Newcomers: Scorsese, with Nicole Byer and Lauren Lapkus - Iron Man 2 (w/ Carl Tart and Lamar Woods)

Episode Date: March 15, 2022

Well, well, well. If it isn't our old friend Iron Man, back at it again. Nicole and Lauren jump into the third movie in the MCU (and second of our abridged watch-through), 2012's Iron Man 2, with their friends from across the Headgum hallway, Carl Tart and Lamar Woods. Can you guess which guest is an actual Marvel superfan? Listen to Carl and Lamar's podcast XOXO, Gossip Kings, and watch the video version here. Next week's movie: Thor (2011) Like the show? Rate Newcomers 5 stars on Spotify and Apple Podcasts and leave a review for Nicole and Lauren to read on the pod! Advertise on Newcomers via Gumball.fmSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This is a HeadGum Original. Could we pick up now where we left off? Mr. Stark, please. Yes, dear. Could I have your attention? Absolutely. Our priority here is to have you turn over the Iron Man weapon to the American people. Well, you can forget it.

We're safe. America is secure. You want my property? You can't have it. But I did you can forget it. We're safe. America is secure. You want my property? You can't have it. But I did you a big favor. I have successfully privatized World Peace. We're adjourned for the day. You've been a delight. Oh, it's good to be back.

I'm so glad you're back. I'm so glad you're back. I'm so glad you're back. I'm so glad you're back. I'm so glad you're back. I'm so glad you're back. I'm so glad you're back. I'm so glad you're back.

I'm so glad you're back. I'm so glad you're back. I'm so glad you're back. I'm so glad you're back. I'm so glad you're back. I'm so glad you're back. I'm so glad you're back. I'm so good to be back. You come from a family of thieves and butchers. And now, like all guilty men, you try to rewrite your own history. And you forget all the lives

the Stark family has destroyed. There will be blood in the water and the sharks will come. I'm sorry. Oh, wow. Hi, I'm Nicole. I'm Lauren. And this is another season of Newcomers. We're doing the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Wow. I can't believe it. We got roped into this.

We did it. Oh, my God. Well, look, we're on our second episode of our fifth season of this podcast. We are working our way through this universe. We have fellow newcomers. We have some super fans and sometimes we have

people who've contributed to the series. Yes. But we're doing 20 episodes. We're doing 20 of the 27. I cannot believe it. That's a lot. It's believe it. That's a lot. It's too many. It's too many. We're on the second one now, and I'm like, whew.

Oh, and they're long. They're not short. They're very long movies. This one was longer than the first one. And they really started milking this one, I thought, after the success of the first one. Yes. Oh, yeah. Everyone loves this now.

And they went so fucking hard. I was like, oh, my God. The technology was like 10 million times better too honestly that was nice that was nice that was a really good technology um okay so we're talking about the third film in the mcu iron man 2 from 2010 we are skipping the second entry in the franchise which is the incredible hulk for some reason but we're gonna meet the hulk in the franchise, which is the Incredible Hulk for some reason. But we're going to meet the Hulk in the Avengers, apparently. Okay, but isn't Mark Ruffalo the Hulk? I thought. I'm sad I'm not seeing that one. Wait, isn't the Hulk that man who fights?

Hulk is green. No, the Fight Club man. Brad Pitt? No, the other one. He's Hulk I thought so he's my celebrity crush he is yeah he's one of them he's very handsome he's cute oh okay so I got to meet him one time you did yeah I shook his hand and I was like where um it was at it was I had gone to see Judd Apatow do stand-up in New York and it was like a party afterwards and I met

him and I met wait hold on Danny DeVito what yeah I know they were together yeah they were dating they were holding hands they're dating you heard it here first oh wait so okay Edward Norton is the Hulk in the Incredible Hulk and then They were holding hands. They're dating. You heard it here first. Oh, wait. So, okay. Edward Norton is the Hulk in The Incredible Hulk and then was replaced by Mark Ruffalo. Oh, shit. I got to see that old one because I like him.

I want to see him be a superhero. The original Hulk sucks. So that's why we're not watching it. Well, that makes sense. Interesting, but we're watching other sucky things. Yeah. Well, okay. So if you want to watch Iron Man 2 to catch up with us, it's available on Disney Plus and you can get it for a fee on Amazon, Apple TV Plus, Google Play, and Vudu. And obviously we're going to spoil this movie. So if you want to watch it first, then do that. But you can catch up if you don't want to watch it, I think.

Yeah, just have a nice little listen. Maybe people are out there who just want to get educated on the MCU so that they can like have a conversation with their boyfriend or something. Yeah, just have a nice little listen. Maybe people are out there who just want to get educated on the MCU so that they can have a conversation with their boyfriend or something. Yeah, maybe. They're like, what do girls think about this? Okay, here are my thoughts. They're long. They're long and they suck. What are your quick thoughts on this film?

Well, it was really easy to watch because the technology was really good. The CGI was, like, way better. The first movie had, like, no real special effects, it felt like. It felt like there were some scenes with, like, a couple little, like, loading, you know, bars on the computer or, like, him making his little, like, wrist guard out of a green thing. This was much more advanced. But it was only made two years later, so I was really surprised. I didn't understand. Was it just the budget?

Maybe they got more of a budget. Yeah, yeah. Because the first one seemed old in that way. Very, very old. Very antiquated. Yeah. But I liked that, but then I thought the whole thing had gotten really cocky. I felt like the first one was more humble.

I also thought the first one was a little bit more humble. I also thought the first one was more humble I also thought the first one was a little bit more humble I also thought the first one was like really easy to follow this one I feel like I glanced down and then I was like wait what I know the first one we were really happy because the first one was like here's what's happening she's downloading the file bad file being downloaded it's achieved like they were like spelling everything out so clearly this one was a little more like expecting us to know something i think and i i felt like they trusted me too much to like understand stuff yeah and i was like i'm stupid just like really spell it out for me just tell me what's happening i think gwyneth paltrow i think she really dyed her hair red this time thoughts i thought it was a wig last time.

I... Oh, I thought it was a wig both times. I thought she did a lot more, like, bad screaming. There was a part where she was in the back of the car and she was like, ah! Ah! And I was like, Gwyneth, don't you have an Oscar? What's going on with these screams? See, and that is why

I like Robert Downey Jr. because he really commits. Yes. He's very authentic in this role, I would say. That facial hair though. It's really bad. It's disgusting. And I didn't like whenever they were really zoomed in on it. Me either. When he's in the helmet and they're like, here's what's

happening inside the head. I don't like any of those helmet shots. Unnecessary. And we have Don Cheadle replacing Terrence Howard. Yes. Unceremoniously. we have Don Cheadle replacing Terrence Howard. Yes. Unceremoniously. I want to know more about that. Hopefully we'll get some more facts.

Okay, we should introduce our guests for today. We got Carl Tartt and Lamar Woods. Carl is a former football player who's now on the same television show as me. See how the Lord works in mysterious ways and i love the show it's so good thank you it's called grand crew lamar is a musician slash writer who writes on the same show with the cult they're also the host of xoxo gossip kings on head gum they're watching their way through all 121 episodes of

Gossip Girl. I didn't realize this. I have to hear about this. I think I'm going to listen to it. I don't listen to podcasts, but I'm very curious to hear your thoughts. I gotta hear about that. Oh my God. A Gossip Girl. Welcome, Carl Lamar. Thank you for having me.

Hey, what's up? This is hilarious. So I said, when y'all was talking about Mark Ruffalo, and I saw Leah's fingers, she put that cat down and started, I said, oh, she about to get y'all ass. It was typing in the chat, telling us. It was typing in the chat, telling me what we're wrong about. Wait, okay. So Lamar, Carl, what are your experiences with Marvel?

Are you familiar with the MCU? I don't get down. Okay. Okay. I don't get down. Fair. So, had you seen this movie before? Nuh-uh.

I hadn't seen it before. I think I may have saw the first one at a friend's house. You know how on a lazy Sunday where you go to your homie's house, like know how like on a on like a lazy sunday where you like go to your homie's house like your homie who still lives with his mom and uh it was like you go over his house and they're all just like eating pizza and smoking like well we ain't doing shit we over here watching iron man and i think i've like seen it in that capacity that makes so much sense i feel like it's always on in that capacity. There was a Twitter thread where I got roasted

for not understanding the MCU. I don't give a shit, man. Man, I have sex. Thank you! Yes, you're in here first. Carl Tart has sex. Let him know he be swangin'. Swangin' around.

I don't know about the fucking Iron Man I have sex I love this Lamar what's your take? Lamar do you have sex or do you get down with them? Do you watch Marvel? I do not have sex but I watch a lot I've seen all of the Marvel I love Marvel so you've seen this movie before

did you re-watch it for this or have you just seen it after you know it? I re-watched it it is my least favorite Marvel movie. Wow. All of them? Yeah. I was like, oh, this one. Even the Hulk one?

It was fun to watch it again. Well, I guess it's weird. It's like that one, I just don't, it's like feels like a different like category or something, that original Hulk. But yeah, this is worse than, I would say this is, I can't even compare that because that Hulk one was like, felt like a different would say this is I can't even compare that because that Hulk one was like felt like a different kind of thing I don't know if that gets me in trouble is that gonna get us in trouble no no I think it's good that you're saying this is your least favorite though because it kind of sets the bar that like

we might like some things that are to come but it was better this time I had fun watching it though yeah it you know what I will say Nicole not to scare you but I watched the next movie we're doing, and I liked this one a lot more than that. Wait, what is the next one? Thor. Thor? Oh, I couldn't.

Y'all just going in order? So y'all, you can skip around? Yeah, but we're skipping some along the way. Like, we skipped The Incredible Hulk. But Thor, that's the Hammer Man? Yeah, but we'll save it, because I thor that hammer that's the hammer man yeah but we'll save it because i can't talk about that right now okay fair so okay let's get into the daily bugle this is our news segment uh we're going to give a recap of what's going on lately in the mcu now director james gunn tweeted a storyboard from guardians of the galaxy volume

three that appears to show the character mantis in peril you know the only thing i really understand from that is storyboard oh oh my fucking god you have to click the link hold on i gotta send this to you guys i'm gonna put this in the chat it is so stupid how does anybody know he wrote shooting this shot now it's a hashtag game go ahead guardians of the galaxy gv i don't know what to say okay and then he drew there's a little picture from the storyboard it looks like a scribble a true scribble it's so funny we should put it up when we post this episode wait a minute it's so goofy looking that i'm like why would anyone get excited about this one of the comments is you are so detailed with your work and that really gets me good oh my god someone wrote r.i.p drax whatever is that the character

is that what that thing is i don't know mantis mantis is in peril that's probably one of the funniest pictures i've ever seen um Oh, my God. I love that. That's what happened when we clicked that. Our second item of news is She-Hulk director Kat Correo revealed recently in an interview that the series would be more of a comedy than previous Marvel shows. Wow. Oh, She-Hulk. So, yeah, you get a big lady. She got to be funny. Well, it's Tatiana maslany who is so funny and she's so talented so i think that's gonna be good because she's awesome um on tiktok dr stranger the multiverse of madness star sochiel gomez posted a video of herself

and the very first action figure of her character america chavez i wish it was the same picture as that screenshot we just saw i wish uh here i'll put this tiktok here she's very excited you see the the thing dancing around? Yeah. Okay. So, yeah, this little girl put out her... She has an action figure. And, yeah, so she's cute. Was she on Babysitter's Club? Maybe.

I haven't seen Babysitter's Club. Oh, my God, I loved it. Yeah, she was on that. She was replaced in the next season because she was doing this. Oh, no. See, I'm a Babysitter's Club purist. I really like the Scholastic series. I love that one.

Do you remember that? This one is good like that, though. Oh, it is? Yeah. Because I hated the movie with Rachel Leigh Cook. No, no, no. It's more like the Scholastic. It's really sweet.

All right. Maybe I'll get into it. Yeah. All right. Well well that was fascinating news riveting yes baby says club remember sweet valley high yeah i loved sweet valley high i loved the television series and i read the books can we talk a little bit about Gossip Girls and what is what drew you guys to do a podcast about that?

That's a good question. Oh yeah, so Lamar had watched it over the pandemic and I had been wanting to watch it. It came out like, it came out September of 2007, which was like my first semester of college. Like that was when I like started college. So I missed it.

We were big OC heads in high school, but I missed Gossip Girl. And we always heard about it. And then one time I started signing my emails with XOXO Gossip Tart. And I didn't, I did it without ever seeing the show. So I kind of felt like a poser. Like I felt like I was wearing Etni's shoes and didn't know how to skate. Yeah, I never knew that that was that neck. These poles are very funny.

I knew that whole time I knew Carl. I could just picture that perfect chunk of a shoe. Yeah, truly. Just a real hunk. It's like a half circle. So, yeah, so I started. I was like, well, I want to to watch it i want to get into it and me and lamar have been trying to figure out a podcast uh outlet for ourselves and so i was like well

let's just do this like because clearly whatever we think about the show is going to be ridiculous so yeah i love so intriguing at the same time so i was was like, yeah, let's do that. And that was where Milo Ventimiglia first came on the scene, right? He's one of the hot guys. Have you gotten that? Milo Ventimiglia? Oh, wait, is that the guy? He's from This Is Us?

And he's also on Gilmore Girls. I almost just said Gingham Girls. That's what I mean. Oh, no, Gilmore Girls. That makes me think of Gossip Girl. Yeah, I was about to say, he not in that. Oh, no, yeah, okay, no, Gilmore Girls. I'm mixing up with Gossip Girl. Yeah, I was about to say. He nodded. Oh, no.

Yeah, okay. That's why you both looked at me. No, Gossip Girl. Gossip Girl is Blake or whatever. Ed Chadwick. Blake Lively. Blake Lively, yeah. Late Meester.

And then. Did I say Gilmore Girls when I said it a minute ago? Whatever. I got confused. You said Gossip Girl. Oh, I said it right. Okay. I got confused in my head.

You got your man confused with the girls. Oh, my God. that's really you know who is in it that guy from uh pam and tommy have y'all seen pam and tommy oh my god no i haven't watched no is it good it's not that good but it's fun to watch do they reenact the sex tape yeah you know i didn't get that far yet i was like when, when are they going to show the sex thing? But no. I think it just exists already and it's like, they show parts of it. But that guy is in Gossip Girl and I didn't

realize that it's the same guy who's also in the Marvel Universe. Yeah, there you go. He's Captain America? He plays Captain America's best friend. Oh. Captain Mexico? He plays Captain America's best friend. Oh. Captain Mexico. Yeah.

Captain and their stepbrother, Captain Canada. I would watch Captain Mexico. I think that would be very nice and fun. Yeah, for real. Okay, we should take a break. Yeah, let's do it. If you're wondering what a NordVPN is, I'll tell you. VPN stands for Virtual Private Network,

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This has won. He's written some big movies by Justin Theroux. Okay, the last one had like 8 billion writers. This has won. He's written some big movies. Justin Theroux? Yes, he wrote Tropic Thunder. He's the Prime Minister of Canada. He wrote Tropic Thunder? Didn't he? Yeah, I didn't know he was so prolific like that.

I know. No, that guy's name is Justin Trudeau. Forgive me. They're very similar people. his name is Justin Trudeau. Oh. Forgive me. Did he stay up to date Jennifer Aniston? Yeah, they were married. They were married? Whoa, he wrote Rock of Ages and Zoolander 2?

I know, what? That guy's talented. Antropic Thunder, Reign of Madness? There was a second Tropic Thunder? Oh, I don't think I knew that. Wow. Wow. Who knew?

Yeah, he's killing it. And he also was on Sex and the City twice as two different characters. He was? Yes. Oh, you better work, Justin Theroux. And you're like, why you ran out of men that fast? You had to use them again? There were no more men in New York City.

Oh, yeah. He played Jared, and then he came back a year later to play vaughn it's absurd um it was directed by john fevereau and it was released may 7th 2010 um all right so let's look at our summary here we have to tell you what happened in this movie now this is helpful for us too because i need to be kind of walked through this one. Yes. Okay, so we start out in Russia, where the media is covering Tony Stark's disclosure of his identity as Iron Man. Ivan Vanko, Mickey Rourke, who is so scary, watches his father Anton dying while Tony's press conference plays in the background. His father used to work for Stark Industries and Vanco begins building a miniature arc reactor similar to Tony's.

How does everybody know how to build these fucking ring lights? If you know, if you that smart, you should have stayed out of jail. How you let the cops get you? The police? The police? He is so scary to me. I feel like he's so real. He's almost too committed.

When he's coming at Tony Stark, whipping those electricity chains, I was like, this is scary. It made me a little horny. Okay. It was kind of this is scary. It made me a little horny. Okay. It was kind of like sexual, yeah. Yeah, with like his overalls half off and he's just like, whoop. Oh my God. See, I didn't take it. I actually got

scared. It did look like they were about to double dutch. Like that did make me laugh when I thought about double dutching. I was like, oh, that's pretty funny. That would be cute. I was hoping for that. Yeah, Tony would be like, he would say some witty comment and be like, all right, let about double dutching. I was like, oh, that's pretty funny. That would be cute. I was hoping for that. Yeah, Tony would be like, he would say some witty comment and be like, all right, let's double dutch. He never said it. He didn't say anything clever.

That's because they probably had no black people in the room punching up to be like, this is a pretty good joke about double dutching. It's sitting right there. Speaking of black people, they swapped out my man Terrence Howard for Don Cheadle. They'd be swapping out the brothers.

Wait, Lamar, do you know why that happened? Why did the brothers get swapped? Man, I do. Before I say what I think it is, does Leia know? You don't know. I hope you can correct me if I'm wrong. We learned in the previous episode that Terrence Howard was paid like way more than Robert Downey Jr. So much more.

And then that he was like difficult or something. So it's like, was it that? Yeah, I think it was that. And they was beefing him and Robert Downey Jr. was beefing and John Favreau. Because he wanted to get paid, but they was like, but you're not even killing it. Hold on, man. Y'all got to understand what I bring

to the movie, man. Y'all got to see what's going on with your Iron Man, man. Y'all got Iron Man. Y'all got iron hearts, man. Y'all need to soften up those iron hearts. This iron gonna poison your chest, man. And now Tito is like, I can come in here and help y'all need to soften up those iron hearts this iron gonna poison your chest nice i could come in here and help y'all out let me tell y'all how down cheetah works

i need some money to pay me shit here's here's what we've learned downy's uh salary was increased dramatically for iron man to uh to a rumored $10 million plus a cut of the back end profit. Yeah, and the first one got $500,000. Yeah, and fucking Terrence got $2 million. That in turn led to Marvel Studios to drastically slash Howard's pay to what the actor said was just $40,000.

That's crazy. That's so low. That's so low. For that funny movie after he was already in the first one? That's crazy. That's so low. That's so low. For that funny movie after he was already in the first one? That's crazy. That's so funny to pay someone $2 million and be like, we did not get a return on that investment. How's $40,000 for you?

That's rough. Wow. So apparently, Leah said that she was looking at gossip blogs and it looked very messy. That went down between everyone. I love it. Yeah, it's pretty exciting it's a you never think about that like i always when i was a kid watching and i was like why did they swap that black dude out like that's had no concept of behind the scenes yeah it's

also like yeah they got a new black guy it's also like a reverse aunt viv because on the Fresh Prince they went light and on Iron Man they went dark. You ain't never lied to Tom. That's exactly what happened. Okay, so meanwhile, Tony's enjoying his celebrity status and using his Iron Man suit to maintain peace. To continue the legacy of his father Howard, John Slattery, he brings back the Stark Expo at NYC. So this is why he's on stage at that big thing in his costume. Yeah.

And at one point they're like, it's the year-long Stark Expo. And I was like, a year-long Expo? Who's ever heard of that? People really care about this, I guess. Like, people fucking love Iron Man. That was weird. I thought that was a very weird thing I couldn't I couldn't figure out why the event was happening at all I feel like they weren't it felt like there wasn't like it didn't feel like there was some reason it just felt like

we just were picking up and seeing that now he's super famous as Iron Man and everyone cares or something I don't know but Tony gets subpoenaed to appear before Congress where he is pressured by Senator Schoen, played by Gary Shandling, to turn over his designs to the government. Senator Schoen brings out Tony's corporate rival, Justin Hammer, Sam Rockwell, as an expert witness to support their case,

followed by Tony's best friend, Lieutenant Colonel James Rhodes, now played by Don Cheadle, who just comes in and goes, it's me, I'm Rhodes, I'm here, let's do this. He's like, get over it. Forget about it. I'm snitching on you. I betrayed you.

Forget about it. Let's talk about it. Sam Rockwell. Sam Rockwell's a great actor. He was so funny. I didn't even know that was him. He looked so different in Three Billboards over Edmunds Montez or whatever. But I definitely feel like this movie was just based different than three billboards over Edmunds Montez or whatever. But I definitely

feel like this movie was just based, like the whole storyline is just like, this dude is tight and these other dudes is just hating on him. Yeah. Yeah, they're all haters. That man was so mad. He was just like, I can't stand this dude. He hates Iron Man.

He hates Tony Stark. They showed the eats Iron Man. He eats Tony Stark. They showed the video of him. He was embarrassed. The machine was breaking. He was like, hold on. Hold on. You got this. Plug it back in.

Plug it back in. Somebody fix this. It's crazy. He was like, that dude didn't die. He didn't die. And then it was like, I can't stand this dude. Why you gonna pull that up? Why you gonna pull that up right now?

He's trying to take the DVD player out. Anyway, so Senator Shuren then proves that other attempts by foreign powers to duplicate the Iron Man suit have failed miserably and also embarrasses Hammer, who had testified against him by showing he had also made a bungled attempt at creating a prototype. And then, fucking, Tony Stark is like, I've privatized peace! And I was like, what is happening?

What do you mean you've privatized peace? See, the first movie felt so that the plot was so simple. It was like, there's a bad guy. We got to like stop this or, you know, whatever. It was just like, that's it. And now I feel like it's like, he's doing way too much. Yeah.

He's going to Senate meetings. He's now in the government. Okay. So at home, Jarvis. Jarvis has dots. Does Jarvis stand for something? Just a. Oh yeah.

Really visual, insensitive... Jovial... Succubus. Succubus! Confirms to Tony that... Oh, Leah's typing an answer. Okay, we're gonna find out. Jarvis is...

Oh, nice. What? Just a rather very intelligent system is not a good actor. No. It's like they came up with the name first and then made it up like we just did. I like that though. I feel like Tony came up with that.

I think that's probably Tony being like the smart ass. Tony's a genius and that's what he came up with? Yeah. Jarvis. That's funny though. fits tony's brand where he's like yeah i'm this smart ass dude but also i'll be out here bullshitting you know i'm not even trying right now so jarvis just a really and whatever it confirms a really very sorry like a really very intelligent system oh he named it after his father's butler whose last name was jarvis okay so he had to come Just a really very intelligent system?

Oh, he named it after his father's butler whose last name was Jarvis. So he had to come up with the meaning. So he had to really shoehorn some shit. So Jarvis confirms to Tony that the toxic levels in his blood have risen. What? Does it mean the shrapnel?

Yeah, he was like, your heart, you only have so many of these little things left. He had the little chips to put in his little soda cup. All his SD cards kept burning up. Yeah, that's just nasty. It was like infecting his body because it's like radiation basically putting in his soul. Yeah, and they showed his chest and it was like all veins of like crackliness. Like it was coming apart or something.

Yeah, and I didn't like it. It looked like... I don't know what it looked like. Oh, it looked like that game, that red game with the knobs where you make the lines. Oh, wait, Etch-a-Sketch? Yep. Oh, yeah. Like someone Etch-a-Sketch-ed on his body?

Lauren, I gave you no hints. That red game with the lines? Wait, what is the red game with the knobs where you make the lines to even call it a game it wasn't a game it's not a game that's art it was like the hardest thing ever

and then some people are really good at it somehow and it makes no sense it doesn't make any sense I can only make lines what if Jarvis was like you need to stop eating all that pork stop eating those that pork. Stop eating those Burger King cheeseburgers you ate in the previous movie. He loves Burger King. He wants an American cheeseburger.

That's what he needed when he got back. What's palladium? That's like. The palladium that's powering the arc reactor. Oh, yeah. Oh, keeping the shrapnel from reaching his heart is slowly killing him. And there's no other suitable replacements. Oopsies. I guess our friend Jensen didn't really have a long-term plan for this heart situation.

He sure didn't. That's why he was like, I'm good to die. Tony thinking he'll die makes Pepper Potts, Gwyneth Paltrow, CEO of Stark Industries, and makes Natalie Rushman, Scarlett Johansson, his new assistant. Where the fuck did she come from she came from nowhere and then he's all like horny for her instantly and then she kicks that guy's ass

and that was weird for me I was like and we're all just like chill that this lady I didn't even see her take her shoes off gets in this ring and then just beats this man up and everyone's like cool I know they're like oh she's tough too I mean I

it took me about an hour and a half and then I said oh is she Black Widow oh yeah Mike was like is she yeah I guess so but it took me so long is that the first time we see her it was yeah it was kind of trippy watching I've never seen her before yeah I think so

yeah that means dang that was like her intro to the marvel universe right yeah so she just comes in as like a sweet little assistant and um okay at the monaco grand prix tony takes out the formula one driver who's representing stark industries and drives it himself seeking some enjoyment before he dies despite putting himself in immediate danger oh oh soon appears on the track to jump rope. Tony, and he baits Tony by attacking the racing cars using his modified harness and electric whips. Happy Hogan.

That's his name? Jon Favreau is Happy Hogan. Happy Hogan. Happy Hogan. And Pepper, these names show up to the racetrack to save Tony. And throw him his noun or adjective. Pepper Potts. Pepper Potts.

Pepper Potts. Pepper Potts. Pepper Potts. Happy Hogan. These are the brains. My name is Happy Hogan. I'm here to save Pepper Potts. Ruin it for ruin.

It's not the way. Yeah. They had a fun dancer Pepper Potts and Happy Hogan They were having fun together on the track That was an intense scene On a racetrack It was very intense And dare I say sexy

So they show up to save Tony By like driving a car into him and then he just like really faints fast and then they give him his portable mark 5 suit and then vanco wakes up and then he like defeats vanco um tony visits vanco in prison discovers that ivan is the son of disgraced russian physicist anton vanco who collaborated on the first arc reactor with tony's father vano is later broken out of jail by Justin Hammer who recruits him to make his own Iron Man suits to gain revenge

on Tony by ruining his reputation oh my god a lot a lot of stuff I truly I just was I found what's his name Mickey I always want to say the wrong one.

Rooney. Mickey Rourke? Yeah, Mickey Rooney. I've said that like four times. Mike was like, it's not Rooney. Shut the fuck up. But I always think he's creepy. Like when he was in The Wrestler, he's so raw.

Like the way he looks, it looks like he's been like, just like his face is just like stretched and leathery and he's just so intense and i really was curious what it was like to actually act with this man because he seemed so scary when he was approaching him on the on the grand prix track he was so intense that it it looked it looked real i felt it was very authentic it was a very authentic performance um he Did he have plastic surgery? Something's up, right? Yeah.

Something's going on with the face. I think it's a nice face. People think he's handsome. Everyone's handsome to somebody. He looks like he's lived a life. It's one of the top searches is plastic surgery. Okay, so what's... Yeah, because he's got these lips that are... Oh, my God, when he was young?

Whoa, you got to look at when he was young. Wasn't he in, like, Point Break or something? What movie was he in? Was he? I don't know, but he was. He was in one of them... Top Gun? He was?

Top Gun? Oh, my God, you got it. Maybe one of them 80s movies. Okay, I got to find out which one that was. Doing slow motion scenes or something? Oh, wow, yeah, he was cute. It's kind of shocking. There's this one picture that looks

like he has a mask. He looks like Auntie now. Auntie Rory. Interesting. He was a man on fire. I don't know why he did this. Because he was a super good looking man. he has he has messed with his face a lot um i have questions i'm gonna google mickey rourke plastic surgery why yeah like he has an explanation let me tell you he suffered

he suffered a few broken ribs a compressed compressed cheekbone, and a split tongue. And then he got memory loss. What happened? Split tongue. Why did it start in the middle of vaccination? Yeah, right. What the fuck? I want to know what happened.

Yeah, me too. How do you get a split tongue? There's a whole vice article about his face. The Pope of Greenwich Village. He was in the Pope of Greenwich Village. That's the one I was thinking about. You did not think of that. Yeah, that was the one I was thinking about. The Pope of Greenwich Village. I was thinking Top Gun or, you know, but

it was the Pope of Greenwich Village. I get those movies mixed up. Yeah, that one's really famous and popular. Oh, okay. So, boxing. He became a boxer after acting. Then he was in The Wrestler where it was like really I think that was why he was put in The Wrestler. But like, boxing. So boxing. He became a boxer after acting. Oh, that's where, okay, because then he was in The Wrestler where it was like really, I think that was why he was put in The Wrestler. Ah, yes, okay. But like boxing, so maybe he got clocked in the head a handful of times.

Yeah, I think so. The, you know, makeup of the situation. Because he, I mean, look, that's a shocking, once people start doing plastic surgery, it's dangerous though, because you just, you lose track of what you looked like before, and then it's just a whole path that you're on and yeah i'm watching darcy and stacy's faces evolve in real time 90 day fiance oh my god i know it's it's wild on instagram just i i stopped watching 90 day which i think is a huge problem because i think i'm missing out on some amazing stuff i know you really are my dad recently started watching and i'm like you started when

i stopped i've been like begging him to watch it for years but this before the 90 days is really You guys are doing some amazing stuff. I know. You really are. My dad recently started watching it. I'm like, you started when I stopped? I've been like begging him to watch it for years. This before the 90 days is really incredible. Okay. There are some true blue loony tunes. This woman, Kim, oh, she's everything. And then she gets pretty bad. Anyway, back to Iron Man.

Okay. Okay. Back to Iron Man, even though we could talk about that for hours. I feel like that plastic surgery thing is a good metaphor for what Tony Stark was going through because he's, you know, he's wearing this suit and he's becoming, he's losing track of who he was before. Wow. Wow, you just made that, that sounds smart.

Yeah. Wow. Tony Stark. That's true. Okay, so where do we leave off here? Okay, so Tony throws what he believes will be his last birthday party and stumbles around drunk in his armor

when Tony begins to endanger his party guests by blasting objects out of the air in their vicinity. His friend Lieutenant Colonel James Rhodes dons a silver suit to subdue him. The next day, Tony, disgraced and hungover and sitting in a donut, is approached Oh yeah, he's in the Randy's donut

sign, is approached by Nick Fury of S.H.I.E.L.D., Samuel L. Jackson, and Rushman, he's in the Randy's donut sign. Is approached by Nick Fury of S.H.I.E.L.D., Samuel L. Jackson and Rushman, who's really Natalie, or Natasha Romanoff, sorry, an undercover S.H.I.E.L.D. agent who provides him with a box of his father's old research that can hopefully be used to find a cure for his palladium poisoning. Palladium? Palladium?

Palladium. Who knows? I did like that Samuel L. Jackson asked him to get out of that donut. That made me laugh. That was funny to get out of that donut that made me laugh that was a cool shot to be in the donut and then he's like what's going on should I look at your eye patch is this more improv

it felt like he was being loose I thought it was rude too I would never ask someone with an eye patch where do I look I just look at your face he's never encountered someone with anything i don't know unusual um yeah but he i think that was improv probably it felt very loose and fast yeah using his father's research tony watches a video with a message from his detti that leads him to examine the original 1974 uh-oh diorama see those diarrhea we're gonna examine the original 1974 diarrhea

you're like was this what i looked down i was like what is did i miss that part in reality a disguised diagram for the molecular structure of a new element. Tony goes into hardware mode, hand-building a particle accelerator with Jarvis' help and synthesizing the new element he creates. A new perfected arc reactor that cures his palladium poisoning. Realizing Hammer's involvement with Vanko, Tony races to the Stark Expo. Wait, did we miss a part where Vankco asked for his bird oh yeah well that that was

before that i really like the scene where he's in a in a yeah we oh when he breaks out of jail he's in that hangar with the plane i was like why is he eating dinner with a plane there and then he's like my bird i want my bird. Yeah. Yeah. Sam Rockwell was funny when he was like, oh, so you like the bird now? But he's just like, that was a funny thing to point out. Yeah, he was so passionate. He's like, I'll take this other bird. I couldn't get a read on that Russian guy.

When he was helping him, it was weird. It was weird. I couldn't tell if he was really wanting to help him or what was going on. I don't think they ever made a choice. It was very like waffling on what he was actually doing. Yeah. And then I like Sam Rockwell, though. That was a fun character. Yeah, it was.

He's very, and you know, he's been dating Leslie Bibb since 2007, who was in the first Iron Man. Really? What? Who knew this? Which means they met before was in the first Iron Man. Really? What? Who knew this? Which means they met before they were both in Iron Man. Oh my, what? And then she's in this

for a second with him, right? Or was that something I'm mixing up in my head? Yeah, no, that happened. And I thought, oh, how fun for this couple. They both get to be in such a big movie together.

She's tall. He's tall? She's tall. He's tall? She's tall. I was like, yeah, no, he's not. Because I was like, I think she's taller than him. So unless she's like 6'5". They met in Los Angeles when he was filming Frost Nixon. That's when they met.

Oh, how cute. I wonder what he say to get at her. Like, listen, you know, what's good, ma? What's good, babe? What's good listen you know what's good ma what's good bib what's good bib what's good bib they call me big rock dog you want me to dribble on that bib maybe that's what he said

oh my god alright now I gotta get in his mixing character um okay we have to take a break. So, okay. At the Stark Expo, Justin Hammer unveils his new military drones, captained by Rhodes in a heavily weaponized version of the confiscated Mark II armor.

However, they realize that Vanko has hacked them and has complete control of both the drones and Rhodes' new armor, and Tony arrives just as they go on the attack. As Tony battles against these remote-controlled enemies, Happy Hogan and Romanoff race to Hammer Industries' headquarters to stop Vanko. Romanoff is able to give Rhodes control of his armor again so that he and Tony can fight the drones and Vanko together. Meanwhile, Hammer's attempts to regain control of the drones get him placed into NYPD custody. The two armored allies combine their powers and successfully take Vanko down. But Vanko's armor and the hammer drones are revealed to have

to be equipped to self-destruct as they begin to detonate. Tony races to save Pepper Potts flying her to a rooftop where they reconcile and smooch. Wait, so did we skip the part two where they, where fucking Vanco gets that like potato in his food?

Oh yeah, because that's earlier. So he gets given like, wait, sent him that that's oh so sam rockwell sam rockwell sent him that potato and then a person to kill who's wearing his outfit yeah so venko gets like yeah wait no that i think that's who replaces him so it looks like he's still in jail because he had the same number on his jail. Yeah, but he blew him up. Yeah, I think I don't know what that was supposed to be. So he gets this like he gets his meal delivered and it has like mashed potatoes. And then the notes like enjoy the potatoes and he picks them up and they flips them over. And there's like a bomb inside them with like a countdown clock on it.

And then he knew exactly what to do. This guy brings over no question. Yeah. Like the jail guy brings over like a key and like places it there. And then they bring in another guy who's basically his stunt double who's going to like die for him. Yeah, he's looking at him like, oh, no. I know he looks at his like chest where he has like his number, his like prisoner number or whatever. And then it's the same as his.

And then he's like, OK, I got all the clues I need. And he just like he slaps the mashed potatoes onto the wall and it sticks. And then it starts to count down and then it blows up everyone and he like runs away and gets out. So that's what happened there. I feel like they never paid off that fake death.

It would seem like they were trying to fake his death, but it's like no one seemed to care. No one cared. Oh my God, he's alive. I know. And they put a bag on his head and dragged him out i got a little confused they also like his whips never come back i was like why did he have them in the first place he was gonna use that to do something yeah he used it to intimidate him on the

on the track or whatever i don't know um yeah it didn pay off. A lot of things didn't pay off. So, okay, at the debriefing, Fury tells, it's Fury, right? Or Furry? Fury. Fury. Tells Tony that while he's Furry, so Furry tells Tony he's unsuitable for the Avengers initiative.

S.H.I.E.L.D. wants him to, wants him as a consultant. My God, reading is so hard sometimes. Tony agrees on the condition that- My eyes start to cross when I'm reading these things. I have to like- Same. I'm like, what?

And I almost just said Senator Sperm, but it's Senator Stern presents him in Rhodes with their medals of victory, which Schoen does reluctantly. Meanwhile- Schoen or Stern, whatever. In the post, oh my, Stern, Sperm, Sperm, I don't know. Meanwhile, in the post, oh my, stern, sperm,

sperm, I don't know. Meanwhile, in the post-credits scene, we see S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Phil Coulson driving to a remote impact crater

in the New Mexico desert. Over the phone, Coulson informs Fury that they've found it, which is revealed to be a mysterious hammer. And that's Thor. Thor has a hammer?

Yeah. So wait, are all of these teasers, they're just teasing to the next movie that's coming out i think so because like samuel jackson was in the previous one and then he's in this movie he like showed up just in the in the last moment in the teaser oh um and like he's in tony stark's house or whatever so that's i mean i guess it's to get everyone really excited huh

when you're if you're a big marvel fan you get really excited to see what the next little trailer is going to be. At the end of the movie, everybody will be like, oh, shit! This is going to be crazy. But it's like two years from now. It's going to take forever. Yeah. I know. You have to wait two years.

Okay. Well, this movie got, oh, my God. This movie was nominated for an Oscar for Best Visual Effects. Wow, the Oscars were hard for Iron Man. I know, they really were. They were nominated previously for Sound or something. But this was like... The visual effects were so much better than the first one.

So much better. It was so much easier on the eyes. It was very well done. And they also won Favorite Action Movie at the People's Choice Awards. And critically, the film was less well-received than the first Iron Man. It has an approval rating of 72% on Rotten Tomatoes. The original Iron Man had 94. That is high.

Brian Lowry of Variety wrote, Iron Man 2 isn't as much fun as its predecessor, but it will do. It'll do. All right, Brian. Roger Ebert gave it three out of four stars writing Iron Man 2 is polished. High octane sequel. Not as good as the original, but building once again on a quirky performance by Robert Downey Jr. Yes.

It holds a 71% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes. It had the fifth largest opening weekend ever at the time, earning $128 million that weekend and $623.9 million worldwide by the end of its run. That's a lot of fucking money, baby. That's huge. Now it's time for our segment, Is Chris in This? This is a segment where we have to have a yes or no conversation about if a Chris, Chris Hemsworth, Chris Evans, Chris Pratt,

or Chris Pine is in this film. Now, was a Chris in this film? I don't think so. I don't think so either. No. I didn't see one. Yeah. I didn't see not a Chris.

Now, should a Chris have been in this film? Maybe, but also I thought it was a very convoluted plot where a lot of things didn't pay off. So no, no Chris. I would say I would again put Kristen Chenoweth in this film. In just a little suit. In a little Iron Man suit.

I'm going to put Chris Brown in this film. When he's whipping the thing on Chris Brown just comes in, does a backflip and like starts dancing. In Monaco? Yeah, in Monaco. He's saying the Star Spangled Banner in Monaco. I happens to be in monaco he's saying the star spangled banner in monaco i need to be somewhere real quick

um okay you want to do some trivia hell yeah okay okay so the latin phrase that natalie slash natasha says to tony is fallacies sunt rerum species i'm gonna like summon a demon into my house. Yeah, that's what it truly sounded like. It actually translates to, the appearances of things are deceptive. So I guess that means she's going like, I'm not who you think I am.

Well, many actresses were considered for the role of Natasha Romanoff, including future Marvel stars, Natalie Portman's in Marvel movies and Brie Larson. Emily Blunt was actually offered the part before Scarlett Johansson, but had to pass due to scheduling conflicts. Wait, I could really see that.

I think that would have been cool. I would have liked Emily Blunt. Yeah, I like her. That would have been good. She's kind of, her Devil Wears Prada character, where she's like a bitch is really, I love that character.

I feel like she could really do that with this, like kind of like be badass and she probably gets to wear a cool outfit eventually. Well, a lot of Whiplash. She was doing Gulliver's Travels. She was doing what?

Gulliver's Travels. Oh. Gulliver's Travels. No one saw that. I didn't see that either. I don't think that anyone. Not one person saw it. It feels like it didn't come out.

Is that based on something? Is that a book? Gulliver's Travels? It's like a really old movie it's at least a really old story i don't know if it was like maybe it was a book but that's been done before right because they did that was like an old 90s movie too i think why i have a question did anybody notice natasha's hair change like she like she had a perm all of a sudden like was she wearing a wig the whole time? Yes her hair got totally different like near the end yeah when she started going to battle mode she had curly hair and I was like when did she get a perm I don't understand

is that how the character is drawn? oh maybe I don't know I don't know either but maybe she got a perm when she was getting dressed in the car and happy was getting too happy happy hoodlum or what was his name? that was one Maybe she got a perm when she was getting dressed in the car and Happy fucking was getting too happy. Happy Hoodlum or what was his name?

That was Happy Hoodlum. Happy Hogan. What if Happy Hogan. Happy Hogan. What if he's in beauty school? And so he was like, hey, can I please just practice? I have an exam. He's like, I'm staring at your hair, not your body. Please let me put these

she could really use a perm that's crazy oh my god yeah okay well but the thing is i never saw her wear curly hair in the other movies oh yeah maybe it was just a crazy wig they had to put on her randomly or something that seems yeah this next piece of trivia is wild. What? A lot of Venko's identifying features were suggested by Mickey Rourke. He wanted to perform half of his role in Russian. What do you mean half? What?

And consulted on the character's tattoos and gold teeth, as well as having a pet cockatoo. In fact, Rourke paid for the bird and the gold teeth out of his own pocket. Okay, I kind of love that. That's so crazy. I love him. He's like, I need to have gold teeth. And they were like, no.

And then he's like, I'll get them. I'll make it. Yeah. Not in the budget. And he was like, it's in my budget. You don't tell me, though. I'm Mickey Rooney. I like that he had that bird.

He paid for the bird? It was funny. It was funny. He knew what he paid for the bird? It was funny. It was funny. It was a good addition. He knew what he was doing. Yeah, that was funny. It was quirky. Okay, compared to the first film,

there are more Easter eggs and references to other Marvel characters that speak to the growing cinematic universe. For example, Black Panther's Wakanda can be spotted on a map. Wow, that's really small, like, Easter egg. Tony has an older version of captain america's shield and storage why in storage agent it's like in the back it's behind the door but

it's there um agent colson finds thor's hammer in new mexico and so on uh fans including actor tom holland have retroactively decided that the child wearing the iron man helmet who stark saves at the end of the film is young peter parker aka spider-man you can't just you can't just say it's that side that's crazy i'm gonna click and see the child i was wondering about that oh my god it won't open for something oh there we go oh he got on a glove. Oh. Yeah. What? No, you can't. You can't watch a movie and then years later decide that's what happened. No. That's Justin Theroux.

Yeah. Yeah. Someone wrote it. He wrote it. He wrote it down. He knows who that child is. Is that a Spidey glove, Leah? That he's got on that picture?

It's not a Spidey glove? No, he's got a, he's just got the Iron man outfit on oh yeah i'm tripping it could be anybody you can say it's anyone yeah it was me as a little girl yeah oh i get it from the marvel universe it could be you too no no no i get it it's it's a man or it's um uh fucking uh who's in marvel it's thor it's little thor thor when he was a baby and the metaphors nicole's like i don't know if you know this but when i was a little girl i met iron man he saved my life he did uh so tom holland said an interview that he talked to Kevin Feig, the president of Marvel Studios, and can confirm that it's Peter. Okay, but so the president of Marvel Studios is just some guy

who then eventually became the president. So he's also kind of just saying it is that, right? I mean, they know everything about it. It's whatever you dream of. Yeah. That's cute, I guess. Yeah. I guess.

Okay, so Lamar, what is your overall review of this like what do you like did you did you like it the second time around uh no i it was okay i didn't like it but i was um it was fun to watch it a second time around because i was seeing all these cool like hidden things that i didn't like elon musk is in the movie which i was like, what? Oh, I know. Yeah. Did y'all see that? Yeah. He was at that party when they was like up in, uh, before the race.

No, he has a line. He had lyrics. He had rap lyrics. He goes like this. He's like, he's like, what is this? He had lyrics.

He had verses. He did. He walks up to, um, to Tony and he's like, I have an idea for a big product to sell or something. And then he's like, okay, man. And then he keeps going. And then he sits down and he's like, yes.

Yeah, yeah. I did not clock this at all. That's exactly what happened, Thorne. It was so weird because I was like, in my mind, I'm like, when I saw like, it was actually a part of the movie. But I'm like, when I saw that movie, it's just like that scene just went by my head. Well, because you didn't know who he was then, right? Because it's like, I feel like we didn't know who he was until more recently. Like, he became like a person where we knew what he looked like and all this stuff before.

But he was obviously making all this shit back then, but we weren't really aware of it, I feel like, in 2020. When did Tesla become Tesla? Because he, you know what he said? He said, I got an electric airplane. I got an idea for an electric private jet. And I was like, oh, so he's already thinking about Tesla. Oh, it was founded in 2003. Okay, so they were already a thing, but only like what crazy rich people had.

Like real rich people knew about Tesla. Right. But yeah, so I didn't like the movie necessarily, but I liked watching it again. It was cool to see how cocky, I didn't realize, yeah, Tony Stark was real cocky and it's cool to see him get like, you know, humbled in front of everybody, in front of the world. I like that.

Yeah. But ultimately it was way too long, especially, you know, I woke up this morning to watch it. And I was like, this is a long movie. That's hard. Very long. Yeah. Yeah. But I was like, this is a long movie. That's hard. Very long. Yeah. Yeah.

But I appreciate being taken back to that time because that was, that was the beginning. That was the beginning of it all. Carl, Carl,

what did you think? This was your first time seeing this for real. Yeah. Um, I, you know, I was up,

uh, washing dishes and doing laundry and things, uh, as it was on. I was catching little things. I thought that- I didn't watch the movie.

I was catching some glimpses of flats here and there. It was on, and I had some things to do. No, no, no. I definitely think Robert Downey Jr. is very funny in the movie. I like that. I also thought Tom Holland was really funny. Not Tom Holland. What's his name?

Sam Rockwell. That's how much you didn't watch. You're like, Tom Holland was great. Tom Holland. No, we were just talking about Tom Holland. No, yes. The little kid. Yes.

Tom Holland was Zendaya. Anyway, I thought they were both funny. I thought that it was a really funny juxtaposition, like how Sam Rockwell, like suits wasn't as tight as Tony Stark's. He just wanted to beat his dude so bad. He was such a big hater. And so I'm happy that Tony Stark still wins because,

you know, death to all haters. Yeah. But, but he, that was that. Yeah. I did.

I did not like the film. No, I didn't. That's fair. That's fair. So. I like all these aspects about it, but yeah. that was that yeah I did I did not like the film no I didn't that's fair that's fair so I like all these aspects about it but

yeah with that being said I did not I did not enjoy the film I thought it was funny I thought it was some funny parts yeah also it was

it was the first time we see him kiss Gwyneth Paltrow that was like I was I didn't realize that's when that happened that was crazy

yeah yeah we did get a kiss which we didn't get that's when that happened. That was crazy. Yeah, we did get a kiss, which we didn't get in the first film. And I did appreciate the kiss because I'm hoping that Marvel movies have more sexiness than, say, Star Wars or The Magical Hike or... No. What was the other one?

Did Fast and the Furious have... No, not really. Only abusive sexual interactions. Yes. Yes, if people are in a relationship, you're going to get hit. No kisses. There's never like a nice sex scene in that. Well, anyways, we have our five-star review.

What do you call it? Section? What do you call it? Segment. Five-star industries. Five-star industries. Okay. Now, this one comes from MCJones51.

They say, Five stars about our newcomers podcast. Good hosts, good guests, good movies. Good God, let's eat. Wow. They had fun with that. Okay. So,

in this season, in addition to Apple reviews of newcomers, we also will be reading reviews from Letterboxd. So, we will also rate the film and we'll give it a one-sentence review ourselves on Letterboxd. And we have our own account on there called newcomers if you want to see how we review each movie now this if you if you don't know what letterboxd is it's just for people to write reviews on films yeah and if you don't know neither do i because i actually don't fully

know i've heard about letterboxd and i've my friend made the a comment about being embarrassed if his letterbox got seen. So I'm like, maybe people are on there writing a lot of detailed reviews about everything. Kind of like Yelp. Yelp for movies. Okay, so here's an example. Ellie rewatched in 2019 and said,

kind of cool how Rhodey and Tony DeVito Vanco with the power of gay love. Okay. And then Meave gave it three and a half stars and said, kind of cool how Rhodey and Tony DeVito Vanko with the power of gay love okay and then Neve gave it three and a half stars and said Iron Man who I'm only here I'm here only

for Miss Natasha Romanoff okay all right Neve calm down now this is okay we have to rate the movie

and give it a sentence and I think we have to rate it lower than we did Iron Man because I think we liked Iron Man more than the sequel

so I would say we give this one two and a half stars I agree And I think we have to rate it lower than we did Iron Man because I think we liked Iron Man more than the sequel. So I would say we give this one two and a half stars. I agree. Two and a half stars. Came for Mickey Rourke, left with Sam Rockwell. Yeah. And yep, hard to follow for me at times. A little meandering.

Two and a half stars. And I will add, Gwyneth and Scarlett were good. Robert Downey Jr. remains funny and charming, however, too cocky in this sequel. Also, welcome to the franchise, fucking... welcome to the franchise fucking Don Cheadle Don Cheadle you were nice and good

bye bye Terrence goodbye Terrence rest in peace man I'm going to Empire so is that what he did I think so well

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we will pick one to read and we will also ask that you please rate us on Spotify. That helps us get seen by more people and they can listen to our podcast. Lamar, Carl, thank you for doing this. Do you guys have anything you want to plug? Yeah, just come on over to, come on down the hallway

to the XOXO Gossip King located right here in Anya's living room. Here it comes. And Grand Crew. It's fun. Oh yeah, and Grand Crew. We're on a TV show called Grand Crew.

It's really funny. It is on Peacock, Hulu, and NBC. It's super funny. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you, Lauren, for watching. Oh my God, yes. I have to catch up. I've seen the first two episodes so far and I love it. And's super funny. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you, Lauren, for watching. Oh my god, yes. I have to catch up. I've seen the first

two episodes so far, and I love it. And it's great. There's so many fun UCB people on that show. It's a whole fun crew, the Grand Crew. The Grand Crew is a fun crew. I googled Grand Crew when Phil first announced it, and I learned that that's a wine term. I didn't

understand that was a wine term. Yes. Which is interesting. Crew, a C-R-U. There's layers. There's a wine term. I didn't understand that was a wine term. Yes. Which is interesting. Crew, a C-R-U. Mm-hmm. It's very, there's layers, there's levels and layers. Layers.

All right, well, everyone watch that, listen to their podcast, and we'll be back next week with Thor, which came out in 2011, so if you want to watch that and be prepared for the episode,

do that. I already watched it. Nicole, you're not gonna have fun. I'm really sorry. I'm, like, not excited about this long-haired man with a fucking hammer. I already watched it. Nicole, you're not gonna have fun. I'm really sorry. I'm, like, not excited about this long-haired man with a fucking hammer. I know,

and I think you'll remain unexcited. I feel like... I'm curious what you'll think, but we'll see. We'll see. Thanks, everyone. Bye. Thank you. That was a Hiddem Original.