I'm sorry.
Bom bom bom bom.
Post Thanksgiving.
Yeah.
I've always thought this should add a little kazoo
in there somewhere, a little sound bite.
A kazoo?
Yeah, looks like a zoo.
That little, uh uh, little tube
with a little piece of paper in there.
It's like, uh uh, uh uh.
More cowbell.
What are you doing with your voice?
More cowbell? Yeah, more cowbell.
Cowbell on my voice.
All right, well it is November 28th.
It is after Thanksgiving.
Happy post Thanksgiving.
Hope you guys had a great one.
Dudes like us, I am Sean.
I'm Paul.
I am Jeff.
And I'm the guest, I'm Larry.
Welcome back, Larry.
Thank you very much.
Larry was our first guest ever.
Ever, that's right.
I knew it a long time ago.
I didn't realize you were the first guest ever.
That's very cool.
Yeah, that was three years ago.
Way before COVID and all that stuff.
So yeah, that was three or four years ago.
And back then we had no idea what we're doing.
And now we really don't have any idea what we're doing.
We still really don't understand.
We've just gotten worse.
Yeah, but it's fun.
And that's the best part of it,
is that dudes like us,
we'll talk about things that dudes like us do.
We sample a few bourbons, we talk about life,
we talk hopefully a little bit about politics.
We try not to talk about it,
but sometimes it's a little frustrating.
It's inevitable.
It impacts us.
I mean, economy impacts us, family lifestyles impact us.
And just this weird agenda that's being produced
in the ether out there that's being imposed on us,
whether we like it or not.
One good thing that I've been hearing about,
reading stories and seeing news stories,
is the whole DEI movement is beginning to die.
That the companies, and the reason for that
is the Supreme Court ruling over the summer.
Back up a little bit, Jeff, apologize for interrupting.
Explain to us what the DEI is.
Well, DEI is a diversity, equity, and inclusion bullshit.
Basically, we need more black people,
we need more gay people, we need more women.
It doesn't matter about their qualifications,
we just need to check a box.
That's how I interpret it anyway.
In terms of pro-democracy,
that's how I interpret it anyway.
In terms of promotions, in terms of hiring,
in terms of even supply, chain.
Who you purchase from.
Like right on Google, you do Google search on there,
and on the bottom left-hand side, there's a little box,
hey man, you want some black-owned businesses?
Correct.
You want some, but there's no white.
Right.
So anyway, there's been a slowdown in these companies,
and they're actually just banding those teams.
Right?
And part of the reason is it's cost money to run that.
And the Supreme Court ruled over the summer,
if you remember the Harvard and Yale case, right?
About affirmative action in their enrollment process.
Well, they ruled against that,
and they think the next step is to rule against
hiring practices for the same reason.
It is completely illegal.
Yeah, I mean, the EEOC is there already.
Right.
The DEI kind of has trumped that
and gone around that somehow to allow,
basically, if you're a middle-aged white guy,
you're not even considered for certain things.
Even in some of the princes, hey,
this position is for minority represented,
or however they, whatever they call them.
Intersectionality, whatever the bullshit is.
If you don't fit within this group,
don't even bother applying,
because we have to check the box.
I would just identify as whatever they need.
Yeah, exactly.
I don't care.
I'm a gay female.
Well, the funny thing is, if you saw this a couple months ago,
there was a job fair out in Las Vegas, I think.
Women's only job fair for high-tech jobs.
That was hilarious.
A bunch of men showed up.
It was invaded, it was occupied.
Yeah, so I saw the video.
There were just as many men there as there were women.
And they were so upset.
Oh yeah, we're identifying as female today.
It made a mockery of it, but it made a statement as well.
I thought it was wonderful.
I think there's some full circles of shit coming around.
There was finally this trans guy that was playing soccer,
was getting some pushback,
not from people being shitty to him,
because he's a guy playing on a women's soccer team,
but because the other teams, the opposing team,
simply said, we're not playing.
We're done, we're not playing.
Because he broke some girl's knee or something.
He got entangled with her and he won.
Of course, this guy's huge.
He's freaking alive.
Injured are pretty bad.
Yeah, there was a field hockey one that occurred
a month or so ago.
Knocked this girl's whole mouth apart.
Whatever, that's bound to happen.
But, let's just be real.
Guys are typically stronger than women, period.
Correct, there's a higher chance of it happening
when you have boys against girls.
Especially in the physical.
It doesn't matter what sport it is,
but there's the physicality of something.
There's a reason why they're split.
Sure.
So didn't you recently sense something
that was like a movie coming out?
I laughed out loud at the preview of it.
Do you remember what it was?
It was, it's by.
She Ballers or something?
Lady Ballers, I think.
And it's by the guy from,
what company has Ben Shapiro with?
Daily Wire. Daily Wire.
The guy who owns that.
Jeremy Boring or something like that.
So they made this movie about these guys
that are trying to beat the system.
Well, we're gonna get back into playing basketball.
We're just gonna identify as women.
And one of the stars on it, the guy that's the coach,
he is featured a lot in Jeremy Boring.
He's featured a lot.
You put this on the table or on the ground.
A lot when, God bless it, on Fox,
like the Greg Gutfeld show.
And on The Five, he's on there every now and then.
So he's funny.
He's a funny guy.
Yeah, he's very wealthy
and he's a conservative, obviously,
and he's starting his own companies.
If you remember Harry's Razors, right?
Yeah. Yep, yep.
He started his own razor company, Jeremy's Razors.
And it's the same program as those Harry's
and Dollar Shave and stuff like that.
Except his advertising doesn't show females
with their breasts cut off.
And his advertising is funny as shit, just like this movie.
And he also came out with a chocolate bar company
because Hershey's was screwing up.
They did something, I don't know what he called it.
It was called He She's or something like that.
But. Well, you know what?
Gotta capitalize on people's ignorance and stupidity.
I think it's fantastic.
But there's a whole push for a secondary economy.
You'll hear.
Austin, is there a clip to this movie that we can hear?
Yeah, there's a preview.
A sample on the YouTube.
If you go back, I saw it.
Another one is Public Square.
Have you heard of that one, Jeff?
Yeah, yeah, I've got that on my phone.
I can't think of the guy, the talk show host,
the black guy, he used to be a Secret Service agent.
Took over for Rush.
Dan Bongino. Dan Bongino.
Dan Bongino's big into the secondary economy.
He created or was part of Rumble.
Like a conservative marketplace.
Correct.
So if this bank is being woke or whatever the situation,
you can't get your loan
and you don't support what they're supporting.
Here are these banks over here that are getting set up.
Here is this cell phone company.
Here is this electric company.
Here is this that support your same values.
And we're not gonna screw around
and give money to abortion clinics
or whatever you're for and against.
So they're trying to set up the internet companies,
internet hosting.
There's this whole secondary economy
that they're trying to put in place.
Yeah, I get it.
And now Jeremy's trying to do that
with the movies and everything.
Mr. Producer's put the thing on the screen.
Can you put it in the very beginning again?
Because that's just too funny.
Where women's sports is being transformed.
The daily wire calls foul.
With the most triggering comedy of the year.
I will watch this.
Listen, a male wrestler.
Just picks her up and stands up.
Guys, this is serious.
Sports can be your pathway to a better life.
What, like yours?
Please don't steal my catalytic converter again.
Winning matters.
It's the key ingredient in becoming a winner.
Maybe you should try it sometime.
Are you gonna move?
I am not.
Let's cut to the chase.
I know you're not a woman.
Hey, you know how he identifies.
If you can beat them.
What do you know about the US Open's for the global games?
You want us to compete as winners.
I trust you guys.
My love is shot, puts it like a football.
This is the way the world is now.
My eight year old daughter told me all about it.
So a guy can become a girl with no physical changes at all.
Oh, that's called gender fluid.
So I can be a woman on the court
and a man in the bedroom.
I can't believe it.
Nice.
You mean when you're sleeping?
Yes.
Coach.
Alice.
We can play basketball.
We have to get the whole team back together.
It's time.
We're in.
You can kill it here, but essentially,
Lady Ball is a daily wire.
Put this together.
I think it's genius.
This guy's capitalizing on the ignorance.
It's the perfect time for it too.
Oh yeah.
This one's going to be a big movie.
It's going to be a huge spoof.
That's only.
They're showing that ball hit this woman's face.
I mean, that's like Dylan Mulvaney there.
And this guy's picked up a whole bunch of weights.
It's only streaming on the website.
So it's not going to be released in any theater.
It won't be?
That's too bad.
I'll watch it.
What website it's going to be on?
Oh, probably the Daily Wire.
Probably the Daily Wire, yeah.
I'd pay for it.
It looks like it's really well produced.
I mean, it looks.
Ted Cruz.
Yeah, I got Ted Cruz's feature there.
That's greatness.
Well, you know what?
I think it's a sign of the times and good.
We need our entertainment back.
We need it now more than ever because we need escapism.
Yeah, there's too much drama.
Yeah, there's too much drama in the world right now.
Every single day.
And it's frustrating because we're
sending all this money all over the planet.
So we don't have as much money.
And we're having to pay more taxes.
And the stuff going on in Israel is horrific.
But it's kind of none of our business.
And just the impact is happening.
The teacher in Queens or somewhere in New York
where this teacher had posted something, I'm for Israel.
And she's a teacher there.
And the students were 2,600 students.
There was like a percentage of them were Muslim.
And they went after this poor teacher.
She was like 500 kids outside the door.
Freaking awful.
Beat the crap out of her.
Yeah, they were just like.
Did they really physically accost her?
I don't think they touched her.
But they were banging on the door.
What are they?
They were trying to get to her, yeah.
I mean, it's just come on, man.
They doxed her.
They found out where she lives.
They found out about her family.
They're coming after her.
There's no civility anymore.
It's criminal.
For anything we disagree on, there's no civility at all.
It's become savage.
Right.
And I think it's all because of social media.
I still believe that.
Yeah, I think that's a big root cause.
That's the new way to be savage with each other.
It has extended from being a coward behind a little computer
screen or a phone to in people's faces.
Well.
And it's always in a mob.
It's always in mob style, right?
No one can do it by themselves.
It always has to be a mob of people here,
a mob of people there.
Because that way, you're not accountable.
I think that social media may have part of it.
It's partly to blame.
Yeah.
But there's a host of other things
in our society today that is contributing to it.
People do not have any manners anymore.
And I think that's a product of how kids today, you know,
these kids today, they're just not raised right anymore.
Parenting has a big part of this.
True, it does start in the house.
Parenting does have a part of it.
Everybody gets a trophy, right?
That whole thing.
Everybody's a winner along the social media thing.
Entitlements.
Well, yeah, that and everybody that gets in front of a camera
now, they're an influencer.
And they're important for having no talent whatsoever.
And they're the authority on things.
That's right.
And then there's an intense, intense desire for attention.
Intense.
And fame.
An unhealthy desire.
I mean, some of the kids are, I mean,
they post something on Instagram.
If they don't get 50 likes within an hour,
I mean, it's suicidal.
It is.
They'll just kind of go, oh my god, I can't believe this.
No one likes me.
And so I think that's where a lot of this pronoun thing's
coming from.
If I go by they, them, I'm going to be somebody to be talked
about.
You know what I mean?
I'm going to be somebody that they are like, oh, he goes by
they, them.
It's attention seeking.
It's 100% attention.
I'm going to get attention if I do this.
Right.
Or be a furry.
There's people that.
A furry.
Yeah.
Tell us about that one.
One that likes to drop the dicks in their box.
When I started being a furry, I was really lost.
Were you like a fox or a raccoon?
A mongoose?
So did you.
I'm a snake.
Do you know what we're talking about, Larry?
I do not.
What a little furry is.
I can see the look on your face.
You're like, what the fuck are you talking about?
All right.
So there are kids that dress up.
It's not just kids.
That's true.
There's grown ass adults.
They are wearing animal costumes and demanding
to be treated like animals.
So in some classrooms, they have a little box.
They have a bowl of water on their desk.
And they lap it up like a cat or a dog.
And they're catering to this.
They're called furries.
Furries.
Doesn't that border on some sort of mental disorder?
100%.
Well, you would think they would.
Mental illness.
Well, just like the guys who think they're women.
That's a mental disorder.
But you can't call it that.
And which, by the way, it's been a documented thing
for decades and decades and decades.
It's in the DSM book.
I wish I knew the term for it.
Maybe you could look it up.
It's gender dysphoria.
Is that what it is?
Yes.
Gender dysphoria.
Well, there you go.
And it is.
Do you see how Jeff said that?
How his neck did the little bobble?
Gender dysphoria.
Man, hope I don't get that again.
It took me a while to get over it.
That was a rough year.
It was embarrassing, is what it was.
My cough is still nagging.
But the thing is, I mean, it was in the list
of mental illnesses.
Larry, did you want another beer or anything?
I want to make sure you're taken care of over there.
Thank you, but not right at the moment.
Yeah.
Anyway, it was clearly in the list of mental illnesses
that were treated by psychiatrists.
Correct.
And now you're a monster if you deny it.
Well, I mean, it started like that.
Well, back in the late 70s, early 80s,
I mean, homosexuality was listed as a disorder.
And it's now become mainstream.
And right now, they're saying that the people that
like the kids, the pedophiles.
Minor attractive.
What is the term?
Is the term minor attraction?
Minor attracted.
Yeah, so that is like now it's included
in the Diagnostic Statistics Manual for Personality
Disorders.
It's now in there, kind of like how homosexuality
was 50 years ago.
So is there going to come a point where it's going
to be normalized?
It's just retarded.
Come on.
Some people are already trying to normalize it.
Yeah, well, like companies like Balenciago,
trying to normalize it by putting that crap on there.
It's subtle, right?
We'll just try to push the envelope a little bit further,
push the envelope a little bit further.
And then on every TV show, every TV series,
they have to have this kind of relationship,
that kind of relationship.
Every commercial.
I mean, they're trying desperately to normalize it,
right?
It's, you know what, though?
Like we started off the conversation tonight,
I think we are coming full circle
while people start to put a little pushback.
And hopefully, and the only way it's going to be able to do
is when we financially stunt them.
You've got to stop paying for it.
I think Disney has, I don't even know.
What is Disney stocked down?
Disney stock's been down for the last year.
It was up at 200, possibly, and it's down to 90 or so now.
And they actually came out with a statement.
I don't know exactly what the statement says.
You may be able to find it, Mr. Producer.
But basically, they released a statement that says, yes,
our social and political agenda or whatever,
I don't know how they phrase it, has
impacted our bottom line.
I'm completely paraphrasing that.
There it is on the New York Post.
How does a board, right?
How does the board not totally hammer them on this?
Because that has nothing to do with making money
for your investors.
That's why that one guy wants to get on the board.
There's two guys.
We talked about it on our previous podcast.
There's a hostile, not hostile takeover,
but kind of, because he wants to get on the board
to throw Bob Iger out as CEO.
And to get his people on there to say, OK,
let's right this ship and get back to business
that made us money.
The entertainment business, is that what you're talking about?
Yes.
Yeah.
You know what's interesting?
The people who write these filings, the SEC filings,
is accounting, right?
The CFO and accounting, 100% accounting.
And listen, I mean, it's very damning.
It says, a recent company filing with the SEC
included a reference to risk relating to misalignment
with public and consumer tastes.
I mean, that's clearly stating a mistake.
Correct.
Misalignment.
Then it says down here, Disney went on to note
that consumers' perceptions of our position on matters
of public interest, including our efforts
to achieve certain of our environmental and social goals,
often differ wildly and present risk
to our reputation and brands.
So I wonder if.
That's the comment right there.
Yeah, and I wonder if this is like the CEO, or CFO,
or the accounting brass kind of taking a shot.
Taking a shot at the marketing and the HR and the.
CEO, Bob Iger.
Yeah.
I mean, it's very interesting.
Because remember, there are different breed accountants.
You know what I mean?
They're there for a very particular purpose.
Yes.
They're there to count the pennies.
Count the pennies and make sure they're in compliance.
Correct.
Right?
Well, plus they get an answer to the board,
the people, the stockholders.
Well, everybody has to answer to the board.
But yes.
Yeah, the CEO.
So what is happening with Kathleen Kennedy,
the president of Lucasfilm's?
Nothing right now.
I mean, but they got to stir it up,
because she's the main proponent behind this whole.
I think if Bob Iger gets canned, she won't be far behind.
What role does Dave Filoni play in the whole?
He's a director producer.
He reports to the Kathleen Kennedy.
Well, I wonder what the numbers are.
I don't think they said what the numbers are.
But they're stock?
Yeah.
Well, I mean, we know the stock is down a certain percentage.
But how is park sales?
And how is.
Oh, yeah.
I don't know.
There's a ton of other revenue streams, right?
Well, the park, well, the parks have funded the poor movie
revenue, because they've had eight or nine movies this year
that have all lost money outside of the Guardians of the Galaxy,
I think.
Every movie they released lost money, up to over a billion
dollars, I think, if you had it all up, was what I saw.
And the parks were making so much money,
they were funding that and making that difference up.
So we all agree that that's a lot of money, right?
That's a lot of money.
That's less than 1% we sent to Ukraine.
Right?
Yeah.
Put that in perspective.
Yeah, I don't really want to talk about that.
And that's not a stalemate, too.
But anyway, I don't want to talk about that.
So I'm glad we're seeing some full circle shit.
We'll see how this thing's going to play out.
In the meantime, what does Disney
have around the corner as far as some of the new Star Wars
releases?
I thought they were having some new Star Wars release.
But what is it?
Well, they just came out.
R2D2 one or something like that?
Or is it?
No, there was the there's one coming out called Shit.
It's not called Shit.
Oh, wow.
That's a funny name.
The acolyte.
Especially for Disney.
Yeah.
It's called Shit.
Should have called it Poop.
Right.
Well, this last movie that just got released, Wish, I guess,
it just tanked.
Terrible reviews just tanked.
Yeah, they're so dumb.
They should rename it to Shit.
Well, Lucasfilm hasn't officially confirmed,
but there's a Star Wars 10.
Yes.
There's supposed to be movies coming out more with the chick.
What's her name?
Princess Leia?
No, Rey.
Rey.
She's got another set of movies coming out.
I like her.
That's going to be interesting.
To me, she's kind of like a resurgence for me in Star Wars.
I thought she was an awesome character.
Yeah.
Yeah, she took on the Emperor's powers
and the Skywalker power.
She's got an interesting mix.
Yeah.
I think it followed too closely the format of the first four,
five, and six.
You thought it did follow it too closely?
It followed too closely the format, I think, personally.
Just swap her out with Luke Skywalker.
Yeah, not enough creativity there.
Oh, I see what you're saying.
Yeah.
Yeah, I could see that a little bit.
But I thought I could have sworn I saw there was something
about the story of R2-D2 that was coming out.
Oh, his childhood?
Well, he was just duds and bolts on a bowl.
He was like a little tiny robot, and they kept adding to him.
He came out of his mother's vagina.
Oh, wow.
What?
What just happened?
A little badge compartment.
So there will be a second time.
Hold on, this will be a second time.
Second time a series will focus on R2-D2 and C-3O.
The first was an animated series that ran.
So Star Wars, a droid story.
I wonder how many consecutive shows
we've had with the word vagina in it.
We have 175 posts.
It's probably that many.
Yeah, I'm thinking every.
I think we're betting 100%, 1,000% on that word.
Yes.
Usually from Jeff.
Well, he used to throw the word creamy.
I mean, hell, it used to be like a drinking game.
What's he going to say next?
Arca-tooth is drink.
Creamy drink.
Yeah, so certain words that are.
Penis.
Like moist.
Moist is one of them.
Moist is a great one.
Creamy.
Yeah.
Wow, so you know what?
It's a fantastic time of year.
It's flying by, though.
Halloween happened really quick.
And now Thanksgiving just kind of like we're already here.
God bless, it's over.
I kind of felt that way, too.
Both were non-eventful.
Yeah, it's just, I mean, we had a lot of stuff going on.
But even with a lot of stuff going on, it was still,
it just started to fly by.
It just seems like there's, what is the difference?
Age.
Is it the age?
Is it the rat race?
I mean, what is going on here that is just flying by?
I'm like, every year it's just going by faster and faster
and faster.
It's just nuts.
I think it's age.
I think it's rat race.
Yeah.
Combination of them.
Kids are grown and out of the house.
Well.
Kids are grown.
Haven't quite moved out yet.
I'm waiting on that program, but that's all right.
They take the time.
So there's, Mr. Producer pulled up
a list of some of the Star Wars stuff that's coming up.
That's kind of what I saw.
There's all kinds of different things
that are popular in here.
Larry, they got Star Wars Larry.
Who's Larry?
Yes, he'll be seeing me on the silver screen
in the coming months.
Larry, a copier repairman finds himself derelict
on a desert planet.
Follow him as he replaces a toner in vacuum roller pins.
That is retarded.
That's not real.
Back in 2022.
That is not real.
That can't be real.
That's like some YouTube.
Larry.
I will tell you, the name Larry is not
a very highly respected name.
You know what I mean?
Jay Leno always used to make, Larry, Larry the janitor.
You know, hey Larry, come here.
I think a vacuum repairman.
Vacuum repairman.
Larry in the three stooges.
Yes.
Well, I mean, but there's some power people.
Larry Ellison.
There was a hold on the Bob Newhart show, my other brother.
Larry and my other brother.
Yeah, Larry.
No, no, no, it was Daryl.
It was Daryl.
I'm Larry and this is Daryl and my other brother, Daryl.
I think Larry is just a.
Larry is a masculine name.
It's from a British origin.
It comes from.
Is it from Lawrence?
Lawrence.
The name has grown to stand on its own.
Lawrence has got a rich history.
Yeah, he's, you know.
Which thankfully for Larry can be passed down with ease.
The title refers to someone who comes from Laurentum.
Laurentum.
I think we should start saying.
An ancient city of Roman.
Larry of Arabia.
Larry of Arabia?
Yes, instead of Lawrence of Arabia.
How about just Labia?
There you go.
Is Larry a nickname for Lawrence?
No, my real name on the birth certificate is Larry.
Yeah, I get that question a lot on legal documents.
Is your real name Lawrence?
Lawrence, no.
But is that a nickname for Lawrence?
It is, yeah.
Oh, okay.
I don't think I've ever known that.
Interesting.
I asked my parents one time,
why in God's name did you name me Larry?
Hey Larry!
There was.
Sounds like something on the Roper.
Oh, Larry.
And they said, well.
We don't know, it was kind of a.
No family, no family connection.
I wasn't named after Uncle Larry or anybody like that.
It was just kind of a trendy name at the time.
Like trendy for like a week or two days.
So why are your three sons Larry the second,
Larry the third, and Larry the fourth?
That I don't understand at all.
Was it Larry the jiggle-o on Three's Company?
Larry.
Yes, see?
Again, another goofy character.
If you had any doubt, that's how it works right there.
That was funny.
Larry was cool, man.
He always showed up with his V-neck,
chest hair hanging out, the medallion, all gold.
Hey, how you doing?
You know, there was never any movie characters named Larry
that was played by Paul Newman or, you know,
Bill Holden or, you know, one of those guys.
Yeah, yeah.
That's sad.
I'm stuck with it, what am I gonna do?
Well, there's a movie out, came out in 2002.
Oh, that's the same one.
Larry, a TV movie in 1974,
true story about a man wrongly confined.
Wrongly confined the California State Mental Hospital
at a car rental of 26 years.
What about the penthouse guy?
Wasn't his name Larry?
Oh, Larry.
Larry Flint, yeah.
There we go.
That's Hustler.
Well, he got shot and was paralyzed.
Wasn't there a Sasquatch movie, something in the Hendersons?
Oh, that's Harry.
Harry.
Oh, Harry.
Not Larry in the Hendersons.
Although.
Harry in the Hendersons, yeah.
Although that would have brought a lot of respect to Larry.
That's true, it would have.
Off by one letter.
One letter, so close, so close.
Oh my God.
That was a great movie, by the way.
I loved it.
Harry in the Hendersons.
John Lithgowan, I believe.
Yeah, that was funny.
I won movie tickets to that one.
You know how you listen to the radio and you call in
and you're thinking, I'm gonna be the fifth caller
or whatever it is?
1092975.
It was late at night and I was calling and calling
and I was like, it rang.
I mean, it answered and they're like hello?
And I'm like, did I win the tickets?
And they're like, what, tickets?
For what?
I was like, oh, the Harry in the Hendersons.
Oh, you want two tickets?
Yeah, okay, we'll give you two tickets.
So you didn't really win.
Exactly, I was like, what the hell?
This is totally anti-climactic.
I mean, it was on the radio.
I mean, it was really late.
It was like midnight.
Right.
I've won once.
That's crazy.
It was funny.
What did you win?
I won a two liter of Pepsi.
Oh, do you still have it?
No.
I remember I was up in Cincinnati
and I was, I don't know, it was late at night
and they were like, hey, caller 22.
Call late, you get a free two liter of Pepsi.
So I did, that's probably why I won
because no one else wanted it.
It cost you 20 bucks to get there?
Yeah, no, they sent a coupon.
And now you're 21.
Call again.
Yes, and they sent my name.
That was the worst.
They didn't put me on the air,
but they at least had my name on the air.
So I was like 10 or 11 or something like that.
So that was my excitement.
But I've tried all those times in the past
do radio stations still do that?
Have call in?
I don't think there's a lot of people.
I think so, with concert tickets,
I hear them giving away concert tickets.
I mean, who even listens to the radio anymore?
Do they?
I do.
Do you really?
Like the radio?
I listen to talk radio.
Yeah, sometimes.
I mean, we put it on like the Christmas Channel
in here in Dallas and sometimes I'll pop it on the very,
but I hear what you're saying.
It's like a lost medium now.
It is and it's losing.
I mean, even Ford was gonna take AM radio off their cars.
Well, they said that was a design
to reduce the footprint of the talk radio.
Well, not just that, but it's.
Was it really though?
No, it was a design to eliminate the voice of the right wing.
Correct.
Well, I know, but was it really,
or was it, so few people listen to the radio,
it's like why are we building this into our cars?
Why put any radio in there then?
Well, I think FM.
Delete all of them.
No, that's true.
There's millions and millions of people
that listen to talk radio.
Yeah.
Well, then that makes no sense at all,
other than being like an agenda.
And what they said is like, yeah,
they put it in there to make the tuner so bad
that it's hard to get the stations.
All right, well then we don't buy Ford.
There we go.
Is that a thing though?
Is that real, what you just said?
That the, is it Ford specific?
That was what was being said at the time
that they're going to put a cheap antenna in there
to make the reception difficult.
Whether they did or not, I don't know.
Well, I'll tell you what, to do a quick 90 here,
I am sampling our bourbon.
I feel zero heat.
Zero.
I mean, it's-
Well, do we want to talk about our bourbon though?
Yeah, I mean, it's almost like it's, I felt a burn.
I'm not feeling any.
No, I felt a burn initially.
I actually like this a lot.
Yeah, it's actually not bad at all.
Yeah, there's no burn, but-
It's smooth, it's not harsh, doesn't make you want to go.
Oh!
Yeah.
No, it's not bad.
I just-
I don't know what it's called, hold on.
It's Virginia bourbon.
Bowman, Bowman Brewery.
No, let me go get it.
Hold on.
All right, well.
We left it out in the brain room.
See how we've gone backwards
since the last time you were here?
I can see that.
Yeah, not prepared.
Oh shit, the last time Larry was here,
I mean, there was a lot of stuff going on in this room.
You know, we stripped out a lot of stuff.
I opened it up, you could breathe in here,
not so claustrophobic, added some lighting.
All right, so our producer's putting it up there,
but it is Bowman Brothers, right?
It's Bowman Brothers, yes.
Small batch.
90 proof, that's the thing.
And look, we've had some 90 proof too,
but this is like, I'm telling you,
maybe it's my taste buds,
maybe it's because I sampled 125 proof
before I came out here today.
I don't know what it is, but this is super light.
But it's also super sweet.
Where did you get it?
Total Wine, yeah.
I think sometimes, you know,
sometimes you'll have 120 proof and you're just like, wow,
it doesn't feel like 120 proof.
It's true.
This may be the same type of scenario where, you know,
some 90 proofs here, you're still gonna feel
some alcohol burn.
I don't at all on this.
It's smooth, it's got some sweetness to it.
Yeah, it's good.
Mr. Producer, is this bottle six to seven years,
like it states on the website here?
I mean, because it does.
I mean, let me take away.
First of all, I don't like it right off the get go
because it doesn't have that pop, that strong taste.
However, it still doesn't mean it's horrible.
The taste is good.
It's sweet, it's got some light caramel in there.
Maybe it's a little bit brown sugar.
It doesn't pop.
I don't taste any spice.
I don't taste any tobacco.
I don't taste vanilla hints or anything like that.
The finish, it tastes really good,
but it goes away very fast, I think.
The finish on it, there's not much there.
It's because it's watered.
This is, they buy their distillate from Buffalo Trace.
Oh, really?
So their MGP is from Buffalo Trace?
Well, it's not MGP, but it's Buffalo Trace Distillate.
And they buy it, and then they age it in Virginia.
Nice.
Interesting.
I think it's solid.
I mean, it's good.
It's solid.
It's nothing amazing, but it's definitely enjoyable.
On a scale of one to 10, dudes, I guess, Sean says four.
I'm gonna go with probably 6.8.
I'm gonna give it a six.
I'm with a six.
I'll go six.
I liked it.
Yeah, it's solid.
You know what?
I'm gonna give it a 4.9.
Well, the high and the lower thrown out.
Oh.
All right.
That leaves it at a six.
That makes it relevant.
So it's a six.
So I think it's good.
But it just goes away really fast.
Yeah.
It's what it is.
To Sean's point, it doesn't pack a punch.
And it's not alcohol punch, it's flavor punch
that it's lacking.
Well, I was listening to this guy, really snooty
on one of these Instagram memes.
And he takes the bottle of bourbon
and then puts it in the Glen Caron glass
and swirls it, then dumps it out,
then puts it in there again, and he tastes it,
smells it, pulls it away, breathes a couple more times,
puts it back up to his nose.
He's got this huge knocker too.
I mean, his nose just goes right into that orifice.
Just fills up the whole glass.
It was disgusting, actually, to see it.
But he was just like, he was kind of like,
yeah, you know, you smell it, you do this, you do that.
And he says, and then he makes a statement,
says, you know, this one is 105 proof.
And he says, I'm gonna go ahead and add
this much distilled water.
He says, there's like a little equation
how much water you add to it.
He says the optimum,
the optimum proof would be 35.
For you to- 70?
Yes. Proof?
Yeah, 70 proof, 35% alcohol,
to get the perfect amount of notes that come out of it.
I disagree, but who the hell am I to tell this guy?
You know, he seemed like he knew
what the hell he was talking about.
It seemed like 70 proof to me
doesn't seem like it's gonna be able to punch those notes.
Because anything 105, 110, 20, whatever,
to me, those guys have the most taste.
They're the most concentrated.
Now, is he talking about the nose?
Is he talking about adding water to release the nose?
Or is he talking about the whole thing?
The bouquet, the whole-
So the smell.
The best sampling.
Does that include the taste?
You know-
Sounds like it's just the nose.
Well, you know what, frankly, I skipped it really quick.
First of all, I was distracted with his nose,
and I was like, you know what, he said 35%.
I was like, you know what, I'm done.
I'm done, this guy's an idiot.
But evidently, it seems to be a thing out there.
Well, maybe you do it in there,
and you get it down to 70, smell it,
and then dump it out in the boiler back in.
I thought it was interesting, though,
how he had this little blotter,
a little distilled water blotter,
kind of like what they had at 1845,
distilled water bouquet and lower crossing.
It's like a little blotter of distilled,
so he put the little thing in there.
It's like an eyedropper.
It's like an eyedropper,
but it didn't have the little squeezy thing.
So it sucked in there.
It was like a pipette.
Is that what you call that, a pipette?
Oh, yes, a pipette.
Come on, guys, did you not have chemistry class
in high school?
Yes, pipettes.
Mr. Producer, what exactly is a pipette?
It's your penis.
Ooh.
When you said little, is that what you meant?
Oh, well, I'm not a hamster.
Anything with an et on the end.
A pipette, see, a pipette?
Yeah.
I don't think it had the little.
Ooh, there's all sorts of different types of pipettes.
Oh, yeah, look at that.
It's quite medical.
I think it's the top three to the right,
or second and third.
Kind of has a bulbous end on it.
Yeah, I don't know.
Maybe it was.
So anyways, my point is that I found it was interesting
is that he said that it is this proof,
and he added so much,
and there was like this little equation he gave
to be able to, a quick way for you to dumb it down
to the correct proof.
So I was kind of like, oh, that's kind of interesting.
I've almost gotten some of this.
They sell Kentucky limestone water that you can buy,
and we could bring it up here and do that.
And we can drip it into our bourbon.
I'll tell you what, how about we just go buy a limestone rock
and we can make our own water?
Ooh, like squeeze the water out of it?
Yes.
No, we just do what they do.
They take a cup, they pour it on the water,
and they got a bit at the bottom that captures it,
and then they bottle it.
Oh, it's not like a sponge?
Then you don't squeeze it?
I'll bring the pipette.
There we go.
There you go, Larry on the spot.
Thanks, Larry.
It's rather small.
They say that's the best water to do that with
is the limestones, is the bourbons.
At least the Kentucky ones are made with limestone water.
Yeah, I know that Jack Daniels is.
I remember that from my distillery tour.
Correct.
Well, it's very light.
It is, it's good.
I like it.
It's not bad.
For a 90-proof bourbon,
And a single barrel.
It's a small batch.
A small batch?
Same thing.
I'm gonna change gears again to jump off that.
90 degrees?
Yeah, we're gonna go back to the whole,
we're talking about Star Wars,
we're talking about,
before the podcast started
and the Green Room we were discussing,
when was the last time you went to the movie theater?
Some of the excitement.
I think, first of all,
I go to movies about maybe once a year.
Maybe once a year, maybe.
And there was a time where we went to the movies frequently.
I guess that's before all the streaming things came out.
That, oh, this is coming out.
It wasn't available at that time.
Now things are available all the time,
a touch of a button.
It was exciting.
It's kind of like, to me,
it's kind of like comparing that to the holidays.
It was a festive thing.
Oh, you go to the movie theater, it's exciting.
You got lots of bright lights
and all this flashing shit and the popcorn.
And you get to get a free refill
if you get a tub and all that.
And you go to Walmart and get your candy
and smuggle it in.
Oh, yeah.
You didn't have to take out a loan to go to the movies.
I remember when we used to,
there was a time where we would go every Christmas
to the movies. To the movies.
Oh, yeah, that's a massive theater day.
It's like one of the busiest days.
We'd go every Christmas.
It was just for a period of time.
And I think my wife's family did the same thing
because we did it down here when I got married.
We did that a few times as well.
All the holidays are huge Christmas.
Yeah, it was a big gathering.
And it was always packed.
Always packed.
And you're always wearing the nice clothes, right?
So you want to look nice because it's Christmas.
You're wearing your corduroys and your plaid shirt.
Yeah, when I...
Hold on.
Corduroys?
Corduroys.
Do you ever corduroys?
You're running down the hall.
Vroom, vroom, vroom.
Yeah.
Vroom, vroom, vroom.
Vroom, vroom.
There was a time when it was coming back,
but it didn't last very long at all.
Oh hell, I had corduroys within the last 10 years.
Not because I bought them, because the wife bought them.
Yeah, but that didn't last long.
I remember it coming back and stalling.
I was getting away.
They grew out of them right away.
As I walk along, my two thighs say to each other,
excuse me, pardon me, excuse me, pardon me, excuse me.
Smacky sounds.
What did you guys watch, that TikTok or Instagram
that I sent you about the lady
who was having a ball chafe problems?
Oh God.
Oh.
I sent it to you right before our podcast.
Yeah.
She goes, ladies, it's a guy obviously,
don't you hate it when your balls
kind of slip outside your pants and they're rubbing
and they get chafed and you know that
if you don't take care of them and tuck them back in there
that it's gonna get more and more painful?
He goes, why did God make ladies like this
or something like that?
Wow.
You know.
From movie theaters to ball chafes.
Ladies and gentlemen.
Thank you.
Well you're talking about your thighs slapping.
Yeah, yeah, there's no ADD going on here.
Yeah.
None at all.
So, you know, when we were younger it was exciting
because you had a definitive amount of money
that you took because you got your,
I got my allowance, let's just talk about me.
I got my allowance, I was like, I got a buck,
I don't know what it was.
You know, you get a Coke for 30 cents,
candy bar for 25 cents.
Well the movies were like a buck,
buck and a half to get in.
It was a big deal.
They were 50 cents in New Jersey
when I lived on the base there in Fort Monmouth.
It was 50 cents for children to get into that movie theater.
And I remember, it was just a big Jolly Rancher bars
that you buy there.
Oh yeah.
You get a big old bushel.
I mean it was just exciting.
We'd go all the time.
And a group would go,
like it was an event to do that evening.
Correct.
Let's go to the movies.
And you're looking forward to it and it was fun.
And you talk about the movie in the parking lot
after you're done.
But now when somebody says, let's go to the movie,
I'm like, are you out of your mind?
I'm gonna get shot.
I'm gonna go mingle with the rest of the rude human beings.
Yeah.
Just, you know, and there's, that's too.
I mean, plus there's so much weird shit going on out there.
Now you don't know what to expect.
And there's a whole lot of other things
I would rather do with a hundred dollars
than the wife and I going to the movies.
Seriously.
That's my exact sentiments.
It is ridiculously expensive to go out there.
I'm kind of like, you know, you get there.
Cause I take the kids every now and then
and I'll shoot like once a year.
And I'll go ahead and I'll buy, I'll buy in advance.
And I'm just like, shit, there's six of us going.
And I just dropped, you know, 20 bucks a piece on this.
That's ridiculous.
I really thought that there, I mean, when huge TVs,
home TVs and home theater systems and Blu-ray and DVD,
all the, you know, all this fancy technology
and amazing quality,
I really thought movie theaters were gone.
I did too.
And they are not.
Yeah, well, especially with the COVID that happened
and everything was just.
Well, that was like a, you know,
a crazy economic anomaly, right?
I mean, so I can, a lot of things went away during COVID,
but I mean, I just thought it just, no one needs it anymore.
You have a movie theater at home.
I don't know this for sure,
but I think what's keeping the theaters alive
is the kids movies.
You were looking at the Disney movies and stuff.
And I think parents like to take their kids to the movies.
Let's get out of the house.
Let's go watch a movie.
I mean, now you can even stream first releases.
Like, you know what I'm saying?
Not all of them.
Like when they come out on the movie theater,
they're also releasing them in some form or fashion
on streaming platforms.
So you, even to, I mean, even to catch a brand new movie,
you don't have to wait.
You can have it the same time they release it.
I mean, am I crazy?
I know that there was.
Well, they were doing that for.
And then some production studios were like,
this is a horrible idea.
Well, they were doing that for a while
and then they lost their asses on it.
Disney was doing that.
HBO was doing that.
And they lost their asses on it.
So they stopped doing it.
That's one of the things.
Cause I remember HBO was releasing
on their streaming service and in the theater at the same
time, I was like, why am I gonna,
why am I gonna go pay to go see this?
I'm gonna sit at home and watch on my 80 inch TV.
Right. Yeah, really.
I got a question for you guys.
Speaking of movies,
what would you say is the last
like masterpiece movie that came out?
And I'm talking level of Star Wars, Godfather,
Jaws, something along those lines.
That came out in a movie theater.
What is the last masterpiece
that you think has been released?
That we have seen?
That's a tough one.
No, you don't have to have seen it.
No.
Like Gone With The Wind?
Masterpiece, yes.
That was the last one, Larry.
I would say one of the last ones was probably like Avatar
and you had to go see Avatar simply because it was this,
this computer CGI.
Technology wise.
It was this new thing and you're kinda like,
what is this?
We gotta go see it and it turned out it was pretty cool.
I think Matrix is up there as well, the first one.
Yeah, Matrix.
As a game changer.
I think, I think, as a game changer.
I don't think that's exactly what you're saying, Larry.
As a masterpiece, I think Lord of the Rings, the trilogy.
Jurassic Park, perhaps.
It was a masterpiece.
Well, I mean, just look at grossing,
highest grossing movies of all time, Titanic's up there.
I would classify Titanic as a masterpiece.
I think so too.
I think Saving Private Ryan.
Masterpiece.
Is a masterpiece.
No question, probably one of the best movies
I've ever seen.
Yeah.
P. Rieherman's Big Adventure.
That was a funny movie.
Near the top.
It was a funny movie.
It was funny, stupid, but funny.
I wouldn't call it a masterpiece though.
But yeah, I mean.
You know.
They don't make them like they used to make.
They don't make big, huge, you know,
epic masterpieces hardly anymore.
That's why I said Lord of the Rings.
That was early 2000s when those came out.
I think you had the Harry Potters.
Those were big and stupid.
I don't think those were masterpieces.
Quite like Lord of the Rings was.
I think Lady Ballers has a chance.
Could be.
I'm in.
Yeah.
Any Will Ferrell movie I think is right up there.
Anchorman.
Oh, Elf.
Elf.
Elf is super.
It's a really funny movie.
Not a masterpiece.
Well, movies like Elf and the Pee Wee movie.
Those are, I would classify those as classics.
They're good movies.
They're funny.
Everybody's seen them.
But I wouldn't really necessarily call them a masterpiece.
No, I would definitely not.
So I would say like Schindler's List.
Masterpiece.
Is a classic one.
It's cerebral.
I would say more on those lines.
Historical based.
You know, a classic.
Yeah, that's tough.
I think a lot of the historical classics
are gonna have to do with history and stuff like that.
But my point is, the answer is,
there really hasn't been any.
Not that many.
Not many recently.
You can go through time, and it just probably stretches
where you're like the 80s and the early 90s.
Terrible movies for the most part that came out.
There have been some good ones like Inception.
Have you guys seen the movie Inception?
Oh, that's outstanding.
Absolutely outstanding.
Larry, I can't believe you haven't seen it.
I've never heard of it.
Inception.
It's got, it's got the.
Leonardo DiCaprio in it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's outstanding.
I think another one.
It's an A+.
I rarely give A+.
What's the other Christopher Nolan movie
where Matthew McConaughey is out in the space?
Intergalactic.
I don't think I've ever saw that one.
That is another really good one.
Really?
You really have to pay attention to what's going on.
Lots of time-travelly type shit.
Ooh, I like that stuff.
So I'm gonna spout off a few of the,
some of the all-time, top 100 films of all time.
And I'll just kinda go right down from the top.
Yeah, go from 10 to one.
From 10 to one?
You know, I'm gonna go from 20.
So your list is, so sayeth who?
All-time box office, top 100 films,
domestic, unadjusted, domestic, unadjusted,
and worldwide.
Moneymakers?
Who's your moneymaker?
Filmsite.org box office.
Okay.
No, moneymakers is on the, is a different category.
Domestic grows.
This one is just some of the best movies.
We have to do critics.
All right, okay, go ahead.
So I'll start with the 20.
Like a popcorn's down.
I think a popcorn's down.
Came out in 1994, a cartoon.
It's called The Lion King.
That was good.
Yeah.
Star Wars, episode one, The Phantom Menace.
Pass.
No way.
Jurassic Park, 1983.
1993.
Star Wars, episode six, Return of the Jedi.
Yes.
Avengers, in-game, 2019.
No, forget it.
Avatar, 2009.
Yes.
In 1959, Ben Hur.
Oh, brother.
Have we seen Ben Hur?
I've seen parts of it.
Episode five, The Star Wars Empire Strikes Back.
101 Dalmatians in 1961.
So The Force Awakens, episode seven of Star Wars.
A lot of Star Wars in here.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarves in 1937.
Good movie.
These are all Disney.
But you know what, well whatever.
I'm just, I'm coming up the list here.
We've got The Exorcist.
Now we're talking about The Exorcist in 1973.
That was on TMC the other day.
I watched that.
That's a classic.
Have you guys seen that?
That's another Disney movie.
It's very disturbing.
I remember seeing that in the theater
and being scared out of my mind.
Very disturbing.
So good.
So Dr. Zavago.
Zavago.
With Omar Sharif.
1965.
I was gonna say 60s, sounds right.
And in 1975, Jaws.
Great movie.
Classic.
Number six, The Ten Commandments in 1956.
With Charlton Heston as Moses.
Praying for my cold dead fingers.
Boo!
Planet of the Apes have gotta be in there somewhere.
Titanic 1997.
Yeah, we called that.
And E.T.
Oh yeah.
The extra terrestrial.
That's a good one.
Oh, the sound of music.
Oh, that's a good one.
That's a good one.
What?
That's a good one.
Come on, Larry.
1965.
You don't like musicals, huh?
No.
Oh.
But that one's a good one.
That was very resounding no.
No.
No sound of music.
Son of a bitch.
How dare you?
The original West Side Story with Natalie Wood.
And another Star Wars as number two.
Yeah, this is jaded.
It's The New Hope.
It's the original Star Wars that came out.
However, look, it's kinda right.
I mean, think about it.
The fact that episode one was even in the top 100
makes this list wrong.
Episode one was terrible.
Terrible.
Whatever.
Absolutely terrible.
It actually ruined the whole Star Wars theme.
No, no, no, no.
This is the original.
So it's not episode one.
It's technically episode four.
No, no, I know, but I'm talking about episode one.
First one released.
All right, so what do you think of number one, Moe?
Give us the year.
1939.
Wizard of Oz.
West Side Story.
Gone with the Wind.
Wizard of Oz.
Gone with the Wind.
Ah!
I think Wizard of Oz was 32 or 37, I think.
I've never even seen Gone with the Wind.
I've never seen it in its entirety.
I've seen clips of it here and there.
It's four hours.
Oh, four hours.
It's four hours.
And it's also been classified as racist,
so you'll never see it again.
Is it an intermission?
I got no time for that.
Four hours to sit there?
God, I'd bring a sack lunch.
I've got the DVD somewhere.
But I'll tell you what, that's the cool thing
about being in some of these newer movie theaters
is that they are serving alcohol and meals.
Not just like a hot dog or some nachos.
Yeah, that is kinda cool.
Yeah, you can go out there,
I'll have a hamburger and french fries
with some onion rings and some buffalo wings.
Clark Gable.
And cheese sticks.
Is this the movie where he says,
frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn?
Gone With The Wind.
Yeah, that's it.
And what is the female's name?
The what?
Toto?
No, from Gone With The Wind.
Scarlett?
Scarlett O'Hara.
I said Charlotte O'Hara.
We were playing a trivia game on Thanksgiving,
was it Thanksgiving night?
I think so.
We were playing a trivia game,
and that was the question.
It was.
I shoulda got that.
And Hattie won an Academy Award as a...
As Mammy?
Mammy, Mammy, Mammy.
First black to get a Academy Award.
Why didn't...
I didn't know Superman was in that.
George Reeves?
Yes, the original Superman.
The original George Reeves.
I didn't realize that either.
Yeah.
I wonder if he came flying in the side.
He did.
And it totally went along with the story.
Did he shoot himself in the head at the end of it?
Yes, he was...
Yes, he did.
What the hell?
Is that where the movie ends?
Some dark side.
He ended.
Oh, did he really?
Yes.
Dark side, huh?
I didn't know that.
Yeah, well, yeah.
Well, I'll tell ya, but those are some of the cool things.
You know, the food, the booze,
and another aspect of some of the newer movie theaters
is the fact that the seats recline.
I mean, you've got more...
That is nice.
I've been to a couple...
Like, Austin invited me to go with some of his friends
to some movie, like the end game of Infinity,
or something like that.
And we were sitting...
We went to this movie theater, I swear to God,
I was sitting in an 18-inch chair,
and I was absolutely miserable.
Front fucking row.
The movie was like three feet from my face.
I'd say, I'm not doing that.
Well, you know what?
It was a commitment at that point.
I'd ask for my money back.
Well, that's another thing you can do.
You can choose your seats now.
I love it.
You can go online, you can tap the chair.
You can reserve online.
I know, it's crazy.
For an extra six bucks.
There's somebody in your seat,
and you gotta ask them to move,
and then there's a big fight, and you know.
You get shot.
Just like in the NFL.
Named.
Like they were all fighting in all the stands.
Right.
Are they really?
Yeah.
Almost every game now.
So I wanna, I know for a fact,
the last movie my dad saw in a theater was Pacific Rim.
What year did that come out?
Pacific Rim?
I don't know.
I'm gonna go with 97.
No, it wasn't that long.
20 something.
Wasn't that like a documentary about volcanoes and things?
2008.
2018.
No.
No, it had Rihanna.
2013.
Did it have Rihanna in it?
So the last movie he saw in a theater was 10 years ago.
That was a Charlie Day?
And we went and we were visiting him out there in Tahoe.
And me, my wife, and the boys were out there,
and we're like, well let's go see a movie.
And the boys were like, let's go see Pacific Rim.
Wasn't it Godzilla?
Is that Godzilla?
Well it's the big, yes.
It's the big monsters and robots.
Right?
I've never saw that.
So we went there, and they had these chairs
that you could spend an extra five bucks on
that had the big subwoofers built into them.
They vibrated.
Nice.
And it was so freaking loud in that place,
he's refusing to go see a movie again.
He goes, that was the worst experience of my life,
seeing a movie.
So now he'll never go to a movie again.
Because I was out there, I was hanging,
you wanna go see a movie?
He's like, no.
Pacific Rim was the last movie I'll see in the theater.
That's so narrow-minded.
I get it though.
But there are some movie theaters,
and look, you can be in a regular movie theater.
He's 81.
It could be all over the place with the sound.
I mean, the sound could be completely palatable,
and then all of a sudden out of the blue,
the ship shows up, and you can't freaking hear it.
Your ears are ringing for the next two hours.
But you can hear the jet engines from Tom Cruise's
Jet in the theater door.
So my question is, will we get to the point
where it's like, yeah, I'm done with movie theaters?
We're almost there now.
I'm there.
Probably.
I'm done.
Like my dad, is he gonna be like,
yeah, I don't want the noise anymore, it's a pain?
I don't think I'm at that point.
It's gotta be an epic movie.
Like, the last one I watched was Top Gun,
because it was like, oh, that's one you have to watch
in a movie theater.
Same.
But it has to be epic, otherwise I won't do it.
And it was a good movie.
I gotta share with you, a lot of my experiences
going to the movies in the last probably five, six years
weren't very fun, because I'd fall asleep.
You have that problem.
Or you get drunk and your friend is Kyle Hickory.
No, that didn't happen.
Yeah, I'm thinking that's something like that.
Yeah, at Midway where they fought the Japanese.
Yeah.
This is after a-
It was strange.
I don't know why you stood up and went,
hi, Hitler on the way to Midway.
This was when you soaked your scrotum
in the Evan Williams bourbon on the way there.
Oh, well.
All right, so dudes, I guess, out there
that are wondering what the hell we're talking about.
Forget it.
We decided we're gonna go to the movie,
we're gonna save a couple bucks,
we're gonna pick up a bottle of booze,
and we'll just make our own bourbon and coke.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
Paul will make them in the backseat for everyone
while we're bouncing around the tollway.
It's not our fault you couldn't handle the bottle.
So we had these bottles of Coca-Cola,
so we went to the store,
we bought a bottle of Jack Daniels or Evan Williams.
It was Evan Williams.
100 proof.
We bought three, one liter, not two liter,
but one liter bottles of coke.
This was high school all over again.
We dumped half the bottle of coke out,
and we filled up equal portions of the bottle
of Evan Williams, and we went into the movie theater,
and 15% of it ended up on my crotch,
which got absorbed into my very thin skin there.
It got blown, so you know.
So you were butt-loosing it,
and got a little bit more toxic than the normal.
I didn't mean to, but it got soaked into my skin.
So we were blown the hell up for that movie Midway.
I fell asleep.
I did.
I fell asleep.
And then he jumps up.
And then I woke up.
Fuck you!
Yeah, I woke up going, get him, yeah!
And I fell back asleep.
That was ridiculous.
But my point about bringing that up
about falling asleep during the movie
is that now that I got my sleep apnea machine,
which Jeff, you need to buy yours, ASAP.
Yeah.
Now that I got my sleep apnea machine.
Take it with you to the movie theater.
No, no, my point is is now that I have my sleep apnea
machine. Everybody has its extension.
I don't fall asleep anymore.
Can you shut up?
Shhh.
Get the full mask off.
Luke, I am your father.
Oh, boy.
No, but life has taken a turn now that I have,
I've done that sleep apnea.
So I can go to the movies.
I just don't want to.
I'm not necessarily done done,
but I don't really have a fantastic desire to go
unless a new classic comes out.
When is the next new classic gonna come out?
When is there gonna be some sort of divine
production of something really cool?
Another masterpiece?
When?
I mean, it's all fake shit that's coming out.
You know, look,
there's nothing wholesome.
That's why I kind of lean back to these Christmas events
and all these childhood experiences that we have
in our head of what was really cool back then.
You know, just because.
Well, we actually talked about, you know,
the John Hughes movies.
Oh, they're great.
They don't make movies like that anymore.
No, they don't.
Right, the wholesome coming of age fun movies.
Like big with Tom Hanks and.
Yeah.
And Home Alone.
There's not no special effects.
The kids can't sit through movies like that.
Where's the explosion?
Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
Oh yeah, classic stuff like that.
Just kind of fun, healthy, you know, innocent.
Yeah.
Now they want this.
Yeah, another specific rim where you've got
these things coming out.
Look, and even though this was kind of a cool
stimulating movie, I mean, that guy's got some cool shit
going on there, you're like, oh, but still.
It's all special effects.
There's no substance.
And no character development.
He's carrying a boat as a club.
It's kind of like the Walbrist penis we were talking about
in the last couple episodes.
Yeah.
Let me tell you what I've been doing.
So my youngest is 18 and he's the only one,
he's our last one, right?
The other two have moved on and going to either college
or graduated or whatever.
So I've started this thing where we're watching old movies.
Like he had never seen Terminator.
He had never seen Terminator 2, right?
So you got, did you watch both of those?
We watched both of those.
He loved them.
Which one did he like better?
I think probably Terminator 2.
Cause it is a better movie.
The motorcycle, the Harley.
Oh, it's so good.
The Harley's like,
it is shotgun with one hand.
Yes.
And he also, they give a little more personality
to Arnold Schwarzenegger in that movie.
The Guns N' Roses song just playing.
Anyway, so then I decided to move on to Aliens.
Alien and Aliens.
So Gordy Weaver.
Right?
And we watched Alien.
Greatness.
And he fell asleep.
He fell asleep during Alien.
Not enough action, I tell ya.
It is a horror.
It's more of a horror than it is an action.
And it's kind of a cerebral horror
at certain points.
It is.
But Aliens will be much better.
So he'll watch that with us
and then we'll see how that goes.
But anyway, I think it's kind of cool
to go back and watch movies
I haven't seen in a long, long time.
Oh yeah.
I love to watch Turner Classic movie.
Yeah.
But you know, old movies.
Like from the 40s and 50s.
Sure.
The Black and White.
Casablanca.
Yeah, that kind of genre.
Yeah.
The Maltese Falcon.
There's so many of those that I haven't seen.
I would love to go back and watch them.
Singing in the Rain.
Gene Kelly.
Sure.
I...
North by Northwest.
I had that on.
He was gay.
Rock Hudson.
The movie Jaws was on.
Okay.
So I stop and I'm watching Jaws and TV for a minute
and my daughter walks by
and she looks at the TV and she goes, what's this?
I said, it's a movie called Jaws
and it was so great.
Intense.
She goes, what's it about?
It's about this time they have a beach
and this shark comes along and attacks all these people.
And she goes, oh my God.
She goes, they made a movie about that, huh?
Yeah.
Whatever, Boomer.
Jacque Cousteau take care of that.
They made a movie about that.
Okay, Boomer.
Actually they've made a shit ton of Jaws based on that.
Yeah, they did.
It was so silly.
The first Jaws was what, 75?
So good.
76.
Yeah.
It came out the same time Star Wars came out.
I remember soon.
It impacted people.
Oh, sure.
Some people would never go back to the beach, ever.
Yeah, I have a problem swimming in the ocean to this day.
Because of that fucking thing.
So is Jaws a masterpiece or a classic?
Classic.
Oh.
It's not a mass.
I think it is because they never showed the fucking shark
until the very end for the most part.
Yeah.
It was all assumed because the robot was a piece of shit.
The animatronic.
Yeah, it wouldn't work right.
Yeah, so he never showed it.
Except maybe a piece, a fin or something like that
or an eyeball.
So I guess that begs the question,
what defines a movie as a masterpiece
or just as a classic, right?
Which is one step below.
Yeah.
I'm making this up as I go along.
You know, it's almost to me like,
it has to be described as larger than life.
You know what I mean?
I think Jaws was.
It has to be grand.
It has to be epic.
Epic, yes.
I think Jaws was.
And especially the way it impacted so many lives, I think.
So the terms classic and masterpiece
are often used to describe works of art,
literature, music and other creative endeavors,
but they have slightly differences in the connotations.
Classic typically refers to a work
that has stood the test of time
and remains highly regarded and influential in its field.
Classics are often considered exemplary
or representative of a particular genre, style or era.
They may not necessarily be universally acclaimed,
but also recognized for their enduring significance.
A masterpiece is a term used to describe
a work of exceptional quality and craftsmanship.
Correct.
Well, thank you, Mr. Webster.
I think a classic like Maltese Falcon,
does that hold up to today's
Definition of classic. Definition.
I don't know.
Can you sit down?
I would dare say that when it comes to movies,
whether you classify it as a masterpiece or a classic,
one of the things that's gotta stick out is that,
well, like you were saying,
if it had some impact on our society somehow.
And one of the more common impacts
are the buzz phrases that come out of movies.
In Jaws, we're gonna have to get a bigger bow.
Right?
Right.
That's kind of in our vernacular.
Right.
There's a lot of movies that have that.
Sure.
Yeah, I can see that.
Well, let's spit out a few popular Turner classic movies
that were on the list.
Have you heard of Giant?
Oh yeah, Rock Hudson.
James Dean was in that.
James Dean, that was about an oil.
I have not seen that one.
Imitation of Life.
I've heard of that.
His Girl Friday.
I've heard of that.
Bringing Up Baby.
Yes.
Oh wow.
I haven't seen any of these.
That was.
How about King Kong?
The original, the 30s?
It's a silent movie, I think, isn't it?
The 30s or the 70s?
This one would be the 30s.
Faye Ray was the one he was swinging around on top of.
And in Darrow.
Although the chick in the 70s was Jessica Lange.
Very hot, I love the way those meaty fingers
came in and picked her up.
Those big sausage links.
She was like,
I'll stop it.
All my breast just popped out.
Wasn't she in Tootsie?
Jessica Lange?
Yeah, she was.
How about The Adventures of Robin Hood
that came out in 1977?
Yeah, with Errol Flynn.
I'm sure.
Not 77, that wasn't Errol Flynn, was it?
Prince John Claude Rains.
Claude Rains.
Yeah, Errol Flynn was in that.
In 77?
Sir Robin of Loxley.
I thought Errol Flynn was like 40s actor.
Did you say 77 on that one?
Yeah, 1977.
Errol Flynn was in that one?
Oh, no, no, no.
His was like in the 30s.
Errol, hold on, am I reading that right?
Errol Flynn was like 30s or 40s.
Wasn't there another Robin Hood?
I think Dancing with the Wolf guy was in that.
Yeah, Kevin Costner was in it.
That was early 90s.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
That was not the one.
I'm talking about the earlier one.
This one is way earlier.
Which had Errol Flynn, Claude Rains, Olivia, David Havanland.
That's 37, I bet.
That wasn't 77.
They would have been like old.
They would have been dead.
Yeah, it would have been the old Robin Hood.
Larry, you were so close.
Dancing with the Wolf.
Really?
Is that what I said?
It's just one.
Dancing with the Wolf.
Not Dances with Wolves.
How about a Space Odyssey?
2001?
Yeah, Space Odyssey.
I sold it to theaters.
Oh, so boring.
I sold it to theaters.
I couldn't wait to get out of the theater.
It was epically boring.
I was like nine when I saw it.
And I was like, this is terrible.
You're terrible.
It actually impacted my view of Star Wars
because my dad wanted to go see Star Wars
like a few months later.
And I was like, dad.
Sci-Fi movies suck, dad.
Yes, that's what I thought.
This is gonna be terrible.
Just like that one we just saw.
What about the monolith?
It was some giant monolith.
The monolith.
I didn't get it.
And it goes,
bum, bum, bum.
No, that was.
Bum, bum, bum, bum.
Oh yes.
That was 2001.
Yeah, I thought so.
And Hal 9000.
And all the monkeys and the cave little thingies
were out there banging their chests.
Little dandruffles, yes.
And Hal, open the Bombay door, please.
And it said, would you like to play a game?
I'm sorry, Dave.
Thermonuclear war.
I cannot do that.
On the waterfront.
That was a war movie.
What about the King and I?
With Yul Brynner.
Yul Brynner.
He was in a fantastic movie.
What was the one where he's a machine?
Westworld.
That was so good.
Yeah, that was badass.
I watched it as a kid.
That affected me big time.
Did you watch the TV show, the HBO version?
Yeah, we did.
We got burned out on it.
The first season was fantastic.
The rest of it was garbage.
Yep, agreed.
I absolutely agree.
What else you got?
Yeah.
All right, well, we got a, how about Citizen Kane?
I saw it.
That is supposed to be, the critics say,
the best movie that has ever been made.
Really?
I remember when I was in college,
I was taking a film class,
and we dissected that movie until I vomited just about.
And all of the, just,
dissection of, look at the angle of the camera
and the shadow on the wall and the phrasing of this.
And I was just like, dude.
Do you think they thought of all that when they did it?
I think so.
I think some of the stuff.
They were all very innovative.
The weird angles they'd used for cameras.
The whole concept of just what they did back then
was so much different.
They put so much thought into it.
It wasn't slap a label on it and sell it.
It was about money, but it was also about quality back then.
The same way we made our cars back then.
It was just, they wanted this shit to last.
Right.
And integrity.
So, you know, the movie opens up with him
dying on his bed, asking for rosebud.
Oh, no point in watching it now.
Thanks, Jeff.
Is it too soon?
And it takes the entire movie
to understand what rosebud is.
Right, so that's basically what your movie's about.
Is you're wrapping it up.
Like Citizen Kane, right?
Citizen Kane, yeah.
Well, and a reporter is assigned
to a deciphered newspaper magnate,
Charles Foster Kane's Orison Wells, dying words.
His investigation gradually reveals
the fascinating portrait of a complex man who rose,
I was gonna say whore.
He rose from obscurity to staggering heights,
though Kane's friends and colleagues Jedidiah Leland,
well, that's really difficult to say,
and it was Susan Alexander, Dorothy, common word,
like we know who that is,
shed fragments of lights on Kane's life.
I guess, like you said, they break down.
It's supposed to be loosely based on the Hearst guy.
The William Randolph Hearst, yes, the newspaper magnate.
He has a castle.
But Rosebud, are you gonna watch it?
I don't wanna ruin it for you.
Yeah, I mean, I am gonna watch it.
All right, well, Rosebud is his childhood sled.
It's the name of his sled.
Oh, okay, I thought he said slut.
Sled.
Oh, so now there really is no point in watching it?
So he goes, you know, he rises to the pinnacle
of great wealth and big houses and all this,
but as he's dying, all that he is thinking about
is his childhood. His childhood.
His childhood sled.
Meaning nothing really matters.
It's all about the little things in life, yeah.
So didn't his daughter, did her get kidnapped?
Patty Hearst, yes, in the 70s,
she was kidnapped by the Seminies Elimination Army,
or the SLA.
And then she like.
Robbed a bank.
And was forced to rob a bank.
Well, or was she?
That's the big question.
Yeah, she collaborated with them.
And then they called it some syndrome,
where you get roped into.
Mon Chauzen or something like that.
She was acquitted.
Yeah. Yeah.
I thought it was her.
That was a big deal.
I thought that name rang a bell.
No, that's Mon Chauzen by proxy.
What is that, what is it where you
attach with your kidnapper?
I know, that's what I roll that.
What's that called?
It's syndrome.
It's something, Copenhagen, no, it's.
Something close to that.
Oh.
Right, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you're right.
It is like Copenhagen syndrome.
It's, come on, Larry, you know this kind of stuff.
People out there listening to the thing
and they're screaming right now,
don't you know it's this.
And the guy's saying to his wife,
these dudes are idiots.
Yes.
Something syndrome.
Come on, come on, listener, call in and tell us.
China syndrome.
Anyway, I don't know.
It's China syndrome.
Yeah, looking up for us some later, you know.
Putting captive syndrome.
Full metal jacket, classic or masterpiece?
Classic.
I think it's classic.
I think there are some masterpiece scenes in there.
Stockholm.
Stockholm syndrome.
You said, did you say Copenhagen?
I did.
It was close.
That's really close.
I knew it was a city in the Scandinavian area.
No, no, no, very nice.
That's actually really, really close.
Somewhere up in that area.
Oslo syndrome.
Oslo, Helsinki.
So I'll tell you the drill sergeant in that movie,
when my dad saw it, he goes,
cause he was in the military, he goes,
that guy nailed the drill sergeant.
Just like what my dad went through.
You say, oh my God, a jelly donut.
Paul, you missed the jelly donut.
He said, that's just how they were back in the day.
That's how they treated you.
Are you allowed to have jelly donuts
in my barracks private pile?
Sir, no, sir!
Yeah, that was crazy.
Is that the one where he says,
there's only two things from Texas,
deers and queers.
You got no horns on your head, you must be queer.
That guy, his name is Lee Ermey.
Lee Ermey or something like that.
He was actually hired as a technical advisor
to help out with that movie.
He was a drill sergeant.
And this, yes, in the Marines.
They wrote him in.
And he, as Stanley Kubrick was observing
how he was trying to give instructions
to who the actor that was supposed to be the drill sergeant,
he was explaining, this is how you gotta do it,
God damn it!
Right.
And that guy ended up.
So finally he said, look, why don't you just take the part?
You seem to have this down, and that's what he did.
He was awesome.
Oh, he was great.
He was great.
Like I say, he nailed it.
My dad was like, he had flashbacks.
He's like, that's what my drill sergeant was like.
Private Pyle, why do you wanna be in my beloved corps?
He was so empty, too.
He had that helter-skelter look on his face.
It was like.
Who, Pyle?
No, the drill sergeant.
He was like, just in your face.
In your face.
And I wonder how many drill sergeants are like that today,
and if they are, how many of our youth can handle it?
Well, no, they have cry rooms and safe rooms
if they're feeling hurt.
I don't think they have cry rooms anywhere.
I do know they have dumbed down some of the
basic training programs to accommodate some people that.
For women.
Well, for women, and just in general.
And overweight people.
Yeah.
Oh, this guy's fat, so we're gonna lower the standard.
Come on.
No, I want the best soldier to be in the best shape,
and I don't care if it's male or female.
The problem is, is there's not enough people.
So in order to. It's happening.
It's down.
35,000, 60,000.
Okay, our requirements are here.
We're only getting this amount of people to join
if we come down here.
We'll get our numbers where it should be.
They're not on a good streak.
The military's not on a good streak.
I think what you need to do is.
When we left Afghanistan and the recruiting.
It's a lot more than that.
It was awful, all of it.
It was the release, there was COVID,
when they released all those people,
because they refused to take it.
They're just.
And then you have all these top brass
that are being political.
Oh, tons.
Oh, yeah, I don't get it.
Tons of stuff that dudes like us.
Pentagon being political.
Don't approve of all over the planet.
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