The Flop House - Ep. #261 - The Hurricane Heist

Episode Date: July 7, 2018

On this episode we discuss the alliterative disaster-heist movie hybrid The Hurricane Heist. Meanwhile Stuart is tired, Dan is hungover, Elliott is at his in-laws, and by the time this episode drops 2/3 of us will be on vacation, so let's all just pretend I wrote more detailed show notes, okay? Wikipedia synopsis for The Hurricane Heist Movies recommended in this episode Human Highway Andre the Giant Gilbert Sorry to Bother You

On this episode we discuss the Hurricane Heist. Buckle your seat belts and seat your buckle belts. Hey everyone and welcome to the Flop House, I'm Dan McCoy. Oh wow, right out of the gate, big energy from Dan McCoy. I'm your other announcer, Stuart Wellington. And I'm your third announcer, Elliot Kalen, coming at you live from my in-laws house in Northern California. Oh, cool. Yeah.

Oh, yeah. Yeah, this is going to be a weird episode. I'm. It's a weird. Well, this is not a weird, it's a weird, it's a weird. Stuart is tired from a two day bachelor party he went to. I'm tired because I had my birthday party the night before and I'm a little hungover and Elliott is in a new place he's at his in-laws house trying to broadcast from there and the Pope I was chicken

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Oh, okay, I think you're thinking of the day after tomorrow. Uh-huh. Yeah, yeah. Uh, that's Monday. Oh, yeah. You're thinking of the movie Monday. Actually, it's Tuesday. We would say Tuesday.

Yeah, well, we lost a day. Actually, it's Tuesday. We would say it's a great Tuesday. Yeah, well, we lost a day. There was supposed to be time now. Stuart has become unstuck in time, or as it's also known hungover. Yeah. Yeah, so what are we doing this podcast, dudes? We watch a bad movie and then we talk about it. Uh-huh, and this time around we watched a little movie called the hurricane Heist. Oh, yeah, wait guys. This is the story of the hurricane heist at dick and a thing. All right, go on. Oh keep going Step on his bit. He was waiting the whole fucking episode

Step on his bit. He was waiting the whole fucking episode. All however many minutes we've been recording. Yep. That's all I have. You have written down on your hand. It just says Dylan parody. Yep. Like Dan usually like weird owl write a whole song. It's a parody of the original song. All I need is the title. I mean, I mean, I mean, it's like he did the right Dylan and not like Kevin Dylan You know song parodies are like onion articles. Why should read the headline you get the idea? I mean, that is that is true. Yeah, a fair point That's as as true as it is not funny to say yeah

They say comedy is truth, but no, no they're wrong. So Dan, here's my question. This movie, it promises a heist during a hurricane. So that's the bar it's got a clear. Or was this some sort of metaphorical hurricane? Like a movie rat race, you're like, those are people. Those are not rats. Yeah.

And the movie oceans 11, you're like, there's not 11 oceans in the world. I'm sorry. That just fed geography. Yeah. So are you trying to argue that there was a hurricane during a high school? I'm asking you. I'm saying, dude, let's, was there a hurricane, high strain of hurricane? Dan, high energy energy very defensive already.

I believe that it had the USDA recommended daily allowance of both hurricane and heist. Okay, that's great. I mean, I assume the recommended allowance of hurricane is zero. That's true. Maybe that's the highest, it probably depends on what end of the heist you're on. Probably had more of both than that is recommended by the government So we do it. Okay, guys something saying that hurricanes are terrible and we're not making fun of anybody who has suffered from actual hurricanes because it's a yeah, I did feel like fucked over After there have been such big horrible hurricanes recently it did take away some of the joy I had in watching the Horacans recently it did take away some of the joy I had in watching the to watch the town being destroyed by her can yes, oh this happened recently

many times and thousands of people died this is I don't know if this is a source of amusement for me anymore yeah yeah yeah but you got you know you got to leave your your ethics at the door I guess yeah. Yes, check your ethics. Hey, look, have fun. Check your ethics at the door. Who cares? Yeah. Although I feel like that's what you have to do for pretty much any action movie, because you're getting enjoyment from watching people be killed or hurt. So it's like there's a certain amount of having to check your ethics.

Yeah, I guess if we're reviewing a movie about, I don't know, Jason Vore, he's chopping people in half. Would we have to have a disclaimer about how we know that people actually get chopped in half and it's not funny? I don't know. Look, we all know that xenomorphs are real problem. I shouldn't get enjoyment from watching John Hurt getting his chest bursted open, which was a real problem.

I mean, it happened. No, but that's right. Twice, who wants to say that history happens once his tragedy and second as far as that's what happened with John Hurt getting a chest burst as a tragic death and then as a space ball's been. No, this first is a tragic death and then as a space balls bit. I mean if you count in the order that I watched it It would be the opposite But I think that's a good point we should say that uh hurricanes are a real a real Issue that hurts a lot of people so nice work Hollywood Yeah, and using one entertainment that been said, let's jump into the

heist, the hurricane heist that is. So the movie begins in a hurricane. Well, the movie, the first thing we see is the title card for entertainment studios motion pictures, which was like, I don't know whose company that is the most fly by night sounding reproduction company. Next, next to working title, it's the most working title. The someone called them up and was like, hey, so you just rented a lot of material in the check-bounced. Are you good for the money, for all these cameras and equipment? And they're like, yeah, yeah, yeah, what's the name of your company again? Entertainment studios, motion pictures. Okay, that's the name of your company. Yeah, sure. Does it need more words in it?

No, I don't think it needs more words. Okay, great. Then that's what it's called. Thank you for telling me the name of your company. Do you want to write it down so you can remember it for future situations? So yeah, the first thing we see, it's 1992. That's right. It's near one BJP or before Jurassic Park, 1992. Clinton's about to be elected to president. George H.W. Bush is leaving office after one term. And America is about to learn a new dance called the Macarena.

Dan, take it away Slap bracelets are all the rage as a Hypercolor sweeps the nation and a little scamp called Bart Simpson is probably around at that point Yes, he was Stu 1992 Now Stuart you you're often known as 1990s stew. Why is that?

It's because if you were to be a fly on the wall in a little house in Fort Wayne, Indiana, you would see a young Stuart Wellington discovering what it's like to be 12 years old. Okay. So masturbating. Yeah, I guess that's what you'd call it technically. Yeah. All right, I don't want to dig any deeper into this hole. And a lot of rad skateboard tricks, I assume.

Oh, all of them. See, being an overweight child, I had a really complicated center of balance. So throw me on a skateboard on wheels and you never know what's gonna happen. A complicated center of balance so throw me on a skateboard on wheels and you never know what's gonna happen. A complicated center of balance. Okay guys, I think we've adequately set the scene for the movie. 1992 and Hurricane Andrew is hitting the Gulf over the south or wherever.

I don't know where Hurricane Andrew hit. I apologize. That's on me. I should be more aware of this. I'm assuming it's the same place that the rest of the movie takes place in it Yes, which is Gulfport what Alabama? Mississippi. Yes, Alabama Alabama and so there's a man and his two boys are trying to outrun a hurricane They're caught in it and the younger boy keeps telling the older boy. This is all your fault. This is your fault

They hide in a house, but this is the moment that if you were seeing this movie on a date You would lean over to your date and say, that's the hurricane. And this is also a date. Sorry, this is also just like Twister. Like, you can't make a movie like this, apparently without showing that the people involved in the movie have a personal stake in hurricanes and tornadoes. Yeah. You really, the jazz can't just be that they're like terrible disasters. Mm-hmm.

And the kids, the kids are, the dads, like, the dads, like, just practice your football plays. So they're just naming football plays and I guess talking about them. The boys hide in the house and the dad is running to catch up to them and went, oh, a water tower rolls over him and kills him. Uh, this death has not really given the weight it deserves considering that the roof of the house is blown off and a human skull appears in the cloud above the boys.

That's right. This hurricane is not just any hurricane. It's the angel of death. And that's when Dan goes radical. I will say if the movie lived up to that moment, I would have thought about it. But I was chopping down on a big bowl of cereal and bad while watching this movie and I spit that cereal all over my wife's side of the bed. Then I covered it with a blanket. That's cleaning the whole mess.

And you're like, honey, you always wanted a water bed. She's like, that doesn't make any sense. Cut to present day and tropical storm Tammy is about to hit the Gulf to hit the town of Gulfport. So Sheriff Dixon is making everybody evacuate. He's saying, I don't want any fatalities. I don't want any looters mandatory evacuation. But meanwhile, driving right into town.

At this point, we're being introduced to a lot of characters. And I spent, I don't know if it's because this is one of those action movies that's mixed where all the dialogue is super low and all the everything else is super loud. But I had a lot of trouble figuring out which people were the kids from the beginning. Yes. For a while, I'm like, is that Sheriff the dad from the beginning? He doesn't have a big mark on his face from when a water tower hit him. So we're going to meet those kids from the beginning in a moment.

But I'll go through some of these characters. So we see there's Officer Corbin, who is an officer of the alcohol tobacco and firearms department. And she's a real bad girl. and she is escorting a convoy of money trucks played by it played by Maggie Grace and usually when you see Maggie Grace in an action movie you're like where's Nicholas Cage is he hiding around here somewhere I thought you're gonna say when you say money trucks are being played by Maggie Grace yes all three of them that's the kind of range she can show uh-huh. Three characters.

Yeah, what we've said. Oh, no, I thought you just meant that when you usually when you see an action movie starring Maddie Key race, you're watching Lockout. Actually, wait, what is Lockout? I've never seen that movie. Oh, I think you're a space jail. Oh, space jail. Thank you. You may know it as space under its official title of space jail. Yeah, that's how I know it. Yeah. So she, she shows, she's, she doesn't play by the rules. She and her co-driver, whose name is what Connor, I think, they just, they drive Ralph Innocent from the, I think that's how you pronounce name from the witch. And he's also Ricky Jervais' friend on the British office. Oh, yeah. How about that? I mean, those are the bonafides of an action hero.

Yeah. Yeah. Well, they show their real action heroes, but there's a whole line of cars that are being forced to evacuate from the town. They just drive their trucks straight through that traffic jam. Oh, yeah. Because they're in a hurry. They've got to get a load of old money to the shredder at the Treasury department. That old money needs to be shredded before the hurricane gets.

Now, when you say they have to get it to a shredder, you're not talking about the villain from the Ninja Turtles. That's exactly the time that a Roku Saki is going to be there. And he's going to use that money as a down payment on a new tech and a drone, because they're very expensive. Oh, wow. And they just let you pay for those in cash. I feel like they'd require some kind of credit check or something. I mean if you have the cash then you don't need credit. That's okay. If you've got like $7 billion in cash, but uh So the shredder is broken at the treasury building. So it goes into a fancy vault. Meanwhile, who's our other hero? Well get ready to meet Will a climate scientist who's in Gulfport sending up drones.

He thinks the storm's gonna be worse than the bureaucrats in Washington say. He can smell, it's gonna be bad. And this down-home, good ol' boy meteorologist, he knows what's up. This storm is gonna be a real stewbreaker. He's got a more southern accent than I think I've heard in like as a hero in a major movie I mean I this is not a major movie but they put a lot of money into it and what about for scump Dan I guess I guess you got me there good point I guess you got there too what about Connie or Dan I'm not complaining about it

I thought it was kind of it I thought it was kind of interesting that what about a face in the crowd Dan because you don't normally like here a bunch of different types of voices in movies. Like, everyone has to sort of talk very clearly. So it was kind of an interesting choice, I thought. Yeah. I mean, I'm so happy that the hero in the movie was not a guy from the Tri-State area or Boston with a heavy like neighborhood accent. Yeah. But also, I don't know, there's a certain amount of...

I feel like there's a certain amount of I feel like there's a there's a Certain genre of actors pretending to be southern in movies. You have like your hell or high waters and things like that Where although maybe that's more the west than the south. Yeah, but uh, but this guy he does like he does not strike me as Either a movie star or an action star does feel like they just got some guy. Yeah to play the part and I don't know who the actor is. Dan Stewart, you guys are good at this. Who is it? Um, yeah, Dan. It's, uh, Yahoo. Yup. Go. Yes. I mean, that sounds like a real name. And possibly check that one out.

And so this character will, he's one of the brothers from earlier in the movie. And he's ever since his dad was killed by Hurricane, he's had one goal to save people from hurricanes. That's right, he's the Batman of hurricanes. Yeah. Because when he was a rich guy and he was like, hmm, hurricanes are a superstitious and cowardly lot,

what shall I dress as to scare them? And a weatherman flew through his window and he said, that's it, I shall be a meteorologist. And instead of a bat mobile, I'll get an armored dune buggy, which he's called the dominator. And it's like, yeah, they throughout the movie, people are like, this thing's built like a tank, which makes sense. It's built to withstand a hurricane. It's built like a tank, but I hate to jump forward. It's built like a tank, however, the first time somebody shoots at it, it knocks out its satellite array. Yes, although it does come with what appear to be, as we find out later on, razor-sharp

hub caps that can be thrown like batterangs, and lodge in bad guys' chest. Don't skip to the best part of the movie. Okay, so anyway, two technicians come in, some computer guys to fix the shredding software at the treasure department. It kind of looks like the one technician is wearing an evening dress. Yes, she is. And you know they're evil because they're way overdressed and one of them is English. And they are way more they're like way more attractive

than they should be for those parts. And these are, we'll find out later, they are the computer hackers in love who commit computer crimes while wearing evening wear. And they're always turning each other on with their hacker talk. Anyway. Yeah.

So, I mean, it's been a while since I've worked in an office, guys. When you call for tech support, is that usually you show up? Yeah, yeah, there's usually a young woman in an off-the-shoulder cocktail dress and a British man in a three-piece suit, and they talk to each other in super hacker code. There's the part, this is one of those movies that actually has a scene where a character explains something about a computer program, and the other bad guy goes English, and and they have to say like what's going to take three more hours or something like that.

Like the old say it in English please, we get that old chestnut later on. So yes, very accurate rendition of tech support. Okay, so we get a little bit of a personal moment with agent Corbin. She's reminded that she screwed up a mission in the past and someone got hurt. She is reminded about this on a FaceTime call in a vault in a hurricane. She's getting perfect FaceTime reception. I live in a regular. Can you hear me now? You bet I can't underground in a vault during a storm. And she's suspicious. She something seems not right about her. So about what's going on. So she

resets the lock for the vault. It has like a 36 number combination. She resets it. But then, oh, the phones get cut at the Treasury and their backup generator won't start up. She's got to go out and get the the backup generator repair man. And who could that be? But whether scientist will's brother breeze oh boy it's his older brother breeze took me a minute go over to IMDB and double check that his name is breeze yeah it seems a little on the nose but it's also like I wonder if will was mad that he's the meteorologist and his name's not breeze uh what we're really gonna hurt his CV career they're both named named after their character defining traits.

Will has a very powerful will and Breeze can fly. Park Salon? Park Salon? Yeah, yeah. But he's a real, he's a bad boy. He's a slav and Will cannot get him to evacuate because he's drinking his breakfast.

Whiskey for breakfast, yeah. I took me a little while to remember where I saw this actor and and it's because he didn't take his shirt off because this is the guy who was he was the brother on he was the brother on true blood was just so shredded like that guy. Oh man, it was crazy. Well, I was going to say this guy this seems like an like an off brand southern low rent hymns worth. I mean, he's Austroian. So that's probably what? Okay, he's got that magical Australian torso. All look like that. What are they feeding them down there? Can you rule blood? Every every Australian man who wants to become an actor, he has to spend his time in the bush with the Kangaroo and all that

Hopping really works on your core and on your abs and you just get shredded. Yeah, I mean, it's just like how Paul Hogan was just so perfectly defined Like And young serious mentioned earlier I mean every time that young Einstein took his shirt off, it was like, whoa, equals MC abs. What if Albert Einstein had been really built? Like he was a famous scientist and he was like a world-class bodybuilder. Do you think that would have been a Nazi's think twice?

I feel like that's going to be the next time somebody makes an Albert Einstein movie is he'll like be getting in bare-knuckle fist fights like the Robert Downey Jr. show I can. He's like, he's he's like, he's like, he's like, he's like, he's like, he's like, he's like, he's like, he's like, he's his calculations are so complicated. He's like, okay, so if I bring in the speed of light, pow, he gets punched in the face. Okay, okay, shake it off, I understand. All right, okay, so, let's, so if I was riding a beam of light, bam, oh, okay, wow, okay, I'm seeing stars now. Anyway, so like he says, too, he gets too into the, okay, guys, we're just about to get to the crux of the movie, the titular heist, because Crooks shoot their way into the facility. Ah, and it turns out Connor, Corbin's co-driver, was actually the leader of the crooks.

He was their inside man. Now the crooks all these shoot tranquilizer darts because they went to rob this with zero casualties, but they start killing people pretty quickly when things start going south. Yeah, but I mean, it is like enough to be like, you kind of are on the crook side a little bit at this point. It's like, you know, they're not killing anybody and that money is going to get shredded anyway. So, what's that? That's true. They're about their big plan is they're going to, they're going to see all $600 million of money that's being taken out of circulation. Yeah. And so it's

got, hey, that money's just going to be destroyed anyway, right? So that's not going to hurt anybody. Wrong, Dan. $600 million extra dollars in the economy, that's going to lead to a certain amount of inflation. What does inflation lead to? Unemployment. What does unemployment lead to? Trump being elected president. So you see, Dan, how maybe these heisters aren't so good after all. Okay. I didn't know that that was the problem with not with constant straight line, Dan. You just got to follow the clues. And you know what but the thing is you know what caused that hurricane a butterfly flapped its wings in aia so it's like thanks a lot butterfly now trumps present because of your stupid fucking wings

yeah it was like action could you go back in time and fix that butterfly you fucked up it's a somebody step on that butterflies that dinosaurs evolved into super people or something i don't remember the story too well Yeah, I was referring to a sound sound a thunder. Yeah, sure. I know we watched that movie for the podcast I wasn't there for that episode though Okay, guys, we should go back in time and fix that

Yeah, we should somebody get a butterfly in here. I mean, I'd have to watch it again Yeah, we should. Somebody get a butterfly in here. Does that mean I don't have to watch it again? So Agent Corbin, who I'm just going to say, is it weird that an alcohol tobacco and firearms agent was escorting money? Shouldn't that be a Secret Service Agent job? Because the Secret Service is part of the Treasury Department, Dan. So the Secret Service are busy in getting prostitutes it's out the america right now topical you can hold a hits of two thousand

did they stop doing that come on what's the guy tasted self-american prostitutes of course yeah where we at? So, Agent Corbin meets Will and Breeze. Takes Breeze back the Treasury facility and we learn on the drive over that Breeze is a former high school football star and in a rock war veteran, of course he is. He's going to need that later when he's part of the team that takes on these heisters.

And the hackers find out that the vault codes have been changed. This is going to add some time to their heist. They weren't planning for that. Uh oh. Uh, the crooks capture breeze and wheel helps Corbin escape a shootout in his weather tank in the town plaza. This is one of several shootouts where the bad guys, despite there being more of them and them having bigger guns, seemingly they're so outclassed, they always seem to fail and

lose one or two of their guys during these fights. So in this initial shootout, when Maggie Grace is running from Agent Corbin, is running from the villains, the villains need to capture her, right? Do they know they need to capture at this point because she's the one who has the code? I think so. I don't know if they know yet that she's not the code. Yeah, because they're firing live ammunition and that seems insane. But this actually I don't know if they know yet that she's Yeah, because they're firing live ammunition error and that seems insane, but there's this is the moment You know it's gonna be kind of a bad action movie because she jumps over like the lip of a like a I don't know like some kind of offense and The you see the bullets erupt in the against the wall like the squibs that were buried in the wall explode and

It's basically where she was at. Like there is no way those bullets would not have shot her. They just, it was just a very lazy, like a lazy stunt. Yeah. I think it's, there's a lot of what I would call like direct to DVD level gunfighting, except that direct to DVD action movies have been in a Renaissance lately. So maybe that's not there to them. Yeah. level gunfighting, except that direct to DVD action movies have been in a renaissance lately. So maybe that's not fair to them.

Yeah, if Scott Adkins showed up and just started like kicking everybody, that would have been amazing. That would have been, they would call this hurricane kick. Yeah, I mean, that's a thing, right? Isn't that what Ken does in the Street Fighter series, Dan? That sounds familiar to me. No, no, that's what Ken from the Barbie doll series. Oh, okay. Yeah, no, that's what that's what Ken from the Barbie doll series. Oh, okay. Yeah,

the hurricane kick. Yeah, that's where a kick say glass featuring the alcoholic hurricane beverage into somebody's hands. They drink it. The thing is, the thing is when you don't have any genitals, like there's like the range of motion for your kicking is vastly improved. Dan knows this from experience. I can't believe I went there. You can't get a gunshot from me. It's different lies, Dad. Dan says, I told you not to tell anyone about my generalist, general. Who done it? Hollywood game night, right? Allie and I, we don't have the video chat on, so there's no witnesses. That's not really how witnesses work. Archie looks over and starts trying to make himself look small.

So we solved that mystery, the mystery of the missing steward. He was killed by Dan. Okay, guys, it looks like, uh, they're got, so breeze gets captured, they're going to ask him to fix the generator and the Orpinin Will are together now. What? This is another, like, there's multiple characters who, uh, who are the only person who can complete a job. Like, I feel like this is why you diversify your training to kind of spread out your skill set amongst multiple people, but that's just me You know, that's just me thinking like a boss

That's just a management technique from Stewart Huracanized. Maybe she takes Stewart's management training seminar diversify and diversity How different types of people who can do different types of things can make your business do one thing great and that is make money Hi, I'm Stuart Wellington. This is my seminar. That's the full title. Okay. Yeah, I can do it as like an acronym or something.

Or... Yeah, it would be, I don't remember what the words were. So I guess, Flapp House listeners right into Stuart's business seminar acronym, care of Dan McCoy, Brooklyn, New York, USA, Earth, Milky Way, Galaxy, Earth 616. And tell us what that acronym would be, you know?

Yeah, yeah. And what are the winners of that contest, get Dan? Yeah, yeah. It's been a while since we've done a contest. I'll send them a nice personalized postcard. That seems like actually more work than you usually put into things. So it's good for one listener.

Guys, well that's usually how contests work. Usually there's in one winner for a contest. I mean, the lottery will have multiple winners that they pick the same numbers, but usually in a contest, there's something called a grand prize that a winner guess. I'm trying to cut down to the number of people who actually were going to try and demand this bullshit that Stewart pulled out of me. So yeah, I mean, you're going to just say no. Yeah. And Dan, I'm going to deliberately avoid making a joke on the phrasing of Stewart pulling bullshit out of you. Yeah. Because who knows what scenario that would lead us to and we don't need that right now. We've got a hurricane to heist. Okay, so Corvian will they go to the sheriff to get him to help them, but uh oh, he's

in on the heist too and he's firing a shotgun at them. They escape. There's a car chase in a rainstorm. And I'll just say this when Will's driving that weather tank, his fake driving is super fake. It's I wish I wish there was a little bit of video chat, but it's the thing people do where they're constantly moving the wheel even when the car is driving straight. My favorite one is when people are just very obviously never paying attention to the road. It just stresses me out so much. I'm not, I was at that point, I'm always like, wait a minute.

Did I accidentally put Final Destination into the DVD player? I'm not going to get a Final Destination scenario. You're like, no, okay, it's still a modern family. That's what I thought. All right. So, there's a car chasing the rainstorm, and Corbin runs out of bullets, so there's only one thing they can do. She runs out of bullets because she is like,'re driving around in a rainstorm and she's just hanging out the window firing indiscriminately.

She's like, oh, six bullets on my fire tomorrow real quick. I wanted to throw them away. So he stops this tank that he's in and he has these like spikes that go down to the ground to protect it from hurricane winds. And he just lets the bad guys car slam into them. down to the ground to protect it from hurricane winds and he just lets the bad guys car slam into them. The bad guys and the tank takes a little bit of damage but the bad guys take even more and Corbin runs over to the bad guys car goes, hey, what's up with you guys and then steals their guns and runs away. I like the way he makes it sound like she's like scourting like a mouse.

I really like the vision of it. She kind of is. So. Not now what happens. I lay it. There's a bunch of tech talk and they realize, hey, for some, the hackers need some kind of communication dish to get the new code for the second hack the vault. So if they can use the weather trucks winch to pull down the antenna that the communication device is on,

then they can stop the bad guys from getting the new code. So they go off and do that. This involves Will having to get out and climb a ladder in a storm as debris is flying all around. Yeah, and he's got like this big chain going from like a big metal cord going from a from the dominator from well from a vehicle to to a high building during a storm and for all the world, it just looks like the end of back to the future. Oh, okay, yeah. Yeah, except without the fun. Yeah, without the fun.

They did one of those fun activities on it. If you wanted to watch Back to the Future and you don't like fun or incest, then Hurricane Heist will open up what you're like in the world. I'm glad you made those two discreet elements. If you still do like, if you like incest, you can always write fanfic about the brothers. You got that option open to you, but. Very fair. Yeah, you can ship those two brothers.

I mean, they'll, that's some, I'm sure there's tons of hurricane ice fan bake out there, which is every permutation of characters in a relationship. Okay, so they're gonna, but then the bad guys see them and they come by, ah, and there's like shooting and crashing and exploding. To be honest, I totally could not fully keep track of what the general specifics were of what's going on in this fight.

But the hackers start receiving the code and the good guys pull down the tower just as the bad guys are about to get the last number of the code. Ah, so close. Now, this is the fight. This is the fight with the aforementioned razor sharp hubcap Frisbee's. Dan, would you like to describe them? No, I just, he like knocks it. Are they from his card. Did he just like I have no idea like a like a like a toe yard I think it might even be it is that what it was yeah, like nox over a thing He's like the woman Maggie Grace is like you don't have any bolts you have a gun. What are you gonna do? He's like leave it to me

I'm a meteorologist I can anything's a weapon in my hands anything's a weapon in my hands. Yeah, he's a thing, dude. He just starts whipping like hubcap after hubcap at these guys. One of them, well, embeds himself in this guy. And this is the first time in the movie where I laughed so hard that I almost passed out. It was not even, he's not even throwing them at them.

He's just tossing them into the wind. And he's like, breeze, into the wind and he's like, Breeze, do your thing. A-O-L-L-S, I pray to you, carry this hubcap to my target. It's a little bit like when you blow like a dandelion puffball and it's just, the wind is just going to take those seeds where it may, so that they land, but this time it's hubcaps into a man's chest. And it's just like, wait, hold on a second. What are we doing in this movie?

But that is the best moment in the movie. I wish the movie had followed that lead a little bit more and just gotten super crazy. Because every time it's about to get super crazy, it pulls itself back a little. It pumps up breaks. It's like, oh, wait a minute. People might not take this heist during a hurricane seriously enough if we keep doing these things.

Don't they? Does this this leads to the bad guys getting mad that the good guys get away and then they orchestrate an exchange between breeze and Agent Corbin maybe is that what oh well before we before that happens. Let me just tell two things one is that agent Corbin maybe, is that what? Oh, well, before that happens, let me just tell two things. One is that Agent Corbin will, they've been bonding every now and then, they banter while both urinating in behind different pillars of a,

I don't know if it's a bridge or a parking garage. It's just very funny this moment where they're just like, the two heroes are just peeing. They're just talking to each other while peeing. And I appreciate that they acknowledge the fact, like, you know what, in the middle of all this, we gotta take a whiz. Yeah, and I mean, that was another, like again,

if they went with that kind of moment more, it's a little bit like, I remember someone saying about the show 24, that they wanted there to be an episode where he just runs into a bathroom and for a full minute, he's just peeing and then he runs out again. Because if that's 24 hours, he's gonna have to use the bathroom at some point. Yeah, he's just peeing and then he runs out again. If that's 24 hours, he's going to have to use the bathroom at some point.

Yeah, he's going to have to be regularly because he's doing all that action. He's burning cows. Oh, yeah. He's like the flash. He has to eat pizza after pizza to keep his calories up so they can keep running. Then there's a moment where the sheriff and his deputies, they briefly get into an argument with Connor and Connor kills the sheriff and the deputies join him. This is one of those moments where like, I think they're basically one just getting rid of an extraneous character, the sheriff.

And two, the actor playing the sheriff gets to monologue a little bit about like, you think this is, you know, we see people getting rich everywhere. Now it's our turn for a piece of the pie, that kind of stuff. And I feel like that's the moment where the actor was like, all right, I'll do this job. Like, right, write me a speech. But, uh, okay. So they announced they're going to exchange prisoners. Yeah. Corbin says she'll trade herself for breeze and this other hostage, Marano, who runs the facility and I've been ignoring him up till now because he doesn't really do anything through most of the movie. He looks just like sad or kind of disappointed in himself

at the end of the time. Because he thinks he should be the hero of the movie. Yeah. Sure. He's like, oh, I'm kind of in charge of this. I should be the one who's like Air Force wanting these guys. Yeah. And like get out of my office, but instead,

he's just a hostage. Yeah, he keeps like waiting for his moment and it's just not happening. It's like when you're at a party and you're like, I wanna make my move on that cute Dan McCoy. He seems so aloof in the corner over there. Yeah, heading to the gas. But then you miss your chance

and he walks out by himself, sighing. Or like it's that the, we're all the hero of our own life story, but except for Moreno, who is not. Cor're all the hero of our own life story but except for Moreno who is not. Forbidden is the hero of his life story. He's just happy to be invited. And before while they're playing the prisoner exchange over Waki's talkie, Will manages to tell Bree is that he loves him.

And that's the first, it looks like the ice between these two brothers as Christopher Wakin said in the dead zone is going to melt. The deputies they have their hand off. They do it't have a wet in a bag. No, they don't have the cast of winters or anything like that. They they managed like like a Greek God to capture the wind in a sack. But so they they're going to hand over a breeze, the brother in exchange for Corbin, but Corbin and Will have a little plan up their sleeve and by little plan I mean the craziest plan ever because Corbin shoots out the glass roof of the mall the wind sucks the deputies out like a vacuum Luckily Will and Corbin are already already wearing some kind of like water skiing harness

Yeah, they went to the Dixporting Goods and they got like Like a base jumping harness. Yeah, so they're whipping around in the storm like a parakeite. And they look like CGI balloons and it is hilarious. And it's the second time that I laughed so hard I was patched out. So. And meanwhile, Breeze saved himself by, I don't know.

I don't know. I think he just holds on really tight. He just holds up, because he's got what spider powers. Yeah, just stick to any surface. I mean, he like, didn't he like, didn't the, he was the capital team, dude? Yeah, didn't the meteorologist signal him by like, he goes like blue 42, 22.

Yeah, so what football play is that that we're gonna blow out the ceiling and the wind is gonna hold on tight to a pillar as the wind and later they use this. I think the same, the same football play later means. Yeah, I use our trucks to crash into another truck. Yeah, I remember both those plays from Techmobile, you know, we're yet to pick one in four different place. I got to say, if one of the football plays was shoot out the roof and wind blows the players away, I've watched football. I mean, it's very similar to the my usual strategy in tech mobile, which is

take a shot gun hike, go just run back as far as possible and long bomb it and hope that you get the Jerry Rice catches it in the in zone. So if you're not playing a team that Jerry Rice is on, that's insane. The fucking 49ers were by far the best team that game. And for some reason, Bo Jackson was the best running back in the universe. Well, because he could also use his baseball skills. That's true. That's your, uh, technical ball tips from old to, yeah, but he just kind of disappears for a while, right? Yeah, he just disappears. So for all Corbin and Will know, Breeze is dead. They're like, well, that worked out okay, but they managed to take a moment to bond over

some peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Mm-hmm. And Corbin says, okay, here's what we need to do. Set off a car bomb when they're trying to escape with the money. And Will is like, okay, yeah, let's do that. So this is a plan that I have to do. I have to do. If Jack's what he learns that they're going to use his car.

Well, there's a lot of complications here because she based her entire argument that they should do it on the fact that Timothy McVeigh did it. Yes, so that's we she's like it worked once. She's like she's like hey look are we better are we above doing what Timothy McVeigh did who are we to just say we're better than Timothy McVeigh But it's also it's there's a certain thing that happens in old science fiction where But it's also, there's a certain thing that happens in old science fiction where someone will suggest, it'll, very, as if it's very logical, they'll suggest something crazy. They're like, hmm, the aliens all sounded like they were talking backwards. Well, the only explanation is that we're in some sort of reverse time warp.

It's never existed before. Yeah, you're right. And the audience is just supposed to go with it. And her idea that she's like, okay, they're gonna drive out of here using the eye of the storm, the calm of it, to shield their trucks from the hurricane. I guess the only way to stop them, and of course, we have to stop them, even no matter how many lives it takes, because we can't let that old money get out.

Well, I mean, have to stop it. And the only way to do it is to explode a car bomb right next to it. So that's the other like her argument Keeps being we need to stop them because once they have the money They'll just kill the hostages so like if they're gonna use a car bomb First off she doesn't she doesn't say that she's like a demolitions expert or anything she just sites a famous case of demolition But then she, you know, she's like, we got to build a nuclear, we got to build a atomic bomb. It worked

on Japan, didn't it? And you're like, yeah, right. Good point. So is she just saying like, well, they're going to get the money anyway and kill all those people. So we can just use a bomb who gives a shit or if they were to get the money and then drive out with the hostages, she just be blowing up the hostages. It doesn't make any sense. Yeah, that's true. Anyway, this does matter. And then of course we use, luckily this is a narrative cult thing.

Yes, because they go to a green house. They go to a green house. They use the dominator. Who is the hero of the movie up to this point? Yeah. Why would you blow that up? Yeah, well, I mean, even Mad Max blew up the last of the interceptors, you know, when he had to.

Yeah. It just doesn't make sense. just i mean i love that nominator and i will say the interceptor did come back in the third movie after he blew it up right you know anyway maybe is the second the last of the interceptors and maybe uh... so they go to a green house to pick up some fertilizer to make their timothy meigh inspired car bomb But then a wave surge smashes through the greenhouse. Oh no, and the bad guys are there too They can front them and wave smash through and breathe saves will in a motorboat like he is Sean Penn and New Orleans or something

Well, that's after will washes up on something and he he is saved from drowning and when he climbs the top the rocky at hole He believes has saved his life. It is he climbs the top, the rocky atoll, he believes has saved his life. It is in fact, the wreck of his dominator. In one last case, that has saved his life. The dominator says, remember me. The dominator goes, earn this and then breathes its last. I'm cold, Will. Did I get to be a hero this time?

You never you dominated everything dominator dominant you got to dominate this time. No my dominating days are early or over What's that grandma dominator is that you? coming to the light Yeah, you got you know I don't know your jokes, Dan. No, and he dead, dead, dumb, and I don't know. No, I don't, dead, dumb, and I don't know your jokes. How many dead, dumb, and I just, as it takes? I'm thirsty, I'm so cold and thirsty.

But you're surrounded by water, dominator, is this some kind of weird, cis-vis thing? Or wait, no tantalists, dammit. No. So, clout. And you know what? Stuart, I give you credit, because you corrected yourself on that, that's fine. Okay, No. So, Clout, and you know what? Stuart, I give you credit because you corrected yourself on that.

That's fine. Okay, cool. So, it still counts. Of all the, I get partial credit on the joke. How long? Yeah, exactly. You get a B plus on that. How long is it before we see a, like, Ocean's 11 type thing where it's all the, all

the heroes who are stuck in, uh, Hades, with ironic punishments are going to break out of Hades. So, it's like, Tantalus, Cicifis, Prometheus. They've all got to like, punishment is gonna break out of Hades. So it's like tantalists, pacifists, from atheists, they've all got to like, band together to break out. Physiists was stuck in Hades for a while. I mean, they all were eventually like, you know, Odysseus just came down to visit for a little bit.

Yep, or a V.S. wife. And yeah, yeah, oh yeah, you're gonna see, she's down there, oh yeah, she's the babe. She's the, she's the, the babe's the she's the the babe of the group Oh, so Cicifis would be what the strong man easier muscle. Yeah, of course Tantalus it Prometheus is like the tech guy because he has fire these

These is your like your your fuck up hero who was a hero once but he's like, you know He's weak-willed He's a wreck of himself and he's got to find his inner hero again. Yeah, after that. And Tantalus is like what, like the goofy nerd that can never get what he wants. You know, he's always like, oh, so close. That's his catchphrase. Yeah, yeah.

That's, I think that should definitely be Tantalus's catchphrase is so close. Well, that'll be on the poster. That's I think that should definitely be tantalistous catchphrases so close Well, that'll be on the poster hit when they do his character poster That's what it's and since if it's this catchphrase as supposed to is again I like this this dark universe we're building And it's called like Haiti is eight or something like that. Yeah, yeah They would hate is brought together all the worst of the worst of Greek yeah And it's called like Haiti is eight or something like that. Yeah, they were Hades brought together all the worst of the worst of Greek. Yeah, and it's like either charon as the guy who brings them together. He's their fixer or he's the

guy they have to pull a fast one on. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, yeah, they've got to get that aura and and Medea is there somewhere, but it's the Medea from the Tyler Perry movies. Sure. Crailing dead children in her arms. Yeah. Yeah. You're like, oh, no wonder you killed your children, Medea. You're a mad black woman. Let me read your diary.

Yeah. Anyway, the listeners are wondering why I'm not saying anything, because I have very little knowledge of Greek mythology. Oh, really? That was like comic books for me before I was reading comics. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I mean, the great thing about Greek and Roman mythology is that you can decode just about any old painting. If you know it, yeah, yeah, I like I love to take Sammy to art museums and I point out like, okay,

this is this character that represents that. This is this like there's Artimists that represents this thing like it's it's really cool cool those paintings and that you think are just boring and bogus Yeah, there's a lot of interesting ideas. That's right. When I see them I go Goose Those paintings you look at just because of all the thick folks on them The Peter Paul Rubin stuff That's right. Those are actually about Greek mythology. Yeah, yeah Anyway, yeah

So anyway, so Greek mythology the original original superheroes try them won't you kids? Anyway, so the bad guys take in Corbin and they're like give us the code to the vault We're gonna throw Marano through the shredder and she says okay. Okay. She finds the iPad. She hid that has the code to the vault on it So they just shoot Marano anyway, but it's one of those things for a Conor is like, I'm not done with you get Corbin. So they don't kill her even though they probably should right there. The Crooks plan, they're gonna use the eye of the storm

to escape the money. Reason will decide to take a shortcut to catch up with them and head them off at the pass. And while they're driving, Will apologizes to Breeze and Breeze apologizes to Will and then Breeze is like, hey, now that we've done that, can we make you make me a promise? Let's never share our feelings again. Andze is like, hey, now that we've done that, can we make, can you make me a promise? Let's never share our feelings again.

And Will is like, all right, good buddy. And everything's good with them. So I think we assume they had no conversations or contact between the opening of the movie and when they are reunited later in the movie. I mean, very little. They've been busy in gun fights and Breeze has spent most of

the money trying to fix that backup generator. So I mean, I'm just trying to say the where in the beginning of the movie, we're will kept saying that the reason they were stuck in the hurricane is because breeze needed a kite once again playing on that name. And then it's his fault that their dad got rolled over by a giant. What was that? A water tower. It was either a water tower or a silo of some kind. I think it was a water tower or some kind of dad crushing device. Um, why did the farm have one of those?

Why? There's only one use for them. Uh, but are we to assume that was like the only time they've talked like that they hadn't talked at all between 1992 and present day? I mean, I think it's okay to assume that they've had minimal contact and that contact has been strained. They've never really opened up to each other about it. And I mean, and he also, his consciousness may have been ruptured by seeing a human skull

in the storm class. Oh, yeah. You've got to believe also that Will is probably a schizophrenic of some kind. Like he believes the storm, like he believes he has a mystical connection to the storm in a way. Yeah, he's worried that like EmoTep has risen from his tomb and taken from him. Exactly. He saw it in a movie.

It has to be real. It has to be real. But I can understand them not so. I mean, like you're talking to somebody who one of my great-grandmothers stopped talking to my other great-grandmother because one of the one of them, I forget who was who, but one of them walked into the bedroom of their apartment at the other's apartment and saw a comforter on the bed and said it was an ugly comforter and they never talked to each other again. So I totally believe that they haven't talked about the death of their father and did you know for many years that the funeral that they just

uh... the surviving one just spat on the grave if you know uh... there's a totally come i thought you could say gently lady of the uh... we can't for over said i've learned my lesson why didn't i i you know what the comforters not so bad all why didn't i say it earlier why did i wait till now I'm gonna comfort her over. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha for countries love. Anyway, so they're driving through the eye of the storm, but uh-oh, the deadly storm eye wall, eye storm wall, the wind is following the bad guys. And uh, Will and Breeze,

they start jumping from convoy truck to convoy. There's three trucks of money in this bad guy convoy. Will and Breeze are just jumping from truck to truck because they're fucking commando's all of sudden. Yeah, they're American Ninja warriors. Yeah, they take over the last truck in which the hackers were canoeing. The guy hacker was driving with the lady hacker wiggling on his lap, not safe, especially in the eye of a hurricane. Yeah, I mean, even though I've seen Charlie Sheen's the chase with Christie Swanson. Yeah, you know, it's possible. I think that's my favorite shoehorned in lovemaking seeking love. Have you ever where they just like yeah they make love in the car as there being chase. Yeah and like the sound of the the chase like fades off into

the background and I think like the sun starts to set. They just lock eyes and it cuts to the two of them like dancing on a desert plane. That's what represents their lovemaking Yeah, yeah, and they and they orgasm so hard that atomic bombs go off in the background and then we zoom out All that was going on in Christie Swanson's eye and they're like Yeah, yeah, and then they take her out of the chair and they put Michael Paling in or no Who's the guy who's the guy from that? No, Jonathan Price. Yeah, Jonathan Price. How could I forget our president, Jonathan Price? No, no, that's Zanzibar. What's the name of that GIO character?

Zoltar? I think it's, yeah, I think it's Zanzibar. Yeah, yeah. No, it's Zardos. get Sansa Bar yeah yeah. Oh no it's Zardos. No Zardos. Zordos. The web of references has got too thick. Zeldos. Zeldos the boy. I'm a spider cotton my own web right now. That's right. The GI Joe villain Emil Zola who is a master of disguise and also realistic novels. Okay so what was it? Oh yeah, so anyway, they're in the either hurricane. As we all know, in the I have a hurricane, there's quiet for just a moment, patch of yellow sky. And they fight in the band, it's in the trucks,

they're making it swear of all over, wheels climbing on top of the truck, Corvon will take the second truck, and my notes just here say fighting, swerving, crashing, shooting, et cetera. The eye wall is almost up to them, more shooting and chasing, and Will and Breeze. They've each got a truck in their command now.

And Corbin is kind of like fighting with the person in her truck. Oh yeah, and they hit that bump and the guy flies up into the air and then she uses the brief respite from this guy wrestling her to grab the gun and shoot him a bunch of trucks. Yeah, I gotta say,

and I know what goes anywhere. I had been kind of annoyed that the movie, you know, positive Maggie Races is kind of badass, Harron, and then had her get captured and needed to be like, saved by the guys, although at the end, she like kind of didn't need it. I mean, she's, she's, she's, she's, she's the first person in the movie.

Yes, before the, before the guys come in. Yeah, but she's she's already on the Trying to risk yourself and she is also I mean nobody in this movie is too competent She's like a little more on the ball than some of the other ones. Yeah Will and Breeze are each driving a truck and they use that football play They've been talking about which is like blue red 22 hike seven or something like that. Yep. And they box in Conner's truck. Conner is the last bad guy standing. I'm glad that we saw this movie. So now the next time Elliot goes to Buffalo Wild Wings and he like sidles up to some table of sports guys. He'll have a, he'll have a way to blend in with the crowd. I'll have one football play to talk about. Yep. I mean, I bet you know my, I don't know if you know my solution to those situations in New

York at least, is whenever the subject of baseball would come up, they'd go like, like, who do you follow? I say, oh, I'm a royal span. And nobody in New York cares about the royals. They'd be like, oh, okay. And they'd change the subject to something else. But I, but they, as long as I had to say, oh, I'm a royal span, they know, okay, sports. Great. I don't care about that.

You say you're a royals fan and then you whip out your phone and start playing an episode of the Hit TV show The Royals. Oh no, I just play Lord's Royals. And you shove your phone in their face. Yeah. You go get it. Shazam, this motherfucker's then I walk out leaving your phone behind you. Yeah. And they're like, we don't need to use Shazam's motherfucker's then I walk out leaving your phone behind you Yeah, and they're like we don't need to use shazam's identify the song the names right on the phone

Free phone. I guess I lose more phones that way So they they Conner's driving his truck they box him in and then push him back So he's behind them which forces him I guess to be there sacrifice to the god of the eye of the storm Yeah, and in its savage hunger it pulls his truck apart into a million pieces and the money blows at this point at this point They don't need to kill him right? No, not at all He doesn't have any hostages anymore No, he has no hostages all the the other bad guys are incapacitated. I mean, there's a reason that when cops are chasing someone, you have something called a low-speed chase,

where they're just trying to get that person to eventually get trapped and stop. They're not trying to kill anybody or hurt anyone along the way. So the fact that they're like, now it's judgment time. And they've got to like push him into the storm wall is crazy during this whole sequence uh that the the the guy who plays the bad guy Ralph Anderson has so much awesome like grunt ADR work that they did Where he's got like anytime anything happens you just hear him going Like he feels he is so connected to the truck he's driving. He feels every scratch of paint. Oh, that by that looks like venom. They become one now, you know, they're one being so he's pushed back toward the wall, the eye wall. Well, I love the money. The back of the truck is ripped apart

and the money blows out and he's like, ah, come on. My money. And he gets, he gets, he gets killed. Well, he gets killed when the money that he had spent so much time and effort comes crashing down on like it flies back out of the stairs. Yeah. And like it's on the cab of his truck, it he explodes. It's like the storm believes in dramatic irony. Yeah. And it's like, you wanted money to take some and it slams in.

That was the third hilarious thing for me when the truck just blows up, and the back of it lands on the cab. Yeah, I mean, I guess at that point for him, death was instantaneous, so we see it in suffer, you know. Now, I mean, he suffered seeing all his money go away because he was, he suffered what we all suffer at the end of our lives, which is seeing our grand plans

fall apart as we realize how powerless we are in the face of the universe and also how futile. Yeah, all of our attempts at glory, material, wealth, pleasure, all of those things are so fleeting and meaningless, they're less than the lifespan of a mid-fly in the grand scheme of the cosmos. At best, you know, we all kind of realize that at the end of our lives and we all have that moment of soul death. Yeah, because most of us and we all kind of realize that at the end of our lives and we all have that moment of soul death Yeah, and before physical death. I think yeah at best we can hope for a lone traveler Traveling across the desert and happening upon The remains of a statue with just just our feet sticking up anymore That has some bullshit about our name being something cool. I space out for a second and suddenly you're talking about all this depressing shit.

What's going on? Yeah. Dan, it's the way of all things, sick transit, glory on all that stuff, all that demand is, you know what? I think just start being depressed. I think you like it. Anyway, so the wall that I'm on.

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the engine of one truck like explodes a really black smoke pouring out of it okay i didn't remember that part i like couldn't i think i spaced out for a moment i'm like why are they switching trucks just to make it easier for them to all get to the same place at the same time Like they have a dinner reservation and they're worried. They're not gonna get seated if they're not all there I think what had happened was when that first truck exploded you guys both jumped up off your couch and started looking around and saying Did anybody see that? Mm-hmm. So you missed that. I'm sorry.

You missed that. I mean, you missed that. Now, I pulled a damn McCoy on this, and I watched this movie well on a plane. That was good. So you should. So you should have liked it more. Yeah, I don't know. I was pretty tired.

It was a nighttime flight to New Orleans, so I could go promote my children's book that comes out in the fall, Horse Meat Stalk. That's very appropriate, though. I mean, did it come out at the end of October. It's for children everywhere. I think people love it. But so I was already tired. So it was like I didn't have that light head in this that comes with being on a plane where you enjoy movies or what I call Dan syndrome. But anyway, so they've got to move from one truck to the other. And the truck with breeze and the hackers has to move into the truck with

with Will and Corbin and a dead body. And Breeze, of course, he's a hero, so he goes first before the woman hacker. And then he's going to help her over and she's a little scared. And just as she's about to cross over, that truck is just blown off into the end of chaos. I was going to tend together, you know. Yeah, yeah. Now the hackers have been hacked by the ultimate software. Wind. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, now the hackers have been hacked by the ultimate software wind Yeah Uh

And they out and the good guys outrun the eye of the storm and it's just there's no hurricane anymore And they just kind of like they start bantering and it's almost like they're just Healing time until the end credits show up like the Like the end credits are running a little late and they've been told to stretch so they're like yeah All right, so Like the end credits are running a little late and they've been told to stretch so they're like, yeah, all right So Peanut butter and jelly right that was good No, Maggie Grace is like hey, we got all this money. No one knows we have it like we can just go Why don't we just go to Mexico and Mexico and and like they play it very seriously for a moment

And I'm just like if this movie falls through this I will fucking love it forever for a moment and I'm just like if this movie falls through this I will fucking love it forever. But no, she goes I'm just kidding guys and they laugh and then they just sit there and it's a little bit like that. Which is crazy because at this point who gives a fuck they should have that hat like yeah ended in a weird note rather than a boring note. Yeah, but it ends almost like the end of the graduate they're just kind of staring into space as they try. Yeah, but it ends almost like the end of the graduate. They're just kind of staring into space as they try. Yeah, I'm wondering what happened to their lives. It's the end of Michael Clayton where the credits are more of the George Blue space. Because I mean, really, what if the hero's accomplished in all of this? I mean, they've saved some money that was going to be destroyed anyway. And only at the cost of maybe

a dozen people's lives. So. So, but who knows? Maybe they'll get a medal from Princess Leia, except for Bree is who's the Chubaco, the group. Yeah, I think that actually checks out that tracks. And so that's, yeah, and that's the end of the hurricane, heist. Oh, I was going to say my favorite thing about the ending of Michael Clayton is a story I heard somewhere. So I don't know if it's true, but that they were shooting that in a real taxi cab in New York and that

while they were driving a car was next to them and the guys in the car recognized George Clooney and were like, Hey, George Clooney. Whoa, Clooney over here. And he had to just ignore them and stare at. Wow. Yeah, he deserves the Oscar. He won for that. I don't think he won for. I know. He won for Sariana, I think, for Best Supporting Actor, because he grew a beard for that one. Yeah. Yeah. That's why that's why head of Max Fun Network, Jesse Thorn grew his beard, was he was courting Oscar bus.

Yeah, yeah. I thought he was going to say it was the Sariana look. Yeah. That was the drive jacket of that year. Yeah. So guys, that's the hurricane heist. Heist over, hurricane done. Three people survived.

And now they're just going to deliver that dead money for those dead presidents. Luckily, the police force in Gulfport is decimated. Yeah. That's also true. The Gulfport has no law enforcement now because every single member of the force turned bad. Like I kind of wanted to see the scene where the sheriff goes to his deputies and is like, Hey, I didn't want to see a lot of money to the hurricane and every single deputy is like, I'm on board and the sheriff for just a moment was like, uh, maybe I don't have the best force with me. I mean, I'm glad board and the sheriff for just a moment was like uh maybe I don't have the best force

with me. I mean I'm glad you guys are with me on this but I just realized that maybe I wasn't working with the best people all this time. Yeah we should do our final judgments whether this is a good bad movie a bad bad movie or a movie we kind of liked. I'll say that I thought this was a good bad movie for me. I uh I like movies that are high movie for me. I like movies that are heist movies and I like movies that are disaster movies and the dumber the better usually. Well that's so much for heist movies. I like smart heist movies and I like dumb disaster movies and this was dumb on both counts but it made me laugh a few times. I don't know. I got a kick out of it. I also like I had a

friend over when we were watching it, and so maybe I enjoyed it more than you guys, because I got to laugh at the silly stuff with someone else. It's a real cool way to sneak in that you have friends. Yeah, we get it, Dan. Friend, you're like Frankenstein's monster. Yeah, you're Joey Phoebe, et cetera. Yeah, you're just hanging out at Central Perk watching hurricane highs not letting Gunther come watch You it you and you're and the monkey purged on your children because that's right Dan your Ross You're not even Chandler your Ross in this scenario. Thanks. I mean, I don't know. Yeah, that's not the worst He's pretty bad. Okay, uh Ross is the worst of the Chandler is annoying, but Ross is a monster. Yeah, that's true

I mean one he has a pet fucking monkey. That's not right. That monkey shouldn't be there. No, if you're right Number two, he like he's like oh, I'm a sensitive guy. That means I can play with women's emotions and it's okay terrible Yeah, I'm one of the good ones Yeah, I'm one of the good ones. Yeah, I'm one of the good I just had that like challenge. I just had that thing where is He just the other cocaine problem right and he is yeah, yeah Chandler's just he's got a drug addict and Joey is clearly gay and is afraid to admit it And that's why he overcompensates with a whole non-Joston. Yeah, that explains it

Now now go into the girl's side Rachel of course is Rachel is a psychopath. He's killing people left and right. That's why they cut the Rachel. That's why they made that movie monster, the Rachel story. Phoebe, of course, as you can probably tell, has serious trauma issues and is dealing with in PTSD and Monica uh you know Monica I don't even think if you look at all the clues in the episodes I think you've realized Monica doesn't exist and it's just like a

shared hallucination of the rest of the group. Oh she's a Mr. Robot. Spoiler. Exactly. Yeah. I feel like putting like being a closeted gay man in with all these other negative things kind of. That's true. Makes it sound like they're all equal and that's true. I would say Dan Joey not being true to himself and being afraid of his true person whether that's because someone has imposed that pressure on him or because he himself has his own misunderstood ideas of what it means to be a man. That is a negative thing. I want him to be free and open about himself and comfortable. All right. It's also clear about that. I, uh, I'm

not judging him for being gay. I'm judging him for not being honest with himself. All right. Well, I'm glad that maybe that's not his fault. I'm glad we worked out the friends, but how do you feel about the hurricane ice? Now let's, let me get started on praises anyway. So, Niles is another one of those good guys you know. He's just a good guy. I mean the fact that he wants to cheat on his life with the woman who works for his brother and therefore there's a real power misdynamic there. A comfortable power dynamic.

Yeah yeah and that their dad is infantilized to the point where they treat him like a child. All right. And of course yes. Yes every comedy has a lot of problems. Let's move on What's the next thing we do on this by My final judgment I wanted this movie to be a good bad movie so badly I think it got pretty close in my mind But I found it kind of boring for most of it But I think if I was watching it with another person Yes, I would have found it to be good bad because there are a couple

of crazy moments, but the action scenes are pretty boring. And I mean, that's, I think that's actually the hallmark of a good bad movie is that if you watch it by yourself, it's often boring and it's fun to watch with the group. So I'll say it is a good bad movie. And also four for four with Rob Cohen directed movies. I think he's directed like five movies and we reviewed four of them on the podcast. So wait, we didn't do fast in the Furious. Yeah, that's one of our movies.

That's his most successful movie by far. What other Rob Cohen movies did we do? Stealth. We did Stealth, not with you, but we did Stealth. No, I missed it. We did the boy next door. Uh huh. Oh right.

What was the other one? Do you remember? The highest one. The highest next door. Uh huh. And uh what was the other one? Do you remember the highest next hurricane? Uh it was. Sure it's pulling it up so guys. Do it saves his family. It is. Stuart saves his family. Right. Rob Cohen pulling it up. You guys vamp while I do this. It was. Okay. So how can heart the movie he directed? oh Alex Cross, boom. Oh yeah. Alex Cross, I didn't realize he made that one. Yeah, so Rob Cohen, if he wants to, is that the most by any director we've done?

I think it might be. Yeah. So he goes in the flop hall of fame, which is enshrined in the hearts of Americans everywhere. And, and congratulations to him, you know, I guess he'll get his no prize in the mail for being the most flop director. Yeah, his jersey is gonna be put up in the flop house raptors.

Mm-hmm. What about the flop house raptors? Uh, those don't exist. Oh, yeah, you're right. I guess I'll just have to go see Jurassic World. No more parks. In theaters now. In theaters at this moment.

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have a couple jumbo trams Stewart has run to the restroom that's why I hasn't been talking for this entire segment yeah he's been busy letting his body talk and he has one of the jumbo trunks So why don't I do mine? I have the other one Okay, this is a personal jumbo tron and it's for Lewis and it's from Alissa and it said and so Alissa is saying to Lewis Happy anniversary and pre-father's day This is a little late as you could tell father's day was a couple weeks ago Happy anniversary and and pre-father's day to my best friend If you're half as good at dadding as you aren't husbanding little mind ray will be one lucky kid

Even if you make him listen to the whole back catalog of flop house and invent your zone when he's old enough to the walls Oh, so it looks like I think Lewis and the list I might be expecting. That's wonderful. Congratulations guys Mm-hmm. That's the the most wonderful joy that there is And Stewart has returned so Now it's time for our secondary jump with Tron secondary and time not in important. Oh, hey guys Were you cool enough to pause the recording while you ran away? We were not. Oh, we were not Okay, so please leave in all that stuff. Okay, okay, and Stuart was it okay that we put the microphone up against the door In Stephen King's dream catchers

Yep, now the question is the person who came out of that bathroom is it Stewart or a Stewart controlled by a shit weasel. Oh, no. Oh, no. You'll find out later. So we got a jumbo tron, ju-ju-jumbo tron. The comics canon is the podcast that renders judgment on the great comic book stories of yesterday and today.

Every two weeks, Kurt Holman and Kevin Moro discuss such well-known stories as Batman, The Dark Knight Returns, Civil War, Fun Home, and more works that have become mass media sensations. Each episode answers the questions, how do these stories hold up? What's their larger impact on comics or pop culture? And do they belong in that comic book Hall of Fame known as dot dot dot the comics canon? Find it on Apple Podcasts Stitcher SoundCloud Google Play Spotify and comicscanon.com and canon is spelled with one and not two and you jokesters. I do I love the idea that comics is such a weird medium that it's like we're going to be

judging civil war and fun home. Like there is not two more different pieces of words. I mean, I don't think we're I'm going to have to give it a listen. I mean, I don't think it's a it's a It's not like a royal it's not like a brackets But they're like okay now I'm going down against watchman What's a ring of keys moment in civil war? Okay, all right But moving on like okay, so our next match up. It's Persepolis and secret wars Okay, Dan, what do we do next? So we did the sponsor stuff. Yes, we did the other stuff now this episode is going to air after our Seattle shows, we don't have to promote it and

Dan, do we have any other live shows coming up to perform? Yeah, but we're not going to plug them yet. They're way in the future. We're going to take we're taking a live show break after this after that CL show because I'm having a new baby. I have a new baby. New baby. That's our song. Yeah, we did the whole thing. That's the jingle. Yeah, yeah, they hit single. The guys you just recorded your first number one hit is called New Baby. I mean, throwing baby into almost any song is a good idea. Yeah, yeah.

That's what Richie Valent's did, right? Mm-hmm. Yeah, exactly. Any song. A-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a- baby it works. I'm glad you did that because I was coming up with like only offensive songs to throw baby into. I'm like nope nope not that one either. Like what? Like no. No. No it was like even worse. I don't even want to say what I was looking. All right. Let's just leave it up to the audiences of the imagination. Yeah. Okay, new contest right into what offensive to song was Dan thinking of. Kera of Dan McCoy. One, two, four main street, any town USA, Earth, Galaxy five. Yeah, thank you. Sorry, there's a, I feel like a bad throat from my party last night. You heard it here, folks. Dan's got a bad throat.

Mm-hmm. Yeah, you had a great time your party. We're living it up as you were going down. We understand. All right. Anyway. So it's time for letters. Letters from listeners. Listers like you. And the first letter is from Joe Lasting with Held. Who writes? I'm the- Hey there Joe. Oh god. What are you gonna write today? Hey there Joe? This is your time. What are you gonna say? Hey Joe, don't you know that you gotta show us what you got inside? Hey Joe, don't go. Don't run and hide. Be there with us today. Joe, what's your turn to say

Baby Oh, okay, that's a baby in there. I like I like that you didn't fade that one out This is a quick end Yeah, so Joe writes I'm the news. So this is a story all about Joe the letter He's set to thesemose and we'd like to take a minute to sit right there. Dan will read your letter right live on the air. Damn. Thank you. You really you nailed the landing on that one in a way that I didn't expect. No, I didn't expect it either. Let me tell you. So okay, Joe writes I am the new proprietor of my very own video rental store located in Lincoln, Nebraska.

I specialize in harder to find movies. Oh, that's a great town. VHX, beta mask, laser disc, DVD, and Blu-ray as well. Wait, Dan, did you say VHX and beta mask? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I get interrupted right in the middle of the fucking sentence. Anyway, the point is he's got harder to find movies, but the question is, if you were an employee at a video store, what would your

three employee picks be? Flophouse house cat can have three picks too. Keep on floppin' in the real world. Thanks, Joe, last name withheld. So this is interesting, because you want to pick something that you like, but you want to pick something that people might not be familiar with. Mm-hmm. Wait, what are we doing? I was trying to come up with a beta mask joke. You were, uh, do you know how to employ the picks that your video is sure, what were

your three movies be? Oh, I get to pick exactly three movies. Yeah. Three movies that I would recommend to a person. This is gonna be our face too. I wish you'd given me this question earlier. I asked these questions in advance for situations like this, Dan. Yeah, I'm sorry. No, it's tough. I think my three movies would be, and I'm just pulling this off the top of my head here. Okay. Return of the living dead. Okay. The birds. Okay. And animal crackers.

Now somewhere I was about to somewhere David burn his cry. I was about to I kept myself from stepping on your big stew, which was my first impulse. Just a steal. And then Stuart Stewart is thrown into a tailspin trying to remember other movies. Joanna Man. Man. Joanna Man, the era there. Now those are not. Airbugs. Those are not necessarily my favorite movies. I just want to expose people to these movies.

I want to expose myself via these movies. I heard it here first folks. Yeah, so my three movies are a little movie called Castle Freak. Uh-huh. A movie called The Head of the Family. Okay. And for my third pick, I would say Dr. Chavago. All right. Interesting. All right. Okay. Again, I think picking not necessarily my three favorite movies, but three movies that I feel like people would like and they haven't seen people haven't seen as much of them. I would say the devil and Daniel Webster, closely watch trains, which is one, I mean, those are two of my favorites, but and then I think I'd maybe put like the prestige.

I don't think that's a movie that, as much as Christopher Nolan is a huge name, I feel like the prestige is still not a movie. A lot of people have seen. Yeah. So, there's a big reveal in the third act of that thing that you did, Elliot. Yeah, I thought there's a word for that.

I don't know. I mean, the other one I could think of possibly is like in the similar one of big name director who where he has a movie that I think is maybe his one of his best, if not his best, that no one's that not as many people have seen is also fit think about putting in a zodiac which it baffles it like. I did. I did. I did. Fist your mind. Movie by far. Yes. It baffles it like yes my but like by and it's an amazing movie and I think just because it's long most people have not seen it but it's such a good movie so

Those are my those are my choices All right, so put now I now I did work at a video store and I was very mad that we did not have an employee recommendations, Shell Put them up on the wall under the title, Flophouse Recommend. I mean, for when you were working there, you could basically call the anime section, the employee recommendation section, right? All the neon, genesis, evangelism. Oh, yeah. The wall of Dragon Ball Z tapes that we had, that we could not keep on the shelves because people kids bought them so fast. Yeah, definitely This next letter is from Caleb last name with held Caleb car author of the alienus. I'm glad we both went to the only Caleb we could think On the layover episodes Stuart mentioned his wanted to see the Bert Reynolds film the last movie star

I think spent a full 12-hour day at an airport being an extra and being a big shot in movie star as a result, I thought I could offer up some juicy, on-set gossip. Yeah, yeah, yeah, give me those dirty deets or starters. All of the other extras left their prop baggage at a large unattended pile causing TSA to momentarily freak out until we claimed it all. Shenanigans. Next, since Bert is getting on in the years, a golf cart would appear to whisk him away between takes, and a young man would stand in for him wearing a blazer, wig, and a grotesque mask that I can only describe as something out of nothing but trouble.

Scandal. And finally, when I did the chance to briefly meet director Adam Riffkin, I said, I'm a big fan. You did the admissible maniac right to which he replied yeah you must be a real fan of film to know that one he wistfully looked away for a moment and said that was a real fun one to make stars well that was my brief flush with brush with the Hollywood elite I'm sorry to say that the film isn't that great but maybe it could make a great

flop material someday thanks for continually making my favorite show and podcast or any other form Caleb last name withheld. Yeah, I saw it, we got it around to it. I got to track it down. Yeah. Did that one for you, Stuart? Uh, thanks, Dan. Thanks for curating content just for me. Yeah, what do you want, Netflix?

Yeah, yeah. Things Stuart might like. for me. Yeah, what do you want? Netflix? Yeah, things steward might like. I think you're the listeners wouldn't give a shit about it. Stewart might enjoy it. Yeah, and I would like to think that listeners like hearing steward happy sad drunk, et cetera. Yeah, the full gamut, the rainbow of steward. Yeah, those are, I mean, what, those are the five humors. Yeah, yeah, those are I mean what those are the five humors

Yep happy sad drunk Todd sleepy and dope. Mm-hmm All right, well if there's nothing else about that I'll move along No, that was I thought I found that genuinely very informative and interesting so thank you Caleb. Yeah This one is from Heather last name with held Langen camp who writes Get Freddie out of my brain I'm a philosophy professor that seems wait hold on that seems like a very like that's a perfectly reasonable demand Any help we could provide and getting Freddie out of somebody's brain. I feel like that's on us. We have responsibility to do that. Yeah, that's our job.

I'm just saying. Follow Sleep Idiots. And that's not as easy as it sounds to her. Just go to Sleep No More. It's in the title. But if that was the cure, they do a new nightmare on Street. Like, we can't sleep anymore. I guess we're going to New York for some experimental theater.

Sleep No More, it is. That's the coming to America style of picking where to go. And Freddy shows up and he's like, this is freaking me out. I don't understand what I'm supposed to be doing. Why are they wearing masks? The anonymity freaks me out. It's like, wait a minute. If I go into that room, I'm going to miss whatever's happening in that other room.

This is so stressful. The completionist in me is freaking out. I'm experiencing a real FOMO here. Heather writes, I'm a philosophy professor, and I was recently teaching in ancient Greek philosophy course. A pro-buret. Wait, teaching philosophy to ancient Greeks? I was teaching in ancient Greek philosophy course. I think either interpretation works.

Yeah. either interpretation works. Yeah. We were on the subject of Plato's symposium, which includes an appearance by a historic Athenian general named, I'm going to fucking butcher this, Elsie Bades. Elsie Bades. Elsie Bades. Elsie Bades. Thank you. I asked my class if they're familiar with a scandal, Elsie Bades was involved in, known as the mutilation of the Horms. They were not, so I started to explain. They were the statues called Horms that had prominent Chinatalia, and of the eve of an important military expedition,

someone went around Athens, and at that point things went very wrong, because the phrase that forcefully intruded itself into my mind was ripping their ding dogs off. I managed to rest just enough control of myself that what came out of my mouth was instead a squeaky strangled ripping their genitals off. I then doubled over behind the lecturing gasping with laughter while my class sat in stunned silence. The tenure committee's modicles fell out of their faces. Calling back down enough to resume lecturing was terrifyingly difficult.

My question for you three is, have you had any other similar circumstances in which you had to try and stifle an appropriate laughter? Your loyal listener, Heather. The one that comes to my mind, do you remember this, Elliot? It was um... I don't know, tell me more about it. Okay. Yeah, give me a good context please. We were at the Emmys one year and they did like this like montage that uh oh what's this face um I can't remember Rod Rodi, War Machine.

Don Cheatle came out. Was that the thing where it was about the Kennedy assassination? And then they tied it into the Beatles, and they're like, Sullivan, as if that solved the problem. Exactly. And so we're at this high class supposedly function and where, yeah, like he has the Kennedy assassination,

then was like, and then the Beatles came, and everyone was happy, and like everyone in our group was stifling like, so much laughter, and we felt like the bad kids in the back of class. I remember that, well that's similar to, the first time I ever went to the writer's Guild Awards, which is also the only year that the show won while I was there. We were sitting all the way in the back of the theater, and I was sitting next to another fellow at Daily Show writer who now has gone off to do many great things.

My name is Sam Means, who is now part of the Tina Fey Robert Karlock show universe. And we were drinking more and more and getting more and more frustrated with how long the things were going on and they didn't get to our category till the very end. So we were just kind of like, we went from stifling our laughter because like Edward Albee was on stage getting an honorary award and things like that. And to eventually just kind of like more just conversationally, heckly. And it was like looking back and I'm like, that was not very professional of us. But I feel like I've had so many times in my life when I'll be in a serious situation. And I'll just start thinking about something that was in like a

kid's in the hall sketch or something. And I'll have trouble not laughing. And it's very frustrating for me. Yeah. I don't know whether you have anything to do. We don't have to. Yeah. I mean, I can't think any specific instance, but like almost every night that I'm bartending,

there's at least one conversation between two very drunk people, usually somebody explaining the plot of, I don't know, fucking Dexter to somebody. And I just kind of overhear snippets of it and trying not to laugh too loudly. But anyway, so Dexter's real popular among the patrons at hinterlands. I don't know. That's like one of those things that it happened. It happened a lot at it happened a lot when I was working at Games Workshop. We had this one fucking guy who he was like a construction guy any any days he had off you just sit at the painting table, painting miniatures, and whatever kids had off of school would be like clustered around this fucking old

long beard, and he would just tell them, he would just recount like the entire plot of the first season of Battlestar Galactica to them, like they're like young lings around the fucking fire. And it was the epic, the legends of their people. Yeah, it was the weirdest thing and I'm like, I'm not getting paid enough for this. That's so funny. The idea, like that's totally what's going to happen when society collapses is that old people, old nerds will just be describing in detail the the plots of episodes of the X-File. Yeah, I mean, serenity. That was the best moment, probably the best scene in the Rob Cohen directed.

Wait, did he direct Raina Fire? We're the director of Raina Fire. I don't know. It's in Raina Fire where it's in the post-apocalyptic society and they're like telling the story and play acting the Star Wars trilogy, which is a huge mistake because they're like, oh yeah, I should be watching Star Wars. I guess what we're talking about is also the plot of the play Mr. Burns, which I recommend to anyone who likes reading plays, where something as tundling terrible has happened to society and the thing that knit civilization back together again is people recounting episodes of the Simpsons to each other, trying to remember all the jokes. They're really good play.

Yeah, but now is the time on the show where we recommend movies that we actually liked movies that you should spend your hard-earned time on. And that's how it works. You are the video store and pop them in. You check your forearm and watch the hours. See many seconds you've earned at the job today. And if you have enough minutes to buy a hamburger or you can share something with your mom. That's right. Let's not get into old scables and controversies. Yeah.

Anyway, so we recommend movies on the show. And I'll start by recommending one called Human Highway, which is a deeply-stranged movie. It was directed by Neil Young and Dean Stockwell and it was written by them plus a few other people. And it's listen to this cash. You got Neil Young starring in it. You have Russ Tamplin, Dean Stockwell, Dennis Hopper and Devo are all in this movie. And if you look on the IMDB for a plot summary, here's a paragraph that someone put together.

The new owner of a roadside diner, Stuck in the Town, built around an always leaking nuclear power plant, plans to torch the place to collect insurance. However, an assortment of bizarre characters and weird events, such a spaceship flying around around gets in his way. That makes it sound like it has a coherent plot. It does not. It is exactly what you think a movie directed and written by Neil Young starring Tivo would be. It is, it feels like, it feels like repo man by way of Peebe's playhouse and I can't say that like Every I saw this with a bunch of friends at a birthday party and some people had a violently negative reaction to it

And it is self-indulgent and weird and and it goes off and all kinds of Narrative dead ends, but there's something about it that is very 80s and fun. It feels like you're watching, if an episode of Night Flight was a movie, it kind of feels like this would be the movie and everything ends with everyone getting blown up in a nuclear explosion. So, if you like a movie that ends with that. It's a spoiler. Yeah. Yeah, that's, I mean, that is the way we're turning the living dead ends, right? Yeah. Yeah. And the way that dead are alive ends. Yeah. There's a lot of connections today. Yeah. Cool. Yeah. References. Mm-hmm.

Cool. So that's a movie. L.A. You want to recommend movie? Sure. I'm going to recommend. So the movie I saw recently that I liked the most was I finally got to see the death of Stalin. But I think Dan already recommended that in a previous episode. But I thought that was really, really great. But soon movies I watch recently that I liked and also that I feel thematically linked in a way to me, but they're not the most, they're good, but they're not the most amazing movies are the recent HBO documentary about Andre the Giant, entitled Andre the Giant,

and the documentary about Gilbert Godfried entitled Gilbert, so very hard to parse titles on these ones. And they both kind of follow pretty standard, documentary about a famous person format, that I feel like both of them are about people who lived kind of outside of normal society, either by virtue of under the giant being physically just different from every other person in the world in a way that made it uncomfortable for him to live normally, and Gilbert Godfrey being somewhat emotionally

unable to live normally, and just that this was both a curse for them and also gave them the license to live in a way that would have made other people outcasts, but instead made them beloved in a big way. And they both, they're, they're end in one case, the Gilbert one is much, a much happier story and the Andre the Giant one is somewhat of a sad story. But both movies did a good job of just like telling their stories. And the thing about the Andre the giant movie in particular It was like I find professional wrestling the actual wrestling. I find very boring to watch

What fascinated by I'm sorry, but I'm fascinated by the business of it and all the character building Goes on around it and there's something in it about how you're watching like Vince McMahon and Hulk Hogan and a number of other people recounting plotlines that they were in with Andre the Giant and at this point the plot lines and their emotions at the way they think of their emotions at the time have merged. So Hulk Hogan's talking about the storyline where Andre the Giant turned bad, became a heal and did a heal turn and he defeated him at WrestleMania 3. And Hulk Hogan is talking about that in a way that he's like

genuinely hurt by being betrayed by his friend, Andre the Giant. And it's like, it's just an interesting, the movie is not about this, but it kind of hints at it the way that the characters they played have become their memories, you know, the people they are today. And so anyway, both of those others thought were, were interesting watches like.

How is, I really like that other Andre the giant documentary my dinner with Andre How does it compare to that? Yeah That one is that one's a little slower and I think it's I think casting Wallace Sean in the role of Andre the giant was a bit of a mistake But you didn't have to think about Andre the giant And it the thing yeah, that's true I mean they saved on the budget because they didn't have to think about Andre the giant. And the thing that's true, I mean, they saved on the budget because they didn't have to give them as much food or wine. And they figured, Wallace Sean knew Andre the giant. They worked together in the Princess Pride. And I'm kind of actually kind of disappointed they didn't interview him for the Andre the

giant movie, but the they figure he knows Andre the giant's mannerisms because he observed him up close. But here's the thing I think they forgot is that the thing about Andre the giant, like the core concept of him, is he's a giant. And Wallace Shawn is actually a very small man. Wallace Shawn would be perfect to play character like, say, I don't know, Ziggy. Holly would get in touch with me. I have the script. Whereas Andre the giant, I think they lost a lot of the physical capacity by casting a small man with a very high-pitched voice in the role of a very large man with very deep voice. But anyway, if you have HBO, then I recommend Andre the Giant Documentary. Gilbert is on Hulu. I bet you can get other places. If you have Hulu, you can watch

it. And both of them, I thought were enjoyable documentaries with a lot of, and this is my favorite thing, our archival, video footage of performance. Good stuff. footage of performance. Good stuff. I'm gonna recommend a movie I saw I was lucky enough to see the Bam Cinema Fest world premiere of I think it was the world premiere of the movie Sorry to bother you from first time director Boots Riley starring a bunch of very famous hot actors right now. Look at Stanfield, Tessa Thompson, Army Hammer, Terry Cruz, etc. You were so turned on. Army Hammer.

Army Hammer. But, yeah, it's a weirdo comedy. It's a debut film from a talented and creative guy. And not all, like it feels like a debut, like not all the jokes always work. And not everything is, like the timing's not always great. But there's something great about watching a movie. You mentioned Repo Man earlier, and it kind of remind me of like Like it it definitely

Doesn't feel like a movie made by a factory and it's it's just weird and funny and Doesn't go in the direction you were going to expect it to go Yeah, I I definitely recommend it. I think it's a great movie and kind of a kind of a breath of fresh air, especially amongst comedies that I've seen in the theater. So sorry to bother you. I think it's I think it should be I don't know when this podcast coming out, but I think it's going to be going to theaters in early July. So yeah, comes out soon.

Yeah, check it out. One quick thing that I just remembered about my movie that I wanted to mention, a half you made a movie after after we watched human highway. It took us down a rabbit hole of looking at a young rust you rust-tamblin and things. And if you Google, rust-tamblin shovel dance, there's a great sequence from, I don't know what movie, but it's just amazing seeing like what an acrobatic physical performer he was when he was young. He was just amazing. And you'll have a great time if you look at that shovel dance from Rust Tambling. Okay. I know. So that's another recommendation.

Three movies and Google recommendation. Not bad. Anyway. So that's it. I mean, we're all obviously tired except for Elliott, but then he has to travel. So we should. Yeah, I got to get on a plane in a little bit so that I can go back to my hometown

or the Los Angeles so that I can get on a plane in a few days to go to Seattle, Washington to see my best buds. Oh, Dan and I have to go to Vancouver, Washington. No, not Vancouver, Washington, that'd be crazy. We're going to Vancouver, Canada, and then we're going up to Alaska, me and Dan. That's true. Yeah, I'm sorry I'm going to miss you guys, your guys is Cruz. Or Alaska, that's true. Yeah, I'm sorry I'm gonna miss you guys is your guys is cruise or Alaska's a very I'm very adorable that a Dan and Stewart and Stewart's wife are going on a cruise to Alaska to get

And I wonder what other friends we're gonna have for their friends Oh, that was just the three you guys. Nope That's less adorable to me. Okay, well Well, I'm not going on vacation to Pleasie. If it makes you feel better, we'll plan the next vacation based on how adorable you find things. Yeah. Yes. Okay. Good. I mean, I would love it if Dan and you and Stu, if you guys and and Stuart's lovely wife, if you guys went to Japan together, I would find that pretty adorable. Okay, well we'll think about it. All right.

But if we go on a vacation to Hawaii and we get mixed up and some kind of diamonds smuggling operation. Yeah, or you find us some kind of enchanted teaky doll that has a curse on it. Oh man, that'd be great. And then that teaky doll comes to life and stabs one of us to death. Wait, who? Yeah, exactly. Unless it's horrible. Except, here's the thing, if the diamond heist is because you are at a resort that's like an SNM resort, I don't need to know about that.

I don't know. I don't know. Don't tell me that story. You always said that would make a great movie though. Like, um, Well, I think it would be, it would make a, the beginning of my series of Dan movies. I think exit to E Dan would be a good, be a good starter. Yeah. That's the follow up be a good starter. Yeah.

That's the follow up to dangerous reasons. Okay. Uh, so yeah, for the flop house, he's been Dan McCoy. Okay. I've been Stewart Wellington. Yeah, some of the Max von podcast network and that's it. Peace. And Elliot Kaelin also here. See you soon. Also, Elliot Kaelin, don't forget him. All right. Bye bye. Elliot Kaelin, don't forget him. All right, bye-bye. Ellie Kaelin, in your ear. Okay. Hey, deuces. for long. You're not 50. So Dan, what's it like to think you're going to be, you can get the senior discount now on the bus, right? Yeah.

Again, I'm only 40. Oh, this is 40. Yeah. So how many? So you're in an unfunny, semi-improvisational film, starring your real kids. Yeah. So when you turn 50 and the doctor is stuck his fingers on hold, how many jumps have you planned for that moment?