The Worst Idea Of All Time - Ep08: A Coat Space

Episode Date: May 23, 2020

The fellaz do the math on Worst Idea in totality and try to figure out what the podcast should be able to do by this stage. A pal of the pod, David Correos weighs in on this film (and loves it). Some fantastic eye acting from Alex in this watch and you simply can't put this kind of pressure on Karen (or can you?!) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

But the hijacks don't stop, and the poop jokes, then I said who's discount David Schwimmer, then he said and the score is great, then I said the main bad guy, and he said the brother and the twin combo. The main bad guy? And he said the brother and the twin combo. Hello. This is the worst idea of all time. This is an emergency season of a podcast that sees two Kiwi comedians watch and review the same movie over and over again. For lols.

Not for reels. Just for laughs. We spent a whole year watching Grown Upsups 2 which is an adam sandler movie which is in the single digits on rotten tomatoes then we spent 12 months watching and reviewing on a weekly basis sex in the city 2 a much derided film then we took a short detour to a non-sequel film we watched we are your friends which was an attempt at a Zac Efron arthouse film, and it was beloved by none. It performed historically badly in the box office. We then watched Sex and the City 1, going back to the origins of our worst season, sort of the precursor, the seeds of what made it so bad.

And that movie was also very bad and very long. We watched that for a year. Now, we're in the middle of a global pandemic, locked in our houses, and we decided to watch a film that in some ways mirrored that effect, which is Home Alone 3, a very insular movie about being in a house.

I'm Tim Batt. This is Guy Montgomery. Hello, Guy. Hello, Tim. What a wonderful preamble and summation of our work and our thesis so far. Hey, what would you say if I told you that what I just described covered six years? Of my life? Yeah.

More of all of our lives. of my life. Yeah. More of all of our lives. It's not... I mean, we're not helping. 15, 16, 17, 18, 19. Yeah, it's six.

14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19. This is the seventh. Oh. So, at 7 years old Let me tell you what What your child can do At 7 years old What developmental stage they're at

I'm just looking it up Okay Well they're talking obviously They've got object permanence Hopefully they can walk Yeah Motor development Their hand-eye coordination is obviously. They've got object permanence. Hopefully they can walk. Yeah. Motor development. Their hand-eye coordination is well-developed.

They've got good balance. They can execute simple gymnastics moves, such as somersaults. They use a vocabulary of several thousand words, demonstrate a longer attention span. Tim, I would say this movie has quite actively upset my attention span. This movie, this project, this enterprise. How do you think our gymnastics and vocab skills are?

I think our vocabulary is being rewarded for our labor. I think it's had a detrimental effect on my gymnastics skills. If I compile all the hours spent and imagine that I was learning how to do some sort of basic gymnastics routine, that's something that's been taken away from me and that I will probably never get around to now. And I used to love gymnastics. After I saw Rush Hour 2, I taught myself how to jump up off the ground on my back. I taught myself how to do a running forward flip. I taught myself how to do a front handspring, a round off.

I couldn't put them all into one swift run of movement, but I taught myself those independently. They were all a bit gammy. I didn't have an instructor. I didn't know you could do those things. Yeah. At what age could you do a sprinting front flip? That's incredible.

Until about 20. Wow. Maybe even longer. Did you have to pick up a lot of speed before you could do it uh i think mentally i did but i don't you don't actually have to it's more about timing and uh your speed of rotation but you you uh you're a little gymnastics e as well aren't you i don't think i am anymore which is disappointing i just remember we went to a whiskey bar in downtown los angeles and we were coming in pretty hot and it was a pretty popular bar full of american people and you cleared a space on the dance floor and did like a what was almost a backflip no it was probably a probably like a front, what are they called?

Handspring. Any way you slice it, I was on the level enough with you to think, this looked really cool. But with hindsight, what probably happened was two really drunk New Zealand guys came in and stressed everyone out by almost injuring themselves in a bar. No, no, no. Well, first of all, I did injure myself quite significantly, if you remember.

I popped my knee out on that particular dance floor, which really hindered the rest of the winter trip. I remember dragging my ass around Washington, D.C., with a gammy knee in the cold and determined to walk the national... What is it called monument monument mile the parade there's a word for it i've forgotten what it is every american will know what it is but that's fine lucky them how do we get by without that information god only knows tim at seven years

old we should use serious logical thinking, be thoughtful and reflective. We should be able to understand reasoning and make the right decisions. We should be able to tell time, know the days, months and seasons, describe points of similarity between two objects. We had it and we've lost it. We definitely don't have sound judgment. And I think our sense of time is improving i think it's getting worse we should be able to solve more complex problems

no that's not happening either we should desire to be perfect and be quite self-critical oh that's an interesting one we should worry worry more. Maybe have low self-confidence. Tend to complain with strong emotional reactions. This is in our wheelhouse. Understand the difference between right and wrong. That one less so. Take direction well. Needs punishment only rarely.

We take punishment twice or thrice weekly. Do we need it? Do you feel like we need that punishment? No. I think not. I had a pretty allergic reaction to Home Alone 3 on this, our eighth screening. Just your classic.

Hey, tell me about it, stud. Oh, thanks, man. your classic hey tell me about it stud oh thanks man um i had the laptop away from me so i couldn't touch it and distract myself i had my phone away from me i was like i'm i'm going bareback i'm going old school i'm fucking mainlining this thing and my brain i couldn't receive what was happening on screen. Instead, I just thought of other things. I think we're in a time of transition here in New Zealand, and so there was quite fertile thinking ground to sow, but I just could not get it into me.

There are a few moments that stood out. I mean, sure, there are always going to be a few moments that stood out i mean you know sure there are always going to be a few moments that stand out but this was the equivalent of having the tv on in the background while also having nothing else to do that is painful what you've just described i think i'm probably at that stage as well i had to split the viewing um in half which was a bit, but I watched half of it yesterday and the second half this morning. How the great John Hughes intended. I will say this. This is our last episode where we are not riding together.

Is that a fact? It's a fact. We are legally bound, obligated, and allowed to sit next to one another, put the Home Alone 3 DVD in the DVD machine, and fucking... Yeah, that's the process we've been adhering to, isn't it? Settle up and watch this and discuss this next to each other. This is our last remote record. And I think it couldn't come at a better time.

It's what the movie needs, is companionship. Alex Pruitt is home alone. He has the company of Doris, a mouse, and a very intelligent parrot. He is mistrusted by everyone in his inner circle. And that feeling of isolation is something with which I can identify as I have also been watching this movie while home alone. Tim, what about home together? What about fucking home together three?

Or in our case, home alone, home together, nine, three. our case home alone home together nine three did you see that a bunch of australian comedians have made a show called home alone together oh yeah i did i was like hey what what the fuck and they've used the home alone logo and everything oh really looks quite funny though yeah well i think so they're definitely referencing it i watched i um i watched a good trailer for it where they were someone was baking a loaf of bread and then it kept getting passed from house to house and everyone had a very different practical application for the loaf of bread for some people it was a phone for others it was a toilet roll and i thought this is the right tone i'm interested to see where this show goes. There's very good people involved.

What I wasn't interested to see... Home Alone 3? The journey of young Alex Pruitt. But I will say this... The journey again. Yeah. Before I badmouth the good people of Home Alone 3, the original score transition

Between Alex's walk home After shoveling snow for Mrs Hess And the crooks arriving In their car on his street Is sensational While Alex walks home He hasn't been paid by Mrs Hess She's given him a car so that he can't say to the neighbourhood

She ripped him off And there's this sort of pensive, almost Forrest Gump-esque motif. You know that... Oh, wow, yeah. I haven't thought about that in ages. It's similar to that. And it's sort of this reflective, instrumental, piano-style riff that puts us in the mind of young Alex Pruitt.

I think he's, you know, he's, I mean, his life's pretty good. I don't know why we're meant to feel melancholy, but to some extent we do. That is the tone of the music. And then as he clears the street and gets onto the other side of the sidewalk, it suddenly becomes much more sinister and sort of, it's like it's the sound of crooks surveying a neighborhood.

And it's a really seamless transition. It's one piece of music. It's the sound of crooks surveying a neighborhood. And it's a really seamless transition. It's one piece of music. It's beautifully executed. And then they pan back to Alex arriving home. And this is a real touch of class. They layer the two instrumental riffs over one another. And finally, in that moment, Home Alone 3 becomes the fully realized movie that it is. three becomes the fully realized movie that it is it's a blend of these sort of the serious you know tomfoolery tomfoolery international enterprise and a young boy getting up to all sorts of

undeniably fatal and deadly hijinks yeah so i didn't actually look up who composed that but fucking shout out to them. Well, it's interesting you bring that up because I was talking to our friend, New Zealand comedian David Koryos yesterday, and he was just sort of checking in. I can't remember what triggered the convo, and he was like, what are you up to? I said, I'm just about to tuck into a bit of Home Alone 3.

And he said, is it bad to tell you that's my favorite home alone and then i said dude this movie sucks and then he said that's the first one i watched discount david schwimmer also how they really upped the ante with proper diehard style super villains but the hijinks don't stop. And the poop jokes. Then I said, who's discount David Schwimmer? Then he said, and the score is great. Then I said, the main bad guy?

And he said, the brother and the twin combo. Then I said, there's no twins. Then he said, aren't there? Or are they related? Or do they both just have dark short hair and are white and then he attached a screenshot of burton jernigan and earl ungan and then another screenshot of uh david schwimmer and i said oh burton jernigan yeah good call he's got the most piercing eyes and then david said what else has most piercing eyes and then David said what else has he been in and then I said Twin Peaks and that's about it and he said oh and then attached a recent

photo of Lenny Don Verlin I think that is who plays Burton Jernigan, and said, damn, he's a silver fox now. And then I said, yeah, dog, he's a total honey. And that is our communique in totality. So I think we should get David on. That sounds like a segment called David Correspondence, where he dispatches his pearls of wisdom from a childhood gone by. I really like his notes. I also like the way he remembers movies i when i hear people talking about like books they've read or tv shows they've watched or

movies they've seen and the vivid memories they have i guess i have it with certain films but it makes me feel like i'm consuming things incorrectly you undeniably are i don't mean uh i don't mean in this podcast specifically i mean in my wider life i see like i don't i don't remember the details like that i mean i guess his was a little hazy but he remembers the score he remembers like there was a brilliant there were twins in this film i could understand why you that. He was a kid when he watched it. And once you get that idea in your head, you know, that's just how it is as you grow up. Yeah.

Burton Jernigan and Earl Unger could be brothers. Mismatched brothers. Yeah. Can I just say for this watch as well, that, like, every watch, I come to love Earl Unger more and more. Yeah. I think that he plays this movie so perfectly it's like a

david stern level of self-awareness where he knows exactly the level of bad guy to facilitate you know buy-in for the movie but just oh so silly and taking every opportunity to be as funny as possible he is fucking dynamite he is really good to me now i think one thing i don't quite know about on david's note is there aren't that many poo jokes are there i think there are more there are more penis there are more penis jokes i think that's what he's sort of filed in his head with alex has slammed the toilet seat on his thing and i think he's kind of put it into the bathroom humor and there's also uh you know uh mr beaupre gets his ghoulies absolutely thwacked by a mechanical boxing glove out of the uh the what are we called the cupboard

what's like what's it oh yeah what's a cupboard where you keep your jackets called I don't know, what is that called it's not a wardrobe a coat like a coat space yeah that's what it's called and Alex does some fantastic eye acting where he goes cross eyed and sort of communicates not empathy but just an understanding

that when you get whacked in the ghoulies it really hurts it's a made for trailer Burton Jernigan gets absolutely poleaxed in the testes by Alice Ribbons with a hockey stick. And he gives a very funny read on it. He says, you smacked my winky. Yeah, but before that, that sustained note that he sings. I'm going to say sings because it is like a musical note when he gets hit in the nuts it's impressive yeah bounce it out i reckon he's got a bit of

musical chops wouldn't be surprised i i mean do you think that these guys were excited to be in home line three what was the press what was the buzz what was the feeling on set did they think before i forget because you brought it up that moment where alex does the kind of like um he's looking around the corner and sees mr bupre get get socked that bit where he whips his head back out of the frame happens so quickly like it's a beautiful kind of comedy moment that camera well the camera's actually through it's a beautiful kind of comedy moment. That camera, well, the camera's actually through. It's totally his action where he pops into frame, does a little expression and then jumps himself out.

It happened so quick that I've been watching it for the last three watches, trying to figure out if someone had a hand on his collar to yank him back. Because I don't think you could achieve that speed without some added force. I wonder whether or not he, it could be a thing because it's just him in the

frame there's no other moving part and so you just shoot it in regular speed and then you you accelerate it in the edit true yeah that could work there are a few cartoonish moments like that one that really jumped out to me the first time this movie i guess i mean it's all it's always cartoonish but like when uh they're escaping the first house after Alex has called the cops and the cops are coming around and they've been alerted early enough that they can escape

and Mr. Beaupre doesn't have to hide in the roof, the car's driving past and Mr. Beaupre walks out very casually. And the car's going pretty quickly. And Mr. Beaupre, it's like a glitch or something. Yeah. It's like,

because to that point, everything had been done in quite a realistic style and then he the car drives past you see him in front of the van it's a van and then all of a sudden he's in the van i think i think that's inaccurate and if it's not i would love to see the footage inside of the van because that would be a very clumsy landing yeah i mean look this is hollywood magic guy this is the magic of the movies this is what in the 90s do you remember this turn of phrase a camera trick we don't say that anymore because everything's generated by computers but back then you know you were trying to discern what or what

wasn't a camera trick in the film yeah that was definitely a camera trick i think of course marvel of editing huge shout out to our countryman, Peter Jackson, for creating one of the great camera tricks, Force Perspective. He was the original camera trickster. An old favourite. Tim, I'd like to draw some sort of parallel between this film and Sex and the City 2

in comparing Charlie, the unseen boss of Harville and Williams, Karen, and Tom. Miranda's hardline, sexist, pig-of-a-man boss. I thought that Charlie brought it this week. I thought his performance was on the money. The idea of the actor delivering these lines was fantastic. The audio mix, it's the perfect volume. It reads exactly like the other half of a phone conversation that you can

over here inside of the house because the volume on the phone is slightly too loud the lines he's got are as follows billing just called he's on his way in to review his portfolio leaving friday you know we can't cancel this is all he had to act this is like he's got no one to go against harvlin's not coming in to read against this guy. Mary Lou's not who he expects to see. Now, you're the point person on this. Look, look, you gave me your word

you could handle this. Well, it's not my fault you can't find a babysitter. Fine. Karen, and then she fucking gives him what for. But,

I don't necessarily like the guy and i understand he's a heel you know he's an important prop in uh this movie's effort to establish itself as one of the foremost feminist texts of the late 90s uh cosine i was with you and you lost me but continue but i think it's a really strong performance i think i haven't seen who the actor is but i think the guy really brings it to be just a voice and have such a clearly defined character and responsibility in the film and i mean there's credits got to be spread evenly here we've got to give credit to the screenwriter we've got to give credit to the sound engineer we've got to give credit to the actor themselves that's three bits of credit so it wouldn't shock me to hear that it was the sound engineer on the day.

Doing the line delivery. I reckon that happens all the time. Someone calls in sick. They forgot to hire someone, whatever, and goes like, oh, fuck, I'll do it. Absolutely not. This is a trained professional. This guy fucking brings it.

Day in, day out. I don't like him. I don't like Charlie. I think he's a bad boss i think he's probably a bad guy i think he's definitely got something going on with mary lou yeah definitely there is some chemistry there but i think that charlie is nothing more than a cog in an evil machine he's as much a victim of the capitalist system that they're a part of as anyone no he's got underlings sure but he's got overlings as well putting pressure down

on him he's being forced to be a bad man this is the problem with the system it makes bad people of us all no charlie needs to stick his neck out all right charlie has got multiple employees at his disposal who can handle the billing account he knows full well that karen is at home with a sick kid. You can't put that sort of pressure on your employees. What's that going to do for group morale? The client is coming in for a meeting. He expects Karen.

He has been dealing with Karen. This is a lot of money on the line, guy. You're telling me that this client has no understanding of basic empathy, that sometimes your kids get sick and you have to stay at home. Charlie's asking you to find a babysitter on a work day. Kids are at school. If he is an institutional investor, which we are led to believe he is, he probably doesn't have any empathy. He's probably a psychopath.

Well, it could be Bernie Madoff. They could be dealing literally with Bernie Madoff's account. You don't fuck around with Bernie Madoff and he doesn't care if you've got a sick cat at home you do you do fuck around with Bernie Madoff no way man too much money at stake

you fuck around with Bernie Madoff, Bernie Madoff will fuck around with you it's not real money Tim also the year is 1997 is Enron going great guns? in what respect? Everyone's like, Enron's good, right? Oh, Enron. Enron is going great guns.

97? We're contemplating opening up into the broadband market. We're thinking of video-on-demand delivery to the United States. What do they call it the top 40 can you tell me what's the elevator pitch for enron why should i put my money there enron started as an energy company but now is a dream factory we dream we come up with ideas we revolutionize industries they um they basically like they managed to um turn the energy market into a stock market so they were trading states energy supplies around with like day traders and um it made the whole thing incredibly risky a lot of people died in

rolling blackouts because they kept whipping the power off in california to generate higher prices and then it turns out they didn't have any good fundamental product in the business so when a reporter started sniffing around as to why they were the largest company in America by market capitalization, the whole thing collapsed within about, I think from memory, three weeks of the article coming out. And the article was like a tiny page seven. That is really good. That is an incredible forbear for Theranos, which essentially provided the same thing, only instead of being an energy startup, it was a...

Enron took down so many more people. And what was really sad is Enron had been going around buying up all of these little energy companies around the state. So these companies that had existed for generations, for decades and decades... And provided genuine value. Yeah, they were like intergenerational servicemen who were like, my dad was a linesman for this company and his dad was a linesman

and I am a linesman for this company. For the county. And then Enron bought them and then fucking collapsed and they all lost their retirements, their 401ks. Terrible stuff stuff i had to see that do you know the other thing that's taking place in the background of this movie that has not gotten a mention or a look what uh it's 1997 tim it's uh christmas it's just after christmas 97 98 i'll tell you what's fucking happening michael jordan's purported final season with the chicago

bulls as he attempts to repeat a three-peat for the first time in nba history we're in illinois this should be front and fucking center 100 it's unbelievable to me that we'd spend this time in chicago when literally the center of the popular culture universe exists around the world of the film and we're supposed to believe that all fucking alex pro wants to do is kill for thieves in 1997 i was wearing bulls merch in christchurch new zealand fucking hell un-freaking-believable they were good hats man it's a powerful logo for a kid that angry bull the color red nice it's all aggressive it's all good stuff but i'll tell you what is happening man. It's a powerful logo for a kid. That angry bull. The colour red. Nice. It's aggressive. It's all good stuff.

But I'll tell you what is happening in the background of this film. Again, we don't see it, but we know about it. Some agents are sharp. Some agents are blunt. But you've never been you've never seen such a useless cunt as Stucky. It's Stuck with Stucky. What's happening in today's Stuck with Stucky

Guy Montgomery? Well, Stucky comes into work after a pretty rough day at the office, if you'll recall, involving a coffee stain and a full scale brawl amongst the amnesia agents. Of course, his boss came in and said Stucky! Anyway, Stucky

sheepishly trots his way into his office and he's fearful that he's going to get an absolute fucking telling off at the hands of his boss his boss calls him into the office as soon as he arrives stucky braces himself expecting the worst he walks in the boss looks stucky square in the eyes and he says what the hell are you doing in my office? And Stucky says, what, sorry? No, I've come in. You told me to come in here. And the boss says, why would I tell you to come in here

when I've never met you before in my life? Uh-oh. Whoa. The boss has amnesia as well now. Oh, my God. This is terrifying. It's alluding to some sort of contagious form has amnesia as well now. Oh, my God. This is terrifying. It's alluding to some sort of contagious form of amnesia in the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

So the boss says to him, you get out of here. And Stucky leaves confused. He's rubbing his brow. He's thinking, oh, boy, I'm really up against it today. As he leaves, the boss looks down at his notepad. The top line of his notepad reads talk to stucky the boss looks up and he bellows stucky stucky stucky turns on a dime and returns the boss says what are you doing in here i just dismissed you send in stucky

one in here i just dismissed you send in stucky stucky says i am stucky and the boss says i think i'd know stucky when i see him meanwhile on the ground floor of the high-rise office building at the home of the fbi the amnesia agents are all piling into one lift. The problem? None of them have any idea what floor they're meant to go to. So they push every single button in the elevator and all walk off to a day's work at various different companies. One person walks into

a chartered accountancy firm. Another person works into a sports agency. Another one walks onto the floor where Enron are operating out of. Yes. Chaos ensues. Meanwhile, Stucky is now walking back into his boss's office

with a very obvious fake mustache on. The boss says, Ah, Stucky! Just the man I wanted to see. I've called you in here to say, and the boss looks down at his notes, You're doing a terrible job. Stucky, trying to take advantage of his boss's newfound medical condition,

says, what are you talking about? Just before you said I got a promotion. And the boss says, okay, now get out of here. Stucky's finally free from his boss and walks into the bullpen where the amnesia agents traditionally wait for their briefing. Only no one is there. Dun, dun, dun!

Stuck with Stucky. How would you feel about us producing some short episodes of Stuck with Stucky? Because this is getting me juiced up. I'd be pretty into it, man. I got to tell you, it's a fun place to put a little bit of energy. I didn't get to flesh that one out

as much as I would have liked, but I think we're on the right track here. I think this is an exciting project. This is a really good intellectual property. We might need to change the character name to avoid any legal ramifications from John Hughes himself, but I think we're on to something.

John Hughes is dead motherfucker we can take Stuck With Stucky to the moon! We can make Stuck With Stucky merch! To the window! To the wall! To my balls are stuck on the wall with Stucky I love it man

Let me tell you some stuff I've brought up my notes. The dad is Kevin Kilner. The hot dad. I love that guy. He does not have the career that you'd think he deserves, eh? Exactly. But can I ask you this?

Because the least surprising thing I think I've ever heard in my damn life, based on that guy's face, what sport do you think he excelled at in college lacrosse yes yeah he has the most in fact i'll tell you he he went to uh delaney high school and johns hopkins university my my in Baltimore. And at Johns Hopkins, he was a member of the national champion lacrosse team. Why? And I don't. Why do people play that one?

Americans are so crazy. It's like there were so many great sports in the world and they said, nah, we got this. And just came up with sports so shit that literally no one else wants to play them with them. And they go, that's okay. If we win within our own community we're the fucking best he said from new zealand a country that absolutely prides itself on being the best at rugby a game which four countries play absolutely not like so many countries play rugby the world cup that happens every four years that's an actual function of the professional sport there's no world cup for american football there's no world cup like we play against other countries we're a sociable bunch we say hey australia you play the same sport of us it might be fun to fucking mix and mingle um uh what else did i write i wrote down that i'm so sick of hearing the dumbass

routine about i left my bread in san francisco i left my heart in san francisco no one fucking cares how big is this chain like for but pray to be going through someone's house and for them also to have an old parisian or par Parisian bag in which they keep their winter gloves. Also, why is their winter glove bag full of gloves when it's already winter? Get them out of storage. Get them on your hands. You give yourself a chill otherwise. Parisian Incorporated was an American chain of department stores founded and headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, competing mainly in the established southeastern U.S. market

through the 80s against Nordstrom, Newman Marcus, and Gus Meyer. Parisian underwent a series of restructurings and mergers during its 130-year history and was taken over by Profits, spelt with two Fs, Incorporated. That's a fucking good name for a corporation in 1996 um so it looks like they are defunct as of 2013 no longer exists but this is definitely the right one because it's got that logo on it that sucks why are they in san francisco at a parisian store

when that is a a store that's mainly focused on the southeast and also the airport they are in is so obviously the same airport when they're leaving and returning it's both the same airport i'm sure i'm sure it's chicago's airport it's ohio for sure yeah twice they probably got a debt yeah yeah why would you pay for two it'd be so expensive to shoot in an airport, I reckon. You have to shut things down. What was the budget of this movie? Didn't we figure this out? Like 130 mil, I think.

Home Alone 3 budget. It is 32 mil. Made back 79. We even did a breakdown. We did a breakdown like one episode ago. I only know this because i've been editing the episodes um you know what's a fucking crazy moment i think i've brought it up briefly but man i just gotta highlight it you know when um alex spray paints

mr bupre and uh then i think it's at that moment then he leans against the door and he goes what a loser and then a fucking band saw almost kills him. Yeah. That comes through the door. Fuck, that's terrifying. Most of this movie is spoofs and goofs, except there is a running electrical saw that goes straight through the door,

mere inches away from an eight-year-old boy. If we're going to be talking about things that should scare Alex, guns. This kid's a sociopath. He's got no value on his own life like he is putting himself on the front line and at incredibly high risk he's totally uncoured by the fact that they've got where i guess do you know why is it not afraid of the guns why he's got what they need and they need him alive they need him alive oh i see he knows i thought you're about to

bust into a bit of bismarcky oh no but i mean that would be a great thing to underscore the point hey bad guys you no hey bad guys i i got what you need it's a missile chip that could help you dominate the region you know how you mentioned before that um this movie's version of Sex and the City 2's Tom, who does the telephone acting, does a stupendous job. My shining light for this episode, I am thrilled to tell you, fits into this pantheon of off-camera, on-mic voice acting. It is a line delivered with such character and confidence and tonality that

it just juts out against the rest of the movie and it forces you to pay attention with pricked ears the line is plus special carrot feeding tips coming up next on pets on parade oh nice i've heard that i've not zeroed in on it but i've heard it and it's a great shining light you've got to zero in on it it's so good you know what it's what mrs hess is watching just before alex fucks around changing and puts on jamie foxx i my shining light was someone who represented myself in the film it's not every day that i get to see someone who i identify so closely with it's the tsa agent who could not be paying less attention it's like they go to specifically a cutaway of the agent who's meant to be observing whatever's going through the x-ray machine and this guy has a fucking

thousand yard stare he's got a glazed over look at his eyes this guy has definitely burned one down for jar rolled into his job and does not give one flying hoot about the safety of these passengers. And honestly, why would you? You're not going to save anyone. I swear to you I'm not saying this to be nitpicky. I'm saying it out of a point of interest. Do you know that that's not a TSA official?

Because we've normalized it so much, but the TSA didn't even exist in 1997. Well, then he's just some fucking guy in a navy blue sports jacket. And he's my guy. And we can point this stuff out to each other on the next episode of our emergency season, because we're going to be riding side saddle.

Hell yeah. That's going to be fun. Crack open the beers. Oh, dude. We should watch at a bar or something a swimming pool i don't know let's get creative a public space uh that'll do it for this episode of our emergency season i hope you're enjoying it i hope it's keeping you company during this unprecedented time. Tim? Yes?

I've searched for precedent. Do you think I found it? I don't think you did. The bubonic plague. The fastest way to a trillionaire's bank account is by murder most foul. Okay. We wait, we accelerate, and then we strike. I like that.

Yeah, let's kill Jeff Bezos. Let's do this.