Season 7 Episode 2: Grilfriend's Day
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Speaker 1:This is your final warning.
Speaker 2:Welcome to another episode of Cinematic Anarchy, the podcasting equivalent of that one employee that keeps bringing Sam into the office to microwave.
Speaker 3:With
Speaker 2:me today, we have Matt and Rachel of the Strange and Beautiful Book Club podcast.
Speaker 4:That's us.
Speaker 3:Yeah. One
Speaker 2:of you. Hi. And the artist formerly known as Blunt Bob, or are we going with Blunt Blunt Bob today?
Speaker 5:Formerly known.
Speaker 2:Okay. Heavy metal healer.
Speaker 3:I don't
Speaker 5:know what the future holds.
Speaker 2:You don't know?
Speaker 3:None of us do. Mm-mm. Just
Speaker 2:Are we leaning into the
Speaker 5:heavy I thought you'd be like, and, blunt Bob of blunt Bob.
Speaker 2:Blunt Bob, who is blunt Bob. And who is also the person that chose our film today. You wanna tell us what Yeah.
Speaker 5:So the game with Michael Douglas and Sean Penn, it's it's actually a really interesting movie. You got you got Michael Michael what is his name? Michael Douglas. He's this guy who has everything. So what do you get for the guy to have everything again?
Speaker 4:A a greeting card?
Speaker 5:A greeting card.
Speaker 4:Because we did girlfriends day.
Speaker 5:Oh, is that today? Indie? So It's I
Speaker 2:I watched the wrong damn movie again.
Speaker 4:I could've watched the game. God.
Speaker 3:Missed that.
Speaker 5:So since today was Mother's Day and we did something for Mother's Day last year, I thought it would be good to do something themed. And since Mother's Day Mother's Day is a fake Hallmark holiday, I thought Girlfriends Day is the perfect movie because that's the plot. It's hard to, like, just describe the plot, though, because it's weird. It's a satire. It's a crime drama.
Speaker 5:It takes place in a fictional world that doesn't really exist where greeting cards are, like, one of the biggest forms of art.
Speaker 2:I mean, there's serious greeting card groupies in this film. Mhmm.
Speaker 3:Oh, yeah.
Speaker 5:And there was a bar devoted to greeting card writers. Right?
Speaker 3:Yeah. Because they felt
Speaker 2:that was a form of poetry. Mhmm. Which, I mean, I guess, in some cases.
Speaker 5:I mean, these days, AI could do all that.
Speaker 2:I mean, that's very true.
Speaker 4:I did like the I liked the conceit of gift card writers are like rock stars. Like, oh my god. Are you that guy? Are you the guy that wrote
Speaker 3:There's group Everybody
Speaker 2:knew the greeting card writers by name.
Speaker 5:Yeah. One of my favorite lines is, oh, you know the guy who's optimistic Al? And he goes, he knows me. But it's funny how it turns into this crime drama.
Speaker 3:Writer's name on the back of the card in this world.
Speaker 4:I don't know. They just know. Yeah. It does. It goes into a crime drama, but, like, sort of, like, randomly.
Speaker 5:Also, I think it's worth mentioning that, like, the whole point of it too is that they're creating a new holiday called Girlfriends Day, and that ties into why we're doing it.
Speaker 2:Which technically exists.
Speaker 3:The government inter interfering in the market.
Speaker 5:Is Girlfriends Day a real day?
Speaker 2:Yes and no. Not this version of Girlfriends Day. More of a girl who has other girlfriends kinda day, like, you which is awesome.
Speaker 5:Holiday. Every day, though. Every day of the year is a holiday for something.
Speaker 2:Yeah. However, there is a boyfriend's day on October 3.
Speaker 5:Is there a boy band day?
Speaker 4:Boy band day. I feel like I've never seen cards for I don't know. I I'm not the one to ask about greeting cards. I hate greeting cards, so this was a pretty funny movie. I think they're so pointless.
Speaker 4:And then to watch a movie where it's like, these people are like rock stars, and he's like the best greeting card writer for three years in a row. And then he writes that that one card, and I love that we don't know what the card says. His, like Yes. Magnum opus card.
Speaker 5:Hey. Did the recording reset? I just saw a timer again.
Speaker 2:No. No.
Speaker 4:I think we're good.
Speaker 2:Not on our end. We're still good.
Speaker 5:Alright. So May 2 is, boy band appreciation day.
Speaker 4:That's when I could get a card for.
Speaker 5:There you go.
Speaker 2:Coincidentally, the day that they have as girlfriends day, which is August, the first, is followed up on August 2 for National Ex Girlfriends Day.
Speaker 5:Really?
Speaker 2:So we don't have a day for girlfriends. However, we do have a day for when you break up with them.
Speaker 4:After you break up with them.
Speaker 2:Or after you break up with them. We celebrate the ones we broke it off with, I guess.
Speaker 4:What does that card say? Dodged a bullet. Have a
Speaker 3:great day.
Speaker 5:Apparently, according to Google AI, August 1 is National Girlfriends Day.
Speaker 2:Right. But it's supposed to be girlfriends as in a girl who has other friends that are girls.
Speaker 5:Celebrates the friendship and bond between women.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 5:It is also International Al Barino Day, International Child Free Day, which is a pagan holiday, Respect for Parents Day, World Lung Cancer Day, World Wide Web Day, Swiss National Day, National Raspberry Cream Pie Day, International Beer Day, Benign Independence Day, Benign? Benign? Nanchang uprising. True. But, like, Emancipation Day in Canada, Civic Holiday in Canada, and summer bank holiday in Scotland.
Speaker 2:As opposed to a malignant Independence Day.
Speaker 4:Busy day. Benign. Yes.
Speaker 2:Benign. Yes.
Speaker 5:Acknowledging the in the independence of benign. Benin. Benin.
Speaker 2:Technically, August 1, National Girlfriends Day also coincides with National Childless Day or Child Free Day.
Speaker 5:Yeah. I'm I'm totally celebrating that from now on.
Speaker 2:Are we talking people without children or people that have found a baby?
Speaker 5:Acknowledges and celebrates people who choose not to have children. Oh. There's a good, like, five of us out there.
Speaker 4:There's many.
Speaker 2:Oh, there are plenty.
Speaker 5:It took me a while to find a woman who didn't want kids in her thirties.
Speaker 2:I have a few friends that if I had run across them when they had had their kids, I wouldn't have had them at all.
Speaker 3:Missed a learning opportunity.
Speaker 2:Well, I I mean, I like my kids, but it's other people's kids sometimes I have problems with. You know? It's oh, no. No.
Speaker 5:August 1 was the is the anniversary of the invention of the World Wide Web. Does that technically exist? Is the Internet still the World Wide Web?
Speaker 2:I mean, we still start everything with www.
Speaker 5:Yeah. That's what I was thinking.
Speaker 2:Actually, now that I'm looking at it, it just says HTTPS.
Speaker 5:I was gonna say HTTPS. When was that invented?
Speaker 3:WW as a prefix
Speaker 2:has Right. Right.
Speaker 3:Gone out of style.
Speaker 5:When is HTTPS day? Let's see.
Speaker 2:No. No. Have no idea.
Speaker 3:Hypertext transfer protocol. Yeah. Secure.
Speaker 2:Well, now I have an answer for that question. I had no idea what it was.
Speaker 4:I knew Matt would know.
Speaker 5:You hear about What I'm looking like
Speaker 2:for that? We were waiting on you to give us the answer. You asked when national a national HTTPS day was, and I was like
Speaker 5:Oh, no. I couldn't find anything.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay.
Speaker 4:No. The one
Speaker 5:But what I really like about this movie is that you got a movie written, directed, and starring Bob Odenkirk, who I think is a genius. I love that he tied bump fights into this because I actually have a bump fights DVD somewhere. So
Speaker 2:I actually recognize shit foot.
Speaker 5:Was was shit foot really real on bump fights?
Speaker 2:No. No. Shit foot was actually a, I don't know if you've ever seen the TV show, The Ranch, the one on Netflix. Yeah. But Shitfoot is one of the drunk barb patent trends that was like a running joke throughout that entire show.
Speaker 5:So one of the greatest moments in television was when doctor Phil brought on the creator of bump fights so that he can exploit him for, exploiting other people for his own gain. And the dude shows up dressed as doctor Phil with a shaved head to prove the say that doctor Phil does the same exact thing he does.
Speaker 2:I mean, it does on a a more national
Speaker 4:level. Exploits.
Speaker 3:Yep. Exploits. People for his own benefit. Mhmm.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Exactly.
Speaker 5:But that was one of the greatest moments in television.
Speaker 2:It's kinda what a lot talk show host did.
Speaker 5:He's like, you wanna expose me for exploiting people for my own game while you do the same thing.
Speaker 4:Yeah. He's not wrong.
Speaker 5:But I do have a DVD of Bumfight somewhere. I figured, you know, maybe it'll be worth something one day.
Speaker 2:I think Jerry Springer perfected that game, and then doctor Phil just kinda rode the coattails almost a decade later.
Speaker 4:Yep.
Speaker 5:I I I I want it to be known. I don't support bumfights, but I also want it to be known. I think it's kinda funny.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Kinda.
Speaker 5:Making homeless people fight each other, that's a horrible thing to do. Kinda funny. Just the concept alone is just kind of humorous.
Speaker 4:It's funny, like, in the movie. Like, as
Speaker 5:Yeah. Like, and then they ask why he watches it, and he goes, it calms me.
Speaker 2:I'm gonna actively search out for a a video or anything to that nature, but seeing it passively, I was like, okay. I I can understand. You did?
Speaker 5:It was used, so it the money didn't go back to the people that made it.
Speaker 2:No. No? I don't
Speaker 5:think so. When you buy something used, it's just the the seller gets the money, not the person. Yeah. I I'd only ever buy a Harry Potter book used.
Speaker 2:Correct. I mean, do you even wanna give money to the person that would sell that used, though?
Speaker 4:I mean No.
Speaker 5:But I feel like, you know, I feel like that's an obscure thing that could be worth a good amount of money one day. It's like people collect Nazi memorabilia.
Speaker 2:This is actually my son's excuse for buying certain CDs and or movies from artists that he actively hates. I like the music. I like what they did, but them as people I do not like. So I will not purchase it new because it would put money in their pocket, but I will purchase it used.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 4:This is an interesting philosophy.
Speaker 5:Well, I wanna read the Harry Potter book.
Speaker 4:So hated. Someday it's gonna be rare. Right.
Speaker 2:The people that haven't purchased melted it down.
Speaker 5:Yeah. It was hard to find a copy of it.
Speaker 4:Harry Potter's different. Harry Potter's just, I don't wanna support the tragic
Speaker 5:I don't wanna support her. Mhmm.
Speaker 2:I don't think I've ever seen a physical copy of Bum Fights ever.
Speaker 5:That's why I bought one.
Speaker 4:Because it's gonna be rare.
Speaker 2:I never watched it. Bums might have made it big. Invested that $20 in something. You know? Oh my god.
Speaker 5:And then can you sign this so I can increase the value?
Speaker 3:Space in this discussion.
Speaker 2:Well, I like I like that in the middle of the movie, he's walking down the street with his soon to be girlfriend that's not his girlfriend, and he sees Shitfoot, he's just like, Shitfoot. Shitfoot?
Speaker 4:Yeah. And he's on he's
Speaker 5:on Then the ending too, he sees him again.
Speaker 4:Yeah. And he gives a card
Speaker 3:with some coins in Nice
Speaker 2:that the ending of the movie was basically his dime tree putting a shit a a on Shitfoot's face.
Speaker 5:Yeah. Yeah. I
Speaker 4:did like when he walks in and he's I got how about a how about a dime tree? And he's like pulling out all the old style cards. They're like, they're dating, man. Can't do that anymore.
Speaker 2:Dime tree to somebody? Well, it's good for, like, a person that you're you you love that you might owe money to.
Speaker 5:So a card that says, dear wife, that's it. I just like to say, dear wife, happy anniversary.
Speaker 4:Well, the point wasn't that they were good cards. It was that they were bad cards. And he's I
Speaker 5:love the one that the one that he actually writes we never actually see, which is good.
Speaker 4:Yeah. That was the best way to do it.
Speaker 3:Yeah. When he wrote it, I was like, I hope we never actually see it. We only ever get people's reactions to it as this is literally the best thing ever, and they they follow through on that.
Speaker 4:Mhmm.
Speaker 5:I also love that this whole movie, nobody's getting his ass kicked.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 5:Like, Bob I mean Odenkirk, who played nobody, who plays the biggest badass.
Speaker 2:Well, I I was telling Rachel, I I envision this as, like, nobody is, like, a sleeper agent before they give him the trigger word, just being an absolute nobody.
Speaker 4:It's a better He doesn't get
Speaker 3:hit the head once.
Speaker 4:Well, he gets beat up a lot, but he's like a we haven't seen nobody. That's why Matt does. Yeah.
Speaker 5:Oh, it's so good. I I I like it better than John Wick.
Speaker 2:This is just an alternate universe where nobody was forced to be a a sad sack card writer until they
Speaker 5:No. It's an alternate universe where instead of becoming a lawyer, Saul becomes a greeting card writer.
Speaker 4:A good one. Where they're like
Speaker 3:yeah. The the best in the game.
Speaker 4:Yeah. At AA, AAA.
Speaker 2:I thought he was, like, the second best in the game. I thought
Speaker 3:He was the best
Speaker 4:in, like, o '5, o '6, and o '7.
Speaker 2:'3 years in a row. Yeah. There was definitely more Taft on that wall than anything else.
Speaker 5:Then he got divorced, and it screwed everything up.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 5:But he got joint custody and a cat.
Speaker 4:I know. I like that. You're not still picking up the cat, are you? Oh, that's right. I gotta go now.
Speaker 4:He's got
Speaker 3:to go get the cat.
Speaker 2:Don't want you messing with my cat.
Speaker 5:Oh, okay. Hold on. Have a question.
Speaker 2:In that scene where he goes and picks up his cat for the joint custody setup, he walks in there with that guy's kid but does not walk back out with the kid, only the cat.
Speaker 4:He calls the kid after he walks out with the cat, and then he's like, oh, shit. The kid. And then he calls, and the kid pops out of a side room. And the lady's like, what? Where did she come from?
Speaker 2:Just left the cat. We we'll take the cat, leave the kid behind. He didn't even realize.
Speaker 3:Yeah. He he realized. He went back, he opened the door again to get to call the kid.
Speaker 5:Joe, I used to love Andrew Andrew Dice Clay. I used to love Andrew Dice Clay, and I usually watch everything he comes out with. And he had a reality show where he's going to see his divorce attorney in one scene, and he goes, your wife, he wants the dog. And he goes, okay. Do I get to see the dog?
Speaker 5:And he goes, you want joint custody of the dog. Is that what you're asking? I'm like, yeah. I guess. I don't know.
Speaker 2:Okay. Wait. Andrew Dice Clay had a reality show?
Speaker 5:Yeah. Called Dice Undisputed, I think.
Speaker 2:Right. Now that that's where I needed you to roll it back because I didn't even realize that he had a a reality show.
Speaker 5:So as someone who's half cameo. As someone who's half Jewish and half Italian, I love how Andrew Dice Clay is a Jew trying to pretend he's Italian. So it's funny when he would just like on on the reality show, he would try to act all, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 5:You But then sometimes the would slip out. He'd be like, goodbye, Todd. Goodbye.
Speaker 3:Is that cultural appropriation?
Speaker 5:I don't know why he wanted to be Italian so much, but that guy's Jewish.
Speaker 2:I mean, I don't know if they call it cultural appropriation when it's technically white stealing from white.
Speaker 5:Yeah. That's a good point. I heard that Jamaicans don't care about cultural appropriation. They're like, you wanna wear our shit? That's cool.
Speaker 5:Wear our shit.
Speaker 4:As long as you buy it from them.
Speaker 5:Yeah. They're like, yeah. It's cool. You buy our shit and you wear it. I we got no problem with that.
Speaker 2:I have met a couple of Jamaican gentlemen that actively complain when white guys are around with dreadlocks.
Speaker 4:Oh, that's a little different. It's not like a tie dye tee.
Speaker 5:It's like The dreadlock versus, like, a Rasta hat or shirt or that's different, I feel like.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's more effort. A lot more effort than just throwing some clothes on.
Speaker 4:Right. Yeah. But it's also, like,
Speaker 3:a tradition.
Speaker 2:I mean, is it cultural appropriation if you just like the hairstyle? Like, I like how this looks on me.
Speaker 4:I don't know that this is I
Speaker 5:wouldn't know.
Speaker 3:Answer that question. Yeah.
Speaker 2:I think there's probably a little bit too much white in this particular podcast to try to get that answer.
Speaker 5:We gotta phone a friend.
Speaker 4:Yeah. We would have to bring in.
Speaker 2:Somebody with a little bit more melanin than we have represented here.
Speaker 4:Yeah. I would just go with the safe answer, which is probably let's just not do that thing.
Speaker 5:I'm not doing it.
Speaker 2:I'm just wondering.
Speaker 5:I think it's funny that I'm the one that keeps trying to get us back on topic because I'm usually the one who has the tangents. But This was a show that was playing with. Did you guys know that Bob Odenkirk did a live stage reading of The Room, and they did not copy performances at all. They did it like, they made it their own.
Speaker 2:No. I
Speaker 3:I didn't know that.
Speaker 2:Did not know that.
Speaker 5:I watched the Highmark scene, and, like, Bob Odenkirk just plays it now he how he would normally play a role.
Speaker 2:You're gonna have to send me a link for that because that actually does sound inter
Speaker 5:Yeah. Because he's like he was like, I think he did one of those live things where you they stream at the theaters, but I was watching it.
Speaker 2:Something over on on YouTube or something.
Speaker 5:Yeah. I watched the clip on YouTube, I think. But it was like, he's just like, I did not hit her. I did not hit her. It's bullshit.
Speaker 5:I did not hit her. Oh, hey,
Speaker 3:Mark. Okay.
Speaker 5:Like, it's so weird seeing, like, good actors read those lines, and they're still bad, but the scene seems significantly better.
Speaker 2:Yes. But they're good actors doing bad acting.
Speaker 5:Yeah. No. He's no. They're they're doing it completely straight. Like, they're putting on a a real performance.
Speaker 2:So they're actually trying to make it good.
Speaker 5:Yeah. Which makes it significantly better, but still bad.
Speaker 2:It's like, okay.
Speaker 3:Well, I
Speaker 2:can tolerate think
Speaker 4:we held this movie together because otherwise, this plot is a hot mess.
Speaker 5:Oh, yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. Well Yeah. You have some good cameos.
Speaker 5:You got a really strong lead actor. And I think that's kinda it makes sense that he wrote it and directed it because he knew what he was going for.
Speaker 2:I mean, I like Stacey Keach and everything that he does.
Speaker 5:Oh, me too.
Speaker 2:It's like, I don't think I've ever seen a bad Stacy Keats role. I've seen bad TV shows and films that he's been in, but not a bad role that he's
Speaker 5:My my dad said that he got tired of watching him in prison break because he didn't like the way he was talking through false teeth.
Speaker 4:That's fair. I will drop something because I don't like somebody's teeth. Absolutely. And a heartbeat.
Speaker 3:Yeah. Especially as a vampire
Speaker 4:fan. Yeah. I can't. If someone has weird teeth, I can't.
Speaker 5:I always think of Escape from LA when I think of Stacey Keach.
Speaker 2:Right? Or Mike Hammer.
Speaker 5:Oh, yeah.
Speaker 2:I liked him in that. He played Christopher Titus' dad on the Titus show back when he was on Fox. Oh, yeah. He plays grumpy dads pretty well.
Speaker 3:Yeah. So
Speaker 5:it's only a matter of time until every actor in Hollywood has a Marvel role. What role would you think Bob Odenkirk's role would be?
Speaker 2:Bob Odenkirk.
Speaker 3:Evil Phil. If
Speaker 5:it was like DC, I'd say like Sergeant Rock, but we're just doing Marvel.
Speaker 2:I don't know. That's actually a good question. The question
Speaker 5:He would have been like a good old school Nick Fury.
Speaker 2:No. That's is that DC, the question? I believe so.
Speaker 3:Yes. No. The original question was
Speaker 5:Oh, but you're so right, though. That question is. You're so right, though. He would be a great question.
Speaker 2:Was that Marvel originally? Yes.
Speaker 5:Wait. The quest because I read I read a origin novel. Because he's kinda similar to, like, the shadow.
Speaker 4:I do like the shadow. That one, know. It's a good one.
Speaker 5:Yeah. His first appearance was so he was originally I think he was originally Charlton Comics, and then I think DC bought them out. And his first appearance was in the Blue Beetle. But you're right, though. That would be a great Bob Odenkirk role.
Speaker 2:This guy's the first thing that popped into my mind. Like, what would he fit into seamlessly? And I think the question would be right up his alley. I mean, obviously, it obscures face for the most part. But Yeah.
Speaker 2:Because if if I'm not mistaken, his face is is that the guy who's pointing in that mic? Featureless.
Speaker 5:He could be magneto.
Speaker 2:I mean, he might have to bulk up a little bit. Magneto's not, like, slight of frame.
Speaker 5:Yeah. I also think, like I think he'd be very, like, a Lex Luther type role if he's gonna play a villain.
Speaker 4:Villain. Mhmm. Smart villain.
Speaker 3:He doesn't a clever bad
Speaker 4:guy. Evil genius.
Speaker 3:Really well.
Speaker 5:Give it, like, a few days. They'll probably announce it.
Speaker 2:How about, like, an older elastic man?
Speaker 5:Old man Logan. Okay.
Speaker 2:Bob Odenkirk is old man Logan? Okay. I mean, I'm not sure how that would work, but I'd definitely be curious to see that. Are there any actors you didn't like in the film?
Speaker 4:I mean, it was so short. Besides Bob, they all kinda pop in and pop out.
Speaker 5:I didn't like the other writers in his office.
Speaker 4:One of them is Okay. Flo from the
Speaker 5:Yeah. Flo. It's funny because she was an angel, she she worked for She's
Speaker 4:the archives.
Speaker 5:Wolfram and Hart. Yeah.
Speaker 3:Yes. In the archives.
Speaker 2:Rich didn't quite get that insult at the beginning where he was like, yeah. He actually, she was a fan of your stuff.
Speaker 5:Rich Summer, his role felt kinda wasted, but I really liked him in the show In the Dark. Amber Tamlin, she was good for the role. Her acting is just kinda I don't know. She kind of I guess she's kind of the same and everything, which kinda takes me away. But I think for this role, she definitely fit.
Speaker 5:I feel like there was a huge age gap between them.
Speaker 4:Yeah. That's, like, twenty one years.
Speaker 2:I just noticed that there is some music playing in the background over here.
Speaker 5:No. Kenny Richter was a funny cameo.
Speaker 2:Talk amongst yourselves for a moment. I've gotta correct the situation.
Speaker 3:Candle the situation.
Speaker 2:I'm I'm I wanna continue, but, I mean, I gotta I gotta correct a quick situation.
Speaker 5:I didn't catch Ed Begley junior as the butler.
Speaker 4:There were so many people that just literally showed up for, like, to disappear. Yeah.
Speaker 5:Because I don't remember him being there.
Speaker 2:I don't think I particularly like Natasha Lyonne in this, honestly.
Speaker 5:That was a really short, like, kind of thrown away short role.
Speaker 4:I think short way
Speaker 5:to describe it. Feel like didn't feel like her normal characters she normally plays.
Speaker 2:Right. So, I mean, that I think everybody did alright for what they did within the film. That's just her role that I really didn't like as missus Taft.
Speaker 4:Yeah. The horny widow. It was a I don't it was fine. This movie was just like Bob Odenkirk. Bob Odenkirk goes on an adventure and punches some people
Speaker 3:into Yeah.
Speaker 4:Catches a guy getting murdered.
Speaker 3:The first in the middle kind of a big show too. Falling down.
Speaker 4:It did feel a little bit like falling
Speaker 3:down. Yeah.
Speaker 5:Yeah. The score was awesome.
Speaker 4:Yeah. I mean, it was it was good. It was well put together. It was just like I mean, it was a guy who writes greeting cards who can't write greeting cards who gets framed for a murder who ends up finding a girlfriend and learning how to write cards again, but then deciding that he doesn't wanna do that for a living.
Speaker 2:Did that end up actually being his girlfriend, though? I thought that was, like She was she was working to see him.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 5:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah. She was working for gun gun Gun Also Gun D.
Speaker 5:He did not direct it. He wrote, produced, and starred in it.
Speaker 4:Yeah. That's a
Speaker 5:So somebody else directed it, which I don't know if he ever does direct. I mean, he started out as a writer.
Speaker 3:Yeah. So
Speaker 2:I found the source of the noise. It was apparently a speaker that randomly turned itself on in the background and started playing music.
Speaker 4:Oh, good. Muzak, no less.
Speaker 2:I don't think it was identifiable, and I'm hoping it didn't bleed into the feed so that it does not cause certain things to get cut off and
Speaker 3:not Oh, yeah. De monetized.
Speaker 2:Posted.
Speaker 4:I didn't like how much Bob got to punch the bad police officer guy in the face. That was cathartic.
Speaker 2:Mhmm. That's why I said I feel like he was nobody. He was nobody. He's just a sleeper agent at this point.
Speaker 4:He even broke his own cast off.
Speaker 3:And just ripped it off.
Speaker 2:Did that
Speaker 5:Is he he punched the
Speaker 2:That's nobody level action kind of.
Speaker 3:Sort of.
Speaker 5:See, like, the verse like, John Wick is very choreographed, like, within a lot of a very headshooty, and nobody is just him ripping people apart.
Speaker 4:Well, that's kinda what
Speaker 5:And it's funny that, like and they're roughly around the same age, Bob Odenkirk and Keanu, but Keanu is just amazing in every way. But, like, it was more me because it was more punchy. It was more like the soundtrack. It wasn't like club music. It was more like classic rock.
Speaker 2:Mhmm. There's nothing that I have ever watched Bob Odenkirk in that made me think that he could have pulled off that role. And when he did, I was just like, oh, okay.
Speaker 5:Yeah. That was another thing. You never thought that Bob Odenkirk in a John Wick spin off action film.
Speaker 2:And Kinda how I feel about Vince Vaughn and if you've seen, cell block 99.
Speaker 5:Yeah. Well, so it makes sense because, one, Vince Vaughn started out as a serious actor. But to me, it makes sense to Vince Vaughn playing that role because Vince Vaughn is a big dude.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 5:Like, it's it's funny how Terry Crews isn't really an action star. He's mostly does comedy.
Speaker 2:But, like, everything that he's, like, put himself in lately has been, hey. You know what? We need a kinda douchey buddy in this film. Who's that gonna be? Yeah.
Speaker 2:Oh, wait. Vince Vaughn's available. Let's do that. You know?
Speaker 5:He he replaced Bob Einstein on Kirby enthusiasm.
Speaker 2:Right? So?
Speaker 5:But but that's why it made sense to me giving him an action role because he's just a big guy. So it it fits.
Speaker 2:Makes perfect sense. It doesn't mean that I wasn't any less surprised to watch him in that film. But
Speaker 5:but, yeah, like, nobody also had soul, which John Wick did not have. And I think that comes with the range of the actors. Like, Keanu is better as an action star. Bob Odenkirk is, you know, more sympathetic when it comes to his appearances. Like, I mean, look at Saul.
Speaker 5:That and there's emotional roller coasters all over the place with that character.
Speaker 2:You go ahead and, bring up a movie with with Keanu Reeves in it that has an emotional roller coaster attached to it because he he's got one emotion just, woah. You know?
Speaker 3:That's it.
Speaker 5:I'll I'll give you one. Just gotta remember the actual title.
Speaker 4:Sandra Bullock. What's that one?
Speaker 5:Yeah. The the the the house one. Oh. Lake
Speaker 4:house. Lake
Speaker 5:Yeah. Yeah. I was gonna I was gonna mention that, and then there's one other one I was gonna mention. Let me just find it.
Speaker 2:She has plenty of emotions in that movie. He is still low level calm. Like
Speaker 5:Even the movie Henry's crime, he's, like, super calm in it.
Speaker 3:Yeah. Odin Kirk definitely has more more range on the the tragic morally gray character.
Speaker 5:Like I
Speaker 2:am really angry. You know?
Speaker 3:Just
Speaker 5:I'm trying to find
Speaker 2:the moment. Angry Keanu.
Speaker 5:It's the movie with him and Charlize Theron.
Speaker 2:The cat in Keanu has more emotions than Keanu in any Keanu film.
Speaker 5:It's called Sweet November.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 5:That was like I'm not saying he did it well. I'm just it was an emotional movie.
Speaker 4:He tried. He tried.
Speaker 5:He just keep reminding me. Emotional
Speaker 2:he's been in some emotional movies. I mean, he was in what, my own private Idaho.
Speaker 4:Dracula.
Speaker 2:Dracula. But the the thing is everybody's emotional around him, and he's just like, you know, you know?
Speaker 5:So I think that when they went to do the first Constantine movie and they made him American, and he he was like, you know, I could do I I could do an English accent. And they're like, no. We've seen Dracula. No. We'll do some rewriting.
Speaker 4:Never again. Never. Please. I don't know who hired him and was like, this is gonna be fine. And then they started filming, and they were like, can we cut is it what can I see his contract?
Speaker 5:Okay. What's worse, His English accent in Dracula or his southern accent in the devil's advocate?
Speaker 3:Oh. That's a tough call. Oh. I gotta go Dracula. Yeah.
Speaker 3:The devil's pretty bad.
Speaker 5:I'm going with devil's advocate because it sounded like he had a chicken bone up his ass.
Speaker 2:Southern accent. Chicken bone, though.
Speaker 4:More believable than the the
Speaker 2:the I could fully believe that he had something up his ass during that.
Speaker 5:But, also, that was one of Al Pacino's best performances.
Speaker 2:Right. Which is why I can't fault Keanu Tuma.
Speaker 5:God is an absentee landlord.
Speaker 2:Okay. Who played a better Satan? Al Pacino, Robert De Niro?
Speaker 5:Alright. So this is a conversation I have frequently because I bring this up. But I I say three of the biggest actors of all time from the same generation are Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, and Jack Nicholson who have all played the devil.
Speaker 2:That's right.
Speaker 5:So I see your question, and I raise you one Jack Nicholson. Okay. Lewis Cipher was a such a different role than the other two. He was such a creepy role. Like so performance wise, they all did a phenomenal job, but I gotta go with Pacino because I think it's one of his best roles.
Speaker 2:Yeah. I would say that Pacino's role in devil's advocate is probably the one that stands out amongst all of them. It it's what made that film iconic. Probably one of the films that really gave, Charlize Theron a a career.
Speaker 5:I was thinking she was naked.
Speaker 2:Besides the point.
Speaker 5:Oh, yeah. I, I love angel heart. Don't get
Speaker 4:me wrong. I feel like
Speaker 5:I once paid to see a 35 millimeter print of angel heart because I love that movie. Mickey Rourke's probably best role. And he played such a creepy, weird devil in it. And then, of course, you got Nicholson in the witches of Eastwick, which is a classic.
Speaker 3:So
Speaker 5:all and I'll tell you, my favorite performance of the devil is Peter Starmare in Constantive.
Speaker 3:Oh, yeah.
Speaker 4:Yeah. I think that's pretty well established.
Speaker 3:%.
Speaker 2:You know, I really liked Mickey Rourke before whatever happened, like, all over here.
Speaker 4:To to
Speaker 2:the other place. Think of, like, a really decent role outside of maybe the wrestler that he did after
Speaker 5:He didn't have plastic surgery. He had Plato surgery.
Speaker 2:Something like that.
Speaker 5:Whoever got ahold
Speaker 2:of Michael Jackson got ahold of him.
Speaker 5:The wrestler's fantastic. Barfly. You know? Like we said, Angel of Heart, but it's like appearance wise in those three movies, it doesn't look like the same guy.
Speaker 2:Damn. They have got the drag strip going in full force out here today.
Speaker 4:Yeah. Well, it's Sunday.
Speaker 2:Yeah. But it's it's Mother's Day. Stay home. Turn your noisemakers off.
Speaker 4:Mm-mm. Those are the moms beating off.
Speaker 2:Getting away from their kids.
Speaker 3:Yes.
Speaker 2:Okay. I've had enough of this. Let's leave.
Speaker 4:Not to bring it back to girlfriend's day, but I did like that scene when he's talking to the guy who owns AAAAA cards. And he goes, no. I'm a cynic. You're just cynical.
Speaker 5:I love that line.
Speaker 4:Really good. And he's like, because you wake up every morning mad, the world's not better. And I never thought it would be.
Speaker 2:Wait. He's not the owner I like that. The owner of that.
Speaker 4:Paper hearts. I couldn't keep it straight.
Speaker 3:It's it's his brother. Station came to paper hearts.
Speaker 4:One of them owns paper hearts, and one of them owns
Speaker 5:a a They never show the brother, though, do they?
Speaker 4:I don't think so.
Speaker 3:Mm-mm. No. We only ever refer to him.
Speaker 2:Yeah. The brother we don't see, the one that owns the paper hearts. Yeah.
Speaker 4:I don't know. You think it was, like, it was only it was just over an hour. You'd think I could have kept it all straight, but I did not. I couldn't really tell what was happening except that they all wanted to write a card, and they were all trying to kill him, but also get him to write
Speaker 3:a card.
Speaker 5:In this movie, it was seventy minutes, but it should not have been. It should have been an hour and a half because they, like, raced through it way too fast.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Oh, you thought too fast?
Speaker 5:Oh, to the I thought the movie was too short because
Speaker 3:over thing that could have been Yeah.
Speaker 5:I feel like they could have done more world building character development or world building.
Speaker 4:Yeah. Because you got the former racists who were real they they
Speaker 3:Oh, I I
Speaker 4:I wanted more time with them because I want to know their story. They're like, no. No.
Speaker 3:We Especially since they work for the Gundy guy.
Speaker 4:They work for, like, an elitist guy, but they're anti elitist now because aiding one whole group of people just takes too much energy.
Speaker 5:So we're we're Those are both, like those are both great actors who we've seen, but we don't know their names.
Speaker 4:Yeah. They're that guys. Mhmm. Oh, that guy. I know him from It's guy
Speaker 2:I know you.
Speaker 5:The dude from Flake and the dude who's in who got a the dude from Flake and the dude who got peanut butter on his penis. What was the line? He said, got peanut butter all over my wiener, I think it's what he said, in Halloween. I have absolutely
Speaker 2:no idea.
Speaker 4:Your own. I did like that one of them had a card from their mom that was, like, when they got out of prison.
Speaker 3:Mhmm.
Speaker 4:As someone whose mom has kept every card that they've ever given you and that you've ever given them, I appreciated that.
Speaker 5:What about when he's over Stacy Keetch's house and he goes, is that? And he goes, yeah. The first card from Napoleon. He gave it to his mother.
Speaker 3:Yes. Like, I love if
Speaker 5:that's an historic historic actor historic artifact is the first ever card.
Speaker 4:Yes. Right. Because in this world, cards matter.
Speaker 3:You care about cards.
Speaker 5:Well, and it's funny because
Speaker 4:feel better.
Speaker 5:We we live in a world where nobody gives a shit about greeting cards.
Speaker 4:Right. That's the funny that's the conceit.
Speaker 2:Yeah. I can't remember the last time I picked up a greeting card ever.
Speaker 3:Just going through a box of old stuff, but not for shopping.
Speaker 4:I always get the free ones that mom gives me, the free ones she gets in the mail. Remember I used to get free cards? They're blank.
Speaker 2:Free cards. Free, like, labels to put on your mail. Yep.
Speaker 5:I was looking hoping to get that one at the end of
Speaker 3:the year.
Speaker 4:Matt got me an open
Speaker 5:Yesterday, I was looking at
Speaker 3:Oh, yeah. I did.
Speaker 5:Oh, those are kinda cool.
Speaker 4:Yeah. One of the really big ones. I had, like, a a glittery mushroom on it. I don't even remember what it said. Don't remember what it was for.
Speaker 4:Maybe happy Valentine's
Speaker 5:greeting cards yesterday, and I'm like, I ain't spending $7 on a card. I'd rather put that money towards a gift.
Speaker 4:Matt's grandmother gives you cards, but she writes a note and sticks it in the card instead of signing it. So then you can
Speaker 5:Oh,
Speaker 2:okay.
Speaker 5:Consider it.
Speaker 2:So it'll get a minimum of two uses.
Speaker 4:Yeah. So you can
Speaker 2:Unless you do the same thing and pass it on to the next person. So, basically, regifting in hallmark form.
Speaker 3:Right. But, like That's considerate.
Speaker 4:Yeah. It's a it's a here you go. You can reuse the card. Keep the note, and then use the card for yourself.
Speaker 2:I like when people do that with gift bags where they don't sign the tags so that I can just kind of put that away and use or I could just rip the tag off. One one of the two.
Speaker 4:Yeah. Oh,
Speaker 5:yeah. You know what's funny about this movie? You got two big greeting card companies in the movie. Right? And in reality, there are two big greeting card companies.
Speaker 4:Yes. All American American Greetings.
Speaker 5:Yeah. So it's funny that they had these two big companies.
Speaker 4:Yeah. They're like rivals. They're trying to kill this guy.
Speaker 5:They did
Speaker 4:kill a man. I love that he's like, how's your how's your novel going? Well, I've got three. Three three pages? Three chapters?
Speaker 4:No. Three words. Three.
Speaker 2:Like that one of the major companies is literally just named
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Which is how I feel every time I look at the greeting card aisle anyway. Yeah. I'm just
Speaker 5:Yeah. I'm looking at them, like, how are you paying $7 for a greeting card? I got my mom a watermelon slicer, not a greeting
Speaker 2:99¢ area every time. If I'm gonna buy a greeting card, it's like there's perfectly usable ones in the 99¢ area. Yeah. Don't even do that, but it
Speaker 5:was like card. I think Mother's Day, they only had, like, the marked up ones for, where at the supermarket I was at. And I wanted to get my sister-in-law a card because it's her first Mother's Day. By the way, Rachel, happy fake Hallmark holiday.
Speaker 3:Oh, thank you.
Speaker 2:So going back to the nameless supposedly racist guys in this film or the the
Speaker 4:the Reformed.
Speaker 2:Reformed racist guys in this film. They brought up a nice debate. What is the, worst area to get a paper cut, the p hole or the eyeball?
Speaker 5:You know, that's even so, Matt, I'm gonna
Speaker 3:Pee hole.
Speaker 5:I want Matt to answer this.
Speaker 3:Eyes closed, but you have to pee eventually.
Speaker 2:Oh, we alright. Okay. That's fair.
Speaker 3:Sting That's fair. Every time, multiple times a day, unless you really hold it. And then and then you get,
Speaker 2:you This is also where the name of that greeting card company comes in.
Speaker 3:The inspiration. Yeah. Yeah. So I
Speaker 5:So as me and Matt discuss, I'm gonna go with the the the pee hole. Yeah. Because we had a lot of discussion about that.
Speaker 2:I think it's gonna probably be unanimous because, I mean, you can close your eye. Just put a patch over it, be done. It'll heal after a while, but the first time you have to use the bathroom.
Speaker 4:Yep. Yeah. Know. Yep. I've sympathized.
Speaker 3:Well, I've
Speaker 5:come a long way in life. I can hold these pliers and not be afraid they're gonna pinch my dick.
Speaker 3:I'm lying.
Speaker 2:That's a lot of progress.
Speaker 4:That's that's
Speaker 5:I'm lying. I'm still afraid they're gonna pinch my dick. So and to be clear, it's not this part that scares me. It's this part. Matt, do you do you scares me.
Speaker 5:Agree about the bottom part being worse?
Speaker 3:Oh, yeah. Pinch point. The like, peer puncturing piercing bits. That's the scary part.
Speaker 2:Okay. You gotta get
Speaker 5:I I never thought I'd go I'd go throughout my life and meet another person who has an irrational fear of having his dick pinched by random tools. But, Matt, we found each other.
Speaker 2:Is it really irrational, though?
Speaker 5:So I'm glad you
Speaker 2:asked that. Think that's I think that's fairly rational to be afraid that something is going to injure you in a way that, yeah, that that would be a nightmare, period.
Speaker 5:It's an it's a legitimate fear. It's a legitimate fear, but it's an irrational phobia because why would me and Matt be walking through a hardware aisle with their dicks out and still somehow get pinched by one of the pliers?
Speaker 2:That's a good question. Why?
Speaker 4:Hopefully that answers your question.
Speaker 5:Yeah. Security, there's two pantsless guys in the in the pliers aisle.
Speaker 3:Brain that generates worst case scenarios is like, okay. What if a series of events happened and you got pantsed in the hardware aisle, and then like you stumbled against the shelf, and suddenly players coming at you. Just throwing themselves at you. It's possible. It could happen.
Speaker 2:You've never found yourself pantsless in the middle of the plier aisle after about half a bottle of tequila?
Speaker 3:Not on purpose.
Speaker 2:On It's
Speaker 3:not a no. It's not on purpose.
Speaker 2:Not on purpose.
Speaker 3:Not on purpose.
Speaker 4:The employees show up to tell you to put your pants on. You're like, ma'am, this is exposure therapy. Sorry. I'm I'm medically licensed. This is
Speaker 5:I think I I told you guys. I I went to an exposure therapy, like an ERP therapist for OCD, and I asked him, like I said, you know, I have a fear of getting my dick pinched by pliers. How would we, you know, do that in the therapy? And he goes, alright. Well, we go in the other room, and we would grab the pliers and put them near your dick.
Speaker 5:And each time we get closer and closer to your dick. I'm like, the therapist just said dick. But I didn't wanna ask him. Like, are my pants on in this scenario?
Speaker 3:Oh, boy.
Speaker 5:Are you in the room?
Speaker 3:Now now the therapist is gonna leave
Speaker 2:you alone in room
Speaker 3:with no pants and pliers.
Speaker 2:I don't have the irrational fear of pliers. I'll tell you that. But after this movie, I might be growing an irrational fear of being pantsless in the Hallmark aisle.
Speaker 5:I also love that this topic actually fits in. Like, it's not off topic this time. Last time, it was off topic. This time because we're talking about the you know, having a paper kit cut in your pee hole.
Speaker 2:You didn't have to reach for that dick joke at all. It's right there.
Speaker 4:It was right there.
Speaker 2:You. Part of the plot.
Speaker 5:Dick was right there. It's, like, right here. Like, right on my face. Like, right there.
Speaker 3:Just thrusting it at us. Uh-huh.
Speaker 4:I'm so happy to be present for this conversation.
Speaker 5:I also love that I have not been on this podcast in a year. And last time, I did, like, my magnum opus of trolling where I did when you we did top five worst movie moms, and I came on with only Catherine O'Hara roles. Then I proceeded to talk about Kevin Bacon's penis for an hour. And I got Dan to to be so disgusted that he just quit the call.
Speaker 2:I believe that's actually part of the name of the episode too. It's like, whatever. You have bad moms in Kevin Bacon's penis.
Speaker 3:Yeah. That was the that
Speaker 5:was the peak trolling. Like, nobody can ever top that type of trolling.
Speaker 2:It's too bad we didn't have video back then.
Speaker 5:Yeah. Oh, really?
Speaker 2:Yeah. Well, that just means that you gotta come on and do some serious trolling now that we have video.
Speaker 5:Mhmm. Yeah. I was trying to come up with something with it. I couldn't I did it. I did the the the the Michael the game, the Michael Douglas thing.
Speaker 5:That was my
Speaker 4:Yeah. Good opener. I thought, damn. I could've watched the game instead of this.
Speaker 2:Well, I mean, for about about five seconds, I was like, wait a minute. We didn't know. Did we? Yeah. And I I I don't know if you saw.
Speaker 2:I was going like, oh, yeah. No. No. We talked about this. He's he's he's he's doing a bit right now.
Speaker 3:Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 5:So I'd seen this movie four times. Once when I first saw it. Second time Me twice saw it. To well well, the second time was when I was I wanted to prove that that movie existed, and it did exist. Because I'm like, wait.
Speaker 5:Did that movie really exist? And I watched it again. I'm like, yeah. That movie existed. And the third time, because me and an ex were watching nobody, and I put that in as, like, our second movie to watch.
Speaker 5:We had, like, a little mini Bob Odegirk marathon. And then the fourth time was last night for this.
Speaker 2:I have watched it three times in three days.
Speaker 4:Wow.
Speaker 2:So the first time I watched it, I was not coherent enough to remember a damn thing about it because literally on Thursday, I was laid up fucking sick as hell. And then I watched it twice today.
Speaker 5:Were you working at school for
Speaker 2:it? Uh-huh.
Speaker 5:Yeah. Because I'm a teacher now, and I get sick all the time. It's brutal.
Speaker 2:I wait. You're a teacher?
Speaker 5:Yeah.
Speaker 3:I was waiting for it.
Speaker 2:I mean, are you what grade are you teaching?
Speaker 5:I'm certified k through 12. Okay. But I stick with the younger grades. I I prefer third.
Speaker 2:You're not teaching them the dick jokes, are you?
Speaker 5:Well, I I say pee pee and wee wee. I try to keep it, you know, politically correct.
Speaker 2:Okay. That's a yeah.
Speaker 5:There's a reason why I go by blunt Bob here, and then I go by mister k there. I don't want anybody putting the two together.
Speaker 4:No. No.
Speaker 2:I mean, it's out on the Internet eventually.
Speaker 5:People have tied blunt Bob with my actual name before, though. It's hard to keep them separate. And then people will, like, say my last name in, like, a post. Like, Blunt Bob. I'm not saying it.
Speaker 5:And then I'll be like, the point of Blunt Bob is so they don't know their last name. Why you put the two together? No.
Speaker 2:They're outing you.
Speaker 4:Yeah. Dancing you.
Speaker 5:I mean and that's what we we call compartmentalization. You know? Because I'm also a spiritual coach and a, you know, faith healer. So This
Speaker 2:person is not this person is not this person.
Speaker 5:We all have dimensions and levels.
Speaker 4:Layers like a parfait.
Speaker 5:An onion.
Speaker 4:Just granola and yogurt.
Speaker 2:Sorry. I have no layers. This dork was just a stork. So
Speaker 5:when I get a cup of yogurt and pour granola onto it, is it now a parfait?
Speaker 2:Yep. Yeah.
Speaker 4:Correct. It's better if you layer them. But if you just got two layers, there's still layers.
Speaker 5:That's true. I think the two always just go well together in yogurt. Granola's good in milk too.
Speaker 2:No onion.
Speaker 4:Dick jokes to parfait. Got everything today.
Speaker 5:Right. Well, and that's why, you know, I I think I'm departing Blunt Bob, because who I am now and who I was are really not the same. This is more of a performance, the man you see in front of you. But I wanna do the last monologue from American Psycho.
Speaker 3:Okay. Okay.
Speaker 5:That's what I was trying to get kinda getting at.
Speaker 4:How did this movie end? He's like Did it? To movie driver's ed.
Speaker 5:And he's He's writing in his garage. Again.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 2:That's that's the card that Shitfoot was digging for. It ended with smile from Shitfoot.
Speaker 4:Yeah. I just don't know where this character started and where he ended. He started unable to write cards. He finally deployed. And then he got fired, and then he burst on
Speaker 2:a girlfriend.
Speaker 3:With a hand lacer He had Anyway found hairless.
Speaker 2:The girlfriend found him. Yeah. Mhmm. Because she was paid to find him.
Speaker 3:Right.
Speaker 5:Yo. So here's a question. What did she really already have that tattoo, or did she get that tattoo to impress him? Oh, good point. Is that how dedicated she was to her character?
Speaker 2:Is it a real tattoo or a temporary one?
Speaker 5:Well, she said it don't wash off.
Speaker 4:Really long lasting. Some of the temporary
Speaker 5:Were they Yeah. They hang
Speaker 2:with each other long enough for him to see it washed off? Because they have, like, semi permanent, like, henna type tattoos that they put on.
Speaker 5:Well, also, it's a stupid fucking tattoo. It's the dumbest tattoo I've ever seen.
Speaker 4:Optimistic. Know. It's like getting Yeah.
Speaker 5:You all look. I see a fucking thing pissing on an owl on a billboard. I like that. Let me get that on my body for the rest of my life.
Speaker 2:I mean, I've seen people with the Calvin and Hobbs thing pissing on various things. Just Calvin Hobbs.
Speaker 5:People get that tattooed on. It's the same thing, really, if you think about it. Yeah. But right here?
Speaker 2:This world where instead of Right. Basically, instead of
Speaker 3:your forearm?
Speaker 2:People that do comic strips, the people that do greeting cards are that level of famous. So instead of Jim Davis, you got this guy. Yeah.
Speaker 4:That's true.
Speaker 5:Yeah.
Speaker 4:It's like having a famous artwork thing put on your
Speaker 2:So I think that's kind of the approach that they took is basically these greeting card writers are as famous as people that drew popular comic strips like the peanuts or so you have Charles Schulz Like a
Speaker 4:Simpson tattoo.
Speaker 2:Right. Yeah. So the owl is essentially Calvin pissing on something.
Speaker 4:It's still a dumb tattoo. The Calvin
Speaker 2:one is awesome.
Speaker 5:World, it was the same thing. It was the Calvin and Hobbs thing. I mean It's getting
Speaker 2:Calvin pissing on anything tattooed on you is just
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 2:At some point, you're gonna look in the mirror and go, that arm needs to come off. Yeah.
Speaker 4:I've made choices.
Speaker 3:Mean even worse if you can
Speaker 5:see it. Pretty much every tattoo I've gotten, put thought into.
Speaker 4:Mhmm. I mean, I'm gonna pay that much money, yeah, I'm gonna think it through.
Speaker 5:Not to mention the ones that are most visible, the ones people see the most. She had it right here.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Like, right on the forearm. There's no there's no covering that up unless you decide to basically just wear long sleeves for the rest your
Speaker 3:life.
Speaker 4:Where all my tattoos are. They're always out. I got my
Speaker 2:Or you can just be some weird person that wears a forearm sleeve.
Speaker 5:Yeah. I pretty much, like, ruin the chance of getting a sleeve by getting, like, just random tattoos throughout my arms.
Speaker 4:All of mine are circles. Every time I go, the tattoo artists are like, please stop.
Speaker 2:Literally all that I have. Oh, I can't even get it on the screen here.
Speaker 4:I can't turn. It's in there. It's in there.
Speaker 2:It's there. There it is. There you go. That's literally the only tattoo that I have.
Speaker 5:My girlfriend has the coolest tattoo ever. She has her name's Holly, and she has a holly leaf tattoo.
Speaker 3:That's good. It's broken.
Speaker 2:Any final words about this film?
Speaker 5:If my girlfriend has a holly leaf tattoo because her name's Holly, did I get a Bob Odenkirk tattoo?
Speaker 4:You could because your name's Bob.
Speaker 2:It's gonna be like one of those, like, life-sized, like, Bob Odenkirk's head on your back. You know?
Speaker 5:Like, Steve O has himself going like this.
Speaker 2:Right. Right.
Speaker 3:Right. So
Speaker 5:I I think this is a good movie. Do I think it's a great movie? No. But I think it's something worth watching for people that appreciate cinema because it's very experimental. It's very different.
Speaker 5:It's a satire, and it definitely speaks a lot more than what's on the surface. And I just love Bob Odenkirk as a writer and an actor.
Speaker 3:I really like tragic characters, and I appreciate that the this character had or this movie had the most tragic character ever, which is that poor cat. Poor cat.
Speaker 4:It's a joint custody cat. I don't wanna go.
Speaker 2:I mean, I've seen joint custody dogs before. Like, two people that love the dogs so much. Like, I I wanna have this dog at least part time, you know,
Speaker 4:different from a cat. Cats aren't, like Yeah. Movable. Once they're Well,
Speaker 5:he also didn't like the cat.
Speaker 4:No. He just didn't with his wife.
Speaker 3:Yeah. Yeah. Ex wife.
Speaker 2:It's like, I only wanted joint custody so that you didn't have full custody
Speaker 3:Right.
Speaker 2:Of the cat.
Speaker 5:That's okay. Too. Sorry. Go ahead.
Speaker 4:No. It's okay, Bob. I was just gonna say, this reminded me a lot of eat local or eat locals, which is another movie that was written by and starred the same guy. And it was really just like he called a bunch of his friends and were like, you wanna hang out for the weekend and make a movie? And they were like, sure.
Speaker 4:That's what this felt like because there were so many people
Speaker 5:in it
Speaker 4:that it felt like he was like, hey. I'm making a thing. You wanna be in it? And they were like, I'll I'll show up.
Speaker 3:Just for fun.
Speaker 5:Yeah. Josh Weeded did that with much ado about nothing.
Speaker 4:Yeah. Just Mhmm. Had fun.
Speaker 5:He's there.
Speaker 4:Didn't make it with, like, a market in mind just as, like, a I made a thing. It's gonna be cool. I think I wanna go ahead and make it and just see how it goes. That's what it feels like. And it was fun.
Speaker 4:I really liked the the idea of the greeting card as, like, the novelist, the whatever. Like, oh my god. Are you that guy who writes these greeting cards when nobody knows who writes a greeting card? Like, that's not our world at all.
Speaker 2:I will say that I really enjoyed this movie the first time that I watched it. The time that I was sick and I was incoherent and I couldn't really pay attention.
Speaker 3:Mhmm.
Speaker 2:Yeah. The second time I I I liked the movie. I won't say that I loved the movie. Bob Odenkirk carried me through the whole thing three times.
Speaker 4:Yeah. He was really good in it.
Speaker 2:Stacy Keach to a lesser extent. I really could have dealt with not having watched, what, Amber Timblin in this film several times. Yeah. It was a little painful.
Speaker 5:She's one of those actresses that I feel like they just keep trying to force down our throats, but we were never really asked for in the first place.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 5:Like like, she just shows up like, hey. You you you like Jeremy Renner? He's got a new show coming out with his Amber chick. Okay. That got canceled.
Speaker 5:No good. And then they're like, hey. You you like you like the show House? Yeah. I like House.
Speaker 5:Well, that Amber chick's gonna be on House. Okay. For how long? She's already off the show. You're good.
Speaker 5:Okay. And like, hey. You like two and a half men? Not really. And like, yeah.
Speaker 5:What the we got rid of the half a man, so now we're gonna have that Amber chick play a lesbian and call her the half a man. Okay. What?
Speaker 4:So, like, a slightly less successful version of Jared Leto. Leto.
Speaker 5:Yeah. I don't know. Everybody hates him now, but there was a time everybody loved him.
Speaker 4:No. There was never a time that I loved him.
Speaker 2:There was a time where the I wanna say back when he was in my so called life.
Speaker 4:He's good in pre. Deep prefontein. That's the only role I've ever enjoyed
Speaker 3:in mister nobody.
Speaker 4:Mister nobody. That wasn't yeah.
Speaker 2:I heard that. I wanna He's got his pretty face fucked up beyond all recognition.
Speaker 4:Oh, I can
Speaker 5:come You're right. Mhmm. I wanted to destroy something beautiful. I mean, you got that. You got Requiem for a Dream.
Speaker 5:You got American Psycho, like Fight Club. I mean
Speaker 2:Requiem for a Dream, he was really good in.
Speaker 5:The movie where he played Nicolas Cage's brother, was really good in. War of war war of lore lord war, war of lord of war.
Speaker 2:So you're naming a lot of movies that are good, but not because of him.
Speaker 5:Panic Room. Like, they
Speaker 2:were good movies that happened to have him in it.
Speaker 4:I think he was in a lot of good movies, and now because they were like, oh, he's the star. We'll make him the reason for the movie, and he can't carry a movie, and we won't stop fucking casting him and shit.
Speaker 5:What about Dallas Buyers Club?
Speaker 2:Okay. I'll give you that one. I'll give you that one.
Speaker 5:And what about Morbius?
Speaker 2:You didn't like him in Daryl Spires Club.
Speaker 4:Morbius is a better movie if you pretend that he and Matt Smith are the love interest. Forget the girl who couldn't can't act her way out of a paper bag.
Speaker 5:Oh, I
Speaker 4:love She's also in good omens, and I never like her.
Speaker 5:Okay. So explain to me how he constantly says throughout the movie. I'm doing the wicked witch of the East, bro. He constantly says, I can't drink blood. If I drink blood, I'll be a monster like him.
Speaker 5:I can't kill anybody. You killed nine people in the first scene, bro.
Speaker 4:Yeah. Right. Already.
Speaker 2:Okay. I'm guessing he can't kill anybody by drinking their blood.
Speaker 4:He can't do more. He's done enough. Can't go any further. Could you
Speaker 2:drink the waste to them in a different way is apparently that that line that he can cross. It's like, can't drink the blood, but I can completely and utterly decapitate you or whatever. You know?
Speaker 4:It's Mhmm. It's different.
Speaker 3:As long as I don't lick my fingers. Exactly.
Speaker 5:I think I'm gonna be doing a Morbius parody in my because I'm doing one last film project before I'm officially retired, and I think I wanna have a scene where there's all these different vampires there. Like, Lestat type vampire and, like and I wanna I wanna have a Morbius character. I might call him, like, Bormius, but I wanna have him say it's Bormon time.
Speaker 3:Nice. That's fair.
Speaker 4:Oh, god.
Speaker 2:I'd watch that.
Speaker 4:I waited so long for that movie. It was
Speaker 2:so involved in this other project lately too. What what have you been doing lately?
Speaker 5:Not really. Nothing.
Speaker 2:I thought you were involved with the, movie that, Matt and
Speaker 5:I'm doing Daisy Durkin's five. Not really. Right. Because I co wrote it. No.
Speaker 5:We do that I did a short with him, like, two years ago.
Speaker 2:Okay. So for some reason, I thought that you were involved in the recent project that, Dan and Brett were involved in.
Speaker 5:No. Well, a part of it was the short like, they're they're they're using the short we did as part of it.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay.
Speaker 5:But, yeah, I'm doing Daisy Durkins five, which is, like, the one we've been putting together for a while because every movie, we've had a different actors actors play Daisy Durkins. So we're finally doing a multiverse movie and having multiple Daisy Durkins.
Speaker 2:I've gotta go watch that. I've had I've had that, like I had something sitting aside over here. I'm not gonna take the time. I'll I'm
Speaker 4:It's somewhere around.
Speaker 2:I would literally have to Mike, if you look if you were to see everything outside of the blur right now, you would be mortified by the just pile of trash behind me because I've been sick for about four days, and the wife has been laid up, and there has been no cleaning getting done in this house at all. So it's nothing.
Speaker 5:Yeah. In regards in regards to my future, though, there are no barriers to cross. All I have in common with the uncontrollable and the insane, the vicious and the evil, all the mayhem I have caused and my utter indifference toward it, I have now surpassed. My pain is constant and sharp, and I do not hope for a better world for anyone. In fact, I want my pain to be inflicted onto others.
Speaker 5:I want no one to escape. But even after admitting this, there is no catharsis. My punishment continues to elude me, and I gain no deeper knowledge of myself. No new knowledge can be extracted from my telling. This confession has meant nothing.
Speaker 5:Do you like Huey Lewis and the news?
Speaker 4:It's been a long time since I've seen American Psycho.
Speaker 5:The early work was a little too new way for my taste, but when sports came out in '83, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear crisp sound and a new sheen of consummate professionalism, that really gives the songs a big boost. He's been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a more far more bitter cynical sense of humor. In '87, Huey released four, their most accomplished album. I think their undistributed masterpiece is hip to be square, a song so catchy, most people probably don't listen to the lyrics, but they should.
Speaker 5:Because it's not just about the pleasures of conformity and the importance of trends. It's also a personal statement about the band itself. Hey, Paul.
Speaker 2:I was gonna say, are we doing a table reading now of Yes. American Psycho?
Speaker 5:Alex is working on
Speaker 3:a new
Speaker 5:Patrick Peyton. Adaptation.
Speaker 4:Yeah. But are they gonna reboot American Psycho two colon All American Girl?
Speaker 5:Yo. So that movie had nothing to do with it, and they had to do a rewrite to make it a sequel. And, like, they pissed off the writer because they made Patrick Bateman actually a killer in it, which is supposed to be up to up for interpretation.
Speaker 4:Yeah. Well, he's only in the opening, and it's just like yeah.
Speaker 3:He's not even on screen right now.
Speaker 5:Yeah. But they mention him throughout the movie. Okay.
Speaker 2:Yeah. If you were to make a sequel in movie that we just watched, how do you think it should proceed?
Speaker 5:Boyfriend's Day.
Speaker 2:Boyfriend's Day?
Speaker 3:Boyfriend's Day is the title. What's the concept?
Speaker 4:How about somebody opens an e greeting card company? And it's like a rival e greeting card company. It's gonna put out
Speaker 3:using AI to generate e greeting cards?
Speaker 5:Does the Internet exist in this world?
Speaker 2:I don't think it does.
Speaker 4:Oh, he's on a vibrator when he writes his stuff.
Speaker 2:Jibjab is not part of this world here.
Speaker 3:Recall anybody
Speaker 4:No. I don't
Speaker 3:using a cell phone.
Speaker 4:Mm-mm.
Speaker 2:No. Actually, no.
Speaker 4:Time.
Speaker 2:Now that I think about it.
Speaker 5:I really wanna know why bum fights, like or how it really tied into it. Because when they finally ask him, he goes, it comes me for some reason.
Speaker 4:I don't know. I watch reality shows for the same reason.
Speaker 2:There's certain, like, YouTube influencers that I think if they just just one bad step and they would be in bum fights territory.
Speaker 4:Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Mister have a few off the top of my head. Mister Beast. Yeah. I was gonna say, I can have a few off the top of my head.
Speaker 4:He was gonna do that thing where he was gonna lock somebody in their house for, like, months to see if how long they could stay in their house.
Speaker 2:I mean, that Squid Games rip off that he did was essentially bum fights. I mean
Speaker 4:You're not really allowed to do that. And he was like, oh, okay. I mean, I don't So poor people.
Speaker 5:There's a meme that goes around that says, at least once a month, I randomly remember that doctor Phil once invited the creator of bum fight the bum fights videos series on his show to confront him about exploiting vulnerable people for financial gain, only for him to show up dressed up as doctor Phil and point out that he does the exact same thing.
Speaker 4:He's not wrong.
Speaker 2:No. I mean, I
Speaker 5:At least he's self aware.
Speaker 2:Yeah. I don't think Phil is.
Speaker 3:Committed to the vet.
Speaker 4:Oh, no.
Speaker 5:No. I mean, the bum bites guy.
Speaker 2:I'm not gonna give I'm not gonna give Phil the doctor part. Just Phil.
Speaker 4:Just Phil.
Speaker 2:Just hey, Phil.
Speaker 3:Mister Phil.
Speaker 2:Mister Phil.
Speaker 4:Phil, sir. Mister TV doctor.
Speaker 2:Because I I don't feel I don't feel like there's anything about him that I mean, does he have a doctorate in anything?
Speaker 4:I mean, I'll
Speaker 5:tell you. He's got a he went to a school that, like, anybody can get into.
Speaker 2:Did he get his doctorate just like TV judges get their judgeship?
Speaker 4:Probably.
Speaker 5:Yeah. I think he's, like, an honorary doctor. Let's see. I'm gonna look him up. He went to, Midwestern State University for his BA and then got a PhD and a master's and a PhD at North Texas State University.
Speaker 4:Oh, so he is a doctor.
Speaker 2:Oh. A lot
Speaker 4:of times you can't. It's kinda like a barber pole. You can't put a barber pole up
Speaker 2:front. Maybe I'm mistaking him with doctor Oz who does not have.
Speaker 5:Wait. Doctor Oz doesn't?
Speaker 2:No. I don't believe doctor Oz is an actual doctor.
Speaker 3:Do. I think he used to have a medical license.
Speaker 5:Doctor Phil has a PhD in clinical psychology. He has a master's in experimental psychology, and a BA in just psychology.
Speaker 2:That he meets on television. Mhmm.
Speaker 5:He did a year of postdoctoral training in forensic psychology.
Speaker 4:Wow.
Speaker 5:Let's see a doc I always see doctor Oz in Scrubs, though. Mehmet Oz, also known as Doctor. Oz. So it doesn't say wait. Oh, yeah.
Speaker 5:He's I forgot. He has an MBA. An MBA? Yeah.
Speaker 2:In what?
Speaker 5:It says MD, MBA. Wait. He does have an m is it MD? MD?
Speaker 2:That's what I'm wondering.
Speaker 5:Motherfucker told me that if I pluck my nose hairs, I'm gonna fucking die.
Speaker 4:Oh, your brain will leak out.
Speaker 2:The heart surgeon turned TV show host. So he was a heart surgeon, the doctor of medicine. Okay. Now I'm trying to figure out who the doctor was that I'm thinking of. Maybe I'm mistaking him for somebody.
Speaker 2:There was a person that went by doctor whatever on TV that did not have a doctorate of any sort, just kinda used it as a name.
Speaker 3:Doctor Pepper.
Speaker 2:No. And it's not doctor who either.
Speaker 5:Doctor Pepper really, doctor?
Speaker 4:No. Never seen that dude's medical
Speaker 2:like doctor Doom. No. This is his new idea.
Speaker 4:Doesn't make any false claims.
Speaker 2:Mister Pibb is actually a woman.
Speaker 4:My own joke.
Speaker 5:The Pringles guy went bald.
Speaker 3:Doctor Pepper. That's why the doctor isn't followed by a period because it's not Is
Speaker 2:that an actual doctor?
Speaker 4:It's not an abbreviation.
Speaker 3:Mhmm. Yeah.
Speaker 5:The Pringles guy lost his hair and that glimmer in his eye, and so did I.
Speaker 4:And spicy barbecue, which my daughter was.
Speaker 2:The Pringles guy was actually he he was buried. He was cremated and buried in a Pringles can.
Speaker 5:Really?
Speaker 4:We went to a memorial service last weekend from one of Matt's relatives. Two
Speaker 3:weeks ago?
Speaker 4:Two weeks ago? I don't know. So he they had the his relatives' ashes and, like, it looked like a Pringle can. So his sister pulled the top off and went, once you pop, the fun don't stop.
Speaker 3:I missed that part.
Speaker 4:Right before they went to spread his ashes, she was like, once once you pop, the fun don't stop.
Speaker 2:Was a terrible joke that I
Speaker 5:heard in
Speaker 2:passing that I I can't accredit to anybody off the top of my head, but just if if I pass away, literally, all I want people to do is I wanna be cremated, and I'm gonna have a list of my enemies. And I'm going to have you invite them to a party with the intent of giving away something, whatever. You can make up whatever the hell you want, whatever gets them all into one room. And then I want there to be breakfast, bagels, all sorts of served, everything. I want you to take my ashes and put them in the coffee filter.
Speaker 2:Gross. That's my one wish. It is gross, but it'll be gross for the people that I don't like.
Speaker 4:Right. Yeah. It's your enemy.
Speaker 2:Right. Like all the people that have slighted me.
Speaker 4:I want a reenactment of the scene from the big Lebowski shore and try to throw his ashes and they just blow back on them.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 4:Damn it, Don.
Speaker 5:I think it's a fucking travesty with you, Walter.
Speaker 2:Alright. I think we've kinda winded wound down about this movie. We probably winded, wound. Yeah. No.
Speaker 5:You got to tell a joke. Can I tell a joke?
Speaker 2:Sure. Tell a joke.
Speaker 5:What's brown and sticky?
Speaker 3:A stick.
Speaker 2:Please don't tell a joke.
Speaker 5:A Velcro turd.
Speaker 4:That was
Speaker 2:not I mean
Speaker 3:what I was expecting.
Speaker 2:That's accurate. Oh, and and then he tells the joke and then just disappears. Like, I'm gonna leave you with that. Well, I was gonna give him a chance to kinda talk about himself for a second, but he can end that way if that's what he wants to
Speaker 4:do. Sure.
Speaker 3:He's ending that part of his life.
Speaker 2:Right. Mhmm. Well, thank you for showing up for this movie.
Speaker 4:You're welcome.
Speaker 2:Yeah. This is interesting. Netflix. I again, I apologize. I I'm sorry deeply.
Speaker 2:That being said, why don't you go ahead and tell people where they can find your podcast?
Speaker 4:Sure. Well, we're the Strange and Beautiful Book Club, which is monthly. Right now, we're finishing up the Dark Tower series. And we're also doing We Are All Akash every week, which is a Babylon five rewatch, and that comes out every Monday ish. Ish.
Speaker 4:That's pretty much what we're up to right now.
Speaker 2:I I acknowledge that with a smile because you're you're talking about a book series that I've actually read. So I'm I'm, like, fully involved with listening to that one. Yeah.
Speaker 4:Yeah. I did not like the fourth one, so that was a fun episode to record.
Speaker 2:You have gotten me to read a few books. That's that's good too.
Speaker 4:That's good. Yeah.
Speaker 2:I listen to a lot at work now because now I work evenings, and there's literally nobody around. So I can put the earbuds in, and nobody is like, hey, you're not listening.
Speaker 4:Nice.
Speaker 2:You can't do that during the day because you have to hear the the walkie talkie every time it goes off. So I work in a school and I I clean up after children, which also leads to illnesses.
Speaker 5:I'm sure. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Illnesses. Oh, I the school I'm working in right now is like k through eight. And, yeah. I mean, kindergarteners, don't know how to aim. Let them know not to pick their nose and wipe it on the desk.
Speaker 2:So but I like kids. Mine.
Speaker 3:Yeah. Mine specifically.
Speaker 2:Mine specific. And our podcast, you can find pretty much where any podcasts are available. We're on YouTube. And we have a pop. He hasn't even let us log off yet.
Speaker 2:And he's asking if it was a good good mic drop. Was that a good mic drop? Yes, Bob. Thank you. It was a good mic drop.
Speaker 2:It was an interesting joke to go out on. I I wouldn't even know where to go from there.
Speaker 4:It's fine. We just leave it, I think.
Speaker 2:We'll just leave that. So on behalf of myself, Matt, and Rachel, thank you for tuning in today, and drink some water, you thirsty bitches.
Speaker 4:Bye. Bye.
