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EP 126: SPEED - Baby Keanu Goes Down the Bus Hole

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Good Morning!!  This week Bridget popped her Speed cherry. She'd never seen it before! We both wanted to put baby gum-chewin' Keanu in our pocket. 

We learned that all scenarios involving public transit could kill you. Unless you have l'il Sandy at the wheel and Keanu crawling down thru the bus hole, but in a sexy way. 

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Bridget:

Good morning.

Wendy:

Good morning.

Bridget:

I'm Bridget.

Wendy:

And I'm Wendy.

Bridget:

And this is Flickin Beans. All right. I went to Seven Brew. Yeah.

Wendy:

It's delicious.

Bridget:

Yum.

Wendy:

German chocolate cake.

Bridget:

It's really good.

Wendy:

Yeah, it's dessert.

Bridget:

I would actually like to have some German chocolate cake. It's been a minute. Anyway, I have a cold.

Wendy:

If you can't tell, it's going around. I was sick earlier this week. I had to stay home from work one day, but it was more of like a stomach bug. Several of my co workers said they had the flu, so I think maybe I also had the flu.

Bridget:

Oh, I don't think I have the flu. I don't really have the body aches. I just have the upper.

Wendy:

The cold.

Bridget:

Rinitis.

Wendy:

Yeah.

Bridget:

And my voice.

Wendy:

Yeah.

Bridget:

Smelly cat, smelly cat

Wendy:

keep kuma baby.

Bridget:

So my job at the restaurant, I don't remember if I told you this last week, but the cooks back there, they all speak Spanish.

Wendy:

Yeah.

Bridget:

So they were calling me Tia.

Wendy:

Did I tell you that? You did tell me this. Yeah.

Bridget:

No, no, no. I'm a cougar and hot one. So I looked up. How do you say sexy? Cougar.

Wendy:

Yeah.

Bridget:

In Spanish. And it's puma mamacita.

Wendy:

Whoa.

Bridget:

That's me. So it's just like weird to be called like an older lady. Yeah, but everybody el works there. Really is in their 20s pretty common

Wendy:

for restaurant to be younger. Yeah.

Bridget:

You know what else I noticed? No one has blonde hair. It's just a.

Wendy:

Anyway, our movie this week, speed 1994.

Bridget:

Goodness.

Wendy:

Or as they say in Sweden, fart.

Bridget:

Stop it.

Wendy:

Yeah. Here, let me show you.

Bridget:

Stop it. I love that movies in other countries are called the weirdest things.

Wendy:

Yeah. In Swedish. I have the movie poster Fart.

Bridget:

Oh, that's going online.

Wendy:

It's already up.

Bridget:

Oh, good.

Wendy:

Have it scheduled to go live after this. So, yeah, we watched Fart, the American classic.

Bridget:

Well, if any of the listeners don't know this already, Wendy is the master of the social media for our podcast. All of these great things come from

Wendy:

Wendy trying to be better about it too. I have some things planned so that they'll be more in line with when we say, like, oh, we'll put that on our Instagram. I have a way to go back and actually do that using AI.

Bridget:

So we need an assistant anyway.

Wendy:

We do. Who wants to be a free intern?

Bridget:

Oh, and they could fetch us coffee.

Wendy:

Yeah. So you have not seen this before. Use it.

Bridget:

I had not.

Wendy:

That's wild. So what was your impression as a newbie I loved it.

Bridget:

Right. How could I not love it? My first note, Baby Keanu.

Wendy:

Oh, I know. He's. He's only 20 in this, so he's not Bill and Ted young, but he's young. He's a baby Bill and Ted. He was, like, 20, and in this, he's 20. I looked it up because he looked so young. I'm like, gosh, what? How old is he in this? 29.

Bridget:

How is it that he basically plays the same character in every movie? He's so flat. But he's a good actor.

Wendy:

I mean, it works.

Bridget:

It does work.

Wendy:

His physicality, I think, probably is what got him this role because he's so good at all of the stunt things, I guess. I don't know how much of it he did himself, but there's a lot of running and jumping and climbing down ropes.

Bridget:

It would be fun when you're an actor to have all that training. Yeah. Then you'd end up being like that lady in Everything, Everywhere all at once.

Wendy:

Yeah.

Bridget:

Okay.

Wendy:

Yeah.

Bridget:

It's like suddenly you're a ninja and you can play the piano.

Wendy:

Yeah.

Bridget:

Because you work for, you know, weeks or months or whatever.

Wendy:

Yeah. That would be very appealing to me about the job because I love to learn new little tricks.

Bridget:

Yeah.

Wendy:

I would be bad at physical stunts.

Bridget:

I don't know.

Wendy:

Maybe if I had a proper training.

Bridget:

Everyone has to begin somewhere.

Wendy:

True.

Bridget:

Yeah. If you want to be a karate champ or, you know, whatever, you can do it. Wendy. Okay. The first thing I noticed about his character is that he was chewing gum.

Wendy:

Yes.

Bridget:

Isn't that sassy?

Wendy:

I wrote that down, too. I'm like, why is. Am I even noticing that? And why was that a character choice? But it made sense.

Bridget:

Yeah. I mean, when you're chewing gum, you're kind of like, chill, sassy.

Wendy:

It's sort of like a more benign, smoking. I don't know, you're doing something with your mouth. It makes you look kind of like you don't care.

Bridget:

Yeah, that. Exactly. And his co star, Dumb and Dumber guy.

Wendy:

Yeah. Jeff Daniels.

Bridget:

Thank you. Thank you so. Well, other people have seen this movie, obviously, but there's the elevator incident right off the bat. And my whole thing throughout the whole movie is, don't they have police radios? How is it that they don't even communicate with their supervisor that they're gonna do all this climbing down the shaft?

Wendy:

And, yeah, they do have radios. They just don't ever check in.

Bridget:

Right.

Wendy:

He just jumps into it. Yeah. Elevators are scary, man. That whole scene is very scary.

Bridget:

I would be that woman afraid to cross over.

Wendy:

Me too afraid to take the steps because I would be like more scared, I think, of getting cut in half by the falling elevator, like while they're taking me out.

Bridget:

H*** yeah.

Wendy:

Than just falling.

Bridget:

Hasn't that happen before? Yeah, gross.

Wendy:

Yeah, it's happened. Or at least it has on movies. I've seen it.

Bridget:

Yeah, exactly.

Wendy:

Fear Unlocked. I don't think there's anybody that doesn't have a little bit of a healthy fear of an elevator. They're crazy contraptions, right?

Bridget:

Yeah. Are elevators a little scarier than planes?

Wendy:

To me, they're both scary. You encounter elevators more often in your daily life.

Bridget:

It's the old rickety ones. Yeah.

Wendy:

Yeah. Well, that's one thing I think that is so effective about this movie as an action movie is that it is absolutely action packed. Some of the scenarios are wild. All of this is something that kind of could happen to you. Like you could be on an out of control bus.

Bridget:

Yeah.

Wendy:

Because you don't have control over who's driving that bus. Have you ever had like a weird public transit situation? Like with the bus driver doing weird or anything? Okay, I have a story, but I was wondering if it was common.

Bridget:

I don't know.

Wendy:

I was on a bus and this was in the uk, it was a woman bus driver. And this guy just started yelling at her that she missed his stop. And she's like, this bus doesn't stop there. And he was on the wrong bus or something. But he like started yelling at her, threatening her, and she had to pull over and the cops came.

Bridget:

Are you serious?

Wendy:

And it was really late at night and I just wanted to get home.

Bridget:

Who called the cops?

Wendy:

I'm not sure.

Bridget:

Okay.

Wendy:

It was very confusing to me what was going on exactly. But you're just like under this person's control and this person is driving this huge bus and this other guy's yelling at her and I'm like, he's distracting her. Our safety and. Yeah. The whole thing was just dumb.

Bridget:

Well, yeah. If you're on a bus, you're trapped on a bus with whoever's there.

Wendy:

Yeah.

Bridget:

If you're on an elevator, you're trapped in an elevator with whoever's there.

Wendy:

Yeah.

Bridget:

If they had been just stalled in the elevator, maybe they could have just made friends with each other. Yeah. Pass the time. I spy with my little eye the number six.

Wendy:

What is it? Where they're. They're stuck in an elevator and someone's like, we have to designate a pee corner.

Bridget:

Oh, gross.

Wendy:

I don't remember what that's from, but it's a movie or a show.

Bridget:

I could see that.

Wendy:

I don't think it was friends, but

Bridget:

okay, so Sandra Bullock. Cute little baby Sandra.

Wendy:

Yeah. Adorable.

Bridget:

I know. The guy that was being so annoying to her. Do you know who that is? He's the co star in Weekend at Bernie.

Wendy:

Oh, yeah, yeah. Isn't he also in Ferris Bueller?

Bridget:

Yes.

Wendy:

He's like the best friend in that. Yeah, the touristy guy.

Bridget:

Oh, man, that reminds me of riding the subway in New York. It's like. I mean, I tell my sister, everyone can tell we're tourists by the way we're dressed and by the way we have no f****** clue.

Wendy:

Yeah.

Bridget:

Where are you going?

Wendy:

Yes. Yeah.

Bridget:

You know, and it basically goes everywhere. One stop after another. I was just like, oh, no, what if this or that happens? There was no bomb on it.

Wendy:

That's good.

Bridget:

Doesn't a subway have to go both ways? Yeah, so we would have been dead at the end.

Wendy:

That's a good point. They do go both ways. Why didn't they run to the other end? At the end of the movie when they're in the subway, could they have run to the other end and made it turn the other way?

Bridget:

I guess.

Wendy:

It's probably very far. Yeah. Yeah, they're long. That didn't occur to me until you just said it that they could have done that. But then they wouldn't have got the very dramatic jumping the track scene and running out into New York City. Or. No. La. They're in la.

Bridget:

Oh. Do you talk to people on the bus? Well, I mean, when you're on a

Wendy:

bus, if I'm spoken to, I'll respond, but generally I'm not the one to start a conversation.

Bridget:

No, I might.

Wendy:

You might. I see that.

Bridget:

I might, like, compliment somebody.

Wendy:

Sure.

Bridget:

Or on the plane, there was a lady with the same bag.

Wendy:

Yeah.

Bridget:

You know, and it's like, hey, girl.

Wendy:

Sure, I might do something like that.

Bridget:

Well. And when I was on a plane and my parents were behind me, a lady said, oh, I love your hair. And then I was like, oh, it's just conditioner. Blah, blah, blah. And I mean, two seconds we talked, and my mom was like, jesus Christ, do you know everybody? It was like. It was a brief exchange change. So weird.

Wendy:

You're like, yeah, she's my best friend now.

Bridget:

Yeah. This whole thing was really an FBI matter. I think that they could have made Keanu and his partner FBI agents sure. Just as easily as just regular cops.

Wendy:

Yeah. Just lapd.

Bridget:

But I suppose There was no time to call up 1-800-FBI.

Wendy:

Yeah. Everything happened so fast in this movie. Like, it really seems like it could almost be real time. There's not much cut of time, which is crazy. If you think about in, like, less than two hours time, all the things that happens to these poor people or to Keanu, too, over and over again. Not only are they on a bus that has a bomb on it right away, the driver gets shot and can't drive. And poor Sandra Bullock has to drive this bus. So you've got an inexperienced person. But I did like, the little note that she lost her license for speeding.

Bridget:

Yeah. He's like, you're perfect.

Wendy:

Yeah, exactly. Yeah. You were meant for that. This. And she does really. She's a hero in this movie.

Bridget:

She is. She does.

Wendy:

She had to, or they died. So I guess you just do it, and that's what people do. But she just embraced it and she took corners going 50 miles an hour and just had faith that they could jump that bridge and all that. Like, that's so crazy to me. I would have probably just shut down.

Bridget:

Great. When they said that the road is out, I just. I didn't even know that was how it was out because I was picturing, you know, when they're working on the road.

Wendy:

Yeah.

Bridget:

I didn't know there was gonna be no road. Holy f***.

Wendy:

Yeah. They don't mention when they say the road is out that it's a bridge. They just say the road's out, so you don't notice that part until they get closer and he realizes that it's an incline and they can probably jump it. But, yeah, I was picturing them just hitting dirt, which wouldn't have been that bad.

Bridget:

Terrifying.

Wendy:

Absolutely.

Bridget:

I was like, I would have died 100 times over in this movie. I. Yeah, I would have that. Bad luck. Why did I write this? Keanu has Spidey senses. Let me slip through your hole. What? I don't.

Wendy:

I don't know. I mean, he does have.

Bridget:

Oh, wait.

Wendy:

Gut feelings a lot.

Bridget:

I know what that was.

Wendy:

Okay.

Bridget:

I think it was. It wasn't a quote. That was me writing, let me slip through your hole because they opened the panel on the.

Wendy:

On the floor.

Bridget:

Floorboard of the bus. That's my take on that in the Spidey sense. Was that maybe just because he, like, was like, oh, I know what it is, where it is, or whatever. Oh, this is what I was gonna say. Continuity question. When they jump the bus, if the bus is flying through the air, is it technically going the Right. Speed.

Wendy:

That's a good question. It would have to be. The speedometer still said it was right.

Bridget:

Would it?

Wendy:

If you had your foot on the gas, Maybe.

Bridget:

Okay. You just have to have your. Well, of course, she probably had her foot on the gas the whole d*** time.

Wendy:

Yeah. You really have to suspend your disbelief for this movie because that would have never made that jump. If you hit a bus full of people going like 70, 80 miles an hour after you just jumped 50ft, that bus is gonna lose its tires. Like it's. It wouldn't have kept going.

Bridget:

No.

Wendy:

Know, it's kind of funny when they jump. They must have had something to lift the bus. It just. The front end just goes up.

Bridget:

Yeah.

Wendy:

In a very unnatural way. I'm wondering now if that was a model.

Bridget:

Oh, yeah, yeah. She wouldn't really have been driving the bus.

Wendy:

Yeah.

Bridget:

Like that. It's interesting to think about how. How they approached that and filmed it. Everything looks like they're really in that or the burning bus.

Wendy:

Yeah.

Bridget:

That was the worst. What was the. The guy's problem?

Wendy:

Yeah, we don't really get a good backstory on the villain. I don't like his character very much. He's trying to be eccentric, but it's not coming off right. He doesn't have a good motivation for doing anything. He says it's the money, but clearly you don't do that kind of stuff just for money. You could find another way to steal $3 million.

Bridget:

Right.

Wendy:

Without killing people.

Bridget:

It's stupid. And why $3 million?

Wendy:

Yeah, 3.7 exactly. I don't know.

Bridget:

That's dumb.

Wendy:

I think that he has a vendetta against. Against the police because he was a bomb squad.

Bridget:

Right. But he gave them his life and they gave him a watch.

Wendy:

Yeah. I feel that rage, too, because you're literally trading your life for your job when you feel disrespected. I get that. But I don't think it was strong enough motivation for what he was doing, so. Yeah.

Bridget:

And he was doing this all by himself and using a landline.

Wendy:

Yeah. They thought he was dead, I guess, but when he comes back, they realize he's alive. And then Jeff Daniels character, Harry. Right. He's like, oh, we should look through.

Bridget:

That's his name in Dumb and Dumber too.

Wendy:

Yeah. He can only play Harry's. He looks like a Harry.

Bridget:

Yeah, he does.

Wendy:

It doesn't occur to them before that point to look at all the cops in those files. They're like, we already looked at those. I'm like, they didn't look at those the first time. So there was some bad police work.

Bridget:

I mean, how hard would it be to be like, okay, well, who knows how to make a bomb? A guy from the bomb squad.

Wendy:

Yeah.

Bridget:

And they were all different. And that would point to that, too.

Wendy:

Right.

Bridget:

His modus operandi keeps changing.

Wendy:

He doesn't have a calling heart, so to speak.

Bridget:

Right. You don't usually have serial killers that kill in a different way. I mean, those were all bombs, but making them all different was a good clue. Still, how did he have time to run around putting all these bombs places? Whatever.

Wendy:

He was retired.

Bridget:

He's retired.

Wendy:

He did say in one of the phone calls to Keanu that it took him two years to plan the elevator thing. So he's been diligently planning. But, yeah, the motivation is weird. I don't know. That's a plot hole for me.

Bridget:

Yeah. Maybe we're just not really supposed to think about it. Yeah, of course not. Again, it's bending disbelief.

Wendy:

It's about the action and the people on the bus.

Bridget:

Yes.

Wendy:

Which a lot of people die besides the people on the bus in this, and nobody seems to care.

Bridget:

No.

Wendy:

Did anybody die on that first bus that got blown up? We don't hear about it.

Bridget:

I'm gonna say that's why he just walked away. He's like, no, there's no saving. No anybody in there. And the heat from that would have been incredible.

Wendy:

Yeah.

Bridget:

I could see where he's just like, I can't do anything.

Wendy:

That is a wild thing. If you've ever experienced being near a vehicle or a very large chemical fire or something, Just how hot it is from far away, driving by one or something, and you're like, I could feel the heat off of that.

Bridget:

Yeah. There was a house burning once we saw the fire. We're driving and we're like, let's get a little closer and see what's happening. And the house was on fire. It was being dealt with. But we're in the road and could feel the fire from the road. And this was. Was in the country.

Wendy:

Yeah.

Bridget:

It was, you know, set way back.

Wendy:

Yeah. It's crazy to imagine what that would feel like, being in it or up close. Scary. But yeah. And then at the end, the bus runs into that plane, and nobody gives a about the plane either. Are there people in that plane? They're like, oh, it's done.

Bridget:

They can take it.

Wendy:

A plane blew up. Yeah. But we saved the people in the bus. And a whole plane full of people died. I mean, it could have been empty because it Was on the tarmac, but,

Bridget:

well, the plane is empty of federal matter.

Wendy:

They've passed it along.

Bridget:

Federal aviation. Oh, my God. So Keanu must have a new project because he was just interviewed on the Today show.

Wendy:

Okay.

Bridget:

And he talked about this movie and about Sandra Bullock.

Wendy:

Yeah.

Bridget:

And how much they really loved each other working with one another. S***, maybe they would have dated, but I think that just didn't happen at the time. Things don't line up, but they just. Mutual respect and great friends.

Wendy:

Still, that's good. I like to hear that because they do have good chemistry. They look good together, too. Like, I feel like I was wondering if they ever did date, but I guess they didn't. She was married for a long time to that piece of.

Bridget:

Who was she married to?

Wendy:

I think his name was, like, Jesse something. Famous for being a tattoo artist or a motorcyclist mechanic or something.

Bridget:

Oh, right.

Wendy:

And he cheated on her with, like, a prostitute, and the prostitute came poured with it, and then they got divorced.

Bridget:

Anyway. That's a weird combination.

Wendy:

Yeah.

Bridget:

Remember that show? Anyway, Keanu.

Wendy:

Oh, I love him. He is one of those people that kind of plays a similar character and everything. I like that character, whatever it is.

Bridget:

It's just that flat delivery, which isn't bad. It's just Keanu.

Wendy:

It's like a quiet confidence that he doesn't feel the need to overact.

Bridget:

Oh, but the gum is a loud confidence. Yes.

Wendy:

Which is funny because chewing gum is actually an anxiety tactic.

Bridget:

Is it? Yeah.

Wendy:

Oh, if you're ever in pain, for example, it's good to chew gum when you're getting a tattoo because it gives a physical release and gives you remind something else to think about.

Bridget:

Oh, good to know. Yeah, I am a bubble gum person. And, man, I like to blow the bubbles and I love to snap. And I used to do it at work all the time. I literally do have a bowl of bubble gum on my desk.

Wendy:

Yeah.

Bridget:

But now I work from home, so there's no one to complain. I can imagine it was probably very annoying.

Wendy:

Yeah, I like to do that stuff too. And I'm a pin clicker.

Bridget:

Oh, God, no.

Wendy:

I know. I don't even know I'm doing it until someone tells me, takes the pin out of my hand because they can't stand it anymore.

Bridget:

It's true. There was a. A woman I worked with, and she was a foot tapper.

Wendy:

I'm one of those two.

Bridget:

My other big thing is, let's say I'm listening to a podcast, probably ours, and with my headphones on, I will laugh out loud and not realize I'm doing it. And that's like, what the h***? For the co workers, it's going on. So Rando.

Wendy:

Oh, thank God for working at home. There's a lot of like little good one liners that kind of made me think of like, die hard a little bit. For example, at the end when Keanu finally decapitates the guy because the villain was, I'm smarter than you. You're never going to be smarter than me. And Keanu decapitates him and goes, yeah, but I'm taller. Something I noticed at the end with Annie has gotten put into the bomb because the villain steals her and puts her in a bomb. And when Keanu finds her, she turns around and she goes, goes, I'm sorry. And I'm like, women apologize too much. She didn't do anything wrong.

Bridget:

I am so sorry. I know you've had plenty on your plate today. I just had to add piling on.

Wendy:

This is something I notice in myself that I don't want to do as much apologizing for things that aren't my fault or don't need apologizing.

Bridget:

Well, it's hard to get get away from that.

Wendy:

Yeah.

Bridget:

Societal conditioning. Yeah, that's for d*** sure.

Wendy:

You just drove everybody around and saved everybody's life and then you're chasing for someone else.

Bridget:

You know what after that, though? I hope those two characters went out for a nice dinner.

Wendy:

Yeah. I hope their life was very boring after that.

Bridget:

I hope so too. Well, did we do it?

Wendy:

I think we did it.

Bridget:

We flick some beans.

Wendy:

Okay. Love you.

Bridget:

Bye.

Wendy:

Bye.

Bridget:

Bye. Party all night long.

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