Quick Question with Soren and Daniel - When You’re Here in L.A.

Episode Date: April 24, 2023

Soren tells a story about trying a backflip and potentially make ups multiple snow boarding phrases, nobody will ever know if they're real! And as always big thanks to our sponsors. Thanks Maev. meetmaev.com/QQ to get $40 off your first order

I've got a quick, quick question for you, alright? I wanna hear your thoughts, wanna know what's on your mind I've got a quick, quick question for you, alright? The answer's not important, I'm just glad that we could talk tonight So what's your favourite? Who did you get? What do I be? What's it up with? Where did all that go up Oh, forget it Saw a movie, Daniel O'Brien

Two best friends and comedy writers If there's an answer, they're gonna find it I think you'll have a great time here I think you'll have a great time here So, hello again and welcome to another episode of Quick Question with Soren and Daniel the podcast where two best friends and comedy writers ask each other questions and give each other answers. I am one half of that podcast, senior writer for Last Week's night author of how to fight presidents and risk taker Daniel O'Brien joined as always by my co-host mr. Soren Bowie Soren say nuts no nuts I'm Soren Bowie I'm a writer for

American dad and I'd say I hedge my bets I'm not really a risk taker. Yeah? Not anymore. Not at this point in my life. Okay. I get the opportunity every once in a while to take a big risk, and I say to myself, no, Soren, think of your family. What was the last risk you took, do you think? Ooh, like a big, a really risky thing. Yeah.

We went snowboarding, uh, with work. We went, well, snowboarding and skiing, but we went, uh, up to park city, Utah. And at one point we get into this back country area and I see a kicker and I'm like, that's the perfect size for a backflip kicker. Yeah. Oh, sorry. Jump. the perfect size for a backflip kicker now yeah oh sorry jump and it's got a nice easy transition off the other side and i'm like that's the perfect size for a backflip now i haven't done a backflip in over a decade but i was like you know how to do this you do them all the time on the trampoline then i thought well no i haven't jumped on a trampoline and at least that long too. I don't know that I could possibly, it's entirely possible that this ends with serious injury. But I was like, yeah, but come on, like what if you still had it? Wouldn't that you'd be riding high on that for so long. And so I did it and shattered my goggles, but otherwise I was fine. How did you, you, you shattered your,

your goggles. How did you land? So I came out of it, hit the board, the board hit the ground, but I came down on my, my face came down on my knee. Yeah. So it goggles have like two lenses in them. It's like the outside lens is just shattered, like broken, completely shattered. And I couldn't really use them after that. Couldn't see through them. But, and it did take a big spill after it. It wasn't like I did it and landed it or anything.

It was a yard sale, which if you're not familiar with that term, all everything I had went flying everywhere. So hat, and I wasn't wearing a helmet either, which was very stupid. And mittens, everything's all over the ground now. I was like, oh, well. The risk that I took is so much lower stakes than that. Okay.

I'm moving. I'm in the process of moving and I very dramatically decided to pack up all of my cold weather clothes forever. And get rid of them? Yeah. No, not get rid of them. Just like put them away from easy access. Even though it might get cold again, still.

I've just decided I'm done. I'm done with winter. So something that everybody else is likely doing at this exact moment, maybe even as they listen to this podcast, should feel brave for what they're doing. Absolutely, 100%. Because it's one of the biggest choices you've made of recent. Yeah. I don't think that that's a small risk because the sickness is going around and all that.

So you're really taking a chance by, with your immune system, I mean. Yeah. By only wearing shorts and t-shirts. Actually, I would assume sleeveless shirts. If I know you- 100%. Correctly.

So you've put them all away. Well, Dan, I don't know what to tell you. Good luck with that. I feel like April storms are pretty common. April showers is a saying, isn't it? I've never heard of that. April showers brings May flowers. No, no. No, I think it was, the saying is, it was warm once in April and it will be forever and winter is dead. God, I wish that was true.

I wish that, I desperately wish that was true. I desperately wish that was true. I went on a trip recently and I just got back yesterday and it's so fucking cold in LA right now. Really? How cold? What are you talking about? Cold and overcast. Hasn't gotten above 60.

So that's cold for me. You fucking dick. But it's not supposed to be like that right now is's what i'm saying i'm supposed to be able to feel like i'm gonna run i'm gonna go for a run and step outside and be like ah perfect weather for running and instead i'm walking outside and being like it's gonna take me at least three and a half minutes to warm up thanks to our new sponsor mave for supporting our podcast dogs need unprocessed high protein, low carb diets that kibble and fresh foods don't deliver. Make the switch to raw today, right now. Maeve is offering

$40 off your first order at meetmaeve.com slash QQ. And you've, you've, uh, you've gotten some rain, right? Yeah, we got dumped on. on. It's been a real problem for everybody here. Except, you know, the plants, which I think love it. I'm told. But yeah, for everybody else, it's like there's flooding problems. Everybody's roof is leaking. Nobody can get it fixed because when everybody's roof is leaking, everybody's calling roofers and they're indisposed for like six months.

Wow. I hadn't even considered that uh we were going back into the office briefly at my work uh this year which was really nice it was great to be back in the office and then we gave up on it immediately because everybody had to stay home because they'd have uh contractors there like whether they lived in an apartment or they lived in a house there was somebody who was at their house now like digging through their roof and be like oh this looks like it's dripping to the walls oh the walls have a lot of black mold in them we got to do some remediation like that kind of stuff yeah so on these zooms all you hear is

it's just because we're not we're ill prepared for it it's not a lot of rain compared to anywhere else in the world that generally gets rain but in the same way that i made fun of everyone for not being able to deal with snow we just don't fucking get it here so it's not our fault yeah no of course all right so i got a quick question for you yeah oh this is early this is great okay hold on let me get settled i'm ready my body is ready and i'm ready to answer okay great um what is a piece of pop culture from your past that you love that you don't want to revisit i can start i loved the show scrubs growing up so much i fucking loved that show i was so into it the writing was so fun and funny to me uh i really dumbly took the wrong response to that show which i watched the show that made me laugh and i thought should i be a doctor which was wrong no i should be a comedy writer.

That's the message that I should have taken. It's a show I love that I know is probably problematic at this point. And I'm so certain that it is problematic that I don't want to revisit it to confirm that. So I want to just like, let it be a thing in my past that i loved and was wrong about period already i've seen some of your history get think pieced i've seen how i met your mother yeah end up in that relegated to that

spot where people are like no how i met your mother's problematic another show i love yeah uh and i don't i mean i just don't know enough about scrubs i know zach braff had some problems um but i don't i don't know enough about it to know whether you didn't you didn't watch it no not regularly i have like a a very sporadic history of like i would catch an episode a season basically. Man. That was like appointment viewing in college for me and my roommate. Really? Yeah.

Did you guys see yourselves as Donald Faison and Zach Bra? Absolutely. Well, it's a story about friendship. What could be problematic about that? Don't answer that. I'm sure that there's something. Yeah. I mean, immediately things that came to my mind were, oh no, it doesn't hold up only because it's problematic now. It was like something that I latched onto when I was young for the same reason that teen boys latch onto a lot of really toxic stuff. And for me, I think there's two of them. One is Windy City Heat.

Do you know what that is? Is that the fake reality show? Yes. Yeah. Yeah, it's a movie about a fake reality show. They get this guy, they convince this guy that there's a, well, it's not a reality show. They convince this guy that they're making a movie and it's not a reality show. It's a, they convince this guy that they're making a movie

and that he's going to be the star of it. And then they start filming this movie and they just put him through so much shit. And this is like a sad guy. Yeah. A guy that thinks very highly of himself, but like, it's just, it's, it's all insecurity. It's like built on this,

it's this hollow kingdom he's built around himself. And they just exploit it. They exploit it every turn and just push him to the brink constantly. And it's rough. But it's as a teenager, it was the funniest thing I'd ever seen. It was so funny. It reminded me of like, like Jerky Boys type of humor,

where it's like, you've got somebody who probably doesn't deserve all this, and you are just relentless with them. Man, I remember that. Did you watch When You See the Heat? Yeah. Yeah, that guy Perry. Like a real specimen of a human.

And they're like, oh, let's just see what happens. Put them in a jar and shake it and see what happens, basically. So I think that that would probably be bad. Although it's still like I would choose that as like one of the things that inform my sense of humor. Right. I think to look back on it, we would decide, oh, we were making fun of someone who was like, clearly on the autism spectrum, unfortunately. Oh, God, I'm sure that that's the case. Yeah. And another one for me is a book that I, this is a book that you and I have a shared history with, because it's a book that I

gave you to read that you never read. It's also my answer to the question of what's your favorite book. And now I think I might have to like stop doing that because- Is this Killing Fields? This is- Yeah, London Fields by Martin Amis. London Fields, okay. London Fields by Martin Amis. It's a, God, it was like such a good book.

I loved it. I loved it. And it wasn't even from childhood or anything. I mean, this is from adulthood. This is like in my 20s this was my favorite book and I would reread it and just like thinking back on it now the main female character in it is not really a character she's just like this hunk of sex she's it's not a really realized character at all. And I think that it, and like the whole story is built around her murder, her like murder

for the reasons of sex. And that's rough, I think probably looking back on it. And I used to like try and pinpoint people in my life where I was like, oh, yeah, she's a Nicola Six. Nicola Six was her name. And I was like, oh, yeah, that's Nicola Six. That's Nicola Six. Nicole of Six?

No, Nicola. Nicola Six. Six, yeah. And I think that if I was to go read it again, I would be like, oh, man. You can't keep telling people this is your favorite book. Also, Martin Amis turned out to be a real dickhead. As he got older, he became very, very right-wing in England. So less right-wing than here. But became

very right-wing, curmudgeon-y, and just kind of an asshole. Damn it. Yeah. So, you know, not a good track record. But I'm trying to, I mean, I couldn't think of anything that wouldn't be, it wouldn't be because it's not problematic. Like, is there anything from my childhood or from my young adulthood that I really loved that I can't revisit because I'm like, no, I just wouldn't. I think it might be dumb now.

Yeah. Maybe Gangs of New York. I have a feeling Gangs of New York might just be shitty. No, it's great. Come on. I think that there are star wipes in Gangs of New York. I think we just didn't know how to make movies yet. So at the time, we were like, yeah, this is good. But if you watch it now, you'd be like, oh no, we do it better now.

We know how to do it. Just like trailers. You know, like it took them a long time to figure out the recipe for a trailer. See, the fields of the Serengeti. The action, the romance, the intrigue. Like we sucked at it. Man, you're really in my head i i do think gangs of new york was great but now i'm i'm second guessing it it might suck it might be terrible it was it took two dvds i can guarantee that cameronz sucks. Yeah, absolutely.

And I think that it might, you might, that might be like the thread. And if you start pulling there, you're going to be like, oh, there's a lot here that sucks. I'm pretty sure they've got like some weird wipes and stuff. Oh, and the montages. I think we didn't know how to do montages yet. I think that there's some very silly montages in that movie. Fuck. We should maybe rewatch it. to do montages yet i think that there are some very silly montages in that movie fuck we should maybe re-watch it when you're here in la hey uh what can you continue that song what what song is

that i just made it up okay yeah um i just thought it would be a fun to sing it because i was excited and when i get excited about things i i sing them sure but there's not there's not more to that song once oh boy there was a boy he didn't know where to live we didn't know whether he should put away his winter clothes. Where's the warmest spot? Where's the warmest spot in the country? L.A. When you're here in L.A.'s so uh it wasn't a successful song no

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sorry so quickly here's why i'm all over the place i'm currently writing my episode for american dad yeah and when i'm in that that zone i get a little like manic and weird because I'm alone for long periods of time. Of course. Just thinking about whether to delete or re-add the word the. And you spend enough time doing that and then you talk to another person. It's like the floodgates open and you're like, ah, a human, human contact. And that's, I'm sorry that you're at the other end no no i love it you uh how are you uh so you don't have to check in with work at all in this process you just write

i've had to do some stuff for my previous episode okay um that i've been uh deeply annoyed by because i feel like i've deserved to just be able to write. I get in this zone where like, and I don't, it's hard to explain to people who don't write, but like, you don't just, you don't just like squeeze it in for 15 minutes here and there. It's like, it's like a steep ramp and you have to get a running start at it each time you do it and you don't just like go halfway up and they're like and now i'll take a little break on the side of this ramp and and then just start again whenever i feel like it no you go all the way back to the bottom motherfucker and then you you get that run up again and you do it again

yeah um and so i get frustrated by anybody who like who's like oh no i need you to do something else i'm like are you kidding i have to eat lunch but that's why why i'm supposed to be writing um but yeah i was in i i just got back from a trip with my wife to tucson a trip with my wife to tucson my kids were there cool um it wasn't just with her but uh while i was there uh i should have been writing and there were certainly opportunities like my daughter would during her nap my wife would be like you should you should write right now i'm like no that's not how it works i can't watch all of robocop right right now. Yeah. She's like, what? Writing is a complicated process. And so I don't, I like, I would just put it off

or I would occasionally try and start and then get very frustrated if I had to stop. And then I'm like pissy for the rest of the day. Yeah. I'm just like, I'm not nice about it. I wish that I could do it better. It's because I'm so pissy for the rest of the day. Yeah. I'm just like, I'm not nice about it. I wish that I could do it better. It's because I'm so desperate to get it done at all times that like that desperation leads to me being very mean to other people.

That's crazy. I've never known you to be mean or rude. And I know you've had, I've worked with you when you've had deadlines before, but you've never been like unpleasant. The nice thing was that my deadlines usually were on Monday morning. So I did all of that over the weekend. Okay. So you contained the violence outside of work hours. Yes. I can think of one instance in which I needed to get stuff done and we were filming, we were filming something. I don't even know. It was an agents of cracked episode. And, uh uh we were filming really really

late into the night in the other building and eventually I was like guys I have to go oh no I think that might have been uh Three Dead Friends oh was that yeah that was Three Dead Friends yeah I think we were uh it was the first time Cody was out in LA Cody Johnston la cody johnston and we we challenged ourselves to write a multi-episode arc to shoot overnight for no clear reason and we roped you into it and made you sleep on the floor somewhere until we like poked you with a stick to wake you up to be part of it and i that was the only time i've i think i've walked off a set yeah and even then you weren't you weren't mean about it you're just like guys i'm so sorry i have to go and we're like yeah that makes sense let's just uh let's just film you real quick um yeah i i i do get and maybe maybe that's good that it's not like it's it's not my signature to get really angry when i'm when i'm on deadline but i do get extremely stressed and i'm not good at

compartmentalizing that stress and being like well that just belongs to writing i'm like no it goes to all over my life yeah everybody's gonna get a piece of this you're not like that no I'm angry all the time do you freak out though I mean when you're on deadline are you I'm I have so much time for this and I'm still like the entire time I will worry from even to the moment when I'm done with it and I'm still tinkering and tinkering and tinkering. I'll still be a wreck about it. Uh, that's a great question. I don't think I'm mean or rude about it. I think I just completely disappear. Like when I'm on deadline, you can't access me. That's true. I remember when you were writing your book, how to fight presidents available in all Barnes and Nobles that you didn't do

your job for a while. And we all did a lot of covering and realized to how big Dan's job was fully disappeared. We were like, ah, fuck. All right. Well,

what's he, what's he actually doing? He's doing all of this. Well, God damn fuck. All right, well, what's he actually doing? He's doing all of this? Well, God damn it. Well, maybe like six of us could do it. That's kind. Do you have any questions? Yeah, I got a question for you.

Okay, great. You're moving. Yeah. Quick question, Dan. Where are you moving? I'm moving from one Jersey Shore town to another Jersey Shore town. Oh, I hope they're rival towns. I'm going to continue living on the beach for the rest of my life if everything works out for me.

Can I ask what prompted this decision? I can't live in my current place anymore. Okay. It's full of bugs and mice and it's falling apart and I hate it. Yeah. Good. This other town is it what's it like your senior citizen ratio? It's it's even older than where I am now. Oh that's so good for you. I love that for you. Okay, good. I ask because you can basically live wherever you want now because you're no longer beholden to going into a desk job. That's right.

And you've chosen the Jersey Shore, which, I mean, I wouldn't say that's a bad choice. I loved going to the Jersey Shore when I was a kid. I have very fond memories of that place. But I was curious, like you could go you could be in montana if you wanted to i could what's what's in montana what's good about montana i don't know i haven't been there uh i don't know mountains my guess sure but a wide man wide Montana sky. Didn't John Denver say something about that? But I was thinking about it because I was just in Tucson.

And every time that I go to Tucson, for people who live in Tucson, it's a very charming city. I love what you've done with the place. But every time that I'm there, I think to myself, why the fuck does anybody live here? Why do we carve this out of the desert so you you've you've also traveled a lot has there been any place that has tempted you to move from l.a to there like it is yeah there are areas of utah that i really like really yeah just because of the religion uh no there it's like a as i

here's what i think i think the people who live in like the sonoran desert or in death valley or in joshua tree or palm springs like all these places where it's like real desert living and it's hot and it's desolate and all the animals are like rust colored and prickly. None of these people have seen what a real pretty desert could be. And Utah has these like gorgeous sandstone deserts that are, you still have like some of, there's some redeeming value to it. Here, this is such a mean thing to say. Sonoran Desert's fine.

It's a fine desert. It's the only place you get those giant cactus you know i'm talking about uh-huh um they don't grow anywhere else in the world they grow in this desert they're you get these forests of them basically it is beautiful for i would say 15 minutes a day it's this otherwise it's this you're it's this wild animal that you're with and you can't like look directly at it because it's this, otherwise it's this, you're, it's this wild animal that you're with and you can't like look directly at it. Cause it's in this case, it's cause it's so the sun's so bright and it's hard to even see, but like you it's stark, it's tough. It's oppressive with the heat. And in the winter it's oppressive with the cold. Cause like the heat, the ground can't hold any of the heat. And it's just a rough rough place to

for people who have been like yeah let's let's like build a town here yeah uh and i don't i don't totally understand it but there are if you get there at sunrise or sunset you're like oh this is the most beautiful place i've ever seen and you've got about 15 minutes of that and when i say like, it's like being with a wild animal, like when you see a wild animal sleep, that's when you can really appreciate it. And you've got like this one little window where it's like not trying to

kill you. You're like, Oh yeah, that's gorgeous. That's very majestic. That's where you would want to live for the, no, I'm saying I,

I'm asking you where you'd want to live. And then I'm giving you the opposite answer. Okay. Which is every time I go there, I'm like, why did they do this why did they these are cute little this is a cute little town i mean this history is cute why did you do it here um but uh if i could answer let's see where would i go what places have tempted me other than oh so sorry i'm all over the place like do you do you want to go back to colorado yeah i thought i would at some point um colorado's great i think i would love to live in like denver or boulder yeah someday

but i will say like the areas around moab utah or uh slick rock um even along the san juan river there's like it's that's like desert where i'm like oh i could i could live here this is like a this is a desert i can really get behind man it's the desert it's not like it doesn't get hot there i don't just like dry places and i like warm places. I don't think I knew that you were drawn to deserts. I hate that. That's awful. I'm such a fucking beach rat. I don't know.

I feel like those are two heads of the same coin, though. What is it about the beach that draws you in? Ocean. I want to get smacked by waves i want to go i want to jump in the water and and be connected to a thing that is larger than anything that i have on land okay but the sandy beach can fuck right off then yeah oh okay well then we're you're right we're different people yeah um yeah i mean there's a lot of places around Utah where you can, there's just like these bodies of water that you can swim in and they're warm because it's, you know, desert.

But I don't, man, I don't know. I don't know where I live. I don't even want to think about that because- All right. Hey, don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. We don't need to talk about it. We don't need to talk about it. What do you want to think about that because all right hey don't worry i don't want to be here either we don't need to talk about it what do you want to talk about i don't know man let's find a place to live for me i guess i i've been to the rainforest i've been to i've lived in the

mountains i've been to the beaches uh there's so much of it that I'm just like, nah, I just don't care for it. Do you, so where you live right now is not city living. Would you, if work forced you to move to a city, how would you feel about that? Yeah, I'd be fine with that. Really? Yeah. I don't think I could live in a city again. Really? Yeah. No, I love being part of a city. It's where you are right now.

How close are you to New York? One hour and 17 minutes. Okay. So, yeah, it's not. I mean, you're close. Sure. Imagine a beach town that's like in uh corpus christi or somewhere like that do you know where that is texas yeah yeah i think that if i lived in a small town that was also

completely removed from a city i think i a big big city then i think i would feel very unplugged and i would start to get very lonely. I mean, I don't live in the middle of a city right now, but I live close to a big city and that's, there's something very comforting about that. It feels like I'm still plugged in. Man. But I also grew up in a very small town that where I was and in a house where I was not by any means and did nothing but dream about that. I think.

Dreamed about my friends who lived in apartments. Cause I was like, they all just, they're there together. Yeah. Like if they want to see a friend, they just bike to the friend's house or they just go down to the next floor and knock on a door. City living is so loud is my main thing. Okay.

I can't handle all the noise of honking and city bullshit. You're not getting any of that where you are? No, we don't have traffic lights. We don't even have cops in my town. God, that is small. It's very small. You could kill somebody there. That would be great.

Sure. You say there are no cops, right? Yeah. No cops or streetlights. It's pretty free. Doesn't even make sense to me. I can't even imagine that there's still towns like that. That sounds like 1950 to me.

I know. It's the best. What? That can't be true. how can there not be police what happens when there's a crime committed there we call the police department for the neighboring town but there aren't really a lot of crimes here is it run by a dog most of the crimes are reported on next door and it's always just like hey someone broke into my car just because i left it unlocked and it's like well you deserve that here's another question and uh this isn't a knock against you for choosing this place at all okay what's the um racial makeup of this community

next question please if if let's say um a very nice indian couple moved in would that be the talk of the community 100 fuck okay yeah so there's these drawbacks we we spent some time in uh minnesota uh a couple summers ago and I was like, this place is utopia. It's gorgeous here. We were there in the summer, obviously, but I was like, this is perfect. The weather is perfect all the time. It's lush. It rains every afternoon.

Like, this is gorgeous. And then we went up into the lakes, like northern Minnesota. And as we got up there, I was like, what if we, it would be crazy if we just like moved up here. Like, what if we just got a place to live and we would just ride out the global warming apocalypse here. And, um, then I realized very quickly, like, Oh, these aren't my people up here. There's some real darkness and, uh, some, some right-wing conspiracy theories being brewed

as we speak yeah right here yeah it's it's a it's a fairly white town where i live which is unfortunate but you know i'm moving to a different white town that's not i mean i don't i don't know what to say about that i do think it's by design i would hope not no hey quick question yeah. Soren, have you watched any movies lately? Yes. Well, I mean, I'm in the middle of one. And when I say I'm in the middle of one, I'm about six days in.

Because that's how I watch movies now. I'm sure you've seen it. Medieval? What the fuck is that? Dan, have I seen it? Hold on. Have I seen a movie that you haven't seen? Let me make sure this is the actual title of it. It sounds like it. 2022 film. Okay. This is on Hulu. Oh, this is so exciting. Let me tell you about medieval. Okay. There's a movie on Hulu right now. I don't know if it

was like originally a Hulu movie or what the fuck, if it ever came out in theaters but the star is one of my favorite actors and i feel like he's completely an under the radar guy do you know who ben foster is i do and i know you you love him so much so much i've never seen a thing that i hate him in yeah let me give people um a rundown of what he's been in hell or high water he's the brother. Hell or High Water, he's the brother. Alpha Dog, he's also the brother. He's the brother of the kid that gets kidnapped. Probably most famously, 310 to Yuma.

310 to Yuma, he was Charlie Prince. He was also a very high profile movie. X-Men 3, he was Angel. Oh, right that fuck that sucked that's a big one yeah yeah yeah it it sucked but like that was i think the the the biggest thing he's done yeah so yeah he's officially in the mcu yeah so uh also michael cain is in this movie. Michael Caine. Will you do that again?

Michael Caine. Is that good? I can't tell. You know, the problem is that he never says his own name. So that was a very interesting name for you to choose to, like, get you into character. Mr. Bruce. Oh, Mr. Wayne. Mr. Wayne. Mr. Wayne. Mr. Bruce. Oh, Mr. Wayne. Mr. Wayne.

Mr. Wayne. Mr. Batman. Mr. Wayne. Yeah. That's what Cody used to do. Okay, that's right. Anyway, this is a movie called Medieval. It's about a mercenary in medieval times, right around the time they had two popes.

This isn't a thing I understood or knew, but Rome at some point created another, times right around the time they had two popes this isn't a thing i understood or knew but rome at some point uh created another created built another pope from nothing in france and uh this is about that pope's installment and uh like i'm on board with this movie i immediately with a period piece where i know nothing about the time period, I buy into everything. Everything is, must be a hundred percent real to me. What made you pick this movie? Was it just Ben Foster? Yeah.

Okay. I also have a real thing in the same way where I have like this fetish when I go into gas stations across the country, I have to try a juice or drink I've never had before. I know that they're going to be bad. There's a reason I haven't had it before. Right. It's, it's somehow local or it's like, it has not branched out to mass appeal. The same way with

movies, the idea of having the free time to watch a bad movie is more appealing to me than watching a good movie. Does that make sense? Kind of, yeah. It is a, it's like a symbol to myself when I watch a bad movie and take the time to watch a bad movie where I'm like, or give a movie a shot, I guess, like a bad movie or a movie

that didn't have any sort of mass release. Like I'm like, oh, I could just do this. And that sort of like wealth of time feels very good to me. Okay. So I choose some, some strange ones. And so I chose this one because I'd never heard of it. And because Ben Foster was in it and Dan, I'm happy to report six days in, I'm still going.

It's been good is he uh one of the popes or is he no he's a mercenary okay it's a mercenary who is supposed to kidnap this woman who's of high uh high high status and yikes look out, he's starting to fall in love with her. This movie has a lot going on, it sounds like. Yeah. Yeah. Somehow that's related to the Pope. There are two Popes and it seems like that is the third most interesting thing happening. Yeah. Well, I'm like, I'm giving it some patience and some rope to really tie it all together by the end. But you're right. They have set out a tall order for themselves.

So far, the popes have not come into it too much. But the whole prologue was about them. But so you brought Ben Foster up and you mentioned Hell or High Water. You saw that movie? Yeah. Movie fucking rules. It's an incredible movie. I love it so much.

That did well, didn't it? I don't think so. I don't remember it being in theaters. Yeah, I watched that on my television. Yeah. It's also got one of my favorite country music singers. And that's a crazy thing for me to say. Yeah.

Do you know who Colt? No. Colton Waller? No, no, no. Wherever this goes, no, I don't. You've never heard of Colton Waller? No. Okay.

He's got a song, there's a song in there called Sleeping on the Blacktop that you should listen to. Okay. And first just listen to to it then go like find a video of this guy singing it because whatever you're imagining in your mind of like who this person is i guarantee you when you see the singer you're gonna be like what the okay don't even look at pictures of him until you see it as time goes on i'm one one second culture you see it. As time goes on, I'm... One second. Coulter Wall. I'm fucked up. Coulter Wall.

As time goes on, I am increasingly enamored by Chris Pine. I think he is the fucking guy. I think he's so charming. I think he's so handsome. I think he's so funny in everything. I just watched him in the Dungeons and Dragons movie, and he's so funny and everything i just watched him in the dungeons and dragons movie and he's incredible in that he's just good in everything and i i don't want to hear a single bad thing about chris bunn have you seen smoking aces yes i think he's like the best part of that

he's so good and that's the first thing that I really saw him in, you know, like I see you. I'm sure he was in stuff before then, but that was the first thing where I was like, holy shit, who is this? I don't know if he'll ever be like a Academy Award nominee,

Chris Pine, but he is just, he deserves some kind of special designation for how good he is separately from being a good actor which he might not be i think he is i think he's an excellent actor you don't think so i don't know i think he's just really he's like super charming and likable that's part of being a good actor isn't it and that'd be like that's it's that draw of the superstardom i guess what's the best acting he's done what's his what's his best role oh i gotta say an episode of american dad called robin ears that's true we had him on that's nice that's cool i wish that i could have been there for that yeah um yeah he i would say his best piece of acting is probably

now i'm gonna have to defend this wonder woman okay because he adds like a real that's heavy lifting for him yeah in that film and he's so compelling to watch um he's believable he's he he has to be like the perfect man in it yeah and he nails it he does i think my favorite chris pine performance might be this means war a little scene movie with him and reese witherspoon and tom hardy from a couple years ago where it was like two spies who are also in love with the same woman the the the plot doesn't matter he was just fucking great in it really yeah that sounds terrible and tom hardy was great in it too it's such a good movie it's such a fun movie it's like in the same vein of of uh mr and mrs smith just a just a yeah that's what it sounds like. Okay.

A blast. Well, all right. I mean, I would have watched it when I thought it was bad. But now that you told me it's good, I can't possibly spend my time on it. Yeah. Sorry, Dan.

That's all right. I think we're probably circling the drain on this episode. Let's kill it. Yeah. Do you want to do the outro? Yeah. Okay, great.

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