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be yesterday right after our show. And did the Golden Globe nominations dropped?
And I don't know. I'm a I'm an award show guy kind of watching
the Tony Awards very often, hmm. But I like all this stuff mainly
because I like to watch TV shows. I mean I don't I can.
I don't do it as much as they used to, But I like all
this stuff. I like watching the Grammys. I like watching the Emmys.
I still do like watching the Academy Awards for the most part. That's more
of a zoom threugh thing for me, usually because there's just so many categories.
So Golden goes a little different Hollywood four and Press and it's they're a
little more drunkie, so they they definitely take on a more boozy vibe for
sure, a little more boozy. Yeah, the outfits are a little more
you know, cleavy, a little more cleavy for the ladies. Yep,
for sure. They still have that whole booms an ass hot hot hot.
They still have that whole aura of taking themselves too seriously. That's still is
the thing that's Hollywood, though it's their little party. Let them do what
they want. It's their ticket stock, so let's and it's our I don't
even know. Think about the Oscars rift by right, and if rift,
I'm I'm right there with you on the Oscars because if I my favorite way
to watch the Oscars is to make sure it's added to my library. And
if it starts at seven, I like to pop in at about eight fifteen.
That way I can end about the same time it does, and I
get to skip through not only the commercials, but man the ninety second to
two and a half minute preview of the film, like they run pretty much
the entire theatrical trailer for every film at some point, and then there's a
lot of fluff. I just zip through to the awards that are relevant to
me. If the speech, if it's good, I'll stick with it.
If not, skip past, I'll watch all the bits. Whoever's hosting,
usually it's Kimmel, you know, or Letterman or Tina Fey or whoever's doing
it. Whatever, I'll watch that stuff, but man to sit there for
three and a half hours and take that thing in in real time with commercials.
I don't know how people do it. Why you drink? Yeah,
I guess you drink and you yeah, I do a I pick predictions every
year of like ten categories, and then if I lose it, I take
a shot. Oh my god, kind of shaper you in the next day
if you suck. Wellately, I've been pretty good, so maybe one or
two shots. That's not bad. But I'm drinking throughout the show anyway,
so the kids do not suck. Have you ever gone to an Oscar watching
party? Not me? Okay, okay, like at it at the house.
I just invite a couple of my friends and we just snack out drink.
Like I said, I do have my predictions of like ten categories,
so yeah, you get a good, big turnout. It's usually like three
or four of us, okay, and yeah, it's usually time. Well,
obviously I bring that up because I have a story to tell. It's
a brief, but one year, probably in two thousand and two or three,
I got drugged by a couple of girlfriends, like girls that are friends
of mine to the round Up. Oh wow, Now the Roundup is a
bar in Oaklawn. Yeah lbg LGBT. Okay, yeah, it's awesome.
It's super fun. But they had drag drag Queen hosted Oscar watching party and
it was so much damn fun. That place is a party. Yeah,
it was really really cool, had a good time. And that's only like
Oscar watching party that I've ever been to was one with a full drag show.
Let's just have one up here. Let's have a big slumber party.
No, don't go to work and have a party. Oh it's terrible idea.
Let's have a slumber drag party. We gotta be up the next day
is the problem. That thing airs on Sunday nights. But I like to
go the Gloves Up because Ricky Gervase made it fun. Tina Fe and Amy
Poehler made it fun over the years. They go in and they kind of
do some roasting and things like that. You know, there's an hour.
Oh now you're kind of one of us. What's not like too serious?
Still a little bit, but best motion picture for a drama. Okay,
first of all, I've got bigger problems. We nominate too many. Okay,
it's become kind of a participation war. We need to get an air
down to five at each category. It needs to be five. Okay,
it is five, right, these are six the oscars. Famously, we'll
do ten years ago. We can't nominate everybody, which I kind of like,
I kind of like because now they give it's like foreign films a chance.
Yeah, you know, it's you know, obviously there's one winner,
but I think that opens it up more for you know, diversity. Yes,
it's also opens it up for five dudes that know they're not gonna win,
that have to go get fitted for a tuxedo. Really, you nominated,
there's no chance. I have no chance. But now I got to
show up with this thing, and they get the gift bag though with the
with the vacation and yeah j Ski in a car or something, and the
and the thing that shaves your pubes, the manscape. They just give that
thing to their nephew. Anyway, it's more high end than manscaped, if
there is such a thing. Manscaped. Going to get back on board with
KT. It's been about five or six years. Oh, Deer, Remember
the Good Old Days? Oh Boy, the Best motion picture Drama, Anatomy
of a Fall, JJ Foreign, Killers of the Flower Moon. We know
Maestro which has not dropped yet, that drops around Christmas. I think,
yeah, and that's on Netflix. It will be on Netflix too the same
day or like a couple of weeks after the theatrical release. Are they Netflix
the same day? I think some of these movies do that, Like Killers
of the Flower Moon is actually an Apple Apple produced it, but it went
to theaters, but you're gonna find it on Apple TV. I think like
next in the beginning of next year, Oppenheimer Past Lives is that the one
with no No No. I love that movie and that might actually make my
top What's Past Lives? It's a it's a little it's a film about a
couple that grew up together and one moved away to America, and it's just
like about I think I spoke about it the old Yeah, about a relationship
that could have been. So you're following these two people in different parts of
their lives, like the girl she's married now, but they had like a
connection, but they never were ever together. So you're just following these two
throughout the years and you're just seeing like what could have happened, what could
have been? And they it's a foreign film and yeah, so he comes
to America and visits her and they're having this conversation. It's it's so simply
done, but it's beautiful and at the end, I loved the end of
it, and because it just wrapped it up. I love this movie and
I'm so happy that it's getting recognition and it might actually make my list.
It's a real like dialogue driven Okay, it sounds kind of like what was
the Ethan Hawk Julie Delpy movie before Sunrise that came out a long ass time
ago. Richard Link later did it. It's really good and he did follow
ups on it. Kind of. It sounds kind of like that. At
the end, does she see him and he's all like, Harry, he's
a very good and she realizes that the last forty years of her just imagining
that she should be with someone else, and she's like, oh God,
I'm glad I didn't do that. It's spent the last forty years getting wallowed
on by Smoky Bear. She's like, only you can make me. Yeah,
because she's like living in New York. She's married, Spoky the Bear.
I'm sorry, no, Yeah, she's like living in New York and
she's married. He's aware of him, and it's it's really interesting because I
think we've all been there in our in the point of our lives of like
thinking, what could have no regrets? Yeah, no regrets. What's the
zone of interest that I don't know? Ye that may never trauma? Okay,
best emotion picture, musical or comedy. Just split him up, Barbie.
Yeah, the shoe, Jordan's shoe. You know what, I didn't
hate it. I did not hate that. Ben Athletic, right. Yeah.
American fiction, so that comes out this weekend? Are them? Yeah,
because it's that because they've all seen them, though the Hollywood foreign press
has already seen him. That's the one with Jeffrey Wright. Mm hmm,
you know yeah, yeah, of course. Yeah. So he's like an
author and he's writing this book about I haven't seen yet, but he's writing
this book and he's playing like I'm this black character of hoof, you know,
just put on this big persona basically what America loves about I guess black
stories, and he's selling them. He's feeling like a frog kind of like,
and it's a comedy. I'm excited to see it. I am because
I'm a big fan of Jeffrey Wright and his work, and I think Ray
is in it. Yeah. Yeah, there's a few people call Domingo,
who's just killing it this year. He's on this nomination list. Barbie of
course, The Holdovers. Uh oh, Paul Giamani, Okay, that's out
right now. May December. I've been seeing a lot about May December,
Natalie Portman and Julian Moore Netflix, and people are saying, people are saying,
one of those movies shouldn't be a comedy. Shouldn't be a comedy.
But that's what they've done. They've watered down Hollywood. You're getting better at
that. I'm trying to do really well. Have you been practicing? Yeah,
I've been practicing. James Austin Johnson's Trump So uh, May de simber
and the idea is Natalie Portman is following Julian Moore around because she's going to
be playing her can a role in something Okay, and apparently though it's super
dramatic and shouldn't be a comedy. I haven't seen it yet. They I
put on watching it soon though. Apparently it's like this movie will destroy you.
That's some brief reviews I've read about this thing, you know what's about,
right? Not really? So you remember that teacher that slept with her
student that seventh grade it was like like a major like that so many I
know. I think it was like the nineties, okay or early two thousands.
He was like seventh grader and then she you know, she up marrying
him later yeah, okay, when he got like eighteen, they had a
kid and everything, because I think she got pregnant he was like in eighth
grade. So the name Mary kay Laturno comes to mind, Yes, Mary
Kayla La Turner. So Natalie Portman is following that like that's technically playing yes
all right. And the kid that is his name is Charles Milton. I
think that's his acting. That's his name from what was that c W show
Riverdale, Riverdale, and apparently he's really good. They're really giving him props
for this role. Poor things. Is the Emma Stone one that looks like
Alice in Wonderland or something, h yourgos lethemost I think is the director's name
from the commercial. And then of course all there's a bunch of animated movies
we talk about much, but Spider Man and uh Spider Man and Super Mario
and maybe the ones you might know there. Okay, so TV Danny,
well, you know what do you like? Actors? Do you like actors?
Yeah? Run him real quick, and then we'll get into television Bradley
Cooper, Maestro, Leo and Killers of the Flower Moon Coleman, Domingo and
Rustin, Barry Kiogan and Saltburn. Yes, Killian Murphy and Oppenheimer and Andrew
Scott and all of us strangers. That's a very good category. And then
uh, female for drama, Annette Benning, Lily Gladstone yep, Killers of
the Pharre Moon, Sandra Holler, Anatomy Fall, Grettily past Laves, Carrie
Mulligan and Maestro She's Great and everything, and Kaylee Spainey and Priscilla yep.
Priscilla did not get nominated. Ouch. I still haven't seen that. I
think it's probably left now. Huh. Maybe that's gonna be a movie where
it's going to probably be her and her alone getting recognition, not necessarily the
wh movie that happens. And the comedies Emma Stone, Margot Robbie, Natalie
Portman, Jennifer Lawrence. All out was shocked on that men Nicholas Cage,
Timothy Shallow, may Is Wonka, Matt Damon and Air, Paul Giamatti,
Joaquin Phoenix and not Napoleon though from bo Is Afraid, which I've never and
then Jeffrey Wright, h well, that's the Yeah, that's the musical comedy.
I think you would like dream scenario with Nicholas Cage very good. He's
very You had me Nicholas Cage, Yes, probably one of my favorite performances
from him. He has under the radar made I don't know if you want
to call it a comeback, but he's kind of retrenched himself as like not
con Air guy or the guy that's trying to have sex with the Constitution.
And they get started with Pig Pig, which I loved. I never took
him serious as an act. I really never did. He used to be
and then you know he had that string of kind of pseudo action based off
kicks Off's good. Yeah it's not, but I'm talking. But like Pig
had that weird, unexpected, surprising tale that had a real indie film vibe
to it, which kind of You know, actors love having those little notches
on their belt, you know. And I thought that was a great film,
and I'm glad to hear that. God bless, I got something in
my throat that he's continuing that trend. That's cool. I'm a cat.
I'm a cat. That's my Nicholas Cage. It's good if you were to
play the role of a cat. That's what cats say. Oh, I'm
a cat. Yeah. I don't have much more to that. You know,
you don't invite your TV drama. How many of these has Danny seen?
I'm gonna say two, nineteen twenty three, Paramount Plus, Yes,
that's Yellowstone. Yeah, Preak, it's a preaky. The Crown, yep,
Yes, The Diplomat on Netflix, The Last of Us. Yes,
The Morning Show. I don't have appy. I would like to just tell
everyone, as I'm halfway through season three of the Morning Show. Yes,
John Ham and Jennifer Aniston do have sex. They Yeah, Okay. I
finished the season, but I don't love the season. I'm sitting here going
it, yeah, bored with it. I think this is it, isn't
it? It probably should be finished. Probably put that thing out the pasture.
He was fun in the good days and the succession. I saw more
than you said I would see. What about for comedy? I think two
Okay, Abvid Elementary, which everyone says is very good. Eye show you
my girlfriend fiance now Jesus uh watches that, so it's great. Network,
it's ABC, but it's got the you know, parks and rec and office
tone and it's so good. Okay, very well written. Went to Brunson
is killing it. Okay, very fun of it, Barry yep. Of
course, hard to call that a comedy the bear, of course, hard
to call that a comedy. Jury Duty tried to which that's the thing.
I hate, Soroy like that. I didn't love it. I think Jeff
liked that. Yeah, it's exhausting. That's the thing is it's a that
comes across as more like a reality show than in a way yeah, because
you've got everybody on the set is an actor except one person, and they
are unsuspectingly living in this false reality of being on a jury. Yeah for
a fictional everything's fiction in it, but they are not in on the joke,
and they just keep introducing weird twists and an oddball character is into the
mix and this person on the jury duty is just looking around, going man
the world and my living in So in theory, it's good, but it
didn't click with me. It just felt like, this is a this is
complicated. I don't know, it's it creates a level of stress that I'm
not interested in. Only Murders in the Building yep, which they're now airing
on ABC. They're taking a page out of CBS's books. CBS is like,
well, we'll writer strike, We'll just grab Yellowstone. Yeah, started
season one and now ABC is doing that, and I think we're going to
see this. Networks's going to keep doing this because it's cheaper for them to
buy a show from one of their partners on the streaming platforms than it is
to create their own thing. And it's all going to end up watered down
eventually. Yeah, of course I'm watching only murders. Who's getting top billing
on that? Selena Gomez and she puts makeup on, yes, and that
one Paul Rudden that in the last season. Apparently I haven't finished the last
season. I've made it through about three episodes because there's just because I started
subscribing to britt Box, Ted Lasso made it too more at eight in my
Top ten TV shows of the year ten less It's not gonna make it,
by the way, just you know, kind of kind of bad season.
I think they did the whole limited thing though, too, right, the
what the limited series thing? You know, last year winner was a white
lotus you know, want a ton At the Emmys, Fargo is nominated,
really and tonight is episode five of a ten episode Fargo season, so you
know, these people have all seen it. So boy talking about you mentioned
John Ham earlier. How awesome is his character the little hard man for hard
time dude. The idio, the idiosyncrasies that that franchise adds on to their
characters just to give them the most unexpected quirks is so brilliant. They're doing
such a great job carrying the Cohen brother torch. Yeah, from their villains
to their protagonists, all of it. It's just in the tone. I
mean, the fact that, okay, the fact that John Ham plays this
kind of militia leader but elected sheriff of this small community that is really hard,
right and mean. But he's pierce nipples, but he smokes pot and
has pierce nipples kind of wild. He's got a what crazy sex scenario going
on too? Yeah, like a wife that's half his age that when he's
lying in bed smoking his note with his pierced nips hanging out on top of
the sheet, she walks in and opens up the chest at the foot of
the bed and goes, what's it going to be tonight, daddy. Well
they've made it too though for season five, a little more horror and it
feels like I'm watching but at times, at times, well, I mean,
it's always had a little bit of that mystery, and I think it's
because the key scene in the most recent episode happened on Halloween night, sure,
okay, and costumes and there's a home invasion and boy, it's good
man. I don't know if it's my favorite, but it's back to back
to its best form. It's I mean, to me, it's got a
chance. Yeah, gonna be so hard to top season two, but like,
it's got such a chance because it's sucked off to a great start.
I'm such a fan of John Hamlough ever since mad Men, and I just
I think this character is just great for him. MAVs Lakers tonight at six
thirty. That game will get over about nine month flip on Fargo and then
go to bed. Now it drops on Hulu tomorrow. Really, I think
it's Wednesday, so it's one Network Effects on Tuesdays and then Hulu obtains it,
I think the next day. So I don't mind the nine o'clock I
mean i'd like to not, just given how early we have to get up
at the nine o'clock TV show, I don't mind sitting through commercials there because
I can get up, lay out my clothes for the next day, or
brush my teeth during the break, get ready for bed during those little three
minute commercials. Have a wake, Yeah, have a wake if you want
everybody join in. If you had to do that before the next break because
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