Music
Geez, that was super loud.
Music
What the fuck is up everyone?
It's a motherfucking rice ball special.
Okay, wow, the music doesn't even really...
I don't even need the fucking music.
This is a work in progress, people.
Welcome to...
I guess I'm gonna...
This is really like the first rice ball.
But before we really get into it,
let me introduce the quietest member on our regular podcast.
He doesn't get a lot of time to shine,
but this is why we have a special little episode.
Just the two of us. It's gonna be great.
It's Brennan...
Music
Shipley, up top Austin.
Hello everybody.
You'll know I'm here because of the coughing.
Coughing
Yeah.
Coughing
God, I was about to call you out.
What did you pack?
I did this. I'm not packing that anymore.
It's dry. It's old.
Oh, God.
It's Durban poison. It's dry.
It's harsh.
And I think you just killed it too, which is good.
Oh, man.
It's funny if you listen to the previous episode,
I think I just went on a little nostalgic kick about how
sometimes old weed...
There's something about it.
It kind of has a memory inducing quality.
It can be almost like a strong smell I've heard that reminds you of your childhood.
But...
I kind of got a little bit of that.
That old shake.
I kind of got a little bit of it.
That's definitely what the movie gave me.
The movie...
Nostalgia.
We're gonna get into that.
The movie that we watched this week just now
was 2004 Miracle with Kurt Russell.
Because Brendan here is our resident hockey aficionado.
Played a lot of hockey growing up.
Watched a lot of hockey to this day.
Not as much anymore, unfortunately.
I watch recaps a lot.
That's still more hockey than I...
You're probably...
You casually watch more hockey than I've probably ever seen.
Yeah.
This is gonna come as a shock to anybody.
Oh, by the way, I'm Andy Rice.
This is the Fried Rice Podcast.
Let's get fried.
God, I've never forgotten my own intro.
My own name before.
That was a good three minute intro.
Yeah, we didn't even need the music.
That's probably just jarring for no reason.
I'm so sorry, everybody.
We took a long time to get just the right fucking music for Miracle.
You know that...
We wanted inspirational sports.
America.
We found something called Freedom by Scott Buckley.
Epic inspirational music.
No copyright.
And it was great.
But I think it just didn't work.
I think the first bowl we smoked kind of threw us off.
Yeah, that's what it was.
But I will say a comment just in case you didn't get to hear the music much.
This is, I think, pretty good comment.
As if a tragic war has just ended.
And you have the strength to rise again.
Truthfully amazing music is what somebody put a year ago.
Mint Cream 04.
That's a fun username.
I'm always afraid of people seeing my 4U page on YouTube.
Because I feel like that's almost as intimate as a 4U music page.
Or like a 4U Facebook feed or something.
Because then they know what you be clicking.
Yes, and they know exactly what you watch.
And they can go to your history and look at that.
And I'm not really ashamed of anything I watch.
But it is kind of embarrassing that you can see that I finished an entire one hour block of Star Wars ambient soundtrack mix.
No, that's not sad.
That's exactly what you think it is.
It's me on the couch, putting a pillow behind my back, knowing that one hour I'll wake up at an alarm after that point.
So it won't mix in with the music.
And then I can feel like I'm dreaming as a Jedi.
But it's okay.
Because when Episode 1 came out, I remember my dad bought the soundtrack on CD.
Oh, yeah.
And every year, every time we would do some deep cleaning around the house or big spring cleaning or something like that.
He would put that CD in and crank up the surround sound.
And that's what we would clean to.
It's the Star Wars soundtrack.
That's fucking dope.
But it was Episode 1, so it was a lot of choir chanting.
Oh, yeah.
What is the...
The Darth Maul.
Is there a distinct part in the soundtrack where you could tell they went to that underwater place?
Yeah, it's like...
It's a little bit like...
Like lighter, I guess, on the chanting.
Okay.
And the music.
I don't know. I don't remember.
I'm all for a good score.
Yes.
My buddy, when we were younger...
He had me download...
Like when we were in high school.
Which I don't do this anymore.
But he had me download the Lord of the Rings soundtrack.
The score.
With Enya on it.
May It Be by Enya.
What a beautiful song.
That is a really good score.
As far as music goes.
I like the Harry Potter scores.
Oh, they're great.
Any John Williams is great.
Yeah.
Any...
Hans Zimmer.
Danny Elfman.
And then I would say Harry Gregson Williams.
Yeah.
Is another good one.
He did Spy Game.
Which is top notch.
One of the best.
Have you watched Spy Game?
I don't think I've watched Spy Game.
Robert Redford and Brad Pitt.
It's an older one. I don't think I've watched that one.
It's not that much older.
I mean...
It's like 2000s.
2000s.
But yeah, it's Brad Pitt is a...
Was a badass sniper slash spy.
He got trained by Robert Redford.
Who was another badass spy.
And then it cuts to Robert Redford now as an older man.
About to retire.
And Brad Pitt got captured.
And so he has to...
And it's one of those situations where...
Because Brad Pitt's a spy.
They're not going to send anyone in to get him.
Because he's been compromised or whatever.
So Robert Redford though, him being an ex-spy.
Does what he has to do to kind of...
Save the day.
Well, try to.
Well, I won't get into it.
But, because honestly it's one of those movies where it's worth watching.
It's such a good...
Because the whole...
You see...
It's got like the badass Brad Pitt in war stuff.
It's got cool...
Like most of the movies, Spy...
Because it interjects with what's going on in modern day.
To seamlessly him training Brad Pitt how to be a spy.
Okay.
So just like spy training and the modern day rescue mission.
Is the whole movie.
It's so good.
I love it.
Yeah.
I'll have to look that one up.
It's one of my favorites.
And Harry Gregson Williams does the soundtrack for that.
Okay.
And he also does the...
I think he does Metal Gear Solid.
The game?
Yeah.
Unless that was Hans Zimmer.
Metal Gear Solid...
Song.
Who does that?
Why would they?
Why would they not have the...
The thing on here?
Anyway.
Shit.
What?
I was like, you could have IMDB.
I'm going to put theme composer.
If that doesn't give me a fucking name.
Where is it?
Okay.
I'm going to put that in anyway.
So I might have been completely wrong.
I thought for fucking sure that he did one of the songs or maybe a medley.
Doesn't matter.
All right.
I was wrong.
But I'm okay being wrong.
This is an important lesson to take away.
Yes.
Just in general is like, oh, okay.
I had the wrong information in my head.
Is that my fault?
I mean, yes, but like I learned it wrong.
Someone somewhere told me wrong.
I saw something wrong.
I read something wrong.
Whatever it was, my brain got it wrong.
Fuck that guy that taught you wrong.
No, no.
I'm not even pointing fingers.
This isn't even a blaming thing.
This is more just like you're allowed to be wrong because you have the wrong information in your head.
Just move on.
The only way you're going to learn is by making mistakes.
So now I know that it's by...
And you know what?
I should have named the composers.
I don't know why I didn't because now if anyone was curious, it's the composers are, and I'm sorry if I butcher these names, it's Maki Kiryoka Toga Project, which Toga Project sounds like a company.
Unless if your name is Toga Project, that's a cool name.
If it's a company, it's also a cool company name.
And then Kazuki Murooka.
Murooka.
Sorry if I fucked that up.
Anyway, the guy that made the games is Hideo Kojima.
We all know that.
He's cool.
He's coming out with some new stuff, some new Silent Hill stuff, I believe.
Yeah, I thought that's what they were working on.
Yeah, it's going to be exciting.
Okay, let's move past all this tangent.
See, here's the...
Here's the problem with just the two of us.
Yeah, here's the problem with the rice balls is that Brennan, he just goes with it.
He's willing to accompany me on these tangents, and we're not going to get anything done.
We watched the whole movie.
We prepared for this.
But no.
So let's talk about the live show from your perspective, because you weren't here at the last episode.
And you didn't even get a chance to say anything on it.
He came out.
He brought his wife.
He showed up.
And the whole thing was just a chaotic kind of mess that you didn't even get to...
It was a fun birthday party for you, Andrew.
It was great.
I loved it.
I had a good time.
The comedy show was good beforehand.
And I mean, even just, yeah, everything that was going on, the chaos of everything, the crowd interaction, it was a lot of fun.
Even though I didn't say anything, it was fine.
You were one of the first people back there.
Like, you came prepared.
Yeah, just chilling.
I'm always just along for the ride.
I'm here for the journey.
It's too bad you can't go to the one tonight.
I know, I'm bummed about that.
Tonight is the Heat Hotel Mojave Comedy Show.
Last time we had a show there, there was about 250 people.
And this time on Facebook we have, I think it's like 400-something people have responded interested, whatever that means.
But with an already good number last time, and it's Havasu, it's like Havasu, everyone likes going to stuff there.
So I'm expecting a big fucking turnout tonight.
Which is always a little nerve wracking.
The bigger the number.
Yeah, it makes you nervous.
It's also not like my home base.
It's not that one place we go to, which I feel like I should stop naming on here.
But the place that makes me really comfortable.
It's basically your home.
Yeah, it is.
But fuck it, I think I've got a good, I've been practicing.
Having an eight minute set has been healthy for me.
Because these monsters have given me unlimited time.
And I've done 20-30 minute sets.
And I don't think they were bad by any means.
But I feel like a tight eight has been, now it's just, I think it's eight minutes of good stuff.
As opposed to 20 minutes of passable to sometimes good stuff.
This is now good to sometimes borderline stuff I can be really proud of.
Now are you more like kind of, because it's different crowds, are you working more of a set?
Or are you still kind of just doing a bit and then kind of throwing them away?
Like are you trying to work and build up a set?
Like kind of like a, this is my starting joke, you know I got a few.
Well that's tough with eight minutes.
Eight minutes is, I've got kind of like one, there's a bit sort of in the beginning.
I hate using the word bit.
Because there's not like any, I'm not acting or anything.
I do a voice, which I don't normally do.
I'm not very animated on stage.
Something I maybe should work on.
Or maybe that's not my thing.
Maybe I shouldn't give a shit about that.
I should focus on having good material.
And then, you know, I don't think the stage, this is a whole, we don't need to do a deconstruction of my comedy on here.
But the show's going to be fun.
I'm going to do I think a solid eight minutes.
Better than the last time I was there.
I feel like I half bombed because I was a little bit nervous.
And I didn't, I wasn't prepared fully.
Didn't have all my shit together.
I was, I was, I always feel bad about doing old material.
Which is a terrible instinct to have as a comic.
Yeah, because I haven't seen it.
Yeah, exactly.
Like most people have it.
Yeah, yeah.
Like if it was, you know, if you were a really big popular comedian and it was a special that you put out, then yeah.
That's when you retire that material.
Exactly.
You know, but otherwise you're still building your name.
You're still building your presence.
Why not do the stuff that got the big laughs?
That's what I'm doing.
Yeah.
So almost the set I'm doing tonight is near identical to the last one I did.
But I've been adding and removing, I've been editing.
Okay.
You know, so I feel like it's a stronger eight minutes than it was this last time.
But it's tough opening.
Yeah.
Because they typically have been one of the closers, right?
Yeah.
So I've been doing that for a long time, but I think because last time I successfully got it moving.
Okay.
That they were like, okay, we could do that again.
Okay.
Because opening is a tough.
I was going to say, because I've never done a stand up.
So.
Opening's hard.
Can you feel a difference in the room?
Yeah.
Because if you're closing or in the middle of a good show and the audience is primed and they're laughing and everyone's enjoying themselves, like it's easy.
It's lubed up.
Like you just kind of go up there and you just, you just insert material here and they're already ready, ready for it.
Now, would you rather open or go up after somebody that just annihilated, blew up the room?
What do you think would be more, more pressure induced?
I don't know.
That's tough.
I honestly probably opening, opening is to me, opening is just a, it's a harder because literally you're going out there.
Everyone's quiet to start because they're being respectful.
Yeah.
And, you know, and then you, you have to just get it going, which is tonight what I'm going to do.
Now we have a host.
So the host is there to get it going.
So it's not a straight cold open.
It's like I get to have at least a little bit of prep.
Okay.
But I'm ready.
Yeah.
I'm ready.
So you're going to have a host to kind of how the crowd opens up, I guess.
Yeah.
There's some hosts that go out there and they're like aggressive, you know, and mean, piss off the crowd.
Sure.
You know, they'll introduce like, like I, I, I get it.
If it's funny, it's funny, but I don't know.
And then, but I would rather have a host that's kind of middle of the road.
Like I saw this one guy host a whole, I went and saw, I think it was Carlos Mencia.
I think I went and saw Carlos Mencia once.
And at that, the improv and, and the guy that hosted that was dope because he was in and out.
He had quick little jokes that were just like nothings, but like they were funny.
So like they, you know, some of them, you know, but they weren't like, he didn't have to build up to anything.
He just came out.
He knew how to, in like a minute or two, just not even put the attention so much on himself, but like get the audience just continuously laughing to the next guy.
Okay.
It's like, it was seamless.
Like it was like, it was a skill.
In his introduction, he was making a joke.
Yeah.
About the, about the next guy coming out or something.
He did like, yeah, it was like one, I don't know, like the way he delivered it was great, but he was just like, man, PlayStation 3 is out.
Love one of those.
But, you know, instead what I did was I taped my PlayStation one to my PlayStation two and it's not the same, something like that.
And our next guy, you know, like it's just something like that.
Just like a quick nothing joke with no buildup, nothing, just throw away jokes.
Here you go.
It's, it'll make you chuckle, make you laugh and move on.
That was, I think that was a big highlight of that show.
The live show was Austin's hosting.
He did a really good job.
He kept the crowd going.
I think he felt like he fumbled a few times, but I thought he kept the momentum going throughout it.
He did a really good job.
I was outside for most of it, but anytime I've seen Austin host, I like his hosting style.
Yeah.
He knows how to demand attention from the audience pretty well.
Yeah.
And he doesn't take too long up there.
No.
In between sets like, which can be an issue.
I think he's, I think he knows exactly the amount of time to be up there, to move on to the next guy.
And his jokes in between are funny.
And he like, he's, he's good.
Yeah.
I like working with him a lot.
Yeah.
And I like working with him on the show a lot.
Yeah.
I'm glad this connection happened.
All through comedy.
They say comedy is the best medicine.
Maybe that medicine just isn't for human beings alone.
Maybe it's to, it's the medicine to fix the world.
Yes.
Maybe just connections through comedy.
Just laugh.
Yeah.
That's our, we'll just end the episode there.
20 minutes in.
Super lame.
Well, we're being inspirational.
Extra so today because we, the movie that we picked was Miracle.
Yes.
Well, let's do the what are we smoking?
Okay.
What are we choking on?
Yeah.
Well, first off, what are we choking on?
What did we, what killed us in the beginning?
The one that's still killing me was some old shake that I have, Durban Poison.
The brand is called Fella's from the place that, a free eight I got a while back when
I went to California.
And then the one that we just finished.
Yeah, that might be done.
Was Los Angeles Kush, Small Kings Cannabis Flower, Federal Reserve OG.
And that's, I picked that up, that THC last time I went.
That stuff's pretty good.
Yeah.
The LA Kush brand is good.
Or Los Angeles Kush.
I wonder if there's a LA Kush and a Los Angeles Kush.
There might be an LA Kush like actually in LA.
Yeah.
I have been smoking and we will smoke just a bunch of free wheat that I got from my,
my, as you put it, a great birthday party for me that I just, that I conned the masses
into joining.
It's, this is from Bobby.
It's Urban Blaze.
Fuel Your Fire.
They have a little logo on there.
Premium Indoor.
Los Angeles Chrome.
And I don't know the flavor.
It doesn't really have it on there, but he gave me a lot of it.
So I've been smoking that and it's been pretty good.
It's been making me stone as fuck.
I have a bunch of pre-rolls, but then this killed my buddy and I when we tried them.
Somebody gave me these Moo-ha meds, Mates, mates maybe.
Spelled mates, but there's a little thing over the E so I don't know how that affects
the, how the word.
Is it mateys?
Is it mates?
But anyway, it's pumpkin spice latte joints.
And they, it's indoor flour and keef and diamonds.
This, this.
Just rips.
I mean it rips, but it's, it like choked us out, man.
Was it from the flavor itself that choked you out?
I had the hiccups for three days, but I don't know if it was because of this.
It says five minute fire.
I've never seen that before.
There's a little fire emblem with a five.
That's what they burn for.
No, no, yeah.
I figured that out.
I put two and two together, but.
The jeaners have it too on theirs.
Oh, do they really?
Yeah.
How have I not noticed this?
It's not a fire though.
I think it's just like a burn time is what it says on the jeaners.
Lab test.
Oh shit.
Burning time, five minutes.
How have I not ever noticed that?
Every time you've read the jars, you've never read that far?
God, I literally have baby jeeter jars as decorations in my bathroom.
Yeah, baby jeeters and Barbies.
Oh no, the Barbies.
I'm going to learn to edit.
That was the worst thing ever.
That was great.
That was just a.
But I gave them away to children in need, except for the one that Bob gave me.
Because that one was just a terrifying.
You can't give that to children.
No one would know.
That would be on a list.
Bob should be on a list for giving it to someone so much younger than him.
Yes.
Yeah, that stupid baby doll with the blindfold on.
Wearing a custom shirt that says fried rice baby.
He really ran with that vanilla ice.
In his mind, he probably thought rice rice baby, just like vanilla ice.
I'm going to build a whole present around that and then got to work.
Because Bob's a.
I liked his song.
Yeah.
I haven't heard it since the live night.
But when the episode comes out, I'm going to listen to it.
He put a lot of effort into it.
I did love that.
Like when I was getting ready to leave, at that point he was just smoking what was left
from the big fucking dab or the 10 gram blunt.
Yeah, the 10 gram blunt.
He was just smoking it like a cigar.
He was just like, all right, it's kind of nice.
Yeah, that thing ended up getting passed around.
My wife took a hit off of it.
I think everyone did.
Yeah.
That felt like a real like as close to the vibe you could get for like the 1960s.
Yeah.
You know, era of love and rock and roll.
They sort of had one of those vibes that night because everyone was just everyone was just
high off their fucking ass.
Just sitting in that back area.
Just.
So come to a fried rice live show or it's a smoking venue or outdoors and you're going
to get fried.
Yeah.
A lot of crowd interaction.
We then weigh the costs of the bell ringer of.
Yes.
Do we.
Do we bring face on the creator bell ringer and have him do another bell ringer challenge
or does he disappear into the middle of the night like he did last time?
He's a mysterious Bigfoot.
Have you heard from him since?
I've heard that he's alive.
Okay.
He's somehow made it home.
He's yeah.
Well, he wasn't drinking.
Okay.
I don't think he drinks.
I think he just smokes and is high on fucking Jesus or something.
Not Jesus, but like he's tapped into you know how the Flash Barry Allen can tap into the
Speed Force.
Yes.
I think this guy could tap into something.
Some sort of blank insert here force and he's in it full time and we're just lucky slash
we're there you know like in his presence.
Yes.
It's a gravitational field it feels like.
Yes.
It's weird.
It's weird people.
It's like I know I've talked about this guy like he's a mythical entity, but he almost
is.
It's like you meet him and you leave and your life is different.
It's altered.
It's I'm not in no particular way one way or the other maybe negative for some maybe
positive for others.
I feel like there's no I'm going to build a religion around this guy.
I feel like if I just keep talking about it it's going to be real bad.
He leaves a life life long lasting impression.
He does and if you love gay jokes boy is he your dude.
Not my thing.
So but anyway thanks for sponsoring us Bell ringers.
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Here.
Yes.
Whatever.
Yeah that'd be fun.
Let's do that.
Twenty six minutes bell ringer commercial.
He'll like that.
That pays for itself.
I can.
He scares me.
Giant Lex Luthor meets Bigfoot meets a black hole in the universe and it's just like you're
lucky to get out alive.
You know slash fortunate enough to witness it slash.
It's weird.
Weird.
I've never met anyone truly like that person.
No.
Met a lot of forgettable people.
Yes.
No I'm not.
Well that's a shitty thing to say.
But it's just like in hindsight people seem more forgettable after meeting him.
Yeah.
It's like once you meet a person that's tapped into the fucking crack force or whatever it
is that he's doing the matrix.
He's rewriting his own fucking code.
And it's like after that you're like OK Sally great.
You have a cool you have 10,000 followers on Instagram.
For you.
Yeah.
I don't care man.
I just met Neo.
I met Neo dude.
When we're not looking he's he must have just flown off somewhere.
Taken his motorcycle compacted it into a like a Dragon Ball Z sphere because he could do
that shit and flew off with a trench coat somewhere knowing that his job was done.
That he dropped off 30 grams of weed and a fucking contraption that he invented.
Yes.
You just knew he was getting a bunch of people high that night.
Just job well done.
If there's ever really a blunt man in chronic yes it's he's there.
He's their Superman.
Again I want to condone all the gay jokes.
Like it sucks.
I wish that there was if you could trim off 100 percent of the gay jokes.
I'll fuck it.
Ninety nine percent.
I'll give him one every every every now and then if he really needs to get it out.
But if you could get rid of that.
I mean he could be a force for for good.
Maybe maybe.
Stoner good.
Yeah good for stoner kind.
Yes.
Yeah.
So if anyone is out there is looking to interview someone crazy.
Hit me up and I'll pass you along the details.
It's one of those kind of things.
It's yeah it's really I don't think you can just find him out in the wild.
Anyway we're gonna move on from talking about potentially the Antichrist slash our savior.
No I'm just kidding.
But he does give Antichrist vibes like charismatic and evil.
No the way we described the last time it was perfect was he's chaotic neutral.
Chaotic neutral.
In a video game if you ever met someone that was chaotically neutral it'd be this person
where it's just like he doesn't mean any harm to anybody but it's dangerous nonetheless.
Yeah.
I don't know it's like a defanged cobra.
It's nice but it's jagged.
Someone tells you the lion is tamed.
To go put your head in the jaw of the lion.
And sure you're probably gonna get out without getting your head stomped.
But then didn't Roy or Siegfried one of them got mauled after a while.
If this guy were the lion that would make sense because they were gay.
Yeah.
Because they were gay.
And he's not okay with that.
Which is something I condone.
What a weird stance to have.
Isn't the human nature complex where you can like someone to a degree but then condone
a lot of what they maybe believe in or think about but then at the same time when it doesn't
affect you on a day to day why let that affect a friendship or something maybe.
But then sometimes morals have to you have to take a stand.
If nobody ever took a stand then the rights of people would be trampled all over.
So yeah.
That's why I think everybody's entitled to their own beliefs and don't push your beliefs
or views on other people don't force other people to believe what you believe.
Yeah I think I saw that on someone recently was just like it's okay to have whatever religion
you want lack of religion whatever.
The moment you try to force it the moment you try to elect politicians that are gonna
push that agenda for whatever religion it is.
And I think this is across the board.
I mean like and if you talk to anybody from any religion they would be opposed to someone
from the opposite religion having positions of power.
So it's like you know like somebody would be like it's like I want someone who will
just use an atheist and a Christian right.
It'd be like if an atheist was like well I want someone who's atheist going into power
because they're not going to push a religious agenda.
You know what this is getting too political.
Political rice ball.
Yeah we're not going to do this.
Who the fuck.
I don't want to get angry I'm going to smash my bonk.
I don't know this has just been you know what it is.
It's because the movie we watched Miracle.
Was very political.
It was very political.
It's so.
It's historical.
To be fair Brendan did suggest that we watch slapstick.
Slapshot.
Yeah.
And in hindsight.
Which I almost want to make you watch one of the opening scenes of Slapshot so you know
kind of like the type of movie you were missing out on.
You showed me the fight scene which I liked.
Yeah that was great.
It's a silly.
I might watch Slapshot now.
You should.
Because I think I'm going to start doing individual even shorter A&E solo reviews.
Yeah.
Because Austin suggested that and it's a good idea.
It's just more content.
If people like.
Because then it's just people.
Then you got Patreon episodes.
Exactly.
And they're favorite combos.
I might do more duo sessions too because I like this.
So I might have like just me and Mike.
I might have just me and Austin.
More just you and I because these are fun.
And we'll see what the vibes bring.
I feel like Mike and I could be very contentious.
It could be very argumentative if there's no one there to be a third party.
But at the same time maybe if it's just the two of us.
Because we've been friends for years.
So we haven't always argued.
I think Mike likes being contradictory to you.
I think he likes being the opposite.
He enjoys it.
He does.
He likes being my foil.
He likes getting you riled up.
He likes being my foil.
He likes to get your goat in.
Yeah.
Get your goat is just.
Yeah.
You know.
Which is.
It's funny.
It's entertaining.
So.
Let's light this.
Fucking.
Giant.
Pre-roll.
Unless you want one of those pumpkin spice ones.
No.
That sounded.
Like it'll kill us.
Yeah.
I'll save that for later.
It.
I mean I got fucking high shit off that.
So we're going to do a jars pre-roll.
One gram.
The pot.
Good.
In brackets.
It's good.
Okay.
It's called the pot and it's good.
The pot.
Yeah.
So ladies and gentlemen.
Thanks for sticking.
Sticking with us so far.
This is just.
At some point.
It's just.
I'm just inviting friends over and recording.
Just getting high with them.
So.
Hey.
You know.
Whatever.
Here we are.
Fried Rice Podcast.
I'm Andy Rice.
Let's get fried.
I haven't made it to many of them so.
Yeah.
That is true.
Brendan.
He works.
You know.
It's a busy job.
And it's hard to get these times off.
And he's also.
During the pots.
Very quiet.
Because.
He lets other people talk over him.
Yeah.
Oh shit.
It is getting windy.
Yeah.
I hope it cancels the softball games.
Oh yeah.
So.
Where we're at right now.
They're having like.
How many teams was it?
Like 200 teams.
All over.
Yeah.
Like 250 teams.
It's like they're having like one of the biggest softball tournaments ever.
And it was this weekend.
And it's.
It's been brutal.
Yeah.
So.
To say the least.
They're calling us the sports center of the southwest.
Yeah.
Which is kind of a.
That's kind of strange.
Well at least for softball we have a huge park.
Like okay.
We have a park.
That's so fucking big.
Like first off it runs along the river.
So that's dope.
But it's so big it has its own police station.
It has its own like boat dock.
It has its own skate park.
And like the skate park.
You wouldn't even know.
You could spend you know like a whole time on one half of this park and not even know
a skate park existed.
Because there's a whole like other side of the park.
There's like three playgrounds.
Yeah.
I think like three or four neighborhoods surround this park.
It's like well besides the riverside.
So three neighborhoods.
It's.
It's big.
It's huge.
It's got like a RC track.
Oh shit.
I've heard about that.
I haven't seen that.
Yeah.
It's got like a cool like with jumps and stuff that.
Oh man that'd be cool to go watch.
Yeah.
You know sit and like watch some people fucking do flips and stuff on their RC.
Just mess around.
Yeah.
No but it's yeah.
It's packed.
But they weren't.
When I drove by it on my way here they weren't at that park.
They were actually at the high school.
You think it's gotten down to like.
I think they're kind of narrowing down.
Like because they're yeah they're whittling it down to the championship.
So like that's this movie brought me back to a lot of like memories of doing stuff like
that when I was a kid with hockey.
You know tournaments like that.
I didn't do much sports growing up.
I did some.
I remember doing when I did baseball.
When I did baseball.
The only thing I can remember about baseball was that we went to a game that was in another
city or state or whatever.
So we had to take a bus so we had to spend the night out there.
And I was pretty young.
This was like second or third grade.
And we played hide and go seek sort of like a version of it.
And I found such a good hiding spot that no one ever found.
And I was there for like I don't know an hour.
Oh geez.
But here's the thing.
I don't think anyone noticed or cared.
So it's one of the it's both one of the proudest hide and seek moments I have but it's also
one of the saddest realizations that no one on that team was my friend.
They didn't care about me enough to even realize I was gone.
I didn't have one buddy system buddy in there that would have been like hey where's Andy?
Well I mean okay to be fair though when I was young I was probably I don't know nine
eight nine ten somewhere in that range.
Went to Disneyland with my family and when we'd go to Disneyland like my mom was handicapped
or is handicapped.
And so we were young like we would go and she would be in a wheelchair.
And my sister my middle sister was like a baby at the time so she was on my mom's lap
in the wheelchair.
And I would walk and hold the side.
And we went to look for a locker and to put some stuff in the locker.
And I walked around the corner to look for a locker while they were looking on one side.
And I'm looking and I'm like I finally find one and I go back to find them.
They're gone.
And I'm just like um shit.
So I go to find a help and I read the counter and it's the lost and found counter.
And I'm like yeah I'm lost.
And my cousin comes back and I'm crying because I'm a kid.
How old are you getting eight or nine?
Eight or nine.
Yeah yeah.
And my cousin who was like 13 comes back and she's laughing.
And she's like we got almost to the castle and I was at the lost and found in the front.
And I was like how did you guys like not even notice?
Just forgot you were there.
Yeah I was like well because normally you're there and just quiet.
I weirdly enough in the one or two times I ever met my grandmother.
I'm sorry if I've shared this story before but I'll be quick.
My dad's mom very infrequently have I ever seen her.
Like I once or twice three times maybe total.
Like child, teenager maybe and then adult.
And then she passed away.
She made she she.
Difficult grandmother to have.
But um one instance the one kid for instance is she takes me to Raging Waters which is
a water park in California.
And just her and I I think she was like I want to bond with Andy.
I'm going to take him to the to the to the water park.
So we go there.
And I'm like okay cool.
It almost feels like going with a stranger but like whatever it's a water park.
I get there.
I go on a ride.
One of the first rides I go on.
One of the first slides I guess.
And she went to go I guess have a cigarette somewhere.
I was done with my and I'm so young.
I'm six.
Yeah.
Maybe five or six.
And she just I couldn't find her.
She was nowhere to be found.
I get off the stuff to slide.
And then I'm freaking out.
I find one of the light guards.
And I go I don't know where my grandma is.
I'm so sorry.
I'm crying.
And he's like it's okay.
He takes me to the front.
And he the they bring on the on the on the bell like well the grandmother of Andy come
Andy Rice.
And they're like okay cool.
So about maybe five ten minutes later I see her coming up.
She looks furious.
And I'm like what.
And so as she's walking up she takes her sandal off and just starts smacking the shit out
of me for running away from her she says.
And then she took me home.
So I had one slide.
I got and I got scared and lost.
Got punished for it.
Publicly humiliated.
And then sent home and yelled at the whole way.
That explains a lot about you Andy.
Well that one it yeah.
So then I didn't see her much after that.
I think when the opportunities arose I don't think I.
Yeah.
There weren't a lot anyway but I don't think I took them.
Yeah I wouldn't blame you.
I think all my my siblings have traumatic stories of her.
I think my wife my little sister went to Hawaii with her.
Oh shit.
And just walked in on her completely naked walking like nudist style walking around their
like their room.
And I think it was just traumatic in the sense you had to see an old woman nude.
But like anyway she was a character.
Yeah.
A lot of husbands.
Oh OK.
A lot of husbands from what I can tell.
I mean I might be wrong about the number but I think it's well over five or six.
I think it's she just when she got bored she moved on or you know maybe they died.
I'm not sure.
But my dad's dad was like the first guy.
And then my uncle with his dad would be the second guy.
And then after that I think the degrees of relationships I have with the family following
it gets kind of looser and looser.
Because my my uncle who's my dad's half brothers as close as an uncle as you can get for me.
Yeah.
Right.
And I love him like an uncle.
You know like it's like you know I don't think of him any different nearly than.
But I think technically there might be other half brothers that my dad had that are as
close legally binding as my uncle Larry.
OK.
I mean I could I could appreciate that because my oldest is my stepson.
And so my younger two and him are half siblings.
Yeah.
They'll be bonded for life.
Yeah.
As as they are growing a little bit their bonds growing a little bit better.
He's kind of maturing and you know starting to appreciate them.
Like especially him in my middle child like they're tight.
The youngest him in the youngest one still kind of butthead.
Wait until he's the middle child's age.
I think it's because they're like fighting over whose mom's favorite.
Don't get over that.
At some point it gets a teenage years and 20s where they just don't give a shit.
Yeah.
And they're just want to live their lives.
You guys just have to hope they let you in on what's going on.
Yeah.
Speaking of bonding and growing what a perfect segue.
Let's get let's let's get into the movie.
Yeah.
The more sentimental you know it's funny because if you listen to the last episode because
we did a documentary it's pretty subdued.
There wasn't a lot of talking over each other.
It's probably one of our stronger narrative like episodes like like it feels like we had
accomplished more in that than we typically do.
OK.
Maybe I'm getting better.
Staying on track.
Maybe I'm staying on track a little bit.
Maybe I'm just I think it's you know what it was it was it was after the live show where
I was like I feel like I let the people who showed up down.
OK.
You felt it was too chaotic for them.
Yeah maybe a little bit like to too chaotic to enjoy to.
Yeah.
The opening up the presence was so just took forever.
I was just like what a what a bad experience for the people that showed up and how much
how much longer after I left did you guys go.
So I tried to make an Irish goodbye.
I tried to leave without anybody noticing but did I call you out on it.
No I forget her name.
The loud pop a mic and his wife.
Oh Suzy Suzy.
She called me out as I'm leaving.
Bye Andy's boss.
Oh wow.
Yeah.
Well I think you had the most hyped intro though.
Yeah.
Yeah you did get that.
That was fucking dope.
But OK.
So the movie is Miracle 2004 Kurt Russell directed by Gavin O'Connor.
All right.
I didn't do any research before this.
Oh.
Why does that IMDb fix your shit please.
You know like if you hit the little director tab it should show you everything he's done
as a director.
All right.
Not take off director as an option of what I'm looking at here.
That's what it does.
Oh shit.
OK.
So yeah.
He did Miracle.
Some things that I'm not familiar with that warrior and then Jane got a gun which I watched
a little bit of actually recently.
That's Natalie Portman as a cowgirl and she's teams up with her ex lover to help kill some
gangsters that are trying to kill her husband.
So it's kind of a weird love triangle slash brutal Western.
Like the scene I saw was pretty cool.
She's like about to get probably raped and she's on the ground and this and then her
ex lover shows up.
He's got a gun pointed at the guy.
The guy's got a gun pointed at him and they're talking back and forth and he's like well
I'll let you have a second go at her and you know let me go.
He's like all right I'll think about it.
She's like are you kidding.
You know she's whatever.
But anyway she blows that dude's head off.
It's fucking gruesome.
It's fucking sick.
I'm giving away the movie.
I'm sorry.
Now I'm a little stunned.
And then the way back with Ben Affleck which is I want to watch now that we've watched
Miracle.
It's a Ben Affleck basketball movie.
Like why wouldn't that be good.
Sports movies seem to be his forte.
Yeah I like Warrior.
I like Miracle.
I bet.
Oh I liked The Accountant.
I never watched The Accountant.
You didn't see The Accountant?
Is that the one with the.
It's Ben Affleck.
It's Ben Affleck?
Oh yeah dude.
He's like a I think he's like an autistic assassin.
I don't know how else to say it but it's like everything he does has to be to like the last
second.
Or all I remember is every time he gets home like he times the garage closing so it's like
it just barely misses his car.
Like he does everything down to the thing but he also he fixes the numbers for like crooks.
Okay.
It's so good.
It's like a high action high octane fucking movie.
And it's also kind of nerdy with the numbers and shit.
It's good.
I don't know what Seven Seconds is though.
It's a Netflix movie.
I was assuming it was like a bull riding movie but yeah looking at that cover it's not.
Oh okay.
You were thinking another sports movie but it's no it's some sort of snow murder Fargo
thing.
And then we also have is the but then you would think like The Prince that can't be
a.
Yeah.
Okay kids dealing with high school.
Okay what are we doing?
I've told myself we need to stop just IMDb and shit.
Nobody likes this.
This has to be the lamest fucking part of podcast.
I'm so sorry everybody.
Anyway let's get into the actual movie.
This is about the 1980 US men's hockey.
Yeah men's hockey team.
Was there women's hockey at the time?
I don't know if there was actually.
Actually okay so I'm so okay so let's get into it.
What's the coach?
Herb.
Herb Brooks.
Okay.
Yeah he was a long time coach.
Long time player.
He played for the 1960 men's hockey team.
Got cut right before the Olympics.
Yeah so why did he get cut?
Just did you know they got a.
He was the last one cut.
Kind of like the guy with the mustache when he cut him you know.
It's like you know.
Sorry it's you but like it's you.
I don't know.
Oh yeah shit.
The one where he's like well this guy's done nothing wrong.
He's played his heart out and I got to cut him.
He's done everything I've asked how I would have done this to him.
So yeah so this is based on a true story which I don't know if we've done a movie that's
been based on a true story before.
But and we also don't really do like dramas with inspirational sports dramas.
So this is a new well actually I would say that the You Cannot Kill David Arquette sort
of an inspirational sports drama.
Oh yes.
Yeah.
If you want to get into it.
It was silly too.
It was silly.
This one didn't have much silliness.
There were some parts I laughed at.
I think I wrote down a couple things.
Because I've got questions about like I want to know how accurate the hockey was on this
movie.
Well that's kind of a funny thing because like I like to read the trivia while I'm like
watching the movie and stuff like that.
And one of the tidbits was that like the people that were cast as their play like they were
cast more for their hockey skills than their acting.
Oh that makes sense.
And Kurt Russell one of his kids actually played hockey.
So he was definitely familiar with hockey.
I think he was like really inspired to like actually do this role and he actually met
Herb Brooks before he died and kind of like really wanted to like portray him as much
as he could.
And Herb Brooks died like while they were filming this.
Like a car accident.
Oh a car accident.
Not even old age or anything.
That's fucked up.
So I've always thought it's kind of weird.
How many celebrities die while the movie's being made about them.
Not just from car accidents but like Domino which was based on the true life story of
that like assassin chick, drug pusher chick.
I haven't seen that one.
No she died while filming that.
She died while filming it.
But at the end they have a very cool thing that they were able to film with her where
it's the actual Domino walking away from them dropping a flaming car that explodes behind
her in like practical effects style and she doesn't flinch or anything she just keeps
walking.
It's badass.
Was she died while they filmed it?
Yeah.
It's Keira Knightley.
You never saw that one?
Yeah I never saw that one.
Domino movie.
Oh my god.
This is 2005.
It's got the most iconic fucking yellow cover.
Oh who's that Ron Perlman?
Is that Ron Perlman?
No that's not Ron Perlman.
That's um, no it's not him.
It's Mickey Rourke.
Yeah Mickey Rourke, Keira Knightley and Edgar Ramirez.
And it's the real life story of Domino Harvey.
Who is this chick?
That's cool.
And she died while they were filming that movie?
Yeah I think so.
That's what, she died 2005.
The movie came out in 2005.
The best Hollywood California.
Oh yeah.
I don't know how did she die though?
Let's see Bounty Honey.
Addiction and Death.
Okay.
Oh addiction.
That's never fun.
So is it John Rorios?
I mean I'm not saying that, yeah okay yeah so she was on Crystal Meth.
Were you going to go out, you were thinking it was a conspiracy?
I mean yeah listen.
If you're going to be a chick that they make a movie that's basically an action movie that's
based on your real life.
You probably do meth.
Yeah.
It's a good chance that you do meth.
Yeah but at the same time don't you want to go out where it's like died and exploded
and related to bounty hunting or some cool shit like that?
I mean yeah but most of them die from meth or shit.
Yeah shit it's just meth.
Or cocaine.
It just sucks, it's a bummer.
Some sort of.
Drugs suck.
If you're going to be a badass something, somebody.
Yeah.
God damn it's windy.
Yeah.
I hate driving when it says windy.
I know when I love it.
Your car just gets buffeted a little bit.
I saw the clouds and I was like oh it's going to rain tonight maybe.
Or it'll break up when it gets over.
Yeah I'm not drinking tonight.
Which I mean I'm fine anyway I like being high and better.
Which I'm not going to do and drive which I never do.
That's irresponsible.
Yes you're sleeping there.
I'm sleeping there.
Mike offered me a ride.
Yeah.
Anyway.
Domino is another movie.
Let's get back to the real.
Now this is the most fucking laid back episode.
Well it's a rice ball so if you clicked this it's an extra episode.
This is extra shit.
There you go.
I hope you're enjoying it.
I think this was about maybe 30 minutes too long.
The movie.
Yeah.
I don't and this is just me and I think she did a fine job as the wife but I think cut
all the wife stuff.
Yeah.
Cut all the family stuff.
Well they had to do a lot to make like they had to make her Brooks likeable.
So the whole the whole point of like the story is kind of like showing how he brought these
two these kids together that young men together that were like hated each other.
They had a rivalry because they every year battling for the championship.
They were the two final teams every year and so they're back and forth and he coached one
of them.
I can't remember which one he coached but like he knew that basically like to bring
them together he was going to have to make them hate him.
It's like that's why I like when he met his assistant coach and stuff he was like get
close to the boys just watch him like be close to him you know like take care of him.
Let's address the Truman show in the room.
It's like the most typecasted face I've ever seen in my life.
Every time he was on screen no matter what was going on I was just thinking of Truman.
Yeah.
I'm so sorry guy.
I don't remember his name.
Oh man he's you know what that felt like a mean thing to say so what I'm going to do
is I'm going to look him up.
I'm going to give him the old.
Instead of clicking the IMD page you're already on with the movie he was in.
Oh my God.
That's not even a fake thing that I did on purpose.
That's like he just pointed out this is true.
I was on the page for Miracle and I went and typed in the Truman show.
I opened a new tab.
Went to IMDb so that I could look up Noah Emmerich.
Noah Emmerich he's known for Super 8.
Okay I'll give him that.
I didn't think Truman show when I saw that.
He's the bad guy in Super 8 wasn't he?
I think so.
One trying to at least capture.
Well it depends on your definition of bad I think.
To protect the world from.
If the protagonist of a movie is an adorable kid trying to film a monster movie using a
real life monster then yeah the bad guy is the government trying to save everybody.
Sure the bad guys in ET were trying to capture a fucking extraterrestrial.
Like being.
That was befriending.
That can say shit.
Oh by the way I'm going to use.
One of Anthony Mitchell's best.
One of Anthony Mitchell's best bits.
I'm going to steal it from him.
I don't think he'll care.
I'll give him credits.
Anthony Mitchell he's a buddy of mine.
He did Mojave Comedy.
I love this bit.
It is true.
When he was in micro age or whatever they had Spanish on the TV's and he was watching
ET.
So because the ET phone home doesn't match up with the Spanish translation they have
to slow that part down artificially just by like a second.
So instead of it going ET phone home it's ET telefono de casa.
I'm like that's so good.
And I wish I could find a YouTube of it.
Of the Spanish show.
It stuck in my head so good.
I wish he told that joke every time he went up there.
But he for some reason isn't a fan of it.
I think it's his funniest joke.
But I'm going to tell him to do it tonight.
So anyway yeah it's really just a matter of perspective.
I mean there's some people that are purely evil like Hitler.
He doesn't get a pass.
He doesn't get a devil's advocate.
What he did was pure fucking genocidal evil.
But then look at Ursula from Little Mermaid.
Ariel willingly made a deal and then tried to back out on it.
It's like what did Ursula do wrong except use magic to give someone a fucking dream
come true.
It's like hey yeah I'll give you legs.
You know how hard it is to give someone legs?
I need your voice.
You have a really nice singing voice.
Trade.
What's up?
And Eric didn't need her to talk.
No he was fine with it.
I mean that's a little creepy if you ask me.
He's just like oh I'm cool with this just random babe who doesn't say a word.
Actually the more you talk about it.
It's very narcissistic.
I would love it just a random babe who doesn't say a word totally into me for no reason.
Yeah.
No I wouldn't.
That would be boring.
It would be boring.
Yeah.
Well okay so that was the most fucking sidetrack episode.
I'm going to keep it on the tab.
You started with like three tabs open.
Now we've got 12 at least.
I'm about to open up Kurt Russell here because I want to talk about just for a moment one
of my favorite.
Oh shit he's not even known for one of my favorites.
But we've done a Kurt Russell movie.
We did the thing.
I would do any of the escapes if those were on Tubi in a heartbeat.
I like both of them.
I would have loved a third.
But what I love them from is Soldier.
Do you remember Soldier?
It's him as a raised from childhood like cloned or whatever or whatever.
Like brought as a young kid to military academy where they systematically fight and kill off
each other until strongest whatever survive.
Those are now soldiers.
They're emotionless killing machines.
And he gets replaced by just better cyborg type soldiers.
He gets literally thrown to a dumpster planet and he sort of while trying to discover what
living is with this kind of slummy subsect of people that live on a dumpster planet also
protect them from some shit that's going down that they need help with.
So he still gets to be a soldier while at the same time learning what love is.
I mean I make it sound lame but it's so good.
There's a scene where he's cutting like carrots or whatever or potatoes and he just slices
his finger just straight up and just keeps cutting.
He doesn't even notice because he's just listening to the conversation and she's like what the
fuck hey stop you know like you cut yourself.
He's badass.
I love Kurt Russell.
He's great.
I don't want him to die.
I feel like he's getting old.
No not that old.
He's only in his 60s.
We're good.
So he's Herb Brooks, Patty Brooks.
Okay so oh I was going to ask you of all these players what I wrote down was did any of these
dudes the players of this team go on to become professionals that you follow or know about
or care about?
Not that I know of.
I didn't pay attention to who they were as people.
I just really enjoyed the film.
Okay I'm talking about the real life people.
I'm talking about like did Rob McClanahan or I'm sure some of them went on to have some
NHL careers.
Jim Craig for instance feels like I feel like a lot of them had kids or grandkids and stuff
that ended up playing NHL hockey.
I mean they probably did play some NHL hockey.
Yeah I mean I'm just curious.
Okay so Jim Craig the goalie I'm just looking it up because I didn't know if you had this
lock to load it before him.
He played for the Atlanta Flames from 1977 to 84.
The Atlanta Flames.
Oh wait what's the WHA?
World Hockey Association and then the National.
So he was on the Cincinnati Stingers and the Atlanta Flames?
So he was drafted in the NHL in 1977.
WHA was probably like their minor affiliate at the time.
Okay well this is riveting.
Anyway but he does kind of look like the dude.
They found a guy that looked like him.
That's pretty good casting.
But yeah I like the goalie a lot.
There's that iconic line where they're like he's like I didn't take your test.
I know I want you to be the guy that didn't take the test.
Yeah that was a good line.
So before the movie came out my dad had me watch this documentary and it was real interviews
with all the players and stuff and they were talking about the experience.
And like Herb Brooks was, in this movie like Kurt Russell made him a very likable person.
Like showed the real version of him.
But in real life he was a man with a plan.
He knew what he had to do.
He had to be the hated one.
So they bonded and he had to make them thick as thieves so that way they could take on
this Russian team because the Russian team was dominant.
They were like big burly men.
Fucking huge dudes.
Yeah they were all military.
And they kicked their asses 13 days before this went down.
But while they were forming this team they played against the NHL, like when they interviewed
them they played against the NHL All-Star team and annihilated them.
Like these were all like professional.
Was that in this movie?
Did I not see this part?
That was in the very beginning.
Like they just brushed up on it.
In the very beginning when they were interviewing Herb Brooks and they were talking about how
the Russian team went against the NHL All-Stars and then Herb Brooks was talking about why
the All-Star teams don't work.
Got it, yeah.
You know, because they're all individuals.
That's right.
Oh yeah, we were talking about the Soviets destroyed them.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Now this is a, I didn't think about it at the time, but this is a politically charged
movie to watch now.
Very much so.
Yeah, yeah, that's true.
Because of all the shit that's going on with Russia and stuff.
I mean they didn't really focus, I mean the whole opening is a great history lesson for
any kid to watch.
Well they're trying to establish why this was, why they called this a miracle on ice
and like why it was such a big thing to the US.
Like why people cared about hockey for a minute, you know.
For at least a little bit.
I mean and I remember at one point people giving a shit about ice skating.
Yeah, it's the Olympics.
Remember?
Skating every Olympics.
Remember swimming?
That was a big deal because of Michael Phelps.
It's whenever there's a huge...
Running when it was Jesse Owens.
Yeah.
Was it Jesse Owens?
Or did he do jumping?
For what?
For the Olympics.
I'm not sure.
I think he was the one who was in a baseball.
I don't know.
I don't know Jesse Owens.
No, Jesse Owens.
He was the...
I'm not wrong.
That has to be the one that was in Berlin.
Right?
Hold on.
Those were summer.
Well yeah, I mean sure.
But that doesn't change the...
I was still in winter.
I know but...
Two years apart.
But Jesse Owens is a famous person.
We should have this locked and loaded, right?
Yeah.
Athletes.
Jesse Owens.
He was the...
Well it was a big deal because he was a black guy.
Was he the first black guy in...
In the Olympics?
For the Americans?
For the Americans.
Or I think...
No, because he wasn't the only black guy.
Because look at Conrad Frey.
But he was German.
Oh wait, no.
That looks like a white guy.
Never mind.
Maybe he was the only black guy.
Man, we sound ignorant as fuck right now.
You brought it up.
I did.
But I think it's because he...
Who was the first?
They were more than just a worldwide sporting event.
They were a show of Nazi propaganda stirring significant conflict during the exclusionary
principles of the 1936 games country around the world still agreed to participate.
Okay, but...
Oh man, we're not going to go into our fucking...
Jesse Owens won...
Well, I know he won a shitload and embarrassed Germany.
I remember that, but I don't think it was because he was the first black guy.
Because I think the Olympics is for all the countries, right?
Yeah.
But I think that's what it was.
Germany held it.
Hitler was like, we're going to Nazi up.
And Jesse Owens went in and fucking destroyed them.
And that was what was dope at the time.
So cool.
Going back on historical sporting events.
That's what it is.
But seeing all the different Olympics, that would be another miracle on the track in a
way.
Yeah, there was that one.
There was also in that same Olympics was the Louie Zamparini, the Miracle Unbroken.
Oh, okay.
Now I know that you have mentioned Unbroken a couple of times.
Get into that real quick for the listeners.
Just to give them a brief look.
Because I know that there's the Angelina Jolie directed movie.
Yeah, and the book.
But then there's the book that you've also read.
Yeah, the book was much better.
Of course.
It was much more extended on his youth growing up and just the person that he was.
He was just a trouble maker and just getting into trouble this and that.
They were like, one more time and he's going to jail.
Going to juvie.
And his older brother was like, start running, get in track.
Start this.
And he fell in love with track and basically took him to the Olympics, which right after
that was World War II.
And he got drafted.
And then in the draft he became a bombardier.
And flying over the ocean, their plane got shot down.
And they spent, I don't remember how long in the ocean, but it was a long time on a
raft, three of them.
And then I think one of them died.
And they got picked up by a Japanese submarine that took them to a POW camp.
That was just torturous.
And he survived all that?
He survived all that.
But there was just, there was a lot of turmoil.
There was a lot that went on.
And you're saying that this is the same year that that happened?
That was the same Olympic.
He was in the same Olympics with them.
Doing what?
He was doing cross country.
But he was older at this point.
Must have, because after World War II.
No, this was before World War II.
1936?
Oh, I was looking at the 1960s.
I was looking at 1936.
Oh, we were still looking at the same page.
He was in the same one as Jesse Owens.
Oh, I got you.
Okay.
Understood.
Okay.
Well, this has been a fun history lesson for people.
If you didn't know.
This basketball is brought to you by the Olympics.
By the 1936 Olympics?
No, not the 1936 Olympics.
That's the fucking Nazi one.
Just the Olympics.
Just the Olympics committee.
And the 1980 Olympics specifically, the Miracle on Ice.
Oh my God, this is going to be called Rice Ball Miracle on Rice.
Miracle on Rice.
I mean, that just writes its fucking self.
Yeah, that's great.
It was worth it.
An hour and 11 minutes just to get that.
You should write that down before you forget it.
Oh yeah.
Miracle on Rice.
Thank you.
That was a good one.
Rice ball.
That's perfect.
I would say the acting was superb in this.
You could tell that all of them, like the hockey players wanted it.
Has one of the coolest inspirational sports scenes ever, which is the again, again, again,
which is he forces the team after they lose in a match they shouldn't have lost.
Their hearts weren't in it.
They shot that over like, it was like six 12 hour days or something crazy like that.
They didn't do it all in one go?
No.
That would have been.
But 12 hour days of them skating.
Their legs were jello.
Someone that's done those drills multiple times, I could not imagine doing it half as
many times as they did it that night.
But they, but you're saying they filmed that over days.
Yeah.
Well they wanted the actors to be worn down.
I think they should have.
Kept it one go.
One go the whole time.
Until like.
I would have wrote that in my contract like no.
Until the actors fucking hated being there like you could tell in their faces.
That'd be just dope.
That drill gets tiring.
It looks.
Every time you stop your momentum you're starting back up and you're getting to full
speed.
And the goalies have to do it with full padding?
Yes.
And they just get a little bit longer to do it?
Yeah kind of.
He didn't get mad at them for finishing last.
Last every single time.
It's expected.
Yeah.
They have more padding and they're heavier.
They can't move.
It's probably if you finish after the goalie you're fucked.
Yeah.
Yeah don't finish after the goalie.
Yeah that was the rule.
And it was like if you if you yeah like if the coach felt you didn't you guys didn't
hustle you're going again.
Like if he knew you guys were dragging ass you're going again.
And it yeah like those drills are called ladders.
But they called them Herbie's.
Cause.
Sure.
Yeah.
That was his drill.
Yeah no that makes sense.
That was his favorite.
But I mean they're it's great though.
It's great for building leg strength and momentum.
Yeah I bet you those guys could have just kicked like any door they walked up to just
standing still just.
And run for days.
Yeah run for days.
Yeah.
I read a statistic somewhere.
It could be wrong.
Now that my whole life's a lie.
But it was that humans were built to just we're built for like marathons and shit where
we'd be able to go nonstop almost without just sleeping.
Just wake up and just walk without having to stop.
Yeah.
You should not be able to like you should be able to walk forever.
Yeah.
Just the way that we're built.
Yeah.
But.
We got lazy.
Yeah.
Got comfortable built homes.
Yeah.
We didn't have to go find shelter every night.
Yeah.
We didn't have to hide from things.
Thank God.
If I grew up in the fucking I don't know way back days even God fucking a hundred years
ago I'd be miserable.
I probably wouldn't know I'd be miserable.
I'd probably be like I'd find some way to while away the time and be weird and OCD somewhere
in my little fucking hobbit hole in the little.
Library.
Yeah.
I would read probably.
I'd read all the time.
Yeah.
And I wouldn't be married.
People would think I was a witch or something.
Go see Crazy Andy on the Hill.
Oh yeah.
Go see crazy.
Don't ask him for advice.
He's fucking nuts.
He's going to tell you all about the X-Men.
Yeah.
What's an X-Men?
Don't even get him started.
I know actually what's crazy is a hundred years well 90 years ago would be Superman
coming out.
Yeah.
So we're about 10 years away from like a hundred years of Superman and Batman and stuff.
So you can go back with that knowledge you have now you could be the creator of all of
it.
You wouldn't want to be the creator.
Well I couldn't draw Superman.
I would have to if I went back and ripped off anybody it would be like a book.
It would be like an author.
It would be like J.K.
Rowling status.
I'd write Harry Potter in the 80s.
Just a few years before her.
And I'd make sure they all came out pretty quickly.
It would make people wait.
And I wouldn't have a bunch of anti-trans comments later on to ruin my reputation.
That's why you just keep your beliefs to yourself at this point.
I would say try not to have hate.
Well try not to have hate in your heart.
Try not to have closed mind.
Regardless of what you believe is right for you don't push it on others.
Don't push it on other people.
So like Bill and Ted be cool to one another.
Be excellent to one another.
Yeah 100%.
I loved the new Bill and Ted movie.
That was funny.
Yeah I like the soundtrack to that one.
There's a song that's just the one that they do that has all the instruments.
I can't even remember the name of it because it's like a paragraph long.
Like the infinite nothingness of vast time and space brought to you by the blah blah
blah.
It's like a long fucking whatever.
It's crazy but it's actually a pretty good song.
So they, Herb gets them all together.
They fucking hate each other.
He gets them to hate him instead.
Because after they lose that match that they could have easily won.
They tied it.
He was pissed they tied.
And he made them stay and do all those laps until the guy, the fucking dude that had to
shut down the rig got pissed and turned the lights off.
Still made him do it.
And that's when Truman's friend gave him, I didn't like the fact that he questioned
Herb.
What Herb was making him do.
Yeah.
He should have trusted that Herb knew what he was doing.
I kind of didn't like that the whole time he was undermining him in a way.
But maybe that's what he was supposed to do is like.
That's what he kind of wanted.
He wanted him to kind of question it and protect the kids.
Watch them.
That's why he gave him the test in the beginning to see who could be pushed and who couldn't
by the responses and what they were thinking with the questions.
Because the questions were all random.
Just weird.
They were reading them off and it was just like what the fuck.
So there wasn't even a rhyme or reason to the test?
No there were like philosophical questions.
Do you think he went through it and read their answers?
Maybe.
I'm sure.
Because did you see how much he was watching tape and doing all that stuff?
He was doing his research.
His wife hated it.
Oh yeah.
He was doing it.
He probably read every answer.
You know his wife gave him a pretty hard time because she's like you didn't even ask me.
You didn't ask me.
He's like ask you what?
To be the coach of the US Olympics hockey team?
I'm a hockey coach.
I'm sorry I didn't clear it with you that I was going to be the Olympic coach for the
US hockey team.
And she's like well you should have asked.
We got married.
I said this is my dream job.
It's like hey we're living off the fact that I'm a hockey coach.
This is an upgrade.
I just got promoted.
Thank you for bringing it up.
Is what should have happened.
I don't typically.
I'm not typically on the side of the women are at fault in these movies because I don't
think that they are.
But.
At the same time I do get it because like the way he was just kind of like you'll figure
it out.
That was kind of like.
That was pretty fucked up.
Was it?
No no hold on.
Wait.
You have a US hockey.
US Olympic team to manage.
The next day you have meetings.
You can't push them back.
People need to be met.
And your kid needs to get picked up from hockey camp.
And your other kid needs to get picked up for what ballet.
And your wife can't figure it out.
Can't figure out how to be like hey Patricia can you watch Benjamin for like an extra 10
minutes while I pick up Susie and I'll come get Ben.
Or like hey.
Can you give better.
Can you give Susie a ride home with you Rebecca.
Thanks son.
It's like I know we live in the same neighborhood.
Did you just hang out at your house for a bit.
Come on.
It's the 80s.
It was 1980.
It was like 79.
You took the cab home.
You took the fucking walk home.
Carry your bags son.
Have the boy walk home.
Pick up the girl.
Pick him up halfway.
Yeah.
I'm just saying.
She could have figured it out.
Now maybe he had a bit of a rude response but to be fair she interrupted him in the
middle of work.
He was literally watching tape.
Yeah.
In the middle of studying.
You could tell he's got a study face on.
He's examining the fucking footage.
He's very into it.
Glasses partially on.
Yeah.
Open.
Yeah.
And she comes in and she's like.
Hello.
We got a children.
And he's like not right now.
Yeah.
I have an Olympic U.S. hockey team to manage.
This happens every four years.
Yeah.
Once every four years.
Once every four years I'm going to be a little stressed out but then I'll become even more
famous more recognizable more like acclaimed.
Yeah.
I'm going to make it on some.
This is going to put me in some Hall of Fame shit.
Yeah.
Wife.
Yeah.
One it's like and the Russians had dominated.
Yeah.
This is for America.
Yeah.
He knew they were going to end up playing up early like if they ended up making it to
the finals.
Do you know what's crazy?
Is when did Rocky 4 come out?
Because oh 85.
OK.
So this came out five years after the Olympics.
It was probably inspired by the Miracle on Ice.
But when did the first Rocky come out?
Because I want to know if there's a world where.
Rocky fights.
Well no.
OK.
So 76.
So two Rockies were out by the time this came out.
No no by the time this happened.
Yeah.
In real life right.
Yeah.
So do you think Herb watched Rocky and maybe got inspired by it and then Rocky got inspired
by the Miracle on Ice when it did Rocky 4 when it did against Ivan or Ivo Drago.
What's his name?
Drago.
What's fucking what's his name?
Ivan Drago.
Drago.
Jesus Christ it's been a long time since I've seen this fucking movie.
Ivan Drago.
Oh I was right.
Captain Ivan Drago.
Excuse me.
My bad.
Yeah I'm showing a lot of ignorance today.
I also pulled up the 1960 Winter Olympics for no reason.
It took place in Squaw Valley.
That was one that Herb Brooks was in and got caught from.
Oh that's right.
That's right.
That's why I pulled it up.
OK.
It was in my head for some reason.
Where the fuck is Squaw Valley?
How many tabs do you have open now?
More.
Palisades Tahoe.
OK.
It's pretty.
I would have Olympics there probably.
There's a green dot for some reason.
All right.
Anyway.
Jesus Christ.
Denifono de Casa.
I'm not even closing tabs that we've moved on past.
There's Domino's still.
Fuck.
That's right.
Here we go.
Back to Miracle.
What else?
OK.
I didn't take much notes because it's an inspirational movie.
I mean there's not much to note on.
I was like I think it doesn't really solve race issues like Remember the Titans does.
Or it doesn't tackle the I don't think it even really focuses so much on the American
political Soviet stuff like Rocky does.
But it's a fine line that won't upset anyone politically.
Yeah because it keeps it respectful to a point that it focuses on the hockey.
It really does.
It focuses on how impactful this was just for the sport of hockey.
Just because the Russians dominated.
And like this was this was before like Russians and like every nation over there started coming
over here to play in the NHL.
Like this was before like the NHL started blowing up.
Like it was just North American players in the NHL.
So now we got a lot of Russians.
I mean they're people from all over.
Does Russia not have a.
I mean they have their own.
They have their own league.
There's a Russian league.
There's a British league.
There's there's different leagues all over the world.
And like.
Is NHL the best still?
I mean no it's just the one the most watched you know most televised I think over here.
Do we Olympics wise do we still play hockey?
Yeah.
Do Americans still dominate?
It's back and forth.
It's mostly Canada that wins a lot.
The women's teams actually really good.
The American women's team.
Oh.
The best time it's America and Canada and the women's team.
The men usually they do OK.
OK.
Yeah.
OK Canada.
Sorry.
I'm just I'm looking at I'm just scrolling through fucking Wikipedia again.
Oh shit.
That was to remind me of.
OK so.
I.
You have more notes.
Yes.
Because I don't want to.
You can say your notes.
No I'm done through my notes.
That was all of your notes.
My yeah.
I literally.
I didn't take very much notes.
I don't know how much I don't know much about hockey.
I don't I can't critique the plays.
Like how accurate was the hockey when it comes to like how hockey is really played.
It was I mean for the most part it was very accurate.
There was probably one point I kind of got I was a little nitpicky with at one point
but it was like during a practice when they were working on one of the plays like they
kind of were passing around and they came in off side.
I was like well that's you know you don't want to practice doing it wrong.
You know I don't want to ignore the rules while practicing.
You still want to maintain.
It'd be like if you were practicing basketball and you had people like just any traveling
yeah like openly travel.
Yeah exactly.
Or yeah.
Yeah.
It's like no you don't.
All you just start rushing towards the quarterback whenever.
Doesn't matter if he's got the ball or not.
Yeah if you practice bad habits you're going to have bad habits during the game.
Understood.
Yeah.
Most of them I kind of already kind of touched on.
You know I liked how his assistant coach and the doctor had that discussion in the in the
car while they were waiting for gas during the gas crisis because that's sort of the
background history of that that's going on with their lightly touching on Disney.
But he's like have you ever seen her be like this with the guys like at that point he doesn't
seem like he's being that harsh on him yet.
Like that's before he makes him go back and forth a lot.
Got it.
He's like oh he seems a little bit rough.
Yeah.
Jesus Christ.
Yeah.
So like.
He's like what's up have you seen him like this.
He's like no I've never seen him like this.
He's like but you know I know him like he has a plan.
Like you know like just he has a plan.
Trust him.
Yeah.
Like he's not going to do anything for no reason.
But then the fucking again again again again scene happens.
Which is very much like the and then and then and then scene from Dude Where's My Car.
But it's more impactful.
Well.
Well it's tense.
I guess because you haven't done it.
Like have you ice skated before.
No.
Well I've gone ice skating and I feel like I'm pretty decent on them because I roller
bladed quite a bit.
OK.
And.
So you roller bladed a bit.
I did.
So did you ever have like points when you would like do that where you like come to a quick
stop and then go the opposite way and like quick turns and stuff like that.
I mean I don't know if I was like if I could.
I was never able to as an ice skater to do the whole and put and splash someone in the
snow with ice or whatever.
I.
But I could go backwards a little bit.
I could hop.
I could go around the rink without.
Yeah.
Hold the side.
Needing a hold or whatever.
And I could and I could slow down and I could like manage myself around the ice rink.
Could you do a whole day of ice skating without falling once.
I've fallen on purpose a few times just to slide or whatever.
OK.
But.
And maybe I fall.
Yes.
I could maybe get through one day.
But I couldn't do a single one of the things that I saw these dudes doing during this movie.
What's it what you call the Herbie's.
Yeah Herbie's.
Ladders.
Ladder's is what the girls call it.
But I've had coaches call them Herbie's.
That's what they adopted.
That's what they adopted as the name for them.
Yeah.
And like carried on to their kids.
You've had coaches call them Herbie's.
I've had coaches call them Herbie's.
How many teams have you been on?
They've all been like Little League or Post Little League.
It's like I played travel hockey.
So I mean it's like Little League.
So what's the pop.
Pop Warner would be like the lowest version of football that I was on.
Where it's like little kids playing.
First second grade.
Right.
And then you get into youth football.
Yeah.
I think or something like that.
So then hockey would be what would be the baby hockey.
Probably in house like an in house league.
So it's like basically you go on a certain day of the week usually like a Sunday like
later in the evening or earlier in the day just depending on the place.
And it's just like people that sign up play.
OK.
You know play in a game.
And that's like little kids and kids.
And then like they have different age groups.
They have like a like a lot of rinks will have like an in house day and they'll have
like different age groups at different times.
Did you used to go to those for like.
I did for like I did like a year like my first organized team was like an in house league.
And it was like at this rink in Ontario California and that old rink.
It's still there.
One of my old coaches actually owns it now.
What's it called?
It's Ontario ice skating rink.
It's off of I want to say.
Then that's the one.
The only ice rink I've been to.
The only ice rink I've been to is that one.
That was my home rink as a kid as a young kid.
I doubt we ever crossed paths.
Yeah.
Like I played but the team I played for was the Eagles.
The first team like the first team I had to try out and make was the Ontario Eagles.
And I played.
Oh home team.
Yeah.
Or was everyone the Ontario somethings.
We were our home team and then we would go travel to other places and play.
So you would meet up and do practices and play each other.
Like skirmishes.
So we would do a lot of the stuff they were doing like when they had the grays and the
blue jerseys and like the different colored jerseys.
Like we would do stuff like that.
Like different skating drills.
Different shooting drills.
The coach would draw up different drills that we were doing on the board.
Just like how he did.
Just like he did.
Yeah.
And then we would go like alright.
We would be sitting there on our knees like getting a water break.
And then he'd be like alright this is what we're doing.
And then he'd draw it up and then we'd go do it.
And then like when we would play like there was a lot of places all around Southern California
that we would play like throughout the season.
For different holidays they would do like tournaments.
So like we would always have a President's Day tournament somewhere.
Okay all the in house teams.
Yeah we'd go to like Vegas or like the furthest I've gone is Colorado for a tournament.
And how many leagues would, what would be the qualifications to be a league that would
be allowed to be in a tournament of that size?
So you're talking like high school teams?
Like no well there's different levels of them.
They all have different levels in them.
So like there's certain, like once you hit a certain age there's different levels.
So when you're young they call it mites and like you still have an A team and a B team
at that level.
And an A, like you gotta try out for them.
So you could be a little kid and just be on the B team.
Like the kind of shitty team.
Now is the B team the shitty team or should you consider B teams still good hockey players
because they're on the team?
You're still learning, you've still made the team.
Like I wouldn't consider myself a great hockey player.
I had good ice awareness.
I was more of a stay at home defenseman.
Oh were you A team or B team?
I made A team.
My boy.
Fuck you B teams.
I'm just kidding.
At the time that I stopped playing.
But there's no TV show called B team.
No I isn't.
At the time I stopped playing like I was at the age where you want to start trying out
for like double A and triple A teams.
Which are much more expensive to play for.
But those are the teams that get scouted because they exclusively play tournaments.
All of their games are in tournaments.
And they travel all over the place for these tournaments.
You have to dedicate your whole shit to that.
Yes.
And that's around the age that you want to be doing that is high school age.
Did you try for any double A?
No I mean I stuck at A was kind of the level I stuck at.
And then I think the last year I played I was 15.
I was 15 going on 16 was the last year I played.
Now why did you quit?
I switched schools and it was expensive and I felt bad.
So I kind of was like ahhh.
If you could go back in time?
I would still play.
But I mean I don't think I would change anything.
Well cause here's the thing.
Coming back on what money you saved or didn't save by not choosing that path.
Would the amount of fun you would have had playing double A or triple A hockey would
have been worth the amount of money in your mind now?
I don't think we would have been able to afford it.
I don't think my family would have.
Cause it would have been like my parents would have been paying for it.
I didn't want to bankrupt then.
For sure I get that.
Cause there was no Mighty Ducks situation where maybe you could have had the coach sleep
with your mom.
That's the first thing I thought of.
There are other options but you couldn't fold towels and be the towel boy slash hockey
boy.
I'm sure I had years when I had my dad coach that probably my season was a little cheaper.
Like he volunteered his time as the head coach or something.
So that way my ice time that I would basically like you have ice fees that you have to pay.
Pay for your jerseys.
Just fees that you would have to pay.
I bet it's everything a pyramid scheme.
All of my friends on the team they were always rich.
Everybody was always rich.
I was always like myself and then I had this other family that I got really tight with
these two brothers that played on.
They were maybe like three years apart but the younger brother played up with his older
brother so they could play together.
I played with them when I played offense and they were like my line mates.
We were thick as thieves but their parents were poor.
They were poor.
Did they have to quit too?
I don't know.
I think they did eventually.
I don't know.
I'm not sure if they.
I don't know if anyone played with me.
I guess if you're rich you can buy into whatever racket you want.
It's not that I'm saying it's a racket hockey but what I'm saying is it should be affordable
for everybody.
You should be able to at least with basketball.
I think they've changed it now.
I think they've made it a lot more affordable.
It's affordable for the in house league.
Stuff like that.
Good.
That's what it should be.
You should be able to go and play a sport.
It's expensive to get your gear.
That's the part that's expensive.
Skates itself can range anywhere from.
You can get a really shitty pair of skates for like $100, $50.
Probably like $50.
Right now a good pair of skates would be anywhere from like $200 to $300.
If you're going youth that's one year.
If your kid wants to be a goalie you might as well fall off bankruptcy now.
That's all extra padding that costs money.
Goalie pads are insane.
A helmet for a goalie is like $200.
Goalie pads are insane.
I bet being a goalie no matter how many times you goalie it's still got to be a little bit
of a rush when someone's smacking a puck at you at like 100 miles an hour.
For sure.
You have to either catch it or have it just smack you so it doesn't go in the goal.
Yeesh.
It's scary.
Okay, so you've got to explain why hockey allows fights is one of the most misunderstood
things I think about hockey in my mind is like okay, not only is there a lot of fights,
it's expected.
I watched a whole movie, Goon, where they put a guy on their team to fuck people up
in fights.
Yeah.
Well the Goon era is kind of dying out.
The game's changed a lot over the years.
It's a much faster game than it used to be.
But more goals?
A lot more goals.
A lot more goals, a lot quicker speed, people's hand eyes getting a lot better.
They're getting a lot of redirected goals like they're tipping the puck mid-air.
Like beautiful goals.
Okay.
There's just a lot that these young kids can do.
Yeah.
What's crazy is have you heard of the band Polyphia?
If you listen to their music, I would say watch a music video while listening to their
music so that you can see the instruments they're playing.
How many strings does a normal guitar have?
Six.
Six?
I think they use eight or ten string guitars, right?
Because they just need extra strings to play the shit that they're playing.
The music sounds, I would say some of their songs are the most badass fucking music you
can listen to.
Some of their songs almost to me sound like noise because it's just experimental them
doing shit.
But every single thing they do is technically way more impressive than even the most guitar
god guitar gods of the back of the day.
So like Van Halen's or your fucking Steve Vai's or whatever.
I think he did a song with them.
But the same shit.
So look at hockey.
Look at golf kids now.
Look at, I feel like yeah, it's just you learn from the, every generation people get more
and more badass at what they're doing.
So yeah, okay, so I can actually see it.
People just redirecting the puck midair and fucking smacking it.
That's so fucking cool.
So why can they fight?
So fighting is, there's a few reasons to fight.
One, if someone does, when your teammate is dirty, it's basically it's camaraderie, it's
protecting your team.
Like he said, we're a family.
That's the kind of environment that you want for your team.
We're a family.
That's how you want everybody to feel.
So if someone slashes you or high sticks you or whatever.
Yeah, does something dirty, you get them back.
Then you walk over, you fuck them up.
You just literally go punch them in the fucking face and then people take.
You hit them, you let them know what's up.
If it's a bad enough offense, yeah, you hit them in the face.
But if it's something else, you kind of let them know, like, hey, I'm watching you.
I got your number.
And then later if it continues and it gets to a point, you're just like, you want to
fight?
Okay, yeah, let's fight.
Tensions are building.
You say it ahead of time?
A lot of the times, yeah, they talk.
They discuss it.
I'm going to fuck you up.
Yeah, you want to go?
A lot of times they ask for consent.
Hey, you want to go?
You want to fight?
All right, fuck it.
And then they throw off their gloves, take off your helmet.
That's the protocol, it looks like.
YouTube videos of them doing that, like, you want to go?
Oh, you hear the chirps?
Yeah, them talking.
And they fight.
And then when they're done, they're like, good fight, good fight.
Like, you know, it's a respect.
And they get sent to the penalty box.
Yeah.
I read a stat somewhere, saw something that it wasn't until way later than it should have
been that they made teams share the same penalty box.
It wasn't until this ferocious fucking battle that went down inside the penalty box between
these two dudes that they were just like, no, we should have separate penalty boxes.
Of course you should.
Yeah.
Especially if the thing you're getting on people for is getting into fucking fist fights.
Yeah, you idiots.
I want to say what it changed with fighting was probably, I forget which two teams it
was in the exact year, but there was a huge brawl between two teams.
And it got to a point where the both teams were on the ice fighting.
Like they shut off the lights at the stadium and they were still fighting.
I want to say this is like seventies or eighties.
I can't remember, but like it was gnarly.
Like I don't remember what started the fight, like what happened, but they're just, all
I remember was the fight and like them talking about it later and laughing at like just what
was going on.
Like, like, yeah, it was gnarly.
But yeah, it was fucking-
Is that the one where people were like, I don't know if this was a comedy club or it
might've been a hot, it might've, but if they were ripping out chairs out of the auditorium
and throwing them out of the ice, no?
I don't know if they were ripping out chairs.
They were definitely throwing stuff on the ice.
Were the audience getting into fights too?
That I don't know.
Then I might be thinking of something.
I mean, there's been times when players have climbed over out of the penalty box to fight
fans.
Like that's happened.
Like, yeah.
That's, I mean, fuck yeah.
It's such a violent game.
I've never been to a game in person.
It's a violent dance.
I would love to.
Cause it's a very poetic game as well.
Like the scene with the formation of the coneheads, the first time they do their tic-tac-toe.
That's what we would call it.
Tic-tac-toe.
How they all three touch it and shoot, score.
Sure.
Pass, shoot, score.
Like that.
Yeah.
Those guys.
Yeah, the coneheads.
They were great.
That's the beauty in hockey.
When plays like that can form and work.
You know, that's like when you go see a game live, it's so much better.
Cause like I like sitting kind of up like staple center, nosebleeds, great view.
Like you watch, nosebleeds center ice, perfect view.
You watch the whole game like develop.
That's where, that's where the commentators sit.
Okay.
Yeah.
Like usually like either right above or right below you.
Oh, that's dope.
Yeah.
So it's like, that's where you want to be cause you can watch the whole play develop.
And you're not too far.
If you have good vision, you're not far.
Yeah.
So like you can still.
Wow, way to shit on our visually impaired audience.
I mean, you can bring binoculars.
My mom brought binoculars.
But like I, I, yeah.
Like if you know the game, it's a good way to watch the play develop, kind of watch what's
going on, watch what these people are doing over here, kind of see like what they're trying
to form, like what type of breakout or you know, break in they're trying to perform.
Sure.
Yeah.
I have the game, the old school NHL, like 95 or 96 or whatever.
One of those games that my buddy had on, God, what was the N64 one?
That must've been the later nineties.
But what was that NHL game though?
Or the hockey game?
Or was it PS1?
PS1.
I don't know.
Well, whatever the fuck, whatever that classic ass like NHL game.
Are you talking about the old school Sega one?
95?
Maybe.
Maybe I played, yeah.
Like I've seen.
Like it's old, like pixelated.
Yeah.
I wasn't thinking 3D.
I was thinking pixelated.
Yeah.
That shit was dope.
That's fun.
That's my version of hockey.
My favorite version, I think of all hockey.
Live action, you know, or, or the one you play in real life at arcades.
Yeah.
What is that?
What the paddle?
Air hockey.
I love air hockey.
It's fun.
It's just, shit.
Because nothing ever works the way you think it's going to work in your head.
You go, all right, I'm going to angle it off this wall over here.
It's going to perfectly deflect.
And then you smack it way too hard and it always goes back into your own hole.
There's professional leagues now.
I bet there's professional fucking leagues.
There's professional leagues of everything.
Yeah.
There's going to be professional leagues of every single thing on this planet.
But you know what's cool about that is I think that's going to bring people together because
there's people out there that are desperate for companionship and friendship and community
to belong to.
And sometimes there's not a community that you feel comfortable being a partner because
you know, you're not particularly good at it or you know, or you don't know enough about
it.
Yeah.
But I think now, you know, there's going to be like fucking bullshit for everything.
I can't think of a, off the top, I'm usually good at this.
But I can't think of it off the top of my head.
Something that Ed doesn't already have.
Like we already have.
I know.
I'm trying to make up something but I'm already thinking of things that exist.
I'm like, oh, comic books, of course.
There's a million things dedicated to that.
Books, music, movies.
Every TV show has its own fucking fandom.
Every actor, every musician, every fucking celebrity you can think of.
There's a lot of people in this world and a lot of people like a lot of different things.
Yeah.
Everything that I do or care about is covered by some fandom.
Which means I don't think I'm unique in any way.
But why would I think I'm unique?
I'm just a fucking stoner that just, you know, talks about movies.
Anyway.
Everybody's unique.
Thanks, Brandon.
That's a good outlook.
We're all unique.
We're all different and special in our own ways.
Actually, even my kids, they're all the same but different.
Like extremely different.
They're extremely the same.
You have an outdoorsy kid.
You have an indoorsy kid.
Yeah.
I know that you have one that likes Bluey.
They both like Bluey.
Well, that's the one I remember the most.
Because I went over, hung out.
Played Bluey.
And he would not, I mean, he loved it but he would not leave me alone with the Bluey
doll.
He's relentless.
I did a pretty good, in hindsight, a terrible Bluey impression.
But your kids seemed to very much enjoy it.
I loved it.
But yeah, anyway.
It was fun.
The kids are cute.
Yeah.
Thank you.
But let's rate this movie.
Because we're actually, I didn't think this was going to be too short.
This is supposed to be short.
Oh god.
This is supposed to be short.
This is the most just, what are we, what are we doing?
This is supposed to be short, this is the most just, what are we, just laid back.
Chill mode.
Chill mode activated.
We've just been getting stoned and you've been here enjoying the ride, ladies and gentlemen.
Hey, we didn't have to stop once.
Not a single commercial break.
Well, one commercial break.
Yeah, we were just adding it in because we were talking about it.
Yeah.
Don't be offended, face, if you listened to that part earlier.
Or if you are offended, don't kill me or something, I don't know.
Alright, well let's rate this thing.
B through W, because that's our rating system.
B being the highest.
F is really bad, but a W would be a complete waste of fucking time.
Don't even bother with it.
It's not even worth its weight in garbage.
You know what I'm talking about?
Bad.
Which we don't even need to get near because this is Miracle with Kurt Russell.
Alright, what are you going to give it?
I mean obviously I'm going to give it a B+.
It's a great hockey movie.
I think it portrays the sport well.
All the actors in it are great, considering they're hockey players.
They do a really good job portraying that team bond that they build up.
It's a fun film.
It's historical.
I mean I love the documentaries that they've made on it as well.
Those are also great.
But yeah, it's fantastic.
B+, okay so I'm going to go with, don't be mad at me, but I'll go with probably a B-C+,
only because as good as the good stuff was, there's so much slow parts that sort of drag
it down in a way.
Every time it cut to him with his wife or him.
It felt like it dragged.
I don't get that every time there's a wife on screen because I like the dynamic between
Friday Night Lights and his wife.
She'll learn their names.
Both the movie and the TV show.
Who's the same actress?
This is one of those kind of interesting things.
That's not the same actor because it was Billy Bob Thornton in the movie but then it was,
man, Jesus, this guy's a well known guy now but he's from that show where he gets the
paper, the newspaper delivered one day early so he can predict the future.
I don't know about Sharon.
I'm stoned as fuck.
What were we just talking about?
You lost me.
No, come on.
Before I got there, before I got to the Friday Night Lights, thank you so much.
Jesus Christ.
What's his name?
Kyle Chandler.
He's in so many things besides Early Edition is the name of that.
Early Edition.
Which is the exact name you would call a fucking show about a guy that gets his newspaper
delivered a day early.
Oh my God.
Can I recommend we just watch Early Edition and fucking talk about it?
It was two seasons.
Wait, 96 to 2000.
Four seasons?
There's four seasons of this?
See, that's how we made this episode two hours.
All the tabs open.
Yeah, you're right.
Each tab was like five minutes.
Dude, 90 fucking episodes of Early Edition?
Oh God.
Well, I know I've seen the pilot a few times trying to watch this, but it looks like it's
available.
I'm going to watch this shit.
No, it's not bad.
Kyle Chandler is great.
I love him.
Where do I watch this?
Where can we watch this?
Come on, watch online.
Just watch.com.
Oh wait, no, this looks fucking illegal.
I would never.
Oh shit, now fuck this.
Big old pop-up pops up.
Anyway, Kyle Chandler.
Most people would know him from Friday Night Lights, the show that ran immediately after.
I mean, God, this guy's on fire, Kyle Chandler.
They needed a show called Bloodline, which I didn't watch.
Manchester by the Sea, which I didn't watch.
Game Night, which I did watch.
That's a great movie.
That's a funny movie.
That came out about the same time as Tag.
Game Night, yeah.
I didn't watch that one though.
Did you watch Tag?
I watched Tag.
Tag was fucking awesome.
I want a Tag too.
Or a Tag team.
Oh man, if they don't call it Tag team, now that the wives get the wives involved, they
call it Tag team.
Dude, come on, Hollywood.
Listen to this part at least, if you're going to do anything.
Yeah, just snip it.
Listen, yeah, I'm going to snip at this part.
This is the most brilliant thing I've ever said in my life.
I'm going to have Austin snip this and put it out in the world.
All right, listen.
From the team that made Tag, make a new one.
Call it Tag team.
It's the wives are involved.
Maybe the kids.
It's fucking awesome.
Give me a small role or a big one.
It doesn't matter.
Put any of us in it.
I'm not greedy.
If you like the way Brendan sounds over me, put him in it.
I'm sure he would love to do a role in a movie.
Right?
Yeah.
Would you be nervous?
I mean, as long as I don't have to do anything I'd be uncomfortable with.
Well, okay, maybe he wouldn't.
That's the wrong answer.
I'm willing to do anything with anyone.
So if Weinstein's descendant, whatever creepy Hollywood perv that took over his role needs
some, you know, an actor for anything or some sort of D-list comedian, I'm here.
Andy will sell his soul to you.
Yeah, I will.
Actually, I talked about this the other day with Sasha, but the whole selling your soul
thing.
So here's my thought about, you know how... See, to be famous.
I think you have to sell your soul.
Because I think your soul is your privacy.
It's your own private life.
And the moment you give that up for fame and for money, you're selling that for a price.
And you can never get that back.
Not really.
You can go off the grid and maybe go buy a house somewhere and then hope to God people
stop posting about you, but it will never happen.
You're on the internet forever.
Yeah.
Like, look at us.
We're watching Miracle fucking 20 years later.
Kyle Chandler.
And now we're talking about Kyle Chandler for no fucking reason.
We're talking about early edition for no fucking reason.
Nothing is safe from anybody, anywhere, ever.
It's the random Wikipedia thought fucking bubble train that pops up.
It's like there's no stopping it.
So these episodes are going to be dragged up in the future.
If anything were to ever happen with any of us, if Ryan got famous, these would be dragged
up.
And I would take advantage of the fact that Ryan got famous and use it to help us with
the plot.
I'm sure he would be okay with that.
And I would like, no one's safe.
Not even you, Taylor Kitsch.
I found you on Wikipedia right here.
I like him though.
He was the quarterback in Friday Night Lights.
But he's awesome.
That's fucked up making his most known thing is John Carter, which was a huge bomb.
I liked it though.
I liked it.
I read the book.
I never read the book.
He's a Confederate soldier.
Yeah.
They kind of gloss over that a little bit in the movie, do they?
They do.
A lot.
They gloss over it a lot.
I don't think they really go to the point where he's a Confederate soldier.
He's a soldier.
If you know the uniform, you know he's a Confederate.
Yeah.
He's definitely a Confederate fucking soldier that gets sent to Mars, gets super powers
and is now the protagonist.
It's all about fucking perspective.
That's what it is.
If you make... Now it's come full circle.
It's come full circle.
There we go.
If you fucking... It's all perspective.
You can make anybody the fucking hero apparently, even a Confederate fucking alien.
The first and last tangent we're both about, the perspective of evil.
Perspective of evil.
Is he... But then also the futility of war, I think we touched on.
Yeah.
And... We were very political.
Fuck.
Most political rice ball ever.
It was moving.
It was.
Yeah.
It got me going.
But anyway, so we're going to give it a solid B.
My favorite part was after they beat the Russians, how much they celebrated and they still had
to go play another game to actually win the gold.
Oh shit.
Did I not... Did I fall asleep towards the end there?
I didn't fall asleep.
It was... No, they glossed over it.
They did it in the writing.
Oh, okay.
They didn't show it?
They didn't show it.
They did it in the writing.
That's right.
They kind of briefly showed it.
They showed them celebrating.
And then they had to play another game that day?
The next day.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
Or whatever.
They still had one more game in the tournament before winning the gold.
That's crazy.
Yeah.
That was the first round of... Did they do well in the next match?
They almost lost.
And then they came back and tied and then won.
Wow.
Yeah.
Same shit as the Soviets?
Yeah.
But they were better than that team, but that's just how hockey was back then.
Who was the other team?
I think it was the Swedes.
Sweden, I think.
I don't... Man, because didn't they beat them or tie with them?
It was like they were the number two ranked team.
Got it.
So I bet they were like... Whatever their Swedish coach was screaming at them in Swedish.
Not as bad as the Russian one, I don't think.
It was just... I mean, I don't know.
Because after they beat the Russians and everybody was intimidated by them, they were like, oh
shit, they're here.
Yeah.
And I think it was a team that they had beat in the first round or tied in the first round
or something.
Either that or they'd played against them before.
They knew about them and they weren't... The Russians were the big bad team to beat.
So it was like once they... And then they got beat.
Yeah.
Once they beat the Russians, their confidence skyrocketed.
Fuck yeah.
We got it all.
But then they almost lost.
Yeah.
That'd be completely different movie if it's just like we got...
We beat the Russians.
Yeah.
And then lost to the Swedes.
The Swedes have a movie.
It's all about perspective.
All about perspective.
Because the Swedes are probably just like... They're trying to stay out of the World
War II conflict altogether.
That was like Swedes.
This was fun.
Or are they?
I'm thinking of Switzerland.
Who was the neutral?
Isn't it Swiss?
Or is it Sweden?
Well, we say neutral, but then all those Swiss bank accounts, aren't they?
Some of them linked to Nazis.
There was a lot more Nazi talk in this episode than I expected talking about Miracle.
But at the same time, it's political.
Anyway, let's keep looking at pictures of Taylor Kitsch.
No, we're going to end this.
We're going to end this.
This was a weird one.
I mean, I liked it because this was a more thoughtful... And again, Riceball.
So you clicked this.
This is just a side thing.
I hope somebody out there enjoys it.
Yeah, me too.
Yeah, I don't know if anyone will, but you know.
God, I think I picked the wrong fucking ending music after the day.
So this is what you get when you pre-pick an ending song?
Let's go with it.
I don't even remember what it was.
This is the vibe we were setting for sure.
Yeah.
There we go.
Yeah.
Oh yeah, there we go.
The most laid back, political, charged episode of Friday Night's Podcast.
I've been your... Well, with me as always is... Simply up top hostage, Brendan.
Thank you everybody, it's been fun.
I don't think I said your first name first.
I've been your host, Andy Rice.
This has been a Riceball.
This has been a... Just for fun.
Brendan doesn't get a lot of time to make it to these recently, and when he is on, he's
quiet, so it's good to... I wanted to give him a voice.
I like hanging out with him.
This was fun.
I hope you guys had a good time.
Bye.