High n' Dry Podcast
Hosted by Ryan Baron North, James Crosslin, and Luke, High n' Dry tackles film and philosophy with their patented 3-part method. What makes them so special and fun? One of them is drunk, and the other two are really, really high. Welcome to a drunken chat at 3 in the morning with your best buds. Come talk movies and philosophy, and get wasted along the way. New episodes every other week! Music by AlexGrohl @ Pixabay
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High n' Dry Podcast
Class, Comedy, And Keanu: Unpacking Good Fortune’s Hollow Hope
We rate Good Fortune a 3.5 while praising Keanu Reeves and questioning the film’s soft landing on class. Humor and heart land, but the “rich learns a lesson” wrap leaves us hungry for real stakes, worker power, and change that lasts.
• Keanu’s performance as a near-human mirror
• Why mid-tier cinematography still works
• Soundtrack energy without memorability
• The ending’s rich-savior problem
• Class, shareholders and who the system serves
• Gig work, recession fallout and flooded labor markets
• What meaningful change might look like
• How we’d rewrite the boardroom for workers
Alright. I came right out. Doctor went to spank me. I said, I'm fucking ready. Alright.
SPEAKER_01:Get your hands off me. I appreciate it. I know what I'm here for.
SPEAKER_03:Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_01:Alright. Well, hey everybody. Welcome to High and Dry Podcast. We know what we're here for. We're getting ready to do this thing. I'm your host, Ryan Barron North. With me as always, James Crossland. Luke, how are you guys doing today? Good, good.
SPEAKER_02:How are you?
SPEAKER_01:Doing good. Sunday. Yeah, it's Sunday. So I got the uh that Sunday anxiety knowing that I'm heading towards uh that fucking five sevenths of my life that I hate.
SPEAKER_02:See, the good thing for me is I've got a I'm going into a four-day work week, so I you know I have this light at the end of the tunnel. Um, so this Sunday is not as you know dreadful as usual.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_02:No, I'm actually. I had a mental breakdown and I'm off work. For like a month. What? Yeah. So so I've got dread, but it's not about going back to work tomorrow. It's about I don't know, everything everything else besides that.
SPEAKER_01:Dealing with the mental breakdown part. Okay. Well, we're gonna circle back around that piece, James, later after the show. Well, no, it'll be during the show.
SPEAKER_02:A lot to do, I'm sure a lot of my anxieties got to do it.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, yeah, yeah. I agree. Okay, cool. Cool, cool, cool.
SPEAKER_02:The very obvious nail that they kept hitting on the head during this film. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. No, alright. Well, I'm excited for that. Um sounds good to me. Sounds good to me. So, anyway. All right. So, anyway, uh, this is High and Dry Podcast, the only podcast uh dedicated to the fandom of 1980 to 1988's contact. 321 contact, that is. Uh, we're still keeping that alive. I don't know if anyone is familiar with that that show at all. I have no idea what you're talking about. It's not it's not the movie with Jody Foster. No, no. Alright, fine. How about the only podcast dedicated to the following with uh Kevin Bacon? Where he chases a serial killer for uh three seasons. No, okay, all right. How about the only podcast dedicated to 1987's Beauty and the Beast?
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, there we go. The mini-series, yeah, I've seen that mini-series.
SPEAKER_01:Yep. Yep. Where he looks like a lion. So 1987's Beauty and the Beast. That's what we're all about. That's what we're all about. Practical effects are good. Yeah, exactly. That's what I'm saying. Um, I actually wound up uh watching uh the original Conan recently with uh fucking Arnold Schwarzenegger. And uh I was looking at some of like the stunts and practical effects and that. I've been on the Dark Fantasy kick recently, and I I've watched uh Excalibur, I've watched uh Legend with Tim Curry, I've watched um like Wolves Among U. Like I've watched so much fucking Dark Fantasy, it's all fucking trash, and then today I watched the original Conan with Schwarzenegger, and I'm like, I get it, I get it. I give this movie a solid B, but this is the first good Dark Fantasy movie from the 80s I've fucking seen. Um, and did you practical Death Stalker in your uh I did it that the it made me sick, it made me fucking sick with all the sexual assault? Oh my god, oh my god, Death Stalkers uh they saw Conan and were like, Well, let's get the titties and the swords, and that's what people want, right? Not world building, not anything like that, just sexual assault. That's what people want, right? And nope, but they made five of them.
SPEAKER_02:So did did you see that they made um they essentially rebooted Death Shocker and they just put it they just put it out. I haven't seen it yet, though. I haven't either.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, it's already been released. Oh shit. Yeah, I I'm actually hearing good things though. I'm hearing good things, like they were.
SPEAKER_02:Maybe they pulled less less SA and more world building. That's all that they needed. They had they were on the the cusp of greatness back then.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. Well, believe it or not, folks at home, we're not actually a podcast about Beauty and the Beast. That was simply a ruse. And the Dark Fantasy stuff was yet another ruse.
SPEAKER_02:Well, all of my notes are on the Beauty and the Beast, so uh.
SPEAKER_01:Also a clever ruse. This week we're actually gonna be talking about the film Good Fortune. Uh came out uh a couple weeks ago. This one featuring uh Seth Rogan, Keanu Reeves, Azizon, sorry. Um we're gonna break it down three parts, guaranteed to you know give you your podcast bang for the buck. First off, we're gonna rate this thing, the definitive score out of five stars. Then we're gonna jump onto our golden path and really dive into the deeper meanings of this. I feel like this particular movie is gonna bring out our anarch side. Um, and then finally, we're going to insert ourselves drugs or alcohol into the film. But what makes us so special, so great, so fun, is we're gonna be doing it drunk and high. So, fellas, uh, what are you uh what are you drinking this uh sorry, what are you smoking this weekend? I'm the drinker. I've already been drinking today, so bear with me. Great, perfect.
SPEAKER_02:I don't know. It's whatever was in my grinder. Uh cave. I don't know what it's probably gelato. I have no idea though. Funny, because mine is gelato. Oh, nice. Perfect segue.
SPEAKER_01:Well, I'll be joining you boys with smoke wagon. This is a full strength, straight bourbon whiskey, no water added.
SPEAKER_02:What the fuck does full strength mean?
SPEAKER_01:Um, it's uh it's but this is from Las Vegas. This is a Las Vegas bourbon. This is Remy. Um and the uh the proof at the bottom here is written with a permanent marker.
SPEAKER_02:It's not real bourbon if it's from Las Vegas. It's just sparkling whiskey. Yeah, it's just sparkling whiskey.
SPEAKER_01:That was a solid one.
SPEAKER_03:Yes, I'll be drinking uh good.
SPEAKER_01:That was really good. I'll be just drinking Las Vegas sparkling whiskey. Um 118 horsepower, 118 horsepower. So this will get me fucked.
SPEAKER_02:Oh fuck, that one tickles. That was a good one, James. That one fucking good. That was really good, thank you.
SPEAKER_01:Oh fuck. So line them up, fellas. Let's take our first toasts, first shots, first hits. Ooh, this one is going to go out to our newest listeners, um, which we actually have quite a few. Um, so that's pretty cool. I've been enjoying seeing uh that this podcast is hitting listeners, and you know, if you are one of those It's hitting our listeners, it's hitting them hard, like in the fucking face. Our listeners like it, they're into it.
SPEAKER_02:They're into that. Okay, I can get with that. I don't kink shame.
SPEAKER_01:No, but we're uh we're seeing a lot of action, and I'm excited to see it. But our newest listeners, these ones are from and we got a few. Um so we got uh Rodistro Sao Paulo, we got Al Mansura of D'Acalia.
SPEAKER_02:So Sao Paulo would be Brazil. I I don't know where Dacalia is, though. We have Walsall. I was already impressed that you got one of them, James. So Brisbane of Bishop. Uh that's Australia. So so what was the what was the third one you said, Ryan?
SPEAKER_00:Uh it's not that Itaporonga of Gauss, uh Registro of Sao Paul, um I don't know. Almansura of Decalia. Okay. Melbourne, Victoria, Pat Not.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, a couple that's a couple different regions of Australia.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Uh Silhari of West Bengal. Um and then North Bangles. So yeah. We're we're seeing uh stuff all over North America. Um so hey. Um welcome to the new age. Yeah, cheers to all of our new listeners. Welcome back. Cheers to all of our new listeners.
SPEAKER_02:Cheers to all of our VPN users.
SPEAKER_00:That's obviously VPNs. Uh, because if you're listening to Well, we appreciate that. Yeah, you probably shouldn't let the government know. So cheers. Cheers to Antifa.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, God. Yeah, for all of our Antifa listeners, the sheep stalks at midnight. I repeat, the sheep stalks at midnight.
SPEAKER_02:Uh never uh never known a sheep to stalk. That was a covenant. To be a hunt the sheep that hunts.
SPEAKER_01:That's what we are, the sheep that hunts.
SPEAKER_02:Ryan's from a weird part of the United States where the sheep are very hyper bloodthirst that hunts.
SPEAKER_01:That's pretty apropos, honestly. That's that's pretty solid.
SPEAKER_02:It's actually because where he's from, it's just a bunch of wolves dressed as sheep, and he just associates those wolves with with uh with sheep.
SPEAKER_01:So honestly, I think I'm making our new high and dry podcast shirts, uh, antique for the sheep that hunts.
SPEAKER_02:Perfect.
SPEAKER_01:Uh yeah, so we're that kind of podcast. Um it's a good thing you're all using VPNs. Um, so our second toast, second shot, line them up, boys. This one goes after the film this week. Good fortune. Cheers.
SPEAKER_02:Speaking of dark fantasy and uh you know practical effects. Yeah, I like the practic I liked the practical wings in this one.
SPEAKER_01:I didn't it added to it. It added to it. I was I was happy to see a lot of it. I was happy to see a lot of it, but we'll get into that in a moment.
SPEAKER_02:So I liked how the the wings were symbolic of their power.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. Yeah. Well, our uh final toast, final shot, final hit. Um I I guess this one just goes out to practical effects. Small wings, and you assume power, I suppose.
SPEAKER_02:We love power, we love practical effects here.
SPEAKER_01:Here's the practical effects. Cheers. Well I'm excited to jump into this one. I I I I have I have a pretty strong feeling um about a lot of where it's gonna go, but uh I'm excited nonetheless. Um let's see what happens. So part one, let's rate this film, the definitive rating out of five, guaranteed to get you true results. Remember always, Fandango, uh a bunch of pieces of shit. And IMDB, garbage, yeah, Rotten Tomatoes.
SPEAKER_02:None of them know what they're doing.
SPEAKER_01:None of them, none of them. Um don't trust Amazon Prime. No, that's the worst of all of them. Of all of them. We've already beat back Bezos' assassins, so we could say that now with impunity.
SPEAKER_02:I think it's what, like ten times now?
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, easily. Easily. Honestly, they're just so pathetic at this point. I stopped counting. Um, I like grip their wrist and drop the pistol out of it and slowly press a screwdriver into his lobe. Um, like again.
SPEAKER_02:They always have piss bottles with them because they can't take a break. It's it's gross.
SPEAKER_01:That's probably why I keep winning, is because the dude is so desperate for the bathroom. I just get him as he's running for my toilet. Well, um, so uh who wants to start this one? Let's rate this thing. Uh Luke, uh, you want to go first?
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, I can kick it off. So this is uh comedy film written uh directed by Aziz and Zari. Um so he kind of started and directed in the movie. Um and it's essentially about um if uh these two gentlemen who switch lives, the angel who feels like it'll show Aziz and Zari his uh the the airs of his life, um, and that his life isn't so bad, but when uh obviously like we are well aware, money fix it does fix a lot of problems, and that's what uh you know kind of where it goes. So with that being said, I um I kind of knew from the previews that I would enjoy this movie, um, but I definitely just knew it wasn't gonna be anything that was like um I don't know. Like there was not gonna be anything past what you see kind of in the preview. You really understand what this movie's gonna be about from that from that two-minute trailer that you see. So yeah, seriously. Yeah, you're like, okay, cool, got it. Like, but with that being said, I still found it very enjoyable. And I I found that the story like at least had some sort of depth, and I think that they kind of showed some um, you know, the concept of like life has a lot of different meanings and and things that make it worth living. Um, and I I like that concept, obviously. You know, it's sometimes it's hard to watch rich assholes making fun of rich assholes. Um, because like at the end of the day, all these guys are rich and they're kind of playing like these they're playing the poor man, and it's like you're not a fucking poor guy. Like, you don't like I'm laughing at these jokes because I I've been there. Like, I've literally when they were talking about the cars getting towed and like, oh, you're gonna pay this. I was I had that happen. It was two grand for me to get my car back, and then it was gonna be 150.
SPEAKER_01:I I've been left on the side of the road.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, so we've all we've all been there, so like it's sometimes hard to watch that. But I will say that I did like the concept of the you know, life, you know, and Keanu Reeves at least is someone who's at least shown in a positive spotlight in Hollywood. He seems like a relatively decent human being. Um so him portraying it made it easier to swallow. Because if it was somebody that was like a known asshole, like a known rich asshole, I like it wouldn't have even been palatable, genuinely. It would have been like so. The casting was important in this movie. So acting, I ended up um, I like I said, kind of middle of the road. I gave it a 3.5. Um, I think Keanu Reeves did do exceptionally well. Um, and his like his uh ignorance of how humans live and just like him experiencing life for the first time and experiencing tacos and dancing, and I'm like, oh, he's it he's into the Latins. I'm like, I get it, I've been there. You know, I when I discovered tacos and dancing with Latin women for the first time, too. I I fell in love myself. I was like, life isn't that bad. All right, yeah, I couldn't pay my car payment last month, but you know, it's it's not that bad.
SPEAKER_01:Tacos on the ts.
SPEAKER_02:So so yeah, but I did, I thought he did well, but not everybody like was standout, and I don't necessarily think this was a movie to give everyone standout, so I gave it a 3.5. Um the cinematography, again, it's it's kind of in the middle for me. It's not anything there was nothing bad about it, but there it is. Truly, I don't remember one single shot where I was like, wow, that was cool. None zero, not not nothing in the movie where I really, really um pulled from the movie, and I was like, that's the only one that I guess I saw was what it was like a low angle shot of a Z Zanzari when Kiki Palmer was standing over him on the dance floor. Um, and I don't know why I I don't even know if it fit the scene, but I liked the shot because it made Kiki like in this like almost position of power, like even though he is a rich guy, like he's like still defenseless to this pretty I don't know, like it was the only thing that actually like made me think anything. So I gave it a 3.5. Um score soundtrack. I actually kind of liked the score and soundtrack. Um there was nothing there's nothing iconic. They're using songs that are already made and stuff, but I think it fit mood and it was a good time. Like some of the dance scenes I enjoyed, like the disco, like when he's stealing the dance. Like that was like it was the the music kept a good energy. I gave it a 3.5 as well. Are you guys sensing a trend here? Yeah, it seems pretty pretty middling. Pretty middly. Yeah. Um, but then from there, I uh did give the story a four. And the reason being is I think like it was kind of fun and it it made me laugh. It's a comedy, and that's like what it's meant to do. Um, and there was points where I did laugh. I I associated with some of those like sentiments and and things, and just like it's funny. Like, I was a service worker, and just like seeing fucking Gabriel experience being a service worker, but from the perspective of someone who's never got to experience it life and who's really appreciating the small things, it was kind of cool because like there were points in my life where I was man, I was struggling very deeply struggling, but I don't remember being fully miserable. Like there were points where I was upset and obviously had bad days, but like there was also really good days when I was with friends and experience, you know, we were were experiencing life. Um, but I gave it a four. And then the rewatchability, it's not, you know, it's such a middling movie, it's hard to say that I'll ever like actively put this one on. Um, but as we always say, there's like scenarios where I would watch this again. Um, so I don't think it can get like low, low. And I did enjoy it enough where like I'm not actively arguing against it. It's not like everyone has to put like if someone was like put it on, I'd be like, Yeah, let's see. Oh, you haven't seen that yet? Let's watch it. Like it's it's funny, like it's a good good watch. Um you should put it on whenever you're trying to convince some people to go out for tacos because they showed tacos like 10 fucking times, and then as soon as we got up, I was like, We gotta go eat. I need some fucking streak. And we went we went immediately, went immediately to get Tijuana style tacos.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. Well, I I wish I didn't have Alpha Gal, and I wish I wasn't on a diet because I would have fucked up some tacos.
SPEAKER_02:They were they were I loved the last scene where they did leave the taco, and I like Cam literally almost cried over it. I was like, Yeah, that was that was nice. Like he left, but it was such a nice like the shot of that taco at that scene. I was like, damn, raising into the air. Are they selling us tacos? That's so funny. This I think this is mostly paid for by Big Taco. Big Taco Corporation. God damn it, they got it.
SPEAKER_01:And that's the thing about Big Taco is that they've always like back in the 90s and the early 2000s, we forgave Taco Bell putting sawdust into tacos because of big taco propaganda. And it's traditional, yeah. And like, fuck it, I'll have a chalupa. That's how they make it fuck now. I'll tear Chalupa live. And that's because of Big Taco.
SPEAKER_02:100%. Well, what what about you, Ryan? What did you think of the movie?
SPEAKER_01:If you so this movie, so I'm I'm I have a lot to say when we jump on the golden path, because this movie This movie pissed me off to no fucking end.
SPEAKER_02:I felt it was a battle a little bit. I I agree.
SPEAKER_01:But when I left the theater, I it it took everything in me uh not to be like fucking like kicking over a trash can and burn down the theater. I I was burning down the theater, I was so mad. I was so mad because well, I'll get into the golden path. What I'll say right now, uh in terms of my overall, was that it was so um empathetic, but Rabbit It was so empathetic. My dog was ripping up a carpet, but it was so empathetic, but lacked any sense of cool, you understand what I'm going through, but what the fuck are you gonna do? Agreed, yeah. Um that's yeah. So but but it feels more like pity at that point.
SPEAKER_02:It's no longer I I felt like a Zan Sari was a very good thing.
SPEAKER_01:Because they don't they yeah, uh, but but that that's for the golden path. Uh you know, that's when you know this is gonna turn into a you know fucking terrorist podcast in the second half.
SPEAKER_02:But um we do we are not a terrorist podcast. I would like to just make that statement, guys.
SPEAKER_01:I'm I'm an independent terrorist, um but um I would say so acting. I felt that this was the first time that any film had said we need Kiana Reeves, and they were so fucking right.
SPEAKER_02:I agree, the casting was perfect with him.
SPEAKER_01:I do he will like we're we're we need a we need a guy who just can't quite act human. Yeah, that's true, and it fucking crushed. Um I I say give the fucking Os Oscar to Keanu. Everyone else in like Seth Rogan was Seth Rogan, you know, we're always be like like Zensari wasn't Zensari, like they very much were playing the standard character scene, but then Keanu Reeves was cast into a role that required Keanu Reeves. Yeah. Um like we could have recast Azizansari as anyone. We could have recast Seth Rogan as anyone, but Keanu Reeves was made for this role.
SPEAKER_02:Agreed.
SPEAKER_01:Um, and for that I give the acting a four out of five. Um cinematography, um nothing was you know, nothing was like, oh, that's a beautiful shot, or you know, uh they obviously brought down cinematography to try and tell this story that, in my opinion, needs to be told.
SPEAKER_02:And it's a simple, straightforward story, and I think that that's it's very clear with its intentions. Like it is Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:I I I felt the story needs to be told. I felt that it's gonna touch a lot of people in this country, specifically those who can't afford to go and see a movie. Um, so that's another thing I'm gonna talk about in the uh the golden path. Um so cinematography, it did its job. It captured everything it needed to capture. It did it in a competent way. For that, I give it a 3.5. Um score and soundtrack, I'm gonna have to agree um with Luke entirely. Um that it was it was good. And it did its job. So 3.5. Um the story and plot. Solid. Um, very, very strong. Um, it said a lot of things that need to be said, but maybe not as powerfully as they needed to be said. Um I'm speaking specifically to uh when Seth Rogan is saying there's more of them than us. And it is like I felt like at that point he was kind of just tossing me a fucking bone. And for that scene specifically, when the revolution comes, I will dine on the corpse of Seth Rogan.
SPEAKER_02:But that would be delicious. But personally, and I I was gonna say this more toward that, but I think that it should have been more of a story because they kind of let me talk about this in the yeah, golden pat.
SPEAKER_01:Golden Pat. Seth Rogan, your days are fucking numbered, and this is coming from Antifa. Um But uh story and plot, it it was a story that is relevant, that needs to be given. Like if Homer was sitting around a campfire, this is something that needed to be said for this time period. So for that I give it a four. And rewatchability, this movie pisses me off to my deepest fucking like internal soul. I will rewatch it if I need to. So, like, what is that? Like a three, two?
SPEAKER_02:I was gonna say a two, probably. Two? I give it a two. Okay. Alright, so so we got Ryan's down. I'm gonna speedrun mine because everybody wants to talk about the implications of the movie. So acting 3.5. Everybody's already said everything about the acting. Cinematography, I mean, Kiki Palmer was good in it. No one's really mentioned her, but she but yeah, everyone was good. Uh cinematography, mmm. I actually do agree that Kiki Palmer was pretty like pretty solid in it as well. And I don't think they're yeah. It's just because everyone was alright. Yeah. Uh every everyone was solid. Uh Cinematography, mmm. 3.5. Score and soundtrack, I don't remember it. 3.5. Story and plot, uh yeah, I I felt like I felt like they they shared a lot of really necessary information about what it's like to struggle financially in the United States in the 21st century. And they uh but yeah, they kind of left some problematic things at the end. Like, what happens when Aziz Ansari like quit quits his job and like can't find another one? He says he's gonna go piss off or whatever, and all the people quit. Yeah, they're gonna, they're just what are they gonna do? They're just going back to what they like what they left. There's nothing there. Um, and so that that kind of the when a when a movie doesn't end very well, it kind of brag brings a lot down. Um so I really think that's like a 3.5 again.
SPEAKER_01:And and I'll I'll say this again the goal, like because just because I'll probably forget half. Because we're well, we have another we have another shot to take, but like the ending was just based on this thought, like, hey, it eventually works out, homie. Don't worry.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. Yeah. And I'm I uh you know had trouble with certain parts of this movie that made me anxious, or uh, you know, I I enjoyed and then laughed a lot of the movie too because I I found it very relatable. Um I was like kind of a personal assistant to a guy for a time, and it definitely reminded me of that, and it sucked ass. And uh he he wanted me to dig a fucking ditch on one of his properties, and I was like, I'm not gonna do that. And and so that was the end of that relationship.
SPEAKER_01:Uh well, just on that point, just on that point, if I may, because I'm gonna forget it in a minute. We have another shot. Um, I I I have uh a previous relationship who worked for one of these rich people, and I was on their property of you know marble stone of fucking moat and river that ran through their Las Vegas property, and I walk into his office where there's Ayn Rand quotes stapled onto the wall, and it's just are you fucking kidding me?
SPEAKER_02:Well, that's how you know they're it's a cultural group that they're in, and that's how they maintain their wealth. Exactly. Uh but yeah, so I probably won't re-watch this movie very much. Uh probably like it too, because it was distressing. Um yeah, maybe I'll watch it again. Who knows? So what do we got, Luke? A grand total of 3.5 out of five. Surprise, surprise. Yeah. I felt it would land. A competent movie that was enjoyable, but like, you know, not nothing that was revolutionary, like as a film. That's the problem is it was not revolutionary in the end.
SPEAKER_01:Exactly. And what makes High and Dry so incredible and so credible is that our ratings are always right.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, no matter what.
SPEAKER_01:When we start discussing it, we know where this is gonna land because our system is flawless.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. And if we're ever wrong, then when we revise it, that's correct, also. If we're ever wrong, we're right up until the point where we change it. I actually just changed my I just changed my K-pop demon hunter mo uh score because I was like, I think I rated this too harshly. It doesn't matter. Well, you were you were right right up until you changed the score, and then you were right. You were right. You were right the whole time.
SPEAKER_01:Because culture shifts, culture changes.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, I mean it it was the the album went platinum. I had to go adjust the soundtrack score to a five. It got a four point, it needed it needed its true five out of five. It is iconic.
SPEAKER_01:You you were correct the entire time, Lou. Do not worry about that. Do not do not for a second worry that you were wrong. Chef's kiss, perfect.
SPEAKER_02:Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, you're live like live like Seth Rogan and And be right. Always. Yeah, and just assume you're right. Everything you say is right. Everything's right.
SPEAKER_01:You're on high and dry, baby. You are correct. So, with that being said, high and dry was always correct. It is time to move into the second portion of this podcast. It is time now for the golden path. Let's delve into the deeper mysteries of this film. Let's show the world why we are the terrorist organization that Trump claims we are. No. No. Line up your final shot, final toast, final hit of the night. Here is to cultural socioeconomic inequality. Here is to surviving that bullshit. For everyone who has ever been on the side of the road when a cop took your car away and you just did not have money to get it back. For everyone who's ever sleep in their car, for everyone who has dealt with a rich person who doesn't understand, this one is to you.
SPEAKER_02:Cheers. Yeah, after dealing with that rich person, I ended up working as an overnight security guard in a truck, a truck lot. I remember that. I remember that. Remy. Remy, my love. All I had to protect myself was a tire thumper. I was like, uh yeah, yeah, it's wild.
SPEAKER_01:Wild times. For the folks at home, here's Remy. The unofficial fourth member of the podcast because I can't kill him. Tried. Tried. I tried. I drowned him in a tub. He came back the next day. Fucking Stephen King animals. God damn it. Animal style. Thank you, Remy. Thank you. Thank you. I have to finish my podcast, baby. Alright, there we go. So alright. It isn't time now for the It's time for the second part of this podcast. It is time to jump onto the golden path.
SPEAKER_02:The path that's golden. I'm down.
SPEAKER_01:The path that is golden. What are the deeper thoughts of this podcast? And I feel like there's a ton. Um we're a bunch of millennials who probably really identified with this fucking movie. And it probably pissed us off. So what do we got? What happened?
SPEAKER_02:So I have to uh it's been on the tip of my tongue. I've been chomping at the bit. The I hate the way this movie ended. And the reason being is because it made it seem like, oh, the rich guy learns a lesson and he's gonna figure it out and save the people, and it shouldn't have been portrayed that way. I liked the fact that he walked out. Yes, it was like a poor decision, but it is I think it's just like taking the suit of having to drive change, which I kind of liked, that symbolic gesture. But the fact that they made the rich guy a like kind of a hero in the end is bullshit. Yes. Um, I would have much, much, much preferred them portray him as a villain and just go back right to his back to his old ways, because that's how it'd go, because they're pieces of shit, and that's how they would act, um, and just go right back to it, and then the fucking all the the robots literally like fuck him because they like lose coding and stuff, and like they lose like a million dollars a day, and then uh they the workers end up having to fight for their rights, and because they have so much leverage, because the robots have fucked up, that's why they're able to drive change, but it's not because the CEO wanted it to happen. Um, people are just gonna start destroying the robots, it already started happening. Yeah, people people pry open the robots and take food out of them. Yeah, like it's no, we haven't, but I I I read an article about it. Well, yeah, the three of us haven't, but there's that's what it sounded like was that we personally have broken into food robots. But no, I I just I I hated the fact that they finished it like that because that's just like you know, I love you know, I love a pretty bow and uh whatever, but I feel like that was the difference of like really making this a fucking, you know, like a point in a story versus like everything works out.
SPEAKER_01:But the point of that food robot was there was an article where the food robot was sent out from Canada, it survived all of Canada, and the second it hit the United States, it was fucking destroyed and robbed. Like because we we are 50 third world countries in a trench boat pretending to be a first world country. Yeah, it's free wild.
SPEAKER_02:And I do, but yeah, I just I'm I did not like a nice tight-knit bow on top top of the story because it was not you know, it like you said, it was difficult to watch. It does piss you off. Like throughout the movie, you're like, oh my god, like so mad. Yeah, you're like so fucking mad. You're like, I'm sick and tired, because it is bullshit. It's not the fact, and like Azizan Sari says, I don't want, and you know, this is something it was a hard pill to swallow coming from someone who I know is well off. Um, was the line where they said, like, um, I am um I I don't I didn't want to be rich, I just wanted enough to like be comfortable and get by. And that's a sentiment that I know I've felt deeply personally, where I'm like, God, I don't I'm not trying to be rich. I just wanna I just wanna be able to cover all my bills and and you know have a little bit of fun with friends and and shit like that.
SPEAKER_01:I just want the fucking life that my parents had.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. So in a it is a hard pill to swallow. You want to be a slove lord? Not my parents, the parents of everyone else. You're talking about what the American dream look, look, look.
SPEAKER_01:My my father was just part of the Gestapo of the. Oh, right, yeah.
SPEAKER_02:He didn't he didn't own anything, he was just the thug. He was the thug, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, it uh it definitely.
SPEAKER_01:But it's let's get your facts straight.
SPEAKER_02:But it did make it hard to uh watch it coming from somebody who is rich and well off. But I did like again that that sentiment, and I feel like they did bring across some of those things that like uh so many people have felt. It's just again, Hollywood is an industry where it's they're very, very, you know, it's there's a lot of money going around um in Hollywood. And I understand that you know, there's writers not being paid well, and there's actors not even being paid fair wages and um all sorts of different things. How you know it's still it like the rich assholes that we're worried about, the ones who are on the board, the guy that um I'm sorry, what's his oh his name is Seth Rogan. Seth Rogen, but I I would his character Jeff. Um yeah, the guy that Jeff's portraying the you know, this board, like those are the pieces of shit. Like we're talking about like hyper rich scumbags. Don't get me wrong.
SPEAKER_01:I'm definitely not worried about Seth Rogan.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, like like a Zanzari and Seth Rogan, yes, they they you know make good money, they're actors, blah, blah, blah. But I don't think they're the the true, true problem with this fucking the world. They've just been well off. Like, yeah, we're talking about people who are hyper billionaires, like the fucking rich. Like and Seth Rogan is not going to have an ayahuasca trip and learn a lesson. What's gonna happen is that he's he's when all these people are starving in the street, what he's gonna do is he's gonna pump a bunch of money into private security robots so that if anyone tries to attack him, they're just gonna get blasted down by unthinking machines. Yep. And and that's how society's gonna change. They're not gonna they're not gonna care about us. Yeah, they're not he he's never depressing. That's why at the end of the movie I hate it where they're like, hey, you changed. No, he didn't. He doesn't give a fuck.
SPEAKER_01:Just on that point. I'm on that point. Seth Roger. It's like undercover boss. So for whatever reason, Seth Rogan, you listen to this podcast. Your role in good fortune, when the revolution comes, I will find you. Oh, you're gonna get Seth Rogan because of this role? Because of good fortune. Because like you you claim to understand, but you didn't change your lifestyle.
SPEAKER_02:I don't know if it was supposed to be an appeal to the rich who can't who need to think it's their idea. I don't know if that's maybe what they were going for, but it feels pretty changeless.
SPEAKER_01:Which scares me because that I think that's why I left the theater so angry is because everyone involved in this film was pretending uh hey, and and I uh honestly, there I'm happy that this happened because it shows us that we are not divided by race, creed, anything like that. We are divided by class. Yeah. And we just watched a work of art, essentially, portrayed and perpetrated by the class above us when the revolution comes, they all need to die. And it made me sick.
SPEAKER_02:Unless they give up all unless they give up their their position. If they give up their position, they're totally super cool. Like, great, join us, you know. Let's all be here. Welcome to the party.
SPEAKER_01:Welcome to the party. Keanu, I knew you're gonna be here. Thank you.
SPEAKER_02:But but all these executive executives are not going to agree to that. No, they're gonna flee to other countries. It's what happens when they go into a place and ruin everybody's lives and then get driven out. It's happened all over the world, like hundreds of times. Yeah, where people and I cannot wait to dine on their flesh. They get to be really cruel and terrible and overly greedy instead of having agreement. Um, you know, philosophically, ideologically, I think it's fair to want to promote equality. You know, it's a good it's a good idea to want to promote fairness of outcome. A lot of times people talk about that as like it's like the cardinal sin of like individual, rugged individualism is the idea of an equal outcome because they're like, oh, well, you know, uh unequal work, equal outcome, that won't that'll make it so that people don't want to work any any harder. You know, they don't want to innovate and stuff. And it's like, no, that's not true. Like people, when people are interested in doing things and their brains are working, they will innovate in stuff, especially when they feel like more comfortable. When when when people feel more comfortable, they allow their minds to expand instead of being worried about stupid little shit, and that's when we innovate. But the rugged individualism ideology is one that is primarily pushed by rich people and is followed by people who are presenting themselves to be fucked by these rich people, you know, they're they're buying into it and supporting it when they really should not be. It is against their interests.
SPEAKER_01:Exactly. And and that's that was like the I walked out of this film angry because I I watched a bunch of people who are getting checks signed by the people that we need to murder in a film that was describing how they victimize us. And it it it was just so upsetting. It was so upsetting, especially from Aziz Ansari, because I know he came from immigrant parents of Muslims, and well, I don't know if they were Muslim.
SPEAKER_02:They definitely uh I think I I know he's Indian, but there are people who are Indian who are Hind. The majority of Indians are Hindu.
SPEAKER_01:No, Aziz Ansari's parents were Muslim. They're yeah, and I didn't know that. He he himself identifies as non-religious now. Um, and but the the problem I have is like Aziz, you came from us.
SPEAKER_02:Um Well, his his parents were doctors. It's kind of it's kind of the point they made in the movie about Zebrogan's character, about his dad was an orthopedic surgeon. So he's on sorry, comes from two doctor parents.
SPEAKER_01:That's why that's why I left this film so angry. Because the message was what we need to hear, but it came off hollow. Um if this was given to us by maybe an independent director, if this was given to us by someone who truly understood, you know, someone like Nziz Ansari was fucking chewed up during the Me Too movement. He had allegations. Um and and I was also confused by that. Like, I thought we were done with Nziz. Like he uh was very sexually aggressive to a young woman that he took on a date, and then I'm watching a movie about him on first dates. It's like, no. Yeah. Um, no. And I think that's that is why this movie gets a 3.5, is because we're watching rich people pretend to be us.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. Sorry, go ahead.
SPEAKER_01:Exactly. Exactly. And it's like, Aziz, I have not forgotten that in 2018 that woman claimed you're sexually aggressive, um, and that you spent the next four years trying to say that you're sorry. Um, and then you put out a movie about us poor people, um, when you yourself are a child of doctors, and it's and so, and that's why I get like the message was good, but the people who put it out and what they represent themselves, it came out hollow. You don't know what it's like to be us. And so for that, I I give this movie two middle fingers out of two middle fingers.
SPEAKER_02:Wow, that's the most middle fingers any movie's gotten. Seth Rogan actually came from nothing. His parents were like a social worker, and the other one worked at a nonprofit, and and he had he had like financial instability in his youth.
SPEAKER_01:Then it's really that actually and what's weird is that I keep coming well. So like Seth Rogan completely divorced himself from uh um Franco. Yeah. When all those things happened, and Seth Rogen is the one in this movie who's saying there's more of them than us, and they're eventually gonna kill us all. Yeah. Um, so if that's the case, I'm happy for it, and I think that's why that movie got a 3.5 instead of a 2.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Um, because at least he did say the thing. Because it at least one of them understood. I believe the Keanu does understand. I think I was gonna say that. I I think the Keanu, though, I I think he's undiagnosed on the spectrum, and I hope he eventually, you know. Uh I think he's fine. Um I think he's doing great.
SPEAKER_02:I think he's having a good great time.
SPEAKER_01:I think I think Keanu's great. Um, he's the highest performing of all Sling Blades.
SPEAKER_02:Um yeah, he looks homeless. I don't think he is, though.
SPEAKER_01:I think he's probably doing fine. Well, I also know that he went through a lot. I know that he went through a lot. Uh, and every like relationship that he gets into, he's he's one of us. And I will unless he's a sufferer. He's a sufferer. He's a sufferer. So here's to him.
SPEAKER_02:You know, it's actually the trick of Keanu's face is that you you can it's like the good boy juxtaposition, where because there's no change in the features, whatever you put him next to, he fits in. Just like in the matrix. It's just juxtaposition, so we're ascribing whatever we want to Keanu Reeves.
SPEAKER_01:Keanu Reeves is the mirror.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, yes, absolutely.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. Well, hey, here's to him. Yeah, cheers.
SPEAKER_02:Um I'll I'll line it up.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, here's one to Keanu Reeves, here's to the mirror, and I think that's what Rich Boy Aziz understood was that I need a mirror because I'm obviously a piece of shit. So here's Keanu.
SPEAKER_02:Uh yeah, yeah. It really, yeah, this movie uh lacked teeth. It pointed out good things. Yes. But it just it just didn't have the teeth to to make it so that there's a surreal solution. Yeah. Yes. Another interesting plot ending or toward like an ending would have been if Zan's already, and this is this is the difference. This is how somebody who's actually been there would think. Because I always think to myself how I would be with my money like that. Would I and I would love to think, because I do have a good moral compass built from being able to be grounded, um, that I would be able to do and then maybe not because money changes people.
SPEAKER_01:Well, well, well, Luke, the yeah, the reason I'm pausing real quick is because you're touching on the next section of this, and we're gonna start with you, Luke.
SPEAKER_02:I got one more for this, though, for for this section before we leave. Yeah, but Golden Pack. But yeah, the but what I was saying is like at the end of the day, I think like it'd be interesting to see that the character of uh the Zanzari's character um uh go in or Arge. What? Yeah, yeah. Um, but that character um to like go in and like act and be like, no, fuck no changing lives, you're a piece of shit. Like, no, I'm gonna like take over now and I am gonna like be a good person. Yeah, I'm gonna like actually do what like Seth Rogan's character ended up doing, which is like, oh, we're gonna pay them all good. No, like have the poor person be the hero in the end and be like, no, fuck you. You can make self-make yourself again. You're so talented. Have fun with that, you're there now, and then let's see, you know, like and then have him do good with money. I would have liked to see that ending. I feel like it could have really given a better bow, but also not portraying some some hyper rich as a hero.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, you brought up a fantastic point, and I cannot wait to talk about it in the third portion.
SPEAKER_02:James, you want to well, James had one more thing to say. Well, yeah, James, you said that you had one more point for the sli there was uh there was some nice symmetry where uh uh uh Keanu Reeves's character was Gabriel was born with smaller wings, and so there's like an implicit hierarchy in the angels as well, where some people are just born with with larger wings, which equates more success. And you have like the the Azrael at the top, and then and then his boss, Gabriel's boss, and the the wings get progressively smaller, and and and it's just something you're born with, and you can't escape out of it. Because essentially what you're like even making based on the hierarchy. Yeah, the even making the joke though, to to you know, like, oh, it's not a size with the wings. No, it is. It actually is, it matters a lot in this culture. Yeah, yeah, it's it makes a great point about you know where you're born makes the most difference.
SPEAKER_01:No, and if you got lucky well, me being, you know, I'm one inches long and six inches wide, they call me the slab. It's hard, it's hard. But that being said, it's time to get into the third portion of this thing. It's time to insert ourselves into the film. Good fortune. So, fellas, how does it change if we are there? If uh if you guys don't mind, I'll kick it off.
SPEAKER_02:Sure. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Let's hear it. So for me, um, and why at the end of this movie I left angry is because um Aziz Ansari literally got to do what we do in the third portion of this podcast, and was insert ourselves into the narrative. And he did help his dad. He bought like he bought like his dad a house and invited him to a party. He you know, he did that. He helped his homeless friend get off the streets.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:He helped the homeless friend get off the streets, but that the end of the day, he still had the two lives impacted opposed to what like could have been done if this guy again.
SPEAKER_02:I assume just based on the the level of house and and the the job and position and how his growth had gone, I assume this guy has a fuck ton of money. Yeah, the impact that it could have had.
SPEAKER_01:He brought two guys up to his level, yeah, and then still had the money to do his own fucking choreograph dance for his birthday. Yeah. Um, fuck you.
SPEAKER_02:I couldn't even afford the time to learn a choreograph dance for my exactly instead of. Let alone somebody to teach me.
SPEAKER_01:If you inserted me into this film, I would be not as easy as sorry. I would be Satan.
SPEAKER_02:And I I would show up as a as Lucifer, the angel of righteous vengeance.
SPEAKER_01:Yes, I would show up as the angel of righteous vengeance. I thought you all at home were thinking that I would start giving my wealth to other people. No, I would show up as Lucifer and I would approach Azizansari and I would say, I gave you an opportunity. I gave you an opportunity to help the world. To you, I gave you everything. You, a person who lived in your fucking car, and all you did was choreograph a dance for your birthday and help your dad. Guess what? Yeah, my demons are gonna torture you forever, you piece of fucking shit.
SPEAKER_02:You know, people really want comfort and they really want to, especially if you have never experienced it, they really want to experience it.
SPEAKER_01:You know, having a plant opportunity to breathe. Well, and for that, you enter into my realm, Lucifer. So welcome to hell, baby. Um so I would drag Aziz Ansari down to hell, and I would torture him for all eternity. And then I would spend my time with Seth Rogan, and um like, hey, you know how you like you yourself in this movie claimed that if I stole your watches, I'd be set for life, and you just collect them like trophies. I would then torture for eternity. No, no, I would I would um I would turn into my demon form with cloven hooves and pitchfork, and I would just fuck the shit out of him. Um that's not enjoyable for either of you. No, I'm not having fun, but this is my job. Alright, this is my job. Um none of us enjoy our job, but this is my job. I'm fucking Lucifer. And I would fuck the shit out of Seth Rogan, and it would be more torture for him because obviously I'm not gonna come. I'm not having a good time.
SPEAKER_02:Um, Rogan or Aziz?
SPEAKER_01:No, Aziz has already burned in hell. I sent him straight down the hell. I'm trying to come into Seth Rogan's ass, but I can't because I'm unattracted to him. And that makes sense.
SPEAKER_02:Not because of his body, because of his personality.
SPEAKER_01:Because of his personality. Because of his personality. I can't. It's very unattractive. It's very unattractive. He's got all these watches and shit, so I'm just fucking him mindlessly. And we're both in our own hell. Um, as I fuck the shit out of Seth Rogan and he gets fucked, and I'm like, please just fucking come. And I can't because he's such a piece of shit. Um, and that's how the movie would say.
SPEAKER_02:And that's how the movie I feel like that for the first time ever, the movie actually gets worse. It goes down in rating based on. I don't know if I would enjoy watching that. Or the rewatchability would go down a little. Yeah, one three. I'm not watching. I'm not watching 35 minutes straight of Seth Rogan getting fucked by Satan. It's it's important to watch it at least once, but I don't know if I just turn it off.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, you need to watch it once because it's important.
SPEAKER_02:Oh my fuck. Well, that's a it's a good movie. I'd well do I have to be in that movie or can it be my own separate edition?
SPEAKER_01:It's yeah, Luke, bring it where you need to bring it. What do you got? What do you got?
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. Um, well, you know, like you kind of said, I I would love to I'd like to see myself get into the to the rich person's position, and I'd like to um think that I would work to make those impacts within in my business. Um, and obviously with the with them being such a large corporation, I I could potentially impact the lives of so many. And I would love to think that as you pay workers, and there's other companies that have done this and seen success, as you pay your workers higher wages, um, they end up you know putting in more effort for you, and it actually ends up working out for the company, and I can create a domino effect in the world and change it. And that's how that's how I'd like to change it. But what would end up probably happening is that I'd run the company um into the fucking ground because I don't know what the fuck I'm doing. Umfortunately, there is an art to running a company and I ruin it. Um, but I do change a bunch of people's lives before taking that bitch down with me. You know what I'm saying? I won't I fucking I'm giving money to people, we're changing lives, but um I'm I'm probably gonna burn everything to the ground.
SPEAKER_01:I will say that that's a lie that's been fucking fed to us. None of these, none of these fucking rich people know how to run a company, they just own things. So I think Luke in that position. He was on the board. He wasn't running the company.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, yeah, you are right. He just goes, yes, no, yes, no.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, I think Luke, you you would do what I would I think you would make your changes and you would change the world for the better, and you keep expecting the company to fall apart, but the money just keeps it moving. I think, yeah, I I think it wouldn't fall apart.
SPEAKER_02:So every board meeting, it's the movie just becomes every board meeting, me going in and being like, so guys, what's going on? And then every time they're like, no, everything's doing good, guys. Yeah, we the employees fucking love their lives. We're fucking it's it's phenomenal. I think that's what would happen. Well, no, the shareholders the shareholders will be upset. You will not have friends in the boardroom because they want more, they want that money. Exactly.
SPEAKER_01:The shareholders, the shareholders would be pissed, but Luke, I think your company would be amazing.
SPEAKER_02:Perfectly, yeah, it would just run floor. Your company would lose all value. People would people would be like, oh, this company is not gonna have the same returns as it was anymore. And so people will divest from your company because we did this crazy thing. That we respect humanity. No, no, no, no. Companies in the we in the United States did this crazy thing and it was really bad, where we said that corporations that were publicly traded have a legal obligation to uh to generate profit for shareholders, like they need to make decisions to for on behalf of shareholders. And it's like the we don't have any laws about companies making good decisions on behalf of employees or anything like that. No, it's just shareholders. Which is insane. It's fucking crazy. And uh and we did a bad, and that needs to change, I think. And that's what would change in my Yeah. It would be all based on employees, nothing with shareholders. They decide second. A it would become a co-op.
SPEAKER_01:An effective culture, an effective society would be one that is capable of seeing that this system doesn't work. Let's alter it. But we are completely incapable of that.
SPEAKER_02:Well, not completely incapable. It's just when things happen. You know, it happens several times when the world order has changed, you know, like the move from like medieval uh kingdoms to a capitalist, you know, uh democratic system. Uh, and before that it was warlords and emperors, and you know, you go back and forth and you see changes in the world order several times, but they're always really harrowing. Uh, you know, it's really hard for people. They have they have there's there's a time of upheaval where everyone's gonna suffer. Like, I know it's coming, and I'm like, you know, part of this movie was me going, like, oh shit, like when the good jobs dry up, am I gonna have to go be a Door Dasher competing with all of these people, you know, living out of my car? Because who knows? I'm just a few paychecks away from that.
SPEAKER_01:Who knows? I I remember a time, especially during COVID, when James, you were doing the DoorDash world. I I had decided to.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, I was doing Uber.
SPEAKER_01:I liked Uber.
SPEAKER_02:I thought Uber was a lot of fun. I joined the fucking uh Uber, like you drove you drove riders and not uh delivery. Yeah, I didn't do any delivery. I drove riders, and it was really good in Las Vegas around that time. I was only having to work like three days a week, and I was make and Sherra was working three days a week, and we were making more than enough money for our expenses. We can make like$300 a night, and in 2019 money, that was like really good. Yeah. Yeah,$300 a night's really solid. Yeah, yeah, that was really awesome. And we do the overnight shift. Well, but that that's just not a thing anymore. Yeah, that's not a thing anymore. You know, it there's no you're not making phenomenal. Don't get me wrong, it's so competitive. That's the thing, is there's a lot of fucking people who are like, ooh, let me get on that. Because it is, you know, it's nice being able to make your own schedule. It's nice being able to do those things, but yeah. Desperate and overcrowded because a lot of people there's a lot of people. I remember this around the 2008 financial crisis where people who had you know like really good office jobs ended up losing their jobs because their companies had money tied up in the real estate market, which crashed, and and so and so a bunch of people lost their jobs, and then they had to move into labor jobs, and then so the like the labor market was overflooded, and and it was really hard with Ryan and I coming out of high school uh to get work because we were competing with a bunch of professionals who were like coming from offices to do our random bullshit job. We were supposed to be we were supposed to have secured unskilled labor that we just go into and make enough to get by, and then and then promises were made. And that yeah, you are right, like it just fucking floods every other job market, and yeah, promises were fucking made.
SPEAKER_01:And I mean, like, that's why we're so fucking offended when you have uh a boomer's like just bring your resume in and talk to the boss face to face, shake his hand. I'm like, well, first I noticed you said his. You made an assumption right off the bat. Second, that's not how it works anymore. You said hands, another assumption right off the bat. Shake their flipper. Exactly. The world is run by orcas, and boomers don't understand that anymore.
SPEAKER_02:They don't get it. They don't get it, they don't get it.
SPEAKER_01:They don't get it. Every every CEO I've had was an orca.
SPEAKER_02:Um that's why they're CEOs. It doesn't stand for C A.
SPEAKER_01:It's not Charlie Echo October, it's fucking C World Echo. But anyway. Um but yeah, I I think that strikes at the core of it is that there was a message here, but it was said by the wrong people, and it uh to the wrong conclusion. To the wrong conclusion.
SPEAKER_02:We want a different conclusion. Give us something different.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, like Azizan Sari was okay because he fell back on his dream. That's not the life we live in, that's not how it works.
SPEAKER_02:He he got to be he he did it for love. He was like, okay, if I go back to my other life, I'll have a chance with Kiki Palmer, and so and so it it works on two crazy premises that one, someone's gonna give a bunch of comfort and shit to for for a possible love, right? And then two, that a very rich person is going to uh give up money bec just out of the goodness of their heart. Yeah, because yeah, because of an angel.
SPEAKER_01:Keanu Reeves is one man, he can't save us all.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. But this is this is like uh we didn't mention it, but this is like it's a it's like uh an attempt to for it's a wonderful life. Yes, right, yes, a little bit. Yeah, it's it's like a it's like a combination of a wonderful life and something. It's the hopelessness, and you know, maybe this world would be better without me, but also but they did a little twist where they gave him money. Uh yeah, yeah. It's like a trading places mixed with a one it's a wonderful life. Yeah Freaky Friday with it's a wonderful life. Yeah, but it's wrong conclusions. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. But that's not how things are gonna get solved. Things are not gonna get solved this way.
SPEAKER_01:No, I've I left this movie, felt like someone was trying to placate me. Like like someone was serving me up like a hey, I know you're thinking about killing the rich, but chill out, bro. Chill out. An angel is gonna find you, and it's gonna be Keanu Reeves. That'll be fun, right? You get to meet Keanu Reeves. And I'm like, no, no, that's not gonna happen. I've I'd meet Keanu Reeves. I'd kiss Keanu Reeves. I would too. Keanu Reeves would help. Yeah, like if me and Keanu Reeves got together and killed Seth Rogan and served him up on a platter, and then refused to forget that Azizensari was accused of uh sexual aggression. Um, yeah. I'd be down. But I thought the world was that's the movie. Yeah. Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_03:Okay.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. Sorry, rich people. I'm not over it. Sorry, Azizan. Sorry. I'm not over it. And I feel that's where we land. Congratulations on your 3.5 movie.
SPEAKER_02:But other than that, he's gonna be so bad when he hears that. He's gonna be embarrassed when he hears this.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, I know.
SPEAKER_02:I know it's gonna be our our weekly meetings with him are gonna be very awkward.
SPEAKER_01:Very awkward, very awkward. We the three of us should probably plan for that.
SPEAKER_02:I'm calling out sick.
SPEAKER_01:I recommend it. The three of us call out, but then it would be it would just be a Z sitting at the board, and that's gonna be very awkward. He's just gonna reschedule. He's just gonna reschedule.
SPEAKER_03:He is gonna reschedule.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, so hey, uh, well, we're high and dry podcast, and we're gonna have to reschedule. Um, we'll see you all next week. Thank you all so much for listening. I'm your host, Ryan Barron North, with me as always, James Crossland, Luke. Um, yeah, keep fighting to power. We're not terrorists. We're not terrorists.
SPEAKER_02:We just uh we just believe in doing the right fucking thing, Jesus Christ.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, yeah, we just believe in doing the right thing. So, cheers, boys.
SPEAKER_02:Cheers, cheers, cheers. Goodbye. Bye bye bye.
