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Not more than twenty minutes ago.
I was on my way here, yeah,

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to record this very episode. I
was in a car. Uh huh.

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I just want everyone to know that
Eric's face right now, I know

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something good is coming. She almost
can't like get the words out. I

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was in a car on my way
here and Brooklyn, Brooklyn, Brooklyn,

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Brooklyn heard okay, Brooklyn got so
Brooklyn. We kind of stopped at a

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stoplight and there was a building next
door that next to us that had a

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had like little tiny, almost Juliette
balconies. It's like a person could put

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like a chair okay, and that's
it kind of balcony and sit out there

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and it's overlooking like a highways.
It's not like so no one's on their

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balconies because why except for one woman
woman and the balconies. I forgot to

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mention this is crucial. The balconies
are like plexiglass. Okay, see through

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right from underneath as well as from
the side. Were now drawing a picture

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in my head. Girlfriend was airing
out her who like, no, so

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wait, so paint me a picture. She's she's she's spread eagld with with

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with with vulva to the son.
She is on the chair, just sitting

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on the chair kind of like like
on a stool legs akimbo okay, wearing

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a dress so like if you saw
her from this, you know, from

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like eye level, you wouldn't notice
anything. But because I'm underneath her in

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a car looking up, at first, I was like, she's wearing black

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underwear. And then I just kept
going and then I was like, nope,

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no, no, no, that's
a more natural covering. That is

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I'm seeing her pubic hair. Girlfriend
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flat Bush Avenue in America, And
this is that aged well, yesterday's pop

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culture. Today we are. We're
in the midst of action July Erica.

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It's summer. It's time for big, fun, dumb movies and shove popcorn

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in your face while you watch absolutely
people blow things up and get a hot

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dog with the works, yes,
while someone screams at someone else. Get

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down a cup with frankly too much
soda. Go to one of those machines

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where you can go to like you
can get a soda, whatever soda you

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want, and just go to fucking
town. You make yourself a Long Island

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iced tea. Of fantas. Absolutely, buy different flavors, buy the popcorn,

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but bring your own eminems to shove
in there, as you just really

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you should feel sick, physically ill
from the amount of sugar you've eaten after

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you leave the cinema to the go
to the the quote unquote butter dispenser and

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just glop that splooge all over your
popcorn. And when you say, as

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you say full voice, I'll make
you my bitch to the that's summer.

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That's what that's summer is. Yeah, what summer means to me? A

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poem by Paul and Erica. Erica, we have a five star Apple podcast

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comes from AARs underscore sci Ours SI
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nostalgic. Is the title. Ah, I'm a new listener as I recently

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learned of this podcast from a date
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Yeah, thank you again, Kimberly
and Katie. I've recently been going through

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several of my eighties and nineties favorites. I also really enjoyed the Wizard of

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Oz and Sunset Boulevard episodes. Yay, two of my favorites, two of

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my favorites. Oh, ladies and
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to be said a lot. If
you haven't seen Sunset Boulevard, do yourself

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a favor. Yeah, and you've
all seen Wizard of Oz. So if

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you haven't listened to our episode on
it, it's a good one. I'm

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just gonna say it is a solid
episode. They on. The descriptions are

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detailed, and I enjoy the rapport
between the hosts. Oh, thank you

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so much, our zi. Yes, I think you're funny and I'm nostalgic.

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Right, No, I think I'm
nostalgic and you're funny. This is

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why this works. I think we
both insist that the other one is funnier,

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which is why it works. Right
when I added, I'm always more

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entertained by you than i'm by myself
because you know the jokes ahead of time,

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because it's your brain you're listening to. You're like, yeah, that's

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all right, Yeah, but you
you surprised me. Did see that one

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coming? H it's a singer ours
underscore. SI, thank you so much

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for this review. We really appreciate
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bag that says no notes and that
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do is let us know this is
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for you. Erica, what is
the movie that we're talking about today on

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this the the epicenter'day that's July.
Today's film is the nineteen ninety eight buddy

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cop action comedy Rush Hour. Rush
Hour was requested by Reginia, by Shaw,

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Nice, by Jan and by k. It was written by Jim Kufe

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and Ross Lamana. It was directed
by Brett Ratner. Boom. What was

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funny is the minute that name propped
across my screen, I was like,

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oh, okay, it really does
settle your expectations. It does for what

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kind of film you're going to see
The minute you see Brett Rattner hick Oh

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okay, cool, okay, Oh
the guy that ruined X Men three?

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Got it? Okay, got it? Yep? Perfect. That is a

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cursed trilogy when it comes to directors. I'm just thinking about that right now,

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isn't it. Brian Singer? Yeah, for the first two and then

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it followed up with Brett Ratner.
All right, So the movie stars Jackie

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Chan, Chris Tucker, Tom Wilkinson, Ken Leung, Chris Penn, and

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Elizabeth Painya. Rush Hour allegedly inspired
the creation of Rotten Tomatoes, as the

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site founder was a Jackie Chan fan
who originally built the site just to track

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Jackie Chan movies as they were released
in the States. This is incredible.

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I'm so happy I'm learning this.
Because rush Hour's release was delayed for a

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month. The first movie whose reviews
were aggregated on the site was the nineteen

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ninety eight Neil Lebute comedy Your Friends
and Neighbors Twist. Huh Twist, Because

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I bet a Neil Abute comedy is
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film one hundred percent. More of
a visceral gut punch. Yeah, something

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that's gonna make you feel really bad
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really, any choice you've ever made
in your life. Neil Abute comedy.

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Ha ha ha. Rush Hour has
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Tomatoes and a seventy eight percent audience
score. That's correct, you, I

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think it's correct. I think the
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one hundred percent. Yeah, I
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it holds together, it's it goes
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ninety minute film. There are some
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the most sense? No? No, but it's an action movie. A

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little bit part of the buy in
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traditions of having an LAPD and a
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just the most incompetent people on earth, just the pits. Stick them

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in the LAPD and or FBI.
Thank god that one Hong Kong cop came

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over to fucking solve the case.
Why is that in movies? I'm so

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it's so funny every time there's no. I mean, that's not saying there's

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no. There's plenty of movies where
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there's so many where they don't.
I agree. I think it's about I

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think it's about right given what the
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aspiring to be anything other than a
dumb buddy action flick. Exactly. Take

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two big personalities, stick them together. See what you got. Yeah,

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two flavors, Mix them together,
make a new flavor. Chocolate peanut butter

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exactly, delicious, Exactly, Paul, when did you first see rush Hour

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first saw this this week, had
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Oh good, So I start.
We had been talking a little while ago.

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We'd be like, you know,
it's been a while on the podcast

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since we've done a movie that like
we hated, Like we don't we generally

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try not to do too many of
them because I think I can get that's

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all we're here for. Yeah,
it spread positivity and jos and dick jokes,

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and we want it. We want
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that we at least can see.
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this movie, I was in that
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do not like this for various reasons
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of the of our of our podcast. And then what basically happens is that

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the Chris Tucker character and the Jackie
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that I was totally fine with it. Okay, great, I now understand

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what's going on here. All of
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well not all of them, but
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of the hero have at least gone
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wolf cop trope stuffs has has receded
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actually talking about like the case,
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I can enjoy this. But for
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was real touch and go for me, yea not having it. I would

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watch Rush Hour two because presumptively that
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friends, so I wouldn't have to
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Oh for sure, Yeah, for
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when did you first see the movie? This is a very addicative of

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how I feel about this film.
If you had asked me this two days

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ago, I would have said,
never, I've seen this movie and I

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plan on watching it tomorrow. Never
have I ever seen Rush Hour? Never

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ever have I seen Rush Hour.
I would I would have not drunken the

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bar, and I would have been
wrong. I turned this film on yesterday

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to watch it for what I thought
was the first time, and realized,

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oh, no, I've one hundred
percent seen this movie. Yeah, it's

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exactly that kind of movie. It's
a kind of movie you will one hundred

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percent have seen. Yeah, and
then forget about it immediately. Yep.

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So I saw it probably close to
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TV from beginning to end, no
less, and like I've watched the movie

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for like as though I did not
know anything that was gonna happen. The

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first like ten twenty minutes and I
was like, oh, wait, I've

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seen this. Was there a moment
that like triggered you, Well, there's

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two things. One is is Tom
Wilkinson shows up in the first thirty seconds

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of the movie, and my and
my lizard brain was like, well,

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that's the villain. I know Hollywood, I know how Hollywood works. Of

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course the villain's gonna be that guy. But then I was like, oh,

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maybe I've just seen this movie and
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yeah. I saw it yesterday for
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like it's it's I don't love it, I don't hate it. I

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baseline enjoyed it. I love Jackie
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him for hours, agreed. Honestly, as soon as Jackie Chan comes on

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screen, that's really when the movie
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like the same with you. Yeah, like it's it's not so much that

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I didn't like the tropes. It's
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movie until this like super Star comes
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and I was like, ooh,
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you forever. And I also like, look, Chris Tucker seems to be

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a perfectly nice human being. Like, I have nothing against Chris Tucker.

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The stick doesn't really get me.
It's a less charismatic Eddie Murphy is.

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Yeah, he's like he's like totally
doing an Eddie Murphy impression sometimes, Yeah,

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the stick, and look, it
may be your thing, it may

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get you, which is totally fine, truly, Like I'm not again just

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for me, I'm not saying I
don't think he's uncharismatic. I think like

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the stick, for me, I
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funny. So it just doesn't get
under my skin. Once he's once they

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are friends and they're bouncing off each
other and it's less of a Chris Tucker

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monologue all the time, then I
get it. Then I can enjoy him

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because he's bouncing off of someone and
it's it's just less of like a pure

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heart, uncut black tar Chris Tucker
it's more like it's like, you know,

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Chris Tucker cut in with a different
flavor sometimes than I like it.

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You know, I like comparing him
to Heroin. Yeah, I I totally

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agree, one hundred agree with you. I find him fine, charismatic,

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and I like him in like the
fifth element like in movies, which I

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did not like in movies where he's
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doing something crazy and weird. I'm
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But yeah, when when he has
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that's a that's a tougher sell.
Yeah, all right, Erica. The

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tagline for Rush Hour is the fastest
hands in the East versus the biggest mouth

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in the West. Are you ready
to be shocked? Paul? I love

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it? Oh my god, I
love it. It's fast, it's fifty

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you know exactly the fucking movie you're
gonna see. If that, if that

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level of humor is it hits you? This is it? You found it?

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Yeah, kept digging, you hit
oil. I have one I have

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one big quibble with it. I
don't love it, but I have one

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big quibble with it. It's not
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I concur Yeah, meets the biggest
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in the West. That would be
perfect. Yeah yeah, But I still

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I like it very much. I
don't usually like a tagline. I'm shocked

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that this is the one I like. Well, look, I will give

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you that it is. It is
clever. It's telling you, like,

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if you gave a a pop cultural, pop culturally savvy person this tagline and

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be like, who is this about, they would be like Jackie Chan and

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Chris Tucker like that that seems like
rush hour. Yeah, I feel like

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that's rush hour, So like that's
what the tagline is supposed to do.

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Tell you, give you a give
you a taste of the movie. So

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kudos. It could be big trouble
in Little China, that's true, that's

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I could be. Now I'm mad
this isn't. This one just has like

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buddy cop stuff and Jackie Chan,
which for me, really does go a

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long way. He does he really. I didn't even know how much I

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liked Jackie Chan until I saw this
movie. So if you got nothing else

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from this, I got a deeper
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like generally liked, but I didn't
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all right, Erica, shall I
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A Hong Kong detective Jackie Chan and
a wise cracking lap detective Chris Tucker choose

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to work together to find the missing
daughter of a Chinese diplomat choose to work

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together. Is the opposite of the
plot of the film, the actual opposite

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of the first forty five minutes of
this ninety minute film. Just work together,

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Just say work together and cut some
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I love it because it's short and
it gets straight to the fucking point.

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And look, this is not a
complex movie. We have already told

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you who the villain is, because
when we both saw the person appear on

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screen, we were like, that's
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yeah, and it takes place in
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villain. That's the villain. That's
gonna be the villain. I guarantee it

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one percent of the time, Paul, what's the actual synopsis for Rush Hour?

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Actual synopsis for Rush Hour is rush
Hour a film predicated on the idea

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that children are driven to school during
rush hour. You're right, that doesn't

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make any sense. I am been
to school in a while, but I'm

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pretretty sure that go They leave before
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Yeah it's two fucking early early.
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the world R? It sounds better
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sound like the owl from the old
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three, three licks and we're back. All right? So Rush Hour

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opens at a dock in Hong Kong. All of the music he is like

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the vaguely Asian music. Yeah,
ever ever been to a spa run exclusively

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by white people. That's the music
you're hearing. Yeah, this goes through.

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This is this is the thing the
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a scene with with with primarily an
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This is the score. Yeah.
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like offensive or anyway. It's just
it's very like cheesy and I rolly,

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super cheesy. I think there's some
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it When, yes, there is, it's when it's when Jackie Chan exits

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the plane and his face appears on
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which is like very long duck dung. It is like, wow, I

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thought we got better from that point, but I guess we didn't. I

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was like, isn't Jackie Chan a
big enough star? Does he have any

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say in any of this? Yeah? Could he just be like? Could

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you not do that? Could please? That's that's a bit much, guys.

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It's not even that it's racist and
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It's just dumb and cheesy and embarrassing. Yeah, it was embarrassing when

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John Hughes did it Checks Watch ten
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it is now Brett. All right. So, so we're at this stock

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in Hong Kong and we are seeing
various art pieces being loaded into like crates

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and loaded onto ships. Detective Inspector
Lee played by Jackie Chan, we will

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not learn his first name in this
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You're right. The only thing the
first That's fine, Like, we don't

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learn a bunch of people's first names
because they're all cops. So that like,

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I think the only persons whose full
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console's full name, we know the
British guy's full name, and we know

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Chris Tucker's full name. Everyone else
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to look at the Wikipedia for rush
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has a whole like rush Hour Wikipedia, and they he does have a first

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name in the series. And I
was like, you know what, I'm

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not gonna tempt that because I'm going
to murder it. I'm just gonna call

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him Lee. It's fine, that's
what the movie does. Yeah, all

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right, So Lee leads a raid
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he only finds Juntao's right hand man, Sang played by Ken Leung.

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Excellent excellent performance from this guy.
People sleep on Ken Leung. He's good

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the villain energy from the first second, but also like a fun villain,

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like a psychopathic He could do anything
in any moment. I love those in

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vieviees. It's giving, it's giving
Hans Kruber. Yeah, it's that.

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It's giving, like I'm smarter than
you and I know it, and I'm

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also crazy. Yeah. They told
Ken Leong, we're gonna we're gonna give

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you a crew cut and we're gonna
dye your hair bleach blonde. He was

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like, got it, no problem, I know what you're asking me for

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here. Yeah, it's so good. So Lee demands to know where Juntao

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is and sang scoffs everywhere. Answer
yeah, He flees, and Lee gives

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chase through the wharf. There's lots
of great Jackie Chant action moments. There's

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one point where allegedly allegedly I could
not I found one per one thing,

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claiming this on the internet. He
almost died doing a stunt where they're pushing

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two shipping crates together to like crush
him, and allegedly he almost got caught

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in it and I'm like, there's
no safety here. Yeah, there should

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be like a like a moment where
they're like, oh two hard a crunch

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where to stop? Like I fucked. That's funny because they have definitely been

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running this exact same like gag since
Star Wars. You think they would have

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figured out how to do it by
now, what do you think Jackie chan

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safe word is on set? It's
just the sound of crunching. It's yeah,

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if you don't hear bones crunching,
I'm fine, You're fine. I'm

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fine. If you hear bones crunching, call my wife, yeah and apologize

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for murdering me. There were no
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height ones are pretty high, but
there were no sense in this particular movie

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where I was like, shit,
he could have died doing that. But

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there I've seen other Jackie Chan movies
and I'm like, why, why would

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you do this for my benefit?
I don't deserve this, You don't no

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one, no one should be doing
this. Some people should be doing this,

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all right. So unfortunately Sang manages
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By the way, I'm saying,
Sang, I don't know if I'm horribly

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anglicizing that name. But it's only
said once in the movie, I think,

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and it's said by Jackie Chan,
and I'm like, I don't know

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if that's how I should be trying
to say the name, or if that's

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Jackie Chan's accent. I'm just going
with Sang. So my apologies if I

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sound super white right now, you
do, I usually do boiler alert you.

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I just usually don't feel bad about
it, you know. So Sang

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manages to escape on a speedboat.
However, Lee does manage to recover the

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Chinese cultural treasures and artifacts that Jintao
had stolen that were being loaded onto the

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ship, right, so he disrupted
this crime lord's taking of all of his

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artifacts and treasures. Yep. Also
we should mention crucially, this is the

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last day of or the day before
the last day. I can't remember British

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rule of Hong Kong. British rule
of Hong Kong, right, It's so

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funny. I kind of remember when
that was in the news. In my

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mind, it happened like in the
eighties, I don't know why, and

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not in the nineties. So when
the movie was like it's the last day

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of rule in Hong Kong, I
was like, really, wait, what

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are we in the eighties? It
sent me down like a rabbit hole of

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like Wikipedia, and I was like, oh shit, that happened a lot

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later than I thought it did.
Yeah. We cut to a dinner celebrating

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console solon Ha played by Sema,
who had been assigned as a diplomat to

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the US British commander Thomas Griffin played
by definitely the villain of the film,

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Tom Wilkinson. You know it was
gonna be great if we get to the

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end of this, We're like,
surprise, Tom Wilkinson wasn't the villain.

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It was a long con all along. Jackie Chan is the villain. Something

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about Tom Wilkinson he is either the
best person in the movie or the worst

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one. I don't think he's ever
played a middle guy. Yeah. Ever,

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he's a great actor in both those
roles, to be clear. You're

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just talking about like, like the
character he always plays like he's either the

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best person, yeah, like the
nicest person or the worst person. Yeah,

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it's never it's never in between.
And when he when he's that best

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person, he's got big hal Holbrook
energy, yes, as that person.

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And when he's worst person, he's
got big Jeremy Iron Dinnergey. Yes.

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Yeah, Like they went to Jeremy
Iron's first for this and he couldn't do

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it, and they were like,
all right, we'll get Tom Wilkinson.

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We got to do that movie where
he plays Sonny Sonny van Buloh yeah,

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I've never seen it. Oh no, he doesn't play Sonny. That's that's

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Glenn Close. He plays class.
Yeah. It's so good. It's so

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good. Let's stop talking about this
and go watch Go watch that film instead.

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What was it called? Oh man, I was That's what I was

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trying. I was trying to avoid
saying the name reversal Fortune. That's fortune.

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Wait is that reversal of fortune?
I think it's reversal of Fortune.

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I'm going to look it up,
can you and the hero warning The hero

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in Reversal Door of Fortune is Tom
Wilkinson is Alan Dershowitz. Oh, real

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life, talk about a reversal of
fortune? Real life? Like lawyer Alan

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Dershowitz is the hero of the film. It is reversal of Fortune. So

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when you if you were like me
and you saw that film in the nineties,

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you had absolutely no context for any
of it. You were like Alan

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Dershowitz seems like a really cool guy. Whoops. Fast forward later and you're

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like, damn it, this is
why I can't have nice things anyway,

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this crap back to this film?
Can everyone listening tell we were it?

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Like riveted by this film? Like
why isn't Glenn Close in this? She

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should be in this? So Thomas
Griffin Tom Wilkinson toasts Han, who will

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be moving to Los Angeles, and
they're celebrating the fifteen years they spent working

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together in Hong Kong. Since the
British are being kicked the fuck out.

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Yeah, Tom Wilkinson's English. I
don't know if I don't know if you

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made that clear. He's British,
He's British. It's not Michae Cocaine though.

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Here's more of like this kind of
British. He's more of the Crown.

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Yeah, a crown British. I
don't know why I'm doing it really

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high pitched. He's one of those
Oh no, I'm locked in. I'm

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locked in and I can't stop.
Hello, Govna. I thought smacking her

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in the face would do it,
but it just sent her to a different

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one. Oh no, now I'm
stuck in this accent at me again,

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guvna, I'm Scottish. There you
go, there it is okay, now

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I'm back. This is my Scottish
accent. Yea. So Thomas is also

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leaving and this is his last day, right like I said before, a

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British rule in Hong Kong. Lee
arrives and whispers, whisper, whispers,

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whispers something in Hansier right in the
middle of his toasts. Oh yeah,

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Han excitedly announces that Juntao has been
crushed and the artifacts recovered, to the

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excitement of all gathered. Hurrah,
We've defeated the big bed on the last

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day in Hong Kong. How lucky
is that? What a relief? Woof?

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Lee So that's Jackie Chan's character leaves
the room because she's just there to

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deliver the good news and piece the
fuck out. He's a humble servant,

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Yes, guy, he is.
He knows his place. He runs into

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Hans's daughter, Sue Young, played
by Julia Chu, best character in the

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movie. She's not even fucking close. This kid is as most children are.

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She's not like a great actress,
but she's charming, charming and also

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the character. Yeah, this is
not a damsel in distress. No,

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they're gonna have a little girl who's
a fucking badass. I really appreciated that,

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like, because look, she's gonna
be if you're paying attention to the

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synopsis, she's gonna be kidnapped.
Yeah, going kidnapped, but she's not

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going to go down quietly. That's
right. She's gonna get some good shots

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in report before they get her.
And now we know where she learned how

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to do that. That's right.
So Sue Young is upset that Lee,

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who she clearly adores, won't be
coming with him to La right, and

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Lee makes her promise that she'll keep
practicing her her punches and eye gouges just

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like he taught her. That is
a good paternal figure. That's a good

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friend to have. Ye. Yeah, he's like, listen, I taught

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you. It's like when Aria Stark
was learning how to sword fight. Yeah,

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it's that guy. That guy for
this girl. So when Sue Young

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lamentsas she won't have any friends in
America, Lee gives her a necklace and

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assures her that America is a very
very friendly place. We all know where

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this is going. Smash cut to
Los Angeles two months later, as James

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Carter, played by Chris Tucker,
speeds through the streets and he and the

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other drivers are yelling at each other. He is in a sting ray,

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the top is down, has a
leather coat on. Very cool, right,

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makes a lot of money for an
lapd cop. Yeah, well,

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we don't, Erica spoilers. We
don't know that he's an laped cop.

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Oh, fair enough, you could
ruin the twist. You're right, I'm

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sorry. Uh. He is meeting
with a contact in the parking lot of

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a roadside diner, like you do. The contact whose name for some reason

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is Clive Cod. No, no
notes. You know what. I'm giving

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this movie a ten, Giving this
movie a ten. Clive Cod and his

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partner Thomas Trout and their partner Barry
Bass, and his wife Sally Salmon.

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That's right. Yeah, Clive Cod
is played by Chris Penn, So you

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know exactly what you're get. Yeah. I do love a Chris pen He's

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very charming. Yeah, he's so
fun. Yeah, all right. So

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00:26:34.000 --> 00:26:37.519
Cod shows Carter at the back of
his car, and in the back of

406
00:26:37.519 --> 00:26:41.319
his car is a bunch of C
four like a C four bomb. Carter

407
00:26:41.440 --> 00:26:42.960
is delighted and he's like, wow, where could you even have gotten this

408
00:26:44.039 --> 00:26:48.200
C four right? Two police pull
up and the situation escalates a very quickly.

409
00:26:48.640 --> 00:26:53.519
I don't understand logically, like why
these two police aren't bothered. So

410
00:26:53.559 --> 00:26:57.039
it's like one guy showing another guy
something in the trunk of his car.

411
00:26:59.119 --> 00:27:02.680
No one seems to be in any
kind of like danger, no one seems

412
00:27:02.680 --> 00:27:04.920
to be coercing anyone. They're not
fighting, and the other guy's like,

413
00:27:04.960 --> 00:27:07.720
wow, that's really cool. And
these two cops pull up and they're like,

414
00:27:07.960 --> 00:27:11.519
freeze, put your hands up,
and I'm like, that doesn't make

415
00:27:11.559 --> 00:27:15.160
any sense. It's not even proper
racism. Yeah, because if I thought

416
00:27:15.160 --> 00:27:17.359
it was racism, I'd be like, oh, well, that's a racism

417
00:27:17.359 --> 00:27:18.960
thing. But I don't actually even
think that's where the movie is going.

418
00:27:19.160 --> 00:27:23.599
I think the movie posits that it's
suspicious what they're doing, but you're right,

419
00:27:23.759 --> 00:27:29.200
they're just not doing a single goddamn
suspicious thing. Yeah, And honestly,

420
00:27:29.279 --> 00:27:32.799
like, because Chris Tucker is a
cop spoiler, he should have been

421
00:27:32.880 --> 00:27:37.799
like, close the trunk. We
don't have to show you dick until you

422
00:27:37.839 --> 00:27:40.839
get a warrant. So we'll sit
here until you get a warrant. Yeah,

423
00:27:40.920 --> 00:27:44.799
fucking play the game. MANA sorry, I shouldn't be pulling strings.

424
00:27:45.319 --> 00:27:48.240
It's too early to start pulling a
threads here, and I'm sorry, but

425
00:27:48.319 --> 00:27:52.680
this annoyed me. I also would
like to point out that the hotter of

426
00:27:52.720 --> 00:27:55.799
those two cops is an actor named
Larry Sullivan. He is an openly gay

427
00:27:55.799 --> 00:27:57.519
man, and that is the entirety
of the gay representation that you will receive

428
00:27:57.519 --> 00:28:03.000
in this movie. Nice some total, but also no gay slurs, so

429
00:28:03.799 --> 00:28:11.279
kudos. So all right. So
the situation escalates very quickly and Cod winds

430
00:28:11.359 --> 00:28:15.720
up holding Carter at gunpoint. So
Cod is Chris pen Carter is Chris Tucker.

431
00:28:15.359 --> 00:28:18.160
Uh. Carter is trying to fast
talk his way out of the situation.

432
00:28:18.720 --> 00:28:22.240
Ultimately, Carter manages to throw Cod
to the ground and tries to insist

433
00:28:22.279 --> 00:28:25.920
that everything's cool, and he tries
to gesture to the police, just go

434
00:28:25.960 --> 00:28:29.079
away, just go away, you
don't need to be here. Shockingly,

435
00:28:29.160 --> 00:28:30.960
this doesn't work, and Cod has
the chance to open fire on the two

436
00:28:32.039 --> 00:28:33.839
police. Both of them are injured. He runs to his car and he

437
00:28:33.880 --> 00:28:37.960
attempts an escape. Carter opens fire
on Cod's car. Remember he's in a

438
00:28:38.039 --> 00:28:42.880
roadside diner in Los Angeles. There
are people about. Yeah, Cod,

439
00:28:44.119 --> 00:28:47.519
realizing what's about to happen, shouts
what are you doing? There're C four

440
00:28:47.559 --> 00:28:49.880
in my trunk and then bails out. Luckily, the car just happens to

441
00:28:49.920 --> 00:28:55.519
speed onto a completely empty highway,
which are so common to every movie that

442
00:28:55.559 --> 00:28:59.599
we have ever done that takes place
in Los Angeles. Just shows you wide

443
00:28:59.720 --> 00:29:03.960
fucking open highways, yes, at
all hours. Yeah, Finally Carter hits

444
00:29:04.000 --> 00:29:07.759
the C four, the car explodes, and you know, fireball in the

445
00:29:07.759 --> 00:29:11.480
middle of the highway. Carter does
a little dance in victory and then runs

446
00:29:11.519 --> 00:29:17.240
up to Con and arrests him.
Hah, he's lapd twist twist. It's

447
00:29:17.240 --> 00:29:21.240
so funny because zero people watch this
movie without knowing the premise going in.

448
00:29:21.559 --> 00:29:23.720
This is not a surprise to anyone
watching this. No one is coming in

449
00:29:23.799 --> 00:29:30.480
cold and being like, here's a
cop who knew. I think the poster

450
00:29:30.599 --> 00:29:34.440
for the movie is him holding his
badge. We should say, like,

451
00:29:34.480 --> 00:29:40.440
if you haven't seen this movie,
Chris Tucker is it is a deluge of

452
00:29:40.480 --> 00:29:45.559
improvisation at all times, Like,
I'm sure there was a script that he

453
00:29:45.680 --> 00:29:48.559
was going off of, but he's
a fast talker and he just goes goes,

454
00:29:48.599 --> 00:29:52.519
goes, goes, goes. So
it is just constant, constant talking.

455
00:29:53.640 --> 00:29:57.440
Yeah, it's a lot, it's
kind of a lot. We cut

456
00:29:57.480 --> 00:30:00.960
to the Chinese consolate. The next
day, Han is getting ready to take

457
00:30:02.000 --> 00:30:04.279
Sue Young, his daughter, to
school, but he has called away for

458
00:30:04.319 --> 00:30:07.599
a phone call. There's a moment
like where she's like, but you promise,

459
00:30:07.680 --> 00:30:10.720
He's like, I will pick you
up from school. I promise I'll

460
00:30:10.759 --> 00:30:14.160
be there when you get out,
right, like very very sweet father daughter.

461
00:30:14.279 --> 00:30:15.640
Yes, her mother, by the
way, they establish has passed,

462
00:30:15.759 --> 00:30:19.640
so but he's a good dad and
like they have a good relationship. Yeah.

463
00:30:19.680 --> 00:30:25.000
So she heads out in wait for
it, rush out, rush hour.

464
00:30:29.200 --> 00:30:32.279
She's in the backseat of the car. She serenades the bodyguards with her

465
00:30:32.319 --> 00:30:36.640
rendition of Mariah Carey's Fantasy, which
I never really listened to before, like

466
00:30:36.680 --> 00:30:38.319
really really, and I was like, in the mouth of a seven year

467
00:30:38.319 --> 00:30:41.519
old, I'm not so sure a
seven year old should know every lyric to

468
00:30:41.559 --> 00:30:45.799
the song Fantasy. Props to the
two actors playing the security guards, because

469
00:30:45.799 --> 00:30:49.359
they're just like, they look so
deeply uncomfortable and it's very very funny.

470
00:30:51.480 --> 00:30:53.960
So the car gets sent on a
detour because it's stopped by a cop car.

471
00:30:55.480 --> 00:30:59.160
Sang appears, the villain from Hong
Kong Leech, blonde villain. He's

472
00:30:59.200 --> 00:31:03.720
in an LAPD uniform and he shoots
both of the bodyguards. Sue Young,

473
00:31:03.799 --> 00:31:06.759
the girl that does well for herself. She starts to defend herself. She's

474
00:31:06.839 --> 00:31:10.640
kicking, she's screaming, she's doing
everything you're supposed to do. But unfortunately,

475
00:31:10.680 --> 00:31:14.359
when she tries to flee, a
motorcycle appears and scoops her up and

476
00:31:14.440 --> 00:31:18.799
deposits her in a white van like
it's a very coordinated effort. We cut

477
00:31:18.799 --> 00:31:22.440
to FBI agent Warren Russ played by
Mark Ralston. This guy gives a good

478
00:31:22.480 --> 00:31:27.880
performance. Is there something about like
he has blonde hair and he has blonde

479
00:31:27.880 --> 00:31:32.400
eyebrows yep, yep, yep.
And there's something about light colored eyebrows that

480
00:31:32.640 --> 00:31:33.920
is it? Because we've all been
like naz pilled from like the sound of

481
00:31:34.000 --> 00:31:37.599
music that like they look people look
like villains in films like automatically. This

482
00:31:37.640 --> 00:31:41.319
guy just screams cop to me.
Yeah, it just screams dickhead cop.

483
00:31:41.480 --> 00:31:45.000
Yeah yeah. And looky, Lena, he did exactly the right thing.

484
00:31:45.039 --> 00:31:47.039
This is what I look like.
This is what the jobs. I'm gonna

485
00:31:47.039 --> 00:31:49.519
get good for you, man,
kudos truly, But like I was looking,

486
00:31:49.599 --> 00:31:52.359
I'm like my god, I get
villain vibes. He hasn't opened his

487
00:31:52.440 --> 00:31:59.480
mouth like this is not his fault. So so Russ finds Han, who

488
00:31:59.519 --> 00:32:02.559
is preparing for an upcoming Chinese art
expo at the La Convention Center, and

489
00:32:02.599 --> 00:32:06.759
he informs him of what happened with
Sue Young. Han demands that one of

490
00:32:06.799 --> 00:32:10.279
his people be put on the case
as well. To Russ's annoyance, uh

491
00:32:10.880 --> 00:32:16.519
more cops on this case boom boo. Russ decides to call on someone to

492
00:32:16.559 --> 00:32:20.400
keep Hans's man out of their way. The FBI are the best equipped to

493
00:32:20.400 --> 00:32:22.839
handle this. He's only going to
get in the way. Doesn't know anything

494
00:32:22.839 --> 00:32:25.240
about this person. He just knows
he's a joker, doesn't know his name.

495
00:32:25.960 --> 00:32:30.240
All he knows is the man whose
daughter was kidnapped is especially requesting one

496
00:32:30.279 --> 00:32:34.279
of the best cops he's ever worked
with in his old country to come and

497
00:32:34.319 --> 00:32:39.000
help. And this guy's like,
h he's gonna suck. He needs someone

498
00:32:39.000 --> 00:32:43.279
to babysit this guy, but doesn't
want to waste FBI resources on it.

499
00:32:43.359 --> 00:32:45.119
And he thinks, well, I
might as well use the lapd. Right,

500
00:32:45.440 --> 00:32:49.960
we cut to the police station and
Carter is regaling his colleagues with the

501
00:32:50.000 --> 00:32:53.799
tail of the night before Johnson.
One of his colleagues played by Elizabeth Pania,

502
00:32:54.240 --> 00:32:57.839
is pissed because she was supposed to
go on the bust with him,

503
00:32:57.880 --> 00:33:00.240
as he was supposed to bring a
bomb squad ex with him and she is

504
00:33:00.279 --> 00:33:05.440
a bomb squad expert that will come
back. Yeah, but he did it

505
00:33:05.480 --> 00:33:08.000
without her and now they both got
screwed. And Carter insists that he doesn't

506
00:33:08.039 --> 00:33:12.519
need a partner, he'll never have
one, even one as fine as Elizabeth

507
00:33:12.519 --> 00:33:15.759
Panya. There's a little misogyny thrown
her way. But I have to credit

508
00:33:15.799 --> 00:33:20.480
the movie because the movie makes it
very clear that Carter knows he's joking.

509
00:33:20.480 --> 00:33:22.400
It's inappropriate, don't get me wrong, But she's not taking it in.

510
00:33:22.519 --> 00:33:25.519
She's not like, yeah, oh
no, he said something awful to me

511
00:33:25.559 --> 00:33:29.720
at work. She's like fuck you, yeah, Like she gives it back.

512
00:33:30.039 --> 00:33:32.720
She enjoys telling him that the rumor
is he's going to be suspended for

513
00:33:32.799 --> 00:33:37.799
all his shenanigans, so fuck you
dude. Yeah. So this is the

514
00:33:37.839 --> 00:33:40.440
beginning of when we like he becomes
this lone wolf cop trope, like he

515
00:33:40.480 --> 00:33:44.240
knows better than everyone else, doesn't
want to pay him to the rules.

516
00:33:44.480 --> 00:33:46.960
He's better, he knows more.
Blah blah blah blah blah. That really

517
00:33:47.000 --> 00:33:50.079
grates on me. Now, this
is terrible to say. I just don't

518
00:33:50.079 --> 00:33:52.759
believe Chris Tucker is a cop.
Sure, that's the other thing too.

519
00:33:52.799 --> 00:33:53.880
It's like, I just I'm sorry, I don't believe you. I don't

520
00:33:53.920 --> 00:33:57.240
believe you. How did you become
a detective? If this is who you

521
00:33:57.279 --> 00:34:00.920
are? You're yeah, you're you're
clinically stupid, like you're bad at your

522
00:34:00.000 --> 00:34:05.599
job. You're you're reckless. And
I think there's also a Chris tuckerness of

523
00:34:05.640 --> 00:34:08.119
it all where and this could just
be a preconceived thing because I know he's

524
00:34:08.119 --> 00:34:13.039
a comedian that I'm just like.
It's like when they try to put like

525
00:34:13.039 --> 00:34:15.679
like Jerry Seinfeld in a movie and
be like he's an actor, and I'm

526
00:34:15.719 --> 00:34:16.960
like, no, he's not.
Yeah, I know, like, I

527
00:34:16.960 --> 00:34:20.960
don't believe him. And I will
give Chris Tucker a credit. There's a

528
00:34:21.000 --> 00:34:23.400
few times in the movie where he
is asked to actually act and he actually

529
00:34:23.639 --> 00:34:27.400
isn't terrible. Well, he's not
a bad actor. Can do it.

530
00:34:27.480 --> 00:34:30.280
He is to me not believable as
a cop. He just isn't you want

531
00:34:30.280 --> 00:34:32.599
to know what? It reminded me
of a little bit the problem I had

532
00:34:32.639 --> 00:34:36.880
with Mike Myers in so I married
an ex murderer. Yes, where it's

533
00:34:36.960 --> 00:34:39.000
like you, I've seen you do
this, you can actually do it.

534
00:34:39.079 --> 00:34:43.400
Just stop for a second. You
don't need to be Chris Tucker right now.

535
00:34:43.440 --> 00:34:45.679
You need to be James Carter or
whatever his first name is. Yeah,

536
00:34:45.719 --> 00:34:50.039
and you're just being Chris Tucker.
And Chris Tucker is not a cop.

537
00:34:50.480 --> 00:34:52.880
So this there's a there's a discordance. One hundred percent, Yeah,

538
00:34:52.920 --> 00:34:57.960
one hundred percent. All right.
So we cut to Captain deal in Philip

539
00:34:57.960 --> 00:35:00.719
Baker Hall and what is essentially a
cameo. But I was so happy to

540
00:35:00.719 --> 00:35:01.320
see him, I know, I
was like, Wow, you're too good

541
00:35:01.320 --> 00:35:05.559
for this. But congratulations, I'm
glad you're here collect your paychecks checks.

542
00:35:05.840 --> 00:35:08.079
Yeah, he's on the phone in
his office and he's utterly appalled because he's

543
00:35:08.119 --> 00:35:13.000
hearing about the request that he sends
someone to babysit for the FBI, and

544
00:35:13.039 --> 00:35:15.480
he's like, absolutely not. And
then he sees Carter walking into his office

545
00:35:15.480 --> 00:35:17.760
and He's like, never mind,
I have the perfect person for the job.

546
00:35:19.480 --> 00:35:22.079
He tells Carter what Carter wants to
hear, Ie, You're totally right.

547
00:35:22.199 --> 00:35:25.679
You're being complete loose canon is exactly
what the police work should be.

548
00:35:25.840 --> 00:35:29.880
My god, I wish I had
more cops like you, willing to break

549
00:35:29.920 --> 00:35:35.679
the rules. And he sells the
FBI assignment as one that Carter was specifically

550
00:35:35.679 --> 00:35:39.760
requested for. Carter is thrilled.
I have a question. Yeah, because

551
00:35:40.000 --> 00:35:45.920
he's about to leave the head offers
assignment and get into his Stingray. Uh.

552
00:35:45.400 --> 00:35:49.400
I don't know much about cars,
but I know what cars look like,

553
00:35:49.440 --> 00:35:52.599
and the Stingray looks expansive. Should
I google it? Yeah? Google

554
00:35:52.880 --> 00:35:59.079
stingray cost. You google Stingray cost. I'll google. Average LAPD detectives a

555
00:35:59.199 --> 00:36:06.679
salary well. In twenty twenty three, the Corvette Stingrays MSRP is ninety four

556
00:36:06.760 --> 00:36:09.920
thousand, three hundred and seventy Okay. As of May fifteenth, twenty twenty

557
00:36:09.920 --> 00:36:15.400
four, the average annual pay for
an LAPD detective is fifty eight thousand dollars

558
00:36:15.480 --> 00:36:19.400
a year. Yeah, yep,
yeh uh huh yeah, okay, cool

559
00:36:19.400 --> 00:36:22.199
cool cool cool cool. So he
owns one hundred thousand dollars car on his

560
00:36:22.840 --> 00:36:27.559
fifty eight thousand dollars salary. And
this guy is not giving off I have

561
00:36:27.599 --> 00:36:30.119
good credit. I don't know if
anyone else gets that from him, but

562
00:36:30.119 --> 00:36:35.880
he's just not so Carter believes this
bullshit. He's been sold right, like,

563
00:36:36.360 --> 00:36:38.840
not only are you are you a
terrible cop an LAPD detective, but

564
00:36:38.880 --> 00:36:44.559
we're gonna make you FBI congratulations.
He heads into the consulate and he goes

565
00:36:44.599 --> 00:36:47.280
in with his obnoxious meter turned all
the way up. He's being a real

566
00:36:47.440 --> 00:36:52.599
douchebag about that. Given orders,
Rus, the FBI guy clocks what's happening

567
00:36:52.639 --> 00:36:54.840
immediately like, oh okay, they
sent this guy in for us to like

568
00:36:55.199 --> 00:37:00.639
humiliate, let's really amp it up. So he pulls an and he's like,

569
00:37:00.960 --> 00:37:05.639
your assignment is G fourteen classified,
and he's like, oh, G

570
00:37:05.760 --> 00:37:09.079
fourteen classified, yes, And like
all the other agents are amused. They're

571
00:37:09.079 --> 00:37:13.960
all snickering behind their backs, and
then Russ explains that he has to go

572
00:37:14.000 --> 00:37:16.679
take care of Lee. Carter assumes
that he's being given a partner, right,

573
00:37:16.760 --> 00:37:21.599
He's like right away, and the
new job his dream job ever that

574
00:37:21.760 --> 00:37:23.719
he finally got. The first thing
they say is you're gonna work with someone,

575
00:37:23.800 --> 00:37:29.719
He goes, no, yeah,
he's no ending them. It's not

576
00:37:29.760 --> 00:37:31.679
a jumping off point. There's not
a negotiation. He's just like, oh,

577
00:37:31.719 --> 00:37:35.760
I don't work with partners. Yeah, end of discussion. Of discussion.

578
00:37:35.840 --> 00:37:38.599
Yeah, I'm in charge here.
Yeah yeah. Russ informs him that

579
00:37:38.719 --> 00:37:43.360
Lee is not his partner. Lee
is his assignment, and Carter is like,

580
00:37:43.599 --> 00:37:46.320
what the fuck? And now he
realizes the extent of what's going on,

581
00:37:46.360 --> 00:37:51.440
and he's pissed that he's being put
on essentially babysitting duty. Yeah for

582
00:37:51.519 --> 00:37:59.239
this random terrible cop from Hong Kong. So, by the way, hit

583
00:37:59.280 --> 00:38:02.320
the suit in this is so nineties, and like Chris Tucker actually has the

584
00:38:02.360 --> 00:38:06.400
correct build to pull it off because
he's tall and very lanky. But the

585
00:38:06.440 --> 00:38:08.920
suit is so long. There's like
three buttons on it and there's I don't

586
00:38:08.960 --> 00:38:14.000
know four to five feet in between
each buttons. Shoulder pads for days the

587
00:38:14.119 --> 00:38:20.119
nineties loved a big shoulder, broad
shoulder. So Carter heads to Lax and

588
00:38:20.159 --> 00:38:22.639
he picks up Lee. This is
where Jackie Chan exits the plane and there's

589
00:38:22.639 --> 00:38:30.079
a gong. Sounds like, boy, did I laugh? Hilarious? What

590
00:38:30.079 --> 00:38:31.880
would be the sounds. If you
and I exited a plane in a movie,

591
00:38:32.440 --> 00:38:38.760
I feel like for me, it
would be she gets off the plane

592
00:38:38.760 --> 00:38:50.000
and the whole movie just goes,
ah, this again. You felt that

593
00:38:50.159 --> 00:38:57.360
so deeply, what's your plane getting
getting off? My brain was like,

594
00:38:57.400 --> 00:39:05.760
hey, mombo, but yours was
so real. Mine's not based on life.

595
00:39:05.800 --> 00:39:07.480
I feel like I biffed it with
that answer. Mine's not based on

596
00:39:07.519 --> 00:39:13.320
some sort of like ethnic no thing
or racial thing. It's just my It's

597
00:39:13.320 --> 00:39:16.400
just who I am on the inside
and other people's reactions to it, and

598
00:39:16.400 --> 00:39:20.280
it's just like, this is so
much. Yeah, this is so much.

599
00:39:20.320 --> 00:39:22.119
That's so funny because if I answered
in the spirit of what you were

600
00:39:22.119 --> 00:39:27.920
doing, mine'd be like whoa.
I generally think people enjoy having me around.

601
00:39:28.239 --> 00:39:30.760
I think I think when police detective
work is required, you are on

602
00:39:30.960 --> 00:39:34.840
hand. Absolutely. I feel like
you'd get off the plane and the movie

603
00:39:34.840 --> 00:39:42.199
would go, hey, it's just
the sound of like ice cubes clinking in

604
00:39:42.199 --> 00:39:45.480
a glass. Yeah, we would
be We would make a great buddy cop

605
00:39:45.519 --> 00:39:49.159
team in a movie. Yeah.
Yeah. I mean I don't do any

606
00:39:49.159 --> 00:39:52.679
physical activity, but other than that, i'd be an amazing cop. Yeah.

607
00:39:52.719 --> 00:39:55.840
And I I didn't have to run. Yeah, I'm not running.

608
00:39:58.199 --> 00:40:01.519
Let's be very clear about something.
If a suspect is even the tiniest chase,

609
00:40:01.519 --> 00:40:05.920
they're gonna get away. I am
a detective. I figure out who

610
00:40:05.920 --> 00:40:07.880
the suspect is. Is it not
someone else's job to then act upon it?

611
00:40:08.000 --> 00:40:10.199
Yeah, there's another cop who can
do that part. Can I not

612
00:40:10.360 --> 00:40:16.320
do my job from my seat?
Bring me the information I shall cogitate upon

613
00:40:16.360 --> 00:40:22.119
it. Are we, Hitchcock and
Scully? So happy? All right?

614
00:40:22.239 --> 00:40:28.239
So Carter picks Lee up. All
the expected quote unquote jokes happen. He

615
00:40:28.280 --> 00:40:30.840
assumes that Lee doesn't speak English.
She yells his words slowly to help him

616
00:40:30.920 --> 00:40:36.840
understand. He is generally a complete
asshole. He is angry at his assignment,

617
00:40:36.880 --> 00:40:38.480
and he is taking it out on
Lee, who has done quite literally

618
00:40:38.519 --> 00:40:42.280
nothing. At this point, he
has not even spoken a word. It's

619
00:40:42.280 --> 00:40:44.800
such a trope in movies that you
think it's like, no one really does

620
00:40:44.840 --> 00:40:46.559
this. And have you ever seen
it though, when someone is speaking to

621
00:40:46.559 --> 00:40:50.679
someone, oh yeah, in a
language they don't understand, and they actually

622
00:40:50.760 --> 00:40:53.639
get slow and loud and be like
that's not helping, it's not helping.

623
00:40:53.800 --> 00:40:58.320
It's so funny, like people aren't
trying to be dicks. Necessarily, it

624
00:40:58.440 --> 00:41:01.320
just is your natural human instinct,
but you want to I have a question

625
00:41:01.400 --> 00:41:07.519
though, because I speak very rudimentary
Spanish, and I have multiple times gone

626
00:41:07.519 --> 00:41:14.920
to someone and and been like you
ablo poquito Espanol, like poquito, poquito,

627
00:41:15.000 --> 00:41:17.679
and they their face lights up and
it is a delusis and I'm like,

628
00:41:17.880 --> 00:41:22.719
whoa, yeah, and I'm like, I'm actually the person that if

629
00:41:22.760 --> 00:41:25.760
you speak slowly and loudly too,
that might actually help me because I will

630
00:41:25.760 --> 00:41:30.559
be able to pick out individual words. Yeah. I used to be a

631
00:41:30.599 --> 00:41:32.880
tour guide like a million years ago, and I would see people of different

632
00:41:32.880 --> 00:41:36.920
countries try to interact and talk to
each other. Yeah, And it's always

633
00:41:36.920 --> 00:41:39.519
so funny because it's like it really
does happen, Like it's it's funny where

634
00:41:39.559 --> 00:41:46.000
someone's like, do you understand and
you're making it worse. They don't.

635
00:41:46.320 --> 00:41:52.000
They do not, all right.
So Lee is somewhat bewildered as to why

636
00:41:52.039 --> 00:41:54.440
this shrieking dervish has been sent to
pick him up. But they get in

637
00:41:54.480 --> 00:41:59.119
the sting ray and off they go. In the car. Carter calls the

638
00:41:59.119 --> 00:42:02.920
station to complain of his assignment,
while Captain deal Johnson. Johnson's Elizabeth Pania

639
00:42:04.280 --> 00:42:07.639
and the others sit around the phone
and they openly laugh at him, which

640
00:42:07.960 --> 00:42:13.880
I was glad the movie had this. Like the other members of the LAPD

641
00:42:14.119 --> 00:42:17.039
are actually portrayed as we don't know, they don't really do much, but

642
00:42:17.079 --> 00:42:20.679
like they might be competent. She
is competent. She is, she is

643
00:42:20.719 --> 00:42:23.039
certainly competent. We get more of
Elizabethaniel later and she knows how to do

644
00:42:23.039 --> 00:42:29.519
her job. Yeah, and like, so this wild card is being mocked,

645
00:42:30.199 --> 00:42:34.360
not honored by the LAPD. Unfortunately, the movie is going to honor

646
00:42:34.440 --> 00:42:37.840
him and he is our hero,
so whatever. But you know, Lee

647
00:42:37.920 --> 00:42:40.239
asked to be taken to the Chinese
consulate by pointing to the address on a

648
00:42:40.239 --> 00:42:43.679
business card, but Carter is like, no, I can't take you there.

649
00:42:43.760 --> 00:42:45.920
That's basically my whole assignment is to
not take you there. He instead

650
00:42:45.960 --> 00:42:50.800
takes Lead to Chinatown leaves him at
John Wayne's. Starr says, maybe you'll

651
00:42:50.800 --> 00:42:53.599
see a cousin or something. Yeah, look around, maybe you'll as I'm

652
00:42:53.599 --> 00:42:57.599
trying to like this guy, really
am, and he heads to talk to

653
00:42:57.639 --> 00:43:00.920
one of his uh criminal informants.
He's played by John Hawks, great character

654
00:43:00.920 --> 00:43:05.280
actor. John Hawks. Yeah.
The contact tells Carter that he doesn't know

655
00:43:05.320 --> 00:43:07.719
anything about a kidnapping, but someone
in town is buying up weapons like they

656
00:43:07.760 --> 00:43:12.159
want to start a war, like
something in the underworld is happening. Before

657
00:43:12.239 --> 00:43:15.119
Carter can get anything else, he
looks up and notices that Lee has not

658
00:43:15.480 --> 00:43:17.800
stayed in his spot looking for a
cousin as instructed. He has disappeared.

659
00:43:17.960 --> 00:43:21.480
This is the guy, The guy
who's giving him the information right now is

660
00:43:21.519 --> 00:43:23.440
the star Maps guy. Right,
Yeah, there's a line here that is

661
00:43:23.480 --> 00:43:28.639
super creepy. The Starmaps guy who's
very very intense. He's trying to go

662
00:43:28.800 --> 00:43:31.280
quote unquote straight, like this is
his job now? Is he just sells

663
00:43:31.320 --> 00:43:35.280
maps to the stars homes. That's
all he sells. But the way he

664
00:43:35.360 --> 00:43:38.719
hawks them on the street is he
goes find them and stalk them the star

665
00:43:38.760 --> 00:43:43.119
Maps maps in the stars homes.
And I'm like, I don't think he

666
00:43:43.159 --> 00:43:45.239
should be selling those, man,
I don't care for this at all.

667
00:43:45.199 --> 00:43:49.199
I've never bought one of those stars
Maps homes like things when I was in

668
00:43:49.320 --> 00:43:52.400
LA Because obviously that sounds terrible,
that sounds like just the grossest thing ever.

669
00:43:52.679 --> 00:43:55.559
But it would be very funny if
you made star maps and they were

670
00:43:55.599 --> 00:44:01.159
like the wrong celebrities completely are actually
stars homes. But it's like, if

671
00:44:01.159 --> 00:44:05.519
you think you're gonna go to Miley
Cyrus's house, you're gonna love showing up

672
00:44:05.559 --> 00:44:09.760
on Jack Nicholson's door. If you
think you're going to Sabrina Carpenter's bungalow,

673
00:44:10.159 --> 00:44:17.960
you're gonna adore Huey Lewis's apartment building. Come if you think you're gonna see

674
00:44:17.960 --> 00:44:25.519
where the Jonas brothers live, You're
gonna really enjoy Walter Mathow's great. It

675
00:44:25.559 --> 00:44:30.199
would be funny to create one that's
totally like totally flicked up. Yeah,

676
00:44:30.679 --> 00:44:34.960
send the wrong people to the wrong
thing. Did you hear the story recently

677
00:44:34.960 --> 00:44:38.639
about the real person not a celebrity, who lives in the house that was

678
00:44:38.679 --> 00:44:43.760
the facade for Breaking Bad had to
put up like a wall of hedges to

679
00:44:43.800 --> 00:44:50.760
stop people from throwing pizzas on their
roof. But I totally see it.

680
00:44:50.400 --> 00:44:52.840
It's like a real thing, and
it's like, leave this person alone,

681
00:44:53.039 --> 00:44:57.400
Like din'd you know, not to
put pizzas on someone's room. Come on,

682
00:45:00.079 --> 00:45:02.360
get a life. That's really f
That's like the people in the West

683
00:45:02.440 --> 00:45:08.039
Village who are like Carrie Bradshaw.
Yeah, doesn't live here. Stop sitting

684
00:45:08.039 --> 00:45:13.559
on my stoop. Weirdos. Okay, So back to the movie. Back

685
00:45:13.599 --> 00:45:16.000
to the movie, Lee has disappeared. Remember Carter got the information Lee has

686
00:45:16.000 --> 00:45:21.000
disappeared. So now a chase occurs. Lee has hopped on a tour bus.

687
00:45:21.039 --> 00:45:22.800
Carter manages to follow him, to
climb to the back of the bus

688
00:45:22.840 --> 00:45:29.159
and then, in a stunning move
of judgment, holds his gun to Lee's

689
00:45:29.199 --> 00:45:31.840
forehead. You know, the man
you're supposed to watch and look after and

690
00:45:31.840 --> 00:45:37.519
like take care of while he's in
your city. He immediately, like Chris

691
00:45:37.559 --> 00:45:42.599
Tucker, like Carter, he immediately
starts posing for pictures because the tourists and

692
00:45:42.679 --> 00:45:45.480
the bar it's like ooh an lapd
cop theay like wo they start taking pictures.

693
00:45:45.880 --> 00:45:51.239
So Lee grabs onto a road sign
and drops onto a passing truck because

694
00:45:51.239 --> 00:45:55.519
again Jackie Chan. He climbs through
a camper and hops into a cab via

695
00:45:55.599 --> 00:46:00.320
another window inside of a cab and
drives away. Genius. Like all of

696
00:46:00.320 --> 00:46:05.239
it is great. Carter waves his
gun around commandeer is a motorcycle and follows,

697
00:46:05.440 --> 00:46:10.320
eventually managing to cut the cab off. He holds Lee at gunpoint again.

698
00:46:10.559 --> 00:46:14.400
Uh huh boy, we were really
cavalier with those guns back then,

699
00:46:14.440 --> 00:46:16.920
weren't we. We sure were.
Lee steals the gun and it is truly

700
00:46:17.159 --> 00:46:21.199
one of those great Jackie Chan moments
where he just like, before you know

701
00:46:21.320 --> 00:46:24.039
what's happened. The gun is out
of his hand. Carter pulls out another

702
00:46:24.079 --> 00:46:30.320
gun, escalating quickly, they're facing
off, and then the Cabby holds them

703
00:46:30.360 --> 00:46:34.559
both at gunpoint. The Cabby's like, put your guns down. This is

704
00:46:34.599 --> 00:46:37.880
a funny, like commentary on America. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna ding

705
00:46:37.960 --> 00:46:39.440
the movie on this. Oh sure, I think this is pretty funny.

706
00:46:39.840 --> 00:46:45.440
Carter identifies himself as FBI, and
Lee in English says he's a cop teaching

707
00:46:45.480 --> 00:46:49.519
the other guy how to take a
gun, right like I speak English,

708
00:46:49.519 --> 00:46:52.360
And now another gong sounds. We
cut to them a few minutes later.

709
00:46:52.480 --> 00:46:57.760
Carter is quite offended at Lee's quote
unquote lie, but Lee calmly tells him

710
00:46:57.760 --> 00:47:01.239
that he is not responsible for Carter's
assumptions. Lee again asked to be taken

711
00:47:01.280 --> 00:47:05.199
to the consulate, but Carter goes
into a whole aria about how no one

712
00:47:05.320 --> 00:47:07.880
likes Lee or even wants his help. So I want you to shut up.

713
00:47:07.119 --> 00:47:10.679
Basically, he's telling Lee that everyone
feels about him the way everyone actually

714
00:47:10.719 --> 00:47:15.199
feels about Carter. They feel it
that way about Lee too, but Carter's

715
00:47:15.199 --> 00:47:17.360
projecting a little bit. Every think
Carter's earned it. He has not.

716
00:47:19.079 --> 00:47:22.280
Lee finally puts on the radio to
shut Carter up, and Carter is even

717
00:47:22.320 --> 00:47:27.199
more offended that he likes Surfing USA
by the Beach Boys, and he switches

718
00:47:27.239 --> 00:47:30.280
it to Can I Get A by
Jay Z and starts to dance in the

719
00:47:30.360 --> 00:47:34.280
driver's seat to show Lee how to
dance do his little shoulder action. Yeah,

720
00:47:34.400 --> 00:47:37.360
I'm staring at Erica while I do
it. Yeah, you are like

721
00:47:37.480 --> 00:47:40.639
such extended you know you like it? Baby, I don't like it.

722
00:47:40.840 --> 00:47:45.639
I don't like it. I remember
this is the commercial for the movie.

723
00:47:45.800 --> 00:47:47.960
So Carter takes Lee to a pool
hall and tells him to follow his lead.

724
00:47:49.320 --> 00:47:52.400
Carter greets a couple of barflies with
what's up my and bomb? Right?

725
00:47:52.519 --> 00:47:55.079
Yeah, everyone in the pool hall
is black, as is Carter.

726
00:47:55.159 --> 00:47:58.559
I don't know. For those of
you who don't know who Chris Tuner is,

727
00:47:58.679 --> 00:48:00.920
he's black. Yeah, I guess
that's germane to the plot here,

728
00:48:01.639 --> 00:48:06.119
So he heads into the back.
He's interrupting a poker game like it looks

729
00:48:06.119 --> 00:48:13.159
like an illicit underground like underworld poker
game, right immediately getting into a guns

730
00:48:13.159 --> 00:48:15.760
out stand off with everybody. He
demands to know what happened to the little

731
00:48:15.800 --> 00:48:19.920
Chinese girl, but the leader of
the group, Luke played by Clifton Powell,

732
00:48:20.159 --> 00:48:22.920
denies any knowledge. Carter tells Lee
to step outside. Lee does,

733
00:48:22.960 --> 00:48:25.920
and as soon as he does,
Carter and Luke the other guy start to

734
00:48:27.000 --> 00:48:30.239
laugh and hug. Yeah cousins an
bootsy. Yeah. He asks Luke who's

735
00:48:30.280 --> 00:48:34.840
buying up all the weapons because his
cousin genuinely is in the underworld, but

736
00:48:35.039 --> 00:48:37.599
like, yeah, they're family,
and Luke says someone out of Hong Kong

737
00:48:37.679 --> 00:48:40.519
has been the one buying up all
the weapons. He doesn't know who,

738
00:48:40.880 --> 00:48:45.679
couldn't give a description or anything,
but he does know that there's a connection

739
00:48:45.719 --> 00:48:50.679
to the Hong Kong underworld. Meanwhile, Lee sits at the bar and greets

740
00:48:50.719 --> 00:48:55.079
the bartender with what's up my end
bomb? Who careful the things you say?

741
00:48:57.480 --> 00:49:02.639
Children will listen? So this is
like the first really extended like fight

742
00:49:02.679 --> 00:49:07.400
scene martial arts scene that Jackie Chan
has in the movie. I really loved

743
00:49:07.400 --> 00:49:12.440
watching it, there's something about he
has his own stunt team that does all

744
00:49:12.440 --> 00:49:15.480
of his stuff and everything. There's
something about it that's really dance like yeah,

745
00:49:15.559 --> 00:49:20.639
like you can almost count the eight
count with them. And it has

746
00:49:20.719 --> 00:49:25.519
this effect of just slightly taking the
violence away from reality a little bit more

747
00:49:25.599 --> 00:49:30.559
than I would say a movie that's
going for really like hyperrealism does, and

748
00:49:30.639 --> 00:49:34.320
it just makes the violence. Hey, this is very minor violent, Like

749
00:49:34.360 --> 00:49:37.960
there's no blood. Like people are
getting smacked in the face with pool cues

750
00:49:37.000 --> 00:49:39.960
and flipping over four tables and like
they're fine, right, Like there's always

751
00:49:40.000 --> 00:49:44.400
like a punch sound effect. It's
like way bigger than the actual punch exactly.

752
00:49:44.440 --> 00:49:46.559
Yeah, So like it's all not
meant to be realistic or anything,

753
00:49:46.559 --> 00:49:52.679
but like I really enjoyed watching all
of this choreography, yeah, because it

754
00:49:52.800 --> 00:49:55.199
seemed it just seemed like dancing.
Well, there's no special effects. It's

755
00:49:55.199 --> 00:50:00.559
happening in real time. The quickness
of the movements are Jackie Chan it's not

756
00:50:00.639 --> 00:50:02.760
generated by like, you know,
speeding up the camera in any way.

757
00:50:02.920 --> 00:50:07.840
Like he's so good. It's it
is. It's watching like it's watching a

758
00:50:07.920 --> 00:50:09.800
dancer at the top of his game. Yeah, what do we think about

759
00:50:09.800 --> 00:50:14.440
this N bomb joke had been I
kind of left. I think it works.

760
00:50:14.599 --> 00:50:16.679
I think it works. I think
that the movie knows exactly what it's

761
00:50:16.679 --> 00:50:21.679
doing, the audience knows exactly what
it's doing. And also it's we should

762
00:50:21.719 --> 00:50:23.760
mention Jackie Chan. The part of
the like the genius of Jackie Chan is

763
00:50:23.800 --> 00:50:28.880
his comic timing. Yeah, is
fucking perfect, and you know exactly why

764
00:50:28.920 --> 00:50:31.199
the character is doing that, and
you know the character does not know what

765
00:50:31.239 --> 00:50:35.280
he is saying, so it is
it all works fine for me. Yeah,

766
00:50:35.360 --> 00:50:38.000
me too. I just wanted to
call that out. So Carter and

767
00:50:38.079 --> 00:50:42.760
Lee head to a deli for some
food. Lee is very frustrated with his

768
00:50:42.760 --> 00:50:45.280
time being wasted. He's like,
look, this little girl is missing.

769
00:50:45.320 --> 00:50:46.719
I care about her. This is
we've got to get We've got to get

770
00:50:46.760 --> 00:50:51.039
going. Carter says he's just gonna
go get something to eat and then he'll

771
00:50:51.039 --> 00:50:53.280
take Lee wherever he wants to go, and Lee agrees, and when they

772
00:50:53.280 --> 00:50:57.360
go to shake on it, Carter
handcuffs him to the steering wheel of the

773
00:50:57.360 --> 00:51:00.400
sting ray. Carter heads in and
when he gets back from the diner ors

774
00:51:00.400 --> 00:51:05.079
of the Delhi or whatever, Lee
is gone. As is the steering wheel.

775
00:51:05.239 --> 00:51:07.639
Well, shit could have seen that
come in here. Yeah. Lee

776
00:51:07.719 --> 00:51:10.039
takes a cab to the consulate and
winds up essentially having to mount a full

777
00:51:10.079 --> 00:51:14.199
scale assault in order to get in
because all of the FBI are just trying

778
00:51:14.199 --> 00:51:15.920
to keep him out. He takes
out multiple FBI agents on the way,

779
00:51:16.039 --> 00:51:21.239
not killing them, just knocking them
out basically. It's not until Han finally

780
00:51:21.280 --> 00:51:24.000
sees him that everything is worked out
and everyone just takes a breath. Yeah.

781
00:51:24.079 --> 00:51:28.119
That night, Carter finally arrives at
the consulate in a tow truck.

782
00:51:28.159 --> 00:51:30.119
I don't know how much time is
actually meant to have passed here, because

783
00:51:30.119 --> 00:51:32.800
it seems like not much time has
passed in the consulate, but we do

784
00:51:32.880 --> 00:51:36.719
go from full daylight to full night
time, so I'm not sure exactly.

785
00:51:36.880 --> 00:51:39.880
That may have just been a vagary
of filming schedules or something. Carter goes

786
00:51:39.920 --> 00:51:44.599
inside, Russ is about to give
him the what four because of everything that's

787
00:51:44.599 --> 00:51:49.599
happened, and then Han arrives with
Lee, and Lee for some reason pretends

788
00:51:49.639 --> 00:51:52.679
that the two of them have been
working together to find too Young. He

789
00:51:52.679 --> 00:51:54.280
helps Carter out. He's like,
no, like we were good, and

790
00:51:54.280 --> 00:52:00.239
he because Han is the authority here, he is even above Russ has to

791
00:52:00.239 --> 00:52:02.000
get Carter alone. He still wants
to chew him out and everything. And

792
00:52:02.039 --> 00:52:05.400
Carter just keeps talking, and he
says he's gonna go to the phone to

793
00:52:05.440 --> 00:52:07.559
call the police station, and the
phone rings just as he picks it up,

794
00:52:07.880 --> 00:52:10.880
and Sang is on the line.
Sang again, Ken Leung bleach,

795
00:52:10.920 --> 00:52:17.280
blonde villain, after Carter misidentifies himself
as FBI. I don't think that's legal.

796
00:52:17.559 --> 00:52:21.760
I don't think you should do that, sir, Hi, I'm the

797
00:52:21.840 --> 00:52:23.320
president. Yeah, why not to
answer the phone like that? Not good?

798
00:52:23.400 --> 00:52:27.679
Yeah, not good. I'm the
Empress of New York yep, Sang

799
00:52:27.719 --> 00:52:30.159
tells Carter at the drop of fifty
million dollars we made at eleven pm that

800
00:52:30.320 --> 00:52:35.159
night, he wants twenty million in
fifties, twenty million in twenties, and

801
00:52:35.239 --> 00:52:38.480
ten million in fives. I thought
that was really funny, the specificity of

802
00:52:38.480 --> 00:52:42.119
it, because it does not come
back, well, it does come back

803
00:52:42.119 --> 00:52:46.559
in a small way because you see
the cases and cases and cases of money

804
00:52:46.559 --> 00:52:51.000
that they have to get. Yeah, yeah, which I really appreciated because

805
00:52:51.239 --> 00:52:54.559
I always laugh and they're like,
I want fourteen billion, dollars and they

806
00:52:54.559 --> 00:52:59.400
come out and there's like one like
one brief one briefcase full of like million

807
00:52:59.440 --> 00:53:02.960
dollar bill well, bick of those
bills. So I thought the visual gag

808
00:53:02.960 --> 00:53:07.039
of all the money was pretty funny. Can you break a million? So

809
00:53:07.320 --> 00:53:09.360
Sang tells him that further instructions will
be given at ten thirty that night.

810
00:53:09.440 --> 00:53:14.719
If all goes well, he'll see
Sue Young alive. That doesn't sound reassuring.

811
00:53:14.880 --> 00:53:16.719
No, So the FBI runs a
trace on the calls. I guess

812
00:53:16.559 --> 00:53:21.719
that is one good thing because Carter
is such a like blubberer, right,

813
00:53:22.000 --> 00:53:24.280
he keeps him on the line.
Yeah, he keeps saying on the line

814
00:53:24.280 --> 00:53:28.039
long enough that they were able to
trace the call. I don't The movie

815
00:53:28.079 --> 00:53:30.239
doesn't make it quite clear if that's
intentional or not, but it is a

816
00:53:30.280 --> 00:53:36.440
good result of his posturing. Sure, So we smash cut to the location

817
00:53:36.519 --> 00:53:39.519
they find on the trace, and
despite Lee's warnings, it's like an empty,

818
00:53:39.599 --> 00:53:44.079
abandoned warehouse in the middle of Los
Angeles. And Lee is like,

819
00:53:44.480 --> 00:53:46.880
if you were asking for fifty million
dollars and you had to hide it somewhere,

820
00:53:46.880 --> 00:53:51.599
would you pick this place? This
is a trap, you idiots?

821
00:53:52.000 --> 00:53:53.519
Can you read the sign on the
door that says, hey, this is

822
00:53:53.559 --> 00:53:58.039
a trap. Russ, of course
doesn't listen. He sends his team in

823
00:53:58.039 --> 00:54:01.039
and they are promptly killed in an
enormous EXE. In the aftermath, Lee

824
00:54:01.119 --> 00:54:05.599
spots Sang and remember they saw each
other in Hong Kong back in the day,

825
00:54:05.639 --> 00:54:07.519
so they know each other, and
he takes off after him. Carter

826
00:54:07.719 --> 00:54:13.000
follows Lee. Sang leads Lee on
a merry chase, eventually winding up in

827
00:54:13.039 --> 00:54:16.599
another abandoned building. Who lives in
Los Angeles? Yeah, for God's sake,

828
00:54:16.679 --> 00:54:20.920
is he a much empty space?
Yeah? Because is it free to

829
00:54:20.960 --> 00:54:23.440
live there? I'll buy a building. So the two of them are fighting

830
00:54:23.480 --> 00:54:28.320
in this abandoned building. I have
to give ken Leeung and or ken Leeung's

831
00:54:28.960 --> 00:54:32.280
stunt double credit. He gets a
fire axe. He is swinging the fuck

832
00:54:32.360 --> 00:54:36.960
out of that fire axe at Jackie
Cham like he is winding up. Yeah.

833
00:54:37.119 --> 00:54:42.920
Carter arrives and Sang flees running across
a scaffolding that apparely holds him right,

834
00:54:42.960 --> 00:54:45.280
It's like, but you know what, that's what you get for being

835
00:54:45.280 --> 00:54:49.440
a loose cannon. You take risks. It unfortunately doesn't hold Lee, whose

836
00:54:49.440 --> 00:54:52.239
foot goes through right and when Carter
ignores Lee telling him to stop, he's

837
00:54:52.239 --> 00:54:54.519
like, stops up, stuck,
don't come on. The bridge ignores him.

838
00:54:54.559 --> 00:54:59.880
It completely collapses, sending the two
plummeting to the ground. Sang Is

839
00:55:00.079 --> 00:55:04.239
gabes but Lee, uh does manage
to recover the detonation device from him or

840
00:55:04.320 --> 00:55:07.840
a debtonation device? Yeah, we
smashed. Cut to Johnson. That's Elizabeth

841
00:55:07.840 --> 00:55:10.599
Paanya. She's got a face on
her. I love her face. She's

842
00:55:10.599 --> 00:55:15.280
got like an incredible actor's face,
like you see it for four seconds and

843
00:55:15.320 --> 00:55:21.119
you remember and the silkiest sexiest voice
you've done ever heard. What is the

844
00:55:21.280 --> 00:55:23.639
Is that? Is that a specific
accent that she has? Or is yes,

845
00:55:23.679 --> 00:55:28.800
she's from She's from a Cuban family. Ah, it's a Cuban American

846
00:55:28.840 --> 00:55:30.400
accent. No wonder, no wonder. We both respond to it so well.

847
00:55:31.159 --> 00:55:35.280
Okay, So Johnson is training in
a simulation for the Bottom Squad,

848
00:55:35.360 --> 00:55:37.480
right, She's she's doing her work, she's figuring out which wire to cut.

849
00:55:38.199 --> 00:55:43.960
She's nervous and second guessing herself,
and then Carter arrives and intentionally startles

850
00:55:43.960 --> 00:55:46.159
her and she fails the test.
He then immediately asks for her help,

851
00:55:46.239 --> 00:55:50.519
which she's not interested in giving because
fuck off. Fuck all the way off,

852
00:55:50.559 --> 00:55:52.840
all the way off, all the
fuck's off to you. But she

853
00:55:53.079 --> 00:55:55.960
he shows her the debtonator and and
she says it could be used to open

854
00:55:57.039 --> 00:55:59.079
up a garage door, or it
could be used to blow up C four.

855
00:55:59.159 --> 00:56:00.960
And he's like C four and she's
like, yes, you four.

856
00:56:00.039 --> 00:56:02.679
Funk off doesn't look like it open
a garage door. It really does.

857
00:56:02.719 --> 00:56:06.360
I don't think she's right on that. I think she's I don't know she's

858
00:56:06.400 --> 00:56:08.800
ever seen a garage. It looks
like it might control an inserted vibrator four

859
00:56:08.880 --> 00:56:12.639
rooms away. Yeah, it's gotta
it's got a weird shape to it.

860
00:56:12.639 --> 00:56:15.159
It's like garage, George. They
look like remote controls. They're very,

861
00:56:15.280 --> 00:56:19.519
very square, very small, very
black. Yeah. Yeah, this thing

862
00:56:19.639 --> 00:56:22.960
has has bells and whistles. Yeah. Carter and Lee head to the prison

863
00:56:22.079 --> 00:56:27.880
to talk to Clive Cod. Remember
Clive Cod played by Chris Penn and his

864
00:56:28.000 --> 00:56:34.639
distant cousin Carl Clownfish. Hah,
so Cod is immune to Carter's charms.

865
00:56:34.679 --> 00:56:37.920
He's like, fuck all the way
off, just like Elizabeth Panya. But

866
00:56:37.000 --> 00:56:40.400
then Lee offers genuine plea for help. He shows him a picture of the

867
00:56:40.400 --> 00:56:44.239
little girl, and he's like,
this little girl is missing. I don't

868
00:56:44.280 --> 00:56:47.559
care about anything but finding this little
girl. Please help me save her life.

869
00:56:47.719 --> 00:56:52.280
Clive Cod, even though he has
an arms dealer, Yeah, he's

870
00:56:52.320 --> 00:56:54.719
got a heart, particle heart under
all that seafore part of at least breast.

871
00:56:54.960 --> 00:56:59.679
Yeah. And Cod's like, Okay, the man I bought the sea

872
00:56:59.679 --> 00:57:05.679
four from was named June Toowoo.
Sorry I forgot I forgot about that twist

873
00:57:05.760 --> 00:57:08.559
startled me. He's like, I've
never seen the guy, don't know what

874
00:57:08.599 --> 00:57:12.360
he looks like, but I know
his name is Junete. He definitely does

875
00:57:12.400 --> 00:57:15.960
it look like Tom Wilkinson. He's
not a white guy named Tom Wilkinson.

876
00:57:16.079 --> 00:57:22.000
And he can be found at Fu
Chow restaurant. And I'm presuming Chinatown,

877
00:57:22.280 --> 00:57:25.039
Yeah, I would presume. Uh. And then he also tells Lee you

878
00:57:25.039 --> 00:57:28.840
should get rid of Carter A s
A P. He's going to get you

879
00:57:28.920 --> 00:57:30.519
killed. Yeah. I mean,
good advice all around, great advice.

880
00:57:30.559 --> 00:57:34.719
Clive Cod coming through in a pinch. Yeah. Yeah, much like his

881
00:57:35.079 --> 00:57:39.039
much like his cousin Prudence Piranha,
Yes, and his and his aunt Tony

882
00:57:39.079 --> 00:57:45.400
Tuna that you want to call Prudence
and Tony in a pinch, that's what

883
00:57:45.519 --> 00:57:51.880
you need. We cut to Fu
Chow restaurant and Carter tells Lee that they

884
00:57:51.880 --> 00:57:57.920
have to stake out the place before
going in. He puts on War Dude,

885
00:57:58.360 --> 00:58:02.559
what is it good? Absolutely nothing? Say it again? By Edwin

886
00:58:02.679 --> 00:58:10.559
Starr or by us Lane from seinfeldt. Yeah. The meaning He's like,

887
00:58:10.559 --> 00:58:14.480
we got to do a stakeout,
and I'm like, does this takeout usually

888
00:58:14.480 --> 00:58:19.440
mean keeping a low profile? Nothing
that we are about to describe is low

889
00:58:19.480 --> 00:58:22.039
profile. It also, I think
involves watching the thing that you're watching.

890
00:58:22.599 --> 00:58:25.679
Watching it. They're in the open
air, in a in a in a

891
00:58:25.840 --> 00:58:32.159
car with no top, openly loudly
singing War. Yeah. So Carter is

892
00:58:32.199 --> 00:58:36.480
surprised to find out that Lee knows
the song, and they start to bond.

893
00:58:36.920 --> 00:58:39.239
He teaches Lee how to say y'all, He shows him some dance moves.

894
00:58:39.559 --> 00:58:43.760
Lee shows him some martial arts moves
and how to disarm someone holding you

895
00:58:43.800 --> 00:58:45.679
at gun point. And this is
what the turning point in the movie for

896
00:58:45.760 --> 00:58:50.719
me. Yeah, because now after
after this point, they're gonna be basically

897
00:58:50.719 --> 00:58:52.840
the best of friends, are going
to get along. All of the weird

898
00:58:53.039 --> 00:58:58.079
racist comments are going to stop from
Carter and they're gonna be like a team

899
00:58:58.239 --> 00:59:01.079
trying to trying to save too young. Yeah, and that is something that

900
00:59:01.119 --> 00:59:05.599
I can root for as opposed to
someone just like grandstanding and thinking he deserves

901
00:59:05.599 --> 00:59:08.760
the world when he appears to be
a complete asshole. Yeah. I also

902
00:59:08.920 --> 00:59:12.920
just the like mechanics of taking the
gun away, like that whole bit.

903
00:59:13.000 --> 00:59:15.719
I could have watched it for a
while more. Oh yeah, like they

904
00:59:15.039 --> 00:59:17.480
kind of go buy it quickly,
and because he shows him how to do

905
00:59:17.519 --> 00:59:20.519
it, and I'm like, wait, but really, how do you do

906
00:59:20.519 --> 00:59:22.760
it? What if I'm ever held
a gun point I need to do this.

907
00:59:22.960 --> 00:59:24.480
They're also back in the sting ray. Do they just screw the steering

908
00:59:24.480 --> 00:59:27.519
wheel back on? Like? Is
that? Is it that easy? I

909
00:59:27.519 --> 00:59:30.079
think? So okay, I'm gonna
say yes, Wait, you've never unscrewed

910
00:59:30.079 --> 00:59:34.679
a steering wheel from a car in
years? Have you even lived? I

911
00:59:35.079 --> 00:59:37.679
came to New York so I had
I could stop unscrewing steering wheels and screwing

912
00:59:37.719 --> 00:59:40.159
the back on from cars because I
was doing it too much, too much

913
00:59:40.199 --> 00:59:43.519
too Yeah, it was becoming a
habit. Yeah. So back at the

914
00:59:43.559 --> 00:59:47.119
consoleate, the FBI prepares the drop
of the fifty million dollars in impossibly small

915
00:59:47.480 --> 00:59:52.760
small bills. Just the cases and
cases of money is very funny dollars.

916
00:59:52.159 --> 00:59:55.000
That's a million ten dollars dollars,
right, because he has for ten million

917
00:59:55.000 --> 01:00:00.760
and tens. Yeah, that's a
million ten dollars. If you really stop

918
01:00:00.840 --> 01:00:06.320
to think about it, it's hilarious. Sang calls and instructs them to take

919
01:00:06.320 --> 01:00:09.239
the money to the alley behind.
You will never fucking guess, Paul,

920
01:00:09.360 --> 01:00:15.920
where the food chow, where our
other two heroes are in the front.

921
01:00:15.559 --> 01:00:19.639
FBI is gonna work it from the
back there. Our two guys are gonna

922
01:00:19.639 --> 01:00:22.159
work it from the front. Because
you always want to work from both ends.

923
01:00:22.199 --> 01:00:23.679
Yes, spit roast this restaurant.
You want to, you want to.

924
01:00:23.760 --> 01:00:27.760
You want to make sure you get
You want to get all the zones

925
01:00:28.400 --> 01:00:31.480
and then you can high five and
Eiffel Tower. Yeah, exactly exactly.

926
01:00:31.480 --> 01:00:35.239
If you're gonna order some Chinese food, you don't want to do it from

927
01:00:35.239 --> 01:00:38.199
both sides. I think I've lost
I went too far, gone too far.

928
01:00:38.280 --> 01:00:42.039
We've got to bring it back.
I don't know what ordering Chinese it

929
01:00:42.199 --> 01:00:45.480
means in this analogy. I'm gonna
move back. I'm gonna move back.

930
01:00:45.199 --> 01:00:49.800
So meanwhile, Carter and Lee are
getting some street food I guess across the

931
01:00:49.800 --> 01:00:52.239
street from the restaurant. Carter of
course bitches about it, but then discovers

932
01:00:52.280 --> 01:00:55.320
it's good. He's eating eel.
I have to give him props, the

933
01:00:55.400 --> 01:00:58.760
character props, because he's like,
what is this? The other guy goes

934
01:00:58.800 --> 01:01:00.360
eel and he's like, looks gross, and then he eats it. He's

935
01:01:00.360 --> 01:01:04.199
like, oh no, it's good, and I'm like wow. I most

936
01:01:04.360 --> 01:01:07.800
most characters in movies would be written
to be like, ew eel, I'm

937
01:01:07.840 --> 01:01:12.639
not eating that. So this is
a man who lives in Los Angeles who

938
01:01:12.639 --> 01:01:16.760
has never had Chinese food. Huh. I never really thought about that.

939
01:01:16.800 --> 01:01:22.119
I assumed he never had like,
quote unquote authentic Chinese food. I'm sure

940
01:01:22.159 --> 01:01:24.320
he's had, like sure, sweet
and sour chicken maybe, but he doesn't

941
01:01:24.320 --> 01:01:25.920
go up to the he doesn't go
up to the stand. It's like,

942
01:01:25.960 --> 01:01:30.639
do you have any sweet and sour
chicken or sesame chicken or jerrial SaaS chicken,

943
01:01:30.719 --> 01:01:32.159
or sweet and sour pork or beef
and broccoli. He's like, do

944
01:01:32.199 --> 01:01:36.760
you have any burgers and fries?
Could you keep naming Chinese food please?

945
01:01:37.039 --> 01:01:46.599
Or egg rolls or dumplings or bow
or dim some or egg Foo young chicken

946
01:01:46.599 --> 01:01:53.800
and garlic sauce low Maine Chow Maine
chow fun cash you chicken, honey chicken.

947
01:01:54.280 --> 01:02:00.840
I like Chinese food, is what
I'm saying. Lee tells Carter that

948
01:02:01.000 --> 01:02:06.400
Juntao killed his partner, right yeah. Carter says that that's why I don't

949
01:02:06.400 --> 01:02:08.199
have a partner, not because I'm
an idiot it doesn't work well with others,

950
01:02:08.280 --> 01:02:12.079
but because I don't want my partner
to get killed. I don't.

951
01:02:12.159 --> 01:02:15.920
I've lost the thread here a little
bit. The both of them realize that

952
01:02:15.960 --> 01:02:19.840
both their fathers were cops, and
they immediately get into a very, I

953
01:02:19.920 --> 01:02:23.719
think, kind of adorable one upmanship
argument about whose great and famous father was

954
01:02:23.760 --> 01:02:28.760
the best of the great and famous
cop fathers. My cop arrested ten men

955
01:02:28.800 --> 01:02:31.559
in one day. Well, my
dad arrested fifty men by it himself.

956
01:02:32.519 --> 01:02:37.519
It only ends when they see Sang
heading into the restaurant PSA for this episode.

957
01:02:37.559 --> 01:02:42.360
If you are going to be like
a Captain of the Underworld, if

958
01:02:42.360 --> 01:02:45.960
you're going to be someone who perhaps
the police might be looking for or following,

959
01:02:45.559 --> 01:02:51.280
I wouldn't put a highlighter on my
head. Would I wouldn't dye my

960
01:02:51.480 --> 01:02:54.079
hair the yellowest shade of yellow that
ever yellow, the thing that's going to

961
01:02:54.119 --> 01:02:59.519
reflect all light because it is very
clear. They look across the street and

962
01:02:59.559 --> 01:03:01.559
there's one man with basically a tennis
ball in his head, and they're like,

963
01:03:01.559 --> 01:03:05.360
well, it's that. That's that's
what we're looking for. We're looking

964
01:03:05.440 --> 01:03:07.559
for, saying that's what that's who
we're looking for. He knows. I

965
01:03:07.559 --> 01:03:12.239
mean it looks cool, don't get
me wrong, but it's not inconspicuous.

966
01:03:12.360 --> 01:03:15.559
Yeah. Two more small points about
the food before we go on. One.

967
01:03:15.800 --> 01:03:19.559
Jackie Chan says he's eating camel's hump. So I tried to look this

968
01:03:19.679 --> 01:03:23.440
up. Everything about like does is
camel's hump a delicacy in China or everything

969
01:03:23.800 --> 01:03:28.400
just yields question people asking the same
question about this movie. So I don't

970
01:03:28.440 --> 01:03:30.239
know what the answer is. There. They have camels. I looked it

971
01:03:30.320 --> 01:03:34.440
up. They do have a like
in northern China, there are some like

972
01:03:34.480 --> 01:03:37.039
there's a specific type of count.
China is enormous, so they have every

973
01:03:37.119 --> 01:03:40.960
type of probably climate. So because
I imagine when I think China, I

974
01:03:40.960 --> 01:03:45.400
don't think like desert, and when
I think camel I think desert. To

975
01:03:45.440 --> 01:03:49.039
me, the then diagram doesn't quite
work. I agree. Yeah. And

976
01:03:49.119 --> 01:03:51.320
the other thing is, I don't
know if you noticed this. Do you

977
01:03:51.360 --> 01:03:54.400
notice that Chris Tucker definitely does not
know how to use chopsticks? Aha?

978
01:03:54.679 --> 01:04:00.760
No, He's holding the two chopsticks
like just like right next to each other

979
01:04:00.800 --> 01:04:04.480
in his hand. Paul's showing me
like perfectly parallel. Yeah, perfectly parallel.

980
01:04:04.480 --> 01:04:06.199
There's no way for him to move
it. And then when he has

981
01:04:06.239 --> 01:04:10.000
to like try the eel and say, oh it's good, he just like

982
01:04:10.079 --> 01:04:13.119
moves the container up to his mouth
and then brings it back down and then

983
01:04:13.159 --> 01:04:15.039
his like fake choose like two.
But it's like, oh it's good.

984
01:04:16.119 --> 01:04:18.400
Like I don't care, it's not
a big deal. It was just very

985
01:04:18.400 --> 01:04:20.719
funny that I was like, I
did know. I didn't you know,

986
01:04:20.800 --> 01:04:24.880
I didn't notice the chopsticks. I
noticed that the container was empty. My

987
01:04:25.000 --> 01:04:29.039
thing is when actors are holding food
or drinks in their hands and it's so

988
01:04:29.159 --> 01:04:32.159
clear that there's nothing in it,
they're just waving it around all willy nilly.

989
01:04:32.400 --> 01:04:36.760
Yeah yeah, all right. So, uh, Lee and Carter decide

990
01:04:36.800 --> 01:04:40.960
that Carter should go into the restaurant
first, hoping that no one will recognize

991
01:04:41.000 --> 01:04:43.719
him. He goes in. He
tells the hostess he needs to speak with

992
01:04:43.760 --> 01:04:49.079
mister Juntao. I'm I'm dying to
know what the plan is here, what

993
01:04:49.119 --> 01:04:53.920
the thought process was behind that?
Yeah, because oh, we forgot to

994
01:04:53.960 --> 01:04:58.480
mention he gives He gives Lee his
badge and his gun outside in case Lee

995
01:04:58.480 --> 01:05:00.039
should need them. He's like,
if I'm in there for long, too

996
01:05:00.079 --> 01:05:03.800
long, come in and say you're
lapd. Yeah. This is actually my

997
01:05:03.800 --> 01:05:08.039
favorite joke in the movie, and
it made me laugh because they do a

998
01:05:08.079 --> 01:05:11.840
close up on Chris Tucker's badge,
and it's this very silly picture of Chris

999
01:05:11.840 --> 01:05:14.920
Tucker, like when he's clearly much
younger, doesn't know what he's doing,

1000
01:05:15.119 --> 01:05:17.440
and they added like a mustache and
post, Yeah, he looks hilarious.

1001
01:05:17.440 --> 01:05:23.119
He looks ridiculous, Right, it
looks ridiculous. And Jackie Chan looks at

1002
01:05:23.119 --> 01:05:26.159
the picture and then looks at Chris
Tucker and goes, this will never work.

1003
01:05:26.639 --> 01:05:30.159
I'm not six' one excellent jock,
excellent, excellent Joe. Yeah.

1004
01:05:30.199 --> 01:05:34.000
So the hostess protests that she doesn't
know anyone by the name by the name

1005
01:05:34.079 --> 01:05:39.400
Juntao, but he insists that she
go upstairs and tell mister Juntoo that he's

1006
01:05:39.440 --> 01:05:42.679
there to speak with him. So
finally she does, and Carter takes his

1007
01:05:42.760 --> 01:05:46.320
seat at the table. Meanwhile,
upstairs, we see Sang speaking with Junetao,

1008
01:05:46.360 --> 01:05:49.320
who remains out of frame. We
don't know who Juntao is. We

1009
01:05:49.400 --> 01:05:53.840
must remember, huge surprise coming,
huge shocker when you find out. My

1010
01:05:53.920 --> 01:05:56.079
god, my god. Should we
tell them now that it's Judy Dench?

1011
01:05:56.679 --> 01:05:59.280
No, no, no, no, like savor the moment. Okay,

1012
01:05:59.280 --> 01:06:01.920
it's not Judy Dench, you guys, it's not. They start watching the

1013
01:06:01.960 --> 01:06:05.679
closed circuit cameras and we see Lee
come in and take a seat inside.

1014
01:06:06.400 --> 01:06:12.679
The camera spins around and reveals that
Juntao is actually hanging under your butts,

1015
01:06:12.719 --> 01:06:19.920
Melanie Griffith. Now it's Thomas Griffin
aka Tom Wilkinson. It's him. Surprise,

1016
01:06:19.960 --> 01:06:24.639
surprise. He tells them to move
Sue Young and make sure that Carter

1017
01:06:24.760 --> 01:06:29.000
and Lee don't leave. So the
hostess brings Lee some tea, and she

1018
01:06:29.039 --> 01:06:32.079
attempts to drug him by putting some
powder in his tea, and he's about

1019
01:06:32.079 --> 01:06:34.880
to drink it, but stops short
of drinking it when he notices that she's

1020
01:06:34.920 --> 01:06:39.000
wearing Sue Young's necklace, the one
that he gave her at the beginning of

1021
01:06:39.000 --> 01:06:41.639
the movie. Yeah, and he's
like, oh shit, so he stops

1022
01:06:41.679 --> 01:06:45.719
drinking, Thank goodness. Meanwhile,
Carter is escorted upstairs and he enters just

1023
01:06:45.760 --> 01:06:51.119
in time to see Griffin to Tom
Wilkinson on the CCTV outside. He doesn't

1024
01:06:51.159 --> 01:06:56.280
know who that is, Yeah,
but he's seen him right. Sang and

1025
01:06:56.320 --> 01:06:59.800
the other men surround him. But
when Sang pulls a gun, Carter demands

1026
01:06:59.800 --> 01:07:01.960
he fight like a man, put
your gun down, mano a mano.

1027
01:07:02.679 --> 01:07:05.800
Sang drops the gun. I really
didn't think he was gonna drop the gun.

1028
01:07:05.880 --> 01:07:10.039
That seems dumb. Just kill him, you're a businessman. Also,

1029
01:07:10.159 --> 01:07:13.480
what was the plan? There was
no plan? What was You were just

1030
01:07:13.559 --> 01:07:19.039
gonna walk in and Carter is the
worst. There was no He's just walking

1031
01:07:19.079 --> 01:07:24.320
in shouting, like out openly shouting
the name of the villain of the movie

1032
01:07:24.320 --> 01:07:28.000
that no one has ever seen,
and like demanding to see him. Yeah,

1033
01:07:28.199 --> 01:07:30.119
Like, what did you think was
going to happen? Yep? So

1034
01:07:30.199 --> 01:07:33.960
Sang drops the gun and they actually
do fight. A fight breaks out outside.

1035
01:07:34.039 --> 01:07:38.199
We see Lee swap outfits with a
waiter, and when we cut back

1036
01:07:38.239 --> 01:07:41.760
inside, Carter is being held hostage. Shockingly, he lost the fight.

1037
01:07:42.199 --> 01:07:45.559
Sang leaves and tells the other men
to kill Carter. Lee enters just in

1038
01:07:45.599 --> 01:07:48.800
time to help him, and after
a brief fight, the two flee back

1039
01:07:48.880 --> 01:07:53.039
down into the restaurant, which has
been cleared of customers because they hear the

1040
01:07:53.039 --> 01:07:57.079
fight going on upstairs. All the
customers leave. Lee pauses just to take

1041
01:07:57.159 --> 01:08:00.519
Sue Young's necklace from the server,
and the two barely flee ahead of the

1042
01:08:00.599 --> 01:08:04.679
restaurant exploding. I think because a
bullet goes into the air fryer, which

1043
01:08:04.679 --> 01:08:09.280
starts a fire, which causes the
oven to explode. I think that's what

1044
01:08:09.400 --> 01:08:12.840
happens, because I could not figure
out why the restaurant exploded, but I

1045
01:08:12.840 --> 01:08:15.840
think it's because of that. I
was like maybe in my brain, like

1046
01:08:15.880 --> 01:08:17.680
the bad guys were like, all
the evidence is in here, We've got

1047
01:08:17.680 --> 01:08:21.560
to just explode the place, including
all those waitresses and hostesses and a couple

1048
01:08:21.600 --> 01:08:25.039
of their men. Well that's what
makes some bad guys. Paul exactly,

1049
01:08:25.079 --> 01:08:28.520
I don't care. How did that
hostess get that necklace? Is this is

1050
01:08:28.560 --> 01:08:30.399
this? Is this a sister ac
situation where like Sang took her from the

1051
01:08:30.399 --> 01:08:32.720
girl and then it gave it terms
like hey, sweetheart, I brought you

1052
01:08:32.720 --> 01:08:36.159
this necklace. Yeah, yeah,
what a piece of shit? What a

1053
01:08:36.880 --> 01:08:40.680
you know what? I was on
your side saying I was rooting for you.

1054
01:08:40.800 --> 01:08:44.279
We're all rooting for you. What
if you were just a random person.

1055
01:08:44.319 --> 01:08:46.000
And like I always think about the
extras in these scenes and movies,

1056
01:08:46.079 --> 01:08:49.680
like, hey, honey, you
know it's a Tuesday night. Let's treat

1057
01:08:49.720 --> 01:08:54.199
ourselves to some Chinese food. Let's
go down to Foo Young or whatever the

1058
01:08:54.279 --> 01:08:58.520
name of this dress Trug Foo Chow
and get some of that delicious you know,

1059
01:08:59.159 --> 01:09:02.359
pork fry whatever. I have run
out of Chinese food because we name

1060
01:09:02.399 --> 01:09:08.439
them all. That's a new one. Pork fread, rice and soup.

1061
01:09:08.840 --> 01:09:15.239
And then like you know, you're
in noodles and you're just sitting in the

1062
01:09:15.279 --> 01:09:21.520
restaurant having your delicious meal. I
really like Chinese food. It's so good.

1063
01:09:21.600 --> 01:09:25.319
This is making me want it so
bad. Just egg rolls. You

1064
01:09:25.399 --> 01:09:28.840
could eat eggrolls all day every day. My new Chinese place doesn't do egg

1065
01:09:28.920 --> 01:09:32.560
rolls, which is very disappointing to
me. Yeah, oh no, because

1066
01:09:32.560 --> 01:09:35.680
that's the best part. I know
that's barely food, but I love it.

1067
01:09:35.800 --> 01:09:39.279
So much. Give me an egg
roll in a wanton soup. It's

1068
01:09:39.279 --> 01:09:41.920
a good night. That's a great
night. Yeah, that's a night.

1069
01:09:42.039 --> 01:09:45.760
Delicious egg drop soup, sweet and
sour soup. Again, I'm on a

1070
01:09:45.800 --> 01:09:51.960
spiral, so yeah, sorry,
I just like, what if you're like,

1071
01:09:53.039 --> 01:09:56.399
so, let's have a nice,
delicious meal together and those fucking gunfire

1072
01:09:56.479 --> 01:09:58.359
breaks out, You're like, this
is why we don't leave the house,

1073
01:09:58.399 --> 01:10:03.039
Harold. So our two heroes are
immediately gathered up outside of the explosion by

1074
01:10:03.079 --> 01:10:06.279
a none too please Russ and the
rest of the FBI, who are on

1075
01:10:06.279 --> 01:10:11.119
the scene to make the drop as
scheduled. Ye, the enormous enormous drop.

1076
01:10:11.279 --> 01:10:20.560
Yeah, Carter and Lee are Now
that's what I do after that's just

1077
01:10:20.640 --> 01:10:25.079
a joke. Chinese who doesn't upset
my tummy. I'm fine, well,

1078
01:10:25.079 --> 01:10:28.239
but if you need enough of anything, you're gonna have an enormous drop.

1079
01:10:29.560 --> 01:10:32.760
Carter and Lee are now persona non
grata. Fuck off. You both mess

1080
01:10:32.880 --> 01:10:36.439
up too much. Russ throws Carter
off the case, and Han tells Lee

1081
01:10:36.439 --> 01:10:40.319
that he's being sent back to Hong
Kong. But he's doing it. He

1082
01:10:40.319 --> 01:10:43.000
does it in that way where he's
like, I'm not mad, I'm just

1083
01:10:43.039 --> 01:10:45.800
disappointed. That actually makes it so
much work. It does, particularly from

1084
01:10:45.840 --> 01:10:50.479
Simah, who is paternal energy.
He gives off that like dad energy.

1085
01:10:50.520 --> 01:10:54.439
You're like, oh no, I've
disappointed him. I'm so sorry. Absolutely,

1086
01:10:54.920 --> 01:10:58.800
Carter rushes in and takes full responsibility. This is a real turning point

1087
01:10:58.840 --> 01:11:02.039
for the character. Yeah, because
he goes in and he knows that that

1088
01:11:02.159 --> 01:11:05.720
Lee is upset and like he it
wasn't Lee, it was him. Yeah,

1089
01:11:05.800 --> 01:11:09.239
it like really when the went in, they're half cocked. Yeah,

1090
01:11:09.279 --> 01:11:12.279
fucked everything up and fucked everything up
and all of that, and and so

1091
01:11:12.800 --> 01:11:15.399
he actually tries to take responsibility and
say it was it was my fault.

1092
01:11:15.720 --> 01:11:18.800
The character needs a couple of these
moments, so I'm glad they're giving it

1093
01:11:18.800 --> 01:11:24.159
to him. So uh Han says, look, it's too late for it's

1094
01:11:24.159 --> 01:11:27.359
too late for your apologies. This
is this is all ruined. Now.

1095
01:11:27.479 --> 01:11:30.239
I need you both gone, and
then Sang calls again, upping the ransom

1096
01:11:30.319 --> 01:11:34.680
to seventy million. He wants the
extra twenty million now in rolls of quarters.

1097
01:11:34.680 --> 01:11:36.560
He wants it. Yeah, I
was gonna say he wants he wants

1098
01:11:38.000 --> 01:11:45.000
four million one dollar bills, four
million in rolls of quarters. Twelve million

1099
01:11:45.119 --> 01:11:48.720
rolls of quarters. That's four million
dollars, right, I don't know.

1100
01:11:48.720 --> 01:11:53.359
I lost strack. I'm not good
at math. I'm good at naming Chinese

1101
01:11:53.359 --> 01:11:55.560
food dishes that I want to eat. And that's it. He wants.

1102
01:11:55.640 --> 01:12:00.039
He wants the rest in in bitcoin. Set you on Chicken Sasha, Chicken

1103
01:12:01.319 --> 01:12:06.239
A. He tells them the new
drop will be arranged for the following night.

1104
01:12:06.439 --> 01:12:11.359
Yeah. The next day, Lee
is driven to Lax and Carter heads

1105
01:12:11.359 --> 01:12:15.039
home. Meanwhile, Griffin arrives at
the Consulate to comfort Han. That is

1106
01:12:15.199 --> 01:12:19.359
that's Tom Wilkinson aka Adrian Tao aka
Griffin. He's gonna and remember he and

1107
01:12:19.359 --> 01:12:23.680
Han are friends, they work together
fifteen years. So he arrives to comfort

1108
01:12:23.760 --> 01:12:27.319
him, and we see another phone
call where Han is directed to be at

1109
01:12:27.319 --> 01:12:30.439
the Chinese Art Expo that night to
make the drop. We cut to Johnson

1110
01:12:30.560 --> 01:12:35.399
making herself breakfast, absolutely having the
best time. Making your If I could

1111
01:12:35.439 --> 01:12:41.199
ever have this much fun making myself
breakfast a win? Did you watch the

1112
01:12:41.239 --> 01:12:45.079
film with subtitles on? Yeah?
I always watch everything when we're with close

1113
01:12:45.119 --> 01:12:48.479
captioning on if I can when we're
doing the show, The closed captioning person

1114
01:12:48.560 --> 01:12:58.479
wrote listening to soul music. You
a little days to Sunshine Vans get down

1115
01:12:58.520 --> 01:13:01.800
tonight, and I'm like, that
is not soul music at all. What

1116
01:13:01.840 --> 01:13:08.159
are you talking about? The close
captioning person does not understand music all at

1117
01:13:08.159 --> 01:13:15.159
all at all. So Carter calls
her and he apologizes for being himself essentially,

1118
01:13:15.600 --> 01:13:17.880
and he asks for her help in
saving Sue Young, and she agrees

1119
01:13:17.920 --> 01:13:21.920
to find out where the console will
be to make the drop that night because

1120
01:13:21.920 --> 01:13:25.439
she still has an in at the
LAPD. All right, I have to

1121
01:13:25.520 --> 01:13:30.119
I have to say this now.
Carter and Lee are currently in possession of

1122
01:13:30.239 --> 01:13:34.640
zero pieces of information that the FBI
does not have. Technically, Carter knows

1123
01:13:35.039 --> 01:13:39.600
that Griffin is Jentao, but he
does not know who Griffin is, so

1124
01:13:39.640 --> 01:13:44.399
he doesn't know that he knows that
connect. So it's not like I don't

1125
01:13:44.439 --> 01:13:49.199
know why they wouldn't have them find
something out at the restaurant. Then when

1126
01:13:49.239 --> 01:13:53.960
he's trying to do the right thing
and tell them, they're refusing to listen

1127
01:13:54.000 --> 01:13:58.800
to him, and that requires him
to go rogue again in order to So,

1128
01:13:59.239 --> 01:14:00.720
Oh, they're going to tell you
it's at the Chinese Art Expo,

1129
01:14:00.800 --> 01:14:05.119
but the girl is actually going to
be at you know, I don't know,

1130
01:14:05.159 --> 01:14:08.640
the parking garage four blocks away.
Yeah, it's something like that.

1131
01:14:08.680 --> 01:14:12.279
And they're not listening to him.
I don't know why, because he will

1132
01:14:12.279 --> 01:14:14.079
now go on to be like we're
the only two who can save her,

1133
01:14:14.079 --> 01:14:16.960
and it's like why. He really
genuinely does have a piece of information that

1134
01:14:17.039 --> 01:14:20.000
literally no one else in the movie
has, and the movie does not even

1135
01:14:20.159 --> 01:14:24.439
try to try. It doesn't even
go there, right, it's so dumb.

1136
01:14:26.560 --> 01:14:30.479
So Carter heads to Lax. He
gets a service uniform from someone at

1137
01:14:30.479 --> 01:14:32.600
the airport. He boards the plane. Oh, pre nine to eleven,

1138
01:14:32.880 --> 01:14:36.399
and anyone can just board a plane. He boards the plane headed for Hong

1139
01:14:36.479 --> 01:14:40.800
Kong. He finds Lee and he
tells them we've got to get back on

1140
01:14:40.840 --> 01:14:43.399
the case. And Lee is like, no, you are a disgrace to

1141
01:14:43.479 --> 01:14:47.159
your father. Ouch, yeah,
way harshhy. This conversation is going to

1142
01:14:47.520 --> 01:14:53.199
strain to make a point. It
does not succeed, but it does try.

1143
01:14:53.520 --> 01:14:57.680
Carter tells Lee that his father was
killed making a routine stop because his

1144
01:14:57.720 --> 01:15:00.840
partner didn't get out of the car
to back him. That's why he doesn't

1145
01:15:00.920 --> 01:15:04.560
like to work with a partner.
But earlier in the movie, it certainly

1146
01:15:04.560 --> 01:15:08.479
seemed like he didn't want to have
a partner because he didn't want to be

1147
01:15:08.560 --> 01:15:12.479
responsible for someone else's life. Yeah, and potentially get that person killed.

1148
01:15:12.760 --> 01:15:15.359
Now is the opposite of that.
Yeah. So Lee's like, do you

1149
01:15:15.399 --> 01:15:17.359
think your father wasted his life and
died for nothing? And Carter's like,

1150
01:15:17.520 --> 01:15:20.199
well, prove me wrong. Yeah, you're right. Makes no sense,

1151
01:15:20.239 --> 01:15:23.319
It makes no sense. None of
this is important. None of it is

1152
01:15:23.319 --> 01:15:26.319
important. None of it matters.
It should matter because it's the crux of

1153
01:15:26.359 --> 01:15:29.760
the of the character, but the
character. It's an action movie. The

1154
01:15:29.840 --> 01:15:32.920
character doesn't really matter. Only the
great action movies are where the character matters.

1155
01:15:33.159 --> 01:15:35.920
Yeah. Again, this conversation would
be so much easier if they were

1156
01:15:35.920 --> 01:15:40.640
in possession of a piece of information
that no one else had and knew they

1157
01:15:40.640 --> 01:15:44.680
were in possession of it. Just
saying what if he came to the plane

1158
01:15:44.680 --> 01:15:47.000
and Lee was looking through photos as
soon Young and he saw in the background

1159
01:15:47.039 --> 01:15:49.439
he saw Thomas Griffin. He was
like, I know that guy. That

1160
01:15:49.479 --> 01:15:55.119
guy was and then yeah, activated
what if Thomas Griffin was on the news

1161
01:15:55.119 --> 01:15:58.000
being interviewed about the Chinese art expo. Yeah, and He's like, wait

1162
01:15:58.039 --> 01:16:00.760
a minute, that's June too.
Yeah, should we move to La and

1163
01:16:00.760 --> 01:16:03.039
B script doctors. I really think
we should. I really think we should.

1164
01:16:04.520 --> 01:16:08.520
We cut to the Chinese art expo, which sadly does not have any

1165
01:16:08.600 --> 01:16:15.680
Chinese food, and the artifacts that
were recovered from Juntao in the original raid

1166
01:16:16.079 --> 01:16:21.119
from when the movie started are all
on display. Russ and and Han or

1167
01:16:21.119 --> 01:16:25.119
there. Russ is like, look, I'm gonna go make the drop and

1168
01:16:25.159 --> 01:16:29.960
he leaves Han with Griffin and another
agent. We see Sang. He's masquerading

1169
01:16:29.960 --> 01:16:32.039
as a waiter. Now, no
one has ever looked less like a cater

1170
01:16:32.119 --> 01:16:36.520
waiter he's got in this movie.
We talked about it. He also has

1171
01:16:36.520 --> 01:16:40.520
like a scar going down his cheek
because he's the villain of the movie.

1172
01:16:40.920 --> 01:16:44.960
It's just again if I saw that
person at a caterwaiter event and I was

1173
01:16:45.000 --> 01:16:47.039
like, excuse me, can you
pass me a crab pum? You know

1174
01:16:47.079 --> 01:16:49.800
what? Never mind? No,
No, I don't need anything. I'm

1175
01:16:50.199 --> 01:16:53.840
I'm good. Sorry, my apologies. Do you want me to hold the

1176
01:16:53.880 --> 01:16:55.880
tray. I'll hold the tray for
you. Yeah, do you have any

1177
01:16:55.880 --> 01:17:02.680
scallion pancakes? So Carter, Lee
and Johnson arrive just as Han begins his

1178
01:17:02.760 --> 01:17:06.520
welcome address. He starts out well, then he gets choked up because he

1179
01:17:06.600 --> 01:17:10.159
mentions that now that they have recovered
all this art, in all of this

1180
01:17:10.279 --> 01:17:13.439
history, they can pass it on
to their children, and he can't get

1181
01:17:13.520 --> 01:17:16.479
children out because he's so worried about
his daughter. Griffin stands up to take

1182
01:17:16.520 --> 01:17:20.119
his place, and Carter finally recognizes
him. It finally gets a chance to

1183
01:17:20.159 --> 01:17:25.439
see this guy that he saw on
the CCTV at Fuchow restaurant. So Carter

1184
01:17:25.560 --> 01:17:29.000
decides it needs to clear everyone out
of the expo, reasoning that anyone who

1185
01:17:29.039 --> 01:17:31.479
stays behind must have a reason for
it. Right. That's actually pretty good.

1186
01:17:31.520 --> 01:17:34.199
That's the best bit of police where
he does the entire movie. So

1187
01:17:34.239 --> 01:17:39.359
he stands on a pedestal in the
middle of Tom Wilka's in speech and shouts

1188
01:17:39.359 --> 01:17:43.359
to everyone that there's a bomb.
Everyone be calm, be cautious, leave

1189
01:17:43.399 --> 01:17:45.279
the building, and everyone's kind of
standing there and he's like, bitious move.

1190
01:17:46.039 --> 01:17:48.359
At one point he says, titty, titty, titty, get them

1191
01:17:48.359 --> 01:17:53.800
titties out of here. He does, did I have a blackout while I

1192
01:17:53.880 --> 01:18:00.960
was watching this? I did not
remember that? Lee watches his gryffin heads

1193
01:18:00.039 --> 01:18:04.840
to sang and takes a detonator just
like the one he recovered from the restaurant

1194
01:18:04.840 --> 01:18:12.079
from Fuchau and realizes that Gryffin is
Junetao Yep. Lee rushes towards Griffin,

1195
01:18:12.159 --> 01:18:15.399
but Griffin realizes the jig is up
and he holds the detonator out and he

1196
01:18:15.399 --> 01:18:18.760
announces that six blocks of C four
are wired to Sue Young right outside.

1197
01:18:19.439 --> 01:18:24.520
Everyone freezes. He villain splains how
all the art on display was once in

1198
01:18:24.520 --> 01:18:28.079
his possession, but tonight he will
be paid in full, so he has

1199
01:18:28.119 --> 01:18:31.760
decided to wreak this revenge because Lee
messed up his shipment of all of this

1200
01:18:31.880 --> 01:18:34.600
art that he had stolen, and
he wants to get paid for the art

1201
01:18:34.600 --> 01:18:39.840
that he originally stole. Sang holds
Lee at gunpoint, but Carter manages to

1202
01:18:39.880 --> 01:18:44.079
sneak away Outside. Carter takes out
the man guarding the white band and finds

1203
01:18:44.119 --> 01:18:46.680
Sue Young tied up and hooded in
the back. He tells her he's going

1204
01:18:46.720 --> 01:18:49.279
to take the best off, and
she tells him through tears that no,

1205
01:18:49.279 --> 01:18:53.199
no, no, you can't.
I heard them say it's wired to explode

1206
01:18:53.199 --> 01:18:56.479
if anyone tries to remove it.
This kid is bright. Yeah, love

1207
01:18:56.520 --> 01:19:00.479
this kid. Yeah. A helicopter
approaches and Gryffin announces that he's ready to

1208
01:19:00.479 --> 01:19:01.840
call it an evening, right.
He's like, well, thank you,

1209
01:19:01.880 --> 01:19:05.079
folks, has been fun. Gotta
go. It's been fun extorting everyone for

1210
01:19:05.159 --> 01:19:12.399
seventy million dollars and impossibly small bills. This will become a problem for him

1211
01:19:12.399 --> 01:19:14.720
because he's not gonna be able to
carry all of it. Why why do

1212
01:19:14.800 --> 01:19:16.199
you ask for the small bills?
Why do you have the small bills.

1213
01:19:16.359 --> 01:19:19.239
There's a reason they asked for big
bills. There's a reason people have Swiss

1214
01:19:19.279 --> 01:19:23.399
bank accounts. That's what this shit
is for. Yeah. At that moment,

1215
01:19:23.479 --> 01:19:27.159
Carter drives a van through the front
window, giving Lee a chance to

1216
01:19:27.239 --> 01:19:30.319
dive behind some of the displays.
Carter shouts that he's got something for Junetao

1217
01:19:30.399 --> 01:19:33.880
and appears with Sue Young So the
little girl, who's like basically a walking

1218
01:19:33.920 --> 01:19:39.199
bomb at this point. I love
this scene because he's like, go ahead,

1219
01:19:39.279 --> 01:19:41.479
pull the trigger, kill us all, and it's like, what are

1220
01:19:41.520 --> 01:19:44.680
you doing? And he and the
little girl kind of catches on to what

1221
01:19:44.680 --> 01:19:46.520
he's doing, and she's like,
yeah, do it, pull the fucking

1222
01:19:46.560 --> 01:19:50.199
drink. She doesn't say fucking,
but like it's that that tenor and I'm

1223
01:19:50.199 --> 01:19:53.880
like, I love this kid.
She's like, he isn't gonna do it.

1224
01:19:53.960 --> 01:19:57.319
He's you're right, yeah, because
he's in the blast radius now exactly.

1225
01:19:57.600 --> 01:20:00.359
So Griffin tel saying, just you
know what, you fucking deal with

1226
01:20:00.399 --> 01:20:02.960
this, and he bitches out,
what is the deal with Henchman? At

1227
01:20:02.960 --> 01:20:05.800
what point when your boss is like
you deal with this and leaves, are

1228
01:20:05.800 --> 01:20:10.520
you like, I'm good, I'm
good. No, Actually, this is

1229
01:20:10.560 --> 01:20:14.279
more of a U problem. This
is outside my pay grade. Things appear

1230
01:20:14.319 --> 01:20:16.520
to be shifting. The wind appears
to be going against you at the moment,

1231
01:20:16.760 --> 01:20:20.359
so bullets start flying everywhere. Lee
grabs Sue Young and puts her in

1232
01:20:20.359 --> 01:20:26.520
the back of the van with Johnson
there. Remember she is a bomb expert

1233
01:20:27.239 --> 01:20:30.439
diffusing bombs, so she is there
to get the safety vest off, which

1234
01:20:30.520 --> 01:20:33.279
she does, but the remote could
still set it off. So the girl

1235
01:20:33.359 --> 01:20:36.640
is safe, But there is still
a bomb in this building that will explode

1236
01:20:36.680 --> 01:20:41.720
like the whole block, yeah,
if it goes off. The firefight continues

1237
01:20:41.800 --> 01:20:45.720
as Griffin appears behind Russ. Remember
Russ went upstairs to do the drop,

1238
01:20:45.800 --> 01:20:48.600
so he's with all of the money
and there's a couple other FBI agents in

1239
01:20:48.600 --> 01:20:53.800
the room. Griffin shoots all of
them and takes one one thing of cash.

1240
01:20:53.840 --> 01:20:56.920
I'm guessing maybe like four million dollars
at most. At most, it

1241
01:20:57.000 --> 01:21:00.600
sends only if he got the twenty
dollars box. Yeah, if he got

1242
01:21:00.600 --> 01:21:04.880
the suitcase with the fives or the
rolls of quarters. Tough draw. He's

1243
01:21:04.880 --> 01:21:10.119
walking out of there with like twenty
seven grand tops at the most, and

1244
01:21:10.239 --> 01:21:15.399
maybe a peaking duck. I wouldn't
say no to a peaking duck. Meanwhile,

1245
01:21:15.560 --> 01:21:17.960
Lee has the bomb vest and spots
Griffin making his escape. So the

1246
01:21:18.319 --> 01:21:21.760
Expost Center, the La Spot Center
is obviously you've ever been in an expo

1247
01:21:21.840 --> 01:21:25.760
center, it's high, high,
high ceilings, all glass, and there's

1248
01:21:25.800 --> 01:21:30.079
these exposed rafters up there. So
he sees Griffin making his escape, he

1249
01:21:30.079 --> 01:21:33.359
heads to stop him. He's interrupted
by various physical fights where he not only

1250
01:21:33.439 --> 01:21:36.840
defeats multiple attackers but struggles to save
the art pieces as well. It's a

1251
01:21:36.920 --> 01:21:41.800
very funny moment where he goes through
this incredibly long thing of trying to save

1252
01:21:41.800 --> 01:21:44.399
this one vase and he does save
it and he turns around someone shoots it

1253
01:21:44.439 --> 01:21:47.760
immediately. It's funny. That was
my second biggest laughing. Yeah yeah.

1254
01:21:47.800 --> 01:21:55.960
He eventually puts the vest on an
interesting choice, yeah yeah, and he

1255
01:21:56.039 --> 01:21:59.800
starts to climb up into the exposed
rafters where he spotted Griffin heading for the

1256
01:21:59.800 --> 01:22:03.520
hell So Griffin is on like this
balcony platform thing. Lee is trying to

1257
01:22:03.520 --> 01:22:06.680
get to him by taking a short
cut by walking through all these rafters.

1258
01:22:06.920 --> 01:22:10.920
Yeah. So Sang heads for the
money room and starts to gather some of

1259
01:22:10.920 --> 01:22:15.840
the leftover cash, the thousands and
thousands of thousands of bills of leftover cash.

1260
01:22:15.199 --> 01:22:19.439
Russ moans on the ground and Sang
spins around, but Carter arrives and

1261
01:22:19.479 --> 01:22:23.800
Sang trains his gun on Russ and
threatens to kill him, and Carter's like,

1262
01:22:24.199 --> 01:22:27.720
I don't like him anyway, go
ahead. Yeah, Sang like calls

1263
01:22:27.760 --> 01:22:30.720
his bluff and is like, put
down the gun and fight like a man

1264
01:22:30.800 --> 01:22:33.399
like we did before, And they
negotiate placing the weapons down. At the

1265
01:22:33.399 --> 01:22:36.079
same time. I really, really
really thought one of them was going to

1266
01:22:36.159 --> 01:22:40.560
keep their gun. Yeah, the
way they do. They do drop the

1267
01:22:40.600 --> 01:22:43.720
guns at a certain point though,
like the loaded gun. Just don't do

1268
01:22:43.800 --> 01:22:45.960
that. One of which is like
an automatic, yeah, like an UZI

1269
01:22:46.079 --> 01:22:49.239
And I'm like I don't think that
should hit the floor. I prefer it

1270
01:22:49.239 --> 01:22:55.239
didn't, frankly. Yeah. So
they drop their loaded guns and Sang immediately

1271
01:22:55.359 --> 01:22:59.800
draws another one from like his boot
and takes a shot, but Carter throws

1272
01:22:59.840 --> 01:23:03.920
him himself backward and shoots Sang dead
from his ankle. Hoster, so they

1273
01:23:03.960 --> 01:23:09.159
both had backup guns. Backup guns. Yeah, gotta have a backup gun.

1274
01:23:09.279 --> 01:23:13.039
Yeah. After after he kills Saying, he says, wipe yourself off,

1275
01:23:13.079 --> 01:23:15.760
man, you're dead, because earlier
in the movie when he Sang beat

1276
01:23:15.840 --> 01:23:18.960
him up and he had blood on
his face, he sang through like something

1277
01:23:19.159 --> 01:23:23.359
like a napkin or whatever and was
like, wipe yourself off. Oh I

1278
01:23:23.399 --> 01:23:26.159
missed that. You've got blood on
your face. I see. But this

1279
01:23:26.319 --> 01:23:30.279
is not a direct like this,
This is not a good comeback. Yeah,

1280
01:23:30.319 --> 01:23:31.640
okay, because I was like,
I don't get it. Yeah,

1281
01:23:31.720 --> 01:23:34.159
I know it's a singer, but
I don't get it. Yeah, it's

1282
01:23:33.880 --> 01:23:36.880
it's a callback, but it's not
a good one. It's it's not it's

1283
01:23:36.880 --> 01:23:41.560
not a proper one. Yeah.
Yeah, all right, So we cut

1284
01:23:41.560 --> 01:23:44.880
back to the rafters. Griffin is
shooting it Lee until he's out of bullets.

1285
01:23:44.880 --> 01:23:47.399
While Lee crawls across the rafters to
cut him off. Just as he

1286
01:23:47.439 --> 01:23:51.119
gets the platform, Griffin winds up
and hits him with this suitcase full of

1287
01:23:51.159 --> 01:23:56.039
money, but Lee manages to hold
onto the railing. Griffin winds up and

1288
01:23:56.119 --> 01:23:59.720
hits him again, but this time
the suitcase opens and all the money falls

1289
01:23:59.760 --> 01:24:03.319
out, causing Griffin to overbalance and
pitch over the ledge. They wind up

1290
01:24:03.319 --> 01:24:06.520
with Lee holding onto one of the
rafters. It's a circle, so there's

1291
01:24:06.560 --> 01:24:10.399
not even like a grip that he
need. He's just holding onto the circular

1292
01:24:10.520 --> 01:24:15.199
pipe thing. Griffin is holding on
to him. Griffin tries to climb up

1293
01:24:15.239 --> 01:24:18.199
and he grabs onto the Sea four
vest. They're both over a death drop.

1294
01:24:18.600 --> 01:24:21.680
He hooks his hands into the seafoar
vest, which is unfortunately not well

1295
01:24:21.680 --> 01:24:25.079
made. You know, you never
think about that, you know, you

1296
01:24:25.119 --> 01:24:29.479
don't think about the the structural integrity, the craftsmanship. Yeah, in the

1297
01:24:29.600 --> 01:24:31.399
in the garment itself, that's right, that's right. Yeah, you want

1298
01:24:31.399 --> 01:24:34.199
to get an ll bean vest for
this kind of thing. Ll Bean takes

1299
01:24:34.199 --> 01:24:38.520
a looking keeps on ticking. Yeah, yeah, craps a Patagonia why not,

1300
01:24:38.760 --> 01:24:43.119
yeah, yeah, it rips and
Griffin falls to his death. Holding

1301
01:24:43.159 --> 01:24:45.520
the sea four that C four goes
through a fair I don't know that C

1302
01:24:45.640 --> 01:24:49.000
four can be set off by contact, but it goes through a lot of

1303
01:24:49.079 --> 01:24:55.279
jostling, way more than I would
feel comfortable with. So Lee is now

1304
01:24:55.520 --> 01:24:58.880
still clinging to this like rafter this
pipe, and he's like slipping, and

1305
01:24:58.920 --> 01:25:04.199
he begs Carter to help. Carter
grabs an enormous banner and like holds it

1306
01:25:04.279 --> 01:25:09.479
underneath Lee, like he pivots it
so that when Lee falls, it acts

1307
01:25:09.520 --> 01:25:12.800
like a slide. It's a cool
effect. I don't know if it works.

1308
01:25:13.359 --> 01:25:16.079
It'd be funny if he did it
well, because that's what I was

1309
01:25:16.079 --> 01:25:20.800
like, also, like, there's
no way Carter is strong enough to hold

1310
01:25:20.840 --> 01:25:25.399
it while after Lee falls on it, like he would immediately drop it.

1311
01:25:25.399 --> 01:25:28.680
It would go it would go straight, it would go vertical, and Lee

1312
01:25:28.720 --> 01:25:30.399
would fall to his death. Anyway, I'm like, you know what,

1313
01:25:30.439 --> 01:25:32.600
it's a movie. Let it go, whatever, let it go. This

1314
01:25:32.680 --> 01:25:39.680
wasn't written by physic by bysists.
Imagine if they made an action movie actually

1315
01:25:39.680 --> 01:25:43.920
made like written by physicists who were
like no, no, no, this

1316
01:25:43.960 --> 01:25:46.199
wouldn't work because of X, Y
and Z. It was like seventeen years

1317
01:25:46.199 --> 01:25:49.880
to get anything done. So Lee
winds up crashing into Carter, which Carter,

1318
01:25:50.000 --> 01:25:55.159
of course has a gay panic moment
about why come on. Although I'm

1319
01:25:55.199 --> 01:25:58.800
gonna give it the movie a very
slight pass, Lee crashes into Carter.

1320
01:25:59.199 --> 01:26:00.600
Carter's like, get off me,
and then he kisses him on the cheek

1321
01:26:00.640 --> 01:26:04.279
and says thank you, and that
seems okay, yes, but then he

1322
01:26:04.319 --> 01:26:08.640
has to go to the point of
wiping his cheek off. Oh well,

1323
01:26:08.720 --> 01:26:12.560
you know what. To be fair, Jackie Chan is very slobberary. He's

1324
01:26:12.600 --> 01:26:15.359
a wet kiss if you ever noticed, he's a very wet kisser. I

1325
01:26:15.399 --> 01:26:17.840
know. Every time I've made out
with Jackie Chan, Frank, I found

1326
01:26:17.840 --> 01:26:21.279
it a bit dry, a bit
oh on the dry side. Really anytime

1327
01:26:21.359 --> 01:26:25.399
I've never made out with Jackie Chan, but anytime I've just spoken to him

1328
01:26:25.600 --> 01:26:28.800
and I'm not at least six feet
apart, it feels like I'm getting rained

1329
01:26:28.800 --> 01:26:30.760
on. Oh wow, yeah,
interesting, interesting, different, different.

1330
01:26:30.880 --> 01:26:34.039
Maybe maybe he speaks to you right
before he makes out with me. He's

1331
01:26:34.039 --> 01:26:39.399
out of expectorate by the time.
That's probably it. He usually double book

1332
01:26:39.479 --> 01:26:42.239
Jackie back to back, back to
back with us. Yeah, yeah,

1333
01:26:42.279 --> 01:26:46.520
totally. So in the aftermath Hans
thanks Lee and Sue Young the fucking cutest

1334
01:26:46.560 --> 01:26:49.159
kid in the world. It like
punches him in the gut and it's like,

1335
01:26:49.159 --> 01:26:53.399
what took you so long? I
love this kid. He gives her

1336
01:26:53.479 --> 01:26:57.239
back her necklace and then she hugs
him. It's extremely sweet. Yeah,

1337
01:26:57.279 --> 01:27:00.279
we cut to Lax A couple of
days. A couple of weeks later something

1338
01:27:00.319 --> 01:27:03.000
like that. Carter is hitting on
an airline worker and Russ appears and offers

1339
01:27:03.079 --> 01:27:06.800
him a place of the FBI.
Hey he did good. Carter tells them

1340
01:27:06.880 --> 01:27:12.560
to shove their offer up their asses, which is pretty satisfying, and he

1341
01:27:12.560 --> 01:27:15.640
heads onto the plane. He is
in first class. He sits down next

1342
01:27:15.640 --> 01:27:18.159
to his best friendly. They are
on their way to a vacation in Hong

1343
01:27:18.239 --> 01:27:21.239
Kong that Han is sending them on
as a thank you for their work and

1344
01:27:21.239 --> 01:27:26.960
saving his daughter. They are simpatico
for about thirty seconds before they start getting

1345
01:27:27.000 --> 01:27:31.680
on each other's nerves. There is
a moment here where the airline attendant comes

1346
01:27:31.760 --> 01:27:39.000
up and offers them something in Chinese, peanuts or whatever, and Carter responds

1347
01:27:39.000 --> 01:27:42.439
in Chinese and Lee's like, you
didn't tell me you spoke Chinese, and

1348
01:27:42.439 --> 01:27:44.479
they do the flip of the joke
of like, well, you just assumed

1349
01:27:44.520 --> 01:27:46.760
I didn't speak Chinese, and I
am just forced to remind everyone that this

1350
01:27:46.840 --> 01:27:51.079
is a man who has never had
Chinese food before, but he speaks Chinese.

1351
01:27:51.159 --> 01:27:58.600
He's just because he's never had camel
home. There's also a line here

1352
01:27:58.640 --> 01:28:01.039
where he's like, how long is
this news? Fifteen hours? Fifteen hours?

1353
01:28:01.159 --> 01:28:03.000
Yeah, what are we gonna do
it for? Fifteen hours? And

1354
01:28:03.039 --> 01:28:08.880
I realized, oh, this is
before planes had like individual movie screens.

1355
01:28:09.199 --> 01:28:13.199
Man flying every book, fly us
to be roof Yeah, real roof stoof.

1356
01:28:13.439 --> 01:28:18.399
Yeah. The credits role as a
genuinely charming blooper reel place. This

1357
01:28:18.439 --> 01:28:21.760
is a Jackie Chan special. All
of his films have blooper reels at the

1358
01:28:21.840 --> 01:28:26.239
end to show you the mistakes.
Yeah, and there. It's always fantastic.

1359
01:28:26.279 --> 01:28:29.840
If you want to just go on
YouTube google Jackie Chan blooper reel,

1360
01:28:30.000 --> 01:28:32.560
it is probably hours worth of content. Yeah, it's excellent, great way

1361
01:28:32.560 --> 01:28:35.119
to spend a Tuesday night. This
one's very charming. My favorite part of

1362
01:28:35.119 --> 01:28:41.520
this blooper reel was that moment where
Chris Tucker has to speak Chinese or Mandarin

1363
01:28:41.920 --> 01:28:46.000
and he keeps fucking it up.
Jackie Chan looks so satisfied. He's like,

1364
01:28:46.079 --> 01:28:48.880
see, it's not so hard learning
a second language, is it.

1365
01:28:49.560 --> 01:28:54.359
My favorite moment is where Chris Tucker
proved that he genuinely does not know who

1366
01:28:54.479 --> 01:28:58.039
Bill Clinton's Daughter's name is. By
the way, in nineteen ninety eight,

1367
01:28:58.239 --> 01:29:01.039
Chelsea Clinton had been in the White
House with her family for six years.

1368
01:29:01.600 --> 01:29:04.880
What's her name? Kelsey, Kelsey, Kelsey Grammar. He calls her like

1369
01:29:04.960 --> 01:29:13.279
and he's not choking, genuinely doesn't
know Chelsea Clinton's name. So that is

1370
01:29:13.319 --> 01:29:15.800
the end of Rush Hour. Stick
around. We will be right back after

1371
01:29:15.840 --> 01:29:30.760
a couple of messages to give you
our random observations and final rankings. And

1372
01:29:30.920 --> 01:29:34.399
we're back, Paul, give me
some random observations on Rush Hour. Okay,

1373
01:29:34.520 --> 01:29:39.199
So there is one moment near the
end that we just need to just

1374
01:29:39.319 --> 01:29:42.560
need to mention y who knows that
we noticed it. They're going to Hong

1375
01:29:42.640 --> 01:29:45.680
Kong, and Chris Tucker of course
has to say, I want to get

1376
01:29:45.680 --> 01:29:49.720
me one of them special massages.
Yeah, yeah, sir. First of

1377
01:29:49.760 --> 01:29:53.239
all, you can get one of
those here, like, let's be honest,

1378
01:29:53.560 --> 01:29:56.720
Yeah, you don't need to go
to Hong Kong for one. But

1379
01:29:56.800 --> 01:30:00.359
also Ross. Yeah, no,
yeah, that wasd Yeah, he's like,

1380
01:30:00.680 --> 01:30:02.359
I'm gonna get a massage, and
like the way he said it,

1381
01:30:02.560 --> 01:30:04.960
that's I know, that's not what
I felt it. I know what you

1382
01:30:05.000 --> 01:30:08.920
meant, sir. Since we're gonna
start there with the with the racism,

1383
01:30:09.439 --> 01:30:14.000
there's a lot of like slur is
not even really quite the word I would

1384
01:30:14.039 --> 01:30:17.640
use. There's a lot of like
dumb racist things said toward Jackie Chan by

1385
01:30:17.720 --> 01:30:23.479
other characters in the movie, specifically
by uh like harder by like the beginning

1386
01:30:23.479 --> 01:30:26.319
of the movie, but because the
movie doesn't want to go hard on it,

1387
01:30:26.319 --> 01:30:30.399
it's not hard slurs. Yeah,
like silly ones. And my favorite

1388
01:30:30.399 --> 01:30:34.159
of the silly ones is he calls
him mister ras Roney the San Francisco treat.

1389
01:30:34.359 --> 01:30:40.479
Yeah, he's out of San Francisco. But I don't know why.

1390
01:30:40.520 --> 01:30:42.920
I'm like, I mean, if
you're gonna if you're gonna be racist to

1391
01:30:42.920 --> 01:30:45.199
someone, at least do it in
a way that's kind of that's kind of

1392
01:30:45.239 --> 01:30:46.640
silly. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, no, I think I

1393
01:30:46.640 --> 01:30:49.840
mean, I think the movie did
that intentionally. Yeah, right, Like

1394
01:30:49.880 --> 01:30:54.359
it would have been very easy to
hear hard slurs. They clearly did not

1395
01:30:54.439 --> 01:30:59.279
want that, so Yeah, kudos
today for that, mister. That just

1396
01:30:59.279 --> 01:31:02.960
doesn't make sense. So I've been
somewhat hard on Chris Tucker in this.

1397
01:31:03.079 --> 01:31:05.119
So there was a couple of lines
to his that did make me laugh.

1398
01:31:05.800 --> 01:31:09.840
One of them was he's stuck with
the LAPD and he's like, LAPD,

1399
01:31:09.920 --> 01:31:14.560
everyone hates us. My mama tells
people I'm a drug dealer. That was

1400
01:31:14.600 --> 01:31:16.039
funny. I laughed at that.
That's okay, I love that line.

1401
01:31:16.159 --> 01:31:20.600
Yeah, my mom tells people I'm
a drug dealer. I just have one

1402
01:31:20.640 --> 01:31:25.239
more. And again it's another weird
bit of like close caption. Whoever did

1403
01:31:25.239 --> 01:31:28.560
the close caption for this movie is
interesting, maybe went to sleep on the

1404
01:31:28.640 --> 01:31:31.560
job just a little bit. When
Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan walk into the

1405
01:31:31.560 --> 01:31:35.600
bar and Chris Tucker's like greeting everyone
with the N word, and then the

1406
01:31:35.680 --> 01:31:40.560
joke is later it comes back.
The N word is spelled out in the

1407
01:31:40.560 --> 01:31:45.399
close captions with the hard R oh. And to be clear, Chris Tucker

1408
01:31:45.479 --> 01:31:48.640
is not saying the hard R version. Yeah, He's saying the like the

1409
01:31:48.760 --> 01:31:51.600
A version, the one that ends
with an A, the soft the soft

1410
01:31:51.680 --> 01:31:56.960
ending, the soft landing exactly,
And Jackie Chan is being very specific about

1411
01:31:57.000 --> 01:32:00.600
the way he's saying it as well. Yeah, for the closed cash person

1412
01:32:00.720 --> 01:32:06.239
is like spelling the word out and
I'm like, whoa, you are screwing

1413
01:32:06.279 --> 01:32:13.319
these two for no good reason.
That is not fair. There was one

1414
01:32:13.319 --> 01:32:15.600
other joke in the movie that I
really liked that we didn't talk about.

1415
01:32:15.279 --> 01:32:19.840
In the beginning, when the captain
is giving Chris Tucker his assignment and he's

1416
01:32:19.840 --> 01:32:23.000
thrilled. He's like, oh,
thank you so much. I'm gonna remember

1417
01:32:23.039 --> 01:32:26.680
you. I'm gonna make you mayor
as he's leaving, and Philip Baker Hall

1418
01:32:26.800 --> 01:32:31.520
just says, I wish you wouldn't, which is excellent. It's very funny

1419
01:32:31.560 --> 01:32:34.279
because, from what I've heard,
being the la mayor not a great gig.

1420
01:32:34.520 --> 01:32:38.319
Yeah, not fun though, the
way he delivered that joke, just

1421
01:32:38.399 --> 01:32:41.600
kind of under his breath was fucking
excellent. Yeah, yeah, Paul,

1422
01:32:41.840 --> 01:32:46.680
How shall we rank Rush Hour one
to ten? Relatives of Clive Cod,

1423
01:32:48.079 --> 01:32:58.039
Terry Telapia, Terry Mallory, Mahi
mahi. Oh god, see if I

1424
01:32:58.079 --> 01:33:02.560
have another one in me? Candy
carp Candy carp now is carps? Is

1425
01:33:02.600 --> 01:33:05.720
candy? Spell the sea? Okay, Candy spell with the sea. Obviously,

1426
01:33:05.760 --> 01:33:08.680
Ye, you need you need both
to get the alliteration. It should

1427
01:33:08.720 --> 01:33:13.560
be the same letter. One to
ten. Uh fake star maps? Ah,

1428
01:33:13.600 --> 01:33:15.760
so for when for when you want
to see lies in Manelli's house,

1429
01:33:16.039 --> 01:33:20.079
but they take you to Vanessa Hudgens, that's roof. That's a down grade.

1430
01:33:20.079 --> 01:33:23.399
That's a roof. That's a down
grade. I like Vanessa Hudgins.

1431
01:33:23.399 --> 01:33:27.760
Nothing against Vanessa Hudgins. Don't come
for us hudge and times Hudgeons, I'm

1432
01:33:27.760 --> 01:33:30.680
not interested. When you want to
see the house where Marlon Brando lived and

1433
01:33:30.760 --> 01:33:33.960
they send you to Scott Steps,
Oh, that's a tough that's a tough

1434
01:33:34.039 --> 01:33:38.000
pill to swallow. Who even is
that knocked on the door. Yeah,

1435
01:33:39.239 --> 01:33:41.960
it's like I'm on a star map. Scott's Stap is excited. He's like,

1436
01:33:42.039 --> 01:33:45.039
my career is going back up.
I'm on the uprides. All everything's

1437
01:33:45.079 --> 01:33:50.600
coming up. Roses World, Scott's
staff. One to ten types of Chinese

1438
01:33:50.680 --> 01:33:58.279
food. Yeah, Paul, can
you name seven more soup dumplings? Uh?

1439
01:33:58.840 --> 01:34:02.359
Uh, chili, crisp, pepper, steak, mushu pork. Well,

1440
01:34:02.439 --> 01:34:06.279
he really is going to do it. I'm so impressed. Go go

1441
01:34:06.720 --> 01:34:12.760
go, go long beans. There
are a lot of Chinese cruisy and I'm

1442
01:34:12.760 --> 01:34:17.199
out more. Might come? Did
we do dumplings? We did? We

1443
01:34:17.279 --> 01:34:24.600
did dumplings? Did we do dumplings? He looks disappointed. Cheese one.

1444
01:34:25.199 --> 01:34:27.239
Okay, there you go, there
you go. Yeah, that's one.

1445
01:34:27.439 --> 01:34:30.119
Crab rangoon, there you go.
I think it's the same things. Okay,

1446
01:34:30.399 --> 01:34:34.079
maybe yes, basically crab rangoon,
cheese wong. Let's do this one,

1447
01:34:34.520 --> 01:34:36.640
this one. Do you want to
go first? Or shall I go

1448
01:34:36.720 --> 01:34:41.319
first? You go first? Okay, let's starting to hear. I don't

1449
01:34:41.319 --> 01:34:44.640
think anything in this movie really rises
to the level of like offensive. I

1450
01:34:44.720 --> 01:34:47.119
think the the we've been calling it
racism, I don't even want to call

1451
01:34:47.119 --> 01:34:51.479
it racism. The the the I
rolly jokes, the cheesy, corny jokes

1452
01:34:51.479 --> 01:34:56.600
about like the Chinese stuff for stuff
like that is I don't think it's offensive.

1453
01:34:56.640 --> 01:34:59.680
I am not a Chinese person,
so perhaps if you are, you

1454
01:34:59.800 --> 01:35:02.800
might think differently. And that's fine. First draft, Yeah, it's like

1455
01:35:03.880 --> 01:35:10.000
and just lazy, because it does
feel like the movie is not trying to

1456
01:35:10.039 --> 01:35:13.479
be offensive. They are trying to
get just the right amount of pepper on

1457
01:35:13.600 --> 01:35:17.680
the joke so that like everyone can
laugh, but they're not actually being offensive

1458
01:35:17.680 --> 01:35:20.600
to anybody, right, I didn't
find them funny, but I also didn't

1459
01:35:20.600 --> 01:35:24.760
find them offensive. I found them
stupid. That that's where I would come

1460
01:35:25.000 --> 01:35:29.079
down on that. Two leads of
color, that's great, very rarely get

1461
01:35:29.159 --> 01:35:31.119
that. Yeah, a lot of
people of color in the movie. The

1462
01:35:31.159 --> 01:35:34.920
two female roles are both people of
color as well. The only white person

1463
01:35:34.960 --> 01:35:39.159
who's a big role in this Tom
Wilkinson. Yeah. Really, so that's

1464
01:35:39.239 --> 01:35:42.520
cool. That's very, very very
diverse. Juneaw, I mean June Tao,

1465
01:35:42.640 --> 01:35:47.920
excuse me, excuse me. That's
great. Like we look for diversity

1466
01:35:47.960 --> 01:35:51.399
in movies, this one definitely has
it. Obviously. We talked about the

1467
01:35:51.680 --> 01:35:56.960
the again very minor gay panic joke. Again does not rise to the level

1468
01:35:56.960 --> 01:35:59.760
offensive made me roll my eyes,
not didn't make me go fuck off.

1469
01:36:00.159 --> 01:36:03.000
It obviously doesn't pass the Beachdel test. Actually, I was thinking about this

1470
01:36:03.159 --> 01:36:05.600
and I think it does. Do
they actually speak to each other? Yes,

1471
01:36:05.680 --> 01:36:11.319
because she she tells her something about
the vest it is it is a

1472
01:36:11.479 --> 01:36:15.239
squeaker. They're squeaking by Elizabeth hit
Pannia is like, Okay, we're gonna

1473
01:36:15.279 --> 01:36:17.000
get this best off of you and
the little girls like it'll explode, and

1474
01:36:17.079 --> 01:36:21.319
she's like, don't worry. I'm
trained. Yeah, like it's it's a

1475
01:36:21.439 --> 01:36:25.039
little it's a squeaker, yeah,
but they do make it. Yeah,

1476
01:36:25.239 --> 01:36:29.720
okay for me. The thing that
really doesn't age well in it is like

1477
01:36:29.840 --> 01:36:33.079
this idea of like the lone Wolf
cop in this one, it's it's not

1478
01:36:33.279 --> 01:36:38.720
even just by the way, we
got a comment after our LA Confidential episode

1479
01:36:39.159 --> 01:36:43.359
that our clear hatred of law enforcement
was coming through. I would just like

1480
01:36:43.439 --> 01:36:45.800
to say that I don't. I
don't hate law enforcement. It depends for

1481
01:36:45.920 --> 01:36:49.800
me. Yeah, are we talking
LA PD well because they're terrible at their

1482
01:36:49.920 --> 01:36:54.760
job? Yeah. I think we
have to admit that the law enforcement has

1483
01:36:54.800 --> 01:36:59.560
coming for some come upances over the
last few years, and there are some

1484
01:36:59.640 --> 01:37:04.199
sustain issues. But I have had
very lovely interactions with police who I've been

1485
01:37:04.279 --> 01:37:09.640
treating me very kindly in the past. I'm mostly ignored by cops. But

1486
01:37:09.760 --> 01:37:13.600
I just wanted to put that out
there that I was like, we're talking

1487
01:37:13.600 --> 01:37:15.920
about LA Confidential. Yeah, we're
gonna we're gonna make fun of the cops

1488
01:37:16.000 --> 01:37:21.520
and LA Confidential because that is about
police corruption in any case. This one

1489
01:37:21.880 --> 01:37:25.920
is, you know, like you
have like the loan the Lone Wolf Cop

1490
01:37:26.039 --> 01:37:30.000
in die Hard, but in that
situation, he has no other choice.

1491
01:37:30.119 --> 01:37:33.159
He has put alone. Right,
this one is this guy that is constantly

1492
01:37:33.279 --> 01:37:40.640
like flouting the rules and going going
against the grain and putting people in danger.

1493
01:37:40.800 --> 01:37:45.039
Because he's doing that and he is
not really facing consequences for it.

1494
01:37:45.119 --> 01:37:47.600
It doesn't like learn the lesson of
like, no you have like going rogue

1495
01:37:48.039 --> 01:37:54.720
is no better than like constantly protecting
everyone in the LAPD. There has to

1496
01:37:54.800 --> 01:37:59.279
be some middle ground here, and
it kind of it bothered me. It

1497
01:37:59.359 --> 01:38:02.279
did because I was like, this
guy's being lionized for terrible behavior and he's

1498
01:38:02.760 --> 01:38:08.000
a cop and he's a detective,
And now I don't think this person should

1499
01:38:08.000 --> 01:38:12.439
have access to guns really based on
his general demeanor and stuff like that.

1500
01:38:13.520 --> 01:38:17.239
And am I like overthinking a very
silly action movie. Yes, I one

1501
01:38:17.319 --> 01:38:20.439
hundred percent am. But that's what
I think of when I see things like

1502
01:38:20.520 --> 01:38:24.359
this now, like the fact that
he's supposed to be protecting this guy and

1503
01:38:24.399 --> 01:38:27.039
he climbs out the back of the
seat, pulls out an enormous gun and

1504
01:38:27.079 --> 01:38:30.479
shoves it in the guy's neck.
It's like, don't love that. I

1505
01:38:30.600 --> 01:38:33.640
just don't love it. That for
me is what does really doesn't age well

1506
01:38:33.680 --> 01:38:38.239
in the movie and the I don't
think there's really room for like a gay

1507
01:38:38.319 --> 01:38:40.720
storyline. I don't really care about
their not being a gay storyline. I

1508
01:38:40.760 --> 01:38:44.279
think we could have had more female
characters in it. I think that's the

1509
01:38:44.359 --> 01:38:46.960
other place where it really falls down. There are plenty of characters that could

1510
01:38:47.079 --> 01:38:51.640
very easily have been women. And
I'm not gonna get annoyed that Johnson doesn't

1511
01:38:51.640 --> 01:38:56.000
have a backstory, because really,
Carter and Lee don't have backstories, so

1512
01:38:56.159 --> 01:38:59.560
like whatever, that's not a big
deal. But they could have been more

1513
01:38:59.600 --> 01:39:01.479
in corporate. I get that it's
a movie with two male leads. That's

1514
01:39:01.560 --> 01:39:06.640
fine, that's not a big deal. But literally, I think women maybe

1515
01:39:08.000 --> 01:39:11.479
have a collective ten minutes of screen
time in the movie. I don't even

1516
01:39:11.479 --> 01:39:14.479
think it's that much. Yeah,
so it's it's it's quite striking. I

1517
01:39:14.520 --> 01:39:17.399
would say, when the evil hostess
who stole a little girl's necklace is the

1518
01:39:17.520 --> 01:39:21.279
third largest role in your movie,
in your movie something to look at.

1519
01:39:23.600 --> 01:39:26.479
All that being said, I don't
think it ages horribly. I think it

1520
01:39:26.560 --> 01:39:30.720
has some things that like look a
little different. Now I'm gonna give it

1521
01:39:30.760 --> 01:39:33.600
a six. I'm gonna give it
a six. It falls down on the

1522
01:39:33.640 --> 01:39:38.880
female representation and the lone wolf cop
trope I don't like, but lots of

1523
01:39:38.960 --> 01:39:43.239
diversity, and once they figure out
the central relationship, it actually was fun

1524
01:39:43.319 --> 01:39:45.319
to watch. And it's a silly, stupid action movie and it doesn't need

1525
01:39:45.399 --> 01:39:47.880
to be like, you know,
flogged or anything. So I'm gonna give

1526
01:39:47.920 --> 01:39:57.479
it a six out of ten Chinese
food dishes for Russia, including including eggfou

1527
01:39:57.560 --> 01:40:00.640
young. Have you done that one? I don't know, maybe we did,

1528
01:40:00.720 --> 01:40:02.000
but I'm gonna give it to you
because I think I really think I'm

1529
01:40:02.039 --> 01:40:08.680
pushing your buttons at this point.
Just a real quick for anyone who was

1530
01:40:08.720 --> 01:40:13.800
annoyed by our discussion of law enforcement
in LA Confidential, I would just say

1531
01:40:14.039 --> 01:40:19.000
check out our Law and Order SVU
episode for a very different perspective on police

1532
01:40:19.039 --> 01:40:29.039
work in that episode in that show. So I like the movie fine.

1533
01:40:29.279 --> 01:40:33.119
Honestly, I like the movie fine. I don't think it's particularly good.

1534
01:40:35.000 --> 01:40:39.840
I could watch Jackie Chan forever.
Yeah, and that like, if he

1535
01:40:39.920 --> 01:40:42.159
were not in this movie, I
wouldn't. I would be like, this

1536
01:40:42.319 --> 01:40:46.199
is lame. I don't know why
we're watching it, but Jackie Chan makes

1537
01:40:46.239 --> 01:40:49.920
everything watchable for me, So I
pretty much agree. With everything you said.

1538
01:40:49.920 --> 01:40:53.039
The one thing that also kind of
dinged me a little bit is the

1539
01:40:53.520 --> 01:41:00.760
John Carter's character, his misogyny towards
his It is John, right as I

1540
01:41:00.840 --> 01:41:03.119
said it is. It felt wrong, And it's Carter Carter. Yeah,

1541
01:41:03.359 --> 01:41:05.279
I think we said his first name
in the beginning, but I remember what

1542
01:41:05.319 --> 01:41:11.640
it was, Jason. It's a
j It's a j named John Jordan ju

1543
01:41:12.560 --> 01:41:18.800
Jonathan. Jackie's Jackie is Jackie Jim
Jamiqui, James James. God damn it.

1544
01:41:21.800 --> 01:41:27.479
So he does have like a lot
of casual misogyny towards Elizabeth Pannia's character,

1545
01:41:27.880 --> 01:41:30.079
that it's very similar to the way
he treats Jackie Chan's character, and

1546
01:41:30.199 --> 01:41:35.359
that like she's not taking it.
And therefore the movie, the movie posits

1547
01:41:35.399 --> 01:41:40.920
that Carter is in the wrong for
being such a dick to his colleagues,

1548
01:41:41.039 --> 01:41:44.520
his female coworker. But it's like
why even put it in then, Like,

1549
01:41:44.640 --> 01:41:46.079
yeah, just don't put it in. Just make him cocky and like

1550
01:41:46.199 --> 01:41:49.640
kind of a dick because he's cocky
and kind of a dick, not because

1551
01:41:49.720 --> 01:41:55.159
he's also low key like calling his
coworker and being like what are you wearing?

1552
01:41:55.239 --> 01:41:58.159
Girl? Yeah, or like or
like shake that ass as she walks

1553
01:41:58.199 --> 01:42:00.159
past, and I'm like, bitch, don't say that. What are you

1554
01:42:00.319 --> 01:42:04.880
doing? So there's little things like
that that I'm like, it's more irritating

1555
01:42:05.079 --> 01:42:09.680
right now than it is like truly
grading. It doesn't really get under my

1556
01:42:09.760 --> 01:42:14.119
skin, but I'm like, it's
it's a little unfortunate because it feels extremely

1557
01:42:14.239 --> 01:42:19.159
lazy. Again Brett Rattner, Yeah, I think it ages pretty well.

1558
01:42:19.439 --> 01:42:21.920
Actually, I wish You're right.
I wish there were more women in it,

1559
01:42:23.000 --> 01:42:27.760
but the women we do have are
all uniformly badasses, which pretty fucking

1560
01:42:27.840 --> 01:42:31.479
cool. The lone cop stuff didn't
bother me as much because I just can't

1561
01:42:31.479 --> 01:42:36.000
take the character seriously enough to really
care. Yeah that he's acting, he's

1562
01:42:36.039 --> 01:42:40.880
going rogue. If you were played
by like a more like intense actor or

1563
01:42:40.920 --> 01:42:44.479
a more serious actor who took it
more seriously, I'd be like, well,

1564
01:42:44.800 --> 01:42:46.960
this is annoying, this is I
don't like this. But because it's

1565
01:42:47.079 --> 01:42:50.520
Chris Tucker, who's just like so
surfacy on every level. And I mean

1566
01:42:50.560 --> 01:42:54.479
that in a I mean that as
a compliment actually, because he is he's

1567
01:42:54.520 --> 01:42:57.720
a stand up comedian, so he's
just he is here to bring the comedy.

1568
01:42:57.840 --> 01:43:01.600
That's all he is here to do. I'm gonna give it a five.

1569
01:43:01.720 --> 01:43:06.960
I'm a five five, five out
of ten Chinese food dishes like cold

1570
01:43:08.000 --> 01:43:11.840
sesame noodles. Cold like cold sesame
noodles. What if I just started going

1571
01:43:11.880 --> 01:43:17.800
off menu and just being like,
like French fries like that literally has the

1572
01:43:17.840 --> 01:43:20.000
word French in it, and I'm
like, yeah, but they serve it.

1573
01:43:20.479 --> 01:43:25.039
They serve it at a lot of
Chinese restaurants. Now, you'll find

1574
01:43:25.079 --> 01:43:27.880
it on the menu. It's very
popular. It's usually for kids, and

1575
01:43:27.920 --> 01:43:30.920
it's served with chicken fingers. But
it's there, it's there, it's there.

1576
01:43:30.520 --> 01:43:33.479
Yeah, I'm gonna get a five
out of ten Chinese foods. Glorious

1577
01:43:33.560 --> 01:43:40.680
Chinese foods. Yeah, it's it's
it's okay, it's an okay movie.

1578
01:43:40.800 --> 01:43:46.079
It's fine, Spaceline fine. My
palate cleanser is just go online google Jackie

1579
01:43:46.119 --> 01:43:50.199
Chan Bloopers, Yeah, and enjoy
that. Enjoy that glorious blooper. Real

1580
01:43:50.479 --> 01:43:54.960
that you're gonna get of all of
Jackie Chan's movies, because they're they're fucking

1581
01:43:55.039 --> 01:43:59.000
amazing. He is as an acrobat, as a as a movement artist,

1582
01:43:59.680 --> 01:44:01.239
I mean truly one of the greatest
of all times. Yeah. Yeah,

1583
01:44:01.640 --> 01:44:08.720
My my palate cleanser for this is
Brooklyn nine nine because that show is an

1584
01:44:08.800 --> 01:44:13.720
actual like takedown of the lone Wolf
Cop trope. It is. It is

1585
01:44:13.800 --> 01:44:17.359
about, over eight seasons about Jake
Peralta, who wants to be the lone

1586
01:44:17.399 --> 01:44:24.079
wolf cop, learning that that's actually
not the way to get things done.

1587
01:44:24.279 --> 01:44:27.880
Yeah, and it's it's just I
actually just rewatched it after it because Andre

1588
01:44:28.000 --> 01:44:32.840
Brower sadly passed away, but I
rewatched it. It all ages pretty well.

1589
01:44:32.920 --> 01:44:39.840
There's very little problems with it,
and Andre Brower gives jet I truly

1590
01:44:39.880 --> 01:44:43.079
believe this when I say this one
of the greatest comedic performances of all time.

1591
01:44:43.359 --> 01:44:45.800
Yeah, as Captain Hall, I
mean the fact that he never won

1592
01:44:45.800 --> 01:44:51.000
an Emmy for that performance is insane. He is hilariously funny. Yah,

1593
01:44:51.159 --> 01:44:55.800
even in the worst episodes of the
show, he delivers. So I love

1594
01:44:55.880 --> 01:45:00.720
Brooklyn nine nine. So that's mine
and that means Erica that we're at the

1595
01:45:00.840 --> 01:45:05.319
end of our show. Oh so
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1596
01:45:05.399 --> 01:45:09.399
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1597
01:45:09.800 --> 01:45:12.800
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shirt of just me eating a bunch
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Mushoe Pork, Come on, give
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hearing from Oh it's it's a new
guest, the star of stage and screen.

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She was in Colombo, she was
the titular Eve and all about Eve.

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She was nefer Tari in Ten Commandments. It is miss and Baxter.

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Hello everyone, it's me and Baxter. I'm so delighted to be here today

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to talk to Stephanie about that hagedwell. Stephanie, thank you so much for

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listening to that Hagedwell. A lot
of people have said in my career,

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Anne, you've played Cleopatra, you've
played NEFFERTERII. Why do you keep playing

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Egyptians? That seems a little and
the word they use now is sus I

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would just like to say it was
a different time, a time when an

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actress never really had to take a
full breath when she spoke, and yet

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they've reigned hoscars on her. So
Thank you to all my fans for loving

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me, for being there, for
watching all about Eve with that harpy Bennie

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Davis, I feel lightheaded all of
a sudden. I'm going to step away

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now and find a chaise long to
fall into. Greetings and goodbye love had

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Backstone. Should we get her an
oxygen tank? I'm concerned she smokes too

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much. I think I think I
feel like the camel lights were not light

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enough back in the forties. Yeah, the camel lights are now. Yeah,

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there's too much. She did constantly
play Egyptians. I don't know what

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that was about. Do you think
I know she's she's lying down the shes

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long? Do you think she could? Could she just call out for Moses?

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I think everyone would love to hear
her rendition of that line. And

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I'm gonna put the microphone right up
to your face. Are you okay?

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Anne? You see one? Are
you okay? Anne? I'm fine.

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I was just thinking of calling my
driver to pick me up. His name

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is Moses, Moses, Moses.
Okay. Her driver came and picked up.

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Yeah, that's great. I feel
like there's something inappropriate happening between those

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two. Very possibly, But did
you notice that when it came time to

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perform, her voice came to her. Yeah. Yeah, when she's calling

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out for Moses, She's gonna die
on stage, that one. That's what

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I think there. Yeah, all
right, Erica. Any final thoughts on

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Rush Hour, Paul, thank you
for listening to me talk in English about

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this movie in a language you would
understand. Meatball Sub Kung Pau Chicken.

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Okay, this goes like this.
Say this goes like this. It runs this Sleep