Everything. Everywhere. All. At. Once.

We had so much to say, I just wanna jump into it, but before we do, I wanted to make a correction. I mistakenly pronounced the band that was nominated for Best Score in the Academy Awards this year, uh, I mistakenly pronounced them Son Lukes, and it's a long story why I pronounced it that way. It doesn't matter, I was wrong. It's Son Lux, so their nomination was 100% deserved. Absolutely love their work in this movie. I also wanted to let you know.

Before I get it going, about an hour into this, I dropped an easter egg that I discovered at the end of the movie. I didn't see anyone talking about this on social, and we need to get to the bottom of it. Um, I described what it is, we even play a little teeny clip, uh, for clarification. And, we need some answers, so, if you can't make it there in one sitting, maybe you can fast forward and listen to that part now, cause I need some answers.

So with that said, let me get the film reel going and we'll get to the show. Welcome back to another episode of the Silver Screen Happy Hour. I'm Chris Wiegand, this is my brother Jerome.

So, you want to tell our audience what we're going to be discussing today?

He, like, he had a slight pause after each word, he was all, and the Oscar goes to... Everything. Everywhere. All. At. Once. Yeah, by the time you get to the third word, everybody's already cheering and jumping up so you don't even hear the rest of it. But, uh, super cool that they got Harrison Ford to give out the Oscar. Um, and there's a reason behind that. Uh, those of you, this is so old news by now that the internet has been splashing it all over.

So I'm sure this has all been there, done that. But Harrison Ford, of course, has an emotional connection to... The Best Supporting Actor winner, uh, Ke Huy Kwan, who played Short Round in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Who, uh, I want to say that was his first movie, because I think The Goonies came out after. So, uh, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom was his first film, uh, directed by Spielberg, mind you.

And, uh, I think a year later, or two years later, Spielberg was the executive producer of The Goonies, and got him in that too. And... Um, we're going to talk a little bit more about Oscars in a second, but when, uh, uh, Kihue won his Best Supporting Actor Oscar, if you watch the, the, the cat, the telecast, as he's coming off stage, you can see him stop and he points to Spielberg and waves to him. Um, so, super cool moment for him, and, you know, for obviously And who doesn't love that guy?

I mean, it's hard not to love him. I mean, he's just so warm and genuine, and, you know, and watching his speech was just awesome. And I watched his Golden Globe speech too, and I was like, this is gonna be awesome. If he wins. Yeah, and I don't know anybody that Like, didn't want him to win, or, you know what I mean? Like, they knew he was going to, I mean, Ariana DeBose, who won Best Supporting Actress last year, was giving out the Oscar.

She started fucking crying before she could even say his name! Like, she got, she got, key out. That was all she could get out. She, she barely, she barely choked on the other two parts of his name because she was already crying. Like what the fuck, dude? Like how many times have we ever seen that where somebody, and we're not talking about like, like if Clint Eastwood had never won an Oscar and he finally wins one at 90.

Like this guy disappeared for like 30 years and people still cried when he won the Oscar. Like, I

He actually was on a boat with his family and, you know, as a refugee and, um, it's just, it's, it's an amazing American story and I love it. So, yeah, I was very happy when he won. So, uh, before we keep going, let's, let's talk about our drinks. Um, You already cracked yours, didn't you? What do you got?

First of all, the movies that we've been doing lately haven't had, like, a hard alcohol that's paired with it. I don't think there's any alcohol in this movie. I want I think when we did Thumb and Louise, I was doing margaritas. So, like, you know what I mean? Because they were going to Mexico. Like, I want I want, like I need we need to get back to a movie where somebody's drinking some hard ass shit. So I can, you know, pair that up.

We've been doing these, for lack of a better term, uh, drunk wise. These softball movies where there's no real hard, you know, uh, so I've just been sticking with beer. So,

I'm probably gonna sound like the dumb white guy Oh, we totally are because I you know I I think about the drinks the day of normally and if I would have stopped out after work in I work in the Detroit area there's all kinds of places to get various drinks that you just can't get up here in St. Clair County where I live And, um, so I went into the local party store that, you know, I'm, I'm friends with the owner here and he's, does have a great selection.

Andy over at Wolverine in Port Huron has a wonderful selection, but he did not have any Chinese alcoholic beverages whatsoever. So like, whether, you know, um, and You know, most party stores probably don't carry that. Now, in the Detroit area, I'm sure I would have been able to find something. But what I did find, and this is where it's kind of comes, it gets, it kind of gets into like ethnic blasphemy to, you know, it's supposed to be a Chinese movie, cast in the movie.

The characters are supposed to be Chinese, that's what I was trying to say. And so I got a, uh, I could not find anything Chinese. This is a product of South Korea. And what did I say that... I can't even pronounce it because I don't speak Korean. Um, so I pulled up my handy little, uh, Um, translator on my iPhone. And this is what it's, uh, this is what it's called. Hejin Heen.

And I might be switching to my beer, but I just wanted to honor our Asian cast by having an Asian drink. Next time, maybe I'll go for, uh, some kind of, um, cocktail that I could, uh, That I could do to honor the movie. But, uh, yeah, it's not too bad. But, you know, it's not what I expected at all.

Or watch the, well, stop to watch the movie, um, if you're going to just stop the recording, the podcast real quick to watch the trailer, I guarantee you, you're going to say, what the fuck, because the trailer can be just as confusing as the movie, when, when you take it like, You know, in a two minute, trailers are two minutes and it's hard to explain everything everywhere all at once in two minutes.

I want to say, with the exception of Blonde, which I don't even think was up for Best Picture. It was just up for Best Actress. Uh, um, the movie about Marilyn Monroe. She watched that one. I don't think she watched any of the other Best Picture nominees. I want to say All Quiet on the Western Front, because it was on Netflix. We watched that together. She's a big, she likes war movies, oddly enough. She's into war movies, so she watched that one, you know, without much coaxing.

But I showed her the trailers for literally every other movie that was nominated, and she was not interested. And particularly when we got to everything, everywhere, all at once. She, it might have been 35 seconds into the trailer, she's like, next. Jeez. Yeah, it's just, there's a lot, and I remember texting you when I finally sat down to watch it. I was like, I don't think I've ever seen... This much shit going on in the first 12 minutes of a movie, and that includes Saving Private Ryan.

Like, I mean, the first 12 minutes of everything, everywhere, all it was, there's a lot thrown at you, and they haven't even started the multiverses yet. Right. It's just the way it's edited and shot. It's just like, boom, boom, boom, boom. It's like, it's like, uh, setting the tone for how crazy everything's gonna be, right? Like, they want you to get used to it now, so that when they start doing the multiverses, you'll be used to it. Um, so, if you haven't seen the trailer, watch it.

If you haven't seen the movie, watch it. But, um, but, what are your, what was your first takeaway when you first saw the movie for the first time?

And, um, She, she did finish it, uh, the second time, uh, the next day, and, um, but for me, so, the movie, I felt like it was, um, See, I'm, I'm like reading into the, the, you know, the world view of what's, what's being said, right? It seemed very nihilistic. Um, where it was, you know, basically nothing matters.

Um, and that was, and what I come to realize is, um, and Jesse, my wife sent me this article, uh, that she, or not an article, a Wikipedia page, um, about the, the word, uh, or the, about the genre of, of movie that this kind of falls in. Um, it's called Absurdist Fiction, and I'll just, yeah, and I'll read, I'll read a little bit.

And it's funny because when you finish the movie, and having seen it twice, especially and I recently finished it, um, I'm keenly aware that it actually does find truth and value. And the end of this movie. So what I think this movie was, it was sort of a, a battle of worldviews when it comes to, is there something that we can call true? Um, is there something that we can call meaningful, you know, and.

And that whole battle between her daughter, you know, her and her daughter in the end of the movie, it just kind of, it kind of answers that question, right? So, that's, I loved it. I thought it was, I thought it was a great movie. I know there's people that probably hated it, um, because of how nihilistic it was and how dark, really. I mean, she was trying, you know, the, the, her daughter's character, um, In the multiverses. What's her name in the multiverses? She had a different name.

And I said this to mom, because, you know, mom, this normally is a movie mom would be like, What the hell? But mom actually liked it, and she cried in the end, of course. And I figured out why mom liked it. It's because... And I'm going to go way back here to a 1983 film. This is Terms of Endearment with a lot of flash. That's what this film is. If you, if you really think about it, the concept of, this is a story about a mother and a daughter, right?

Now we're going to go through story structure in a second. Um, and when we talk about tangible and spiritual goals, it seemed clear that the tangible goal was to fix herself, right? Um, but the spiritual goal was to fix the relationship with her daughter, right? You know, she she thought If I fix myself, everything will be fine.

I mean, again, what's tragic about this is not that it's funny because you know that in certain cultures, you know what I mean?

Is there's a scene in a Star Trek movie, I wanna say it's the one where the guy claims he's gonna go take him to see God. Is that the final frontier? Probably. Yeah, I remember. I remember the... It's Spock's brother, or half brother, and he comes and, remember that, show me your pain. It runs deep, share it with me, you know what I mean, and he frees their minds and he gets all these followers and cult followers because of it.

There's a scene where he wants to try to do this with Bones and, uh, and, uh, you know, McCoy, Dr. McCoy and Spock. When he does Spock's pain, McCoy's pain is... They do this whole flashback where his dad's dying, he's a doctor, right? Dr. McCoy, Bones. Yeah. He, his dad's dying. He helps him kill himself. Oh my god. To avoid the pain. Wow. And then weeks later they find a cure for what the dad was dying from. So that's his pain. Pretty fucking serious, right? Like, this is like, whoa.

When they go to Spock's pain, it's, it's one thing, it's the day of his birth. They hand him to his father, and the doctor goes, or no, they give the baby to Spock's dad, and Spock's dad looks at the baby and goes, So human. It shakes his head! It shakes his head in disappointment! And that's it! That's Spock's pain! That's all the pain that his whole life is the fact that he's half human. Right? That his mother is human.

Um, and so, I thought of that immediately when I was watching Everything Everywhere All At Once because I was like, Good God, like, can you imagine Knowing how that your parents, or parent, one of them, was just that disappointed in you from the day you're born. Yeah. You haven't even done anything wrong yet! Right. You know, you know what I mean? Right. And so, so it's not funny, it's sad and, and heartbreaking, but the way they do it, it's just like snippets of flashbacks.

And it's almost like the way they do it, you're, you're just like, oh my god, I and, uh, man, yeah, so. Talk about two white people that are going to really fumble through this one. Um, there are probably people of a different culture listening right now going, You asshole, that's not funny! Like, that's serious! Um, one other thing I thought of, uh, so another thing that really grabbed me was like the whole concept of this younger generation.

So, I don't know, you know, the generations, I'm kind of confused now, like how old Gen Z is. Um, but... I don't even know any of that shit to be honest with you. I know, so like, I know my kids are millennials, and um, they're in their mid twenties now. It's fun to make fun of millennials on the internet. That's all I know. I don't even know what millennials are going to save us all, man. I hope so, because I don't really understand the difference. What are we?

We're Gen X. Oh, of course we are. Our parents are boomers. Because MTV told us we were. Well, yeah.

Just the, the, that kind of overarching theme of generational abuse or pain, you know, um, disconnect maybe even is a, is a good word. that's why I think it probably resonated with so many, especially young people, probably millennials and Gen, Gen Z's.

Um, and, and what struck me throughout the film is, you know when like, Like, when white people are trying so hard not to be racist that they say racist things. Uh oh, what are you about to say? No, no, no, but you know what I mean, right? Like, there's times where white people are like, they'll see a black person and they're like, Hey, I voted for Obama! You know what I mean? Like, they say weird shit like that. Like, white people say the dumbest shit just to try to prove they're not racist.

Or they'll preface it by saying, Now look, I'm not racist, but... I'm not racist, but... Some of my best friends are black, but, you know, you know what I mean? Like, white people fuck this up all the time. They try, they try too hard. And I tell you what, Julia Louis Dreyfus, uh, uh, from Seinfeld, of course, is in a new movie. Newer movie. It's on Netflix. Oh, what's it called? Uh, Those People? You People? I think it's called You People. And it's about, um, uh, Jonah Hill.

Jonah Hill, no I think it's you people, Jonah Hill is, is in an interracial relationship and his mother is Julia Leigh Dreyfus. She does this the whole movie, where she tries her best not to sound racist and she comes off so racist every time. But, um, but, okay, so, what I was gonna say was is, I got the feeling that Michelle Yeoh's character, Evelyn, was doing the same thing about her daughter being lesbian. Trying so hard to act like she accepted her. Right.

But everything she said came off like she didn't accept her at all, you know what I mean? Uh, you people, yeah. That's what I said. Yep, you're right. Uh, Eddie Murphy, by the way, is fantastic in that movie. I'm gonna have to catch that. I laughed my ass off in that movie. But anyway, this is again, we go off on tangents, we jump movies all the time. Um, so I really felt like Evelyn's character was doing that.

You know, the more she tried to act like she was accepting, she was really just pushing her daughter further away. You know, so the dynamic there was just fantastic. Um, so, I, I gathered what, if you could gather anything in the first ten minutes of this movie. Um,

Now, whenever you watch a movie, don't you just look for it? Like, you look for it, right? When somebody says something to the lead, you're like, Fuck it, that's it right there. That's what I'm going to pay attention to for the rest of the next two hours. Somebody says something to the lead and you're like, I bet you that's going to end up being the theme. And she tries so hard. But again, the perfection that she's chasing is in herself. Right.

She doesn't realize that her spiritual goal, the perfection that she's really chasing, is the connection between her and her daughter. And what an amazing climax. A final scene where she's telling the daughter off. You know what I mean? She's been trying to, uh, kid gloves her the whole movie. Right. You know? And then finally at the end when the daughter's like, I just want to end it. I just think we should go our separate ways. And she goes to walk away. The mother's like, you know what?

Fine. And she lets her have it. This is all the things I hate about you. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But then at the end of it, while trying not to cry, she says, But I... Don't care about any of that stuff. I only want to be with you. Always, even despite all the things you do that drive me nuts, I only want to be here with you. Yeah, that was good.

I mean, that, the shoot, and that was the scene they showed at the Oscars, by the way, when they, you know, because they always show clips of the actors that are up there, that was Michelle Yeoh's clip. And, and you can tell, like, you know, when I was watching it for the first time and I saw that moment, you know, I'm one of those guys that have those little bells that go off, and my bell was Oscar Clip, Oscar Clip, Oscar Clip, you know what I mean?

It was the same thing with Mark Ruffalo in Spotlight when he's doing the, It's time, Robbie! You know, about going after the priest. You're like, Oscar Clip, Oscar Clip, and sure enough, that's the clip they showed when he was up for Best Supporting Actor. So, and you kind of wonder, do the actors know what their Oscar Clip is when they're doing these scenes? I don't know. But anyway, um, and that to me was, that was what wrapped it all up.

There's a lot of shit that goes on between what we just said is the theme and how we end it. Yeah. I mean, the hot dog fingers alone, that's gotta be worth mentioning. Um, uh, let me, uh, pause for station identification for those of you that are listening. Yeah, that's number two. Not that we're keeping track, or counting in any way. We stopped counting, that's not nice. Um, but, so, as I was mapping out these scenes, I was literally writing down these scenes, right?

Cause I, I like to try to pinpoint midpoint scene and stuff like that. Um, there's a section in Act 2, past the midpoint scene, you wanna hear what these scene headings were that I wrote down? I'm gonna tell you, uh... Four in a row. These were four straight scenes in a row, and this is what I wrote down. Evelyn fights all jumpers. Evelyn vs. dog mom. Evelyn vs. butt plugs. Evelyn vs. Joe Boon again. That butt plug scene was horrible, man. I was like, what the hell?

And then I ended that last one with Evelyn vomits into Flatline. I mean, there was someone like, I'm writing this shit down and I'm like, What the hell is going on here? Yeah. It's so much cra I mean, and again, Like I said, it's a compact first 12 minutes of all the shit that's going on, And they don't even jump into the multiverses yet. You know what I mean? The multiverse happens in the first turning point, Where, You know, she decides to make the decision.

Now, again, we talk about this in Star Wars, right? It's not just Obi Wan and, uh, Leia presenting Luke. Uh, help me Obi Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope. And he says, hey, you must come with me. It's not enough, just to say that. That's not gonna jump the character into act two. There has to be a double bump. There has to be something else that happens. And in Luke's case in Star Wars, he arrives home to find Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru have been charred to death. That's his double bump.

That's his, Alright, now I got nothing, I might as well go. Um. And everything everywhere all at once, it's not enough that the husband stops her in the elevator, remember? He just, all of a sudden becomes this different guy at the elevator. He's been a nerdy, meek husband so far, and then the elevator, he takes his glasses off, and it's like he's fucking Indiana Jones all of a sudden. And he's just like, alright, this is what's happening. There's all these crazy verses going on.

I need your help. We have to stop this bad guy. You know what I mean? And she's like... What are you talking about? Right? Right? Because that's her husband and yet he's got the umbrella up so he's blocking the camera. The, the, you know, the, the camera in the elevator and she doesn't know, have any clue what's going on.

He puts these things on her ears and everything and he's like you have a choice when we get out of the elevator You can go straight to the janitor's room and we'll go on this journey. Of course, she doesn't because she doesn't believe a thing she says. You just think he's lost his mind. Right, right. But when she's sitting there, so it wasn't enough, that wasn't enough to push her into act two. But when she's sitting there listening to Jamie Lee Curtis's, uh, Deirdre. Oh, God, Deirdre.

I love Deirdre, the whole movie. You're right. Um, when she's listening to her really, and they showed her clip at the Oscars. For her, her best supporting actress, uh, oh wait, we gotta get a bit, uh, we gotta get an audio on this. I have another shot. It actually looks like, it looks like white wine, it looks like Chardonnay.

Um, little did she know that, you know, really this whole adventure was to stop the evil person. Which, I thought it was funny that it was her daughter is the one that's manifested as the evil person. And, and, can I just say, Stephanie, it's gotta be Sue? Stephanie Sue? That plays your daughter? I'm going to mispronounce that like crazy, um, God, do we sound and look like dumb old white people or what? I'm not editing any of this. But yeah, don't, don't edit any of this.

We need, we need, we need the audience to know that we... This is just... Alright, here we go. Are you ready? Are you ready? Are you ready? Oh wait, you can't hear it. Okay, can you hear this? Stephanie Hsu. Hsu! What did I say? Hsu? I said Hsu. Okay, I said Hsu. It's actually Stephanie Hsu. Uh, H S U. Yeah. Um, so I apologize for those that are screaming right now at your, uh, whatever you're listening to this, uh, podcast on.

Um, I have to say, she had the most amazing, um, Costume and makeup designs throughout the entire film. Oh yeah. Right? Like, poor Evelyn seemed to be... With the exception of the hot dog fingers, poor Evelyn seemed to be in the same shit she was in. She had a couple of costume changes, but, I thought it was cool that when

When they presented Stephanie Hsu at the Oscars for Best Supporting Actress, she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress. And you know how they show like a bunch of random clips of the person and then they show their scene? The random clips that were showing up for her were just, I mean, again, if you hadn't seen the movie and you had no idea what it was about, you'd be like, who the hell does she play? Because she's in some weird outfits.

And just random clips that they show throughout the whole Oscar telecast. Um, so I guess we could take this moment and, and really dig into that. So Best Supporting Actress is five actresses in the category. Two of them. Were of this film and Rarely does one of them win because usually when there's two from the same movie it splits the vote Right.

Yeah, half the people are voting for one half the people are voting for the other But but it does work out sometimes and this year was an example Where overwhelmingly even though Stephanie Hsu is widely considered the best Like she should have won, right? Everyone really felt like she should've won. It's You can understand why Jamie Lee Curtis won, right? A life long, a career, I mean, what is it, five decades? Yeah, it's a long time.

Five decades in Hollywood, your parents are Vivian Lee and Tony Curtis. Like, your parents, your parents are Hollywood legends. You're a Hollywood icon, you've been around for five, six decades. Um, You, you battled most of your career being typecast as a scream queen in horror films, you know what I mean? Like, people that were bitching about this, I can't believe Jamie Lee Curtis won.

Folks, if you honestly think Al Pacino's best acting performance ever was Son of a Woman, then you don't understand how the Oscars work. Like, it's just, you know what I mean? He was due. He was due. That's why he won it. Sometimes you're just fucking due! Sometimes you're just due! If you won a tragedy, and you saw this a lot on the internet that week, when Angela Bassett lost.

Now, it's only her second Oscar nomination, but she lost Best Supporting Actress for Wakanda Forever, and everybody went bananas. Everybody went apeshit. And it's like, folks, the real tragedy is that Al Pacino got out of the 70s without an Oscar. That's the real tragedy. Because he had like six that he could have won a fucking Oscar for, and he didn't win any. They were all

Look, Angela Bassett's still probably gonna win an Oscar. You know what I mean? She probably will. And you know the other thing I saw, I don't want to really. pile on Angela Bassett because I love her and I thought she's great. She's always great, but everyone was like she should have won for what's love got to do with it. She should have won for that, right? Everyone was going off on the one that she lost best actress for. That year she went up against Holly Hunter in the piano.

Nobody was beating Holly Hunter that year. Nobody. When you play a deaf, uh, uh, it was a real artistic film too about this woman on a Beach who plays a piano that has eventually sinks in the ocean. It was this The what? Oh God. What was her name? That one Best supporting actress. Um, I'm drawing a blank right now. Come on Jerome. Yeah. So, um, she was like 11. Uh, well she's like the youngest and APAC one. Anna. APAC one. Alright. I knew that. I knew it would come to me eventually.

Anna Pacman won best supporting actress since she was like 11 years old or eight years old, or whatever the hell it was. Anyway, nobody was beating Holly Hunter that year. Okay. So, That wasn't Angela Bassett's time, and this year wasn't either. It just wasn't. But it'll happen, folks. It'll happen. Angela Bassett's gonna win her Oscar. I'm sure of it.

Jamie Lee Curtis didn't have, well, I was going to say she didn't have really a moment in that film where, I want to say, really clinched the Oscar. Yeah. I think she was just sort of... Fun all the way through. And the intrical part all the way through, and again, she has the legacy on her side. Her background, her history. She has that on her side.

Um, although you could argue that Ki Hwe could have been nominated for Best Actor, and James Hong, who plays the father, could have gotten an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor. If they really wanted to play that, I actually heard some of that chatter on the internet. Oh yeah. That they actually did Ki Hwe wrong. They should have, they should have, the studio should have pushed him in the lead, in the, as a lead role.

But, you know, I mean, Alec Guinness gets nominated for Best Supporting Actor in Star Wars. You know, a lot of times that catalyst character that pushes the lead into the story, that's what they are. They're the helper. You know what I mean? Right, right, right. Kee Hui Kwan's role in this film was, was obviously important and needed, but he wasn't a lead. Mm hmm. And it's important to understand that this film was about Evelyn and Joy. Right. You know, uh, Waymond...

It is an important, he was, he was an important obiwan character. You know what I mean? Yeah. He's not a lead, so I thought it played out perfectly as far as that, but, but we really need to talk about this seven Oscar shit, because I remember posting on Facebook, I was like, not even Silence The Lambs has a poll like this. Okay, so Sounds To Lambs pulled five Oscars. Again, this is about as hard of a sweep as you can get. Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Screenplay.

Top 5. You can't beat that. Top 5. It's the Top 5 Oscars. Right. But Everything, Everywhere, All at Once gets 7, and they get 3 acting awards, not just 2, 3 of them, including the screenplay, and Best Picture, and Best Director. And, uh, I wanted, what was the 7th one? Was it, it was either editing? Was it editing?

And it was nominated for music, the original score, which I get why everything everywhere, everything everywhere all at once won, or no, sorry, All Quiet on the Western Front. All Quiet on the Western Front won best score, and I could see that, because the score of that movie was amazing.

This is, uh, this is called Blot Out the Sun. And it, it made me feel like the weightiness of the, the everything bagel scene, you know? Right. So, Blot Out the Sun, and it's... Yeah, the art on this bottle is pretty trippy.

Oh, those of you who know what I'm talking about, did you ever just give a great comment? Like just nail it and you're expecting like a thousand likes or a thousand hearts And then nobody responds and you're like fuck this was so good. How is nobody responding? I had one of those so I'm gonna tell you what it is So the next day after the Oscars the Academy posted a picture on Facebook on the wall and it was the four Oscar winners For, uh, acting, right? So it was the three from this film.

Yeah, I remember the picture. And Brendan Fraser, right? Right, yeah. Because he won Best Actor for The Whale. Another great performance. Um, I commented! Here's my comment, are you ready? I'm ready. Okay. I think I probably read it. My comment, my comment was, Three of these four were in Everything, Everywhere, All at Once. And one of them was Everything, Everywhere, All at Once. Get it? Cause of the whale? I got no fucking response from that! That is genius, dammit! That is a genius!

I feel like George Costanza in Seinfeld. It's smart! And a smart audience would appreciate it! Or, they didn't even get it. Like, they didn't even get what I was saying. What a jerk. He's fat shaming. But, but Brendan Fraser isn't really fat. Like, he was playing a part. I know. It was a fat suit and CGI, which is amazing what they did in that movie. They used a fat suit and CGI. It was CGI too? Wow. And makeup. They had, it was a combination of makeup, a suit, and CGI.

Yeah. That was a rough movie though. it was, uh, yeah, it was rough.

Seven of, they went top heavy. Yeah. I mean, picture, director, actress, supporting actress, supporting actress, screenplay, editing. You can't get bigger than that. Like, again, like I said, I posted on Facebook about that, I don't even think Silence of the Lambs can compete with that, although, Silence of the Lambs has something that only two other films have done, and that's to sweep the top four. Hmm. Yeah. Right. Uh, picture, director, actor, actress.

Only three films in history have ever done it. Do you know the other two? I do not. Really? I don't. Okay. Would you like to take a guess? Because you're very familiar with one of them. Which, I'll give you a hint. Um, uh, should I give you this hint? Uh, I'll give you this hint. It came out in the 70s. In fact, I'll get, it came out the year I was born, 1975. And you know it, you know this movie. I got nothing. Oh my god, you're useless. Absolutely useless. It must be the beer.

It must be those twenty percent fuckin alcohol drink beers you're drinkin Um, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was best picture, best director, Jack and Louise Fletcher, best actress. And then the only other time it's ever happened was in 1934 called It Happened One Night. And that was, yeah, I mean... It was 1934, it was Claudette Colbert was Best Actress, and, uh, Clark Gable was Best Actor, and it won Best Picture and Best Director.

That's the only three times it's happened. Silence of the Lambs was the third one. Yeah. So think about, it happened one night in 1934, and then you get a little darker with One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Yeah. And then we go fuckin apeshit dark with Silence of the Lambs. So it's like, if the Oscars are telling us anything... Yeah, right. Yeah, gotta get dirty and dark. Um, but yeah, so, uh, everything everywhere all at once without winning the top four.

Still, I don't know, that's a pretty damn impressive sweep right there. You gotta get as dark as the stout. You, you're becoming useless now. I'm gonna have to carry us through the end of this thing.

Yeah, like, when they were interviewing people on the red carpet, they were like, Oh, I loved working with the Daniels. You know what I mean? Like, that was just their name, apparently. That's what they were referred to as. Um, so yeah, so, that was interesting. Um, I don't know man. Do you have any trivia you want to throw

The credits. So two, two hours and 17 minutes in the, it, it switches from one song to another. So the name of the song that was playing during the credits that intrigued me was called Evelyn Everywhere by Sun Luke. Luke it's Lux, L U X, but I think it's pronounced Luke's, uh, Sun Luke's. So that's the name of the band, but it's the song is called Evelyn Everywhere. And during this, the music, it's instrumental.

And during the music, you hear this whisper in the background, and then it's distinctly male, but then you hear a distinctly female voice over it. So, and it's kind of going back and forth, the male, female. Kind of whisper talking.

You know, so he actually found someone who filmed the credits or got a, got a copy of the credits and put it on YouTube, but it's the wrong song. It's not the entire credits. It's an edited version of the credits and it's a different song, so it's not the one that I was looking for. So, anyways, if there's someone that knows how to... I mean, if I could get the audio file, I could actually probably get it to this guy and he'll splice the music out and we'll just hear the whispers.

But when she gets into the closet with the husband, She's all, I don't know what they're talking about, But they call it gross necklaces. Right. It's like, you know, Again, Daniel Kwan was one of the writers. The other guy's a white guy, so you know that, like, any time that they had to do any sort of making fun of the culture, you know that that white dude, that Daniel Shynard, was just like, Alright, you're writing that one. That one's... Hands off. I'm not, I'm not going near that.

If we're putting that in the movie, you're writing that line. You know, so, um, you just get a sense that it was perfect, these two together, because they made a beautiful film. Alright.

Someone's gonna figure this out. I know someone's got the tech to rip the audio off the movie and, you know, do their thing,

Five and six and a half and when I was trying, they're into jiu jitsu right now I got them into jiu jitsu, but when I was trying to figure out which martial arts to get them in I went on Reddit and I, you know, I was looking up, well, I googled a question Which martial arts is the best for toddlers and this reddit post came up and everybody's going on and it went off like you had Guys that were like black belts and shit giving their point of view and everything and then one guy said something

that was so hilarious He was like Because one of them was talking about what's the best as far as like lifelong self defense, right? And this guy, I, I, obviously I can't remember his name, but, um, he was talking, I'm paraphrasing by the way, I can't quote it because I don't remember all of it, but he was going into this detail about how the best for hand to hand combat, um, is actually either MMA or, uh, the military. Obviously not for toddlers, he was talking about when you get older.

MMA or military because it's real hands on. He's like, the shit you learn in these classes in jiu jitsu and karate, he's like, that's all about like technique and points. He goes, I'll give you an example. This example he gave was hilarious. He's like, he's like, Take the fictional character Jason Bourne, right? He goes, Jason Bourne, if he was in a karate tournament, would get his ass kicked on points.

He goes, but if you fought Jason Bourne in an alley, he's gonna put a pencil through your scrotum. Like, that just sort of, like, the light bulb went off. Like, yeah, he didn't learn that in any classroom, right? Like, that shit you learn in the military, right? And stuff like that. Like, so, uh, uh, my My, uh, my goal is to turn my kids into little machines, and, uh, I'll see if the whole point of

You know, I, I, I, again, it's just a movie, but if you watch Karate Kid, right, Daniel does his whole training with Mr. Miyagi. The second he gets in the tournament at the end, he's kind of lost. He's like a fish out of water. He doesn't really know what to do. Yeah. And Miyagi's trying to tell him, like, okay, remember all the shit we learned? Okay, now you have to start doing it, right? Everybody would come at him with these moves, and he's like, AHH! And he would run out of the ring. Right?

So, so, I mean, that's kind of the point. You can learn technique in points, but if you get in an alley, and you have to fight somebody, are you gonna remember all the shit you learned? Or are you just gonna, like, put the pencil through somebody's scrotum? Like this. That's probably what I would do, I'd grab a baseball bat. But anyway, um, how did we get on that? I don't remember. Yes, again, we go off on tangents, people, and we don't even know how we get there. So Reddit, yeah.

So Reddit, you find a lot of interesting shit on Reddit. Um, and so we're putting the mission out there for you Reddit people. Yeah, I need to know what that, what is said. Find out what those whispers are at the closing credits, the end credits of Everything Everywhere all at once. Yep. Alright, so what do you got for 6 Degrees?

I did my homework. And we know the rules. You have to be in a feature length film. Not television show, and we don't use directors.

My brother misspoke just now when he said I tried to stump you. We're trying to find, are there two people that cannot be connected. Right. We almost had it this time. You had to dig deep on these two. I mean, again, we're taking out everything, everywhere, all at once. Otherwise, it's one connection. It's one degree, yeah. Yeah, you take that degree out, and here's what you got. So, Telly Medell, or Medell. In 2020, it was in a movie called Omniboat with Adam Devine.

Adam Devine, of course, was in Why Him? The movie with, uh, Bryan Cranston. I love that movie. Yeah, you saw that, right? So the lead in that, the female in that, uh, Zoe Deutsch. Uh huh. She was in a 2018 movie called Set It Up with Stephanie Hsu. No way. Three degrees? Three degrees. Holy crap. Omniboat, Why Him? and Set It Up. So even when you think... It can't be done. I'm impressed. Sometimes those are the easiest connections.

It's gotta be a feature length film. So we make it a little tougher on ourselves, but they pulled it off these two. How about that? And they're girlfriends in this movie. How sweet.

But Jimmy Kimmel had a great line at the Oscars too, and he's talking about James Hong, who was at the Oscars and Jimmy Kimmel's doing his monologue. And he had some really great ones, some really great jokes. And one of them was, he said, James Hong, who's like 90, you know, he's like 92 years old or whatever. Remember, he was on Seinfeld as well. Yeah, Seinfeld 4. Seinfeld 4! Cartwright! Cartwright! That was a great comedy bit. And Costanza's like, uh, was there a phone call for me?

Yes, I yell, Cartwright, no one answers, so I hung up. Copyright this car. Anyway, so James, that was

Uh, in the city of Los Angeles, and he's like, so I want to congratulate James Hong for a wonderfully fantastic Hollywood career and a very, uh, subpar career as a civil engineer, because the roads in L. A. are fucking terrible. Yeah, gridlock every day. Yeah, he gives a little, well, and no, I mean just like the roads, like the roads themselves, so he gives a little dig at them. This is pretty funny, but anyway. Jimmy Kimmel, uh, he had some good ones. That's good.

Um, yeah, some people just watch the Oscars for that opening monologue and then they just, you know, tune out. Um, but anyway, uh, it was a great film, definitely deserving of all its Oscars, all of its Oscars.

So like the Coen brothers, you ever noticed the Coen brothers always have fantastic screenplays because those two are in sync. You know what I mean? Like they know exactly what they want and, and we get it with this one with the Daniels. So if you have not seen everything everywhere all at once, um, see it just what, even if you hate it, just watch it. Um, because, you know, uh, I, I just, my

Katie, so Katie, Katie and my mother in law Cindy were over and they're watching it with Jesse and it was like some of the most insane stuff I think it was the hot dog fingers and everything and I comment I'm like, so, um, I do recommend, you know, well, I don't, I didn't say recommend. I said, uh, I said something like, I did hear that this movie makes way more sense if you're on mushrooms. And they just looked at me and laughed. And I said, not that I've done that, I haven't, but, you know.

Um. And, man, Uncupped Gens, that was another difficult one to watch, just in the way of, uh, I was on edge. The whole movie is very uneasy.

Yeah. Cause he filled up that little space on the screen. I thought that was brilliant.

And it's usually a relationship drama. That makes sense. I didn't even think about that. So I think it is based on a play. But you're right about the aspect ratio. I mean, Darren Aronofsky directed that film. That dude's a master. If you're not familiar with Darren Aronofsky, go look at his IMDB and watch those movies. It'll trip you right the fuck out. He's a really good filmmaker. So when I heard that he was directing The Whale, I was like, oh, this is gonna be good. And you're right.

Yeah, it is shot like it's... Like you're watching it on your television. Right, exactly. It's, it's, it's not a wide screen. You know, even in the theater, even in the theater. And I remember thinking when I went to go see it, and it started with the box, I was like, Oh, somebody up there needs to fix that. That's not right. I'm like looking up at the projector, and I'm like, Hey, uh, hey, Frank! It's, it's, it's not widescreen. You gotta fix that. That's not right.

And again, I want to repeat what my brother said, get to a local theater and enjoy some movies. Until next time, from my brother Jerome, I'm Chris Wiegand.