Hate Watching with Dan and Tony
Hate Watching with Dan and Tony
Hate Watching The Pickup: A Monkey, A Ring, and Zero Stakes
The trailer had us hopeful; the movie had us baffled. We dive into The Pickup and pull apart why a slick heist premise, a stacked cast, and a veteran director still yield a comedy-thriller with no real stakes and a whole lot of shrugs. From the opening bank “meet-cute” with a drawn gun that triggers zero fallout to an armored-truck chase that looks slow because it’s shot too wide and scored too flat, we track how craft choices drain momentum and mute laughs. Eddie Murphy sets up a character with a clear goal, Pete Davidson aims for endearing idiot energy, and Kiki Palmer arrives with a revenge motive that should add pathos—yet none of it bonds into chemistry or tension.
We spend time on the filmmaking: why long lenses and tighter coverage sell speed; how music should escalate emotion; and what happens when geography, cause, and effect get fuzzy. We also examine character math. Playing “dumb” requires sharp intention, but Travis quips from the sidelines while the script swears his math brain matters. Russell’s anniversary ticking clock evaporates the moment it’s convenient. A hostage check-in rule is established then never used. When consequences vanish, audience investment goes with them. Still, there are bright spots: a brutally funny run-over gag, a perfectly human “that went terribly” phone bit, Eva Longoria’s decisive car moment, and Marshawn Lynch trying to manufacture laughs out of thin air.
The heist logic gets our full audit too: RFID hand-waving, casino cash tracking, schedules, and how laundering would actually work. We talk pancakes, butt jokes, and why romance beats fall flat when performance doesn’t carry the feeling. If you love action-comedy with punch and pace, this breakdown shows why The Pickup doesn’t deliver—and what would’ve fixed it. Stick around to hear what we’re watching next as we tee up a revisit of The Truman Show.
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Here's the thing, Dan. I watched the trailer and I was like, I chuckled in the trailer.
SPEAKER_01:The trailer was a better movie than the movie. Oh, it was. Right.
SPEAKER_02:Like the tra the trailer is way better than what the movie ended up being, and I I feel hoodwinked.
SPEAKER_00:Dan and Tony.
SPEAKER_01:Welcome to Hate Watching with Dan and Tony. I am Dan. I am Tony. On this show, we watch a movie, then we talk about the movie. Tony, you picked the movie. We're going to start this episode. We're starting by saying what the movie is. Wow. Look the movie.
SPEAKER_02:Do I give a setup of why I picked it, or you just want me to jump right into the name of the movie?
SPEAKER_01:Give me just the name of the movie, then you can tell why you picked it.
SPEAKER_02:This is the Amazon Prime instant classic, the pickup, starring Eddie Murphy, Pete Davidson, Kiki Palmer, Desperate Housewives. Eva Longoria. Eva Longoria. That's all I got. Who else is in this? Oh Andrew Dice Dice Clay, sort of. And then there's a scene that he's not in, but they use his voice. Did you watch the credits? Did you watch the credits? With uh with the monkey? Yeah, with the monkey. That's not Andrew Dice Clay on camera there, Dan. He's turned around backwards wearing the same yes, wearing the same costume. They did not pay Dice Clay for that day. So they use his voiceover with a guy on the phone, not Dice Clay. You don't, you don't not show Dice Clay's face. All right.
SPEAKER_01:Um what about what about the big the big spider monkey payoff? That was that was worth the the amount of realistic that they put it in the movie.
SPEAKER_02:I mean, it ends, it bookends the movie. That's how good it is. They know, they know a bit when they see it, you know, and they hit it hard. Um, no, awful, terrible. I so stupid. Nobody cared about the monkey, never once. Uh, and also the monkey, yeah, it's a little messed up, but also like, who cares? I don't know. They put like googly as well. We'll talk about them. Yeah, they gave it googly eyes because it went through a lot of trauma, you see. So that's that's what happens. Um this movie, Dan. Hold on a second.
SPEAKER_01:Did you did you think that spider monkey was alive?
SPEAKER_02:No. Did you think it was alive? I don't know, man. I don't know why.
SPEAKER_01:Like cryogenically frozen, maybe? I don't know. But what we're saying is it uh they find a sp a spider monkey in a case in their in their in their armored armor truck. In their armored truck. And I don't know. I I just thought something real was gonna happen and they were gonna it was gonna come to life or something.
SPEAKER_02:I wish it would have. That would have been great. Um, but instead the bit is that it just gets beat up, and then it's a museum that wants it, and then the museum's real disappointed. Real disappointed. So good. That's a great joke.
SPEAKER_01:Okay, well, I gotta start with my my so it's the pickup, it's all these people, Brent 2025, Amazon Prime. Are you ready?
SPEAKER_02:What a service.
SPEAKER_01:Are you ready for my uh for my big piece of trivia about this movie? Yeah, yeah, give me some trivia. Watching the credits, get to the writer, has the first guy's name, has the second guy's name. I'm like, wait a second. That's my old neighbor. No!
SPEAKER_02:Guy that used to live upstairs from us, co-wrote this movie. Well, yeah, now he lives in a house, probably because of all of his great writing credits. No, no, I looked at his name. Probably not.
SPEAKER_01:Not a lot.
unknown:Okay.
SPEAKER_01:It's the first thing he's done in five years. So it's his first credit thing.
SPEAKER_02:So which so is it is it Matt Miter or Kevin Burroughs? Matt Miter. Matt Miter. Well, shout out to Matt Miter. I I hope you made a lot of money. I hope you there's no way that that's true, though, right? Like Amazon Prime's not giving out a lot of money for these things. No, I don't think so. But I hope you made an amount of money that helps you on your journey.
SPEAKER_01:I read a thing where they said that like this year or last year, there were 25, you know, big scripts.
unknown:Okay.
SPEAKER_01:And, you know, in in all of Hollywood, they basically were saying That's not very many can compared to how many movies we made. One guy wrote three of them. What? Which guy? Did you do you know that?
SPEAKER_02:No, I don't know. That's incredible.
SPEAKER_01:Good for you, one guy. It must have been like the major, you know, Disney, Paramount, Sony, you know, there was like 25 total scripts.
SPEAKER_02:Sure.
SPEAKER_01:And one guy wrote three of them. Good for you.
SPEAKER_02:He's doing great for him. That's wonderful. But we should probably have more good scripts than that. I'm just throwing that out there.
SPEAKER_01:I I think that most of the good scripts go somewhere else. You know, I don't think that's where they end up anymore.
SPEAKER_00:Sure.
SPEAKER_02:Maybe um okay. So I'm look- I'm just looking up your your boy, Matt Miter, here. Just just looking it up. So writer, just in case you want to go a deep dive, everybody. Uh Farev. Don't know what that is, 2013. Gentleman Lobsters, which is something that him and this Kevin Burroughs guy wrote together. Yeah, they um and the package and don't so they write everything together. Okay, so there's a movie called The Package from 2018. Uh two episodes of something called Don't, and then the pickup. So if you want to do a whole awful Sunday, you can watch all of those movies.
SPEAKER_01:I think the lobster gentleman lobsters was like a web show or something.
SPEAKER_02:I don't know. Oh, sure. Yeah, there's 20 episodes, so it's and it's not TV. I it can't be. Oh, it's a cartoon. Oh, it's a cartoon. There it is. I would watch that. You would watch it.
SPEAKER_01:I totally watch that. But he was like a staff writer somewhere, paramount or someplace, and would I don't know, go there and sit in a room or something. So great. I love that.
SPEAKER_02:I who who wouldn't want a job? Yeah, who wouldn't want a job? That's it. Jobs, yeah, jobs are great. Jobs are great. Uh, I'm also just looking up the guy who directed this, whose name is Tim Story. That's a great name for someone in the film business. I love that. Um Tom and Jerry, the movie in 2021. Uh Shaft Scorpion TV. Maybe they wrote this as a curtain. Ride along and ride along too. That does make sense. That makes sense a little bit. Those are bad. I love Ride Along and Ride Along 2, but as movies, they're not good. But just watching Ice Cube and Kevin Hart make fun of each other is much more fun than what happens between Eddie Murphy and Pete Davidson. He also did Taxi with Queen Latifah. Ah, Jimmy Fallon's old movie.
SPEAKER_01:Oh no, one of his one of his two movies. Never been kissed.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, because he did Fever Pitch. Not Never Been Kissed. Never Been Kiss is a different Drew Barrymore film with the guy from Alias. Fever Pitch is our boy. Kiefer Sutherland? Kiefer Sutherland. Wait, hold on. No, alias, not 24. You're confusing a lot of things here, too. Oh, what's her name?
SPEAKER_01:Ben Affleck's wife.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, yeah, yeah. Jen Jennifer Lopez. No, different wife. Gardner. Jennifer Gardner? This is we're this is going really well. We should do trivia contests together, Dan. We would crush it. I would lose. Can you use your phone when you do those? Uh I mean, you're not supposed to, but people definitely do. You just gotta hide it. You gotta hide it on your table. It's called cheating, but people do it.
SPEAKER_01:It's called cheating.
SPEAKER_02:Why'd you pick this movie, Tony? Well, we you watched the Eddie Murphy doc a few weeks ago. So then I watched it the week before this, and I was like, there's a new Eddie Murphy movie. We should watch it because, you know, I love Eddie Murphy. I have no ill will towards Eddie Murphy after this. Um do I think that he tried? Not really. Uh, but there are a couple scenes where he's like, I'll do a bit. And they were funny-ish. You know?
SPEAKER_01:You mean the rest of the movie he'd play another character from another one of his old movies? Correct. Not the character he was in this movie.
SPEAKER_02:He'd start doing another character. He's like, he's like, remember when I remember when I was funny? I'll try to do a little bit of that right now.
unknown:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Which yeah, I can't hold that against him because this is not a leg, a leg.
SPEAKER_01:You're like, that's not you.
SPEAKER_02:That is not who you set up, you're not set up to my leg guy. Got my my legs all messed up, my back is all messed up. Yeah, like that's a funny scene, but it's like, who is this guy? This is not this is not the guy you've been for 34 minutes. Was it a funny scene? Um, okay. No, I uh maybe not scene. I thought it was a funny bit. I chuckled. I was like, yeah, Eddie Murphy is funny. I remember him.
SPEAKER_01:I laughed at no, I didn't laugh at. I uh there were four, I think there are four things I liked about this movie.
SPEAKER_02:Okay. Oh, I can't wait. Do you want to do a list or you wanna yeah?
SPEAKER_01:It was an hour and 36 minutes. It was quick.
SPEAKER_02:Thank thank God for 90-minute films.
SPEAKER_01:There was one joke.
SPEAKER_02:There was I'm gonna guess what your joke was, but yeah.
SPEAKER_01:There was one joke. There was one visual I liked, and there was one justification that I liked.
SPEAKER_02:That was it. I can't wait to hear the justification because I don't feel like I heard any of those. So that'll be great. Yeah the joke, I'm gonna guess, I'm gonna guess your three. Uh so the joke you liked was the fart joke in the beginning, where Pete Davidson's driving the truck and he farts because Dan has no taste. Uh the visual is the visual that you liked at the end when the police are coming down the street and they're all holding their hands up. The scene that's almost identical to I'm pretty sure Bad Boys. We've seen that. I've seen this exact shot before, and I was like, I like this shot, but I definitely seen this before. Yeah. Uh all right, two for two. Um, I don't remember what your third thing is.
SPEAKER_01:The the justification. You'll never figure it out. Oh, yeah. I have no idea what the justification is. Yeah. Yeah. So those are like the three things in the movie that I liked. You're gonna point them out as we get there, right? Of course, of course, of course.
SPEAKER_02:Because sometimes we say that and then we forget to point those things out, and I'm sure people are wondering.
SPEAKER_01:Wondering. Anything else you want to talk about before we roar into the players?
SPEAKER_02:Let's just talk. This is a bad movie. It's a bad movie. I'm just gonna preface that. I I picked it because we watched the trailer and I thought it looked like it would be a fun, bad movie. Yeah, yeah. And it it wasn't. No, I didn't have fun with this movie, it was just bad. So that bums me out.
SPEAKER_01:Pete Davidson was trying to play a stupid person, but he didn't play him stupid.
SPEAKER_02:No, he's bad in this movie. He's bad. I'm just gonna say that right now. He's like really bad in this movie. Oh, okay. Personally, I think it's because he doesn't connect to this movie whatsoever. So he says like one-liners and jokes and observations, but it's done in such a disconnected way that none of those jokes land, nor what does it seem like his character would uh notice or appreciate those things. It's very weird. Yeah, this movie is it's weird.
SPEAKER_01:It's a weird movie, yeah. Because you're like, you understand the character that he he wants to be, which is this really dumb guy. Um, have you ever seen the movie Runaway Train? Eric Roberts and John Voigt. No, but I love Eric Roberts, worked with Eric Roberts, sweet man. One of his first movies, he played this these two guys that break out of prison, John Voigt's like the hard guy, and then he's like the young, young, dumb guy. And he just plays a dumb guy.
SPEAKER_02:I'm looking at just a still and I'm looking at his face, and I was like, Yep, I get it.
SPEAKER_01:He's he's he's you know, he's he's just I'm trying here, you know, he's trying to do the thing, but you're just like, Oh, you're you're a dumb guy, manny. He's like, Manny, man, let me let me in the letter you know, he just he's going, and Pete's just like in this thing, he's just kind of like, I'm sitting over here, I'm I'm throwing out these lines, you know, something, maybe something'll happen, maybe, maybe some chemistry will go grow between me and Eddie, and it'll be interesting. And you're like, But it doesn't. Never does. Never does, never for a second. It's kind of like in the doc where Eddie's just walking around his house, sort of like, yeah, okay, you know, that's you don't feel like that's the vibe. That's the vibe. You're like, it doesn't feel like he's in it, doesn't feel like he's afraid, it doesn't feel like because they they set up that he wants to open a bed and breakfast and something happened six months ago and he's gonna do it in six months. So we're like, Yeah, did he screw up and lose money? Did he is he afraid? Don't worry about it. They kind of say he's afraid, and and they they never resolve any of that. We don't we don't know what his deal is.
SPEAKER_02:And that well, he opens it, so it doesn't really matter.
SPEAKER_01:Spoiler for the end of the movie, he just does it, it's fine. And there wasn't even an issue. He doesn't have a breakthrough going like, I can't do I cannot do this job, and you know, he's he's never frustrated.
SPEAKER_02:You're thinking of characters, Dan. So that's that's your first mistake here. Is you're thinking of what would a character do in this situation? Yeah, um, there are no stakes. There's like character stakes whatsoever. Nobody cares about anything that's happening to them. Pete and Eddie are uh good guys that basically become criminals and they don't care. They don't care at all. There's never a moment where they're like, man, we shouldn't do this. There's ever a moment where they're scared of Kiki Palmer when she pulls a gun on them. There's nothing. It's weird. It's weird how little everybody cares about everything.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. And you know, Kiki, Kiki, her the sort of setup to control them at one point is that she has somebody pointing a gun at his wife's head. But he doesn't care. And he's like, I don't like that, but I'm gonna treat you as a normal person. Right, but it's Prince fine.
SPEAKER_02:It's cool. I get it. I you're doing a job. I get it. It's fine.
SPEAKER_01:Just kill her.
SPEAKER_02:It's weird.
SPEAKER_01:Another question, and they set up that she has to call in every half an hour or the guy's gonna kill him. Do we ever see her? Never does it again.
SPEAKER_02:No, no, just the first one. Just that first one where she tells you she has to do it. So in my mind, this movie takes 15 minutes. It has to be under that time frame. She never does it again.
SPEAKER_01:This movie does spend a lot of time setting up times.
SPEAKER_02:For sure.
SPEAKER_01:On the route, we're in the dead zone for this amount of time. We gotta go this speed to get out of it, and this time, and this time, and it never feels like any of the time matches up there.
SPEAKER_02:Never matters. Never matters whatsoever because they're in the dead zone and then they're out of it. There's no like we're racing to get out of it, so we can call. No, it doesn't really happen. He's good at math for a while, and then for the second half of the movie, he does not good at math, doesn't matter.
SPEAKER_01:They set him up to be a super math brain and they play a computer noise. And then you're like, oh well, so he's gonna figure out that he doesn't want to be a cop, he really wants to be a math guy. Something, and the math is gonna solve all the problems. No, not really.
SPEAKER_02:Instead, he makes it to cop class and then quits cop class to go live with his girlfriend in in Fiji or whatever she is. Where is she? Somewhere. She has a Bolly. Bolly, you're right. Um, this it's so dumb. None of it makes any sense. This is a terrible movie. Uh I love it. I the more we talk about it, the more I like it. So that's good.
SPEAKER_01:You know, I don't out and out hate this movie because there's it's just so kind of whatever. Um I don't hate the filmmakers. You know, I'm like, yeah, I would not hire any of these people to do anything, but I no, I know what I. But you know, um, they shouldn't be banned.
SPEAKER_02:Maybe not banned, but maybe like, you know, grounded for a little bit. Just for a little bit.
SPEAKER_01:So we got groovy music. We have a really nice titles, actually. The title's really nice.
SPEAKER_02:Sure, great.
SPEAKER_01:And now we set up Travis is going to do a pickup at a bank. He goes into the bank, he knows the guy working there. This woman says, Hey, can I borrow a pen? She borrows a pen. He picks up the money, starts leaving, and then she stops him, is like, here, read this note. He pulls out his gun, barely, and then freaks out and points it at everyone. And and then she's like, just she's she doesn't care. She's acting he is pointing a gun at her face, and she's all like, whatever does not care at all. You know, it's like that is a gun, whatever. She she's immune to it.
SPEAKER_02:Nobody, nobody cares that it's a gun, except for the guy behind the desk, his cop, his bank friend, is the only one that's like, don't point that at me. He doesn't care that much. Keep in mind, when I say he cares, I mean he just notices. He's the only one that notices there's a gun out. Like, that's it. Um, this is crazy. Dan, this is a white guy pulling a gun on somebody in broad daylight, and we're and nothing happens. Well, something happens. Yes, he gets in trouble at work. Oh, he gets scolded at work. No, nope, it's that can't be the only thing that happens. That's crazy.
SPEAKER_01:Well, I I gotta I'm gonna tell you my justification. Later, oh a third of the way into the movie, Dice Clay, their boss, calls and says, You pulled a gun inside of a a bank. Yeah, they lost that entire account for a whole chain of banks, which is sure a ton of money, and he fires Pete on the spot. That's that's for sure. That's the one consequence in the movie. Because when you're watching the movie and there are no consequences to this, yeah, you're like, Well, but there still kind of aren't consequences because kind of again.
SPEAKER_02:I'm just gonna point he pulled a gun on an innocent person in a bank. Yeah, there's it's it's gotta be more than that, I'm sorry. And also, it's just dumb. It's just really dumb. It's played dumb. Nobody cares. It's ridiculous. Nobody cares. Because she's just like, no, no, just just read the note, and then it's her number, and they go on a date. Nope. Dumb, so dumb.
SPEAKER_01:I hate it.
SPEAKER_02:I just hate it. I hate it so much.
SPEAKER_01:So they go and have a drink, and we, of course, all go, uh, okay, yeah, that she's gonna go out with this guy and right. She's bad. She's she's bad. We all know she's bad. Um and he doesn't, but you're just like he's not playing a dumb enough character not to realize correct.
SPEAKER_02:That you know here's here's the thing about playing dumb. You actually have to be very smart to do it. To play dumb convincingly, you have to be relatively smart. My point in case is Matt LeBlanc, Joey and Friends, is one of the better dumb characters in the world because you can't be so dumb that we don't like you because we're like, wow, you're an idiot. You have to be like dumb and charming and affable. You know, like you have to be likably dumb, but believably. It's a very hard thing to play. Yeah. Um, Pete can't do it. Straight up.
SPEAKER_01:He cannot do it. He's sorry. He's been too successful for too long and been in the spotlight for too long that he he still is just he is Pete Davidson.
SPEAKER_02:He's just Pete. Yeah. Can't really do a character. Yeah. Yeah. That's okay. Listen, that's not for everybody.
SPEAKER_01:It's fine.
SPEAKER_02:It's fine.
SPEAKER_01:Uh, we meet Eddie Murphy's character, Russell. He has a beautiful wife, Eva Longoria. It's their 25th anniversary. Uh they're gonna have they're gonna, at some point in six months, he's gonna quit and they're gonna open a bed and breakfast. Big dinner tonight that he has to absolutely get to. And we're like, okay, here's the point. The point is he's gonna have to drive this vehicle to get to that thing at eight o'clock. Heaven or you know, he's not gonna care. He has to make this date.
SPEAKER_02:Or not because his wife is gonna come to him. So it's fine. It's all fine. He can't be tied up in the truck for the third act of the movie for a noble reason. Just because it's Ava Longoria, I guess, because that's what we we paid her for. I I don't know. Uh, it doesn't make any sense. Yeah, no, as a character motivation, that's a great setup, you know. Like, I have to be home from work at this time or my wife will kill me. Um, but it doesn't matter.
SPEAKER_01:That never happens.
SPEAKER_02:Also, like him and Dice Clay having that conversation in the beginning about getting home from work doesn't even make sense because Dice Clay is like, you gotta work the shift that you get. It was locked last night. You didn't check your phone. He's like, Well, I put in paperwork a week ago, and he's like, damn, but it was locked last night. What are you talking? What are you saying? This doesn't make any sense.
SPEAKER_01:This Eddie Murphy character would never have not paid attention. No, a hundred percent. Never in a million guys. Absolutely not. Million millions. It's ridiculous. He is the attention to details guy. Yep.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, no, this is yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Uh Travis wakes up in the hotel room, it's messy, he's late for work, he goes to work. Here we are at the the um Guardian armored truck headquarters. Eddie Murphy has a ring, and I guess the ring is the reset that he got his wife's wedding ring and reset but reset it.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:And we spend a lot of time moving this ring from person to person, and at no point do we ever care about this ring.
SPEAKER_02:Well, hold on. It's the whole crux of the movie. It's the f it's the finale. He goes and gets the ring and gives it back to her, Dan. Tony, so yeah.
SPEAKER_01:If you had a jacket on and you were carrying a ring, how would you carry that ring?
SPEAKER_02:Well, first, I mean, I have a lot of answers to this question. I would put it right in my breast pocket where rings belong. Okay. Uh no, I wouldn't. I wouldn't. I wouldn't even put it in a jacket. First of all, I'd put it in my pants because that's where you put things. Um, why is he carrying the ring to work? Why doesn't he leave it in the locker since he is getting done with the shift, going back to work, and then going to dinner? That doesn't make any sense. Why would he carry the ring into work? First of all, the odds of you losing the ring pretty high. Just in general, you're gonna probably lose it. You know where you wouldn't lose it if you left it in your locker with your clothes that you have to go get before you go to dinner. That doesn't make any sense. So stupid.
SPEAKER_01:And it's just a loose ring, and so people are always like tucking it into things. They're not, I don't think anybody ever opens a pocket and puts it in a pocket. No, which is exactly what you would do if you were carrying a loose ring. You had put it in your pocket. But would it be loose if I bring it in to the jewelry?
SPEAKER_02:Are they just gonna hand it to me?
SPEAKER_01:Just like, all right, there you go, bud. They're gonna put in a little five-dollar ring ring box a thousand percent of the time. And and he would be oh, you know, and and it's not like it had to be a loose ring, it could have been in a ring box, and then it's just not matter. If you tucked it in a jacket, I'd be like, Oh, okay. Okay, it's big, it's bulky. You know, you don't want it in your pocket. All right, I get it. It's gonna be wedged in there, but a little ring is just gonna it's gonna fall out the bottom. It's it's it's lost.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, so weird. So weird.
SPEAKER_01:Okay, so here we go. Dice clay's doing a dice clay thing, he's the boss. He's okay. Uh, and he has to so somehow uh Eddie Murphy has to work with Pete Davidson, has never worked with him before. We don't set up that he has a regular partner, but somehow he's never worked with this asshole. He needs to say, I got seniority, I never work with that asshole.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, something.
SPEAKER_01:He has to know who he is. He barely he kind he kind of says, I saw you in the distance one time. You're like, right, we only see five hundred people talking about we don't see a hundred people. It seems like a pretty small team. I don't know. It does not seem like there's 50 trucks and a hundred people. Not a plus. No. Oh, so silly. Okay, so they're gonna they're gonna go. They get in the truck, here they go. He he Pete makes this thing about acing the driving test because he was gonna be a cop, and then he's like, oh no, but I didn't.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. Okay. Yeah, I I don't know what to tell you.
SPEAKER_01:He he has brought his food with him, which is a meatball sub which is in a cooler. Right, but not wrapped, right? It's just he's just hanging out. They opened that. I don't know what's happening in that that visual. I can't tell you.
SPEAKER_02:It seemed like there was ice, there was a drink, and then there was just a sub just sitting on ice, like bread meatballs out in ice, not wrapped in anything. That's what it seemed like. I don't know. He was late for work, right?
SPEAKER_01:He was sleeping with a woman all weekend, and somehow he has found a meatball sub, purchased it, purchase ice, has a cooler. Yeah, and then doesn't eat it. Well, they use it, they put the tear gas in it.
SPEAKER_02:Sure, event yeah, eventually. Yeah. I don't know. It's a lot of setup. It's a lot of setup to just put your tear gas thing in it, but you could just pop it out the window. You know what I mean? Just throw the thing out the window. She puts it in a slot, put it out the slot.
SPEAKER_01:She puts it in a locked slot that's unlocked for unknown.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, I'm a little confused on what I was gonna ask you about the truck structures, but yeah, it's cool. It's cool.
SPEAKER_01:Okay, so here they go. They they're rolling along. We meet the bad guys. This guy Banner, this guy Miguel, and the bad woman Zoe, who we've already met, who had slept with Pete. Okay, very good. Yeah, the two bad guys are just so generic that you just you don't want to spend any time with them on screen.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, I here's and this is not their fault. Okay. You know what I mean? Okay, their characters are so generic. Not they don't have any script-wise, there's nothing unique about any like anything about them. So they both are committing to just being quote bad guys. I feel like they're kind of doing the best they can with what they're working with.
SPEAKER_03:Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_02:So I just want I just want to shout them out and just be like, hey, you got a bad, you got a bum, a bum thing. You know what I mean? Like it's not good, but you tried.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:They they're guys with tattoos, one sort of Latino and one sort of uh, you know, I'm yeah, uh, you know, whatever. Now, could you make choices?
SPEAKER_02:Sure. You could, but maybe it, you know, I'm gonna give them benefit doubt. Maybe the director, Mr. Story, was like, nah, that's too much. Just just being normal bad guys, you know. Maybe that's what it was. We all maybe they tried. Maybe they both brought characters and they were like tone it down.
SPEAKER_01:We also set up that she seems to know Banner, but some other guy dropped out.
SPEAKER_02:It doesn't matter. And so the Latino guy came in, and so Latino guy and Banner like kind of get into it, and you're just like none of none of this story matters at all for the rest of the film. So don't pay too much attention to all the backstory that they give in this scene, does not come into play.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. So they sort of set up that there's somehow this magical dead zone on the road between Atlantic City and someplace, and then no it's a big dead zone.
SPEAKER_02:Like, I'm I believe if there's like five to ten minutes where you don't have cell service, I believe that. Yeah. What what'd they say, 80 miles or something like that?
SPEAKER_01:It's a crazy amount of time.
SPEAKER_02:That feels like a lot. I I don't know. I mean, I've never been to Atlantic City, um, but that feels like a lot.
SPEAKER_01:Happened. There is that road. Well, there's okay doesn't matter. I mean, I think this I believe, if I remember correctly, there's a road and then maybe there's a freeway or something, but it's not in the middle of nowhere. I I don't understand how this is the middle of nowhere. Because the the road to Atlantic City, Atlantic City's kind of on a almost like a peninsula, it seems like what I remember. And when you get to Atlantic City, then you can go along the coast, you know, either way. But you know, it's it's kind of like a T. You know, you go into Atlantic City and then you can go that way. So the only ways into Atlantic City is this straight shot in or from the along the coast. So it I don't know what this other road magic road would be, and and there are businesses, you know, it's not like Well, you just don't know because it's not on a map because it's a dead zone. So the world has changed a lot since I was there in the nineties.
SPEAKER_02:That's right. They added a dead zone road.
SPEAKER_01:It tore down all those buildings. Oh, Egg Harbor Township, no longer there. Goodbye, Egg Harbor Towns.
SPEAKER_02:It bulldozed it all.
SPEAKER_01:Okay, Travis uh puts on some music. There's a montage of the they let us know that there's like six pickups. Doesn't mean anything, but we now know that.
SPEAKER_02:Not only do we know, but we get to count them down as they're doing them with Chiron Graph. It's great. I know where they are all the time. So stupid. Uh there's a yeah, Pete Davidson performs a fart. Dan's favorite joke of the movie. No. No, because it's dumb. He overacts it. How is like what? Yeah, what are you doing? Like, first of all, you're unhealthy. I'm sorry. You shouldn't have to push that hard to get anything out. That's not okay. Tony's farty just leads back in there. They just they should just they should just escape. Yeah. They should just.
SPEAKER_01:Oh. Okay, now Ander Dice Clay calls and knows about the incident and fires him. We never but not really. Not really.
SPEAKER_02:Because he's still on the route, right? Like he's he still finishes the route. He's not fired. That is what they said, but he's like, when you get back, you're done, is what they should have said. But instead, he's like, You're fired. Now finish my route, please. Nope. If I get fired mid-route, guess what I'm doing? Leaving. I'm out. I don't need to do this anymore. I'm all good. I'll just walk them. I'll go to Atlantic City and I'll just gamble. It's fine, right? That's what Atlantic City is, right? It's like Minne Vegas or something.
SPEAKER_01:Yes. Yes. Okay, yeah. It's like an old boardwalk. There's shopping and things like that too, but there's a number of casinos and is that where the Buscemi show takes place?
unknown:I don't know.
SPEAKER_02:The HBO, Steve Buscemi, I think it was Boardwalk, isn't it?
SPEAKER_01:Boardwalk Empire?
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, that's right.
SPEAKER_01:I think so. It might be. It either's there or it's a very similar place. It's the same sort of thing. Yeah. I love that. The big uh the big antique show used to be there, so we'd go there once once or twice a year.
SPEAKER_02:Of course. I should have guessed. Should have guessed it was antiquing.
SPEAKER_01:Back in the good old days.
SPEAKER_02:Ah, yes.
SPEAKER_01:Okay, so they they reached the dead. Okay. Travis talks about being a loser and he can't pass the police test, and his family was all cops. Even your grandma.
SPEAKER_02:What'd he say? There was a little bit of a joke there about the grandma. Was there? I don't know. I didn't write it down.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. Okay, now we begin the action adventure part of the movie. The bad guys attack.
SPEAKER_02:Uh I have a question for you. Yeah. Um, the score of this film doesn't seem to crescendo at all. Like when quote unquote exciting things are happening, yeah, the music never changes. It doesn't get louder, it doesn't, it does nothing to evoke the emotions of the scene. And I don't think I've ever seen that before. Like the music just stays the same for an entire chase sequence. And I'm like, that's weird. That's super weird. Like, it's like no one, someone like scored it without watching the movie. They're just like, I don't put this four-minute piece in here. I don't care. It's weird, Dan. I don't like it. The music should tell you exciting things are happening. I don't know. Well, maybe the guy that did it knew there weren't exciting things happening. He was like, I'm gonna give you exactly what you deserve, which is this one note for 20 minutes.
SPEAKER_01:It's like a total, it's a whole atal thing.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, it's weird.
SPEAKER_01:Um, they do some tear gas that they have to throw into a cooler, and then after they put in the cooler, then they hit this button, and this little vent opens on the top, and it just sucks all the tear gas.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. Is that a thing, you think?
SPEAKER_01:Maybe do that earlier?
SPEAKER_02:That should be the first move, right? So I'll push that, it'll start sucking, then I put it in the thing, and then it's fine. It's weird. If I had a magic vent that was literally meant to suck out the gas, I would push that immediately.
SPEAKER_01:So they they get away, but unfortunately, the bad guy they kind of bump the bad guys off the roads, the bad guys kind of spin and kind of kind of have to leave. And then but of the bad guys had shot their tire with an arrow, I guess. That wasn't paying for that. That's what it was, yeah.
SPEAKER_02:I guess. I don't remember that happening either, but it did happen.
SPEAKER_01:It happened, guys. So our good guys go fast and get some space between them and the bad guys, and then they pull off and then they have to fix the tire with some tire kit that only Eddie Murphy knows how to use because Pete Davidson didn't idiot learn how to do the thing because somehow.
SPEAKER_02:Well, because he when he asked him if he did training, he's like, I took an online course. What training? Something like that. You know, something really funny.
SPEAKER_01:Doesn't make any sense because you think they'd all get the same training.
SPEAKER_02:You would think it, but that's wrong.
SPEAKER_01:So oh tell you, Dan. I mean, usually what you do is you have the rookie be on the thing, and he's only worked there for like a day, and you're like, ah, okay.
SPEAKER_02:Right, exactly. Which is interesting because at the end of the movie, did you notice that the the woman comes over and calls him Rook? She literally comes over, she's like, not bad, Rook. So either one of two things has happened. Either he is a rookie and we just never talk about it until the end of the movie, or at one point they knew that he should be a rookie, and then they were like, nah, let's forget all that, and then forgot to change one line of the movie. Um, one of those two things happened. I don't know which one it is. I feel like most believably is that they had him as a rookie the whole time, and they were like, nah, that's all that's been done. Let's make him just like a dumb guy. It worked out nicely for them.
SPEAKER_01:I mean, I said that this guy I know wrote the script. I have the feeling maybe a thousand people wrote this script, and he was like the last bite, either the first guy to write it or the last guy to write it. Yeah, maybe he's the guy that wrote the one joke you like. Maybe. Could be, could be, Matt. Fingers crossed. Uh so they slow down, they have four minutes to change the tire, this other car passes them by because they pulled off on this other road, and then the bad guys see the other car, and then they know that that means that they're down that road.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:The bad guys then go after them, and then here we set up a case of chicken. They have two vehicles and the armored car, and everybody thinks, we're gonna win. And then right at the last minute, the bad guys sort of get out of the way for the for the vehicle that is made to survive playing chicken, and right.
SPEAKER_02:Uh literally what it's built for. Yeah. So doesn't make any sense. They put helmets on because they're like, we're gonna collide, but they're not. They know they're not.
SPEAKER_01:They have these helmets that they put on and take off multiple times. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_02:It just but that way you don't have to pay Kiki Palmer for the day, you know?
SPEAKER_01:Everything's about to be. Just let them do some terrible voiceover. That's what it is for you. Everything's about who you're not paying for the day.
SPEAKER_02:Everything I'm telling you, that's what this is, though. If you put on that helmet, I guarantee you that's not Kiki Palmer in the car anymore. No, definitely not. And she's doing bad voiceover from somewhere else because it's terrible, it doesn't even match the emotions of the scene, much like the music. It's ridiculous. Maybe they sent here's what happened, right? They sent her the music, and they're like, this is an action scene to this music. Can you match the energy? And she was like, sure, I just won't do anything. And then that's the voiceover we got. Who who is she? Why do I care? I don't know. Kiki Bomb, she was in uh the Glenn Powell show, which is a really hot that's an offensive thing to say, I think, because um Scream Queens, not a Glenn, Glenn Powell is in it, but he is not the star of the show. But she she was in that show. I think she's kind of like blowing up. I think she's like one of those people on the rise or whatever. She's not very good in this movie.
SPEAKER_01:She was. She was a prisp.
SPEAKER_02:This is the end of it. This is the tail end of that trajectory.
SPEAKER_01:So they win the chicken. Here they come. They're they're coming off of the side road, back onto the main road, and as they come around the corner, the truck goes up on two wheels, and there's like sparks flying.
SPEAKER_02:Cool stuff.
SPEAKER_01:My favorite shot of the movie.
SPEAKER_02:That was I okay. That was there. You go. I I agreed. I thought it was cool.
SPEAKER_01:Um this is the this is the only time in the movie where you ever felt like there was any speed going on. Because they talk about this armor truck going a hundred miles, 110 miles an hour.
SPEAKER_02:Here's my problem. If you're gonna if you're gonna talk about speed, you can't shoot everything so wide. Oh, so when you're wide, you look slow, just because there's so much room on every side of you. You have to shoot tighter. Mission Impossible does this so well. They use extremely long lenses to shoot Tom on that motorcycle. Yeah, is it France, wherever Rome or whatever that circle is? I don't remember in seven or something like that. Oh, yeah. But they're shooting a super long lens. So they're in close, but everything is so close, like claustrophobic, and he's fucking zipping. And it's it's intense because you you feel like you're going fast. If you shoot 110 miles per hour, but you're so wide that the car looks like a micro machine, it doesn't look fast. I don't care how fast you're going, it's going to look slow. This guy doesn't know how to direct action sequences. There's the it's so disjointed, it's it's weird. He pulls out to wides to let and it deadens this, like you're building, building, and then we're in a wide and everything deflates, and then we get back in close. It's it's terrible, it's really bad, man.
SPEAKER_01:We were watching something about some movie, and every one of the shots was just like one inch away from people's faces. It was hard to watch. It was so uncomfortable and unsettling. You're like, stop that. I want to see what's happening. I just I don't want to be there.
SPEAKER_02:Stop it, stop it right now.
SPEAKER_01:Um it matters, it matters where you put the camera, everybody. Uh, we set up that that what's his name wants to do a pit maneuver, then he fails at it, or maybe succeeds at it.
SPEAKER_02:No, no, no. He fails, but it's done in a way where you don't even know if he tried or not. Yeah. The only way you know is because he literally they cut back to him and he says, I missed, or something like that. And it's like, Oh, you tried it? It did not look like you tried anything here.
SPEAKER_01:It's very strange. Now, the one guy, Carlos or whatever his name is, he gets out onto their truck, he has a blowtorch, he's cutting through the back door.
SPEAKER_02:Yes.
SPEAKER_01:Now at some point, Eddie Murphy's character opens the side door and starts trying to shoot at him. And the only way he can shoot at him is if this guy puts his head around the side for Eddie to shoot at him.
SPEAKER_02:Right. You want to pre-present a target. Yeah, that's generally how you defend yourself. Uh, just get in the line of fire. That's rule number one. In a gunfight, become as big of a target as you possibly can. That's step one.
SPEAKER_01:Uh, the next thing they do, oh Eddie Murphy loses his gun because he sucks, and then they're like, just give him the money. And so they look at the money. This is when they find the spider monkey in the case, which I guess it's in a case. They find some some goblets in a thing. Yep. And then they find the money, and then the back doors open, and so they start throwing the money out. Yep. I did not think their bosses would want them to throw the money out.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, so here's I was thinking about this this morning.
SPEAKER_01:That's not part of the job.
SPEAKER_02:This is why I can't, yeah, I can't do that job, right? Like, that's not a job I would ever apply for because I would just be like, yeah, take it. It's not my money. I'm I don't care. That's not the kind of people, right? Like, that's not the people you hire for this job. You gotta hire people that are gonna try to protect the money because that's the job, right? That's the job you're signing up for. You're an armored truck driver, you're protecting the money. That's the whole job. Me, don't care, right? It's not my money. I'll give it away. I don't even I wouldn't even, you know, I'll just give it to people on the street. I don't even care.
SPEAKER_01:Or you make one guy say, don't give away the money, you make the other guy say give away the money. Sure. It's an easy conflict.
SPEAKER_02:Right. Pete could be all for giving away the money. And then Eddie Murphy's like, I sh can't. This is the job. I've only got six months left. I gotta make it to the six months or whatever.
SPEAKER_01:Or Eddie Murphy Murphy. Well, first of all, Eddie Murphy should be going to the the this is his last day. Has to be his last day. 100%.
SPEAKER_02:And so he's all like he's getting too old for this.
SPEAKER_01:He's like, screw it. I'm not dying for this. I got I got my bed and breakfast waiting for me. I got my wife, I got this, I got that. Pete's like gung ho. He's like, oh I was gonna be a cop. Oh, protect protected serve, protected serve. No.
SPEAKER_02:He doesn't want to be a cop.
SPEAKER_01:I'm sorry. He so doesn't want to be a cop even for a microsecond. Not even a little bit. He has nothing cop-like about him at all.
SPEAKER_02:Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope.
SPEAKER_01:So it's throwing out the money, making it rain, and then we we set up the die packs. There's some money with die packs on there. Die pack on the window. Die pack through the sunroof. That causes one guy to to crash and just flip on over and over and over and just like, oh my god. Pretty cool. And then they do another die pack. How's the other die pack? He throws coins and the car explodes. He throws another die pack at the person. Maybe the dude, oh, maybe the dude jumps over there. I don't know what happens.
SPEAKER_02:I don't know. But eventually. Oh yeah, the the guy gets on the truck and he like tucks the die pack in his vest or whatever and then pushes him off. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:And then the second car explodes in flames and turns and flies over, but she has Zoe has somehow gotten onto the truck and then points a gun at them and wins.
SPEAKER_02:Oh yeah, big time. She won.
SPEAKER_01:Spoilers, the other the two bad guys in the cars that just had literally the most horrific accidents you ever could see. Totally fine. Unharmed.
SPEAKER_02:You're wrong, Dad. Yeah, they don't even have a scratch. They're fine. Don't worry about it.
SPEAKER_01:And then of course they're like, we gotta get her back.
unknown:What?
SPEAKER_02:Well, because she's gonna go get the money without them. They apparently know that immediately. I don't I don't really know how, but he's like, she abandoned us. Let's go get her. Okay. She abandoned you? No. Right, she's doing the job. She's as far as you know, she's just still doing the job. So just catch up and help her. But it's fine. No, I don't know. They know. They know immediately. It's fine.
SPEAKER_01:And like, I'm sorry, Tony, if you were in that wreck and I got on the truck, I'd be like, You're dead. Goodbye.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, yeah, you didn't make it. I'm on my own now. I gotta do my best here. And then when you show up, I'll be like, oh shit, you made it. Let's finish the job, buddy. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:I would not I would not be turning around the truck to go look at your your burnt body. Well, no, because you got a job to do.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. It's on you're on a time schedule. I'm on a time schedule. I don't got time to turn around.
SPEAKER_01:What are you doing? Okay. Somehow she has gotten them into a farmhouse, gotten them tied up and on their knees. Nice. And this is when we find out that um, what did I sell something? Uh we find out that Pete Davidson had sex with her for an entire weekend and told her everything. Somehow he knows what the route is, where it is, everything.
SPEAKER_02:Which is weird because Eddie didn't seem to know that. That's because he didn't call in. I'm a little confused. He didn't call in, so Travis called in. But he said it was midnight the night before. I'm a little confused on the timeline because he spent the weekend. This is Monday, right? I don't know. I'm confused, man. Yeah. Um, this is the most disappointing part of the movie to me. Oh, really? Because the moment that he realizes he's the betrayer, yeah, should be very that should be a very funny scene to me. He can't play it.
SPEAKER_01:He has I don't you think you think Eddie should tell him that he's betrayer, and he's like, no. And they should be like, no, oh right.
SPEAKER_02:See great. So any any sort of like recognition, play it out, like it's just it's done so poorly. I was very like, that's the turning point of the movie, right? It's all of our characters' turning points. Should be. They don't have arcs. But this should be the moment where like shit is all like, okay, so I'm the bad I fucked up. I'm the bad guy, as Pete Davidson. He's like, now I need to make amends. Eddie Murphy's like, you fucked up. I hate you. I'm gonna kill you. And she's like, I win. Everyone should have clear motivations after this scene for the what's to follow. For for further does not happen, doesn't happen at all. It's just a it's just a hot mess, and then you just go on to the next scene. It's like, oh, come on, guys.
SPEAKER_01:Let me ask you a question. Oh, yeah. Not long after this, we find out that Pete Davidson fell in love with her over the course of that weekend.
SPEAKER_02:Supposedly, yes, yes, yes.
SPEAKER_01:Did he tell Eddie Murphy that at some point in the movie? Then I just forget to go.
SPEAKER_02:Must have been off camera. Must have been off camera. We don't know. No, not even for a second. When Eddie Murphy says it, when he's like, You fell in love with her this week, and I was like, What? What are you talking about, Eddie? What are you where is that coming from? But then Pete's like, Yep, I'm in love with it. It's almost as if Eddie Murphy convinced him that he's in love with her, and that's all that happened. Because you also don't get the feeling that he loves her. Pete never plays it as if he's infatuated with this. No, he plays it as if, like, hey, we had some sex and that was fun. I would have sex again. But he never plays it as if he has an emotional connection whatsoever. Bad movie, Dan. This is a bad movie.
SPEAKER_01:But if you write it, it might come true.
SPEAKER_02:He'll convince all of us, including himself.
SPEAKER_01:Okay, so they're now in the truck, and what what's what has to happen? They argue about the monkey, whatever. She says, I'm gonna get 60 million dollars, and what we find out is this whole thing was a prelude for her just having a truck. Any truck. Any truck which wouldn't work.
SPEAKER_02:That wouldn't work, by the way. They put the magic thing on there, the RFD. No, no, wouldn't work. Sorry. Why wouldn't it work? Because these things have schedules. Yeah, they know the truck. Yeah, but the other truck is going there. But that's what I'm saying. The people that let them in, they have to have a truck number, they have names of the drivers, for sure. They don't just be like, ah, any truck beep. No. It had a little number on the side of the truck. No, sorry. It's not gonna work.
SPEAKER_01:It's only sixty million dollars. Okay, well let's do that. Let's do the whole setup. So she needed a truck, but she's gonna then like change this little ID number on it so that it'll fool everyone and a couple of drivers to go to this casino and pick up the sixty million dollars because her father was a security guard at the casino, and there was a fire, and he left his post to save people, and then he died, and then she didn't get his inherit uh his uh pension benefit, yeah. Because he left where he was supposed to be. And this is her punishment to the casino sixty million dollars.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, she's Batman, you know, just punishing the evil rich people or whatever. Batman does not punish the evil rich people. Sorry, Robin Hood, she's Robin Hood.
SPEAKER_01:Uh but she's but she's not giving the money to the poor, she's keeping all the money.
SPEAKER_02:She's keeping it. She's going to Bali with it.
SPEAKER_01:She's gonna live life. I don't know how you I don't know how you take all that money on the plane, because if you were to try and take a hundred thousand dollars in there, they'd put you in jail. You can't you can't carry any kind of cash like that. Never in a million years.
SPEAKER_02:Well, apparently you can just send it FedEx, so it's fine.
SPEAKER_01:I I don't know about that. You mean you mean hold on, in a box with a piece of tape that basically falls off?
SPEAKER_02:100%. Yeah, yeah. Definitely people opened that and took all the money. Like without a doubt in my mind. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, it's a good movie.
SPEAKER_01:So that's the plot of our movie.
SPEAKER_02:And so she's a good guy. Here's a question, right? Does maybe Bali doesn't have extradition or something, right? But let's say you even get the money somewhere to use it, you have to launder it. Because all those all that money's barcoded, right? So they can trace that money. So you have to launder that money. It's barcoded? Why would it be barcoded? It's just money, like all that money's tracked. No, right? Is it no? I would think so. No, I mean, I don't know, no, but I would think so. I think it's tracked. I've watched a lot of psych, and there's an episode of Psyche where they talk about how the money is the numbers are tracked.
SPEAKER_01:So I think it might be if there's 60 million in there, they they run it through a and they know it's all those numbers.
SPEAKER_02:Really, it should theoretically get flagged. Theoretically. I don't know. I could be wrong.
SPEAKER_01:I gotta say, I probably won't ever say this again in my life, but I'd kind of go with psych more than any, you know, if they if somebody never say that you should say it every day of your life, okay.
SPEAKER_02:Um, I yeah, I don't know. I mean, but I guess that's they put in those explosive things, so maybe it's not tracked. I think it is.
SPEAKER_01:No, no, no, no. That's the money in their vehicle. The money in their vehicle is probably not tracked, but if there was sixty million dollars, it might be sequential numbers, and they might they might. I mean, them making a record of those numbers would take an hour, you know? That's true. But isn't there a machine? Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:I am sure there's a machine. Banks track cash serial numbers, particularly high value transactions and automated teller machines to help with cash management, fraud detection, and balancing inventory. I don't know.
SPEAKER_01:So the casino is asked, I don't know. Casino is absolutely doing that because I would think that they would. Because if somebody's siphoning money off and then the the bills appear, you know, I mean, it would be incredibly easy for any time you put a put hundreds into a bank or put them into an ATM, just looks at those numbers, and if those numbers are stolen numbers, it's just a machine. Takes a picture of your dumb ass and it knows who the fuck you are.
SPEAKER_02:I don't know. Maybe they're not doing it. They should do it, they should probably do it if they're not doing it. I'll just say that. That'd be a good way to catch thieves.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, Matt Miter, why didn't you do your research?
SPEAKER_02:Oh, Matt. Classic Matt right there. You know, good guy.
SPEAKER_01:Well, we should look and see if Bali has extradition back to the United States, just so we can great. I'm gonna look at it right now. Okay, so here we go. The criminal guy survived. Travis is in love. No. Oh no, it does not. Well, there you go. So that's the one smart thing toy. There you go. You did it. Good job, Matt. Redemption. Okay, Russ's wife is calling on his phone. Uh Zoe's like, oh, you gotta talk to her. He's like, I can't talk to her. That's a bad idea. It's a bad idea. She's gonna know. She's gonna be. It's the most believable part of the movie.
SPEAKER_02:A hundred percent.
SPEAKER_01:He talks to her, and he's he does not seem weird, he doesn't seem doing anything, and he's all like, and he hangs up, he's like, You did it. Now she knows. Well, no, he hung up and he goes, That went terribly. I was like, that's that's good. Okay, that's a good line. There's actually another, that's a good bit. Actually, that's probably the best bit in the whole movie. Very smart. Because you're like, and you know, you sit there and you're like, Yeah, you know, it's like you walk into the house, and if you have a look on your face, your wife knows what the fuck's going on with your daughters.
SPEAKER_02:Without a doubt. Yep. Hundred percent.
SPEAKER_01:They always know.
SPEAKER_02:They always know.
SPEAKER_01:We're all very predictable creatures. Very predictable. That's true.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Okay, here we go. Uh, Travis Lovers it, blah, blah, blah. And we set up this whole thing that she's got somebody that's gonna kill her if she doesn't call every half an hour, and this never happens. They're in.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:They go and see Marshawn Lynch, he's the one that's changing the thing.
SPEAKER_02:Uh, poor Marshawn.
SPEAKER_01:We love him, they don't give him anything to do.
SPEAKER_02:They don't give him anything to do. He's got a funny bit that he likes starts and no one plays along with when he's when he's doing the thing where he's like, I can't see them. I can't oh, there's somebody talking, and it's it's very funny. I can hear Kindrop, it's so quiet in here, but they're talking like, but no one's playing along. He's doing the bit all by himself, and I'm like, good for you, Marshawn. Fight the power, buddy. You can do it. Well, it's kind of like he's the one person with comedic instincts in the scene. That's that's why it's weird. Because Eddie, at the very least, Eddie should be like playing along with us, and they just don't give him any. And this poor guy's just trying. He's like, This is my moment, this is my MM moment, right? Oh, I feel so bad. Because he does, he's he has some funny lines there, and he delivers them very well. And if anybody was giving him anything, I think he would have gotten laughs.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, that's so sad.
unknown:Okay.
SPEAKER_01:Beast mode. They set up to fail. They walk to a diner, and you want to talk about the weird pancake scene, Tony.
SPEAKER_02:Great. Well, so she's eating pancakes, and then she cuts them and dunks them?
SPEAKER_01:Well, no, hold on. It's eats it. Hold on. Yeah, that happens, I think, second. What we set up what we set up is that Eddie and and uh Eddie and what's the name aren't eating anything. Like in somewhere in protest or something. I don't understand. I'm gonna eat it.
SPEAKER_02:Well he tells you what he tells you because she's like, You don't want pancakes? And then Pete's like, I want pancakes, and Eddie gives him a look, and he's like, You don't want pancakes. And then Pete's like, they're robber pancakes. Super funny line. It was just really funny and really explains why they're not eating food.
SPEAKER_01:And then she starts dipping it, or what? And that's a problem.
SPEAKER_02:So then what she does is she she tears or cuts it. I wasn't totally paying attention, but then she dips it in syrup as opposed to pouring the syrup on it. Fine with me. And then right, and Pete's like, I've never met anyone else who eats pancakes like that. It's we are soulmates.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, he eats it that way too.
SPEAKER_02:Apparently, Pete also eats them, and he's like, This is a mare, this is amazing. We don't see him eat them that way. No, no, but he tells you, and they're the only two people in the world that have that eat pancakes this way, so that's pretty great. So then Eddie, in more protests, grabs some pancakes and tears them up, he makes them little balls like that.
SPEAKER_01:He plays with them in his hands. Which yeah, he balls them up. I'm uh hold on, I'm gonna tell you something, don't if I were to pick up pancakes and ball them in my hands and and got pancake juice on my hands, I I could not function if I didn't wash my hands. I would literally lose every part of my mind until my hands were washed. And I I'm not a super guy who has to have his hands washed all the time, but I can't have something sticky on my hands.
SPEAKER_02:Like how it stays and it stays there. No, no, it stays there forever. You go crazy. Yeah, I don't know. Well, he balls them up and then puts them in a circle, and then he pours syrup on it, and then it's like they're um mushy or something, he said, and I don't know. That's all I got. He's like, God, mush mushy pancakes, mushy pancakes, hmm, and then it's over.
SPEAKER_01:Can you imagine that day you go home to your wife, you're like, well, he did this thing in the movie. I I don't know. I don't know. I mean, it wasn't in the script, but he thought it was funny, and everyone, all his guys were laughing at it, so I guess. They're gonna keep it. They're gonna keep it in the movie. There you go. She takes Travis into the bathroom, switches his uniform, they don't have sex.
SPEAKER_02:So uh we have to talk a little bit about their quote relationship. Um what relationship? Again, he never well, yeah. He never acts like he has feelings for her. Not really. Only that he wants to kind of have sex with her again, but not really. Yeah, like he's just like sort of open to the idea of having sex again, but uh he doesn't need it. It's all good. Yeah, but he keeps telling us that he's in love with her deeply. Um there's a moment. In the truck where they're talking, and she's like, Did you have fun? or something? He's like, We did butt stuff, of course I loved it, or something like that.
SPEAKER_01:That was a butt stuff joke that didn't go.
SPEAKER_02:And that's a weird joke because that has nothing to do with love. That's just lust. Um, and then in this scene, he she brings him to the bathroom, he's like, Oh, you want to have sex again? And it's just he's so detached from the emotion of what his character is saying that it's it's very jarring to me. Like, it's it's fine if he is under the impression that she's bringing him in there to have sex, but it has to be from an emotional place for him. Like, he's like, Yeah, I let's do it. I'm you know, I'm feeling a little tense. Let's do it, let's have some sex right now. And she's like, What are you talking about? But he's like makes jokes, he's like, We want to fuck? Are we gonna fuck right now? All right, yeah, I'll take my pants off. Let's fuck, huh? It's just it's so he's so detached that it's there's nothing grounded about this scene. I think this could be a funny idea for a scene.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, he has to take off all his clothes, he has to take off all he has to be comfortable. 100%.
SPEAKER_02:He needs to be he needs to be going for it. Yeah. Um, and he's just not. He just makes comments about it because I guess that's what comedians do. Um, but his character's never in the moment.
SPEAKER_01:We need to see his naked body and just how embarrassing he is. I think I think everyone agrees.
SPEAKER_02:It's how embarrassing. Apparently he's huge. So careful what you wish for.
SPEAKER_01:There it is. That's that's what I wish for. Um that's what I wish for. They go back out, Russell is gone, they go to look for him, he grabs her, and then we then we find out that Pete's with the Pete's with Zoe, and he, you know.
SPEAKER_02:Why does he s stay to attack her? Why doesn't he just go, I don't know, call the police? Okay, good.
SPEAKER_01:Yep, good. Russell calls her. And then Travis is like, you're too scared to open your bed and breakfast.
SPEAKER_02:And you're like, what? Is he? All we've heard is he just say, I'm gonna open it. Or something. Doesn't sound like a guy that's all that scared, to be honest with you, but okay. Maybe in one version of the script he was scared. I don't know. Maybe, maybe, I don't know. We didn't get to see it.
SPEAKER_01:Uh the bad guys show up at Marshawn Lynch's shop. I guess they've already left. And and they're like, You better tell us something or we're gonna kill you. And then they seems like they just kill him.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, they just kill him. Yeah. Don't know how they got the information. They really did Marshawn dirty in this movie, poor guy.
SPEAKER_01:Uh boom, ba boom, ba boom. They're in the they're in the truck, knock on the door, it's Eddie Murphy's wife has found them.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:In Atlantic City. Oh, did she track his phone? Did she say that?
SPEAKER_02:She tracked his phone, yeah. But also, what? I'm gonna tell you something.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. If you work, if you work for a goddamn thing, your phone is not trackable. You'll find it.
SPEAKER_02:It can't because that's the easiest way to rob you. If I just track your phone. Honestly, that's what Kiki should have done. She should all she had to do was track Pete's phone, and she could have done this whole scheme the same way without him having to divulge unnecessary information to her all night. Okay, but also no one cares. Nobody's shocked, nobody's all that surprised. Eddie's just like, oh, here we go again. There she is. Right? Like, okay. And then he just invites her into the vent. She's like, I'm coming in. And Eddie's like, yeah, that's fine. Oh, by the way, she's got a gun. Uh, but it's cool. Don't worry, babe. And the wife's like, yeah, that's fine. I don't mind guns being pointed in my face. I'll just sit down. You can tie me up. It's so fucking weird what happens here. Nobody cares that two people are being held hostage. The wife appears, like, this should be a stressful situation for somebody. And it's just not.
SPEAKER_01:I haven't seen the bad boys movies in a long time, but I bet you if you watch the bad boys movies, when people get guns pointed at them, they react in certain ways. Sure. When things happen like this, people you know, like I'm I'm sure at some point they terrorize one of their families. And I'm sure those fellows.
SPEAKER_02:A bunch of times, actually. A ton. All the time. That's one of the most common things that the bad guys do. They love that.
SPEAKER_01:I do not think the wives are like, yeah, whatever, tie me up. I'm good. Nope. Nope.
SPEAKER_02:I'm sure they're not makes about men being heroes at their jobs instead of just giving them. She's like, they're trying to stop you? That is that a man thing? That's so weird. What are we talking about here, guys? This is ridiculous.
SPEAKER_01:Okay.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, this is this is bad, Dad. This is a bad one.
SPEAKER_01:Uh now we're going to. Where are we? Now we're we go, we drive into the casino, they go down there, and you know, lots of little tensish moments, which are a little, you know, there's an amount of tension. They're like, oh, we gotta get through this, we gotta get through that. They get down there to get the money, and here's some weird, stupid MMA fighters sitting on the money doing a photo shoot. The money that has to be picked up. As if this is five minutes.
SPEAKER_02:They're only five minutes early. Let's keep that in mind. They're five minutes early, and this guy's just fully two models, him on the money. What's happening, Dan? What is going on right now?
SPEAKER_01:Mike, this is the only money in the casino. You know, the m outgoing money. Is it does it even look like money?
SPEAKER_02:I don't even know what it looks like. I mean, it's not sixty million dollars, that's for damn sure. I'll tell you that right now. It's like two bundles of money. I don't know what that is, but it's not a lot.
SPEAKER_01:So eventually she like she confronts him and is like, there's some guy upstairs that you're gonna fight tomorrow, and he's saying you're a bitch ass piece of bitch ass shit. And everyone's all these other people that are that are at moderating this thing, you know, the press office for the casino are letting this stupid security guard mouth off run her mouth. Yeah, like what? No, not for a second.
SPEAKER_02:Doesn't make any sense, especially the way she does it. Yeah, I like the way it starts where she's like, hey, I'm a big fan. So that's your that's your window in. And the and Matt, your friend, knows that. He uses that line, he knows that that's the window in, but then immediately she becomes an antagonist. Yeah, that's wrong. She has to play the fan and is like shocked. Like, I can't believe, I can't believe what they're saying up there about you. Like, it's it's so hurtful. And then the guy has to be like, wait, what? What are they saying about wait? No, shut up, shut up. What are they saying about me? Like, other people are trying to stop this, but he's like, No, no, I need to hear what are they saying about me? There's a way to build that tension where the scene can work. But if she's just like, oh, by the way, you're a punk ass bitch, better go talk to that guy, that doesn't work. They will murder her, they will murder her. Yeah, so dumb. She is not so dumb.
SPEAKER_01:Well, that she doesn't play uh who who has the power, right? She never has the power, she cannot have the power.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, no, no, cannot.
SPEAKER_01:She cannot show this guy up in front of all these guys. They'll be like, but she does.
SPEAKER_02:And you're like, what? She gives him a little bitch slap, a verbal bitch slap, and then he's just like, Okay, I'm gonna head out. Thanks. Okay. Stupid.
SPEAKER_01:Okay, so they get the money, they load the money, they they get out, they pass the other truck, and then a police car passes them once they're on the road, and Zoe's like, I did it. They go to this warehouse, and at the warehouse there she's like, There's two vehicles. I'm gonna take one, you guys can go take the other. Well, it turns out that the bad guys are there, and the henchmen attack and knock them all out, and then are gonna cover them in gasoline.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, hold on, you're going too fast because so they're in an armored truck. Let's all remember that. These the good guys are in an armored truck. Oh, the back door's the other truck. Sure. The back door doesn't work anymore. Comes in and hits them on the side. Yes. Right? And just kind of pushes the truck. It doesn't roll, it just slides. Everyone in that truck has been knocked unconscious. What are you talking about right now? First of all, these two bad guys flipped over in cars 19 times, immediately walked out of the car, and we're like, man, that was fun. These people just get run into a little fender bender, and they're all dead.
SPEAKER_01:Well, they might have been on uh our bad guys might have been unconscious for a few minutes, enough time for you to pour gasoline on them.
SPEAKER_02:But we don't know. We didn't see that. You're right. So dumb.
SPEAKER_01:So the henchmen. Oh, there's actually the there's another funny part. Um, so they they escape somehow. Have we done your joke? What was your joke that you liked?
SPEAKER_02:Okay, we're oh okay, we're still waiting.
SPEAKER_01:Wow, wow for the joke, Tony.
SPEAKER_02:Wow, unbelievable.
SPEAKER_01:A bunch of stuff happens. Zoe does like kung fu. She escaped in the GT, the other guy escaped in that, and then they run over the one guy. Like that was a funny joke.
SPEAKER_02:There's a squishy sound.
SPEAKER_01:Yes, there's a good sound. I don't know. They make a joke about it, and it was kind of funny.
SPEAKER_02:T Pete Davidson goes, Do you think he's gonna be alright? Which is funny. It was kind of funny. It was funny, but you know, uh too little, too late.
SPEAKER_01:Now we're all on the highway, all these fe all our our two bad guy vehicles and our truck are all there, all the police, no one else around, many helicopters, and then so many, yeah. Lots of things happen, and somehow the helicopters disappear. They like fly into other dimensions. Well, they just gotta they go home, they got fuel up. All the cops get lost. Yeah, so it's just the bad guys and just everybody, just our three vehicles make it to the airport.
SPEAKER_02:Yep, driving to the plane.
SPEAKER_01:The big uh uh Pete Davidson's character uses his super math so that they can make some jump.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:And that's that's his final use of the math, I believe, right?
SPEAKER_02:That is that is indeed. I is it you is it e yeah, it's fine.
SPEAKER_01:Uh the truck is on fire, but they do a pit maneuver, and the brakes are out, and so they have to jump at the back of the truck, they end up on top of her car.
SPEAKER_02:Eddie Murphy's able to get off, but Pete's got a little piece of cloth that just a little tiny thing that's stuck, and he apparently can't rip it off. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Uh and then somehow we we fight with the bad guy, and then the bad guy starts machine gunning them.
SPEAKER_02:Well, yeah, so he has to get back on and they drive back to the bad guys. They drive back to the bad guys. Now the bad guy has gotten out and starts machine gunning while Pete is still on the hood of the car and is definitely dead. He's definitely been shot. Um he is hiding behind that big dick. His dick got all shot.
SPEAKER_01:Bam, bam, bam. You have to rebuild him, make it faster, stronger, more.
SPEAKER_02:Jesus. Um good lord. And um, yeah, so then I then they stop and then they face off and have a gunfight, I guess.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, and he's machine gunning, and then we're like, how are our boys gonna win against the machine gun? And then we're like nervous.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, Eddie's wife is in the car, she just gets out and smashes him. Uh it's the one other than that one guy that when they got ran over, it was the other point of piece of violence that I did enjoy. I liked when she was nice.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, yeah, we like that she saves the day, and it's not any of the people that matter in the movie. Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:It's good.
SPEAKER_02:It's good.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, are you ready for the for the the joke? I I yeah, I feel like I've been waiting. I don't know. What's the joke? So after she clobbers him, you know, our guys have won. Pete Davidson says to Eddie Murphy's character, go ahead, Russ, go get your dick sucked. Oh, Jesus Christ.
SPEAKER_02:Now, here's the thing. I agree that that's a funny line. Hold on. I agree that that's a funny line, but it doesn't really match up with his character or their relationship whatsoever in the movie. No, it's Pete Davidson saying that. I agree. Yeah. And that's and while I I agree that that's funny, it doesn't fit in the movie. No, of course it doesn't fit. If you had done that in a way that you built the their relationship where he says dirty things inappropriately and Eddie Murphy gives him shit about it. So this is the culmination of that, then that's a very funny joke. Yeah. It drives me crazy, Dan, when jokes are used out of context like that. Because you don't murder. You don't murder. I'll tell you my joke that I liked. Hold on, my joke. Um, so he's laying on the ground, and any remote is like, wait, I gotta get the ring. Okay. Or he says, wait, I gotta do something, and goes over and picks up the ring. And Pete, off screen, just goes, You get his wallet? That joke made me laugh really hard. And I wish that there was more of like if they would escape that a little bit where Pete was like, Yeah, let's get let's get his stuff, and then like came over to join him or something. I think that would be fun. Um, but that was a joke I enjoyed.
SPEAKER_01:I mean, there's a there's so many Pete could come over here and you know get tough with the the guy that's like basically on the ground. What are you doing? Yeah, you fucking bee, this is what you get, and then the guy moves in and he's like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Run away, running great.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Uh Russ gets the ring, they let the girl escape with the money and a small airplane because because you know what's gonna be hard to do is track a small airplane. I don't know.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, I don't know. Why doesn't Pete go with her at this point? At what point did Pete decide that he wanted to stay? He's been trying to go with her this whole time. I don't know. I don't understand why he stays at this moment, Dan.
SPEAKER_01:Uh, we cut to the thing, medical attention. Eddie Murphy tells them a bunch of lies, so it seems like they're not culpable with anything. Uh, she gives Pete Davidson a number, but he eats it or something? I don't know.
SPEAKER_02:Yes, I guess because it's evidence, maybe. Uh I don't know.
SPEAKER_01:Six months later, she's on the beach. Pete has finally figured out what the number is, calls her, and she's like, Come be my husband.
SPEAKER_02:And he does. He just is in the middle of cop class and just quits. And uh and that's it, I guess. Then he goes and lives with her.
SPEAKER_01:And then Eddie Murphy's character who has his bed and breakfast, it's perfect. She he goes to the door, there's a box, not even a box you have to sign for. Nope.
SPEAKER_02:He pulls a just left at the door for all those porch pirates to come and grab. Millions of dollars. We've seen that movie. It's called There Will Be Blood. And shit goes down in that movie. Um, there you go.
SPEAKER_01:He opens it by pulling off one piece of tape that has no stickiness to it.
SPEAKER_02:One tiny.
SPEAKER_01:And it's filled with money. And what does he immediately do? He pulls a big pet, white money out, and holds it up.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, well, you have to know it's money. You know, you gotta be sure. You gotta be sure.
SPEAKER_01:And then he goes inside to uh be arrested eventually.
SPEAKER_02:Tell his basically tell his wife that he's got a lot of money that they got illegally.
SPEAKER_01:Well, more importantly, you just said it. He he runs one of those bills anywhere.
SPEAKER_02:He's in jail forever. That's why I assume she at some point laundered it. I don't know how or where. I assume she did it. In the movie. I don't know. Yay! There it is. What a treat.
SPEAKER_01:The pickup.
SPEAKER_02:What a treat. Here's what I'll don't want to do.
SPEAKER_01:It's called the pickup because Pete got picked up by her. They do pickups of money. Double entendra. And then she had to do the pickup at the casino to get all her money. So many pickups. So many pickups.
SPEAKER_02:Should be called multiple pickups. That's what the movie should really be called. It's not one single pickup.
SPEAKER_01:It should be called multiple pickups. Okay, Tony. Anything else you want to say about this? Don't watch it.
SPEAKER_02:Is that what we're done with this? I'm done with this movie. I didn't like it.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, you didn't like it.
SPEAKER_02:That's all right. I usually like most of our movies. I did not enjoy this movie.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, that's too bad. Uh something we liked this week. I started The Stranger Things. Have you watched?
SPEAKER_02:I don't no spoilers. Nope. We're we've started over at episode one last night because we one, we forgot it was coming out. And two, we don't really remember what happened because that was like three years ago. So we're gonna watch all of the series and then watch the new one.
SPEAKER_01:Okay. What happens? Um I don't know. It's I started watching I watched the first two episodes of season one. Okay. And they hold up.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. We watched, like I said, we watched the first one last night, and it's just delightful. Do you not like the new stuff that you watched?
SPEAKER_01:I like the last sea. I've liked all the seasons for the most part.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, me too.
SPEAKER_01:But this one, I don't know. It just seems a lot of characters. I like a lot of the characters, and you know, you're like, I expend to have time with all these people, but you know, it it a lot of them feel like they got one foot out the door.
SPEAKER_00:Sure. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:They concentrate on Holly, who's like the youngest daughter. The sister? The s yeah, the youngest sister. Okay, yeah. And she's like, I don't know, like maybe 11 or something.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:She's by far my favorite part of the whole of the whole interesting. Because she's, you know, doing something new and different, you know, she is building a character. And they know how they know how to build characters.
SPEAKER_02:You know, that's true.
SPEAKER_01:They have the characters, you're like, nobody else has any place to go.
unknown:Right.
SPEAKER_01:They know exactly who they are.
SPEAKER_02:For 16 years, I guess.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, we know all these these characters. We like them. And you know, it's not like I'm like, oh, this is, but it just, you know, if they were like, after this is season six, you'd just be like, oh man, you really have to stop. You know, it's just like the best guy in the last thing was Eddie, right? Eddie was like, oh, he's the best part because he's new.
SPEAKER_02:Loved Eddie.
SPEAKER_01:They know how to make it, they know how to introduce characters and do things with them.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. And you know, and you mean murder them.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. And and Holly, and you know, Holly's story is mostly just her story, so it's not like, oh, okay, here's the plan. You know, that everything else is like, here's the plan. You're like, okay, whatever. All right. Interesting. I'm still excited. Yeah, it's gonna be great. It's totally, I mean, it's totally worth watching, of course. But yeah, of course, of course. Just but the cars can never be the same. What do you got for us, Tony?
SPEAKER_02:Uh we uh we watched um uh Nobody Wants This season two came out, and we watched that this week. Nobody wants this. Um it is not as the first season's perfect. I don't know what it is. Let's just say that. I don't know what it is. This is the uh Adam Brody uh Kristen Bell, Kristen Bell show. Oh, it's great. It's wonderful. It's a wonderful show. Season one's perfect. Season two is very good. It's a slight step down, but it's still very good. We still enjoyed it a lot.
SPEAKER_01:I thought they still weren't. I thought they canceled her because uh her husband wanted to kill her or something.
SPEAKER_02:First of all, I mean, this is so basically he didn't want to kill her. First of all, he said he wanted to kill her because she's annoying. No, no, no. He said, even though killing you would be beneficial monetarily to me, I don't want to. And that's love. If the if if that's not love, I don't know what is Dan. Because she's far more rich than he is. Uh so he would be the beneficiary of a lot of money if something happened to her. But he's saying, I love you so much that even that money isn't enough for me to you know savagely murder you. Maybe.
SPEAKER_01:So that's love. Well, cancel one of them or both of them.
SPEAKER_02:I'm done with that. Don't cancel either of them. They're fun. Dax is fun. He's an idiot. He's a real dumb, dumb guy.
SPEAKER_01:You should have him drive a thing because he could play an idiot. Because it's not far from the end of that.
SPEAKER_02:Okay. I guess that's the other thing. It either takes someone very smart or someone that's actually dumb. One of those two has to play the role of being a dumb guy.
SPEAKER_01:Okay. Next week. Yeah, what are we doing? We're gonna do a real movie. A movie that movie that is beloved by many.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, wow.
SPEAKER_01:Okay. Hated by me. And hated by one. Alright, great. What are we talking about? Real director, real stars, big budget, very popular, uh prescient movie, you know. Uh, we're gonna do the Truman show.
SPEAKER_02:Oh boy, I haven't seen that in 20 years.
SPEAKER_01:I haven't seen it since it came out.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, I I mean, yeah, I don't know. Was that high school? 98. Wow. Okay.
SPEAKER_01:That's a lot of years. That's 27 years.
SPEAKER_02:It's a long time. That's a long time ago. People love this movie. And Harris, Jim Carrey, they do. They love this movie. 94% on Rotten Tomatoes for the critic score, 89% audience score. That's beloved. That's a beloved film right there, Dan. I'm ready. I'm putting it at 4%. 4%, everybody. You heard it here first. I can't wait to rewatch this. This is gonna be great. Oh God. Now, before we start we get into it, do you hate Jim Carrey? No. Should I know that? No, I'm okay. Okay, good. I love Jim Carrey.
SPEAKER_01:I mean, I dislike him now more.
SPEAKER_02:Is he crazy? I feel like he kind of lost his mind.
SPEAKER_01:You know, he's like an artist, and you look at his paintings and you're like, no, stop. Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop.
SPEAKER_02:You know. Oh, art snobs. I love it.
SPEAKER_01:I'm sure people say that about what I do. Stop, stop.
SPEAKER_02:I don't think they do, Dan. Yours are too cute. Um and they're not. I find a lot of art um like pompous. You know what I mean? Self-important. That's me. No, Mr. Toast isn't self-important. I'm very self-important. I agree with that. The artist is different than the art. I find art to be annoying sometimes. But yours isn't.
SPEAKER_01:So even a terrible person like me can make art that uh warms your heart.
SPEAKER_02:I am one of those people that is very good at separating art from the artist. So, yes, absolutely.
SPEAKER_01:Still watching the Harry Potter.
SPEAKER_02:I I mean, I'm am I excited for the new show? You'll never know, but I'm definitely gonna watch it. We'll just say that. Did I listen to the first book full cast audible editions? Sure. I did. Dr. House playing Dumbledore. Yeah, I'm gonna listen to that. Oh, what's his name? Play Dumbledore? Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, that's that's a that's a good that's good casting.
SPEAKER_02:They did a good job. I know. Yeah, JK, terrible, awful, horrible. Still like Eric Bonner. Sorry, I don't know what to tell you.
SPEAKER_01:Well, we're gonna not gonna give it money.
SPEAKER_02:How about that? The audible thing, you don't give money, they just send you that for free. No, because I'm uh yeah, you get so many credits free just because I support Amazon, which is a whole different conversation. That's also bad. Um, but you know, is what it is. Jeff Bezos. Yeah, he's no good either.
SPEAKER_01:Okay, so we'll watch the Truman Show. It's only it's it's less than two hours. I thought it was gonna be like two hours and 18 minutes.
SPEAKER_02:That feels like it would be. Yeah, I'm that's great that it's not.
SPEAKER_01:Under two hours, so we'll give it a shot. You know, maybe I'll be like, oh, I'm changed man. I'm not going to be. I know I'm yeah, maybe you'll change your tune. You're gonna love it. You're gonna love it. Because I'm gonna complain about the artifice of the whole thing, and everyone's gonna be like, it's a fairy tale. You can't look at the artifice, and I'm like, no, it's it's all artifice. It's all artifice. And Jim Carre. I'm excited. I want to see if I don't believe that Jim Carrey can act. I am not convinced.
SPEAKER_02:It'll be, yeah, this will be the test, right? This will be great. Ace Ventura, though, great movie.
SPEAKER_01:Well, yeah, it's it's a dopey comedy, and that's fine.
SPEAKER_02:Okay, dopey isn't the right word. It's brilliant.
SPEAKER_01:I like Dumber Dumber. I think the two of them are very funny. They play very specific, very weird characters. Yes, they play them perfect, they they always react the way they're supposed to react throughout the whole thing. I mean, they're not human beings, they're not real.
SPEAKER_02:No, but they're they could the characters are committed. They're characters that don't change, they don't waver, they are who they are.
SPEAKER_01:And I am not convinced that we're gonna watch this movie and say everyone was gonna tune in and watch this idiot as day in day out. Day in and day out as the number one show on television.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, I don't know I don't remember if it's like yeah, I don't remember anything. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's I'm interested. I think that's my I think that's my basic thesis. Which is the entire crux of the movie.
SPEAKER_01:Yes, you have to convince me that this is gonna be the most popular thing that there is.
SPEAKER_02:100%.
SPEAKER_01:You know, and they're there are definitely things. Agreed thing, you know, it's like the that new terrible Kim Kardashian show, right? Is it oh you haven't seen it? Oh god.
SPEAKER_02:No, I haven't.
SPEAKER_01:It's it's this it's Ryan Murphy doing this terrible, you know, it seems like a reality show, but it's like they're they play lawyers and it's so fake everything. But it's like whatever, I don't know if it's on Netflix or on Amazon, but it's like the number one show on whatever platform it's on. And you're like, I understand that. It is the trash, you know, you love Love Island. You know it is We're watching Love Island right now. Love Island, Australia, killing it. You know it's the trashiest trash on the planet. Hell yeah. That's why we love it. But it's the best, trashiest, you know, it's it does the trashiest trashiness the best.
SPEAKER_02:It knows what it is and it leans into it, and it's great. That's I'm not I'm not convinced the Truman show is that. I agree. I just based off of what I very little I remember. Yeah, I can't wait. This is gonna be fun, Dan.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. Okay. We're gonna make people hate us again.
SPEAKER_02:It's about time. You know, we we don't want people to like us. That's not our brand.
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