WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.639 --> 00:00:04.040 This, this is this is gonna have to be I'm gonna 2 00:00:04.080 --> 00:00:05.519 have to do it. You turn it on, tell me 3 00:00:05.559 --> 00:00:07.879 how I see it? It's on. Oh I can't hear anything. 4 00:00:07.960 --> 00:00:09.039 Why do you not hear myself? 5 00:00:09.119 --> 00:00:13.679 I hear you just fine, okay, it's it's coming through fine, yeah, okay, Yeah, 6 00:00:13.720 --> 00:00:14.720 then you don't hear yourself. 7 00:00:14.720 --> 00:00:16.920 I don't hear myself at all. No, maybe plug in 8 00:00:16.960 --> 00:00:19.960 and maybe plug in the blanking headphones again. 9 00:00:22.960 --> 00:00:25.120 I was wondering why you pulled your mouth away from 10 00:00:25.120 --> 00:00:25.719 the microphone. 11 00:00:25.719 --> 00:00:26.800 I'm like, do you not do it? 12 00:00:26.879 --> 00:00:29.800 Because I'm like, yeah, we are recording, but like, are 13 00:00:29.839 --> 00:00:30.600 you leaving all this in? 14 00:00:30.800 --> 00:00:34.039 No? Okay, good, all right, all right, well now I'm good. 15 00:00:34.079 --> 00:00:35.960 I can hear myself. I don't know why. I just 16 00:00:36.000 --> 00:00:38.159 assume it's plugged in. I plug in my own headphones 17 00:00:38.159 --> 00:00:40.200 in the score studio all the time. I just assume 18 00:00:40.240 --> 00:00:41.399 I picked these up and they're plugged in. 19 00:00:41.479 --> 00:00:43.200 Yeah, you made fun of me about the headphones on 20 00:00:43.240 --> 00:00:44.600 the way in here to make fun of you. 21 00:00:44.679 --> 00:00:47.920 I just you remembered them, which was good. I can't you. 22 00:00:48.000 --> 00:00:49.479 Took the time to make a comment. 23 00:00:49.520 --> 00:00:52.840 I mean, well, yeah, I can't. I mean, at least 24 00:00:52.840 --> 00:00:54.880 you remember to plug them in. I can't even remember that. 25 00:00:55.159 --> 00:00:56.920 I don't remember to bring them though. I get that. 26 00:00:57.479 --> 00:00:59.520 Well, Okay, I gotta I gotta come clean with you 27 00:00:59.520 --> 00:01:01.840 about some that I felt bad about making us do 28 00:01:01.960 --> 00:01:05.280 Running Man this week because I, as I told you 29 00:01:05.359 --> 00:01:09.799 off during your show yesterday, I didn't realize that now 30 00:01:09.879 --> 00:01:11.359 you three me had come out. 31 00:01:11.680 --> 00:01:12.920 They're that's what I'm calling it. 32 00:01:13.480 --> 00:01:16.439 That's what I'm calling it at the very least, And 33 00:01:16.599 --> 00:01:18.000 I knew that you wanted to see it, and I 34 00:01:18.040 --> 00:01:19.560 was like, Oh, if I would have known, I'm happy 35 00:01:19.640 --> 00:01:21.840 because we have a good we have a symbiotic relationship, 36 00:01:21.879 --> 00:01:23.640 like we do a good job of just seeing what 37 00:01:23.680 --> 00:01:24.760 the other people want to see. 38 00:01:24.799 --> 00:01:26.079 My whole thing was we were going to see both 39 00:01:26.079 --> 00:01:27.560 of them anyway. So what difference is that? 40 00:01:27.680 --> 00:01:30.439 No, I get that, but I like because I like 41 00:01:30.920 --> 00:01:33.159 doing things for people that do things with me. It's like, 42 00:01:33.159 --> 00:01:34.640 if that's what you want to see, I still wanted 43 00:01:34.680 --> 00:01:36.280 to see that as well. And you weren't just sold 44 00:01:36.280 --> 00:01:37.840 on this. But I say all that to say I 45 00:01:37.840 --> 00:01:40.359 don't feel bad anymore because that movie, fucking rock It 46 00:01:40.400 --> 00:01:42.239 was a good movie. It was so good, it was fun. 47 00:01:42.280 --> 00:01:44.040 I'm so happy we went to go see that. 48 00:01:44.159 --> 00:01:48.000 No, so we saw The Running Man with is it 49 00:01:48.079 --> 00:01:50.920 Running Man or the Running Not running Man? Glenn Powell, 50 00:01:50.959 --> 00:01:57.000 Josh Brolin, a remake of the nineteen eighty seven Arnold 51 00:01:57.000 --> 00:02:00.680 Schwarzenegger film based on the nineteen eighty two novel Stephen King. 52 00:02:00.840 --> 00:02:03.000 Yeah, second one of the Bachmann books that we're doing 53 00:02:03.040 --> 00:02:03.799 here in the last. 54 00:02:04.040 --> 00:02:05.920 That Long Walk was the other one. Yeah, in the 55 00:02:05.959 --> 00:02:12.360 last the trio here. Yeah, So yeah, I guess for 56 00:02:12.520 --> 00:02:15.479 me going into this, it was fine, Like I didn't 57 00:02:15.479 --> 00:02:18.879 mind seeing it at you know whatever. I don't remember 58 00:02:19.240 --> 00:02:22.520 a lot of the original that I saw. Yeah, And 59 00:02:22.599 --> 00:02:24.680 I think part of the reason is because I maybe 60 00:02:24.719 --> 00:02:26.719 didn't like it all that much. But then when we 61 00:02:26.759 --> 00:02:31.039 got talking about like eighties action movies, and this was 62 00:02:31.080 --> 00:02:34.439 originally an eighties action movie, right, and and so why 63 00:02:34.439 --> 00:02:36.159 wouldn't I like it? You brought that up, you know, 64 00:02:36.199 --> 00:02:38.479 you talk about expendables and Diehard and all this other stuff. 65 00:02:38.520 --> 00:02:39.960 Why wouldn't you like it? I'm like, you know what, 66 00:02:40.639 --> 00:02:44.639 I should like this? And I did. Spoiler alert, I 67 00:02:44.680 --> 00:02:47.680 did like this movie. Did you rewatch the original? 68 00:02:48.120 --> 00:02:48.199 No? 69 00:02:48.240 --> 00:02:52.520 I did not. I did not the There's so much 70 00:02:52.560 --> 00:02:55.319 to unpack here and I don't know which way you 71 00:02:55.319 --> 00:02:57.319 want to go right away, but I think we can 72 00:02:57.360 --> 00:03:00.800 talk about who we identify in this movie. Yeah, I 73 00:03:00.879 --> 00:03:03.360 think at least for me and Ben. My mind was 74 00:03:03.479 --> 00:03:06.400 racing once the rules of the game of the Running 75 00:03:06.439 --> 00:03:09.120 Man game show we're being listed out for us as 76 00:03:09.159 --> 00:03:11.840 the audience. I'm like, Okay, how do I circumvent this? 77 00:03:11.879 --> 00:03:13.919 How do I like, how would I play this game 78 00:03:14.280 --> 00:03:15.639 if I was the running ban Did you do that? 79 00:03:15.639 --> 00:03:18.599 As of course, of course, I even mentioned to John 80 00:03:18.680 --> 00:03:22.280 Jordan about an hour ago, wapl legend, John Jordan, Yes, 81 00:03:22.400 --> 00:03:26.360 I said, you know, there's a pretty lengthy rule explanation 82 00:03:26.520 --> 00:03:28.840 that can sometimes slow the pace down. I said that 83 00:03:28.879 --> 00:03:30.639 about F one as well. I said, if I already 84 00:03:30.719 --> 00:03:33.080 knew the rules, I might find myself a little bored 85 00:03:33.120 --> 00:03:37.680 about kind of going over this stuff that people. Yeah, exactly, 86 00:03:38.520 --> 00:03:41.039 this didn't slow like it was. I think it was 87 00:03:41.199 --> 00:03:43.960 necessary because it eliminates a lot of your like, well, 88 00:03:44.000 --> 00:03:46.039 I would just do this, and it's like, well, you 89 00:03:46.120 --> 00:03:48.319 have to video yourself and mail it every day, so 90 00:03:48.360 --> 00:03:51.319 you can't. You can't just tuck yourself in a hole somewhere, right, 91 00:03:51.520 --> 00:03:53.199 And like there's just like little moments like that that 92 00:03:53.319 --> 00:03:55.520 do away with a lot of plot holes that otherwise 93 00:03:55.520 --> 00:03:56.000 would exist. 94 00:03:56.080 --> 00:03:58.520 I will say this, Yeah, you get a billion new 95 00:03:58.639 --> 00:04:01.159 dollars as they call it. Yeah, I love it. Yeah, 96 00:04:01.159 --> 00:04:04.280 I love with Schwarzenegger on on the on the on 97 00:04:04.319 --> 00:04:06.159 the bills, which I thought was great. And you also 98 00:04:06.240 --> 00:04:09.479 noticed there was an Obama street this as well. Okay, anyway, 99 00:04:11.159 --> 00:04:16.040 a billion new dollars? Yeah, what's to say that you 100 00:04:16.079 --> 00:04:21.759 don't hook up with somebody who swings by some random 101 00:04:21.800 --> 00:04:26.560 place every day, maybe with a lot of people bringing 102 00:04:26.600 --> 00:04:30.759 supplies in, taking the tape, dropping it in the box 103 00:04:31.480 --> 00:04:34.199 different times every day, so there's no pattern, and you 104 00:04:34.240 --> 00:04:36.759 just split the billion dollars. Why wouldn't that work? 105 00:04:36.920 --> 00:04:39.600 That was probably the biggest plot hole in my opinion, 106 00:04:39.680 --> 00:04:42.959 is that they pay three thousand dollars as a finder's 107 00:04:43.000 --> 00:04:44.639 fee if you tip the police. 108 00:04:44.680 --> 00:04:47.000 If you what do they call it record and reports. Yeah, 109 00:04:47.040 --> 00:04:49.000 so if you get video of the of one of 110 00:04:49.000 --> 00:04:51.920 the Running Man contestants and then you you. 111 00:04:51.720 --> 00:04:54.680 Which leads to a kill, you get three great, right, right? 112 00:04:54.920 --> 00:04:56.480 You get you tip off the hunters and if the 113 00:04:56.560 --> 00:04:58.319 hunters kill them, then you get three thousand dollars. 114 00:04:58.360 --> 00:05:00.160 And if we just handle it on your own and 115 00:05:00.199 --> 00:05:01.360 it's ten thousand. 116 00:05:01.079 --> 00:05:02.199 Ten thousand, which is still nothing. 117 00:05:02.279 --> 00:05:04.720 So I'd say one hundred million. I wouldn't even lowball them, 118 00:05:04.759 --> 00:05:06.360 Like it's not like I'm coming in a million. I'd say, 119 00:05:06.360 --> 00:05:09.160 I'm giving you ten percent of what I'm walking away 120 00:05:09.199 --> 00:05:11.480 with in this if you do not take me out. 121 00:05:11.519 --> 00:05:15.079 And there are friendly faces throughout this, which I did appreciate. 122 00:05:15.759 --> 00:05:18.639 Very similar long walk where you wouldn't expect to find friends, 123 00:05:18.680 --> 00:05:20.519 but again similar idea here as well. 124 00:05:20.560 --> 00:05:23.560 Well, I think that the whole friend aspect of it 125 00:05:23.600 --> 00:05:30.000 is is not necessarily I think it was. It was 126 00:05:30.000 --> 00:05:32.839 different with Bill Macy's character because I think he clearly 127 00:05:32.920 --> 00:05:36.319 was a friend of Glenn Powell. 128 00:05:36.279 --> 00:05:38.600 Which that was the most heartbreaking. He's like, I was 129 00:05:38.600 --> 00:05:40.079 going to give you a job. It's not a spoiler, 130 00:05:40.079 --> 00:05:41.639 it's five minutes of the movies, Like, you didn't need 131 00:05:41.680 --> 00:05:43.040 to do this. I was going to give you a job. 132 00:05:43.079 --> 00:05:45.439 And I was like, I call that Homeward Bounding. If 133 00:05:45.480 --> 00:05:47.560 you've ever seen the movie Homeward bound Bound, do you 134 00:05:47.560 --> 00:05:51.079 remember that one? No, It's like it's it's Michael J. 135 00:05:51.240 --> 00:05:53.040 Fox and two other people that I'm blanking on who 136 00:05:53.040 --> 00:05:54.839 plays them? And they play two dogs and a cat 137 00:05:54.920 --> 00:05:57.480 and they escape like they voice the animals. It's a 138 00:05:57.639 --> 00:05:59.759 live Actually, the entire movie is an hour and a 139 00:05:59.800 --> 00:06:01.439 half and I was like six when it came out. 140 00:06:01.439 --> 00:06:02.879 It was one of my favorite movies of all time 141 00:06:02.879 --> 00:06:05.560 as a child. And like they'd be at the vet 142 00:06:05.600 --> 00:06:08.160 and the vet was portrayed as an asshole, and then 143 00:06:08.360 --> 00:06:10.120 it would turn out that he was just trying to 144 00:06:10.120 --> 00:06:12.279 help them and the family was on their way, and 145 00:06:12.360 --> 00:06:14.560 right as the family would walk in through the door, 146 00:06:14.800 --> 00:06:17.040 the dogs the cat would escape. There's some kind of 147 00:06:17.079 --> 00:06:19.160 over the top means, and then they'd end up at 148 00:06:19.160 --> 00:06:21.680 this homeless encampment, and the homeless encampment seemed like it 149 00:06:21.720 --> 00:06:23.639 was evil, and then it turned out that it was 150 00:06:23.639 --> 00:06:25.639 actually there to help them. And just as the owners 151 00:06:25.680 --> 00:06:28.279 were getting to the homeless encampment, the animals would escape, 152 00:06:28.360 --> 00:06:30.759 Ah forcots and every ten minutes, like you're just screwing 153 00:06:30.800 --> 00:06:32.720 with these six year old lives. I felt like I 154 00:06:32.759 --> 00:06:34.759 was getting homeward bound in that moment. I'm like, why 155 00:06:34.759 --> 00:06:37.639 didn't you tell him this yesterday? We could have avoided 156 00:06:37.680 --> 00:06:39.800 all of this. See, when I had a job, he 157 00:06:39.839 --> 00:06:41.839 wouldn't have needed to do this. He could have helped 158 00:06:41.879 --> 00:06:44.319 his kid, and now we've got a whole premise and 159 00:06:44.360 --> 00:06:47.040 it hurts in that way. I made that term up. 160 00:06:47.079 --> 00:06:48.120 You feel free to steal it? 161 00:06:48.199 --> 00:06:53.720 Yea, that makes sense. Yeah, So the point I was 162 00:06:54.439 --> 00:06:58.000 making was I don't think they're necessarily friends, like especially 163 00:06:58.079 --> 00:07:00.879 with the family that kind of takes him in for 164 00:07:00.920 --> 00:07:03.279 a little bit. Yeah. I think that that was more 165 00:07:03.319 --> 00:07:06.319 of just like, hey, we're both against the network and 166 00:07:06.319 --> 00:07:09.480 we're both against this government. And by the way, this 167 00:07:09.519 --> 00:07:11.920 is setting like a dystopian future. Is it for the 168 00:07:12.000 --> 00:07:16.040 United States? Is it okay? The stuff that I saw 169 00:07:16.040 --> 00:07:19.240 in this movie I have not seen exist to this 170 00:07:19.360 --> 00:07:20.759 degree in reality. 171 00:07:20.839 --> 00:07:23.639 Yet I thought it did a good job of emulating 172 00:07:23.879 --> 00:07:27.319 today while being in the future. The technology was advanced, 173 00:07:27.319 --> 00:07:29.560 and again they start filming the stuff two years ago. 174 00:07:29.879 --> 00:07:32.759 So there's some things that happened in this movie that 175 00:07:32.879 --> 00:07:35.720 I'm just like, oh wow, that's very prescient for what's 176 00:07:35.720 --> 00:07:39.680 happening right now. And there's it. It's the kind of 177 00:07:39.720 --> 00:07:42.399 thing a lot of these movies held. The original one 178 00:07:42.439 --> 00:07:45.000 takes place in the future that felt like a much 179 00:07:45.040 --> 00:07:48.639 more distant future than this did. This felt like essentially 180 00:07:48.720 --> 00:07:53.920 contemporary America with fancier things. The dependence on reality TV. 181 00:07:54.120 --> 00:07:56.399 They have their version of the Kardashian The Kardashians. 182 00:07:56.480 --> 00:08:01.959 It was great. Yeah did you see who played them? 183 00:08:02.040 --> 00:08:04.639 And I know Debbie Maysur was one of Oh I didn't. 184 00:08:04.759 --> 00:08:06.800 I didn't see who the other ones were. But I mean, 185 00:08:06.879 --> 00:08:09.279 like some of the like the television in the hotel room, 186 00:08:09.399 --> 00:08:10.879 I mean stuff like that doesn't exist. 187 00:08:10.959 --> 00:08:14.160 No, no, absolutely not. But there was just the element 188 00:08:14.360 --> 00:08:17.160 of having come from a corporate radio station when he's 189 00:08:17.199 --> 00:08:20.319 dealing with the boss and there's no real understanding. I 190 00:08:20.439 --> 00:08:23.399 was part of a unionization effort, so when unions are 191 00:08:23.480 --> 00:08:25.959 kind of used as a reason to fire somebody, Like, 192 00:08:26.160 --> 00:08:28.720 there's just a lot of moments that feel very relevant 193 00:08:28.759 --> 00:08:32.679 to today's America, just in uh a more. I compared 194 00:08:32.720 --> 00:08:34.759 it to Black Mirror with a friend of mine yesterday 195 00:08:34.799 --> 00:08:36.039 after I got out of it, and I said, it 196 00:08:36.080 --> 00:08:38.960 reminds me of Black Mirror. Nothing in Black Mirror exists today, 197 00:08:39.159 --> 00:08:41.559 but you're like, this feels like five years away, Like 198 00:08:41.639 --> 00:08:44.639 it doesn't feel like we're that far off from having 199 00:08:44.679 --> 00:08:45.440 this kind of stuff. 200 00:08:45.600 --> 00:08:51.399 I thought it was. It was such an authoritarian existence, 201 00:08:51.919 --> 00:08:55.519 you know, where like we we don't. There's a lot 202 00:08:55.559 --> 00:08:58.720 more Glenn Powell's in society today than there were in 203 00:08:58.799 --> 00:09:00.639 this movie, where it just seemed like everybody is just 204 00:09:00.679 --> 00:09:03.840 browbeaten into the ground. You think, yeah, at least at 205 00:09:03.919 --> 00:09:07.480 least initially, and then you know, you talked about how 206 00:09:07.480 --> 00:09:11.759 the original this was all a distraction to keep people 207 00:09:11.799 --> 00:09:15.720 talking about anything else other than life. Than life, Yeah, 208 00:09:15.759 --> 00:09:21.600 and the basically, you know, these people who have nothing, 209 00:09:21.679 --> 00:09:25.639 I mean literally nothing, like they're their only respite is 210 00:09:25.679 --> 00:09:30.320 to go to the network free V and try out 211 00:09:30.320 --> 00:09:31.000 for these games shows. 212 00:09:31.039 --> 00:09:33.600 It's a fast channel. 213 00:09:34.600 --> 00:09:39.039 Okay, ye, so so they put they give you psychological tests, 214 00:09:39.039 --> 00:09:45.039 intelligence tests, physical fitness tests, mental tests, everything. And the 215 00:09:45.080 --> 00:09:47.120 amount of people that were going in there on a 216 00:09:47.200 --> 00:09:50.000 random whatever day of the week it was makes me 217 00:09:50.120 --> 00:09:54.840 think that the majority of this population is destitute and 218 00:09:54.960 --> 00:09:58.240 this is their only solution, and everybody does it because 219 00:09:58.240 --> 00:10:00.639 they had, i mean, they had hundreds of people showing up. 220 00:10:00.639 --> 00:10:02.080 And then they tell you what game show you're going on. 221 00:10:02.360 --> 00:10:04.720 Game shows that can cause death, like The Running Man 222 00:10:04.840 --> 00:10:07.960 or therely. 223 00:10:06.960 --> 00:10:10.000 A wipeout allegory if you're familiar with the ABC game 224 00:10:10.000 --> 00:10:12.399 show Wipeout. When people are running, they show you people 225 00:10:12.480 --> 00:10:15.279 just messing themselves up because they're trying to get money 226 00:10:15.320 --> 00:10:17.919 for meds and they're running on this goofy obstacle. Course 227 00:10:17.960 --> 00:10:20.440 we're all laughing watching them get bopped in the face 228 00:10:20.480 --> 00:10:22.759 with this stuff, and like they're I say it all 229 00:10:22.759 --> 00:10:24.879 the time on my show. I'm a big game show guy. 230 00:10:24.919 --> 00:10:27.399 Like I like game shows so much that, like before 231 00:10:27.440 --> 00:10:29.840 the internet really took off, the Game Show Network would 232 00:10:29.879 --> 00:10:32.399 like let you text in answers on live shows and 233 00:10:32.440 --> 00:10:35.440 play along. And I got so good at the show. Wow, Yeah, 234 00:10:35.440 --> 00:10:37.200 I didn't know that I got so good at Chain 235 00:10:37.240 --> 00:10:39.639 Reaction that I play sixth in the nation and my 236 00:10:39.720 --> 00:10:42.919 name was on TV. Like, I loved game shows. And 237 00:10:43.200 --> 00:10:45.360 because I do outside the box so much as I 238 00:10:45.360 --> 00:10:47.279 get older, as I meet so many people in the 239 00:10:47.320 --> 00:10:50.600 situations like what we see in The Running Man, Yeah, 240 00:10:50.639 --> 00:10:52.720 it's hard for me to watch people trying to stack 241 00:10:52.799 --> 00:10:54.879 paper clips on top of one another for a million 242 00:10:54.919 --> 00:10:57.480 dollars and watching them have a mental breakdown when they lose, 243 00:10:57.480 --> 00:10:59.399 and I'm like, you know, I don't know if this 244 00:10:59.440 --> 00:11:01.320 is as much fun as it used to be anymore. 245 00:11:01.360 --> 00:11:03.200 And that was kind of the vibe that I was 246 00:11:03.240 --> 00:11:05.320 getting watching them play this game. 247 00:11:05.360 --> 00:11:08.639 Here did you notice? So the first game show that 248 00:11:08.679 --> 00:11:10.799 they shows this guy running on a hamster wheel and 249 00:11:10.799 --> 00:11:13.120 he has to answer questions with his heart rate elevated. 250 00:11:13.679 --> 00:11:17.200 The host of that was named Gary Greenbacks. I mean 251 00:11:17.399 --> 00:11:19.759 probably a stage name, right. Sure, do you know who 252 00:11:20.039 --> 00:11:22.360 what actor played him? I can't even remember the face? 253 00:11:22.440 --> 00:11:25.320 Go ahead, he had the glasses. Yeah, the Sean Hayes 254 00:11:25.679 --> 00:11:29.440 from Will and Grace. Oh really? And and Sean Hayes. 255 00:11:29.679 --> 00:11:31.919 It's so wild because he always plays this you know, 256 00:11:32.039 --> 00:11:35.279 well it doesn't always play it, but he played this 257 00:11:35.440 --> 00:11:38.720 over the top performer on Will and Grace for years, right, 258 00:11:39.559 --> 00:11:41.240 And now the last two things I've seen him in 259 00:11:41.639 --> 00:11:42.919 this where he was I don't want to say he 260 00:11:43.000 --> 00:11:46.000 was reserved, but much more quiet and you know, well 261 00:11:46.080 --> 00:11:48.600 the stuff is happening behind him, He's just this is 262 00:11:48.720 --> 00:11:50.799 like normal. And then he also played I Believe a 263 00:11:50.799 --> 00:11:54.120 Psychiatrist for a season on curbyr. Enthusiasm, where he was 264 00:11:54.240 --> 00:11:56.840 very understated and reserving, like I can't believe this is 265 00:11:56.879 --> 00:11:58.440 still Sean Hayes. Yeah. Crazy. 266 00:11:58.840 --> 00:12:01.279 And that's not the only time. Are you a black 267 00:12:01.320 --> 00:12:03.799 mirror person or no? Like talk about black mirror? I 268 00:12:03.840 --> 00:12:05.720 mean I know of it, yeah, but you didn't watch it. 269 00:12:05.759 --> 00:12:07.759 If I said fifteen million credits. You don't know what 270 00:12:07.840 --> 00:12:10.120 episode of that nine Okay, well there's. 271 00:12:09.919 --> 00:12:12.480 A well was the one that you were telling me about. 272 00:12:12.519 --> 00:12:14.200 That's one with Jesse Plemmons was in like. 273 00:12:14.600 --> 00:12:17.679 Oh yeah, there's one the Uss Calister. That's the one 274 00:12:17.919 --> 00:12:20.000 in the fifteen million credits one. It takes place in 275 00:12:20.000 --> 00:12:23.240 a future where ninety percent of the population pedals bikes 276 00:12:23.279 --> 00:12:25.799 for a living. They're like stationary bikes, and pedaling the 277 00:12:25.840 --> 00:12:29.080 bikes generates the energy that keeps society running, so they 278 00:12:29.080 --> 00:12:31.919 pay you. But a certain percentage of the population is 279 00:12:31.919 --> 00:12:34.279 too heavy to pedal the bikes, and their role in 280 00:12:34.360 --> 00:12:36.639 society is they are the janitors. So everyone treats the 281 00:12:36.720 --> 00:12:39.519 janitor people like crap and they are ridiculed for their size. 282 00:12:39.879 --> 00:12:40.919 And it seems like it's. 283 00:12:40.799 --> 00:12:43.440 A recurring theme in a lot of these futuristic movies 284 00:12:43.519 --> 00:12:46.679 that that kind of and it popped immediately. That was 285 00:12:46.720 --> 00:12:48.799 where my mind right when I was watching the Hamster 286 00:12:48.919 --> 00:12:52.120 reel thing there. Yeah, and it it feels it feels relevant, 287 00:12:52.200 --> 00:12:54.399 Like I say, it feels relevant to today. And to 288 00:12:54.440 --> 00:12:56.320 be perfectly Frank, I was gonna make the joke when 289 00:12:56.320 --> 00:12:58.879 you were setting up before this could have we could 290 00:12:58.879 --> 00:13:01.919 have just replayed the intro to The Long Walk. Yeah, oh, 291 00:13:02.000 --> 00:13:04.039 a bunch of people that don't see any other option 292 00:13:04.200 --> 00:13:06.480 other than to take part in this contest in order 293 00:13:06.559 --> 00:13:08.960 to make the billion dollars and get your one wish 294 00:13:09.000 --> 00:13:11.600 and do all these things. Very clearly, Stephen King was 295 00:13:11.600 --> 00:13:14.519 going through some things, and it it's it's kind of 296 00:13:14.559 --> 00:13:16.720 comforting to know that in the early eighties a lot 297 00:13:16.759 --> 00:13:18.799 of people were looking well, at least he was looking 298 00:13:18.799 --> 00:13:20.799 at society through the same lens that I think a 299 00:13:20.799 --> 00:13:22.919 lot of people look at it through today, because this 300 00:13:23.000 --> 00:13:26.279 felt relevant today that years again, right, and think about 301 00:13:26.320 --> 00:13:30.519 this too, like that's for years, that's when orwell's nineteen 302 00:13:30.600 --> 00:13:32.879 eighty four, this is when we're like, okay, how much 303 00:13:32.879 --> 00:13:33.720 of this came true? 304 00:13:33.799 --> 00:13:35.600 Yeah? You know, so like we were looking at there, 305 00:13:35.799 --> 00:13:41.159 We had a very futuristic viewpoint on that novel for years, 306 00:13:41.679 --> 00:13:44.360 and then as we're coming up on the actual timeline 307 00:13:44.360 --> 00:13:47.039 and that people looked at it like okay, well where 308 00:13:47.039 --> 00:13:49.039 are we at here? And and Stephen King was one 309 00:13:49.039 --> 00:13:49.919 of them, clearly. 310 00:13:49.759 --> 00:13:52.519 Yeah, absolutely and h And. 311 00:13:52.440 --> 00:13:54.759 By the way, like I don't think he was like 312 00:13:54.840 --> 00:13:57.360 Stephen King capital letter Stephen King at this point, right, 313 00:13:57.720 --> 00:13:59.600 he was he was he was still making his way. 314 00:14:00.039 --> 00:14:02.200 So maybe he was one of these starving artists that like, 315 00:14:02.240 --> 00:14:03.360 you know that. 316 00:14:03.080 --> 00:14:07.840 That was exactly it just so happens it hit for him. Yeah, 317 00:14:08.919 --> 00:14:11.159 all right, it's just like the NFL. You only ever 318 00:14:11.200 --> 00:14:13.440 see this guy was living in his car. Now is 319 00:14:13.480 --> 00:14:15.799 the cornerback for the Green Bay Packers. You don't see 320 00:14:15.799 --> 00:14:17.559 the fifty other people that were living in their car 321 00:14:17.639 --> 00:14:19.519 that are living in their car. Stephen King's the guy 322 00:14:19.559 --> 00:14:23.440 that emerged stories that feel that they just transcend. It 323 00:14:23.679 --> 00:14:25.440 feels very real, and I could watch a thousand of 324 00:14:25.440 --> 00:14:26.159 these kind of movies. 325 00:14:26.200 --> 00:14:32.240 Glenn Powell's portrayal of Ben Richards in this film Likable Unlikable. 326 00:14:33.519 --> 00:14:35.720 I'm going to say this, and I'm interested in your thought. 327 00:14:35.759 --> 00:14:38.120 I think he wanted to be John McClain very badly, 328 00:14:38.159 --> 00:14:40.000 but I don't think he's a Bruce Willis type. 329 00:14:40.000 --> 00:14:44.120 All right, hold on, hold on, Glenn Powell wanted to 330 00:14:44.159 --> 00:14:46.320 be John McClain, not Ben Richards. 331 00:14:46.440 --> 00:14:48.799 Yeah, okay, I think he wanted to be portrayed the 332 00:14:48.840 --> 00:14:51.159 smart ass guy who's whooping ass while he's doing it. 333 00:14:51.200 --> 00:14:53.320 But he's got all these sassy one liners and he's 334 00:14:53.360 --> 00:14:56.039 a goofball. But he's also, you know, just like an 335 00:14:56.120 --> 00:14:58.840 every man type of guy, like he has Okay. 336 00:14:58.600 --> 00:15:01.639 So the difference to me and that is a case 337 00:15:01.639 --> 00:15:06.279 of motivation. The motivation for John McClain runs wrong time 338 00:15:06.480 --> 00:15:08.240 and he's a cop. Yeah, what else is he going 339 00:15:08.279 --> 00:15:10.320 to do? This is what he does. Yeah, it was 340 00:15:10.360 --> 00:15:14.200 survival for him and his family. Sure, you know. And 341 00:15:14.240 --> 00:15:17.879 I think that's the differing factor here with how Glenn 342 00:15:17.919 --> 00:15:19.200 Powell had to play this character. 343 00:15:19.559 --> 00:15:22.000 There is a roar shark test where he's like, I 344 00:15:22.000 --> 00:15:25.440 see fluffy bunnies, Like I just felt John McCain oozing 345 00:15:25.519 --> 00:15:26.000 out of him. 346 00:15:26.120 --> 00:15:28.919 Well, okay, so that's what I'm saying, Like, like, and 347 00:15:28.919 --> 00:15:33.159 and he almost portrayed a cartoonish level of anger in 348 00:15:33.200 --> 00:15:36.519 the first thirty minutes in this movie, maybe first forty minutes. Yeah, 349 00:15:36.679 --> 00:15:38.840 And I'm like, boy, do they want us to like 350 00:15:38.919 --> 00:15:41.559 this guy? I mean, he's yelling on the set of 351 00:15:41.600 --> 00:15:45.279 The Running Man and just freaking out or whatever. He 352 00:15:45.600 --> 00:15:48.200 seemed to me a little unhinged, Whereas like the guys 353 00:15:48.240 --> 00:15:50.080 I like to root for in these me against the 354 00:15:50.120 --> 00:15:53.519 world scenarios are these reserved guys that are always three 355 00:15:53.519 --> 00:15:56.240 steps ahead of everybody else, calm, cool and collected that 356 00:15:56.320 --> 00:15:57.080 wasn't Powell. 357 00:15:57.159 --> 00:15:59.200 Let me present this to you through a different light though, 358 00:15:59.200 --> 00:16:01.879 because I noticed that as well, and I was talking 359 00:16:01.879 --> 00:16:03.559 to a friend of mine that's not from the area 360 00:16:03.559 --> 00:16:06.559 who also had seen the movie, and I say to him, 361 00:16:07.039 --> 00:16:11.000 we are well beyond the years of Uncle Buck or 362 00:16:12.120 --> 00:16:15.039 what's an I wish I had a second example. We now, 363 00:16:15.159 --> 00:16:18.720 I think, have a much more gritty and realistic portrayal 364 00:16:18.879 --> 00:16:21.360 of what it is to live paycheck to paycheck, to 365 00:16:21.480 --> 00:16:26.799 be broke. And you are angry, you are frustrated, You're 366 00:16:26.840 --> 00:16:28.919 You've got a kid who's sick as hell that you 367 00:16:28.960 --> 00:16:31.080 can't figure out a way, even though you see his 368 00:16:31.159 --> 00:16:34.240 work experiences. He has all these skills, he can do all. 369 00:16:34.159 --> 00:16:36.320 This, but he also has these massive he gets keeps 370 00:16:36.320 --> 00:16:37.799 getting fired for insubordination. 371 00:16:38.279 --> 00:16:41.519 But insubordination is you know, it's not what we think 372 00:16:41.559 --> 00:16:42.600 of insubordination. 373 00:16:43.200 --> 00:16:46.120 That's okay, that's true. But even his wife or his 374 00:16:46.200 --> 00:16:48.840 wife or girlfriend, I'm not sure she kind of was 375 00:16:48.879 --> 00:16:51.440 like worried about his anger issues. And then they said 376 00:16:51.519 --> 00:16:53.000 in a portion of the movie, I don't think this 377 00:16:53.039 --> 00:16:53.600 is a spoiler. 378 00:16:53.720 --> 00:16:56.279 Maybe it is nothing really to spoil this movie. 379 00:16:56.399 --> 00:16:58.399 I'll just say, like when he was getting the psychological 380 00:16:58.440 --> 00:17:03.879 testing done, they even said, you are the angriest person 381 00:17:04.200 --> 00:17:06.839 we've ever tested before. And I'm like, why are they 382 00:17:06.920 --> 00:17:10.759 driving this anger thing home so hard? I don't. I 383 00:17:10.759 --> 00:17:15.599 don't and so so to me, like I wanted to 384 00:17:15.680 --> 00:17:17.880 root for him, and clearly I was rooting for him 385 00:17:17.880 --> 00:17:19.920 he throughout this whole movie, but it was it was 386 00:17:20.000 --> 00:17:21.920 more of a struggle than I thought because of like, 387 00:17:22.279 --> 00:17:25.119 I don't know if this guy's like a nice guy. Yeah, 388 00:17:25.160 --> 00:17:27.440 he loves his wife and he loves his kid, but 389 00:17:27.839 --> 00:17:32.640 he's he's he's so angry, and and I guess they intersperse, 390 00:17:32.720 --> 00:17:34.240 you know, helping the guy out when they were in 391 00:17:34.319 --> 00:17:37.759 line who needed the doctor who like threw up or 392 00:17:38.200 --> 00:17:40.119 seizure or whatever. He grabs the guy on the rock 393 00:17:40.400 --> 00:17:42.519 the guy on the rock wall. Yeah. Absolutely, so, I 394 00:17:42.559 --> 00:17:45.200 mean there there, there is that those redeeming qualities, but 395 00:17:45.240 --> 00:17:48.599 they just really wanted to hammer homeless anger aspect. 396 00:17:48.680 --> 00:17:51.200 I think I brought up parasite in the last episode 397 00:17:51.200 --> 00:17:53.160 of this show, but that's so that's the whole point 398 00:17:53.200 --> 00:17:55.839 in that movie. They say the wealthy family is nice 399 00:17:56.079 --> 00:17:59.160 because they can afford to be nice. The people who 400 00:17:59.160 --> 00:18:02.319 are typically angry or meaner are the people that go 401 00:18:02.400 --> 00:18:04.319