Mini Crush #178

It's plural? Yeah, what do he sounds sleepy? I don't know, dude, I just had I've never my voice hasn't hasn't fully woken up even though my brain has. Have you spoken to anyone else today? I have? I had a call at nine am. I spoke a plenty, but I noticed I sounded extra sleepy on that call. Um. No, No, let's see, it wasn't like a constant talking thing. So maybe i'll I'll exercise my old vocal chords on this one and I'll start to sound a little more human.

I'm great to know. I'm have a catch up on our list here, since this is episode one of two that we're recording. Yes, we just had her father's days. How was yours? It was good? Mine took place in Los Angeles. Yeah, let's hear about the trip. Yeah, I went for a work trip and I took my kid with me, and uh, had a little bit of downtime, and she's, you know, into vinyl all of a sudden, all of a sudden, she's just you know, as compared to last year. And we went she's her tastes and uh,

you know, interests have changed, as it turns out. And so we went to Amba and she got some cool records and took it a little tokyo and went to a bunch of like cool anime stores and all that stuff, and went for a drive up Mulholland and had a little picnic overlooking the city. And it was really nice. That was great. That's lovely, knowl Did you get some business done? Oh big time? Yeah. I mean I had like a whole, you know, day and a half working in the studio in the in our Hollywood studio, in

our Hollywood studio on Cosmo Street. That's right. How's everyone doing well? It was. It was one of the first sessions that has happened there since the pandemic. Most of the show's out there still recording from home, but Um, they made some time for me and the show that I'm working on, and I had the run of the place for a day and a half. And I'm surprised. Uh. I would think they would get back into it soon. In person, I would too, and I think they are.

But my session was one of the first that had been done there. In fact, there was some a few pieces of equipment that they had been taken home, um for some remote setups, and they were kind of like, wait a minute, we don't have enough mics, so we had to kind of run around and scramble and get sex stram mix. But it all worked out beautifully. Uh. So, Noel, I'm glad you had a good Father's Day. Mine was very low without going on in our personal family situation,

so it wasn't like a big celebratory day. But does happen right, Oh for sure? For sure. Um. I am actually having a bit of a belated Father's Day cookout thing this weekend because we were traveling, So me and the kid and her mom and her sister are gonna do a little pool cookout thing for like a belated Father's Day. So I'm looking for that. Well, that's good. I don't make a big deal out of Father's Day. I tried to just maybe, uh, spend it with my family.

That's what you want to do, right for sure? Exactly, I don't get the Father's Day. Who you want to like, I want to go play golf all day and be away from my family. No, no, why that's what it's for. It for spending time with the family and the kids. Exactly. Agreed. All right, No, we're gonna get going here with a post I put up, which is you are a film director. This is the game. Everyone's a film director in this game.

I love it. Uh. And you can only cast one one of the actors in your whole movie, and the studio takes care of all the rest of the casting. So this is sort of like, um, it could run the gamut from who who would you just most want to work with? Two if you only had one person to cast, who would be your your ringer to come in and potentially, you know, save a movie from potentially forecasting. Uh. And so you know, it kind of depends on how you take this question and left it a little more

open ended. And uh, it could be somebody have a big fat crush on maybe you're a star and you want to while you would be able to cast yourself, I guess what not well, because you can only cast one, but it could be yourself. Okay, sure cast yourself. But my whole point was you cast yourself to like have a kissy, kissy scene with someone that you got, like the hottie, which can't do that because you can't. That's right, that that that is the imitation of this game. There's

some good ones in here. I mean, I guess this ultimately is like, who is to you the most versatile kind of ringer, you know, actor that you could bring in that would like elevate the production? Right? Yeah, I mean that's one take on it. So we'll start here with old friend Don Morris says Emma Thompson. She could punch up my script. Yeah, that's not a bad idea, kids, the one who can also do some writing? Is that

a thing she does? I didn't know that. I think Emma Thompson writes some I was thinking, sorry, I was thinking of Emma Stone. Emma Thompson is like was married to Kenneth Brannaw for many years. If I'm not I believe she's done some screenwriting. Emma Stone, she can't write her name Noll. Let's be honest. Not that she's a writer. I'm sure everyone's a writer. It's no, but it is like you do tend to run into folks that you know have their pet screenplay they've been working on, even

if they're mainly known for being an actor. That's right, any raw says, I'm gonna go with Carol Lombard. Yeah, we can go with living or dead. I think she was Clark Gable's wife and a wonderful actress in the old Screwball comedies until her premature death in a crash. She'd have been fun to work with. Okay, so there's fun to work with. That's a good one. I mean, do you have one. I really like that dude, Caleb Landry Jones a lot getting this person up. He played

the psychopath with the lacrosse stick and get Out. Um. He's kind of been Yeah, he's he's been cast. I just like him. He's a good he's he's a I really dig him a lot. I think he's a really interesting face. He has a very interesting face. He tends to play offbeat, kind of psycho type characters or the very least kind of weirdos. But I'll tell you, man, he made this record. Um that's called gosh, it's called like White Flag or something like that. Um, it is incredible.

It sounds like Tom Waits meets Sergeant Pepper or something. The dude is like an absolute mavericky kind of weirdo and I love him very much. So that's why you're casting him, because you can hang out with this guy. I want to hang out with him and make some music. Maybe make some music. Maybe you know, smoke some weed or something, some some jazz cigarettes. Maybe might be involved.

I think it's possible. Okay, I get it. What if he was like a straight edge and he was like, I don't I don't party, man, what are you talking about? Watch interviews with him. There's no there's no mistaking where he's coming from. Which which what is that? Which garage he parks his car? Yes, exactly, Rachel Flinger says, Gary Oldman. Sure, talk about versatile Steve Scott says Val Kilmer pre Batman.

He was so brilliant and so fun and so many roles. Uh, And I'm sure he'll get along fine with whomember the studio chooses, right, Yeah, Yeah, I'm sure. Eric Z says Kate Winslett. Yeah, that's really not a bad choice. She's amazing. Just watched behind the scenes of Mayor of Easttown. Did you finish the show. I haven't watched any of it. Oh, you just watched them behind the scenes. No, that's the comment from the listener. Oh, I thought you were saying.

I remember you said that you'd watched one episode of it and then it was too depressing, and then I that is correct. I didn't even make it through fifteen minutes of an episode, but I did watch one of your rex and that's coming up and stream this uh. And I think it's the first time either one of us has watched any of each other's recommendations. I can't wait. Actually that's not true. I've watched a couple of more beers, but you've never watched one of mine. That's not true.

Shock name one, Josh, you had never seen Jaws until I recommended it to you. Just joking. I've I've rewatched it. Let's put it that way, Liar, Rachel, I've watched. I surely have watched some of your recommendations, Chuck, because they're always fine one. Rachel Stone says Sam Rockwell, virsatile and adds so much to every role. Sure he'd be great, Chris Nap, says Philip semore Hoffman. Since this is hypothetical, I'm picking someone no longer with us. Such versatility brought

so much to each role. Hey, yeah, and Nicole sorghum Strom. Seger Strom says Kristen Bell. Such a nice person would make any work experience wonderful plus crazy talented. I think that's what I would do, and all I haven't named one, but I think I would go with someone really talented, but also with the reputation of being like a good person, like good to work with. You don't want Here's a big pain in the ass, but really good. Christina Aguilera. She's known for being a very bad actor. Well, also,

I had a big pain in the ass. Yeah, I think I was thinking more actors, but that's fine. You could throw a pop star in there. Dave link Was, says the Rock. I want this movie to make so much money. Okay, I guess there's something to be said for that, But I gotta tell you, Dave, You're not gonna have a lot of fun working with a rock. He's it's it's he's notoriously difficult on a film shoot, and not like he's a big jerk. I just think it's when you're working with someone of that stature are

hard to make a movie. You mean, like really tall. You know, he's just I've had friends that worked with him. We've talked about this. It's it's all about the Rocks. So it's tough too. It's tough on everyone else. I mean, you don't name yourself the Rock unless you've got a bit of an outsized you go. I don't think, right, I think you're probably right. But no, he's Dwayne Johnson in the movies, right, No, I think he has the

Rock in there, Dwayne the Rock Johnson, I swear to God. Okay, maybe not Johnston is Johnston, Yes, Kathy Loe MCCRAIZI is Stanley Tucci for any role in any movie anytime? Yeah, I love the touch. He's awesome. A lot of people are picking the Rock, all right, they're just trying to make that, make those grosses, you know. Yeah, he's he's probably the biggest bank double star right now. Right, he's definitely a large man. It's true. That's kind of the deal.

I think Charles Ogan says a young Russell Crowe to make a sequel to Master and Commander. Did you ever see that one? I've heard it's excellent. Um I have not seen it, damnit, Chuck, It's awesome. Isn't He also notorious for like being a little bit of a I think Russell Crowe can be hard to work with. Two yeah, or maybe he's just hard in his personal life, because I think most of the stories I've heard have been

throwing hotel phones and stuff like that. Right, well, there was that South Park episode where it's just him like punching people around the world. Um. Have you seen the movie Virtuosity, Chuck? You know, dude, I never saw that. It's not good, but it's like one of Russell Crowe's earliest roles. I think he plays like a virtual or you know how awesome it is when movies in the early nineties try to depict like computer stuff. This one

is no uh, no exception. It's just like it looks like the Sims kind of, you know, like the technology. But Russell Crowe plays like the perfect integration of every serial killer and bad human being that ever existed into one, you know, crafted killing machine that Denzel Washington has to find because then he gets out into the real world even though he's a computer program. Those movies never age well.

If you want to make a movie that doesn't age well, just make it about any any technology like the lawnmower Man. Well that wasn't that didn't age well. Three weeks after it was released by a lot of people are saying the Rock I didn't know the Brock was that beloved. He must be if he's the biggest box office star. He I mean, I sure liked him in Milana. I'll tell that, tell you that. Sure he does that little rap breakdown in that song. Did your kid like ma Wana?

What do you think? It's pretty great? What can I say besides you're welcome over and over and over. Ye. I haven't seen the new Pixar Have you seen that yet? Um? What's it called? Luca? I think I'm sort of see creature. I really don't know any about it except there's some Italian cooking going on. Oh, I was knowing the poster that's like a kid with like gills. Okay, Brittany Geldon, is how I'm gonna pronounce it? Says uh searcher Ronan love historical movies, and I think she's played those roles

very well. That's a great pick. She's wonderful, big fan of Searcher Ronan Terry choked when of Pearl Palaces James McAvoy he cycled through what ten different distinct characters within a twenty second time frame? And Glass I have total faith in him. I think we were divided on class, weren't we. Well, I mean he did that in Split Split right, which I thought was good, and then Glass was like he was in that again, but it was just clearly a less quality movie. Yeah, I didn't love

either one of them. I did see the new trailer though, for the new Him Night Chamlain, I think, yeah, Old Old the movie you go to a beach and you get Old Terrified. I thought it was a pretty cool trailer, but the name is just kind of silly. But yeah, I mean I'll see it. Yeah, for sure, I saw. I think I've seen everything he's done except for that the really low budget thing about the Grandparents, which actually heard it was pretty good. That was good. It was

like the Visitors or something like that. Yeah, it's called Old the Prequel. Yeah, it was just should have been called The Olds, Our oldest of pals. Kristen bits. A guy says, uh, just because I want to meet him, because I think he's charming and talented. Paul Rudd, Yeah, yeah, an angeless, total vampire. I know. I wonder I think is he dying the hair a little bit? He has to be, I mean, and then he looks great with the face lines. But you know everyone gets a little

great old. I don't think you can stop that train. I'm looking at gray in your hair and face right now. You're getting it's like all the parts of my beard that used to be red or now stark white. Yeah, uh, our old pal Stellan Carlson says Adie Bryant. Of course, she's already showing she's got matic trops, chops and shrill and range, plus comedic skills. It seems like a very

decent person. She does seem that way. She was one of the ones that had an issue with Elon Musk being on SNL and kind of like I believe, sat out some of those sketches and solidarity. I think we talked about this. It looks like maybe she, Kate McKinnon and Keenan Thompson are gonna leave SNL after this season. Yeah. With that, those are kind of the power players. Man. Yeah, I mean McKinnon. That's a big loss. They're all big losses. Keen I mean he's been he's the longest running cast

member that time. I'm sure he's ready to do something else. That seems like a really stressful gig. It will get a little bit old, I would imagine after like eighteen years or whatever. Dude, did you hear about or see this Darryl Hammond documentary? No, what's up with him? Is he? Is? He? Uh? Darryll Hammond of SNL. He was the previous longest running cast member before Keenan broke his record. He was the president, right,

didn't he play like Bush or something? He played? He played all the presidents, He did most of the big impressions. That was sort of his bag. But um, he had a very very and continues to have a very tough life. He was severely abused as a kid. Um some of the most awful things you could imagine his mother did to him when he was a child, and he I think repressed a lot of those memories and had addiction problems through his life and then they were uncovered in

with deep therapy. All these repressed abuse of memories and he has been on the road to recovery for a while now. But like they had to take him out of a SNL rehearsal in a strait jacket. He was self cutting, like and you could see scars on TV like on SNL, really really rough life and tough stuff, crack diagnosis, everything romantic depressive to schizophrenia too, bipolar, like

all over the map, my goodness, really really sad. Yeah, it does sound like it sounds like a heavy watch, but probably a very important window into you know, some of these things that kind of go unseen a lot of the times, right for sure. Man, And he wrote a book and then I think was doing the documentary takes place when he is getting together a one man show version of the book. And I didn't know any of this stuff about the guy. It's just horrific what

he went through. Awful, awful, awful. I'll try to hear the stories, nol Um. Let me see here. Jeremy Dale says, if I picked Tom Cruise, will he do most of the rest of my job for me? Yes, he will, Jeremy, you will not have much control after that. Tom Cruise runs that show our old friend making Carol and her cute little cat, says Fran McDorman. She would knock it out of the park and lift everyone else up. She's

super versatile too. I think she doesn't really just like do the one thing like she she she can do whatever she wants. She can do whatever she wants. Yeah, totally agree. Oh, the movie crush debut of Tanya w Cats and all that is not k A t z. You know how she spells her name, Uh see a t z. Nope, clothes c A t s. Her last name is multiple cats. I love it. Do you think do you think she's a cat lady? Do you think it's like nominative determinism? Well, I can't believe I said that.

I bet you she started hearing that question probably, but I had to ask. I had to ask Jack, do you like cats? Do you like cats? Tanya? There was a thread going on the Movie Crushers page about one of our listeners had their name read for the first time and it was a big thrill. Then other people started chiming in about either being read when they were read the first time or not being read yet, and Tanya Cats had not been read, and I was like, I must not have seen you before, because I would

surely jump at that. Titania says, right now, I'm obsessed with Patty Harrison, and I think she's on the up and up. So her Patty Harrison? Who is that? Oh okay, she's in Trill. Oh yeah, she plays the I guess executive assistant office manager who's not a very nice person. She's very funny on that show and annoying a good job. I'll tell you who else is funny on that show. As friend of the show, John Cameron Mitchell, who plays the really egotistical and obnoxious boss, but he's delightful. Yeah.

You know. We started the last season of Shrill and I think watched two episodes and then went on to other things. But we're gonna come back. It didn't hit the right note for me for some reason, even though I love it. John Whitefield's take it with t t Yeah, put him in it. He'd be good to have on set too, because he knows what he's doing, you know. Agreed. Paul Cooks is Bradley Cooper, huge respect for his acting chops. Same goes for Jennifer Lawrence, Patrick Abbotts is Audrey Hepburn,

Tina Hanson Taylor says Audrey Hepburn. Wow. Alex Andrea Runyon says Florence Pugh. Is that how he pronounced her name? She's great. She's the one who was in Midsomer right, yeah, and sort of everything else coming up. She's she's really exploding right now. He's hot. I'll tell you. Who I also think is an excellent, very versatile actor is Olivia Coleman, who is one of my stream This picks for today. But I loved her from way back when she was in the show Peep Show, which is a really great

kind of dark British comedy. Um, and then she's been in all those amazing movies from the guy that did the Lobster and favorite Lanthomos is that the guy your ghost? Lanthormos is the name that I couldn't think of, and that's the one. And she's great in the Crown. She's great in everything that's right. She's in the Crown. To God, she's everywhere. Carlino danger Way, what a name? Says Selma Hyak. Sure, she's great. Old friend Jonathan P. Sispansky says Clooney, he

can do anything. I'd like to have Cloney around he might be my pick. Actually, have you seen that the bit that he does with John Oliver, where like John Oliver can like summon him and all of a sudden he'll just like show up in a zoom window like on the massage table. And then he's like, John, and I gave you this power for good, not and you're using it very frivolously. He snaps his fingers and he's gone. It's pretty funny. Seems like a good dude, our old

friend Robes. Rebecca says Alan Arkin. Great choice. Uh Rick Cole says Denzel, Denzel solid. Yeah, I wonder, I wonder. He seems like a good guy. Have you ever heard any stories. I've heard no stories. I've heard no stories. But I choose to believe that he is good. Uh. Let me see Brandon, my teach, says Catherine Han and love her and everything. Yeah, she's great, boy. It seems like she it seems like she came out of nowhere like ten years ago and it's been everywhere since. But

I'm sure of that is not the case. I bet she had a long road to hoe, just like every actor who works hard. Absolutely, although that's not true. Some people are plucked off the goddamn Street. But then you've got like you're Olivia Coleman, so again you just got

her start. And just like Shorty Meager British comedy that happened to have a second life kind of on streaming in the States, and yeah, I mean I found out about it like from like bootleg you know, uh rips and you know whatever, like rip burned DVDs that my friend would give me back in the day. But that show has gotten pretty popular in the States, and the actually did a remake of it that did not get picked up. But then I love seeing her dramatic work

just absolutely balloon. But she's been at it for decades. Todd Bonnie after my own heart here saying Kate Blanchett, Sure, I could have satisfy my lifelong crush on Kate Blanchett in and direct her as well, although I would just stand back and say to your thing, I'd eat direct Kate Blanchett. You know you can, you can't. Mar Willis is Peter Dinklage. Yeah, I think we just got the goods the movie that he's in this on Netflix. It's called Uh I care a lot, No, it's it's it's

um oh gosh, what's her name? She she was the girl, the gone girl. Who's the gone girl? Chuck oh Man, I can I remember Rosamond Pike? Yes, she's she's. She is in it playing a professional guardian for the elderly, and she's basically running this elaborate scam and ends up crossing paths with Peter Dinklage's character, who is a very scary person. Um. And it's just wonderful movie. I really like it's very dark and sardonic and like not for everybody, but I thought it was great. I think I saw

the preview for that. Actually it looks good. I mean all data when of her old was palasays Regina King. Heck yah put Regina King and everything. That's what I say. Um. Nancy Weiner says sc Davis, Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries and the Babba Duke delightful, captivating and talented. Was Sie Davis the mom and Baba Duke? Or was that the kid? Or was it the Baba Duke? Okay, she's a mom. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. Did they credit an actor? One actor is playing the Baba duke. We're all actors

exactly the Baba duke played by everyone. All right, and let's finish up here. Oh you got an Olivia Coleman support there with old friend kandam true X? Have you pronounced that? That's not right? T r U A X? Is that like traw tre trial? Not sure? Yeah, it has to be that's that's gonna be that soft. I'm I'm sure it's wrong. Uh. And you know what I'm gonna go. I'm gonna finish up here with a couple of our I think they're both Aussies. I know Dan Maynard,

he says Ashton Kutcher. No, he says, might be a hot take, but I love his comedy and I think he's a fantastic dramatic actor. When given the chance, I'll fight on this one. Dan Maynard going to the mat for the coach. What a guy? What a guy? Indeed? Peach Bank ursays Deborah Mailman or Mailman? Do you know who that is? No? But I love, I love, I love the question as to whether it's a male manner man. Okay, so I know, yeah, Peaches and Aussie, and so is

Deborah Mailman. And it looks like a bunch of Aussie things. Offspring read burn now total control the Sapphires, and Peach says this, Honestly, I wish he was my auntie. She's indigenous Australian. She's been a wonderful part of Australian cinema for a long time. I love that, going with the homegrown special. Nothing wrong with that. Thank you for that, Peach. All right, well we're gonna finish up with stream in this.

What have you been watching? Well, I have to take a flight, so I watched a couple of things on the flight. Let's hear it on. One of which is something that I've been meaning to and sort of avoiding because it seemed really depressing, and it was, but it was also wonderful. The Father, starring Anthony Hopkins and Olivia

Coleman and my great daddis. It's fucking fantastic. Um. You know, I have a parent who is aging, UM, and I worry about these types of things, and it is essentially just the perfect kind of personification of what it's like to lose your memory and to have things that were once familiar be terrifying and alien. Um. Because the way what it does, it's so brilliant. This isn't a spoiler it's just sort of like the device that they use is they put you in the perspective of Anthony Hopkins character.

So you're meeting characters not knowing who they are. They don't give you exposition to let you know this is this character, this is this character. And then they start flipping things around and you literally are experiencing it with the same confusion and dismay that that Anthony Hopkins character is, and it just kind of escalates and becomes this like waking nightmare, and it makes you realize how terrifying it would be and and is to get old. Did you

cry on the plane Knell? I did a little bit. I did the single tear rolling down situation that I quickly wiped away. Um, you can control that. You can just send out one tier, squeeze one out. It's a very it's a concentrated tear chuck. It contains all of my emotions and one yes, so salty. It eventually tumbles like, oh yeah, exactly, some finishing salt. It's a very gentle roll, you know, rolls right right on down the old What else you said? You saw a couple of things? Did

you the way back? I watched uh it's a stupid movie I've seen before, but it's terrible. Bosses with what's his name? Jay? Need something light? Yeah, I need something light. And it was also a red eye flight, so I did that thing where I kind of marked time by what part of the movie I woke up during, like I started the movie and then kind of like realized, oh, I had slept because now it's the final scene of the movie or it's like somewhere near the last act.

So I can't do those flights and all, dude, it was tough. I had not done it before. Uh, you can't sleep comfortably on a plane. I don't care what class you're in, you just can't do it. And by the time we got home it was five am Atlanta time, and it was with my kid, and we just like be lined into the house and slept for the rest of the day. It was I thought I was doing myself a favor by giving myself a day back, but it wasn't really a day. But no, no, it's always

a bad idea. I will say, an old first class Virgin Air to Australia, you can sleep good, Okay, God, it's it's amazing. They really take care of you. Uh, let me see here, all right, what have I been watching it? Well, see, I've been I've been watching basketball because my Atlanta Hawks are kicking ass. They're advancing through the playoffs, much to everyone's uh surprise, I think in

the greater NBA fandom. I've been to a game. I'm going to two Eastern Conference Finals games and heavily invested all. Been a Hawks fan since I was ten years old, so this is a big deal. So I've been watching a lot of basketball, so not as much TV. I have been watching Chopped a lot. Do you watch Chopped? I like Chopped. That's the one where you have to like, you get the basket right with all they get the basket stuff, you know. I love Top Chef and I used to watch Chopped all the time when I had

cable because it was just on the cable guide. But I kind of forgot about it when I switched and cut the cord and went to Hulu TV. But then I remembered, wait a minute, I fucking love Chopped, So I found it and I've been watching a lot of Chopped. Ruby calls it. She'll watch occasionally with me. She'll say, Daddy, I want to watch the show with the stressed out people cooking. She says that she does and stressed out

people cooking. And the other a day she was it was this one woman competing and he's two men, and she was rooting for the woman to go home and get chopped. She said, I wanted to get chopped and I said, well, whine she said, because she's a woman. And said, why do you want her to get because she's a woman. She said, because I don't want her to be stressed anymore. Ah, I went all came around and all, it's really sweet compassion for this. She didn't

want to see her on their running around stressed. Sometimes you know that it doesn't happen much now with a travel but occasionally when I'm out of town, Emily will let Ruby get in bed and watch shows adult shows, and then I will do the same, and um, she will watch Chopped with me and Island Hunters with Emily. And that's sort of a special treat. That's awesome and it's fun to hear a five and a half year old say I want to watch Island Hunters. I don't

know what Island Hunters is. I'm trying to guess using context. Clues, but it's like an exploring type show. No, what is Island Hunters. It's HDTV people that can are rich enough to buy a fucking to buy an island, Okay, and these are I mean, well some of them are decent size that it's like aspirational television. It's like it, I like the HDTV stuff if you're into houses in real estate, and I am. We've been watching a little bit more Marble.

I told you Emily's going through these movies kind of slowly. We're on Winter Soldier now, kind of going in order. Uh. And that's with like skipping the first horror movie. I'm trying to curate movies that I think she would enjoy. In that first horror movie, wasn't that great? Yeah, the first one, they were really trying to find what that character was. It was enough to get people kind of on board. But you're right, they did. It just got

better and better and better, got better and better. Uh. And then nol I took your wreck and we finished Hacks in a week and it's great. It's lovely and it's awesome. Jean Smart is so fucking good to see her win awards this third act in her career is just really cool and inspiring to watch the who's the young actor? What's her name? Oh, I've never heard of her before. I don't know what she's from. But she's Hannah iron Binder or Ironbinder. Yeah, I think she was

relatively unknown. I believe she was a comedian that they sort of plucked out of the l a comedy scene and Uh, it's great. I love Uh who was it that plays Marcus Chad Clemence Hopkins is good? Paul Downs is the agent is good. I love Kiki, her friend played by Poppy Luke. She's so funny. Um. The only thing I don't like nol. There are two characters that I don't like, and it makes it actually hard to watch those scenes. The assistant to the agent. Oh, I

just can't do it. No, she's it's such a trope of the annoying that's not good at her job, and it's just she's so annoying. Well, she's the one who's like I believe she she's her father is like owns the company or something, right, But she takes it to such an absurd level that it's not even believable in a show that is grounded in reality, and she's so over the top bad at her job. It's like, come on, like, no one, it's too much. It doesn't fit the tone of the show. So I have a hard time watching

those scenes. And then I hate to say it, my one of my old favorite actors, Jane Adams, is on the show as ABA's mom, and I just don't like what she did with the character. She's too neurotic and over the top. It just doesn't fit. And I don't know. I love Jane Adams, but I'm not. I don't like those scenes and she's not in a tone of them. So it's not a big big deal, right, Well yeah, no, never mind, no spoilers everywhere. I think everyone would like

the show though. It's like it it fills a nice middle ground between reality and not being too heavy and also having some heart. And there's some like, you know, some some serious thing has happened on the show, but it's very very funny. Like the writing is super super top notch because it's about a comedian and a comic writer, and I think you kind of got to nail that stuff.

You can tell. I think it's fairly believable, Like whoever writes the stuff you can tell probably has a It probably comes from the stand up world, would be my guess. It looks like Jean Smart is favored to win the

Emmy for Comedy Actress. She's great. I love it. Oh. One thing that was funny, Chuck about this l a trip And you've mentioned this before from living there, but I don't think I've ever been there during this time maybe, But the for your Consideration, uh campaigns all of oh, they're everywhere, and all of a sudden you're seeing billboards for shows that came out like a year ago. I'm like why, And then you see all of them say for your Emmy Consideration at the top, and there's just

a lot of money on that ship. It's really interesting. But isn't it funny that that's what it takes? Because you think about it, I guess these are all just human beings that vote, that are on the you know whatever voting board, I guess, and they have to be reminded of like what shows to think about. Right, It's like the most base advertising, which is it's like showing the cheeseburger on the board and counting on someone to go, oh, man,

I haven't had a big mac in a while. It's it's counting on someone driving down Sunset, some producer and voter to say, oh yeah, well you know, uh, Jean Smart was good in that. I like that one. Like especially shows again that like I think shows that come out a little closer to amy season probably have a better chance a lot of times because people forget yeah yeah, you gotta nudgem a bit, especially like you said with

the pandemic, like some of this stuff is old. All right, No, well, that's it for this app and we will close with a prayer. Okay, I'm ready, My head is bowed. God bless us everyone, and good day. Movie. Crash is produced and written by Charles Bryant and Roll Brown, edited and engineered by Seth Nicholas Johnson is scored by Noel Brown here in our home studio at Pontsty Market, Atlanta, Georgia.

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