Turkey, Football, And Wicked Takes

Turkey week meets hot takes, and the menu is stacked. We kick things off with a stress-free game plan for the holiday: air fryer over chaos, crockpot over ego, and a tactical dash for fresh rolls. From ham loyalty to dark meat supremacy, we keep it real about what actually works when life adds curveballs like knee surgery and a two-person guest list. There’s a heart under the humor, too—why we’d rather buy a meal for someone asking for cash, and how five bucks can still stretch far when someone’s hungry.

Then the conversation shifts to the big screen. Our Wicked Part Two debate is lively and split: stunning cinematography, standout costumes, and a finale that sings, set against a slow middle and canon choices that won’t please every Oz purist. Not showing Dorothy’s face? Smart. Anchoring the story to Elphaba and Glinda? Even smarter. We roll that energy into The Running Man, where a grounded, compelling setup gives way to a rushed finish, and into a new Predator entry that sparks a real clash—does reframing the Predator as more sympathetic betray the lore or expand it? We still agree on inventive kills, clever PG-13 workarounds, and a planet that feels dangerous without going cartoonish.

We close on football, fantasy, and the art of not losing your mind. Coaching decisions that defy logic, offensive lines that vanish, and fantasy trades that deserve a hard veto. Draft positions, quarterback fits, and the eternal lesson for contenders: balance the run and the pass. It’s the intersection of comfort food, fandom, and a little chaos—the stuff that makes a long weekend worth remembering.

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Turkey Week Food Plans

SPEAKER_01 1:00

Turkey Day week. Turkey day week. It's Turkey Day week. Yay.

SPEAKER_00 1:08

My dumbass had been shopping for it today. It wasn't horrible though.

SPEAKER_06 1:14

I was gonna say, and I'm black, so also ham day week, ham day week.

SPEAKER_00 1:20

Ham is for Christmas. Wait. No, when did you become black?

SPEAKER_01 1:25

Wait, wait, wait, wait. Let's roll this back. When did you become black?

SPEAKER_00 1:28

Look, he can't always overwrite his DNA. Come on now. Nature versus nervous in here.

SPEAKER_06 1:40

I was gonna say, bruh. Food changes everything. Taco Tuesday is a good thing. For real. Can we keep a fountain segregated unless food's involved?

SPEAKER_05 1:58

Oh shit.

SPEAKER_01 2:00

Oh yeah. So you do ham? You're a ham guy for Thanksgiving?

SPEAKER_06 2:06

You know, I I will do both and I will do both this time. Um girl is she's white meat on dark meat when it comes to birds for me. Um I don't know what it is, but white meat, like the turkey breast is just, I don't know, it tastes weird to me. Uh, you give me a good thigh and and we can talk. So I couldn't find individual thighs this time, so I just picked up a leg um or two, like a two-pack of legs, two pack of wings, and then a turkey breast. That way she can have her uh her turkey and I can have mine.

SPEAKER_01 2:42

So Lou doesn't like turkey like he likes his women. No. Correct.

SPEAKER_06 2:47

That's the only time you feel like duck, whatever that shit is, dog. Uh if we're talking about some poultry, then uh give me the dark meat. And that's the only time you're gonna hear me say that shit. But uh, but I'm not doing like usually usually the last couple years I've gotten a small, a small ham and just threw in, you know, something through in the oven. But if this year I'm like, that's a lot of work. And I'm the only one who really eats it because she's not a huge fan. So I got one of them little like breakfast ham steaks that you you know, yeah, like the old Arizona Charlie used to do.

SPEAKER_03 3:24

Yep.

SPEAKER_06 3:25

So uh I'll I'll I'll eat that to get the ham to make sure I have ham. And then beef or roast, it's Christmas, son.

SPEAKER_01 3:34

Christmas roast. Well, we're not at Christmas yet. I was just talking about turkey there.

SPEAKER_06 3:38

Well, Jack asked him, he's Jack said that ham's for Christmas.

SPEAKER_01 3:41

I'm like, no, it's not. Oh, all right. Sorry, I missed that part. Yeah, ham's for Easter. Hams when the rising happens, man. Jesus was all about that ham life. No, he was a Jew, bro. Not when he came back. It didn't count. No, he's a Jewish way he's got a big thing. He was just sleeping really hard. That was what I believe. I think he was just knocked out.

SPEAKER_06 4:13

Dude, I mean, you're carrying around that big ass cross for so long. I'd be tired too. It's like, shit, what do you expect? Got a pulled back, uh, hands hurt, the whole thing. I'm gonna rest for three days as well. Fuck that. People out there hating. It's like, man, nigga, tired. Leave him alone.

SPEAKER_00 4:38

Uh, what about you, Jack? Um so I'm too lazy to do like an actual turkey, so I just get a turkey breast. Throw that bitch on the crock pot all day or something. Um and since wife is gonna be laid up with knee surgery, that shit is all on me. So fuck it. It's all gonna be easy.

SPEAKER_06 5:01

Any no no no friends coming over, nothing like that.

SPEAKER_00 5:04

I don't have any friends.

SPEAKER_06 5:05

Going to somebody else's place? No.

Ham, Holidays, And Kitchen Shortcuts

SPEAKER_00 5:07

We're we're in. That's my friend. So where the fuck are you guys at?

SPEAKER_06 5:10

Right. We're gonna have friends.

SPEAKER_01 5:12

I didn't get an invite a week later, all right. Sorry, flights were too expensive for Thanksgiving. They were much cheaper the week after.

SPEAKER_06 5:23

Yeah. I could have flew in for Thanksgiving and just stayed there.

SPEAKER_01 5:27

For real, though. That's true. That's true. Just relocate for the week.

SPEAKER_04 5:31

Oh my god. Oh, just pick up old girl at the airport and just head on into Hollywood.

SPEAKER_01 5:39

No, we would have made her wait at the we would have made her wait at the airport and she could have finished the whole flight. We'll see you at like eight o'clock in Burbank. It's fine.

SPEAKER_06 5:52

Bring bring your nitty with you because you can be at the airport for a while. You know, I will wait there. I will say this. If if she would have gone to Texas, I might have done that. But but this was like one of the first years in like three that she hasn't gone. So I was like, all right, we're gonna we're gonna chill. Yep. Uh I'll do all the cooking because it's mostly microwave and ovening. It's like microwave this, microwave this, microwave this, crock pot. Nope, no crock pot this year, oven and uh air fryer. Uh that's about it. So it'll be easy cooking and then football all day. Kickoff first game, kick off third game, and doing nothing else.

SPEAKER_01 6:37

Uh just trying to figure out what channel each of the games is on.

SPEAKER_06 6:42

Man, uh Prime? Isn't Prime the Yeah, I think Prime's one of them.

SPEAKER_01 6:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 6:51

I think, yeah, I think it's uh the typical CBS Fox and then Prime.

SPEAKER_00 6:57

What about you, Dean? You always be social.

SPEAKER_06 7:00

Uh I was gonna say, yeah, you I'm surprised you ain't got like four Thanksgivings to go to starting on Tuesday.

SPEAKER_01 7:06

They're they're trying to put that on me, but I ain't letting that about to happen. I'm doing one, man. Um and and then I got reassigned yesterday, so like when it came up a couple weeks ago, it was it's a Friendsgiving. They're like, Oh, can you do like corn casserole or do like a vegetable dish? And I went, sure. Like I looked it up, corn casserole, four four ingredients. Yeah, I can make that happen. A couple days ago. Hey, you know what? Don't worry about it. Just bring some wine. Okay. Cool. I'll just go down to my cellar, whatever. Yeah, exactly. She's like, You can go to New Seasons. I'm like, nope, I'm going to grocery outlet.

SPEAKER_06 7:41

I'll go wherever the cheapest.

SPEAKER_01 7:46

I heard you just slap the bag. I heard you slap the bag a couple times and it goes, it makes it real good. I mean, it works in the bedroom, so yeah. There you go. But nope, so so that'll be tomorrow shopping. We'll be trying to find uh I think they said like three or four, but I think if you like buy six, you're like 20% off. So I'll probably just buy six and then just have a couple at the house.

SPEAKER_06 8:15

So I'm not I mean I just blah, dude, I can't see you drinking wine. That's I mean, I can, but it's just I don't picture that. I pick I I don't again, I don't remember everybody's drink of choice, but Duke, if I'm walking down the street and it's like, hey dude, let's go have a drink, and I gotta pick what I'm buying you, you're getting a whiskey on the rocks, man. That's what I see. That's what I see.

SPEAKER_01 8:40

Okay. Thank you.

SPEAKER_06 8:43

Jack, Jack is getting something with an umbrella. Hell yeah.

SPEAKER_00 8:47

Better be some fruit up in that bitch, too.

SPEAKER_06 8:50

Yep. Jack, Jack is getting something fruity and delicious.

SPEAKER_01 8:56

I was well again. I mean, last year I was the one that got the Skywalker wine. This is true. So we'll have to we'll have to revisit that.

SPEAKER_06 9:06

Yeah, I'm I'm glad you said that though, because again, I I I have alcohol here, not a lot, but I'm a social drinker, so I don't drink it. I have I've had bottles in here for years that have been not touched. Uh I might I might have talked to a girl and see if like, wait, we're gonna be here all day, just us. Do you want something to drink? She's on the jack plant, you know, something sweet. And so don't be wrong, so am I. I I I'm a whiskey guy, I'm a gin guy, vodka, all that. But when it comes down to it, if I'm making a mixed drink, I want whatever the alcohol I just mentioned and a sweet drink.

SPEAKER_03 9:40

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 9:41

Um, whiskey, whiskey is one of the only ones, basically, that I actually sometimes prefer. Just give me a give me a block of ice, you know, the little whether it be the Death Star cube, because I've got to I was gonna say is make it a Death Star and we're good. Yeah, I was gonna say if the Death Star I do got it, and you just you know just straight whiskey over the over the rock, um, and that's fine. Uh, but the vodka, I want to mix it. You know, gin, I want to mix it. I will drink gin, uh good gin uh straight. I don't I don't want that nasty ass ghetto uh pine salt seed. But that's brutal. But but yeah, I I'm now that you mentioned that, Duke, I might have to I'll talk to her when she's back tomorrow and see if uh uh some kind of alcohol.

SPEAKER_00 10:31

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 10:32

I might even just go like Tiki cups out.

SPEAKER_01 10:35

Uh you know, it maybe. You're like, wait, that's more to wash. Wait a second.

SPEAKER_06 10:43

I'm all like, that's not a terrible idea, but uh I'm I may go get because there's a lot, uh there's an aisle uh at the liquor store, it's like two blocks away, uh, and it's all Japanese like vodka's and it's like 15 different flavors. And they're small bottles, so you can try a bunch of different ones. You know, it's like that's not I already have a trade one in the fridge, so you know, get like an orange cream sickle type one, and whatever, but that might be something to do. I didn't think about uh alcohol, I was just figuring you know, food and watching the game. That's that's what I'm thinking about.

unknown 11:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 11:17

And then apple pie afterwards. You guys get Friday off?

Wine, Cocktails, And Party Prep

SPEAKER_00 11:22

Um were I going to work, yes, I would have uh it's double pay. So ah, okay.

SPEAKER_01 11:33

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I have it on my calendar, Jack Off. Yep. So I'm gonna be worn out by the end of this two weeks.

SPEAKER_06 11:40

Jack off on Friday. Make sense.

SPEAKER_01 11:43

Jack off on Saturday, Jack Off on Sunday. Jackov, okay, fine.

SPEAKER_05 11:48

If you win it.

SPEAKER_01 11:49

That's my arm. I mean, it's on the calendar. I mean, you gotta know it. It's you know, everybody should know it's on the calendar. It's written in what do you have going on today? It's like what do you have going on today? I look like I just got jack off. But that's getting sharp. Chisel that shit like the Ten Commandments just oh aren't you Jack?

SPEAKER_06 12:17

Don't you only have like one day to work? Oh, just working tomorrow.

SPEAKER_00 12:22

Nice. That's what it is.

SPEAKER_06 12:25

Vacate for 10 days?

SPEAKER_00 12:26

Yep. As much as you can call it vacation. I guess it all depends on how the surgery goes.

SPEAKER_06 12:33

Yeah, that's true. How whiny she's gonna be able to do it. And plus, you know how you don't, you know, and you you can you could get you could get you could get a girl in either direction. She could be in take care of me mode and it's extreme, or she could be in leave me the f alone, I can do it myself mode, and it's extreme. You never know which one you're gonna get.

SPEAKER_01 12:50

We'll say, hmm, do we do we want to bet?

SPEAKER_06 12:54

I mean, I wouldn't, I wouldn't because for good, I wouldn't I I I I could lean a direction, but if she's in a certain mood, it's gonna be leave me the F alone. I got this. Um treating me like I'm an invalid. It'll be the whole, it'll be like, oh. Yep. So so you gotta every every morning you gotta figure out which one it is.

SPEAKER_01 13:17

Oh, he'll know. He'll know. Just put wicked on leave me alone. Either either, either it'll hear he'll wake up to her shuffling across the floor or her hitting him, going, Okay, breakfast time. Right, or I want something.

SPEAKER_06 13:36

That's funny. Uh wow, yeah. So so thanks. What's today? Monday? So Tuesday, so tomorrow, Wednesday will probably be like any last-minute shit. Like, I still haven't got the roles because I want them to be fresh, obviously, as possible. Um, but I think that's the only thing I haven't picked up was just the roles. Um and it'll be basic rolls or or or croissants, you know. Um yeah, we we won't do the Hawaiians because she doesn't like them at all. Uh which is fine. I don't care. I I don't really have a preference. I honestly I take that back. If I if I were to okay, first of all, if I'm gonna pick a bread, it's gonna be uh uh crescent rolls. Uh that's that's my go-to. I could eat the whole damn container of eight uh in one city. Um but if we're going uh if we're going like the your traditional type of roll, whatever some people want, the uh like I said, the Hawaii's or whatever, I want whatever, I don't know what they're called or whatever, but whatever roll is that looks like a muffin, you know, it's got that that cloud part up top. They're uh usually wheat. I like the wheat version with that poofy, poofy thing up top looks like a mushroom cloud. That way I can cut it in half and break it and break it apart. Yeah, yeah. I mean, it's not I know it's not it's not sweet, it's not an actual like dessert muffin, but the rolls that are in that style, and that goes back to growing up because that's what that's what mom made back when I was like you know six, seven, eight growing up with that. It was always the that style of role. But I don't I don't see those too often. And if I do, it's like the Sans Club 32 pack. I'm like, look, man, I ain't I ain't trying.

SPEAKER_01 15:19

Like I mean, I ain't fighting, I ain't feeding an army over here.

SPEAKER_06 15:23

I mean, don't get me wrong, I might take I might take some Ziploc and get it anyway, and then go find the homeless people and say, look, here you go, y'all. Y'all can have audience. I don't I want what I want, but you're right. Here you go. I want what I want. I don't want to waste food, so you guys get the rest. You know, something like that.

SPEAKER_01 15:40

Lou pulling off the freeway. The guy's like, You got a dollar? He's like, I got a muffin. And then he peels off.

SPEAKER_06 15:47

That's you that that's my whoa. That's usually my thing, though. Like throwing muffins at homeless people, throwing throwing muffins at homeless people?

SPEAKER_01 15:56

Weirdo.

SPEAKER_06 15:57

Well, not but wait, come on, come on, come on. I only do that after they've stale them. Okay. So, you know, you can throw them a lot further once once they get hard and stale. So you you too early. It's like you just fucking wasting rolls. What are y'all doing? If you don't throw like a roll, sorry.

SPEAKER_00 16:19

So something was you were gonna say before we were so raised.

SPEAKER_06 16:23

What was I gonna say?

SPEAKER_00 16:24

Well, honest.

SPEAKER_06 16:25

Oh, it was about homeless people. Yes. Uh it was basically uh because this happens in Boulder a lot, unfortunately. Like if I'm getting gas, whatever, somebody walks up and wants some money, and it's like, and who has cash these days? Let's be real. I used to be one of them fools that had$200 cash on them all the time. All the time. Now, I think there's six dollars in my wallet. Right. Uh but but if somebody was like, hey, you have five bucks, I'm like, no. But it was like, but if you want five bucks worth of food, let's walk into the grocery store, walk into the uh gas station. And a lot of times, uh, it doesn't happen as often uh anymore to me because I don't get gas to Boulder a lot. It's usually at Sam's Club or whatever. But if I do happen to get gas hair, and this did happen like two weeks ago, some girl with her dog, and she's like, You have a couple bucks, three like three bucks. I'm like, no, but if you want a hot dog or something, I'm happy to buy it for you. And she's like, serious? I'm like, yeah. So went back. I already did my gas, went back in in, uh, got her uh a hot dog and I guess a top bottle of water or something like that. Uh it was the flavor drink or whatever it was. But she's like, Can I have this instead? I'm like, yeah, girl, it's it's fine. You know, I know the stretch.

SPEAKER_05 17:37

You know, figures can't be choosers, right? Yeah, I picked this shit out, not you.

SPEAKER_06 17:43

But you know, I think if I would have said that, she would have been like, okay, that's fine. But I was like, you know what? I ain't spending more than five bucks on you, so it's cool. But uh, but yeah, I'm not a fan of giving you money. But if you're if you're hungry, I will do what I can to try to help feed you. Even if I've done it before with leftovers, like, or go to Walmart and I get my groceries, and I got something simple that I was like, oh, well, this was just kind of a thing. But uh, if you're hungry, then I'll I'll reach something out of my bag and say, here you go, man.

SPEAKER_02 18:13

It's yeah, I've done that before too. You're so nice, Lou.

Bread Wars And Roll Nostalgia

SPEAKER_06 18:20

Only only in private, as long as nobody sees it.

SPEAKER_01 18:24

The nice thing is nobody listens to this podcast, so you're fine. I know, right? Right?

SPEAKER_06 18:30

Here though, here, fuck the homeless, fuck the left, go get a job. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 18:36

There we go, there's Lou. This is the short. Lou rambling on for 10 minutes about how he likes going out and helping people, and the only part that gets in there is him joking about murder the homeless. Fuck them guys.

SPEAKER_06 18:54

Oh man. Can we go back talking about midgets? Damn it.

SPEAKER_00 18:58

Dwarfs. I know retarded midget. So I I was talking about it, Lou. After listening to the last podcast. You like this. Dwarf is one syllable, midget is two. You're you're you're putting too much work into it. Yeah. Yeah. There you go. Yep.

SPEAKER_02 19:19

No. It ain't worked if that's the right word.

SPEAKER_06 19:24

Fucking Grimbly or Gimli or whatever the hell his name is. That's a dwarf. Man.

SPEAKER_00 19:30

Grimley?

SPEAKER_06 19:31

Whatever his name is. That dude from Lord of the Rings.

SPEAKER_01 19:35

I don't know his name. Lou is trying to seem so cool right now. Guys, I don't even know any of the guys from uh, you know, that Lord of the Rings movie. I mean, whatever.

SPEAKER_00 19:43

Like Bro, I know Ariolus?

SPEAKER_01 19:47

Arioles? Is that Ariola? Ariolus? Is that was that his name?

SPEAKER_06 19:51

That's the king. Ariola. Oh, wait, that's not right. What the hell is this?

SPEAKER_01 19:58

Wait, that's when did when did Gollum get shredded?

SPEAKER_06 20:03

Like I know, right? I was like, man, did I get I get that workout, man?

SPEAKER_01 20:11

Shit. Golem rolling around with a six pack. Wait a second.

SPEAKER_06 20:14

Aragon! That's it. Or Aragorn? One of them. Energon. Meets back on the menu, boys.

SPEAKER_01 20:23

It's Energon. Lou.

SPEAKER_00 20:24

What about this one, Lou?

SPEAKER_06 20:27

Uh Sauron? Is that right? He's white, so that's Gandalf.

SPEAKER_00 20:35

Nope, that's Count Ducum. That's Count Ducum Bro. Sorra man.

SPEAKER_06 20:40

Oh. Sorrow, Sorrow. That's what I said. Sauron. He's a man, so I didn't have to put the word in there. It's already assumed that he's a man. Yes, I did buy the Horror people set just for Gollum.

SPEAKER_01 20:54

Because it was packed? So you were just like, oh.

SPEAKER_06 20:58

I could totally see Jack doing that too. I'll buy this. Wait, so is it Aragon or Aragorn? What that dude's name is.

SPEAKER_01 21:04

Aragon. The king guy.

SPEAKER_06 21:06

It's gone. Okay, Aragon. And then it's Frodo. Hold on. Hold on. It's Frodo. And Pippin.

SPEAKER_00 21:14

Uh-huh. Who's his guard?

SPEAKER_06 21:15

Hold on. His buddy. Sam Wise. Yep. Sam Wise. Sam Wise. Gamji or something? Gamji. Ganshi. Gamji. Okay, so who's the fourth hobbit? There's one more. Pippin's buddy. Hold on. Yeah. Uh the Falcon. Uh Peregrine. Or something.

SPEAKER_05 21:35

Is it a Peregrine?

SPEAKER_06 21:36

Peregrine Falcon.

SPEAKER_05 21:38

Oh. Oops.

SPEAKER_01 21:45

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_06 21:47

I know that one.

SPEAKER_01 21:48

We have to. Alright, next week I'm going to go find some Lord of the Rings trivia, and we're going to spend we're going to spend 15 minutes triv testing Lou. And you know what? At the end of it, I'm going to be like, by the way, this is for three to five year olds.

SPEAKER_06 22:03

Is there one for like like under three?

SPEAKER_01 22:07

Alright, let me see. There's one for underway for next week. Next week.

SPEAKER_06 22:13

Wait, it's it's Mary?

SPEAKER_00 22:16

Yeah. One of them isn't Peregrine? That might have been his last name. I don't know. I look like a fucking nerd to you. Yeah. Shit. No, you look like you look like a geek.

SPEAKER_05 22:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 22:29

Fucking Dungeons and Dragons bullshit.

SPEAKER_06 22:32

Um, what was wait? What was his wife's name? The the the the Liv Tyler's character.

SPEAKER_00 22:38

She was a elf. Arrowin. Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_06 22:43

Well, yeah, I guess she could be a heroine, but uh wasn't really about her.

SPEAKER_00 22:50

Errowin. A-R-O-I-R-W-I-N.

SPEAKER_01 22:56

Yeah. I N.

SPEAKER_00 22:58

Arwen?

SPEAKER_01 22:59

Yeah, Arwen. Okay. Arwen.

SPEAKER_06 23:04

Man, I guess I'll have to watch these again because I don't remember that shit. I mean, I remember what happens.

SPEAKER_01 23:08

It's just You got a week, Lou. Fuck football. And Thanksgiving, watch Lord of the Rings instead.

SPEAKER_00 23:14

No. It's about the same length. Three football games. Three hours each. Lord of the Rings.

SPEAKER_06 23:21

Three movies.

SPEAKER_00 23:21

Three hours each.

SPEAKER_06 23:22

I mean, what I could do is I because I have my stat machine behind the couch facing the TV. And that way it'd be like I'm in the movie. I'm just walking the whole thing.

SPEAKER_01 23:31

Walking.

unknown 23:31

Yep.

SPEAKER_01 23:32

Perfect. Yep. It's a movie about walking.

SPEAKER_00 23:34

And then Lou will be shredded like all of them.

SPEAKER_01 23:38

Yep.

SPEAKER_06 23:41

If I show up, well, y'all pick me up at the airport next week, and I got a fish in my hand. I don't want to hear it.

SPEAKER_01 23:50

No joke. Alright, hang on. Hang on. We know it we know it ain't gonna be a white fish. So what's a good dark fish for Lou?

SPEAKER_04 23:59

Totally be a white fish. Yellowtail. Give me an Asian.

SPEAKER_01 24:09

Wait. Nope, that does not make it Asian, Lou.

SPEAKER_04 24:13

Yellowtail is Asian. Totally Asian.

SPEAKER_01 24:17

Just because it says yellow does not make it an Asian fish, Lou.

SPEAKER_06 24:22

Holy closed. It's like red snap or it'll be Indian, right?

SPEAKER_01 24:30

Nope. Nope, that's not how it works, Lou.

SPEAKER_05 24:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 24:37

So uh speaking of little people, uh, I did not see it this week, but uh you guys both saw the Wicked sequel. Yep. Show not your thoughts, and then uh Jack, of course, we gotta hear about Wifey's thoughts and what she thought after seeing it five times in one week.

SPEAKER_00 24:56

She's actually going tomorrow, too. I like how he can't even form words.

SPEAKER_06 25:02

He's just like, God damn it. Six times and eight times.

SPEAKER_00 25:06

Um Lou and I actually talked about it a little bit yesterday, but um, it was fine. I I don't think I would watch it necessarily on its own. Like we sat down and did a marathon, I'm in, right? Because it was a good wrap-up to the movie. But the songs on the first one were better bangers. And I just thought it was paced a little bit better. Um not to say that a couple of the songs in the in the second part were bangers. No good deed when Elf was like the first off. And then but some of the cinematography during um Glinda's song, that shit was amazing. And Ariane Grundle said it was uh all practical, no CG for it, so that made it even better. Um, but I liked it well enough. An Oscar. Yeah. Somebody needs an Oscar for that cinematography for sure. The costumes were great, Jeff Goldblum was great. I watched um The Wicked on his trailer, and they're like, Jeff Goldblum wasn't even in this movie, he just was hanging out on the set, and they just filmed him. I'm like, yes, yes.

SPEAKER_06 26:17

Sounds about right.

SPEAKER_00 26:18

Um, but no, it uh you have to it it's wicked, right? It is not parallel or has anything to do with Wizard of Oz that we all grew up with, right? So you can't be too hard on what is and what isn't. Um it's a whole different story. Because then, if you want to get technical about it, the Tin Man actually just kept cutting all his limbs off and replacing them with tin in the books. So it had nothing to do with how he turned into the Tin Man and Wicked. Ah, okay.

SPEAKER_06 26:54

Dude, now I would argue the problem with that is that is not the audience. The audience that you're catering to is an audience that knows, first of all, there's two two audiences. One, all the people who know Wicked as the play, stage play. And then other than that, the other eyeballs are gonna are the people who know the MGM movie. Nobody really knows the fucking book. Um, so although I would say your statements are correct, if that's how they approach this, then it's a terrible way to approach this because you don't capture that audience. Um and I and that and that's where I come in. I am that audience. I'm the audience that grew up with the MGM movie, and I thought the movie was a six out of ten, I have no interest in watching it again, other than the way Jack described, where if I'm watching because the first one was so damn good, I can watch that one, no problem. And if I did, and it was like, hey, let's watch the second one since we just okay, fine. I can continue the story and continue to watch it, but I don't think I'd ever watch it by itself uh as just like the way the way I can watch Empire or any of the other Star Wars movies by themselves without the before or the after, no problem. This this movie does not do that for me. Yeah. The first hour, hour and a half was slow AF. It was like I literally there was probably 20 people to theater. Nobody was in my aisle in the back row. Two girls were in front of me to the left in the row in front of me, and the first hour, I ended up playing on my phone. Um, it was just I was it was so so slow. I actually was checking mail, clearing the dots off my phone, uh, which was just notifications because that shit bothers bothers me if I see it on my phone. So I was doing all that until about an hour, maybe hour 15, hour and a half, whatever it was, into it. And then the story picked up a little more, and it was like, okay. And then I did put the phone away and was absolutely paying attention because that last hour, hour and half half, whatever it was, was really good. I enjoyed that last the last third of the movie. Uh the last act uh and going into that, the last part of the second act, it was well done, and I enjoyed it. But I it took me, you know, having to get there um into that, like I said, hour and a half, hour 15 of it's kind of like watching Wandavision. Uh Wandavision sucks until you get to the end of episode three, and then into episode four. Uh, mainly episode four. Then Wandavision is fantastic. Um, this movie was definitely like like if I were to do that marathon, uh, that first hour of the second one, I'm gonna I'm gonna go run errands. I'll be back in an hour, get all that stuff knocked out so I can come back and enjoy the last part of the movie. Okay, okay. Um so I I did enjoy it. I'm not gonna again, six out of ten just means a lot, two of those points, minus ten. If we start from ten and go backwards versus starting from one and go up, uh, two of those were just because of the boring factor. Uh two of those points lost were the boring factor. Now we get to the part that I started this off with with the I'm I'm the audience who doesn't know the play, who doesn't know I didn't know what happened with the play, uh, doesn't know the novels, doesn't know any of that crap. Um uh I'm a little irritated. I I like what they did with uh Lion and the Tin Man for the most part because time-wise, the Tin Man was supposed to be oh wait, are you gonna watch this Duke? I don't want to spoil too much.

SPEAKER_01 30:28

It's it's fine. I I've seen the play.

LOTR Trivia Meltdown

SPEAKER_06 30:30

Oh, okay. Well, the Tin Man ended up being like one of the characters, you know, one of the main one of I want to say one main character, but but one of the one of the one of the regulars in the movie. And it was like, no, he was supposed to be all rusted out, and it had been a a long time, or roughly long time before Dorothy found him. That didn't happen. And then you have the the but but but that all being said, the whole heart. Issue that he had that kind of was part of the original. That was done very well for him to why he doesn't have a heart thing. It was like, holy crap, that was sweet. I like that. The scarecrow thing was stupid. He was supposed to have no brain. He was supposed to, it was like, uh, man, that the way they did it and how they turned, it was like, I was not impressed. It was just when that reveal happened, I was just like, oh yay. Um didn't like that at all. So again, I'm looking for the connections. I want there to be connections between the two stories, uh, the MGM versus what's going on now. Uh but maybe the movie's not for me, right? If it's for the Wicked fans, they're gonna appreciate it, and that's good for them. That's your if that's who your main audience is, and it's like, hey, if we happen to get tricklers in like me, you know, great, but we're not catering to you, so we're not gonna give you what you want, that's fine. I can appreciate that and do it, do what you did. And it's it's kind of like episode eight. Uh, it's it's it did its own thing, it doesn't quite tie into what it what you're used to, but it still wasn't terrible if you look at it on its own. So like if I didn't know the Wizard of Oz story, I wouldn't have had a fit with any of that stuff. Right. So that's the thing, right? So because of the original movie in my head, that's why I have it fit, not because it was bad.

SPEAKER_01 32:27

So Okay, I think uh something we something we had talked about last week or the week before um was that they weren't gonna actually show Dorothy's face. Right. So how did that come across for you? It was fine. Was that okay?

SPEAKER_00 32:42

Yeah, they did that.

unknown 32:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 32:45

I like that. I like that they didn't do that. The problem is you get into danger territory of doing like uh the end of Rogue One with Leia, you know, where you're either doing some sort of weird AI CGI face, or you're just trying to find somebody maybe who you can match with like prosthetics or something like that who can look like Judy Gurlin.

SPEAKER_06 33:05

But I think even then, like I don't know, like there's enough people out there, they could have found somebody who looked like I mean it it I like I would have been I would have preferred if they were gonna show her, don't CGI it, just go get somebody who looks close enough to her sure and and and roll with it. I would have been fine with that. That being said, it was fine not showing her, doing some things in the shadows. Um, I liked how the the witch uh Glinda and Elphaba basically kind of dismissed her. Uh it was like they're like, leave that kid alone. It was very funny the way it's like, oh she doesn't. And it was I'm glad they did that because she's not the focus of this story. So, and they made sure she didn't become the focus of it. So kudos to them uh for keeping it that way. So the fact, like, I think Jack mentioned it to us last week, the week before, that they weren't gonna show her face. Uh, and I kind of forgot about that. And then when they didn't, and when they kept showing like the last hour of the movie uh where she was in, I was like, oh yeah, Jack did say that. And then and then I thought about it, I was like, you know what? This is fine. This is perfectly fine how they're how they're doing that.

SPEAKER_00 34:13

Which is too bad because it really did get the player is cute as hell.

SPEAKER_06 34:18

I I didn't even know that that person was doing the tour.

SPEAKER_00 34:25

I don't think I've seen any press with her, just like behind the scenes stuff. Like she posted stuff and on the gram. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 34:33

Does she have uh does she have the Judy Garland look? No. Not really? Okay. She had the hair, that's for sure. Right. She was skipping on the on the yellow big road properly. That little high, that high bounce that she had, I was like, wow, she actually.

SPEAKER_00 34:48

I think that's the answer. So yeah.

SPEAKER_06 34:50

Oh, well, there you go. That'll that'll do it. Um the story again, now all that and everything, the story was great, the whole uh uh shit that's happening to Alphabet and how shit gets twisted and all that. It was it was it was well done. Again, my complaints are are really my complaints. I don't think they're general audience complaints. I think a lot of people are gonna like this movie a lot. Um and and go from there.

SPEAKER_01 35:19

I mean, I no hate currently uh 69% on Rotten Tomatoes for the uh tomato meter, 95% for the audience.

SPEAKER_06 35:30

I could see that. I I think I'm on the critic's side with that's like I said, six out of ten. So they're saying seven basically, and the audience is nine, nine point five. And I could see that. Like the people that that that were in the theater, they were all about it, they were loving it.

SPEAKER_01 35:47

Yeah, and I'm I mean And probably probably wasn't the first time they had seen it either.

SPEAKER_06 35:51

So I that I believe, I mean, I went on a Saturday, it came out on what Thursday for the general release. A lot of people got early showings. Um yeah, uh if somebody was like, hey, come watch this with me, I'm like, all right. I I I wouldn't it would not def it would definitely not be a situation where it's like, uh no thanks. Right. I'd be like, all right, I'll do this.

SPEAKER_03 36:13

Right.

SPEAKER_06 36:14

I got a couple hours to kill, whatever. Yeah, honestly, it wasn't yeah. And right in the same in the new trailer, the new trailer for that uh was it Ryan Gosling space movie?

SPEAKER_01 36:27

Yeah, the Hail Mary Project.

SPEAKER_06 36:28

Yeah, Project Hail Mary. That new trailer, uh that I know I really want to watch that movie. I wanted to watch it a bunch before, but this trailer was way better uh than the first one.

SPEAKER_00 36:39

So okay. Uh I was thinking like Anaconda is starting to wear on me. I'm like, shit, I might actually watch that. I haven't seen that trailer yet. You haven't seen the Anaconda remake with Jack Black and Paul Redd?

SPEAKER_01 36:52

Yeah, we I think that was in my list. It was on one of the trailers.

SPEAKER_06 36:56

It wasn't. But but I saw the big cardboard cutout thing you can go and take pictures of at the theater. But I I've gone to the theater later now to not have to wait about commercials and shit, which means I also lose previews. So I can't remember, it might have been a secret movie, uh, last week's secret movie or whatever, and I walked in at the end of the trailer. Like literally, like the last five seconds, if that. But I haven't seen a full trailer of that one.

SPEAKER_00 37:23

Yeah, no, when it first came out and I saw the first trailer, I'm like, nah, dumb. But as I've seen more of it, I'm like, maybe it won't be so bad.

SPEAKER_06 37:32

Like, hey, that happened to me with Running Man.

SPEAKER_01 37:34

So um we can watch it right now. Um in the same vein. Um I think Lou, were you the one that saw Running Man?

SPEAKER_02 37:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 37:49

Same thing you did.

SPEAKER_01 37:50

I did not say Running Man, right? Because we saw it on Tuesday.

SPEAKER_06 37:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 37:54

Um what did you think of uh Running Man? The new Running Man with Glenn Powell.

SPEAKER_06 37:58

I I enjoyed the first probably two-thirds more than I did the last third. Uh that's fair. I I don't want to spoil it too much for Jack, but I felt that it was more of the running man in the first two-thirds, um, and setting it up like why he's doing it and how all that plays out and his anger issues, and all that was great. But then when we got to you know, let's try to solve the problem. Yeah, let's try to solve the problem towards the end. I was like, yeah, I wasn't go back, go back to the fun stuff that was happening in the first part.

SPEAKER_05 38:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 38:38

Again, I enjoyed it. I mean, it was it was fine, I liked it, but I definitely liked the first part of that movie more than the last part.

SPEAKER_01 38:47

Well, and and also, I mean, there's been so many people posting stuff online like comparing this movie to the 87 movie, and I'm like, you you can't what what are you doing? Outside of the name of the character and the name of the movie and the general premise of there being like a a game. I mean, there there's no, yeah, no, there's there's no comparison between them at all.

SPEAKER_06 39:10

Like the only the only link that I really saw was the money that had Arnold's face on it.

SPEAKER_01 39:16

Yeah. Well, I mean, that was a that was an Easter egg, right?

SPEAKER_06 39:19

Like Yeah. Um that's what I mean. That that's the only connection that I really, you know, was like, okay.

SPEAKER_01 39:26

Um no, I mean I liked it. Um yeah, like the end got a little uh, you know, they they were like, oh, well, we have some budget left over, so let's uh extra things, you know. Fuck it. Yeah, yeah. Basically. Um But I think that I, you know, I think when it comes to like Edgar Wright, when you get to like the the grounded stuff, he's really, really good at that. And that was the first two-thirds of the movie. And then the final big set piece, I think it got a little he passed it on to somebody else. Well, it almost felt like it was I felt like what's that?

SPEAKER_05 40:06

Oh, take over.

Wicked Part Two: Reactions And Rants

SPEAKER_01 40:07

Well, they would no, it I felt like it was more like they had like felt like maybe they painted themselves in a corner where I mean I did I think they definitely left the end of the movie open to sequels if they wanted to do that. Like, there's definitely a path for them, but I think that they wanted to have like a clean cut where if they did do sequels, it would just have the Glenn Powell character, right? Like they they did a good job of kind of like, oh well, we gotta, but it did kind of feel rushed where nothing had happened to anybody, and then all of a sudden the final third, they were like, Oh shit, we have to get rid of all these people some way, shape, or how you know. And uh and and so um yeah, I think you know, at the end it felt a little rushed where everything it felt like they were like, okay, we have to like fit all of these, we have to tie all of these loose ends up before we get to the movie, but we have a lot of loose ends to tie up. So that was kind of how I that's cool.

SPEAKER_05 41:05

So I was gonna say beyond that I enjoyed it.

SPEAKER_01 41:10

Like the first, yeah, like you said, the first two thirds, really good. I think it was uh, you know, they it was futuristic without seeming too out of um you know, out of kind of kind of book flying cars on that book.

SPEAKER_06 41:25

It did not pull you out of like the real world. You you felt like okay, that could be a thing, and and it was fine. Yeah, uh and and no surprise to anybody. Uh uh Coleman Domingo was fantastic.

SPEAKER_01 41:37

Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I I mean Josh Brolin, I'm not too sure. I mean, I'm sure wearing those veneers probably wore on him a little bit. Um, but good lord his teeth were white.

SPEAKER_02 41:49

Very much so. Very much so.

SPEAKER_01 41:52

Um, but yeah, I mean, I think they definitely left themselves an avenue if they decided at some point they wanted to do a sequel, which I don't think they will do because I don't the movie definitely didn't make a ton of money at the box office. So um and I don't know, I'm not sure. I though it's always difficult because I those types of movies when a lot of people are when you're when you're talking about a movie like The Running Man That Has, like it's kind of going back to the wicked thing, right? But that Lou was just talking about, right? You're gonna have the group of people who have no idea who about the book or the movie and are gonna go in potentially blind or not going blind based purely on if they like Glenn Powell or not. Yeah, right? Like, and then you're gonna have the group of people who loved the Arnold Schwarzenegger movie and are gonna go in or not go because they're like, well, fuck this. It's not the fucking movie from back then. It's not trying to be that movie, it's it's it's definitely its own animal. And then you have the small segment of people who read the book, um, or the the short story in the book, um, you know, who I I mean again, I haven't read the book, but from what I've read online, the this movie definitely has a lot more, it definitely took a lot more from the book than than the Arnold version did.

SPEAKER_06 43:09

I mean, it's one of these things where it made me I haven't done it, but it made me want to watch the original again. Yeah, yeah, but not to compare them because I know they're different. So it just made me want to watch the original again. That's all. I was like, oh, I remember that but when I remember that was a fun movie when I watched it back then. One of those types of thoughts, you know.

SPEAKER_01 43:26

Yeah. Uh it's funny that it was funny that the book was sent in 2025. And I do really feel like we're only like one or two small jumps from getting to that point.

SPEAKER_06 43:38

Well, there's some there's some truth to that shit.

SPEAKER_01 43:42

Yep.

SPEAKER_06 43:43

Um other movie this I think that I I saw just so I could so you guys are waiting on me was was uh Predator.

SPEAKER_02 43:50

Yep. Um it was fine.

SPEAKER_06 43:55

It was my my my again, it's another Star Wars episode eight. I liked it as a standalone, it does not fit in the predator universe for me. Why? Uh they're they're trying to make the predator the good guy, and he's not. Unless he's going against the alien, he's not the good guy. He's he's a hunter, like the Adrian, what is it, Brody uh one and all that. The alien, uh the predators, that is their thing. That's what we know them and and they're trying to change it. And that's fine if they're trying to change it, but I just don't want this to be part of the uh the universe that we know, because that's not the character that we know. It's like, what the fu and I'm sitting there watching this thing play out, and it was like the beginning and the ruthlessness and all. I'm like, yeah, that's how it's supposed to be. And then when it all said and done, that I mean, it's like, oh, we're gonna make this kid, we're just gonna make this kid the hero along with the droid, and it was just like alright, let me switch my thinking now. And once I I pulled it out of the universe that I know, okay, great. I mean, obviously it's the alien predator universe because of the whole whaling Utah thing going on. Uh and I get that, and that part's fine. Uh I had no issue with that at all. It was just it was just uh I don't know, trying to make the predator the hero, uh, or the anti-hero, whatever you however you want to call it, that's that's but he still kills things.

SPEAKER_00 45:34

There's nothing to say that Deck wouldn't go to Earth and hunt people and be a regular predator.

SPEAKER_06 45:38

That is true, but that's not what happened. I I agree, that is what could happen, but it's not what happened. What I saw was not that. It was just a movie with two predators, though.

SPEAKER_00 45:49

Which has been also done since the Dark More comments from the 90s.

SPEAKER_01 45:54

But his whole motivation, too, was to avenge his brother, right? So that means the way he's gonna avenge his brother is number one by bringing back the the trophy, right, to prove that he belongs as a predator, and then also to basically kill his dad, because that was like he's like, fuck you. Like you killed my brother for no reason outside of trying to expel me from the clan.

SPEAKER_06 46:18

And that was part of it, was like he didn't he didn't follow his dad's orders, he deserved to die.

SPEAKER_01 46:24

But but that's but that was Dex's motivation was revenge for his brother, right? That was how that was how they set that up.

SPEAKER_06 46:32

I don't see it that way. The revenge to get back to get his dad didn't happen until later. He was still trying to prove himself in the beginning, and then after he made the friends, then it then it switched to oh fuck you, dad. It went from I'm gonna prove myself and you're gonna take me in and I'm gonna be part of the clan. Then it switched. So his motivation wasn't really to to avenge his.

SPEAKER_00 46:56

But there's room in the universe for all the predators, Lou. It's fine. Do I there's room in the universe for all the predators?

SPEAKER_06 47:03

There is room in the universe for all the predators. Um, and that's why I said it's that whole episode episode eight thing. Once I take it away from that universe, I like that movie a lot. I'd watch that. I'd what of the three we just talked about, I'd watch that one a second time before I watch the other two a second time. Not even close. Um I would absolutely say, not even close. If I'll go, because she's I don't think I don't think she went with me on that one. Um, but if she's like, hey, I want to go to that, I'm like, all right, I'll I'll go watch that again before I watch Wicked or Running Man again. So it's like, hey, can we go to that on a two tomorrow night? Uh in our in our whoever's watching this, it's Monday, so tomorrow will be a Tuesday movie. So I was like, can we watch that Tuesday night? Yeah, dude, I'm down. I'll watch that shit again. Okay. Uh but again, I have to separate myself from the other universe that it's in. But if they want to start its own thing and stay away from that part of the universe and don't do any kind of crossovers of that shit, oh I'm on the city.

SPEAKER_00 48:02

Well, they can't because all those predators are dead.

SPEAKER_06 48:06

Uh, what's the time frame we're talking about? No, no, no, the ones from the one from part two who are alive, the one who left on the ship.

SPEAKER_00 48:12

Yeah, but this shit's like way in the future. If Wayland exists and they have droids, those predators are all dead.

SPEAKER_06 48:19

Oh, we don't know how long it live. They could be Vulcans. Live 300 years. This is true. But but but that being said, the way it ended, um with you know the potential new story coming, if they do a sequel on a git, stay in your bubble, I'm in.

SPEAKER_01 48:40

Okay, okay. Let's see.

SPEAKER_06 48:42

If they want to somehow incorporate aliens again, fine, I'm in. But you can't do it really for me. You can't really do any kind of earth crossover. That's gonna ruin it for me.

SPEAKER_01 48:55

Contrary to their often perilous hunts, Yaucha are believed to have an exceptionally long lifespan with some estimates suggesting they can live up to a thousand years.

SPEAKER_02 49:05

Boom. I want to know I didn't read the comics.

SPEAKER_06 49:14

So although, although I I wish, like, you know, every once in a while, it like even in um the Adrian Brody one, uh the Colombian girl or whatever wherever she was from had mentioned, because he's like, hey, this is not the first time you've seen these before. And she's like, Yeah, in Columbia back in 87 or whatever the first one happened, whatever year that was. Um I I'd like more of that. Like, I I want like something past Predator 2, but references, yeah, this happened because the other movies have referenced um shit that's happened before. I think I think the the Antarctica one referenced reference it as well. Uh so I don't know. I I'd I'd like to I'd like to see more of the connection and and less of the Predator Hero. Uh or like like just don't don't combine them for me, is all. Like do this movie or do this movie, do not put them together. That that that's all. Unless if if they look, I'm not a writer, if they could write something where it makes sense, fucking do it. Then I'm on board. I just don't trust them is my problem. I guess is more of a probably what it really is. I don't trust that they could write something that puts it all together because you've got these six, seven movies, and nothing's really tying them together, and I want them tied together.

SPEAKER_00 50:36

But they do the cartoon tie them all together.

SPEAKER_06 50:41

Kinda. You're not wrong there. Yeah, you're not wrong there. The animation, or especially when they had the girl from the prey at the end, I was like, ooh, they need to come back and revisit that.

SPEAKER_00 50:51

Well, yeah, though they had all of them. They had Dutch and Danny Glover too, so I don't remember seeing them in the lockers at the end when extended.

SPEAKER_06 51:03

Oh, I only remember seeing the girl from Prey. Maybe I tuned out too soon.

SPEAKER_00 51:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 51:08

Was it before her or after her? I don't remember. But it was an afternoon scene.

SPEAKER_05 51:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 51:18

I'm gonna pull that shit up and watch it again. That's cool. I don't remember that. I don't know how they would have got them though, because they were they won.

SPEAKER_00 51:27

You don't know what happened right after. They didn't make wicked for fucking predator from the predator's point of view, that happens afterwards. They could have frozen and got him again.

SPEAKER_06 51:36

But not Danny Glover. They they were like, dude, you won. Here's a trophy, we're out of here.

SPEAKER_00 51:41

But then they're like, no, fuck that, we got a new idea. We're gonna make Predator Planet.

SPEAKER_06 51:46

See, yeah, that'd be garbage.

SPEAKER_00 51:48

And then you can't do this. It's basically what they did in Predators when they just got all the bad guys and dropped them on the planet, and then they all hunted them.

SPEAKER_02 51:59

They weren't even all bad guys. I guess they were.

SPEAKER_06 52:01

I mean Well, they weren't. There's a contract a contractor is not a bad guy. No, the people they were hunting, the people that are. It depends on the contract it takes. No, it doesn't. It's just a job.

SPEAKER_00 52:14

See? And you're just killing people.

SPEAKER_06 52:16

See, you're gonna be mad at folks, you gotta be a mad at folks for working. Yep. Dang. Get a real job, hippie.

SPEAKER_00 52:22

Kill them, baby.

SPEAKER_06 52:23

We have a real job. Shit. Capital fools, that's my job.

SPEAKER_00 52:28

Do you pay taxes on that job, sir?

SPEAKER_06 52:32

I mean, we don't know. He might. Emotional taxes.

SPEAKER_01 52:36

Emotional damage.

SPEAKER_06 52:41

So so yeah. Uh what was y'all thoughts on Predator?

SPEAKER_00 52:45

Um, I liked it. I've always liked Predators. I like I anything on Predator culture and all that bullshit, I love it. I've loved the comics, I've read novels, all that stuff. So I was perfectly fine with it.

SPEAKER_02 53:00

All day or a day. I've not read a lot of the comics, but um no, I mean I really yeah, I really enjoyed it.

SPEAKER_01 53:09

I thought the the workaround for giving it the PG-13 by everyone clutching their pearls for no real reason. Uh I thought that was pretty smart. Um you know, of course, we all want an R-rated Predator movie, but how they worked around this in that movie uh in this movie I thought was handled really well. Um And it just gave them a lot of uh a lot of uh uh NPCs to just wreck, which was cool.

SPEAKER_03 53:36

And some of the retros everywhere.

SPEAKER_01 53:39

Yeah. And some of and and some of the kills and the way that they did it, I thought was pretty good. Um there's a couple of callbacks. Um I thought they did a good job with those as far as the re the the references and the Easter eggs and stuff, I thought were smartly done. There wasn't wasn't a bunch of ham-fisted uh ham-fisted ones, which was nice. Um so um yeah, I thought it was all acted. I mean the guy who played the Predator, I think you know, he did a good job. It didn't they did a really nice job of kind of hiding the a lot of the special effects and whatnot, the CGI. Uh I thought they did a good job with that. Um I was happy that the trailer really only showed you the first half of the movie. There was like an entire half of the movie that wasn't it was in flashes of the trailer, but they didn't like ever show pieces of it, right? Like like you they never showed them like really working together or anything like that. Um so yeah. Yeah, I enjoyed it. I would definitely watch a movie with them again now that they seem to be a uh a trio. Um I thought the boss, the I thought the monster uh with the regenerative powers was pretty cool. I thought that was a nice idea on explaining how to do it. Yeah, why are they probably scared of him and why hasn't nobody killed him before? Yeah. So sorry, you were gonna say No, no, no, no.

SPEAKER_06 55:08

I was I was no, it was fine. I agree. Like I said, uh separated from the rest of the universe, uh, this movie was really good. I mean, I I don't disagree with any with y'all on any of that shit. Uh the trailer did not give away what was happening. Um yeah, I I I I when I go watch this, whether it be home or in the theater again, when I watch this movie the second time, I'm gonna enjoy it a lot more because now I know not to think it's in the same universe. Um so I can appreciate it for that. Even if they even if they pull it back in uh with the sequel with with Mama Fight, uh if they whatever they do with that, I won't care. I will look at this one now separately, and I'm gonna enjoy it a lot more.

SPEAKER_01 55:59

All right, all right. I liked how they kind of did the um the tutorial of every video game where he has all of this equipment and then they just take it all away. Like oh yeah, right. He's laying out all of his bullshit, and then like the first creature's like yoink, it's all gone. Bye. I'm like, wait, that's every video game ever. Here's a BFG. Okay, now we're taking it back.

SPEAKER_04 56:28

That was pretty funny though.

SPEAKER_06 56:30

And I did cross my I'm all like, all that, and now all you got what left is a sword, right?

SPEAKER_00 56:37

That's a badass sword.

SPEAKER_06 56:39

Uh that is true.

SPEAKER_01 56:41

A little OP, but I liked the uh the razor glass, the frozen razor glass grass. I thought that was pretty cool.

SPEAKER_00 56:50

Um yeah, the planet was really cool. Everything trying to keep it.

SPEAKER_01 56:53

Yeah, they did a really good job with kind of creating a planet that was dangerous without being like constantly deadly. Yeah, yeah. Uh so yeah.

SPEAKER_06 57:04

That reminds me. Okay. So when he was preparing for the big battle at the at the end, uh he he snuck up and took those paralyzing plants. I don't remember him using those, though. Do you guys remember him using those?

SPEAKER_00 57:22

He used them as an explosive. At the end, he exploded. No, because he took the whole plant.

SPEAKER_06 57:31

Yeah. I thought he used those worms.

SPEAKER_00 57:33

He did, but he had them inside the plant or on the plant. So when they when the when the bad guys got close to it, that's what makes those things pop. So when it popped, it made the worms pop. He basically made a good worm. The worms didn't pop. The worms were just uh explosive when they hit something.

SPEAKER_01 57:51

Explosive, yeah. So this created a bigger explosion than what the worms themselves did.

SPEAKER_06 57:56

So he so he combined the poison plant with the worm. Yeah, I totally missed that. I'll have to look for that next time.

SPEAKER_00 58:04

Yeah, it's almost like the land of something. Like if when they got too close, the worms were in the paralyzing plants, so they exploded and it threw the worms everywhere.

SPEAKER_06 58:16

Okay. I remember the explosion, but I'm like, when did he use the paralyzing darts? And how are they gonna work on a drill?

SPEAKER_00 58:23

Exactly. I thought the same thing too. I'm like, oh, that's how he used the plants. Okay. But yeah, that's what it was. He just changed he just changed their purpose.

SPEAKER_06 58:32

Okay, he just made it a bigger explosion is all he did.

SPEAKER_01 58:34

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 58:34

He made it up, he made a frag mine out of it instead of okay, okay.

SPEAKER_01 58:37

Yep, yeah. C4. Yeah, you know, because he was sticking them. He was sticking them to the cars, right? Yeah, whatever he sticked to the sticking them up to the sides of things before they are.

SPEAKER_06 58:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 58:48

And then he shot, then the uh the spitter thing hit the shot it, spit at it, and that caused it too.

SPEAKER_06 58:58

Yeah, so he would irritate it to explode. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, I'll I'll have now I'll have to take her to watch it, or this is gonna spoil the damn movie for her when she watches this episode next week.

SPEAKER_01 59:09

You're like, we got to go to the movies tomorrow. I'm sorry, girl.

SPEAKER_06 59:13

Just so you know, we're gonna go watch Predator. Well, really? What for? Like, don't worry about it. We'll you'll you you'll find out in five days.

SPEAKER_01 59:20

Right? Wait, is this the fucking ring? Wait, is our is our podcast the ring? Like pretty much. Yep.

SPEAKER_00 59:30

Um I went to go see Now You See Me, Now You Don't Tonight. I enjoyed it. It was better than the second one. Um there was a scene in the trailer that wasn't in the movie when uh Woody Harrelson touches the ball and he's like, oh, these edibles are starting to kick in. That wasn't in there. That was the only thing I noticed, though. But the rest of it, it was super entertaining. The new kids are cool. Um I really like Ariana Greenblatt. I think she's gonna go far. JB Baby Gamora? Yeah, Little Ahsoka.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:04

Oh, yeah, for sure.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:05

Yeah. Uh the um Tiny Tina.

SPEAKER_06 1:00:09

Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:10

In every single, basically, she plays every single middle-aged kid in every single movie for the last five years. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:00:18

Was the girl from Mean Girls in it from part two? The girl that replaced the redhead?

SPEAKER_00 1:00:26

Yeah, Borat's wife, yeah. She was in it. She came back. She's on the trailer for it.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:30

No, Lizzie Kaplan. Oh. The black haired girl. Yeah. She was in it. She's been on the I I actually I guess I haven't I haven't seen it. I've seen her on the I've seen her on the press videos, like on the little stuff. Yeah, they kept her under wraps mostly.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:45

It's not a secret she's in it, but they're not putting her in the promos for it. But she is in it.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:49

That's weird.

SPEAKER_06 1:00:50

Okay. I was like, I like I like to think that I mean, she stepped in, they can't just ditch her. That'd be kind of rude. I didn't know that Redhead was. Was married to Borat?

SPEAKER_00 1:01:01

She was.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:03

Oh.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:03

Was. Who fucked up? Uh allegedly Borat. He's like sexually harassed or something, Rebel Wilson or something.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:14

I don't know why. Wait, he sexually harassed Rebel Wilson, so she divorced him?

unknown 1:01:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:21

Was it fact or alleged?

SPEAKER_00 1:01:23

As far as any that's never been proven. She didn't sue him or anything, so. So alleged.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:29

Unless they unless she he cheated on her with Rebel Wilson.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:33

Which can be stupid as hell.

unknown 1:01:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:35

Rebel Wilson wasn't that cute.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:37

At all. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:39

Even skinny.

SPEAKER_05 1:01:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:41

Agreed. I'll take that.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:44

I think that's her. I mean, she can be pretty funny, but. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:48

I'm not going to argue that.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:49

She's going to cheat on Isla Fisher.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:51

But if I'm going to hell is no. That's what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:54

But if I'm picking, I mean, come on now.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:57

There is an order of operation. Yeah. And uh if you're going to cheat, she needs to be hotter than the one you're cheating on. Yeah, when you're talking about Pim Doss, she's yes. Come on now.

SPEAKER_05 1:02:11

Smart jokes for people there. Smart jokes.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:17

That's going to be the title of this episode. Lou. Dumb as hell when it comes to Lord of the Rings. Smart as hell when it comes to sexual harassment jokes. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:02:30

I love you, period. Do you love me? Question mark. Please, please, exclamation point. I want to hold you in parentheses.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:42

I have no idea what just happened. I don't which one of us were you singing that to, Lou?

SPEAKER_05 1:02:48

Everybody. Everybody.

SPEAKER_06 1:02:53

That's not even really math shit. That's English shit. That's great. Punctuation, man.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:58

There's punctuation in math.

SPEAKER_06 1:03:02

There is. I mean, an exclamation point is a factoral, so yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:08

And there's parentheses.

SPEAKER_06 1:03:11

A lot. And braces in brackets.

Predator Universe: Love It Or Leave It

SPEAKER_01 1:03:16

Now we're just looking at the keyboard. And there's uh hashtag hash ten.

unknown 1:03:22

Hashtag.

SPEAKER_06 1:03:23

Oh, I didn't think about that. Yeah, huh? Wait, where's the percent sign?

SPEAKER_00 1:03:26

On the top of the five, fucker.

SPEAKER_06 1:03:30

Oh, you know what? I'm looking at all the F keys instead of the numbers.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:35

Oh Lord. Oh Lord. Lou's like, oh, there's F11 in math.

SPEAKER_06 1:03:41

I'm like, that's not I'm like, that's a pick, that's a speaker volume. That's mute. Lou blew out his way. That's pause. I don't understand why one of them has a son and one of them has a little sun.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:54

Brightness. That's the brightness of the screen, Lou.

SPEAKER_06 1:03:58

You can just push that, it'll do adjust it. Yeah. Hold on.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:00

If you push the function button, push the function button.

SPEAKER_06 1:04:03

Do I have to can I just push it? Do I have to shift it?

SPEAKER_00 1:04:05

You have to do the function button. Is there an Fn button on the bottom? Oh, yeah, there's an FN button.

SPEAKER_06 1:04:14

Oh, that's not a math button? Because there's functions in math.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:19

That's not the conjunction junction button. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:04:22

Oh! That totally worked. I saw the bar come up in the bottom with the sun. Then what is F3? What is that two monitor thing?

SPEAKER_00 1:04:33

In case you have two monitors, so you can switch the screens. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:04:40

No, that's not how that works. You just drag it over to the other screen. I have I have two monitors.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:44

I mean, yeah, you could, or you could do it on the keyboard.

SPEAKER_06 1:04:47

Yeah. That's weird. Okay. Rewind. Pause, play, forward. Mute. Volume low, volume high. What's F10? It says no computer. Like they're Xing out the computer screen.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:03

Maybe it turns your screen off and you're jerkling off on that loop.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:06

Please don't hit that.

SPEAKER_06 1:05:09

Then what's F11? Must be wake up then? Yeah, probably. Because F12 is asleep. Because I see Z's. They're snoozing. Huh.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:22

Something to play with after we get done.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:28

Everybody? Oh, Lord.

SPEAKER_06 1:05:36

You're right. I'm about to push somebody to see what happens.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:39

I mean, you do like pushing buttons, so that's true. That's true.

SPEAKER_05 1:05:44

Uh more appropriate if I lick them.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:48

Lou, you just push my buttons. You've never attempted to lick my buttons.

SPEAKER_06 1:05:54

I don't push your buttons. What are you talking about? I'll stay neutral. I don't bring up politics.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:10

Fucking St.

SPEAKER_06 1:06:11

Lou over here. So how how how was your uh your football days?

SPEAKER_00 1:06:16

Oh Jack, you had a game? Football didn't even happen as far as I'm concerned. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:06:27

What a game. The Raiders are so bad, they let the Cleveland Browns get a first-time starting quarterback a win for the first time in 30 years.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:39

That's what that was. And it was Shadur Sanders.

SPEAKER_06 1:06:45

The person they were supposed to have drafted.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:47

Yep. Yep, exactly. Damn Shane.

SPEAKER_06 1:06:53

And then the defense was so bad to let that happen, they fired the offensive coordinator after you. Yep. That makes sense.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:01

Well, you can't win a game if you don't score.

SPEAKER_06 1:07:06

I mean if you don't get scored against, you can't lose. That's true, too. Uh so let me get this straight. The Raiders have no offensive line, uh, no number one wide receiver, no quarterback. But you want to blame the offensive coordinator on the lack of skill positions. That makes sense. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Jesus Christ. Hey Chef, you need to make a gourmet dinner for 30. Um, we're not going to give you any groceries. Nope. At all. Oh, by the way, what? You didn't do anything? You're fired afterwards.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:46

Yep. You sucks.

SPEAKER_06 1:07:47

Okay, that makes sense.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:48

And you have an offensive coordinator who basically has to have a mobile running quarterback to be successful.

SPEAKER_06 1:07:56

That's usually his style.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:58

That was how he was successful at Oregon, was by having a quarterback who could throw the ball occasionally but was basically a runner. And Gino is not a runner. And G, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:08:09

No, he's a pr he's a pocket quarterback, and if you have no line that can block for a pocket quarterback, he can't throw the ball. Because he's getting sacked. I mean, come on now. They had what, 10 sacks? Record was he, 11? And they got 10? I mean, come on now. What a cruck. That's the Raiders for you.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:32

Congratulations on the Giants for still shooting for that number one shot.

SPEAKER_06 1:08:36

Oh my god, they almost blew it so badly. It was like, what is wrong with you? They actually look like a competent team.

unknown 1:08:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:08:44

Oh, there's there's another one. So let me get this straight. You're up by three with two minutes to go. You have a chance to kick a field goal to force your opponent to have to go get a touchdown. Instead, you go for it on fourth down after throwing it a couple of times, so you don't run out the clock, uh, and you give the Detroit Lions a lot more time. So what happens? The coach fucks that up, Lions go down, get a field goal instead of a touchdown that they would have needed, uh, puts the game at overtime, and they lose on a 70-yard run. Uh so instead of firing the coach, you fire the defensive coordinator. Yeah. Instead of the coach who made the dumbass decision not to kick the field goal. Yeah. But it's the coach's first week. Second.

SPEAKER_02 1:09:40

He just learned about football two weeks ago.

SPEAKER_06 1:09:43

Clearly. I'm just like, uh, yeah, no. Look, if you're trying to be aggressive, you're a two-in-whatever team, you're trying to get a win, fine. But you don't fire the defensive coordinator after that and basically throw him under the bus when you're the one that fucked it up by not kicking the field. That's the part that I don't like. Obviously, I'm glad they lost. It helps your draft position. But but come on now. You you know how I am. I'm a football fan first before my teams, and that was bad football.

SPEAKER_01 1:10:16

Yep. Uh and what was your thoughts on the Bears and Steelers game?

SPEAKER_06 1:10:20

Expected. Mason Rudolph is what he is. Uh, they should have started the Ohio State kid. Um uh the Steelers don't. If Mason doesn't throw two picks, Steelers probably win that game. Simple as that. Their defense is still bad. Don't get me wrong. Their defense is still horrible. They gave up 31 points. Um Caleb Williams. Uh well, Caleb Williams isn't terrible. I mean, his problem was this coach last year. You're gonna you're gonna find that Caleb is going to keep the Bears in a lot of games for the next 10 years. So sorry, Minnesota Vikings. Uh Caleb Williams versus Jay-Z McCarthy really isn't a point of conversation.

SPEAKER_01 1:11:00

But Max Brosmer might might be. Time to pro show. We don't find the bro show.

SPEAKER_06 1:11:07

But yeah, so that game, that game, Pittsburgh deserved to lose. I expected them to lose. Um I I told y'all what from week one, I was like, they're a 500 team. They were gonna end up eight and nine or nine and eight. They might get lucky because the because and and I say this truthfully, lucky, because the Ravens are so bad. The Ravens are not a good team. And they're the only one that can really compete with him for the division. The division winner might be eight and nine. Seriously. We've had losers uh lose the records win the divisions before. Uh looking at you, Seattle. Um but but that yeah, the Ravens are just oh, they're they're awful. They're not good. And again, Pittsburgh just as bad, if not worse. They made no moves in the trade deadline. If they're like, hey, this is our year, we're gonna try to put all in. I'm like, why don't you go get a receiver then? Because you need one badly. Um so again, expected. I wasn't even mad at that game. I was more mad at the Giants almost winning than I was to Pittsburgh losing. So, you know, whatever. Uh Chiefs got lucky. They had no business winning that game against the Colts.

SPEAKER_00 1:12:20

That's not what Facebook says. It says they're in the hunt, and it's going down now.

SPEAKER_06 1:12:25

I mean, don't get me wrong. If the Chiefs remember to run the ball like they did yesterday, they are in the hunt. Their problem is their balance, their pass run balance is so off. Um, and that's not how they've won in the past. They've ran the ball in the past to open up the pass. You know, they ran the ball to open up the passing. So, so uh I trust I trust the Chiefs more than a lot of teams out there. Even though the Chiefs are six and five, uh I would take the Chiefs over a lot of teams. Again, if they get their heads out of their ass and remember run the ball. So AFC is so open. I mean, no nobody believes in the Broncos except Broncos fans. Uh the Colts are good, but they've got to learn to put it together. Um Buffalo is just so inconsistent, man.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:26

You know, one of these weeks, Jack, we should just come on with uh with fucking Broncos gear. Broncos gear and just make this a Broncos sports. And now we're getting Dwayne calling in from Aurora. I'll take the question offline.

SPEAKER_00 1:13:43

Um, how amazing is is Bonex. Uh I'll I'll wait. He's giving me T Bow vibes. We're we're back in. The shit's going down.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:56

I'm not saying he's better than John Elway, but that's go crazy.

SPEAKER_06 1:14:00

15 years ago, everybody was T Bowing.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:05

Now I just am halfway through the third quarter when I realize that my team's gonna lose again. Uh so right now, uh, current draft order, we have Tennessee, uh, we have the Giants, New Orleans, uh Vegas at number five. Hey, I think you moved up from the last time we talked about this.

SPEAKER_06 1:14:27

Get yourself a quarterback.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:28

Yeah. Uh Jets at four, Cleveland six, Washington seven, uh Minnesota's twelve.

SPEAKER_06 1:14:36

Washington was in the NFC title game last year, and now they're picking seven. That's crazy.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:40

They lost six, they have lost six in a row.

SPEAKER_06 1:14:43

Shit, man. I mean, I get it. They lost their quarterback and blah, blah, blah. Uh McLaren's been out um for for like most of the seasons. I I I get it. You know, shit happens.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:57

Um I love that the site, so this is uh coming from tankathon.com. If you win the game, they actually make it red. So like if you if you're on like a winning streak, it's like in red bold, but if you're but if you're losing, it's like in the big green, like positive. Because they're they want like right. Uh so yeah, Minnesota's 12, Pittsburgh is 16.

SPEAKER_06 1:15:21

Um again.

SPEAKER_01 1:15:25

Yep. Word.

SPEAKER_05 1:15:32

So terrible.

SPEAKER_06 1:15:33

Like, like, it's one of the things where you don't know what you got with the rookie, so fucking play them and find out. Yeah. It's like, no, no, no, we can still win the division. And yes, I understand they can, but they're just they're not a good team. So it's like it's like if you miss the playoffs, then you wasted this season. Simple as that. You don't know what you got in your new quarterback, you don't get a good draft pick, you get nothing. Good day, sir.

SPEAKER_00 1:16:07

You get nothing.

SPEAKER_01 1:16:10

Uh so according to according to ESPN's big draft board, which again, I mean, they're not necessarily linking up teams and players.

SPEAKER_06 1:16:19

They're just doing players.

SPEAKER_01 1:16:20

Um, so for the Giants, the number two uh number two posit player on the big board is Caleb Downs safety from Ohio State. Um Dante Moore, quarterback of Oregon.

SPEAKER_02 1:16:40

Uh for the Raiders?

unknown 1:16:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:16:45

Uh number 12 would be Jramad McCoy, cornerback from Tennessee. And for Pittsburgh at 16, Makai Lemon, wide receiver USC.

SPEAKER_06 1:17:01

Oh, see, I'd be okay with that. That that boy, that boy, good.

SPEAKER_01 1:17:06

But I mean, a lot of the I mean, there's gonna be that, I mean, the first big the first draft board six months before the fucking draft, you know, like so much of that stuff is gonna change between now and even before the end of the year.

SPEAKER_06 1:17:20

The the position of the draft order is gonna change. But if Mikhail Emer went to Pittsburgh, and obviously me being a USC fan, I'd be all over that shit. That reminds me, talk about calling it. I was like, I was like uh what uh talking to a girl and she's like, oh, USC in Oregon this big. I'm like, don't get excited. Uh because she's rooting for USC for me, the way I root for Texas Tech for her. Uh I was like, USC's losing this by 20. They're not a good team. Um, and uh, don't get me wrong, their offense can be when Lincoln Riley isn't fucking it up. Uh, but their defense is horrible. They can't stop the run worth of shit. I was like, their underdogs by nine and a half, they'll lose by almost 20 points. And sure as shit, 27-42, I think, was the final score. Uh lost by 15. Uh, I was like, USC's not, I was like, I what I know, what did I say? I said Oregon will cover the spread, is what I said. And I wish I would have bet it because I it was like, again, I watched all the USC games, so I know how to play, and I've seen Oregon play enough, it was like, this is not a good matchup. Don't be wrong, they they did better than anybody expected them to. They'll beat, they'll beat the they'll beat the pants off of UCLA next week and end up 9-3 and get a good bowl game. But until and for the last all four years of Lincoln Riley, um, no defense. And they will never be a contender until they get one.

SPEAKER_01 1:18:46

So offense wins games, defense wins championships, right? You got it. That's not what they say.

SPEAKER_06 1:18:51

That is what they say. And and Makai Lemon really is that dude. Uh, so if uh seriously, if he can make it to Pittsburgh or New York, he's not a top five pick, so I don't think he'll make it to New York. But if he can make it to Pittsburgh, I will be very happy to have DK on one side and Lemon on the other, and the kid from Ohio State throwing two.

SPEAKER_05 1:19:12

So buying jerseys.

SPEAKER_06 1:19:15

Uh maybe a Franco Harris jersey. Greg Lloyd. Yeah. Yeah, I ain't wearing, I ain't buying nobody's jerseys currently playing.

SPEAKER_00 1:19:25

I saw a ton of Sanders jerseys at the game this weekend. Everybody had one.

SPEAKER_06 1:19:33

I mean, which is weird to me, because he started off the four-string quarterback. Right. Um, but no, I if I'm buying a jersey, I'm buying a classic 70s Steelers jersey or 90s jersey.

SPEAKER_01 1:19:45

Somebody who was with the somebody who was with the team the whole time and had had some sort of uh winning jersey. Right. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:19:52

Yeah, well, at least most of the time. Like I have a Jerome Bettis jersey, and he was with the Rams first. Uh Heinz Ward, I have his jersey, so that wouldn't make sense to me. Uh I have a rapeless burger jersey, so that that makes sense to me. Um, but on multiple levels. Uh oh, yeah, of course. Of course. Um I I think, I think, I don't know, Franco Harris, Mean Joe Green, like somebody from those classic Steelers. Uh French Fouquet, uh, you know, Lambert, Jack Lambert, Ham, uh, Lynn Twan, Stalworth. Like, like, I I Brad Bradshaw's a tool. I wouldn't want his jersey.

SPEAKER_05 1:20:31

Uh he's a good one, yes.

SPEAKER_06 1:20:34

But yeah, I don't think I could buy a current Steelers. Again, just because people change teams so goddamn often. I'd be mad.

SPEAKER_01 1:20:45

I uh I was at brunch on Saturday morning for a friend's birthday, and I was just kind of looking at my phone every little bit, and uh I looked so the Notre Dame game started at noon. I looked at like I looked at like 12 15 and I was like, oh like there was like 12 and a half minutes left in the first quarter and it was already 21-0, and I was like, oh shit, okay. Yeah, like they had 21 points before the offense went on the field. I'm like, okay, I get it. Syracuse is really bad, but holy shit, I didn't realize they were that bad.

SPEAKER_06 1:21:26

Like, oh yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:21:29

Oh yeah. Kind of I mean, those are the games where you kind of feel bad for like the other team a little bit. Like, I mean, it's nice that you're when your team is the one that's blowing the the blowing the brakes off of somebody else, but you get to a certain point where you're just kind of like, okay, like we get it. You guys are really good, and this other team is not, right?

SPEAKER_06 1:21:53

That's when you're in the that's when you're in the stands yelling, we're gonna get you when basketball season starts.

SPEAKER_01 1:21:58

Yeah, no shit. No shit. The fact that they had the fact that their second string quarterback played the entire second half, I was like, like you kicked your ass on lacrosse.

SPEAKER_00 1:22:10

Yeah. Wait till Rowan season gets around here. Go damn.

SPEAKER_05 1:22:16

Oh, exactly. But stroke.

SPEAKER_01 1:22:23

Uh yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:22:24

I was like, Yeah, it was a it wasn't a I don't know. NFL games were the the the the first half of the second half games, boring AF. I fell asleep. I ain't gonna lie. Yeah I I woke up in the fourth quarter of a lot of games, was like, oh, these got exciting. Like two of them did. That Eagles Cowboys game, like, where'd that come from? Uh I was like, oh, that's a blowout. Okay, this oh that's a blowout. And next thing you know, I'm like, wow, this is coming down to the wire. So but I I did I literally, I was just on the couch watching the games, and next thing you know, shit, I'm waking up in the fourth quarter.

SPEAKER_01 1:22:59

Sadly, they couldn't have just tied. No, because we couldn't have them both lose. So I did I did switch the kicker out. I switched him out earlier, Lou. The San Francisco kicker was available, so I went, okay, fine, I'll make Lu shut up. I just I don't know. I looked at my lineups on Sunday morning and I was like, Cool, I'm good. Like, and then I was like, Yeah, I'm like, dang, dude.

SPEAKER_06 1:23:28

It's like he's not even starting. It's like, look, we already got one person we have to ask pay his attention. Come on, Duke, keep up. Not that it matters, all six of us make the playoffs, so it doesn't really matter. All we're playing for is CD. And I think I locked a one seed in last week with four weeks to go, so Jack's A plus draft did not do that.

SPEAKER_00 1:23:49

I did not.

unknown 1:23:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:23:54

Matter of fact, I think A plus draft took a second loss to me that yesterday.

SPEAKER_01 1:23:59

Old girl had Jameer Gibbs who had 50 points. I'm like, there's not winning. I'm not I'm not winning that.

SPEAKER_06 1:24:05

If you had Jameer Gibbs and lost this week, then you're the rest of your team. You're you're horrible. Jameer Gibbs went off.

SPEAKER_01 1:24:10

There was no way, there was no way I there was no way I would have put anybody in play who would even have come close. Like right?

SPEAKER_06 1:24:17

You maximize your team, you still would have lost.

SPEAKER_01 1:24:20

Yep, yep.

SPEAKER_06 1:24:22

It was funny because when I saw that, I saw her team, and I saw Jameer Gibbs, I was like, oh, because it's like you you had a kicker with no game. So you could swap any kicker later. You could pick a Monday night kicker if you want to, which is what you did. But you could do any of that. And but once I saw the score, I was like, bruh, never mind. You may as well just keep your kicker and just use him next week if you like your kicker. Because Jameer Gibbs, oh my god, that was uh I'm glad I did not play against them in any of my uh four leagues, five leagues, so I was happy to see that.

SPEAKER_02 1:24:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:24:54

So I didn't even pay attention to the other team matchups. I know, I know Old Girl won against Duke. How did the how did uh against the game?

SPEAKER_00 1:25:05

Let me take a look. Pull up my fantasy football in here right now.

SPEAKER_06 1:25:07

Hold on, hold on, hold on. Duke's got it. Uh over Yeah, I didn't I used I don't didn't even pay attention.

SPEAKER_01 1:25:14

It was like Why does it say in progress? It's not in progress anymore. Matchup streak. I don't I want to watch everything. I want to see everything. Um Lou, you beat Jack by 23 points. Like 101 to 124. That's not bad. And then Wifey beat uh Newgirl by 25 points, it looks like L E Jack's backup team.

SPEAKER_06 1:25:47

Basically, you know if she ain't paying attention.

unknown 1:25:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:25:49

I went in there yesterday. I'm like, give me your phone real quick for all these games start. Let me make sure you're good.

SPEAKER_01 1:25:57

Oh, so uh the person who tried to trade like the whole truck.

SPEAKER_05 1:26:01

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:26:02

So this week they tried to do a trade where they traded uh Patrick or they tried to trade Tez Johnson, Sam Darnold, and Nick Chubb. Nick Chubb. For Patrick Mahomes, Kyron Williams, and CeeDee Lamb.

SPEAKER_06 1:26:18

Did that get nixed also?

SPEAKER_01 1:26:20

Yes, it did. Yep, it got vetoed.

SPEAKER_06 1:26:24

How do you not just lock that dude's team down and you're disqualified? Right?

Theater Gimmicks And Point Break Bits

SPEAKER_01 1:26:27

I don't know. Tick Rox, bro. The guy who is uh the commissioner is is too nice of a guy. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:26:36

Yeah, red pussy.

SPEAKER_05 1:26:41

I mean, seriously.

SPEAKER_06 1:26:43

You tried it once and was like, ha ha ha, good try fuck off. You tried it again. No, no, your team was locked and you're done for.

SPEAKER_01 1:26:51

Yeah. Bye-bye. But now the trade, I think the trade dead lanes pass, so we're good. So but it was Saturday.

SPEAKER_06 1:26:59

Oh, whatever the 21st was.

SPEAKER_01 1:27:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:27:02

I think. So yeah, Friday or Saturday with this. No, no, third, Thursday, whatever. Yes. I think I think I was right the first time. Uh uh before Thursday's game, I think, was the deadline. Yeah. So good. No more of that rough ass shit. Man, that dude, like, seriously. And then once the season's over, boot him out of the league. He's not allowed to play. You're doing shit like that. You don't know, man. Even in just a fun league, you don't do stuff like that.

SPEAKER_00 1:27:28

Yeah. Yeah. Tick move.

SPEAKER_06 1:27:30

Yeah, big time. That would be like like Jack at a wifey's like, okay, trade me all your top players so I can maximize my team so I have one super ticket. Like, no, you don't, you don't do that. Nope. Like, there's nothing wrong with you trading with each other as long as it's a balanced trade. It's like, I need a tight end, I have two tight ends. Oh, I need the receiver. I you have two. Let's swap. You know, that makes sense. Right. But what that dude was doing was bullshit. Fleece.

SPEAKER_01 1:27:56

Fleecing.

SPEAKER_06 1:27:57

Man. Um. Don't introduce me to him when I visit Portland. Don't visit.

SPEAKER_01 1:28:04

Um, we uh what are you uh what do you go? What are you guys doing the rest of the Thanksgiving weekend? Do you guys have any plans? Not a damn thing.

SPEAKER_06 1:28:14

I was thinking about that. I was like, I don't think so. I mean, now that Blu-ray movies on discount at Walmart ain't a thing the last five years, I just have no interest in going out. So that was my fun. I want to go to Walmart and Target and get$3 movies with digital copy. And now they don't do that. So it's like, well, I guess I'll avoid all that shit and watch college football on Saturday and pro football on Sunday. Uh there's a Friday night game this week uh as well. Um so it'll be football Thursday through Sunday. That's gonna be my that's that's all I'm really doing. I I might, you know, look it around, straighten out some stuff. I I don't know. But there's zero plan.

SPEAKER_00 1:28:54

Finish working on the tree.

SPEAKER_06 1:28:56

Go watch a movie.

SPEAKER_00 1:28:57

Finish working on the tree, get all that shit back in the garage. Straighten up a little bit.

SPEAKER_06 1:29:02

Uh uh continue binge watching my rewatch of uh Avatar Last Ember, airbender stuff. And that way I can get it.

SPEAKER_01 1:29:16

So I'll report it on Sunday with how that went. If they don't have a yippie kaye motherfucker song, then you need to walk out and get your money back. I'm I they I think they they will. I think when he I think then when he's crawling through the uh the duck work, he just has like a he just he stands there and he has a piece of duck and he's acting like he's crawling through. Wow. Acceptable.

SPEAKER_02 1:29:43

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:29:44

I mean I I'm kinda uh yeah, I'll I'll let you guys know. I'll I I'm I'm looking forward to it. My understanding is the point break one is actually supposed to be like Chef's Kiss. Oh, yeah. Well, no, it's better so they pull somebody randomly out of the audience to play the Keanu Reeves part, and they have somebody walking around with script pages like so then when they're doing read about that.

SPEAKER_00 1:30:08

Oh, you know, I must have been looking up point break when it was on TV at work the other day, and I think I read something about that. That they just randomly get somebody to play Keanu.

SPEAKER_01 1:30:16

Yep. And then they walk around, they have somebody walk around behind them that has the script with what they're supposed to say, and then they're supposed to like, ugh.

SPEAKER_02 1:30:26

Wow. I am an FBI agent.

SPEAKER_06 1:30:34

There's a movie.

SPEAKER_01 1:30:36

Have you ever just shoot your gun in the air? Have you ever jumped through the air while shooting two guns at once? That's hot fuzz. That's not from Point Bright. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:30:49

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:30:52

Circle back to Edgar Wright. Yep, full circle. Boom. Opened with Ended with it. Jens?

SPEAKER_06 1:31:02

I ain't seen that movie in a couple decades and I never watched a redo.

SPEAKER_01 1:31:06

Of what? Wait, Point Break. No, I yeah, there was a remake of Point Break. Talk about stuff that isn't memorable.

SPEAKER_00 1:31:19

Well, they're like fucking environmentalists or stupid shit like that.

SPEAKER_06 1:31:25

It was some leftist crap.

SPEAKER_00 1:31:26

I didn't watch it. I'm like, why would you ruin a perfect movie by remaking it?

SPEAKER_06 1:31:30

That was the first thing. There's some movies you just don't touch, man.

SPEAKER_00 1:31:34

There was nothing wrong with point break. And that's why she went on to make you like Hawk Down or some shit. No, Hurt Locker.

SPEAKER_06 1:31:45

Hurt Locker. Yeah, I was gonna say no, it was Hurt Locker. Because it was Arrow, uh Hawk Dude.

SPEAKER_00 1:31:50

Yeah. Hawkeye. At least uh she still makes movies and like James Cameron. Ex-husband James Cameron.

SPEAKER_06 1:32:02

Uh isn't Avatar coming out next month?

SPEAKER_00 1:32:05

That shit doesn't count. The dude makes one movie.

SPEAKER_01 1:32:08

Oh Hayton. I wish he'd start making movies. Doesn't he have a movie coming out next month? No. Not the same thing.

SPEAKER_00 1:32:19

The man made Terminator, Aliens, True Lies, and all he does is stupid ass Avatar. Have you ever met anybody that said their favorite movie was Avatar?

SPEAKER_02 1:32:33

I think I met another six-year-olds a couple years ago. Yeah. Whoa.

SPEAKER_00 1:32:40

They weren't six, they were midgets.

SPEAKER_03 1:32:46

They were midgets.

SPEAKER_01 1:32:51

Lou was like, I was giving them candy. I was like, I thought those were remote for me.

SPEAKER_04 1:32:59

Wait, that's a thing. I'm gonna go.

SPEAKER_01 1:33:05

You know what it probably is. You get it for half off Lou.

SPEAKER_05 1:33:10

The best price.

SPEAKER_01 1:33:16

Alright, gents. What do you call? What do you call? Oh boy. Nope. What do you call it? Alright, guys. Good fun.

SPEAKER_06 1:33:21

Come on now. I know I know you guys. I know you guys heard this one because I told it last year. What do you call a clairvoyant midget that just broke out of prison?

SPEAKER_01 1:33:34

A small medium at large. What was that?

NFL Week: Rage, Laughs, And Draft Talk

SPEAKER_06 1:33:38

A small medium at large.

SPEAKER_01 1:33:42

Oh, Lord.

SPEAKER_00 1:33:44

Where's your room shot, Jack? No, that's like when uh when I went to I visited jail and I saw a little person uh escaping over the wall. I was like, oh, that's a little condescending.

SPEAKER_01 1:34:04

Nope, I got nothing. I got nothing.

SPEAKER_06 1:34:12

With Jack's computer problems, you get you need a computer to joke. What do you call a singing computer? Uh Dell.

SPEAKER_03 1:34:33

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:34:34

Oh jump the shorts.

SPEAKER_03 1:34:37

We hit her out even if it shows. Yep.

SPEAKER_01 1:34:41

This is the part that gets cut out and just put on the shorts. Right. But it's like, no, you guys are stupid. The shorts.

SPEAKER_04 1:34:48

The shorts. The jokes continue.

SPEAKER_06 1:34:56

Oh man. Oh, do you guys what was that? Do you guys check out the news the other day where that one um that English teacher that went to jail? Yeah, she she got a full sentence.

SPEAKER_01 1:35:14

How do sharp people greet each other? They microwave.

SPEAKER_05 1:35:23

Oh my god, that's good.

SPEAKER_03 1:35:25

He's got midget jokes.

SPEAKER_04 1:35:30

Oh my god. That's funny.

SPEAKER_01 1:35:33

I just played miniature golf with a short person, but he just called it golf. Oh you're so short that when it rains, you're the last to know.

SPEAKER_06 1:35:53

Those fuckers are tall if you measure from the ceiling.

SPEAKER_01 1:36:00

Be careful, the little guy might just jump up and push you in the knee.

SPEAKER_05 1:36:05

I need you.

SPEAKER_06 1:36:10

Other than that, y'all, I got I got nothing. It'll just be like I I might I seriously might go watch Predator again tomorrow. And and then again, Wednesday will be quiet. Um thought I had maybe somebody went on too.

SPEAKER_01 1:36:24

Alright, this one's for Lou. I'm not it's not that I'm short, I simply have am built for speed and accuracy.

SPEAKER_03 1:36:36

I'm so funny.

SPEAKER_06 1:36:44

Nah, me.

SPEAKER_01 1:36:46

You know you're short when your shoelaces hit you in the head. Wow.

SPEAKER_06 1:36:55

Okay, uh, time for me to go eat.

SPEAKER_01 1:36:57

Have a good Thanksgiving, guys.

SPEAKER_06 1:36:59

Enjoy for those, if except for our foreign people who don't celebrate Thanksgiving, then we don't we don't want to offend you. Instead, pushing on you.

SPEAKER_01 1:37:09

Enjoy going to work. You guys enjoy yeah, enjoy Thursday. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:37:13

There you go. While we're eating. Enjoy this Thursday holiday? Like Wednesday's hump day. What's Thursday? Turkey Day? I don't know.

SPEAKER_06 1:37:22

No, just in general.

SPEAKER_01 1:37:23

Friday Eve.

SPEAKER_00 1:37:24

Wednesday is Friday Friday Eve.

SPEAKER_06 1:37:27

Wednesday's hunt day. Refractory day. That's what we'll call it.

SPEAKER_00 1:37:32

And then on Friday, you're ready to bust out of here.

SPEAKER_06 1:37:37

Bust out he said.

SPEAKER_00 1:37:43

Oh we are hilarious.

SPEAKER_01 1:37:47

And then Lou's favorite holiday after Thanksgiving is uh Black Friday. So happy Black Friday for those that celebrate.

SPEAKER_05 1:37:54

My own holiday.

SPEAKER_00 1:37:57

Outside of February.

SPEAKER_01 1:37:59

Outside of February. And June. All right, we need to go now before we get in trouble.