Back In The Day: Wonder Boys

Back In The Day, 20 years ago, during that Y2K, they released a bunch of great movies. Back in the day, they released Wonder Boys

What’s Wonder Boys about?  “During a single hectic weekend, college professor Grady Tripp (Michael Douglas) scrambles to gather together a life that has suddenly reeled out of control.”

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Synopsis: A professor, suffering from writer's block, tries to deal with the pressures of his complex love life and his troubled students' assorted problems. Despite the encouragement of one of his admiring female pupils, the professor is obsessed with his current work. He finds release in his friendship with a lonely but gifted student, but the news of his lover's pregnancy further complicates his already difficult life.

Directed by Curtis Hanson (His directing work included the psychological thriller The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, the neo-noir crime film L.A. Confidential, and 8 Mile)

Screenplay by Steve Kloves (He wrote and directed the 1989 film The Fabulous Baker Boys and is mainly known for his adaptations of novels, especially for all but one of the Harry Potter films and for Wonder Boys.)

Starring: Michael Douglas, Tobey Maguire, Robert Downey Jr, Frances McDormand, Katie Holmes

Adapted from The Novel, Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon

Featured Song was “Things Have Changed” (written and performed by Bob Dylan and released as a single on May 1, 2000, that won both the Academy Award for Best Original Song and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song.)

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spk_0:   0:02
relies. Curtis Hanson was

spk_1:   0:04
correct. Open a cold box of wine. Or, pour something cold on ice because it's

spk_2:   0:10
the binge Watchers podcast. Yeah.

spk_1:   0:34
Oh, that's right. Yeah. He died. Like what if you got

spk_0:   0:37
a pretty good filmmaker. So let's, uh, also run his greatest hits. Curtis Hanson was a director of producer and a writer. He did hand that rocks the cradle. You know, l a Confidential, which is probably my favorite of his films. Um, he did this adaptation of Wonder Boys I didn't know that he was involved in eight mile with.

spk_1:   0:58
Yeah, I didn't know that.

spk_0:   1:00
Did you know that? Um, I remember I saw in her shoes. I don't think so. That was about the mom of the sisters, right?

spk_1:   1:07
Yeah. I seen bits and pieces, but I don't like watch the whole thing.

spk_0:   1:11
Is that the thing that put Toni Colette on the map?

spk_1:   1:14
Now I'm not totally cool. It's been around long before that,

spk_0:   1:17
but she's She's like the main sister, right?

spk_1:   1:20
I think it's her. And, um, Cameron Diaz.

spk_0:   1:24
Yeah, they're like fighting. They're, like, competitive. I don't want a businesswoman, and one of them's like us. Kind of Ah, canary. Well, right. Is that what it is?

spk_1:   1:34
Um, I think so. I think Cameron Diaz is like the You have the nerdy will.

spk_0:   1:39
And then too big to fail was about, like, the 20 or the 08 financial crisis. The collapse of the market. I didn't know he did that. Too big to fail Documentary.

spk_1:   1:51
Yeah, are the HBO show was It was like a miniseries.

spk_0:   1:55
Yeah, Yeah,

spk_2:   1:56
yeah. Um, deli guy. What else?

spk_1:   2:03
Um, well, he seems, uh, Well, he goes back quite a ways. Um, I don't really think. And the rocks of cradles like what kind of catapulted him, But he goes all the way back to, like, the seventies. He did a movie called Losing It With, Um I think Tom Cruise like one of those gotta lose your virginity Movies of the eighties. Uh um Oh, he he didn't really After the head of the rocks, The cradle in between that and wild I like Well,

spk_0:   2:35
people should see that.

spk_1:   2:37
That's like one of, uh, Kevin Bacon's good bad guy rules. Yeah. Yeah. You

spk_0:   2:43
should see that. Meryl Streep sin, right? Yes. Yes. Oh, So Kevin Bacon is like a river tour guide that, like fucking totally snaps and like, terrorizes this family. I'm like a regular White Water River tour. It's

spk_1:   2:56
almost It's almost like Whitewater Summer except, ah, little more. He's a little more evil rather than just doesn't have

spk_0:   3:03
any comedy. And it doesn't include Sean Austin, right? I forgot that movie, too. I love that we like. And that movie like Sean Austin, like, talks to the audience and remember that, like series of eighties 90 stuff. Where the story Great Walls, yeah, would just directly talk to the audience.

spk_1:   3:21
I think it started with Ferris Bueller. You're there might have been other ones, but that's the big one I think of which

spk_0:   3:28
is funny because, like even the movie that we're viewing tonight, Wonder Boys, um, it's about writer. So you hear the writer's words as he as the novel progresses through the movie. And I mean, that's a story trope that they used in other things, like typically, when there's like adaptations of novels, there's usually like entire passages of the novel that the main character usually says in voice over. They talk about like, Oh, it's lazy writing for you to tell somebody like they're always like saying like basic screenwriting. Wanna one like, Oh, show not tell show not tell showing until Well, that's great. If you have, like, a giant budget and unlimited resource is you can show everything you want. But voiceover expedition and narration if you use it in a clever way, Mom Makeup for a lack of resources, Or like especially, like micro budget, like sci fi or horror movies. You have the old guy show up and tell the story about, like, back at this camp 20 years ago, you know? And it works. You know, you don't. I mean, it's just the way it isyou know you like you gotta do what you can. Um, that that sort of thing. You know, uh, I like this movie a lot, actually. Um,

spk_1:   4:38
I need to hold

spk_0:   4:39
a good cast, you know? I mean, you got Michael Douglas. Frances McDormand. Um jeez, what's see,

spk_1:   4:47
um, coming with wire you mentioned. Okay. Katie, hold Katie

spk_0:   4:53
Holmes. It's got a Robin Robert down. What? Yeah. Good.

spk_1:   4:58
Doesn't say Well, Robert Downey Jr. Like, uh, still in the midst of his drug problems. The way before Iron Man.

spk_0:   5:05
Oh, yeah. It's funny like that. That's how we're gonna market now. Let's have people are gonna mark It was like our deejay pre Ironman and our deejay post iron man to almost two different human beings. Right? Vast experiences in vastly, and the movies that they're able to get are completely different. But, um, I heard he he pulls back instead of a dragon's ass. And this little yeah,

spk_1:   5:32
it's getting is getting bashed by critics.

spk_0:   5:34
17% rotten tomatoes. I don't know what he's fucking thinking, and then I'm like, Well, maybe he actually doesn't have a very he doesn't choose movies. That wealth,

spk_1:   5:47
I think on paper probably worked well. I mean, Robert Downey Junior Doctor Dolittle. But I think just in production or something, it must have went crazy because I because I see the why I see why you would do it. But I know it sounds like it's a disaster. Um, Bruce is what? Oh, I thought we're still talking about the cast.

spk_0:   6:12
Oh, yeah? Well, the creator of Always Sunny in Philadelphia is in the movie for, like, two seconds. I

spk_1:   6:17
heard about that. I didn't spot him. I wish I would have paid attention. Oh,

spk_0:   6:21
you know what ripped horn plays the rival, right? Yes. Who's like on a book tour? And he's like some speaking lecture. And also the the guy who plays the cuckold, the cocoa, that husband he's like. He's like the dean of all the writing faculty. Yeah, that was a good actor to, uh, he's in a while. He was in, uh, man, he's ah, all right. Back to the Waltons, John boy or whatever. He is also in the TV version of it, like the original one.

spk_1:   6:53
Oh, yeah. Now, now, a picture I can't.

spk_0:   6:59
Anyway, if you're watching this folks using an attitude, it's got a very stellar cast.

spk_1:   7:04
And just the one last one I'd want to mention is the girl who plays Doula is a great character actress. Jane Adams. It was a very small role in this movie, but like she's a she's a great character actress through the two thousands, you know, go aboard off. Going back to happiness. One of my favorite movies.

spk_0:   7:21
Shit. Yeah, we're gonna veer into a touch salons discussion. Fucking time for that. Like there's a lot of stuff we have to prepare to talk about his movies. Oh, I heard I heard down Nic Cage is gonna do. Ah, third. And what is that? The doing? We'll talk to launch is kind of like out there. So it made me think of out there things that I heard today that Nic Cage is gonna do 1/3 national treasure movie.

spk_1:   7:49
Uh, all right.

spk_0:   7:51
You've already bought the ticket, Dave.

spk_1:   7:54
I've never seen either. I haven't seen either one of the charges from our national treasure, man. Oh,

spk_0:   7:59
man. You know what's gonna happen then, right?

spk_1:   8:02
You're gonna make me watch him. I want

spk_0:   8:04
full Uh uh. Actually, no, I I do know what we're gonna do for February, though. I guess I'm like, picking our new shows. Like as we're in the middle of discussing this movie, Right?

spk_1:   8:18
Obviously isn't isn't saying anything about the movie because movies really good.

spk_0:   8:21
Yeah, but our theme for February is gonna be bad. Romance is what we're doing now is like back in the day, which is 20 years ago today. A series of movies got released into the year 2000. Actually, if you look at the whole year, it's mostly filled with hits. So it's kind of funny that we're picking and choosing, but We also, like, tried to really test ourselves. We tried to challenge our our big water skills and say OK, we can't pick our faves that we would always talk about or films we've mentioned before So high Fidelity is off the table, even though they're making that a show.

spk_1:   8:53
Yeah, I saw that. Yeah, we'll see how it pans out. But like that high Fidelity is such a classic to me that I'm just like a man. Leave it alone. But hey, everything gets remade

spk_0:   9:06
anyway. I think that pretty much catches the audience up. There's a movie called Wonder Boys and has nothing to do with Jack Black Song called Wonder Boy. Um, we mentioned a bunch of people that are in it. It's about a writer having a kind of like going through some kind of crisis and personal crisis writer's block. But he's also both rid of wars, and then he, his mistress, who's his boss's wife, eyes pregnant. And it's really just call like, In a weird way, it's more like a slice of life movie like You just had it with this writer for a weekend, and he wants to help a younger writer who was like, really confused about us wanted sexuality to its place in the world and free whether or not he, the young writer can actually become a professional writer

spk_1:   9:47
right way, you know, you know, just thinking about this. I mean, this movie has believe it. Hear me out for a moment. Not exactly in terms of tone and style, but, like this movie has a lot in common with something like The Big Lebowski and that there's a lot of shit going on in this movie. Actually, like you said, it's a hangout movie, and I and I agree with that. But there's also a lot of like things going. There's a lot of plates spinning, and yet they still come together. I mean, you know, you got the murder of the dog. You Yeah, him him, you know, he actually has the opposite of writer's block. I would say, which is he can't stop to the point of he can't even edit himself.

spk_0:   10:25
Oh, the main character. Not well, okay, I guess I did say writer's block, huh? But I guess you're right. He has a different problem where he's like, You

spk_1:   10:34
can't stop. It is

spk_0:   10:34
no longer writing. He has no one to writing. He's just like indexing her cattle, eyeing hit this world that he created in the Split because he's got, like, more than 2000 years

spk_1:   10:45
100 something like even the character Katie Holmes, who reads it at some point, which she says she read in like a Day and 1/2 which I don't I don't see how you could read a 25 100 page book and that amount of time. But But yes, she says, like he has things like dental records and like the history of their genealogy and like he can't stop like he goes into too much detail in shit.

spk_0:   11:09
Well, I guess this movie had a hard time when it came out. Just like that writer on the movie couldn't figure out what it was. Book was about. The marketing department couldn't figure out had a market. This movie, like it had a limited run. When he came out in theaters, it tanked. And then they recut it, or they came up with a new advertising campaign and like the movie trailer that I washed was like hamming it up. We're, like, really heavy, like they were talking about each actor. What awards they won. They were quoting critics about the movie and like that was the entire trailer, like you couldn't even hear the scenes that were playing in the background because the guy talking was saying so many things. You don't even know what the movie was about. You're just hearing like somebody's opinion like, Oh, New York raves about this. Well, what? Uh, Michael, they're really trying so very hard to sell this movie. I didn't actually true. Oh, no, they cost him 55 million to make it and they only made 33 million. So their movie today still has not made its money back,

spk_1:   12:04
right? It's just too bad, cause, like, I kind of get the dilemma the marketing department would have because it is kind of a hard movie to categorize. I mean, it is a drama, T, but it's it's also a very dark comedy. I mean, they're shit. Like I said, dead dogs and all kinds of fucked up shit in this movie and stuff

spk_0:   12:22
you could have stuck with Michael Douglas is character and just talk about the writers and Rosie's right, right, and played up like you said the darker elements. And then, you know, Justin juxtapose that with the jokes, and that would have been one story. But then he had, like, the coming of age of the writer who's the younger right of the student who's coming out of his own. So you like, Is it his story? So is that what you sell up in the trailer? You know,

spk_1:   12:44
actually, it's a tough movie to categorize, but it's great movie.

spk_0:   12:47
What's funny is, so are DJs in here and has an affair with Tobey Maguire's character and then but an affair. I mean, they hook up, but then they know that they do a movie trailer, a fake movie trailer later in Tropic Thunder where they're hooking up. I was like, Oh, shit

spk_1:   13:02
guy

spk_0:   13:02
and they're monks in that movie. And then there is this running thing in this movie about Tobey Maguire's character, writing about like Catholicism and all his short stories and writing class on the writing classes like Tired of hearing about it. Wow, what a nods like turn of like casting where they just like our deejay until we require. And there they're having a romance in this movie, and then they do it again in the other movie. It's like there's a connection here. You know, it's ridiculous, but it's It's funny. Um, yeah. Then let's see what else is going on? Katie Holmes, once of your writer, too. But she's morally about like she's kind of the writer that wants to create experiences like, Which is that's the thing about writing like you observe. And then you experience things and then you write about it. But she's like forcing the experiences in the movie, and she's a little second afterthought like she's like another potential like hook up for, you know, the for. Michael Bennett was right. Um,

spk_1:   13:59
yeah, she's kind of, um I don't know what you call her, but she's just the have the connector, if you will. Like, she knows

spk_0:   14:07
a plot device. She's like moving a lot. Yeah,

spk_1:   14:12
yeah, because she she knows where he lives are Tobey Maguire lives. She has to give Michael Douglas and advice, and that's kind of it, you know?

spk_0:   14:21
Yeah, I think I was told by his character, like, You think it's like a disturbed kid like, you know, family issues. At one point, you think he's homeless because he talks about sleeping on a bench and eating and cheese sandwich out of a vending machine. Like then his like aristocratic grand parents show up when Michael Davis's Coker finally figures out what his name is and where he's connected. Thio.

spk_1:   14:42
Yeah, because he's a compulsive liar, basically, or like he will even said he did it to, like, hang out with them or,

spk_0:   14:48
yeah, consulting virus character. James is obsessed with Michael Levels. This character, Um, have you heard that beep my phone could have blown up all day on Twitter like we're 2020 Queen. What, 20. My friends know we're trending on Twitter right now because I posted a PIC of Batman. 66. Adam West was living in London for, like, a commercial shoot. For some reason, they let him use his bat suit and he's like, got a camera. So, like, I just I mean, everybody knows by now that I love 66. Batman is like is my favorite Batman like Second to none would be. You know, I love Michael Keaton's Batman, and then I can appreciate you know what they did with dark night or whatever, but uh,

spk_1:   15:33
66 year about them.

spk_0:   15:35
Yeah, because if you read the old detective comics like, that's how it waas you want to be like that? A computer that told him where the crimes were happening would go and stop the crime like it's ridiculous. But it was highly entertaining. And so and, you know, minority actors got casted Batman. Granted, there were a lot of makeup in a lot of effects, like for the, you know, whatever. But you had, like, a Latino joker, you know, you know, But he was

spk_1:   16:03
how they had they had a black African American woman like, there's no makeup there. Everybody just thought like, Yeah, that's cat woman.

spk_0:   16:13
Yeah. So, uh, like a friend and I were talking about Adam west of the day, and so I was just like, yeah, and then I wanted to find a pic of him, and I was like, Oh, but I'm just gonna post it and then, uh bam, You know, um, there you have it. Uh, folks, if you want to check out Wonder Boys, there's a link in our podcast notes. You can actually pick up Wonder boys from us. The binge watchers. We have an Amazon store, and we're trying to link the movies that were watching. Um, you know, available to you to rent sometimes repose free links. But you know what? This one Go ahead and check it out on Amazon prime. We don't have any other partnerships with any other things like voodoo yet. But one day, one day soon we're coming for you to be, You know, we're gonna wine and dine TV. It's gonna happen. Um, we actually have people reaching out to us via email for sponsorships, but they want to know are listening numbers. And I'm like, Hey, we've been on the charts, like, 10 times, like, you know, get with the program here. Um, but, you know, I don't know. They need a winding dynasty, you know? Hey, do you like the Flaminio and take him out? You know, take out dangerous and kind of cut a deal everywhere. Oh, yeah. Oh, don't talk about what we should talk. Actually, we should talk SAG awards because the whole thing is this romantic ideal of like, there's this out take of a non outtake. I mean, somebody caught it behind the scenes video of Brad Pitt watching um, Jennifer Anderson with her award like he was backstage, but he was watching on the TV and he was like, captivated by her by her, you know, moment that she was having and it like she reciprocated a little bit, you know. She saw him later when he was getting his. His speech is great, by the way, don't we saw rapid speech? The SAG Awards were tonight. I haven't seen the whole thing. Don't you know? It's weird, dude, Like I don't watch the televised awards shows anymore. I literally just look for the clips on social media like That's it. Like I'm on Twitter watching the SAG Awards, you know, speech by speech like I don't like the transitions. I don't like the presenters, so I get why the Oscars like no host, but it still breaks my heart. The hosting thing like I actually want to write a letter to the Oscars and be like, Hey, my name's John. I'm an actor you've never heard of. I'm not a member of the Academy, but I won't come in hosts for free because I fucking love cities and I will do the best job of their fucking scene because I don't have an ego. And I don't hate gay people like the community to try to hire last year, you know that. Really, Like I'm pretty pretty PC, as far as I know. Um, but another big winner was Parasite. I don't know if you've seen that movie yet.

spk_1:   18:57
I have actually.

spk_0:   18:59
Great. Yeah, they won for best cast, but I just like there they made history because I got to know a foreign film had gotten, like, best cast SAG Award ever.

spk_1:   19:09
It's, um, the only one, the only one of, like, just based off of some of the current movies. I'd say that gives it run for a splendid be once upon a time in Hollywood or Irishman. Um, no, it's It's pretty, because again, um, well, I can't speak too much about parasite because you kind of have to go into that movie cold. The best you go, the colder you going, the better.

spk_0:   19:32
But, you know, uh, I don't know. They're going to give it. So walking at the Oscars, I think I think he's gonna get snub, actually, for Joker, but, um and I don't know if you got a SAG award and I don't know if he was there. We obviously know we got the Golden Globe speech is a little awkward and off kilter. He doesn't seem to have social skills like if you've ever seen in Cliffs where he's himself. He's like one of

spk_1:   19:56
the abbey is

spk_0:   19:57
that I can wear a mask but doesn't ever want to. You know, Have you seen him like who he is? You know, Right? But he's great. Is the Joker, man, you watched that movie. You've seen it, right?

spk_1:   20:09
Yeah,

spk_0:   20:10
You watch that movie and like, you don't think you're watching Walking Phoenix like there's a couple things that walking conduce and look. Winnie Hu, Anyone's Johnny Cash for 2/3 of the movie, you thought it was Johnny Cash, but there were some moments where he kind of broke character and it's okay that's walking Phoenix. I've seen him in these other movies. Space camp, whatever. It's walking, you ogre. It doesn't seem like walking Phoenix at all. And like the scene that you would want me over was the scene where he was dancing, and it is the living room of his apartment and talking himself about his dance moves

spk_1:   20:43
no. Okay, I can see that.

spk_0:   20:45
That's got me like that. And so then I was kind of riveted by that into it. Also, they did a really great job of like showing you reality. But then she and then also showing you like his character's perception of reality. Like how he thinks events unfolded. But then we got to see like, That's not how events unfolded. But he was really caught up in his mental state, you know? Yeah, Frigate. But I don't know if it's Oscar, Really? Oh, they're given What's his name. A hard time about the masturbation joke from the hangover. There's a lot of news stories circulating right now about, like how he tricked the parents with what? You remember the hangover. Where what's his name? Makes the baby look like he's jerking off.

spk_1:   21:25
Oh, are we really getting pissed off about that?

spk_0:   21:29
Oh, I'm not getting pissed off.

spk_1:   21:30
No, no, no, not you. But

spk_0:   21:32
they don't want Todd Phillips to win an Oscar because he tricked the parents and into in the Zach. What's his name's Joe

spk_1:   21:40
That? Yeah,

spk_0:   21:43
where he makes that he getting makes the baby to a hand gesture.

spk_1:   21:47
Yeah. Okay, obviously a SW. Far as I'm concerned, Joker was a good movie, but their one and only award it deserves would be walking Phoenix. Um, I mean, I'm sorry. Todd Phillips. I wrote a comment somewhere. If Todd fiddles wins, he should buy All right, give his Oscar to Martin Scorsese because as far that movie lives in size, the driver Yeah, and King of Comedy. I mean, that movie lives and dies by Joaquin Phoenix is performance. So I think Todd Phillips did a good job of directing it, but it is in his own style. He just emulated somebody else. Yeah, so? So that's why I don't think he deserves an Oscar for it. If I would say either, give it to Barnes, you know, our Quentin Tarantino are they've even said Mendy's, I don't know. I just thought Maybe

spk_0:   22:34
so you know what, man like I like it enough that I like. I don't want it to be. I know it's joker. It's It's obviously Joker. It's the DC universe. But like he goes to Bruce Wayne's house and meets a young Bruce Wayne, right? And right now, I don't want it to be that movie I don't want this movie to do anything with that man. Honestly, I wanted that would be just to be about the dude in the movie. I was just captivated by what the guy's going through, right? And

spk_1:   23:03
actually, that's a good point. That's the only criticism I give the jokers like Did we need to see his fucking parents die again? Sorry, Spoiler alert. Excuse me? What? I mean, one of the biggest movies of the year, I'm sure of audiences. Mostly seen it

spk_0:   23:18
Well, yeah. I mean, there's a lot of people think it's the movie of the year.

spk_1:   23:22
It's good, man. I really I don't wanna I don't want because I love that movies I really do. But like I never expected it to get Oscar nominations the least outside of walking Phoenix. So I'm really kind of surprised. Um, I won't be pissed off if it wins, but I just I don't expect it to.

spk_0:   23:38
You know, what I hate is like these awards movies that try to come in sneak in right at the end like it's something the 2019 run ended in like November December, but they had this war movie come out called 1917 of Our War and

spk_1:   23:50
See that gets off on a technicality because it ran for, like, a week. Yeah,

spk_0:   23:55
I like December Christmas Day, right? And ran for, like, a week. And then, like it's on the Oscar ballot like, Where the fuck did that come from? We spent the whole year watching his other movies, but

spk_1:   24:06
they do that every year, though. Like a few years ago with zero dark 30 or it was something else. Like they always have to do that because they can't The theatre's become flooded with Christmas movies.

spk_0:   24:16
Yeah, you should go back to the movie we were supposed to talk about. I don't think we have clarified whether or not we actually wanted people to watch the movie. Or if we thought the movie was good enough

spk_1:   24:27
for our

spk_0:   24:27
audience. Yeah, for our audience to go

spk_1:   24:28
while you watch

spk_0:   24:29
back to the day run. All right. You heard it. Dave said fucking go onto

spk_1:   24:35
I Hey, I own a DVD. I watched it on the DVD yesterday, man, You

spk_0:   24:40
know what? Like now, because of all this technology, like it's finally surpassed DVD like I can't even actually, this is what I want to do. Like, you know, older movies and stuff and going back to the batmen 66. It's like, I want to get all the Batman's from the sixties and watch them. But I was like, But they're gonna look like shit on a four K television that's bigger than, like, a certain size. I was like, Holy shit. I need to go find a Catholic Ray tube television.

spk_1:   25:08
I'm actually on that one. No, because they've upgraded that one too Blue Ray. So So what? I don't know if they made anamorphic, but in terms of, like the picture

spk_0:   25:19
making, like how they used to shoot TV chosen 4311 and all that other bullshit. And like like going and watching on the size of the frame it was intended for? Yeah, like I'm like, Oh, my God. I'm going to get an analog television to watch things the way they were made. You know, I was like, Oh, what should I do? What I would love to do, Like quitting curriculum has like, a theater in his house, you know? Yeah, I was like, Oh, fuck, I'll just get really reals and I'll get, like the world's last working VHS deck. He may I have it. There's a lot of people are selling them like and then and then what's funny is new movies like People keep cutting movies on via just like on purpose, like they get the artwork made and they put it out, Put it out for cell. It's a thing, you know, the whole cultural

spk_1:   26:12
Did I ever tell you have a laserdisc player? Now that's

spk_0:   26:17
got out. You know,

spk_1:   26:18
that's what the kind of man I am, just But I only go find shit that's not available. Um, yeah,

spk_0:   26:27
right Next week, folks, it's the gladiator. And actually walking is in there, too. That's, like, another disturbing role. You know, he plays the guy that's got, like, a the complex for her sister, and he's really pissed off that Russell Crowe is a got bigger muscles than him.

spk_1:   26:43
Yeah, because there was a girl Beat the shit out of him. Oh, and I You know, honestly, I don't think I've seen this since it first came out on video, so I probably have seen it like 19 years or so. Any I own a copy on.

spk_0:   26:58
We're gonna do a thing we're gonna give away, You know, for our true fans to take the time to review us, leave us some stars there on the iTunes and download and play. And tell your friends, um, we're gonna give away the Russell Crowe Gladiator pops. Not sure how many we're gonna give away yet, but we're gonna do a contest. Nobody got the Christmas blanket, and I'm still sitting on, like, four lost boy pops. So people really need to get their shit together and give us some love over here. Binge. Watch his podcast. We don't even ask people to do a lot. We're not like other podcasts and have, like, four commercials every 10 seconds. If you listen to some of the new ones like they have, like four or five sponsors on shows now, they interrupted their show like you don't even know me like. It's like a radio, but more annoyance. A lot of podcasts. Anyway, there you go. So my recommendation is it's some, like ice cream, like a fully loaded cookie dough ice cream, and then watch the wonder boys and, uh and we'll see you next time