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The Royal Tenenbaums
What makes a family? Is it shared DNA, shared history, or something more complex and fragile? Wes Anderson's masterpiece "The Royal Tenenbaums" delves deep into this question through the lens of a once-brilliant family now fractured by disappointment, secrets, and the long shadow of an absent father.
Twenty years later, "The Royal Tenenbaums" continues to resonate because it captures something essential about family: how we can simultaneously love each other deeply and wound each other irreparably, and how forgiveness, when it comes, is rarely dramatic but found in small gestures—a shared cigarette on a rooftop, a new Dalmatian puppy, an honest "I've had a rough year." Watch it now and discover why this film continues to break and mend hearts in equal measure.
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Hello and welcome to the we Recommend podcast, a movie podcast where every week we recommend a movie for you to watch and then come back here and listen to us discuss. I'm Jesse, I'm Jason Anybody interested in grabbing a couple of burgers and hitting the cemetery? Because this week we recommend the Royal Tenenbaums. Royal tenenbaums so what a sad little movie. That's funny. It's also very heartwarming. Golly. It's like I watched the whole movie and I'm like, oh, this is funny, it's very deadpan, it's great. And then by the end I'm just like God, dang it, what the hell. It's a beautiful movie. It's very deadpan, it's great. And then by the end I'm just like God, dang it, what the hell. That's a beautiful movie. It's Chaz man.
Speaker 1:Like everything at the end, with Chaz like gets me. He's been through so much death. Just when he goes into the very end, when Henry's getting ready for the wedding and he's like is that your son? He's like, yeah, he's like you were married before. He's like, yeah, I'm a widower. Then he walks up, he's like I'm a widower too, and he just goes over and puts his hand on his shoulder. He's like I know, I pause it. I was like Jesus Christ, oh, why was that so sincere and good? Glover is so good in this movie. Where is he? Why is he not in everything?
Speaker 2:Why did he have a slope in his career?
Speaker 1:I like him with white hair, yeah, oh man, everybody's so hot in this movie it's wild. T to B, top to bottom, everybody hot, it's great Gwyneth Paltrow. Before she was selling candles Before she became essentially just a meme. Now she became a product. It's like you know. She just was like a great actress. And then was decided what if I scammed everybody out of their money Because I'm famous?
Speaker 2:Janna candles.
Speaker 1:That technically isn't a scam. It just is supposed to be. It just probably doesn't actually smell like a vagina how would you know, don't know you'd have to ask the lead singer of Coldplay, um, so I thought I decided I'm gonna start asking this question. Uh, at the beginning, what? What was your life and what were you doing when this movie came out? I was in college, college.
Speaker 2:I was at my friend's house. Uh, mark's Mark's no, it wasn't, his name was Mark, but he only sweated out of his right armpit, isn't that crazy? Whoa, that is weird. He sweated double amount. Yeah, he couldn't sweat out of his left one.
Speaker 1:I sweat so hard out of this armpit.
Speaker 2:Yeah, made up for it.
Speaker 1:Did he only put deodorant on that one armpit?
Speaker 2:No, I don't think so, but man, it was crazy. When he'd get real sweaty, his left arm would be totally clean. That's so weird.
Speaker 1:That's funny.
Speaker 2:But no, he introduced me to it it and I fell in love with it. I think it was the first Wes Anderson movie I ever saw yeah, same here.
Speaker 1:Never heard of him. I actually didn't like this movie. When I first saw it yeah well, I'm pretty sure I saw it probably two years later when it was finally on TV. But yeah, I was a little baby, you know, I think I was on like 5th or 6th grade grade in 2001 I was born in 91, so I'd been 10, um, or at least around 10 at this point.
Speaker 1:But yeah, when I first watched it, also, I'm like young, so it's like a fucking 12 year old watching this movie to be like I don't know, I don't have divorced parents, I don't get anything at this movie. Um, but it was like probably until I was in college and I think I just bought it for criterion collection because I'm buying all the Wes Andersons that do them, and it was just like, oh yeah, I wasn't. I was never sad back then.
Speaker 2:Now I've dealt with a lot of sadness. So now I completely understand and get this movie Now that you're an adult and you're jaded and everything's sad, yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, and plus, you know, as a kid you're just like this comedy isn't wacky enough for me.
Speaker 2:Well, I bet you probably would have liked the. I loved, I love Eli, the scenes where he was there riding on the truck.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, the kid montage is great, no matter what age you are, so good.
Speaker 2:All the dangerous places? Yeah. Driving through the work like the active work hey, all right, let's all the dangerous places. Driving through the work like the active work zone.
Speaker 1:Hey, alright, let's walk in front of speeding cars. It's so good live dangerously. Another question actually this movie made me want to ask you is I feel like a lot of people can be kind of, they can use like Wedge Sanderson movies as like movies that describe them. You know it's like, oh, I'm like a hipster twee guy. You know like my life is deadpan. Uh, I don't know, it's just kind of like a style on this.
Speaker 2:I guess I did I just know that's the way, jacket yeah, stuff like that.
Speaker 1:You know uh what?
Speaker 2:I guess this whole movie is twee. Yeah, yeah, like all the wes anderson movies are kind of twee okay, I can put those two words together, even though I don't know exactly what it means honestly, I thought I knew what it meant until you asked me it.
Speaker 1:I just know I know the vibe. I don't know what it means, but what's like a movie? If you had to like say someone's like, describe yourself with a movie, what would it be? I know a movie that could describe us pretty well. Actually, I just thought of it. It'd be Conan the Barbarian, dumb and Dumber. Maybe this is a bad question because I actually don't have an answer. I don't know. It'd be like Hot Rod. That's how I feel.
Speaker 2:I feel like that's a movie that would describe me, except I'm not as dumb.
Speaker 1:I should have gave you a heads up next week. Think of it. Yeah, I'll think about it next week. I meant to actually tell you at work, I just forgot, alright. So what is it about this movie that you like, like? What makes you like it so much?
Speaker 2:I like that. It looks like it was all filmed at dusk. Yeah, because they talk about having his funeral at dusk, but it looks like that looks like the entire movie. Yeah, are they supposed to be in New York?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think it's like a.
Speaker 2:Chicago, Obviously like a.
Speaker 1:It's definitely in New York and it's definitely kind of it seems to be in a it seems like it's in England sometimes.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's just the.
Speaker 1:It's got to be like some like upper Manhattan area or something where he purposely left out like a bunch of landmarks. So you really couldn't guess where he is, but it was in New York.
Speaker 2:Well, I like that because you don't know where it is and but it seems familiar. That kind of feeling is like pretty cool, yeah, I love the clothes. I know Wes Anderson is incredible with details. Yeah, and he loves the 70s.
Speaker 1:And I'll just say about this maybe I don't know All the everything.
Speaker 2:He loves the 70s and just all the. I don't know all the. Everything was so good, yeah, but I loved the way everything looks. It's visually delicious.
Speaker 1:I know he's such a he's so great at like setting up shots and like making it perfectly symmetrical and it's kind of eerie. But it's also like, oh, that's kind of life. Life is a little eerie and we'll see.
Speaker 2:The whole movie is sad, yeah, with the overcast all the time.
Speaker 1:It's just like everybody is miserable all the time and Gene Hackman is the cause of it all. Essentially, you know, something I like about this movie is that I felt like this time I'm watching I was like I think I get what Wes Anderson's life was like a little bit. Oh, he's. Wes Anderson's life was like a little bit. I feel like he put all his feelings into this movie and that's probably why it's considered his best movie. It feels like out of all his movies, this is the one that he felt the most about, and I don't know how to really say it. But that's kind of why I love this movie. I'm like man. This guy put all his heart into it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I really think so, Because I found you can find something in every single character that you relate to I think yeah, and I don't know. It's pretty amazing.
Speaker 1:I feel like. I felt like. I feel like I don't know, I don't know. I feel like when I watch this movie I'm like I was totally fucking Margot when I was younger.
Speaker 2:I was like, no, I wasn't at all yeah kind of. Just alone by myself, all the time.
Speaker 1:Yeah, pretty much. I didn't really have anything with Chaz Richie. You know I liked some sports. You know I had my emo face, maybe not as much like a royal, not at all.
Speaker 2:Yeah, not so much him, but I think that's why he kind of stood apart so much, yeah, but then he kind of comes back and makes up for it yeah At least tries to.
Speaker 1:So I want to know Luke Wilson or Owen Wilson. Which one's your Wilson, luke? Yeah, I mean, I like Owen Wilson too, I absolutely.
Speaker 2:or Owen Wilson. Which one's your Wilson Luke? Yeah, I mean, I like Owen Wilson too. I absolutely love.
Speaker 1:Owen Wilson. He's so funny, something about like Owen Wilson, something that's so happy feeling about him when you see him, he's like, oh, he's always so hilarious. And then you see Luke Wilson, who's also funny, but it's like man, come over here, let's watch a happy movie, be happy. Hey, come over here, let me, let's watch a happy movie, be happy one time. Luke wilson he's got his very like, uh, average, everyday type of persona that I like about him, uh, and I love it.
Speaker 1:Speaking of he's really good at looking confused yeah, speaking of the wilons, did you know they had a brother, a third brother.
Speaker 2:Shit no.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so the BB being lodged into the hand. That's actually inspired by the third brother of the Wilsons. So when Royal shoots Cass with a BB gun at the beginning of the movie, he gets lodged between his knuckles. Later, when the BB is shown, the hand doesn't belong to actor Ben Stiller, it's Andrew Wilson, the older brother of Owen Wilson and Luke Wilson. When they were children, owen fired a BB gun at Andrew's hand and it's been there ever since. Also, this was co-written by Owen Wilson.
Speaker 2:Oh, so I was like, I feel like he was like.
Speaker 1:I have a perfect story, but that's not all with andrew wilson. He has another cameo, you know, when margo goes and gets her finger cut off the guy who cuts off the finger, that's that's their brother what with the beard, though?
Speaker 1:yeah, the amish looking guy, essentially because margo could have been a amish person. Um, and apparently Gwyneth Paltrow's one of her favorite scenes she's ever done and like apparently she holds it close to her heart, she says is when she walks off the bus in slow motion and it's like Wes Anderson bro you put someone walking in slow motion. I'm here for it.
Speaker 1:Those are beautiful scenes and the music is so good, I know, and it just seems it says everything about their relationship and that's what I love about it. So the scene where she gets off her father God nailed it, jesse. Her father, bruce Paltrow, was on set while she filmed the scene. A few years later, bruce died due to complications of oral cancer and pneumonia. But yeah, so I guess that was like one of the few scenes like her father was on set for and she loves it.
Speaker 1:It's probably why she just crushed that walk and I guess the name Tenenbaum actually comes from a friend Wes Anderson had in college. Could you imagine being?
Speaker 2:friends with someone that like super wealthy.
Speaker 1:Right God, I would be Eli all day in this movie um poor guy. So oh, I have a great one, bro. So the original falcon used to play mordecai was actually kidnapped during shooting, damn. And held for ransom. What the fuck yeah so production could not wait for him to be returned. So the bird that appears later in the movie has more white feathers because it was a different bird. But it's like a perfect metaphor for the whole movie. It's wild, that is insane. I know Bird nap. Hey, I got your bird.
Speaker 2:Or you think he had like a voice like. I have your bird, one of those voice scramblers, yeah.
Speaker 1:I should just be like I don't know, just let it go, I'll just get another bird.
Speaker 2:Leave this alone. But those birds like are very expensive.
Speaker 1:Yeah, for real. Like trained birds, Especially a trained one. That's insane. I would love to have a trained hawk.
Speaker 2:That'd be great have you seen those videos of those ladies like like golden eagles and they're training golden hunting with them I've never.
Speaker 1:I've yeah, I've seen them like attack and stuff like that from their arm.
Speaker 1:It's so cool, but they look so badass like a bird could definitely kill me, sure, like one of those birds could kill me easily claw your fucking eyes, I think you know, when you play the game with your friends like, oh, what animal could you take? Could you take like a tiger, or like a bear or coyote? No, it's like someone, like everybody, always like I could probably take a bird and then like you see an actual, like how big, like a bald eagle is, and it's like I don't know if I could take that bird. If I, if I get a good punch, you'd have to get them down on the ground yeah, here's the thing.
Speaker 1:You know. They have like that eagle eye. Right, you're gonna go for your eyes, you're screwed, just pluck it right out. And then they'll just fly up and be like where the hell is this bird? Shit on you. Where is this bird? Yeah, it's been. We took a week off, but I'm still doing.
Speaker 2:Seinfeld we did not take a week off of Seinfeld.
Speaker 1:Yeah, all right. So Gene Hackman, he's kind of an ornery actor. Ornery, he doesn't play nice sometimes.
Speaker 2:Really.
Speaker 1:So this movie was written for Gene Hackman, but he immediately was like fuck off, I'm about to retire.
Speaker 2:I don't want to do your stupid movie.
Speaker 1:And then, apparently, the next person in line was going to be Gene Wilder Right, oh shit. So he was like potential. And also there was another actor I think that was actually the most. Michael Caine was going to be the second to do this, but Gene Hackman heard that. Michael.
Speaker 2:Caine was potentially going to do it. So Gene Hackman said I'm fucking doing it.
Speaker 1:So they, like they purposely were.
Speaker 2:Just pissed them off yeah just to get them to do it, michael Michael Caine's not doing any of this shit.
Speaker 1:But he was a very hesitant to accept the part, as he felt that he himself had been insensitive to his own family at different points in his life. He asked them if he would, if they would be fine with him playing this character or if they would be uncomfortable. And they're like, just do it, dad. But but gene hackman, um, knowing that he was at the near nearing the end of his career, signed on to this movie under the agreed promise from west anderson that would be a fun, relaxing experiment. This did not transpire and led to hackman becoming frustrated and verbally abusing anderson on set. Uh, over trivial matters. Just such was the extent of his frustration that cast members became angered and felt that hackman was doing. Uh, amount was what hackman was doing amounted to bullying, bullying, I can't talk leading to gwyneth paltrow and angelica houston avoiding hackman on set.
Speaker 1:Bill murray, of all people, another very on reactor, um, what saw this happening? And decided to intervene, calling hackman out on his verbal abuse of anderson and choosing to come to work on his days off as a show of solidarity with anderson. Oh yeah, that was always like a famous thing I heard on this set. Is that, you know, because west anderson. When you're in his movie, you're like a. You're like a barbie doll. He essentially tells you exactly where to stand, what to to do and how to do it.
Speaker 1:He's an auteur, he wants everything to be exactly how he wants it.
Speaker 1:It's like Scorsese or Tarantino. It kind of comes from that era of filmmakers. Microwaves, yeah. And you know, hackman a pro is like hey, I'm an actor, I'm going to do this shit. And Pac-Man, a pro is like hey, I'm an actor, I'm going to do this shit and plus I want to retire. But yeah, that was it. And Ben Stiller and Wes Anderson asked well, ben Stiller asked Wes Anderson why his character and his sons wore red tracksuits. Anderson replied that because Chaz was so obsessed with safety after the death of his wife. Red would make everyone easier to see in case of an emergency. Anderson later admitted on the dvd audio commentary that he had no real reason behind the costumes. He just always imagined those characters and read adidas tracksuits. I was like before I saw this in the uh trivia, I was like I thought it was because you can wear them to sleep. You can constantly wear tracksuits. You never have to change, constantly ready to go right, to run. Um, let's see, they're always working out yeah, 16 times a week yeah, I think that's it, man.
Speaker 1:yeah, you ready to get into the plot? But before we do that, I'd like to remind our audience that, uh, to think about what the point of the movie is, because after we go through the entire plot, we're going to tell us, we're going to tell you, what we think the point of the movie is. So, jason, let's get into the plot, let's go Cue up hey Jude for five minutes. Hell yeah, like, how dope is it? The soundtrack is so good in this movie. Yeah, they even have fucking Charlie Brown, sad music, music throughout the whole thing. It's so good, oh.
Speaker 1:But then, like, by the time you know, you get the full introduction of the characters and then you just like mordecai is being let go and he's just flying, and then it's like, hey, juke comes in, like so awesome. I was just like vibrating in my chair. Not vibrate, I'm vibrating now, but just because I'm owed and I might pass out, because I'm still kind of I'm burning up from it and I might pass out because I'm still kind of burning up from it. It's so hot outside, it is. I even took a cold shower. It's like my new thing after a mow.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, the polar plunge.
Speaker 1:Yeah, nice Good for your heart.
Speaker 2:It kind of like wakes me up. I guess?
Speaker 1:Well, my heart already had like a giant American Express coffee in it. It's probably like hey, stop vaping, drinking coffee and getting really hot and then taking cold showers, you might die. All right, Anyways, the Royal Tenenbaums 2011. So it starts with someone checking out a book, and we are reading it and there's voiceover by Alec Baldwin. Is it really a book?
Speaker 2:No, okay.
Speaker 1:No, a lot of his movies kind of start with a book opening and it's about, it's like all this stuff is almost like hey, you're diving into a story that's pretty, because, um, uh, asteroid city is a play essentially. It's essentially we're watching a play, uh happen, and then, oh, what's the masterpiece? I'm just totally fantastic.
Speaker 2:Mr fox is essentially supposed to be a kid's book.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, that's right I mean it is, I guess, guess. But all right, so we start at the beginning. It's being scored by hey Jude, you got Royal and Ethylene Tenenbaum, played by Jane Hackman and Angelica Houston, the Addams Family star herself.
Speaker 2:That is her. I didn't even think about that.
Speaker 1:She's what's her name? Morticia Morticia. Oh, I didn't even think about that. She's what's her name? Morticia Morticia. Oh, we got it. This Halloween we have to do one of the Addams families.
Speaker 2:I love the Addams family, so much Love them.
Speaker 1:It's crazy. They're a wealthy couple living in New York City with their three children, all of whom are incredibly gifted in particular fields. Their older son, Chaz, is a genius of finance and chemistry. He bred Dalmatian mice and he was shot by his father with a BB gun.
Speaker 2:Is that that's not real? Is it Dalmatian mice? I don't know, but they just paint some mice.
Speaker 1:That's all they probably did. Such a good idea I would totally buy Dalmatian mice. And then their adopted daughter, margo is a recognized playwright, won a grant of $50,000 in her and Richie camped out together. She disappeared alone for two weeks with half a finger missing. Something I love is like throughout the voiceover, it's like and Royal love to tell everybody that he was his adopted daughter. What an asshole. I know he's such an asshole because the only reason he probably adopted her was just so he could look like a generous person, right like. I don't think he actually really ever had any interest in Margo. He was constantly just. I guess they don't really go into it. It seemed like he was always chasing wealth and status, you know. Yeah, so they don't have time for kids. Yeah, and they had a younger son. Richie is a tennis prodigy. Failed to develop as a painter. We learned there's a little bunch of bad paintings around.
Speaker 2:I like these drawings.
Speaker 1:I know they were great for kids, right, but I guess it wasn't great for the tenenbaums. Yeah, father took him to dogfights and he was obviously that was hilarious. Richie was obviously his favorite. What the fuck yeah. It's just like I never realized there were dogfights when I was.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because you see her market First. Couple times I watched it I was like oh, it's just some people playing like dice or something.
Speaker 1:They brought their dogs and I was like, oh shit, this is dog fighting. It's going to turn out. Everything that doesn't age well about this movie all comes from Royal.
Speaker 2:But that's kind of the point.
Speaker 1:And we learned Richie has the best friend named Eli.
Speaker 2:Love Eli. He's great, always watching out of his window at their house.
Speaker 1:It's cause I mean, like I've known like kids, like when I was a kid that loved to hang out at other people's house because they didn't like their own house and they wanted to be a part of that family. It's really sad, everybody's, everybody's really sad in this movie. Um, so we learned that the kids performed one of Margo's plays in front of the royal and family during her birthday and when they ask how it was, he's not very supportive. No, it's like, how was the performance? It's like you guys are kids, margo's, like I'm going.
Speaker 2:And then she starts singing Happy Birthday.
Speaker 1:Mom comes out with a cake and she's like, oh, what a dick, what a dick to say I love you and support you, and it looked like a fun play. So Royal, a disbarred lawyer, loves his family but is often brash and insensitive to their needs.
Speaker 2:I love how he got disbarred yeah.
Speaker 1:He and Etheline separate.
Speaker 2:What a name Etheline Etheline. There's some good names in this movie Royal. It's great.
Speaker 1:Boozy. Yeah, it's like I wasn't even that big of a fan of the name Richie, but now, because of this movie and the bear, I'm like Richie good name. So, yeah, the two separated though they have not been divorced when the children are young and royal moves into an inexpensive yes. So they separated when the children were young and royal moves into an expensive hotel where he remains for 22 years isolated from his family. He did it himself. Gotta have some money, yeah. And then we learned that royal is being kicked out of his hotel. As adults, the three tenenbaum children are weary, tragic versions of their former selves and did he go?
Speaker 2:when he got kicked out of the hotel, did he go to stay with his masseuse?
Speaker 1:No, he was getting a masseuse.
Speaker 2:I know, but like then he's, it shows him in like a small apartment with her behind him and like she's picking up cleaning up the house.
Speaker 1:Oh shit, I didn't even catch that. I was probably looking down at my notes when I was watching that. That would be great.
Speaker 1:And he didn't pay her it's like he's able to like scam his way into any situation. So Richie, played by Luke Wilson, is retired from professional tennis after a mysterious emotional meltdown at a crucial match and had been traveling the world on a cruise ship for a year. We learn Eli Cash is an acclaimed writer for his book Old Custer. Well, everyone knows Custer died at Little Bighorn. What this book presupposes is maybe he didn't. And then another great one because he calls Margo on the phone. Why would a reviewer make the point of saying someone's not a genius? Do you especially think I'm not a genius? It's like I never like. That's so funny. It's like I never thought because they're all.
Speaker 2:The kids are considered genius.
Speaker 1:Yeah, except for him, I guess well, because he's not a part of it I'm assuming, yeah but that is like such a burn. It's like he's not a genius it's like you're not a tenenbaum. Was people like considering me a genius? Why would you go out of your way to say that?
Speaker 2:Maybe because he hung out with the geniuses all the time.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's what it is yeah, because that's like, that's how he is known, even to like. We cut to him like on TV at one point and they're talking about him, living with him. It's just like.
Speaker 2:So this is like a famous family.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I guess. So. I guess a wealthy famous family at one point, but it doesn't seem so like anymore. You know they got older. Then we cut to Margo, who's sitting in a bathroom. She's very stoic and enigmatic Enigmatic. I got to solve, writing words that I can't pronounce, suffering from writer's block and enduring a listless marriage to the much older neurologist Riley St Clair, played by Bill Murray. He's so good. She to the much older neurologist Riley St Clair, played by Bill Murray, he's so good. She is known for an extreme secrecy. Nobody knows she even smokes.
Speaker 2:She's been doing it since like 12 years old.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you'd smell it on her.
Speaker 2:Yeah, all the time. But I guess everyone smokes inside and everywhere in this movie. Yeah, so everybody smells like smoke, everything smells like smoke, that's all right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, probably it's the 2000s. Everybody still smokes. So Jazz is mourning the loss of his wife in a plane crash that died in a plane crash six months earlier and is struggling with the duty of raising their two sons, ari and Uzi, on his own. The sons were also on the plane, along with the dog Buckley. He makes them run this crazy fire drill.
Speaker 2:And it's great.
Speaker 1:One kid grabs a turtle. The other kid hears it and just like turns around to go back to sleep. He's like what about our dog Buckley? He's already dead. One kid tries to take the elevator and it's like it's a fire, then they get out and he says four minutes and 48 seconds, we're all dead.
Speaker 2:And they lock themselves out of the apartment.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Then we cut to Ethelene mature. And she's mature and an academic, in contrast to her estranged husband Works as an archaeologist. A chain of events she's set into motion when Ethelene's smitten accountant, henry Sherman, proposes her marriage to her. And like we just see outside the window, you got a what's. What's his fucking name, papa Pagoda.
Speaker 2:It's like he's listening to something.
Speaker 1:And then he's like takes his things off and he's like wait a second. I will say I love Henry and Ethleen's relationship.
Speaker 2:They're so cute together. It's great. It's like you should really change your relationship status. The single.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's like you know, for tax purposes.
Speaker 2:Also, will you marry me yeah?
Speaker 1:Oh beautiful, we see Ethelene truly cares for Henry, but asked for time to think over her situation with Royal. Meanwhile, the family's longtime servant, pagoda, reports the news to Royal, who resolves to win his family back.
Speaker 2:Damn Pagoda Solid plan yeah.
Speaker 1:Chaz and his sons move back in with Etheline. As Chaz has increasing, paranoia about the boys' safety Comes in and she's having like a poker party almost.
Speaker 2:She and Henry teach bridge classes.
Speaker 1:Ah, gotcha, and he's like Chaz, what are you doing here? It's like we got locked out of the apartment. It's like locksmith. He's like, no, it's like you know, we're staying here until I can make everything safe. Gotta install sprinklers and stuff. She's like we don't have them here either. It's like it just slowly, constantly builds with Chaz, because he goes. He gives the kids some place to sleep. They're in bunk beds.
Speaker 2:It's in his old office, yeah.
Speaker 1:And then he like is gonna leave, and he's like, ah, screw it, I'm gonna lay in here with him. He's so scared to lose him, it's so fucking sad.
Speaker 2:And then one of the kids craw bed and wants to rip my heart out.
Speaker 1:All those little mice are crawling all over the house.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's so good.
Speaker 1:How are they still alive. Like later royals, like get these mice out of here. It's like don't.
Speaker 2:And he started that business and the business is still running out of his house, out of his bedroom, I guess.
Speaker 1:So who's taking care of these things? Mice only live like two years.
Speaker 2:Yeah, somebody. He must have taught someone how to breed them. Yeah, they just kept breeding them and breeding them. Is that the business that they?
Speaker 1:run, I guess. So I mean, dude, you could probably sell like $100 of mice and they like, if they're Dalmatians, right, I don't know, I would buy it Like I mean.
Speaker 2:I would.
Speaker 1:Yeah, breed of mice. It's $100. You probably have like 30 of them in one litter. So Evelyn goes to Margo, who is still hiding in her bathroom for 6 hours a day smoking and watching TV. It's like I really don't think you should have this TV so close to the bathtub. So it's tied to the radio. It's like, well, it's still not good for your eyes after hearing the news of uh, chaz Margo returns home as well, craving a change from her odd married life.
Speaker 1:Um, when being told about Chaz moving in, why does he get to do that? And she's like I don't know, he just does. It's like they all like. When I heard that line I was like they all want to still be living at home. They're all craving that family, but they're all separated. Yeah, that's cool. And this is where you first hear the Charlie Brown sad boy music playing, so odd that it's in there. It's weird because I just recently watched like all the Charlie Brown like specials which are just weird, ass, fucking cartoons that we just used to watch and it's like this is what we were into when we were young.
Speaker 1:So Margo is having an affair with Richie's best friend, novelist Eli Cash, although Eli knows that Richie is secretly in love with Margo, his own adopted sister I love it. She goes in the closet and he's just like hiding in tidy wadis behind all the clothes and puts on his cowboy.
Speaker 2:It's fucking cowboy clothes so good, it's so ridiculous.
Speaker 1:This has been like and like that's. It's just another thing where he also misses living there. It's an entire thing where all these children grew up with a shitty family and all they want is to get back together and fix it. They all secretly want to fix this family. They just want to have their own family, but they're too sad and angsty to actually just talk about it. Yeah, that's true. So, royal, he runs out of cash and is evicted from his hotel. He's ashamed of facing his family with the truth.
Speaker 2:I could make a reservation for you at a different hotel.
Speaker 1:Yeah, fuck off, yeah right and he decides he's going to win them back through fraud, the best way to win a family back. He meets with Etheline and convinces her that he has terminal stomach cancer and wants to make amends with her and the children before his approaching death.
Speaker 2:Great hilarious scene. Yeah, that scene is really good. Like Angelica is amazing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because he comes out he says I want to see the kids, I'm dying. And then she's like, oh, no. And then starts crying. And then he's like, shit, did I do maybe a little too far? He's like, no, no, I'm not dying. Then she like slaps him in the face, like okay, I'm dying. It's like are you or aren't you?
Speaker 2:yeah, it was funny how he scares her like jumping out from behind the building just started off I know, but I loved in the scene too, um, his red gloves, because everything is so like kind of drab like all the colors, the clothes and everything. They're kind of like darker colors and then you, every once in a while it'll just throw in like a bright spot yeah, it really I don't know, it's really cool yeah, uh, we see all the kids hearing the news.
Speaker 1:Richie comes home. He is picked up by Margo and they have an emotional but quiet reunion.
Speaker 2:I love how Eli's on the boat. He's like one of the guys, is like his personal assistant or something.
Speaker 1:Yeah, something like that yeah.
Speaker 2:I'd like to make a response.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but like I don't know man, just like when she gets out of the bus, it's whatever, like indie song is playing or whatever, and she's just like walking, it's just like cinema baby. And then like, because it cuts with her and then between richie and like he's smiling and then all of a sudden they're like kind of their happiness of seeing each other slowly fades and it's like they hug Yowch, they're all hurting because they can't have what they want. Yeah, family, essentially all this whole movie is like they all just want family. But yeah, the two performances between Gwyneth and Luke Wilson in this is just, it's so great right here, I don't know, it's just just with their faces. They told me everything. It's amazing.
Speaker 1:Chaz is indignant over Royal's return, as he still mistrusts his father. Margo appears indifferent, while Richie is more sympathetic and loving. Chaz gets upset when Royal forgets who his wife is. Yeah, and then Royal wants to meet his grandsons, but Chaz says no, it's like because, like, because I finally want to meet him, yeah, and because the grandmother Royal's mom and Chaz's wife was buried in the same place. And he's like, yeah, we can go see your grandmother.
Speaker 2:He's like oh.
Speaker 1:Rachel's buried there too. Who's that? My wife dad? It's like fuck, I will do that too. Come on, bro, there too. Who's that? My wife dad? It's like oh yeah, come on bro. Oh so, that's just a shitty guy. They're really making it like hard to be like. Is he gonna be able to do a redemption here?
Speaker 1:because I really don't want to so far um, while driving, eli tells margo that Richie is in love with her. He wrote her a note, or I guess beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beeped her a note. We see, henry, they're at a dig site.
Speaker 1:Apologize to Ethleen for proposing you're like walking and the next day you know he falls so good well, she tells him that she's happy he proposed and that was very sweet, but she she can't answer right now because she's so nervous. She hasn't slept with a man in 18 years. And then they hug and embrace and it's like let me kiss aww, the mother seems great in this show movie and she seems perfectly happy with her life it's like all these depressing ass kids and my ex-husband's out of here.
Speaker 1:Just kidding. Royal finds his grandkids working out Apparently, they work out 16 times a week and introduces himself. This is where we get. I'm sorry for your loss. Your mother was a terribly attractive woman. He tells them to ask their father to meet him, and then we cut to the two kids.
Speaker 2:He's like here's what you're going to say yeah, Mom would have wanted us to meet him.
Speaker 1:He just turns around like son of a bitch. Royal and the kids go to Royal's mother's grave. He asks about Henry. We learn how Margo lost her finger. She went to see her real family and they accidentally cut her finger off while chopping wood, Don't you? Don't hold the wood when you chop it. Just he shouldn't have chopped. Yeah, that was insane. So just to let you know, if anyone says, hold this wood while I chop it, it's not how you chop wood. If they can't chop it without your hand there, they're bad at chopping wood and they shouldn't chop. I only know because I had to chop wood back in the day.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I've done it a few times, but we always used like a hammer and a spade kind of thing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we always had, like we'd like switch the axe around to use the blunt side to hammer it in, and then you finish it off. That's what we did in Tennessee, there, baby.
Speaker 2:Back when we only had wood stoves. My grandmother had a wood stove when I was really little Fucking hated wood stoves. Yeah, it was hot. You never wanted to touch them.
Speaker 1:It was either hella warm, or you wake up in the morning freezing, or you woke up, I don't know 1 am to the stovepipe being completely clogged and your house full of smoke and your dad's got to get on the roof and then you can't sleep the rest of the night because it smells like smoke and it's super cold, and then you gotta go to school.
Speaker 2:But hey it's good. It was fun, it was good memories. It's funny when they're at the royal's mom's grave and then he's like isn't there another body around?
Speaker 1:here. Yeah, yeah, another body around here Ins, and then he's like isn't there another body around here? Yeah, yeah, another body around here. Insensitive prick, yeah, I know.
Speaker 2:Man, that's something I would probably say what do you want on your tombstone, my tombstone?
Speaker 1:The famous pizza commercial, oh shit.
Speaker 2:I don't know.
Speaker 1:Let me think what do you want on yours?
Speaker 2:I don't know. I just like what he did, because you could just write anything. You could write anything, that's great.
Speaker 1:I don't know. I'll just have some fast food. Slogan Jesse 1991 to 2050. Eat fresh. Then everybody just goes and puts Subway sandwiches on my casket, and then they bury it. Pictures of Jared yeah.
Speaker 2:No, I don't want that either.
Speaker 1:So Royal discusses with Richie his last match, where he had 72 unforced errors and had a breakdown because Margo was recently married and also in the audience, and Royal's like yeah, I hated to see that, you know had a lot of money, and then we learned that he left, literally the next day after it and Royal's like you know, I hated to see that, you know had a lot of money running, had a lot of money running and then we learned that he left literally the next day after it and I was like why?
Speaker 1:And then I was like, oh yeah, richie was his favorite. That was like his only kid. It felt like he really cared that much about. And then it's like, oh well, you failed me and now I lost all my money because of you. I'm out.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, I didn't tell you because I knew you're bad with disappointment.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Or no, whatever.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, so we learned that Chaz has sued his father twice and was the reason Royal was disbarred Awesome, yeah.
Speaker 2:And we were expropriated from him. What is that? Does that mean he's not his?
Speaker 1:legal father. Yeah, yeah, it's essentially. He divorced his father, or whatever you call. And then we learned that royal stole bonds from chas when he was only 7 14, because, like technically, he chas owned where they lived because he started the business when he's only 14.
Speaker 2:He like bought all the property and stuff yeah, because he did a fine era. Uh, yeah, fine real estate guy yeah accountant, financier or whatever.
Speaker 1:Um, uh, margo tells richie about the letter he wrote eli, because eli was like don't tell richie about it. She immediately goes and tells him. Um, and then, or yeah, and then like margo's, don't tell Eli, and Richie immediately goes to Eli's. Royal is officially getting kicked out of the hotel. He convinces Richie to ask the family if Royal can stay in the house with them. Chase hates the idea and the family argues a bit. Then Richie tells them he's already there and then they go up to his apartment. Chaz goes to kick him out. He's in a room full of medical equipment is that Pagoda in the mask?
Speaker 1:yeah, yeah, cause he's completely in on everything and he pretends to almost pass out when he's getting up to leave.
Speaker 2:When Chaz tells him to get out, he's like pretends to fall all this medical equipment yeah, richie's like he's asleep upstairs because of the medication, but I guess you could wake him up to kick him out.
Speaker 1:Yeah. And then a doctor comes over and tells him the cancer is bad. Yeah, he's got a bad case of the cancer.
Speaker 2:I got the cancer.
Speaker 1:Royal hits on Ethylene and Henry catches him eating a hamburger and drinking a soda. And I love it, because Pagoda brings him the burger like right, when everybody's still in there, and then, as soon as they leave, he takes it out and starts eating it. It's like you can't eat that anymore. I was so hungry for a burger. Oh God, it did look good, just like a brown paper bag burger wrapped in aluminum foil, and it's like where did it come?
Speaker 1:from who cares Reminds me of like we had, uh, near where I lived. We had a convenience store and oh, they made such good food. I love those that those places it's like a mom and pop one, yeah, and is it's like the food was so good. They had a tender pork, tenderloin biscuits. Oh god, dude, I think about it all the time.
Speaker 2:They no longer own the store so those types of places are the only places I can go to get like the food my grandmother used to make when I was a little kid.
Speaker 1:It's weird pork chops for breakfast.
Speaker 2:Hell yeah, just do it.
Speaker 1:The fucking hamburgers they had were so good. I get so excited whenever I was on summer break and dad's like, all right, let's go to uh snj. And I was like, okay, can I get a burger? And he's like, of course, probably why I have high cholesterol, just kidding. So Chaz confronts Richie on him and Royal getting close again, riley asks Margo how long she's gonna be gone. He thinks she is cheating on him. Royal tells her she shouldn't cheat on him. Um cause, yeah, royal was smoking a cigarette, throws it outside. Eli jumps out of the room like Margo's room and he's like I know you're cheating on him with that, eli. He's like you shouldn't do that. He's a good guy. But I do love Riley. When Margo talking, he's like are you ever coming home, margo? Maybe not Riley. You're joking Margo. No, riley, well, I want to die. Paul Murray's.
Speaker 2:So good, margot no, riley, well, I want to die. Phil Murray's so good at that deadpan stuff, he's the best.
Speaker 1:It's like why he's in every single one of his movies he just looks like a deadpan guy.
Speaker 1:If you just saw him and if he wasn't famous you'd be like man. I bet that guy has very little personality. And then you talk to him. It's like oh, you have all the personality, you just choose not to show it. Riley asked Richard for advice on Margo, potentially cheating on him. Richard gets very upset at the fact that she may be sleeping with someone else. He's like I understood you being married and sleeping with a guy but now you're cheating on him and it's not with me.
Speaker 2:Is that where he punches up the window? Yeah, he's so mad, he like cuts his hand.
Speaker 1:So good, oh, we didn't really explain, riley, he he's been doing like these tests on this kid dudley it's like he tries to make them like, create like the same pattern, like puzzle thing he did, then he does. It's completely the wrong spot he's so giddy about it. And then he's like he's doing a recording of the test results and he's like, yeah, I think he has this disease, this disease. And he's also colorblind.
Speaker 2:He also can hear, really well, and he's like saying it very loud and then the kid turns around.
Speaker 1:he's like I'm colorblind. He's like, yeah, you are bud all the way on the other side of the house. It's great, so funny, real thanks. Chaz is cooping up his sons too much, so he takes them out and they have a fun doing dangerous things like walking across busy roads, riding horses and jumping them go-karts, throwing water balloons at cars, stealing and riding on dump trucks.
Speaker 2:The dump truck.
Speaker 1:One actually looked like my favorite thing. I want to ride on a dump truck.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it does look fun. I don't think they let you, though. Yeah, I guess you just kind of have to hop on while it's already moving. Yeah, or you got to be like a Make-A-Wish kid maybe.
Speaker 1:And then we also we learned Pagoda was a hired assassin that stabbed him, but then he immediately felt bad and took him to the hospital.
Speaker 2:He saved my life. I got stabbed. Oh, he stabbed me.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he stabbed me. He stabbed me. Who put the hit on him?
Speaker 2:Probably Chaz. Well, he was an attorney. Yeah, he was a lawyer. So maybe it was one of his clients or something Somebody he put in jail.
Speaker 1:Yeah. Chaz, upset at this, tells him to stay away from the kids. Roel tells him he's having a nervous breakdown due to the loss of his wife. Love the scene in the closet Because it's like they run in there. He's like stay away from my kids. He's like I haven't been in this in a while. Stay away from my kids, okay.
Speaker 1:You're having a nervous breakdown right now. He gets so mad and leaves. It's like I don't want to talk about it. I just love the closet full of board games. Yeah, that's pretty cool, and when I saw it this time I was just like shit, I have a closet full of board games right now. And I was like, oh, one day I'm going to walk into that closet and be like all the memories, which is why this scene's so sad. They literally walked into a closet full of all their good memories together and yelled at each other Well, not together.
Speaker 2:He was never really around.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I guess he technically wasn't, but it seemed like he knew it because he was looking around. He's like oh, this board game. So I was like shit, there's at least some point in that closet. Good memories for them. But all they could pay attention to is them yelling at each other right now as adults kind of makes you think and want to die inside you know.
Speaker 1:Um. So royal and etheline take a walk and royal thanks her for raising the kids the way she did. He keeps complimenting her. She asked why he didn't give a damn about them earlier and he says he doesn't know. Seems to be winning everybody over. And then we see henry has been hiding a tree and following him with a bag full of groceries, two bags of groceries, it's like dude, you would have been found out because those bags are so loud.
Speaker 1:He asked her to tell Royal about them. Henry does she says no and they depart. She's like because he's like, all right, I'll see you later. I'm not going to go with you. She's like because he's like, all right, I'll see you later. I'm not going to go with you. And this goes back in. You know, henry's like fuck this, I got to break this shit up. But yeah. Henry says I actually don't think he's going to die. Royal talks to Henry Royal is racist to him and ask if he's trying to take Ethylene from him.
Speaker 2:He calls him like Coltrane and says talk dive. Yeah, that was weird. Do you think he called him Coltrane because he's supposed to be really smooth? Because wasn't Coltrane a jazz artist.
Speaker 1:I don't really know what Coltrane actually means. I've heard it before. I just don't know what it means. I'm pretty sure he was a famous jazz artist that sounds about right.
Speaker 2:It's a hell of a name. He has a lot of songs you would recognize, I'm sure.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but yeah, it's like I'm pretty sure like Royal is trying to just get a rise out of him. It's like you see he yells all the time. You can't trust this man in your house.
Speaker 2:And she comes to break him up. Yeah, she just like walks off Boys, boys, boys.
Speaker 1:Then we see Henry start snooping on Royal and sees that the pills are actually Tic Tacs. It's so good, damn it, man, it's like Tic Tac. Henry reveals to the family that Royal is faking his terminal illness and how he knows that he doesn't have stomach cancer is because Henry's fucking wife had stomach cancer. Fuck off Royal. It's just like how could I dislike Royal anymore? But throughout this whole time where he's getting back in good graces with him, I was like fuck, I kind of love Royal.
Speaker 2:I don't know why it's because it's Gene Hackman. He's kind of a likable guy. It's really funny. He kind of knows he's found out. He just gets up and gets all his clothes on before they kick him out.
Speaker 1:Walks into the closet, they kind of talk for a little bit. For a little bit it cuts to him. He's already out in a suit and stuff, he's got his suitcases and it's like so sad because he walks out and like Margo and Chaz and I think the two kids are sitting on the bed he's walking out and they're so pissed and well, chaz is super pissed and then Margo's like sad and he's like fuck, dude Royal, you're a royal.
Speaker 1:Alright, I can delete that joke from the ring now that I planned out to say right now, um, and a sad and furious Ethleen sends a dejected royal out of the house after he confesses he wanted to win her back and he was actually, because at first he says I wanted to win you back. Also, I was broke and kicked out of the hotel and was like ah dude, fuck off crazy. Um out of the hotel and was like ah, dude, fuck off Crazy. But there's this great scene where he's like he's saying it, it's like these last six days were like the best six days of my life. And then Alec Baldwin's voiceover pops up and it's like and then he realized that was true.
Speaker 1:And it's like dude, can I ram my head through a pool? I'm feeling so much in a deadpan way.
Speaker 2:I do like how he's like anybody coming with me.
Speaker 1:He's like come on, Pagoda, let's go, yeah, and then like nobody's following.
Speaker 2:I'd be pissed if I was Pagoda, I know Nice place to live. He's like come on, be homeless with me.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's like was Pagoda in on it? Yeah, but he didn't really try. And then Margo and Henry are at the top of the steps and then Royal's like he's not your father, margo, neither are you. And it's like, damn dude, what a good fucking stab. And then they're about to leave.
Speaker 1:Pagoda's with him, and then Pagoda stabs him, he falls down and immediately starts helping him back up. He's like this is the last time you ever stabbed me. It's like god, that's the thing it's like now he could be like Pagoda stabbed me. Could I get back in the house?
Speaker 2:all my medical stuff's in there.
Speaker 1:I don't think, I don't think that would work yeah, so he and Pagoda get a room at the Y and take jobs as elevator operators Hotel Royal where he was evicted Fun little.
Speaker 2:Yeah, what a little. Those little elevators are so cool yeah and it just goes to show you.
Speaker 1:It's like why royal is going to eventually win everybody back over. It's like he's likable or I mean he shouldn't be likable, but even these people that he lived with and I'm sure he kind of treated a little bit like, uh shit, when he lived at this hotel. They're all like, yeah, we'd love to give you a job. It's like anything you want, royal, right, oh, that's sweet, but then it's just like he's a scam artist. Yeah, that's what it is he's a scam artist.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's what it is. He's a scam artist.
Speaker 1:And then Eli confesses to Margo that he isn't in love with her anymore and she's like I didn't even know you loved me. And it ends with like I don't love you either and it's like can you guys have one normal conversation?
Speaker 2:She can't have any normal relationships?
Speaker 1:Yeah, she can't because we'll learn very soon what her life was like, because they actually just kind of walked into each other like on the street and then up top we see somebody like spying on a detective. And then we realized Riley and Richie hired hired a private, private investigator who uncovers many elements of her past that had been completely unknown. A nine day marriage in Jamaica.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that was a cool scene. It does the real of her life, like he's been investigating her whole life.
Speaker 1:Literally knows everything, and it probably wasn't even that hard to find out and, like the family, could have probably found this out pretty easily themselves. They just didn't.
Speaker 2:Well, she's very secretive, yeah, very secretive. She wouldn't have told them.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so he uncovers many elements of her past, completely Recovers many elements of her past, completely unknown, a nine-day marriage in Jamaica. Her heavy smoking habit, her escape from boarding school, a lesbian affair in Paris and numerous lovers in New York, including Eli Cash.
Speaker 2:And it's showing the age the whole time.
Speaker 1:That one like tribal guy. Yeah, and it's like what the fuck when, when?
Speaker 2:Is she sort of?
Speaker 1:bikini. Yeah, it's like how did she get there? How did she integrate with the tribe? What is this? Then we see Riley. He's depressed by the news, but Richie is nearly destroyed, Locking himself in the bathroom. He shaves his head and his beard.
Speaker 2:Well, before that, when Bill Murray said he gets the news and the only thing he has to say is like she's a smoker, yeah, and he lays down to die, yeah, and then lays down to die, yeah, and then we see this scene.
Speaker 1:This scene is rough, fucking goes. It's like it's so good though it is good. The song is amazing. His puppy dog sad face is like cool. Look whenever he's a tennis player. Because everybody looks so cool except Ben stiller because he's wearing a track suit but I'll absolutely love the fucking richie tennis player.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah and you're like headband there's no way he's gonna get more attractive after shaving all this off right, and then, like he's slowly shaving, it's like, oh, it's luke wilson, he's attractive, um, but yeah, just him slowly shaving. And he's like getting sadder and sadder, and then he whispers under his breath.
Speaker 2:I'm going to kill myself tomorrow. And then he just does it right away, and then it cuts to tomorrow. Oh wait, no, because I thought it was right. Then, oh yeah, because he's shaving, because he still has shaving cream on his face.
Speaker 1:And then he like cuts himself. Apparently, wes Anderson got that from a movie, a French movie from the 60s. Oh, with like wrist cutting and blood and stuff. It makes me physically ill to watch. It's like, honestly, yeah, it's very affecting in this because there's so much blood.
Speaker 2:Yeah, what really got me was later when we see the scars, yeah, like how much.
Speaker 1:He cut himself like dude. He really wanted to go. He went to town, yeah, um, but yeah, so he slits his wrist. He is found in time though for uh, for the doctors to save him, but the incident shakes his family. This whole scene is very powerful. Yeah Right, wes Anderson crushed it. Everybody's covered in blood, even Dudley.
Speaker 2:Yeah, everybody yeah.
Speaker 1:And then, like all the everybody, rushes to the hospital.
Speaker 2:The mob comes over. She's like where is he? He's like he goes where's who.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because I can't recognize him, because he's never looked different in his entire life. He's always looked one way.
Speaker 2:Well, no, it's just Dudley's like. Whatever those problems are, he can't tell.
Speaker 1:Oh, I thought Luke said it. Oh, my bad, dudley, who's who. But it's great because, like they're all in there, like chas, richie, ethel and margo chas comes in. Why did you try to kill yourself, ethel? Don't press them right now.
Speaker 1:Richie, I wrote a suicide note. Chas, you did richie. Yeah, right after I regained consciousness, so like after he cut himself, he wrote the suicide note chas. Can we read it? Rich? No, can you paraphrase it for us? Chaz says Richie, I don't think so, chaz. Is it dark, richie? Of course it's dark. It's a suicide note. So funny, it's just awful at the same time. But this is the. I mean, this is essentially. It's something I realized. Is it's you know? Just because it's something I realized? Is it's you know? Just because it's something you always hear at every single funeral. Right, it's like, oh man, I wish we all got together more, but not under this circumstance. And it's like you always can, but you really need that. It's always. You always need a strategy to bring people together and that's exactly what this is. And for the film yeah, it's a some banana pudding, yeah.
Speaker 2:I didn't have any banana pudding. That's something my grandma used to make every time we got together.
Speaker 1:So, while in the writing room, riley finally leaves Margo, it's kind of it's rough. He's like, so it's fine. I can't even remember what he said. I should have wrote it down, but it's kind of a brutal thing. It's like also, you smoke, really doesn't like the smoking, oh, because he what he's like asking her for a cigarette and she's like you don't smoke it's like, yeah, well, you didn't either.
Speaker 2:Oh damn, henry comes and lenny walks out, but he leaves dudley.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's like still there and then we see henry come in and he like immediately like here, let me do these papers for you. And he's like his puts on his glasses, his ties fucking stuck to his glasses and it's like and then they hug and embrace and it's just like this is what she needs. Henry's perfect for. It's like fuck off royal, please. Oh, it's so sweet, but just that immediate, like here I'll take all responsibility from you.
Speaker 2:It's like henry's a good guy and I love him and it's so sad whenever royal has to leave his job to go see his son and they won't let him in. Yeah, either, because visiting hours are over or because they told him not to let him in.
Speaker 1:That's kind of what I was thinking. It was a little bit, yeah, god damn. So yeah, royal comes to visit. They won't let him in, so he goes outside, and we see Richie's actually already outside. He escaped from the hospital.
Speaker 2:Dakota's always he's always knows where everybody's going and where they are. Like there he is.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and like he just gets on a bus and like goes or something, and then Royal looks at him. He didn't look half bad for a suicide attempt.
Speaker 2:Not bad for a suicide, yeah, tempted yeah.
Speaker 1:He really didn't look right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, suicide, yeah tempted. Yeah, he really didn't look right, yeah haircut.
Speaker 1:Yeah, richie returns home, finding margo in his room listening to records. I love that he sleeps in his tent. I know it's it's. It's like they're all. They're on their safe, they're all stunted emotionally stunted.
Speaker 1:Margo is devastated that she calls richie so much pain and admits that she's in love with him as well. And they kiss we also. This is where we get the show, the stitches thing. But like so before I get to say, like the really heartbreaking line from this, they so the kiss and they kind of lay down together. It's very emotional. Did you ever bump up the fact that they're adopted brother and sister?
Speaker 2:Do you have any?
Speaker 1:problem with it? Is it weird? It's supposed to be 2000. It's obviously weird, but I don't know if that's still a weird thing.
Speaker 2:It's a lot less weird. I don't know what the world sees it. She's adopted.
Speaker 1:It's less weird, I guess, but it is has to be a very frustrating thing for uh uh brother and sisters that are adopted that are just like shit.
Speaker 2:But I find her attractive and we're related by papers.
Speaker 1:Papers that said we're related, so are we not? Are we really not allowed to do this, or can we do this? I see it being a very frustrating thing when you're a kid and you're like, hey, we adopted this girl.
Speaker 2:And. I love her they kind of already developed that brother-sister relationship.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and that's. But it almost seemed like they never developed the brother and sister relationship they developed a, they just kind of loved each other the whole time, boyfriend and girlfriend type of relationship and it was just like this is the something people when this movie came out was like.
Speaker 1:that's weird that's a little weird, but I mean, it's not that, not that weird when you think about it ain't blood, it's okay, right, yeah I mean because if you got, if like, let's say I don't know, you're through marriage related to a girl, that's like brother and sister, like your brother got married to a girl who and you are dating the sister to the brother's wife, it's like, well, technically you're a brother and sister. So when you introduce people, this is my brother, also my husband's like kind of weird, right, stepbrother, I think right yeah, I don't know I think we just say husband.
Speaker 1:I think it's like that far now my brother-in-law and my husband just be a weird thing to have to say there's lots of movies about it. But yeah, so, um, like shows the stitches, they kind of cry. She kisses his hand and it's like and she asked like, why did you do it? Because of me. Richie's like yeah, but it's not your fault, margo. You're not going to do it again, are you, richie? I doubt it. Margo starts to cry. Margo, I think we're just going to have to be secretly in love with each other.
Speaker 2:Leave it at that, Richie why?
Speaker 1:I don't know. She's married, probably. Well, they're obviously gonna. It seems like they are not super secretly in love later, but I don't know. I guess it's just too weird that they can't it's just like they're brother and sister.
Speaker 2:You can't you can't marry each other. She just can't get close to anybody yeah, that's what it seems like.
Speaker 1:It's just gonna end poorly, um, but I like to think they probably got together and they divorced each other, brother and sister, wise and maybe, so it wouldn't be as weird. I don't know. I don't know how you get out of that situation. Then Richie visits Royal at his job. Richie tells his dad why he choked at tennis. He tells him that it's Margo. Royal seems pretty chill. He's like I don't know, we fucked all y'all up. It's like it, I don't know, we fucked all y'all up. I don't know, it's like it might be weird. It might not be weird. What do I know? I'm not. I shouldn't give you any advice at this point. He's very open-minded. Yeah, he tells him to do whatever he wants, because obviously Royal hasn't been that good of a father.
Speaker 1:So, why listen to him?
Speaker 2:Bad advice.
Speaker 1:Royal admits that he never knew what he. He was better. Then Richie notices his bird Mordecai, who comes back. It's like why is he white now? It's like, oh, he must have. What do they call it? Malted, malted. Yeah, then we cut to Richie, royal and Pagoda. And how did that bird live that long?
Speaker 2:Because he had it when he was a little kid a long time, I don't know.
Speaker 1:I mean I know like I guess if you had it at 12 and he's 30 now 70 fucking years yeah, so yeah, and, like parrots, live a long time. Maybe that's what it is. It seemed like he had it when he was 12, so it could just be like 15 they took good care of it too. So maybe and Pagoda they go to. Eli Richie wants to help him out because he has a drug problem.
Speaker 2:It really does. He doesn't see his friend Sugar yeah.
Speaker 1:He tells him he heard about Margo. Eli says he always wanted to be a tenenbaum. Eli accepts the help, but then we immediately see him running away. There he goes. Drug addict never wants help.
Speaker 2:Yeah, not immediately.
Speaker 1:You can't let them leave you, not until they crash into your house. Yeah, but even then it's so sweet though he looks like man, I just wanted to be a part of your family. He probably would have been the anchor to that family too. Yeah, because he seemed like he loved that family so much. Yeah, I mean they probably considered him family, probably the brother that they actually really needed.
Speaker 2:Royal meets with margo. He tries to mend the fence, but it doesn't really work.
Speaker 1:He didn't even know her middle name, which turned out to be the same name as his mother. I love the ice cream parlor. Yeah, it's really cool. Oh yeah, look great, his sets are amazing. So, especially when it's like grand budapest on, it's like damn, the dude fucking goes. So he goes to, uh, chaz and his kids. Y'all want to grab a couple burgers and hit the cemetery. Hell, yeah, but they don't go.
Speaker 1:And Royal goes to Chaz's wife's grave alone, realizing that he only wants happiness for his family. Royal provides his wife with a divorce he had denied for her for decades. He also acts very kind to Henry and he's like I get it, he's everything. I'm not very kind to Henry and he's like I get it, he's everything, I'm not. It's like fuck, dude, he's changing. We're all slowly forgiving him. Let him move back in immediately, yeah. And then, because he did all these sort of nice things, he it's wedding time While Henry is getting ready with his son Rich uh, with his son Richie, and Chaz asks if he's been married before. He tells him that he's a widower. Chaz remembers all of a sudden and says he's a widower too. Henry puts his hand on him and says he knows, I know Chaz Like legitimately had to pause and just go, just quietly go just like Jesus Christ, dude Jesus.
Speaker 1:It's just like it's just one of those things where it's like a movie like this. It just makes you think, wow, if I lost my wife I would be devastated. And then it makes me think all the people I know that I've lost are like significant other and I'm just like next time I'm around them I should be a little super nice to them.
Speaker 2:You know, it just made me feel a little more Danny Glover-ish yeah it's Shit, ah.
Speaker 1:So, with family and guests crowding the house, on the street, eli crashes his car. That was awesome. He's in face paint, kind of like the earlier we see Eli's place and he's got like these paintings of people in masks and stuff, like with their shirts off On four-wheelers and stuff, yeah, on four-wheelers and it's like what the fuck is this?
Speaker 1:Seems to live a fun life, but yeah, he crashes in the side of the house while heavily dosed on mescaline. He nearly hits Ari and Uzi and kills their ever-present pet beagle. We learn Royal pulled the kids out of the way. A livid Chaz chases Eli through the house, causing more damage and injuries.
Speaker 1:Just screaming around the house Until they both collapse. After he throws them over the fence and to his zen Garden and admit they both need help to move on with their lives. I love that they push the priest down the stairs and break his leg. He's just hitting every step going down. It's so funny. It's like he's in the way and he keeps pushing them and just pushes them further. It's like Chad, stop pushing the priest man. Oh, so funny. Then he turns around and it's Henry's entire family behind him. He's like, oh shit. Jumps over the fence and lays next to him and they're like both. We gotta get better. Dude, sweet, sweet, um. And then the ceremony temporarily forgotten. The family and the wedding parter scatter around the house to remedy the damage. Uh, you got royal. He's talking to the firemen about the Dalmatians, henry Dudley and Dudley and.
Speaker 1:Riley. Riley puts on the hat and like starts ringing the bell because Dudley's like looks good on you.
Speaker 2:And it's like Riley. It seems that Riley is looking for something else that he can involve himself in.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I mean he's going, because right before this too he was talking to I don't know who he was talking to about their work. He seems interested in other lines of work or just other things.
Speaker 1:He's moving on from Margo. He's a learned man. He wants to learn things.
Speaker 2:I just thought maybe his life with Margo is pretty much over. Yeah, it's over, so now he's looking for something else.
Speaker 1:He's searching for something to put in. Also think he kind of like as much as Dudley was just like an experiment. I think Dudley actually for him was like a kid, almost like his child, seemed like he probably put everything that he wanted to put into Margo, into like his work, and now he's like, hey, this kid is my kid, now I still this kid. So he's like, hey, this kid is my kid, now I still this kid. Um, so, yeah, royal, he buys a dalmatian from the firefighters called to the scene and presents it to chaz to replace the deceased buckley. And all dogs love royal. Yeah, it is weird, they all sit when he has them too. Uh, chaz makes up with his father and royal shows sympathy for his son's grief as a widower. Chas, I could almost cry right now. I've had a rough year, dad, royal, and they don't, I know you have chad.
Speaker 2:I was expecting him to hug like I wanted him to hug like do it but like that was so much for him, right.
Speaker 1:Oh, dude, like broke down pause. It was like god, I can't even see my notes right now.
Speaker 2:I love how he just left Buckley under the car.
Speaker 1:I know they're like I mean, that dog is nothing right now. He's just like Pauly Splat, he's just splatted everywhere Jesus. So, richie, margo, they talk on the roof with Mordecai. They have a cigarette together, royal and chaz, and kids bury the beagle. Uh, richie and margo, when they're talking about mordecai, it's like where did he go? Like. It's like he just looks so much older now. It's like yeah, well, you went out there, learned and then came back. It's like maybe experience trauma. I wonder if this is any like metaphor for this family. Wonder if Mordecai was actually royal Good thing the bird got stolen yeah.
Speaker 2:I mean if they were planning on it to come back anyway. I guess they're probably going to die its wings, I don't know.
Speaker 1:So Royal lives happily with his family. Margo puts on a play about her life. Royal loves it. He's the only one clapping because at the play it's like this is my daughter Margo. She's adopted.
Speaker 2:This is my adopted daughter, margo, and he's like I said that but it was kind of a beautiful moment because he never really cared about her plays as a kid.
Speaker 1:I think he sees what he did and he's like yeah, I did it all out of love. I'm in this play. It's like I love to say that she's my adopted daughter. I was actually proud of her. She just didn't know. Oh, because I can't talk to my kids properly. Riley and Dudley go on tour with their book. It's all about.
Speaker 2:Dudley, can he tell time? Yeah, no.
Speaker 1:Oh, even Dudley's like no, oh God, we see Eli went to a rehabilitation center. He's like messing with a lasso, isn't it like Native Americans with him right?
Speaker 2:Yeah, because he's in like North Dakota or something.
Speaker 1:What does he call one of them? I can't remember.
Speaker 2:Runs with two horses. This is my sponsor Runs with two horses.
Speaker 1:So we see Richie started teaching kids competitive tennis, just completely destroying the kids at tennis. That's all he's doing. Game over Switch Royal hangs out with Chaz and kids. They're on the fucking dump truck together.
Speaker 2:And then he pops out behind them like I'm here too, Bro. And then at the out behind them like oh, there we go, Bro.
Speaker 1:And then, at age 68, royal suffers a fatal heart attack. The family gathers at his funeral, reflecting on the recent past, as Royal is buried under a gravestone featuring a passage describing how he saved his family from the wreckage of a sinking battleship.
Speaker 2:Hell yeah.
Speaker 1:Fuck yeah, man saved his family from the wreckage of a sinking battleship. Hell yeah, oh, fuck yeah, I love it. You see, like uh chas, the two kids they're in their black jumpsuits margo and richie are obviously comfortable being more affectionate around each other in front of everybody. Pagoda's there sad, the priest can't walk, evelyn and henry are happy together. Even the sun's there. Oh, it's such a sad moment. And then, as they're like slowly walking away, of course it's fucking rad. Um, and then richie throws the thing, the flower on it, and they close the gate and it says tenenbaums and it's like, oh, I'm happy and sad you're also like kind of happy like you're also yeah it's like you're happy that he like changed, he did change, he got his redemption.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he got his family back in a way.
Speaker 1:It's like it's kind of even. It's like it's weird right. It's like shit, he was a shitty father. Does he deserve this right? Does he deserve the redemption? But it's like I don't know everybody wants their shitty parents to be better, and at least you get to spend that moment right.
Speaker 2:I feel like I would just want them to try to change, like Royal did.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And if they just made that attempt, I think it would be a lot better.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And I feel like that's kind of what made me happy about it.
Speaker 1:The point of the movie, which we are too. What is the point of the movie, which we are too? What is the point of the movie Jason? Is it forgiveness and redemption?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think so, I think so. Yeah, making up for missed time is something I think about a lot with my kids, because you don't get to spend as much time with them as you really want to. And then even when you do have time, sometimes you don't just because you're tired or something, but just it goes by so fast. Yeah, you know my cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon, god damn like madeline the other day, a few weeks ago, madeline was talking to someone.
Speaker 2:They asked me what grade is she in and I couldn't remember yeah, classic dad stuff I said, uh, I was like seventh grade, she was eighth, eighth grade. Dad, I'm like, oh shit, it's like well.
Speaker 1:I can't help it. You keep growing up faster than I can remember it's so sad I'm like I don't know.
Speaker 1:Well, it's like it's the. It's just a fucking terrible joke life is. It's like because when you're younger, everything kind of goes by slower. You know you have kids, but when you get older, the days just go by faster because you're doing a lot of monotonous shit, yeah. And then, like you get all these great small moments with like the people you love, and it's like you're like royal, like fuck, I'm alone in a hotel. When did all this happen? My kids are a mess. You just clicked it.
Speaker 2:My life just clicked. Yeah, it's like shit control I should have been better.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh, you know well, it's an interesting story about click. Uh, I was actually gonna go on one of my first dates with a girl. We're gonna go see click. She didn't show, so you saw it alone. I saw it alone because my parents dropped me off. Oh man, yeah, and uh, guess who cried during click?
Speaker 2:because it's a very emotional movie when you're a kid, because it's a very emotional movie when you're a kid. Maybe it was a good thing she didn't show, as bad as that movie is.
Speaker 1:I have a soft spot for that movie because it helped me through a tough time and it's the only movie I've ever seen where his spouse had a premature ejaculation. Yeah, it's so funny, yeah. So yeah, the point of the movie forgiveness and redemption, but more so it's that, no matter how messed up your family is, they're still your family and you love them and it's sad to see them go and, like the bird, they always kind of come back, even whenever you let them go.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you let them go. And you love something, let it go, and then if it comes back, it's yours to keep, or?
Speaker 1:whatever, yeah, something like that.
Speaker 2:Right yeah, sappy something like that, right, yeah, yeah, sappy shit I think that's what the movie's about sappy shit.
Speaker 1:Um so, so good we're gonna hit our next category the good, the bad, the ugly, the fine. It's where we discuss the good of the film, something we like. The bad, something we didn't like. The ugly, something that didn't age well. The fine, something that did age well. What do you got for the good?
Speaker 2:the good, the just, the just. The scenes think were my favorite, just pleasant to. The whole movie was very pleasant. Yeah, everybody did an awesome job.
Speaker 1:It's like how can a movie this sad be a warm blanket?
Speaker 2:But I think a lot of it has. For me at least, has to do with the sets and like they're going back to your childhood bedroom.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know like that kind of thing yeah.
Speaker 2:It makes you feel good, it's that man.
Speaker 1:Kind of. To me it's like it's a very like sad, nostalgic thing yeah yeah, anytime you go home, it's like fuck.
Speaker 2:It's like I I'm, I know I'm safe here and I can be happy here, but at the same time it's like I'm like I'll never have that room, because of all my rooms I grew up in are now gone, gone, yeah, damn yeah luckily my mom, she still has the trailer is it? These are rooms still, exactly, it's filled with stuff yeah, cat litter boxes are where my bed was it's okay, I'm happy.
Speaker 1:I'm happy those cats get to live. Um, I put, uh, quirky sad movies. I love that, how good they are. I love a good quirky sad movies. I love how good they are. I love a good quirky sad movie. Cinematography, acting it's all just fucking spectacular. I just love things that make me feel, yes, and Wes Anderson's movie somehow as weird and almost it feels like all the emotions sucked out of it because it's so deadpan but there's so much there and he just like you don't know it, but you're getting hit over the fucking head, over and over with themes and emotion and then by the end a dead pan little line would just break you at the end and it's like, ah, this movie is about fucking life.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he makes. Ah, this movie's about fucking life. Yeah, he makes. That's how it makes me feel he's good at making the viewer like feel really comfortable and yeah, even if it's like a slow movie and I'd say these movies are kind of slow, they're not not slow, there's, there's not action really. Yeah, but like the build-ups are always, it's always it's moving along, but it's not. It's not a good pace, I guess yeah, I'm trying to say I.
Speaker 1:I know they are in the middle list category, but so we've only done three wes anderson movies this fantastic mr fox, and what was the moon? The moon one? No, I want aliens. Yeah, the alien one which I remember. What was called? What the fuck? I said it earlier in this movie that one was fucking sick too, it's the Crater.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah, I can't remember what it's called. Yeah, I know. Like, come on, just show me, just show me it. It's literally showing me every Asteroid City, yeah, which I, you know at first I watched and I was like that's fine. And then, by the time we did the podcast, I watched it like four times and I was completely in love with the movie. So I want to know, like, out of those three movies, which one's your favorite that we've covered.
Speaker 2:Royal Tenenbaums, Asteroid City and I really, really love the fantastic Mr Fox. Yeah, but I think Tenenbaums is probably a close second.
Speaker 1:Mr Fox is a masterpiece for me it's my favorite.
Speaker 2:I also absolutely loved asteroid city and I actually think I kind of like asteroid city more than this movie I don't know why I don't, maybe I just don't remember. I have to watch it again. I just don't remember much about it, but I remember really liking that one too but it's almost the exact same like how the movie goes.
Speaker 1:It's a lot of like very deadpan sad people being sad, saying really sad things, and by the end of the movie it's finally like fuck, I'm sad, so good and that's what he does so well the grand budapest.
Speaker 2:We should do that one too. Yeah, we're so good, we'll do that one next year, baby.
Speaker 1:So the bad for me. I put nothing, but people might not like wes anderson's deadpan filmmaking and I can understand that. I do know people, know people who are like this is not my bag, baby. I don't really have anything for bad.
Speaker 2:There's really nothing, it's a very hard category for us. I just hate seeing the blood and shit.
Speaker 1:That makes me queasy, that's about it, and also if you're someone that's very sensitive to suicide, this is not your movie.
Speaker 2:This is definitely not your bag, baby. It was a super sad scene, but it was so good.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and for the ugly I put Rose of Rises. Yeah a little bit. That's something that's a little bit ugly. Well, yeah, other than that, I didn't have anything.
Speaker 2:There's not really anything that doesn't I mean. Gene. Gene Hackman rest in peace. Did not age. Well, that's sad to say. Love that guy, yeah, but he's dead. Yeah, but he died in a really silly way.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's the ugliest thing about this movie is that. Damn our actors usually, because once they get in their 90s they just don't die in a can we cut off all their heads and keep them alive until we figure it? Out like Futurama yeah for me, the fine something that aged well was Wes Anderson.
Speaker 2:Fuck yeah man and everybody in this film. That was the soundtrack. Yeah, fucking love the soundtrack. Oh god, yeah, I want to own it.
Speaker 1:Now, that's something about like filmmakers that came in the 90s they just fucking destroy with soundtracks. So what was his first movie? Bottle Rocket. Bottle Rocket I've still never seen that. I haven't seen it. It's his only movie I haven't seen that was made in the 90s. Yeah, and it's he doesn't. He obviously doesn't have his style down, but it's like yeah, owen Wilson, luke Wilson, you know his gang's in. So we're going to hit to our next category double feature. It's where we pick out a movie that goes alongside this movie. I picked Little Miss Sunshine. Hell, yeah, that was so good. I love that movie. It's got all the weirdness, the overly sappy shit, the suicide all of it.
Speaker 2:The super bad for everyone, grandpa, that's Gene Hackman. But man, that movie at the end, holy shit kills me when they're getting on the getting back in the butt, yeah, the car and having to push, start it together.
Speaker 1:He's crying god, that movie is wonderful. Uh, love it. It's like a very somber, funny hell movie, just like this, and it's a road trip movie too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I love road trips.
Speaker 1:Hell yeah All right man, what do you got?
Speaker 2:Oh, the, I had it just a second ago. This movie reminds me of the series with Jason Bateman. God, what is it called?
Speaker 1:Arrested.
Speaker 2:Development. Yes, arrested Development.
Speaker 1:I fucking love Arrested Development arrested and they remind me a lot of the tenenbaums. Yeah, it's like a weird, it's just like a more uh outlandish version of the royal tenenbaums, fucking loose seal. Oh, go watch a star war man tricks are what whores do for money when he gets the hook on his hand. I'm a monster.
Speaker 2:It is my favorite show it really is. It's so good.
Speaker 1:It's a show that I could just watch over and over.
Speaker 2:I haven't seen the new seasons, though. Yeah, I never took a break.
Speaker 1:I don't think we ever watched the very final season.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I've only seen one or two.
Speaker 1:Like two final season that recently came out, like two years ago. Yeah, they never captured the magic of it, but oh Job, so good. Yeah.
Speaker 2:So right after Royal Tenenbaums, pop on one of the funniest TV shows that were ever made. It's so funny when they're having the fight and the fake and the model talent of the space man of the Godzilla they're just ripping it apart so good with the model town of the space man, of the Godzilla.
Speaker 1:They're just ripping it apart so good. Always works, yeah, so uh, there's always money in the banana stand. We were watching shit. We were watching something, me and Natalie, and we're like, oh my gosh, that's egg and I was like her.
Speaker 1:I can't remember what it was. It's just like she was a little baby. Damn, can't remember. But yeah, that's our conclusion to the Royal Tenenbaums. Thank you for joining us. Make sure you join us next week. We're doing a me movie, baby, because we're doing a sci-fi thriller. It's a head trip of a movie. It's a little confusing. Don't know how I'm going to do my notes on it because it's very confusing. It kind of deals with, like you know, separate timelines and things like that. It's called coherence. It's where strange things begin to happen when a group of friends gather for a dinner party on an evening with a comet is passing overhead.
Speaker 2:That sounds cool as hell, oh bro.
Speaker 1:Dinner party movies can be like super scary You're gonna get.
Speaker 2:Think of Like the dinner party Think of what was the movie?
Speaker 1:The Invitation. But instead of it becoming a horror movie, it becomes a sci-fi trippy movie. Can't wait. I remember when I watched it I was literally like this blew my fucking mind. It's for free on Peacock and Prime Video. You'll have to watch it with ads, but it's really good. The guy that wrote Rango, the movie about Clint Eastwood oh the lizard with Johnny.
Speaker 1:Depp, yeah, yeah. So our dog's going to start barking, so let's land this plane. Hey, leave us some fan mail. You can go to the link in our description. You can find that at the very top it's called click this link for fan mail. The bottom description is our website, our Gmail. It's called WeRecommendMailbag at Gmailcom. And yeah, thank you, joey Prosser, for our intro and outro music. You can follow him on X at Mr Joey Prosser. And what else do I usually say? That's about it, right? Sorry, leave us some reviews. Sorry, we're trying not to. Our dog really wants to bark right now. Where's?
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Speaker 1:Um yeah, uh. This has been the we Recommend podcast. I'm Jesse.
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