WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:00.640 Ben. 2 00:00:00.920 --> 00:00:03.720 The movie we're reviewing this week is Good Fortune, and 3 00:00:03.759 --> 00:00:07.719 I think the question that most people were asking themselves 4 00:00:07.799 --> 00:00:11.080 after this movie. If you had everything in the world, 5 00:00:11.800 --> 00:00:15.240 everything you wanted, but you knew it was the right 6 00:00:15.279 --> 00:00:18.160 thing to do, to give it up and go back 7 00:00:18.199 --> 00:00:19.760 to a life where you knew it was going to 8 00:00:19.800 --> 00:00:23.039 be hard, would you be strong enough to be able 9 00:00:23.079 --> 00:00:25.679 to do it? There's a lot of questions I had 10 00:00:25.719 --> 00:00:28.800 throughout this film. That was the question I was left with, 11 00:00:29.320 --> 00:00:31.960 and I don't know how I would answer it. And 12 00:00:32.000 --> 00:00:33.960 I think we're going to get into that today on 13 00:00:34.079 --> 00:00:36.039 answering that question and a few others, a few other 14 00:00:36.079 --> 00:00:41.960 ethical questions, a few other questions about the commentary that 15 00:00:42.039 --> 00:00:47.399 this movie made, that this film made about socioeconomical roles 16 00:00:47.759 --> 00:00:51.920 in our society and the way capitalism has worked. And 17 00:00:52.439 --> 00:00:55.479 what do they call it the economy right now? 18 00:00:56.640 --> 00:00:57.320 What do they call it? 19 00:00:57.399 --> 00:01:00.479 It's a certain name. Starts the gig economy. 20 00:01:00.560 --> 00:01:02.280 Oh yeah, the gig economy. Yeah sure. 21 00:01:02.560 --> 00:01:04.239 A lot of stuff about the gig economy in this 22 00:01:04.319 --> 00:01:04.640 as well. 23 00:01:04.719 --> 00:01:05.200 Oh sure. 24 00:01:05.359 --> 00:01:09.719 So. While on the surface this film seems pretty straightforward 25 00:01:09.719 --> 00:01:13.040 as a comedy, there's a lot of underthlying themes here. 26 00:01:13.120 --> 00:01:15.200 Yeah, you just took the words right out of my mouth. 27 00:01:15.239 --> 00:01:16.879 I was going to say, not too often you walk 28 00:01:16.920 --> 00:01:18.560 out of a comedy movie saying, you know, I have 29 00:01:18.599 --> 00:01:20.959 a bunch of interesting philosophical questions that I'm going to 30 00:01:21.040 --> 00:01:23.519 run past you, of course the next hour. And yet 31 00:01:23.799 --> 00:01:26.319 here we are talking about it that way, and I 32 00:01:26.359 --> 00:01:29.120 think you're exactly right with it. You know what's interesting 33 00:01:29.480 --> 00:01:31.319 is you even gave me a heads up, and I 34 00:01:31.359 --> 00:01:34.079 braced myself for it, and I wasn't necessarily expecting it. 35 00:01:34.159 --> 00:01:34.400 Yeah. 36 00:01:34.400 --> 00:01:35.879 I didn't laugh a whole lot. And it's not to 37 00:01:35.879 --> 00:01:38.000 say it wasn't entertaining or I didn't enjoy it, but 38 00:01:38.719 --> 00:01:40.959 there were moments that I laughed out loud, and just 39 00:01:41.040 --> 00:01:43.079 like with a lot of movies in the Midwest, I 40 00:01:43.159 --> 00:01:45.680 was laughing at times when people were relatively quiet. Oh 41 00:01:45.760 --> 00:01:47.879 Ye'll be sitting there holding my sides a little bit 42 00:01:47.959 --> 00:01:51.079 laughing at some of the things that happened. But definitely 43 00:01:51.120 --> 00:01:54.400 not a bust your gut laughing kind of movie, but 44 00:01:54.519 --> 00:01:57.760 definitely something that I think anybody between the ages of 45 00:01:57.799 --> 00:02:00.640 alive and dead can probably too. 46 00:02:00.760 --> 00:02:03.959 Right now at least at some point in yeah, yeah, exactly. 47 00:02:04.000 --> 00:02:07.200 If not right now, then definitely at one point or another, 48 00:02:07.319 --> 00:02:11.560 and as somebody who absolutely utilized the gig economy in 49 00:02:11.599 --> 00:02:13.639 the way a lot of those companies tell you to 50 00:02:13.680 --> 00:02:17.800 do so. I was a radio producer, while managing a property, 51 00:02:17.960 --> 00:02:21.759 while driving for Uber, lifting door Dash, and while having 52 00:02:21.840 --> 00:02:24.199 five other sources of income to kind of get this 53 00:02:24.319 --> 00:02:28.159 career off the ground. I can relate. And what's interesting 54 00:02:28.280 --> 00:02:30.039 is and that this was the thought that I had 55 00:02:30.039 --> 00:02:32.080 walking out of it. I have a memory like a 56 00:02:32.120 --> 00:02:34.479 steel trap that life was three years ago, and it 57 00:02:34.520 --> 00:02:37.120 feels like it was another person's life for me. Really 58 00:02:37.280 --> 00:02:39.240 watching what I saw, I was like, oh my god, 59 00:02:39.280 --> 00:02:41.800 I forgot that. I almost I felt this way every 60 00:02:41.879 --> 00:02:45.400 single day while living my life because I'm in such 61 00:02:45.400 --> 00:02:48.120 a better mental state now. And it's uh, this is 62 00:02:48.159 --> 00:02:50.479 probably the third or fourth movie balky. I was joking 63 00:02:50.479 --> 00:02:52.360 about it with our coworker Laura. I said, I don't 64 00:02:52.400 --> 00:02:54.319 know why. I know it was Carly and I said, 65 00:02:54.319 --> 00:02:56.039 why do we keep going to these movies? I said, 66 00:02:56.039 --> 00:02:58.560 I watched these movies to escape. This is the third 67 00:02:58.639 --> 00:03:00.840 or fourth time in the last five six movies, and 68 00:03:00.879 --> 00:03:03.360 I'm like, man, I'm gonna be using this for content 69 00:03:03.360 --> 00:03:05.840 and outside the box tomorrow. And sure enough, I started 70 00:03:05.840 --> 00:03:09.240 my show off today talking about Good Fortune and the 71 00:03:09.280 --> 00:03:11.560 messages of that movie, which is very ironic. 72 00:03:12.319 --> 00:03:15.960 I I think that I got I got the phone call. 73 00:03:16.159 --> 00:03:18.000 Yeah, yeah, let's we'll be right back, guys. 74 00:03:18.439 --> 00:03:21.479 The other thing with this film that I noticed, and 75 00:03:21.560 --> 00:03:25.039 you talked about not laughing a lot out loud, Yeah, 76 00:03:25.039 --> 00:03:28.840 a few times you did. I felt like it was 77 00:03:29.000 --> 00:03:32.520 weird with the type of actor and comedian that is 78 00:03:32.599 --> 00:03:37.000 he's in sorry is and his voice. Yeah, there were 79 00:03:37.039 --> 00:03:40.680 times where I think that you weren't meant to laugh, 80 00:03:40.919 --> 00:03:44.159 but it almost came off comical because he's got like 81 00:03:44.240 --> 00:03:47.080 this kid kid's voice, and he's super bubbly and peppy 82 00:03:47.759 --> 00:03:50.560 and and that, and that was a little off putting 83 00:03:51.000 --> 00:03:53.960 to me in this you know, where he's like, well, well, 84 00:03:54.039 --> 00:03:56.400 now what am I gonna do? Yeah, I'm living in 85 00:03:56.400 --> 00:03:58.919 my car. You know. It's like it's hilarious, but it's not, 86 00:03:59.280 --> 00:04:02.120 you know. Yeah, So that was a little weird for 87 00:04:02.159 --> 00:04:05.719 me to get used to in this film. And we'll 88 00:04:05.759 --> 00:04:08.000 talk about these ethical questions in a little bit. When 89 00:04:08.039 --> 00:04:09.319 I was on your show the other day, one of 90 00:04:09.360 --> 00:04:11.400 the things I wanted to ask you about is Keanu 91 00:04:11.479 --> 00:04:13.840 Reeves a good actor. What did you think of his 92 00:04:13.960 --> 00:04:18.160 performance in this film where yes it was a comedy, 93 00:04:18.279 --> 00:04:23.160 Yes he had comedic moments, but I just felt it's 94 00:04:23.240 --> 00:04:26.279 so robotic with him. I mean, he is like a 95 00:04:26.319 --> 00:04:30.720 Westworld robot when it comes to acting, and I don't 96 00:04:30.720 --> 00:04:33.279 know if that's by design. I don't know if he 97 00:04:33.319 --> 00:04:36.160 has a limited range, and yet he keeps getting gigs, Ben, Yeah, 98 00:04:36.279 --> 00:04:37.759 keeps getting significant gigs. 99 00:04:37.920 --> 00:04:41.319 You know. I went into this looking for that because 100 00:04:41.360 --> 00:04:43.680 I have been not a hater of Keanu Reeves, because honestly, 101 00:04:43.759 --> 00:04:46.800 I like just about every single movie he's in, Like, 102 00:04:46.839 --> 00:04:49.560 and that's not even a bold statement, Like most movies 103 00:04:49.639 --> 00:04:51.839 Keanu Reeves does. Like No, that was a pretty good movie, 104 00:04:52.040 --> 00:04:54.560 and so like whether or not that has to do 105 00:04:54.600 --> 00:04:57.120 with him or not, I don't know. I went into 106 00:04:57.120 --> 00:04:59.120 this movie and first of all, I don't this isn't 107 00:04:59.120 --> 00:05:02.879 a spoiler, but the hardest I laughed. He eventually becomes 108 00:05:02.920 --> 00:05:07.079 a cook era a dishwasher at a restaurant. Yeah, And 109 00:05:07.519 --> 00:05:10.120 there's a scene where he's saying nothing and he's smoking 110 00:05:10.120 --> 00:05:12.240 a cigarette and staring into the void. 111 00:05:12.360 --> 00:05:14.920 Yeah. I had to do a double take him, like 112 00:05:15.000 --> 00:05:17.120 is he smoking a cigarette? Yeah? 113 00:05:17.160 --> 00:05:20.480 And the look on his face. If you've ever worked 114 00:05:20.519 --> 00:05:24.319 at a restaurant before, you have seen that person smoking 115 00:05:24.360 --> 00:05:27.480 a cigarette outside at the restaurant. I've seen it a 116 00:05:27.519 --> 00:05:29.920 thousand times. Anyone has seen it. It is the hardest 117 00:05:29.959 --> 00:05:32.120 I laughed in the whole movie. And you know, he 118 00:05:32.199 --> 00:05:35.040 worked on that face and that mannerism and that approach. 119 00:05:35.160 --> 00:05:38.360 So that one scene, I'm like, okay, good acting. Everything 120 00:05:38.399 --> 00:05:40.480 outside of that one moment was this. 121 00:05:40.600 --> 00:05:42.439 Why are you talking about the no Bueno scene? 122 00:05:42.519 --> 00:05:45.199 Yes, okay, yes, And he's sitting there smoking and he's 123 00:05:45.199 --> 00:05:47.120 just like staring off into this distance. He's not even 124 00:05:47.160 --> 00:05:50.360 saying anything, but it's just the stare of someone that 125 00:05:50.480 --> 00:05:52.839 just washed dishes for five hours. As someone that was 126 00:05:52.879 --> 00:05:55.079 a dishwasher, I can tell you I know that's stare. 127 00:05:55.199 --> 00:05:58.519 I know that cigarette after the dinner rush that you smoke. 128 00:05:58.639 --> 00:06:03.000 I know everything about that, and I'm watching it. I'm 129 00:06:03.000 --> 00:06:04.759 watching that. That was the best acting he did in 130 00:06:04.800 --> 00:06:08.319 the whole movie. I will say, I do think the 131 00:06:08.480 --> 00:06:11.319 robotic delivery he struck me. And tell me if you 132 00:06:11.360 --> 00:06:13.439 think this is crazy, he struck me. The character that 133 00:06:13.480 --> 00:06:18.399 I think he was trying to convey is an angel 134 00:06:18.480 --> 00:06:22.120 that has been around for so long that him engaging 135 00:06:22.199 --> 00:06:26.399 in English and talking to humans and like interacting in 136 00:06:26.439 --> 00:06:30.560 twenty twenty five America, it almost felt like a very 137 00:06:30.759 --> 00:06:33.720 naive like like the best way I can describe is 138 00:06:33.759 --> 00:06:36.759 this sounded like he was acting in a play while 139 00:06:36.800 --> 00:06:39.959 everybody else was acting in a movie. Yes, and I 140 00:06:40.040 --> 00:06:43.759 think that's the best way that I can describe either. Yes. 141 00:06:43.839 --> 00:06:46.480 But to me, what I walked out it was I 142 00:06:46.519 --> 00:06:47.920 was trying to think of it because there's a there's 143 00:06:47.920 --> 00:06:49.839 a have you ever seen the TV show Community? 144 00:06:50.519 --> 00:06:51.639 I have seen episodes. 145 00:06:51.720 --> 00:06:55.560 Yes, there's an episode where Ahbed takes a class and 146 00:06:55.600 --> 00:06:59.040 the entire class is dedicated to determining whether or not 147 00:06:59.199 --> 00:07:03.079 Nicholas k is a good actor. And he essentially runs 148 00:07:03.120 --> 00:07:05.839 the gamut of all these different actors. And he describes 149 00:07:05.959 --> 00:07:09.720 Johnny Depp as the bad kind of good, meaning he's 150 00:07:09.720 --> 00:07:12.480 a great actor, but like a he seems obnoxious in 151 00:07:12.519 --> 00:07:15.879 a lot to handle. Keanu Reeves is the good kind 152 00:07:15.920 --> 00:07:18.759 of bad. I think he's very likable. I think he's 153 00:07:18.879 --> 00:07:22.240 very charismatic. I don't know that he's a good actor, 154 00:07:22.360 --> 00:07:26.519 but his personality in every movie he's in, I'm just like, yeah, no, 155 00:07:26.720 --> 00:07:29.160 I'm down to ride. Let's see where this goes. 156 00:07:29.199 --> 00:07:31.319 I mean, I even I was thinking back to John 157 00:07:31.360 --> 00:07:33.720 Wick when we were watching the John Wick movies in Ballerina. 158 00:07:34.120 --> 00:07:37.519 I mean he has this like halting way of stilted 159 00:07:37.560 --> 00:07:40.800 almost stilted, yeah, way of talking in that too, yes, 160 00:07:41.519 --> 00:07:44.040 which I don't know if it like. I mean, it 161 00:07:44.079 --> 00:07:47.560 was a little distracting in this film. I guess mostly 162 00:07:47.600 --> 00:07:51.279 because I thought he'd be he'd be a human, yeah, 163 00:07:51.439 --> 00:07:54.439 you know, which is funny because he's not human. He's 164 00:07:54.480 --> 00:07:55.040 not an angel. 165 00:07:56.040 --> 00:07:59.639 Do you question Christopher watkins ability as an actor? 166 00:08:03.360 --> 00:08:06.480 It? I don't. I don't know if this is gonna 167 00:08:06.480 --> 00:08:12.720 sound like this may sound hypocritical, but I feel like 168 00:08:12.759 --> 00:08:14.120 his is more natural. 169 00:08:14.000 --> 00:08:16.959 Okay, I just it is him. It feels like it's him, 170 00:08:16.959 --> 00:08:19.199 but he's not acting like I think it's Christopher walking 171 00:08:19.399 --> 00:08:21.040 playing a scene in a movie. 172 00:08:21.120 --> 00:08:26.360 He speaks the same way in almost every movie. I 173 00:08:26.480 --> 00:08:29.279 like his performances too, That's what I'm saying. 174 00:08:29.319 --> 00:08:30.639 That's why I brought it up. 175 00:08:31.160 --> 00:08:34.080 I think they're less distracting than Keanu Reeves. Really, yeah, 176 00:08:34.159 --> 00:08:39.000 I just I don't. I don't know. It's an interesting comparison, 177 00:08:39.159 --> 00:08:41.559 for sure. I just feel I don't know. I just 178 00:08:41.639 --> 00:08:45.360 it's it's more human with walking, you know, it's it's 179 00:08:45.639 --> 00:08:49.240 it was so robotic with Keanu Reeves. It is And 180 00:08:49.519 --> 00:08:51.799 I say it like it sounds hypocritical because they do 181 00:08:52.039 --> 00:08:55.120 very similar sticks, you know, and and it is what 182 00:08:55.159 --> 00:08:59.440 it is, Okay, So so go ahead. 183 00:08:59.159 --> 00:09:01.639 I was gonna say. I will say another comparison I 184 00:09:01.679 --> 00:09:03.600 was making in my head. Who caught us off guard 185 00:09:04.159 --> 00:09:10.039 was Liam Neeson in Uh Naked Gun the remake. He 186 00:09:10.120 --> 00:09:13.360 is not a traditionally comical actor, just like Keanu Reeves, 187 00:09:13.399 --> 00:09:15.679 I think, and he felt much more natural in the 188 00:09:15.679 --> 00:09:16.919 position that he was in. 189 00:09:17.080 --> 00:09:20.840 Yes he did. But I do think that he was 190 00:09:21.000 --> 00:09:23.320 chosen for that role. And I'm sure he picked the 191 00:09:23.399 --> 00:09:25.960 role in part because he is supposed to play it 192 00:09:26.039 --> 00:09:29.600 off as a serious actor, as a straight guy in 193 00:09:29.639 --> 00:09:32.639 a in a in a comedy, whereas I don't get 194 00:09:32.679 --> 00:09:33.559 I don't get that feeling. 195 00:09:34.000 --> 00:09:36.200 No, not at all. That was not the point of 196 00:09:36.200 --> 00:09:37.240 his role in this movie. 197 00:09:37.320 --> 00:09:43.480 I do like the relationship between Rogan and I'm sorry here. Yeah, 198 00:09:43.919 --> 00:09:49.399 they're characters, the Rogan, I mean like sort of like 199 00:09:49.480 --> 00:09:51.600 at the end, you get all three of these characters 200 00:09:51.600 --> 00:09:55.080 sort of together briefly. Yeah, But the majority of the movie, 201 00:09:55.120 --> 00:09:58.600 it always seems like it's two of these guys dominating 202 00:09:58.639 --> 00:10:02.919 every scene where it's in and Rogan, where it's Reeves 203 00:10:02.919 --> 00:10:06.000 and I'm sorry, where it's Reeves and Rogan, you know, 204 00:10:06.399 --> 00:10:08.240 And it was different in each one, and it was 205 00:10:08.320 --> 00:10:11.399 cool to see, you know, them play off each other, 206 00:10:11.720 --> 00:10:14.480 especially Reeves, who's not a comedic guy, and the other 207 00:10:14.519 --> 00:10:16.320 two guys, I mean, one's a comedic actor and the 208 00:10:16.360 --> 00:10:19.399 other one is a comedian, stand up comedian, So you know, 209 00:10:19.480 --> 00:10:22.039 they they know the value of timing, they know the 210 00:10:22.159 --> 00:10:26.000 value of how to deliver a joke properly, how to 211 00:10:26.039 --> 00:10:28.639 set up a joke where I don't think Reeves maybe 212 00:10:28.639 --> 00:10:30.159 he knows how to do that, but we haven't really 213 00:10:30.159 --> 00:10:33.519 seen it on the screen, the big screen throughout his career. 214 00:10:35.159 --> 00:10:39.000 That was the highlight of the acting for me. We 215 00:10:39.080 --> 00:10:42.799 talked about this briefly and sorry's direct directorial debut, which 216 00:10:42.840 --> 00:10:45.960 I didn't realize this was it. I thought it was good. 217 00:10:46.879 --> 00:10:49.279 I thought it was very cool. I thought the choices 218 00:10:49.320 --> 00:10:55.759 that he made were not all that unpredictable. But I 219 00:10:55.759 --> 00:10:57.799 think he told the story the way that the story 220 00:10:57.879 --> 00:11:01.240 needed to be told. I think he scentuated it with 221 00:11:01.320 --> 00:11:04.879 certain things that you know, active viewing would have showed 222 00:11:04.919 --> 00:11:07.960 you like, oh yeah, this this, this really drives it 223 00:11:08.039 --> 00:11:13.200 home here and and encouraging. I. I you know, I've 224 00:11:13.240 --> 00:11:15.720 never really been a huge I thought this season sorry, 225 00:11:15.799 --> 00:11:18.360 was pretty funny on Parks and racktell Yes, outside of that, 226 00:11:18.399 --> 00:11:20.320 I've never watched like Master of None or any of 227 00:11:20.360 --> 00:11:21.159 his stand ups or whatever. 228 00:11:21.200 --> 00:11:24.120 Thirty Minutes or less was very funny. Jesse Eisenberg and 229 00:11:24.200 --> 00:11:27.360 Danny McBride and Nick Swartz and they put a bomb 230 00:11:27.360 --> 00:11:31.200 on Jesse Eisenberger delivery guy. Yeah, yes, that was actually 231 00:11:31.440 --> 00:11:35.759 and to be perfectly frank, essentially the same message that 232 00:11:35.840 --> 00:11:39.000 he's worked as a delivery driver and you know, life 233 00:11:39.039 --> 00:11:40.919 isn't working out the way he needs it to. And 234 00:11:40.960 --> 00:11:43.639 even the criminals in that movie are trying to prove 235 00:11:43.720 --> 00:11:46.960 themselves to their parents that they can make it economically 236 00:11:47.000 --> 00:11:49.639 in this society. And that movie's a decade old and 237 00:11:50.039 --> 00:11:51.600 very similar ideas. For sure. 238 00:11:51.679 --> 00:11:54.840 What what was the app that he was using? Task something? 239 00:11:55.039 --> 00:11:56.720 Yeah, it was like it was like text or it 240 00:11:56.799 --> 00:11:59.679 was like there there's a there's a real like task 241 00:11:59.759 --> 00:12:01.080 rab Bit is the real life. 242 00:12:01.120 --> 00:12:03.440 So that was a fake app, but that it's based 243 00:12:03.440 --> 00:12:04.279 off of a real one. 244 00:12:04.360 --> 00:12:06.480 Yes, because I've up work is when I've actually been 245 00:12:06.519 --> 00:12:09.200 on Upward. I've heard of Upward. Yes, there's a number 246 00:12:09.279 --> 00:12:10.200 of those out there. 247 00:12:10.600 --> 00:12:13.399 So essentially, just to set this plot up for for everybody, 248 00:12:14.039 --> 00:12:15.759 and sorry, is this struggling guy. I believe he has 249 00:12:15.759 --> 00:12:18.399 a college degree, master's degree, Yeah, but he can't do 250 00:12:18.440 --> 00:12:20.960 anything with it, and and so he has to take 251 00:12:20.960 --> 00:12:23.200 these odd jobs. He can't seem to get a job anywhere. 252 00:12:23.639 --> 00:12:25.879 And Rogan is the flip side of that, where he's 253 00:12:25.919 --> 00:12:30.399 like this venture capitalist, brilliant type guy. And then Keanu 254 00:12:30.440 --> 00:12:33.200 Reeves is this angel that I don't know, is it 255 00:12:33.240 --> 00:12:36.879 revealing too much to say that these guys live different? 256 00:12:37.080 --> 00:12:41.399 So so Keanu Reeves essentially his character makes these guys 257 00:12:41.399 --> 00:12:44.720 do a freaky Friday. Yeah, and and then and this 258 00:12:44.799 --> 00:12:46.799 is what gets to be you know the question we 259 00:12:46.879 --> 00:12:48.919 have at the end of the movie. And this is 260 00:12:48.960 --> 00:12:53.919 what I was asking myself because I'm not going to 261 00:12:53.960 --> 00:12:55.960 say what the end result was. I'm not going to 262 00:12:56.000 --> 00:12:57.960 say how they get there. But Ben, if you all 263 00:12:58.000 --> 00:13:01.320 of a sudden were transformed into a light where you 264 00:13:01.360 --> 00:13:03.200 knew you didn't deserve it, you knew you didn't work 265 00:13:03.240 --> 00:13:05.639 to get it, and you have all but it was, 266 00:13:05.679 --> 00:13:07.519 and it was at the expense of somebody else who 267 00:13:07.639 --> 00:13:10.759 was deserving. How difficult would it be for you and 268 00:13:10.799 --> 00:13:14.039 no one's ever gonna know. Oh yeah, how difficult would 269 00:13:14.039 --> 00:13:16.600 it be for you to switch back so to your 270 00:13:16.639 --> 00:13:17.559 to your old life. 271 00:13:17.639 --> 00:13:21.080 Two things about this. First of all, the Freaky Friday format. 272 00:13:21.120 --> 00:13:24.039 What I loved about this aspect of it was in 273 00:13:24.200 --> 00:13:27.320 any other version of the Freaky Friday thing, there is 274 00:13:27.399 --> 00:13:32.000 inevitably the point where both parties involved realized they had 275 00:13:32.399 --> 00:13:35.639 they had it good back in their original body. This 276 00:13:35.679 --> 00:13:38.559 one doesn't really give you that feeling at any point 277 00:13:38.600 --> 00:13:41.399 in a Hollywood kind of way. You kind of feel it, 278 00:13:41.440 --> 00:13:43.519 but not not in a if that were you in 279 00:13:43.559 --> 00:13:47.279 real life, you would not be in that mindset, which 280 00:13:47.480 --> 00:13:50.240 it brings an interesting dynamic. And I oftentimes say it's 281 00:13:50.320 --> 00:13:53.240 very difficult to be creative in in movies and even 282 00:13:53.240 --> 00:13:55.120 in video games to a certain extent, because so much 283 00:13:55.120 --> 00:13:57.559 stuff has been done that it seems like it's more 284 00:13:57.639 --> 00:14:02.080 like improvising on of on a formula that's already out there, 285 00:14:02.080 --> 00:14:03.919 which is how I thought that was a really nice 286 00:14:03.960 --> 00:14:06.519 twist on this that makes you think about it. And secondly, 287 00:14:06.759 --> 00:14:08.440 and I'll be real with you, I do not. There 288 00:14:08.480 --> 00:14:10.080 is an element of this that neither one of us 289 00:14:10.080 --> 00:14:11.799 are going to be able to relate to. My best 290 00:14:11.799 --> 00:14:14.080 friend I went to a it wasn't Ivy League, but 291 00:14:14.120 --> 00:14:17.600 in Pennsylvania. It's a prestigious college, a big time Asian 292 00:14:17.639 --> 00:14:20.120 population there as well. My best friend, one of my 293 00:14:20.120 --> 00:14:21.919 best friends, I was the best man in his wedding, 294 00:14:22.200 --> 00:14:25.200 had that kind of stigma of like, you're at this school, 295 00:14:25.360 --> 00:14:28.000 You're Asian, You're gonna do this, You're gonna become a doctor. 296 00:14:28.039 --> 00:14:30.559 And he couldn't wake up before eleven o'clock in the morning, 297 00:14:30.600 --> 00:14:32.399 he would miss class all the time, and he ended 298 00:14:32.480 --> 00:14:34.360 up not going that route in the long run. And 299 00:14:34.399 --> 00:14:37.879 there's a certain component of that. I myself graduated from 300 00:14:37.879 --> 00:14:41.399 that school into the Great Recession, and like ap and 301 00:14:41.480 --> 00:14:45.360 honors classes, all these extracurriculars, you expect these big, grandiose things, 302 00:14:45.360 --> 00:14:48.759 and I'm there bartending with a degree from this institution 303 00:14:48.960 --> 00:14:51.759 for a while and I'm watching it. I'm sitting there, 304 00:14:51.759 --> 00:14:54.399 and so you're asking someone who can literally put himself 305 00:14:54.440 --> 00:14:56.679 in that position. It's like, Hey, if you could have 306 00:14:56.919 --> 00:15:00.279 pressed the skip button and not dealt with all that, 307 00:15:00.440 --> 00:15:03.879 not had the awkward Christmas dinners not had all those moments. 308 00:15:04.320 --> 00:15:06.440 I don't know that I'm a strong enough person to 309 00:15:06.519 --> 00:15:07.399 avoid all of that. 310 00:15:07.399 --> 00:15:08.799 That's that's my whole thing too. 311 00:15:09.000 --> 00:15:11.080 Like I'll be honest with you, like, I don't know 312 00:15:11.120 --> 00:15:13.720 that I could do it, except for the family aspect 313 00:15:13.759 --> 00:15:15.519 of it, Like the idea that I would lose my 314 00:15:15.559 --> 00:15:18.759 whole life along with that makes it a little bit 315 00:15:18.799 --> 00:15:22.159 of a harder conversation. But from the actual nuts. 316 00:15:21.799 --> 00:15:23.639 And bolts, because nobody knew. 317 00:15:24.000 --> 00:15:26.799 Yes, he introduced himself to all these people that he 318 00:15:26.879 --> 00:15:29.679 knew as his own parents or his best friends or 319 00:15:29.720 --> 00:15:32.399 whatever it was, that would be the hard part for me. 320 00:15:32.440 --> 00:15:36.120 But the actual nuts and bolts of it, the life, 321 00:15:36.279 --> 00:15:39.120 my life never got that bad what he was dealing with. 322 00:15:39.159 --> 00:15:41.080 I can tell you that I don't know that I 323 00:15:41.080 --> 00:15:42.120 would have the strength to do. 324 00:15:42.240 --> 00:15:44.840 That's the thing. It's tough to you know. You know, 325 00:15:44.919 --> 00:15:46.559 you and I have never been sleeping in our car 326 00:15:46.799 --> 00:15:50.200 right and living not only paycheck to paycheck, but like. 327 00:15:51.360 --> 00:15:52.960 Where are you brushing your teeth that morning? 328 00:15:52.960 --> 00:15:57.759 Exactly. I think it's interesting that the choices that Rogan's 329 00:15:57.840 --> 00:16:01.360 character made when he was on the flip side of this, 330 00:16:02.440 --> 00:16:10.200 you know where uh, poor you know, and and he 331 00:16:10.240 --> 00:16:11.960 was living day to day and he didn't know where 332 00:16:12.039 --> 00:16:12.960 his next you. 333 00:16:12.879 --> 00:16:14.440 Know, that's an important message, right, and. 334 00:16:14.559 --> 00:16:16.840 That that's the thing. And then and then think about, Okay, 335 00:16:16.960 --> 00:16:20.440 well what happens when a guy who is normally living 336 00:16:20.519 --> 00:16:23.399 high in the hog and and work to get there? Right? Yeah, 337 00:16:23.639 --> 00:16:25.360 I mean he he knew what it took to get there, 338 00:16:25.360 --> 00:16:27.559 and he got there. And look at the decisions he 339 00:16:27.639 --> 00:16:30.519 made how he was trying to get by with money 340 00:16:32.480 --> 00:16:34.799 didn't surprise me. I mean, I guess maybe it did 341 00:16:34.840 --> 00:16:37.240 surprise me. There was a lot of the same decisions 342 00:16:37.240 --> 00:16:40.120 that a lot of other people make, oh sure, and 343 00:16:40.159 --> 00:16:41.559 that that are not very scrupulous. 344 00:16:41.720 --> 00:16:44.080 Oh yeah, And I thought it was a really nice touch. 345 00:16:44.120 --> 00:16:45.960 At one point they had him go back like he 346 00:16:46.000 --> 00:16:48.240 has like some high falut and finance job that none 347 00:16:48.279 --> 00:16:49.559 of us could even really describe it. 348 00:16:49.639 --> 00:16:51.559 He's sort of like he's sort of like an independent 349 00:16:51.639 --> 00:16:53.279 contractor for businesses. 350 00:16:53.600 --> 00:16:53.799 Yeah. 351 00:16:53.799 --> 00:16:55.759 I don't want to say he's a venture capitalist. There's 352 00:16:55.759 --> 00:16:58.960 probably so there's that, there's an element of that, and 353 00:16:58.960 --> 00:17:03.759 and he's just he's brilliant when it comes to understanding 354 00:17:04.279 --> 00:17:06.799 what's gonna be big and he gets in on the 355 00:17:06.839 --> 00:17:09.960 ground floor, and he makes other businesses better. He's a 356 00:17:10.000 --> 00:17:11.119 really really smart guy. 357 00:17:11.559 --> 00:17:13.720 I think. I'm sorry, obviously, I don't know if he 358 00:17:13.759 --> 00:17:15.240 wrote it. I'm gonna have to look that up once 359 00:17:15.279 --> 00:17:17.240 I stopped making this point here, But but she did. 360 00:17:17.559 --> 00:17:19.640 And now I think about this. Rogan did saunas, right, 361 00:17:19.720 --> 00:17:21.519 Isn't that how he came up? Yeah, he was a 362 00:17:21.519 --> 00:17:24.920 big Sauna bro. Yes, And and then that sort of 363 00:17:24.920 --> 00:17:28.119 parlayed into like he was in the cinemon bun business 364 00:17:28.240 --> 00:17:30.000 and you know, and and. 365 00:17:30.039 --> 00:17:32.759 These other Yeah, a bunch of ride share as things. 366 00:17:32.559 --> 00:17:35.000 Like businesses that want he, Oh, this guy's really smart, 367 00:17:35.079 --> 00:17:36.680 let's get him to consult for us. 368 00:17:36.880 --> 00:17:38.960 Yeah. But I thought it was a nice touch though, 369 00:17:39.039 --> 00:17:41.799 that he eventually, like once he's in the poor version 370 00:17:41.839 --> 00:17:44.839 of himself, he goes to that business and uses that 371 00:17:44.960 --> 00:17:47.839 knowledge to try and emphasize his value and get back 372 00:17:47.839 --> 00:17:51.039 into the company, and they they literally want nothing to 373 00:17:51.079 --> 00:17:52.640 do with him. And I think that's a nice touch 374 00:17:52.680 --> 00:17:55.279 because while he did work for it, he had connections, 375 00:17:55.319 --> 00:17:58.240 he had financial stability before he had the job. Yeah, 376 00:17:58.279 --> 00:18:01.960 And it's just it really hit on so many levels 377 00:18:02.000 --> 00:18:05.599 for anybody currently involved in the job market right now, 378 00:18:05.680 --> 00:18:08.400 Like I oftentimes that this is one of those movies 379 00:18:08.400 --> 00:18:10.200 that I came out of there and I was like, man, 380 00:18:10.240 --> 00:18:12.400 am I happy? I'm content where I am like it 381 00:18:12.440 --> 00:18:13.920 was one of those kind of movies because I don't 382 00:18:13.920 --> 00:18:16.240 want to deal with that right now, right And it's 383 00:18:16.279 --> 00:18:18.640 a very real problem that like a lot of people 384 00:18:18.640 --> 00:18:21.920 are facing put into this comedy that is making you 385 00:18:22.000 --> 00:18:23.720 laugh about it. But I guarantee you there were a 386 00:18:23.759 --> 00:18:26.480 lot of people sitting there like, no, I get that. 387 00:18:26.640 --> 00:18:30.200 What what is this film making a commentary or a 388 00:18:30.240 --> 00:18:34.559 statement on the gig economy itself? Oh? Absolutely absolutely, and 389 00:18:34.640 --> 00:18:37.400 saying that it's bad, like this is wrong, We're heading 390 00:18:37.440 --> 00:18:39.400 in the wrong directions as a nation. 391 00:18:39.880 --> 00:18:42.160 Oh yeah, I couldn't agree with that more. I mean, 392 00:18:42.240 --> 00:18:45.519 I as somebody who did Uber and Lyft, I can 393 00:18:45.519 --> 00:18:47.559 tell you right now, in the four years that I 394 00:18:47.599 --> 00:18:49.279 did it, in the three years that I've been out here, 395 00:18:49.519 --> 00:18:51.759 I feel like forty percent of the of the audience 396 00:18:51.759 --> 00:18:54.160 that interacts with my show are driving for Uber and 397 00:18:54.160 --> 00:18:56.680 Lily while they're listening to it, and they'll call in 398 00:18:56.720 --> 00:18:59.160 and tell me I used to get this surge pay 399 00:18:59.240 --> 00:19:01.559 for this. That does happened anymore. I used to get 400 00:19:01.599 --> 00:19:03.440 this anytime a state talks. 401 00:19:03.480 --> 00:19:04.319