BONUS EPISODE - FUBAR: Pt. 2

Welcome back to see you at the Body rich Da. For this podcast episode, we're gonna be doing episodes five through eight of the TV show fu Bar of Course, came out on Netflix, starring you know of course Arnold. You know it's a comedy action vehicle. If you're listening this and you haven't listened to the episode our episode about the show show episodes one through four us because it's very confusing, go ahead and listen to that. And if you

haven't watched TV show, watch it. It's fun. And if you don't have Netflix, it might be time to sale the high seas, so feel free to you know, asked me how to do that. I was gonna first because I was like, wait, they're gonna get in a boat boat. But then I was like, okay, I thought it was like abandoned

civilization or something. I like, I was confused. I'm slow, not anti somebody who doesn't have Netflix. There are other ways, Yes, I know, yeah, it's you know, hopefully we'll get sponsored by them someday. So I want to say too much anyhow, So yeah, we're gonna get right into it. So Chris, oh, you know what, I didn't introduce everybody. Yeah, I have no idea who I am right now. Yeah, sorry, listeners, I'm Joseph Beckastro. Joining me as always

is Aaron Frescas Yo and Chris Chapman. Hey, all right, thank you, Kristy, Chris, We're gonna have you go ahead and take it away and get on with the summary. All right, So Fubar, in case you forgot where we were, because this is a very forgettable show, we are watching Fubar, a TV series starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as super spied Luke Brunner, Monica Barbarrow as his super spied daughter Emma Bruner. We have Milan Carter

as his best friend and guy in the chair Barry. We have as the rest of his team, Fortune Fimester as Rue, Travis van Winkle as alden A, Parna Brielle as Tina, who plays a little bit more of a part in these last four episodes, so I figured i'd actually mentioned her up front. And then we have Gabriel Luna as our main bad guy Bora. I don't forget Jay Burroshell as Oh yeah, Jay Burroshell, that's true. He's also in more of these episodes. So Jay Barroschell as I refuse to

learn his name. So Jay Barroshell. So Kyle, we're on an episode of Kyle Carter. Carter. We're on episode five titled Here Today, Gone to Marrow for reasons that will become clear, directed by Stephen A. Addelson and written by staff writer Kate Duffy and STEVENE. Addilson actually directed was the

director sorry of the previous episode. And then Kate Duffy is one of the staff writers and this is her first episode that she had the right like the one of the main writing credits on Okay, and she also has written for Reacher and Scorpion as well. Gotcha? All right, so let's jump into the summary. Let's see, we last saw our team of spies in a very desperate situation with a missing nuclear reactor, a missing black market dealer,

and Barry's life hanging in the balance. So the first thing that happens in this episode is all that stuff is immediately solved. The Dane has a change of heart and comes back on his own before they're even out looking for him, while Tina immediately tracks down the reactor that Luke and Emma for Luke and Emma to easily get back from some small time criminals. It's like a decent

action scene, but there's zero conflict. They just kick their assets. This this all happens within the first two minutes, by the way, so basically crewing Chris's point from the last episode and making the last episode's cliffhanger completely pointless entirely, like especially the Dane part where he literally comes back on his own. Not that I think it's out of character for him to come back, We'll talk about that later, but I just the immediacy of it is yes,

insane, Like I was it just how quickly it happened. I was like, holy crap, this has got to be within the first thirty seconds. I know, it was like at one thirty eight. Then he comes back. I'm like, you're kidding me, Like you're proving him right, man? Come on, Yeah, anyway, let's see. So Alden the next morning tries to pull off the reactor sale, and although it doesn't go

exactly as planned, Luke and Emma are eventually able to capture Boro. Barry does have to knock out a prison guard to save himself just before the Dane arrives and they swap back, but that really has like no consequence, Yeah, which happens a lot in this Yeah. I thought it was funny, like him him screaming and grabbing the guard. That was a very funny, well acted scene, but it just like as a plot point, it had no significant Yeah. My only note is Barry kills guard, which ends up

being no big deal with no quant constant. He kills him by accident. Yeah, he accidentally like hits his head on the sinker. Yeah. Yeah, but that's it's meta commentary on the actions of the American government and how basically we can go anywhere and kill anybody and it have it not be like a big deal. There's no consequences for it. Oh, so it's obvious that only one of us is doing a deep read of this show. So

yeah, I have apologies to the writer. So also, like a strange edition is all of a sudden, Alvin's X shows up, like when he's he was talking about it last episodes, but like, and I just paid zero attention because I knew it wouldn't matter, And look at that, it doesn't fucking matter, Like no, no, no, no, she saves his life only because the writers made him fight a big giant dude who he

couldn't beat when he's had no problem beating. He beat up four dudes in a bar in like a previous episode, all by him, Like, well, hey, those guys weren't fighters like this big dude, I guess. But b we talked about last episode when I was saying there was like things set up as jokes but weren't jokes, like her showing up and blasting Abba and driving off, you know, yeah, like she left me a fifty seven minute voicemail of singing Abba like that, like the payoff for the Abba

joke at when she drives and she's blast an Abba. Yeah, but it's not a joke. It's just like it's like played off as a joke. But yeah, it's a joke. So this show does that a lot. Yeah, I guess it was a Mama Mia reference, but whenever. Yeah, but like also the this may have been a joke, but it's just

a joke that I don't find funny at all. Which is which is the part where the dude she kills the dude and he lands on Alden and he lands crotch first into Alden's face and then Alden screams, dick on my face and tries to get out from under the d I was like, I was like, that's that's like so barely a joke. It's like, I don't know, it's just like basic homophobia, which, yeah, I don't know,

man, it just was not funny. So I watched all this today sober, and this show's a lot less funny when you're watching it sober. When I watched it, like I rewatching it, I was when I picked it apart last time, like for the first four episodes. But I watched the first time I watched it where Eric and I were drinking, So I was like, this show is great. It's hilarious. It's pretty much what happened with genesister. I'm like this, I love this movie. This is

great. But then I watched it again sober, and I'm like sitting there analyzing and I'm like I don't like that and that and that. But yeah, like I got got to start drinking. Yeah, I'm gonna end up watching it again with her because she I watched it by myself, but I'm gonna start drinking next time, and I'll let you guys know if I'm like,

oh, this is way better. It is a drinking show. Which if I wouldn't play the game, because I would have got trashed during all this because they're in the planes and doing briefings like at least three or four times per episode. True. So on the plane ride home, Barry finally reveals his feelings for Tina, and Luke continues to advise Emma to kind of break it off with Jay Barroschell to save her and him some heartbreak. My only note about this is this is another joke that I just didn't Either I

just am not getting it or I think it's very not funny. Which one which is the Colonne joke where Luke and Barry are having like a moment. Lukey is like congratulating him on being brave and stuff, and then he's like, what's that smell? And Barry's like white lotus by blah blah blah. Yeah, the dame had it in his and he put a little on but then he or he sprayed it in the guard's face. Sorry. Yeah, and and then Arnold goes it ruins the moment, and I'm like, is

that a joke? The show clearly thinks that's funny, but like I don't, I don't understand what the joke. There was like I'm drinking time, I'm watching it anyway, moving past that, I was not planning to pick it apart this earlier. But Luke gets home to find that his granddaughter, Oscar's daughter, Oscar being his son who I wouldn't mentioned in the last episode, but now I have to Oscar Luke's granddaughter has had a reaction to her

chemotherapy and gotten very six. It's such a weird like when the when I say the Aldin thing was a weird edition with his ex girlfriend. This is the weird edition, Like is the just a strange like addition as far as a plot point, Like it is entirely out of nowhere, but not entirely. There is a mention of it because Carter's taking care of her. Uh he mentions that she's sick when they're on the phone in like one of the

first four episodes. Yeah, but they don't mention she's cancer exactly. So all of a sudden, you're just like it they did set it up because yeah, I have my note, says Jay Berrishaw was taking care of her, but the kid had only been in like two scenes for maybe three or four minutes of screen time. Yeah, like, so kids get sick all the time. That's like, there was no indication that she was like seriously

ill or even on chemotherapy, or that she had previously had answer. There was absolutely no indication, And I don't have a huge problem with that, but they do bring it up out of absolutely nowhere. Yes, And however, I will say that this plot point makes me like this episode and the latter half of the show way more because it adds like, what feel like way way more realistic stakes to the Shah to me. I I well, I also realized I like the plot point. I wish they had mentioned it

just a couple episodes earlier. That's all. I realized this that I cared more about how it affected the characters that I'm familiar with than I cared about the character that's actually sick, which oh yeah, definitely, like she's barely in it. Yeah, I'm fine with that, that's they're the main characters. Fine with that. But I was like, oh, that's like and I feel like it wouldn't have had any as much of an impact if it wasn't a little kid, but yeah, probably not. But anyway, so

she's having a reaction to her chemotherapy. She's gotten very sick. She will need a bone marrow transplant. So Luke and Emma tracked down the kid's biological father, which, again I have no problem, Like, I think all this stuff as plot is fine. The fact that Oscar is not her biological father, that he married into having a kid. I think all that stuff is fine. It just feels weird to all of a sudden, Yeah,

like pull it in halfway into the series. Yeah, yeah, But anyway, they go track down the kids biological father, Kyle and forcibly take a DNA sample to find out if he's a marrow match. Later, at another briefing, we find out that the CIA needs lots of info from Borow and is willing to torture him to get it. Emma is all for torture,

but Luke is against it, having seen it in person. It's here that we meet Carlson, ably played by Tom Arnold, the CIA's favorite torturer, and he does a really good like legitimately, I think Tom Arnold is really fucking good in this series, like in the two episodes that he's in or one episode. Yeah, I think, like I think I enjoy him there. Yeah, I think I enjoy him more in this than I do in True Lies. I think he's playing more of a character with like quirks and

yeah, I don't know. I think it's more interesting one of the persons being friends with Arnold apparently. Yeah, but you guys like Tom Arnold. Yeah, I'm fine with Tom Arnold when I see him. I have seen things where it seems like he was kind of an asshole, like back in the day's. But I have no idea really, like I've not done any research. I don't I don't mind him, but I feel like the generation before ours doesn't really care for him at all. But I feel like maybe

hate him. Yeah, but I think I think it's maybe because I was pretty much only know him from True Lives and was too young to get like that over exposure whatever was going on. Yeah, yeah, Like, so I don't know nothing about him besides true Like I do think he was in a lot of bad movies in the nineties, Like it seems like he was a lot of bad movies. But I don't know. But uh, yeah,

so I don't have that like Tom Arnold. Like I'm like every's funny and True Lies and he pops up every now and then, and he does entertaining. Yeah, and when he's doing this, like I both I like find him funny and he's I think he's doing a pretty decent job actor. Yeah. Anyway, Joe, you said, no problems with Tom Ronald.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, No, he's fine. I mainly know him from True Lives and him because that movie is fucking awesome and all right, so, uh, Emma and Luke go play good cop bad cop with Boro who it's a cushy sentence in exchange for his buyer's locations, like the people who are going to buy the nuke, and he does take notice of Emma's engagement ring while they're doing that. It's a long payoff right there. But that engage Yeah, seriously, that was a that was a long cone.

Later, once it's confirmed that Kyle is a match, he meets with the family and agrees to be the donor, but demands one hundred and fifty thousand dollars so that we all know he is the slimiest piece of shit alive. And after he leaves, Luke and Emma make sure to hurl some abuse at Oscar, and then after that, Emma goes home to hurl some abuse at Jay Barrowshell. So when Emma meets Cardl Cardle. Whenma meets Cardle, she gives him Carlson, Yeah, Cardo Carlson, she gives him ship for working

on He's working on a rocking horse for the kid. Oh no, oh, you were talking about Carter. Yeah, Carter, Yeah, Carlson is Tom Mardole Carl Okay. Well, when Emma meets j Burrow Bush, her fiance talk he's working on a rocking horse, and I was like, granted, they paid off sort of, but I was like, God, this

kid's not gonna want a fucking rocking horse. It's I don't get when adults do stuff like that, Like they're like, oh, yeah, they'll enjoy this antique vintage, like this six year old will enjoy this thing that that is like super intike. No, they fucking won't. Like I mean, look, I don't think she enjoys that it's vintage or antique. I just think she enjoys are fine for kids minutes, yeah, but for like yeah, that's every toy first exactly. But like, I just don't get it

when adults to the stuff. There was a few years back one of my friends was bragging on social media that he got his kid in original nes like Nintendo system for Christmas, and oh my god, I so I just wanted to be there when to see that kid's reaction when they open the present and it's like that outdated piece of shit instead of the PlayStation four they asked for. Yeah, I have a place in my heart for that system because it's the first one I had, But that original Nintendo system has been out of

use for like thirty years at that point. Also, when I was a kid, I didn't appreciate anything. I just wanted what I wanted and that

was it. Like yeah, well, like his his kid probably wanted to play Fortnite with people, and he bought him a fucking and he asked that that would be like if six year old me was asking for Nintendo in nineteen eighty nine and getting like a set of jacks, or like a hula hoop, or like a couple like a fucking advocates, didn't you like a tin cans with a spring connected to him or whatever boring shit fucking pants are playing with? I don't know, like a Howdy do each postering doll? A

hoop? Would you stick? You can roll it down the street, fucking Lincoln logs or light Bright or some shit like that to suck back then, why are you Lincoln logs? That is that what you're Lincoln logs? You're like, hell yeah, they were tight, they're no legos, but you know you can't build shit with it. They're a bolling cup, you know.

Still it was not being a balling cup hog. And I'm actually talking about Jacks, but Jacks were actually kind of because I was like, oh hell yeah, oh yeah, once I learned how to actually play with him and didn't realize they weren't just for like hurting your feet like Kevin McAllister. Yeah exactly. I'm still played marbles back then. Yeah, I was gonna say marbles. I was trying to think of like old stuff like this, the hoop with the yea. But yeah, it's like asking for a super

soaker and getting like a balloon with a hole in it. Fucking new hose. Yeah, got your new hose. Now you can watch your plans. Yeah, you can watch the lawn and when you're bad, I can beat you with it. It's like when it's like when Erica was excited about getting a basketball hoop for Christmas, like when she was like in like two thousand and eight or something like that or two thousand and six, and I was

like Jesus anyway, okay, yeah, anyway, all right. Next scene is uh oh yeah, So Emma goes to watch Carlson as he's getting ready to torture Borow, and Luke is off bribing Kyle with an uncut diamond that we saw him steal in the first I didn't know that's what happened when you get a bone marrow transplant, Like I think Arnold said that they weaken your immune system because he said that once they once they get it going, the

process going, she only has what like a twenty four hours or something like that guy, which I'm assuming is I mean, it makes enough sense. It's like if you're introducing that like a new like donor like y donor material the botto, the body would not accept it if the immune system was working properly. Yeah, okay, yeah, it makes enough sense. I'm sure it's true. But this thing would funny if they didn't even look it up, But like it sounds right in there. Let's see the CIA pulls the

plug on Borrow's torture due to an extradition deal. Emma is super pissed, but Luke goes in to make a deal with Borow before they lose him to the extradition. I think it's really funny that I don't know, Emma like freaks out at what's her name dot the stuff? Yeah, the director, the head CIA person, And I'm like, how has she not been fired by now? Like if she talks this way now, like after she's clearly been in trouble, like she was probably a total asshole before. Like,

I don't know. It just was very funny to me. I realized during the uh, during this scene when he's uh when they're like gonna let Boro go, and then during the next one when Boro is explaining how he contacts his buyers mm hm, that I have to watch this show with the subtitles on in order to follow exactly what's going on as far as like the little off screen plot details that end up driving the overall plot forward, because I'm like, whoa, because I wasn't doing that before, and I was like,

wait, what are they doing? Like I'd have to go back and rewind it and watch it against I'm like, wait, how did they why are they doing that, and they they explain so much in those little things that it's just way you to watch it with the They like totally explain everything,

but there's just they do throw a lot of information at you. So, yeah, do you think the name dot is an acronym for like, it's gotta be a director of director of team or something, director of torture, no thinking, Yeah, I don't know, I just named her do I don't know? It's got to be a code name. Yeah. So Boro makes the deal and the team then sets up a multi prong sting operation to catch all his buyers. When Kyle later goes missing, Emma and Alden

find and kidnap him. As as Luke and Rue begin written this, the donor dude is written as such in Over the Top douchebag. Oh yeah, he likes like truly, like I said earlier, just the slimiest piece of

shit you could possibly know. He demands one hundred and fifty thousand dollars to save a child that is biologically his that he abandoned when it was a baby, and then he like renags on the Yeah, they give him the diamond, which is worth probably more than something thousand or something like that, yeah, so so it's worth more than he's asking for. And then he fucking just takes the diamond and goes yeah, and like he tries to like use

like his like my friends in Lascow when he told me this stuff. Oh but and I noticed that the second time I watched it, he kept saying like, oh, my friend's a doctor and says it blah blah blah, and my friend's a lawyer and blah blah blah. I'm like, I think they're trying to imply that he's just like the kind of asshole who googles stuff and is like, yeah, I don't have to do anything legally. Yeah,

I just think that's what that was. It made me appreciate kind of appreciate how they were able to make the Alton character like a likable douchebag, because he's he's still kind of a d bag, Like but he's like, uh, which explain this, but yeah, exactly, he's I'm sure part of like a big part of it is uh like the actor Travis fan Win

could but still yeah, definitely. So Kyle, who has been kidnapped, is taken to the fitness equipment store and Emma calls in Carlson to perform an amateur bone marrow extraction, but the kidnapping is caught on camera by the two morons who are Arnold's fitness sales competit. Also, Arnold says that the director owes him a favor because he has her to turn a blind eye to it a fitness star. Did I miss something? No, there was a scene

earlier. I just didn't mention it because again, I don't think it matters in the long run. There's the scene where Arnold is like, hey, thanks for calling off the torture, and she's like, I didn't do it for you. I did it because he's being extradited, and like, you

guys keep fighting over this torture thing. I'm not on your side. If there's there's only one person in this building who should have an opinion on torture, and it's me, and she kind of like and the camera focuses on her scar, and then that's so, why does he I just don't think this is well written. I don't think this is well written because then he, like out loud, kind of talks himself into like, oh, that scar didn't come from an ID, did it? That scar is from torture.

You were tortured, and then she like says that she doesn't like talking about it. Oh, so he's basically keeping her secret. Yeah, and so like he promises to keep it a secret, and that means I did not get she owes him a favor, and I was like, that's a really sweaty way to get her to owe him a favor. I was like, all right, fine, but anyway, it doesn't matter. And the favor he cashes in is just that they get to use the fitness store as

and without anybody looking. Well, they take the bone marrow from Kyle. The sting goes to hell as it becomes apparent that Boro has been several steps ahead of the CIA, so he gets away with the original nuke that was stolen from him. So Emma and Alden arrived to the hospital parking lot at the same time and kiss, which Luke sees and which Jay Bershell immediately suspects when they walk in together. So when they get to the parking lot,

they explain how Boro escaped. Yeah, they kind of give you, they kind of walk you through, which I honestly, I don't really have that huge of a problem with. Okay, that's what I'm gonna say, is it a possible company, because I don't know if there's a better way to do that, like explain what happened. I know they've been doing it the whole show, which is why I'm not really complaining about it now because I'm used to it. But this is the I'd say, this is one of

the few instances where they did it like that's that's fine. Yeah, I think this works. It's like it was just a little bit unnatural on how it was delivered with both of them explaining the debrief to each other, slash the audience, and when they just both read it. Yeah, I don't think there's a better way to do it. No, Yeah, but that

otherwise that was fine. I only mention that because the way they explained how they got to the hot like they got the hospital to accept the bone marrow, was actually done with a little bit of subtlety, with Emma telling Alvin

that Barry disguis like was disguised as an empt. Yeah. Anyway, Luke and Emma visit the recovering grandchild as Tally receives the video of Kyle being kidnapped on her cell phone, and that's where episode five ends when I saw that kid in the medical tent, because I think, yeah, I realized they could have switched out the actors to a different little girl and I would not

have known things for it. And I know you feel about cliff cliffhangers, but the one at the end of this episode, I think is actually a good one because it felt more like a like a breaking bad Like I will tell you that episode five is easily my favorite. Yes, for sure, easily that I think. That's why I have the most notes on it. But like this this episode was really a lot happens, but it was really

good. Just that that cliffhanger ending was good because it wasn't like the way the rest of them are exactly that's alf yes, because it wasn't obvious that like it wasn't just so obvious the way they were doing it the previous four. Also, it's like it's just like basic dramatic irony. Yeah, of like, oh, Tally now knows something that she shouldn't know. She's literally staring right at Luke and Emma, who have no idea, and like,

we don't know what's going to happen. Is this going to blow up their whole spot or is it's not something that's going to be resolve immediately in the next episode. Yeah, it's it again, it just feels less superficial. Yeah. So moving on to episode six, rough ast some some quick credit info. So yeah, the episode is titled Royally Flushed. It's directed by

Phil Abraham, who'd'r directed the first episode. It was written by Scott Sullivan and Lilian Wang, and Scott Sullivan also wrote episode two and Lillian Wang, as I mentioned before, is listed as the staff fighter on pretty much each episode. So Chris go for it. Cool. So we open episode six with Luke training Jay Barshell to fight Alden, and Luke lets slip that he saw Emma kissing Alden. So when Barshelle leaves sadly, Oscar comes to visit

and Luke takes the opportunity to call him a failure. Emma and Alden make out in the CIA breakroom, but Emma cuts it off when the cheating gets a little too real. Luke wants to take Emma to a ballgame to talk, but she wants to spend some extra time making up with Barrishell. We get a briefing on the next mission, which requires Barry and Tina to infiltrate an underground poker game to get some data off of the phone of Boro's right hand that TJAD and Max right or TJ Max ad right in the middle of

it. The briefing got me. I was, yeah, like that was a decent line and I couldn't tell like is that actual advertising or is that just But it just got me for some reason. It was Rue complaining about the CIA funding the poker buy in with why am I still shopping at TJ Max, and then all them being like, because you like name prices it or name brands it, no name prices, and then just trying to get

a a fist pump. Yeah. Uh. Tally joins Luke on his yacht to confront him about the kidnapping of Kyle and the legitimacy of the fitness company, which he pretty definitely avoids by telling her that Barry is a filthy, degenerate gambler, and she is so convinced by this story that she decides to polish his dinghy. Uh. Later, I can't think of it. I can't think of a boat boning thing besides polishing the dinghy, I mean,

swap the poop deck but that's why Girls is the way grew. Anyway, they go to the bone Zone and it looks like a callback app like the post coitus scene looks like is definitely a call back to Twins because they go past her who she's lying in bed, like the camera pans past her and it goes to Arnold, which I knew was gonna happen because it's the same exact shot from Twins where he's got that big fucking grin on his face that

he had. I'm an idiot. I didn't even catch that, But now that you're saying it's exactly the shot was, I mean, his face was amazing. Yeah. That happens a couple more times in the next few episodes with obvious callbacks to old stuff or I don't know anyway. Yeah, yeah, I am going to stop you right here, though, Chris, you mentioned that they go into the house of two actual degenda gamblers. They're not just because they like to gamble doesn't mean they're degenerate. They're still doing well.

I'm not saying they're degenerate because they're gamblers. They're degenerate for like smuggling illegal animals and stuff. All right, check me well, maybe you should say degenerates that also gamble, that also gambles. I'd like to gamble which go one in one because gambler, it's hard degenerates, So I bar no, Joe, you don't gamble, you have a system. Oh yeah, it's a game of skill the state of California, so wait really yeah,

that's why the way it's illegal. No, that's why they're allowed, uh carthouses like in the state, not on Native reservations because it's considered a game of skill. And even like the blackjack and stuff there, you're not playing against the house. You're playing against I think it's called the corporation, which is basically one wow, which is one player with a shitload of money. But in order to be that you have to have like be able to cover

all the bets. So you're not playing against the house. They just take a little bit out of each bet. Wow. Wait wait, so you're not playing against the dealer. You are playing against the dealer. Yes, I mean you are, but the dealer is not an employee of the casino. Wow. So dealer is a separate person who just gets lots of money from the because you know, can you like if you wanted to go in there and be that person. Can you be that person or is it something

that they bring in? I believe you can. I never really go over that site that we call it dark side, but yes, that is I believe that is possible. You just have to have like a shitload of money to cover everything, and the fact that they take like a certain amount of the pot. It it's basically like so, uh, these are random numbers where they're about right. Like in regular blackjack, the dealer is gonna win

fifty two percent of the time. The player is gonna win forty eight percent of the time right over time, like the house is gonna win fifty percent of the time. However, if the house takes two percent, the player is going to lose forty eight percent of the time. The guy who's playing the dealer is going to win fifty percent of the time and the house gets two percent. So it doesn't necessarily mean it's like a good thing to be the house because you know, well, your expected value is zero, so

you can sit there and be that guy. But over you know, an infinite amount of hands, you're not gonna win or lose any money. Huh. So I'm imagining that's how they do it, because if not, then everybody would just be the house. Yeah, but yeah, so if I'm wrong, I doubt it. But if I'm wrong, I'm wrong. But that's why, all right? Anyway, Oh yeah, So they break into the home of two gamblers to force them to drop out of the poker game

so that Barry and Tina can get into the poker game. While they're on that mission, Rue reveals some daddy issues and yells at Emma for not appreciating Luke, which causes enough of a distraction that the gamblers kind of escape and run to their panic room. There's also like a fabric there was a Faberge egg in there, right, there was a Faberge. I assume it's a fake Faberge egg because picks it up, and that's the door to the panic room. So Alden and Luke were already in the panic room by accident.

The gamblers run in there, and then Rue and Emma also follow, so they pursue into the panic room, but in the scuffle everyone gets trapped inside. With a limited supply of oxygen. Cia HQ helps Tina and Barry by hacking into the auto shuffler and using AI to like predict plays. I don't understand exactly how they were doing that. I was gonna say, because my note says, how did wait, how did I know they had a card shuffler thing that they had at the CIA headquarters? But I'm like, how

did they get the card shuffle in there? Again, I'm sure they explained it, but I didn't want to go back that. Look, no, they were just saying they hacked into the card shuffler that the game had. Okay, it's not their card shuffler. Can you do that? Isn't it? Just because it's an electronic device with a camera, they said that they could hack into it, and that's just like, Okay, I don't know why there would be a camera in there. Yeah, I have no idea

why you would have a camera in it. But also, okay, so how do they know everybody's hand? I just realized this right now, because if they can because there's a camera in it, they can literally see the car they go by, and so as they go out to the players,

then they know exactly what God dealt. Okay. So they they're they hacked into the auto shuffler and they're using AI to predict plays as they need the game to last long enough to get all the data off of the target's phone because because the guy that they're trying to get the information from it sucks at poker. Yeah, so I think initially it's just to keep them in the

game because they're not professional gamblers. And then the dude makes this huge terrible move on like the first hand, and they're like, oh, this dude fucking sucks at poker. We better She's she literally says like, from now on, our goal is to help him win. It's the best. Is how a company he is with it too, And yeah, I'm assuming those are they're players like that Joe that are just that bad. They're just that

bad. And there you're they're like all in and you're like, oh, I mean they say later in the episode, like the only reason we invite you to this thing is to lose, like because because you'll feed us money,

all right. So, trapped in the panic room, tensions between the team members begin to flare, with Rue already met at Emma and mad at Alden for hooking up with Emma, Luke mad at Emma and Alden for the affair Emma mad At Luke for telling j bearshell about the kiss, and Alden mad at Emma and Luke for acting like he's not good enough for Emma. I like the so I have written down. I think it's when Emma doesn't know her name, like what her actual full name is, which is weird

again because you're gonna go with Ruth for anyway. But she says, I thought your name was or Rue because you drive a super And she's like, I drive a Super Roue because I'm gay. I'm like, I don't know gay people like super Yeah, that was my favorite. Oh yeah, I think that's a popular lesbian And also, if you live in the Pacific Northwest, you drive Subaru. But if you're a gay woman in the Pacific Northwest, there's about a ninety eight chance if you own a SUPERU dealership it's a

fucking Subaru Forester. Yeah yeah, let's see. Boro shows up unexpectedly to the game and receives some possible intel from a Russian contact inside the CIA about Luke and Emma's identities. So Tina makes some drinks and poisons Boros, but he doesn't drink it. Luke uses Oscars app his little grocery store Barcode scanning app to help Ru overclock the computer and eventually open the door, which they're

doing because they're trying to simulate Y two K. Correct. Yes, so basically what basically the panic room has a super old computer in it, which means that it probably was not protected from the Y two K thing because it hasn't been turned on since like the eighties. Uh So, Rue figures out that if she can just overclock the thing and push the date forward, it'll eventually hit the year two thousand, reset itself, and the door should open.

Gotcha. Okay, so they need to use Oscar's app because they need to know what kind of process process or the computer has so that Rue does not overclock it too hard and burn it out. Yeah, I get overclock it too hard. I've overclocked stuff. I don't think it works like that. Could you? Did you overclock it too hard? I feel like that's coming to really like overclock and too hard. No, that's a good one. That is a good one. She's like, baby, you overclocked a

little too hard. That would break the CPU. You're breaking the CPU. Wait, that doesn't sound right, that's like hard fucking anyway, you overclock it too hard. I was gonna ask you about this because I was curious, but I didn't want to anyway. Continue. Oh no, Basically, the idea of over clocking is the manufacturer of the CPU sets a like max speed for it, and then you're able to kind of quote unquote hack into it and increase the CPU like the like the processing power, the the the

read and write speed. So you know, if it's like hey, random numbers, Hey this reads like one megabyte per second, and they're like, nah, fuck that, I'm gonna make it read one point five megabytes per second, it's like, oh, it was made for this, but okay, and then it gets really hot and you have to have proper cooling check. It's kind of an old thing for like when for gaming and like when,

uh, CPUs were not like super great. So if you get like the latest, then you were able to like overclock in get like more performance out of your CPU. You just had at a CPU cooler like well, I mean all CPUs have a cooler, but like a hardcore one or even like water cool or something. So you can't do that yet. You can't do that to new computers. No, you can. It's just kind of

like not overkill necessary. Yeah, overkill is a good way to put it, but I don't think that would speed up the uh the time on it. But I don't know computers from the eighties and who knows, or it's just a fun TV thing. Yeah, so it seems like Y two K

that was fun, right, yep, that'ld panic. Yeah, Well, you know why it didn't happen because like a bunch of motherfuckers went in there and like fixed the shitload of shit, exactly the same thing with like yeah, it's the same thing with like and we're just like, oh, you know, yeah, claimate change whatever. Like what about the Ozo Layer? Remember that was a big deal. It's like, yeah, because we went in and did a bunch of shit about it, and now, like the

hole in the Ozo Layer is that bad? Same thing with fucking Y two K. The reason it wasn't a thing is because people went in and fixed it. So Arnold says that in the episode, yeah, because all of them brings that up. He says like, yeah, but the Y two K didn't end up doing anything, And Arnold's like, yeah, because we fixed the computers and like rewrote the code and ship they say I think it's a conspiracy. That's a government trying to control you. It's turning out there.

I'm just kidding. It's also vaccines are fake that I'm definitely kidding about. Okay, yeah, so they they she overclocks the computer and it will eventually open the door. Uh So, Barry and Tina barely make it to the end of the game, but do manage to get the needed files so that they can track Boro back at home, we find out that Luke got his competitors locked up to shut them up. The fact that he the fact that he got the guys locked up, It's like, man, those guys

are probably going to prison now, like, yeah, that's hilarious. Which I'm like, She's like, holy shit that those two dudes are like that. I don't know, I just like I want they need to do a show about those guys. They're like threatening to go to the Chamber of Commerce about I'm like, shut the fuck, Like I could not I could not care less what happens to I know. It was just like I don't know. Yeah, but they had a sweet name for their yea, what was

it. It was twin twinning formula, Oh, twinning formula. Is it twins because they're twins? Yeah, yes, yeah, I guess that's another reference because they don't look like Then we see Luke go and apologize to Oscar as well as invest in his app, because why would you parent when you can write a check? That was another thing. Okay, so he has like a three sixty turn with his son and he decides to do that.

But on top of that, I'm pretty sure that app that he was using probably wouldn't have worked if there's no cell phone fucking service in the even if they're a bunker that's a fucking computer processor from a nineteen eighties computer. There's no fucking way that Oscar built his app to recognize that shit you don't know him. It's possible, No, I mean it could be possible, like if there's just a barcode database out there. I don't know if that exists.

And then it's a bunch of no because you can use the same no, because every grocery store has to fucking program the barcode from merchandise into their own system. It's the same barcode across every store you go to, but they all program it differently into their system. Yeah, but that's for their system if you like went and scanned, like if you had a if you

had a database. Yeah, So what I'm saying is, why would there be a barcode database if that's how we use barcodes Because if you if there's a like you get a box of cheese, it's right, it's got a barcode on it. So if there's a big barcode database and you scan that it says chee it's. Now you take that chee it's and then you relate it in your pricing database and you put cheese it's three seventy nine. So you're connecting the giant barcode database to something else, and I'm sure it exists

because then we'd have h redundant barcodes. So there's got to be barcodes individually. Now with the app download all those barcodes. Probably not because I would take up like half your fucking phone, like just all that. But yeah, I think that would make sense. If he had service and access to that general barcode database, Yeah, he'd be able to pull that in. Maybe. I'm pretty sure there are redundant barcodes, but yeah, I don't know. Man. I like how how Chris worked in a grocery store and

then Joe did all that the like computer stuff for the grocery store. So like, we're just applying shit to this episode that we like business stuff that we do. If we can apply some sort of like, hey, that guy didn't serve that person right or by the way that happened in this episode. Because the fucking guy that the butler or whatever brought the drinks in and he was holding him by the rim, that's fucking gross, dude. Okay, so I'm in here now. That is fucking disgusting because he hands him

to him. I'm like, what the fuck is that. I know you have gloves on. I know you have gloves on, but I don't know what else you were touching with those fucking gloves. No. On top of that, these are not a good interpretation of rich people because they are way too like I'm gonna go make a drink for someone, No, bitch, you're gonna ask. You're gonna ask the butler. You're like, hey, you need to get Jeeves. His name is, I don't give a fuck

what his name is. Would have caught her immediately, but she offered to make drinks for the party. It's like no, but yes, sorry, I was just trying to bring it back around because I hadn't talked for a few minutes or or a minute. But also who who still plays five card draw? Oh? That was another that was a question that okay, that was a question that I had. I was a poked question that I was

going to ask you. That's just like old like regular like this is stupid, but like cowboy poker, right like yeah, well that's the poker that was in everything until like until the mid nineties or something. Yeah, so yeah, just like especially with how often those hands are coming up, someone's obviously cheating correct mm hmmm, well yeah, I mean they're like they're like, I'll stay pat. Oh I have you know, a pair of twos. It's like, you have the pair of twos, why don't you draw

three cards? Like there's a way to write that scene that makes sense to help him win, you know, like to bet and then he'll raise and then fold and everything. But the fact that they're sitting there, I don't know why anybody else didn't become suspicious of this, but they're like, oh, I'll stay pat with my pair of twos. It's like, oh, you got three jacks beat me again. Dude, that's like huge collusion, Like they could have just not taking cards, and it's like, holy shit,

wouldn't you get suspicious if they were just never taking cards. Well, if you don't take a card, then you got like a monster hand at least like a full house, because you know, you canna have three of a kind. You're taking two cards. You could have uh, you know, two pair, you're taking one card. You have a flush draw. So you either got like a flush straight or well anything better straight or better. Then you're not gonna take any fucking cards. You can have four of

a kind and you still take a fucking card because that's just good. Yeah. You just want to have you ever played that version of poker in like a like for like in a casino or something like that. No, they don't. They don't have that. That's okay, that's all cudd figure. I mean, I'm just curious because it's such an old game. Maybe they're like playing it because they I think the oldest reference they had in there was what like Napoleon or something like that was playing Oh yeah, yeah, okay,

which maybe that's the reason. Yeah, yeah, it's like an old game. But On top of that, I was also thinking when I was watching this Man, that host just he's like because the players are doing stuff to where I'm like, I feel like any like if they were at a casino or anything like that, they'd be like, please don't do that, Please don't do that. Stop doing that. The host is like whatever, unless you like, uh throw up or like if he has to clean,

He's like, oh, now he has to. I don't know, there wasn't I didn't write it down, but there was a couple of dude like that would have to be not just the dealer but also like act as the pit boss for the table, Like you know what I mean? Bus is the dealer though, yeah, maybe you just like a he's like a really successful independent comedy show. So he just wants to be he wants to be

involved in every aspect. He's like the James Cameron of independent independent uh poker game, so he's like, he's like, I want to be involved in every aspect. He's like, you know, subtenly setting himself up as James ca very nice. Also for poker, it's not the pit boss. It is the floor man or the floor where's the pit boss? That's like you know, like table games like Blackjack and so is so poker is not a table game. I mean it's game you play on the table, but it's

not like a quote unquote table game. I guess it's like blackjack and pikew what a big So would a big casino have a pit boss and like a poker guy a floor Well, usually like you'll have like a pit boss would be the guy who's like in the little ring of tables, you know, yeah, changing two hundred and then the fore man, the fore man, you go up and you're like, hey, I want to get on the board for three five, and he's like, all right, what's your name?

And then he bounces the table and everything. And when there needs to be a ruling or something, they'll call the floor over and that's that's the floor person. I guess you wouldn't need one. But is there a guy that watches like the slots or whatever or like the electronic games? No? No, interesting, right, nobody's watching the slot and yeah, well someone's watching it from yeah yeah camera. But yeah, there's nobody like running the

show for SATs. They run themselves. So yeah, he apologizes to his you know, disappointment with his son. Let's see. The last thing we see is Rue and Luke having a nice moment together as they head off to that ballgame. And I just want to say, it's it's really nice that this episode doesn't end on a superficial bullshit clip. That's what my note says. WHOA no clarer? Wow? I And it's not only is it not

a cliffhanger, it's a nice character moment. Even though I think Ru's daddy issues kind of they didn't come out of nowhere, but I don't think they were set up super well before this episode. I do think it's like a nice character Yeah. Well, I think she just, you know, it's not something she talked about or you know, tries not to think about too much. But then like panicking in the panic room, which is the opposite of which is meeting. I don't know, I don't room work. I

only saw the movie, and that lady was panicking the whole time. Yeah, yeah, you're in the room, Jody Foster or whoever it was, yeah, Jo faster, Yeah. And then that all started to bubble up, and then you know she uh loose lips type situations. That sounds like a character from Dick, Tracy Loose, lips manless? Is that really? I'm pretty sure, Yeah, lips manless. That's fucking isn't that the Warren baby Win? No? Yeah, I think that's Pacina. Uh oh,

is that like the main guy? Like Bechina plays the main dude? Yeah? I think that slips me in. Okay, anyway, he has fucking that's the end of that episode. Okay, Off to episodes. Off to episode seven. Okay, so episode seven titled Urine luck but the word urine. It's the word urine as like I mean, like, uh, I'm holding my wiener shut because I have to urin eate like that like urine. So anyway, the episode was written mad Higgs, who wrote episode three,

and Michael Gutierrez, who's one of the show's staff writers. It was directed by STEVENS. Surgic. Sorry if I pronounced that wrong, but anyway, who's listed as a director on a bunch of Netflix shows, including pretty much every Marvel show they produced, as well as The Witcher and The Umbrella and Academy. So anyway, interesting, go ahead. Cool. So we start off episode seven by watching Luke and Tally sweat into the oldies with Tally deciding

afterward that she's going to break it off with Donnie. At HQ, Alden tries to convince Emma to give him a real shot like relationship wise, as Barry asks Luke for sex advice because he thinks it's going to happen between him and Tina soon. We also see Emma getting guilted by Oscar's wife when she finds out that they're like, she's cheating basically. Okay, So when Barry's asking for advice from Luke, we find out that Barry he's had sex with

one person and it was his cousin's cousin. Yeah, so real quick, how far removed is someone need to be before it's cool to sleep with someone? Because I've had this discussion before because cousin, cousin's cousin works for me, especially if they're hot. Like it's not technically related, Joe, Yeah, yeah, blood related. Why why are you asking me? Because I know I'm like, I feel like my brother's gonna be a little more conservative about it, but I'm like, Joe, Joe will just bang whatever.

Come on, okay, me bang my wife? No? No, no, no, I mean like like because I grew up with you I met you were disgusting when you were single. Okay, that's a whole different story. I grew up with you, and I knew how like, uh, you were just as desperate as I was to you like dirty, to touch it. You were just as desperate as I was to touch whatever. We'll let you touch it. So yeah, I mean, I your mom a lot. There you go. Look at that your mom yours mom? Guyss

mom. I don't know. I wouldn't say your mom's because I'm a civilian AnyWho. Uh, I think it would be weird, but I wouldn't say that would be like a no deal. I wouldn't want everybody to know, I know, like your cousins cousin but like, uh you know that's yeah, okay, yeah, maybe not like datum or I don't know, do

whatever the fuck you want. But you can have a cousin by marriage, like you know what I mean, You can have a first I don't know if it's considered a first cousin at that point, but you could have a cousin by marriage who you're just not related to it all. Okay, So Aaron's Aaron has a cousin. Okay, that's not your cousin, Chris, Yes, uh, you have different dads. Sorry to spoil that for everybody. Sure, would you smash Aaron's cousin that's not your cousin. No,

because I'm completely faithful to my only girlfriend. Would you do that if she died? No, because I'm scared of ladies. Okay, no, no, no, no, Yeah, I like, I think it would be a weird conversation to have with Aaron. I don't care that I did that, But which are like the dead one or your brother? I mean, remember, I'm I'm detached from people, so I don't I don't give a shit. But yes, well, either way, I think it would still be weird. But like, morally, no, I don't think there's anything

wrong with it. Okay, so let's go or even like genetically, there's technically nothing wrong. Let's go a little closer than so let's say it's my line is if I'm blood related in any way that I can discern. Okay, So if let's say that it was our first cousins, their their cousins, but on their mom's side, doesn't doesn't count. You're good, then right, that's a little closer. That's the same as your cousin. Yeah okay, yeah, that's what Barry did. Okay, yeah, that's what

very did. I think morally, there's nothing wrong. It's just it's an easy thing to make fun of you for when you say cousin's cousin. Okay, so okay, I got that written down, and then I also have written ou how about steps step sibling. He's got a flow chart of little step sibling. I mean there's plenty of horned is. That's exactly That's what I was like, I get yeah, okay, okay, But I think what makes it weird is when you've like grown up with the person. Yes,

how far back they go? Yeah, exactly. If you're like twenty eight and then your mom and your parents get married, yeah okay dude, and you know you're just step sissors, that still you weird. But you know, I don't know. I mean, it wouldn't be weird. The key is to beat them to it so that they have to feel weird,

your parents have to feel weird about it. Yeah that's true. Nice okay, okay, okay, I was just curious, like I've talked about with this, uh with some there was someone that used to work with it. I talked to about this, and he's like, no, no, that's

weird. I'm like, oh, it's not that weird. Plus like him on if she's coming on you when she's hot, you're like, fucking, let's just grand standing, which was weird because him and I was like, come on, dude, like, don't don't be Uh you're being weird right now, Okay, just fuck your cousin, Jesus cousins, cousin's cousin whatever. Thank you know. It's not like you can have a kid, a deformed hunchback of notre dame looking kid. Yeah, no, flipp for kids,

it's funny, yeah, exactly. All right. So this is the first time for this podcast. Usual we get into some weird a lot of dick sex jokes and drug talk and everything. But I talked about fucking cousin's cousin. There are some quote unquote incests. I mean, I've been wanting to, but I didn't know how to bring it out. And you can

always count on Arnold to breach these subjects gracefully. All right, So, uh, next week, get a briefing scene to find out that the CIA is ordering Boro to be killed, which Luke is uncomfortable with, and Boro's location is a shuttered nuclear reactor in a non friendly I believe it's a made up country. Am I wrong? I think so? I didn't look it

up. Is that what it's called? Yeah? Also, Alvin uh asks how they're going to get into Sardovia because it's pretty much locked down, and his comment with you can't just get in there, like it's bear's cousin's pants. That was That was the one where, yeah, that's that's the joke where U won't give him the fist book because she's so mad at him. But that was a good joke. Sardovia, Sokovia, that's all the same. Yeah. Yeah, so it's a it's a non friendly, made up

country in the Eastern Bloc. Okay, they should have used the one that it's in, Uh, it's in Commando and it's in Uh, it's in one of his other movies too, But it's like it's it's where Donna Dan Dan Dan Hide is from and like val Valverdever Yeah, South America. Yeah, which, okay, so never mind, I'm not going to ask you some of the I know the other one is real, the one that borrows from I was like, wait a second, because then I thought about Yeah,

I thought about where he's from. I was like, wait, so it is where borrows from? True to and then or really to, and then I thought about where he's from. I was like, near mind. Let's see Luke gets some one on one therapy to get over his pesky compassion for Borow, Barry has sex. We see Ja Barshell dump Emma for cheating

on him. We go back to another briefing to lay out the plan for attacking Boro, which is to fly into the country in caskets despite the protests of a claustrophobic rue, and then to meet up with an old contact who

will help the team infiltrate the reactor site on the plane. Right over, Luke and Emma argue over whose fault it is that she cheated on her fiance, and she calls him out on being a hypocrite and lying to Tally exactly like he used to, which Luke really takes to heart so hard that he calls and like breaks it off with Tally, basically telling her that she's better

off with Donnie. Yeah, because they set up a date night. Yeah, they set up like a serious date night and Tally is gonna like break it off with Donnie, but then he dumps her again, so she Yeah. After the team lands and exits their coffin, we find out Ru took too much Xanax and is super high. Barry finds out Tina is going to be reassigned when the Borough mission is over, so he sets out on a series of very stupid quests to get the transfer stopped instead of helping with the

mission. Yep, which I will not be referring to that again. Okay unless you want to talk. No, No, it's stupid. Yes. While on the road, the team is betrayed and attacked by their content. Yeah, attacked by their contact, getting Alden shot in the firefight, and Rue blows up their ride and all their gear because she's high and holding a rocket launcher. That's actually a scene from the trailer. We see Boro kill

the nuclear scientist after he gets what he wants out of him. We get a nice funny scene between j Barroshell and Tally commiserating over breaking up with their respective spies, and I like the scene. I think it's well acted with like two of the people who can be funny, but their characters are not. Inherently like quippie or like humorous like everybody else's. And so I thought this was a really nice scene. Yeah that's all. He has ever seen

The show Man Seeking Woman. I've seen an episode. No, I really wanted to watch it. But yeah, it's got Jay Barchelle and Eric Andre and it's like absurdist, I guess. Yeah, it's like surreal, right, surreal. There we go. It's based on a like a book of short stories by Simon Rich You know that is yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's it's he he's the one that that wrote the book that's based on I didn't, and but that shows good. You should read it.

His his I I read a new teeth on like through the library app and that that one's that one's really good too. Oh he also he also Miracle Workers. He yeah, with Helen Keller and the check that tot Helen Keller stuff. Yeah, Dania Ratcliffe, Yes, that's oh yeah, I thought you were referring to Daniel Radcliffe as Helen Keller. Thought. Took a second and it's like that's a weird insult now Miracle Works, but it is,

yeah, it's it's it's something about Helen Keller. Helping Killer like, well, I mean the chick that trained her and we learned this all in school and I can't remember her name and I'm sorry, lady, but I mean in my head it's Florence Nightingale, even though I know that's not who it is, and that is from Florence and the machine. Correct, Yes, exactly how you call her a trainer like you got to train Helen Keller. It was Helen Killer's trainer, Yeah, her blindness trainer. And I could

probably put in trainer. It does it will come up if I put Helen Killer and Sullivan and Sullivan and so all right, yeah, Ellen, Helen Keller's trainer was An Sullivan. Good girl, good girl. Who's the girl? She's like that? Like their dad's like, I'm just picturing an Sullivan is Mickey from Rocky It's over. Yeah, speaking of Danny right, sorry, speaking of Daniel Radcliffe and Helen Keller. Uh quote weird, Al You're about as useless as JPEGs to Helen Keller. Okay, sorry for this side

track. No, Yes, Simon Rich is good. He used to write for SENTN Night Live. Very very good writer. Check out check out a New Teeth. It's funny. There's a he writes like as a bunch of short stories, but one of them he writes a noir style detective story, but it's about two infants that are trying to figure out something on an infant and his baby sister. He's like trying to find her stall I can't remember,

but like it's it's like are there no there? Yeah, Yeah, the parents went out for a night out and they're being babysat by the grandma and they're like trying to figure out what happened to their mom. Yeah, so it's like Rugrats basically, yeah, but kind of like it's like like nineteen twenty but like it's like a pulp pulp a detective novel. And then there's one where it's, uh, he's writing as a pirate. Did you read that book? I really like that one. Are you read that?

I'm I'm most of the way through it. I think that I haven't finished the last he he's writing as a pirate, but it's all like like our MATI like our but it's he's like having a fight with his first mate, like it's a captain. He's having a fight with his first third and like a fight about a kid that they find, they adopt a child, and then the it's it's like they're a gay couple with a child trying to raise the child. But it's all written as a pirate. It's just so funny.

It's hilarious. It's just the way he's writing. And I don't know, it's it's it's it's the same sort of uh, what you not obscure? Surreal? Yeah, yeah, absurd like it's yeah, anyway, okay, go ahead, would say his name one more time, Simon Rich All right, So the team makes their way through a drainage system to get into the reactor, now with a ticking clock. As Alden seems to be dying from his bullet wound, and Luke tells Emma to stop being such a girly

man and own up to her mistakes. Luke and Emma head into the reactor facility as Rue takes care of Alden, but not before Alden can really rub some salt in Emma's breakup wound. Yeah that was great that so last episode. I kept saying, like, I really hope this show surprises me, and there are a couple of ways in which it actually surprised me. Was and I'm pretty happy about my note right there was I didn't see that coming, But yeah, I guess that Alden actually has some enough self respect to

reject her. Yeah. Yeah, I'm surprised that they kept it going through the rest of because I figured by the end of it they would have got them together again. But yep, yeah, but yeah, I'm happy about that. Let's see Alden take a turn for the worse, meaning that Rue has to perform some minor surgery to unclapse his lung. To uncollapse his lung, Luke finds Boro, but hesitates and gets tackled by the poker player from

last episode. As Emma pursues and confronts the escaping Boro, Luke beats the gambler by throwing a grenade into a room with lots of other explosives, causing a partial collapse of the facility and trapping Emma with Borow separated from Luke. On top of that, the fires caused by the explosion will eventually reach the nukes and set them off. And that's where that episode ends. So on

episode eight titled That's It and That's All. It was directed by the same director as the last episode, Stevens sergic and written by series creator Nick Santora, who also wrote the series premiere. So yeah, go ahead, Chris, So, Emma and an injured Boro fight a little and then come to a truce to escape the nuke. Ru continues her surgery as Luke tries to find Emma with a fifteen minute timer till the nuke is going to go off.

So Boro bitches at Emma about how Luke ruined his life as they build a ladder to an air duct to escape, until she tells him to own up to his mistakes and realizes that she's an asshole. The wacky therapist performs some emergency therapy on Rue so that she can get over her daddy issues and perform the emergency surgery, which she does. All didn't gets better, so he and Rue get out of range of the nuke. Rue with the daddy issues thing was actually built up a little bit from the last couplet. Bit

yeah, yeah, from the last couple episodes. I think that was fine. I think if they had started a little bit earlier than that, like if it had been in episode two or three, I feel like I would have bought it way more. Yeah, like you know, like not that I have a real problem with it, But I would have really bought into that because I like her character a lot and I think it was a welcome addition to have some development for her. I just wish that they hadn't.

I don't know. I wish that that stuff had been sewed a little bit earlier. But that's a real nitpick. The ba The back half of the show has, like the first half better character has a different tone than the first half of the show. Seems like it's all like jokes and all stuff like that, so it's all whacky. Yeah, so the back half of the show has a different tone, which h makes sense. Why they wouldn't

have introduced that earlier. Yeah, yeah, sure. Luke then gets Emma out of the air duct but leaves Boro to not die in the surprisingly underwhelming nuclear explosion, but not before revealing that Emma is his daughter, which surely can't come back to bite him. Barry successfully stops Tina's transfer so they can

keep bumping uglies. Everybody on the team becomes friends again. On the trip back home, Luke and Emma say some nice things about each other to prove that there's been some character growth, and then Tally calls Luke to tell him that she is engaged to Donnie. So I like the uh when they're apologizing to each other the I Love Danny d VD. He's so tiny, I want to put Tom in my pocket, which I can't remember the context for that, but the context so throw from the train. Yeah, that's where

he got. That's it and that's yeah, and they mentioned it earlier and okay, okay, one other thing Barry tells, are you gonna mention this? Barry tells Tina that that's why she's staying, like he's the reason why she's staying or Jersey. Uh no, I don't even think I mentioned. So Barry tells Tina he's the reason why she's actually I think she says that she's like, I know, okay, but oh yeah. And then he tells her that he gave up a comic book for which which like is like

Todd McFarlane comic book. Like I was like, but does he really have like an understated of beauty about all his work? Because like, isn't either do that draw stuff like an unnatural like positions and poses and stuff like that? Isn't he? Well no, that's more Rob lifel. Todd McFarlane is actually a much better artist. Okay, I thought he was someone where like

he draws. They they have related styles. They were they both came out of that super nineties style with characters like Cable and Stuff and Deadpool where they have like pouches everywhere and you know, ridiculously muscles and their feet and ankles are tiny. But Rob Leifeld is more the person who's like super famous for

really like doing like the like awful poses. Like again, granted, everyone from that error does like weird poses, but live Feld is the one that's famous for doing really awful ones, like if someone tried to do it, they're like, oh, that's kinda you can't do that, yeah, like it's not physically possible. Or like there's a famous one that's been going around for the last couple of years where he drew Captain America with just enormous tits.

Yeah, just like he like tits bigger than most of his female Everything about Captain America turns me on. McFarlane is genuinely like a better artist, and again he has a similar style, but like Spiders, no no, I definitely wouldn't call it understated. That's why I was like, wait, you pick someone a little better than Tim McFarland. There Also, I don't understand why, like didn't he not do that? Do what give away a comic book? I thought, No, I thought he said to give a

comic book. He I think he gave it to the guy, the comic con guy that he was talking to. But I thought the comic conk guy just asked for an apology. No, no, that was and then afterwards he's like, you know, there's like one thing that I really want, and that was the comic book. But also, you ever think that the joke of saying Todd McFarlane his drawings were understated was to rile up nerds like

you guys, no understated. He's like a hard core and he draws it a big and still like maybe maybe yeah, because like me, I'm like, okay, sure, yeah, I don't know he has understated r I don't know, but he doesn't anyway. Maybe I don't know. It's better, it's it's like all the rest of the writing towards yeah, but yeah, I don't know, yeah, yeah, yeah, I totally missed the comic book thing. He brought that up, and I was like, I don't remember you giving away a comic book, but would that be valuable?

It was Spider Man two ninety eight, which I believe is the y he said is the first one that Todd McFarlane drew. Would that be? Yeah, the first Tod McFarlane. I have three hundred. That's the first appearance of Venom, like the first one, not the first appearance, the first full appearance. It's somewhat valuable because I've got McFarlane and Stanley to sign it, and I've got it graded Stanley who, So it's wow, what's that? Stanley Who? Stanley Tucci? Oh? You got Slaney Tucci to sign

it? No, Stanley Lieber. Oh oh. But like the number three hundred, I think I could get at least like like five hundred dollars for it. Damn, ninety eight to ninety eight probably would be worth more than that if it's really like the first Todd McFarlane one, and it's probably the actual first appearance of Venom. I think mine is the first like full shot of Venom where you can see whole body. But cool, just curious,

okay, Okay. So we cut two months later on the wedding day, between Tally and Donatello to find out that Oscar sold his app for like four million dollars, and then Luke stops by for well wishes even though he's not going to go to the wedding. Emma sees that Tally is like not truly happy with Donnie and clearly still loves Luke, so she tries to convince him to take another shot, but he refuses so as not to hurt Tally again. At the church, Emma and Jay Barshell have a polite chat to show

that there's still feelings there. At CIAHQ, Tina tells Barry that some of Borrow's men are still active. Outside the church, the two morons who tried to expose Luke's fitness store front try to break into Tally's car. Inside the church, Luke goes to Tally and reveals all his CIA secrets so that she

can make a fully informed decision before marrying Donnie. Another like call back to the True Lies because he tells her he's like, I killed a lot of people, but they were all dicks, which is just another I'm was like, yeah, wow, yeah, that's like a direct yeah. And the line in Trueize is so much like, I don't know. Yeah, it's just more subtle. Yeah, let's see. So, as Tina makes a discovery and tries to call and warn Berry, Tally's car blows up and the

wedding is infiltrated by terrorists. While Luke, Emma, and Barry fight off the gunman, Tina gets Ruin Alden to send them to the church's back up, and then she takes a Russian phone call, probably for no reason. After all the gunmen are taken out, a lightly scarred Boro appears with Tally as a human shield and orders Emma and Luke to shoot each other. While they're pretending to do that, Luke sends a secret message to Tally, so she stabs Boro with a medal that she just got from Luke, giving Luke

and Emma the opportunity to just absolutely ruin Boro's nice way suit. It was a it was a fly suit flysuit, and they just fucking stained the ship out of it. Yea. The entire wedding is then put into a cia van as Boro probably gave the brunner's identities to all his terrorist buddies. So now everyone has to go on the run. Because this whole situation is totally fucked up beyond I can't remember the rest. It's fucked up beyond all recognition. Yeah, any repair there, yah. And I would also like to

note that I called that Tina ship whoa Okay. First off, we don't know. Maybe she just speaks Russian, she does, I mean, it's maybe it could be a red herring. Also, I'm prepared for the next season to star Bruce Campbell because they all got burned. It's going to be a burn Notice. Fuck. Yeah. And that's how you know, TV whatever crossover. We haven't had a crossover a fucking TV show for a long time. Yeah, seriously, like a non Marvel crossover. Yeah, I

mean, which basically doesn't count. Yeah, that doesn't count because everything they do crosses over. Yeah. So like you know, when the critic visited The Simpsons, you wouldn't yeah that, but that was a crossover. Now I'm ready for uh Bruce Campbell from Burn Notice. And that's literally the only thing I know about that show. Yeah, I've never seen a full episode. I think he's like I think Bruce Campbell and the main guy are both

like former spies. Like the main guy I think gets burned at the beginning of the show and then he has to go on the run and recruits Bruce Campbell and some other people. I don't didn't they help other people who've been burned or no, I think they're just like running the whole show, or like, I think they're just trying to escape getting assassinated the whole time. But I've again, I've not watched. I've only seen clips of it,

mostly Bruce Campbell clips. So the Tina thing I initially which is just gonna sound like me being like, oh, yeah, I do that too, which I initially did when I was when we were watching what was watching my their coms, like it's that bitch, But I said that about every person that wasn't arms Forwrosnegger, but that was like, no, it's it's that girl, just because she's so like like the the that's the is very the meat. She's just like the meek. Like I'm like, oh, come

on, it's obviously that girl. But then the review. The only reason I just personally I don't think anyone can love Barry, So that's why I

suspected it. Well, the only reason I had banded it was because one of the reviews threw me off because they started talking about like how the relationship like they basically ruined the UH, which wasn't much of a room because it was like mentioned in one episode, the the little plot point with the with the kid having cancer and then the fact that they get together, which was

obvious from the first episode, but they I mentioned that there. The whole thing with UH, it was the Roger Ebert like not he didn't actually come back from the dead to give a review, but it was like the person that reviews stuff on would that be I don't know, fine, I guess this would be such a weird, mediocre thing for him to come back and give a review. I was like, yeah, but he just hated so much and he's like, okay, I'm coming back anyway. I'm tired of

rolling in my grave. I had to come back to life, so he UH. The reviewer was talking about how their relationship is just like a basically it was like a rotten because I was on Rotten. To me, I was and looking at the different reviews too. That was one of the rotten ones. But that threw me up because I was like, it's her, and then I like it because that was my initial one. But then I was like, okay, well, it's obviously not her if that they developed

a relationship and all that. So I was mentioned Jay bearshell last. Yeah, that's that's why I was trying to seem plausible to me for like a second. But I tried to because then I was like, oh, maybe's Scott Thompson. Actually, yeah, that's the That was my second. I was like, uh, he's a little like they gave him the mustache and he's a little too like nice. He's the same thing as exactly. Yeah, yeah, too nice, too positive. Okay, what about this?

What if that's just a fucking red herring and it's something no, I'm right, okay, I'm just kidding. It's just something unrelated, you know, like like they like to live the you know, they like to do the cliffhanger thing. I mean obviously, well I wouldn't say it's a cliffhanger of like them getting burned. It's just kind of a a setup for the next

season if that happens, which probably not because it's Netflix. It totally could be a mole and they never paid that off and they they made everything else

off this season. It absolutely could be red herring. I just know that it's not because they're subtle hints, like actual subtle hints that she's like a double agent, which is that like she does way too well on that poker mission, like as far as like field stuff, like she mixes the poison into the drink and thinks on her feet really quickly and is surprisingly good at acting. Yes, which makes more sense now I'm thinking because I'm like,

granted, she was like I learn that from a James Bomb movie. Yeah, to appeal to bear. Yeah, I know, that's exactly Yeah. And also there are a couple other scenes where, especially towards the end of the series, the last couple episodes, where she's clearly like getting tired of Barry's references and oh yeah, the last one that he does. He's like, she's pretty much didn't even try to pretend. Yeah, which one was it? It was the one in the God what does he say? Back

to the future one or something like that. No, it wasn't back to the future, but it was Star Wars. Maybe it was that was a GM No, No, that was a Gremlin's cage winer. I was like, eh, I get it, he's a nerd. Yeah. But anyway, my point being they have actually laid out some subtle hints that she like is not actually super into him. I'm like super confident that she that she's going to turn out to be the double agent. That doesn't necessarily mean she's

going to turn out to be evil. I think that they're going to try some pull some bullshit where she actually still gets together with Barry and like actually, yeah, feels bad and falls in love with him. But I'm very confident she's doing some some sort of like dark Knight Joker thing to where she just happened to like I was like, well, thankfully I happened to get with that guy, and then he happened to get me like pushed into like he he uh got some stuff set up to where I could uh stay on

them, on their team or whatever. Good for her. But anyway, Okay, so this second half wasn't as humor says the first half obviously. Obviously it had a little more of the the U They were trying to like fill out the characters a little more. It was just like it's all of a sudden with a lot of it. Yeah, and there was no setup with some of the stories that they introduced. So that was the the Arnold's Arnold's story, Eric with his wife and all that throughout the whole thing was

good. I like, I like that one. That one was solid throughout the whole thing. It was just the other characters that they were trying to do it with, yeah, and just trying to fill time. I guess I don't even know if they're trying to fill time. I think those were good decisions. I think those were like the correct decisions to flesh out those other characters. I just wish that they had done more of it in the first half of the series. Yeah, But that's my only complaint. Otherwise,

I wasn't I enjoyed the first half of the show. I'm gonna end up watching the second half again. The second half was fun up until the last the last episode, I was like, okay, come on, come on. But actually the second half of the last episode I liked. It was that seventh episode for some reason, I was just like, Okay, come on, we're almost done. But otherwise I'm enjoining the show. The show's yeah anyway, Yeah, Joe or Chris, Yeah, for me,

I definitely like the show. I mean, I don't think it's perfect, and I think kind of forcing myself to watch all the episodes last night might have been a little hindrance to me. But you know, then I got to thinking about so many other shows and great shows and like about their first seasons, and you know, they can be disjointed. You know, the characters are like Bland and Trophy and all that other stuff like you know, I mean, we saw the difference between the first half of the season and

the second half of the season and how they seemed like very different. So considering it's a Netflix show, it's probably not gonna have a second season because that's what next, that's what Netflix does. But i'd like to see more, you know, everybody kind of getting into their groove and you know,

kind of see where it goes from there. I don't know if it's one of those where they kind of spew their load and like the first season, like we have no idea what to do in the second season, or if it's just like in the second season that's where they find their groove and it starts to like get good and get better and you know they're established. So we'll see for that. But it's an enjoyable, fun show. It's no masterpiece or anything. But when I was watching it, I enjoyed it,

and isn't that all that really matters. Yeah, anyway, Chris, I don't have much written just like you. I didn't actually go and write like here's what I liked, here's what I didn't like. I will say the second half of the show turned me around. Like not that I think it's perfect now or anything like that, but like I said, episode five easily my favorite episode of the series, and I think probably the best like written one. Plot wise, I still have a little bit of a problem with

the dialogue. I think it's still like some of it's still forced, and some of the jokes still aren't funny. But I think it was way better

than it was in the first half of the show. I noticed it less because I actually became interested in the characters and their dynamics, and like I said, I've got nitpicks about like how those character arcs were deployed and at what time, But I think they were all like positive decisions and they have strong they have a strong cast to carry all of those like arcs and emotional

stuff. I would say that it still feels a little bit predictable to me, not as predictable, not everything I predicted came true, but I think in the long run it's still headed that way, but I think it became less predictable. I enjoyed the second half of the show a lot more.

Yeah, that's pretty much it, suy. Yeah, all right, So we are actually not going to put this on the spreaditor because it is not an Arnold movie, and technically this is an Arnold Schwarzhanger movie podcast, but these are special episodes, so don't tell anybody, just kidding tell everybody. But so we're not doing our usual stuff, doing the pre production trivia and there are credits there. Yeah, we don't know all that stuff. I do, however, have one name I can give. It was an assistant

costume designer named Donna. But it's like a Bart calling mode joke. Yeah, definitely. Are you gonna do the review thing? What do you? Oh? Uh? Yeah? The review thing was pretty much exact like the problems we had with it, or that Chris had with it and I had

with it in the last one. So it was basically like complaining about the writing, basically complaining, claiming about the the overall through plot stuff, some of it a decent out of it, complaining about the which they end up like addressing at the end, which was good complaining about Yeah, I will

sorry. Something I forgot to say is that structurally, I think the second half is way stronger than the first half because they didn't try to shoehorn in the the Cliffhangers as much, and so I think it was stronger for that reason, and it felt less procedural in the second half than it didn't. It did feel less procedural. The one of like a few of the reviews I read are the complete opposites, were like, the second half it's just like like snooze. I think it was really I think they got used to

the last but uh. Another one was complaining about Emma's character to where it's like, God, she's why are you making her so whiny? Yeah? Also the same jokes again and again, a lot of back and forth. It's like a mild comedy and a tippet adrenaline shot. Learning leaning into satire might have saved it, which I guess. I guess truized that if I had only watched Yeah, if I only watched the first four episodes, I would totally agree. But I think they brought it around. Series is cliche

followed by painful cringe and then rounded out by dumbfounded confusion. There are humans talking about I don'tbelieve humans wrote the dialogue was a USA Today review. But then you've got the good ones. It's like it's well, I mean, if your culls a good one, it's it's fairly standard fair which is a perfectly acceptable vehicle for Arnie comeback, coming back, but which also feels a

bit like a wasted opportunity. That's a positive one. This is fun, fundamentally un serious save the world romp with close shaved thrills, nonsense sensical plots, and brazy comic relief. Hollywood Reporter was more of a snaffoo than anything else. Richard Roper was like food Bar is violent, virtually laugh free disaster, filled with the cheap sexual humor standard isshes. This sounds like an old person. Yeah, it's standard issue action sequences and papers and characters get to

the chopper and flew this one instantly. Just stuff like that which you get into their reviews and they explain a little more, but it's like the it's just problems with the Yeah, they're writing basically, I don't know. I think, and I think I think they're also comparing it to Arnold's older stuff, which you can't really do. Nobody makes movies like that anymore, and it's not a movie, it's a TV show, and like, yeah,

it's none even makes anything like that anymore, Like you can't. I will say, watching or analyzing something critically definitely takes like a lot of the fun out of stuff. So I want to ask these people, like did you enjoy watching it? And they'll probably say no, because, like you know,

they weren't surprised or it wasn't like mind blowing or anything. But that's also like part of their job is to watch it, And I kind of almost feel bad for them, because how could you like really enjoy stuff if you have to like constantly think about it, Like I think this show was fun. I don't think it was mind blowing or well changing or anything, but I watched it. I enjoyed watching it, and I don't. I mean, I have to think about it for the show, obviously, but

like I don't have to. My reputation is not on the line whether I say good things or bad things, So I don't know if they actually enjoyed it and couldn't say they did, or they just didn't because they're very critical,

or they're just a lot smarter than me, and just that. No, I think the biggest part, the biggest problem was was that every single review that I read, the first thing they mentioned was true Lies Yeah, And so all of them were comparing it to true lies yeah, and which you can't do because I think part of the job of a critic is to meet a thing where it's at. Like you you have to like go into something knowing like basically what it's going to be and temper your expectations for that.

You can't go into this expecting high art, and you can't go into this expecting it to be Arnold in the nineties. It doesn't make sense to do that exactly critics. I was just gonna say, I do think if this gets a second season, I think they've learned some stuff and I would actually look forward to the second season, and I think they set themselves up for a good second season with like the plot. I think that the idea of having the entire wedding party have to having to be on the run together

with like Carter and Don Tello and all those other people there. I think that's kind of fun. I think that's like a solid premise for the second season for sure, because you have like the if there have to be all together all the time, you have like Emma and Carter, like Emma Carter and all in conflicting with all this stuff. Yeah, and don couples,

Yeah, exactly. On top of that, Joe made an excellent point as far as first season stuff, because this is the first season of a show, which sucks it is on Netflix because of the most it's gonna get probably two seasons. But first seasons are like even the best shows that I can there's like what Is It Lost? Is pretty much a show that has like a very solid first season. Otherwise it's most most shows. The Wire has a good first season, I think, And yeah, I mean it's drama.

It's a slow burn. Well that's like comedy, but the Wires like slow burn, and it's definitely not as good as like tight tightly written as like the next ones and like fleshed out, you know. I mean Breaking Bads first season was only like eight episodes, and like it did a good job of hooking you in, but that's because like that shows about just like drama. Yeah, six for a season, that's what it is. Rough,

Like it's all character introduction. Yeah, sopranos for a season, Like so many great fucking shows, their first seasons are like a little rough and a little touch and go. Like that's how like it is. And I think we've kind of gotten to the point now where it's you know, I don't know how that show got like five seasons because it was like critically acclaimed at the time, but like nobody was really watching it and it's good, but it's slow. Yeah, and now that kind of like, oh,

Madman's another one with a kind of slow born for a season. But yeah, that kind of thing exists now. But like with streaming, like they have the numbers immediately and those cancel shit like super fast. If it's not like super popular and people aren't talking about it, hopefully it gets more than one and hopefully you can actually become good. Like even you said Loss has

a great first season, but I mean, let's not lie. The second season started off kind of Yeah, they banked off that first season and just like that's how they got the you know, yeah, but yeah kind of ran out of ideas. If you don't have a with that genre, if you don't have a successful first season. You pretty much turned that eighteen ninety nine show, which apparently is or Heroes, which was apparently like the eighty nine show. Someone told me it's like if you like Lost show, but

then he's like, noh, neverm I just got canceled. I was like, okay, well, yeah, it's the same thing or Twin Peaks or something like that. So basically what we're saying is the show is the next wire. Yes, God, that would be great if you just switch tones. Yes, definitely anyway, Okay, uh, that's all, So thank you for listening. Please vote for us on on Apple podcasts, and I'm gonna say vote please please vote for us on Apple podcasts. Please make us

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