Caught Stealing Reviewed: Style Over Substance, Soundtrack Debated, And A Nihilistic Finish

We rate Darren Aronofsky’s Caught Stealing a clean three, then pull apart why it moves fast but leaves a faint aftertaste. The cast delivers competence, the camera delivers polish, and the story leans on old tropes that drain the emotion it tries to spark.

• rating the film across acting, cinematography, soundtrack, story, rewatchability
• Austin Butler’s strengths in stylized roles versus interior drama
• Matt Smith’s scene-stealing energy and Regina King’s dialed-up cop
• trailer shots versus cinematic surprises in set pieces
• Guy Ritchie echoes in pacing and needle drops
• the fridging trope and why it blunts character stakes
• nihilistic ending and symbolic accountability
• how chaos films earn meaning when choices drive consequences
• our fixes: go full absurdist, or deepen moral cost
• a final consensus at three out of five

Transcript

Cold Open And Low Energy Vibes

SPEAKER_03 0:15

Alright. You can tell how energized we are after this movie.

SPEAKER_04 0:23

The energy's low.

SPEAKER_00 0:24

I don't know how to feel about this movie. Well, hey everybody. Welcome to High Podcast. I'm your host, Ryan Barron North, with me as always, James Crosklin, Luke, and we are going to be discussing well. What the fuck? Oh, the Sarah Silverman program.

SPEAKER_03 0:46

I thought that show was too infantile when it was running on Comedy Central, and I was like 11 years old.

SPEAKER_00 0:57

This is dumb. Well, you know what was weird? Because like since since then, I've like I think Sarah Silverman's pretty good. I like a lot of her work, and so I don't understand why her show was just such hot garbage.

SPEAKER_03 1:13

What were you saying, Luke?

SPEAKER_01 1:14

I've never seen I've never seen even heard of the Sarah Silverman program. I didn't know she had a show like that.

SPEAKER_03 1:20

But you're but you know who's Sarah Silverman. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Familiar with Sarah Silverman. Just didn't know she had like her own little like TV show. Looks very low budget. I think she's really funny. She talked on John Mulaney's uh show about how she has a nighttime routine where she smokes weed. So she her routine is she flosses first and then smokes and then brushes her teeth. And and and she was like, I could floss. I mean, I could smoke first, but flossing takes me like an hour after I do this. I thought it was gonna be that she never never actually just never flosses because she forgets every time. I don't need to, it's fine.

Bait-And-Switch From TV Chat

Introducing Caught Stealing And Format

SPEAKER_00 2:10

Well, so for uh those of you joining this first time, we're not actually gonna be talking about Sarah Silverman, even though that'd be a fantastic podcast. Of course. In fact, we're gonna be discussing our movie of the week. This week we're gonna be doing talking about caught stealing a new outing from fucking this group.

SPEAKER_03 2:30

Darren Aronofsky.

SPEAKER_00 2:31

There he is.

SPEAKER_03 2:33

Darren Aronofsky, a very acclaimed director.

What We’re Smoking And Drinking

SPEAKER_00 2:37

Yeah, well, he made this film, and uh we're gonna be talking about it. We're we're gonna break it down into three parts. All right, we're gonna start by giving you the definitive rating on this film. One out of five stars. We'll let you know. It's gonna make Fandango and Rotten Tomatoes just look infantile as uh the Sarah Silverman program. Then we are going to delve into the golden path and figure out the higher uh pieces of this film. And finally, we are going to insert ourselves drugs or alcohol into the film. And what makes it so special, unique, and just magical for everyone listening is that we're going to be doing it drunk and high. So, uh fellas, what are you smoking this week?

SPEAKER_01 3:21

Oh shoot, you go first, James.

SPEAKER_03 3:24

I don't know. I just put whatever we'd add left over in this role. And uh I think that's what the movie wants, right? It wants that level of commitment. Obviously. That's pretty much what it's talking about. We'll we'll get to it. I've got a cosmic cherry this week. Uh a flower, no, no uh distill it today.

SPEAKER_05 3:47

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 3:48

I think this might be gelato. I guess I could take a conjecture. I think it's gelato. I think there was gelato in the movie, if I'm not mistaken, at one point. Was there? No. Did you go for gelato? No, okay. I have no clue.

SPEAKER_00 4:01

If you if I went back and watched and saw that he went for gelato, I wouldn't be surprised.

SPEAKER_03 4:05

I basically only remember the fact that Austin Butler and Zoe Kravis were in the movie. That's my deepest recollection of it. Leave Schreiber.

unknown 4:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 4:15

Yeah. Vincent D'Anofrio. Oh, I'm not saying like the cast wasn't good, I'm just saying that's all I can remember. Like, I just not it nothing stuck to my brain. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 4:26

And Regina King actually was pretty solid too in the in the movie. Like, I feel like I don't know if that was like what the character was supposed to be, like, because it was very over the top, but yeah.

SPEAKER_00 4:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 4:39

It was it was a film.

SPEAKER_00 4:40

Well, I'll I'll be joining you guys with Uncle Nearest's 1884 small badge whiskey. It's let's see. It's uh 46 percenter, 93 horsepower. Um, we'll see how it goes. So this first uh toast, first hit, this one is gonna go out to our newest listeners, and they are coming at us from. I always forget to just actually go ahead and click the fucking button on who's watching our stuff. But anyway, um, our newest listeners are from oh well, I'm sure I feel like we've gotten them before, but apparently not.

SPEAKER_03 5:19

The Democratic Republic of North Korea again?

SPEAKER_02 5:23

Again.

SPEAKER_00 5:27

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SPEAKER_03 5:43

Walsall Walsall. Probably Germany. We have a we have a German listener at least.

SPEAKER_00 5:48

Yeah. Um, and then there is the Paramaribo district. Paramaribo. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 5:57

Walsall is, I believe, a in England because yeah, it's in England. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 6:03

And Sakeles, wherever that is. Seychelles. I'm learning Yeah, Seychelles, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 6:11

Well, someone off and uh someone's using a VPN. I have no idea where I there's no way we have a listener in Seychelles.

Shoutouts, Geography Tangent, And Toasts

SPEAKER_00 6:18

I mean, we're just I'm learning so much about geography. Well, anyway, here's the Seychelles.

SPEAKER_03 6:27

Cheers. I mean, I wish we were all there and not just routing our VPNs through it.

SPEAKER_00 6:35

Well, that was unpleasantly surprising.

SPEAKER_01 6:41

Found out a new favorite.

SPEAKER_00 6:43

That wasn't bad at all. We're gonna go in for another another toast. So the second shot, second toast, second hit. This one goes after the film this week. Hot feeling. Interesting. Yeah, this is uh like it's got a it's got a sting that you don't usually get from a 93.

SPEAKER_03 7:12

Yeah, in a good way or a bad way. I was about to say, in a bad way?

SPEAKER_00 7:15

Yeah, in a in a good way. I I don't mind this at all.

SPEAKER_03 7:18

That's good. Mine smokes like a cannabis. Every time I have a shot of anything, I go, ooh, that's yucky.

SPEAKER_04 7:29

I uh I have to say women don't really find it attractive.

SPEAKER_05 7:35

Yucky. My tummy hurts.

SPEAKER_00 7:46

Uh final toast, final shot. This one goes out to Matt Smith's Mohawk.

Matt Smith Cameo And Cast Reactions

SPEAKER_03 7:51

Fuck yeah, that's it. Sure, yeah, yeah. The bald cap they put on it was super funny, though. Like it bulged out at the top of his head. Like he knew there was hair underneath it, you know. Oh yeah. Funny bald cap.

SPEAKER_00 8:10

It was interesting seeing uh him pop up uh in just like a random side roll like this. You know, I know he's rolling around in all that uh House of the Dragons money these days.

SPEAKER_01 8:21

Yeah, no.

SPEAKER_03 8:21

I always Doctor Who. Sorry, go ahead. Yeah, I mean Doctor Who as well. So I mean I feel like it was a just a fun roll for him.

SPEAKER_00 8:30

Yeah, you do five for your career, one for you, five for your career, one for you. So I hear, you know.

SPEAKER_03 8:37

Well, which do we think this is, his career or for him?

SPEAKER_00 8:41

Uh well, I don't know if it did his career any favors, but uh I don't know if it did anyone's career any favors. I I think it may have hurt Austin Butler. I I'm wondering how many chances we're getting ready to give this guy.

SPEAKER_03 8:54

I honestly didn't think Austin, I I didn't find um to be that bad in the movie. I found the writing of the movie worse than him specifically. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_00 9:04

Like Well, I thought the actors were generally pretty good. Yeah, the actors were generally pretty good, but like I've seen a few things now with Austin, but first I I don't know what deal he signed, but I feel like uh why he's blowing up. He's being force fed to me, and each thing I see him in, it's always meh. You know, there was no friggin' role where I'm like, oh, this guy's gonna be huge. No, it's just I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 9:28

The Elvis role was pretty, pretty like iconic for me. I feel like he really did well. Really? Yeah, my grandma, who is like she might be the biggest Elvis fan of all time. I don't know for sure, but she's definitely trying to compete. Um she was even impressed with his performance of uh Elvis. Yeah, so um he did get a lot of allods for that. He got an award for it, I think.

SPEAKER_01 9:53

Yeah, I believe I believe so too. Yeah, he really did do a good job, but to the point that even after the movie, apparently his voice had changed. Like he literally talked forever differently because of the role.

SPEAKER_04 10:04

Or he just liked sounding fucking silky smooth like Elvis. I know I would. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 10:09

Heath Leather Leah, heath ledger jokered his way into the Elvis role.

SPEAKER_03 10:17

Yeah, there was a oh sorry, go ahead. Just a less tragic ending for his. Well, there's still time.

SPEAKER_00 10:23

Yeah, yeah. Keep him away from the Olsen twins. Does anyone have a bead on Olson twins?

SPEAKER_03 10:29

Something I just found out looking at his past is that he was a Disney teen. Yeah, I did know that already. I did not know that. So that may be why you're getting fed him, fed force fed him, is because he was a Disney teen. He was in an iCarly spin-off or movie or something. He was in uh one of the things he was like a love on interest of Carly, I I believe. Uh, and then he was also a love interest of Zoe, Zoe, and Zoe 101. Like kind of one of those like Nickelodeon Disney kids.

SPEAKER_00 11:04

Gotcha. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 11:05

All right. Then he was in Dune Part 2, and I was like, yeah, Austin Butler. Yeah, that's it actually now that that's another role where I mean he fucking killed that role. That was slap some shit on him, and he's great. Yeah. He was good in that one. I'll give him that. You gotta slap some shit on him. If you slap some shit on him, he he just knocks it out of the park, whether it's some Elvis gear or you know, a ball cap. You throw some sideburns or a bald cap on Austin Butler, and he is fucking deadly. He's good to go.

SPEAKER_00 11:37

Yeah, I watched that motorcycle movie with him and Tom.

SPEAKER_03 11:40

I didn't want I didn't ever catch that one.

SPEAKER_00 11:41

It was very meh, very, very meh.

SPEAKER_04 11:43

Was it that accent was very jarring, at least for the previews that I had seen. Oh yeah.

Austin Butler: Hype, Roles, And Range

SPEAKER_00 11:49

Yeah, it was it was very meh. Well received, kinda seems to be. I mean, and it looked like they had high hopes for it, but I don't know, just uh I guess the interest wasn't there. I I think there's just too many uh just kind of strange connotations with motorcycle groups these days, you know. It's hard to overlook all the white supremacism.

SPEAKER_04 12:11

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 12:12

Yeah, it didn't I think let's dive on in. So we're gonna it's time to rate this movie. So Caught Stealing. What'd you guys think? What are your scores on the matter? James, you want to kick it off?

SPEAKER_03 12:28

I want yeah, I'll kick it off. Okay, so I'll quickly run through the scores because most of what I have to say is about like filmmaking, right? In general, and how how how it changed how it evolves and we change with it. And that's too much for this first section. I'm gonna say acting, I thought everyone did a pretty good job. I didn't think it was amazing. I didn't think they knocked out the charts. I was I was engaged, but I wasn't like, wow, Austin Butler is like fucking, I can feel his pain. None of that. I just watched him, I watched him feel the pain, and I was like, oh, what would that be like if someone actually felt that because Austin Butler did not convince me? Uh but also I just found out he's in The Dead Don't Die, which was an awful movie with a star study cast. Maybe we should review that one day if you guys ever want to torture yourselves. Oh it's like that's it's it's like possibly the worst movie I've ever seen. Okay. Star Study cast, Bill Murray, fucking Adam Driver, like all kinds of people. Um I'm trying to think. Uh who was the who was the cop again? Uh that was Regina King. Regina King, yeah. Yeah, I her role, like she got the I feel like everyone here got the the script. Like they they understood what they were supposed to be going for. They got the goal. But I also felt like a character like that was like parodied all the way back in 2008 with uh uh Pineapple Express, Rosie Perez's character is a cop in that movie, and she like and she does the she though. That's all I was thinking about was her the whole time, and I was like, she did all of this, but like funnier and like and did it with the right intensity. But she like but they're they were just doing that role but straight, and and I felt that for a lot of the acting was just it was all competent, but none of it blew me away. So I'd give that like a 3.5. Um next, cinematography. I think the cinematography was pretty good. I like some of the follow shots, like when he picks up the bat, but but a lot of the shots that I really loved were in the trailer. To be fair, like they picked like the best shots of the movie and put them in the trailer. They the like the scene where uh uh Doctor Who has the fucking oozy and and like uh any any kind of shoots in that arc because it's out of control and shit. Like that stuff was in the trailer. I knew that scene was gonna happen before, and I like the look of it. But because it didn't really surprise me, I'm gonna give it like a four. It had some really good follow scenes though. Uh score and soundtrack, it it felt like a guy richie movie. I call I called that. If you guys remember, before we went to go see this movie, you did. I was like, I was like, this is a fucking guy. I've seen this guy richie movie like 14 fucking times. I've seen you were like, I don't like it.

SPEAKER_00 15:35

It's all Guy Ritchie fucking makes. Um even when he did King Arthur, it was the same fucking movie.

SPEAKER_03 15:41

Yeah, yeah. And this this feels like 20 years late to the party for like us liking like us finding us. Everyone wanted to be him for a little while there, yeah. And and it's got the same fucking punk soundtrack and the same like you know, high-intensity driving, whatever it's whatever's on, you know. It it felt like they just took it out of one of those movies, and so I gotta I gotta give it a two. I wonder how someone who's younger and didn't watch all of the have you seen the guy Ritchie movies, uh uh Luke? No, not really. Like Lock Lockstock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch.

SPEAKER_00 16:22

Um we all wanted to pull a heist back in 2000.

SPEAKER_03 16:27

Rock and Roller. Did you see Rock and Roller? Nope. None of them. So we haven't seen any of those. So I'm really interested in what your perspective is gonna be because for me, I was like, this feels this feels old. This feels this feels like like something that's going on. Yeah, I do have a I would say different thoughts on the on the soundtrack for it. First, I I felt like it was relevant, it was really relevant. So I don't know, three story and plot. Man, I really hated that they fridged Zoe Kravitz. Like that's I mean, sh I guess you know, they're like, it can happen, you know, people die. And but it's like fridging a uh a woman to motivate a guy is like a pretty old trope. You can still motivate people with deaths and stuff and not be it specifically fridging a love entrance.

SPEAKER_01 17:19

Should have should have should have killed the mom, honestly.

SPEAKER_03 17:22

Yeah, kill the mom. The f the fridging or or or I don't know, he doesn't have anyone he cares about in his life. Yeah. His mother and Zoe Kravitz. But they should they they could have instead of made it Zoe Kravitz, they could have had him with a friend. It didn't have to be a woman, like fridging, specifically for people who don't know the term, is a trope where a woman is killed, and it's the motivating factor for a man to like grow. You know, like that's what that it's a it's a common trope that was specifically made fun of in com I think it was a comic book with where the where a liter where literally a body was displayed in a fridge and it was like now I have my mission and and that's and that's like what happened in this movie. Uh and that sucks. That's that's old. Everything feels really out of place, anachronistic. We like we like not made for me watching in the modern era. I know it was set in the past also, but I'm not in the past. It's gotta be it's gotta engage me more than that and and elevate it. So story and plot, I give it three because it was still capable and it had little twists sometimes. But I saw like the the car crash coming from a mile away. Yeah, like both both of them. It didn't surprise me. Rewatchability. I don't know if I'll ever rewatch this movie. I would be willing to re-watch it if someone came to me and was like, Oh, I feel like you missed this part or something. I would rewatch this movie. I wouldn't be like, oh god, I have to rewatch that fucking movie. Be like, okay, I have to rewatch this movie. Uh so I'd give it like a 2.5. I think those are pretty funny. It's a competent movie, you know. Darren Aronofsky, uh like his other movies, while I don't really enjoy them, I felt like they like pushed the line a little more. Things like Requiem for a Dream and Black Swan, they like pushed.

SPEAKER_04 19:29

The whale too, it was really like a whale. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 19:32

Yeah, like they pushed things a little farther, but this felt really nihilistic, and at the end, with him having like all the money and stuff, and it just felt really dirty where he was like, Okay, yeah, now I can start my life again. Everything's cool, I got a bunch of money, blah, blah, blah.

SPEAKER_00 19:47

Or, you know, it was uh the only people I cared about are fucking dead, and you know, I paid the other one off, so I don't need to worry about that either.

SPEAKER_05 19:55

So yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 19:57

No, it was very nihilistic, and yeah, it kind of it didn't, it definitely didn't leave it had a happy ending, air quotes. But it didn't leave me happy, that's for fucking sure. Um yeah.

Time To Rate The Movie

SPEAKER_03 20:09

And he he as a person who's not accustomed, well, he saw one person die and it fucked him up really bad. He certainly sees a lot of people die and like doesn't really uh I feel like most of us would have more of a problem. Yeah, he's he pretty much just it's just like almost normal for him. You'd think he'd almost have PST uh PTSD from like the first time it happened, and then be like anytime it happens after that it triggers him, but nope. Yeah, um yeah, Ivan collapse crying with the money instead of like instead of like just being like, yeah, I'm not gonna go to the bar, I'm gonna go to the beach. Yeah, all it takes is four mil cash to kill alcoholism. That's it's a fact.

SPEAKER_00 20:58

Apparently, I mean honestly, I I'd give it a try.

SPEAKER_03 21:02

You'd end up spilling four million dollars on alcohol. You'd be like, I'm going to go buy a bunch of alcohol for myself and other people every day.

SPEAKER_00 21:13

It's gonna be great. It's gonna be amazing. Yeah, for me, uh acting, uh everyone was competent. Like everyone had a job to do, and they did the job.

unknown 21:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 21:25

No one really particularly stood out, did any better than anyone else. The only one I would say was any different was um Matt Smith.

SPEAKER_03 21:40

Yeah, Doctor Who I was thinking. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 21:43

Um he he was the only one who's you know, I mean, his character was actually freaking memorable.

SPEAKER_03 21:48

Yeah. Like the fact that he he like played a squirrelly kind of like morally uncuous, but like I mean, not unctuous, like repugnant. Like he's not a like he's clearly not a good guy, but he's also like a weasel and he doesn't want to do it.

SPEAKER_00 22:04

Uh well, I also appreciate that he really was just out there seeing his fucking dad over the stroke.

SPEAKER_04 22:10

I did like that as well.

Acting, Cinematography, And Soundtrack Scores

SPEAKER_00 22:12

Um, but yeah, acting, I I I wouldn't I give it a three. It's just yeah, it was competent. It was okay. But cinematography, again, the job was done. Uh nothing in particular stood out in any sort of way. Um everything I saw was essentially recycled. It it well, you know, it was just it was an old frickin' um rock and roll. It was just another goddamn lock stock. And he used a lot of the old stuff that we saw before, where like the event happens, we see what happens, and you know, and like you see the aftermath, and then we fill in the pieces, and it's like, look, I've been here before, I've seen this. You know, you're not bringing anything new to the table here.

SPEAKER_03 22:59

And I and that's the thing, is I wonder if like it's when we see when we see when we saw something the first time and someone else was like, nah, man, like that was that's that's a thing that was in Casablanca. We're like, well, I liked the way it was done now, like it's my generation doing it. But I think I I'm trying my best to give the this fucking movie like any kind of ground to stand on. But the thing is, it puts itself back in the past on its own. It's not me doing it, it's doing it to itself. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 23:33

And it's for that the cinematography, I'd give it a three. The soundtrack, it did not distract, but it it never really brought me home. So honestly, I the soundtrack I'll give it 2.5. Nothing wild or crazy there.

SPEAKER_03 23:50

I know it was punk music.

SPEAKER_00 23:52

Yeah, well, and like the story was just kind of strung together by accidents. Like, you know, normally it's like this happens, therefore this happens, but this happens, therefore this happens. And this movie was just this happened, therefore you did this. And then this happened, therefore he did this. And it's like, okay. Good for him. I'm glad it worked, he got involved millions of dollars at the end by just a series of random events and being generally unbothered by death. You know. Yeah, so for that story and plot I give it a two. And rewatchability, you know, it was competently done. And I see I can see a universe where I watch it again because it's on, or someone who hasn't seen it wants to see it, and I'm alright, fine, fine. Um so for that I'll give uh rewatchability a two and a half.

SPEAKER_03 24:47

I mean, they're respectable scores. Well, with that being said, I I have to say the the movie for me was pretty just in the middle. I knew right away, like, after I got out of it, I was like, okay, that was like fun, like, but I feel like movies, this movie and movies like this try to go on to that like those levels of like chaotic action, um, like like Monkey Man or Kill Bill or like those like hyper violent um action movies where it's like just chaos throughout it, but it doesn't go over the line and kind of like really lean into it. And it and I that it did leaves you wanting more. Uh because the action scenes were kind of cool, but like left me wanting more. I everything just left you wanting a little bit more. But acting, I do think was relatively competent. There was nothing that stood out. I ended up giving it a 3.5. I think it was we were all kind of on the same page as far as um that everyone was did what they had to do, but no one's winning Oscars by a long shot for this movie. Um the cinematography I really thought was probably one of the higher notes of the movie. I think it like the action sequences, especially, like you I loved what you said the following shots. Really good, like I enjoyed those, but I don't think that again they did much that was um revolutionary for the industry. I gave it a four. Now this the soundtrack, you guys were pretty hard-I liked it a lot. Like, even I I don't remember a lot of like the songs, but I did enjoy it. Um and maybe it's because I haven't like seen a lot of these movies, and I, you know, I didn't really watch the guy Richie films before, but um it did it, it was it I thought it was good, and I remembered even to today I was sitting here like thinking about it before we got on, and I'm like, man, I kind of really like that soundtrack. Like I was like, I was felt like I was rocking out the whole song. Well, I would I like defer to you. Huh? I I I honestly if it was like if it was me giving my score last, I'd be like, I'd be like, I defer to Luke. I'm sorry, Colorado. I had to check your name for today. I'm Colorado today. I defer to Colorado. Um I can't remember. I just don't fucking remember.

SPEAKER_00 27:06

Well, I mean, for me though, it was just um like because I remember the guy Richie films, he did use music well. Like even just looking at like Rock and Roll, you know, was about a bunch of rock stars and he used really solid music. He obviously took a lot of time, and then like the the title song he chose for it fit perfectly and it was reused in appropriate ways. Here it just kind of seemed like a uh mixed match of an LP. Um so I I appreciated the soundtrack. I like what he tried to do with it. It's just he didn't turn it into, you know, like it wasn't the um fucking the the fucking Star Wars of crime movies in as far as the soundtrack went, you know.

Plot Tropes, Fridging, And Tone Problems

SPEAKER_03 27:50

It was like I think it's like vanilla ice cream of like soundtracks, and it's not it's not bad. And you can have like a really good vanilla ice cream, but when your brain is like is like, okay, I'm gonna have vanilla ice cream, it goes down smooth. You know, it doesn't it doesn't really for some reason it just did not stand out to me. I was like, I had a thing in my mind that I was expecting, and I and it just went down smooth. Oh Luke, you're you're I think in general the um that's just the whole movies. It doesn't like it's not that memorable. Like it it really isn't. Um but I I I enjoyed it and I remember be enjoying it actively during the movie. Um whether I like rem you know can pull that joy again. No, but I do remember it during the movie, like like kind of like giving some like like rock on like I just I liked it. I thought it uh set the chaos for the for the shots. Um the story plot was it again, it's it's one of those things where it's right in the middle. It it was entertaining, it pushes the move the story forward, um, but it does lackluster. Uh I think that they didn't I I agree I wanted I I liked the dynamic between Zoe Kravitz and Austin Butler, actually. Um and I would have enjoyed seeing it more throughout the film um as them working as more of a duo. Um but unfortunately um they didn't go that direction. So um but I and uh other than that I I really couldn't even I don't have like vivid memories of the movie. I obviously remember um the the the story as a whole, but I like I'm like uh yeah, caught stealing. Like I just I had like a few notes and that's about it. So um but I gave the story a three. It was very in the middle for me. And then rewatchability I gave a two. It's one of those things that someone like you said, if someone else wanted to watch it with me, or it was on in a hotel room, that's a good like go-to for me. If it if it earns a hotel room watch, it gets a two. So I gave it a two. Um because I probably would watch it. But if I would watch it like when I'm at the hotel and that's the only thing on, yeah. Well, I'd watch God Stealing. But fair enough. I'd probably fall asleep during this movie. Yeah, yeah. I'm almost certain that I've fallen asleep during a Guy Ritchie movie. Oh, sure. Because I was like, this action is just it goes down so smooth. So smooth. It's just And that gives us the total of three. A straight three. Straight shot three. A three point zero shot. Straight three. Yeah, three point zero. Yeah, that's very, very fair for the movie.

SPEAKER_00 30:26

I a hundred percent agree. It's always fair. It's always fucking fair.

SPEAKER_03 30:36

You know? Except I I I no, we're you're right, it's always fair.

SPEAKER_00 30:42

Always fucking fair.

SPEAKER_03 30:44

But I also think that there's plenty of people that would really enjoy this movie. Genuinely. It just it it's not I always am I feel like now like kind of uh uh yearning more when I when I go to the movies. So um I definitely feel like sometimes I'm I'm probably watching with a harder lens than than the movie deserves, and so I think a lot of people would still enjoy this movie quite well.

SPEAKER_00 31:09

You are one of the hosts uh of a podcast that calls in tens of fans, one of whom is coming at us from that new fucking place. The Seychelles. Seychelles. And so you have an obligation to not let bullshit to hold that lens, I agree. So good for you, good on you. So um, with that being said, uh, for the sake of Seychelles, let's move on to the second portion of this. We now have the definitive score, caught stealing. Congratulations, you get a three out of five. It's now time to step onto the golden path. Alright. Maud Deeb has called us on to uh to identify the deeper meanings of this film.

SPEAKER_03 31:53

Hi, Austin Butler.

SPEAKER_00 31:58

Which means it's time for our final toast, final shot, final hit of the night. Here is to a respectable three out of five.

SPEAKER_03 32:08

Cheers. Cheers!

SPEAKER_01 32:13

A well-earned three out of five.

SPEAKER_00 32:16

Fuck. Yeah, this Uncle Nearest is it's smooth. It's smooth. I enjoy it, and it's got the it's got the spice that I require.

SPEAKER_02 32:25

Making a change. Yeah, so that's a pause.

SPEAKER_00 32:28

Well, there was actually a a booze I was really trying to find uh to do tonight. I want to do a uh ghost tequila.

SPEAKER_03 32:35

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_00 32:36

It's a uh a spiced tequila, which I got to try a shot of while I was in St. Louis. I didn't think I would enjoy it as much as I did, but I loved the hell out of it. Nice. But it it's it's just tequila, but then it has like habanero on the end of it. And it made for a damn fine margarita, I'll tell you that much.

SPEAKER_03 33:03

Sounds dope.

SPEAKER_00 33:04

As the resident alcoholic, I uh I enjoyed it thoroughly. Well, if I see it anywhere, I'll try it. Yeah, it it definitely changes the way you take tequila. Uh I liked it a lot. But because you know how like at the end of tequila, you kind of get that uh there's always sort of that gagginess. The spice takes that away. So I definitely enjoyed it. Definitely enjoyed it. So it's time now, the second portion, it's time to jump onto the golden path, it's time to get into the higher meanings of this film. James, did you want to uh kick that off? Uh, because I know you were you wanted to delve into how film has transformed, evolved. I don't know. Arson Butlered, if you will.

SPEAKER_03 33:50

I don't remember anything about what I was thinking about that. I'm super high now. I have to say that I I feel like, you know, and this was something that I thought of during us talking, is it's interesting how and I feel like this in in a general trend this year it's been a lot of regurgitated shit. And um obviously if you if you haven't seen some movies like this, but this is basic, you know, just a hyper chaotic um action movie, which has been done before. Um and I feel like in general there was make it like crank. Crank is like the height of this genre. Yeah, do with me. And that's you have to, and I and we always say it ha you have to kind of um lean into it and have that vision as a whole. Um and uh overall this this year I've seen so many movies that are sequels, Karate Kid, uh, you know, how to trade near Dragon Live Action, uh all the all sorts of different movies, and you guys saying that this remind is just the same thing as every guy Richie movie you said was really interesting. Because I felt in general this year, I'm like, fuck. Another I don't know, not more of that. Please just give me something different. Like and there's some that is. There are movies that are you know, Sinners was really unique. Like, I feel like there have been some movies that have been innovative, but um a lot of regurgitated bullshit throughout the year that you know this might be uh a movie that is trying to do it more subtly, but still is doing it, just regurgitating the same thing, I guess.

SPEAKER_00 35:27

Well, and I would argue that even Sinners, um, once you got to the end, turned into uh Dust Till Dawn.

SPEAKER_03 35:34

Sure. Every movie eventually turns into from Dust Till Dawn.

SPEAKER_00 35:41

It's always three steps from a Tarantino. Because we've talked about Kill Bill, Dust Till Dawn. Uh all you're doing is copying Tarantino.

SPEAKER_03 35:50

Um every single filmmaker, past and present.

SPEAKER_00 35:54

Even Guy Ritchie, all he did was copy fucking Pulp Fiction.

SPEAKER_03 36:03

Please don't listen to this, Quentin Tarantino. We don't actually he's gonna get super hard and jerk off on some feet.

SPEAKER_00 36:10

They just didn't have the foresight to put Selma Hayek's toes in their mouth as the director, slash actor, slash writer. Uh it's the vision. That's that's all it was. That's all it was. And maniac.

SPEAKER_03 36:26

All right, how did we get on this? We gotta go so well.

SPEAKER_00 36:30

Selmahayek's toes, part two of this thing. Let's talk about them. They're great. No.

SPEAKER_03 36:41

That's all I got. They're great. They're fantastic. I'd suck one of them. Fantastic. Just suck on. If it was my if I was the actor and it was my role, I'd do it. But as a professional, as a professional.

SPEAKER_00 36:55

Yeah. Okay. Well, now that that's out of the way, that we'd all suck on Salma Hayek's toes. What are the higher thoughts of this film?

SPEAKER_03 37:06

I don't know. It didn't provoke many. It felt really it felt just really nihilistic, and it felt really I don't know, one person's like one one guy's like journey from traumatic thing that was his fault to taking account responsibility, like, overlooked like a whole bunch of things that he should be taking responsibility for. Like that, that was the whole conceit. And then he keeps doing more and more heinous shit. And then it's like, all right, he finally took accountability for that thing from the beginning. He's great now.

SPEAKER_00 37:43

Well, but it was weird because it's it was like he was trying to say, like, dude, don't worry about the director to me was trying to say, Don't worry about taking accountability from the past. You'll take accountability as character growth when a bunch of shit out of your control happens.

SPEAKER_03 37:58

Yeah.

Golden Path: What’s The Deeper Meaning?

SPEAKER_00 37:59

And it's like, oh, okay.

SPEAKER_03 38:01

The universe will come together to teach you a lesson. You don't worry about it, just get super drummed and reward you for learning that lesson greatly. Yeah. Cool movie.

SPEAKER_00 38:13

That's awesome. I'll say when he uh that was the one scene that like kind of actually got to me was when he has the missing kidney now. He's in the bar and he decides to get fucking wasted again. In the theater, I was like, no, no, don't do it. Don't don't fucking do it, dude. Um that did like actually hit me. It did hit me. Um I think that's why this the movie itself deserved a three because I did have that reaction. Um, you know, as high and dry as alcoholic, yeah, when I lose a kidney, you know, that's where I see myself obviously just letting Zoe Kravitz down. Yeah. As I had almost certainly.

SPEAKER_03 38:57

Her father is Lenny Kravitz. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 39:01

I've let him down as I I I don't know. He's got abs well into his late 50s.

SPEAKER_03 39:07

Yeah, he's got gigantic scarves, and you don't have any.

SPEAKER_00 39:10

I don't have any scarves. I don't have a single scarf.

SPEAKER_03 39:16

And that's the deeper meaning of this film is that you should get more scarves to be more like Lenny Kravitz.

SPEAKER_00 39:25

There you go. There's the golden path, folks.

SPEAKER_03 39:32

If this movie wants to be nihilistic, what what can we do about it? We have to be absurdist in the light of nihilism. It it it didn't uh to me, it didn't say anything. Did it say anything to you guys? Absolutely nothing, genuinely.

SPEAKER_00 39:46

No, and and and I think that's why it didn't get higher than the three, because all the parts were there. Like like you threw all the ingredients in the pot, you just forgot to fucking season it.

SPEAKER_03 39:59

And so where was his rage? You know, he didn't have any like rage again. Like you said, he was just like like a calm, cool colle, almost like a spy who's just been like murdering people and like going on mission. Like he he was so like calm the whole time. Just chill, a chill guy, just a chill guy. He's like, I'm just a chill guy. I just watch baseball. He was almost incapable of thinking too much. I don't know. It seems really weird. Like he almost like throughout the movie, I was like, is he just like is he like really dumb? Is he just like a really, really dumb guy who like can't comprehend the situation he's in?

SPEAKER_02 40:42

Yeah, like he's like maybe he's in shock?

SPEAKER_00 40:46

Well, but at the same time, I mean your average person like we're human beings, we're not the smartest thing. You know, so like maybe we're just I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 41:01

I like what would we just pushing it down still? Like I I don't know, I'd like scream and cry over my dead wife's body. Well, first, that very first thing, like violently cry.

SPEAKER_00 41:14

Well, I I think that that that this is the perfect segue to get into the third portion of this. In this in this fucking thing, what the hell would we do? So, welcome to the third part of this episode. We're now going to insert ourselves, drugs, and alcohol into the film Cod Stealing. How does it change? Who wants to kick this one off? How does it change? I have something if no one else does. Please do it, please. Oh, please.

SPEAKER_04 41:42

Okay. So obviously, I'm gonna be pretty stoned during my part in this movie.

SPEAKER_03 41:49

And I'm what I am is the character I am the friend that Austin Butler needs, but I'm the friend that needs to die.

SPEAKER_00 41:57

But not the one he deserves.

SPEAKER_03 41:58

I'm the one that needs to die instead of Zoe Kravitz to allow this film to be something greater than just another vengeful man going on a rampage and learning a lesson and then being rewarded for it. Um so I basically would be that friend, and there would be a I would be like I would do something stupid because like I I would fuck with the the I would be the guy that answers like the door, like he wasn't there. He actually asked me to go to the house to like uh check on this cat, so I go, I end up running into the Russian guys.

unknown 42:27

Right.

SPEAKER_03 42:27

I get the shit kicked out of me and they kill me, and that's where he Oh no! Oh no! No, unfortunately I died. And because I die, he actually feels deeper emotion because our love was greater than his and Zoe Kravitz. Um so he uh he actually feels true rage, and um you you get some real deep moments out of him, and he actually ends up going up for an Oscar nomination, but does lose him.

unknown 42:59

Damn.

SPEAKER_03 43:00

Um so yeah, it would really revolutionize the film, me being at it as Austin Butler's best friend. Who do you who do you think he loses to? Do you think it's Steve Steve Buscemi in the Arnold Schwarzenegger story?

SPEAKER_04 43:17

It's wins the Oscar.

SPEAKER_00 43:21

No, he actually loses Bushemi in total recall, too.

SPEAKER_03 43:24

He actually loses to Matt Matt Smith, who just hit he open because of Austin Butler's level, he just opens up at an entire new level with this character.

SPEAKER_00 43:33

Yeah, he plays off of it.

SPEAKER_03 43:38

They both go up for nominations, and Matt Smith wins the Oscar for Best Actor of the Year.

SPEAKER_00 43:44

Yeah, no, and uh fucking you know Austin Butler's executed at the end of it because two actors going up in the same film, one has to die, obviously.

SPEAKER_02 43:55

Gladiator Death.

SPEAKER_03 43:57

He puts the ball cap back on and returns as a duelist from Dune 2.

SPEAKER_00 44:03

Well, I think I think Matt Smith would beat Austin Butler in a fight, in my opinion.

SPEAKER_03 44:09

He looks stalkier, right? That's interesting. Austin Butler has Austin Butler has reach. I think that's the more important thing.

SPEAKER_04 44:19

I think Austin Butler actually does win that fight, if I'm honest.

Regurgitated Cinema And Genre Fatigue

SPEAKER_00 44:21

But Austin Butler, because I like he obviously he was fucking shredded in this film. Sure. So I know firsthand when you're shredded like that, your strength has gone out the window. You are so fucking tired and depleted. Matt Smith rolls in and just fucks him up. All he had to do was put on a Mohawk.

SPEAKER_03 44:43

He fought the Quitsack Hatterak. And sure, he lost. He lost.

SPEAKER_02 44:51

But he did put up a good fight. So I don't know. He did. I don't know. Do you think Matt's a good one?

SPEAKER_00 44:58

I think Matt Smith would Paul Atreides him. I think he would be a Mahdi.

SPEAKER_02 45:09

Yeah. Matt Smith is the Algae.

SPEAKER_00 45:13

Easily. Easily. I I think we figured that out years ago in Doctor Who.

SPEAKER_02 45:19

Wow, what a fucking revolution. We changed Dune 2. With our change in this film, we've actually changed Dune 2 as well.

SPEAKER_03 45:30

My change. I like your change. Thank you. Thank you. And and I like that we're going to have this dramatic scene. But what's going to happen is that I'm going to replace Darrenov Aronofsky with the Lonely Island guys. And it's going to be it's going to be an amazing bit of acting from Austin Butler, but it's going to jump cut immediately to something mundane that's that totally changes the tone. It's going to be like a hot rod. This is going to be like hot rod, but but but grittier.

SPEAKER_00 46:08

A gritty hot rod. I think that's what the people have always wanted.

SPEAKER_03 46:12

That's what this movie could have been. It could have been like Pineapple Express if they'd gone a little harder. Like it, they didn't, it didn't feel like it was gritty enough or silly enough. If they'd gone harder in the silly direction, I think it would be pretty fucking awesome. It would have been like a Pineapple Express. I don't disagree. I like that a lot. Especially because, like, like you said, I feel like the detective was so similar. So similar to so similar. But not as extreme, and it didn't land as well. It's like, oh, you were trying, but not quite. They were doing the same accent. I love that. What it could have been, but I love that. I love that. I think that's the Lonely Island guys, they take it over. Yeah, it's like hot.

SPEAKER_00 46:59

You just hand it over to the Lonely Island crew.

SPEAKER_03 47:02

Take the scene from Hot Rod where Andy Sandberg breaks the face of his batanios. I'm going to my quiet place. Have Austin Butler do that shit, and it's a great like this movie, like takes it to a whole nother level.

SPEAKER_00 47:17

Yeah, and for me, inserting me into this film. I'm just gonna call the police. I'm going and I'm and and I'm lazy. I'm not gonna find the corrupt cops card. I'm not gonna call her. So she's not gonna be able to vet it. I'm just gonna call 911. It's gonna get to the general desk, and the police will be involved from the top. Zoe Kravitz survives to you know just nepotism it up in another fucking film. And all is well watch your mouth. I I like her, I I enjoyed her a lot as Catwoman, for example, and I liked her as Firefly, and I I've enjoyed her in a lot of things. Just I you are correct.

SPEAKER_04 48:15

There's the the nepotism in Hollywood is present.

SPEAKER_00 48:18

It's becoming worse and worse and worse, and every time we step away from it, something amazing is created. Um, so how can it be nepotism?

Nihilism, Accountability, And Character Arcs

SPEAKER_03 48:29

Eleni Kravitz isn't even an actor. Yeah. I don't see it. Influenced, but are you saying that just because they're incredibly rich people living in the same communities that are gated out from any kind of influence of the poor, that they've built some kind of monolithic like social socioeconomic culture that fuels cooperation between them so that only they excel and maintain wealth for generations.

SPEAKER_00 49:05

That's actually exactly what I'm saying. Yes.

SPEAKER_03 49:08

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_00 49:11

Yeah. So uh, yeah, no, so like look, I I appreciate when there's like a fucking job well done, like, good for you, like fucking Zoe, good good for you, Johnny Depp's kid, you know, like good for all of you. But uh go fuck yourselves. Oh go fuck yourselves.

SPEAKER_03 49:30

Be like, be like be like an office worker for a generation, and then you're and then and see how your kids see if your kids are good at acting.

SPEAKER_00 49:38

Yeah, yeah. So like I'm not interested. I'm not interested. I like, yeah, good for you, Zoe. You're you're a good actress, but like, of course you are. What the fuck else did you have to do? You know, you got to literally pick and choose what the fuck you wanted to do. Of course you're gonna be decent at it. You better be decent at it.

SPEAKER_03 49:56

You better be decent. All you need to focus on was being awesome at one thing. That'd be fucking sweet.

SPEAKER_00 50:02

Well, actually, that's if all you have to do is focus on being a good actor, the fact that you don't have an Oscar, go fuck yourself. You're a piece of shit.

SPEAKER_03 50:11

You don't have to clean, you've never had to like clean or cook your own meals or fucking worry about bills or have to move. You've never had to move. You can just stay wherever you are forever, and people would come and maintain your survival because there's a pinch.

SPEAKER_00 50:29

If you're a Nepo baby and you don't get an Oscar on your first outing, execution immediately.

SPEAKER_03 50:35

Um, you can't we can't joke about that shit right now.

SPEAKER_00 50:42

Hope you get a woot. Uh but uh no, you you like no you what what should happen is if uh you don't get an Oscar on your first outing, you're automatically signed on with Olive Garden or you know, just you fucking you're nine to five. You're gonna be waiting tables at Dave and Buster's or you know, just one of those things.

SPEAKER_03 51:10

No, they have to work in a call center.

SPEAKER_00 51:13

There you go. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 51:15

You guys are going way too hard. This is this is gonna make them this is gonna make the rich people murder us. You gotta give them at least like assistant manager or something, so they're only like they only have to sometimes cover for the labor.

SPEAKER_00 51:29

Fine. You get assistant manager at a bed bath and beyond or uh a rent a center.

SPEAKER_03 51:36

You still have people underneath you, you're not the bottom rung of society, you're one rung up.

SPEAKER_00 51:41

Enjoy it. You should have gotten that Oscar. You should have gotten that Oscar. Maybe you did maybe you just didn't want it enough because you've never wanted for anything.

SPEAKER_03 51:51

Yeah. Oh interesting. She didn't even want to live in this movie. She wanted to, she wanted to get shot in the head.

SPEAKER_00 52:00

Yeah. And she's like, Yeah, I'll take the role. Fuck it. I don't give a shit. Here's like whatever.

SPEAKER_03 52:06

After after that dude got his shit kicked in, I'd be like, We're never going back to your apartment.

SPEAKER_02 52:12

Yeah, yeah. Everybody.

SPEAKER_03 52:13

We're never going back to your apartment. No. But she but she was like, nah, I'll throw my life away.

SPEAKER_00 52:20

Yeah. I don't care.

SPEAKER_04 52:21

Like, maybe she just understood that he needed to develop as a man.

SPEAKER_00 52:26

Well, I think that they're just they're so insulated. I mean, it's like, so I I was I was watching this, uh, like this this concept of like Taylor Swift where where someone goes like, yeah, I'm sure she's I'm sure she's a liberal, I'm sure she's left, but she's so insulated from any of her decisions, choices, and the consequences therein that it's irrelevant. It doesn't matter anymore. Um and I I think it's the same. Like when Zoe saw that she was gonna be, you know, refrigerator woman. She's just it's just who cares? It it makes it makes no fucking difference. I I I get to exercise my my acting chops that I've gotten to hone with zero difficulty in my life. Um you know, my my dad's out banging some 20-year-old on an island somewhere with his 50-year-old abs. Um it doesn't fucking matter.

SPEAKER_03 53:22

I wonder how old Lenny Kravitz is now. Keep talking.

SPEAKER_00 53:25

I have I got a thing to Google. He's he's definitely in his fifth decade. He is in his fifth decade. No doubt in your mind. No doubt. No doubt. He's in his fifth decade. He's 61 years old. Jesus Christ.

SPEAKER_03 53:45

Pretty great. They're pretty great. Pretty great abs. Pretty good abs.

SPEAKER_00 53:51

I mean, if you have nothing to worry about in this life except your abs, and they're not great, you should be punched in the stomach every day.

SPEAKER_03 54:00

Those are some excellent abs. He's 61. I thank you for telling me to Google Lenny Kravitz's abs. I had no pretty awesome.

SPEAKER_00 54:12

My algorithms forever changed.

SPEAKER_03 54:15

Oh, yeah, I forgot to put on incognito. No!

SPEAKER_04 54:21

Yeah, you definitely messed up the old algorithm on that one.

SPEAKER_03 54:24

Who knows now? Yeah, it's over.

SPEAKER_00 54:28

A lot of abs. A lot of 60-year-old black men's apps.

SPEAKER_04 54:33

Yeah, that's insane. He looks better at 60 than I ever did in my entire life or ever will.

SPEAKER_00 54:43

Yeah, but like when you when you have like uh a series of hit song in the 90s, you can just do that.

SPEAKER_03 54:51

Yeah, that is true. When you only have to worry about you don't even have to worry about what you eat, but someone will worry about that for you.

Rewriting The Film With Us Inside

SPEAKER_00 54:59

Exactly. Someone will worry about that fucking for you. Could you imagine how good we'd all fucking look if we had a team of people saying, nope, don't eat that. Nope, nope, nope, do a squat right there. There you go. It it's just it's bullshit. It's all fucking bullshit, and which is why I don't care how good you acted in this film. You better have acted good in this film because you have had more advantages than anyone else ever could. And because you don't act the best in this film, it means you wasted those advantages. So go fuck yourself. Is uh is my thoughts on these Nepo fucking actors. So go fucking.

SPEAKER_04 55:36

I think they're all competent though. That's and that's what we always get is just competent acting.

SPEAKER_00 55:40

Yeah, you a Nepo movie is gonna get a Nepo competency of three out of five stars. Cheers.

SPEAKER_04 55:48

Always see Amp. Always.

SPEAKER_00 55:52

I feel like we re-rated Nasferato pretty decent, but I feel that Rose Depp or whatever the hell her name is was very small part of it. And honestly, I I've watched Nosferatu again. She's the most off-putting part.

SPEAKER_03 56:07

They made her look really weird.

SPEAKER_00 56:09

Very bizarre. Very bizarre. I do agree with that. And I don't know why they did that either. And then they like greased her forehead like it was bizarre.

SPEAKER_04 56:20

Everyone likes a greasy forehead, especially Nosferatu.

SPEAKER_00 56:24

You could use that fucking thing to like signal planes in a storm.

SPEAKER_01 56:28

It was maybe they do. You you don't know what they use. Just put her out on a runway.

SPEAKER_03 56:38

Like, god damn.

SPEAKER_00 56:46

I think it's because Willem Dafoe was in a lighthouse, and lighthouses were ending at that time, and so we had to come up with a replacement.

SPEAKER_03 56:53

So we now have Rose Depp's head. Just grease Lily Rose Depp's head never walking out.

SPEAKER_00 57:02

No ships are crashing. No ships are crashing. That is blinding.

SPEAKER_03 57:08

You can see that ship from the International Space Station.

SPEAKER_00 57:14

I'd feel bad if you were in a Nepo baby. Liz Rose Depp, whatever the fuck your name is.

SPEAKER_03 57:20

It's a really crazy outfit. That's like not how she looks normally. She it was just they made her look fucking crazy.

SPEAKER_00 57:26

They did. They did, and she was. She was out of her fucking mind. And I don't imagine she's well adjusted in real life either. So like almost assuredly, there's no way you can be. How can you be?

SPEAKER_03 57:38

There's no way.

SPEAKER_00 57:39

Sorry, go ahead. Like it's it's the same thing with fucking Jaden Smith. How could you be a normal human being? You just can't.

SPEAKER_03 57:46

How could you ever know what is normal? Yeah, what is normal? They have no idea, they have no concept of what normal is. Normal is whatever their brains could come up with.

SPEAKER_00 57:57

They're essentially a Lovecraftian monster.

SPEAKER_04 58:00

It's like Those are just what minds uh with the freedom to actually imagine beyond beyond the next day of work can do.

SPEAKER_00 58:10

Must be nice. Yeah, we lose our fucking minds.

SPEAKER_03 58:14

We just go crazy. It's like putting a consciousness in a box and being like, okay, imagine whatever kind of existence you want. And it just goes wild for like for like 10,000 years. And it's like, it's that's essentially what Nepo babies do. Like that's what nepotism does. That's what growing up with ineared in wealth where you never have to think about anything, just have a team of people who tell you everything to do and say, or everything that you say is right.

SPEAKER_00 58:42

And then at the end of the day, you're so uncreative and unoriginal that you just do the same thing that your parents did. Yeah. So fuck Nepo babies. Well, uh I I think that's the perfect, the perfect close right there. Fuck Nepo babies. You're coming for us. Or high and dry podcast.

SPEAKER_03 59:00

Uh you don't know how to do it, so they're gonna hire someone to come for us.

SPEAKER_00 59:04

Yeah. Oh, oh yeah. They're definitely Jaden Smith right now. He's on the phone, he's on the horn. Um hire my usual guy. Yeah, my usual guy to kill the high and dry podcast crew. So oh, it was fucking Jaden Smith that was listening to us from that one fucking place. Seychelles. Seychelles, yeah, it's Jaden Smith. He's on vacation in Seychelles, and he's listening to this right now, and he's like, those pieces of shit. I'm an amazing actor. My father's movies prove this, and I'm gonna have them killed. So, um, everyone, I'm your host, Ryan Barron North. This is our last episode of High and Dry Podcast. Jaden Smith and Lily Rose Depp are about to have us murdered.

SPEAKER_03 59:53

Listen, we fought off his assassins before we can do it again.

Lonely Island Cut And 911 Fix

SPEAKER_00 59:57

We could do it again. If we if we took out Jeff Bezos' assassins, we could do this. So bring it on, Jaden Smith. Bring it on, Depp, whatever your first one. Lily Rose.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:09

Lily Rose, man.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:10

Wayleen? That's Wayleen, Rose, Depp. Wayleen, if if that's what you want to do, bring it on. I I'm ready to take on Wayleen Rose Depp, and I'll take on everyone else who comes. I'll fight any of these children. So taking on all comers. This is High Enjoy Podcast. I'm Ryan Baron North with me as always. James Croslin, Luke. We will kill any Neppo baby that comes at us.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:41

No, we will not. This is not the climate.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:45

Only when they come at us first, then it is clear self-defense. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:50

Then that's totally reasonable to say.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:54

Yes. Only when they come at us first, as Jaden Smith has done and failed, and I asked him to prove otherwise. Yeah, prove it wasn't you. Prove it wasn't you. Prove it. I fucking dare you. Alright. Bye.