Feel Good About Your Worst Holiday Moments On Binge-Watchers Podcast

Stories from our worst Thanksgiving moments, including an inappropriate time to put your dog’s face on a cake, Kurt Russell might escape from New York again, Paul Newman is nobody’s fool, and other holiday disasters. We got some feel good staff picked movies, but someone might need to be escorted off the boat.

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Tonight’s movie? Nobody’s Fool (1994) Donald "Sully" Sullivan (Paul Newman) is an expert at avoiding adult responsibilities. At 60, he divides all his time between a local bar and the occasional construction job. When his estranged son, Peter (Dylan Walsh), arrives in town, bringing with him a son of his own and a sob story about his failed marriage, Sully finds himself assuming the roles of both father and grandfather. After a life of unchecked self-indulgence, he wonders if he is up to the task.

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Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:43

Can you guys think of like your worst Thanksgiving moments? Or like, uh, can you remember like, uh, horrible holiday memories since people are like all jacked up like killing each other in grocery aisles right now, getting ready for this holiday season. That's an erupting all around us. Dave, you got like a notorious memory.

Speaker 2: 1:03

Yeah, I do. Actually. The worst thing is, is this was during the camcorder v or uh, recording<laugh> camcorder era. So it was actually captured on VHS of me throwing up yams because I hated them so bad. And then being shamed for wasting food

Speaker 1: 1:20

<laugh>. So you can,

Speaker 2: 1:22

We can

Speaker 1: 1:22

Watch you live the shake every year, right? You play back that video every year,

Speaker 2: 1:25

Right? Yeah. You know, plane trains, automobiles followed up by David crying at eight

Speaker 1: 1:30

<laugh>. How old were you?

Speaker 2: 1:33

I don't know. Between six and eight. I mean, I don't know. Somewhere in that era.

Speaker 1: 1:37

Wow.

Speaker 3: 1:39

Not fun.

Speaker 1: 1:40

No. What about you, Jordan? Do you have a funny story or like, think of something that sticks out?

Speaker 3: 1:44

Yeah, it was like the first time I tried to make Thanksgiving dinner, like not at home. So I did like Turkey and everything and I was pulling this pot out or this like tray and I put it in my sink and I had a, like a sink stopper at the time that had a suction cup. And so I didn't realize, and it was made outta silicone. I didn't realize it got stuck to the bottom of the pan. And then I put the same pan in the oven. So then I almost caught my apartment on fire once<laugh>, but it gets worse. Sorry. So I like,

Speaker 1: 2:19

Sorry for the laughter, but

Speaker 3: 2:21

Well, and then it's like silicone fumes is like totally marinating my Turkey. So that was really, really gross. And then I think I like went to go take it out and I like dropped my like oven mint, like in the oven, like right on top of one of the coils. And so I didn't almost just burn my apartment down once. Like I almost burned my apartment down twice in like this same couple hour span and the Turkey tasted like. So it was just like, it was not good. So not a complete fail, but almost a complete fail for first Thanksgiving without my family. What about you John?

Speaker 1: 3:00

Okay, so like, uh, sometimes like if a meal's planned I can cook a holiday meal for a bunch of people, but it's like, it's executing it like military style, right? Like how many people at what time mm-hmm.<affirmative> are there allergies? Right? So it's like, you know, like things like that. But I remember one year, like not planned an extended family member who didn't deserve to have me cook for them. Cuz I remember like, just like, it's so angry. But what's funny is, okay, there is a caveat here because I've erased most of my horrendous holiday memories. I've done a great job of killing all holiday memories. I don't have very many. Like, I think maybe I remember like having a holiday dinner with David one time, but then I specifically remember these two stories. So the first one is I had to create like a whole second dinner because somebody's oven went down. So I'm cooking for this family member who I don't like. I'm like, I, it's really hard to cook for people that you don't think deserve to eat your food, right? However, the modern Thanksgiving is not the same as like the classic Thanksgiving or even like, we won't even get into like the politics or the agenda or the holiday or what it means to different groups of people. It's just literally like my modern take on it is everybody tries as hard as possible to eat a bunch of food, but also make sure that people around them have also food to eat that day, right? Like people go outta their way to eat, right? They should change the holiday to just like, this is food day or this is like national eat day. Everybody eats today no matter who they are anyway, so like cooking two meals. So it's like that's two turkeys, whether we have two pans or not, like two sets of everything mm-hmm.<affirmative> and then like, like there's like an obnoxious thing in my family where they, they buy multiple turkeys and I'm like, you need one Turkey. You don't actually need multiple turkeys. It'd be easier to share like one decent Turkey than to have like, you know, your oven is like not even right? Like every oven has like a hotspot and a cold spot and like, so it's like, and and technically the birds aren't the same bird. It's not like they were cloned. So you're like fighting with like getting them cooked

Speaker 3: 4:58

Genetics and this and that and yeah.

Speaker 1: 5:01

So nobody could like, uh, could predict, it's like how are we gonna transport this thing in a giant pan with its drippings and its juices in a car to bring the second Turkey to where it had to its final destination. Right? So that was, that was bad. That was like, I wish I could erase that one. And you know what, you know what folks? I'm drinking a holiday beverage right now and if I take a couple sips of it, maybe that one will go away too.<laugh>, does it include Wild Turkey? Oh crap. No, that's Matthew McConaughey's favorite, but here's trivia. David Matthew McConaughey's favorite brand of, I think he's invested in the company is Wild Turkey. Um, second story is, it's like a holiday meal, but it may not be Thanksgiving, it might be Christmas. You know how like people do like Italian food or like Chinese food or something on the other holiday cuz they're tired of like, they're just getting over the Turkey coma, you know? Mm-hmm.<affirmative>, you can't do another Turkey, although Turkey and Cadas or like Turkey and Cadas are like, when you with leftover bird is really good. But anyway, I digress. The story is this cooking chicken parm also for a family member. And like, there's like a war movie on in the background with like Clint Eastwood or something and uh, like Kelly's heroes is playing in the background while I'm cooking chicken parm. And then like some dude's wife goes like, you've never made, like he goes to the wife, he he goes to the wife, you've never made your chicken parm this good. I'm like, oh man. Like in the middle of a couple's chicken parm, you know what I mean? Like

Speaker 3: 6:29

Unintentionally starting the pot. Yeah.

Speaker 1: 6:32

You know? Yeah, actually. And I just think I did, you know, at a boy, I just made some great chicken parm, but you know, apparently it's gonna cause a divorce, you know,<laugh> like whatever, moving on. Um, oh, then this other, my other friend, uh, Katrina was telling me a story about like, she's gonna go have uh, Thanksgiving this year with like her mutual friends like Michelle and Julie, but then like Julie's birthday falls around Thanksgiving. So they're like, oh, we're gonna celebrate Julie's birthday at the Thanksgiving dinner. And I'm like, time out. Like you can slowly build the recipe for disaster here, like super easily. So first of all, probably not a good idea to celebrate a birthday on, on a Thanksgiving, right? Just like, cause it's the phrase that the events are competing for attention from everybody involved and the expectations are different. But then it's like Michelle suggested that they put Julie's dead dog on her birthday cake and surveyed at the Thanksgiving dinner. So now I had to pause to make sure that I received this information correctly from Katrina was like, alright, ka, so you're telling me you're going to this mutual Thanksgiving, cool. You're gonna visit some old friends, one's having a birthday. And then it's like, by the way, we but your dead dog, Skippy on your<laugh> on a cake, here's the Turkey and here's the cake. Like that, that to me is like, uh, a whirlwind of trouble, but it it's a good comedy bit, right? Like, it's like, David, do you think if I went to that party, like I would have to bring up the fact that they put somebody's dead dog on a cake? Like do you think, like how do you not like address that in public when you're gathered to this dinner? And surprised by like,

Speaker 2: 8:11

But the question I have is, is it a picture of the dead dog or is it like the text of DMI dead dog? Oh,

Speaker 1: 8:18

Well I was like this. He's like in the corner of the table by the cake. Like, no, it's not like that. Like a, like a, like a, I don't even know what they call those funerals. Like, you know, they do this in like New Orleans or something like, you know what I'm saying? Where the, the dead person's like Jordan, do you know about these funerals? You talking the deceased is like the guest of honor. So they're just sitting there like frozen in time like this. Hmm.

Speaker 2: 8:40

Oh, where they

Speaker 1: 8:41

Haven't laser what you eat barbecue around or something? Yeah, yeah. Um, yeah, anyway, I don't

Speaker 3: 8:50

<laugh>. That's a, that's an interesting funeral right there. Not, I'm not opposed.

Speaker 1: 8:53

Yeah. So it's like a, a laser picture of the dog, Dave, you know how like you can stencil things on cake now? Have you seen Well that's, that's what I was trying to, Jordan, have you seen what they're doing in, in cake icing these days? Like you can literally like put anything on, on like a cake.

Speaker 3: 9:07

Can you like 3D print with like frosting? Is that

Speaker 1: 9:10

A thing? Yeah. Yeah. It looks like T-shirt printing. You know how like you can print these things and then your, your picture of you and your friends at freaking Disneyland or whatever, or like on the, on the, uh, t-shirts, they do that now with like cake. You can get them to screen print. Like,

Speaker 3: 9:25

Can we just admit that it tastes horrible though? Like it just doesn't taste good?

Speaker 1: 9:30

Oh yeah. It's all chemicals. Yeah, it tastes horrible. It doesn't even taste like regular frosting. It's like the worst thing you could put on a cake. So not only is it a picture of your dead dog, it's gonna actually taste horrible and ruin your Thanksgiving. So, you know, moving on from that. Okay. All right. Switching gears, uh, and some home video headlines,<laugh>, um, I've learned that there's gonna be an escape from New York sequel with Court Russell from two sources, but then the third source actually disagrees and says it's his son Wyatt. And it's gonna be a re a reboot. Now what's the slim chance that Jordan has seen escape from New York?

Speaker 3: 10:04

Nope. But if Kurt Russell might be in it, let's go.

Speaker 1: 10:07

So he plays this guy, this is one of his most like iconic characters, snakeskin, and he's done it in an escape from New York and escape from la but an escape from New York. It's like the future of 1981. And of course New York is a state prison. The whole state has collapsed and it's just now where the rest of the country sends all their prisoners and then the president's plane is like flying overhead or something and crashes and they're like, oh, the president of the United States, we gotta rescue his. So they send in this guy Snake Pliska, who's already like on death row, he's got one eye and an eye patch and they're like, we stuck a bomb in your neck. Go save him in a day or we're gonna blow you up. And then like, then you see like, then the clock starts counting, right? And it's like a fast movies. You're like, oh, he's got 90 minutes like in real time to like go find the president or whatever.

Speaker 3: 10:55

So not sexy Santa version of Kurt Russell.

Speaker 1: 10:58

No, he's not playing his saxophone. He's not singing about the holidays he's murdering and getting and people trying to murder him. And yeah,

Speaker 2: 11:05

Although I guess, I guess the sexy part would be depending on your version. I mean, a lot of women find this Kurt Russell sexy I'm

Speaker 3: 11:12

In when

Speaker 2: 11:13

I scruffy beard, you know, we'll

Speaker 3: 11:17

Give it a try,

Speaker 1: 11:18

Dave just meant that you're pausing it, you know, chisel Kurt Russell running down these wet streets of New York in the middle of the night.

Speaker 2: 11:24

Hey, look, I'm, I'm not hiding anything. Like if I could<laugh> time travel to 1981, I mean, and it could happen. I'm just saying he can get it. That's all I'm saying.

Speaker 3: 11:35

Mm. Kurt Russell baby,

Speaker 2: 11:37

Are you? Wait, John, are you telling me that if Kurt Russell comes and just sees you outta his

Speaker 1: 11:43

Eyes Oh, don't to to you put me in the Brad Pitt box, right? I I say I've heard this before, right? Don't, don't try to lock me in to the scenario, David.

Speaker 2: 11:53

I'm just saying get in the face to you. Me,

Speaker 1: 11:58

All I can give you is the answer from Oscar on the office. When, uh, ed Helms ask about the Brad Pit question, he's like, well, I do have this one Rerecording dream where Brad Pitt shows up.

Speaker 2: 12:07

<laugh>

Speaker 1: 12:10

Oscar's answer is, oh, you might be gay. All right. Um, oh, do you guys know the Streets of Rage video game?

Speaker 2: 12:19

Was that,

Speaker 1: 12:19

Uh, this is like going back to the days of Super Nintendo,

Speaker 2: 12:22

Is that like, oh,

Speaker 1: 12:23

And like Sega and like arcades. So nah, it sounds, it's a little bit like escape from New York actually, cuz that's literally what it is. Like you're fighting through the streets of rage to get to a boss called Mr. X. However, it's exactly like another game that I love called Final Fight, which in final fight you can play as the mayor, you strap dynamite to your chest, you go into the streets of rage in that game, and you fight your way through a bunch of gang bangers and like, then you, you save the city. Um, they supposedly were developed at the same time, but I would rather have a final fight movie as opposed to a Streets of Rage movie. And notoriously every video game movie, we've talked about this on the show, like besides Sonic the Hedgehog for Kids and Resident Evil for kids and adults, the video game adaptations have like notoriously like just failed. Um, I don't know, but people are coming around, people now like, love the live action, Mario, you know this Dave, they've come around to really like

Speaker 2: 13:20

It. I mean, I know it's got a cult following, but like nobody thinks of it as genuinely good.

Speaker 1: 13:25

Well, there's gonna be a New Mario that's coming out soon that's got, uh,

Speaker 2: 13:29

Chris

Speaker 1: 13:29

Pratt. Chris Pratt pratting it up. Miss Mario

Speaker 3: 13:33

Honestly did not know there was a live action. Mario.

Speaker 1: 13:36

Oh man, you gotta Google this. This is like internet e status to the, yeah, you gotta look this up. It's

Speaker 2: 13:41

Awful. Like even

Speaker 1: 13:43

92,

Speaker 2: 13:43

That might be the very first movie, even as a kid where I'm like, this is pretty bad. Like, cause you know, like there's that magic age when you're a kid where every movie is great, right? Then you turn a corner like, oh wait, movies can be bad. Sometimes

Speaker 1: 13:56

<laugh> movies could just be bad. Like, and that was super open, pretty bad. Just bad Dad.

Speaker 2: 14:00

Yeah.

Speaker 1: 14:02

Um, you guys know who Gam is?

Speaker 2: 14:06

Gammer, he's like the flight

Speaker 1: 14:07

Turtle. He's like a Godzilla, but he is a turtle. Hmm. He's a giant freaking turtle. And of course in his first Kaju movie, he's like a bad guy. But then like, you know, start saving people in the sequels. I guess Netflix is gonna nab him up and make like another gammer, which is cool because I have always loved this giant Turtle movie. Um, accidentally saw it just like cruising through the channels back in the day. And it's gonna be pretty cool if they do like another movie. Um, speaking of movies, we're gonna talk about a movie tonight called Nobody's Full. It's got, uh, Paul Newman. It's a story about Donald Sully Sullivan. I don't even know his name was Donald because of the movie. It's just like

Speaker 3: 14:46

Su Yeah,

Speaker 1: 14:47

Uhoh. It was an airplane.

Speaker 3: 14:48

This is not my apartment. I can't help it. I'm like, I gotta make a soundproof box or something.<laugh>. Okay, let me

Speaker 1: 14:56

Know if All right, the plane's gone. So Sully Sullivan, he's an expert at avoiding adult responsibilities at 60. He divides all his time between a local bar and the occasional construction job when his estranged son Peter arrives in town. Oh, that's Dylan Walsh. Um, he brings a son of his own and a sob story about his failed marriage. S Sully finds himself assuming the roles of both father and grandfather and after a life of unchecked self-indulgence, he wonders if he's up to the task. Um, wow. I almost about, I was brought ready to say what kind of movie it was. Um, David, what are your details about, uh, no's Full.

Speaker 2: 15:31

All right. Right. So, um, this, uh, the, the director of this Robert Benton certainly likes to work with actors a lot. Um, he worked with Bruce with us twice before this on Nadine and Billy Bathgate and would go on to work with Paul Newman in a 1990 Eights Twilight, which is also based on a novel by nobody's full author, Richard Russo. Uh, this movie was nominated for two Academy Awards for Paul Newman as actor and Robert Benton for Best Original, or excuse me, best adapted screenplay. Um, I, I was almost worried that we, one of us might have watched the wrong movie. When I looked this up on Roku, uh, there was a 2018, nobody's full, and I looked this up. There's been a total of five movies named Nobody's Full, going back to the Silent Era in 1921 and up to 2018 with, uh, one from Tyler Perry<laugh>. So, oh, and one of'em was from 1986 and starred, uh, one of recent stars of our movies, Eric Roberts. So we could have watched an Eric Roberts, nobody's Full, um, this was the final film performance for Jessica Tandy and it was dedicated to her. And something I found interesting, Bruce Willis took a substantial pay cut to work on this movie, only earning the SAG standard of$1,400 a week. Uh, when at the time he was currently making about$15 million movie. So I

Speaker 1: 16:50

Guess, well he must have done it to work with maybe Tandy and Paul Newman,

Speaker 2: 16:53

Right? I mean, yeah, I mean, wouldn't you,

Speaker 1: 16:55

I mean, oh yeah, dude, I mean, you gotta make an artistic choice, right?

Speaker 2: 16:59

Yeah. I mean, you know, that was the era when I think he was mixing it up, trying to do some dramatic work as well. Why not work with Paul Newman and Jessica Tandy? So yeah, that's some facts

Speaker 1: 17:11

<laugh> that we done with rather quickly.<laugh>.

Speaker 2: 17:16

All right. I mean, I can talk slower next time, but I don't

Speaker 1: 17:19

No, it's all right like that. Uh, before we go to our favorite bits, we got at least one message to go to so we can spread the gift of music this holiday season. This is how we're gonna do it. New subscribers who purchase an eligible Echo device can enjoy six months of a free trial of Amazon Music Unlimited. There's a link in our podcast notes. The offer's gonna end on January 10th. Share with everybody that you know and get them hooked up with a, if they get an echo, they get six months of free music. There you go. David's already on it.

Speaker 2: 17:49

Yeah. Free music. What's not like, not to like?

Speaker 1: 17:54

I actually have a couple Echos. Saw

Speaker 3: 17:56

A lot of free music, so Yeah, with

Speaker 1: 17:59

That a million Christmas songs, just like a million Christmas movies on Hallmark.

Speaker 3: 18:03

You sold me.

Speaker 2: 18:04

Oh man. Nice

Speaker 1: 18:05

<laugh> Effective Ads<laugh> every night on those bald gifts. Yeah,

Speaker 2: 18:11

Actually looked that up. The, they Hallmark has premiered 40 movies over this holiday season or are going to premiere.

Speaker 1: 18:17

I wonder what the record is. Maybe 50 or something.

Speaker 2: 18:21

That's a lot of Christmas movies in

Speaker 3: 18:23

That is for Premiere too, right?

Speaker 2: 18:25

For one, yeah, those are all brand new.

Speaker 3: 18:27

That's wild. But I'm here for it, you know, I just love me a good cheesy, not top

Speaker 1: 18:35

Tier hear about Unicorn Christmas?

Speaker 3: 18:37

No.

Speaker 1: 18:38

Yeah, that's coming this year. Anytime, any day now,

Speaker 2: 18:41

<laugh>. See, I'm looking forward to a Royal Corgi Christmas

Speaker 1: 18:45

Oh No

Speaker 2: 18:46

Dogs and Christmas. Why not?

Speaker 1: 18:48

That's another one. That's another title that's,

Speaker 2: 18:51

That's literally a movie that's coming out this season of a Royal Corgi Christmas.

Speaker 3: 18:55

I was like trying to conceptualize like what the story line would be and it's like all of the, you know, Huskies are like the, like those winter dogs can't pull the sleighs, so they have to, you know, get a bunch of corgis to pull a, a leigh for, I don't know what reason.

Speaker 2: 19:12

That sounds so much better than what it actually is about.

Speaker 1: 19:14

There's gotta be like a dark story behind why they have such short legs, though. I'm sure like, I'm

Speaker 3: 19:19

Sure horrible breeding, you know?

Speaker 1: 19:22

Yeah. Some kind of interbreeding or like outbreeding or like Yeah, they did something. I

Speaker 2: 19:25

Think they're bred to be like, uh, you know, uh, to go

Speaker 1: 19:28

After, to fit inside of a mailbox. Yeah. Or like they have no legs. I don't even know if they can, they like, can they run?

Speaker 2: 19:36

Yes, they can run.

Speaker 1: 19:38

Are you sure David?

Speaker 2: 19:39

Yes.

Speaker 1: 19:39

I have a You ever seen a Corgi run? Yes. All right. Okay. I've,

Speaker 2: 19:43

I've met many CORs.

Speaker 3: 19:45

I believe you. We have a Corgi.

Speaker 2: 19:47

My dog is half Corgi.

Speaker 3: 19:49

Yeah,

Speaker 1: 19:50

This is the first I've heard about his Corgi love. So I don't believe it.<laugh>,

Speaker 3: 19:54

I believe you, Dave.

Speaker 2: 19:56

Thanks. Thank you. Somebody does,

Speaker 3: 19:58

Is it time for the bits?

Speaker 1: 20:00

Yeah. Lead us into the bits favorite bits? Everybody from, from nobody's school.

Speaker 3: 20:04

I loved Win. Okay, so Rub, who is technically so's friend, he works with Soly, um, doing the construction when he, he's super upset with Soly about his son. So he leaves and he is like walking away from the construction site. And so Soly and his son follow him in the truck and, uh, they're on the sidewalk because Soly so's obviously a, uh, he's a wild guy, you know, he loves to break the rules to prove a point. And um, the police officer Doc, I'm sorry, officer Ra Raymer Raymer pulls over in the, in the police car and prevents solely from following Rub. And I love that solely just like them out. Um,

Speaker 1: 20:52

Oh yeah, cuz the cop finally shoots at him.

Speaker 3: 20:54

Yeah, the cop shoots at him and it's just like, I don't know, obviously crossing a line and it, but it's just kind of funny because obviously the officer like is trying to stand up to him and he clearly seems to run the town and everybody in it. So I don't know. It was kinda funny to watch him try to be, you know, standing up to solely and then solely not caring at all and then having to go to jail for it. And it kind of is the, like, one domino that leads to a, a lot. But that was kind of my favorite. But, um, I just thought it was good. I don't know. What about you Dave?

Speaker 2: 21:35

Um, this was kind of hard to choose because this is one of those movies that has a lot of little moments or just like every character has like, uh, their own little moment to shine or what have you. Um, like, like I think what you just mentioned is probably like the biggest, most grandiose moment in the movie. Like, you know, he takes out a cop. Um, but like, a couple little moments I liked is, um, there's a thing, you know, talking about bad Thanksgivings. There's one going pretty bad. There's a son named Wacker cuz he, he's a little piece of crap and it hits people around. I

Speaker 1: 22:05

Just got a piece of crap he just like,

Speaker 2: 22:08

They never address. Look, the kid may have,

Speaker 1: 22:11

So

Speaker 2: 22:12

They have some problems, but they never

Speaker 1: 22:13

Address it. So, so Prepo Dave was talking about having kids later in life,<laugh>, and, and now he's like, there's this kid in here. What a little bastard.<laugh>.

Speaker 2: 22:22

Well,

Speaker 3: 22:23

I don't know. I kind of believe, I feel like the same with you. I'm like, clearly his

Speaker 1: 22:29

Eds like, if a kid does a behavior you have to look for like, uh, the root cause, you know, like maybe being ignored by both parents.

Speaker 2: 22:37

It's not ignored. All I'm saying is like,

Speaker 1: 22:39

Until he acts out, then he gets there, he gets rewarded, see ne gets negative rewards,

Speaker 2: 22:44

They never addressed it. Or like, like you just said, negative rewards, uh, are whatever they Yeah. Look long story short, whether it's the parents or the kid is pure evil, the kid was a piece of crap.<laugh>, I'll put it on the parents because they were clearly having problems. Uh, but in any case,

Speaker 1: 23:00

Well the son's story is masking what happens to Sully, right? Like, you know, Sully had a divorce, he's, you know, oh yeah, he's associated from the family and like the son's about to like go literally down the same path.

Speaker 2: 23:09

Yeah, this is definitely a movie about like, you know, hey learn, learn from past mistakes. Don't screw up your future generation. And you know, so there's definitely that

Speaker 1: 23:18

Spoiler alert takes the whole movie to learn from these mistakes.

Speaker 2: 23:21

<laugh>. But um, in any case, the Thanksgiving from hell, little Wacker and the other brother will mm-hmm<affirmative>, um, are competing to in the toilet instead of like waiting one after the other or realizing, Hey, you're both little kids and you can in the same bowl at the same time. But in any case, Wacker keeps pushing will out of the way and Will's like, you better stop and I'm gonna, I'm gonna teach you a lesson, you know? And sure enough closes the lid on his dick. At least they didn't show it. There's no closeup, but you got it. Uh, and he runs off crying and I don't know, I didn't expect

Speaker 1: 23:51

That scrambled as little waves

Speaker 2: 23:53

<laugh>. So that gave me a big laugh. Um, the other thing that made me, that I really liked, it's just a small moment. Nothing big, but, uh, solely and his lawyer are hanging out at the local bar and they're watching people's court of all things and they're like taking bets on it. Like instead of sports, they're betting on people's court. I don't know, there's just something about that kind of tickled me. Like that's, that'd be my kind of style of betting because you know, I do like some people's court daytime show shows<laugh>. So I dunno. What about you John?

Speaker 1: 24:25

Okay. Um, so it's hard to divide this movie in terms of favorite bits because like you don't want to piece mill the movie. Cause I think like every scene is pretty good. Yeah, the movie is really good. And so I can say like my favorite sequences are scenes that kind of move into other scenes are like when the sun arrives. Um, at first I thought this was a scene that Jordan was gonna talk about, but she ended up talking about a similar, a different scene. So his truck breaks down when he fills it with too many cinder blocks cuz he takes a, a side job from his usual contractor played by, uh, Bruce Willis, as Dave mentioned earlier, that's what gives him all his gigs, but he actually owes the money right now and then like argued about like getting paid on the old job, but he ha he can't afford not to take the new jobs. So he is like moving debris from one site to a waste facility or I dunno, the dump or whatever. And he gets too zealous and like overloads the weight of the truck so it pops his tires, plus he has like a bum knee from the last job he didn't get paid for whatever. So he's like hiking down the highway and it's the sun that stops to pick him up. And then that's when we get, you know, to meet the boys Will and Wacker, which is Dave's favorite in the movie. And, uh, as we learned a few seconds ago. And, um, the other sequence I like is at the diner where he's like helping the waitresses mom who has like dementia or something get safely from just like walking through this Cold streets and like pajamas to the diner to inform the waitress that her mom is having a problem. But then he's so familiar with the diner he puts on an apron is like passing out food and ketchup to the patrons while arguing with his landlord's son. And I'm like, what? What a well orchestrated like, uh, like sequence of events, you know? Mm-hmm.<affirmative>. So all, I mean all around, even Melanie Griffiths in the movie, we haven't mentioned her yet. Um, yeah, she plays the, um, wife who's getting cheated on by the, by uh, the construction, uh, supervisor. And, um, it's like a reoccurring thing because it's like, will they, won't they, between Sully and the wife, you know, um, to the realize it's way at a balance for both of them. And I don't wanna ruin the movie, like, I just think like you should probably watch the movie. Um, which brings us to ratings. We sometimes say binge now binge later, or binge never. Um, it's back to you Jordan.

Speaker 3: 26:37

I kick us off. I would say binge now this seems like one of the movies that my mom would watch that I'd probably like walk in on as a, a younger person and like wanna change the TV to something that I would watch, but I would probably sit down and then like get sucked in and then 15 minutes later I'm like completely enthralled in. And so definitely a binge now is just a really good classic to watch. So what about you Dave?

Speaker 2: 27:06

Oh yeah, it's definitely a binge now. Um, I like these types of movies, these little, um, I don't know what you call it, slice life movies. Like, there's nothing big at stake, but like a lot of personal, uh, personal relationships at stake, if you will. Um, I dunno, just, it's also just one of those movies as well written, well acted, just the right actors for the right parts. Um, I, I mean, getting gonna sound old that like, you just don't see like little small movies like this that much anymore. So yeah. Binge now John.

Speaker 1: 27:37

So, okay, it's a binge Now if it's seasonal, like if, if that a certain time of the year in, in the United States, it'd be like fall time. It's like September, October, November, getting you through the holidays, perfect time to watch this movie. And in fact, I think like some of the scenes take place during a Thanksgiving. And so, like, uh, one of our fans, gosh, is it Matt Mark? Oh, one of our fans named Mark. Mark said, Hey, are you guys gonna do like a holiday playlist or come up with like a Thanksgiving week, blah, blah, blah. I'm like, actually we're think considering watching this Paul Newman movie and like, it technically qualifies as a Thanksgiving movie, right? I mean, like,

Speaker 2: 28:17

I think so. I mean a scene, in fact the scene I was mentioning with, yeah,

Speaker 1: 28:21

It happens at Thanksgiving.

Speaker 2: 28:22

On Thanksgiving.

Speaker 3: 28:23

I think it leads almost all the way up to Christmas too, does it not?

Speaker 1: 28:27

Yeah, that's right. Movie or Eve or whatever with the poker game. Yeah. Yeah. Um,

Speaker 3: 28:31

So definitely H movie.

Speaker 1: 28:34

I didn't spoil this movie. I don't think I said anything like out bounds<laugh>. So the rest of the year, I think it's like a, a binge later. Like get around to it. It's a great movie like this. If you're trying to like watch what's a hidden gem for Paul Newman, like this is up there because everybody sees freaking, everybody sees butch casting in the Sundance Kid. A lot of people will see the Sting. Um, what's that one with the pool player in jail? The Hustler,

Speaker 2: 28:57

The, uh, yeah, the Hustler and then, uh, color of Money.

Speaker 1: 29:00

Oh, and Cool Hand Luke. Yeah, cool hand Luke, they'll see that. They'll see that stuff. There's another one where he's at a race car driver I think. And so you'll see these handful of movies like, okay, that's Paul Newman. And then like, no man, like, go find this other movie called Nobody's Fool, you know, point you in that direction. Um,<laugh> you know, I was gonna shame Jordan with all these things that he hasn't seen that you should have seen by now.<laugh> clearly classic American media, but you know, something came to light and recently just chit chatting with Dave and getting ready for this podcast. Dave hasn't seen Malcolm X sent of a woman chaplain. I don't know who this guy is anymore. Like, I thought I knew who David was. I, I can't believe David hasn't seen a handful of these classics.

Speaker 2: 29:44

Well, as I as we were talking earlier, I guess that just means in 1992, nobody let me choose anything at the video store.<laugh>

Speaker 3: 29:52

So many more screenings for us to all be shameful on. So enough shame to go around for us all.

Speaker 2: 29:59

No, there's, there's, I got a lot of shame in what I haven't watched.

Speaker 1: 30:02

I can't think of the titles. Have you guys ever caught me in having not watched a movie?

Speaker 2: 30:06

Yeah,<laugh>, but I don't have any to shoot off right now.

Speaker 1: 30:11

All right, come back to me next week. Um, oh, fan service. We got messages from the fans. Oh, which one should I go to? Oh, the one I pointed out now. I forgot what it was. I sent it it to you guys. Uh oh, Jordan, you brought up freaking, we were talking about, we were talking about Below Decks

Speaker 3: 30:30

Yeah. The other

Speaker 1: 30:30

Week. Yeah. So like one of the captains and somebody shot back like, oh, captain so and such,

Speaker 3: 30:36

Captain Lee is one of our fans. Freaking great uncle. Well

Speaker 1: 30:40

Talk about family strife at Thanksgiving parties. She said the the Fame's really gone to her uncle's head. This fan shot back that like, that was her uncle or whatever. No confirmation, but like, kind of funny, uh, the timing of everything.

Speaker 3: 30:56

I'm a

Speaker 1: 30:56

And who's the girl? Who's the girl with the captain? Does he have like a wife or something?

Speaker 3: 31:00

No, he's got like a bunch of, you know, um, chief Steward s so you know, or Chief Stews is what they call

Speaker 1: 31:09

'em. Mm sure.

Speaker 3: 31:10

But they rotate a little bit, so

Speaker 1: 31:12

I bet one date and then you're off the boat.

Speaker 3: 31:17

One

Speaker 1: 31:17

National waters.

Speaker 3: 31:19

Yeah.

Speaker 1: 31:19

That's a little dark for a holiday episode. Sorry folks.

Speaker 3: 31:22

It's kind of funny though. Some people do get escorted like literally straight off the boat, so

Speaker 1: 31:28

Well, like, they have like boat security,

Speaker 3: 31:30

They literally get a dinghy and just take them away. Captain

Speaker 1: 31:38

Inflatable and they send off. It's like all dramatic and you just see them like right away into the sunset.

Speaker 3: 31:43

One of'em was this lady like got way too hammered and he was like, nobody goes into the water at night. And she did not listen. And so it was like,

Speaker 1: 31:52

Have you guys ever taken a cruise ship? Have you ever been on a cruise like the, like the, like the ship?

Speaker 3: 31:56

Mm-hmm.<affirmative> not like a cruise or a yacht. No, but I've been on a bigger boat, I guess.

Speaker 1: 32:02

Oh, the other fan service is I look this up and I have a good answer for this, but I was kind of when I got asked this question, but maybe Dave can chime in on this one.<laugh>, like, why we don't watch these super popular movies? Or like, like let me see if I can find the message. Hold on. Lots of messages. Uh, da da. Oh, okay. Oh, he's asking like, Hey, why don't you guys talk about Station Wagon movies? And then he goes, isn't that a good topic for Binge Watchers? I said, yeah, maybe. And then he goes, uh, what about adventures and binge watching Ghostbusters Beetle Juice, Edward Scissorhands, Harry and the Henderson's National Influence Vacation. I feel like we've offhandedly mentioned those titles several times over the course of many episodes, but doesn't mean we couldn't, but I mean those are okay, but individually only Harry and the Henderson's like our, our like show model Harry and the Henderson's like fits the themes of the show. Mm-hmm.<affirmative>, the other ones are so popular that like, there's gotta be like 10,000 reviews of like Beetle juice online or like 10,000 reviews of like maybe not adventures in babysitting. Jordan, have you seen Adventures in Babysitting?

Speaker 3: 33:22

No.

Speaker 1: 33:24

<laugh>,

Speaker 3: 33:25

But I did mention like a ton of those Timber and Flick is one of my staff picks. Like what we like watch during the holidays like two episodes ago, so

Speaker 1: 33:32

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2: 33:34

I mean it feels like if it's a universal movie, like that's a binge now universally, it just seems like it's not worth, not necessarily worth doing because we already know where we stand on it. Like Ghostbusters binge now. Yeah. Okay. Great.<laugh>, you know, beetle Juice binge now. I mean I love Beetle juice, but like, it'd just be as glowing over it for two, you know, for 20 minutes or whatever versus something like this where we're kind of taking a shot. Like John didn't know if me and Jordan were gonna like it, it turned out we did.

Speaker 1: 34:03

Yeah. Taking some movie risks here, trying to get our hearts broken on a podcast.

Speaker 3: 34:07

That's like kind of the cool thing about me is that I get to watch these movies that I would like never pick out of a lineup, but it's like I watch Beetle Juice every year for Halloween. Yeah. And all the timber movies and so it's like, yeah, there's not a lot of juice you can squeeze out of that, you know what I'm saying? So, but it's, those are classics for a reason.

Speaker 2: 34:28

Oh yeah.

Speaker 1: 34:29

So if you're listening out there, we talked about those movies now officially<laugh>. Um, we'll give you some staff picks though, I'm sure if Jordan or Dave or myself as watch. Anything else we can recommend outside of the movie the week? Jordan, you got some things you've been

Speaker 3: 34:44

Watching? Yes, I watch Stutts Today and

Speaker 2: 34:48

Oh, how is that? I mean, you're gonna tell us.

Speaker 3: 34:49

So

Speaker 2: 34:50

Good<laugh>,

Speaker 3: 34:51

I was obviously sobbing because we all know I'm a crier, but it just was so good. It's a movie about Jonah Hill and he is making the movie about his therapist and so they just go over, um, obviously some tools that he's learned throughout his sessions. But what I thought was really cool is that like you get 15 minutes into the movie and then he kind of like pauses because he's having this revelation about filming it. And he was like, I just feel like, like I think and what it, you know, I'm gathering from the movie is that he felt it was a little disingenuine to keep filming it in a way where he's like wearing this wig because that's what his hair looked like eight months ago when they were filming these sessions. And they're wearing the same clothes every single time that they're doing these sessions and they still kind of wear and do those things. But it was just like pausing to like recognize that like the way that he was filming this movie wasn't coming out the way he wanted because the whole purpose is to like be vulnerable and to like confront some of these things that are coming up in the film. And so, yeah.

Speaker 1: 36:01

So Jon Hill was like trying to engineer the documentary rather than let the documentary happen. Exactly. And be like organic therapy session.

Speaker 3: 36:08

Exactly. And so like, they definitely talk about some really cool things that I think are applicable to everybody who you know in life. So,

Speaker 1: 36:20

You know, it's funny, it reminds me of like the pamphlet that Scientology hands out. So I'd be like, this is the Scientology of therapy, however, Scientology doesn't believe in therapy. So connecting the two is not helpful and like, you know, I'm not saying they're connected, but this guy develops his own method and it sounds like Yeah, the two page thing that like Scientology Hands you, you know

Speaker 3: 36:41

About methods that I think he creates, but I think they are methods that he uses in his therapy. But what I think is interesting that he does is that he create, he creates these illustrations to be able to like conceptualize things that they're talking about in the sessions and he gives them to his patients well and then to layer that he has Parkinson's. So it's like his drawings and like his writing and then also like some of the situations that the therapist has personally gone through through his life are related obviously to his illness.

Speaker 1: 37:13

Yeah, the doctor's interesting. Interesting individual for sure. However, it's like, like he wants to Jonah Hill ask like really poignant questions about Jonah Hill and Jonah Hill's decisions. But then it's like, oh, you're asking an actor to like turn inward when their whole thing is they have a job that employs them to pretend to be other people because they don't always want to look inside cuz they're not gonna like what they see every time they look inside. And like there was at one point where he asked him about his mom and he, he like, he has like a little breakdown. We're like, oh

Speaker 3: 37:45

couple times. And I thought it was interesting that he would not go further into the therapy because he was like, this movie isn't about me, it's about you. Y eah. B ut it's also like about the therapy. So he k ind o f like has to go through that, t hat door like step, it's

Speaker 1: 38:01

Kinda heavy. I mean I didn't finish it. I just watched like maybe a half hour or 40 minutes. I didn't watch the whole thing

Speaker 3: 38:06

Yet. I thought it was excellent. I love the therapist. I I love Phil Stutts. I thought he was just such a cute guy. I think he had some great life. It's

Speaker 1: 38:14

Not gonna make you feel good. It's definitely not, not on the field way.

Speaker 3: 38:18

Are you kidding me? It was, I don't know, I guess maybe I kind of associate crying with like, feel goods. Like it's kind of cathartic. Yeah,

Speaker 2: 38:25

It is. It's,

Speaker 3: 38:26

Yeah, you release these emotions and I think that's like, but that's the thing about life is that like you can't get the good without the bad. And like, although it is sad and there's some heaviness, there's obviously these lessons to be learned. Cause that's like the whole point of the therapy sessions is like, you cannot enjoy life unless you also kind of embrace the bad. So I thought it was a feel good, so,

Speaker 2: 38:52

Well you might have just sold it. It's on my list that you might have like, uh, convinced me to watch it in the next day or two.

Speaker 3: 38:58

<laugh>. It was so good. I hope you like it.

Speaker 2: 39:00

So yeah, I've been, I've been looking forward to that since it popped up, but I haven't had a ch I don't know, it just feels like, because it does feel so heavy, it doesn't feel like every time I've been wanting to watch something I'm like, uh, not right now<laugh>. Like that's, it just doesn't feel like the right time for that movie. But you might have convinced me, me. Um, so, um, trying to, I actually watched quite a few things this week. Uh, some things really awful, uh, some things really good. But uh, to try to stick with the feel good, I will stick with the feel good choice of what I watched. That was good. Um, I watched a new movie on Apple Plus, uh, called Causeway. It's with, uh, Jennifer Lawrence and Brian Tyre Henry. I think, uh, he's been on a ton of things like Atlanta,

Speaker 1: 39:41

This where he gets locked out of his house.

Speaker 2: 39:43

No, I don't know what that is, but now you got me interested in whatever that

Speaker 1: 39:47

Might be. Yeahs a movie where he's like locked out of his, his like brownstone or

Speaker 2: 39:51

No, no, this is not that apartment into whatever that is or whatever. Uh, but no, this is, I mean this is kind of like along the lines of nobody's full in the sense that, um, it's just a very simple story. Uh, Jennifer Lawrence is um, uh, a, a war vet. She just got back from Afghanistan. She was, um, you know, uh, part of, um, got exploded in a convoy. Uh, so she, the beginning 15 minutes or so is her recovery and her learning to walk again, learn to speak again, that kind of thing. Uh, she moves back home and um, you know, lives with her mom who's a complete just terrible mother. Uh, you find out piece mail, like, you know, stuff wasn't great growing up. Her brother turned into drugs. Um, and at some point her car breaks down and in front of a shop luckily. And um, she just kind of starts this friendship with Brian Tyree Henry, you don't think, um, they just seem to make an unlikely pair. Um, and for the most part the movie makes it non romantic, which was nice. Um, they did slip a little of that in there. It becomes part of the conflict of the movie. Um, but it's just a very simple story about like ba as you find out through the movie of like two, two wounded people that just really need a friend, not nothing romantic, but they just need a connection of some kind to like ease their, their pain and their stress and their awful life experiences. Uh, it's just, just one of those sweet movies where just two unlikely people build a friendship and you just kind of hang onto that. But, um, yeah, Causeway, it's on Apple. John, what have you been watching?

Speaker 1: 41:24

I didn't watch anything sappy or redeeming or feel goodery. I went back and watched all five of the current existing Pirates of the Caribbean movies on Disney Plus at like a two day sprint. I started like Friday finish Sunday morning or something like that. Was watching'em like two at a time. And uh, you know, I I thought when the second one came out that the octopus face on DA Jones played by Bill Nhe, like looked like. But now having re-watched these, like actually the CGI holds up, the animated monsters look good. It blends well with the actual real stuff that's physically there. Like when they're really on the water and the real boats versus the CGI boats, et cetera. I'm like, why did they do so good 10 years ago? And like Marvel movies are sucking now, you know what I mean? Like, maybe there was like less competition for visual effects and maybe,

Speaker 2: 42:12

I think, I think that's genuinely it. I mean when you think about it, like there's only maybe two or three, maybe five big special effects movies a year and now there's like five a month

Speaker 1: 42:23

<laugh>. Yeah, well the, and the main story wraps up like in the first three movies, but then they revisit part of it in the fifth movie. They were deemed basically every character along the way. And like every famous pirates there, like Black Birds of, uh, black, black Bird, no Black Beard is the villain in like number four. And then like, uh, Stevie Jones in like two and three. The first movie is just, is the character they created called Barbara Rosa played by um, well that's the thing, it's like every great British actor in the nineties and Jeffrey Rush. Yeah, yeah. Jeffrey Rush and um, and it's like Johnny Depp at his best, right? Like he loves this character, uh, Jack Sparrow. And so you see like Jack Sparrow's adventures over like five movies. It's pretty good. I am sad that we're not gonna do Mar Oh sorry. Well

Speaker 3: 43:07

No, I've just been thinking about them a lot because I obviously watching Lord of the Rings and seeing Orlando Bloom. Yeah. And you know, Lord of the Rings and then like thinking about him and Pirates and I'm like, I don't like why doesn't he do more movies? Like, like I don't know. I just think like loss is like a cool character and then he like does the pirates and stuff. Like what else is he in outside of those? I don't really know.

Speaker 2: 43:33

He's busy being Mrs. Or Mr. Katie Perry. So could

Speaker 3: 43:36

Be Yeah, be a a farmer.

Speaker 2: 43:38

You're right, he doesn't pop up that often but he still like, I think he's kind of hit that direct to video route now or or something like that. I know he was on a TV show on Amazon. I think it was Carnival Row. He watched that. Didn't you jump? Oh

Speaker 1: 43:52

Yeah. That movies that well that show's cool cuz you get to see fairies have sex.

Speaker 3: 43:58

Interesting.

Speaker 1: 43:58

Yeah.<laugh>. I mean that's literally his claim to fame. Like, hey, have you ever imagined what it'd be like if realistic fairies were banging dudes? Check out this show. I mean, I can't sell it any better than that.

Speaker 2: 44:12

I mean, I don't know. I might have to start watching that. Yeah, I

Speaker 3: 44:14

Was like, so

Speaker 2: 44:15

You're gonna

Speaker 1: 44:16

Yeah's documentary, are you gonna go watch fairs hooking up with each other? What are you gonna do

Speaker 3: 44:19

Dave? Probably, you know, I don't know. In my personal opinion I'd be like, yeah, the fair is like who needs to watch a cute little therapist guy talk about is,

Speaker 2: 44:26

I don't know, I'm, I'm probably more on the therapist side. I'm like, I don't know, I might need a good cry or purges I like to call it. It

Speaker 3: 44:32

Was so good.

Speaker 2: 44:33

Uh, but stamping down all these motions.

Speaker 3: 44:36

<laugh>,

Speaker 1: 44:37

I think I forgot to play the theme song. Oops.<laugh>. Well, I guess no music, happy holidays. Like, oh, oh Stick around folks. Cause we're gonna, pretty soon we're gonna be watching like a movie with an ax willing Santa Claus and it's not the one that everybody's probably thinking of. So yeah, tuning for that.