Podcast About List - Ep. #385 - Curio #3: I Hope You Enjoy My Cock | The Five Weeks of Benjamin Button part 8

Episode Date: May 6, 2026

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Let's get this boy out of here. Oh, yeah. B-Day. Boy needs to be. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday, jubio. Happy birthday, jubio.

And he noticed a joy tactic. Are you 30? Are you 29? Are you 28? R you 27? That's good. He's much older. Notice that joy.

No, but Joy Tactics posted on their Instagram story, a picture of him. It said, Happy Birthday. They didn't put it on the episode? I don't know. I don't listen to that garbage. Damn. Yes, sir. Damn.

I'm kidding. My name is Benjamin Barton. I was born under unusual circumstances. While everybody else was aging, I was getting younger all alone. Comments or questions on that? Wait, we didn't test if the audio works from the... Dude, it's probably going to work. And if it doesn't, every time we'll fix it on it.

It really won't cause an issue. If it doesn't, we'll make Julio work late on his birthday. Okay. Well, we're back. We're back. People didn't think we would be. A lot of people said. And we're a week younger.

All right. Two weeks, that makes sense. But three out of, uh, this is week two. Sorry. One week. This is week four. I bet. I bet they could complete one week.

This is not week two. This is week four. Right. Right. Sorry. Sorry. Episode two. Yes.

Part. Part two. Curio. Episode 8. Curio 3. Yes. Curio 3. So it's already starting to...

I'm not sure that that'll ever get easier. Frankly. No. It's a very difficult way to go about things. And Benjamin, quite frankly, has a difficult life. Curious one even. Curious. You just ask me to do it.

No, because you never get it in the right, the sweet spot. You're such a... You're a princess. That's a volume princess. That's a volume, man. No, a volume. smaller version of a size queen. That's a synonym.

A volume princess. A volume princess is somebody that only wants like a thick thick load. Big thick load. Big thick load. I was going to say a chode but thick load makes more sense. Yeah. Well, let's

because the size queen would still prefer a chode maybe. Depending on depending on just how wide it is. Depending on which side's axis, you know. Don't get me started on these women who want a wide Z axis. Wait, what do you mean? which side axis. Which size axis? Well, I just feel like they probably

like both. Like, I don't think they pick. Like, I don't think that a size queen is like, I like really, really, I want a penis that 30 inches long and like a millimeter thick. I don't think that's something they like. Size queens, sound off in the comments. Yeah. I mean, that's not from y'all. Nothing but love to the size queen community. Let's hear from you.

I've never heard from one of those. I'd be happy to reach out. Reach out. I think that size queen should mean plus size woman. Oh, wow. Yeah, that's what I think. You're a size king in that way. Yes, I am a size king.

You like them quite large. Oh, I like being large. You like being large. Yeah. I told my girlfriend today that I want to gain 380 more pounds and cut off the rest of my leg at the knee like Cotton Hill. You think she'd find that attractive? Oh, she better start. She better start finding that attractive.

I want to look basically the same height as Cotton Hill. It's a cool look. But also wider than usual. Yeah. Maybe like Jabba. job. Let's get curious. I know.

I honestly can't even feign interest. I don't want to talk to you guys. This is not. This is not hitting for me. Let's jump in. So this is Curio 3. And this, we're coming up on an hour in. Not quite there yet, but we're coming up on an hour in.

I got to say, guys, this one, you know, I'll read the recap, but this one was a doozy. Yes. I think that this, each time I am consistently. Instantly floored by, first of all, how much of a curio it is. I couldn't. I'm biting my nails. Yeah, we'll get there. But it's actually un-fucking believable.

I immediately texted you guys and I said it opens with a fucking bang. Honestly, the opening of it is the worst part. That was just my immediate reaction was. What were you referring to when you said that? My immediate reaction was, but what were you referring to when you said that? Queenie having a baby. Yeah. Being pregnant with a baby.

So guys, if you're worried about spoilers, don't worry. that's in the first five seconds of the curio. Yeah, that's right. And we'll cover it. But, and just, yeah, this one, I mean, the whole curio was just on theme. It was, again, bookended beautifully. Yeah. I mean, just unbelievable and really crazy.

Yeah. So I'll go ahead and start just recapping this for you guys. So we pick up where we left off Thanksgiving dinner in 1930 just after O.T. has made his famous joke. I like those that can fly. Yeah. They are so delicious. So that's his joke.

that just happened. Queenie gets up in front of everybody and announces a miracle has taken place and her prayers have been answered. Benjamin isn't quite sure what this means and Daisy explains that Queenie is pregnant. Benjamin is not excited. I would, I thought for a moment that like if you're him and your mom says my prayers have been answered, you're like, okay, God is going to cure me. Yeah. What have you been praying for? Yeah. Obviously you've been praying to cure your one son. Make me young. Make me look like a normal little baby. As far as you. No, strangely old. Yeah. No, I understand his feelings. He looks, I mean, it's kind of hard to see what emotion is going on on that. Yeah. The emotions is not something they really locked in. Yeah.

I mean, that's like doing, that's like doing, trying to have like a photorealistic CGI dog have emotions. Yeah. Yeah. It's honestly easier with a dog. It's pretty much only eyebrows either way. Old people always have grumpy, grumpiness. It's eyebrows and ears, both, both sides. olds and dogs.

Yeah. It's just this. Because the mouth is still the same. It's just... Yeah, and they got those big eyebrows, those old people. Oh, yeah, big bushy ones. Yeah.

Later on, Daisy listens as Mrs. Fuller reads a bedtime story by Rood Yard Kipling about a kangaroo and a clock. Now, I noticed there's a bunch of texts on the page. Mrs. Fuller reads one single sentence from the middle of the page

and then closes the book and says, isn't that something? Daisy begs to hear it again. and in a jump scare moment, Benjamin also asks to hear it again. And if I'm her, if I'm Daisy's grandma, that's the first time where I'm worried about this guy. Yeah. Yeah. Which, yeah, he really, and it really is a jump scare.

I leaned back in my seat. Hey, wait, ma. I read it again. I always forget that there's supposed to have a big Cajun accent. I always forget until he says something like, please wait, ma. Yeah, there's a bunch of things. He has, the last curio, I think, is. think was the craziest point for his voice because he was doing old guy voice.

They were like chipmunking it up a little bit. And then he was also doing the Cajun accent on top of it. Yeah. And the layers are gradually peeling away. And now it's not high pitched anymore, but it's still. Whimes. Yeah. Wimes.

I got whimes. Seven. Seven. That's all you get stuff like that. Late at night, Daisy wakes Benjamin up and brings him downstairs into a blanket fort. She makes him light a candle, even though he's not. allowed to use matches. They exchanged secrets with each other.

Daisy tells Benjamin she saw her mom kissing another man and it made her mom turn red. Benjamin tells Daisy that he's not as old as he looks and Daisy had suspected that this was the case. Clever kid. Yeah. Prococious.

Smarter than almost everyone in the entire world. Yeah. She asks if Benjamin is sick and he says he heard Queenie and Tizzy first time Tizzy. I was like, there it is. And I was like, I don't know if I'd know who Tizzy was. No, it's heavy subtitles.

Whispering, Queenie and Tizzy whispering that he was going to die soon, but maybe not. She tells him he is odd and different and then caresses his face. She says, may I? And he goes, yeah. And then she reaches out and is doing that. Also, I want to point out, I'm pretty sure that they're pitching up Kate Blanchett's voice or something for L. Fanning. And doing an ADR? Yeah, they're doing ADR over her.

I guess I don't know what L. Fanning's voice. I think they're CGIing her mouth too. Because every time El Fanning is speaking in an up like a close up shot, it's always like, like there's always like a little bit of drag at the end of everything she's saying. She looks, she has literally dune eyes. Yeah. She has spice dune eyes. Which I would, Fincher would absolutely do something like that.

Like, oh, we'll make her eyes even bluer. Make her mouth. You know what? It won't make sense unless she has Kate Blanchett's voice. And here's something I thought of. Dune Eyes, David Fincher, David Lyncher. Oh, goodness. Yeah, David Lynch.

I think I read, I think I read somewhere that the guy. We got an email that pertains to that exact thing. Yeah. Really? Yeah. The guy who wrote this, wrote For his guy. He also wrote the screenplay for the Villano Wave. Yeah, Villain Away of Dune.

Oh. So there's actually a Dune connection here. I never forgot her blue eyes. That's probably, well, that's pretty interesting. So, Daisy, young Daisy is caressing Old Man Benjamin's face and then Mrs. Fuller finds them

in the blanket fort and she scolds Daisy sending her to bed because she's too young to be up wandering around on her own. She says, you two are not to be playing together and she tells Benjamin he should be ashamed of himself. In this moment, I realize that this version of Benjamin Button, this old young boy is exactly the type

that ends up in the Instagram video where they are going to meet a child. Yeah. Just like a, oh, I don't know. I'm seven. Just like that kind of guy, dressed like that,

looking like that. I don't think I have oims. I don't know. I don't have whims. Dude. Oh, so you're a fucking worms, dude? You have a fucking worms, guy.

You have Majembe? Yeah. I don't know what that is. We have it right here in the log, dude. It says you have majambay. So I thought, so I was like, of course she's...

You told the seven-year-old girl you have magentbe. Of course she's... Of course she's worried, man. Look at this. fucking guy. No, I mean, it is actually horrifying that she still thinks that's an old man. And it's actually I have to say it's to some degree

on her for letting it get to this point. Because I think you're right that the bedtime story part is like... That's where I'm putting up the boundary. I'm going to be like, hey, Mr. Benjamin, maybe you could like stay in your room at night and let me hang out with my granddaughter.

Maybe she thinks that Benjamin's trying to slime her up. Yeah, or maybe she just thinks he's losing his mind. I feel like that's the charitable thing. Well, she said you should be ashamed of yourself. Yeah, I think that's the point. I think in the like bedtime story she's like, oh, this old guy. Yeah, he has

Majembe. He doesn't know. He's old as fuck, you don't know. But it's like, if you're up and not, you're lighting a candle to be with a young girl under a blanket fort. Yeah. And you look like that. You should be ashamed. And you're short. Then Queenie walks downstairs. So yeah, and then Queenie walk,

Queenie comes out and she says she tells Benjamin, you are a different child a man child yes yeah you are a different child a man child and not everybody

is going to understand how different you are she's putting an interesting spot here she's one of the few people in history who has to defend her 11 year old son

from accusations of being a pedophile that is an extremely rare spot to be in I would say yeah and she all like it's just like

why would you not just tell the old people about this? Well, I mean, he's not going to believe it. By the way he's seven, well, then you tell the old people that and then they're like, well, my brain is my brain is pudding. Exactly. So why does it matter? Why keep it a secret? You should try.

It seems like they keep it a secret. If I'm Queenie, I try. Like, yeah, it seems like Queenie is not, I think Queenie is doing a bad job. Yeah. I mean, I like, you have to at least be like, talk to, when Mrs. Fuller's like, you should be ashamed of yourself. You have to like know that that she's saying that to like a little seven-year-old boy.

At least say that he's ruining his life at that moment. At least say he has a mental issue. Yeah. Like just lie in that way. Exactly. Just in some way, like step in and defend him. You know what I mean? Because that's your defacto child.

You are a different child. That's what you should be ashamed of yourself. And he's like, oh. And your mom comes in and it says, you're a different child. You're a man child. You're old. Not everyone's going to understand it. No.

Then Benjamin goes to bed. The old man. who Benjamin shares a bedroom with, Mr. Dawes, tells Benjamin he's been struck by lightning seven times. I love this part. And it shows little old-timey snippets of him being struck by lightning, once while repairing a leak in his roof, and once while crossing the street to get his mail.

He also, Mr. Dawes is also holding a lit cigarette in bed. I noticed on my third watch, I noticed that. Benjamin does not care about any of this. He's thinking about Daisy. Yeah. Now we come back into the hospital scene. Caroline asks her mother if she realized that Benjamin was in love with her ever since he first saw her. And also how rare that is.

And then we just go right back into the diary. Queenie's baby has been born, so some time has passed by. And the dynamic has changed. Benjamin is now lonely. He spent a lot of time by himself. O.T. comes to Benjamin's room and tells Benjamin that he's leaving. He doesn't know where he's going, but he'll send Benjamin a postcard once he gets there. Benjamin asks, what about O.T.'s friend, Philomena.

O.T. tells Benjamin they're not friends anymore, and that that sometimes happens with tall people. I like that line. Yeah, it's good. It's a good. It's, it's, I think it's, uh, I think it just, this is another thing to keep an eye on with the recurring themes of leglessness. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Just my little flagpole there. A new old lady moves into the nursing home. Her name might be Mrs. Lawson, Mrs. Hartford, or. Mrs. Maple because Benjamin can't remember. She always wears fancy clothing and diamonds, even though she's not going anywhere and no one

ever comes to see here. And she teaches Benjamin to play piano. Benjamin says sometimes it's the people we remember the least who have the greatest impact on us. I feel like there are a bunch of people who actually have had way more of an impact on Benjamin that also he remembers a lot more. But maybe the piano is going to become extremely important. That's what I was thinking.

I was like, we didn't see enough of this lady to just. justify his whole introduction for her. So I feel like we're going to be seeing more of her. Oh, yeah, for sure. I feel like we'll never see her again, but I feel like he'll continually play the piano throughout his life. What if he becomes a concert pianist? Oh, that would be cool.

I mean, he's in New Orleans. I mean, he's still a little boy, and I have to imagine this movie. And, like, we're still like in like, I think, 1931 right now. And it goes, the diary entry goes to 1985. Yeah. So there's so much to discover about his life. I mean, I really, it could be anything. He could become a movie star.

You really don't know. I mean, he's going to end up looking like Brad Pitt. That's, I know, yeah. God. You think he's going to have some kind of like, what an ugly duckling face to have to be so sexy. Disgusting old man, baby that everyone thinks is a pedophile. And then you're like, you're like,

you're like, fuck y'all. Brad Pitt. Check this out. Yeah. I can go anywhere. Benjamin Button, Class of 31. What the fuck. Oh.

Do you guys think that Brad Pitt? Do you guys think Brad Pitt will ever look like Benjamin Button? Yes. I hope so. I don't know. He's right. How old is he right now? Wait,

okay. Benjamin Bowen was born 80. So right now he should be around 70. But right now, I think Brad Pitt is like 60. Exactly. And he looks fucking amazing. That's what I'm saying.

Yeah. He'll never look like. He's probably making this movie that he was like, he was probably like, oh, fuck. Yeah. Oh,

he was a sunscreen on me. I'm going to start taking care of myself. He was married to Angelina Jolie for years. She has amazing plastic surgeons. They probably have the same numbers. Guess Brad Pitt age right now. They probably have the same number. I'm going to say he's 61.

I'm going to say 64. 58. I'm going to go under. Yeah, I almost went 57. That's 61 is my guess. 62. Whoa. Nice.

That's a good 62. I win prices right. You do. I think I think you win. Well, you win Brad Pitt's both ways. phone number. Oh my God, I'd do anything. I would love to have that. Yeah, just calling him just stop punching your kids. That's what I would say. Do you think there was ever a moment when you think, you think he was involved in the VFX process at all? And he was like, seeing the

dailies come in and he was like, hey, like Mr. Fincher. He probably calls him Mr. Fincher. He's very polite. And he's like, don't you, what do you think about just making the baby like really sexy and just like an old guy who like an 80 year old guy who aged really well? Yeah, yeah. A silver fox. Braddard if he had a If Benjamin Bunn had a silver fox This would be This would be My guess is he does

No but I think if he Because if he I'm yeah You know what he definitely does He did right I was if it happened Probably when he's like 28 Yeah if it happened

Yeah if it happened That would be really a recipe for disaster It's gonna be funny when he looks like that And but he's not like rich or like Like he has nothing really going on for it He's like he's an idiot Yeah Yeah

Young guy But maybe he becomes rich again He is not He's really not being set up up for a good life right now. No. No, no, no. But we'll see.

I mean, there's things that happen in this career that made me think that rich, riches may be coming to him. Where was I here? Oh, yes. Benjamin is changing, guys. He is growing hair in strange places and he's in the bathtub, sponging himself off, and we see him notice that he's either grown pubs or popped a boner.

Yeah. I would like to submit this as another piece of evidence that that guy was a liar. I think it is. and I'll get into more of this later, but just be assured it struck me to my core. It's the second scene in the tub. Yeah, well, it's showing the difference. Yeah.

He used to have to get sponged off and listen to Mrs. Wagner sing opera. Yeah, and now he's... I wonder if the tub is going to be... Presumably he's jerking off. Yeah. I wonder if the tub is going to be a reoccurring theme, and I really hope it is...

I wrote that down, too, that he... And you know what I just thought of? You talked about Mr. Cake Getting in his boat and rowing it away because he thought it was a bathtub. Oh, yeah. He was in his bathtub and he wrote it away up. I hope for my sake, you'll see later.

I hope that the tub is a reoccurring theme. So far it is. Maybe Mr. Gatto is sort of like a who. He's like the size of a molecule. And what if he lives in a world that is right on the edge? He lives inside of Benjamin Button's pubes. Oh, yeah. And he's rowing out to see.

There are some interesting Mr. Cake revelations coming up too. Yeah, I'm excited to get into. One very interesting one. Yes, that, yeah, I think... A controversial one maybe, but... Let's see, where we see... He gets a boner in the bathtub, which causes old Daisy in the hospital to say,

Darling the pain! And we come back into the hospital. Her pussy hurts. It is that line. Do you think it's that she doesn't want to hear her daughter read that? No, dude, she's getting fucking... She's thinking, bro. My pussy's drowning.

On the TV, a newscaster talks about the hurricane, and says, this is really a major hurricane. He points behind that too, she points and goes, this is really a major hurricane. I mean, I feel like every newscaster would say that. It's just so funny for that. You want to catch them in the middle of, I mean, info across,

they know it's Katrina. You want to catch them in the middle of some technical explanation. And then the end of the middle sentence, sentence, end up to 160 miles per hour. I think that's like, I think that's, that's news. newscaster in movie 101.

That's 101. It can't be a single sentence. And if it is, it can't be that sentence. Yeah. And it was seriously 9-11. This is big. Yeah. Holy crap.

Holy crap. The challenger just happened. The challenger just blew the heck up. I mean, it's just, yeah, that was bad. It almost, it made me, for one second, I was like, would they have used, like, footage from some real newscast? Yeah. No, there's no way.

Even if they had. That's the only way where I could possibly explain. still don't use that footage. You know what I mean? I also 100% believe that somebody would have said that. Yeah. Like that that could use it in the movie.

That could be a real newscast, but it's one of those days. Two on the nose. Yeah. You can't. That was probably the first newscast. No, you scrub a little bit forward. First, main, most general fact first.

Yeah. And also all of the, all of the information. It should have been something like the winds are going at this miles per hour. Yeah. And in other news, a cute puppy was just channel change. The eye of the storm is,

that's good that's good the eye of the storm is quickly yeah there we go the eye of the storm is really it's so funny that this is four four or five years after hurricane Katrina David Fincher's like

let's fucking set it that might be one of the fastest like it's a pretty a natural disaster or something has happened in a movie and then it is in a movie but it's not

the whole movie isn't just about how long after it had to have been like oh but Because so much of the movie is built around being in Louisiana. Yeah. Like, not, like, not really, but, like, it obviously isn't something. Like, it's not, like, grafted on. Like, it's set there.

So you have to wonder if it's, like, a thing where, like, he can, was he thinking of the story for a lot, like, doing this for a long time? And then, like, Katrina happened. And he's like, I guess I have to add Katrina. That's a good point for this. Or is it, like, like, at what point it is such an, like, how long was the development cycle for this movie? Right. Probably long.

Yeah, I bet I can look that up. I just wonder, like, how long after September 11th was the Nick Cage movie? You know what I'm talking about? What Nick Cage movie? There's like a 9-11 movie. The firefighter one? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But is that about 9-11?

Yeah. Okay, so that's different. That's what I'm saying. Wow. It's like set dressing. Okay, here's something interesting. I'm just going to read this whole bullet-pointed list here. 1980s to 1990s, producer Ray Stark tries to get the film.

made, initially bringing it to Ron Howard. 1991, Steven Spielberg was attached to direct with Tom Cruise set for the lead role, but left to direct other films. That's a better movie. Late 90s, Ron Howard was again attached to direct with John Travolta potentially starring. Even better. That's an even better movie.

Wait, wait, wait. 2000, Spike Jones was attached to direct with a script from Charlie Kaufman. Then 2004 to 2005, David Fincher signed on to direct with Brad Pitt in the lead role, marking the final creative team. Damn. Katrina was the thing

that made him be like, I need to make this movie because of Katrina. This was maybe his love letter to the survivors of Katrina. Spike Jones, Charlie Kaufman one would have been. Oh my God.

Can you imagine? Isn't that crazy? Yeah. That would have been the like, well, no, I think the, I think Travolta is Ben. That's number one.

That's number one. That is crazy. It's Ron Howard. So it's going to be Grinched up. Yeah. Practical effects make it. That would have been so cool.

That would have been crazy. And, Steven Spielberg with Tom Cruise is also crazy. Ron Howard probably. That would have sucked, actually, I think. Yeah, maybe. I mean, I like Tom Cruise. I like both of those guys, but those guys on this movie,

Benjamin Button would have done a backflip. The movie is just bad. It's just not a good idea for a movie. I just would love to see. But it's a great idea for 10 curios. It is. It is. Deaged John Travolta.

I'm really hung up with the John Travolta. I know. That's crazy. I did not know that. It's so for the idea. He can't get any of the names right. he's doing Adelda C. He's gone.

Creany. The wickedly talented, my mom, Creeney. Why would he do that? He'd be acting in the movie. Nah. He gets some names right in the movies, dude.

This is the thing that Tridvolta is famous for. You just got his name wrong. He said Tridvolta. No. He did. This is the thing Tridvolta is. Wickedly talented, Shunted Delta.

I remember that. It's the funniest thing ever, dude. the delza-zeem? Caroline fetches a nurse and gives Daisy more of what I assume is morphine or fentanyl or something and is like, this is going to fix everything. I think she says something along those lines. The nurse asked Caroline if she's had a chance to say her goodbyes and Caroline is like,

uh, and then starts to talk and then nurses like, stop talking. I have to go. Nobody can stand. This is a theory I have. Yeah. This old woman,

Daisy either stinks like fucking shit or she's racist. because no one no nurse can be in this room no every single person who walks in leaves even and even right now when caroline begins to read again she sits down on what is next to daisy an empty hospital bed yeah yeah an empty bed no one even wants to be in the room with her they're not even putting people in the room with lazy also also she also sits on with her shoes on nasty the hospital is going to have to evacuate at some point right we don't know that so far that's her in katrina like I'm obviously Obviously, this is going to hit the hospital. I don't know. You haven't been paying attention. Don't you remember the last curio? They literally said it's okay to be in the hospital. There's no way that there's no, no, because your knowledge doesn't travel back in time like Benjamin Button, man.

Do you believe? There's no way. There's no way that the hurricane does not touch down at the hospital. Of course, but they don't know that. Yeah. That's what I'm saying. They don't, but they can't see the future. They're pumping her up with so much like morphine.

Because she's dying. She's going to die in like an hour. The hurricane hits off. That's why they're doing that. Imagine though, like your grandma's in the hospital, right? And it's like, oh shit, a hurricane's about to hit, but she's dying anyway. Yeah, let's just leave her. That's probably what they do.

Especially Daisy. She's lever against us. I bet that's going to happen. I bet they're not going to be able to move her. I bet it's going to be like, I bet Caroline's going to be like, Mom, we have to go. And she's going to be like, here's another piece of this. I just remembered. When they're talking about saying goodbyes, the nurse is like, yeah, my like, somebody like, I forgot who they were talking about.

Her dad, I think. Yeah, my dad was dying and he like held on until like this one person came to see him and then he instantly died. Do we think that Daisy is holding on until Benjamin Button can? Yes. I know. You think she's going to have a either Benjamin Button as a baby is going to crawl into the hospital room or. Oh, my God. Or is she going to have a vision of Benjamin like smiling at?

her and then she passes away. That's probably more likely, but I'm imagining. No, I think he's coming in as a baby. He's in the maternity ward. They're like, no, I'm thinking this baby crawling in. I'm thinking 100 year old Benjamin Button, he walks in big sperm. That's good to be 100, though. Yes, he would. No, he wouldn't. Because he, no, 80 is when he's a baby. So then 20 years backwards, he would have to. He was born in 1980s. In 1980s. In 9TT, which actually explains a lot of the reverse stuff. Well, he would probably be a fertile. as egg walking in then or something. Could be. Something of this

nature. But I don't think he would be a baby. There's no nature. This also is an interesting turn here because Daisy doesn't ask her to... Daisy is now, I think, zonked out on fucking pangone. Yeah, whatever Serp they're putting in that IV. And Caroline just begins to

read from the diary herself. And now Benjamin and Mr. Dawes, we don't know how much time has passed. And this is, I think, going to be a big point of, we need to find out how much time has passed. It's so important to know how much time has passed for this next part. We don't know. Some time has passed. It seems like maybe, well, the baby's, like, less than one. Last time we saw him, he was, I think, 13. So he's probably 14, 15, somewhere around that. Yeah, I think that was my estimation as well. Keep that in mind.

Benjamin and Mr. Dawes are sitting by the river at a place called Poverty Point watching the boats go by. Benjamin tells, or Daz tells Benjamin about the lightning again. Seven. He was struck while tending to his cows. A tugboat is short a crew member and Benjamin impulsively takes the job. He is working for Captain Mike Clark. I'm getting chills. That was running back.

I hope you enjoy Mike Clark. Whoa. Dude, you didn't catch it and you watched it? Mike Clark. I literally was like, I hope, me too. I paused that. I was like, oh my God, went back five seconds. We got like 50 emails about Mike Clark.

Mike Clark. Yeah, we got a lot of emails about Mike Clark. My clock. It's unreal. So crazy. Unreal. It also sounds like Mike Hawk. Yeah.

See, that's what I'm like Mike Hawk. Let's just listen. Let's just listen. This listen. My clock. My clock. My clock. It's, it couldn't be anything else.

It's my clock. I literally had to go to the subterlil us to find out what his name actually was. I googled the actor's name. Jared Harris. Yeah, Jared Harris. Love that guy. Yeah, he's cool. He's in some good stuff.

Mike Clark. Mike Clark. You can't make this up. And he's the captain of a boat. Yeah. Mr. Cake as well. Can I drop this on you? Go ahead.

Mr. Cake, MC. Mm-hmm. Mike Clark, MC. What does MC stand for? Mike Clark. Main character. Oh. This is who the movie's really about.

This is actually who the movie's about. Oh, my fucking God. That's incredible. And Mike Clark says that he's been on a tugboat since he was seven. Yes! There's so much

seven in this movie. Yes, Cameron. Brad Pitt was also in seven. That's true. And David Fincher directed seven. Oh my God. And seven has seven in the name seven. Yeah.

Seven N. Yeah. Seven N. Seven. That was pretty close. Yeah, you can't really do that. It doesn't really work that way. Do it seven times.

I mean, I think we can just go. Well, this is definitely going to be something I think to This is unbelievable. I couldn't believe it. Mike Clark. Mike Clark. Benjamin has paid $2 a day to scrub bird shit off of the tugboat, but he says he would do it for free. Bad idea.

Yeah, I don't know why. He said that. It really seemed strange to me. No 13-year-old these days would do that for free. No one, anyone would do that ever. Yeah. That's a good point. I think he just is stupid.

Yeah. He's a stupid guy. Yeah. Here's another thing. He's not. in education. No. No, not at all.

No. He also, yeah, he's like deeply stupid. Yeah. We see him reading Ivanhoe, which I don't know what that is. Me either. Let's look it up. Ivanhoe? Ivanhoe.

That's what he was reading in the scene when O.T. says he's leaving. No, you've been ho. Come on. Ivanhoe. A romance by Walter Scott is a historical novel published in three volumes. A romance novel? No. Not like a, not like a department store romance novel.

A romance is like a, it's like Anna Carinina or something. No, it's older. It's older than that. Oh, like the, okay. Like romance. Yes, okay. Yeah. I heard romance novel.

I know. I understand it. I understand it now. But I was imagining he's on that boat reading. Well, he's not reading it on the boat. Auntie smut. I guess it's about divisions between Jews and Christians. Well, that's one aspect of it.

Wait. Okay. How does this fit into the whole thing? Seven, the most holy number of the Bible. Set in England in the Middle Ages with colorful, of a tournament, outlaws, a witch trial, and divisions between Jews and Christians, Normans, and Saxons. The novel was credited by many with inspiring, increased interest in chivalric, romance, and medievalism. So he's interested in the Middle Ages.

Middle age. He's about to be in his middle age. Because he's coming up on that. So he's at least educated enough to read this, but I would wager there's probably not much else to read back then. They didn't have, they didn't have Magic Treehouse. They did have that one book, and that's why he gets so excited when she's reading it. Yeah. That's the first time a children's book has ever been in this building.

The Rydger Kipling story. I'd screech out of the text of it. It's the worst story ever. This is the picture of old man kangaroo at five in the afternoon when he had got his beautiful hind legs just as Big God Nekong had promised. You can see that it is 5 o'clock because Big God Nekong's pet tame clock says so. Yeah, that's not that good of a book. For kids?

I read way more stuff than that. It's not even good for kids. It's not exciting. What else did, sorry. posted Rudyard Kipling. What is that name? Just So Stories, Jungle Book. Oh, okay.

I think I've heard his name in a Longmont Potion Castle call. I'm sure he's a, he's a, he's a, he's a, prolific. He's a guy. Yeah, he's a well-known guy. He's a well-known author. Yeah.

Passed away. Of, uh, racist literature. Oh, shit. Yeah. Yeah. Um, so Ben Button is reading a racist book. No, even though he's raised. He's reading.

Yes, that's what I mean. So he's being read a racist book and getting all that info in even though he's being. Well, he doesn't. Well, he doesn't get all the info in because, again, Mrs. Fuller reads. That's true. Yeah. She doesn't even, the sentence that I read, she reads some of the words from that sentence. It takes out the adjectives.

Just reads that and then says, isn't that something? It closes the book. She's, she can't read adjectives. That's the thing about her. Yeah, she's just making it up. She's looking at the pictures. So Benjamin's on the boat. Mike Clark.

Mike Clark asks Benjamin if he can still get it up. Pop Boners. Yeah. Benjamin, I think it's unclear whether Benjamin is saying that he does every day or if he thinks Mike Clark is talking about something else. Yeah, he's naive. Because he is naive. He still thinks that sea legs are a type of legs you can have. So it's not, so all these euphemisms for getting boners, it doesn't seem like Benjamin would understand.

But I thought about it and I was like, it does seem like he is getting boners every day because he's looking down at his weener in the tub. So maybe he does understand and it's supposed to be like, what? This old man is getting a boner every morning. Yeah. That's something only a 14 year old boy would do. Exactly. My clock doesn't realize that this is a man. This is a child at the peak stages of virility.

Of morning woodism. Yes. Yeah. Which we'll find out all too well quite soon. So then Mike Clark asked Benjamin when was the last time he was with a woman. And Benjamin says, never. You are a different child. That's the saddest thing.

that Mike Clark has ever heard. He takes Benjamin out with him that night to a brothel. And he goes like, you're coming with me tonight. And I really wanted to hear right round, Flo Rido. That would have been cool. They have to have a version of that. That's a good

idea. A Racktime version of right round by Flo Rite. No, no. It should be the actual version. No, it should be the actual version. I would love to hear like a swing or ragtime version of it. That's just because you are who you are, though. That would be perfect. We are who we are by Kesha. That'd be good too.

We're dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb. We're walking like we're old, old, old, old, old. We're fucking like we're young, young, young, young, young. At the bustling brothel, Mike Clark tells Benjamin that fathers only serve to drag people down. Mike Clark's father wanted him to be a tugboat worker when Mike Clark wanted to be an artist. He strips down to his long underwear revealing his nub and shows Benjamin his self-done tattoos. He says when he's dead, he's going to send his own. arm to his dad.

Another huge point for limblessness. Yeah. It's everywhere. And there's more of it. I thought something that was interesting about this scene to me is he says, my body is covered in tattoos. Let me take off my shirt. Let me take off my pants.

He does not show a single tattoo below his waistline. So there's no point for him to. And then he shuffles into the next room with his pants at his ankles already. And he does show his little, his numb. Yeah, yeah. Why would, but why does he feel the need to take his pants off to show no tattoo? So here's something. He says he did all his tattoos himself.

He's got him on his back. He's got some of them like right here, which is like possible, I guess. But it's, I mean, they don't look great. So I guess it makes it. But the back is out of it. Maybe he put like a needle on the wall. Oh, it's like a cat. Did one of these?

Yeah. It is. I don't understand. That's, he's just got. He's a tattoo pose. I did all my tattoos myself. He turns around. He turns around.

He's just one big line on his back. He's just a big scribble. I also. feel like this is, but like, I guess I don't know exactly what Fincher's going for here in terms of like if this is supposed to be an inspiring scene or what, but it's like he is a tugboat worker.

Yeah. Yeah. Like he is like like, but wait, you are a tugboat worker and then Mike Clark's like, no man, I'm an artist. It's like no, you, but you are a tugboat worker. You've done all, tattoos on yourself. Yeah. They look like shit and when you die are going to mail your arm

to your dad. How are you going to do that? You're working and you're a tugboat worker. Who are you getting to mail your arm to your dad? Cut off my arm right now and mail it to my dad. And why? For years. I like, does,

does mailing a severed arm to his dad really send him to send the dad the statement that he is an artist, even if it has a tattoo on it? Yeah. Yeah. Like, is the dad going to get the arm and be like, he was an artist all along. Oh my God.

He was going to open it up and be like, oh, fuck, there's a fucking arm. My tugboat son died before me and he mailed his arm. Yeah. I feel like you're going to get a case with the postage police. How is he going to know who his arm it is? Yeah, well, it's got the tattoos, man. Yeah, but what does the tattoo say? It's your son, Mike Clark?

You think, well, I would assume he knows what his son's tattoos look like. But maybe not. I wouldn't know. I don't think I'd recognize anybody's arm. If I didn't know that they, I'm guessing he doesn't know. tattoos are probably the only way to recognize somebody's arm if you're not, some kind of arm genius. Yeah, yeah.

I just thought it was implied that the father did not see the tattoos. That's what I thought was implied to. I guess it's possible. And maybe they're strange. If that's the case, it makes even less sense. It makes way less sense. Yeah. I kind of assumed it was something that he was like doing, he was like he was rubbing in his dad's face.

Yeah. A little bit. You don't see your kid since he's 18 and he gets out of the house. Fucking 40 years later you get a package in the mail. It's an arm and it says, hey, dad, I'm dead. Yeah. That's horrible. Dad, I've passed away.

And by the way, I was an artist. Here's all the tattoos I did. And they're all in my arm. My son was crazy. Yeah. Yeah. My son was completely. Oh, well, I'm glad my son's dead.

He was probably a problem to the rest of the world. He has some peace. Yeah. If my son's cutting off his arm to send it to me, he was not fit to be out in public. He needs to either be in a sanitarium or prison. Or a tugboat. Man, I wish I knew more about my son's life. Something like that.

So then the girls are ready for them. And Ben has what he calls a night to remember. And what we see. He is laying it down. It's fucking crazy. Say what you will about that 14 year old. He can pipe. like crazy.

Yeah. The woman says, what are you? Dick, Dick Tracy, I need to rest. And then he says, I can't.

A 14 year old saying this to you? I can't. Again. It's again, I can't. It's kind of a double. Yeah. I think it's again.

Again. Again. Again. Okay. It's again, I think. It is again. Again. I thought it was like,

yeah, we get, we see the sheets flying around. And it doesn't look like good sex, No, she like rolls over and like a like, oh. Yeah. And she looks at the clock.

My clock. My clock. My clock. Let me check. Let me check my clock. I can't. Also, she says, what are you, Dick Tracy? He's a detective.

Yeah, I don't know. I don't understand. He's getting to the bottom of her. Oh. Yeah. I get it. Okay. He's going, he's hitting the back.

Yeah. I mean, what is he in there? So, he's putting a mic. What we're seeing is presumably the end of at least round two. Of a wild rom. She's saying, I need to rest. Yeah. Yeah.

Right. Mm-hmm. It could be round five. Yeah, that's what I think at least. Three rounds. First time, three rounds is a 14 year old. Fucking crazy. You'd think he would be shooting pretty early.

And is he like, maybe that's the case. There's also, there's no fucking way that he, like, knows what this is. No. He doesn't, he's never had any sex ed. Nobody's given him the time. No, he's like, like, how, how is this, this is crazy. I saw, I was like, this is the thing, this was the thing where I was like, this can't be happening.

Yeah. This is not in this fucking movie. And also, he has, he's accused of having a, uh, a age, a problematic age relationship with somebody. And then five minutes later, he does in the opposite direction. Yeah. Yeah. that's kind of amazing. Yeah.

It's really, it's really crazy. It was one of those things where I was like, you know, the bra, like I was like, it was just getting closer and closer. They were getting the brothel of this. And every scene was like,

oh, it's not good. It's not good. What he said, it was a night to remember. I was like, they're going to fuck. Wait.

Wait. Wait, what the fuck? And it got to the sheets flying around. I was like, oh. And you know, when she walks in,

when they walk out, and she's like, okay, yeah, come back again. I thought that they were going to do the thing where she's like, come back again, but she's like, get out of here. Come back, whatever, sure. She's not, she doesn't seem like she had a great time.

It seems like it was exhausting. No, it's, yeah, it, it, she calls him grandpa too. Yeah. This is a thing, an example, I think, of the curios system and working an interesting way where I think if you watch this, like, I've seen, I've seen a lot of people say this, like movie made them cry. Yeah. It was very emotional. and it's like, I guess I could, like, if you watch this all in a row, like, by the time you got to the end, you'd like, like, I don't know, this would just be one moment. Yeah.

That you'd just be like, oh, that was weird. Oh, that's silly. But watching this three times and thinking about this for days, I'm like, this, I can't imagine, like, no matter what happens at the end, I will not be crying. Because as a. Just because this is here, like, this, whatever emotional weight this could have had is fully deflated. Oh, yeah. This scene is going to stay with me. As a, because as a curio also, each of these curios have, you have to overlay sort of three-act story structure on them.

Yeah. And this one is the craziest of all. Yeah, this is like the end of act too. This is fully, well, this curio here. Well, yeah, I'll say what happens next. And we'll get into the theme of the curio because it's pretty crazy, I feel like. Yeah. So going to the brothel becomes a regular habit for him.

He's this, he said this teaches him the value of money and the things that money can buy. One night while leaving the brothel, Benjamin is spotted. By one. Oh, is that, is it insinuated that it's a different night? So I actually have something about this. Okay. I think, yeah, it's, we don't know. Does he have more than one outside?

Okay, there's, there's, here's, here, the, this could be a different night here. Yeah, I have, they could go either way, I think. But one night while leaving the brothel, Benjamin is spotted by one Thomas Button. Now, Thomas gives him a ride. He has a, seems like, as a personal driver. Nice car too. Thomas is, I think, rich.

I think Thomas has some money. We're talking about how possible. Let your kid get a little scratch so you can go fuck some more. Thomas gives Benjamin a ride and takes him to a bar for a drink. His first drink, he asked him a bunch of probing questions. Benjamin does not know who Thomas is, but Thomas seems to know who Benjamin is, which I'm like, how. Yeah.

My guess is he must have thought about this. I think he's been watching him. Yeah, I was thinking really small guy, old. guy at the old folks home. Yeah. And then you see him get younger. So that, I think he knows,

I think he knows who he is at the old folks home. And I think, I think it's just like, right now Benjamin looks like a normal old guy. Yeah. He didn't look like a normal old guy before because he was like three feet tall. But now he like looks like a normal person. So that change, you'd be like,

that has to be him. Yeah. And you could deduce pretty quickly. But even just like, I'm like, I don't think even if I, if I saw Benjamin button on the street, I don't know if I'd recognize him. I think I might just be a little face-ball. It's one of the saddest things I've ever fucking heard.

Well, if you knew that your son was at an old folks home, he was born old, you would go six months later to check. You see an old baby. You're like, okay, whatever. You go every six months. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You can tell that there's somebody that's getting bigger and staying old. It's just fine to imagine him seeing an old guy. Maybe he's like mistaken.

Maybe that's not his three-year-old, three-year-old Benjamin Button. Three-year-old Benjamin Button who's like this tall. And then there's just like another guy. He's like, that one must be my son. son. That guy right there. That guy is standing up. Yeah, the nude man.

It also really seems like there are no other old people in this society. Outside of the nursing home. I think the nursing home is literally the only place that old people are in this world. And I wish that were the case. Actually, today I saw a really old guy. Yeah. I've been noticing older faces since we started watching this, which I think is good. I see old people all the time in this neighborhood.

Bragg. Thomas orders. is Benjamin his first drink, a Sazirac. Ooh. A strong choice. A stiff drink in it, right? Benjamin tells Thomas he was born old. He says, there's nothing wrong with old age.

And they reach for their glasses, presumably to clink them together. The Curio ends right there before they even touch the glass. Now, I just want to jump right into the theme of this. I mean, this is a sexual, it opens with a baby, a baby being announced and born. then we have him getting pubs and boners and then we have him

meeting a guy named Mike Cock or my clock and having sex for the first time and then he meets the guy who had sex to make him and it's almost it goes from baby to father

meeting your dad yeah meeting your dad it's pretty crazy curio that's the name of the curio the dad you know what the name of the curio should be honestly

legit it should be your grounded because that's what his dad should have said that's what his dad should have said at that meeting is like you pick him up and you get him there and listen son you're grounded you've been having sex with prostitutes yeah you've been acting old

you've been drinking yeah you drink a sazirac I know that you're 17 years old well actually you know what he hasn't drank the Zazirac yet at the end of this so that might be the next one starts he takes a sip and then Thomas goes hey you're grounded you're great you drank that shit

I'm your dad and you're your dad and you're grounded. Benjamin says to Thomas, I've never been to a brothel before. Yeah. Which is either, this is the first time he went. And like,

because I think he says, I don't remember exactly what the line is, but he's like this, I think he says something like this, he goes more times. And I think it's a thing where he maybe says that and then we go, like,

it feels weird where the narration, their narration is like moving forward, but then it's like back to that same night maybe. Or it could be that he's been, at this point, he's gone to the brothel like a hundred times and he's just lying to this guy. Because he's like,

this is a weird thing. It's not something you want to like brag about. I thought he was just saying, I read that as like, if it's in his journal, I get, I don't know. He's just saying,

he's like adding that to the end of the brothel story. It's like, oh, and I ended up going all the time. It's a night for firsts. That's what he says. Oh,

you know what? Maybe I may have, I don't think he actually even says that in the narration. I may have just made that up. Yeah, but he does say it taught me the power of the dollar. The value of earning a living.

Things money can buy. I think it's like, I think it's because she said, he says, will you be here tomorrow? And I assume that was, but I think I'm wrong. I think he walks out.

I think it's a big night for button. Here's another, here's another piece of this night. When, when the girls are all lined up on the stairs to take, to take, Mike Rock. And Benjamin,

there's a one, one prostitute who said, who's like, what does she say? She says, oh, she says he gives her the willies. She says, that old guy gives me the willies. Now, if you look in the background of the shot where Thomas is noticing Benjamin, this is, this could be true, this could not be true, but I'm pretty sure that that one, that prostitute is the same one who is walking out of the room with Thomas

when he's coming downstairs to notice Benjamin. Oh, wow. So she passed, she was like, that guy gives me the willies, and then went and fucked his dad. Wow. Whoa. And then his dad came out and was like, Is that my old son? Ah, shit.

Is that my extremely elderly son? But you can't really see because it's far in the background. It's kind of blurry, but it looks like she has the same hair. Could be. Interesting. Curious. Curious. Curious, even.

Let's see, do I still have that one? Curious. Curious. I mean, yeah, this one was, was, I felt, I felt pretty crazy about this. Through me in a, through me in a tizzy, no, no, meherciala. I would say this one had more, this is the, there's a lot of genre jumping. Yeah. In the, in the curios.

And to me, this one was almost pure, this is almost pure, this was almost pure comedy. It was like sex comedy. This one, I think also I'll say this one was the, this one, the main story of this one was so crazy that I had so much less of an interest in some of the like minutia. Yeah. That was real like and some of the other, the other two, there were parts that were so boring that I was like just focusing in on part of things that didn't mean anything. I'm interested in. I feel like I was really, yeah.

Here's something interesting that happens in a daisy hospital scene in this one. I don't know if you guys noticed this. When, so when we come back to the hospital, the first. time after Benjamin and Daisy were in the fort together by the way, Fort at night,

Fortnight. Whoa. What is Fortnite divided by two? What? Seven. Seven? Yep.

Holy fuck. Caroline, before Caroline starts reading, she goes to start reading and she says, he crosses something out and then turns the page. Whoa.

Before, and then we jump back in with the baby being born. So, something in between Daisy and Benjamin being discovered in the blanket fort and Queenie's saying

You are a different child Something between that and the baby coming around has been Benjamin wrote down And then was like No And it could be Possibly the birth of the baby

Or a type of That's the biggest thing You'd have to think of what was Benjamin Button is a man Who is admitting that he was a very old child There's a lot of stuff he's admitting what could he not want to admit? And this really also makes me think just in general

all of the narration is filtered through his own viewpoint. So how much of this is like, you know, he could have been... He's an unreliable narrator. He is an unreliable to some degree. And there's multiple layers of it, too, of like, what is Caroline choosing not to read? You know, this is a what...

This is very literary... It's four pages of the brothel. And then I took her butt and put it on my head. But what deleted thing... He swam in her pussy, so I swam to her butt. He invented that lot. And then a hundred years later, Little Wayne is in the...

Yeah, the hurricane hits. Yeah, one of the pages flies onto his face, and he's like, oh, shit, drowned in the pussy, so I swam to her butt. I'm going to use that. It all lines up. Little Wayne was, was 20-something years old when Katrina happened. But I'm just trying to think of what possible...

I mean, the birth of the baby seems like the biggest, like, event that could be in that space. Yeah. I think, but maybe Benjamin watched the baby be born. And he got a hunger. And he wrote to the brothel. Yeah.

Yeah. I want to do that. Because also, Queenie's not his biological mom. There would be no, once he grows up, there's no problem with him and her getting together. Legally. I guess from a legal standpoint, yeah. But I think morally it's wrong. Morally, it's wrong.

Yeah. What I was about to say. Yeah. Morally, it's pretty incorrect. Well, it seems like, I mean, and it seems like whatever kind of familial relationship they had kind of falls apart at this point. She doesn't really care about it anymore. So at that point, it's not even really crossing any kind of like constructed, you know, found family line either. I'm excited to see the relationship between him and his new brother.

That's what I'm excited about. Yeah. I am worried that, like, they're just going to disappear. Yeah, that would make me sad. I would make me sad too because we haven't got enough tizzy. We've spent hours. Yeah. on Queenie and Tizzy.

You know what I mean? It is kind of hitting me where I'm like, oh, this is a long movie. Yeah. This stuff that takes place in the first one in the midst of the movie.

It doesn't matter. It's not ever going to come back. Here's another thing I thought about going forward, the curios after this. Yeah. Is that so much of this movie so far, or so much of these curios,

excuse me, are about the development of Benjamin Button. He's getting older at a rapid, getting younger pace that children get older, which is blink and you'll miss it. So I'm wondering, once he reaches adulthood, will most of the moments in this movie, in these curios, will they change from, okay, he has gained a new trait, a new skill,

he's had sex, he's had a milestone, a developmental milestone. Here's a trait you could develop. Is it going to be like actual plot now? Yeah. That's my worry. I know. I'm kind of getting, I do, I do think that. that, and I've worried about this since the beginning,

I do think the point where he stops being really old and in a really old body is going to become quite less interest. Yeah, we're going to have to rely. I'm, I feel like I am, I'm going to, I, you know what I'm heartened by? I'm heartened by, I'll give you an exact line

that gives me hope for the rest of this movie even when it becomes boring. For the rest of the curios, I should say. Mom, it's an ancient streetcar token. Yes. That, just the fact, like, that that made it in. That that was like,

I'm still just so puzzled over that. And if you don't know what we're talking about, check out Curio. I think that's something about watching these in Curios too is really just uncovering like how much of like a magic trick like editing a movie is. Yeah. Because it's like something like that. It took me two or three watches to notice that that line existed.

And I feel like it had to have been like remarked on more. It had to have been part of a larger exchange. that was cut down and then like for flow or something. But it's just like, what, what is this? Yeah. Why does she do that? Why does she say that? And why does she give her dying mom a coin?

That has to, you know what I mean? That had, there has to be something that was like, she looks at the coin and just like, I don't. Yeah. I think that, I think you're right. I'm also hardened by that because it means that even without the button stuff. Exactly. I think that the curio system, they'll watch it three times. close reading.

There's always a rock to turn over. There's always a rock to turn over. That is something that I didn't even notice. It doesn't, it might as well not exist. Yeah. But the curios let you find it. Well, doesn't he go on the streetcar immediately after? He does.

I think he goes on the streetcar a little bit. Well, yeah, but I'm talking about the actual line. I know that. Ancient street car token. What she says is, mom, it's an, she says, mom, it's an ancient streetcar token. And she doesn't, she doesn't say, She doesn't say that.

She barely even shows her taken out of the book. And then she hands the coin to her mom. She's related. I understand why the street car. I forget the relationship. She's the granddaughter or the daughter? Daughter. Mom.

Daisy is her mom. Yeah, that's what I mean. She is Daisy's daughter. Yes. Is she Daisy's daughter with Benjamin? Because from what I know, Benjamin might be quite slow. We haven't even thought of that. It is a real possibility.

She could be Benjamin's daughter. and she could be like 95 years old. That's why she looks, or I'm sorry, like 60 years old. That's why she looks like that. That's a good point too. But also like Benjamin, also like Benjamin,

she could be a little slow and that's why she said ancient. That's again, I think you're not like, it's not the line. It's, I mean, it's everything about that.

Mm-hmm. Why would you put that in a movie at that point? Nobody would. I mean, I would, but I'm not that smart. It just doesn't make, it's just as like bizarre.

It just like, in my movie, in my movie, in my movie, they say ancient, street car token and then it turns into like Indiana Jones. Mom, it's an ancient streetcar token. Map fucking.

That would be cool. Let's see. What else did I? I didn't have as many like things on this one just because I think overall it was just pretty crazy. Oh, more legless stuff. Jared Harris, Mike Clark. Mike asks Benjamin Button.

He says, got your sea legs about you old man. And Benjamin Button looks down and says, I think, which is just more of the legless theme, kind of calling back to Hambert. He has to check to make sure his legs are still there. Maybe he meets Hambert later in the future and tries to donate his sea legs. Another, that's really good. I should donate his...

I'm donating my sea legs to you, Mr. Hambert. Another theme to just keep an eye on. When Benjamin Button says he's not supposed to play with matches, when El Fanning asked him to light the candle. She says, don't be a chicken. I love birds that can't fly. So just birds that can't fly, flightlessness. That's kind of sticking in there, too.

Hey, boy. So delicious. So delicious. My clock. I hope you enjoy my clock. So delicious. If you enjoy my clock. So delicious.

So even when he is like going to the brothel, he's still young enough to be taking idioms literally also. He's still like... Which is a pretty sure sign you're not emotionally ready for... Why did the idiot throw the clock out the window to see time fly style style timing. Okay, let's get into some... Should we do some emails? We got a lot of good emails.

Yeah, I didn't have any... This is maybe the most emails we got. Yeah, I picked some emails out. This is one that I really appreciated this one. So thank you, Benjamin. Dear Podcasts About List, when watching Curio 3, I became particularly fascinated with the old man character who tells Benjamin he has been struck by lightning seven times.

The three lightning strikes in this curio are each represented in sepia to mimic cellulose nitrate film stock from the late 19th slash early 20th century. Given that the rest of the early Benjamin Button story is not shown in this style, despite still taking place during the age of cellulose nitrate film stock,

I think it is safe to say that the old man was being filmed each time he was struck by lightning. Considering how rare it is that people are struck by lightning, I think it is also fair to assume lightning man is being filmed at all times. Do you think it's possible that Benjamin Button is part of a movie featuring the Lightning Man and might just have a film crew putting him in makeup every night while he sleeps to play an old man character

in the Lightning Man movie without him knowing? I would be interested to hear your thoughts. Kind of a Truman show. I thought that was a pretty strong point. Yeah, I like that. Why do we cut to, again, the cellulose nitrate film stock that is modern at the time? And we saw the same thing with Mr. Cake. story as well. We did it. I think it was

the effect was slightly newer there, but I think we can, I think we can extrapolate that and I think that there may also be a Mr. Cake movie. So this could be, that was being made. This is, how can I send this to Julio? Which, which discord do I send it to? I don't remember. Because somebody sent it, somebody went through

the trouble of making, here I'll just read this. I've recently developed a five-tier system on how to judge and rank each curio against each other fairly and accurately. I understand that as the watch-through continues, you will be ranking and comparing against more and more curios, so it may be difficult to judge them altogether by the end. So I have transcribed this judging system I have invented into a tier list, which you can all use as the series continues in order to keep track of how they stack up to each other. I hope you enjoy my tears.

So I'm going to send this to Julio. We can open this up. Cool. This person made a tier list for us. and while he's doing that, I will read one more, which is, oh, there's a really long one from people in the Discord who, that one might be too long to read, but that one is good. There's also a long one here that I found from Maxwell. Okay. Who says, while watching Curio 3, I couldn't help but notice the inclusion of specific furniture items and their proximity to what I call familial parallelism.

Oh, yes, I like this one. The Curio notably opens at a table where Benjamin learns of Queenie's pregnancy. You can tell by his reaction that this has harmed his perception of his mother's son dynamic with Queenie. In short, he feels he's lost a mother. The Curio ends with him again at a dining table, speaking to his legitimate father. Lose a parent at a table, gain a parent at a table. Suddenly, Patrick's assertion during the analysis of Curio too that Mr. Weather's grandfather may have been a literal wooden dresser for John Wilkes Booth becomes all the more plausible.

Wow, it does. On this, on his very first day of life, Benjamin himself is placed inside of a dresser. Whoa. Before being taken out again and revealed to the world. Both Benjamin and Mr. Weathers appear to have come from a dresser. Finally, in this curio, Benjamin has finally left his mother's bedside and now occupies a bed of his own. Similarly, Caroline leaves her mother's bedside and sits instead in a bed by herself to continue the story.

It may be worth pointing out that these are both twin beds, further highlighting the duplicate nature of these furniture-based occurrences. If this trend continues, I highly suspect we will see another chair of equal significance to his wheelchair. Without formally jumping ahead, I did see a motorcycle in your intro video, so maybe this. Wow, interesting. That is kind of... I think that's a really interesting one. That's great. And he also meets a guy who is a clock.

Yes. And then I'll just read this last one. Hello, pal. You may not know this, but Brad Pitt has played, the title of this one is Brad Pitt played other button-esque roles. Okay. You may not know this, but Brad Pitt has played another character named Ben, Ben Rickert in the Big Short. And in that movie.

The Big Short. Yes. Which is two opposites. Yes. And in that movie, what happens? The economy goes backwards. And the economic crash happened in 2000. the same year Benjamin Button released.

Additionally, in 2008, Brad Pitt played the character Chad in Burn After Reading. The character himself is what some might describe as a man child. Similarly to how Queenie described Benjamin in Curio 3. I would also like to say as Benjamin gets bigger, or no,

wait, never mind. Okay. I was going to say. Well, actually, as Benjamin gets bigger, he gets less short. Yeah. I can see that.

That's airtight. Let me throw in one more prediction. Okay. Which is a foreshadow, picking up on possible foreshadowing here. Something that I thought about. So they show Benjamin is not allowed to play with matches. I was like, uh-oh, this house about to catch on fire. Didn't happen.

But there's also, Mr. Dawes smoking in bed when he's talking about being struck by lighting. Repeated mentions of being struck by lightning. This curio has a running theme of fires being set. And also maybe he gets struck again. In the house. Yeah.

And Benjamin has to save him, but he's too frail. I think we're possibly building up to a fire, a big fire. I think you're probably right. Yeah, I think that could be scary. Yeah, I think that would be scary. That would be very terrifying. So we'll do that tier list at the end. But first, let's, let's, uh,

Can you pull up my art for the week? Yes, let's see this. Okay, so obviously the 10 styles of art that exist. I've already talked about this. This is episode, well, I guess, three. Yeah, it's the third Curio. We'll go with that. It's Curio 3.

So this is abstract art. And so before I show this, I want you guys to go, it's abstract art. The meaning is not going to be so clear. Okay. But I want you guys to go. go into this and think of what part of this drove me to feel this way. Sure. What part of the curio?

What part of the curio drove me to feel this way? Based on not even just what's happening, but what happens in our analysis. Okay. Yeah, so go ahead. Yeah. This is terrifying. I know. This is a terrifying image.

This is the type of thing you see in an Airbnb. Yeah. This next to like a Mickey Mouse with the Supreme logo on. So I have two. I've actually another question. So try to tell me what. part you think this is about and also what I had for breakfast yesterday. Yeah, I was going to say, eggs and bacon. I had eggs and bacon for breakfast yesterday

when I made this. And this is Benjamin looking at his pubs in the tub. No. A red watered tub. Well, I mean, it's abstract. It's up to interpretation. See, that's what I see. The eyes and the gray pubs. This also could be a yellow toilet handle that's jiggling. It could be anything. Oh, it's from the top. Oh, it is.

It's Benjamin looking at his nut going into the toilet when he jacks off for the first time. Because I'm sitting over here thinking, well, I'm just hungry. I'll draw my eggs and bacon that are The beauty of art. Yes. Is that it can be, but okay, so here's what I was thinking. Yes.

Yeah. There is this, we'll call it for now the Pube revelation. Yes. Yeah. Okay, which is that he has not had pubs up to this point. Yeah, not much of a revelation also. Well, but also I, I, I, I, I'm going to $5 million reshoot. Oh, we have to go back and reshoot the part where he's in the bathtub too.

I'm never going to, I'm never going to pass up an opportunity to be, I told you so type of guy. And I'm just, I'm going to stick to my guns here. Can I tell you? I don't regret a single thing. I've ever said in my life. It's okay. So, okay, now you're blocking my, my painting. So here's my eyes at that moment.

That's your eyes. These are my eyes. Okay. This is how, when you open your eyes for me? Wow. You can't see it on camera, but that's exactly.

Look into camera three right now and open your eyes really wide. So that's me when that scene happens, right? Because I'm like, my world is crumbling. Uh-huh. I'm imagining the pubes. And then I liked my breakfast. Yeah. So that's just what I'm thinking.

This definitely reveals your state of mind. I can see that I think this is a great example of abstract art. Just up for interpretation. Contains eggs and bacon as a lot of it. I got to say, guys, I kind of thought I thought I was kind of cooking with that background there. Whoa, that's cool. What's this? That's other abstract art that I've been working on.

Whoa, you made this? Yeah, I made that too. Holy shit. It's pretty cool. You nailed pretty much everything about art in that picture. Yeah. Thank you, bro, pound that. Yeah.

That, I mean, that that was great. Thank you. Yeah. Do we, uh, before or do we, yeah, do we want to do the song or do we want to name and rate first? Which do we do first? Let's do the song and then, and then we'll name and rate. Yes, that sounds good. That sounds good to me as well.

What have you cooked up for us today? Or what has somebody? Oh, wait, sorry, let's name and rate and then do the song. We always end with the song. Okay. Sorry, my table was being. So in terms of name, I feel like it has to be, I don't have any ideas that jump out to me. I said, I said meeting your dad at the end of the work, O'Kiro.

I just think it had, the name has to be. something about the sexuality of it all. I mean, right? I think that... Post-nut. You shouldn't name the Curio a spoiler for the... Post-nut paternity. Post-nut paternity.

I do like that. Because he meets his father after he nuts for the first time. We don't know if it's first time nutting. Post-nut rarity. Post-nut rarity. Post-nut oddity. Curiosity. The curiosity.

The curious nut of Benjamin. The curious nut of Benjamin The curious smell of Benjamin's butt nut. We don't know if it went in his butt. It probably didn't go in his butt. What if it's like? We don't know for sure, but it probably didn't. I don't know if it went in it.

I mean, maybe that's what he crossed out in the book. My nut went into her butt. Which is also before he even got to that part of the story. Oh, wait, sorry. I have to go back. Wait. No, this goes here. This goes on page.

He's an old man, young guy. who's writing like, they... Yeah, it's all... It would be so funny if they... He's like, God, it's disgusting. I know they've already showed his handwriting, but it would be such a good reveal if they showed it at one point,

and it was like... Crayola. Fist, crayola handwriting. What about this? What if... You know, in an album, sometimes there'll be a song that has like a hidden track

and they'll do the name of the first song, then a slash, and then the second song? Yeah. So what if it's again slash I can't? Ooh. I can't. Yes.

That's good. Mike Clark. You are a different child. Or just Mike Clark. I hope you enjoy Mike Clark. I hope you enjoy. I'm happy with I hope you enjoy Mike. I hope you enjoy my cock.

I hope you enjoy my car. I feel like that's, that is, that nails exactly a section. What is the last one called? Hmm. The best to have my wife. I hope you enjoy my cock. Okay. We'll have to star the O on, on YouTube.

Yeah, we'll have to start the whole word. Yeah. I hope you enjoy my cock. I'm happy with that. I think that's, it's got to be that. Or what do I hope you enjoy Mike Cock? Mike C, star, star, star. No, because I think it's, I think he, they're enjoying his, his, he's hoping that she enjoys his cock. I hope you enjoy Mike's cock. No, that would be different. Okay. Okay, let's bring up the tier list because I'm happy with this, uh, I'm happy to do this at least. Let's see how it goes. Okay, so for the first two, so they have here, despicable pedestrian, Satisfactory, fascinating, and curious at the very, very top.

I would say... My problem with this is that so far, it's all going to be at the top. I mean, that's fine, too. We don't have to touch the other ones. I'm fine to do that. I'm fine to put the first three in curious. I think so far the first three have all been curious. Yeah, I agree.

I don't think we've dropped below top-tier quality. No, no, I agree. It's been only needed the edge type of... I think two was better than one. Yeah. The question is if three is better than two. I think... Do we want to drop the number ratings

or do you want to rank him this way? No, we'll keep doing number ratings. Yeah. I think I want to put two ahead of three, personally. Yeah, I think... I think two touched me in more ways than just sexually. I really love the introduction of Mr. O.T. I think he's maybe one of the best characters in the whole movie.

I'm sad to see him go to nowhere. Yeah. Unless he comes back. That would be great. I really hope he comes back. Me too. I mean, I hope we see a post. card for that's what he specifically said. That would be really good. I would put it maybe

as of right now, I would say two one three. I think I go two three one. I also go two three one. Yeah. Yeah, we have number of you. I think I do think the the best part of one is I hope you enjoy my clock. Yeah, I get. Yeah, you're right. That that that particular little vignette, it's hard to top I think. But as a full curio, I think three is a better is a fuller curio. And you know, what, wait, sorry, the legless thing. Yeah. Yeah. This is just striking me like one of the seven lightning bullet.

The guy, Eric Roth wrote this movie. He also wrote Forrest Gump. What does Forrest Gump? Oh, shit. A captain of a ship and a guy with no legs. Oh my God. And that's the same guy. And it's the same guy.

And he... Again. So this guy, Mike Clark, is Lieutenant Dan. Yeah. Oh my God, we're doing Matrix PowerPoint, but for Fork's dumb. I mean, that's kind of unbelievable. It is unbelievable.

This guy has an obsession with leglessness. Leglessness, I think, is going to be a bit. I'm also worried we're never going to hear the name Hambert again. It seems quite likely, but I'm holding a torch. What's the, Eric Roth, you said? Eric Roth. Can we look up a photo of him right now? You think he has no legs?

Yeah. Then this is just absurd. Oh, he's doing something funny with his legs, for sure. That is true. He's crossing him over. Yeah. Blue, blue, blue jeans. I know.

Actually, really, really nice outfit. He could be hiding the fact that he doesn't have any legs there. Maybe if I wear a really rough legs. On that one, he did it multiple times with blue jeans. He could be screwed onto the base of a lamp there where it looks like he's standing. Look how many times he's worn these blue-ass fucking jeans. Two years with no squats, but the legs keep on growing. Look right there.

Look right there. Top result from his Instagram. Yeah. Not the AI overview, bro. Bro. Fuck AI, dude. This is the screenwriter for Forrest Gump. Wow.

Oh, it looks great. I was eating at Bubba Gump. For his age. Look at that print. Nice print, sir. Hope you enjoy my clock. My clock. All right.

So this song is about this. This curio, I mean, I don't know how else to talk about it. Wait, wait, we forgot to rate it. Oh, right. Sorry. I know what I, I'm not even remember. I'm not thinking about what I'm rating the other ones. I'm rating each of these independently because once I'm done with a curio, I'm done with it.

I think for me, I'm just going to jump out right in front, eight for me. I think I'm going to go eight one. Yeah. I'm also going eight. So that's going to be the highest one. But you wish it was a seven? Wait, I'm going to say it's. Why do you wish that?

Plus one, because I just like that. That's going to be the highest one, right? Seven. I can't. Yeah, that's good. That's the highest one. Yeah, that is the highest one. The tier list thing is independent from the rating.

This is an 8.03. Because if I could go back, I might have bumped up too. I think at the end, I think that the tier list will become a more useful, will become more useful more like further in. I think then that will supersede the numbers, I think, as a good way. 8.03? 8.03 is what our average is. Okay. Okay.

Sorry to. Interrupting this song. Speaking of 03, this is Curio number 03. Facts. And here is the latest song. Not. I think we can not hear it.

Yeah, we cannot hear it at all. How did we fix this last time? Pulio just does do it. Oh, he just do it? I think. Yeah, we haven't been able to hear it here talking. Oh, there is. This song right here is dedicated to

a most curious man. How can that be? Benjamin. Oh, 3, I get it. No, you hear the little. I'll say to me. We're always in the fucking tub. They never showed you love.

Benjamin, your father done gave you up. Life's so fucked up. Always in the fucking tub. But I bet you're not even old. It's the fucking tub. Every scene you do a fucking scrubber duck. Listen to me. You gotta leave that tuck right now.

So, I don't know if you. It's beautiful. I don't know if you guys could hear that in there. Uh, little Easter egg. Can you play the song again? You'll hear it and just go to like the middle of it. Two Easter eggs in the song. Wait, ready?

Hear that? The fork. That's the fork. Remember I asked you for the samples. I recognize that. Towards the end, tugboat sound. Whoa. Little production notes.

He said you learned how to master songs. I actually learned how to, yeah, actually do the mastering now. So that's probably the best sounding one so far. From a standpoint of actual sonic output, that one sounds... Sonic output, Sonic output. Let's put Sonic in the thing. It also sounded, you did...

It sounded like O3 Greedo. And it's Curio3. No, it was supposed to sound more like a T-Pain song, kind of. O-3 Greto is basically T-Pain. Okay. Well, that also, it was... I didn't want to write a song, because this was a sensual... I wrote the beat.

And then midway through, I was like, I don't want to write a song about a kid having sex. Yeah, that's fair. Who would do that? So one more thing that I just remembered, I have to throw in here. I'm sorry. But this part. Again. Again.

Benjamin Button is obsessed with. Again. He wants to have sex. Again. And he wants to hear the bedtime story. Oh, yeah. Again. He's insatiable.

Could this be because he is living? Again. He is Mr. Cake's dead son reincarnated from Mr. Cake's wish to bring his son back to life running in reverse with the backwards clock. Again, cake. Enjoy my clock. I hope you enjoy my clock. Seven. This thing is fucked up, dude.

Hey, boy. You got to hit it with drumsticks. It's just whatever, whatever happened inside this thing invisibly has begun to really create issues. But it's no big deal. NBD, dude. Again. Well, guys, I think that's that, right? That's that.

That's, I hope you enjoy my cock. My clock. My clock. My clock. So delicious. Thanks for listening, guys. Thank you. We'll see you on the Patreon for Curio 4, which is week four, episode 1.

And we'll be crossing the hour marker. And nearing the halfway point, pretty crazy. Yes. And if you, any Benjamin-related information, you can find out. dot com slash Benjamin and I think what I'm going to

do is for people who aren't on the Patreon I will I think upload I think I'll put my text recap just in text that you can read

for the premium episodes the events of the if you don't want to watch the movie which yeah that's a curio which I can certainly

understand not wanting to do that but I will have to say you know this is the five weeks of Benjamin button this is what's going to happen it's uncompromising it is

this is how it is I don't understand how you wouldn't want to watch along but I think so far it's very happy with the response and I'm having a great time. And if you want to send us an email about

Benjamin Button, send it to podcast about list at gmail.com. Yep, and we'll probably record the next episode on Friday. Most likely Friday. So try to get in about Curio4 or try to get in by Friday. Get in on Thursday so you can be there for Friday. The sooner the better. Definitely there's

a sooner. So you've got two days to write an email. Yeah. If you have an entrenching insight. All right. I think that's it though. I hope you enjoy my cock. Again. I want to point something out.

Yes. Maybe we can, I don't know if you notice this. I, at four minutes and 40 seconds in this scene, I swear to God the opera singer is saying Curious Case. Wait, can we pull that up? Is it possible? We have it on the drive. I can pull it up here.

Four minutes and 40 seconds. It sounds like she goes, here. I'm going to start from 433. Okay. She says curious kiss. Oh my God. I could not fucking believe that. I was like, maybe I'm hearing things.

I was like, am I fucking, is this, is this? Are you fucking kidding me? Am I hearing things right now? I listened to this five times. And I was like, no, she's for sure saying curious case. That, I mean. Curious case. It's so fucked up.