Episode 474 - Action Bluebells

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We have John today. a lot of people had to drop out jake couldn't make it and then brent is here kind of on the down low visiting over from the home video hustle where anita has taken over as the number one our little anita is now the star of home video hustle he really is i listened to the episode for your for your birthday where you were back in ohio Oh, yeah. And when you guys were grilling her about South Central, and she was like,

that's not where I'm from. And knowing Anita's background, I was dying. I was dying so hard. Because she's just this little quiet girl from Orange County. Part of this thing from the hood. You guys are talking about, these are your streets. Oh, I loved it. Yeah, Cameron said that the whole trip every time I watched it. He's like, them is your streets, Anita. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Not all of California is like that. I told you. In the Midwest, growing up in Ohio, we watched those movies.

And it's like, that honestly, that was our picture of what it was like. Sure. Of course. I mean, it's like one little section, right? It's like one little part of it. I mean, that's just like watching everything with, you know, watching American Me, you'd think all of California was East LA, right? Yeah. You know. Well, it's like when you go to New York, you think it's going to look like Death Wish. Exactly.

It's all going to be like, you know, you know, ways and sewers and alleys, you know, I wish it did look like death with what I went to New York. I was in New York for like two days. I'm like, this doesn't look so much like it doesn't look the taking of 12123 so much. You know, if New York didn't look like that, we wouldn't have hip hop. So that's very true. Good things. Good things come out of bad situations sometimes. There you go. Yeah. Yeah, there you go. Hey, you know, it's good to see you,

John. Welcome back. It's good to have Brent here with us. We were kind of starting away with some technical difficulties to start, but we got it all squared away, and here we are. Can you tell how the levels are? Do they sound all right? You sound great, man. You sound full voice and live. Tell me if you get that weird feedback. I'll just unplug the headphone.

Well, here's the thing. I can't have my cans on because I've noticed we're a little low, but everything comes through the soundboard, And for some reason on this computer, I have to run it through the master volume on the soundboard. So if I drop that, it kind of lowers out. So I have to have my cans next to me and kind of keep in once in a while because it's kind of, I feel like I'm producing right now. There you go. Yeah. I feel like I came up off of that piano and did a little

producing. You know, what is it? You've been doing so much time producing. I forgot how that song starts. Oh, you've been doing so much producing. So why don't you come over and lay a funky track or something like that? I can't remember either right now. And then you hear the piano go. The real ones know the real ones know what we're talking about.

How you been John? Good. Yeah. Real quick. I caught, I went and caught Godzilla minus one minus color. Saw it in black and white last week. Snuck away. I don't know how I feel about that. name. I don't know if I like it or hate it, because it's like you could just put Godzilla minus color and then minus one minus color. It's so stupid sounding that I love it at the same time. Right.

Somebody did a thing online where it said Godzilla minus one minus Godzilla, and it was just a picture of the boat in the water. That's really what they're calling it. I thought they were just going to call it Godzilla minus one.

Yeah, why don't they just call it Godzilla minus color? Yeah, that's what I was thinking at first. But it was a different experience. It felt great. That scene where he attacks the Ginza was pretty amazing in black and white. It did feel like an old school Godzilla movie. Okay, I wondered if it would be any different at all. If it would be just a little neat little bonus feature on it. I'll tell you what. The parts that it took, you notice the effects more in the black and white.

You do notice the CGI a little more. More things a little less realistic with uh with the black and white when you're up close like the part where spoiler alert where he chews the mine and it blows up and then he heals himself you could tell that that was a composite like cgi composite and like things like that it kind of brought out the effects a little bit more but it also added a lot of atmosphere a lot of mood.

Like the scenes you know where he's attacking the city really felt like an old school godzilla like i was like this is what people in the 50s must have felt like watching this theater like that's really what it felt like they didn't you said the absence of color was not just like the push of a button they really went back and yeah they tried to really do they tried to the director went in and tried to remaster it like every shot

changed the contrast nice so it looked like it was It was photographed in black and white. Because there is, and what gives it away is always the lighting. When something's not lit, you have to know how to light for black and white. And when they go back and just take the color out, it's always kind of obvious. They did a better job with this one. Yeah, I think they did the same. They did the same thing with Nightmare Alley. They put it up a week in black and white and it's the same thing.

He shot this thing really for black and white. So it didn't look, you know, it wasn't just like, yeah, but the tip that, you know, click and wait. So we really shot this thing for black and white, even when it was in color. Right. Right. Yeah. So hopefully that'll be when they put that on DVD. Hopefully that'll be a bonus to have the white version for sure. Sure. I would love it. Yeah, because I don't think I'm going to make it to the theater to see it. I think today's the last day.

Yeah. I mean, I'm glad I made it to the theater to see it in color, but I just couldn't pull it off this week to see it in black and white. Brent, have we talked about it on the show, what you thought of Godzilla Minus One? No, I haven't talked about it on the show or anything. I just left a review for it, but I loved it.

It's honestly, I mean, because of nostalgia, nostalgia and it's not my favorite one my favorite one is still the invasion of astro monster aka monster zero that's always gonna be my favorite one but it's honestly if i was to do a ranking right now and it's maybe controversial astro monster is my favorite minus one it's my second favorite in the original my third favorite well that's not i mean i understand like i'll tell you what i feel

like the i feel like the original is always great it's it's hard to top but i feel like the emotions the human emotions aren't it's the one godzilla movie where the human characters are do kind of take center stage yeah but this one tops it as far as like the emotional level.

So i don't see a controversy putting this above the original i i think they're kind of i think they're kind of interchangeable i think you could you could argue for either one yeah because you're feeling a little emotion on that first one from 54 too you know that's really the only one before this one that's the only one where i was really feeling some emotions especially when you're watching the japanese version yeah gojira you

know you it's really a whole different movie it's very heavy emotionally right so i think they just they just went back they went back to that first movie you know exactly worked out now astro monster putting that number one that's wild, That's my favorite. That is a hot take. I always loved that movie. What makes it number one in your heart? Is it the Devo aliens?

Is it it's all of that it's crazy because most people when i say that they're like oh that must be the first one you ever saw like no it's not actually the first one i ever saw was godzilla 1985 that's the first one i saw but i don't know just something about that one just to, how dumb it is seeing godzilla dance you got uh king peter there like i don't know it's just i love that one it's you know what it's silly but there's still enough of serious godzilla in it that it makes it a good movie.

Exactly. You know, Brent, that's the first one I ever saw. And so I've got a sentimental attachment to that because they used to play that on the Million Dollar Rating. And in L.A., what that was, was they'd run it every night for a week at 8 o'clock. So we watched it like five nights in a row, which pre-video was pretty cool, you know. So I think we knew it backward and forward by the end of the week, you know.

So I've got a sentimental attachment to that one. I will tell you I was watching it because after you said Astro Monster I'm going to go watch it again because I always discount it because of Nick Adams, I always kind of feel like I always feel like throwing the American actors in there always kind of brings it down for me but watching it again, watching it again it is definitely one of the best of the Showa era yeah for

sure it's definitely one of the best of the of the versus movies where you got the other their monsters in there. Cause I never Godzilla versus monster was always kind of like, eh, cause it's like, it's a moth. What, what could it do? And the caterpillar is always kind of boring me. Cause that's just boring. It's a giant caterpillar. Who cares? It's like, it's like he's fighting an inchworm, right? Yeah. You're just like, okay, it's big, but it's a big inchworm. Yeah. Who cares?

You might as well be fighting a giant ladybug, but yeah, a lot of people love the Mothra. I think they did much better with the Mothra when they brought it back in the nineties. I feel like that Mothra is a little bit better. It's a pretty good matchup that you get Gira and Rodan. man, that's a pretty good, you get all three of the biggest ones, you know. Right. That's a pretty good matchup.

You know what I read? I read that they said that when they did War of the Gargantuas with Russ Tamblyn, he was kind of a pain in the ass, and he wouldn't do the lines as written. So when they had to redub it for English, it kind of fucked them up, because they said, well, now we don't even know how to match it. You weren't doing the right lines, you know. But they said Nick Adams was into it. They said he was on time. He was there. He's glad to be there. He didn't feel like he was slumming.

They said he gave a percent. So that gives me a whole new answer on that, even though he looked at the dopey, but he dug it. He was like, glad to be there. I had to have the job. That's kind of to my point. I discounted Nick Adams. And then when I watched it again, I go, you know what? He's pretty good in this. Like it's, it's not, you know, he's playing it fairly straight. Uh, you know, he kind of got into the spirit of it.

And I just love that the Japanese pilot and he just speak both their languages. It's like a Chewbacca and Han Solo. They just, They're both speaking their own respective languages and they understand each other perfectly. It's like, oh yeah, cool. Yeah, yeah.

There's lots of thumbs up and then there's lots of, all the guns in the toho studio whenever they shoot a gun yeah exactly they shoot the gun and it's got that really red barrel like the barrel like for some reason toho used in the whatever they used in their guns they're always super red it looks like a cap gun so there's a lot of that going on but i will tell you my favorite in the in watch invasion of astro monster at the very end

when all three monsters are under control of the aliens and they're attacking the city i told my brother and i were cracking up we always live for the missile launchers we love to just see them like light sky yeah you can tell they're just launching skyrockets at the guys in the suits and there's a missile launcher that pulls up and for about five minutes we kept thinking oh this guy's dead he never gets killed he just keeps launching at anyone who moves rodan

comes in fight you know gets a barrage monster zero comes in he gets a barrage he's nailing godzilla is the greatest thing ever i'm like give those guys a medal they stood at their posts and they did what they needed to do they didn't do it didn't do shit to the monsters but it probably felt good just have your finger on the trigger just like yeah you know you're right they look so cool you really want those you go god if i could just get one of those little rock launchers right.

Oh my brother told me a story john i think i told you this when he was a kid my brother's a little bit older than you i think when he was a kid they would go to the wardman and they would have kid matinees it would be like a cartoon usually like looney tunes or something and it would be like a three stooges short and then it was usually like a godzilla movie, and it was all little but you know kids are like you know eight nine ten years old right but they would parents would just drop them off

my brother said it looked like the the theater scene in gremlins just kids running around popcorn everywhere you know whatever but he said whatever was a gonzilla movie and then like the toy tanks would roll out just cheers all over the, yeah yeah yeah so you know he said he used to like or i always think of that scene that would when everyone's throwing popcorn and shit they're trying to make it up the aisle and everyone's just going back crazy yeah he said it was exactly

like the scene in gremlins he said it was just a bunch of kids in there I imagine working in a theater for a kids matinee that must have just been hell and I guess he said it was a double feature sometimes so by the time the second movie is done they've been in there like five hours and they're just climbing the walls, so it's just they're wired on milk tubs and red vines, right but yeah my brother said he caught a bunch of those matinee so he loved it that's so cool.

That's where I get my love of Godzilla from was my brother. Hey, did you or your brothers ever have the Aurora model? The monster model? No, my brother did build models, but he would always build airplanes and battleships and stuff. He didn't do anything like the monster. In the early 60s, early 70s, they did the early 60s, late 60s, early 70s, they put a King Kong and a Godzilla model and they had like glow-in-the-dark heads.

You could swap it out. You'd either have a regular head or a glow-in-the-dark head. So you know the king kong model he's stomping on trees and stuff and the godzilla model he's got a little city underneath his feet and who among us doesn't enjoy a little glow-in-the-dark head how am i doing hey how you doing yeah godzilla minus one by the time you hear this it'll be gone but you missed it and you really should have gone to see it because it was amazing you should have.

What did you rank it brent i think we read your review online i i gave it a 10 out of 10 there you go i think that's i gave it that yeah i didn't give it a 10 bro again and i loved it i i enjoyed your review on letterboxd uh that was a good review that's the only review i've put up on letterboxd i have one review it's godzilla minus one i loved it so much i had to open an account and write about it oh wow that's cool i'm no brand prolific on the letterboxd oh yeah i'll be watching all kind

of stuff what is your address on letterboxd in case the kids want to uh home video hustle home video hustle at letterboxd i think it's i think it's like letter but i forget it with their website. It's letterboxdotwhatever slash home video hustle. Yeah. It's a good website. I like it. Yeah, I love it. I like it. As long as it's up and around. Go ahead, John. I'm sorry. I cut you off. How long has it been on the site?

It's not terribly long, I don't think. I just recently got into it, I think, about six, seven years ago, maybe. Yeah, they've been around, yeah. I think it was when I first heard about it. A little while. A good while. Less than 10 years, I think, for sure. Oh, John froze. Hey, John, do you have a fan or something in the background? Oh, should I turn that off? Is it black? I didn't know if the mic was broken up to get you or something.

Oh, yeah. Okay, how's that sound? I turned the fan off. That sounded way better right there. Brent, thank you for the engineering tip. I know. It's in me now. That's okay. So the first 20 minutes is going to be. You know you know why because when we when we talk we kind of every the other people kind of drop back so we'll be talking over that mostly, Yeah. Like when you come in, you come in and there you go. It is that kind of weather outside. It's crazy outside.

Yeah. At least it finally stopped. Actually, it was crazy in the morning. The weather outside is frightful. Inside. It's so delightful. The fire is so delightful. Brought some corn for popping. All right. That was Godzilla. That's a movie. That's a, that's a song. That's a song about making love by the, by the fireplace. place and of course popping some popcorn of course right that would be john.

That would definitely be john john would be like i know it's like i brought a bottle of wine and of course some corns for popping john john is gone john john is done john rolls over and john says, hey you have any popcorn hey where's is there a popcorn wagon close by, That's right. And the girls all, you've got to be fucking kidding me. Yeah. That's a euphemism, right? Like, no, not at all. No, I want some popcorn. If you want it to be.

Hot butter popcorn, baby. That's right. I'm popping in here, baby. Yay! How you doing? Yeah. Robert Klein did a, he did a joke, a very 70s joke about, Joey doing commercials for like Hamilton beach popcorn poppers. And he says, everything in this commercial is screaming sex. And so his, his gag was, he's all, you know, there's nothing I like more than a nice old pop. Nice piece of ass.

I had to reach way back into the seventies for that. Hey, it's true. And I was like, back when you could say a nice piece of ass, You can't say that no more, Mario. What? You can't. I'm one of those guys. I'm one of those old guys that comments, oh, you can't do that anymore. Too bad you can't do that anymore. Right. Right. You know, that's become sort of a catchphrase now. You watch a group and you go, boy, you couldn't do that anymore.

I'm sure I have to. You got Italian guys playing Indians. Boy, you couldn't do that anymore.

Why would you want to when iron when when iron he passed away and they said you know it was real and was like for zodiac or something it's like for vini like no this guy was italian but his whole life he got jobs as an indian right so but when he was the one that was the litter commercial where he's crying and they say boy everybody this guy looks a hundred percent indian but this was an an italian guy speaking of italians playing native americans thanks to brent i've really been making use

of tubi the tubi oh i'll say what i do shout out to tubi you know we're always talking about on the podcast we always we bring this up sometimes we talk about movies that are just that are, Like, you don't want to remake a good movie, right? Because that never works. You want to remake a movie that was almost, that was pretty good, but it just didn't quite get there. Like, you want to remake an average movie and make it better. Right. This is one movie, if I could, I would want to remake this.

But it's a movie called Red Sun with Toshiro Mifune and Charles Bronson. And it's a Western. and uh charles bronson actually very charming and he kind of plays like the the rogue smart ass in it and it's you know fish out of water they have to go across country to get this sword back for the emperor that gets stolen and someone double crossed charles bronson in it and so charles bronson's out for revenge and joshua mufuni is out to get his sword back and okay it's it's fun Fun movie, fun.

You know, you get to see Cheshire Mufune kill, you know, a bunch of people with sword in the old West, you know, how would a samurai fare that kind of thing. But it's always, it's just kind of, it's okay. It's not as good as you want it to be, but I'm like, damn, is the right people did this. This would be a great remake. Oh, okay. This would be a great remake. I wonder if that's, you've been, you've been talking that movie up for a while now. I've got to get my hands on that movie.

Cause you, you, you've recommended this. This is like the second or third time you've recommended this movie. So I've got to look it up. John, if this doesn't push you over the edge, you get to see Ursula Andress undress. So that should help you. Hey, Mars. Ursula Andress. What's with this band? Does that help? Okay. I want to see. I think I told you I'm going back. I'm trying to catch all the old Charles Bronson movies that I missed when I was a kid because some of the stuff made it over here.

Or if it did, it just played the grindhouses, and then it was on its way. So, you know, stuff like Death Wish and Mr. Majestic, that would make it to the Wardman, but not everything. So there's a couple you did in France. I'll have to take a look at them. A great one that he did here that's kind of an underrated little movie is Breakheart Pass. Have you ever got a chance to see that? Harden Allen. That's a Western, but it's kind of a detective story. And he's actually really good in it.

He's actually really good in it. Is that the one where they're on a train and there's a... Yes. I gotta see that. I gotta see that. He has forgotten gems. Things that just flew under the radar.

Like hard times. I think one had to go. And that's a little different. And it made a lot of money. Oh, you're dropping out, John. Oh, great. Can you, uh, can you move locations? Yeah, I suppose. This John, this, this podcast is not about comfort. This podcast is about, I don't even know what that means. I don't know. Maybe I should just sign off. No, no, no.

Sign another room or just unplug the mic. maybe how far are you from your router i'm two inches from it i'm sitting in my bedroom i'm two inches from the router so if it's not working it ain't gonna work anywhere else now you're good all right i say you sound well i just unplugged i unplugged the mic and put it back in again no i think it's because wherever you were maybe you were next to a wall or something.

With lead in it well what does it sound like now you're perfect sound sound your videos i just unplugged the mic i don't know how often i gotta do that but i just know it's not the mic your video signal was dropping out and now you're good i don't have no idea i have no idea i am sitting right next to the router so you are good all you needed to do was get up and clear it oh there it goes again well how about now very sexual nothing huh you're good yeah i don't know

you know what the problem is i'm on i'm on it's the phone i have to i have to figure out how to do this without without the phone i've been doing it on the phone for the last five years well we gotta get back together it's just my schedule now is just the worst the absolute worst so we'll figure it out what's it sound like now we don't get listen john maybe i could just like we don't get down around all right we turn those frowns upside down you know what i'm

saying we're nothing but positivity well on this podcast well it sounds like if it sounds like shit i should just bow out Brent used to post this video of me cracking a flaming whip in our group chat. And, you know, those days are behind me. I'm nice now. I'm mellow. I let it go. It's a new year. It's a new year, new me, baby. All right. Yeah. All right. All right. I'm not going to move the phone. How's it sound now? You look good. Sounds good.

Yeah, you're good. All right. I'm not going to move. I guess I've just moved my hand, so. Yeah, yeah. I just won't move the phone. I'll just keep it just where it's at. Well, you know what it is? You probably shouldn't be streaming Monica Bellucci videos in the background. All right, let me turn that off. All right, let me turn that off. Somebody at work mentioned Monica Bellucci yesterday. They're like, man, that woman's beautiful. I'm like, oh, my God.

I got to tell my friend John because he's going to flip. Because nobody talks about her because she's not a thing anymore not like olivia munn.

Somebody sent me a picture of her dressed up like princess leia in return of the jedi and i forgot i was gonna say that to mario and say don't try to turn this into a thing, i'm a bit of an asshole so your friend said monica bellucci and you went really I only know one other person who knows who the hell I said, my buddy, I said, my buddy, John is going to flip out that somebody mentioned Monica Bellucci.

Yeah. Oh, the nice thing is she will always be because of the matrix and that James Bond movie. She'll always be somewhere in the pop culture ether. Just like plenty. Oh, tool. Yeah. Jesus. I have friends that still send me pictures of Lana wood and I can't think of anything else she did besides diamonds are forever. I don't even know if she had a career beyond that movie. I don't know. She didn't need to. She did not need to.

But she sure took a lot of pictures. Somebody with one movie is a hell of a lot of pictures out there. Evidently. That's why you can't. Yeah, you're right. You got to strike while the iron's hot, baby. Damn right. Lana. Yeah, John. Red Sun. Download Tubi. T-U-B-I. All right. On your smartphone. phone. And you know what? There are commercials, but Brent, you're absolutely right. There are commercials in it, but they run them about, I want to say like every

maybe 30 minutes. It's pretty long in between. And they're like, it's like a minute and a half maybe worth of commercials. At max. At max. So you have just time to get up, go to the bathroom or get up and get a drink. And now that I'm watching movies with commercials again, I realized those breaks are there for a reason, dude.

Like when I was a kid, you'd be like, hey, let me take a quick break. break because i pause video anyway even when i'm streaming it i pause and get up and do stuff but now you're kind of waiting you're like oh you know what i want something to drink but i'm gonna wait till the commercial break and as soon as the commercial hits i'll get up and get something and by the time you sit down the movie's already playing again so yep and they have a bunch

of old tv shows on there a lot more than you used to oh just tons of stuff man it's you know like uh combat? I don't know. Oh, wow. Man, that's old. That's going back to like 65, I think. Let me see. Let me look real quick. Wow. I haven't seen combat since I was a little kid. Dark Shadows, too? Wow. Dark Shadows. I'm just looking through our TV store. Some of that stuff I haven't seen since I was a little kid. Babylon 5, Miami Vice, the FBI.

Robocop, the series, Baywatch. air wolf air wolf he told johnny quest there you go yeah johnny quest brent how do you feel about johnny quest i've never watched it before to be honest check out one episode it's worth it just for the credits even if you don't dig it the credits the music on the credits and the animation on the credits will be worth it okay it's on to me check it out you know what it was it was james James Bond for like 12-year-olds, you know? Oh, I can see that.

Or more to the point, it was animated, but it was basically James Bond for nine-year-olds. There's more to the point. You ever watch James Bond Jr.? Nah, what was that? I forgot about that show. It was a cartoon. It was like a kid version of James Bond. Yeah? Mm-hmm. They suck. The video game sucks, too, even. Well, I guarantee you, Johnny Quest is worth it.

The music and the animation on the credits it's worth it just to see that then if you don't dig it that's fine but the credits is insane gildan's island i think it's island yeah baywatch also, gi joe what i'm watching that bro to be a watt mrs colombo there you go there you go john, With the cake mongrel. Boy, of all the dopey ideas, I can't even imagine how that was decided upon.

All right. We don't have Peter Falk anymore. How about we do this wife that he's always talking about that we've never seen? Steve Harvey show. I love that Peter Falk was like, yeah, I'm not doing all that, boss. Well, he had a nice run, but it's like, it's crazy.

Oh, we'll do his wife. Well, what's the point of that? it's not like she's gonna be smoking a cigar and wearing a raincoat you know it'd be so great if she was had a had the bad eye you know with the raincoat and the cigar oh one more thing uh just one more thing she's almost got the voice that's true he could just annoy people into do you do you like colombo uh brent i'm god i fucking love colombo that's one of my favorite shows to was you

should watch uh you should definitely give a poker face a try oh it's on my watch list i just haven't peeped it's very much a colombo takeoff like very very much a colombo it's the real mrs columb to the point where even the font look it'll say poker face and then on the bottom copyright 2020 in like the roman numerals like it's really cool they're just doing colombo now, Well, somebody was really into it. That's a Ryan Johnson, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

The director of the best Star Wars of the Disney trilogy. I said it. I agree. I would agree with that. When you watch them, that's the only one that you'd want to watch more than once. Right, yeah. I highly agree. It's too bad they didn't kind of let him do what he was going to do, you know? They got scared. The fanboys made noise. Goddamn. Because that was really, that's the one that kind of worked, you know?

Oh well what are you gonna do how y'all feel about that new nude that came out there doing a mandalorian and grogu movie that's gonna be called mandalorian and grogu is that really, i'm pretty sure that's the title yeah gee hmm hmm who's gonna direct it i think it's gonna it's either favro or feloni one of the two i don't know which well you can't go wrong with those guys uh somebody said they're like just let them have star wars just be done with it,

yeah i got some friends that say that all the time they say feloni's like the only guy, who still kind of knows what it was all about i wasn't real happy with the way ahsoka ended but i mean what are you gonna do feloni yeah yeah it was for a long year i didn't see any of that ending was baloney if you asked me hey how you doing it was. Yeah i wasn't too thrilled with the ending but i thought it was cool i liked the show and or still my favorite Star Wars TV show. I still need to watch that

one. I haven't seen that. Check it out. I agree, Mario. I agree. That was the best of the shows, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was good.

Because they kept up the quality all the way through it. Right. It's a little slow, but it's not heavy on the action, but there's a lot of moving parts, and they move. You really get a glimpse into how the rebellion works and how much is really at stake, which I thought. No. Yeah. Are they going to do a second one? Yeah, they're going to do one. They're shooting Andor now. I guess it just started after the strike. And it'll be out either late this year or early next year.

You said Last Jedi was your favorite Disney trilogy. Is Rogue One your favorite of the overall Disney Star Wars movie? Probably. I'd probably say Rogue One, then Last Jedi. I'll stand by this. Solo is not bad. I like Solo. I gave it an 8 out of 10. I like it. I think bringing in, you know, you can't really imitate Harrison Ford, so I thought the guy, what's his name? I can never pronounce his name, but he did a serviceable job as Han Solo. I believed him being a young Solo.

I thought Donald Glover being young Lando, that was amazing. I wanted to see more movies with just young Lando and his droid. Like, give me those movies. You know, if it had been a hit, they would have done more. Right. I thought it was great. And you know, the problem was Disney got scared of the direction it was going in and they changed it.

So you can tell it's a little disjointed, but I thought his whole origin, you know, escaping, you know, how he gets away from the empire, ends up with that band of thieves. I thought all that was really fun. I thought it was really cool. And you know, that's the operative word. It was fun. And a lot of these Star Wars movies these days aren't fun. You kind of forget that the first one was a hell of a lot of fun. And that's one thing you can say about Solo is it was fun, you know? Right.

I liked it. I liked it. I love Rogue One, but that's a tragedy beginning to end. I love it. But that is not, you know, it's not a barrel of monkeys, you know? Right.

But Solo was just fun. it was kind of like a shoot them up like the like the original one yeah and i liked it i liked the chewbacca origin story i like how they came together i thought they really yeah i thought they had a lot of fun with it and i wish they would have done more but you know i'm gonna yeah i think solos i think i like solo better than i like rise of skywalker is just a chunk of like that's

just i gotta re-watch that because i liked it in the movie theater i need to watch it again. Brent i want you to re-watch it and i want you to really re-evaluate it in your heart you know what What it is, is that none of the plot points make any sense. You're watching it. It's not like it's poorly made, but you're going, really? This is the way the story's going to end? It just seems like it's just none of it makes any sense. I just thought it was weird. It was like Palpatine was like,

I'm back, bitches. And it was like, we haven't mentioned you in two movies. And it's like, what, has he got grandkids now or something? It's like, what? He's getting his free call. Yeah. I know. You're like, who? Who slept with this guy even when he was a senator? He was giving out forced babies. Yeah, forced babies. Is that a thing? That's how Annie's mom got pregnant. Oh, that's right. Immaculate conception. That's right. I forgot about that. Yeah. That's right. Can we ask you a question?

If it's not too personal, were you a virgin? Yeah. What kind of question is that? Right. Yeah, it must have been. He gives them a little force lightning, but I'm not enough to kill them. Just like, and then they're boom. Next thing you know. Like a hand buzzer. You know the explanation is probably in a book somewhere that we got to read. Yeah, and you know that it has something to do with... Like a hand buzzer,

and then they're pregnant. Oh my God. And you know it has something to do with midi-calorians. You know how we got her pregnant midichlorian midichlorian sounds like something you want to avoid like it'd be like new coke zero now with less midichlorians you know right exactly doesn't sound like something you want no i sound like covid vaccine right are you coveted up watch your midichlorian count yeah i still

can't get beyond that we're gonna give him a blood test yep he's He's the chosen one. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. With a blood test. I'm going to tell you. And I love that he just has the gear to give the blood test. Like Jedi just carry like lab equipment. I know. Somebody should have said you had that in your utility belt. Yeah, just like I got this right. You had that in your Jedi utility belt? What the hell is that? Well, I guess if they're out recruiting, right? They're like,

let me check your midichlorians. Boop. Okay, you're in. You're in. Whoa. But what people forget, let's put on our nerd glasses. And Brent, you're a little young, not to exclude you, but back when I was a kid and John, I'm sure you were a little bit older than me, but between Star Wars and Empire. We had no idea who could use the Force, right? Because Obi-Wan just said it's out there, right? Yeah, right. So we figured anybody could use the Force. Anybody could have it, right?

Yeah, yeah. And then we didn't even know. John, do you remember what a revelation it was when Luke was able to pick up the lightsaber in the ice cave? Yeah. Like, now we just take it for granted they can move shit. But you didn't know that between the first and the second movie. Right. So, you know, the Force has always been kind of, like, nebulous, right?

So making it literal with the midichlorians was just the worst because it's like well now there's there's literal people who are chosen to be jedi like not everybody it kind of took the fun out of it like i thought just maybe like hey you could use the force if you work hey if you work hard and you do good in school and you're a good person you too can use the force you know.

Now yeah it's like it takes all the all the all the fun and the mystical qualities out of it yeah That's the thing that just got me. You're going to do a blood test that just takes all the fun out of it. Because before that, it's more like a King Arthur, like a wizard, sort of like can teach you how to do that. Right. Got to do it. And that's the thing, that if you met somebody like Obi-Wan, they could sort of like train you how to do it, you know?

Like a discipline, like Master Poe teaches Cain how to do all the Kung Fu stuff. stuff, you know. Great Kung Fu reference there, John. Great Kung Fu reference. Love it. They're bringing that back, too. Did you see that? Are they? Again? I'm pretty sure it's Donnie Yen is attached to it. Oh, Donnie Yen, martial arts master. Wow. That's going to be hype. Love it. Brent, do you watch The Warrior on I think it's on Showtime, but it's on Max now.

Yeah, I've never looked at it, but I do know about it, though. It's worth checking out. It's fun. Okay. It's basically what Bruce Lee wrote, They ripped off for Kung Fu. Really? Yeah. No kidding. Yeah. Wow. Yeah, yeah. It was the original idea for Kung Fu that Bruce Lee wrote. No kidding. I guess he took it around Hollywood and everybody passed on it, and then somebody kind of stole the idea. Right. That sounds about right. Yeah. But it takes place in, like, 1880s San Francisco.

So there's, like, a lot of, like, political corruption, and he comes over to like keep an eye on his sister and then it's a whole thing it's cool it's really cool that's what i have to check it out yeah i think it's on my watch list too.

It's fun it's fun i mean it's not it's one of those shows where it's like you know it's 1880s like san francisco but then everybody looks like they're right they're they're like in a in a jay-z video you're just like you're just like okay well but it works for the style of the show what what they're going for. If you're looking for period authenticity, probably not your show, but if you just want to see someone whoop ass, it's fun.

Okay. Yeah, it's fun. You know, all the, all the people in like the, all the gangsters at the time, you're like, well, this is not period appropriate apparel, but I'll take it. You know, you know, in, in gladiator, I had a moment like that. I mean, and neither were watching it. Cause there's a part where, where he initially got picked up by the dude and they were first going out to the arena. And then the guy would like spiky hair.

I was like, what the hell is he doing there oh the dude yeah he gets killed like right out of the gate too, yeah and i don't know and he's like the first one to die i think it's like but what was that all about it's like did anybody have that haircut back in the roman days i was like who got the moon since yeah it looks like flea yeah flea from red hot chili peppers dies first, the guy with the sock on his penis was the first guy.

He gave it away give it away give it away now give it away give it away, he died a brutal death too yeah he died a bit i would i would not i did not blame the guy that pees himself because if you had me chained up and i come out into the sunlight and i see guys wearing those freaky masks i'm probably gonna freak out too and they're like 10 times my size, that's crazy i think that lent some authenticity that there's gonna be a guy

who's just not like i'm a dead man you know it's just like right you know they're not all gonna be badasses somebody's gonna be like what the fuck what did i do to get here you know right right it's good shit, i love it all right let's talk about let's talk about gladiator really while we have while we have brent on the line brent brent gave us his letterbox his letterbox uh review but let me let Let me read the synopses first.

Gladiator it had a box office oh i don't want to say that it has a budget of 103 million it was directed by ridley scott uh 79 on rotten tomatoes 8.5 on imdb starring russell crowe joe joaquin phoenix connie nielsen oliver reed and richard harris and it says let me read the uh according into imdb oh it's not giving me the sorry here we go should have had this booted up, a former roman general sets out to exact revenge against the corrupt emperor who murdered

his family and sent him into slavery so with a budget of 105 million 103 million brent what do you say the box office was on this uh let's go let's go 500 i know i made a lot of money 500 john what do you say yeah i think this thing was a big hit i'll say 400 oh if you would have played the price is right game you would have hit it john it is 503 million dollars oh half a billion dollars baby wow that's great one half of 1 billion academy award for best actor in a leading role.

And Best Picture, right? Did it win Best Picture? I think so, yeah. Oh yeah, that was on the DVD boxes all the time, yeah. You had the DVD box, but you never watched it? No, I just would see it in the video store all the time. DJ loves this movie too. Does he? Yeah, he loves anything that's historical like this and Troy and Alexander. He loves all that. Oh, all the historical epics? Mm-hmm. I'm not going to lie, anytime there's sandals in it, unless it's a samurai, I'm kind of out.

That's exactly what I told Anita about these movies. I've never been a big fan of these style of movies. There's a few I like, but most of the time if I'm watching somebody fight with swords, it's katanas. Did you like Spartacus? Did you ever see Spartacus? I owned the Kubrick one. I liked that, but I also do like there was a Spartacus series on Starz back in the day. I love that TV show. I have every season of that.

John, you're right. Five Academy Awards, best picture, best actor for Crow, best visual effects, best sound, and best costume design. You know, before this movie, they used to call them sword and sandals, you know, and I think it had been a while. It was kind of like considered sort of like a genre, like the Western. It kind of like, it had had its time, but you didn't really see many of those. And I think when they announced it, they said, really, you're going to do another one of these?

But it was such a smash hit. and god you know by the time it's winning academy awards you're like well i guess ridley scott knew what he was doing right and all those other ones came back yeah because i think it had really been a while if you look i bet you it had been a while since anybody had even attempted yeah troy alexander all of those came afterwards yeah, But can you get Americans to care about that stuff? You can't get me to care.

Well, if you put enough action in it. I like Russell Crowe, too. I know he's not everybody's cup of tea. And I think he did a good job. He complained that the script was pretty crappy. He signed up for it. But he said they weren't done with the script. He said they were shooting. He said they had about 30 pages of script when they started shooting.

I can tell. He improvised a lot of stuff. stuff. And one of those things where he cut lines that he thought were kind of, he said, some of it was just garbage. So you can tell that it's one of those things where he doesn't say much and he probably thought that's for the best. You know, it's the old Steve McQueen's thing. It's like, let's cut some lines out. I'm better off if I'm saying, or like Clint Eastwood, let's just make it like I'm saying less. It works better if I'm saying less.

I think when he did where Eagles dare, he said, we can lose a lot of this. It's a more effective if I'm not talking. Right. Just machine-gunning Nazis. So, I think with Russell Crowe, I think he had the right idea. It's all behind the eyes, and it's better if he's not saying much, because he said the script was just, he said it was just awful. John, you saw this in theaters. What was your initial impression?

I loved it. I loved it. I wasn't expecting much because I don't particularly, I don't know if I'd seen anything like that since Spartacus, which I probably saw on TV as a kid, you know, wasn't particularly caring about, you know, ancient Rome or anything like that. But, uh, I thought it was a lot of good. I'm a Ridley Scott fan. I thought, well, he's got the action and I thought everything looks pretty cool. I knew that's, that's like 2000. Was it 2000?

So you're figuring a lot of the, I know that he used a lot of CGI for like the crowd scenes, you know, and it looks pretty good. I think it still looks fairly good for, for CGI. Sparingly. So like you see like one full shot of the Coliseum, right? Yeah. Yeah. Because that was the thing. That whole thing with the aerial shot of the Coliseum, that was obviously. But it keeps it to a minimum, which is a smart thing to do.

And, you know, however they did it, those look like real tigers. I don't know. It's probably like another piece of film. But, I mean, those look like real tigers. Those are CG? I don't think so. I don't know if they were or not, but they sure look real. Those do not look like CGI tigers, you know. So I don't know if they're real or not. But, you know, a lot of that's quick. He did a lot of quick cutting, so who knows?

That could be Tiger's stuntman. Or you could just be doing like a forced perspective where you're filming it from the other side, and it looks like they're right next to each other, and they're not. But it works. All the stuff in the ring looks, everything at the Coliseum looks good. It looks like it's really happening. So however they did it, I just thought it felt real.

And all that intrigue stuff, that does sort of, I do get sucked into that when there's all this sort of palace intrigue you know which has been done a million times going back to shakespeare all that you know if you sit through any version of julius caesar it's all like what's going on with the politics of it but they make you care because the kids you know the thing that really pulls you in is the kid you know what the hell is he going to do to this kid

you know he's gotta he's gotta finish this guy off just to save the kid you know i think it's dying breath he's He's all, Lucius is safe. And she's all, yes, Lucius is safe. And you're going, yeah, because he lost his, you know, his son was murdered. So, you know, part of the reason he's doing this is to keep the kids safe, you know, not to mention to save Rome. Right. Do you feel like maybe some of that palace intrigue is what bored you, Brent?

Oh, most definitely. I didn't give a damn about most of that stuff. Honestly, that's the stuff that lost me this time. Like, I did not care about Gracchus and all that. I didn't care about any of that. And also, it's just because Joaquin Phoenix's character is so unlikable. Well, he's the bad guy. You end up spending a lot of time with him,

and you're like, dude, this guy's just an a-hole. Like get back get me back to the you know it wasn't a particularly not to say river river or not river jeez not to say Joaquin Phoenix wasn't good but it was just the character was so unlikable that the more time you have to spend with him and the more time you're keep you're taking away from Russell Crowe I started to feel resentment towards the movie of like get me back to be with this dude dude,

like I want to see his story was much more interesting to me. You know? Yeah. I think it was just a matter to show you what was at stake. You know, this guy is such a piece of shit that, I mean, it's going to be bad for everybody if he's not stopped. So I'm glad that at the end he fought, even though it's kind of a cool, I thought it was a cool finale because he does get it. Even though Russell Crowe has been drugged and can barely make it through.

I love that. He finally, you know, skewers this guy before he keels over, before he keels over. I thought that was a pretty satisfying ending, you know? No, it was good. I didn't like it. I think you already knew he was bad enough when he killed his dad. And then they just kept laying it on thicker and thicker. Yeah. You know what I mean? Yeah. I didn't like it as much. It wasn't enough. It felt like he got off too easy.

He got choked out with the knife in his throat. I was like, nah, that should have seen some guts. Somebody got cut in half earlier. He should have cut him in half. Yeah, yeah. That one guy gets, yeah, he gets a Darth Maul treatment. Sliced thread at the waist. Have a tiger come out and just start eating him alive, like that kind of stuff. Something like the way he acted that whole movie, how much of an asshole he was. He needed to go out horribly.

He got it all kind of my opinion you needed to die i was honestly disappointed because i was when i didn't really think that's how i was going in with them fighting so i was like okay he gonna fuck dude up and then he just hit him with the thing he's here to look i'm like oh that's it i'm like man i would have been shaking the shit out of that dude you would have given him american me style just got him right like just like right

yeah oh yeah i didn't get oh it was that american meat where they put the blade of dude's butt and like ripped it out or something it's either that or it's either that or blood in blood out it's one of those two one of them two like you know he'd have got like the worst things you can think of if i was the maximum yeah well you know it's the merciful, that's the way i felt sometimes with game of thrones i felt that way you know

like good joffrey got it you're like no i don't want him to just choke to death i wanted to really like get beheaded or something well the most satisfying thing about joffrey's death was later on when And Diana Riggs, like, I wanted you to know it was me. Like, that was the best part of that. That was the best part. That was some cold shit to say to somebody. I did that shit, homie. The best one was, what's his name, getting eaten alive by the dog. That was the best. His own dogs.

And she's just like, well, they're pretty hungry. They're loyal, but they're pretty hungry. I loved it. Yeah, there were some brutal deaths in this movie.

Way this movie is brutal but at the same time yeah you're right you do kind of hope he gets beheaded or some kind of something happens you know crushed or somehow russell crowe pulls out like a chainsaw and just goes to work on him you know something i was telling john it's almost like action blue balls in this movie at the same time though because there's times where they so my hearing of like maybe chop a head off or do something i'm like oh here we go and then he like cuts away and i'm like

damn it yeah because there's directors that would have just followed through you'd see the head coming off and all that right like this.

But I tell you, those battle scenes at the beginning, I thought, were pretty heavy-duty. I was thinking back to Excalibur. The last time it looks that real, where you're just in the mud and the snow and just slugging it out. I thought this is almost like Excalibur. Did you forget a little movie you liked called Braveheart, John? Yeah, I liked Braveheart, too. To me, that would have been the one most recent. That's true. That's true. True. That would have been, yeah, that's right.

That would have been more recent than Excalibur. I don't know. I guess I'm a sucker for that stuff. I know people that just don't care about that historical stuff. I guess I'm kind of a sucker for it if it's done well, you know, getting pulled into that world. But you can't overdo it on the politics. It's kind of like Star Wars. There's a fine line. That's why some of those Star Wars movies don't work. You're like, geez, Phantom Menace. You're like, God, I feel like the whole movie was spent

in the Senate, for Christ's sake. Right. I don't I don't care about what's going on in the Senate. Let's get out on Tatooine again. Right. Yeah. So there's a fine line. It's interesting, but you don't want it to be the whole goddamn movie. Gracchus. What I love is it's Derek Jacoby who's been in a million of those. I mean, wasn't he the main guy in I, Claudius? I think so. I mean, he's like that was like a, you know, 24 part thing on PBS.

So when he puts on the toga, he's probably like, here we go again. Right. Right. Hey, are you ready, Mr. Jacoby? He's all, yeah, I invented this shit. He was also the, he was also the master in the, in the latest run of Dr. Who with, well, one of, not the latest, but in like the early two thousands run of Dr. Who, he was the master. Oh, really? Yeah.

Well, I'll tell you, he's one of the all-time greats. I don't know if he's still alive, but I mean, he's one of those guys, one of those Shakespeare guys. It's a, you just can't do any better. Right. I wonder if he is still alive. If he is, he's like Ian McKellen. He's probably like 90 or something, you know? And he always looks a little bit to me like another actor. Like I can never figure out who he looks like, but he always kind of reminds me of like Ray Walston or somebody.

Oh yeah. No, he's still alive. What's that? He's still alive. 85 years old. Yeah. You know, he's one of these guys that still turns up in things. He's kind of like Ian McShane and Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart, you know, when they need an old-timer that can do that sort of royal Shakespeare stuff. As a matter of fact, I think Patrick Stewart turned up in I, Claudius, too. So a lot of these guys, you know, they've been at it for a while.

They're all these old royal Shakespeare guys. Well, you know what I thought was cool was seeing Oliver Reed. This was Oliver Reed's last movie. And I thought he was pretty damn good at it. He's one of the best parts, honestly, in my opinion. It's a great character. And, you know, he died before the movie was finished. So I think what they had to do, there's a couple scenes where they had to get a body double and kind of like digitize the face. But you can't tell.

And I guess they'd shot enough that they could do it. I love the whole thing at the end, you know, with the wooden, the wooden sword and all that. Right. Also, I love the way that he gets them on board. He's all, you know,

the man that set you free, you know, was murdered. You know, he murdered the man who set you free. Right. And you're like, son of a bitch. That's right. That's going to make all the difference to him, you know? Right. Cause I love that. He's just all, I'm an entertainer. It's like, you know, you're with you. It's all about honor me.

I'm an entertainer. yeah it sounds like something like sinatra or somebody would say like hey look i'm just a singer, i love look this is just this is just skating with the stars right you know this is all so you think you can dance so you think you can fight that's right love it all right brent so you were unimpressed brent what was the hardest for you to what made it difficult or what action blue balls that's gonna that's gonna be a new term it'll be a

new term now and then too much Too much CG, or not too much, too much palace intrigue. What else? I couldn't hear you a little bit. There's like an echo or something going on. Is that me or you? Or me. Okay, whatever it was, it just went away. That was me. I plugged. How about now? Oh, there you go. Oh, you sound way better, yeah. Can you say that one more time, Mario? I said, what was it for you? It was action blue balls.

Too much palette intrigue. What else? What else gave it, kept you from getting into it? You know, the thing is, and I wrote it in my letterbox review, I can't really say it's a bad movie. I don't really have a lot to complain about because acting was on point. I liked the filmmaking, cinematography, and all that. It's the damn plot. I just never gave a damn. Right. Honestly, like, that's the biggest thing. Because it's like me and Anita say it. Like, Anita says this all the time.

Like, when we did, I showed her Superfly. and she's like yo it was a decent movie but i never got into the characters and i'm kind of the same way if i can't get behind the plot and it's almost three damn hours so it's like three hour movie with me not giving a damn about anything going on really right except for the battle scenes i do the battle scenes are the best part but then at the same time even with that stuff that i do like there's the parts where it's like

damn it man why'd you cut away damn it man why don't you shank him like three more times you know it was like a little even the stuff i liked there was There's little things about it that I was like, yeah, but honestly, that's probably the biggest thing. That's why when you said the thing about Russell Crowe saying that the script sucked, I was like, yeah, I agree. You can tell that this was made on the fly or something because I think there was together.

I think some scenes they actually were kind of coming up with the dialogue on the day they shot it. And it still was like, I think you bring up a good point, but there's a lot of movies that are well-made.

They're not shitty movies. it's not stuff that's going to turn up on mystery science theater they're well made they're competently directed they star good people but i just have zero interest in them exactly there's i mean there's actors like that for me like you could talk to me about richard gear all day long all day long i you cannot sell me i'm spending two hours watching a richard gear movie i don't think i've watched one before honestly you know because he it's funny

he really does he seems It seems like it's rare that you find an A-list actor who's just that bad an actor. I just don't think he's a very good actor. And it's amazing that he was on the A-list for so many years. I just always felt like he just wasn't a good actor, you know, period.

You know, and it's kind of to get into that league, you have to have a certain level of competence. And I always thought he must have been like a model or something because he just doesn't seem like he's got the chops, you know.

Know maybe maybe what have i seen him in accidentally that he's in pretty woman, officer and a gentleman officer gentleman and chicago i think are the three that i've seen seems like he's just sleepwalking through the movie i don't know what his background is but it never seems like he really is much of an actor you know also any court any legal drama. Like I'm 50, 50 on legal dramas. Like if you give me a movie with like, if it's Richard Gere and he's a lawyer, forget it.

The Lincoln lawyer with Matthew Conahay, McConaughey, no interest. The Pelican brief, don't care. Like just stuff like that. You ever see the verdict? You ever see the verdict with Paul Newman? Cause that works. You know why? It's Sidney Lumet. So, you know, that every line of that script was, was crafted. It was all crafted. There's nobody saying, oh, we'll make it up on the day of the shoot.

Right it's all it's completely sweated over every night you know right yeah right yeah not to say that there's not good movies with like good courtroom scenes and stuff but like a lot of that stuff i'm just like you know i don't care about i agree it's gotta be compelling you're right a lot of that stuff just leaves me cold you know why leave it i want to just see the courtroom case i don't want to see the struggle that the lawyer's going to i

don't want to see is personal bullshit i don't care just give me those scenes give me like a smart ass judge like an old character actor back there like like give me like give me like what's his name.

Charles durning or somebody as the judge yeah and then right or milo o'shea or something yeah and then give me like you know a gene hackman is one of the lawyers and uh you know like or something you know what i mean like and then give me crimson tide with gene hackman and and denzel but put it in a courtroom and i'll watch it you ever see you ever see inherit the win with spencer tracy yes frederick march and the the judge is harry morgan right and that that works because it's it's what you

just said it's all in court and it's all it's all tactics it's all they're both smart you know they're they're both smart asses that i like but i don't want to see like i don't want to see 20 minutes of of you know whatever the rainmaker or whatever and it's just It's like all this other stuff that happens outside of the case. Unless it's my cousin Vinny, then I'm okay. I don't know what it is, but the John Grisham stuff just leaves me cold.

I don't know. Maybe the books, maybe they work better as books, but those movies always leave me cold. I never care like I should care. And I don't know if it's the plotting or the acting or the directing, but I always think maybe these read better than they play as movies. But I just cannot get interested in those John Grisham things.

And, you know, you and I diverge here, John, but I get real bored of like, Anything in like, you know, if it's King Arthur or Robin Hood, I'm just like, no, I'm out. I don't know if it's good. I'm a sucker for it. If it's bad, it's painful because not only is it bad, but they're running around in armor. You know, but, uh, but if it's good, it'll get me, you know, something like Excalibur that will really keep me interested. But a lot of times the problem is they're trying to make it like modern.

The last couple times they tried to do a king arthur or robin hood they made it real modern you know like you know like a with a with a with a hip-hop soundtrack and people are wearing jeans and boots and you're going whoa you know john hip-hop to anything makes it good i'm just saying you know there's no point in that you know if you want to update it then make it 1999 but don't don't put that don't superimpose that over robin hood it's never gonna work

you know right right right yeah what yeah yeah john what are there movies that you'll avoid because of the subject matter i don't i don't know oh yeah yeah yeah like sure yeah yeah there's a lot of legal stuff that leaves me cold and like also like you know stuff with doctors you know i i can never get into that you know like even all those tv shows like saint elsewhere and you know what what was the big one er i could never get into that i just never really cared yeah people really just

go nuts over that stuff i just couldn't care mash couldn't care less yeah i love see john see i threw a bone see i threw a i threw a boomerang at you through the man yeah because when you think about it those really don't operate as medical shows you know those are more about the war yeah meatball surgery that's more about the war and what's happening between the surgeries you know if i have to hear.

Hawkeye say it's meatball surgery one more time. I mean, that's a drinking game. That's a drinking game. You take a drink every time he says that, you know, what about, uh, there's gotta be a medical show. You like, what about Quincy? Yes. Because I like Jack Klugman and you know, that's the, you know, I could care less about all the, you will make exceptions. I do the same. I will make exceptions. Yeah. Like I, like I never cared about all the, uh, well, I guess most shows now are forensics.

It's kind of funny that Quincy was way ahead of the curve. Right. because now all shows like bones and csi all that stuff it was all it's all about forensics you can make it through every time you nod off because of the d chanel i forgot her name but oh god she's so boring oh it's her sister it's not zoe it's her sister it's another it's another dish you know yeah god she is just void of any kind of and i guess that's the character but boy That is the character, yeah. That makes it tough.

It's tough because it's supposed to be this big romance between her and, what's his name, the guy that played Angel? David? Orienz. That's supposed to be this, like, smoldering romance, and they both look like they're just sort of, like, sleepwalking through it. I just don't get it. Right. What do you avoid? What are some stuff you avoid? Honestly, it's funny because usually I avoid movies like Gladiator to be honest.

That's why it took me 24 years to watch it. Funny you should ask because it's a guy from Rantoga. Your instincts are correct. But it's the same thing like you guys are talking about, though. Like, I don't really like a lot of, like, op shows in general, but there are some that I like. I don't like a lot of medical shows. But it's just like I was going to say, with the courtroom dramas, I was trying to think.

And in my opinion, the best courtroom drama that I've seen doesn't even take place in the motherfucking courtroom. It takes place with the jurors and it's 12 Angry Men. I love that. Yes. Yes. And it never even shows the courtroom. Right. And as a matter of fact, it never leaves the room that they're in.

Exactly. and that's that's sydney lamette and that that's a genius movie i think it's his first movie and that's great and it's the thing is like how do you make that interesting you got 12 sweaty guys that never leave the room and how do you how do you cut that so that it's interesting but he did it he stages that so every shot is you know every line means something you know it's crazy john is klugman in the original yeah uh yes i believe so i think he's in the

movie all those guys jack Jack Warden. I think it's Klugman, Jack Warden, E.G. Marshall. Because I remember on the Odd Couple TV show, they did a spoof of it, remember? Yeah, I'm pretty sure he's the guy that's trying to get out for the ballgame. Yeah, and Felix is keeping everybody there. Felix is keeping everybody there on the TV show. Every comedy has done a play on that. Even All in the Family had one where Edith was the holdout.

And then it turns out she's right. Archie's going out of his mind, and it turns out she was right, that this kid didn't do it. And she was the lone holdout. She just didn't believe he did it. And he's all that dingbat. And then she, it turns out she's on the news because she was, it turns out that the real killer confessed and that she was the one that saved his life. So every everyone's done a play on that. The Henry Fonda bit, you know, here's what would have been, let's go back to

gladiator. Let's bring it back around.

Brent, do you think it would have been better had Ridley Scott, if there was a question as to whether, at the end of the movie, as to whether or not russell crowe was an android and also what if there was a voiceover like they don't advertise for gladiators that's me ex-general you know what i mean like would you have liked that would that have made it better 10 out of 10 mario. Oliver reed could have been like i've seen things you can't believe slave ships on fire off the coast of macedonia,

You know who would have been good in this? I think Russell Crowe does a good job. No, he was great. He was good. There's some people that don't particularly like him. I've liked him since L.A. Confidential. L.A. Confidential is the one that put him on the map for me. Not Virtuosity? I don't know if I've seen Virtuosity. What was that? You should watch that. Virtuosity? Like a Virtuosity. I think he's like a VR serial killer and Denzel hasn't stopped him. That's right.

Yeah. Oh, my gosh, dude. I forgot about that movie. Is that before LA Confidential? I think it's 95. I think it is. Wow. How about that? I forgot about that movie. That movie's hilarious. Should I check it out? Mm-hmm. Oh, yeah, but it's not great. I'll say that. It's like, it's a fucking bad movie. Yeah, it doesn't have to be great. I just want to see it. I don't know.

He's been good in a lot of different movies. People think he's kind of like a one-trick pony, but you think about, like, he was in The Insider. I don't know if you ever saw that. It was a Michael Mann picture. And he was just playing this guy that works at a, you know, he's the guy that blows the whistle on the tobacco companies. And I think he put on a little weight. He's just a pencil pusher, you know, glasses and a short-sleeved shirt.

But he's really good in that because you really buy it. You know, this guy, his whole life is just rude. He blows the whistle and his whole life is just ruined. Al Pacino's in that. He's playing the guy that's the producer at 60 Minutes. Just goes to show you, Michael Mann can make it interesting. It's kind of like all the president's men. You just got a lot of people on telephones and on the typewriter.

And it doesn't seem like there's much going on. And they're able to up the drama just because of what's at stake, you know? I love Michael Mann. I forgot about Virtuosity. I just watched for the first time I watched the equalizer. The movie or the show? With Denzel. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. And let me tell you how you do not know how hard I related to his character when he was cleaning his New Balance tennis shoes with a toothbrush.

I was like, I get this character. I understand everything about this man. Yeah. I actually really enjoyed that. I thought that was really good. And he was good in it, always. I mean, like, Denzel's one of those guys.

And Russell Crowe, I don't want to see every Russell Crowe movie, movie but whenever i see him in something he's always good i've never seen him turn in a bad performance hey how about beautiful mind you know that's about as far that's as far from gladiator as you can get you know what about master and commander like that's another one yes i know and see that's something that i would normally say i don't give a shit about you know somebody you know you know you're sailing

on a ship in the 1700s i really don't care about that stuff but that was a good movie get out of here you love errol flynn get out of here well not everything thing is captain blood and seawolf is one thing but beyond that there's been so many rotten versions of mutiny on the bounty you know it's like it's kind of tough you know it's courageous you love it you love captains courageous yeah i love that one because it's spencer tracy man 20 000 leagues under the sea

you love it you love it yeah you've naming some ones i love i do love captain blood it's tough to beat they do not make them like that anymore you know that's like real ships real you know that's like real sword fighting i don't know either way i just watched this top 10 i think it's cine one of the one of the things i listen i watched cineflix cine something they do like all these top 10 lists they did their top 10 movie

scores and number one was captain blood by alexander corngold was their number one pick for top movie scores of all time.

Wolfgang Kornblatt, Kornblatt, Kornblatt. What'd I say? Alexander? I thought it was Alexander. Anyway, yeah. So that was the number one. That's amazing. Yeah. They said because he only did like 19 scores and they're all amazing. So they give him the top. You know, all those guys were out of Europe. Most of those guys that were doing scores for Hollywood in the 30s and 40s, they were like one step ahead of the Nazis.

They just barely got out there. there and they most of them wanted to do some of those guys like max steiner and those guys they wanted they thought they were going to end up doing like operas and stuff and they get to hollywood, with just like the shirt on their back and they're like okay if i'm going to write this sort of stuff i guess it's going to be for the movies right yeah and that's how you get that's how you get all that great stuff franz wachsmann

all right real quick before we give the ranks oh well let's Let's rank it in case Brent has to leave. And then I have something to tell you along those lines of nautical movies. So Brent, what is your score for? I'm going to keep my review. I gave earlier. I'm going to give it a five, five, John, you say it holds up. It holds up. I give it an eight, an eight. So Patrick wanted us to know he gives it an 11. This is one of Patrick's favorite movies.

Anita. I believe, let me see. I think it was a six. She said she can't break away today, but she's giving it a 6 out of 10. She's being loyal to the home video hustle. And you know what? I respect it. I respect it. He liked it more than I did. I was surprised by that. I was just laughing because the whole movie, she just kept looking at me. She was like, is that Gerard Butler? I'm like, no, that's Russell Crowe. She asked me that like twice. Oh, they do kind of look alike, don't they?

Yeah. I never thought about it until she said that. I was like, damn, I can see how you can confuse. It did not hold up for me, but I still enjoyed it. It was still, there were some parts where I was like, okay, get through it.

But i enjoyed the spectacle of it i enjoyed the violence i enjoyed the attention to detail the period detail i like ridley scott movies i like him as a director i don't know why the chariots were exploding but didn't you think about that i i don't understand somebody somebody somebody should have said you know there's no these are not gasoline powered chariots i don't understand what they were exploding like that not just breaking apart i'm gonna give it a seven i'm I'm going to give it a seven.

But John, speaking of nautical movies, I was going to throw 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea in there. I dig it. But I just saw on Turner Classic, I recorded it on the DVR, the original Mysterious Island from 1929 with Lionel Barrymore. Holy shit. I had never seen that. And apparently it was shot as a silent. And in the interim, the jazz singer was released.

So they had to go back and add some special, They added a musical score, some sound effects, and then some scenes with dialogue, but still kept large portions of it silent. Hey, I didn't know that. I thought that was a lost film. No, it is nuts. I think it might be on demand. So see if they have it on demand.

I'm going to have to check that out. If you get a chance, see it. The underwater scenes are really unsettling because there are these weird little...

Creatures that live in the ocean and they're really really weird they look like amphibious gremlins right kind of yeah they're really weird looking you know it's one of those movies that famous monsters magazine used to always show you these great pictures and they'd say this is a lost film you know here's these little amphibioids walking around the bottom of the ocean and, here's the ship and here's the island and here's all this stuff and you'd go gee i wish that wasn't a lost film so tcm has

got it huh yeah here's an alligator with a horn strapped to it so it looks like a dragon yeah all right wow and lionel barrymore too huh yeah and there's also like one scene where he's talking and you can tell he still hasn't gotten the stage performance out of him yet and he's doing a lot of things where he's just everything's very like a lot of, movement of hands and stuff like that. And he's a young man. Yeah, he's a young man. He can go straight from the stage, right?

They're all stage actors. The Barrymores, I believe. When you see him young, you can't believe that's the guy that's in a wheelchair in Key Largo. Right. You can't believe he's the guy, you know, Mr. Potter going, underdog, you once called me a miserable. Right, right, right. Yeah, he's a younger dude and some pretty good special effects for the time. Pretty good. I was impressed.

So if you can dig it up and find it, it's on turn okay it's in the rotation next time it comes up i'll let you know boy i'm glad you said that because i always assumed that was a lost film wow well it is a direct sequel to, 20 000 leagues oh okay it's jules verne isn't it right right right although here captain nemo is known by his real name which is count dakar i think now they they remade mysterious island didn't they wasn't that like a ray harry

ray harry i was there was a woman they were escaping from from the civil war. And that's the one where they're like in the beehive or it's like a giant, giant lobster chasing him or giant chicken crab. How about that? God, I'm going to have to, I'm going to have to look for that. How about that? 19. So that's early talk. You then 1929, you say, or 1930. Again, it was shot silently. And then they, the jazz singer was released. So they go, let's go back and they shoehorned in some kind of,

some of the talking scenes and then some special, some sound effects and like a score. Yeah. Well, Turner Classics has been running some great silent stuff lately, and a lot of it has been like early Warner Brothers, early Vitaphone. And sometimes all you're getting is music and sound effects. There's no dialogue. It's just music and sound effects. And they'll have like a crowd scene, and you'll hear music. There's one I should send you because it's like some hot jazz bands from the 20s playing.

And they said, if you want to hear what the real jazz sounded like back in the day, this is it. And I'll have to send you a link to that because they just ran one. Which is a lot of flappers and guys drinking at a speakeasy. And the soundtrack on the disc was this, these old jazz bands, you know, from like 29, whoever was playing back then, I guess the era would have been like what the hot fives and all that. Right. Yeah. Hot fives, hot sevens. Sure.

See, well, see, you got, that's why Turner has to survive. I'm glad that it's survived so far. I guess whatever intrigue was going on, it's, they survived it because it looked, it didn't look good about a year ago. It looked like they were going to do this big shake up at the top. And I guess Scorsese and Spielberg and a bunch of other heavy hitters said, look, whatever you do, don't just run this into the garbage disposal. We need the station. Hey, look at that. Hey, that's great. Wow.

God, that is so weird. That's so weird. Okay. Mario boy. I'm sure glad you told me about that.

So films are still being discovered films that they thought were long gone look at this guy are still being discovered jesus that's weird so what is that a puppet or a midget i think it's a little person in there a little person in a suit geez that's crazy yeah the crazy thing is at one point somebody's like they're fighting in their their big suits and they one of them pokes the other the one in the face and the blood spills out in the water.

And then the title card says warm blood, the cold creature, the creatures on the cold depth had never experienced anything like it. And then they all swarm the guy. Wow. Yeah, it's crazy. I'm going to find that. The Mysterious Island, bro. Check it out. All right, that's it. That's our show this week. What a great show. Was there anything else? Is there anything we're missing? Pop culture wise? Oh, I meant to tell you, Mario. I know you talked about it on an older episode.

Talk about it. But that movie, The Black Cat from 1941. Yes. Oh, you watched it? I did. I left a letterbox review for it. I actually watched it when I was sick. I was on Spangoolie played it. So I watched it on there. How'd you like it? I gave it a six. It's a lot of fun, huh? Yeah, it's a lot of fun. It's kind of a comedy. It's it's really more of a comedy than a thriller. But I thought it was a lot of fun. Yeah, I like I can't remember the actor's name anymore. It was the good dude.

He was dropping the one liners. And every time he did, he'd be like, oh, that's that's Hugh Herbert. Herbert, that guy drives my brother crazy. He says, I cannot tune in if that who-who guy is. He's in the 30s. He's in a million movies, and that's his trademark. He'd do that thing with his hands and go. It's one of those, a typical actor that Mario would go, what is the appeal of a Hugh Herbert? It's like, who is the guy, El Brandel? What's the movie? El Brandel,

yeah. What is the name of that movie? Just Imagine, yeah. Oh, you got to see that movie, Brent. Never heard of that one. Oh, it's awful. Hey, what did you think of that whole thing with the crematorium for the cats and the big statue of the cats and all that stuff? And... Did you recognize like Basil Rathbone, you know, and oh, yeah, for sure. Roderick Crawford and all those guys. Jeez. It's a lot of people in that movie, like a little B picture or something like

that. They're all acting like it's an A picture. That's one thing that's always cool about a lot of older movies. Even when they know it's something cheap, they still go for it. Oh, hell yeah. Well, what's crazy is that Basil Rathbone is not playing it like he's slumming. He's playing it in a picture.

And he's doing that like in between Sherlock Holmes movies. and it's just like he's probably like god what a turd but he's just not gonna he's not gonna phone it in you're all pros baby i think they made a joke didn't they call him sherlock i think at one point yeah what do they call him robert crawford goes what does this guy think he is sherlock holmes yeah i love that movie and it's really such a dopey little b movie but i i always thought it was a lot of fun you know it's fun even

well even the sherlock holmes movies at that time were really dopey but but basil radbone plays them very well he plays them really straight you know yeah once they go to universal it's so funny that drop in quality the first tour with 20th century fox when they go to universal the drop in quality is immediate right right you're like you're like oh gee the sets don't look as good and they're kind of playing it like it's you know they're fighting exactly that was universal's idea

because they didn't want to spend money on the gas lights and the cobblestones you know it's like the 20th century fox they're going well we've got to use our old turn you know 1800 set and universe is all no no no let's just make them fight the nazis right then all we got to do is just shoot it out on the streets you know right.

I'm going to check out your review on uh letterbox i'm really glad you saw that brent for real i love when brent i love it's always a nice surprise because the the letter the stuff that Brent watches on Letterboxd is very different than the stuff he watches for the home video hustle. So it's always kind of cool to read his reviews and go, oh, I wonder what Brent thought of this. Or like, he'll pull a movie out and I go, oh, he watched that. Oh, okay.

I watched another one, too. After I watched that one, I watched the one called The Invisible Ray from 1936. Hey, what'd you think of that one? I hate to say it, but I didn't like that one a whole lot, honestly. It felt like it took forever to get going. But I love that Karloff glows in the dark. He actually glows in the dark. That was funny. He turned around, he looked at his hand, he's like, what the hell?

And Lugosi's got some great lines, like, you know, if he touches you, if he touches you, you'll die.

Everything he touches dies he was the best part of the movie honestly yeah yeah oh is that where he plays is that where he plays carlos sidekick that's the one that's the one whenever they play that i go sidekick carlos sidekick fuck you boy you feel sorry for his wife in that one it's like here you are in the middle of the jungle with this beautiful woman and he's like i gotta get back into the uranium mine and see i gotta get back in there

and you know check out my meteor you know it's like come on dude you got this hot wife we're gonna use the little young dude and i was laughing at him because the younger guy gets introduced and they're like he's immediately plotting on this dude's wife from the moment i see him i know and he's one of those useless guys you know like the first one that's the first one that's gonna get it he's like oh my darling you know we we we come away with me and we'll be together forever.

And you're like, this is the first guy Karloff should get with the Ray. I wish he had. I love how he's like exploding the, the statues on, uh.

On the cathedral he's like melting these stone statues it's like what's that all about you know, first i kill you then i melt the statue you know yeah it's kind of that's that's the end of an era that's the last that's the last universal horror picture under the lemley regime after that the production code kicked in and you don't see them like that anymore there's a look to those movies that you don't see after the invisible ray but you're right it's a little pokey

not much happens there's a lot of you know a lot of talk and not a lot of action but i love at the end when he finally they turn out the lights he's glowing in the dark like well we can catch this guy because he's the only guy at the party that's going to be glowing in the dark you know i will say the last like 20 minutes is probably the best part of the whole movie yeah when his own mom said that's That's enough of that.

I love these all. Well, goodbye. And he just jumps out the window and explodes. Just evaporates. Well, I guess you're right, mom. See ya. Is that really what happens? That's how it is. Yeah. Of course, Karloff doesn't say it like that. He doesn't say, well, see ya. Peace. He had lots of vials and she just broke them. And she was like, nah, you're done now. Like Lugosi gives him this little packet of vials. It's the only thing that keeps him from dying.

He glows in the dark, but if he doesn't take this little drug every day, he'll just like, he'll incinerate. He'll just go up in flames. And so he's all, oops, I'm starting to smoke. It's time to time to drink one of these vials. And she's like, no, son, this that's enough. She whips out her cane and busts all the vials. Wow. And he's all, he's all, I guess you're right. Well, Goodbye. And he jumps out the window and just explodes into flames.

It's almost like they ran out of film. They're like, Oh, you know what? We got 30 seconds to wrap this movie up. It's like Ultraman. I can only be big for 60 seconds and that's it.

And then I'm done. And then I fly off. Yeah. So bread's checking out all the old universal stuff. Even if it's a, even if it's like a B movie, he's checking it out.

I love that stuff. it's just hard to find because a lot of it's not yeah i watched uh what did i i told you john i watched the what was the the cat creep the cat creeps uh yeah i had never seen that one until until mario turned me on to that i'd never seen that one and that was like a that was like a that was like a c movie the only interesting thing was it was uh rockford's dad from the rockford files as a young man that was the only he was the best thing in it you know

he it's funny you think boy Boy, he's the best actor in this whole movie. He's the lead. Noah Berry Jr. is the lead. No, he's not. He's the sidekick. Right. But he's actually more interesting than the lead guy. Oh, for sure. For sure. I can't even remember the lead guy at all. But you do remember Noah Berry. It's the same skinny reporter type from, like, The House of Wax. Right. He's the poor man's Ted Healy. Or, yeah, Mystery at the Wax Museum or whatever.

Yeah. The poor man's Lee Tracy. Right, right, right. There's a ton of those ponies out there guys and they're all on Tubi so check it out yeah how about that today's episode brought to you by Tubi they're not all on there but there's a lot of stuff on there there's a lot of good stuff there's a lot of stuff on there where you're just like Tubi just goes up you know what Tubi is Tubi's the equivalent of the dude that just goes to the Walmart bin and just picks it up like just lowers

a crane into it and then whatever he's got he's got that's going in the collection, there's no just was Invisible Ray on Tubi Thank you. I watched that on Svengoolie. Oh, okay. All right. Yeah, I watched Svengoolie. The only thing that drives me crazy about Svengoolie is that he'll take an hour movie and pad it with his shtick into two and a half hours. So sometimes I tune in, but sometimes I go, you know, I've got this on DVD. I don't know if I want to sit through an hour and a half of shtick.

That's what Mystery Science Theater is all about. Yeah, but they're funny. They're funny. It's just really not that funny, you know? What about Joe Bob Briggs? That's my dude. I love that show. Yeah, I got to check that out. I used to read his stuff. You know, he had a column, and I've never seen his show. I'll have to check out his show. He's really good. He's like the Huell Hauser of horror movies. It's amazing he's still around, because he was writing reviews back in the 80s,

you know? He's just kind of very aw shucks. Right. He's got a good persona for it. It's because he's very unassuming.

So you're just like you know and and he's kind of he's kind of digging the movies too, so it's kind of yeah i'll have to check that out how do you find his stuff what's he on it's on app called shutter okay i'll check that out yeah he used to put out like collections of his columns and stuff you know the show for a while what was it on usa brent it was on tnt monster vision that's right oh yeah i remember that yeah that's where i first got hit

doing that he had a show before for that too on the movie channel back in the day whatever happened to the movie channel i think it got absorbed into something else i don't know if it was showtime or not but something bought it up the movie channel yeah i don't know lucha underground lucha underground i think ran into financial issues where's cage now oh you said brian cage yeah he's an aew where's where's my man Prince Puma.

He's in WWE. His name is Ricochet now. Is he really? Yeah. He does all the same stuff, just doesn't work, man. I just started watching all the old WrestleManias on Peacock. Yeah, some good ones in there. Not all of them are great. There's a lot of good ones. I forgot my man Junkyard Dog was in Wrestlemania 1 fighting somebody really cheap. I forgot who it was. They couldn't have given him something better?

It's the first one. We got to figure it out. That man never got his due. He never got his due. He had... What was that? You know they're making Gladiator 2 and it's supposed to be coming out this year, right? Yeah, I read that. And you know Denzel's going to be in it. I guess the only two people from the original are going to be Connie Nielsen and, There's somebody else. There's two people from the original. I just saw her. I didn't see another one. Yeah, I don't know.

I don't know how you do a sequel. I looked at the plot and it said it's going to be about the son growing up and doing something. So it's all about the kid. Oh, yeah. Derek Jacoby is in it. And Connie Nielsen. Yep. Yeah, you'd think that that's something that Ridley Scott wouldn't care about.

He doesn't care about sequels so much. that's why he wasn't really into doing alien sequels until recently i don't know maybe i don't know he wanted to be i guess he was in on the blade runner sequel i guess there was originally he was supposed to direct that and he just was spreading himself too thin but i thought that turned out all right considering he didn't direct it pedro pascal is in it he's the flavor of the month that pedro pascal he's in everything now yeah

well that'll be interesting i missed napoleon the latest Ridley Scott. I kind of missed that. It kind of, it was around. Don't care. And I'll tell you what I did catch. I caught the new Michael Mann Ferrari and that was pretty damn good. Was it as good as Ford versus Ferrari? No, that was, that was amazing. I don't, I'll tell you. And I don't particularly care about car racing movies, you know, like Le Mans and Grand Prix and all that stuff.

I've never cared about that stuff, but Ford versus Ferrari was really, really well done I can't even remember who directed that oh that was uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh.

James mangold ah there you go who directed the second to worst indiana jones movie but he also directed logan so you know what the hell logan was great right i cut him a lot of slack because i think logan was just about just about my favorite movie whatever year that was it was just about my favorite logan or godzilla minus one three ten and yuma one night yeah i I think that was him. And I think he also did the Johnny Cash movie that walked the line. John Logan or a Godzilla minus one.

Oh, how that talk about apples and oranges. I refuse. I refuse. I love, I love them both. Logan or Godzilla minus one. Oh man, I refuse. No, they're both for me. They're both tens. That's good enough. Oh, you mean if they fight? Oh, come on. I don't know. I guess Godzilla wins.

They can both. The wins. fans they both can regenerate logan would regenerate but in logan he's kind of like old man logan so he's not regenerating too well that was a good one it was my god that is well done, i'll tell you just about the best you know and you know because they he got to do whatever he wanted i think the thing was he said okay you gotta let me make this an r and i'm gonna you gotta let me just do it any which way i want

you can't tell me that i can't have this because it's it's Wolverine. I think that's why it worked. He just went with it, you know? Yeah. That's another movie where they re-released it in black and white. That's right. Really? Gee, what was the point of that? I don't get how that would play any differently. Logan was put out in black and white? You didn't know that? That's interesting. You should have seen it. It was pretty good. Did you see it? Yes. Did you guys see it?

I never saw the black and white. John, give me a quick plug and unplug. A quick plug and unplug? Yeah. That's dirty.

On your on your mic oh there you go how's that perfect how how long has it been shitty i don't know you know what that's why you always make fun of you for getting angry i get angry because of half the show sounds like it's it's underwater but here's the thing john water here's the thing nobody listens so it's fine it's fine oh yeah i forgot oh yeah i forgot got i forgot about that it is so fine don't even worry about it's so

funny you know sometimes people uh i'll tell them about the show and they'll say oh yeah how many people you think tune in like i have no idea i don't either john this show isn't about the numbers this show is about whether or not we're having a good time because you used to have kind of like years ago you had sort of like a rough idea i still do you have i still do and i don't tell you.

I can tell you it's in the dozens I still do It's in the dozens, Yeah Yeah, we have to give our shoutouts We haven't shouted anybody out in a long time Shoutout to the Lily Pot Shoutout to Besotted Geek Shoutout to History of Bad Ideas Shoutout to...

I'm blanking shout out to everything i learned from movies shout out to what why can't i think of nathan and brendan show what were they thinking oh shout out to what were they thinking why could i not pull that you weren't thinking yeah what was i thinking shout out to kung fu driving what happened to kung fu driving he still does his interviewing he gets he actually talks to a lot of big like like martial artists and stuff now is it still in the kung fu driving yeah it's still on

there i gotta find them jeff good old jeff shout out to cult 45 shout out to all the all the old homies we all still here for the most part shout out to home video hustle yes sir still here yeah shout out to sci-fi driving that's right getting so they changed their name so what do we know i forget what they changed their name to shout out to our for our kiwi friends.

Oh high expectations yes jaslyn and ellen shout out to everybody we're shouting everybody out, i love that i love that shout out shout out to everybody yeah god bless all the other podcasts anybody that supports this show we you know we appreciate all the retweets the love the downloads the questions the comments the concerns we appreciate it all but shout out most of all to just to just the crew we don't you know yeah for putting up with my you know BS I shouldn't

drink when I podcast this is what happens are you getting kind of weepy now not at all not at all i love it i love it not at all uh you're kind of a sentimental fellow aren't you we can't we got to talk about luckily we didn't get into the t-swifts the t-swift.

Controversy you know that could be that could be the key to the whole election, no i was gonna i was just gonna tell you john t-swift not my cup of tea uh Uh, but she swings the election, but she can swing the election. If they vote, like they go see the movie, Trump's finished. Yes. I mean, I'll be a fan. I could care less right now, but if, if she swings it and saves, saves the nation, I'll be firmly a fan. Believe me. She'll be the hero, bro.

If she rescues democracy, I will definitely be a fan of all things. I could care less about her music, but yeah, I'll get the, you know, I'll, I'll get the, uh, the thermos if she, of all the crazy, it's crazy. Well, that's the thing about watching Gladiator, you know, where they talk about, you know, mob rule and, you know, Rome. It's like, look what it's become. You're like, yep, this feels pretty on the money. Right. What Rome once was, you know, an idea. I love that line. It was an idea.

An idea. It's like, yep. And it's like, look at it now. You know, mob rule. Just a bunch of knuckleheads, you know, throwing bread in circuses. Yeah. And it's like bread. What was that line? Is that bread in circuses?

Bread in circuses. Yeah. yeah that's also the name of a star trek episode and i'm thinking i'm thinking this movie would play very well right now as far as what's going on in the country right you've got some some crazy emperor up on top of the roof you know playing the fiddle while the whole thing burns let me let me tell you man let me tell you this is my connection that's why it took me years to get into the original star trek because star trek was like such a

low budget movie every planet they they went to they look like greeks or romans because it was cheap and they had a costume yeah you just get a toga from uh western union yeah from western costuming yeah yeah so i was always bored with star check because it was like where's the pupe you they're not gonna go why does everything look like what you know why does everything look it was 5 bc you know because. Everything's got caught not only are they all weighing togas but every planet

has got like like these random columns, like Roman columns. Yeah, Aeolian columns. And so, yeah, you're just like, what? And they're on a soundstage. It's obvious that they're on a soundstage with some colored lights and fog machines, yeah. Yeah. But what the hell? You know, it's the scripts. You know, the Gorn should be enough to just say, okay, is this lost in space? But the scripts are what do it, you know? Right, right, right.

All right, that's it, guys. Because Brent and I will go on and on, and then we add John to the mix.

We could go on all day, guys. well the minute that you know how this works Brent starts talking about the invisible ray and the black cat and you're like do we have another hour to talk about this stuff do we have another hour to talk about Val Luton can we talk about him please is nobody talking about Val Luton, that would be two hours that would be a whole show on Val Luton, is nobody talking about Ida Lupino anymore yeah.

What was that Ida Lupino movie that I found on, I watched, it was on Criterion.

Oh, they just ran one with Howard Duff, which is, she ended up marrying Howard Duff. What was that? There was some film noir on the other night. I think it might've been on MeTV. And now I know that Brent watches MeTV because if he was watching Sven Gulli, he must be watching MeTV. Yeah, I got that channel now. Finally, I got that filo, whatever it's called. So they do, they do their version of the film noir every night.

They do like a film noir like a couple movies they're just you know they'll do like two three hours of film noir and you end up seeing a lot of stuff that for some reason doesn't end up on turner turner does their film noir hour but they i guess there's some studios they don't have you know so between turner and me tv yeah because a lot of that stuff like a lot of the rko stuff stuff turns up on Turner, but there's some, some movie companies that went out of business and some of

that stuff is public domain. Didn't get copyrighted, you know, studios like there's one studio called Eagle lion. You just go, wow, that's a weird name for a studio. Eagle lion. Never heard of that one or lion Eagle. And so, you know, I don't know who ended up inheriting their movies, but you'll see some film noir. You'll go, Hey, this is pretty cool. But what what studio is this?

Some poverty row studio. Yeah. Like all that Lugosi stuff, all the monogram stuff, you know, voodoo man and ape woman and all that stuff. And you're like, yeah, gotta be monogram. You know, if there's some woman turning into an ape or some guy with a voodoo mask, it's gotta be monogram. What was the name of this movie? Should have been that slogan on there. It's gotta be monogram. Yeah. What's the, what's the old joke? Miracle studios. If it's a hit,

it's got to be a miracle. If it's a good movie, if it's good, it's a miracle. That's it. If it's a good, it's a miracle. Yeah. I think they even use that in Singing in the Rain. That's an old joke, but I think Singing in the Rain, it's the same thing. Miracle Pictures presents... If you love Ida Lupino, please watch her in Food of the Gods. What? Or how about The Devil's Reign? I've seen that one. John, there's a great little B picture called Out of the Fog.

No, it's not Out of the Fog. That's not the one I'm thinking of. There is a good one, Out of the Fog. Into the Fog? Out of the Fog is good. It's with Uncle Billy and John Garcia. Yeah, it's a good one. But there's a movie I want you to watch called Moontide with Ida Lupino. Fritz Lang? It's Jean. Yeah, it's Fritz Lang. Jean Gabin, French actor. Oh, Brent had to leave. I'll check it out. I'm trying to catch up. Shot on a soundstage. Yeah. Supposed to be, you know, out by the dock somewhere.

But boy, really, really great photography. Really good photography in it is that a thing where like he's living he's living in a shanty right on the right on the pier i think i have seen that yeah that's a good one yeah that is a good one and that's he didn't do too many american movies right i think he was stranded because of the war yeah i think i have seen that the whole thing looks really like everything looks really run down like the bar and right yeah the place

they live it all looks like it just put put together with two by fours and drywall. Yeah. Right. Right. I'll have to check that out again. I don't think I knew that was Fritz Lang. It's a good one. Yeah. He was uncredited somehow. So I don't know what to do. Oh, there you go. There you go. I think it was like Archie Mayo got the call. So he might've been fired or something, but you can tell from the moodiness of the photography that it's, you know, obviously there was a master at it.

Work there. Isn't that funny? When you find out later, there's a lot of movies like that, where it's like started by Howard Hawks and then he gets kicked off and somebody else takes over and you go, okay, I get that. Like all the scenes in the bar look like it's Howard Hawks, but everything else looks like it's somebody else. Well, that's what they said about, that's what they always say about the thing that Howard Hawks was really the one pulling all the strings.

Yeah. Yeah. You know, but who knows? Yeah. Well, you know, he produced, they said, look for all practical purposes he's on the set he produced he helped with the script he used to say no it really is this uh what's his name christian christian niby niby you know you see him in a million tv shows i guess he really was a director but you look at his filmography the thing is pretty much it but he was a protege of howard hawk so they say well

he did it but you got a guy that learned at the feet of howard hawk so it's gonna look like a howard hawk's production you know well hey john you know how to press my buttons you know hey i'm gonna head out.

All right i've had my fill no i gotta wrap it up i i really do but it was fun it was a good show thank you to brent for popping in yeah we got to have him on the show check out his video podcast no check out his podcast home video hustle you can find him on x formerly twitter at hvh podcast all right at hvh podcast capital h capital v capital h capital p lowercase oddcast, you can check us out at soup complex capital s o u p capital c o m p l e x on x and facebook.

John, how are you enjoying those jazz tracks of the day? We're doing jazz tracks of the day.

If you're not familiar, we're doing them on, uh, we have a Spotify playlist up. You can just look up superiority complex on Spotify and I am adding to the tracks. It's, uh, I think it's under, I think it says jazz three 60 is the name of the playlist, but I'm adding a new jazz track every day for the year. It's pure gold. 31 tracks so far. It's pure gold.

I, everything you've sent has been wonderful. wonderful and thank you for taking the time because for me you have to actually send a link on my text because i'm not on i'm not on twitter or x is it a pain in the ass no because i do it for the love everything has been great some of it i know but a lot of it i don't know like that art blakey was incredible i had never heard art blakey before that was just amazing you had never heard moaning by by art blakey if

i had i didn't know it was art blakey when i say that i probably heard heard him, but I didn't know it was him. I do not have the encyclopedic knowledge of jazz that you do. But here's John, you're bringing up a great point. You're bringing up a great point. I watched a guy on YouTube today and he did his favorite jazz albums and he really went out of his way and they were good.

They were all solid picks, but he really went out of his way to not pick things like, you know, Giant Steps by John Coltrane or, you know, Kind of Blue by Miles Davis. This, you know, just things that are kind of like, you know, it'd be like if, you know, it'd be like not picking the Beatles wide album or the Rolling Stones, let it bleed, you know, like you're trying to pick a top 10 rock albums without, you know.

Pet Sounds or something, you know? So he really went out of his way and he really came up with a great list of, you know, and there were still a lot of people you expect to find on the list. You know, there's still John Coltrane, still Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, like all that stuff, but he really went out of his way. And what I'm doing is I'm kind of doing the opposite where I'm doing like a mix and I have a whole year.

That's the advantage I have is I have a year and I'm doing it track by track. So I'm trying to pick stuff that I, not only do I like, but I want to pick stuff that doesn't go too over the heads of somebody who's maybe just getting into the genre, but also I want to be able to appeal to people who like jazz, but don't necessarily, you know, there's no way you're ever going to hear it all.

So I try to, if you notice, I've tried to balance it out with stuff that's a little harder to find and then stuff like, you know, for me, Art Monin by Art Blakey is a standard, but see, you've never heard it. So I have to keep that in mind, you know? I think you're doing a real healthy mix of classics like Take Five and then stuff that is sort of like off the beaten track. I think you've done a great job mixing it up between the familiar and the unfamiliar.

And man, you made my day. That one that you sent, it seemed like you sent it just for me. It was a rainy day and you sent me Red Garland Groovy.

That's right. right i thought gee mario sent this track just for me i don't know if that went out over uh x and twitter but well you know i did not i should have given you credit because you are the inspiration for that when you when you told me you listen to red garland groovy on rainy days i always think of that when it's raining and because it was raining the day i posted it so yeah today i might have to think of a of today i'm up for my

jazz track of the day i might have to do orange juice Jones a cover of jazz cover of I saw you and her walking in the rain all right I saw you and him walking in the rain yeah well okay you're doing a great job I think so far you've been doing it for 30 days or 31 days it's been a it's been a really good mix I think anybody checking it out is going to get a real healthy jazz mixtape out of it post it today I just I haven't done it yet or so but But we'll get it done.

Brent is doing a side project he always does called the, what is it,

Home Video Hustle Radio? Is that what it is? I was about to say, which one are you talking about? You have like 10 of them. I know, right? Home Video Hustle, HVH Radio, I just put out episode 12 last week. Now, you were asking- You asked a group question to the, to your, in your, in your, in your group chat. Yeah. What would we like to hear more of? You said, I got a lot, there was a lot of great suggestions. Somebody said your favorite movie scores.

Somebody said, and you always mix, you always mix. You always tell a lot of personal stories when you're, when you're, when you're playing the music, I would like you to do like a biographical sketch from like early Early childhood, early music you remember hearing as a kid to right now. I'd like to hear a whole kind of like the mind of Brent through music. That's my suggestion for you. Oh, there's going to be a dark period in that.

Hey, you know what, though? But that's up to you if you want to share that. But I think that'd be interesting. No, that's a good idea. We did something similar a while back. We did, I called it the Home Video Hustle Soundtrack. Right. Just all the songs that me and PJ would always reference and sing and rap on the podcast. Right, right, right, right.

I think it would be interesting to go from like early, you know, earliest things you remember, stuff your grandma listened to and your mom and your dad. And then, you know, stuff you got into as a kid, because when you're like seven, you got your own. You're listening to like TV soundtracks and stuff or whatever, or at least I was. And then you get a little bit older and then you get in your own music. I think that'd be really interesting.

That's a good idea. I might try that. I know the next one I'm doing is going to be the Valentine's mix. Yeah. Yeah. That was one of the most popular ones I've done so far. So I'm going to do a part two. I got my candles and my strawberries already. I got you. See, now I got the music for you. So it's all good. That sounds like a title. Candles and strawberries. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I might have to name it that. That's not going to be this episode. This episode is going to be Action Blue Balls.

There you go. Action Blue Balls. You're welcome, everybody.

Everybody action blue balls the james bond depression cycle oh saga yeah yep i stand by that people get mad at me when i say that which was that was that was that the daniel craig stuff the daniel craig movies james bond depression saga is what i've always pretty good that's pretty good yeah because it seems like the entire uh arc is him working through his his pain of losing using vest berlin right right that's something that annoys me about modern movies if i can go on a little baby rant

real quick go it's like with certain movies the james bond ones are the first ones that come to mind but everybody wants to make their movies you know oh well our characters aren't like they were before they're dealing with deep personal issues and they have demons they have to fight through it's like i don't want to watch that shit in a james bond movie like that i really that's not what the fuck i'm here for i want to see something like that i'll go watch another i'll go watch some criterion

movies somewhere i want to see a damn jane bible right i want to see a car turn into a submarine damn it and somebody getting on a drill. Did that turn you off of the Daniel Craig's? I, I, not really,

but I do like some of like Casino Royale is still one of my favorite ones. Like out of all of them, I love that movie, but that movie also was more, it was like darker and more edgier, but it still felt like a James Bond movie. It's just the further they went on, like Skyfall is the one where it's, that's where the turning started. I like Skyfall, but that's where it started to happen. Yeah. And it's like half and half with that one. But then every,

the two after that, it's just like, I don't really like those movies. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's interesting because you got a point. He's going in a whole different place. The old Bond was just like, whatever, you know, next case, next girl. It's like, yeah, he's really, yeah, he's struggling. You're going, wow. He's like, well, you know what? It's like he's a human being. That's not what I want. Not out of James Bond. No, he's not. That's honestly just like he just ain't cool anymore.

It's like there's no goodness to him. It's not fun. It's like I don't want I'm dealing with this at home.

I don't want to watch this in a james bond movie like you got a point there and when when they look back on this era they'll go boy this was uh you know when these were made this is when they tried to give them feelings you know right it's kind of like with the 70s you go boy you know when they made these james bonds you know it all looks like star wars and it's goofy and car chases and you You got Sheriff Lobo chasing them down. And, you know, I always think that.

Yeah. They just pivoted too hard. Like you said, the 70s with Roger Moore and the comedies pivot too far one way. And then with these, the exact opposite way, too. Yeah. And you can almost hear somebody. Somebody probably said that. OK, let's go deep dish, heavy duty, emotionally invested. We're not going to do any comedy. We're not going to overdo it on the gadgets. This is going to be deep, dark, nine-inch nails hurt Bond. Yeah, right. I hurt myself today.

That could even be the soundtrack. One of those Bond movies could have began with that. Johnny Cash. That last one could have been Johnny Cash singing hurt. I hurt myself today. The 10 seconds in this movie is the best part of my day.

By the way, you guys. What's that? i made i made a a statement after after james bond what was was the last one, to no time to die no time to die wake up no time to die i said i i want to see anna de armis in spy movies okay netflix netflix and amazon prime have heard me and i'd like to take it i'd like to take it back i'd like to take it back because those are two terrible movies oh yeah what were one was called the gray man right is she in that,

is she in that one I know she did the one with Captain America I can't remember the name of that one I don't know if she's in the gray man I never watched the gray man so these are two spy movies huh, Yeah, it's two spy movies. Hmm. Yep, Annie DeHart was in that. She's in The Gray Man and with Chris Evans. And then she's in another one called Ghosted, which is kind of like a rom-com spy movie. She's the best thing in both of them, but boy, they are not.

They are not bueno. Oh, you got Ballerina coming out soon that you can watch. What's it called? Ballerina, the John Wick spinoff that she's supposed to be in. Oh, yeah, yeah. Is she only doing action movies now? That's what it seemed like. She found her niche. Well, she did that Marilyn Monroe movie that people either loved or hated when it came out. Was that called Blonde? Yeah. But she was great in Knives Out as just a regular person.

Yeah. I liked her in Blade Runner, too, even though she wasn't a normal person in that one. Right. Oh, she was the hologram, right? Right. Yeah. She was very good in that. Yeah. I like the way John said that. She was very good. Well, she really was. Every way you want to take that. I mean, she was beautiful. She was beautiful. But at the same time, you're going, wow, she nailed it. Because that's a tough thing to play. You're playing something that doesn't exist.

It really was just like a computer image, you know?

Know god that whole thing where they break the the break the thing with the chip so she's just permanently disengaged what was that the bad guy just stomps on the chip and that's it he just completely disconnects her yeah he had something that made her she she could go out out of the house and still be able to uh function right right that's what as he had the weird little like ar sex scene and all that stuff too that's right that's right no she was amazing i

guess she so you see that's the first thing she was ever in huh that's the first thing i remember ever hearing her name, yeah i don't know talk about a great sequel i tell you i think that for uh not being the original director that was one of the best sequels i've ever seen that worked they nailed it they nailed the uh vibe i thought this is going to be impossible to capture the vibe of the original 30 years later but they did

it that's pretty good that's why when i found out he was doing the Dune remake. I was like, oh, they're probably good then. Yeah. Yeah. He's a hell of a director. What did you think of the first Dune? Are you guys on board for the second part? Now that we're not going to finish the... I never saw the first part. I still need to watch it. I want a full report. I got you. It'll be on Letterboxd. John, what did you think of the first Dune? I'm not a big Dune fan.

Last one I saw was the David Lynch Dune. I'm just not on board. David Lynch don't even like it. I've tried watching some of this new one on cable or something, and I just thought, I cannot get interested. These characters do not interest me. So I know that people love it, but I just can't get into it. We're still friends. I know you've read the books, right? right? You've invested in a couple of books. The first book I read, a friend of the show, oh my gosh. Tawny?

No. Well, Tawny did tell me about it. Charlene Robertson. Remember Sam used to work at the shop? Do you remember Sam who used to work at the shop? It's his wife that lent me the book. Oh, by the way, Sam Robertson, Sam and his wife, I'm going to replay this. Sam's wife, from Charlene. Very, very nice woman. She is suffering from fibromyalgia and as a result, she cannot work.

So they have a GoFundMe up. So if you want to help some friends out, if you want to do something nice for the new year, I'm going to repost their GoFundMe and I'm going to tell you, I'll tell you guys about it. And I'm going to, I'm going to send it up. So if you guys find it in your heart to, to donate, if you can donate a small portion to them, that would be great. And if you can't, retweeting it, just making it more visible.

Always helps or, you know, just recent and passing it along, but Sam and his wife, you know, sending out positive thoughts to them. Uh, they're, you know, we, we all have struggles in life and they're having a little bit of a bad time right now. So they do have a go fund me live. I will post that. I meant to do it a couple of weeks ago and I totally forgot, but I wanted to mention it on the show.

Sam, of course, worked at, he was one of the, he was Renee's co-worker at the shop and a really great guy. Him and his, he and his wife, Charlene, they're just just really just beautiful down to earth people. And she was the one that let me do. So I finally read it after all those years. I always thought it was going to be one of those insurmountable books. I actually enjoyed the book enough to want to watch the movie. So, okay. So there you go.

There you go. I got the book, but I haven't read it. Turns out I love sci-fi movies more than I love sci-fi books. I've tried to read some sci-fi lately. I just can't. I just, I don't know. I can't get into it. Yeah, I can see that. I'm kind of the same way. I'll watch sci-fi movies. Has anyone seen The Creator? Yes. I thought it was about Tyler, the creator. And I was like, once I started watching it, I was like, what? Believe it or not, I actually went to the theater to see that.

I thought it was pretty sharp. Rian Johnson, right? is that who directed it i think so and i always forget denzel's son uh john.

John i forget his full name but he was amazing he's he's really he's now become a person that's kind of like if he's in it i'll go see it i'm sorry it's garris edwards garris edwards who directed rogue one okay well after john david washington after seeing tenant and this movie it's like now it's kind of like if he's in it i'm gonna go check it out he's that solid you know, kind of like his dad you know it got to the point where it's like well if denzel's

in it i'm gonna check it out you know right so i thought it was pretty solid and you know a lot of it's about like future shock with ai i thought boy this is just the right time to put this movie out, it is that the whole idea is that you know the world's almost been destroyed and it's being blamed on ai you know well just like terminator baby skynet yeah exactly by the way john they are gonna do it they're gonna do a book of eli television show i heard

about that yeah they're gonna do it well that was a great movie i don't know if it'll work as a tv show i mean i can see where it would if they do it right but i thought you know that was a hell of a movie i'm just just looking real quick uh brent i just got a meme sent to me the most un the most unrealistic thing in the mandalorian is how quickly he gets a babysitter that's actually kind of true.

All right okay you know the thing about the creator is he gets he ends up with this kid i don't want to give too much away and it kind of feels like an anime you know oh that he's got got to kind of like look after this kid he's on the run and there's people after him but he's got to watch out over this little kid so what was the name of that thing lone wolf and cub was that the yes so not a hundred percent but it's got some of that vibe you know that he's on the run but he's

got a he's got to look after this kid just like the mandalorian but i'm not going to tell you anymore because there's some great twists and turns i thought it was pretty damn good check that out. Love it. Guys, we've covered a lot today. We certainly have. We always do when Brent comes on. It turns into a very eclectic conversation. All the movie nerds in one place. That's right.

I'm sorry. I kind of faded, though. I got a thing from NPR. Here's why conspiracy theories about Taylor Swift and the Super Bowl are spreading. And it's all these crazy, like, it's a hole. She's an agent for the left and blah, blah, blah. Love it. I love it. I love that they can't just admit defeat. Feet and they can't admit that they're popular jerks. It's always got to be some kind of conspiracy. Somebody said, if they're afraid of Taylor Swift, you can see that they really,

they're scared. They're really in trouble. If they think that's going to be a problem, they, they don't have it together. Like, like they think they do. Here's what I love about it though. How do you know, all these years we've been, you and I, John, we've been doing like pulling a, you know, pulling our hair out. Like, how do we, how do we, how do they counter Trump? Right. They can't seem to counter Trump. Right. and they couldn't. What's their... We got King Ghidorah.

Where's our Godzilla? Where is it? How do we fight this thing? And, you know, if Joe Biden's Mechagodzilla, then God help us, we're all in trouble. But you have... They did it. They just, it's an entertainer. You put up another entertainer and you take ratings away from, that's just how you do it. It's like putting up a show, right? How do we stop this show from being good? We'll put up another show in the same time slot and that'll take all the viewership. And that's what's happened.

It didn't happen on purpose, but that's what happened. If somebody wrote this, it's, you know, you'd say, geez, you couldn't write this. It would be unbelievable, but you're absolutely right. Right. He started off as this knucklehead, the apprentice. And yeah, how are you going to preempt him? You have to get something that gets higher ratings. So what gets higher ratings than the apprentice? Well, at this point in time, it's going to be Taylor Swift.

So if this ends up being what saves the nation, it'll be an unbelievable finish to the Donald Trump era. If this is what ends up taking him out, it's going to be something out of science fiction.

You can't make this shit it up if she's the one that takes them down everyone will just slap their forehead and go unbelievable right you know we've been trying to do it through laws and congress and the government and the impeachment you know what it's like this is what we had to do is get taylor swift to take him down why didn't we think of that 10 years ago what the great thing is she'll do it and then she's going to turn on everybody i hope not it'll be great we've seen

it all john we've watched enough movies to know and see he shot himself in the foot that way because they said even if she's on the fence he has now been so nasty to her and with all this sort of like conspiracy crapola even if she was on the fence she'd be like well you guys are mean to me so forget it you know what i mean right i mean they can't they are their own worst enemy i mean it's taking forever but really he has always been his own worst enemy

and if this is going to be the ultimate shoot himself in the foot if this ends up being what takes him down right i love it well hey that was great i forgot what i was gonna i had a point to make with that and i can't remember what i was gonna say but yeah it's crazy back to the beginning you said somebody that gets higher rate we just it goes back to the gladiator thing bread and circuses we just want to be entertained right Right. We just want to be entertained. That's right.

I mean, it makes all the sense in the world. If this, if he was, you know, he's a TV show. So how are you going to take them out? You've got to find a TV show that people like better and no TV show stays on forever. People evidently dig The Apprentice enough to make him president, but it's not going to last forever. John, are you not familiar with Law & Order? That show is never going off the air. NCIS or Grey's Anatomy. Yes, but Law & Order, the cast does change. Hey, there you go.

The cast does change. I had a guy of the conservative persuasion say to me the other day, hey you know there's all these studies saying that young people like 40 of the young people are, pre-diabetic in the united states and i was like well yeah you know it's all the processed foods and processed sugar we he's like well you know pre-diabetes can lead to dementia, he's like and just think they're all going to be voting and i'm all

well just think about all the people with dementia who voted donald trump into office and he didn't like that one bit it yeah he didn't like that one bit but i was like it's true well you know we could get into a whole nother show with this you look at the things they want to take away health insurance social security you know voters rights you know reproductive rights you would think i don't know is this a winning hand take away all that stuff is that a winning hand for somebody running for

president i don't know it is because you're you're what you're doing is you're it's the idea that that I'm willing to sacrifice it if you take it away from the people I hate. If the people I hate are going to suffer, then it's worth it to me. And that's their mentality, unfortunately. You're right. It's the culture wars. You're right. I hate these guys more than you do. I'll tell you why. I hate them so much, I'm going to take away all your stuff. But you'll love me because I...

I didn't back down. I always say, I always say all the, all the other side needs to do is convince the, the, the, the MAGA people that oxygen is a democratic conspiracy. And then the problem is solved. Exactly. Exactly. But I, I, I think they finally possibly finally painted themselves into a corner. Not to mention the fact that he seems like he's lost his mind. his marbles. He doesn't know Nancy Pelosi from Nikki Haley. They don't care.

It's just their guy. They're not listening to him, I suppose. But it's the fence sitters. They say it's never going to be the MAGA base. But people that are on the fence, people that might vote for a third party, people that are kind of like independents, you know, there's still some people out there that could be persuaded. They're like, OK, you know, all right. That's it's enough that he doesn't know who's who anymore.

You know, listen, I say Brent for president. We run John on the vice presidential ticket i love it and it's just movies and every we're gonna just sit around and watch movies for four years baby i would do that yeah i would do they work weeks.

Brett will be like i'll get commercials off tubi so you can watch trapping for christmas without, oh that's that's replacing it's a wonderful life for sure and you know a chicken in every pot and a bowl of buttered popcorn for everybody oh my god I'm right okay that's it for real for real, I gotta say goodbye I said that okay 30 minutes ago I know that's how I beat there this show is not as long as birthday if you get it if you're gonna listen

to one episode of home video you want to check it out listen to the birthday episode. Anita's drunk you have guest stars. Brent's dad is breaking it down about Mad Dog 2020. He's teaching these young kids. They don't know about the Mad Dog 2020. He was really drunk. Yeah, that was good stuff. That was a good show. I listened to it while I was making dinner for me and my mom. It was funny. I had Alexa on, and I was like, it was a great way to spend an afternoon. Alexa, stop. That's it.

I had to yell at her. That's it. That's enough of the show, damn it. Brent, where can they find you? You can find me on most of the social media outlets. You can find me on Twitter at capital H, capital V, capital H, capital P, lowercase i-cast. I'm on Instagram at Home Video Hustle Podcast, Facebook at Home Video Hustle, YouTube at Home Video Hustle. You can support the show over at Patreon.com slash Home Video Hustle.

And I did look it up. My Letterboxd page is Letterboxd.com slash H1H Podcast. There we go. You can find me in the comment section of all of Brent's social media pages. So just a shortcut. John, you can't find him anywhere? You can find me wandering the aisles of Barnes & Noble. There is a lady on TikTok, John, and she does it for fun.

But she tries to find people online. They do it voluntarily where they say, hey, can you find my birthday or find me?

I don't have a heavy internet presence. presence and they give her permission and she doesn't do anything untoward she doesn't go like she doesn't use like any kind of she just does it using like social media software and nine times out of ten she finds people and i'm i always wanted to see if she can find john sandy i would never do it but i always wonder i'm like does john sandy have enough of a digital footprint that she could find them and then secondly now what would that be would they find

that i'm on your podcast just by yeah they would probably find that we've mentioned you or we've tagged you or there's like a picture of you that we've tagged you in yeah you don't have anything to tag too so we'll say john sandy but there's nothing there's no link to anywhere because you don't have any online media pain that's kind of cool that kind of makes and as a fact in a weird way i think, that's kind of cool in its own way that there's some person out there

walking around that doesn't have a presence right i mean her name is her name is khan on tiktok and the bonus is she reminds me of sue from the comic book shop she reminds me of the owner of the car oh that's she has very sue energy oh that's great it's very very cool so she's shout out to khan on tiktok but anyway, i always wanted to give her i would never do it but i was wondering i wonder if she could find john well.

Be curious but maybe not curious enough to curious enough to actually do it but right i wondered i always thought it must be just like if you dropped my name or something and maybe i turn up just like for example one guy was freaking out because there was a there was a picture somebody had used a picture in their in his profile and he like they posted a profile picture of him and he he had no idea where the picture was taken or who took the picture and it freaked freaked him out so he

went to her for help and it turned out it was her it was the guy's dad had taken like a video screen capture from youtube of like a youtube video that they were all in and she was like yeah it's just your dad like your dad put this picture up and he was freaked out about it it was like yeah now it just ended up being your dad you know the guy's dad these days to identify anybody i mean it's just like you've probably posted you probably posted pictures when when Brent was visiting California.

You probably put that on. Did you post some pictures of all of us at the comic shop? Yeah, I said this is my friend John Sandy who resides at 1234 ClassicMovies.Lane. I love it. Wouldn't it be great if that's where I really live? In any town USA. Wouldn't it be great? Any town USA. 1234 Main Street. You gave some address. isn't that the address to the old dark house.

1313 Mockingbird Lane that's the greatest I love that 1313 Mockingbird Lane for the last god dang time for Brent, for John for myself I get on my own tangents we say this transition ends now fight the power. Music.