Free With Ads - Days of Thunder

Episode Date: July 15, 2025

This week we watched the Tom Cruise race car movie Days of Thunder, where he plays a man who likes to race cars real fast! Tune in next week when our movie will be... Vertigo.-----Emily is doing stand up! July 16th at a show called Skin Contact at Bar Covell in Hollywood, CA.Go see Matt Lieb in Seattle August 2 at do a live podcast at the Rainer Arts Center. Also on August 28 Matt will be in Houston, TX at the Punch Line.Jordan Morris will be at San Diego ComicCon and you find all of his events here!Listen to our latest bonus episode where we talk about the pilot to the Pride and Prejudice miniseries. www.Maximumfun.org/join

This is Free With Ads, the podcast that asks the question, why pay a movie theater 20 bucks to watch F1 when you can go online for free and watch a race car movie that's inherently superior because it has a character named Harry Hogg. I'm Jordan Morris. And I'm Emily Fleming reporting to you live from my parents' house in Nashville. Today's movie is Days of Thunder, the Top Gun, but with Cars movie that's not as good as Top Gun because it doesn't have a scene where everyone sings. You've lost that loving feeling.

Whoa, that lovin' feelin' You've lost that lovin' feelin' Now it's gone, gone, gone Whoa, whoa, whoa With us as always is the super producer, the he-freak, Matt Lieb, hitting us with those rubber burning drops. ["Daytona 500 Theme Song"] It's the Daytona theme song from the video game Daytona 500. Hey! Yeah.

Dude, that slaps hard. It's one of the greatest arcade game songs ever made. Sometimes I just listen to it while I'm driving, but I'm going in like a, I'm in a Kia Sorento and I'm going 35, but I'm like, yeah, Daytona. Hell yeah. That song rules, actually. It rules.

That beginning is the best. That era of video games, especially from Sega, had some real good music. It's real good music. They didn't fuck around. They were like, no, we're gonna get a, we're gonna have a banger. We're gonna have a radio banger for this 16-bit game.

Is Sega still around, by the way, or is it done? Yeah, Sega's still around. They make the Sonic games. Oh, nice. There's more Sonic games? Oh, man, I think they crank out kind of a bad Sonic game every year, so I usually have to play them to talk about them on podcasts. That's the only reason I consume media these days.

I know, same. Yeah, I think, you know, and you know, hey, they say there's a new crazy taxi coming out. Wouldn't that be fun? Speaking of great soundtracks. Well, I will say, I had a Sega Game Gear. I think I've talked about this. It's broken.

I'm really bummed about that. But I had the Lion King game and an X-Men game. So they've got the rights to Disney stuff, which is pretty cool. So let's get a comeback going, Sega. Let's get a vintage also throwback with new Sega Game Gears. Let's go. Yeah, let's start cranking it. Come on, Sega.

Start cranking out the Game Gears. I'll buy them. Make it, big brick I know somebody Someone show me their Nintendo switch and I was like, yeah, I guess this is cool But how come it's not 32 pounds and hadn't take 17 double a battery But Matt for those 17 double a batteries you could play for an hour and a whole hour and a half, dude It was crazy

You could you could extend it though if you took out the battery and shook it and then put it back in sure you get another another five no no my family had the rechargeable double A batteries and that the little thing where you charged up the batteries yeah so I would take that to summer camp as well hell Sega Game Gear, a legend gone too soon. Hey, before we talk about Days of Thunder, which is as of this recording, streaming free with ads, we're gonna talk about something else we saw for free on the internet this week. Other free stuff. Emily, you got a clip for us, what are we listening to? All right, I was on Mythical Kitchen this week,

making fancy versions of Chili's double or Chili's like triple dippers. It's like their appetizer. Like, yeah, yeah, that. Yeah, it's it's brought Chili's back. Apparently, Chili's is having a Renaissance. I had one of these triple dippers not too long ago. I can confirm this is an truly amazing meal. They have new, thicker mozzarella sticks. I don't like those. I didn't like them. I was a huge fan.

They have a coating on them. Obviously different strokes for different folks, but yeah, the triple dipper, a wonderful chain restaurant experience. It's all about the egg rolls. It's all about those. So you were on Mythical Kitchen, the YouTube cooking show, talking about these.

What are we gonna listen to? So I managed to squeeze in a plug, and Mythical Kitchen, they're the best. They love our show, and they let me just run my mouth about our fabulous podcast. Hell yeah, here it is. Good. You have to see it.

You have to see it, and that movie is free with ads on YouTube Much like the name of the podcast I have on maximum fun calm Sorry movies that are free with ads. I'm doing a plug. We got our beautiful lamb Lighters down there. It smells Emily. Tell them how good this smells. It smells good All right. Tell more about your podcast. Hell yeah. It's me and Jordan Morris and Matt Lieb

and we talk about movies that are free with ads on YouTube, Tubi, Pluto, all that stuff. We just did, we did Land Before Time recently. That's fun. We just did, we just recorded No Country for Old Men, which amazing. Wildly different movies, Land Before Time and all. Oh yeah, we don't amazing. Wildly different movies, lame before time enough. Oh yeah, we don't care.

If it's free, we're watching it. I love that. Yeah, I love the jazzy music they put behind it too. They are the editors at Mythical, are the superstars of Mythical, in my opinion. They're just, Taylor is one of the editors for The Kitchen. Taylor's so funny. Add like little, like whoosh sound effects over nothing.

If I spank a piece of tofu, which I did, they add this whip noise to it. They're so funny. They even put the podcast logo over the plug. They did, they put the thumbnail, I know. We love them. Well, hey, we will plug them because they let us plug us. So, yeah, Mythical Kitchen over there on YouTube.

You can watch it for free. Emily's on all the time. I've been on once or twice. Tons of fun. You get food. You get food, you get comedy. It's a blast. Just wanna say special thanks to Josh who You just like he sets you up to

Look good all the time. He's very good at that like yeah Yeah, I love I love a I stan a hot king who is gracious Giving we can all agree Josh is a hunk. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah He's the hunk watch of Yeah, no need to you can only do that segment once on that show because yeah Everyone's good-looking in the kitchen though every single one. That's true, but Josh has got those ABS. So, you know the ABS What's that? Hey? Well, yeah Listen hunks hunks for Days on the Mythical Kitchen.

And Hunks for Days. Hunks for Days in this movie. Days of Thunder. I had never seen this. I was happy to get the opportunity. It's one I've been meaning to watch. I love the like testosterone-y movies of this era. Like, you know, Top Gun Point Break.

Roadhouse. Roadhouse. I think Over the Top is kind of one of them. So I really like these movies. I was kind of aware that this existed. So yeah, I was stoked to. I knew that this was when Tom Cruise met Nicole Kidman. Tom Cruise met Nicole Kidman.

This is the legend of how they met and fell in love. So I was like, all right, let's see that chemistry that ruined her life. Let's go. Yes. Let's see. Let's see the beginning of the end. Was that good that it ruined your life? Yeah. Although she is thriving these days.

Oh, yeah. She's in every, every single prestige TV show. She's one of the best actresses. Introducing all of our movies in the theaters. Well, both of them are two of the best movie stars of our generation. Let's hand down movie stars. Undeniable.

I don't know who is a bigger movie star than these two people at this time. We don't really have that now. We got Sydney Sweeney with her fuck soap, but we don't like. I guess Denzel still opens a movie. I guess you can count on Denzel. You know, they say like, who can you count on to like, you know, when they're in the movie,

the movie just makes money. I think it's like Denzel, it's Tom Cruise. And then other than that, it's like IP stuff. It's like, you know, is it a Marvel? Is it a- Yeah, I can't think of another actor. Meryl Streep, she can, she does good, I think. Streep does good.

I mean, Streep is, Streep, if she's in something, I'm going to watch it, so maybe I am not a good cross-section of the American public, but I think she's the best actor alive. But you wanna know something? This is a hot take. Tom Hanks not making good movies anymore. He has actually, has this weird thing

where for the last 10, 15 years, he actually does a fuck ton of movies and like 90% of them are bad and barely see the light of day. And then there'll be one that's amazing and you're like, oh Tom Cruise, or sorry, Tom Hanks, he's so good. I haven't seen Hanks in a minute.

I do know that he kind of cranks out movies, they all seem to be just on Apple Plus. Yes, yeah. But yeah, I haven't seen them, despite loving the golden era of Tom Hanks so much. Well yeah, but it's like he, yeah, it's all straight to video, but he needs to do TV is what I think.

He needs to do a TV show. I'd take a Hanks Hulu mini. Oh, hell yeah. Also, he's been on the Mythical Kitchen, isn't that crazy? That's wild. I know. That's wild. I know. That's wild. Well yeah, let's talk about Days of Thunder.

None of us have seen it, right? This is everybody's first time? First time. Okay, so I thought I hadn't seen it, but my little bar where it shows you like you've watched a video for a long time, I had been watching it at some point. Okay, maybe like you fell asleep

and it auto-played or something? I think that might have been it. Or I was in vibing and forgot. Yeah. You're saying in vibing now. I like it. So we get Emily a fedora. I'm trying to find a way to make my drinking problem elegant. And it does sound like I like it.

I'm vibing. In vibing. Good, sir. Libations, libations for all. Me. I was merely imbibing spirits behind the wheel. Yes, boy I'm having a merry time with my fellows and gentlemen at the taverns drunk I'm not driving drunk. Oh, I was I was merely making merry fellows down at the drinkery I was traveling

and Whimsically. Yes. Hail, fellow well-met. Please. Anyway. Days of Thunder. It starts out with waving flags. American, Confederate, Pepsi, all the main flags.

A lot of shots of Confederate flags in this. I don't think we were reckoning with it back then in 1990. I think they just showed it to show that you were in the South. I think we're struggling to reckon with it now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're still getting over it. We're still figuring that shit out. Those fucking statues, god damn it. So, yeah, the obviously I think, you know, we all knew going into this,

Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, but you're looking at the cast list coming by. All your faves are in this. Michael Rooker, Randy Quaid, Robert Duvall, every severe looking white guy is in this. Yes. Also, Cary Elwes. You have a favorite severe looking white, Cary Elwes, oh well.

He's more, yeah, he's a hot looking white guy. He was my biggest childhood crush for a hot water. Yeah, it's a hot looking guy. Oh, he was my like biggest like childhood crush for a long time. Sure. Sure. Well, Princess Bride is my favorite movie of all time. So we ever do it. We got it because Carriel was that butt cut. Oh, that butt cut. So, yeah, he we we got we're watching some racing. Michael, some great names in this Tom Cruise plays Cole Trickle. He, we got, we're watching some racing. Some great names in this. Tom Cruise plays Cole Trickle.

What? Michael Rooker is Rowdy Burns. And as we mentioned in the intro, Robert Duvall plays Harry Hogg. So wonderful names in this movie. Robert Duvall, he builds race cars, but he's retired. Something about his buddy dying. We don't really get race cars, but he's retired. Something about his buddy dying, we don't really get into it.

And he is approached. But we find him on a tractor, which is like, Oh yeah, doing. Opposite of a race car is a tractor. Yes, there you go. Wow. And so he's on a tractor with his good old, good old hound dog, and he is approached by rich guy,

Randy Quaid, who needs him to come out of retirement to build a car. I just wrote down, Randy Quaid is playing a rich guy? This is probably the only movie where he plays someone who's rich. Boy, Randy Quaid, goddamn good actor. I know, this was the first time I have actually ever watched a Randy Quaid performance and been like, oh, he's making me think he's playing a character.

He's in it, yeah, he's disappeared into character. He's in the zone. Damn good leather jacket, too. I wanted that aviator style brown leather jacket real bad. I'm more into Randy Quaid for his social media videos. Oh, he's got good videos. What? He's got social.

Oh, he's off the deep end. Oh, I know, I know. He and his wife think that the government's after him or something. Yeah. But I do want to watch those, and maybe we should, is. Oh, I know, I know. He and his wife think that the government's after him or something, but I do wanna watch those and maybe we should, is it sad or is it funny? It's a bummer, it's a bummer. It's funny, you're like, cousin Eddie!

Oh, bummer, anyway. Well, cause here's the thing, if he was, Matthew McConaughey's stuff is just as sad, but he's hot, so we go, oh, old so and so. They're both equally delusional, but one is delusional in a way that's completely harmless. And the other one, you're just like, oh, man, I feel kind of bad for you. It seems like things are going bad.

I know we do need to talk about the movie. I shouldn't mention those because Matthew Conahay came up. Matthew Conahay's book of poetry soon to be released. So just a little bit of a Conahay update. We're definitely going to need to read some of those to the audience. Well, if you subscribe to his newsletter, you would see some see some see some teasers. I think we've got a stop plugging his newsletter for the last fucking time newsletter. I'm just a big newsletter guy anyway.

So Robert Duvall has to come out of retirement to build to build a race car. And they found just the guy to drive it. He's from Eagle Rock. Eagle Rock, Arkansas? No, Eagle Rock near Glendale. That's where I'm from. Yeah, fun to hear Glendale mentioned. I know.

The fact that you thought Arkansas too, blew my mind, because I went Eagle Rock. Oh, they say it in the, it's a little moment in the movie, because they assume that everybody who drives these cars is Southern, and then Tom Cruise being a being a so Cal Yeah, what was it they said about because is he a Yankee and it's like no he's from California. It's something else

Yeah, which means it makes him nothing. Yeah. Yeah. I like that. Just a just a Glendale dude heading down to portos Yeah, I'm gonna eat one of them cheese rolls and drive 100 miles per hour. Maybe I'll grab a kebab at Rafi's. Or Glendale references. Maybe I'll hang out with guys all wearing Puma jumpsuits on the corner. Hell yeah go to Americana you know put a coin in the wishing well and I don't know maybe drive 90 down the 134. These are all fun Glendale references people. If you know Glendale, you are delighted

by all these references. It's pretty fun, Glendale kind of rules actually. Glendale's great, oh yeah, tons of fun. So Tom Cruise, he's a brooding bad boy of racing. He comes from the world of, I think it's F1 he comes from, it's some other kind of racing. That never really was clear to me. But can we discuss the entrance of his character

and the, I mean, the red carpet machismo of him coming in on a motorcycle? So yeah, so this is like, so you know, this is a couple years after Top Gun, same director, Tony Scott, great like so, you know, this is a couple years after Top Gun same director Tony Scott great Tony Scott Oh, I'm RIP and like you could tell they just said do do Top Gun with cars and he like comes in on a motorcycle And it's like just say he's Maverick just say Maverick drives cars now. You don't need to make this a different guy That's a good point. It should be the same universe

Yeah, totally should be Maverick can do whatever but you made made it a different guy, and you called him Cold Trickle? Cold Trickle. He goes from playing Maverick to Cold Trickle. That sounds like gonorrhea. It does. Oh, I got the Cold Trickle. I got the Cold Trickle. I got the Cold Trickle down in Mexico. Oh, boy.

Oh, boy. Oh boy. So Tom Cruise, he and Robert Duvall, they don't like each other. John C. Reilly is his pit crew guy. I think he's the tallest person in the movie. Oh for sure. Tallest guy. You guys, I have a little bit of a, well it's not a humble brag, it's just a brag.

Sure, do a brag. John C. Reilly followed me two days ago on Instagram. Hey, okay. Oh, that's amazing. Not bad, not bad. I think he just joined Instagram, he's pretty new. So like, go ahead and follow him, he might follow you back. Hey, you know what you need to do?

Invite him on the pod. John C. Reilly, come on the pod. There is no way, but also, do you know he's like- Come on, John C. Reilly, you wanna pod. There is no way, but also, do you know- Come on John C. Reilly, you wanna watch Alien versus Predator Requiem? Oh, I bet he would. I bet he would. Can I say something?

I looked it up, he's been married to the same woman for so long and he's got a kid, and he just seems like cool guy, I don't know, cool guy. Love him. So Tom Cruise and Robert Duvall, they're button heads, but they eventually start to like each other because Tom Cruise takes Robert Duvall's racing advice

and he does better. Robert Duvall does a little trick to him about, oh, if you go around the outside, you'll be fine. I put special tires on the car. Tom Cruise is really easy to trick in this. He's just kinda gullible. Well, at one point he says he tells Robert Duvall, the problem with me is I'm a fucking idiot.

Yeah. And he says, I don't know about cars. Which sounds like something a Tim Robinson character would say. I don't know what any of this shit means. Honestly, that's pretty much me in stand up comedy. Every time I go somewhere, I'm like, I don't know how to write a joke. I don't know.

I'm just kinda saying stuff, man. I just go, and sometimes people laugh, sometimes people call the cops. A lot of times they don't. Tom Cruise, he starts taking Robert Duvall's advice. He starts a-winnin', he becomes the hot, hot driver. And we kinda get a little bit of his backstory. His dad lost all the family's money in the old driving thing that he used to do.

So he's on the lookout for a new dad. He's a real Billy Ray Cyrus kind of guy. And they do a thing where their tour bus gets pulled over and there's a hot state trooper who's feeling him up and it turns out to be a stripper, whoa! Fun moment, that'll come back. I gotta say that I think that bras were way cuter at this time period.

Nice bra, nice bra on this lady. I was like, why are bras so ugly now? I don't know hmm Yeah, little thing I noticed. Yeah. No, that's I didn't notice but I I'm interested super hot. She was super hot. Let's go to the next day at the race He has a big old crash with his like rival driver Michael Rooker who's like definitely supposed to be the ice man of this movie. It's like, hey, he's gotta have an ice man. They don't have the scintillating sexual chemistry

that Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer have in Top Gun. So it's not as inherently sexual. They're not like nipping at each other's noses. No, but Val Kilmer could have sexual chemistry with a fucking metal post. Yeah, 100%. But yeah, this actor I recognize from Guardians of the Galaxy and all this stuff, but I didn't know he was doing movies

back at this time period. Yeah, he kinda like Michael Rooker, he's a great that guy from that thing. Yeah. Yeah, he's in Guardians of the Galaxy, and I think before that he was in a bunch of horror movies and B movies. I think he was at this point maybe gonna be a star,

but then kind of like just kind of settled into working actor. But yeah, he's one of those great dudes. He's got a severe, memorable face. And yeah, he's great in this. He's, yeah, he's really, he's looked the same. I know. There's a few actors in this. And John C. Re few actors and John C. Reilly to John. Yeah, Riley has always it's always looked 50

It's just crazy here with these 20. He looked and he looks great like a great 50 but here and Now he yeah 50 exactly the fucking same and you know, even Tom Cruise to some extent, you know Obviously he's had a lot of work done You think so? I mean, I can't be certain, it could be natural. Probably a little bit. Maybe, I think the bangs help. I should get, I gotta get my bangs back

because it's either, it's Botox or bangs, I think. Tom Cruise has this thing now where he's a little puffy, but other than the puff, he, yeah, he looks about the same and you know, maybe Randy Quaid is the only one who didn't age great but yeah, there's a few actors in this who I couldn't believe were You know still Relatively the same-looking Carrie Elway's Elway's

However, you pronounce it I saw him recently in something and I was like still looks good still a hottie still He's in those he's in the new mission impossible movies I saw him recently in something and I was like, still looks good, still a hottie, still looks good. Yeah, what's he? He's in the new Mission Impossible movies. He is? He is, yeah, he's like just some kind of random general guy. Do not ask me the overarching story of those movies. Oh, no problem.

I have seen every one. I cannot tell you what happens in those movies. All right, cool. He plays just kind of a random general that pops up in All those movies, so he's playing American in this He plays American and taught in Mission Impossible He sounds pretty good in this but in the Mission Impossible movies. He has maybe the craziest example of

British guy trying to be American and hitting the Rs hitting the Rs even hunt your you were out of control even hunt I Gotta get really to Brooklyn where I live And grew up they gotta stop casting him as an American guy. Yeah, he's okay in this He doesn't talk a lot in this He kind of just smiles and then like is Tom Cruise's enemy once he makes friends with Michael Rooker, but yeah, he's okay in this. He doesn't talk a lot in this. He kind of just smiles and then like is Tom Cruise's enemy once he makes friends with Michael Rooker. But yeah, it's yeah, it sounds normal to me that Kerry L.

was like after he did Princess Bride and Men in Tights, he went strictly into villain mode. Like he does. Yeah, villain characters. Yeah. Yeah. And I guess the girls. I wonder why like that that happened. I don't know. He's a good villain, though. He's a good villain.

He's a good villain. Yes, he's great. So Tom Cruise, he's a star. Nothing can go wrong, except when it does. He gets in a big old crash with Michael Rooker. He goes in the hospital where the doctor is, Nicole Kidman. Yeah, looking like someone who's a doctor. Bullshit.

Yeah, too hot. Not fair. It's just the hair. Like, you know, doctors think that. Yeah, her like someone who's a doctor, bullshit. Yeah, too hot. Not fair. It's just the hair. Like, you know, doctors... Yeah, her hair's amazing, her makeup's amazing. Yeah, she definitely looks. Well, also, it's like, okay, if you're a doctor, your hair's gotta be back, because that hair's getting in a surgery. That's true. It's getting in the wounds. You gotta put that back, girl.

If that hair gives me sepsis, I'm okay with death. You'll get that Nicole Kid me sepsis, I'm okay with death. You'll get that Nicole Kidman sepsis. But it's cool to watch, to see Nicole Kidman with the original hair. And it's like, who knew that her hair was like this big, beautiful, curly situation. And the original face. It's really cool. And she, I do, because she's a doctor in this, I do always, I just want to refer to her has Dr. Chase Meridian her character from Batman forever. I'm like again. I hope again. Let's just make these the same characters Why not? Yeah? So and they you know

There's even a little reference to the fact that she is far hotter than your average doctor Tom Cruise assumed She's a stripper at the beginning. Oh, yeah comes in in. He puts her hand, it's like a good bit, he puts her hand on his dick, which is like, okay, this is going over into weird and creepy, but it is a fun bit overall, and she plays it off nice. All of his racing buddies are there. Laughing their ass off. To help laugh their asses off.

And in the background is a giant like tub like a plastic tub you get from the container store full of grapes someone just brought him a tub of like get better eat all these grapes it's the prop guys huge amount of grapes yeah like I don't know it's like a fruit basket and someone's like what if I just do one fruit That'll be the bit the bit is a craft service today Yeah, everyone ate all the you know the pineapple and the strawberries, but then it's just a big thing of grapes Yeah, that's a man's idea of a fruit Put some fucking fruit in there who cares like it put it in a plant

Don't put it in a basket or wrap it nicely just dump it in a plastic tub You would use to store Christmas lights. Yeah. Boy, men who don't give a shit about their family must have loved it when edible arrangements came out. Oh, yeah. They were like, thank God. I don't have to think about this bullshit anymore. I'm going to wash up the tubs afterwards. Mm hmm. I could just throw them away.

So he and Michael Rooker, they're recovering and but they just can't stop racing each other. They have to go to dinner with this guy who runs the racing company, and to get to the restaurant, they rent cars, and then just race over to the restaurant, but they're smashing into each other and then driving on the beach,

and I'm sure just endangering so many lives. This is this weird cartoony thing that happens. It's so funny. It's so cool. It's just nonsensical and dumb. I feel like I want the rest of the movie to kind of be like this. Me too.

Yes. It's a very like, it's a pretty serious movie. But these little things are fun. And yeah, this is like, it's them becoming like, frenemies to enemies to friends. And yeah, it's definitely like the Iceman relationship. Yeah, and I like the playful competitiveness between two masculine men.

There's something about it that just like, you're watching, I just like watching when everyone's friends. I just want everyone to be friends. Although, watching the scene where they're crashing the rental cars, I really could have used just a small scene of them at the rental company deciding to get the insurance. So that it would make me feel better.

It's 50 bucks. Yeah. I'm watching it go, come on guys, just get the insurance. I just want to know that they're covered, please. So while all this is happening, kind of Tom Cruise is like romancing Nicole Kidman, Dr. Chase Meridian. Look out Tom, or Batman will beat you up. is happening kind of Tom Cruise is like romancing Nicole Kidman, Dr. Chase Meridian. Look out Tom or Batman will beat you up. So he's romancing oh and I guess Val Kilmer was her Batman so I guess there's a fun little connection there.

Anyway connections we love them do they mean anything? Not really. They didn't have chemistry. Yeah I I mean, Batman and Robin had a ton of chemistry in that movie. Oh yeah. So, you know, I think that, you know, there's just chemistry elsewhere. Mm-hmm. And so yeah, and you know, and like Nicole Kidman

can be kind of like a chilly actor sometimes, and I think that's why, you know, that's why she's so good in so much stuff. I think her and Tom Cruise do have great chemistry in this. It's a hot thing. They're like flirting through all this and he's like kind of trying to like, get her to go out with them and she's a little reluctant

because it's so unprofessional. Guess what? She gives in. He like takes her on the road with him so she can like inspect him before he does his races. Yeah. There's a scene. So yeah, there's a scene. Inspect him. So yeah, there's a thing where she's giving him an exam

and he leans in to kiss her, but she brushes him off and then makes out with him later in the hallway. And yeah, there is that great 80s, 90s sex scene where it's like sax music and you kind of cut away before anything happens. And yeah, I just loved when movies had to have that. Like if it was a movie for mom and dad,

you had to have that kind of like, you know, nudity-free or like a little bit of nudity sex scene with sex music. PG-13 passionate kissing scene where they're having sex allegedly, but you've never seen sex or had sex that looked like that. Every movie, I feel like in the 90s had that, right? And then now there's none.

Like, there's no sex scenes in movies anymore. Like the Marvel movies, nothing. That's a good point. There are very few sex scenes that aren't about how sex is either- Or how they're pushing the envelope about it or something. Right, it's either making a statement about how sex is either... Or how they're pushing the envelope about it or something. Right, it's either making a statement about the sex or the sex is somehow tied into the story

that's like, oh well, it's cheating or whatnot. You're right, you don't see a lot of fucking... Yeah, you know, it's never just like, we have these two hot actors, people wanna see it. And you know, and yeah, so it, and they're always like afterwards, they kind of cut away when they're like about to do it or when they're in the kind of opening motions of doing it.

And then you come back to them and the woman has the sheets tied around her boobs and the man has it draped over his penis. You know, like you do after you have sex. Honestly, as soon as I can cover up, I do it. Yeah. I drape it over there. I'm like the stomach, don't look. Yeah, I like to actually cover my whole body except my penis.

I cut a hole out. You should put on a ghost outfit with a little hole. Yeah, exactly. Haunt the house. Whoa, that was great. And he's like, can you look at me? No, just my penis. I'm going to head to the bathroom.

I just put on a morph suit, cut a hole in the bottom, you know what I mean? I get it. So he does a little thing, and this is like, you know, I don't like car racing. I don't watch it, I don't consume it. And I, you know, the racing scenes are really thrilling in this. Like, Tony Scott's good at action.

I don't understand what's going on in the races. Yes. The closest thing we get to like, a description of what happens in NASCAR is like he does this thing on her leg after they had sex with like sugar packets where he's like the car goes like this and then the car goes like this and then they head to victory lane which means her pussy. Fingering story.

Yeah, kind of. Or sugar packaging. Yeah. I don't know. That's how you get spiders in your pussy. Oh yeah, that's how you get spiders. That's how you get spiders in your pussy. Oh, yeah That urban legend that like somebody like put Jam on there whatever and someone like ate out this girl and then she like spiders were in there I've not I've not heard that urban legend, but that you that's definitely how you get ants

Yeah, for sure. That's definitely how you get ants. Yeah. For sure that's how you get ants. Ants in the pants. Ants in the pants. Yeah, literally. I hope that's part of the movie Urban Legend. I haven't seen that in a while. I haven't either, but yes.

Pussy spiders, definitely in there. Urban Legend should be just that. It should be that Richard Gere getting a gerbil up his ass. Yeah, Elton John having cum drained out of his stomach. See, I always heard that that was Rod Stewart. Uh, you know, I think it's a regional thing, probably. Someone said it was Jordan Knight from New Kids on the Block.

I feel like that story gets updated every generation. No, I always heard it was Rod Stewart. Is it also, is his name Rod? Yeah, Rod. Oh, Jesus, that's too horny. Short for Rodbert. Yeah. Wait, really? I don't know. It's probably not Rodbert. Okay, so, you know, Tom Cruise, he's getting better with the help of Dr. Chase Meridian, and he's going to do his big race, and and we're gonna about days of thunder.

Tom Cruise, he's back in the game. He's got a new enemy, Kerry Elwes, because he made friends with his old enemy. And so they're driving, Kerry Elwes kind of wins the first race. And then Tom Cruise like intentionally smashes into him during the victory lap. And then, you know, he's kind of like, this is kind of like his dark night of the soul here. He's driving with Nicole Kidman in the car later, and she's kind of like reading him the riot act.

And then he does this truly terrifying thing where he like drives like a maniac with her in the car, like up this parking garage and I'm like What a fucking metaphor for what their relationship was probably She's just in the passenger seat and he's going insane Yeah, it did seem like I don't know He's very good at Playing these kinds of characters and I truly do believe he is a fantastic actor.

Oh, of course. But the fact is, is that sometimes you're just like, oh, I bet some of that's in there. Yeah. For sure. And there's a scene right after this where she like tears him down. Like there's this big monologue,

she calls him an infantile egomaniac. Yeah. And it is so good. She's so fucking good in this scene. It's like, it's the best acting in this movie that doesn't have a lot of acting in it, but she, you know, dammit, we'll say praise a little bit, but she's great in this scene. And like, and you know, it is like kind of investigating

like what makes these guys do this and what, you know, and yeah, is it trauma, is it they're, you know, and yeah, is it trauma? Is it they're, you know, trying to fill a void? Like, is this like this movie is trying to be like smarter than most of these movies. It like makes it less fun, but it is like trying to like, you know, yeah, unpack this or like explain the adrenaline junkie a little bit. I kind of think that this, you know, we're talking about how macho and like, you know, a lot of testosterone in this, you know, we're talking about how macho and like, you

know, a lot of testosterone in this movie, but I really like these men. Like I feel like they... True. I think they're, it's that movie where all the men are super macho, but they're kind of like these old American salt of the earth, like kind of, like anything with Robert Duvall, you're like, that's a good guy. Yeah. It's a nice guy.

It's a nice guy. It's a nice guy. He's a tractor and a dog. It's masculinity, but there's no hatefulness to it. It's like, it's toxic, but they're not hateful. And it does make it more fun to watch. It makes it easier to root for even the villains of the movie. They're good to each other.

I think these are like, it's just nice to see men doing stuff, you know? Like having a hobby, getting out there, having a project. That's nice. Yeah, nice to see men with projects. So yeah, so Tom Cruise, he's in the final race. Michael Rooker can't drive. He's like, he's got a brain injury.

It's pretty, pretty sad. He can't do what he loves. But he gives Tom Cruise his car, and wouldn't you know it, Tom Cruise wins the big race. He and Robert Duvall have a little moment where he's like, I'll race you to victory lane, so I guess Nicole Kidman's a pussy, I don't know. They're trying to follow the threads in the movie,

isn't that what he's talking about? Get those spiders and those sugar packets ready. Let's fucking go I and then he then they like do this little run to victory lane and it's kind of the fat final shot in the of the movie and Tom Cruise runs like such a fucking dork in this his signature Mission Impossible run had not been perfected yet. That's right. He like he runs with like, you know, like, oh, pizza's here. Yeah.

Yes. Yes. That's taken us to thrifty for ice cream. Yeah. Yeah. He does run like an elementary school kids trying to get to McDonald's before breakfast. And yeah, oh, it's 1020. Yeah. Yeah. I'm going to get pancakes. Not to not to brag They're like, oh, it's 10.20. I'm gonna get pancakes. Not to brag, but I'm really good at T-ball. Yeah.

Oh, my god. Exactly. He does look like he's running towards Mommy in the minivan after baseball. But yeah, this is actually a thing I see with a lot of actors, where they play these, whatever characters they play, and then you see a movie where they run,

and you go, oh, they've never had to run before. Well, here's something I was thinking about was, we watched Honey, right? And it's a movie with an actress who's supposed to be a dancer but can't dance. But Tom Cruise is just sitting. He's just sitting. I mean, he didn't have to be good at driving.

That's true. Yeah. And that's what actors should do. They should act and not do anything. Yeah, I like it. An actor who sits is my favorite actor. Yes. Oh, that sounds like a show.

An actor who sits. An actor who sits with James Lipton. That's kind of what we're doing, but we're not. Your favorite kind of chair. Lazy boy. How much lumbar support do you need? What do you think about rocking chairs? Yes. I'm pro. Pro rocking chair, but a rock.

Of course. So, yeah, that's that's Days of Thunder. Well, yeah, tell you what we thought about it. But first, we got to do the Hunk Watch. It's Days of Thunder. We're gonna tell you what we thought about it, but first we gotta do the Hunk Watch. It's Hunk Watch. You know what I'm gonna do, I think. You know, I didn't write this down. I mentally wrote it down. I think there's a 90% chance Emily says Randy Quaid.

No! No! Well, that's why you said 90, not 100%. 90% chance, okay, So I rolled the dice. 10%. Come on. Y'all know who I'm picking. Yeah.

Is Carrie Always right? It's Robert Duvall. Oh, okay. See, that's same universe of what Jordan was guessing, though. Yeah. No, it's not. Okay. Well, here's the thing.

At one point, Jordan, you said that I clearly have a kind of a pattern of Hunk Watch where it's a guy who makes decisions and he's like kind of a nice, decisive man who's responsible and would fix my credit score, like that kind of thing. Yeah. He'd whip me into shape. Absolutely. I like that he's a coach. It's hot. Yeah, it's hot. A lot of porn searches like that he's a coach. It's hot.

Yeah, it's hot. My hunk of the movie. A lot of porn searches with that by the way. Oh yeah, get a minute. You just go into Pornhub, upstanding gentlemen. Fixed credit score. You know what? They got something for it, there's something for it.

Honestly, I'm gonna go to upstanding gentlemen, big dick and see what happens. Yeah, just see, just see. And send us links. There is a, you know, there's a genre of porn where it's like somebody getting it on with their like real estate person, you know? Like they're getting like shown a house.

I love that, yes. And then they get it on with the real estate person. I'm like, the sex in this is fine. I just, I like the fantasy that I can afford a house and then they get it on with the real estate person. I'm like, the sex in this is fine. I like the fantasy that I can afford a house. I know. I love that part. I'm like, ooh, baby. I also like the idea of like, is this will you, I mean, because it's not like the realtor

is the one who gets to decide who gets the house. So it'd be more interesting if the actual owner of the house was, anyways, point being that that is great porn. So you wanted to be the banker in there with the real estate. Kind of, actually it would be really funny to just have porn that's just someone fucking someone who's giving them a home loan.

That's honestly, yeah. I'm into it. But I'll tell you this, in Nashville they have the thing where you've got like Pornhub, you can't, you gotta like sign in and put like, there's like a little bit of a porn ban in Tennessee. Oh damn, that's crazy. In Texas they did it too. I went to Texas and I couldn't watch porn.

It was really sad. See, this is why I have a VPN. Okay, so my- We should get that as a sponsor. We should. Yeah, yeah, that'd be nice. So my hunk of the movie, in a movie filled with hunks,

because I think there's a few, I am going to go with John C. Reilly. And the reason I'm going with him, even though obviously his character is not doing anything hunky, I mean, I think he plays a guy named like Butch Brotherton or some shit. Yeah, what is I wrote down his name? What is it? It's another one of the great names in there. Yeah, it's it's it's a it's a strange name It's not it's not great. Yeah, it's a buck. Yeah buck Berthyrton

Yes, his name is buck. Everyone in this Has like a low-key porn name. But I think it is like what movie executives from LA and a director from Australia think southern names are. Yes, 100%. Like someone who has never been to the south, just a crazy Australian whose brother is Ridley Scott. Yes, Tommy Wiseau coming up with a child name just a crazy Australian whose brother is Ridley Scott. Tommy Wiseau coming up with a child name

and landing on Denny, you know, where it's just like. Honestly, that's better than whatever the fuck this is. Yeah, Buck Rutherton. Also, oh, it's worth mentioning too, Tom Cruise has a story credit on this movie. So maybe some of these names are his. Like, yeah, the first time I've seen, I don't know if Tom Cruise has written anything else,

but yeah. That checks out. I bet he came up with the names. This is what Tom Cruise thinks the South is like, coal trickle. I would love to know what his contribution to the story was. Me too. It just goes in the room where he's just like,

I wanna do race car movie! Yeah. I did planes, no, I do cars! Yeah, no, I do cars! Listeners, if you know anybody who worked on this movie and you got stories, you gotta tell us. Let us know, please. Please let us and you got stories, you gotta tell us. Let us know, please.

Please let us know. But yeah, I would go with John C. Reilly. I like looking at a young John C. Reilly, even though he still looks like an old John C. Reilly. And I liked his character was this very sweet guy whose dad died at Daytona the year before. And he's just really good at this, like, I don't know, sad character that I just wanted to hug him

and give him more kids. Oh definitely, he's got that vibe, he's got dead dad in race car thing. If he was at the bar, every girl would be like, I could fix him. Yes, 100%, 100%. I could make him happy. But yeah, I love him, I love him, I think he's great.

Jordan, what about you? Yeah, I'm right there with you, Matt. John C. Reilly was mine too, for all the reasons you said. Yeah, I love him. I love him, I think he's great. Jordan, what about you? Yeah, I'm right there with you, Matt. John C. Reilly was mine too, for all the reasons you said. Yeah, always great when this guy pops up. And yeah, it's fun to see that he's been popping up in things and being great since 1990. Oh yeah, he's got a one-man show called Mr. Romantic.

I love it. It's amazing. Oh yeah? If you get a chance to see it, it's like he sings. It's just like romantic songs and he's doing this character. Oh my God, it's so good. And I also just want to say, I love that there's sort of this new resurgence of people's appreciation for Walk Hard, a Dewey Cox story.

I feel like that movie was low-key slept on by a lot of people. And I was like, guys, this is like the most perfect parody movie that's ever been made. It really is. It really is. And now I'm starting to see people talk about it more. And his performance in that, fucking incredible. So funny.

Yeah, and it's one of those things where like a guy who doesn't come from comedy, like a guy who comes, like he was a stage actor, you know, he was like in the actor's gang or something. And then like, yeah, he, but just like, didn't do improv, didn't do second city, but just is so funny because he's committed. You know, it's just like,

if you give a fucking committed ass actor a good script, that's like, you know, funnier than somebody who's, you know, improv and a bunch of stuff. But he's also just got timing. Like I think that, I think that knowing timing is something you can't teach. Like, it's- Yes, that's true. You just feel it.

And it makes sense that he's a singer and a musician and stuff because that's the same thing, I think. Yeah, and on that note, Tom Cruise, I think, is an example of someone with who is like, I think we can all agree is an amazing actor who can't do comedy. Like, everyone points to

Tropic Thunder as like, oh, wasn't he funny in that? And I was like, he really wasn't. I thought he was good at yelling. Yeah, costumes doing a lot of work. It was the dance. I think sometimes, I think sometimes when like, a good looking person puts on a funny costume, they get a lot of work. It was the dance. I think sometimes when a good looking person puts on a funny costume they get a lot of points for being funny.

Or if you're Nicole Kidman you get an Oscar. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's true. Costumes do a lot for hot, talented actors. I think we're past this era but there was that kind of annoying era where people talked about how funny Justin Timberlake was. I'm like, I think he just will put on a mustache if you ask him to. And that's great.

It's great that he does that. It's cute. We all, but yeah. He's down to clown and true. He's self-effacing. And that's great. That's fine. But comedic timing really isn't something you can teach.

And it's not just timing, but instincts. And John C. Reilly just has it. And I love him in everything. Yeah. Well, yeah, we're going to rank Days of Thunder on a scale of We're back! It's Free With Ads. We are going to rank Days of Thunder on a scale of 1 to 10 super loud commercials but first we want to tell you about some cool stuff you can do to support the show if you want to hear all our bonus episodes go to maximumfund.org slash join and sign up to support the network we got a cool bonus episode for you this month on the pilot of the BBC Pride and Prejudice miniseries starring Colin Firth from the 90s so you

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I loved this movie. I thought it did not need to go as hard as it did. It's like the actors are just so fun to watch. This cast made me so happy and the jokes were fun. Like the bits and stuff were fun. And I like the relationships between the guys. It's cool to see Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise, which it's very hot. They're very chemistry.

I totally get it. I thought it was I don't usually like like movies like this with race cars I didn't really like Top Gun that much. I'll be honest and but I liked this one. I liked it a lot I'd watch it again nine. Nice. All right, Matt. What do you think? I am going to do something similar I was gonna give it an eight Which I thought was you know is very high and I loved it and it was just one of those movies that even though I'd never seen it before, it immediately went into that slot in my brain,

which is, oh, if it's on TV, I'll just start watching it from any point in the movie. It's just like one of those movies where it, not my favorite movie ever or whatever, just like Shawshank Redemption is not my favorite movie, but if it's on, I'm thoroughly entertained. I don't care at what point I start it, I'm going to love it. So yeah, I'm giving it an eight.

Okay, yeah, I was like a little less hot on this. I think for me it's more of a five. I think that I like this category of movie, I just want something different from. I want it to be a little crazier. I want it to be a little funnier, campier, you know, like. You want that ballad of Ricky Bobby. You know, I wanted some Kenny Loggins music, you know?

There's not a single Loggins in this whole movie. What, you know, we don't have a danger zone. You wanted it to be more camp. Sure, yeah, exactly. I think, you know, we don't have a danger zone. You wanted it to be more camp. Sure, yeah, exactly. I think, you know, I think that the seriousness is like amiable in this movie, but I'm like, that's kinda not why I'm watching one of these. So, you know, I did appreciate the like investigation

on what makes these men do what they do and stuff. I'm like, but also like, let's, you know, let's have him and Michael Rooker get nose to nose and look like they're gonna kiss more. And then let's have some more bitching guitar solos over this racing. So yeah, I'm like glad I watched it. I think it's like a good movie in the like canon of these movies.

But yeah, just as far as like, is it one of my favorites in this genre? Give me a Roadhouse, give me an Over the Top, give me a Top Gun any day of the week. Man, if Roadhouse ever gets free with ads, come on, if you're... Is it not? Hold on, but Roadhouse has to be free somewhere, right?

Somewhere. It's not on YouTube and I think that's crazy. Like, Daddy YouTube, get on it. You can watch the new Roadhouse on Amazon Prime. Yeah, I agree, I agree, fuck that. Yeah, at some point it will be available free with ads and we will watch Roadhouse, the O2 version. It's gonna happen.

Okay, anybody got any plug? Emily, you got anything? I'm doing some stand up, which honestly, a little nervous about. I haven't done it in a while, guys. This could be disastrous. You're gonna do great. You're gonna do great. But please come, we've got some mythical people

on the show as well. The show is called Skin Contact. It's hosted by our friend at Mythical, Rachel P. Grimm, really funny comedian. And Jordan Myrick is on the show as well. There's a guy named Carl Tart. Oh yeah, Carl Tart. That's a cool name. Anyway.

Larry's Dude writes for SNL this season now. Oh God, I'm gonna bomb so hard. Anyway, it's on the 16th, July 16th at Bar Koval, cool little bar by the way, 8 p.m. And it's on a Wednesday, so if you want to come out I could use the support nice and that's Yeah, it's Los Angeles that's correct Matt you got anything yes absolutely Once again if you are in the Seattle area August first and second please come out to see me and my wife perform. We're going to be at

Laff's Comedy Club on the 1st and we're going to be at the Rainier Arts Center on the 2nd, doing a live podcast, The Bituation Room, hosted by my wife. It's a lot of fun. Francesca Furantini, by the way, is the name of my wife. She's great, follow her. And yeah, go to that. And hey, I will be at San Diego Comic Con this year, talking about comics, signing comics. If you wanna see me, I will be there Thursday at 10 a.m. doing a panel in room 5AB called From Script to Sketch. Friday I will be there 2 p.m. doing a panel called

Comics Set in the 90s from Passing Notes to Pagers. That is in room 28 DE and on Saturday I'll be doing a panel called How to Pitch Your Story for Comics, Graphic Novels, Film and Animation. That is 1130 a.m. room 10. You can find all of this information at bit.ly slash JordanCon, bit.ly slash JordanCon. And after all of these panels, everybody on the panel is gonna be signing books in the autograph area. So come on out to those panels, come get your book signed.

I did not mention all the panelists on these, but there's some great folks if you're a fan of comics. It's probably on that website you mentioned. Hit up bit.ly slash JordanCon if you are going to San Diego Comic Con and come see me there. I would love to meet you IRL. Okay, tune in next week when our movie will be Vertigo.

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