost wonder if that means theaters are going to become more niche and it's going to be more of like that Alamo Drafthouse or like you know, Nighthawk or like those kind of more interesting, very curated, and the experience is very geared towards people who love going to the center the movie. Yeah. Man, I read a really interesting, super long deep dive article on what they think the future of entertainment is going to look like. And I can't remember where it was.

I'll see if I can find it and post it. But someone wrote a really well thought out its idea of what this might look like. And basically it's like, what's going to happen is like Amazon is going to swoop in and buy Regal and a MC, let's say, and movie theaters are not going to be just movie theaters anymore. It's going to be an entertainment complex where you can go pick up your Amazon package and you can go watch your favorite Amazon thing on a big screen if you want TV show, or you can watch

a movie much more like individually geared. And then it had all this other stuff that was um this entertainment complex as well, all owned by Amazon of course, and I could see it going in that direction absolutely. I mean, if you really think about a movie theaters are kind of a one trick pony and considering how expensive real estate is, probably diversifying isn't like the worst idea in the world, um or making it more Niche like the Alamo situation where you go there because you know, no

one's allowed to behave badly. People will get kicked out if they talk, you know, like they have really good food and beverages and like that. The whole system is reped towards like a really lovely experience, whereas, like you said, amc Chains, it's a ship show and you never know what you're gonna get, and it's like a total crap shoot as to whether you're gonna have a good time or just be piste off and feel like you've wasted your money. Yeah, here it is. It's um. It's a

really great article. It's called Prepare for the Death and Rebirth of Hollywood on Medium dot com by Richard Jaynes. And uh, it's it's an interesting read, man. I mean, this is all this one guy's opinion on what do you think might happen? Um. But he makes a pretty good case. And you know, the Amazon's I think look for uh, and he saw about Disney as the other one, like Amazon and Disney might just buy up all these theater chains and make these big entertainment complexes and like

special screenings for prime members. Uh, they'll mark it directly to audiences about their own platforms. So there's just a lot of synergy. I think that a company like Amazon or Disney could could do with their like retail legs, and Disney would have Disney stores of course, all in there. And uh, pretty interesting stuff. Oh e sports, they were talking about incorporating sports because that's such a huge thing. Cafeterias and restaurants, gamers, gamer zones. Very interesting stuff now

for sure. So I think that's enough on the Uh, we got pretty much sidetracks, but I wanted to see before we wrap what you've been streaming if there's been anything new on your list? Oh so much? Um, well, not so much, but a decent amount. And I finished better call saul in in real time. I've just been buying him an episode at a time on on Amazon. Um, let's see what have I really been enjoying. Oh yeah, this. There's this new show on Netflix called The Midnight Gospel.

It's a very like psychedelic cartoon um where it's the creator of Adventure Time, Pendleton Ward, who is just a

you know, incredible mind. Um. I always thought Adventure Time was one of the coolest kind of like adult kids cartoons that really kind of dipped its toes into sort of psychedelia and that kind of yellow submarine, you know, the point kind of animation style from the sixties, And with the Midnight Gospel, he takes that and just pushes it into the stratosphere and it's super adult and it's a collaboration between him and Duncan Trustle incredible weird, weird,

oh comic bordering on like a philosopher poet kind of guy, and it's just great. I don't know how el's to describe it. It's really hard to because there's so much going on in the background. It takes excerpts from Trussell's Duncan Trust All Family Our podcast and and kind of animates to it. But it's all these discussions of like Buddhism and and drugs and addiction and just like life and uh death and just anything you can think of, and it's really um, it's it's a lot, but it's

it's wonderful. I highly recommend second out at least a couple episodes and give it a minute because the first two might not grab you fully, but just get their short and just just kind of give it, give it a little bit of your attention. I think you'll feel well rewarded for it. Yeah. I gotta check that out, um. Frequent guests Dan Bush was talking about how much he loved that on his Facebook page, and uh so to get a recommendation from both you and Dan means that

it's awesome. I've been working with Dan on a project lovely. Yeah. Yeah, Yeah, Dan's awesome. Yeah. Cool, dude. I can't wait to get him back. I wish he had a home recording deal. I'll love to get him back in here, or maybe he does. I'm gonna check in with him. Alright. No, well that's it. We're only gonna do one today. I appreciate you coming on and making the time. Good to see you as always, and I'm taking we're we're doing

this because I'm taking next week off, dude. I'm recording a little bit extra and I'm not recording anything next week, which will be a nice little break. Very cool man. Enjoy and thanks for everyone for listening, and we will have no back in your ear holes next week. Looking forward to for more podcasts. For my heart Radio, visit the i heart Radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite show, it's