Mini Crush #139

house a little. We actually radio to each other. I r L the other day at the office, That's right. It was kind of cute. And then he posted a picture and a lot of people weren't sure which of us was which of us, which I thought was funny. I love it. Man, throw a mask on us, and we're basically the same human, We're basically the same someone. Literally,

you have this cool new haircut, Chuck uh. And you were standing under this dome light on the ceiling and someone was like, it looks like Nole's hair is being sucked up into the ceiling like a flow. Be corrected that person and I was like, who cares? The flow beat was much Uh. It was parodied beautifully in Wayne's World, but they called it the suck cut that sucks as it cuts, and then Wayne, it's sure does suck. Yeah.

We almost got a flow bee in college. It was one of those, you know, very college things to do. Like we're up late at night, you know, doing god knows what, and the flow Beat commercial comes on and we're like, we totally need to get that and have a floe Bee party cut everybody's hair. I don't know why we didn't quite frankly, probably because we didn't have to rub together you know. Hmm, how does one rub nine together? Well, that's as you get a lot of

you get nineteen dollar bills? Okay, got it? Do this? Used to rub them together until they catch on fire. What do you do with the change? Though? How do you do? Do? You guess? You you just toss that in the pile. You can rub those coins, You can rub the coins. You ever heard of anybody that had a condition where they're anti like metal? You don't like touching things that are made of metal. It makes handling change a living nightmare. No, but I could, I'm sure

that's a certain phobia. I guess my kid apparently has a lot of not phobias, but just aversions to texture. She doesn't like the touch, the feel of cotton. It is absolutely not the fabric of her life. Interesting, it isn't that weird? Something about the strings and the way it can kind of get stuck under your cuticles and it freaks her out. Yeah, so clothing or like, what are you talking about? I don't know, man, Like, she could obviously wear fabric. She loves fabric. She's a big

fashion person. But for some reason, like when she she doesn't like the way cotton like cotton balls, cotton swabs, kind of that stuff where like it pulls off, you know, with a string. So she probably don't like cotton candy either. Huh. She does weirdly And now I don't kids, And she's a very she's a strange one, man, but she's she's great. She's actually out in my uh in my house right now watching her baby sister. Um I get to be uncle Nol and she's her weird online school schedule gives

her Wednesdays as like a project and outdoor day. So sometimes we have her sister come over and we hang out together and do like little outdoor things while her mom's working. Well that's fun. It's pretty cute. They buds god ya, I mean she literally her sister calls her mom when she's watching her like like like we to exactly just like webs, but as a sign of respect. But this kid, man, I forget what kids are like.

I think she's three or pushing three, but she runs around circles until she gets like worn out and then just kind of like you know, Cox for a nap time. How does Ruby have that kind of energy? I saw she was doing some exploring. The energy is boundless and all it's it never stops. It's amazing. Like I have talks with her sometime at bedtime and I'm like, you're five years old, Like I'm ready to go to bed, and you're five years old and you're still partying. It's

like it's gotta stop. It's gotta stop. Bedtime is not great. It's always She just doesn't want to miss anything like that Aerosmith song. Yeah, man, I don't want to miss a thing, sweet emotion, all that Janey's got a gun, looks like a lady. I don't know what any disregard all of that. Um, what's been going on? Man? How's uh the the audio book going for Stuff you know? I gotta say, no, we just wrapped the audio book of Stuff you Should Know, an incomplete compendium of mostly

interesting things. I've announced it on Stuff you Should Know, but just for the movie crushers benefit. Uh, it is not twenty seven additional podcast episodes. Uh, it is. You got to read the book, Like, you can't just go in there and riff and do your thing. So we decided it would be really weird to have Josh and I like just swapping lines and just doing a read

like that would probably freak people out. So we took turns, like I read my chapter as he read his, uh, and I think we ended up reading like some sidebars and bulleted lists on each other. So, and they're going to kind of cut those together. But it's an audiobook read, you know, it's not it's not a ton of fun to do. I think we did a good job, but you know, I'm used to this kind of stuff totally. Yeah, I was gonna ask what that's like for you. You're

not used to mean not that it's scripted. I mean you obviously had a massive hand in writing the thing. But you're still reading something that's pre written and that's not typically your wheelhouse. What was that liked? He was an adjustment that we haven't you directed to like added out out of that go, yeah, there's a director. So we we get on a zoom call, I hand the reins over and let some engineer in New York control my computer. And then there's a director. And you know,

he stayed out of our way. He was a good guy. He's inn former. Well I guess he's still an actor who his name is Fleet Cooper uh. In his claim to fame, he said that he was in the movie Sweet Home Alabama, and now he directs and and narrates audiobooks and directs audio books. And he was kind enough to kind of let us just do our thing. He didn't step in too much, um and like actually direct us. He was like, you guys know what you're doing. Just get in there and try and be yourself and read.

And that's what we did, you know. Funny, funny, A little little tidbit of trivia here. Sweet Home Alabama shot in Georgia. It was wasn't it shot? It was shot in um oh, what's it called Crawfordville. Yeah, which makes sense because he's a Georgia guy, so he was cast locally. But he was a good dude, and uh, he made

it easy. Honest. I think I had a I was a little nervous going in that we were going to get some director in there that would like really try and heavily direct us, and we would both have to be like, hey, listen, dude, you know, back off and just let us really gonna need you to take a take, take this down a peg. But he was cool. It worked out, and I think it's gonna be good. I'm looking forward to hearing, uh how they cut it together and stuff. I am too. I gotta say, sort of related,

but not fully related. I really appreciate it, but was also appalled by this massive thread on the movie Crusher's page about how Noel needs to read more books. Dude. Yes, I mean it was a whole conversation you and I had where I sort of copped to like not having really been a you know, read a book in a while now. I did not caveat that with I. I listened to plenty of audio books, and I obviously read

a lot for work. My whole point in that story was I think, you know, a lot of people these days are suffering from like sort of a collective a d D because everything is so like snack able in terms of like articles and tweets and art collective. You know, I think attention span has probably dwindled a bit over all. And I've heard this from a lot of other people, but um, I really appreciate it. But I was also like, oh no, the movie crushers think I can't read, But

that's not what it was. It was some really nice recommendations. But um, everyone will be happy to know that I have picked up a Clive Barker book called him Magica that I've been starting. I started a while ago and

put it down. Been enjoying that. But I've also really been enjoying the Charlie Kaufman audiobook of his new novel uh Aunt Kind, which I highly recommend for movie fans because there's all kinds of cool in jokes about movie criticism, and you know, the character that he portrays in the in the book, his name is b Rosenberg Rosenberger, and he's a film critic, and he makes it very clear that he's not Jewish. He wants everyone to know that

Rosenberger isn't necessarily a Jewish name. Um, he's very hung up on things like race and and odd character. But he also hates Charlie Kaufman. He hates him with a passion and trashes everything that he's ever done. Thing to do. It's a very ry common thing to do, but I've I've been very much enjoying and I highly recommend folks check it out. It it's a it's very something only Kaufman could have done. Well. I'm certainly not gonna yuck anyone's yum who has moved to the audiobook thing or

the kindle thing or e readers. Um, I'm personally enjoy old school hardcover reading. But uh, you know, people should ingest content however they fucking please agreed. Agreed. Yeah, at the same time, people should also read hardcover books. Yeah, different muscle. I completely Well. One thing, one thing that's very true about that is, um, you can't multitask while you're reading a you know, an analog book, you know,

and it just it just guides your attention more. It's much more of a mindful activity where you have to kind of shut out everything else and just focus on the one thing, you know, audio books. I mean it's true with e readers too, but audio books, it's so easy to multitask and think that your attention is fully in the book, and it's not most of the time. So I'm with you, Chuck, I'm totally with you. Yeah, alright, Noel, let's get going with some crushing. Uh. It's political season.

I don't know if you're aware of that there's an election looming. I was trying to pretend that that wasn't happening, but yes, there we're electing a president, Noel, Uh, in the United States this November. We are either going to have the same president that we've had for nine on four years, or we are going to have a different president. Okay, Okay, tell me more. It's kind of a toss up at this point. I'm very nervous. I'm not looking at polls.

I don't care what anyone says about who's supposed to win or not win. Either way, it's already too close for comfort. But this is election season, and so I just very simply put up a post and said, what's your favorite political movie? To see what the crushers thought. And we're gonna go ahead and start bottom up again with t J. Danny new Pal. He says election, I was gonna say the same thing. Yeah, yeah, class politics, high school politics. But it's a microcosmic kind of satire

like it. You know, all of the same rules apply, and you can apply this stuff to like big picture stuff, and all of the in the sniping and nastiness and trying to ruin people, it's all in there. It's such a good, interesting movie, such a good movie. And from the great Alexander Paine, who very sadly was under fire recently. Did you see all that with rose McAllen and the accusation that she levied against him, No, just look it up.

I don't want to get into it. I'm still waiting through that in and trying to figure out what I think about it all. H he has denied some charges that she has levied against him, and uh, you know, Emily and I were doing a along and drawn out Alexander Paine series, so we kind of have to think about how we want to handle that moving forward. But um, it's all out there on the internet for you to read about people if you want to. I did not

realize Alexander Payne did election. Actually, yes, that's an early one. That's interestingly. I think it was his second film. That's right after Citizen Ruth. If I'm not mistaken now that one I haven't even heard of. Oh boy, you should check out Citizen Ruth. It's great, I will he It's a satire on the abortion debate, starring Laura Dern and many others. Really really good movie. Alright. Moving on from bottom up, we have Steve send Zeck. Welcome to the show,

he says, Tanner. I don't know that movie, do you know, Tanner? No, I said, I wonder if it's like a person's name, or if it's about somebody that like makes leather goods. It's very funny at all, Tanner. It's a Swiss drama film. Oh gosh, nominated for for Best Foreign Language Film. It looks must be it. Yeah. Yeah. Xavier Caller is the autour's name. I call him such because he directed and wrote it. Um and yeah, I don't know. And these

are all Swedish actors. Switch. The Swedish language film won the Grand Special Prize at the five Carlove Very International Film Festival, and it was nominated for Best Fore Language Film at the fifty nine. Oh, this is from the A the eighties. This is Swiss drop. Absolutely. David Roselle says, all the Presidents Men, of course, a classic, great, great, great movie, one of the best. Josh Callaghan says Dune. Here's my deal with Done Noel. I know nothing about Dune.

I never read it, never saw the Lynch version. I don't know anything about it. I know they're sand worms. I saw that new trailer. Yeah, my friend Stacy worked on it. Oh cool, and said that Danivea. Lneux is a wonderful, wonderful director to work for. It seems loveliest in interviews he seems very warm and and and cool and not like a awful tyrant. Yes he is not an onset monster. Uh and the you know, I'm gonna

certainly see that movie just because I like him. But I don't know nothing about that world, do you You know? It's it's going back to my book reading attention spam. Tried to get through that book. But I gotta admit, I mean, it's a bit of a slog. It's got a lot of It is very much a political book because it's all about these like political sort of um

intersecting worlds. There's all of these different like echelons of society and sort of like mystics and then these like political leaders, and it very much is about the politics of the world of Dune. Um. Dune is this desert planet where it trades in this commodity called spice melange, which is basically like heroin UM. So it's very much sort of meant to be kind of like the Middle East, you know, with with opioids and like the Opium Wars and all of that. Um. But it's also very much

a science fiction novel. And the a Lynch one is they it's like they ran out of money. You can kind of tell when the movie sort of goes off the rails like it is as I believe it was Dino de Laurentis that that produced it. He produced a ton of stuff, but I believe it was literally a matter of layup, we we ran the money. We gotta kind of rush to the ending. But yeah, if anyone can handle it's it's Villa. Know. The trailer looks amazing and I'm fascinated by it, but had a hard time

getting into the book. All Right, well, I'm certainly gonna watch it, and I will be turned onto that world. I can't wait. Uh, Colin Heffernan says The Distinguished Gentleman. I don't think I saw that. Uh Michael Ormond's Has Frozen two? Yeah, I mean, hell, that was a great movie. I didn't see two. And there are a lot of votes for election in here. I gotta say, Julie deut Meyer, Lauren Duke, Dave Lindquist, they're all thrown in on election. Here's one that I did see, Jason Devonshire top Fan

in Old Palace as Vice. That Dick Cheney. When did you see that with Christian May? Was that the same director that did The Big Short? Is that right? Yeah? No, they looked like they did a good job with casting though in the makeup and looked. I did not see it, but I you know, it was good. It's worth watching. It wasn't great, but it was fine. It's so funny that I'm sorry to backchecks ever so slightly. The Distinguished Gentleman is an Eddie Murphy political comedy from ninety's. It

holds a rating on Rotten Tomatoes, not well regarded. I think that was kind of one of his stinkers. But you know, some people have different tastes than rotten tomatoes. Null. It's true, I know if you knew that, No, Dad, I did. I did. My fellow Americans, Becca lou and Jennifer Mudge old Pal the Mudge and Beccalu chime in

with my fellow Americans. I'm not sure I know that movie, Google and all these This isn't my genre either, like I I. But it's also like typically, I think there's movies that could be considered political that aren't overtly political, and and I maybe I'm more into those or satirical ones. I'm not like you know, in the same way that I'm not like going to seek out a biopic but still might like a real good one. This is how

I feel about the genre of political thrillers. Well, for instance, non Megan Carroll Old Friends says, uh, death of stalin a movie I know you loved, loved it, loved it. That's a good point, because it's very much a satire and obviously is about politics, but it's not. It handles it in like a weird, slapstick interesting way that I appreciate. Now here's one I haven't seen, but I still do want to check out. From Brian poudell uh IDEs of

March the Ryan Gosling movie. I did not see that, but I really wanted to, because you know, I like all things Gossling. You like the gaz love him. I think he's a great actor. Have you ever seen Wag the Dog? I have, and uh, in fact, that was just mentioned on the page by Angela Backle. She says Bulworth and Wag the Dog. I thought Wag the Dog was okay. I didn't love it. It was not one I ever wanted to rewatch pretty very long time, very long time. Bulworth is Warren Beatty. H Okay, yeah it was.

It was a movie of its time. Old friend and top fan Karry o'nels's Primary Colors with John Travolta. I kind of liked that movie. I remember when that came out. That was the Clinton movie. That's the Clinton movie. Yeah, that's right, Napoleon Dynamite. This is from Ryan Murphy. Is that about politics? You know my history? Well, there's there's there's a school, there's a high school president election. That's right, vote Pedro vote for Pedro um. It's sort of a

little a minor part of the story. But I don't know. I support that House of Cards. We got a few people charming in with that. Obviously not a movie. I did not ever see it. Justin Wright chimes in with that one, though I've heard it was really great. Um, you know my deal, and I've talked about it before. I never I couldn't get over that that bad Southern accent from ac So I just I just didn't do it.

I think we watched the pilot and I couldn't get past it, especially because he's he's he talks, He's like in every scene and he's like talking to the camera on rodrissle new when there's like fog, hold on leg on kind of voil. So I do love a barbecue real, but that way it's real bad. I mean, there are some redneck accents, but you and I are from I

mean you were raised in Georgia for the most part. Yeah, but he's meant to be from somewhere real, alright, or it comes from the land of gent trip of Kentucky. You know, I don't know, it's real silly though I can't. You're in the same same deal. You have a thing with accents, though, don't you chuck. I feel like if it pulls you out of it, you're kind of out. You know. It's really hard for me because then I'm just thinking about that and then it pulls me out

of the story. That's true. Mark Jeremany also says House of Cards a bunch of people did. Um, here's one for you know. Alexandria Runyon top fan says Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix. You know how much I love Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Uh, top top political thriller. You know, there's because I mean that Order of the Phoenix is just wielding so much power in the Potter verse, and Harry's got to do something about it. He's got to shut it down. He's gotta.

I'm kiddy, I don't have no idea what that movie is about. The first one, no, no, that was No, that was the Chamber of of of Secrets. No, that was the second one. The first one was The Sorcerer's Stone. Order of the Phoenix was later. Maybe I didn't even see that one. I don't know, Man, you're lying to everybody, know I am. I'm lying, you know, I'm mainly lying to Chuck Is myself. Yeah, that's the problem. Uh, here's a really good one from old pal Teresa. The Sun

Will Come up Tomorrow. Um. Good Night and good Luck the George Clooney movie starring David Strathorn, really really good film. David straight turn He's great. Which one is that was he in good Night and good Luck? No, I'm confusing him with a different name that sounds similar to that. He he wasn't good Night and good Luck? And he's just a great actor. Yeah, Okay, that's the guy I'm

thinking of. Yeah, he's he's classic. He can he can do. Uh, he's got quite arranged because he's he's often times played just like a kind of a good guy, a solid dude. But he's also been a bad guy in a couple of movies and can kind of flick that switch to creepy and intimidating. I love that. Who's he? What's who? What? What? What's been his his villainous roles? I can't I think he was David Strathern villain. Let me see what the old Internet says to say, Oh, wasn't he a bad

guy in l A Confidential? He was a bad guy and the Born Ultimatum, The Born Legacy. Pierce Patchett was the name of his character in l A Confidential, and I seem to remember that being somewhat villainous. Yeah, he was not a great guy in that movie too. I think he was the rich guy, uh that Russell Crowe pays a visit to at one point. That's right. And who's who's got the He's neither one that has like the the sort of gaggle of of uh sex workers that are made to look like celebrities, and he's sort

of the one who's the master of that world. That's right. Yeah, so he can play a good bad guy when he needs to. Alright, Noel, I think we should move on from politics and we're gonna go to the crushers page. Our old pal, Austin Debski had a pretty great little thread going name a movie that would be a nightmare to watch with your parents, which I know that you've got a couple of stories of movies you saw with your mom, right that we're pretty uncomfortable. Well, it was.

It was mainly just one. I think it was Mad Dog and Glory. There's a new Touma. Yeah, but it's also like a pretty steamy scene. Um so yeah, I remember being pretty pretty uncomfortable with that. One. So Clockwork Orange going bottom Up. That's Tim Tim Helmer. He said this actually happened to me. But with a college girlfriend's parents, there was a lot of silence. Boy, that would be tough.

That's a rough one. It's weird for me now, like being my age, I don't watch a lot of movies with my mom, Like she didn't come over for a movie night or anything. If she happens to spend the night on Christmas Eve or something, we'll watch elf maybe. So I don't watch movies with my mom anymore. But back in the day, like especially growing up as a young Baptist, Uh, there was some crawl out of my skin moments anytime there was anything remotely sexy going on screen.

But we weren't a big movie family as far as doing stuff like that together. So it's not like that happened a ton, but when it did, it was or Actually there's the one funny story which is kind of cute. When she took me to see the movie Grease, I wanted to leave during the underwear pillow fight, pillow fight spending night slumber party scene, and I kind of said, Mom, I want to go, and she took me out of the movie and we went into another one. It's so funny.

It was so tame in retrospect. But yeah, yeah, it's always the sexy stuff with the parents that that that freaks people out. Yeah. Uh, and it makes sense, like I said, like I told you my kid. Anytime we're watching something and like someone even like starts to smooch or like get even remotely intimate, she covers her eyes. But she's joking, but not like she basically covers her eyes and goes explicit, you know, like excuse me and appropriate.

She does this like valley girl voice. That's pretty funny. Well, we watched Honey, I Shrunk the Kids the other day with Ruby and a movie by the way, that really

holds up. Those practical effects still look pretty pretty damn good. Uh. And there's a pretty you know, there's that little love story going on with mean the neighbor boy in the in the main teenage girl and they're probably I guess they're supposed to be like maybe fifteen or sixteen ish, and they have a pretty like hardcore kiss at one point, and it's not just like our little first kiss, like

they're kind of getting in there, isn't it. In the rain too, isn't it kind of like, well, they're they're wet. I think from falling falling into puddle that you got puddles. But um, it was definitely a kiss that she probably had not seen before, and I could tell she was just sort of like whoa, Like, what are they doing? Hachi machi? You say that out loud? Yeah, And I think I think I even said something like, wow, you know they really like each other, because like, I don't

know how you handle that when it's a five year old. Yeah, it's it's it's not even within the realm of their like language, you know, blind here. Yeah, yeah, I know, dude, you'll you'll figure it out. It's just all that stuff happens on the fly. You know, he's gonna have a good culver. Matthew or an old friend says anything with banging is awful, Okay, get right to it, which is yeah, I guess not the same as making love. No, no, banging is much more aggressive kind of s e x oh. Yeah. Yeah.

They're the kind where you're like, you start off being really angry, you know that always happens in movies, or there's two characters and they're like fighting and that really pissed each other, and then all of a sudden they turn that energy into pure, unadulterated steaminess. Because that happened so much in real life. Oh my gosh, don't I know it, Benjamin Raither says, Wolf of Wall Street. I could see that. Oh yeah, there's enough stuff in that just from new to tea to sex to drugging. That

probably wouldn't be fun with mom. No, Meredith Rix bind Him says, My siblings and I were watching Purple Rain, and my parents walked in while Prince was doing something inappropriate. My mom lost her mind and I lost my hearing. Was he humping everything around? Is that what he was doing? He was a little humpy in that movie when he was super humpy man during the Darling Nikki or he's like humping around on the floor. Boy. I remember hearing that song for the first time when I was a teenager.

I was very worried that I was gonna get caught listening to it. Oh my god, yeah, very very salacious. I actually watched Purple Rain on a plane recently, and you know, everything on a plane's usually edited for content. It wasn't at all. This one wasn't it made it past the censors? And you know Apollonia is just full on, you know, topless jumping into the cleansing waters of Lake Minnetonka. And I certainly remember that scene. Noel had quite a

thing for Apollonia. Oh gorgeous, gorgeous woman. So what's your favorite Prince album, Noel? You know, I'm not an album person with Prince, so that sounds like a cop out. I have that Prince collection where he's got so many amazing hits and singles, and not even songs that were actually singles or hits, but just you know, ones that just have kind of made it into the zeite guys.

So I don't really have like a full record or a real intimate knowledge of like the the track list, but I just know so many of his his incredible songs. Um gosh, I don't know, like Darling Nikki is Is is a great one. I love Let's Go Crazy obviously, it's just got this amazing energy and kiss And I like some of the nineties stuff with the New Power generation, like that song seven h seven and We'll watch them fun inging you got the say of Love and we will smoke them all and one, and the whole unit

was good. Ever, come back anyway, it's good good. Check it out, y'all. Sort of underappreciated era from Prince the in in PG that's what they call it. We were listening to Prince the other day. I think Around the World in a Day is my favorite. Uh. It's such a weird album. Um, it's it's odd and like all the right ways. It's great. Around the World in Today, Paisley Park, Raspberry Beret pop Life, of course, such a good song, great album, all right, and let's finish up

with a couple of more of these. Let me see here The Danish Girl. This is from David Keith. He said he has Christian parents and said the Danish Girl it's something he would not want to watch with him. Jim Vick says the Human Centipede. Uh, he said, I'm guessing. He said, I've never even seen it. I want to see it at some point, like you gotta see it, right,

did you guess? Now? I didn't see it. It's it's one of those ones that's just kind of like it's just designed to make you squirm and just to like be completely offensive in every possible way. And that doesn't really interest me, not so much and interesting to the point where I want to like, look the spoilers of how gross it really gets if they really want to sit through this like as as well? Well, it's like

why to what end? Yeah, to see if I could take it all ends sewn together head too, but that might watch it. Since it's October, maybe I'll dive in there. All right, we're gonna finish up here with Frank Bowman or Bauman. He says, The Doom Generation, the great film from Gregor Rocky. That's a cool one, man. Yeah, I haven't thought about that movie in years. Yeah. Man, I used to love Gregor Rocky. He made some good movies and I think he's still around it just he's one

of us sort of fell away from my purview. Alright, No, well, we're gonna finish up with stream this where we talk about what we've been watching. I'll go ahead and lead it off with a few things. Um, I watched that Fast Times at Ridgemont High Table read yeah that was it was a lot of fun, and left my review on the page, so people want to go look and see what I ought. I thought it was a lot of fun. Everyone was having a great time. Jennifer Aniston

and Julia Roberts are just national treasures. Morgan Freeman reading stage directions, what was great? Brad Pitt was awesome. I loved everyone, except I didn't like Shyla Buffsteak on it. I see a lot of people do a lot of people spccoli or he played Spaccoli, and he just got superstoned the whole time, and to me, brought a very negative energy to it to what is supposed to be

a teen comedy. Played it a little more serious, and I saw some people that were like, yeah, it was a unique take and you gotta love respect that, And I don't know, I just I didn't think it fitted kind of stuck out like a sore thumb. So he actually got really stoned the whole time. Oh yeah, he was just smoking this huge spliff like the whole time, and I think he was kind of trying to I

don't know, he went method. He was kind of hogging it, like when he wasn't reading, he was in the background, kind of being weird, and I just wanted him to kind of shut up been and be respectful of everyone else's read I don't know if we've talked about this. What's your take on him? In general? He annoys me, but I mean, I think he's talented. I watched honey Boy. I heard it was great. I haven't seen it yet. It's really good. You know, he did a great, great job.

He's got a lot of talent. I think he bugs me a little bit personally, but he's a talented guy. You know. I think he got sober though, I think that was later. He like he he wrote honey Boy while he was in treatment. Obviously he's not fully sober. If he's you know, getting I tooking a big old hog leg. But I mean, you know, I don't know.

I think the thing with with people that I really have addiction in the alcohol department is it's it's really exclusively alcohol, and they can maybe smoke a little weed or whatever here and there, and everyone's got their own journey. Uh. So I watched that. I watch We're on like episode three of season three of Dark finishing that up. Um, it's really tough to follow at this point. I'm doing

my best. I'm hanging in there. Uh. Very rewarding show, but tough, a tough watch if you're not really paying attention. I keep trying to get into it, and I just realized that I'm not paying enough attention. And then I look up and I'm like, I don't know what the fun is going on, and I have to start over. And I just I think I've done that rense and repeat like maybe three times and in the end, you know it just it might not be for you, maybe not. But I love shows like that, like I loved Lost,

I love timey wymy sci fi shows. I think I just need to watch it when I'm really in the right head space to to to commit. Yeah. Uh. And then I watched and all the other night I was in the mood for a music documentary. Uh, And I realized that I've seen a lot of them when I was scrolling through. But I saw one called Other Music, and I was like, what is this about it? And it's about a record store New York's close. I was like, I feel like I've seen this the last bookstores, the

last record stores. But let me take a flyer. Have you seen it? I know about it, I've seen the trailer for it. I know like Animal Collective and a lot of bands that I love called at Home and it was a really special place in New York City. Dude, it is a great, great, great documentary. I just loved it. Um. I was mad at myself that I'd have been going to New York, you know, for twenty five years on the rag and did not even know this place existed. And this was in an area of town. I go

to a lot and where was it? Exict was in the East Village, um near And you know, it's kind of interesting. They did a very ballsy thing. They opened up right across the street from Tower Records and called themselves other Music, like you've got Tower Records and where the other music? Um. But it was a really special documentary and I'm I'm mad that I didn't go before it closed. But UM highly recommended. Cool, fantastic. What you been talking about? Oh gosh, um, let's see I have

been watching You're looking at your queue. No, I'm trying to think because like when when when we last talked about I don't want to be redundant, I talked about how much I loved I May Destroy You. I finished watching that the season finale of that show I think is one of the best I've seen in recent matter. Now you watched the Calcuman movie but I have not seen that yet. I know we're gonna I need to get that under my belt so we can crush it out. I would love to do a crush to judgment on

that one, because it's very divisive. It's it's one that I actually had to do a little, a little supplemental reading on to feel like I fully wrapped my head around it. And I mentioned that on the movie crush page and somebody pointed out, well, with if you had to do that, then was it really good? And that's an interesting question, but I I do. I did very much. There's nothing wrong with that. No, I don't think so either. Um, what else have I been watching? Though? I have been

watching some good stuff, you know. I I've been seeing the praises of HBO Max um though I will say I'm very confused the way they've rolled out that that product, because like they don't have a deal with Roku yet and so you can't and so many people I know that I'm like telling like, oh, HBO Max is so great and you can probably get it for free if you're already a subscribe to HBO or if you are a subscribed to A T and T. I actually got a free subscription um, but the app itself is not

available on many platforms like Apple TV. Are you roc what's your deal? I'm not a Roku. I have an Amazon Fire TV, but it's not on that. It's not on that. I have a PlayStation four and it is on that, but like so many people don't either don't have that system or don't like to stream video on it. They just use it for what you know, for gaming. But um, it's a little weird the way they like rolled up this thing that's supposedly this big like game changer for HBO, and they did a really poor job

at making it available. That being said, I love it. It's got a really cool selection of classic movies for with their Turner Classic Movie section, and it has a lot of studio Ghibli stuff, like we've talked about the n Um and it has one I watched one on it that I had never seen. It's called Whispers of the Heart and it's one of the few studio Ghibli films that isn't directed by Miyazaki. And it's sort of a not particularly a fantasy film either, which is kind

of what they're known for. It's a sort of coming of age film in Tokyo about this young woman who starts to kind of hone in on this guy who might potentially be her soul mate because she notices his name before hers or after hers, and all of the books that she checks out from the library. And it's it's really sweet. Um, it's about creativity. It's about kind of coming into your own as a creative human and you know, just a mature member of society. That sounds

really clinical. What I'm just saying is it's a very lovely movie. And I watched it with my daughter and it made me have some feels. It's really just really nice. I highly recommend it. It's one that I think has flown under some folks writer. And there's a sequel to it called The Cat Returns because there is a character and it's like an anthropomorphized cat. It's only exists as like a uh, kind of curio like doll in this

vintage store or this like antique store. And then on the second one it becomes like comes to life kind of and it's like a whole another spin off thing. But yeah, Whispers of the Heart highly Whispers of the Heart, all right, check that one out. Sweet, Well, No, let's wrap it up for this episode and record another one right after. Uh, sadly, we're not playing our game. You know, people love that new game with Casey. They did, they did.

It's a lot of fun, right, I want to be in the hot seeds sometimes, Chuck, I mean, yeah, well we'll do that, and um, I think it may be fun. There was something about the dynamic of having three people. It was cool. So maybe even when I do it with you, I'll bring in Maybe we'll bring in Casey just to you know, be there to make fun of you, so we have a third person. Casey really enjoyed it, and he really enjoyed seeing all you lovely crushers out there.

It was fun having enjoyed it. It was also a side of Casey I think hasn't people I haven't really seen on this show, because you know, Casey's a very studied movie guy and very deliberate and intelligent with his commentary. So it was fun to kind of for people to see the lighter side of Casey's talking about. I went back and listen to it. It It was really funny, had a good time. Living is a living nightmare, A living nightmare. This is my hell on Arthia. It was so much fun.

But people really love that so uh And I think this might be the kind of thing where I can get in, uh, you know, some of my famous pals to even come on, Like I can grab Hodgeman and bring him in, and I'm gonna I'm definitely gonna do this. Maybe we should try and do it like every other week or something for a little while. Love it. What's it called? Didn't have a name? Pop quiz? Hot shot? Pop quiz hot shot. There you go. From from the

from the movie The Bus Titans. Slow down, all right, buddy, Thanks everyone for listening, and we'll see you next week. Movie Crash is produced and written by Charles Bryant and Will Brown, edited and engineered by Seth Nicholas Johnson, and scored by Noel Brown here in our home studio at Potsy Market, Atlanta, Georgia. For I Heart Radio. For more podcasts for my Heart Radio, visit the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.