Episode 34

Equalizer 3 aka "Judgmental Netflix"

Published on: 18th September, 2024

We asked our Patty Fam to pick our movie this week, as we sometimes do, and they found a gem. We watched the Denzel Washington movie "Equalizer 3."

Before we get into the movie, we catch up on our the crews highlights from the past week. Doug shares a very intimate story with his phone. The crew plays Catch that Quotable before ranking their top Denzel films. Then they break down the Emmy awards. Finally, they get into the 2023 movie Equalizer 3.

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Transcript
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Do it live.

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Do it live.

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I don't understand wrestling

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relationships.

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People feed in,

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they're married in real life,

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but they feed into the plot in wrestling.

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And then,

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but to do that means you have to

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kind of commit in a

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different way via socials.

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You know what I mean?

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These two people are married.

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It's the equivalent of

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Facebook relationships to a

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certain extent.

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You know what I mean?

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You know those two friends

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that they're not in a relationship.

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It's like, I'm married to Rick,

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but Rick thinks... I don't know.

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It feels very made up.

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It feels like a throuple at that point.

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A little bit, yeah.

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That's fine.

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Welcome to Films in Black and White,

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everybody.

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Brian started doing finger guns,

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but Marcus was a slide,

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like slightly delayed.

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So it's like a bad dubbing

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where like shooting those.

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And then like a bad Godzilla movie,

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like later, they're my air horn blasters.

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You know, I was ready.

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I was ready.

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I'm not mad about it.

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I just think it's funny.

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So we got, we got a great show for you.

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We are doing our Patty family picks.

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So if you are not a member of the Patrion,

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This is your like little

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prod to join because we

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asked our Patty family

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movie and we watched

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Equalizer three starring

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Denzel Washington.

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And so we're super excited

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to get into that.

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We're also going to play a little game.

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We also have we're going to

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break down the Emmys a smidge.

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So we've got a little bit of

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this and that and everything.

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So we're pretty excited about it.

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But in order to do it well,

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in order to do it right.

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I'm going to kick it on over

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to Brian Roush, a.k.a.

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Space Badge recipient.

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Hello, Brian.

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How'd you earn that space badge?

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Well, I I'm happy to share with you.

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It was a long, arduous journey,

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and it involved one of my

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sons coming up to me.

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And then he just started

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taping me on the shoulder.

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And I was eating lunch and I was like,

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I don't know what's happening,

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but I'm just going to roll with it.

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And then I looked at my

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shoulder expecting just to

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have this like giant wad of tape.

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and I had this triangle

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squid thing on my shoulder,

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and I was like, hey, Parker, what's this?

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He goes, it's your space badge.

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I was like, thank you.

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Thank you so much.

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It's an honor.

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Congratulations.

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Thank you.

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At about time.

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Yeah, I appreciate that.

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You know,

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it's been a long time coming and

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it's just nice to be recognized.

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But no, for real,

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when a kid does something like that,

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you you have to go with it.

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It's like when they hand you the phone.

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There is no other option

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other than go with it.

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Like, oh, hello.

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Yeah.

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Oh, well, he's right here.

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So I immediately went with

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it and I wore it the rest of my Sunday.

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I was going to ask you,

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how long did you keep it on after that?

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Marcus, there was no way out.

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I was wearing this badge with pride,

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honor and respect for the rest of my day.

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So excited.

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Did you go out and about

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into the town and the

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community with your badge?

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You know what?

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I did not.

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I did talk to somebody at my front door,

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though,

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who was collecting signatures for

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someone's political office.

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They didn't see it, though,

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but I would have proudly

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said it's my space badge.

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I don't know what it means.

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Your signature is extra important.

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I've earned a space badge.

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Did you know, honey, honey,

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I went and talked to a spaceman today.

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He had a badge and everything.

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What type of tape was it?

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Oh, it was scotch tape.

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It was scotch tape on my shoulder.

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Oh, okay, scotch tape isn't bad.

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Yeah, it was fine.

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So I was like,

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this makes the perfect

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Chiron to enter into this space.

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I have so many questions

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about the badge itself,

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so I just feel like... I do too.

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You know,

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at one point it changed to

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kindness because I asked, like,

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what exactly do I get with

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the space badge?

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And Parker's like, oh, it means kindness.

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And I was like, oh, like, was I kind?

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And he goes, no, it's the space badge.

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And I was like, OK, got it.

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Thank you, sir.

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I will.

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These are.

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All right.

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This is great.

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I love this.

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So, yes, I'm here.

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I'm ready to pod.

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I watched Equalizer three

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Friday night with a DiGiorno's pizza.

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And it was it was a top tier combo.

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I'm just going to put that out there.

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I put on my own pepperoni, though,

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because the pepperoni pizza

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is never enough.

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It was ten dollars at my grocery store.

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And I looked at the four

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cheese and it was like,

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I'm six ninety nine.

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And I was like.

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I have pepperoni at home.

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I'm just going to get the

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six ninety nine pizza

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pepperoni out of myself.

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I've never felt like such a

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suburban dad before.

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We've got pepperoni at home.

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Like my my like

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transformation and

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evolution into a full

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suburban dad is nearing

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completion because I guffawed.

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I guffawed in the aisle.

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I was like, what the fuck is this?

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I'm not going to pay four

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extra dollars for probably

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somebody who just wanted to

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go home and sprinkled some

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pepperoni on the street.

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That is a risky run.

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That's a risky run.

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Three pieces.

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I brought this sucker home

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and I just coded it in pepperoni.

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OK,

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so I got I got what I exactly what I

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want.

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Now, you know, do this by yourself.

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Was your family somewhere else?

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Yeah, well, Maggie had a book club thing,

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so I was alone with the

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kids Friday night.

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And then I was like, you know what?

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I'm doing my own pizza.

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I got I got some of the

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Italian seasoning out,

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got some of the garlic powder out.

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I just I made my own shit up frozen.

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Yeah, I did.

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I did.

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I bougie it up.

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I went to Italy with Denzel.

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I felt pretty I felt pretty

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great about it.

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God damn it.

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So, Doug,

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I don't know if your mic is doing

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something.

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I don't know.

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Yeah,

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you just muffled out like you was

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underwater.

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A little bit.

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A little bit.

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Yeah.

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No, it was fun.

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I hear you now.

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Mason, you are wilding.

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I'm not even going to

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address that comment.

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A little bit of ink left.

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That's great.

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That's crazy.

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Well, Marcus J. Dustin,

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aka Mr. Get Your Money's Worth Who?

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I didn't see the first Get

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Your Money's Worth.

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No, that's my name.

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I'm Mr. Get Money's Worth the second.

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Oh, the second.

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So this isn't a sequel.

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No, no, no.

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Okay, anyway.

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Take it away!

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Chiron just fucking ruined it.

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I did.

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I ruined it.

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No, it's good.

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I'm feeling good.

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I'm happy to be here.

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I got my money's worth on

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Netflix this weekend.

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Watching Rebel Ridge and

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Equalizer three twice and

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Jujutsu Kaisen the whole first season,

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twenty four episodes.

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So I really just got into it.

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I got into the shit.

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Me and Netflix,

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we was bonded and I tried

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to watch something else.

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But it kind of sent me on a

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weird rabbit hole of like.

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Oh,

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I watched Hellboy because I wanted

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things that had lore that I

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didn't understand.

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Oh, got it.

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Yep.

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So kind of like that Equalizer three, like,

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why the fuck is this guy so good?

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They never explain it.

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And I keep watching fucking movies.

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You know what I mean?

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That's kind of went into Hellboy,

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kind of like that.

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Lord,

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you got to understand and everything

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isn't understood.

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And I don't know.

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I just ended up on Netflix the whole time.

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There you go.

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You know what?

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Netflix quietly has become

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so easy to use that it's so

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easy to spend time there.

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That's the long game.

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Well done, Netflix.

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And not to mention,

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they trap you with their

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movie poster previews

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because they're going to

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show you the character that

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you are interested in.

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Mine is filled with black

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people and fine women.

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So, I mean, that's what they show me.

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It's like Edge of Tomorrow.

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Usually, Tom Cruise, the main lead,

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the big baller.

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Do you know who they show me?

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Not motherfucking Tom Cruise.

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They show me Emily Blunt.

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Emily Blunt doing the

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push-up in the black racerback tank top.

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I know exactly what you're talking about.

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That's exactly what they show.

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And they did not show me.

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That's not even a wallpaper.

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That's just a still from the movie.

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And it was like,

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these guys are going to like this shit.

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This is what this guy wants.

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And you know what?

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They nailed it.

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You

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got me motherfuckers

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red-handed so I mean we we

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all know what they I mean

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we all have our we all each

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of us knows what they would

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show us to get us to watch

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the movie oh yeah I know

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doug's can we all guess

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each other's oh oh I'm

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guessing if we log into

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doug's netflix and it's

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gonna pull up it's gonna

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pull up that rhythm of

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action movies but somehow

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madame webb's gonna be

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there and they're gonna

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show him sydney sweeney

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Is she in the movie a whole lot?

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No.

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Does she have a solid

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thumbnail on Netflix?

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I guarantee it.

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It's like a .

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five millisecond.

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That .

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five millisecond she's in the black suit.

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That's it.

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That's all it is.

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How the fuck did y'all get that?

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It's going to be the gif of

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it turning upside down.

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I try to watch the trailer and it's like,

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this is all you want to see,

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you gross perv.

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Jesus, why'd you call yourself that?

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No, no, no.

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Netflix.

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My Netflix is really judgmental.

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Oh, got it, got it, got it, got it.

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I paid extra for it to shame me.

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Oh, got it.

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I paid extra for the guilt.

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Even for Morbius,

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I forgot the love interest in Morbius.

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And then I was like,

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she's on the cover of one

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of the little things.

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I'm like, who the fuck is that?

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And then, yeah.

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She sure is.

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Oh, yeah.

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All the AMC stuff.

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Yeah, it's all going to be women leads.

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Right.

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Yeah,

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it's going to be Elizabeth Olsen who

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leads for Brian.

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Anything with Elizabeth

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Olsen is going to populate first.

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Look, we all know how I feel,

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but additionally,

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I don't think she has

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anything on Netflix that she's like,

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I don't think she does either.

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Yeah,

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I just logged into mine and I have...

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Yes, Madam Web was mentioned.

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It was, yep.

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In a positive light this time.

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Yeah, I guarantee you.

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They know.

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She knows so much.

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Scary.

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Ambiguous villain with the

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ambiguous accent.

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Anyway, Doug, my resolve is strong.

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Okay, okay.

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Look, y'all.

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I've made it pretty clear my

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political leanings, okay?

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Yeah, there's no surprises here.

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But I need someone to

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understand what's going on

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with my cell phone.

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So my cell phone somehow,

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I don't know if the person,

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so I have a North Dakota number.

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I got the number from

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somebody else who relinquished it.

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Like, I don't know.

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It's not a number I have.

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And I have had a litany of

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things that have happened

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with this phone that the previous person,

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I want to know what life she was living.

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Because I get text messages

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from Donald Trump that start out with,

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I got one tonight at five

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thirty that said,

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my resolve is strong in all caps.

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That's all it said.

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And the problem is,

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was there a fundraising link or anything?

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Did I delete it?

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Hold on.

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I don't think I deleted it.

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I thought the campaign just

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sent you my resolve in Strong.

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I thought that was all they sent you.

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I also have something about campaign email,

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why he pulls it.

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No, I deleted it.

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Why'd you delete it?

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I don't want to keep looking at it.

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But anyway, so it sent me that.

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And of course,

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I've watched episode three

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enough that the only thing

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I can hear in my head

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Is Emperor Palpatine going,

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my resolve is strong?

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That's the only thing that I

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can hear that it spirals into, no.

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That's all it sort of spirals into.

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Guys, when I first got this phone number,

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I had a penis sent to me

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via text message from a

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gentleman I didn't know.

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And even if it was somebody I did know,

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someone's

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No, no, no, no, no.

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This was a white dick.

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Oh, okay.

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It was a mediocre white dick.

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And so like, it was just,

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but my response was like, Hey man, like,

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and I tried to approach it so gently.

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Like I tried to be like,

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Hey, so, like,

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I don't know who you think this is,

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but you, but, like, I'm a dude.

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And he goes, what did you say to this guy?

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This is what I, I was very, like,

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I tried to be really gentle

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because this man sent me something, but,

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like, so that one's deleted.

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That one's long gone.

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I have deleted and blocked that gentleman.

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Yo,

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the first ten minutes of this podcast

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is always my favorite

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because that shit can go any way.

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Wow.

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It's true.

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It's true.

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We like to work from the

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broad down to the specific

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of what we're talking about.

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It goes right there.

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Yeah.

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So anyway, he sends me this picture,

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and I'm like, ugh.

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Just immediate disappointment.

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But then I was like, oh,

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this guy's so vulnerable.

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I don't want him to think

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I'm just going to put this out there.

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So I had to be really like, hey, man,

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I don't know who you think this is.

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You went back to console him?

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I went back to be like, hey,

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don't send... Because I

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didn't want to get another dick pic.

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You didn't even offer me

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that much consolation when

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I told you this story.

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You didn't send me a picture

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of your penis.

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So I don't need to be gentle with you.

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sound.

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This whole thing is just fucked.

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We are only... A lot of gentleness.

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A long story short, a long story less long,

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I eventually just said, hey, I'm a dude,

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and he was like, haha, very funny.

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I'm like, no, seriously,

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you've made a mistake.

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And then like ten minutes

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goes by and he goes, I am so sorry.

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Like immediately...

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I am so sorry.

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And I was like, yeah, me too.

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That was so bad.

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Viewership up.

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Did I send one back?

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No, I did not.

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And if there is a trash,

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I'm in a lot of trouble.

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If there's a trash,

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I'm in a lot of trouble.

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But anyway,

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that's my story on this phone number.

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And now he's a Patreon member.

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Wow.

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What tier did he pay for?

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So, pay the hundred dollar tier.

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He's on the text, Doug, whatever you want.

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The text, Doug, whatever you want tier.

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Do it for the pod, Doug.

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Do it for the pod.

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uh should we say this is a

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good time to join the

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patreon we have three

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different tiers all right

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it's five dollars I'm on

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the I'm on the cover it's

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great and then there's the

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second though that gets you

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access to the bonus

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episodes only ten dollars a

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month that third heat

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that's twenty bucks you ask

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us anything so it's not

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exactly the situation doug

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described you can but it's pretty close

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If I would have known Mason

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talking about this is what

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will bring in more Patreon,

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if I would have known that,

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I would have put that shit

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up fucking three years ago.

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Yeah, that's true.

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I would have not kept this

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secret to myself.

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I would have shared this with the people.

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I could have been sharing

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this with the people for a cost.

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I'm sharing my shit for free.

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That's true.

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Look at Brian.

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Brian doesn't know what to do.

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Oh, this is great.

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That's a situation you had.

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That's a lot, man.

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That was a thing you were in.

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That's a lot.

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Yeah,

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I like to bring it up so I don't have

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to cry about it later.

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You know what?

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Own it.

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That's the way you own it.

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That's the way you make it work for you.

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You're taking it back.

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Like the N-word.

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Both black. ...

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Well,

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I'm going to pivot us over in to

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catch that quotable because

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now's a really good time.

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I wish y'all could have saw y'all faces.

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What am I going to say?

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Yeah, you are.

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Yeah, you're right.

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Take it back.

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Say it whenever you want.

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If I say anything other than oof,

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I'm in trouble.

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If I say, ooh, yep, and then you're like,

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wow, you said yep a little too hard.

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I'm like, huh?

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Yep, I did.

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You don't want me being that

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guy that's like, I'm an ally,

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and I think whatever you say goes,

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Marcus.

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I'm right behind you.

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That's worse.

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I'd rather somebody call me

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out of my name than be a

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fake-ass ally because I hate that shit.

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Oh, my God.

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I'll get my button,

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and we'll go to sleep all together.

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Yeah, you're right.

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The N-word is black.

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And you're like,

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that's not what you need to

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put on a button, Brian.

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That's way too much emphasis

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on the wrong point in this whole thing.

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You got, like, eighty percent of it,

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buddy.

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Like, eighty percent.

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You're almost there.

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Almost there.

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Take my hand.

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Anyway.

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Okay.

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Well,

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let's play a little game we like to

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call Catch That Quotable.

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Catch that quotable.

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The silky sounds of Marcus J. Help!

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Gentlemen,

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are you ready for this week's quote?

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Hit me, hit me.

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High five, high five.

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Okay, here's the quote.

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Okay.

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That's gotta be clash of the Titans,

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right?

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Right.

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Right.

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Or, I mean, it could be Hercules,

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but I don't think Disney would have gone.

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No, no, that's, that's pretty dark.

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That's, that's like,

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that's gotta be clash of the Titans.

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And you're talking about the cracking,

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right?

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Yeah.

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Say it like Jimmy Stewart.

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Clarence was a rich man and he was right.

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The harbor of fire.

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Yeah.

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Crazy.

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Is that the guess we're going with?

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I don't know what else.

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That sounds like Clash of

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the Titans to me.

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Talking about the three Titans.

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Yeah, and then getting all those things.

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Yeah, collecting everything.

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Feels right on the nose, though.

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Right?

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I don't want to second guess it, though.

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Yeah.

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I mean, I know they did a sequel.

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I guess we would be tripped up by that,

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but...

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What was the name of the sequel?

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It wasn't.

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Was it Rise of the Titans?

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Same dude.

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Oh my God.

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We got this wrong.

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This is from Pokemon the movie.

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You got to be shitting me.

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You have to be shitting me.

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Roman is laughing his ass off right now.

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I have not.

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It's said by The Collector.

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I don't remember seeing this movie.

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I have not seen Pokemon.

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I don't think I've seen this movie.

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That's ridiculous that you

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could take that line and

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put it with Clash of the

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Titans and it's really about Pokemon.

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Yep.

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That's the thing.

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Roman's really trying to

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keep us as far away from

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that hundred dollars as possible.

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Roman hates charities.

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That's what it feels like.

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That's what you're working on,

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to beat the Jerry.

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Oh my god.

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Oh my god.

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That's hilarious.

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Gentlemen,

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I would like us to play a little

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game before we get into our

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review of the Equalizer.

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I'm buying myself ice cream

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with all the money I have.

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It's going to be going to charity.

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All the little kids looking at you.

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It's crying.

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Okay, so I'm going to pick five movies.

::

We have no air conditioning, sir.

::

We use the fan to blow the ice cream.

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My friend holds an ice cube

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in his hand and he blows from his lips.

::

It keeps us cool in the heat

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in the summer.

::

Please, please.

::

This place does not exist.

::

This is not a place.

::

I'm going to pick five

::

random Denzel Washington

::

movies at random from his

::

filmography as provided by IMDb.

::

And I would like you to rank

::

these movies from one to

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five without knowing which

::

one comes next.

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All right.

::

One being what and five being what?

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One being the best, five being the worst.

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Okay.

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Oh, one the best.

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Okay.

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Okay.

::

So I'm going to give you the movie.

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Are you giving me five?

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I'm sorry.

::

You're giving me five movies?

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I'm giving you and Brian five.

::

Okay.

::

And we rank them one through five.

::

And you each have to rank

::

them without knowing which

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one comes next.

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We have our own ranking.

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Are we a team or just individual?

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Individual.

::

All right.

::

Let me grab a pen.

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Individual.

::

Hang on.

::

I'm getting a visual.

::

Keep going.

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Keep going.

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Please.

::

So I'm going to start.

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With the movie Man on Fire

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from two thousand four.

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Man on Fire, two thousand four.

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And we just got to rate

::

these one at a time.

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This is bullshit.

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Yes, this is going to be very hard.

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A little bit.

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This is bullshit.

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Not what's coming next.

::

So.

::

All right.

::

There you go.

::

Yep.

::

So we got to figure out,

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we got to figure out man on fire.

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So yes.

::

So Marcus,

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where does man on fire rank for you,

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for you not knowing which one comes next?

::

Okay.

::

I feel like I'm going to go.

::

I got to put man on fire at

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three just to be safe.

::

Man on fire at three.

::

Okay.

::

Yeah, I'd agree with that.

::

Here's what I'm nervous about.

::

I'm waiting for training day to show up.

::

You gotta play it safe.

::

It may not show up,

::

but I want to make sure we

::

have enough wiggle room.

::

I'm good with man on fire at three.

::

It's a good...

::

thriller action movie well

::

brian I think we have to do

::

separate they do we do in

::

separate we're doing

::

separate we have three we

::

have two separate ones I'm

::

writing mine down if you

::

want to keep yours on the

::

here no no no hang on hang

::

on here folks he's he's a

::

wizard he's in the fucking

::

zone brian can make all of

::

this work that is true that's my guy

::

We'll figure this out one way or another.

::

For those of you listening,

::

we have a whole visual

::

system happening right now.

::

I hope you enjoy that as a listener.

::

Brian's putting it at four.

::

I'm putting Man on Fire at four.

::

I'm not mad at that.

::

Okay.

::

It's a good first one.

::

The next one.

::

I do.

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Light.

::

Light.

::

Oh.

::

Flight?

::

Flight,

::

where he played the alcoholic pilot.

::

I'm going to put it at five.

::

You're going five for Flight?

::

Yeah, because Flight is good,

::

but I just feel like there

::

are other Denzel movies

::

that are better than Flight for me.

::

Flight was really good, though.

::

I'm going flight at three.

::

I liked flight better than man on fire.

::

I also liked flight better

::

than man on fire.

::

Actually, can I swap my three and my five?

::

You can absolutely do that.

::

Can I swap my three and my five, please?

::

Alright.

::

Because I do like flight

::

better than man on fire.

::

Are you putting man on fire at five?

::

Yeah, I'm going to put it at five.

::

That's just me being safe, Brian.

::

Alright.

::

Alright.

::

Okay, let's do this.

::

Alright.

::

The next one is.

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Nineteen ninety three's.

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I'm going to go four because

::

I'm still playing it safe.

::

Okay.

::

Because I can swap later, right?

::

I can swap.

::

You could.

::

Up until the last one.

::

Up until the last one, you can swap.

::

Up until the last one, I can swap.

::

Yeah, I'm going to keep that there.

::

I'm going to keep that there

::

because it's a toss-up for me.

::

Philadelphia, I want to put at two,

::

but I have two Denzel movies that are my,

::

like, I think if you mention them,

::

they're going to be my absolute favorite,

::

and I don't want to fuck those up.

::

All right.

::

Where are you going with Philadelphia?

::

I'm going to go put at four.

::

Four?

::

Yeah.

::

I don't know how to spell Philadelphia.

::

Don't worry about it.

::

We had it right the first time.

::

We didn't say anything.

::

I'm going to go to five.

::

We'll move.

::

It's good.

::

It's good.

::

I just, I don't know.

::

There's some stuff I would

::

need to rewatch because I

::

don't know how it holds up

::

and what I'm thinking about it.

::

Is it

::

I don't know.

::

I need to rewatch it.

::

I need to rewatch it.

::

Somebody's mad.

::

Somebody's listening to this.

::

They're mad as fuck.

::

A hundred percent.

::

Y'all ready for the next one?

::

The next one.

::

John Q. Number one.

::

John Q. That was one of the

::

ones that I was waiting on.

::

John Q is going to be number one for me.

::

Because if I'm going to swap,

::

I got to swap now, right?

::

Yes.

::

Yeah,

::

I think I'm going to put John Q right

::

here.

::

Hey, I love that decision.

::

That's one of my favorite Denzel movies.

::

It's a quality movie.

::

One of the first I remember

::

watching with Denzel in it, for sure.

::

Great movie.

::

Yeah,

::

that was one of the first movies I

::

remember watching with my parents.

::

Legit.

::

Same for me.

::

Yeah, I think... I mean,

::

I think I gotta lock in John Kiewit, too.

::

It's good,

::

and I definitely feel like it is

::

better than Flight.

::

That's not gonna be training day.

::

I know I'm waiting for doug

::

just to not he's not gonna

::

be training day I don't

::

think well then that's

::

whatever this is is my

::

number one I guess okay my

::

last your last pick is

::

malcolm x oh number two

::

yeah for sure I yeah for

::

sure because those were my

::

top two I was waiting on

::

that's it those are my top

::

two so yeah for sure I'm

::

not mad about this at all yeah

::

I'm not mad at that.

::

I would swap maybe

::

Philadelphia and Man on

::

Fire now that I see the final list.

::

But I'm not mad at this.

::

So Brian and I's list

::

probably would have looked

::

similar except a couple swaps.

::

So I'll say this.

::

I left Training Day and

::

Remember the Titans off intentionally.

::

I can't believe those are,

::

those are just so good that those are,

::

those are sort of iconic and it's,

::

that one's always just

::

going to come down to like

::

the day of the week.

::

Like they're both awesome,

::

but like which one do you

::

want to watch and what mood are you in?

::

Um, so I left those off,

::

but I wanted to kind of do

::

some of these other,

::

some of these other ones.

::

Are there any honorable mentions?

::

So maybe an honor,

::

maybe an honorable mention

::

from each of you that I didn't mention.

::

So deja vu for you.

::

Deja vu for sure.

::

Oh, man.

::

Brian,

::

any honorable mentions that are

::

Genzel that you really liked?

::

I don't know.

::

This might seem very simple for me,

::

but I... It's the Book of Eli.

::

Oh, the Book of Eli!

::

You're right!

::

The Book of Eli.

::

You're right.

::

There's a lot of factors to it for me,

::

and I think the main one, though,

::

is like...

::

Book of Eli came out in two thousand ten.

::

It wasn't it didn't have a

::

shared universe.

::

It wasn't like it was just

::

like a post-apocalyptic story.

::

And it didn't even do zombies.

::

It just it was just an

::

apocalypse with Denzel in it.

::

It felt like finding a

::

diamond in the rough in the theater.

::

Like back when I went to

::

movies like every weekend.

::

Yeah.

::

Man, it just it blew me away.

::

It blew me away.

::

Inside Man is also up there for me.

::

Yep.

::

I mean, it's a really smart movie.

::

Okay, wait, hold on.

::

Brian,

::

make another tear because I want to

::

do the same thing to Doug.

::

Oh, I'm gonna pick a random five.

::

And okay, okay, okay.

::

Order they're going in.

::

So let me know when you're ready.

::

I'm ready whenever you are.

::

All right.

::

Now, are you familiar with Denzel movies?

::

Because I don't want to pull

::

nothing that you're not familiar with.

::

Okay, all right.

::

All right.

::

The Preacher's Wife.

::

We're doing some deep cuts here.

::

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

::

I'm going to put The

::

Preacher's Wife at three.

::

Yeah.

::

Again, you're playing smart.

::

Playing a little safe.

::

Yeah, that's what I would have done, too.

::

I'm going to say...

::

The Bone Collector.

::

We put Bone Collector at four.

::

Yeah.

::

Ooh, interesting.

::

Yeah, that's an interesting pick.

::

Interesting.

::

Okay.

::

American Gangster.

::

American Gangster, I'm putting it too.

::

I really liked American Gangster.

::

I love the way that Russell

::

Crowe and Denzel play off of each other.

::

I love the I just I'm a

::

sucker for like crime movies like that.

::

And I thought that was an

::

outstanding cast.

::

I really like that.

::

I agree.

::

I like it.

::

The Manchurian Candidate.

::

Yes.

::

I mean, Doug's in a tough spot here.

::

He's only got one in five left.

::

Mm hmm.

::

I'm going to move.

::

Okay.

::

I'm going to move the

::

preacher's wife to five.

::

Okay.

::

And I'm going to put the

::

Manchurian candidate at three.

::

I forgot you got a swap.

::

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

::

I do get the swap.

::

That's not okay.

::

That's not okay.

::

All right.

::

Antoine Fisher.

::

Oh, that's all.

::

That's yeah.

::

Yep.

::

That's my one.

::

Yeah.

::

Yeah.

::

Yeah.

::

Gotta double check that spelling.

::

But yeah.

::

Yeah, there it is.

::

That's good.

::

I'm not mad about that either.

::

That's my bad.

::

That's my bad.

::

No, that's not a bad list.

::

This dude Denzel is a fucking monster,

::

dog.

::

Dude, I mean, you combed through.

::

That's what I wanted to talk about.

::

Like, if you wanted to comb through, like,

::

the shit he was in, starting from, like,

::

like, He was in that, like,

::

really intense...

::

civil war like movie called

::

called glory glory he was

::

in glory okay and then he

::

kind of does some stuff

::

that like you don't know

::

about ricochet but then he

::

does malcolm x yeah then he

::

does much ado about nothing

::

yeah then he does the

::

pelican brief jesus then he

::

does philadelphia

::

Then he does Crimson Tide.

::

That's a run.

::

Crimson Tide.

::

Then he does Courage Under Fire.

::

Then The Preacher's Wife.

::

Then here's this run from

::

nineteen ninety eight to

::

nineteen ninety nine.

::

Oh, sorry.

::

Nineteen ninety eight to two

::

thousand and two in from

::

nineteen eight listing from

::

oldest to youngest.

::

He got Game, The Siege, The Bone Collector,

::

The Hurricane, Remember the Titans,

::

Training Day,

::

and John Q. All back-to-back

::

from in the year.

::

That was only three years?

::

That's crazy.

::

That was three years and he

::

had all of those.

::

I could re-watch any of

::

those movies right now.

::

Crimson Tide actually got me...

::

Denzel as a military man

::

somehow every time just

::

gets me fired up he plays

::

that role so well he has

::

such good discipline in his

::

acting that I feel like it

::

translates really well and

::

I feel like that's what

::

like really makes him pop

::

in training day cause like

::

He gets to go off the rails

::

a little bit with that discipline.

::

And, like, man, just what a talented guy.

::

That guy's talented.

::

Roman put some in the chat, too.

::

He said he was waiting on

::

Remember the Tide.

::

Oh, Fences.

::

He also said he got Game,

::

which is also another good one, too,

::

as well.

::

Denzel in a completely

::

different role than he got Game.

::

Magnificent Seven, which is, yeah, like,

::

that's a good movie, too.

::

And then Two Guns.

::

I remember Two Guns as well.

::

Two Guns is not on the top of my list,

::

but it's still one of those good movies.

::

I think Mark Wahlberg kind

::

of threw me off a little bit in Two Guns.

::

I don't think I saw Two Guns.

::

It was one of those that I

::

feel like you could have shot to nobody,

::

but you could have replaced

::

Mark Wahlberg with anybody else, I think,

::

and maybe it would have hit,

::

but I don't know.

::

Anyway.

::

That was great, though.

::

Great job.

::

That was a good game.

::

Great job.

::

I enjoy those.

::

Before we dive into the Equalizer,

::

I think it's fun.

::

We can just sort of run down.

::

I mean, the Emmys were last night,

::

which is a big night for TV.

::

And while we're usually a movie podcast,

::

that is still in our sphere

::

of relevance for the most part,

::

especially with the level of quality that

::

some tv shows are starting

::

to go up in and then also

::

the fact that this sort of

::

contributes to excuse me

::

the streaming wars a little

::

bit yep and we've been

::

covering that we've been

::

covering that for a while

::

too so um I have the I have

::

the winners in front of me

::

um I'm gonna I can run some

::

of them down um and just

::

kind of talk a little bit

::

about those so the first is

::

Shogun from FX fucking cleaned up.

::

Cleaned the fuck up.

::

Fucking cleaned up.

::

So they won Best Drama Series.

::

Actor in a Drama,

::

Hiroki Sadana won from Shogun.

::

Actress in a Drama, Anna Sawai, Shogun.

::

So they won all of those,

::

which was awesome.

::

In terms of comedy,

::

so Best Comedy Series was Hacks.

::

Your best actor in a comedy

::

series was Jeremy Allen

::

White for The Bear.

::

Actress in a comedy series

::

was Jean Smart from Hacks.

::

Supporting actress was Lisa

::

Colon-Zayas for The Bear

::

and Evan Moss Bacharach for The Bear.

::

The Bear did really well,

::

albeit a weird title for them.

::

Here's what I'll say about it,

::

and welcome to others' thoughts.

::

I watched the bear.

::

That shows really heavy.

::

Like you guys, like there's,

::

there are moments where I

::

kind of watch that and I'm like,

::

oh like this is trying to

::

see the humor in it but

::

especially season three

::

like end of season two into

::

season three like the

::

episode was it seven fishes

::

yeah oh god damn like that

::

is just that's a lot that's

::

a lot I have a question I

::

know brian that thoughts

::

but I have a question after brian yeah

::

Oh, you want to go now?

::

No, go ahead.

::

Have y'all both have seen the bear?

::

Yeah.

::

Okay.

::

I have not seen the bear yet.

::

I'm doing where I wait until, you know,

::

wait until the hype downs

::

down or the show is over.

::

I mean,

::

the thing about the bear is that I

::

do think at its like base DNA,

::

you can call it a comedy.

::

Oh, sure.

::

Say that.

::

Where does it come from?

::

It is the bleakness of the situation.

::

It is incredibly heavy

::

because the premise and

::

this is not a spoiler.

::

The premise is that Jeremy

::

Allen White goes back to

::

Chicago after being a like

::

five star Michelin like chef.

::

because his brother takes

::

his own life and is running

::

this Chicago beef sandwich

::

shop in like the middle of

::

downtown Chicago.

::

It's a rundown piece of crap.

::

And here comes this

::

five-star Michelin chef who

::

like basically has to step

::

in at that night at the

::

eleventh hour to try to

::

like make something happen.

::

yeah um and that's really

::

heavy but then it's also

::

sliced with like he gets

::

angry because he can't find

::

a sharpie that works and

::

they they are also trying

::

to figure out how to take

::

grubhub orders and they

::

find out that they didn't

::

turn off the function to

::

stop taking orders so it

::

gets to a point where

::

they're just having order

::

after order come in for

::

grubhub and they have to figure out how

::

how they're going to do this.

::

And like it, uh, if Maggie was here,

::

she would tell you that it gives,

::

it's like the best

::

representation of an

::

anxiety attack she's ever seen on TV.

::

Um, and it,

::

it really is just the humor of like,

::

this is so bleak.

::

This is so rough.

::

How do you,

::

how do you find the light in it?

::

How do you find the positive

::

and move on and change and

::

evolve and deal with it?

::

And like actually deal with it.

::

Um,

::

And the idea, though,

::

that it's totally cordoned

::

off into a comedy category

::

for the Emmys just kind of

::

shows you... To me,

::

these awards shows haven't

::

evolved with the material

::

that they're awarded.

::

And when they do,

::

it's slow at best and like...

::

redemption at best like

::

because I don't think the

::

bear should be going up

::

against hacks like that

::

doesn't make sense to me

::

like I look at this list

::

and I mean you have the

::

bear going up against the

::

only like only murders in

::

the building in what world

::

does that makes incur your

::

enthusiasm like what is

::

happening here now yes you

::

can have the conversation

::

that like if they put it in drama

::

Then what does that do to

::

Shogun or whatever?

::

But it's also like, how are we doing this?

::

Because it clearly is broken.

::

There needs to be some level

::

of delineation.

::

But yeah, Marcus, did you have something?

::

Yeah,

::

just I guess just a quick question of

::

like,

::

do you think that the writers wrote

::

it with the intent of it being a comedy,

::

but it is received as

::

something else or that

::

there's no way this could

::

be mistaken that this isn't

::

really a comedy?

::

It's more this than it is that.

::

I think you have to submit

::

as what you want it to be.

::

Or can you change?

::

Can you pick what genre you compete under?

::

Or is it more?

::

I think you have to put in

::

your nomination for what

::

you want to be considered for.

::

And then they have to select you.

::

So they,

::

they made the decision to submit

::

their paperwork that said like, yep,

::

we're a comedy.

::

Now I think Brian's point is

::

spot on because I think

::

there's a very distinct

::

difference between like,

::

like ha ha funny and ha ha

::

funny and dark comedy funny

::

where you're kind of

::

laughing because you're a

::

little uncomfortable you're

::

uncomfortable with the

::

situation and you're like

::

oof this is a family

::

dynamic that doesn't work

::

because there are moments

::

especially in season one

::

the interaction between

::

like jeremy allen white and

::

I'm gonna pull up his name

::

just give me one second

::

Jeremy Allen White and Evan Moss,

::

like their exchanges back

::

and forth are very funny.

::

Like for that first one,

::

they're just the exchange

::

and it's very uncomfortable.

::

Like it's very uneasy.

::

And if you can't see the humor in it, like,

::

and there are moments in it, like,

::

and again, not giving anything away,

::

but there's a,

::

there's a strange thing

::

that happens at a kid's birthday party,

::

which you're like, Oh no,

::

but it's kind of funny at the same time.

::

So it's sort of like,

::

Yeah, there are humorous moments.

::

This feels like this feels

::

like I don't know if the

::

bear was nominated last

::

year or the year before.

::

Oh, yeah, it was.

::

And it won last year.

::

okay then never mind because

::

I was gonna say this this

::

feels like the lord of the

::

rings where like they

::

didn't want to give

::

everything to they didn't

::

want to give everything to

::

that movie like the first

::

two so they were like make

::

it win everything when the

::

last movie comes out

::

because it's not going to

::

do it again so never mind

::

what I was so the bear won

::

the best outstanding comedy

::

series okay so they've been

::

doing this a while so then

::

never never mind but yeah

::

Sorry, this is from Forbes,

::

an article on Forbes.

::

Why is the bear considered a comedy?

::

The bear is considered a

::

comedy because the show's

::

producers see it as one.

::

The Television Academy of

::

Arts and Sciences doesn't

::

actually enforce any

::

definitions of what comedy is.

::

Think about it for a moment.

::

Comedy is quite subjective.

::

It's hard to say a show must

::

have this many laughs per

::

minute to be considered a comedy.

::

That's an absurd limitation.

::

But the producers have said

::

that they see the show as a comedy.

::

The characters often find a

::

lifeline in humor.

::

They are dealing with dark

::

feelings such as grief, shame, and guilt.

::

The show writers use humor

::

to defuse tense situations

::

and deflect things.

::

Yeah.

::

Yeah, I mean, I agree with that.

::

I would never want to put like a...

::

I just think there need to

::

be more categories.

::

I mean, you know what I mean?

::

Like, cause I think, yeah,

::

I don't think y'all,

::

but I just think like a, you know,

::

I just think there needs to

::

be a way to categorize it a

::

little bit differently.

::

So,

::

but other honorable mentions that I

::

think are worth like mentioning.

::

So Billy Crudup won best

::

supporting actor in a drama

::

series for the morning show.

::

Oh, this one,

::

this one's worth mentioning

::

because the morning show is

::

an Apple TV production.

::

Hmm.

::

So FX,

::

FX definitely had the best showing

::

because Shogun, The Bear, both FX series.

::

Jodie Foster won for her

::

best actress in a limited

::

anthology series for True

::

Detective Night Country,

::

which was fucking nuts, by the way.

::

Like that show is just.

::

that show is so good that

::

show is so good but I tell

::

everybody watch it I tell

::

everybody yes um and then

::

the other ones that I'll

::

I'll kind of give a shout

::

out to baby reindeer one

::

one two three yeah three

::

different awards which is

::

really great um and then I

::

want to shout out john

::

oliver because he's I I

::

really like him he won best

::

scripted variety series oh nice

::

And another instance where

::

the Emmys made a whole

::

different category so that

::

John Oliver wouldn't keep

::

winning the gosh,

::

what was the previous category?

::

I think it was like late night comedy,

::

late night talk series,

::

late night talk series.

::

So they made scripted quote

::

unquote a scripted category

::

basically because the the

::

John Oliver show kept winning.

::

So they could have like, you know,

::

your Jimmy Kimmel's and

::

your Seth Meyers and your

::

Stephen Colbert's and your daily shows.

::

Yeah.

::

Which is bonkers.

::

Yeah.

::

And the daily show won best talk series.

::

So Brian,

::

it's not even late night anymore.

::

It's just talk series.

::

Yeah.

::

Crazy.

::

Yeah.

::

That's why.

::

Oh, it is best talk series.

::

I'm just seeing this now.

::

Yeah, you're right.

::

So the view and the daily

::

show are on the same playing field.

::

Is Jon Stewart back?

::

On Mondays.

::

And he's executive producing.

::

So he is still a part of the

::

writer's room a little bit

::

in a little bit of show direction.

::

So I think he got an

::

executive producer credit,

::

but he's only hosting on Monday.

::

Him and Trevor Noah carried

::

that thing for a nice loop.

::

I mean, those two guys,

::

they were hitting it.

::

I don't know.

::

Yeah, I did not pay.

::

I'm going to be honest with you.

::

I did not pay.

::

Let me shoot you a buck.

::

I did not pay attention to that.

::

There was an actor that

::

brought a lot of attention

::

to the missing indigenous

::

women and children.

::

Yes.

::

Yes.

::

So I thought that that was

::

really good to bring

::

attention to that on the Emmy red carpet.

::

And shout out to Res Dogs

::

for being nominated.

::

Shout out to Tazbook for being nominated.

::

Shout out to Tazbook.

::

Cool.

::

Well, thank you for indulging me on that.

::

But gentlemen, we got a movie to get to.

::

And I don't want to leave this.

::

This was a Patty family recommendation.

::

So I don't want to leave

::

anything on the cutting room floor.

::

Mason?

::

Shout out to Mace.

::

Mace asked us to watch Equalizer III.

::

I had not watched either of

::

the previous two Equalizers.

::

So this was exciting for me.

::

And he didn't even say

::

anything until he hopped on the podcast.

::

Yep, yep.

::

And so, and again,

::

as a reminder of how I'm a non-completist,

::

I've seen Fast and Furious one, two, five,

::

nine, and ten.

::

And Tokyo Drift.

::

And Tokyo Drift.

::

I've seen Equalizer three.

::

I've watched Equalizer three,

::

but not two or one.

::

Bad Boys.

::

I've seen Bad Boys three and

::

Bad Boys Ride or Die, but not two or one.

::

And that's the worst because

::

that's the one that gets under my skin.

::

You're welcome.

::

That's for you all.

::

Mason, I can't.

::

I could have lied.

::

I should have lied.

::

Everybody's saying you

::

should have lied and you could have lied.

::

So I want my two friends to

::

know that I keep things a

::

hundred percent.

::

You can trust me.

::

Sometimes you can keep it

::

ninety-nine on the movie

::

podcast when you don't watch the movies.

::

That's fine.

::

well it'll be even a hundred

::

sometimes you can keep it

::

nine to ten I mean it'll be

::

a unique perspective I

::

guess if you just go

::

straight into equalizer

::

three crazy because that's

::

like there's there's lore

::

that you should probably

::

like consider they don't

::

hold your hand for any of

::

that background they're

::

like people in the ass welcome

::

On that note, let's do it.

::

Let's get into it.

::

Marcus,

::

would you care to give us your

::

barbershop synopsis, maybe morally for me,

::

of Equalizer III?

::

Yeah,

::

so what happened was in Equalizer three,

::

it follows up Equalizer one and two.

::

That's all you need to know.

::

That's all you need to know.

::

No, we're back with Denzel again.

::

And oh, my God, Fuqua directed this.

::

And so that combination is

::

just a really dangerous combination,

::

to be honest with you.

::

And I think that he really

::

understands Denzel and they

::

have a really good relationship.

::

Anyway, that's the whole different thing.

::

You have this talented killer.

::

And there's this guy who

::

wants to do right by people.

::

Right.

::

And he has some type of history,

::

but we don't really know

::

what the history it is.

::

It never really is explained.

::

He's just really good at killing.

::

It's kind of hinted at into

::

when he's like across from

::

Pedro Pascal and they may

::

have been in the military

::

together or something like that.

::

Or like there was in some secret,

::

some secret force where

::

they was all really

::

talented killers or something like that.

::

I don't really fucking know.

::

But he's really good.

::

In number one,

::

he was protecting this

::

little girl who got kidnapped,

::

went to go find her.

::

Then in number two,

::

he's protecting this young

::

man who there's gangs

::

taking over the

::

neighborhood or something like that,

::

and they want to get rid of that.

::

And then Pedro Pascal is also... Right?

::

Is that right?

::

I might be blending them.

::

His friend dies.

::

His friend dies in the second one.

::

Oh, yes.

::

His friend does die in the second one.

::

His friend does die in the second one.

::

That's the motivation for

::

them to fight each other.

::

And then in this one,

::

what happens is... Thank you, Brian.

::

In this one...

::

Our lead character, Roberto,

::

is the fake name that he gives them.

::

Roberto.

::

But his real name is McCall.

::

Robert McCall.

::

He gave Roberto,

::

which is kind of his real name,

::

but he mostly goes by his last name.

::

He just gave an Italian

::

version of his real name.

::

He just did this at the end of his name,

::

and so it's kind of like, yeah, for sure.

::

Pretty much.

::

So he meets, he gets,

::

he kills all these people.

::

Open insane, kills all these people.

::

Everything's going good on his side.

::

He kills,

::

he finds whatever the fuck he's

::

looking for.

::

He comes out,

::

and of all the people that

::

fucking hurt this, oh, spoiler alert,

::

just for everybody.

::

Yeah, spoiler alert.

::

For anybody, he goes out of there,

::

he walks out of the building,

::

gets shot in the fucking back by a kid.

::

He lets the kid get away.

::

He's like, don't fucking move.

::

He turns his back to the kid

::

looking for which direction

::

he wants to go.

::

Kid shoots him in the

::

fucking back with a fucking

::

rifle or a shotgun or some shit.

::

He drives himself while he's

::

halfway dying.

::

Now he's halfway dying.

::

The motherfucker is damn near dead.

::

He drives himself on the

::

ferry boat from the ferry

::

boat to the mountains and

::

he ends up pulled over on a

::

Side of the road,

::

there is a officer that

::

finds him and they're in Italy.

::

There's an officer that

::

finds him and takes him to

::

this doctor that lives in

::

this small town.

::

The doctor takes the bullet

::

out of his back, fixes him up,

::

lets him rest in the house.

::

He then tries, you know,

::

he's still this guy that is

::

suspicious of everybody

::

trying to figure out where he is.

::

So he discovers this town.

::

This town is like this beautiful city.

::

The doctor's super nice.

::

The people are super nice.

::

The stores are like that.

::

He's finding basically his place.

::

As he's finding his place,

::

getting familiar,

::

there's also like a love

::

interest there a little bit, too.

::

That's kind of hinted at very lightly.

::

That's the lightest

::

sprinkling of love I've

::

ever seen in a thing.

::

I was like,

::

is it because of the age difference?

::

I don't know.

::

It was weird.

::

But they go.

::

He finds his place.

::

He finds his people.

::

He ends up being very happy there.

::

There is a gang called the...

::

I don't remember the name.

::

They basically say that

::

gangs like this exist in

::

towns where they basically

::

charge the businesses.

::

And if you don't pay a

::

certain amount of money

::

that you owe the businesses,

::

then they come and beat you up.

::

Well,

::

fish guy in the fish market got beat

::

the fuck up.

::

And McCall was there.

::

They burned that guy's store down.

::

And he was like, listen, basically,

::

You're not going to come

::

fuck with the place that I'm in.

::

I love this place.

::

I have finally he tells him

::

straight up directly.

::

Y'all need to leave.

::

If y'all don't leave,

::

we don't have a problem

::

because I finally found a

::

place where I belong and

::

where I'm meant to be.

::

If y'all don't leave,

::

I'm gonna start killing.

::

He kills the brother.

::

He kills the little brother

::

of the giant mob boss who

::

are like bringing drugs in,

::

which is what he was doing

::

at the beginning of the

::

movie was finding where those drugs were.

::

And then it boils down to

::

this big face off between

::

the mob boss and Robert McCall.

::

But for killing his little

::

brother in those streets and in that city,

::

they terrorize and he like

::

defends the city because he's home now.

::

Got it.

::

So it's like a redemption story.

::

A little.

::

It didn't really go ruin one.

::

Really?

::

Yeah.

::

I mean,

::

I thought it was going to go

::

redemption story, but by the,

::

by the way they were

::

hinting at it of like,

::

he didn't want to be that guy anymore,

::

but it definitely does not.

::

It doesn't really go for redemption story.

::

It's more,

::

I'm defending the place that I

::

love that this is where I'm

::

supposed to be.

::

I mean,

::

I would say it's just like it's a

::

vengeance story is what I would call it.

::

I mean, like revenge, like action revenge.

::

Yeah, it's definitely I mean,

::

vigilante justice type situation.

::

Sure.

::

Definitely vigilante justice.

::

I'm glad that they did not.

::

I know Doug's about to give

::

the rundown on like the

::

movies and the numbers and stuff,

::

but I'm glad that they did

::

not go redemption.

::

I'll just say that for right now.

::

I agree.

::

I agree.

::

um okay so let's do box

::

office and then we'll do

::

cast so the budget for this

::

movie was seventy million

::

dollars this movie made its

::

opening weekend thirty four

::

million dollars and its

::

opening weekend was

::

september third twenty

::

twenty three so about a year ago

::

And then the gross it made

::

in US and Canada total was

::

ninety two million dollars.

::

Its gross worldwide was one

::

hundred and ninety one million dollars.

::

So they got their money back.

::

It's money back us a little bit,

::

which is never bad.

::

What weekend did this drop?

::

Do you know?

::

Do you know the date?

::

It said September third,

::

twenty twenty three.

::

Yeah, that would have been Labor Day.

::

That would have been Labor Day weekend.

::

Oh, OK.

::

Got it.

::

That would have been Labor Day weekend,

::

right?

::

Yeah.

::

I remember this movie was

::

advertised on a billboard

::

to my work and it was on

::

there for the longest time.

::

So I'm glad I had a good

::

excuse to watch this movie

::

because I was like...

::

I saw that billboard for

::

like I saw it three months.

::

There you go.

::

The cast.

::

So Denzel Washington plays Robert McCall.

::

Dakota Fanning plays his

::

Dakota Fanning plays his

::

contact at the CIA Emma Collins.

::

Y'all we're about to get

::

into a bunch of Italian names.

::

So just good luck to me.

::

No accent.

::

Yeah.

::

That's going to be an

::

impossible challenge.

::

Eugenio Mastriandria plays

::

Gioria Bonannucci.

::

David Dedman plays Frank Conroy.

::

He does.

::

Yeah, Conroy.

::

Roy from The Office.

::

Roy from The Office.

::

They've got a lot of roles.

::

Oh, my God.

::

David Dedman.

::

Oh, that's incredible.

::

I think he was also in Rebel Reach, too.

::

Was he?

::

Might have been.

::

Might have been.

::

Gaia Scordilello plays Amena.

::

Remo Gironi plays Dr. Enzo Arizio.

::

Andrea Scarduzio plays... Oh,

::

you're not going to let me

::

do Andrea Scarduzio.

::

You're not going to let me do that?

::

I'm not going to let you do it anyway.

::

It's crazy.

::

You're not in the room with me.

::

I'm going to read these how I want to.

::

Andrea Dodeo.

::

Andrea Donero plays Marco Quintana.

::

Danielle Perron plays Angelo.

::

See,

::

now I'm just trying to get away with it.

::

Sakaria Hamaza plays Khaled.

::

Manuel Tascote plays Carmela.

::

Jesus,

::

these are some Italian names to the max.

::

And I don't know the rest of them,

::

so I'm going to give myself

::

a pass because they don't

::

even have images on IMDb,

::

so I'm not going to worry about it.

::

This was during the strike.

::

This movie came out during the strike.

::

That's why I don't remember it.

::

Yeah, I had seen the previous two,

::

so I didn't remember it anyway.

::

But yeah,

::

that's also why it would float

::

under the radar.

::

David Denman is in,

::

he must have got a deal

::

with Netflix or something like that.

::

David Denman is in Ripple

::

Reach too as well.

::

Is he a cop in that?

::

He's a cop in that, too.

::

I don't understand what

::

happened to that guy

::

because he was in the

::

office as a great comedic actor,

::

even though he was an

::

antagonist in that show.

::

I don't know what happened

::

after the office.

::

It feels like he only took

::

like tough guy military

::

police roles after.

::

that.

::

I don't know who hurt you, man.

::

You know what?

::

I think that, if I'm being honest,

::

just as a quick theory,

::

I think that whole Jim and

::

Pam and Jim took,

::

you know how the people do in real life,

::

and they treat you like you

::

are the characters?

::

I do think that that

::

motherfucker got tired of

::

that shit and went to

::

complete opposite roles.

::

I mean,

::

I guess I guess it wouldn't be

::

surprising.

::

I just think I don't know.

::

It just seems like such a

::

weird turn from comedy.

::

I think that's where my

::

surprise is coming from.

::

Like, I'm surprised.

::

I mean,

::

he was I would say he's comedic in

::

the office,

::

even though there were like

::

these romantic ties to it,

::

because he also did the Benghazi movie,

::

too, with with.

::

Yeah.

::

Yeah.

::

Yeah.

::

Jim, oh my gosh, John Krasansky.

::

He did.

::

I don't know what it is

::

about the cultures of Benghazi.

::

The dad in Brightburn, too.

::

That's crazy.

::

I don't know.

::

It's just something of note.

::

I don't know what to make of it.

::

Maybe it's a non-connection.

::

He's the dad in Power Rangers, too.

::

That's crazy.

::

Oh, I didn't know that.

::

I'm glad he's finding work, honestly.

::

Yeah, shout out to him.

::

Me too.

::

Shout out to him.

::

But yeah, and so that's the cast.

::

Gentlemen, you know what?

::

Good for him.

::

I'm proud of him.

::

He should be proud of himself.

::

Gentlemen, thoughts on The Equalizer?

::

I watched it twice.

::

Okay, so then you go first.

::

You watch it twice.

::

Yeah, you go first.

::

You watch it twice,

::

so that's on the equalizer.

::

So John Wick and the

::

equalizer go like one A,

::

one B for me because it's

::

basically the same kind of, it's a lore,

::

it's a lore-less movie

::

where it doesn't give you a

::

lot of background.

::

You just got, you meet this motherfucker,

::

dump right into this scenario of like,

::

this guy's really good at killing.

::

I'm going to start here.

::

This movie,

::

I had to stop eating while I

::

was watching because it is

::

violent as fuck.

::

Yeah, it is.

::

It is.

::

Like, gory, the blood.

::

Like, they don't pull back.

::

Let me tell you the scene

::

that made me like this movie, but also go,

::

oh shit,

::

let me put my phone down and pay

::

attention.

::

the they were they were in

::

the building the mob boss

::

the big guy is in the

::

building and he's talking

::

to this couple about

::

signing the building over

::

and they say listen sir you

::

got to be quiet my granddad

::

is in there and he's

::

sleeping and he says listen

::

y'all can either sign this

::

motherfucker or don't um

::

then they leave the next

::

scene is happening he's in

::

the middle of a dialogue

::

they throw grandpa old ass

::

with a rope around his neck

::

right out the fucking window

::

That's when I texted the group,

::

Jesus Christ, this movie is insane.

::

They went there.

::

Yeah, this movie starts like that.

::

Denzel Washington,

::

in the first ten minutes of this movie,

::

shoves a gun through a

::

man's head and then shoots

::

another guy with the gun he

::

shoved through the man's head.

::

that was the moment I did

::

sit up I'll be honest I was

::

like oh we're gonna get

::

good good and then he

::

shoots the guy in the butt

::

with a shotgun and I was

::

like oh I'm gonna like this

::

movie this is gonna go hard

::

this is not gonna pull any

::

punches and that's when I

::

knew it was gonna be something special

::

All in the first ten minutes.

::

That's what made me love this movie.

::

First of all,

::

it's held in a beautiful location.

::

It's Sicily, Italy.

::

Yeah, for sure.

::

But putting Denzel in an

::

action-packed movie where it's like, okay,

::

he's older.

::

Obviously, they're going to pull back.

::

It's not going to be as whatever,

::

whatever.

::

But I think that they did a

::

really good job making it

::

feel like Denzel was doing these things.

::

Because never once did I be like, oh,

::

that's a body double.

::

Oh, that's a whatever, whatever.

::

The action scenes are really good in this.

::

So that's what I liked.

::

I feel one of the main

::

reasons that I liked this

::

movie was that it felt like

::

it was an action movie for

::

an older audience.

::

And I am fitting into more

::

of the older audience as days go on.

::

Because there was some

::

really brutal action and

::

horrific violence in this.

::

However, most of the movie,

::

most of this movie is just

::

Denzel Washington walking around Italy

::

no I'm not kidding like it

::

really feels like at parts

::

of the movie it was like

::

Denzel Washington wanted to

::

go on vacation in Italy and

::

decided to just make a

::

whole movie around it Brian

::

took the words right out of

::

my mouth this feels like a

::

hey I know you're in Rome

::

for a week just pop down to

::

Italy like pop down to

::

Sicily just for a moment

::

we'll shoot the rest of it yep

::

I'm not mad.

::

I'm not mad about it.

::

If I'm making the third movie of whatever,

::

it's like, well, I've already done this.

::

I really want to go to Italy.

::

Can we make it in Italy?

::

Sure, Denzel.

::

You can do whatever you want.

::

It's great.

::

It was beautifully... The

::

key frames in this movie...

::

are gorgeous yeah and you

::

can tell this wasn't shot

::

on like volume or a ton of

::

green screen and like I

::

told I told the guys in the

::

chat as I was watching it

::

this podcast has made me

::

such a movie snob more than

::

I was before because I'm

::

like oh those bricks on the

::

ground look good that

::

cobblestone you can tell

::

it's real cobblestone like

::

Just everything you feel

::

like you can touch every

::

edge of this movie.

::

You can tell it's lived in

::

because they shot on location in Italy.

::

Yeah.

::

And it comes through so well.

::

So like those are like the two.

::

Those are like the two high

::

highs for me of this movie.

::

Just man,

::

you can just tell a lot of work

::

and care went into that.

::

Those aspects of it.

::

Yeah.

::

I would say for me,

::

the thing that I

::

appreciated the most about

::

this is that there's no

::

homework required.

::

So again, we joke like, oh,

::

Doug didn't see the first two.

::

But he didn't really need to,

::

if I'm being honest.

::

But I also did not need to.

::

And I was like, really,

::

the only thing I needed to know,

::

I was like, okay, cool.

::

You really did.

::

I did not need to watch the

::

first I'm not gonna

::

embarrass him in public but

::

yeah you guys just settle

::

this for your separate

::

message chain that you all

::

have and you can be like

::

can you believe this

::

motherfucker didn't do his

::

homework you believe we

::

have a second the only time

::

we started a separate chain

::

was to try to break your

::

crazy ass we all saw how that worked

::

Not well.

::

I'm still mad about this.

::

But anyway, you don't need to do a lot.

::

If you just suspend all of your questions,

::

you're like, oh, okay.

::

So this guy's clearly a

::

badass because you've spent

::

the first five minutes walking through

::

carnage.

::

And then, Oh,

::

there's this moment and he's you,

::

the way he talked so calm.

::

And this is the thing that I

::

love about Denzel as an

::

actor is that he's

::

You believe he does, like, this sense of,

::

like, badass calmness.

::

He just does that so well,

::

where he does not make you

::

feel like he's never somebody who, like,

::

if he has to do something violent,

::

especially his character here,

::

never has to get, like,

::

over the top or yell or in your face.

::

Nope.

::

He can just be like a, hey, your guy here,

::

he's standing about,

::

he's standing too close,

::

which can make it, this guy is a problem.

::

Or what was it?

::

Or what was the other quote that he had?

::

Like with the watch where he was like,

::

you got nine seconds.

::

He said,

::

you got nine seconds to figure out.

::

Yep.

::

You got nine seconds.

::

But then the other thing

::

where he's like grabbing

::

that guy's arm and he's like,

::

is this a time X?

::

No, it's a,

::

and he's doing like the thing

::

with the pressure point.

::

Like that's, those are really,

::

really cool lines where he emphasizes the,

::

like, this guy is set scary.

::

This guy is intimidating.

::

Yeah.

::

But because of that sense of

::

like calmness and

::

reservedness and that sort

::

of like confidence that he

::

carries along with him.

::

Well, even when he's talking to the agent,

::

he kind of he catches her

::

taking a picture.

::

And some of it feels like Denzel,

::

not improvising,

::

but like adding his own

::

spice to whatever the original line was,

::

you know, like, oh,

::

how about I turn around and

::

take a picture while he's

::

still folding his napkin in

::

this very eloquent way,

::

which he does every single time.

::

Like, I agree.

::

Right.

::

Yes.

::

And Dakota Fanning was a

::

weird foil for this.

::

I'm just going to put this out there.

::

Dakota Fanning haven't seen

::

her in a lot recently, which is fine.

::

She's fine.

::

I just I was very surprised

::

to see her in this movie.

::

I was very surprised to see

::

her in an action movie.

::

I was very surprised to see

::

her as a foil again to

::

Denzel because she was in Man on Fire.

::

But like as a child actor, I mean,

::

I think she was a child

::

actor at that time.

::

I can't I'd have to double check,

::

but she was younger for sure.

::

So I was like,

::

this is an interesting dichotomy.

::

Maybe they just they're

::

working together again

::

because like they just have

::

a good working relationship.

::

By the end of the movie, I was I was like,

::

OK, I'm good with Dakota Fanning.

::

I'm good with that because I

::

feel like a lot of other

::

folks would have oversold it.

::

Like, I feel like they I don't know.

::

I'm trying to find like the

::

best example of it.

::

I feel like they would have

::

gone like just a little too

::

over the top of just like,

::

I don't know what you're doing or X, Y, Z,

::

ABC, like just, just that type of vibe.

::

And Dakota Fanning was very matter of fact,

::

which I did appreciate

::

because she did need to

::

come off as a very

::

level-headed CIA analyst.

::

Um,

::

didn't expect her to almost

::

get blown up by a car.

::

That completely took me off guard,

::

which I applaud this movie for.

::

I thought she was going to

::

be in the finale.

::

She totally is not.

::

She almost gets blown up by

::

a car and goes to the hospital.

::

She is.

::

She's thirty years old.

::

She's thirty.

::

Which is wild as fuck

::

because I'm almost thirty.

::

What the fuck?

::

She was born in nineteen ninety four.

::

And when she did Man on Fire,

::

she did Man on Fire when it

::

was two thousand and ten.

::

Stop.

::

Please stop.

::

Hold on.

::

Because you've got to stop

::

putting numbers on shit.

::

I've committed to things and

::

I've committed to this.

::

So Man on Fire came out in

::

two thousand four when she was ten.

::

So that was twenty years ago.

::

That's what I thought.

::

That's what I thought.

::

We guess she was a child actress.

::

That's disgusting.

::

All right.

::

How does that make you feel?

::

Shut up.

::

Brian keeps telling me I'm middle-aged.

::

I mean,

::

Doug and I are very clearly

::

entering middle-age.

::

I ain't that damn old.

::

I'll kick your ass.

::

How about that?

::

Marcus, you do need to think about AARP.

::

And investing in your future.

::

Brian, what the fuck?

::

You know what?

::

Something that you'll need

::

to talk about right now.

::

I will quit this podcast and

::

it'll be white on white.

::

It'll just be the printer paper podcast.

::

What do you want?

::

Off-white?

::

Eggshell?

::

Eggshell is hilarious.

::

Eggshell in black.

::

This isn't even a big flaw

::

because it didn't bother me that much.

::

I just thought it was

::

strange that Dakota Fanning

::

was playing opposite and was like, okay,

::

I like the fact that you

::

had this lead actress that

::

was just as smart and

::

cunning and it didn't need

::

Denzel to really put all

::

the pieces together.

::

He knew he could give her a

::

little bit and then she was

::

able to fill in the rest of the gap.

::

I did like that.

::

I enjoyed that she had

::

somebody who she was able

::

to figure out his name and

::

she was able to do some of

::

the stuff to go back and forth with him.

::

Yeah.

::

I don't know if they ever

::

answered the question of

::

why he picked her because

::

she asked him that question deliberately.

::

And I thought that that was

::

a very interesting question

::

to bring up that you didn't

::

refer back to.

::

I made an assumption that

::

this was going to spin off

::

like an Equalizer spin-off

::

series for her.

::

That's why I thought why she

::

asked that question.

::

Like he was picking her to

::

take over for something.

::

I didn't, whatever.

::

I'm just going to say this.

::

I was not necessarily a fan

::

of the casting of Dakota

::

Fanning in this role.

::

Fascinating.

::

I think I would have done

::

somebody more... Until I

::

saw the car blow up.

::

Then I said, oh,

::

she's not even going to be

::

in the end of this.

::

So it didn't really matter.

::

Then I was fine with it.

::

But at first I was like,

::

if this is the person

::

that's going to be opposite Denzel...

::

I don't know what I was looking for,

::

but maybe a different

::

person casted in that role.

::

I don't know.

::

Older, maybe?

::

She seemed young.

::

I don't know.

::

I could get to Shailene

::

Woody a little bit.

::

Zoe Zaldana a little bit.

::

I think I would have liked

::

Zoe in that role.

::

I feel.

::

So here's the thing.

::

I feel like they wanted like

::

somebody that was like at

::

the start of their career.

::

I think that was the vibe

::

they were going for.

::

Yeah.

::

And Zoe Saldana, maybe,

::

maybe I'm going to say maybe,

::

but she's helming her own

::

series at CBS as the lead operator.

::

So I'm, I'm,

::

I'm wondering if Zoe Saldana

::

is like moved on from those roles.

::

Yeah.

::

She's been in some of the

::

biggest superhero blockbusters.

::

Oh, for sure.

::

I think you're looking at

::

Chloe Grace Moretz.

::

She was in the first Equalizer,

::

so I guess you can't

::

really... I don't know.

::

I get maybe.

::

Dove Cameron comes to mind.

::

I see her in a lot of Disney stuff,

::

obviously with Descendants.

::

She was in a series called

::

Schmigadoon that I liked.

::

I would have liked Dove Cameron.

::

That was a good one.

::

But again,

::

they I understand why they

::

didn't go maybe for actresses that are

::

I don't know.

::

I understand why they went

::

with a more subdued Dakota

::

fanning performance.

::

I understand why they did

::

that for this movie.

::

Not the end of the world by any means.

::

No.

::

Did they ever mention in the

::

first two movies,

::

and this is because I haven't seen them,

::

did they ever mention in

::

the first two movies a

::

woman named Susan Plummer?

::

Was that his wife?

::

So according to Wikipedia,

::

I'm looking this up to try

::

to answer your question, Marcus.

::

According to the Wikipedia

::

summary for this particular movie,

::

The reason why Robert picks

::

Collins is because she's

::

the daughter of his friend, Susan Plummer,

::

and wants to help her in his career.

::

So that's the reason why he

::

sends all that material,

::

because she does get a promotion,

::

and then...

::

That's where they're like, oh,

::

and then he sends her that

::

note that's like, oh, by the way,

::

you're the daughter of my friend.

::

I missed that detail.

::

Where the fuck was that at?

::

They didn't explicitly say it.

::

They do a quick flashback.

::

I missed it too.

::

That's the reason why I'm on

::

Wikipedia because I was like,

::

I don't know because it

::

does feel very random in the movie.

::

I watched this shit twice.

::

Yeah, well...

::

Cue that bitch up for a

::

third time because you got

::

to catch this one.

::

So, well, I think you do.

::

You would have to pay

::

attention the first time

::

her name is mentioned and then it's gone.

::

So you would you would have

::

to know that name from

::

equalizer to immediately.

::

So, like,

::

I think it's I think it's

::

reasonable to me.

::

It's reasonable that you would miss it.

::

Mm hmm.

::

I also would agree that you would.

::

And I mean, and again,

::

I didn't need to do a lot of homework,

::

but I yes,

::

it is reasonable that you would

::

like fly right by it.

::

Yeah.

::

That makes a lot more sense.

::

Okay.

::

Thanks, Doug.

::

Yeah, that was good.

::

I'm so mad that the

::

motherfucker who did not

::

watch one and two figured that shit out.

::

I watched this shit twice

::

and he did further proves

::

he didn't have to do no

::

homework to get here.

::

I mean, admittedly, I cheated.

::

I pulled it up on Wikipedia

::

to try to put that gap together.

::

How did you catch that to pull that up,

::

though?

::

Did you catch that in the

::

movie the first time or

::

just from this conversation?

::

I was just listening to you.

::

No, I didn't catch it in the movie.

::

No, I didn't catch shit at all.

::

Okay, I'm sorry.

::

No,

::

I was just trying to help answer your

::

question.

::

I apologize.

::

Well,

::

the Equalizer's also not like an

::

MCU-type project where, like,

::

we're being reminded of this stuff on,

::

like, an annual basis.

::

Like, this is a tight trilogy.

::

And the Equalizer II, when did,

::

I don't even know when

::

Equalizer II came out.

::

In the

::

Yeah.

::

No one's going to remember that.

::

Ten years.

::

Twenty twenty eighteen.

::

Twenty eight.

::

Oh,

::

equalizer to equalizer to is twenty

::

eighteen.

::

And that cast is I should

::

have watched this movie.

::

Denzel Washington, Pedro Pascal,

::

Bill Pullman.

::

Man, that was a good cast.

::

I should have watched this.

::

It's almost like it was so good.

::

They made two sequels.

::

Maybe.

::

Yeah.

::

Oh, man, you crack me up, Doug.

::

I love you, man.

::

I love you, man.

::

I love you, too.

::

I will say that I do love

::

the... I love that they

::

really leaned on the

::

community portion of this movie.

::

Because what makes Equalizer

::

movies so good is the

::

relationship that he has in

::

the area that he's in with the people.

::

Because he is just... So

::

this is what I was mentioning earlier.

::

When he is like healing up

::

and in the bed and he's

::

like flashbacking about

::

that opening scene,

::

which I do love that they

::

did a POV shot of the

::

opening scene chaos that we saw.

::

They're underrated.

::

I'm so glad they did one through his eyes,

::

too,

::

because you can make that look and

::

feel corny.

::

But they did it in a way of like, no,

::

he's he's reliving this.

::

He shot somebody in the face

::

and like now he's looking

::

at his cracked reflection in the mirror.

::

I was hoping that they

::

weren't going to go on this whole,

::

I don't want to be that person.

::

I'm not going to kill anyone.

::

He was just going to watch

::

these people die and then

::

kick back into this is who

::

I always am and it's for other people.

::

I love the fact that Denzel

::

never at any point in this movie

::

Robert McCall does not hesitate.

::

He doesn't seem worried.

::

There is no,

::

the big boss villain finally

::

got a hold of this guy.

::

Like, no, he's just, I'm confident.

::

I'm the same motherfucker

::

I've always been.

::

You just are another person

::

that I've dealt with.

::

I've dealt with worse.

::

Like to me,

::

Pedro Pascal's character is like the one,

::

a two Roberts, like one B,

::

like these two were evenly matched.

::

You know what I mean?

::

Like, and they set that up like that.

::

This guy was just another

::

fucking mob boss in the

::

city who didn't really know

::

who he was fucking with.

::

And I like that he never wavered.

::

Denzel's character never

::

wavered in that or his confidence.

::

I think that's,

::

that is one of the reasons

::

I really enjoy this movie.

::

Cause I feel like for writers, they,

::

they feel like they run out

::

of places to go.

::

So eventually they're like, Oh,

::

they need to have a crisis

::

of faith in themselves.

::

And like those stories don't

::

always vibe with me for various reasons.

::

Like Spider-Man two,

::

I still even get a little

::

hesitant on like the

::

original Spider-Man two.

::

And he's like, well,

::

I don't know if I need to be Spider-Man.

::

And like, it's a good movie.

::

We've talked about it,

::

but even in that movie, which is,

::

critically acclaimed I'm

::

like really so I'm really

::

happy that in a movie like

::

this it's like no we know

::

exactly what we're doing

::

and we're going we're going

::

full speed we're going full

::

speed and making it seem

::

like Denzel is this like he

::

is the weather and this

::

hurricane just came to your

::

town you have no idea

::

what's gonna hit you like

::

it's almost like an

::

opposite of that dynamic in

::

a normal I would say action

::

movie I agree you know and

::

that's what's enjoyable it's

::

You don't need to understand

::

how he got his particular

::

set of skills to borrow a

::

thing from Liam Neeson.

::

You don't need to understand.

::

You just need to know that

::

if he is in your community...

::

And you are a, like a, a bad guy.

::

Watch out.

::

Like that's basically all

::

you need to know.

::

Like that's it.

::

And they don't,

::

they just kind of created

::

this like mysterious air around him.

::

Like of, you know,

::

what's the motivation though?

::

He just saw something he

::

that's wrong and wanted to fix it.

::

Like, you know what I mean?

::

So it's like,

::

Yeah, that's interesting.

::

And he has those flashbacks

::

or those words come up in

::

his memories of like... I

::

think it's Susan.

::

I think it's Miss Plummer

::

that is repeating that in

::

his head of like... I was

::

trying to figure whose

::

lady's voice that was.

::

Who the woman's voice was

::

that kept saying you want

::

to do it on behalf of

::

others and protecting others.

::

It was something along those lines.

::

Or I could have got all my

::

shows mixed up because I

::

watch a lot of fucking TV.

::

You're right.

::

Um, but somebody was saying like, yeah,

::

you do this for others

::

basically of like

::

protecting others and the

::

protection of others.

::

And I like that being your

::

fucking motivation.

::

Like that's sometimes all you need.

::

Like, I don't know.

::

The only time that trope, this is random,

::

the only time I like that

::

trope where a hero gives up

::

their shit is Superman II.

::

When Lois finds out that

::

Christopher Reeves is Superman,

::

that Clark Kent is Superman,

::

and he gives it up for Lois.

::

And then they go to the bar,

::

and he gets beat up in the bar.

::

They throw beer on him,

::

and they disrespect him.

::

I really love that movie,

::

only because that

::

motherfucker goes back to the bar,

::

beats the shit out of the dude,

::

and then drops money on the

::

table when he gets his powers back.

::

That's just one of my favorites.

::

I love when Sabrina does that shit.

::

I think for me, too,

::

the reason that the charm

::

of this movie really

::

connects with me is that

::

where John Wick is like,

::

this was a personal affront to me, and

::

I don't know.

::

You killed my dog.

::

You killed my dog.

::

In the stones of hell with your blood.

::

Like, it's just, it is vengeance.

::

Look, look, I get angry too.

::

Okay.

::

But like that.

::

You know what?

::

I was about to say something crazy.

::

Brian?

::

Brian?

::

I'll mail you another star

::

badge in the mail.

::

No, it's okay.

::

There's somebody who likes

::

to see him get that angry,

::

but I don't want to...

::

Somebody likes to watch that happen.

::

It's like, ooh, I'm hot.

::

I'm hot.

::

Do it again.

::

Somebody piss him off again.

::

Tell him Captain America sucks.

::

Tell him that Cap was wrong.

::

Tell him you sided with Tony.

::

She just sit back watching it.

::

Tell him that capitalism is

::

just the way it is.

::

Tell him black lives don't matter.

::

We'll see what he does.

::

Look him in his eyes when you say it.

::

And then she scurries off to the corner.

::

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

::

You know what that guy – hey, Brian,

::

you know what that guy said?

::

He was talking during the movie,

::

and you know what else he said?

::

He also said, like,

::

workers don't deserve shit.

::

Fuck workers.

::

That's what he said.

::

That's what he said.

::

And scurries off?

::

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

::

Go, go, go, go, go, go.

::

Folks, they got me dialed in.

::

What can I say?

::

They're right.

::

I mean, yeah.

::

Yeah, all that stuff gets me angry.

::

Yes,

::

I also have a wide variety of vocabulary.

::

So yes, when I do get upset,

::

I'm not just being like, I hate you.

::

It's like...

::

you will come to me when you

::

need me the most and I will

::

look you in the eye and you

::

will know that you've

::

messed up and you will not

::

come to me again not

::

through your own volition

::

but mine you know like it's

::

just when when I think of

::

words they they just come

::

um but uh never mind

::

I'm so sorry.

::

We're very close to the nine

::

minute monster.

::

The monster is knocking on your door.

::

I am so sorry.

::

Five minutes away.

::

Right around the corner.

::

The charm of this movie,

::

we did mention workers.

::

I'm going to connect to this.

::

Basically,

::

it is still trying to keep that

::

focus on normal everyday

::

people and not super

::

assassins like John Wick,

::

which has its place.

::

It's fine.

::

The whole idea that

::

that that rob that roberta

::

roberto was like so upset

::

that this one guy in jersey

::

had his pension stolen by

::

like this investment group

::

and he only went for like

::

four hundred k when there

::

was clearly millions of

::

dollars there and something like pacific

::

really emphasizing the fact

::

that like that type of

::

money is life changing for

::

most people and that's you

::

don't always see that

::

because in so many movies

::

the stakes are always so

::

high and it's like unless

::

you pay me a billion

::

bajillion dollars you'll

::

never you'll never find me

::

I don't know what accent

::

that was but it's always

::

like oh my gosh we gotta

::

get a bajillion dollars and

::

it's like no man a whip pretty much

::

I know what it feels like.

::

My empire.

::

Spiders, spiders, spiders.

::

The only other movie that did this,

::

that I would say does this

::

sort of like average dude looking out for

::

on like average criminals is

::

kind of sorta unbreakable

::

by M night Shyamalan in the sense of like,

::

he's just an average dude

::

who senses that somebody

::

did something wrong and

::

steps in to try to,

::

it steps in to fix it.

::

Now he is, the motivations are different.

::

So it's not a direct comparison,

::

but it is this,

::

it is still saying that like similar,

::

that vibe of like,

::

No,

::

like they we don't as a community have

::

to put up with someone

::

disrupting what we are

::

trying to do because they

::

want to make some like some

::

extra money in an unethical way.

::

Like it's just it's just the

::

best way that I can understand.

::

Yeah.

::

Yeah.

::

And I think to me, what really paid,

::

I think one,

::

I'm gonna say the funny thing first.

::

I think it's funny that

::

nobody in the city flinched.

::

Like they accepted Roberto,

::

but when they saw that

::

motherfucker get the killing,

::

nobody flinched in the city.

::

Nobody,

::

they still party with him and threw

::

the blue paint up when they

::

won the soccer game.

::

I was like, you know what?

::

I fucked with that.

::

They say, yeah,

::

we got somebody to protect us.

::

Shout out to this black man

::

coming to protect us.

::

But on the other side,

::

I do like how they set up

::

how important things were to him.

::

Because something so simple

::

like the man who owns the

::

fish market getting beat up

::

in the freezer.

::

And you can hear it from outside the door.

::

That simple scene where it

::

wasn't a lot going on at all.

::

He's just beating the shit

::

out of this man.

::

And shout out to the guy who played...

::

the shop owner that

::

motherfucker made that shit

::

feel real it could have

::

felt corny as hell and

::

unreal but that is what set

::

Denzel off on that route

::

was like he knew he wasn't

::

healed up enough he knew he

::

could not fight those dudes

::

where he was but that scene

::

to me was like oh yeah like

::

that and then them and then

::

the young the beautiful

::

young lady saying they see

::

you as one of them like

::

that solidified his

::

placement in the city and I

::

like that a lot yeah yeah a

::

hundred percent

::

Any other final thoughts

::

that you all have about Equalizer three?

::

The only thing there were

::

just two things left,

::

one positive and one critical.

::

The critical thing was that

::

the terrorist subplot was a

::

little underbaked for me.

::

I could have had more of that.

::

I could have had more of the

::

political maneuvering of that.

::

That is how I found out that I'm like,

::

trending older with these

::

movies because I was like

::

look at these look at this

::

italy isn't italy wonderful

::

this is so nice he's there

::

yeah there's a little bit

::

of blood but look how nice

::

italy is he's having such a

::

nice time you sound like a

::

stereotypical midwest

::

mother like italy great this is

::

A little bit of blood on the cobble.

::

A little bit of blood on the cobble.

::

So there's a little bit of blood,

::

but you know what?

::

We're here.

::

We have our happy hats on

::

and we're going to make the best of it.

::

Big smiling faces, everyone.

::

Don't worry, everybody.

::

I pack sandwiches.

::

We're going to have such a great day.

::

I got fruit snacks for everybody.

::

I got you.

::

I got you.

::

And I know what we're doing for dinner.

::

What kind, Brian?

::

They're the Welch's variety.

::

I'll go anywhere with you.

::

They're the ones at Murphy's.

::

No,

::

I'm not doing this Sam's Club generic

::

fruit pack bullshit.

::

Where am I meeting you?

::

For how long?

::

I mean, Brittany is on record of,

::

I have snacks in my purse,

::

not for my children, but for my husband.

::

It's not... She knows that I,

::

at three o'clock,

::

She's like, three o'clock, I get crabby.

::

And she's like, don't worry.

::

I brought fruit snacks.

::

I'm like, fucking good.

::

This is going down south.

::

I can always tell.

::

She's like, hey,

::

you kind of got really mad

::

at that dude who was just driving.

::

Like, your road rage is a little extra.

::

Here's a fruit snack.

::

Oh, man.

::

That's how I know Brian and

::

I's anger is different

::

because my anger is like,

::

do you see this fucking dipshit?

::

Look at him.

::

Look at him driving over there,

::

that fucking moron.

::

The gull.

::

The gull of that guy.

::

Brittany,

::

take the first leg and just puts

::

it right in your cheek.

::

Brittany, go.

::

You want raspberry?

::

Take that.

::

Yep, yep.

::

Okay, last little tangent.

::

Here's one thing that we're

::

starting to notice.

::

Harrison,

::

I need to be careful because

::

Harrison is starting to turn into me.

::

There is somebody who does

::

something and he'll be like...

::

I don't understand why he did that at all.

::

And Brittany starts laughing and I'm like,

::

what's so funny?

::

She goes, is you.

::

And I was like, no, she's like, no,

::

that's something you have

::

said out loud to other people.

::

So does he do it with your cadence?

::

I don't understand why he did that.

::

Yes.

::

Yes.

::

That is exactly how I've,

::

I've ruined things.

::

Yes.

::

To your point, Brian, like, yes,

::

that you're absolutely right.

::

Of like,

::

Carry on.

::

I don't know.

::

I could have had a little

::

bit more political.

::

I agree.

::

But it's fine.

::

It's totally fine.

::

And then I blink if you miss it,

::

because the way that they I

::

liked how they were trying to connect it.

::

Like, yeah,

::

you think this little thing in

::

this little city is a one off,

::

but it is a part of this

::

bigger terrorist sale funding.

::

Right.

::

Maybe we should have hit on

::

that a little bit more.

::

But yeah, I get it.

::

yeah no and then I like the

::

finale I liked how it was

::

like almost like a scary

::

movie in reverse like that

::

was totally my vibe I loved

::

that this is a good movie

::

that shit happened that

::

dude when he was stepping

::

on glass and shit like that

::

I was like god damn I felt

::

like I had it in my foot

::

the sound was done very

::

well yes very very well

::

Marcus any other final thoughts for you

::

No, I mean, I really enjoyed the movie.

::

I think it was a great Patty pick,

::

so shout out to Mace for the Patty pick.

::

Yep, shout out to Mace.

::

This makes me want to go

::

back and watch two in one.

::

I was just about to kind of

::

say the same thing.

::

It's a great conclusion to all three.

::

I think you could watch all

::

three straight through and

::

get a different feeling from each one.

::

Yeah, I think they're on Paramount+,

::

so it's pretty easy to do.

::

Fun stuff.

::

Cool.

::

Well, Mace, thanks for the recommendation.

::

We appreciate it.

::

And if you'd like to

::

recommend our next movie,

::

sign up for the Patreon.

::

Go over to patreon.com slash

::

films in black and white.

::

Sign up over there.

::

Gentlemen,

::

what do you all have to plug this week?

::

Hey folks,

::

I'm here to tell you about the

::

Etsy shop via the love nerds.

::

So you can go find it by, Oh, you're good.

::

The banner was good.

::

The banner was good.

::

You can go to the love nerds.com.

::

There's a link there to the Etsy shop.

::

You can take a look around the blog,

::

find recipes if you want.

::

But Maggie is now producing

::

new material for the Love

::

Nerds Etsy shop.

::

So you can go find

::

everything she's offering there.

::

More than just party supplies.

::

We're talking,

::

there's a whole range of things.

::

Go check it out yourself at lovenerds.com.

::

Absolutely.

::

Marcus, what do you got?

::

Oh, you know what it is.

::

You got to follow the mantra.

::

Never offend it.

::

Always humble.

::

Soul Tide put out a new song

::

called Fooling You.

::

It is a country jam of the summer.

::

So make sure that you go and listen.

::

Thank you.

::

Make sure you go and listen to that.

::

S-O-U-L-T-Y-E.

::

And the song is called Fooling You.

::

you all right um I'm also

::

dropping new music very

::

soon I'm gonna be dropping

::

um my first single for my

::

next short project my short

::

ep called big texas um

::

extortion will be dropping

::

here very very soon and so

::

I'm very excited about it

::

just a lot just a small

::

package of music of

::

creating and going.

::

I also want to give a huge, huge,

::

huge shout out to the AV

::

Lounge here in Vermilion,

::

South Dakota and Studio B,

::

which is where I have been

::

going to record my music.

::

It is also a podcasting space and it is a,

::

like if you need to go in

::

and record your music, record your audio,

::

you can do it with someone

::

there or you can do it by yourself,

::

but just shout out to

::

Studio B at the AV Lounge

::

here in Vermilion, South Dakota.

::

You can always reach out to

::

Joe or reach out to the AV

::

Lounge to schedule your

::

time to get some recording in today.

::

I mean, that's free promo.

::

That's not paid promo.

::

I genuinely found a place

::

because I got new neighbors

::

and I need to go record

::

like in a space where, you know,

::

I can really open up a

::

little bit more and I don't

::

want to disturb nobody.

::

This place has been clutch.

::

I spent four hours in there

::

this past weekend by myself recording.

::

So really good.

::

Oh, yeah.

::

That's dope.

::

Shout out to the AV lounge.

::

I would like to plug this podcast.

::

So if you had fun listening,

::

you had fun with the silly

::

moments from us and our

::

talk of the equalizer,

::

share us with a friend or a

::

family member.

::

That is the best way to

::

support the podcast.

::

You love is just that sort

::

of word of mouth advertising.

::

But if you want to help us

::

pick our next Patty family movie,

::

or if you want to just help

::

support the show,

::

go over to patrion.com

::

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::

sign up for what are our tiers there.

::

Also want to remind folks

::

that this weekend at the

::

coyote twin is the vortex film festival.

::

There's going to be a link

::

in the episode description

::

about how you purchase your tickets.

::

A lot of really cool stuff

::

going on with that.

::

So be sure to head over there,

::

sign up for that.

::

especially if you're in town, look, y'all,

::

there's no reason to miss this.

::

Like this is going to be a

::

really cool like film festival.

::

It's going to be a great

::

thing for you all to check

::

out and it's going to be a lot of fun.

::

So support your local theater,

::

support the film festival.

::

And that's what I got.

::

But gentlemen,

::

we have a three step process to success.

::

So Brian, what is that first step, sir?

::

Hey folks,

::

I'm here to tell you to read a book.

::

That's right.

::

Just pick up any book.

::

It can be an instruction booklet.

::

I don't care.

::

Just read anything.

::

And then you find out the more you read,

::

the easier it is to read.

::

So just read a book.

::

Yeah.

::

Didn't realize that's where you're going,

::

but I completely agree.

::

Marcus, lay us down that second step.

::

Make sure you drink some water.

::

Listen, it's getting a little.

::

chilly outside.

::

It's getting a little nippy, just a hair.

::

All right.

::

But before the summer is over,

::

that doesn't mean you need

::

to stop drinking water.

::

Go ahead.

::

Keep drinking water so you

::

can prepare for the winter time.

::

You know,

::

all that moisture is going to be gone.

::

Ain't no vitamin D. You want

::

to keep that skin on and popping.

::

So drink some water,

::

treat yourself to something

::

nice while you're at it.

::

Some Voss, some all that good stuff.

::

Absolutely.

::

And that third step is, look, y'all,

::

wash your ass.

::

I saw an article that the

::

New York Post made where it

::

said like that washing your

::

body was just it had no medical benefit.

::

The medical benefit is your

::

ass don't stink.

::

So I did see one practice

::

media literacy and to wash

::

your ass like that.

::

Yeah.

::

Even if it doesn't,

::

even if it doesn't like,

::

let's take this out this way.

::

Even if it doesn't have any

::

like medical benefit, you, I mean,

::

you're still not carrying

::

around that stink of a

::

stinky ass with you wherever you go.

::

And so make sure you get up

::

in it with some soap and water,

::

wash your legs, just wash your ass.

::

It's important.

::

So, um,

::

And then step four from

::

Roman this week is be a

::

gooder person than you think you are,

::

which is good advice.

::

Absolutely.

::

Gooder, huh?

::

Gooder.

::

That's fine.

::

I'm not going to question it.

::

That's fine.

::

Gentlemen,

::

that does it for this week's

::

episode of Films in Black and White.

::

We'll be back next week with

::

another fantastic episode.

::

But in the meantime,

::

and in the between time, stay safe,

::

stay healthy.

::

We love y'all.

::

We appreciate y'all.

::

We'll catch y'all next week.

::

Marcus, do you think you're playing music?

::

Am I not playing music?

::

You are not.

::

What the hell is that?

::

I don't know.

::

I just didn't say anything.

::

I'm going to jump in.

::

Close that shit out, Brian.

::

Oh, no, we got

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