Mini Crush #158

Morning Times and I had to take my daily meds. Okay, was that real? It didn't even looked like you did anything. No, one was real, very good at it. It was it was a It looked like a pantomime of some of No. No, it was my thyroid medication. Check. I have an interactive thyroid. Isn't getting old? Great? That's so fine, you said. You know it's cool. A pill will fix it. You just have to take it every day for the rest of

your life. Yeah. I'm on cholesterol medication because a it runs in my family and like all my siblings are, even my brother, who's in good shape. But I also love cheese and eggs, egg yellows. You just the yellows. You separate the eggs out exclusively the yellows whites, uh, and fried chicken and all that crap I shouldn't be eating. Also, my goal is to get off those meds and get it under control. You want to get off the meds,

but not off the cheese and eggs and fried chicken. Well, no, dummy, you gotta get off that to get off the med I know. But the way you said it was a funny. Come on, alright, alright, Jack Albright, I'm with you together. I love all those things. Though you know life's too short. Just just I say, viva left fried chicken and just take the pills. Take the pills, put it right in your neck. Uh so, No, I'm I'm quite happy today. We just saw that the annual podcast round Up was released.

The most listened to podcast and Stuff you should Know is right there at number six. It's a comfortable spot for me. Joe Rogan is number one, of course, The Daily is number two. Makes sense, it's daily, I mean, come on, Crime Junkie is number three. Number three Big Show, our old pals Ira Glass and Gang from This American Life, or number four my friends Georgia and Karen of my favorite murderer number five, and we're there at number six. I was hopping to be top five. But what are

you gonna do? You wanna hear my my called Barbaro impression. By the way, we're right there in front of the office ladies, so they can they can get behind us. They're good. Yeah, that's that's just funny. It's an what your impression of? Who? Michael Barbara? I'm I'm Michael Barbaro and this is the Daily from the New York Times, powered by the journalists of the New York Times. Yeah. I can't judge that because I've never listened to the Daily. Well,

it's it's it's remarkable. He sounds very odd and it's like, you know how everyone like has to not everyone but an NPR folk in particular, which he's not. He's in New York Times, but still now he's on NPR. Uh, they like, I feel like they lean into their persona voices a little bit sometimes, And he really he really doesn't he really. I think I think radio has aitendency to do that. We might as well round out the top ten. Old Number eight is Pod Save America. It Uh,

don't listen to that. I mean, these are great shows. I just I don't have a lot of podcast space and I've got my old faves. Number nine is playing at Money. Stalwart number ten is wait, wait, don't tell me Stalwart. Uh. Pots of America is one of the only ones that I listened to on a pretty regular basis. It's a good place to get like your little political junkie fix in every week, and they're funny, so I'll enjoy it. And look at this are old pals at

Radio Leber number eleven. They're still hanging tough. And due to serial is number thirteen they had, they didn't release anything last year. That's really amazing. And I also want to shout out a friend of the show, Dak Shepherd hit number eighteen, Armchair Expert. He has really turned that into a show to be reckoned with. Well, we're we might not have made the top twenty list, Chuck, but something I don't want you to know has been growing

like gangbusters. It's been a lot of fun watching that because we switched to a five day a week schedule and you got to do right. Well, that's the thing about Chuck that now now I I I hear what I hear what you're where you're going with this shot. But let me tell you, I assume that maybe some of our other episodes, not the main episodes, would like get less people listening. But it's been consistent across the board. People like the news episodes, they like the listener mail episode,

they like the classic episode. So that's been cool. No, I love it. I wasn't throwing shade. I was kind of referencing our our boss. It is a funny philosophy, which is like, hey, guys are doing great, you want more downloads, start start doubling your output. It's fair. That is that is math. Uh So, NOL, we have a special guest coming in today. Pop quits hot shot. It's okay. And so what I'm gonna do right now is I'm gonna see if we can do this in real time

and send a little invite two uh, said guests. And what's fun about these, as everyone knows, is that NOL doesn't even know who's coming in. I don't know nothing. You do know nothing. So let me see here, where is this person? This person right there sending this invite, and we'll just kind of shoot the old ship well said guests, said surprise guests makes their way to the email. I don't know if I can make civilized conversation yet, Chuck.

These pills aren't properly coursing through my veins yet. I'm still I'm still up. It's the fact. It's not the fire had met the Jackson up. It's the it's the secret supplement that I take in addition to it. Oh well, it's just just sing. No, do you have a little gray stripe in your hair? You didn't notice that before? I totally do. I have never seen that before. What is going on there? My friend? It's like my startorial superpower? Now?

Is that something You've always had? It? Not always, not since I was a small child, but it definitely started forming. And people, you know, hair people in particular, like you know barber's are always like remark upon it as though I've done it, like in some kind of you know style thing. But it really just this is one little stripe of perfect gray. No. I've seen other people. I mean, it's a thing. I've seen other people that have a

little stripe. But when you say it came on it did it come on as you aged or did you have it in like high school? No? I definitely didn't have in high school. Um, it has come on. I it's funny, Chuck. I actually don't even remember, like I can't place in time when it showed up. But it's become more and more pronounced. And I have a pretty good head of hair, so I think I'm probably just gonna go gray rather than like losing the hair, which

I'm I'm pretty grateful for. Well, no, that's great. I'm starting to get a little thin on the back of my head, which is really distressing because I've always had really good hair and this is the worst way to lose it, because like I look normal until I walk away, and then and then like when whenever I see like the back of my head in a mirror somehow, I'm like, oh my god, it's really leaving. And Emily is always like it doesn't look as bad as it does when

you obsess about it. But you know, that's the one thing I got going for me. No one is my goddamn hair. We'll chuck the trick there is just you never have you always just back away, Yeah, just back away, Simpson retreating into the bushes. You know, that's right into the hedge. I mean, I'm not vain about many things. But like I said, I've always had pretty good hair and that's all I got going for me. But you know, no,

I'll just start shaving that ship. What I don't want is to be have a fully bald little circle back there and then just pretend like I don't. Yeah, I gotta say, I've been watching this delight and this isn't stream this I'm gonna preempted to slightly. There's a new uh British pottery challenge show. It's very much in the style of The Great British Bakeoff, but it's called the

Great British Pottery throw Down. Um, and I don't know how familiar with the Great British British Bakoff, but one of the hosts, Paul Hollywood, is very intense and if he likes your your biscuits or whatever, he'll look you deeply in the eye with his silvery blue, you know, peepers, and then give you a very firm handshake. On this new show, there's an equivalent of Paul Hollywood, but when he really likes your pottery, he bursts into tears and it happens all the time, and people are like, oh am,

I gonna make him cry? Am I gonna make him cry? Now? It's the thing. It's the thing. I only bring it up because he has the weirdest hair situation where it's like not even a comb over. It's like it's like he's bald on the top and a perfect circle. But he takes the like surrounding hairs and almost like slicks them inward, pointing towards this weird bald circle. It's very strange. I don't have to check that out because you know Donald Trump, of course, always the hair or the hair,

the hair. It was always about this hair. But it was it was really interesting to suss out what was going on there and the strange architecture that was constructed to I don't even know what the deal is, I mean, just psychologically, what's going on there with that hair? Like like I mean, I know, when you get to that level, you're surrounded by a lot of yes people who are probably including you know, uh whatever, like um stylists and such,

who probably told him it looked great. But I mean, objectively, it just doesn't look great. It's like a weird, weird little duck ass on the top of his head. They actually used to call it that hairstyle of duck ass like like like in the fifties it was more of a greaser thing, but with his it looks like weird kind of yellowed cotton candier. It's okay, no more ragged on Donald Trump's. We don't have to talk about that guy. I mean, who exactly? All right, here this person is

and we're gonna go ahead and let him into the room. Uh, everybody, it is Mr Paul Schneider. H Paul, Paul Schneider is connecting to audio. It's happening. It's happening. Oh, yes, we got the check mark, Paul. Yes, yeah, are you recording? It's the worst man. It's the way you should try using Microsoft teams. I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy. It is. Yeah, it's a d w Yeah. I remember. I remember them being all the rage when I was,

you know, in college. But someone just dropped this on me because like they made a record with this, like rich financier who bought this kit and then they just left at the guy's studio for a year. Uh god, how did you got your finger on the pulse? Screlly is the secret record industry finance guy? I want to hear that wood Tang record. I um do we though I don't know, maybe why not talking about a deal with the devil? That's if you if you only not smirked,

it was smirk. They did it. They actually designed the emoji smirk after Martin Screlly's face. Little known in fact, did you did you follow the whole story? You guys with him? And this was it a journalist that he like wooed and she like, you know, fell under his Screlly spell and then wrote a whole tell all article about it. And he's like, shut the funk up, don't talk about this that made him look really it's a whole thing, man. It's like the saga of Martin Screlly continues.

So everyone, Paul Schneider, you know from uh, one of my favorite movies, All the Real Girls. You know him from Jane Campion's uh, Black Star, Bright Star, Bright Star Job. It's a great song by Radiohead. Yeah, it's also a fantastic group with most Death and it's also David Bowie's final master work album. Just putting that out there too. You know what's funny is not only did I get that wrong? Because I'm a fucking idiot is here, and

I typed dark Star. That's a grateful dead banger. I was gonna say, isn't dark Star there in Celtic Metal? Could be, but it's dark dark Throne. That's Dark Throne, Dark Throne. Dark Star is the big, long, grateful dead jam that like, is very famous. You know him from the Outlaw Jesse James, the assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford. You know him from a little TV show called Parks and Wreck. I'm sorry, you know that's not your favorite job, but ah, you know, things happen.

And I think most famously you know him from the Back to the Future episode of movie crunch O Man. That was that was a great, great episode, I think. So you know that's one of the sounds like I'm patting myself on the back. What I mean to say is that I had so much fun making that episode with Charles. It was great. And you and your snooty correcting of all your movie titles that I'm getting wrong. Listen, I've got an eight month old. I've slept about negative

four seconds between last night and this morning. So about to say congratulations, but that in this context might not be the right I remember those days. Dude, it's it's it's a lot. Oh, it's a lot. You know, it is a lot. And and I just didn't want to be the guy that says it's a lot. So I was gonna say I would only tell I would only

tell you guys. I would only tell you guys, except I think there's other people listening, and I am I'm I'm actually in my closet right now, because in New York City you only have a few a few rooms to the places you live. So we actually we woke the girl up out of her slumber and now she's upstairs zooming with special needs kids that my wife is helping right now. So it's a I mean, that is one cute baby. I wish we could just plant pictures all over our page, but you know, we respect your privacy.

But that's one of the cuter babies I think in the history of people. I mean, I it's funny when we were when Theresa was pregnant, we would lye in bed and she would say, uh, please God, all we want is a baby who was cute and healthy, and I'd say, babe, babe, babe, baby, it's health, the and cute, you know, like we're gonna And she was like, well, let's just lord cute. And I'm like, han and she was like yeah exactly. I was like, I don't know, so listen, I guess every baby is cute. I I guess,

but you know, not true. What are you gonna do? Uh? The Remember the advice I gave you early on was that, um, that it's okay that to admit that it's hard and that it sucks sometimes like parents need to be easier on themselves. Man, sometimes it's a pain in the ass, and it's okay to say that. Man. That Instagram sort of that that Instagram perfect parent perfection saying is really real. Yeah. I was talking to my friend and I was saying, you know, hey, let's I start and a little bit

with you too, Chuck. But I I I kind of started like a little text thing with my friend who has a kid as well, just a couple of months older than mine, and I said, let's just bitch back and forth. We don't need to tell anybody, and we also we also don't need to give the PostScript of but also I love my daughter like like, we're not

We're not we're not psychopaths. Like we can be upset about the fight we just got in with our wives or the financial pressure or the no shop or whatever, and we don't have to then say but also, of course, of course I fucking love my daughter. Of course she's the best thing that's happened to me. But like right now, I'm in a closet, you know, clawing my way towards some kind of male fellowship that is completely divorced from my life. You know, Like you talk about the female

energy in my house. Yeah, well you know, uh, Nol's got a daughter. I've got a daughter. There's female energy all over the place and it's great. But also just just a shout out to my wife. Because of COVID for a moment, New York City wasn't allowing partners into delivery rooms and so and so I was going to have to take Teresa to the hospital and just wave and say, you know, get after it, babe, hope it goes, honestly,

and we were terrified at the prospect. And so we quickly, you know, kind of reversed course and got a midwife and we got ourselves figured out, and Teresa had the kid at the bottom of the stairs in our apartment in a pool. No drugs, and drugs are fine if anybody needs to have drugs and do it that way. You know, you know, the pressure on women to have quote unquote the perfect little natural childbirth moment. That's also

a whole another ball game. But the fact that that she had it in the living room and it all worked out was It's it's been a year. I mean it's been a year for everyone, but wow, that's incredible. Yeah. Well, I'm getting videos of her dancing to uh far side all the time I spend all the time I spend

on the shifter. Nowadays, I'm just racing through my my music on my phone thinking, you know what, you know what heavy metal song is gonna go with the you know, with the video of of my daughter learning how to put her head in the oven. Bathroom time is key, my friend, that is key. You know, that's like the alone time, the only alone time you can get there. Oh man, it really is so Schneid's. We are here to put you through the ringer with pop quiz hot shot and tell you the worst you are, the more

fun it is. Don't sweat it. Oh I'm sweating it's I'm sure you have not heard this bit yet, but this is a segment where I asked ten questions with three uh movies, like name three movies that blank for each one for a possible thirty points one point each. You get partial credit, and Nol is our scorekeeper. If you can get it together this time, Nolan, two columns.

It's not very with marks. I joined the club. A listener, a lovely listener, actually sent me this beautiful split column score keeping notebook, but it's in the other room, so I'm not gonna When my wife and I played Jin Rummy, she actually gets a magazine to keep next to her to read while I try to tally. Okay, this is really important. What is the difference between rummy and jin Rummy? What is the gin add to the game of rummy.

We've we've actually had this conversation, and my family has always played the like ten cardin rummy thing where you get like, you know, two of a kind, too of a kind and and uh and a run. But we've we've we've tried to answer this question for ourselves, and we haven't come up with a with a reasonable answer. Because I recently learned rummy and I love it. I'm not great at it. I taught it to my kid. She immediately just blasts me every time we play. But I love the game. It's a lot of one and

I want to get better. But I just I was interested that I thought at first they were the same. Some people call them different things, but they are slightly different, but not like entirely different. Well, I don't know if you guys have friends or wives or whomever who kind of grew up playing games with their families. These people are hardcore. Yes, my wife is this. You know, she's an amazing calm. You know, she's an occupational therapist. She

works with kids all day long. And you put any game in her hand and she's like she become oh yeah, she's yeah exactly, She's like Benito Mussolini. Um, yeah, Emily and I are pretty competitive. Um there's a thing in our house where she is a sore winner. Uh, and she wins a lot. So like, there's a very famous Monopoly game that went on, just a two person Monopoly game, which is so boring, but it went on way, way,

way too long, and I was just destroyed. I had like nothing less and she was, you know, owned everything, And I was like, can we just throw in the towel here, like I can see that, And she's like, no, I want your last fucking dollar. And I got mad and we still I mean that was twelve years ago and we still talked about that game of Monopoly. You were like a deer on the road before broken legs and she's above your head with a cinder block. She's like,

I gotta put you out of your misery. You're like, no, no, I think I can go to the vet and get better. Over did not go over for you? All right? So pop quiz hot shot. We got ten questions with three answers each. Um. I tried to there are a couple in here that we're a little Schneider friendly, because I don't want you to do poorly. Bring it, bring it all all right? So here we go with number one,

Paul Schneider in ten seconds. I didn't tell you it was five points five points per right answer, what's the deal? One point? I'm about to screen punch you. It's one point. Yeah. I just was making sure we haven't done this in a while. One Okay, I'm good. It's a total of thirty. Can get in the end, one per got it. I'm ready, Yes, shenides, I forgot to mention. That's what makes it hard is that you got ten seconds. Bring it. Okay, let's do it. It was not very cool. It's cool, but time starts

once you're finished with the last question. Time starts very nice to clarify, correct, I will say, like starting now, and then that's when the time about. I'm a big wait wait, don't tell me, fan. We were just talking about them actually top top ten podcast. Um, all right, I just want to make sure what we'll always go through this with what I use? Does everyone feel good

about that pleasant? Pleasant town? I would say, okay, all right, Paul Schneider in ten seconds, name three movies with the word star in the title, starting now, Starman, Star Aid and Bright Star Boom, Wow, holy sh it, almost as if you knew what I was gonna ask, star AIDI uh about the story the story of Dorothy Stratton and the guy who murdered her and his name was Paul Snyder. Oh, that's right. And why are one of the legendary creep

husbands murderous creep us? Exactly? Was he played by Eric Roberts? And that I think so? Yeah, and Dorothy Stratton was who was it him? Yeah, I think you're right, was it? Oh? Yeah, I can't remember, but I bet when Eric Roberts was born, the doctor looked at him and said, you're going to play creep husbands starting in thirty years. That's right. And your cousin is it? Cousin is Julia the cousin? I never put that together. Is that a sister? Honestly, this

ms have been a question that I've never googled. Alright, nice job, three for three. All right, you're getting the hang of it. Okay, Okay, pol Schneider. In ten seconds, name three movies featuring, not necessarily starring featuring Michael J. Fox outside of the Back to the Future theories starting now. The secret to my success? Um, oh man, secret to my success? Um? This is? This has got me. I know. See,

it's tough when you get locked in like that. We would also accept, uh, doc Hollywood casualties of war and Light of Day, a few of those other casualties of war. Platoon light it kind of was Hamburg Hill, Hamburger Hill Heavy platoon light. Okay, one out of three. Not bad. It's really true about locked into back to the feud, like you really to think of anything else? Yeah, you really think family ties back to the future. Yeah, man,

you're right, all right, you know, while you keep the score. Yeah, we're We've got four four total points thus far. All right. Paul Snyder in ten seconds, name three movies that take place and are set in large part at sea, starting now, Um Titanic, Pirates of the Mutiny on the Bounty, and dost Boot. All right. I would have accepted Pirates of the Caribbean, you know, I just didn't. I feel like that was low hanging fruit. But you know what you did.

They're the rare about face about face usually in about face, and your really fun. That's all you can think of, as Johnny Depp after that? Yeah, true, true, true. Maybe going a little sleep is good. M hm oh man, I'm telling you guys, I have never seen dust Boot pretty good. Great? Is he the guy that did the

never Ending Story? Wolf did? He did the never Ending Story That was an important movie to me and the one that I and also I grew up in Germany, and like all of Never Ending Story was filmed in Germany. It is even a weird little Never Ending Story museum where I grew up. Um, but yeah, he's he's German as hell and he did that strike a lot of great movies. Yeah, I hope that the museum was massive. It was very much not it was like four acres.

I just I wish I had this VHS. But there's like a thing where you could ride on the dragon thing Falcore if you guys remember, with a fan blowing in your hair and like a green screen behind you. But it was like really old school technology and you'd get it on a VHS tape And I do not have that, and I wish I did that. That um that uh, that monster or what dragon furry dragon or whatever? He was very um king what's the King Cavalier dog?

It's like that King Cavalier Spaniel, the King something. Yeah, he's got the same exact face sort of does. I've never seen that movie, believe or not. It's yeah, it's a little old for it and it doesn't necessarily hold up, but it was. It was. There was some parts of it that really freaked me out when I was a kid. But yeah, I've watched it recently and it's a little

not great. But there's a part where like the Trey you character his horse drowns to death and the swamps of sadness, and that's been meaned like crazy about like you know him like reaching his hand into those mud while the horse is disappearing, and it's like you know me, like one or whatever. Things like that, right right. I really hope Movie Crush does an episode of children's films that went a little too are like returned to Oz for a start, yea, absolutely, Oh my god, the fields

of Blood and like the strangling rabbit and the barbed wire. Yeah. I actually I think I was looking at like the bf I one hundred or something and they put Pinocchio down and I I, I gaffled my friends like Disney plus password or whatever, and I watched Pinocchio I think, for the first like kind of start to finish for the first time the other night, and that all when the kids turn into donkeys. That was disturbing, really disturbing. There's also a part where he smokes a cigar and

like turns really green, like he's gonna vomit. And the last one for me really quickly because I thought of it last night. The care Bears movie from um It's got this like creepy amen that exists in this like magical grim wire. That's like trying to remove all the feelings from the world, and it's really genuinely terrifying. That's I love the idea of removing the feelings. Yes, okay, here we go. Let's get back to the game with Fa Schneider. Ready in ten seconds? Did you keep scoring

that last one man with seven points total? All right? Uh? Name three non comedies featuring Robin Williams starting now, Dead Poets Society, one Hour Photo and um Insomnia. All right, boom, very nice, good job. Any boy you beat the clock on moutain. I think there should be um maybe some kind of uh points algorithm for how fast the answers? How should I change my game? No, I'm just listening. Listen these days, these days in my house, I'm declined

for any recognition. You know, that's not a bad idea. If you name like all three before the five the halfway point, maybe you get an extra point or something. Yeah, but don't give no more than you know, like, let's I'll consider it for the future. Enough for this one, but you can come on again with the new rules, the Schneider rules. We're old, old men, now, I know. We're having so much fun though. All right, this is

a good one. Paul Schneider in ten seconds, name three movies about brothers starting now, Um, step brothers, um brother Uh brothers, Oh, weird Science, and gosh, that's a really good one East of Eaton. Okay, you didn't get used to being out. I didn't. I will give you step brothers, even though they're not brothers. I will give you, uh, strangely, I will give you weird Science. I wouldn't say it's about two brothers, but it does feature two brothers that

Bill Paxton, so I'll give you both of those. We also have accepted brothers McMullen, A River runs through it, Darjeeling Limited Uh, and other movies famously about brothers. All all three of those films. I could not be less interesting. Really, I know, Oh my god, dude runs through it Classic So it was dar. I never saw that one. I sort of. I have my It's good, I have my peccadillos with my my by Sanderson things. I feel like you should get a point for st Pecadillo. Yeah. I

just for to say that the other day too. Weirdly enough, I've heard you say that before night, So that's that's one of your go to Oh man, i've I am turning into Carol and Schneider. Is that mom? Yeah Caroline? I mean what, well, it could be your wacky aunt. Oh man, No, no, the only one. Okay, all right, here we go. You should really nail this one. I really hope Mannequin is one of the answers. Oh ship, I can, I can mix it up. Kim Cotrell, Andrew McCarthy.

Uh name in ten seconds? Name three movies directed by Jane Campion. Oh, Um, Dinner and Ancient at My Table, Ship, Bright Star at the Piano, Portrait of a Lady, Uh Sweetie, um showing off. I like it? Yeah, I like it all three No bonus points, but good job. It's funny. That was the most. There was a moment of panic where I I really couldn't. I really couldn't think of anything. She she liked the best to work for. Yes, yeah,

it was really It's funny. Me and her had to have a bit of a breakthrough because because you know, she's the reason why I went to film school, Like like period, there was no other reason why I went to film school. After I saw the Piano, I went from I don't like I went from thinking that my future was smoking pot on the Blue Ridge Parkway to uh going to film school, and it was solely based

on the piano. And then years and years go by, and then I was actually standing in front of her, working with her, and I sort of had to kind of take a few days to pop the bubble and start actually working, you know, and not just sort of staring at it. Yeah, yeah, kind of um or not just kind of like looking at my surroundings and saying, what am I doing here? But it's good because you know, movies are good because after you do pop the bubble,

it's just it's just getting down to work. We're all trying to do this thing and and and it does become a workaday experience regardless of who you're who you're standing next to. But it was a great movie and fun to do a period piece. I'm sure, oh man, that the costume does the acting for you. Yeah. And the fact that I gained twenty two pounds for that, Yeah, I guess you were a little thicker, weren't you. It's funny because I say twenty two pounds, like, oh yeah,

I gained twenty two pounds. I probably gained twelve pounds for that the camera out of the other ten. Yeah exactly, Um, yeah, no, it was, it was. It was. I'll give you a long story later. I'll give you both a long story later. But yeah, it was a real life changer. I gotta say a Jane Campion thing I think people maybe don't even associate her with is the TV series Top of the Lake. With just saw the first season. It was lastic.

I thought it was so good. It was. And also I should definitely give a shout out to Jane and Chapman, who is her producer, who you know, she's kind of like the you know, the woman behind the woman in this situation. She's just an incredible producer, like she makes Once you kind of watch her produce, then you understand, oh, that's what producing a movie is. And she's, uh yeah, she is quietly a little bit like Polly Platt, you know, like Polly Platt on on UM the Last Picture Show.

You know, she said she was they said that she was kind of behind Bogdanovitch a lot, sort of making things happen. And of course, and this is this is not at all like Jane Campion. This is specific to that. But of course, Bogdanovitch, you know, sucked up, you know, cheated on Polly Platt, started David Sivil Shepherd completely disregarded Polly Platt and then um took all the accolades. But at and full circle. He dated Dorothy Stratton later on,

didn't he did? He? I think so? I can certainly see that because she was in a very she was in a her last movie I think was they all laughed. I think kind of a not not great Bogdanovich movie. And I think he dated Dorothy stretton. Yeah, and again I need to say that that you know that analogy has nothing to do with Jane, but again that you know those kind of those quiet geniuses behind that. The genius Woody Allen has the same type of situation. But

I'll tell you about that later. And you know, I think she was he was dating her when she was murdered too, if I might have that wrong, but wait, very grizzly, truly alright, you know it's number seven in ten seconds, name three movies about painting as in an artist painting, Um Pollock Um, the Big lobal Ski and that van Ko movie where it's all cartoons. All right, we'll accept Pollock. I will not accept the Van Go movie with its cartoon. I mean, I said, Big Lebowski

is about painting, but there's a great painting scene. Rug. I mean, you know, if anything, if there was an art object that movie revolved around, it was a rug. You know what? You know? No, no, what's genius about this? Uh? This ten second rule on the quiz is that you get locked on an image? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. All I can think about was Julianne Moore strapped swinging towards me, and I was like, Paul, you got about four seconds, right, Uh,

what do you think molds are? We give them that? No? No, no, no, no, no, come on, all right. We all also would have accepted b skiat frieda portrait of a l the on fire, et cetera. And there's a yeah, there's a there's an Immanuel Barrett movie that is that's French film that I saw about about painting. That's unbelievable. There's a Pollock story that I've told before. I think that I'll mention real quick in the DVD commentary which I used to watch a lot of uh those I did for Pollock and

Ed Harris, who directed Pollock notory is sort of grump. Uh. There's this one party scene where the camera's just kind of going by and there's this extra that's kind of mugging a little bit, and Ed Harris just goes fucking extra as the camera moves by. In the DVD commentary, it's great until he was just so salty, is like, god damn it, I couldn't cut around this guy, this asshole mugging in the back of the scene. And and actually he's uh to to to to to amplify his

salt nous. I was at the Sundance Lab one time and apparently I was in he had just left, and I took his you know room in one of the rent and houses they have, and so, um, you know, when when the assistant was showing me, like okay, this is where you're staying, I was like, all right, cool and she was like, yeah, Ed Harris was here you know, um the other day, and so he was the last guy to have this room, and I said, oh cool, yeah, amazing,

And I love that Harris. And so I was, you know, I was in this room for a few days and doing the Sundance Labs and everything else, and then um, a couple of days into it, I went in the closet and found this gigantic jar of stickiest sticky sweed. It was like now, it was the brownest sticky. It was like honey comb. And I was like, man, and I started sniffing around, and I was like, oh, yeah, he smoked so much pott in here. So to be that stoned and still be that salty, Yeah, yeah, imagine

what he's like sober. That's that's salty. That's great. I love that he left his sticky weed in there. He just left it there for you. He was definitely meant for you, or he just like it definitely. It was not meant for me. And I'm the last person that needs to be smoking weed ever again in his life. So it did. It did nothing for me? All right, tonight,

three more in ten seconds? Name three this is you'll get it here once I give an example no, And I hate to burn a movie with an example, but I have to name three movie titles that followed the verb proper noun naming convention. For example, regarding Henry, Oh this is hard go on being no no, No, I'm being John Malkovich Um doing Mannequin starring Andrew McCarthy. That's kind of tough. No, but they're so many chasing Amy and saving silver Man. I'm sorry, you're right. No, no, now,

I understand, yeah, saving Yeah, can we do it again? Um? Um, did you not sleeping with the enemy? Dancing in the dark, Um in the dark. Yeah, dancer in the dark dirty. I was thinking dirty dancing dancer in the dark, which should be a mash up. That should be a good Ill feel bad about that one. No, no, no, no, come on. I don't want to win like a I want to win like a like a winner. All right, So we got one there, a little unfair. That was stuff. You get a couple of layups here at the end,

all right, nids in ten seconds. Name three movies directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Thirty nine Steps, Vertico, north By Northwest, Frenzy, Psycho, Um, God, Marnie, spell Bound must be like you should get I think you should get a couple of points, at least a point back for that one. It would be a first, but I think it's a precedent we should set. I think,

so let's give him four PARTI him four. I think the crushers would agree, alright, and finally number ten in ten seconds, name three movies written by Aaron Sorkin, starting now, interesting, A few good men, um, the Chicago Seven and god oh social Network. Nice. All right, it's funny you wanted you really want to pull the interesting, older, more obscure films. Given ten seconds, you really have to go. Yeah, you have to skim off the top. Alright, nol, Do we

have a final point total? Double the double confirmational final pass check here counting on my fingers. By the way, Paul, mm hmmm, there's a lot of numbers. He's going, we have life is yelling downstairs. Do you guys need magazines? No, we're good, we got we got this. Um the final tally out of the possible thirty points, with one bonus point awarded for expertise in the field of Alfred Hitchcock film titles. We have twenty four points for pulsion. Alright, Hey,

you know what can we can we? Um? Can we give me twenty three points? Because I really don't want to. I want to. I want to nail who. I want to go for that, you know I want to go for it. No, but I think we've established a precedent now and you I hope you'll agree Chuck that if someone just really wants to, like, you know, bring it home and they just blast out ten in ten seconds,

that's impressive and worthy of a bonus point. I would say, I would say so, but Schnid's if you want to go with twenty three, that's still as who what's the what's the top score? You guys have? We may have had a perfect I don't recall though, No, no, no, no, I haven't had a perfect score. It's really us and did uh Hodgman did? Okay? Well yeah, but he also got you know, it's tough when you got that timer ticking. That's the whole trick to this game. It makes you freeze. Uh.

And it's so much fun. Can you stick around for stream this where we talk about what we've been watching. Are you gonna go? No, no, I'm here all right. I'll start out, I'm gonna gona go quickly on a few things, and then dive in a little deeper on the last thing. Finished, Ship's Creek. Finally, great show, wonderful ending. I was glad I was along for the ride. I missed the Rose family quite a bit. It was very sad. I watched The nights Stalker documentary about the night Stalker.

Have you guys seen that? What do you think? Paul? I thought it was okay, a little long. It should have been probably like a two and a half hour documentary in my opinion. Yeah, I sometimes I get you know, I mean, just like everybody else, I inhale a true crime. I can talk a little bit about Wilderness of Error, which my friend and I just saw, and um, I had some issues with. But what what what I think

is tough about those? Um those it well, I guess part of me feels like there's an ethical issue where it seems like they're just, you know, they're just searching every corner for every possible horrible thing that happened, and there's you know, they're smashing together a quick um, you know, a four parts, six part series. What I had a problem with is is and it was partly in The night Stalker. I have an issue when eight of the information is based on the interviews of two people, the

two cops. Yeah, I know that there were other people interviewed. I get it. I know that there were but if you if you go back through it, the meat of the of of the story is coming out of it was and I'm not you know, obviously they have their valid experiences and everything else. But when we're when we go into those kinds of documentaries, I always want them

to interview a psychologist. Yeah, and talk to me about what you know, Like, I know you didn't know Richard Ramirez, but you know, tell me what's your take on these kinds of people. I always want a little more detail, and not just from the cops experience. Dude, do you know what you need? Have you seen crazy not insane? Yeah? I just I just did the one the lady who pioneered the like sort of uh yep ideas we now accept as maybe truth about psychopathy and uh psychopathy, No,

no psychopathy, that's right. Uh yeah, that's a good one. And that one really delves into the mind of you know, what could be going on here? And Alex Gibney always he's a guy I like because he always gets a little bit, a little bit deeper. He did the scientology doc. He's done, man, he's done at all. But one of the he got very famous off of the Enron story smartest guys in the room right and right right, And it wasn't his most famous one. Because it was sort

of earlier on. But if you go back and watch that, holy fucking shit, you don't talk about psychopathy there. That that's some psychopathy in there. That's some white collar psychopathy. Interesting. All right, I'll have to check that out. M The other thing, I think I might have mentioned this, but I didn't want to error and not mention it, thinking

I had promising young woman, great movie. Highly recommend you that mention that in the last episode, actually, cause I told you my girlfriend loved it until the ending and then hey, that's all her girlfriends felt the same. But I have heard nothing but good things that I even told her that you said that. She goes, well, that's because he's a man. Interesting, Okay, I haven't seen it. I always see um. I always feel like I've seen things because you see the tile pop up on whatever

platform you're watching, so you see the tile. And when Netflix does that very annoying thing where they have that sort of loopy trailer, this is I got to stop this. So I feel like I've quote unquote seen something. There's like a little you know, there's a pixel of a memory in my brain that I've seen something. But no, I haven't it's good. Uh. And then the last two things.

One I watched the great very much underseen. I think a movie from Tama Jenkins called Private Life a great director Slums of Beverly Hills and savages and this is only your third movie and she uh Scott Alexander or Paul Giamatti and Katherine Hahn about a couple, you know, middle aged couple having trouble getting pregnant. And it's very heartwarming and fun and especially if you've gone through that

in real life, it's a it's a good movie. Uh. And then finally I saw and I don't want to get too much into this, especially because of spoilers, but I saw the thing that everyone is kind of talking about now in and of itself. Um, have you guys seen that yet? No? You have not, Okay, And now that you said everyone's talking about it, I feel like a leper. It is something that you can't, um really describe, and it's one of those things that's best to really

go in cold. But it was a live performance done over the course of like a couple of years. I think from this quote unquote magician named Derek uh del Guadio. Uh, he did it New York at this small theater. Frankaz ended up filming the film version of this live performance, and you just got to see it. Man, don't look anything up. It's not a magic show quote unquote. There are a few. I mean, I guess you'd have to

call him tricks, but it is not that. It is a very deep experience, a storytelling thing, and it is like blowing up all over the place. It's really hard to describe. I watched it two nights in a row so much. I did hear somebody that actually on a call recently, is it Does it have some mentalist qualities to where he's kind of like getting in your head a little bit? Or yeah, I mean just I don't want to say anything else about it. Frank like Yoda, Frank Oz film maker Frank so Um, Yeah, highly. I

mean I can't recommend that more. It is very deep, stirring stuff. I want to ask you, guys, when when was the last time you saw a film that you absolutely absolutely had no idea what you were about to watch? Well that although I mean I had the faintest idea and it was a live you mean like literally knew nothing. Yeah, Like, I mean, obviously you knew the name of it or

something like that. But yeah, Actually, Portraitible Lady on Fire I watched recently and I knew it was a foreign film about these two young women and one of them was being painted, but I didn't really know anything else. And that was great. What about you do you have one? I? I, um, the original Old Boy. I ran into a friend of mine. I think I ran into him randomly in front of band in Brooklyn and he was headed in to see that movie, and so I said, sure, let's go, and I,

I mean, that was a great film to get. You know, that totally came out of left field. Say that. I've been this girl that I've been dating for himful of months now. Um, she's really into, you know, watching new movies. She doesn't have a huge encyclopedic film knowledge, and so we have this list that we've been kind of working our way through and we watched Old Boy the other night. It's one of my favorites, and I like, imagine, what must it be like going into this knowing nothing? And

that's how she went into it. And by the end of it, she was like, what the funk was that? I loved it? But I don't know what it was, and like it's that movie is so interesting because it's like simultaneously it's funny, it's like action packed, and it's just absolutely disturbing and has so many crazy implications that you can't stop dwelling on for a few days after you've watched it. And probably she's a more awesome woman

because she does not have an encyclopedic film knowledge. Fair. Fair, I don't necessarily think that that requisite for being a good person. I don't know. It just means you're not spending enough time with your friends. No, it's true. What have you guys been watching his first? Oh, I'll just go, I'll go. I'll go really quickly because this actually sort of applies to what you just asked as well. It's a it's an anime series actually, And I'm not huge

anime guy. I love like a Kira and a lot of the Studio Ghibli films, like you know, the Miyazaki ones in particular, like Spirited Away and stuff, But I'm not, like my kids really into anime. And there's some stuff that she watches that I can, you know, get on board with two. But my buddy is visiting, um, he's passing through. He just moved from Brooklyn and he's moving to a mobile to help his family out for for

a little while, and he passed through it. He's like, let's watch this show on Netflix called Doro Hidoro, And he didn't tell me anything about it. And I don't even know how to describe it. It's basically this sort of dystopian future world populated by sorcerers who basically use human beings as kind of like guinea pigs to practice

their magic on. And there's this whole industry of these like hospitals that are designed to help mitigate the horrific kind of disfigureament and like you know, turning people into weird mashups of animals and stuff that these sorcerers kind of reek on the planet. Uh. And the main character is this reptilian um, you know, kind of like dinosaur lizard guy who was turned into this thing by a sorcerer and he's trying to hunt down the sorcerer that did it to him, because when you kill the sorcerer

that cast the spell, the spell is reversed. But it looks like something that like Mobius would have designed for, like you know, uh, Jordanowski's Dune like, it's very psychedelic. It's like all this mushroom imagery and these crazy kind of gritty city scapes and a logic, kind of an internal logic to the world and the way the magic works that it takes a minute to wrap your head around. It's intensely violent but also really funny. Uh And I just wasn't expecting it at all, and it just kind

of blew my mind. And I think it's brilliant, amazing. Do you smoke pot any more? Either? But do you guys list do you ever list these on the website? No, there's no website. I mean we we had the Facebook page, so sometimes, uh no, we don't listen them. Like just yea, you should throw it out there because certainly there's a fan out there who knows a lot more about squarespace than we do. That's true. Schneid's what you've been watching?

Oh man um Actually the Studio Ghibli uh reference reminded me of I Hate I Hate you in this because I don't remember the title of the of the film, but it's it's a documentary about studio Ghibli and and and Ghibli's films. You noticed that some stuff you want to watch is on like Super super Lockdown, like some stuff you can kind of grab on YouTube or kind

of grab on some platform. And and every now and again, you you you come across this vein of films that these guys have the licensing or the accessibility on Super lock Um, they're all on HBO Max now, every single one. Yeah, now there is. And because um, I'm just so I'm just so cheap, I don't I don't Yeah, I'm always Yeah, why haven't they figured that out yet? Um? I think you know, HBO at first said they didn't care. Literally, remember when they launched HBO Go and they said what

about people sharing log ins? And the head of HBO said, that's fine. I said, you know, we want people to be watching these vies enough people are going to pay for it. We can't police this, so we're not gonna get too worked up about it. This that is a thing that is a that's one of those like economic uh uh sort of rules or phenomenon that is exactly opposite to what people remember when when Radiohead put that album out You're Free right, and people were like, what

are you crazy? And it's interesting that you make more money giving it away from me than you do. Um. Well, there's a certain goodwill aspect that makes people want to support you in some small way, because in general people aren't just like, you know, total dead beats. I mean, everyone wants to get what they want their content. But like, if someone gives you something and you have this benevolent kind of vibe, I'll give you a couple of bucks, of course, you know, and you give them the choice.

You know, I'm giving you the choice to pay for what you think I'm you know, I'm worth um which I paid. I think I paid like for that radiohead. I can't remember, but it is at least double what it should have cost, because I remember at the time being like, give these more money and maybe cover the cost of someone who who couldn't afford it but wants it. Right via the gibli doctor talking about the way it's called the Kingdom of Dreams and Madness, which is a

great title. That's that's really good. I I I'm I'm always I've always been, um kind of addicted to Frontline on PBS, and I just don't to me, there's just no you know, there's just no real long form reporting besides them that I trust. Um there was a recent documentary about to tear Tey in the Philippines and his you know, his war on journalism and you know, obviously that mirrors what we just dealt with with with Trump, but that was herroin UM. There's a documentary called Welcome

to Chechnya. Have you guys heard about this? Oh man, this is UM. It's it's pretty rough stuff, but it's UM. It's not gross or you know, not rough stuff like that, but it's sort of rough on your heart. It's about this UM. It's about a pretty horrifying campaign gets gay and lesbian LGBTQ communities in Czechnia and these people are um are being I'm telling you hunt. It's it's it's like a holocaust for a very small group of people who much of the world doesn't give a shit about

UM and UM. But there was a group of there was a filmmaker, this guy David France, who went in there and he followed around a group of folks who run you know, kind of an underground railroad to get kids, mostly kids out of bad situations because of their sexuality and UM. There's a few moment and some sort of security type camera footage of you know, kids getting beaten up. Um. And I like the fact that it doesn't go too

you know, it doesn't get it doesn't go too far. UM. I mean, look that the truth is is we should all be staring that kind of thing in the face. You know. I think that's my failing for not wanting to see more of that in a in a weird way. UM. But the fact that um that you know, to me, it was like a real hero story. I mean, these people that are risking their lives to get these kids

out of bad situations. And I mean that that that whole issue of kids growing you know, gay kids that are growing up in situations that are hell bent to destroy them. I don't know why, but that's always been Um. Again, I have no real personal experience with that, besides having you know, you know, besides having great gay friends. UM. But for some reason, that's always been uh, that's always

just that can make me cry. Um. Yeah, man, it's because I think I have the same reaction because it's two things that you are don't have a choice about. You were born a certain way, and you were born in a certain place in the situation, and when those two things are at odds. Uh, it's just it's the worst. It totally speaks to me too. And there's something about that. Um, there's something about the expression of being who you are fully. I mean, all three of us are white men in

the Western world. We've been given I mean, my dad used to tell me this when I was a kid. He used to say, Paul, you're white and you're a male. You you're starting way ahead of the pack, Like, don't funk this up. And I'm sorry, Dad, I did suck it up and I'm sorry, but but um, there's something about that. These kids are trying to express themselves. There's one scene where a young man is um, he's dressed

in this you know, sort of grainy video footage. He's dressed what looks to be somewhat effeminately, and you know, they in my imagination back at home, he's in the bathroom getting ready to go out, and he's you know, he puts on lipstick, he puts on eyeliner, and finally he's doing you know, he finally he's expressing himself in this way he's always wanted to. He walks out the front door and gets the ship kicked out of him and it's absolutely heroine. But that's that's not the point.

The real point is it's you know, I actually wrote the actually did an Instagram post about the film at three am, because I started it at I don't know, one o'clock in the morning because I wasn't sleeping and was glued to the television the whole night. Um, yeah, I I wrote about the I may I might have written to the filmmaker that night, but it's uh, it's it's a it's a off story. But the point is is that it's a real heroic story. I mean beyond

you know, super super superheroes. These people are real heroes. What platform is it on? Do you remember that one was on that was a stolen password on HBO? Go? Yeah? Alright,

Uh well, dude, thanks for being here. Is there any thing you want to plug that you got coming up or you want to talk about or I would much I would love to end on a happier note, which is I've been, like I said, I've been cruising through those old Disney classics on my friends password and um I just this morning, when I was sort of awake during my daughter's first nap, I started watching Zentropa or Europa.

Um again that large Fontarier film that I've always loved and that one, and people should watch just real quick. People should watch My Winnipeg. People should watch I Lost My Body, which shut I've already How do you film? Right? Oh yeah, I think I think I might have texted that trailer to Chuck two or three times. It's on the list. What was the other with the Winnipeg one? My Winnipeg by Guy Madden? It's extrait. It's a new he makes new kinds of movies. It's a new kind

of movie. Oh wow, it was. It was a wilderness of error. Good because I don't know that either, but I love it more. I have an issue with that. I have a real issue with that. Mark Mark smirling to me, he ripped Thin Blue Line off so hard it was beyond homage and it became you know, I started I was watching the film after a certain point there was so much that was ripped straight off of Thin Blue Line that I actually had my hands up like this, going seriously, seriously, isn't Harrol Morris did he

produce it? Because I know he wrote the book. Well, he's the main interview in it as well. Um and they used and in the in his interview footage, they used the interratron, which is his invention. And it was one of those films that was it should There was no great ending, you know, there was no great ending. And sometimes you know, you shouldn't start true crime documentaries unless some kind of some kind of yeah it really does and and and what the end says is basically like,

isn't life crazy? How we never quite know what happens? And I was not satisfying ending. I know I could just go back and watch them Blue Line again, right right? Um, all right, well those are good recommendations, dude, Thank you for coming on and taking some time out with a little uh little male bonding. Oh yeah, listen, I'll look forward to I'll check all this on the website. Yeah, this will be on. This will be out next Monday. So I appreciate you coming on, and thanks to everyone

for listening, and we'll see you next year. Thanks, Thanks everybody, Thanks you guys. Movie Crash is produced and written by Charles Bryant and Meel Brown, edited and engineered by Seth Nicholas Johnson, and scored by Noel Brown. Here in our home studio at Pontsty Market, Atlanta, Georgia for i heart Radio. For more podcasts For my heart Radio, visit the i heart Radio app, Apple podcast, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.