God Awful Movies - 337: Atlas Shrugged, Part One

Episode Date: February 1, 2022

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He's at this board meeting, I guess he's on the board and he starts like a slow clap after a James says that as if that's like an official business like yet we all started clapping so now he's got some vote. I wanted somebody to just turn to him and go this is a fucking boardroom meeting. What do you do? Are you? Are you just a nine of us in here man? Get out. You're not even on the board. What do you do? Are you? Are you trying to sort of slow-cloth? Are you doing the nine of us in here, man? Get out! You're not even on the board. What do you get at? Even if we... Oh, and if somebody did the Jerry Springer like, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, Who will be? Who will be? Who will be? Who will be?

Welcome back to the Gamecast, where each week we sample another selection from Christian cinema, except when we don't, we kind of, every week do that. I'm your host, Noah Luzon, since I'm 700 miles from my immediate left, as my good friend Heath Ann, right? Heath, welcome back. I'm so excited! I know! This is everything I lo I lose, but it stains me. There's this. Everybody who likes this so much. Heath has been climbing this mountain since we started the fucking show and he has reached

the summit, folks, and sitting nine under most of my northeast is my bad friend Eli Bosnick. Eli, how are you this fine afternoon, sir? Can a movie smell like ex-bottied spray? I still smell like cheap cigar or not cheap cigars like bad cigars, right? Right. Like expensive, but bad cigars. Yeah, that's what I smelled. Also joining us today is our special guest mask, as you know, from cognitive dissonance

and the season liberally cooking show, C. So welcome back, sir. Hey, thanks for having me. I'm just going to be shoveling call into Heath and warming my hands on him. I'm just going to step back and watch the hate. You know, there's too many regulations surrounding the shoveling of coal. Yeah. Into people. Into human beings.

It's government overreach. I feel like we've hinted at it mightily, but we might as well make it official. Tell us, Heath, what will we be breaking down today? We watched atlas shrugged part one. Part one. Part one of three. They fucking, they fucking lord of the rings. This thing. Be sure, dad. It's an epic tale. And to make that happen, they had to have a fucking movie or nothing happened sorry Remember the walking lord of the rings this is worse than that. Yeah, oh, oh, man. It's the story of Rich white guys not that the taking their ball and going home in a snit and Everybody else being like we don, we don't care.

Like eventually it will be that, but we didn't get around to any of that. This is the fray lude. I don't want you to, we have, we can get it. No, please. Yeah. Well, but we don't know that yet. Well, we, we got a few people doing that. We'd actually, yeah, we're all the heroes going in the movie. I just watched it. Some people get drafted. Some people doing that. We actually, yeah, we're all the heroes going in the movie. I just watched it. Some people get drafted. Some people get drafted. And then a woman just keeps saying over and over.

What happens when all the good men go away? What will happen to the two Americans? This, this movie gets made. That's what I have. Yeah. And Eli, how bad was this movie? Well, if you love succession, but you're tired of the SJW bleeding heart writers

who tried to tell you that money isn't everything. Okay, you will love this movie. This is what Jeff Bezos watches when the last seasons of succession started to bump him out. It's regression. And is there anything you guys want to nominate? This one for being the best at being the worst at? Yeah, I'm going to go with best worst immediate trivia

from Amazon. So the first thing that happens, I turned the movie on, and Amazon tells me, yeah, the entire cast was replaced for this. No, none of these people are going to be in part to agree to do this again. First thing they tell me in part one, everybody's gone. Yeah, yeah, you know how these guys are all the poor man's somebody. Yeah, well, they wound up with the poor man's damn eventually, if you can imagine that

this is the movie equivalent of those haunted houses that nobody makes it through. So I was going to go with best worst set rotation, right? So over this movie is just back of a limo office mansion, back of a limo office mansion. It's just an occasional rich guy bar with establishing shots of trains. That's for 90 fuck you a minute. Yep. Yep. Yeah. And the establishing shots of trains is like 88 of those,

now it's a lot. It's a lot. It's like, it's not like the character won't then be on a train. We just see trains. This movie has a toddler-esque fascination with training. We know what trains do. They think we maybe don't. You certainly can get a lot of train B roll with an I stock account. So, okay. There's so much. There's so much. So this is more toward the end, but it's seriously one of the best parts of the movie. Best worst plot, bread come trail when they're trying to track down. Yeah. Oh my God. Everybody knows everything about everyone and it's amazing. It's seriously the best It's like it's like oh yeah, well he had a student who went to this school and that student at a hang-nell and went to this doctor

And that doctor it's amazing. It's fucking unbelievable. It's and it goes on for so long It's like back to bacon at a certain point right? It's so amazing. I think it's more than six steps though It's so great because like, it's so long. They're asking people about sales and they're like, when you sold your company and it's like, if you were to ask me who I sold my house to recently, I wouldn't be able to put the product in your name. I happen to know that his sister in law has cousins.

Yeah, right. Exactly. Fuck, are we doing money? When did you have that conversation? It's like you sign a paper and you, the company's gone, what are you talking about? And also, that none of it's necessary to tell the fucking story.

No, right? It could just be, it could be two steps. It would make sense. And they would never, yeah. But they're trying to get a trilogy out of it. So it's the best. With so much of this is, I ran, was trying to hit a word count.

So they're trying to hit a trilogy. What was her target? It's like a 1200 page book. Yeah. Doesn't need to be God. Damn it. Paul Ryan can jerk off onto a smaller fucking book. It'd be easier for him. Well, can't soak up as much if there's less page. That's right. Yeah. You know, I think I did not think that it's the correct word count. And I'm going to take the easy one. I'm going to go with best worst bad thing that the movie thinks is good. Oh my gosh. We've watched like, we watched loving the bad man together. And yes, the conceit of this show, our job is, hey, did you know there's a whole industry

to thinking that bad things are good? That's the whole thing. We have never encountered a Bizarro universe, the likes of Atlas Shrugged Monopolis greed hating your family. Prevent sure a jackalation. You just listed the protagonists of this movie. Buying shitty jewelry that your wife hates. just every yes, yes, yeah, yep All right, well tell you what we've got a lot of Nope big you want this movie breaks the formula. We have a lot of nothing

There's nothing that there's a lot of we do But we're gonna take a break anyway and we'll come back we're gonna dive into all the banality that is Atlas shrugged art one white people. We have a lot of white Black there's one black assistant some of their best assistants are All his scenes are walking talks Oh go for it. Nice. Nice. That's like a quarter full.

Really is, yeah. Hey guys, what do you do in hanging out outside the Starbucks? Oh, hey, so, well, heath no and I read a bunch of articles by boomers about why we're poor. And it turns out it's all the Starbucks we've been drinking. Yeah, apparently that's really messing up the housing market for us is the Starbucks we're drinking. Yeah, so we wait out here and when people throw out

their drinks, boom, free coffee, baby. We have like three quarters of a frappuccino at this point, Cecil. It's true, we do. Okay, almost full. First of all, Yuck. Like 75. Like super Yuck.

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toss it. Oh, the ultimate frapp cap. We're voting on this right now. That's not what we're visiting guys is so weird. It's super weird. It's it's frappin' app. Good weird. No, not at all. Hands up from frappin' app. All right, guys. It is my honor. No, no, my pleasure. No, you know what? It is my honor to say that we will be writing at least shrugged the movie. Yes. Now, it's super important that we really communicate

the messages of Randian self-reliance in this one. So like, you know, wait, so just throwing it out to the room. What's the core message that we want to get across? How about like people who don't think the point of life is making money or just jealous of how much money you make? Hmm, yes. Don't you still live with your dad? Uh, he lives with me.

Okay, I'm taking care of him. Oh, oh, does he need like at home assistance? I will take care of him if he needs it. Someone go, someone we're not doing that now. Okay, okay. So it's about like hardcore business strategy, right? Yes, yes, awesome. Like what?

Oh, you know, business stuff. It's like, you know, you buy low sell high hardcore. Mergers acquisition. Yep. Yeah, you know, all that great. We are on a roll. Anything else? Yeah.

When you come too fast, it's probably your wife's fault. Put it in the movie. I knew it wasn't just me. I knew it. Definitely not just you know. I am the basement to myself, so it's pretty much my own apartment. Sure, man.

Yeah. Is it not a workout bench right now? Man, it's not a workout bench. And we're back for the breakdown. And we're going to open up on what is, of course, the movie's near future, but our near past, it is September 2nd of 2016. And I'm like, well, at least they got the month that society ended right.

So we get this quick montage of there's been a stock market collapse and oil and gas shortages and environmental turmoil. And I'm like, pick a fucking apocalypse movie. Okay. Specifically, they said the Dow dropped below 4,000 points because of the economic apocalypse stuff. So this was made in 2011. Obama's already present and they wanted him to fail.

So goddamn badly. Yes. But literally Obama took over the Dow is at like 8,000 and he left and it was at 20,000. Yeah, they're not even close to correct. It's the best. I love how much they wanted this in 2016. They only missed the market by 12,000. So close. Oh, thanks, Obama. Yeah. See, I wrote my notes. It's kind of worth noting that post apocalyptic montages from movies of the past are now just the news I skipped through. Right.

Yeah. No, they stopped using plates this week. That's weird. Whatever. They're just, they're showing the terrible effects of unregulated capitalism right there. Yeah. Distopian. Exactly. Do they know what they know? Like they say that giving people a raise has been

banned by the equal socialist government at one point. What they're so confused by what they're trying to say. It's amazing. Well, and what I love about it is because the story that this is based on is so ridiculously stupid, they have to keep throwing in absolute nonsense to break the fourth wall, right? So it's like that there's shown us all these news clips and most of it is, you know normal-ish kind of Economic apocalypse shit. There's environmental turmoil and oil and gas shortages, and then it's just also Ragnar the pirate took all It's so funny. I laughed so goddamn hard. We could add a pirate movie man. We got trains.

It's a newscaster talking about, he's like, so, so the Dow is down to a 4,000 points and we had a bunch of really bad stuff with the trains falling off the tracks. I also pirate stole all the copper in the world and in wedding, it got like skate over it. It's the best. Sorry, sorry. Can you, it's like, it's like skate over it. It's the normal thing. It's the best. Sorry, sorry, can you, I wanted like the host next to it, I'm like, sorry, can you go back to say a pirate? If you name a literal pirate, you name all the pirate in the world. It's what you say.

You named the, we're a news program. Do you think ragged are the pirate like retires and finds any Ragnar the pirate to take over so you keep saying going? See, so you've already committed to washing this with us. So I don't want to spoil it, but I am so excited for this pirate to break your heart because I know what this pirate actually does. Oh, I thought this pirate was going to be amazing. Now don't do this to me.

All right. You're doing it too early. Let him dream. Let him dream. Oh, yeah. No, the pirate's going to be super cool. He will have a boat. Just you watch, see, so his name is Ragnar Dennis skilled just for the record. Can I just say like we're, this is a movie that's made in 2011. So they're looking five years into the future and the dystopian future they picked was trains will be really big, really popular. That's the dystop. That's the one feature of the, you, of the next five years that's going to change our lives. Trains, the trains,

everything. It's never been a popular in American culture ever. Really going to, really going to take off trains and, you know, I think pirates are going to make a big comeback. Pirates is going to be the fucking 1800s. Honestly, if this movie needed a subtitle, it's going to be the 1800s on over again. Not a bad choice. Yeah. All right. So then we cut to this movie is so lazy in the way that everything is presented to us. We cut from a montage of newscasters to a news talking head show where we're going to meet

some of our characters with a host asking their various motivations. Among these is CEO of Taggart, Transcontinental Railroads James Taggart. He's supposed to be the super evil guy and they're sort of playing him up like that from the very beginning. But what he says is, we must act to benefit society as a whole like they're making them say something that is like altruistic and then they're at the same time they're just like isn't that evil guys like guys isn't that right terrifying to benefit society as a whole sorry.

I didn't say it. Even though might as well like take a pause so that the room of young Republicans watching the movie can calm down. All right. Okay, we've all had our fun. Now let's get to the good ideas. Am I right? Can you say benefit society as a whole three times in a mirror?

This guy here is written. AOC pops up behind you. So yeah, and so we're and we're watching this at a diner as a dirty guy comes in to get some pie. By the way, this would be mightest mulligan in case you're wondering if anyone gets a normal god damn name in this stupid fucking movie. This is also the first time we get introduced to the movie's catchphrase. Where it's like he orders the coffee and the witch is like, can you pay for that? Cause you're your movie smudging. He's like, who is John Galt? And she's like, wow. I mean, that's dumb in the book, but it's really dumb out loud.

You have to actually hear it. We're going to say a bunch of stuff that sounded dumb in the book, but it's way worse. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. The whole thing is real. Yeah. Terrible. Okay. But just to review, can you pay for this? Cause like I asked a little question. Right. Yeah. You can't just say John Galton, like get out of the question. Every single person of the movie answers like that. And he's like, no, that's just another question that literally didn't answer anything

I had to say to you. Also, and this is a minor point. But again, this was made in 2011 about 2016 at one point on the talking head show. One person says, well, you know, gas is up to 3750 a gal No, the fuck it isn't that's so like white you could say $7.75 that you could go with like a realistic number that's still very high But no you went with 11 D 70 billion dollars a gallon By the way, that will not stop everyone in this movie from

driving around. Yeah. Or driving their hearts content. Yeah. Well, thanks for coming to the party. I know it cost you $7,000. That's part is, well, we'll get to it. Yeah, it's crazy. It's insane. But you know, there's also this one part where this guy comes up to the counter and he asks for his peace pie or whatever and the lady gives him the pie. And then there's like a bar fly, like a pie bar fly just sitting next to her with like a little cut. Did you guys, I was like, what is happening? What is she like?

Everybody who comes in to get pie, she's like, hey, you're going to share that pie with me. We're going to smile all of this going up It's gonna make you pie me a pie. What is happening? Well, and then pie guy leaves and a mysterious stranger in a hat. Stop, Sim, to talk to him about his backstory. Yeah, a stranger comes up to a guy and he's like, hello,

I value gumption. And the guy who bought the pie is like cool, same. Do you think I'm best friends and they do. Yes. Perhaps the least realistic thing about this movie is the conceit that millionaires are open to strangers walking up to them and being like, hello, care to talk to me somewhere. Yeah, but they do.

We're going to learn later. They become best friends. Yep. More than you could possibly imagine. Yep. They're coming together on cookies for sure. And then the movie gives up the visual medium all together and just types out that guy went missing on that day.

And we get the title screen at the shrug. I kept thinking it's like a first round draft pick, like this was his pick. Okay. I keep up all the people he chose. It's the guy comes up to the counter. Dirty pie, dude. And for the first round, he picks some CEO, like why Mulligan, why Max, Max Mulligan, the CEO, okay, we'll find out later. I'm sure. Yeah. CEO's are really important. So we'll find out. I'm sure. The amount of Viagra that Atlas had to ship in before they started bringing in these old white guys. Let me try. Okay, just to be clear in the book, Midas Mulligan, that's the first round draft pick. He's the wealthiest banker in the world. That's the literal description. Oh, Jesus Christ. So he has just like more gold than anybody else.

And that's in a bag somewhere. A smite is okay. So and speaking of the character's not having people names, now it's time to meet Dagne Taggart. So there was a terrible railroad accident. And she works for, she, like whatever co-owns the railroad thing. So she has to go into work for the emergency railroad thing.

So we have this amazing sequence where she's heading to work, but all the shots have to be super tight so they're not, you know, we don't see the 400 cars a second that are driving behind her. Right? We keep seeing New York from like the tree tops up and shit. Yeah. Yeah. Also, just to be clear about the plot here, train safety is a big problem in this terrible

dystopian world. Yes. And it's because there's not enough unfettered capitalism according to this book and the movie. Right. It's because there's too much regulations, ultimately, as the argument of the film, they want to deregulate the train industry that's crashing all over the place and killing people. Yeah. And no infrastructure bill. So that's why. Clearly, there's no infrastructure at all.

So, okay. So James Taggart, the head of the railroad is in his office, having a terrible day. His assistant is there telling what a jackassie is apparently. That's his job. This is Eddie, the only person of color in the entire movie, I believe. That's correct. And why you grad? I hinted at this, by the way, when we were talking about it earlier, I am of the belief that Eddie, that actor was trying to escape the movie at all times.

All of his scenes will be walkin' tops. And I think it's because the actor was just like, fuck you, I'm not doing this movie. And they were just like, oh, hello, it's me, Tagney Taggart, I'm your boss. He's like, no, stop trying to run lines with me. You can see the cameras, I'm acting, I'm acting get out, fuck you. Okay, no, he's like, he's halfway out the door through this whole scene. He's just like one foot out the door, right, right. Like, he's got a pee or something. Yeah. He's always like one side of him is to the camera. He's always sort of shifting one leg toward the door.

Right. Yeah. All right. Like everything's like that. Yeah. Yeah. The conversation with somebody. Well, okay. Oh, that's crazy. It is crazy in nine. Oh, seven. It's seven in the morning. Well, all right. So wait in the morning. So yeah, so a bit and then there's this great moment where the brother that James is like, you know, I'm the boss of this company and my sister is a piece of shit and she walks in right Don't hit me don't hit me. I love you I love you. Yeah, but we have to see that she's the real power behind the throne and she's decided

that with their rebuilt rail line, they're going to go with Reardon steel. Yep. It's magical. It's vibranium, everybody. Yeah, man. It is. You know, I really like this stupid fucking book. Yeah.

This guy, Hank Reardon, invented vibranium to make the plot work. Keep in mind that in order for this stupid movie to make any sense, which it doesn't, they need not one but two forms of magic. Oh, three before it's over, yeah. Yeah, they need three different magical technologies to exist for this. Yeah.

Which means there was a night where I and Rad was sitting in her apartment, she was like, ah, man, my really stupid fucking political philosophy doesn't work. We just regular steel that someone's good at making. I don't know if he has literal magic steel. Doesn't know. Good job, fine. Good job. Nailing this. I want to point out that they make the villain, her brother, the villain, say smaller companies need our money. Like at one point, like he's, yeah, again, they have the villain, her brother, the villain, say smaller companies need our money like at one point.

Like he's, yeah, again, they have to show, they have to show him that they have to show that he's altruistic and evil all the time. Right. That's because that is an evil, that's an evil trick. Yeah. Yeah. It's an evil trait to them. I'm buying from a locally sourced steel manufacturer who's not a huge conglomerate,

muah, uh-huh. And I love too that we're supposed to believe that this, this reading style actually is good, still is like the best magic steal in the world. But in order to get there, we have to like ignore the consensus of experts. Yes. That's a huge part of the plot is that they're like,

well, all the scientists say that there's no such thing as vibranium, that's just something that Marvel made up. But, and she's like, no, I know. I read Punisher War Journal number eight. See, the better, she's an engineer. She's like, she like, yes. Like, he forgets, somehow forgets your sister's major. I don't even get it.

Okay, well, she took some engineering classes and she did her own research on this and like, all of the scientific reports. She says, when I see things, I see them and I wrote in my notes, someone on a ventilator right now. I wrote in my notes, I'm like, if you set out to create the most boring, possible movie scene, you very well may have landed on bitchy sibling fight over which steal to use for their railroad company. Jesus Christ.

I had, it's the best metal that no one used. Well, we have the best podcast. No one listened to citation. We should talk about the fact that this is fucking iron Rand Mary suing herself into this book. Yes. When in reality, she was like a famous dupe who nobody liked to smell bad and constantly abuse the social safety net because she would buy things like bags of uncut diamonds from strangers. because she would buy things like bags of uncut diamonds from string jerseys. Like every time you see Dagna, you have to keep in mind that this is an idiot's version

of herself. Yes. So we cut over to the Reardon steel plant where he's watching the first buys, she first course buys a print newspaper in 2016. No, I don't know. Yeah, yeah, because it's the dammit. And we're reading newspapers. This was 2011. They knew what had happened up until then, right?

Yeah. She's she reads the paper for a second and again, they gloss over this. She's like, ragged, nor the pilot strikes the camera. Oh, you're right. Yes. Okay, but I heard it. It's me. What a normal headline.

This is. Yeah. Damn it. So, yeah, so we cut to the it in the way. Okay, but I heard it's made on what a normal headline this is. Yeah. Damn it. So, yeah, so we cut to the Reardon steel plant. He's watching the first poor of the new Reardon steel and he is very excited about it. Oh, he is whacking it to this steel. Yes, yeah, absolutely. But his secretary brings it as a message.

He doesn't have time for silly ass messages. He needs to get this bracelet that he's made for his wife out of the very first Reardon steel ever poured. Okay. Why? It's so ugly. It is. Why? The movie wants us to be like, oh, he made this really awesome thing and his wife doesn't appreciate it. Do you think nobody associated with this movie knew that six triangles was not a good pretty. I could have done anything they wanted with the design. Yeah. Yeah, it looks like a gauntlet. You would get it hot topic and just make just make over. Yeah, it looks like if you're in a futuristic sci-fi movie, like someone puts that on and then it turns into a machine gun.

That's right. Yeah, exactly. So are the NANO particles are housed. Yeah. NANO, yes. That's a NANO bracelet if ever I've seen one. Right. So yeah, but so but Dagnese shows up.

So they have this, I guess it's supposed to be meat cute, but they're talking about steel prices. So I'm so bored. I have to like hire someone to wake me up constantly through this fucking scene. I wrote my notes, oh my God, this is business written by someone whose idea of business is buying an NFT of a monkey. And what this dialogue is because they're, they're both supposed to be like genius business people. Yeah. So she gets

there and she's trying to like strike a deal for his fancy new steel. And it's like, I'm a great negotiator. I'm a great negotiator and they go back, I am. I, and then it was like, deal, deal. And like, we have greatly negotiated. They're just sliding themselves across the table and switch sides. It's so dumb. It's pretty fantastic. It's the second worst negotiation of the movie. Yeah, right. So they meet cute all the way down to the parking lot. And at the end, she's just like, Hey, have you considered that your new steel could anchor a whole trilogy? And he's like a trilogy about to feel really, really cool. What watch that? Boring.

The question is, have you considered the implications of this magical vibranium? Yeah. I'm just thinking to myself, yeah, it's like a great universe of stuff that will not be in this movie. There's like the most successful movie franchise ever. It's based around that, you won't do anything of that.

Yeah. With, if you're magical vibranium, you'll be snow fucking boring. It is great evidence that it's probably best white people didn't discover why brandy I'm in the event. Yeah, right. Yeah. All right.

So so Hey Greer and Walks Home and Dammit of his whole family isn't there. I write my notes business meeting sibling fights and family engagements. This movie has it all. Now a podcast listener, if you've been sitting there thinking to yourself, ah, man, like a movie full of unlikable characters, that can't be fun. What if I told you that every time this family would appear, they would just stare directly into the camera and roast this movie. Sorry, Tom.

They were. They're delightful. This family's great. Yeah, so first he has to give his wife the ugly metal bracelet and her to go like, oh, you don't expect me to wear this on my fucking arm. I think this is, it looks like a fucking art animal. It's gonna go over my arm.

Like what? If I can't shoot aliens with this, it's not the count guys. Sometimes you buy your wife and ugly bracelet. That happens sometimes. No, just some people. No, I love it. Some of us might have had that happen before. So good. Cecil, Cecil, no one sympathize with buying your wife an ugly thing that she freezes in horror. I don't stand there arguing with her about it. Right. It's like, okay, the receipts in the box actually put it on top of the thing.

It's like a pre-apology to just receipts in the top. Big of it is a slightly unwieldy gift card, darling. I'm sorry. We can go to the mall now. So yeah, so he goes into his office and then we have to see like more of those money grubbing full-length rapists. And so this guy, Philip Ballsman, and the office is like, hey, man, can you donate money to this charity?

I'm doing it. He's like, fine. Fuck. Jesus, whatever. Or making the use. He's like, yeah. And the hero then says, he's like, what, don't you care about the underprivileged? His answer is no. I tell you. The hero's answer. And not because he's going to like, he's like, what do you care about the underprivileged is answer is no.

I don't hear. I'm not. He's not going to be visited by three fucking ghosts, right? He's going to stay that way and be the hero. Yep. Then another one of the moochers is trying to help him out with this thing. And the only reason I want to talk about this second conversation, because it's nothing. He's just like, I think your science is great, even though no scientists have said it's great.

Yeah. Is we get a beautiful insight into what the people who made this movie think good food is. Rich people food. Yeah. It is a baked potato. It's a giant porterhouse, too. There's like a 18 ounce port house that takes up three quarters of the plate. It's this enormous steak and then a twice baked baked potato

that is as big as a toddler. Like they think that rich people just get bigger food. Yes. Yes. Potatoes, the size of watermelons. That's about $20 a chileese. No, when he got the extra sour cream and everything. When you cash in your Bitcoin, that's when they bring the old country buffet to you, my

friends. The world is your carving station. Holy shit. Did he get soup and salad? Soup and salad. Are you fucking kidding me? He's got a whole tray of bread. That's his own bread.

All that bread is Amazing. Yeah. And then okay. And then we head to some rich guy bar for some scintillating metallurgy talk. Oh, God. This group of people I just have in my notes is the colluters. One of them is the pawn shop owner from the crawl. The shit on me guy is in it. Yep. Oh, yes. That's right. That's the guy. I was that was the only one I recognized. There are others. There I'm sure there are other movies, but that was the only one I recognized. This is also where we get our vision of what they think rich people do with drinks.

There's a lot of swirling. That's not a swirling. Not so much drinking. Yes. Very much leaving your full glasses on. I say six. Six to one swirling to drinking ratio. But they're idiots.

So it's like martini glasses and it's just like going in everybody's eye every time they're how you stab me with the olive spiky thing. God damn it. But they're all sit around plotting on how to use government regulations to bring Reardon and is amazing steel down. And what they've landed on I guess is they're going to pass a law. One of them is a law passer guy. I don't, I mean, I never say, but they're going to pass a law that you can only own one business at a time. Yes. So stupid. One business makes no fucking. They're trying to make antitrust laws. The bad guy here, which is so stupid already. but the law, the wording of the law

that come up with is gonna be, yeah, you can only own one person per one company is the rule. You could just, you could just own multiple things with one company. Yeah, right, like, like, time warner, that's one company, right? Like, and we should have antitrust laws to fuck with them.

Yeah, absolutely. And more importantly, one monopoly is one company, right? So if you want to stop people to have and much more than one company, doesn't preclude that Amazon as one company man, Apple is one company, Google is one company, like what the fuck, that doesn't do anything,

that's literally stupid as fuck and roll. It's like the people who went to go watch fucking Trump what with the counting of the fuck, that doesn't do anything. That's literally stupid as fucking roll. It's like the people who went to go watch fucking Trump with the counting of the votes and they had no idea how voting work is same thing here. They have no idea how business works. They're just like, I don't know how business works. Let's just throw something in that it sounds scary. What sounds scary to you, Jim?

Too many companies. Shit. What's amazing is you can see their brains working because they were like, okay, we need to come up with a thing that's like against antitrust laws, but we can't say antitrust laws because antitrust laws are like, hey, what if you didn't own an entire industry? And they're like, ah, not even that won't fly. And they were like, so then maybe it's that everyone gets one. Yeah.

So I feel good. Oh, yeah, what if we shuffle up the title leads and hand them out like the beginning of a monopoly? Yeah, exactly. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, exactly. Not how monopoly starts. Also, also, law talking guy, the guy who's like the law, he fucking deep throws that cigar. He lights a cigar and he puts that thing, I mean, I was like, it's an uncomfortable

scene. He gets half of it in there. He's going down on that thing for like a minute It is really uncomfortable. There is tonsil actually. It really is to make that like So and then of course this movie is just bad at business talk as it is just at introducing new characters So this swavvon desirable bachelor, Francisco Danconio comes in and everybody goes, hey, is that Swavent desirable bachelor friend, Cisco Danconio? Is that Francisco fucking Danconio?

With the whisperers. Wow, his backstory is X, Y and Z. Okay, you know, it's a pirate. So meanwhile, Dagnia is business, the business is hard as she can back at the office. She doesn't collude with colluters to get ahead. She businesses hard. So she's in her office.

James comes into antagonize her a bit. And of course, once again, he's got to be the bad guy talking about philanthropy. So he's like, hey, I don't think we're doing enough humanitarian work in Mexico. At one point, he's like, you can't take things away from people just because they need our help. I'm sorry. What were you saying? No, go ahead, finish your last. Sometimes I get a little more really into my, go ahead, finish your laugh. Sometimes I can do it a little more. Really into my, whoa, yeah, fuck the Mexican people. That's what I wanted to say.

That's what I wanted to say. Yes, helping people is the bad guy here. So yeah, but they established that. And then Owen shows up to quit. Who's Owen? We're just don't even, it's not important. If he has a normal human name, he's not going to play much of a role in this film. Right. Oh, okay. We'll never mind. It's still

about. I wrote it down because, well, we'll get to it. He's the second round draft pick, but I will get to it. Yeah, right. We'll get to it in a second. He's a mid-level man. He's a regional, assistant to the regional, trained company. And he's draft pick number two for this magical. He's draft two capitalism project. Crazy. Yeah, so, so he's like, I got a quit and she's like, why do you have to quit? And he's like, mysterious stuff.

I think for the sequel. Who's young up? But this is my favorite terrible negotiation of the movie, though. This is because halfway through, she's like, what if I start writing numbers on paper and pushing that across the table to use that now? And he's like, no, I just said that there's not an amount of money. And she's like, but this is written on a piece of paper. So open the paper. And again, if they don't do with some kind of realistic, like, what,

you know, what would you say to a guaranteed 7% raise this year and, and again, if they don't do with some kind of realistic, like what, you know, what would you say to a guaranteed 7% raise this year and next and blah, blah, blah. But she's like, I'll double yourself. I'll double whatever anyone's offering you. Okay. I've been offered $8 million. $8 million. Yeah, that's right.

Yeah. By Ronald McDonald. Shit. Clown got me again. She slides the paper over to him. $3 million. Yeah, that's right. By Ronald McDonald, shit. Clown got me again. She slides the paper over to him. She's like, name your price and I was thinking, just draw the giant on the paper. Please just draw the giant on the paper.

Please. So then we cut to the fuck to the premature ejaculation scene, right? We cut to hang. Oh, and she's this holy fuck and yikes. Finishing up unsatisfying sex with this wife. Okay. Okay. Look, I get it. You are a greedy asshole and you don't care about poor people. You are writing a movie where your protagonist doesn't care about those things either. Why did they include that their protagonist is bad at sex? He don't know.

So this is literally how this seems to start. He's getting off of his wife and Ben, she's like, Oh, are you done? I'm done. The protagonist. The protagonist. Yes. And he leaves.

He leaves. She's like, where are you going? He's like, I got some work to do. I'm like, you just, you just came and went back to work. You piece of fuck. She's not. Okay, but that was genuinely positive to Iron Ran. She's like, you know what I love to do?

Is not come and then go do a spreadsheet. That's, who doesn't, who doesn't love that, right? I don't have to, I don't want to, I don't want to have to worry about all this orgasms and cuddling. A real man does his spreadsheets with a sticky penis. I don't have to worry about all this orgasms and cuddling. A real man does his spreadsheets with a sticky penis. That's so cool. That a pivot table, am I right?

I was so confused the whole time. Just like, wait, that's our hero, guys. Yes. Our hero. Super sex man over there. Two pump chump over there. So fucking hero. Yeah.

I'm not going to be a hero. I'm not going to be a hero. I'm not going to be a hero. I'm not going to be a's our hero, guys. Yes. Our hero. Super sex man over there to pump jump over there. So fucking hero. So yes, he walks away from his, I'd say, he's like, you probably have to use some kind of device or something. I don't even so would be embarrassing for anybody. And then, and is it that he can't come without somebody who has more grit and gumption?

I could be. Did he finish or he says finished already? Yeah. So he can't, okay, he finishes. But I guess one way or the other, you're finished, right? So if you, when you leave, it's over. He can't sexually please somebody who he doesn't respect. Okay.

Oh, that's a generous way of looking at that scene. Yeah. And what Ein Rand is going for for sure. He sadly closes his book of sex excuses. I mean, I'm just guessing about the movie. That's probably a good movie. I've never said that. Would you guys say that's a good excuse?

Describe a flaw with the laffer curve. Too slow. I can't come now. I'm gonna do a spreadsheet. But yeah, so he goes back to work and he gets a call from Dagnie minutes later. She's like, are you done? I didn't think you'd guys to be fucking for long. Are you guys done? He's like, yeah, we're done.

So you want to chat? And so they have a chat about where all these great men are disappearing too. Yeah, post sex call to him is talking about Owen Kellogg executive who was drafted in the second round. And by the way, he says executive underneath this thing, right? When he gets drafted, they showed the little picture of him turning back at the who is John Galki and it says missing since blah, blah, blah, Owen Kellogg executive. But then on the phone call, she's like, yeah, I was, I was, I was german for a managerial position. I'm like, I'm an executive. He has a manager. What the fuck? I want to see your company's

org chart right now. You don't know what words mean. But yeah. And then of course one stupid rich white person says to another stupid rich white person, uh, it's okay. It's us who control the world and we shall see it through, right? Again, the heroic fucking clarion call of the film. This, this is libertarian phone sex. This is what gets me going on the phone. We will hold the world through with our bootstraps. I want to hang up, but I feel like I'm not being detained. So I don't want that bootstrap

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Yeah, Mr. Riddin, I'm afraid I have some bad news. I've been approached by a mysterious man in a hat who offered to take me to a cool place where all the awesome rich people live. And so I'm living this factory behind. Oh, okay. Have fun, I guess. Yep.

Have fun with that. And you're probably wondering how you're going to manage without me. And I've got to be honest, I don't know that you will. Oh, I think we'll be okay. Yeah, we run all the machines and stuff, so we'll do everything. Well, we're just right, but obviously, but what about sales orders? Well, there's, that's the sales department. Oh, no, right. Yeah, I don't, okay, but I mean sales orders? Well, there's that's the sale department. No, right. Yeah, I don't.

Okay, but I mean the business math taxes accounting. Yes, you're describing accounting. We have that. I I shit. We have a whole department. Yep. For that. Well, I I do a lot of the.

Golfing. I do a lot of the job. Golfing? Oh, no, please don't go. How will we play golf without you? Please, please stay. No, I know, I understand. I'm afraid I can't, though. Good bye.

Can we please kill and eat them? I've been saying that in time. Yes. I mean, no, the golfing. Golf, don't. And we're back for more of this shit. We're going to rejoin the action with another guy getting recruited by John Galt. The movie thinks that's a twist, by the way.

I have the mysterious guy that has spoilers. Yeah. We get the third round draft. Yeah. In the third round, John Galt, that guy, we know it's that guy. It's fucking that guy. He's so clear what you're doing. We know what's happening.

It's that guy. Yeah. In the third round, John Galt selects Richard McNamara manufacturing CEO. Yeah. We know what's happening. It's that guy. Yeah. The third round, John Gauntz, Alex Richard McNamara, manufacturing CEO. Yeah. That's exactly what happens. Some old guy. Again, just like Eli said, like random old dude who's super rich is walking to work and he gets stopped. And he has a nice conversation with somebody, you know, because that's how rich people would work. Yep. Also, this movie was made in 2011, right? So the fact that the and what they have is he's going around getting all the best people, right? That's the idea. And this fucking idiot, I get like why I ran Mr. But this fucking idiot movie in 2011

still is not going to put anyone in there that is not a old white man. Sure not. We got the bare sterns president of finance right here for our amazing operation. That already went under idiot. Okay, that's fine. Look, I haven't watched the third movie yet, but if they don't have like a, a lipitor tank on every corner of Atlantis, I'm not buying this.

I'm not buying this. That is put it in the water system. Right. Yeah. Fuck flow ride, we got water system. Right. Yeah. Fuck flow ride. We got what you really need. Yeah. And again, again, the weird got John Gaul with the hat and the trench coat just approaches

the stranger on the street. And he's like, I've got a society that cultivates gumption and individualism. And the other guys like, nice. No follow up questions. I will move to that place right now. I will transfer all of my worldly belongings Yeah, let me scribble out a cryptic note to my wife and I'll be right with you Actually, fuck that. Let's just go

So meanwhile James Taggart is in his car colluding with the little ball Italian guy from Brooklyn from every Move your TV show that ever needed a little ball Italian guy from Brooklyn from every movie or TV show that ever needed a little ball Italian guy from Brooklyn, the brother, Sheamus. Yeah. He's almost Carl the Pugabaggorn. He's like really close. Yeah. They know each other. Carl doesn't like to drop names, but like Carl's got his number.

Had his number. He could get him for the bus guy. Carl's number. Yeah. To be fair, Carl didn't agree to do this movie. And they asked. They asked. Yeah. He was going to be the Reardon steel.

Sorry. So yeah, but so they're colluding to enact a rule that would be anti-competition and all socialists and everything. And while they're doing that, they get news that the Mexicans have nationalized all their shit because you know those Mexicans. Yes. Yep. And it turns out that Danconeo, handsome, mech handsome face who Reardon doesn't like,

who invested all his money in those minds. He was doing a double duff where you lose all your money Make people also lose their to shaman Socialism in their faces investing in Bitcoin It's like convincing your friends to invest in Bitcoin on November 11th 2021 Well by putting all of your money in it to it, right? So what we're supposed to believe is everybody thinks that Dan Coney is, is so brilliant. So when he invested in all these Mexican iron mines, everybody was like, well, if he's

if they're in Coney, is doing it, then well, I obviously have to do it as well. And then they lost all their money. And then he just went, ha, ha, gotcha, right? Yeah. That's what's going on. I was waiting so hard for them to do in the Mexican report when they're talking about whether or not, like what happened in Mexico to be like, it was taken over by a pirate. I was so waiting for them to be like, yeah, then socialized by a pirate guys.

Sorry. That's how we lost Mexico. Cecil, I've got some great news about this. So yeah, so of course, Taggart has some assets in Mexico. So they have to have an emergency board room meeting. Now, Dagnie saw this comment. So she took all these precautions and now James is taking credit for those precautions. Oh, right.

Yeah, he tells the board that he saved the millions by doing the thing that Dagnia actually told him to do. And then Orrin Boyle, he's another like shitty guy who was in the back room meeting. He's helping with this whole evil socialist plot. He's at this board meeting. I guess he's on the board and he starts like a slow clap after James says that as if that's like an official business like yet we all started clapping so now he's That's a vote I wanted somebody to just turn to him and go this is a fucking boardroom meeting. What do you do?

Are you just a nine of us in here man get out you're not even on the board? What do you know? Somebody do the Jerry Springer like woo woo Woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo. Also, this is where I wrote my notes. Jesus, this movie has more wood paneling than the eight. And it was a fucking room in this entire fucking movie. Anyway, so yeah, James and his guy go into the office to bitch about how Danconia tricked him all into investing in those minds. Meanwhile, elsewhere, Dagnia's in her car.

Oh, he won't take a, hold on, hold on. He won't take a call from the, so Taggart wants to call the guy. Yes. And his answer is you bore me. That's the greatest fucking way to get out of every single meeting from now on, because there's no way to counter that. How do you counter you bore me. No, I don't. I don't. What? I'm very exciting person. Look, I'll throw this out there. I've been shot down in some hurtful ways. Never been told I'd bore it. So, yeah, so we get all of that shit. And then we have Dagnien her car learning that this awesome contractor, she had all lined up to make her railroad also Disappeared that was the McNamara guy, right?

Yeah, you left the note it said Who's John go all? Yes And they claim they claim that question means don't ask questions. Nobody can answer that they say that here, but that's not what it means That's not they never decide what it means, but that's definitely not what it means in the movie or book. Nope. They never get in any way and nobody ever uses it in reference to questions that are unanswerable. They answer the questions in the book in the movie. Obviously, we already know who John Gault is, but if this, if this movie was being explained to me at a party, this is where I would take out my phone and start saying crazy. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Me and Eddie. We got to take off. We're doing a thing. There's a great moment here too, where, Dagnie comes into bitch or her brother

for taking credit for all the Mexican shit. And he says, oh yeah, well, you have a complicated romantic history with Francisco Dantonia, that'll come out. That's a pretty later for people to know. And then, so then we have to have the part where she's confronted by Ellis Wyatt, the pure roller shit.

Oil bat cat. Fucking yikes. This guy, this is like, this is a Jack Reacher bad guy in any other fucking movie, right? Yes, this movie thinks they're establishing a good guy because he comes in shouts at a woman and then leaves. Yeah, he's an oil executive and yeah, he's very mad at him for passing all these regulations

that are interfering with his business. Oh, and can I just say I can't speak for anyone else on the podcast. I have worked for this person so many fucking times in my life. Yes. Where they're like fill of ego rage and you're like, okay, what do you want to happen? And they're like, I want you to continue to do what you were doing, but post me yelling. I am a protagonist in this movie. I play, I drive a Dodge Stratis.

Yeah. Also, everybody, everybody in this movie seems to want to go talk to people like they have to be in front of each other the whole time. There's never like a phone conversation. Gas is $37. Yes, a gallon man. He spent $84 million to have his yelling conversation. Yeah, he's flying his, did he drive from Colorado?

Isn't that where he's from? Yeah, just to be hiding in her office when she showed up. Yeah, just hang out. So yeah, and then fucking, Dagnian Hank have another exhilarating conversation about logistics. Oh God.

Oh, I still forgot this. Yeah, I forgot. There's apparently there used to be this great diesel engine company that got shut down because of socialism. Oh yeah. It's a shame if they were still around, they could sure help with these logistics. Well, it seems like he's implying that because it's an abandoned factory, they might have

some engines they could just have. He's suggesting they could forage for anything that's done to solve the problem of the world. I think we'll agree that the two CEOs of the relevant companies and the people who should do it. Right. Okay. But that's really what's going to happen. I think we both agree that the two CEOs of the relevant companies and people Okay, but that's really what's gonna happen. It's so stupid. They're gonna forage for engine stuff in the movie and book They are we're gonna watch them forage for engine stuff too and also apparently This is where we learn that she's invited to Hank's big anniversary party. Yeah This is where we learn that she's invited to Hank's big anniversary party. Yeah. So she also asked at one point, she says, hold me left to keep things running.

If like, they take away all these great men and I'm thinking, nobody has been doing a bang up job. You're the one who said it in a dystopian future with you with the hell. Yes. And what's so fucking amazing is that this movie is so stupid that they can't picture what a universe where the CEO's disappear gets bad. Like, right? They're just like, what would that, but all everything's still running.

Meanwhile, we let the lower class get COVID over the last two years and everyone's like, there are no more onions in America. But I, did you, did you consider giving everyone the flu? This is a reverse atlas. Yeah. Atlas needs to do a little more lifting. Yeah. So, oh, and then we cut to a snazzy restaurant for some thrilling deliberation on mining rights. Oh, God. I do not care about this scene, but can I tell you what I do care about? What's that? At the beginning of this scene, the actress throws a drink. That is way too full. And he will spend the entire scene. Yep. Mad about it. Yeah. He's got two, he's got

like a glass of water and a wine glass. And I think she was supposed to use the wine glass. Yep. last I think she was supposed to use the wine glass. Yeah, but she didn't. So he's just like, uh, yeah. So mining was wearing a lot of a little Mike, by the way, I feel like I'm going to sneeze. It's like that chlorine sneeze. It's in my underwear. I was in a hell. He's pushing his hair out of his head.

It's falling straight back down because it's so dream. But yeah, but this is Francisco Danconio and Dagny is the guy. The names are so it's like she said she pulled like random scrabble tiles out and was like, well, got to make a name with that one now. Yeah. If a white slinky, if a somehow Caucasian slinky was thrown downstairs, it made all of them all the names for this movie. Dagnye, Duncan, young.

So, Richard James. Frank. Greg. So, okay. So now, Hank and his wife are heading to their anniversary party. The TV and the car is telling them all about the evil socialism bill and Hank is worried about that when he should be worried about celebrating his anniversary with his wife. But again, it's another scene with a family. So they will spend the entire scene roasting

him. This scene opens with her being like, hey, honey, it's our anniversary party. And I was wondering if, you know, just a little gift to me, you could not suck all the ass. And he's like, no, I will suck all the ass. Am I being detained? No, no, no, I just have a party for our anniversary. You're the worst. You know, a wet vagina is a disease. Right. So, yeah, so but Dagnese shows up at the party and sees Reardon and his wife and she likes the ugly steel bracelet. A lot. I think it's awesome. Oh my god.

This is, this is happens in the book too. It's perhaps the funniest thing that happens in the book. She's like, I will trade you for my time and necklace and she's like, yes, this is what women fancy ladies do. They trade jewelry. The middle of the party. Yeah. And then Dagnia goes to another room and fucks the shit out of that bracelet because it's made of objectivists. Libertarian.

Like, like, I want to stop just for a second and say, Dagnia's dress looks so bad on her. Like the rest of the movie, she's in like really smart, nicely cut business. Where she looks like a pug here. She looks like she is wearing somebody took those plastic shopping bags and knitted a dress out of them. It looks so fucking bad on her. And when she walked in, I was like, what the fuck did they do to this poor lady? She looks like a normal, beautiful looking woman and they put her in the hug. It's like making fucking Jason Mamoah wear a Michelin man outfit to your heart.

So yeah, but so she gets to bracelet and then dag and Hank flirt businessly for a minute. Yes. And then Hank sees that Dan Coney is there, but they have the Seinfeld Newman relationship apparently this soon. And also, we learned here in a minute that they've never met. Is that correct? They've never met, but they have each other that much. I don't like him.

Why? Because it's said so in the script. Name is ethnic. It's not because he's Argentinian. It's not that. It's a good reason. Oh, also, he goes to the party, get a drink and somebody's like, have you heard that the great Balfe, you banks, is it this party?

Okay. Okay. Let's talk about what this movie missed. This movie did miss the dumbest argument in the book. It did leave that out. I was very hurt by this. Yeah. So, and I will say in I'm raised to fence, a B and A and L, a P and an H. I don't think you can do better than Ralph in terms of getting a name out of that. So, you know, well, that lab, lab, maybe it's like my first wordal word. And it's like, that's not a word. It's not you

bit. We're gonna eat it. We're gonna book that in the book wordal. There's also this moment where they bring out the cake right? And everybody's like, Oh, that's a very good looking cake. And then they just leave with the cake. And I'm just like, do they, does anybody eat it? I feel like. Yeah. Yeah, that's the thing.

They just show you a cake. Right. Yes. Yeah, they show it to you. And then they cut it in the back. So where the fuck are you going? They have to sell it to me. Give me a piece of that goddamn, I'm going to take a loose

handful right now before I take it. Are you crazy? Good sir, I agree with you. This is my goddamn part. How awesome is this? This is how you do it, man. Handful right now before you crazy My god damn This is how you do it man We've never been to fancy Bellefue banks type parties. Yeah, you guys have clearly never been to a Bellefue banks party See so can I just say thank you for telling us now because there's like a non-zero chance we get invited Accidentally to a fancy thing.

Yeah, so I'm tackles the guy for stealing some one grab keys before they roll it away and just like turn him away from the cake so he doesn't see it. Bring it back. Okay, they cut the cake. You know, if you smear a little peanut butter on a he's roof of his mouth, you might forget the cake is leaving. So the laser and some cheese forget the cake is leaving. So. Laser and cheese on the wall.

And we open up the iPad right before they start to be a little way. Bluey. Well, bluey. Baby shark. It's amazing. I do want to point out my favorite part of this whole scene is there's like a little dance scene as they cut to them having their conversation. And there's like a 70 year old dude dance with like a 20 year old girl. And I was like, that is the most realistic thing we've seen in this movie so far.

Is that there's like a 45 year old age difference between dates at a CEO party. Right. Right. John Gauntz steps out. I like the way you date sir. So that night after the party Hank and his wife don't fuck we watch them not fuck the protagonist of the movie walks into a room and says don't worry I'm not here for sex. He walks in and she's like oh I'm not I have a headache. I am tired with a headache.

I'm not. And he's like, I wasn't here for fucking. She's like, oh, thank God. Oh, thank God. Oh, thank God. Because I ate a full meal and it's hard not to throw up when you've eaten a big meal. So I was like, eh, you know. But, but, and then she's like, well, what are you doing here?

And he's like, I just want you to know that fuck you. I hate you. And she's like, oh, okay. And then he leaves. Yep. Right. She's like, I'm angry at you for throwing a party for me for our anniversary.

Yeah. And she's like, why would you be? He's like, some, how they think that's heroic. I don't know who the hell will like this shit. He's like, next time you're gonna have a party, don't invite people. I don't know. And she's like, you don't have any fucking friends, man. You suck. And he's like, I have some spreadsheets. I have to go jerk off to thank you very much. Right. I know. Balf. Balf. Balf. Balf. Balf. Balf.

Balf. Balf. Balf. Balf. Balf. Balf. Balf. Balf. Balf. B to be a boss. I'm not going to be a boss. I'm not going to be a boss. I'm not going to be a boss. I'm not going to be a boss. I'm not going to be a boss. I'm not going to be a boss. I'm not going to be a boss. I'm not going to be a boss.

I'm not going to be a boss. I'm not going to be a boss. I'm not going to be a boss. I'm not going to be a boss. I'm not going to be a boss. I'm not going to be a boss. I'm not going to be a boss. I'm not going to be a boss.

I'm not going to be a boss. I'm not going to be a boss. I'm not going to be a boss. I'm not going to be a boss. I'm not going to be a boss. I'm not going to be a boss. I'm not going to be a boss. I'm not going to be a boss. I'm not going to be a boss. that pirate. So and then again, these writers are so fucking lazy. The movie then just cuts it has a news reporter, Vio say, well, today they started working on the new Rio Norte line with the Hank Reardon steel. Remember from earlier in the movie, they had that is going ahead. The entire national media does pretty much all train stuff in this or there is a train news network that people

are fascinated by TNN. Yeah. So yeah, so and this is so fucking funny because several times in this act, we will get these railroad building montages, but because everything else is in a fucking Mahogany bar somewhere. This is by far the most interesting shit to look at. Right. This B roll of train track lay. Yeah, they cut to like five minutes of how it's made and then they jump back to the movie. They're like, they're yelling over the voice

over here. It says, and then we get, I think maybe the most useless scene in this movie and that's saying a lot. And maybe the dumbest name in the movie as well. So James Taggart and his sister, Dagnier are headed to a thing where Dagnier has to give a big speech defending the use of Reardon steel. James tells her along the way that it's not just a speech, it's a debate against the great. James tells her along the way that it's not just a speech. It's a debate against the great Bertram Bertram. Yes, scudder Hey, I'm do you want to go ahead and tell us the name for this guy? Oh, I definitely

What is it? It's a bet. Don't name a sickness that pirates get It's a bet. Don't name a sickness that pirates get in the hands of the makeup. Good. I said Bertram's got it. Did you think of a slur and then save yourself for the last second? After all, so good. Are you just winging this while drunk at a DUI check point?

Why? I'll just say the slur if you want. But anyway, but but Dagnie doesn't want to do a surprise debate with Bertram Scotters. I can't blame her. So she just gets out of the car and, and wanders off. And she says to James, she's like, fuck you. I don't have to justify anything about my magical untested metal vibranium that I'm going to use for trains all across the country, including bridges.

It's still like testing metal safety is the bad guy in the movie right now. That's happening. That's the evil guy. Yeah. It's like every time they mentioned safety standards, there should be a lightning crash. Thunder rolls and thunder. Thunder rooker. So then we had to to Hank's office at Reardon Steele where the industry lobbyist guy is trying

to get him to stop making such a good damn steal. Okay, here's what's fucking amazing. This scene is not in the books. It is just a plot hole of the books that they decided to ask these two mystified actors to act out, which is the government offers to buy all of the Reardon steel, thus making him a ton of money. A thing that a character who wants to make a ton of money would obviously say yes to, but he says no. Why?

Mine, mine. Yes, right. Despite the world, right? Yes, the good guy of the fucking movie refuses to sell his patent at any price to the government because fuck earth. No, no, no, hold on, he would have sold it. All he had to do was say the steal was pretty. If he said the steal was really pretty, he would have sold it.

He said he would do that. But the guy was just like, this is a lot of money, sir. I'm just going to give you the money and not say this deal is pretty. How about that? It's billions. That's crazy. That's what Donald Trump thinks business is. As you come into the store and you're like, I like this shirt and they're like, tell

me it's a great shirt. No, now it's not. Now I know it's not a great shirt. No, now it's not. Now I know it's not a great shirt. If you bring a sale to a halt for a weird fucking Sam Shepherd thumb in my mouth moment, there are bees in it. I didn't notice them. I got duped up until the moment that your personality escaped from between your lips. Thank you for helping me. God, the moral of this story is these are my toys and you can't play with them. Yep. 100%.

And then we get God damn it. These writers are so lazy. A series of headlines. We just scroll over magazine covers and headlines talking about how scared the public should be of Reardon's steel. Yeah. All the magazines are lying about his magical contested metal that they tested and they're quoting scientists to test.

Yes. So like what this basically, OSHA can't regulate metal safety at work because you have metal in your house is the point they're trying to make here, which we actually did. Our Supreme Court made that point recently. So cool. Yes. Also, you can't look, look, you, we have to lie to get these grants guys. That's what this one scientist says in it.

Like it's, I just have to lie. That's basic science, man. That's how science works. We lie about science. Yeah. Dagmy, or is it Dagmy or is it Hank who's confronting him here? It's Hank. I think it's, yeah.

Hank like Cornersam in his like science courtroom. Oh no, no, no, it's a dad because she's off to the philosophy professor right now. She goes to the institute of science. Yeah. Yeah. The science is. Dan, Dan, he confronts him at the science courtroom. The big science building. Yeah. Where he's a judge, he's a science judge in the judge in the science courtroom. And she's

like, why would you lie? And it's like, you have to see, he literally tries to do follow the money for an idiot. Right? He's like, you got to follow the money. You see this is funded by the government and the government shit I ran out of stuff. Oh, why wouldn't the government want nice things? The point is that they get so confused by themselves. The point is that we at the big science, state science institute rely on public funding and the public doesn't like the metal because we said, yeah, it's bad.

So we have to say it's bad still more to keep to get what I don't know what's happening. But he's he's so sorry though about compromising his principles that he will give her some hints as to the larger storyline, right? See, it turns out that he used to be the teacher of all the mysterious characters at the heart of this stupid fucking story, right? He was the teacher of Ragnar the pirate. They had a pirate training program at this college. Oh god damn it.

I majored to the wrong major. That's so bad. There was a three student classroom that consisted of Dan Kongognia, the pirate, and then Dan. And then, who is the other guy? But it's great because in the book, you can sort of play his past that. But when you have to put it on screen,

he's like, there was Dan Cognia pirates. Yeah. And then anyway, I have to go to science court where I just think. I'm walking a window. You know, I got to tell you. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, And this time, Dagnia's on site. This is the, I think the only exterior shot in the entire fucking movie. She's on site with the big oil, big wig guy is there. Ellis Wyatt. Yes. Everybody's in very smart business where on a construction site with no

hard hats. You're just walking around in her fucking six inch heels. Yeah. And he compliments her. He's like, I love the way you work with those men. And I really wanted her to be like, yep, keep hammer hammer on the Nothing a fucking welder likes better than the CEO staring over their To do it better. Hey, you're leaning into the area. Can you just back up? Can you back up? You're not helping a little host thing

Does that shoot out the metal? you back up, you're not helpful at all. There's a little host thing. Does that shoot out the metal? Don't put your pulling lever. I feel like that visor would make it harder for you to see. You should take it off. And of course, Hank Reardon is also there. He wants to build a bridge for her that the two of these characters are supposed to be in

love, right? But every conversation they have is so boring and the actors are not talented enough to pull off chemistry. So you just have to sort of infer that from the music. Yeah, yeah. It's like when you meet another couple because you're on vacation or something and they suck ass,

but you're stuck at like dinner with them because you're on a boat or whatever. And you're like, how do these people meet? This is that couple of me. You found it. He was whatever, and you're like, how do these people meet? This is that couple of me. You found it. He was obviously there and he was like, I can make you a bridge in three months and she was like, splash.

I'm gonna go fuck it real quick. I'm gonna go fuck it real quick. My wife is playing fucking hungry shark. I'm trying to make come. I'm gonna say, you know what? This is a me thing. I'm bringing me to this review. I'm sorry.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm shark. I'm trying to make come to say, you know what? This is a me thing. I'm bringing me to this review. I'm sorry. So yeah, he says, you know what, a fuck me later, I'll build your bridge. She says, sure, why not?

And then we have this really long panning shot of all the shiny new railroads. Yes. Nice CG shot. This great thing about this CG is that someone was like, okay, so it's just a steel bridge and they CG didn't a steel bridge and they were like, no, it's magic. So make it, well, make it shinier than regular metal. Would it be shinier? Yes, it was shinier. So you want you wanted to look like a comical, like sort of enterprise whole ask matters. Okay. Make it a match. If you're like, what you mean you look at it, it's like,

you have it. Have it. Just imagine you took silver surfer and you pounded him out really long into a bridge. Yeah. That's what I want. Oh, Jesus. All right. Well, once again, we're in that any scene break is as good as any other kind of position. So we're

going to call that random moment, the end to act two and take a break. But first, let me give act three at one point three, the hard self. The end of act two thirds. Yeah. Yeah. Can Mexican production meet the additional tonnage requirements for this project? Our sea birds scrap parts are still anchored to the value of iron ore. Wily upward trend and hot rolled steel from China continue to spike? Fight out shit exactly as interesting as those questions only without all the real-world

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This fine metal is free of government oversight, unnecessary testing, and the interference of government busy bodies. So let's drive in that first spike. Mr. Reardon, the steel appears to be on fire. Oh, uh, yep, that is. Yeah, that kind of thing happens. It's nothing that a little bit of a... Sorry, it seems to be warping into a swastika.

Yeah, yeah, it does that. It's actually an accident. I don't know, that seems super impossible, but it really is doing that. I don't know what... Sorry super impossible, but it really is doing that. I don't know what is that fluid leaking out. That is toxic waste from China. I got a great deal on that, by the way. Just, is it amazing? The waste is on fire.

Yeah, I see that. Yes it is, I see that it's up there. I feel like the scientists might have caught this. Who's to say? I mean, the scientists. Yeah. Pfft. And we're back for still more of this shit.

We're gonna rejoin the action with Daggy showing up at Taggart HQ. Yikes. And learning that yet another employee quit and their stocks are just plummeting. Mm-hmm. Eddie basically comes up to her and he's like, it's not just that Ben quit. It's also the plot of the movie. Yeah, and so and now they've got to enact this dumb ass plan, which I have to assume in

the book made more fucking sense, but a hell I don't know where she's like, all right, to save this business, I'll have to abandon it. I'll have to break away with my own railroad company. And then once my railroad company is successful, reemerge with yours. And she's like, what are we? Are you giving us a prospectus? No, it does not make more sense. That's what happens in the book too. I'm pretty sure if I remember correctly, they're going to spin off their toxic assets to her new company. And the point here is, we need deregulation. So, you know, the Enron model can succeed more.

Yep. Yeah. Yeah. Also, what's amazing about this is that this is supposed to be Dagnese big bootstraps moment. You know, I'll take the failing parts of the company and I'll make them work all by myself with, of course, quite a bit of money. And also I need all your government contacts to make sure I get all that. Yeah, it's totally tight.

And all the assets being handed to me on a silver fucking. That's free. That adds my boots, straps. Yeah. And then, and then he's like, what are you going to call your new line? And I wrote my notes. She'll call it the John Galt line. And then she said, we'll call it the John Colt. And her reason is she's like, I named my company quitter ink because we're winners, dammit. We are winners over here. It makes no sense. They ask her why and she gives opposite the opposite.

Whatever the opposite of answers is is what she gives. And I'm so happy they kept the final line exactly from the book, which is so fucking stupid and they kept it in the movie and you get to watch this actress deliver it through gritted teeth at I assume gunpoint. I have never done anything to hurt a living creature ever in my entire life, but if you don't train company, well, I will destroy you. If you double cross me, yes. So, yeah, she has this quick, oh, by the way, brother, dearest, I will fucking end you. I will end you. fucking N. Do you I will and you kind of a moment. So why? And it happens right after she's like, okay, two last things before I go and she lists

her two conditions or two last things. And then she remembers this thing and she's like, one last. Third, third thing. It's just a joy. I made it last. I'm going to wheel this cake into the other room. I'll be back with B more. B B B. B P. I'm storming back in now. And one more. I mean, what's the worst that's gonna happen if he runs the railroad just by reading for

200 hours. Right. Exactly. So, so she heads to Dan Coney to see if he will help her get her new company finance. There's this great like, okay, what do I fuck you? And he's like, no, that wouldn't help. And she's like, oh, glad you told me now. Kind of a moment.

That's so awkward. Okay. But this scene compared to the last scenes fucking insane because she's like, God, I guess I'm the one who has to fix everything around here. Give me all the assets. I'll drag this company out of the mud. And then next thing she's like, there's some money.

I'll end Jerky off for whatever. You want me to check out? Thank you. I'll check you out. Yeah. Well, and then this is where she really doubles down on the name, right? He's like, well, why are you going to call it

the John Galt line? And she says, I'm going to call it the John Galt line because I'm sick of hearing that name. And'm like, well, you're gonna hear it. What? More now. She's like, because it means quitting and I'm not going to quit. And I'm like, well, now it makes a negative sense. What the fuck are you talking about?

It's a theory. But this actor turning down the sex is fucking amazing. Isn't he? Right. Because you get to see him be like, no, I get you're conventionally hot, but it's just, it feels like a lot of elbows, you know, like if the concept of an elbow could be had sex with that's yikes is what I'm saying. I can round myself off a little bit. I feel like I can not think again. I think you can sand it. Like we lower lighting. So yeah, so,

so, but she then he turns her down. So we get this like dejectedly closing the perspective montage where foreign, foreign bankers won't finance her company. Yeah. Apparently she couldn't get a sit-down meeting with both of them. She just like chased them down. Downwind business all went. Well, they're all walking away as she's giving her a bit. It seems like one of the meetings was actually a walking meeting though. Yeah.

And she's got the like respect for the load she's trying to get. She's like, what is she showing him? I think like as you can see, the trains go left to right on the paper. He's got to be left also right to left. If you can make a little shouting at people, is there walking away. Not at the same time. I can also make them. Ah, he does. He said he left. Okay. If you flip through and you look at the bottom left of the page, there's actually a little train. I offer hand jobs at the end as a desperate

out. Would you like to look at our four hours of eye stock footage of trains? I'm not as much of an elbow as you think. You have to picture this photo moving. It's like, chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga

chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga company finance, right? Yeah. She comes into Reardon's office and she's like, well, that's it. My company is four fifths finance. We just need one more rich white guy and he's like, I have a rich white guy. What's great is they don't know how stock percentages or they don't know how anything works. So he just signs his name to a random blank line and then the camera pans down fucking sarcastically to be like, yeah, man, he just signed his name on a random blank line. And then the camera pans down fucking sarcastically to be like, yeah, man, he just signed his name on your name. Some graph paper one loan. One this name. Now you're on the ballot in Mississippi. Yeah, real. Five white people get you on the ballot. There you go. Yeah. So, oh, and then he's

like, oh, you know, I have a folder I'd like to show you. I'm like, oh, please be a dick pick. Please be a dick pick. Yeah. But no, it's pictures of those impossible perpetual motion engines that the diesel company that went all socialist tried to make before they went all socialist. Hey, I know you need a second kind of magic in your movie. Just whatever you do, don't try to describe how you think cold fusion would work.

Okay? Well, baby, let me talk to a half of him. Okay? There's a back home. Yeah. And then there's a electricity. And that makes all the back home go away. And that make the gasoline from James.

Well, I also, I love because this is where he learns that the legislature has passed this bill that you can only own one company. Yeah. So I feel like him having bought into one fifth of her company. Like I feel like you're, you could still stop that. But the movie never seems to recognize that that would be affected in any way. Oh, that is true. Yeah. I don't know if any white owls in my weird big stone desk. Do you want to if I scratch that out with a fan? I might. And amazing.

Here that actually is great for giving examples. Yeah. But he decides that he'll keep, he's going to keep the metal company come hell or I want to sell everything else, but they can't have Reardon's steal. Which according to the logic of the movie means that he should at the end of this selling all his shit montage just be like great. Now if only I had some shit to put in this steel making Trucks to ship it off. Yeah, exactly. Just got machinery, don't I? Well, we have this stupid, again, they're not knowing how anything works.

Right, because like if they said, you could only have one company that you would just have one umbrella company that would have all your shit. So instead they have him having to like, he has to sell, you know, Hank Reardon or mining company and Hank Reardon shipping company or whatever.

So we see him like sadly giving over the you own the deed to his He's handing like one business on a piece of paper to teach his friends. So again the bill would accomplish nothing You would just okay, you'd find like ten friends to technically be the owners and you'd still be the owner. Nothing is being accomplished here. And they seem to think this would all happen like that day. Yep. So like they signed a bill.

You could only, you live on company. So the number of companies in America and the number of owners became equal today. Yeah. Starting that, like that day. Right. Yeah. No, if you, if by the end of business on Friday, you haven't gotten rid of your multiple companies, we just give it to a random Latin woman.

You're, get on it. You know, one montage. Yeah. Do you hear about that pirate? So, yeah. And, and by the way, like, let's keep in mind that the stakes that the, like, that the terrible turn this movie has taken is that an obscenely rich person might be less obscenely rich later. Or now now has a lot of money.

Right. They don't seem to that apparently you're not allowed to sell those extra companies. You just have to give them because it's all his buddies that were asking him for money earlier. Also, his family kind of voyerly watches himself all all his businesses from another room, like drinking tea and like snoring at him the whole time. Well, he's he's selling off all his assets and they're like super his free loading family is super happy about it for some reason. They're doing the way I went gesture and I'm like, oh, my company's that's you, that's

you. You suck it sex, she tells us. She tells us how much you suck. And once again, to reinforce Eli's best worst, right? So we cut to Dagnie, right? She's in her office, businessing away, and a union rep shows up. Again, obviously a bad guy, right? And he says, hey, you know, you have a thousand miles of untested metal that every respectable scientist has said won't work.

You can't make people drive trains on that shit. I'm a bad guy right now. Right. And the book is like, can you believe this fucking government interference where that's like, oh, you have to test it. Da, da, da, da. Yeah. Her response is tell your men you don't want them to have jobs and he's like, well,

no, I don't have safe jobs is what we're trying to die. They wouldn't. Right. And then she's like, well, they'll have a choice between dying and making a living. Thank you very much. Yeah, right. It'll be voluntary. And it's like, here, you're going to pay him either way.

No, then no, the fucking will. I'll ask for volunteers who I'll pay. That's a job. I just described a job. Right. Shit. I ran and thought that the problem in America was that its workers were too safe.

Mm-hmm. Two unions are too strong. 2011. This was in 2011. Yep. And they were like, we should do the scene where the unions are too strong and workers are too safe. Oh, Dagnie, here's how you do this, Dagnie.

Dagnie, just call him heroes. If you call him heroes, they'll get on the train. No problem. That's true. You don't have to pay a extra. No. You don't. I do want to point out one other thing about this scene, which I love so fucking much.

After she explains that she's going to ask for volunteers or she's going to pay, there's that awkward like he's supposed to storm out scene, but the pause is just a little too long because these people don't know how to make money. So she's like, I'll pay them. Oh, I'm struggling. I'm going to ask who is John Gaul. I'm sorry. Are we done?

Do you know when they're going to ask who is John Gaul. I see it. Are we done? Do you know when they're going to wheel that cake back in? The bald guy was crying hard, right? You saw it like hard. Who isn't crying? He's fishing in his pocket for a smoke bomb to throw on the cat's feet in the lane. You're crying.

So all right. So now we cut to a rich guy bar where James Taggart and one of the colluters is watching the Train News Network talk about the maiden run of the John Gauntlet. Well, it's not, it's not just them. It's everyone in the world with baited breaths. Oh, yeah, that's the keep, they keep cutting to all these different people, like staring at people walking to a train. Right.

Yes. Even watching in Times Square on Facebook. By the way, this train is going to go because I ran, no, nothing, 250 miles an hour. The fact that we don't get an internal shot of someone's cheeks flapping is they're like, I don't know. It's not a train. They're our traits. That's the, that's the fucked up thing is that it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, it's so, is like 85% of a Japanese bullet train. Yeah. Yeah.

Okay. They also try to make this into an action moment. We see the train go. It starts going and somebody's like 100. And they're saying 125. We're like, wow, I guess that is all going to look the same, right? 100 mile an hour trainer or 200. It's not going to really look any different to us as observers.

It's a fast woo, woo, woo. Also, they go up to his bridge that he built and there's a moment of tension, right, where they're like, and then they're like, we did it. I, I feel like they were both acting like they weren't sure they were going to survive traveling over that bridge. I feel like you would have put a train with no humans over it a few times first. I just only the low paid workers you asked as a volunteer.

Oh yeah, that's what the scientists want. Yeah. Also, this is supposed to be like, like they're talking about moving freight, the whole movie. Was this a passenger train? Yes. It kind of look like a passenger train. I don't understand.

You're talking about the whole movie. Like, man, we really got to move this oil from Colorado to the rest of the poor shitty states around Colorado. And then they're like, oh, but we built a passenger. We kind of fucking misunderstood the assignment. That's honest. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

Can you just hold this oil in your lap, maybe while we drive it really fast? Would it be uncomfortable for you? Oh, I have to put this on. This them riding the train and triumphant music playing around them. This goes on for literally three minutes. I know that doesn't sound like a long time time but like to watch people stand on a train going huh? Three minutes, name and numbers, 150, 155 now.

Yeah right, there's a point where you can tell that the fucking actor is mad that they went with 25 mile an hour increments. It's like I gotta do this like seven times. No, the triumphant music gets lost. It's that's how long it is. It's like, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,

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They're watching the train news network and they're like oh, I turned out that all the experts were wrong and that Reardon steel is the shit and when it was one Train went over it. What You guys think science Also as they're walking as they're filming so they're filming this scene of them triumphantly walking off the train Mm-hmm and towards their car and this is happening on the news broadcast and then like the fat guy invites them to dinner like while they're walking. Yeah, we've got the news broadcast. Yeah, it makes them up before they walked out.

They're like, if you guys have any personal conversations, we're going to get you a lot of next. So you wouldn't get that. That was crazy. But this does lead to the terrible, like what terrible people think a good time is montage. Yes. Yeah, we're they people think a good time is montage. Yeah. Yeah, where they're all celebrating their trade and success. Right, but they're like, these actors could not muster fake laughs, right?

It's the classic scene intro, and I said, not on my Chinese food. And the two actors are just like, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. So it's supposed to be yard yard. So hard at this moment, because there's supposed to be having this huge fucking party, like, ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha So I won't put the background music that's like the party background music of like Dumpa, Bumpa, Bumpa, Bumpa, Bumpa, Bumpa, Bumpa, and it stops and then it's just like the three people that be in there. All right. I don't feel like I'm really good. They're just having like really hard eye contact. I'll eating their steak. You have a knowing what to say next.

You have a really big baked potato, Bani Chance. Yeah. Do you guys want to, I'll tell you what, I'll just pass my phone around the table. You can just put in what you want from grab a catering situation. Oh, and then in addition to the three magical technologies, we also have the oil guy, right? Why it whatever says to him. He's like, Hey, by the way, do you guys know anything about the why it would

ever reserve? And they're like, Oh, yeah, that hollow area with no oil in it. And I like, why would you guys even know that? That makes no sense. And he's like, yeah, yes, but it turns out that there is oil. It's the biggest oil reserve in the whole wide world. And I'm like, what's a dumb? And he's like, yeah, that's kind of dumb.

We already have magic steel and a lot of wine. Yeah. Secret oil and just cold fusion. And so literally vibranium cold fusion and the biggest oil in Colorado. Yes. And under that is the biggest natural gas. That's right. Yes, exactly.

Because LSY, the hero invented fracking. That's also a thing that's happening here. And underneath that, the world's largest diamond. And underneath that, underneath that, an even bigger diamond. Paul Ryan J.O.I. There's a third diamond in a poop. Yes poop during J.O.I. There's a third time in a poop. Yes poop during J.O.I. Right?

It's not just me. If they tell you to. Oh, yeah. Thank you. Structions. Right. Don't skip it in instruction. I put myself out there and I'm worried I'm not going to get the support and I feel so

held. This is restorative community. They don't usually tell you to just. All right. So but he tells him about the secret oil reserve that he gets don't usually tell you to justice. All right, so but he tells him about the secret oil reserve that he gets the impression that they want to fuck. So he's like, oh, you know, I've got to go turns out there's like great fucking beds upstairs.

Bye. You did it? Have a this isn't a for I just realized this isn't a three some vibe. It definitely fell. Oh, yeah, God. All right. Well, I just I don't even feel like I would should bother making the pitch at this win. It's very clear. Well, I guess we should all head to bed. Yes, we should. Sure. Okay. So we're holding hands. No, it's just the two of you. Okay, it's just two of you. I'm going to go cold China. Just coming back to check one more time. Nope, still not. China. Yep, can I watch?

Nope. Okay. So yeah, so so they go off the fuck. He gets a knock on the door and it turns out it's the mysterious guy that wants to talk to him about his lord and savior, John Gault, right? Yeah, because really rich guys open their door by themselves at two a. Well, right. And you can just walk up to their houses and knock, savior, John go right? Yeah, because really rich guys open their door by themselves at two way. Well, right. And you just walk up to their houses and knock, you know, is how it's like.

Sure. Yeah. In 2016. Hey, man, I just saw you get turned down for that three. Some you want to come to a valley where you're the most important person. Oh, so you had me at you have a fedora. All right. So the next morning, we get Dagnie and Hank waking up from their night of dry, boring sex or whatever to find out that Wyatt has fucked off to the secret valley. Right? Yep. So he's like, and Hank is like, well, that's great because it wasn't a threesome anyway. And I think that we should spend basically the rest of the movie following leads to get us to the secret perpetual motion engine.

She's like, you're married. I'm just kidding. We suck. Imagine thinking that we cared about other people. Let's go. Yeah, let's, let's, we're in Colorado. Let's drive to Wisconsin. Yes. This is right around the corner, right? 3750 a gallon. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Is it $84 billion trip guys? They're curious. Exactly. So yeah, but, but so they go out to the, where the old diesel company used to be. And she's like, you know, it's a real mystery why this went out company went out of business. She's like, it's no mystery. It's because they were a socialist capitalist company. And she's like, you know, it's a real mystery why this company went out of business. She's like, it's no mystery. It's because they were a socialist capitalist company. And she's like, oh, yeah, I know that,

but why would I not know that? It would be so weird for me to say this. If that was probably... According to him, he says they paid everyone according to their needs, and that was the problem. Yes. I will give the makers of this movie and the amount of money to describe how that went wrong.

Well, I have three kids. Fuck. Well, so she says this is an actual goddamn quote from the movie. Dagnese says at that point, why all these stupid altruistic urges? It's not being charitable or fair. That's her reaction to that. What's up with all this stupid altruism? That's, I'm not like exaggerating.

That's what the movie fucking says. It's the worst. Jesus. So anyway, so they're walking around the old factory. They find a goddamn secret passage. He posed the one book out of the fucking shell for whatever picks up the mystery phone. And what's behind the door is them looking around for like two minutes and then she's like, you see her turn and then like slowly go like she uncovered something that has been

sitting on the counter the entire time that they bolted up. Right. Yeah, exactly. I found this sitting in the middle of this table. Yeah. Who can post it? Yeah. It's, I found it because it's the only

object in the room. Yeah. It's on a pedestal right in the middle. It's like fucking Indiana Jones. And it's really well framed by the camera, too. Yeah. That's why I, and that gave it away. Yeah. There's actually like some kind of like flashy highlight. It's like a video game telling me I should have walked right over to it. It's when you look at it. It sparkles weird. I don't know. Do you see press X to interact with the book? I don't know. We're talking to it now, I think.

Oh, we got to make Atlas shrugged the video game. No, we know. I didn't even learn unity for nothing. We're making Atlas shrugged the video game. No, not Jesus. Damn it. Yeah, so and I love the idea here is that, okay, so this company came up with a bazillion dollar perpetual motion runs on atmospheric electricity, bullshit engine that could revolutionize

the world, but the company was so socialistic, they went out of business so they just left the plans and the engine prototypes and everything in a factory that wasn't sold to anyone. Yeah, they were like, all right, here it is. The source of infinite energy. Steve needs a wheelchair rep. You know what, fuck it. I'm walking out of here. Right, which.

And into the ocean. I quit. Also, it's like super secret technology, but they walk in the like, yeah, I know exactly how this works. Of course, let me tell you exactly how this works. Right. Yeah, it's like, well, if you did that, then why did you need to find it? You don't, right?

Yeah. Yeah. And she describes the sun. I'm pretty sure. Yep. Yeah. Yeah. No, it's like a fusion of helium particles.

It's supposed to be an electrostatic dynamo. I think it's how they described it in the book. Yeah. Jesus Christ. So yeah. So science, science, science, they say, and then they have to find the mystery of the guy who made it. Oh, it's the best. Now, this is Cecil's best worse.

Any component writer can wrap everything that happens in this scene, this series of scenes into like nine seconds, right? As a matter of fact, any component writer could have put everything that's happening to this movie so far into about eight to minutes. Any competent writer doesn't have the action of the movie be going to the hall of records for a while. Oh my God. Going through stacks of archives

is the action of the movie for a long time. And not in a like montagey way. We go from one person to another and then of course they have all these insane details of one another, you know, well, that turns out that that fellow was and they all have the silly names, right? So it turns out that fellow's name was Jed Starns and that's the next person you have to talk to. The only explanation for this scene is that at this point, whoever was taking dictation from Iron Rand was fucking with her inability to write names. And

he was just like, okay, great. And then who do they run into? The Minglearn. Great. Excellent. And how does Scott Minglearn know the next person will be a person is table layup. So yeah, and then also, by the way, again, gases 37, 50 and they keep showing us all the different cities. They've got to go to New Orleans and then they go to Wisconsin. They go all over the fucking country. I'm like, I feel like you could call Jed star. Yeah.

So how's that train company and steel company managing to operate without these two genius right? I need to be at the hell. It seems as though Atlas has already shrugged or something. Yeah. Comes back all the steels on fire. He doesn't know what to do. He turns out Atlas didn't have anything on him the entire time.

He said, oh, shit, I'm just holding my arms up. This is fitting. So yeah, and eventually Hank Reardon realizes that. He's like, oh, huge plop hole here. I should be at my company. And she's like, all right, well, not, I have not reached that point myself yet. So I'll keep going without you. And so she goes to this diner where, you know, the next person in the line of this side quest lives or whatever owns or something.

Yeah. Colonel Sanders. Just, I want to clarify just how fucking stupid this movie gets. The owner of this diner is the ex-professor of the student of the man who knew the guy who bought the company from an estate office. Yes. Yes. That's the path we've traveled down to. And we have traveled every step of that path. Yeah. He's the former greatest philosopher in America. He's the scum. He's the scum. And he dresses like Colonel Sanders. I mean, 100%.

He looks like Glenn Beck in his Colonel at Sanders outfit. You see this guy clap with just one hand, though. He's fucking on your side. You can hear it. Yeah. So, but but Dagnick carries carries on I'm doing it into the mic So Dagnic carries out and oh this is where she gets the call from Eddie where he's like oh Hey, by the way, they've just passed a law that trains can't go 250 miles an hour and she's like oh They're just doing that to fuck with us and and I wanted her to be like well, no like the

Animals are sometimes walking across them and that's Crazy dangerous. I don't splash. Bigger cow catchers. So yeah, so but the government is out to fuck with their amazing, convoluted business plan and shit. And then the diner guy gives her his stupid monologue and then leaves, right? Go the diner guys. So fucking great.

So look, they've already used up all their idiot mystery language on Danconia. So this guy is literally just like, hello, I'm a mystery. I'm a mystery. That's exactly what you're doing. It's a myrino. Okay. So, you know who John Galt is before you ask. I know who he is.

So what has to lay in the morning? Yeah. Right. That's it. Just can you tell me anything that's too late? He might as well try to Batman, but she like looks around the corner and he's there. Like, can't he? Oh, you weren't supposed to look around the screen. Usually they'll just stay there and look twice and yeah, I'm out of the frame.

You're out of the frame. I'm looking at you. So she goes inside the diner to have some coffee and of course they've got trained news network on too. Yes. Who wouldn't? And they're asking the the government guy they're like hey why have you passed this law that fucks with all these

awesome business plans of of Dagnia and he's like oh you know it's kind of like a Robin Hood situation and she's like oh and you're the bad guy in this movie he's like if you can believe that yeah the Robin Hood character is the bad guy yeah Robin Hood infantilized the poor people of notting him technically is basically eugenics is what he did what I think the only thing we bad guy. Yeah. Robin Hood infantilized the poor people of Nottingham, technically. Basically, it's basically eugenics, is what he did. What? I think the only thing we could all agree I would do that is Dumber is if we had our own

Robin Hood character who stole from the poor and gave to the rich. Well, the only way to make that Dumber would be to name him Ragnar's name. Scream. Toilet. But but then the news comes up and they're like, oh, and also you know those secret awesome oil fields from before they're exploding left and right. So she's like, oh shit, I better drive to those oil fields. Why?

They're not hers. Why is she going to she's going to fight the hell fires, friend. They're not hers. Why is she gonna, is she gonna fight the hell fires? But more, they're not hers, right? Are they hers? No. She's running to someone else's oil field. I don't think it matters who's they are. It's that she thinks she's gonna help.

Right, what would you do? An oil fire. This is like me running to a fire at the local Domino's pizza and being like, I was gonna order from there! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!

This movie at this point is literally like, oh, sympathize with the lady who stood to make quite a pretty penny from these oil fields. Right! With God as my witness, I will now have 25% of my projected anions. So Jesus Christ. And then just to remind you how boring everything about this movie is, in this big sort of climactic finale moment, Mr. Mouch. Yes, that's the fucking guy.

The moochie guy's name is Mr. Mouch. The colluder guy, he steps out to announce that they're issuing a moratorium on all new rail lines. He's the king of economics of the United States right now. Right. He's declared communism. And I see it's stupid. He also makes a role that steel mills all have to make exactly the same amount. Dave, Dave, you're making too much steel, okay? It's bad for the go-go-head And so, Dad, he, she shows up at the fires too. She runs into the guy's house apparently the guy built his house in the fucking middle of his oil

It's like a terrible place to see the scenic oil fields behind us There's a chocolate fountain. There's just oil coming out of it. Yeah courtyard. You guys want a dip a strawberry in that bad boy? It gross, but she runs into his fucking man. But she runs into his fucking mansion and she goes, Ellis and I'm like, you don't think that all the firefighters have caught him by a bottle run into the house and yell the guy's name. Yeah, I love that they were like, man, man,

you can't run past us and with the oil fire. And then excuse me. Excuse me. Excuse me. Okay, forget it. For the best. Yeah. Look at her face. Oh no, don't burn to death, please. How's the train industry ever going to do? Well, and then of course, we have to like get this VO flashback to Ellis, the guy, the oil guy that they were partying with, that they didn't have the threesome with meeting John Galt and being talked into going to the awesome capitalist government, Valley. Really? Doesn't take a lot.

No, no, he's like, you want to, yeah, sure, I was just, I was just doing three way. It didn't happen. I was so, yeah, just let me light this on fire back here. And I'll be worth you in like five minutes. No problem. Do you guys get a lot of bears down there at the bottom? I feel like you're going to get on a bear. Yeah, a lot of us get more by accident.

A lot of us get more by accident. Yeah, but it's our choice. Yeah, but you could take him to court because we have a couple of courthouses. So you can take him to court. And then we see his stupid sign. I'm so glad they kept this from the book where he's like, I left these as they found as I found them on fire. I'm on strike. She's it's so stupid. Yeah. And then she stares out over all of the poorly CGI'd hellfire.

So she yells, no, no idea why they're just like we needed a dramatic thing with fire. The end is like then that it's like to be continued. Jesus. All right, well, I'd ask you the moral of this story, but we all know what that is and nobody fucking cares. So instead, I'll just say Cecil, thank you so much for suffering through this one with us. Oh, absolutely. I would say it was fun.

No, it's not. We were talking about it was. So if you said it anyway, you can give me a bracelet and I'll pretend to like it, but I don't believe. Yeah. So all right, well, that's going to do it for our review of Atlas, Rogue Part One, but that's not going to do it for the episode just yet because we still need to talk in the coming back next week. So Eli, tell us what's on deck.

Part two, bitches! Oh! There's no pirate. I'm fighting you. Okay, there better be a pirate next week. All right. We'll there. Well, we'll find out.

Eventually, this is the walking part, but then maybe after that, pirate. So with potentially ragged, now to look forward to, we're gonna bring up so 337 to a immersive of close. Once again, a huge thanks to Cecil for hanging out on us today. Be sure to check the show notes for links to all his other stuff and an even huge thanks to all the Patreon donors that help make the show go. If you'd like to count yourself among their ranks, you can make a pre episode donation at patreon.com slash

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And was the most profitable of the trilogy. Yes it was. Uh, James Taggart went on to blow his entire paycheck on Mexican oars. Hey, hey, hey. Hank Swife eventually did have an orgasm. No, with him. Keith loved this book while he was old enough to vote. Oh no.

That's not, I put it for Al Gore. If fart noises are ever not funny to me, I want to die. That's when, that's my line. That's my username line. If I'm not laughing at fart noises, what am I doing here? Okay, does that mean because I now I consider this as a challenge? Does that mean if I can ever fart in a situation and you don't laugh at it? Is that what you took away from that? To murder me? I don't think that's I feel like I think we have to

talk to Andrew. I'm pretty sure I'm gonna laugh at whatever part of it. Yeah, all right. Yeah, exactly. I also doubt he lies ability to reject the premise parts are far universally. Okay. I mean, in a funeral, it would just, that would just be hilarious. That's so much extra funny.

Yeah. Challenge is the middle of a year. The proceeding podcast is production of puzzled on thunderstorm LLC copyright 2022. so much extra funny. Yeah. Challenge. Is that a little of a huge the proceeding by guest's production of puzzle and thunderstorm LLC capyrate 2022 all rights reserved.